The printer began working, and the files appeared on the computer.
Doctor Xu Chuan read through the data one item at a time, confirming whether any problems remained.
Wait…
He suddenly stopped.
Wasn’t the expression of these pheromone markers unusual?
A genetic disorder?
No. There was no error message.
And if the data expressed itself this way—
Although Xu Chuan was knowledgeable and experienced, he rarely encountered Omegas.
He had certainly never tested a young Omega cub’s future pheromones in their hospital.
For a moment, he did not understand.
After receiving the results, he had not immediately looked at the final conclusion.
Now he read farther.
He suddenly stood.
The people around him were startled, while his pupils shook violently.
The final line of the report clearly stated:
“In conclusion, the cub is an Omega suffering from nutritional deficiency, incomplete development, and relatively low immunity. He requires specialised care.”
If Xu Chuan remembered correctly, the Bai family had never produced an Omega cub.
In other words—
The little fellow Bai Sheng had brought home would be the Bai family’s only Omega cub across more than ten generations.
No wonder a group of Alphas had absolutely no resistance to him.
Holding the report, Xu Chuan immediately left the room.
“Is Third Young Master Bai currently at the hospital?”
“Yes, Director.”
“Compile all the information and download the complete examination report. Send it to Third Young Master Bai. I’ll personally take him the printed documents.”
Meanwhile, inside a hospital room—
The cub’s temperature had risen abruptly, leaving him feverish and confused.
Although he remained frightened of needles, he had received an injection in his bottom while his father held him.
Thus, embarrassment now outweighed fear.
His round face remained red, and a blue cooling patch rested on his smooth forehead.
Dazed, he buried half his face in Daddy’s arms.
His curls were disordered.
His large eyes blinked, but he refused to sleep.
At that moment, the child showed little resistance to the hospital.
When Bai Sheng had first brought him home, he had suspected that the cub disliked hospitals.
From that moment, this private hospital under Bai Sheng’s name had begun clearing and renovating a room.
They had created a children’s room with no hospital atmosphere at all.
After hearing the news, Assistant Li hurried over from the police station and stood with Aunt Feng at the side.
Aunt Feng’s heart ached terribly.
Her face was creased with worry as she watched Bai Nuo, whose eyes were moist.
The cub’s temperature had risen at an alarming rate.
Children of this age could convulse or develop complications during a high fever.
Fortunately, they had arrived in time.
The injection had lowered it.
The fever was no longer as frightening, but the child still looked dazed and dizzy.
“He was perfectly fine when I checked on him ten minutes earlier.”
Aunt Feng brought over water and muttered in distress.
“He had only just begun putting on a little weight these last two days. Now it will take a long time to gain it back.”
Bai Sheng allowed the cub to lie against him while holding him.
He used a tablet to write and draw.
Hearing Aunt Feng’s words, the ill-tempered Bai Sheng turned, accepted the cup from her, and spoke with even greater hostility.
“The doctor just said that when a child is frightened, nightmares during sleep can cause this.”
He pressed his lips together and lowered the cup carefully to the cub’s mouth.
He clearly had little experience doing such things.
Aunt Feng realised this the moment Bai Sheng took the cup, but seeing how exceptionally cautious he was, she did not stop him.
“Drink some water.”
Bai Sheng helped the child take two sips.
The cub still did not close his eyes. He stared at him without blinking, dazed, as though Bai Sheng might disappear if he fell asleep.
Bai Sheng could now ruffle the little curls with complete ease.
“What are you doing? Why are you staring with such enormous eyes? Isn’t your head dizzy? Aren’t you sleepy?”
“Daddy…”
The cub, who had seemed blank and foolish from the fever, spoke in a muffled childish voice.
It was quiet and slightly hoarse.
“Hm?”
“Nuo Nuo forgot to feed Doudou.”
The child finally seemed to return to himself, and his sluggish mind began thinking.
“It’s all right. Grandma Feng will help Nuo Nuo feed him later. Is that okay?”
Bai Nuo pressed his lips together and lowered his head, appearing deeply discouraged.
“Nuo Nuo…is sick?”
“It’s only a small problem.”
Where Bai Sheng could not see, Bai Nuo pouted.
Medicine had been extremely important during the apocalypse.
It was even more precious than sweets.
Apart from his time in the laboratory, the child had never seen proper medicine.
During his long years of wandering, he had once become ill.
He had been in pain and discomfort for a very long time and had nearly believed he would die.
Afterward, Bai Nuo had always been exceptionally careful.
Because of his unstable past, illness had not been permitted.
Therefore, the cub cherished his current life even more.
But because of his past, his gratitude remained cautious.
He had always wanted to be more obedient, and then even more obedient, so he could deserve the delicious food, the warm and clean water, and the father who held his hand while walking.
But Nuo Nuo had become sick.
The feverish cub’s mind was confused.
Before Bai Sheng realised what was happening, tears began falling.
The child clutched his clothes and sobbed quietly.
“Nuo Nuo caused trouble for Daddy…sob…”
Bai Sheng had intended to make a joke and coax the child to sleep.
He had never expected him to suddenly begin crying again.
He froze for a second.
Listening to the cub, who was slowly becoming clearer after his fever dropped yet still suppressed even his sobs, Bai Sheng understood for an instant what it meant for one’s heart to feel cut apart.
The intense sense that something was wrong—something he had repeatedly felt from this exceptionally obedient child who never rejected any food—struck him again.
What had his cub experienced in the past?
Whether it concerned today’s criminal or the laboratory, Bai Sheng gently patted the child’s back and thought expressionlessly:
He truly needed to reflect.
Had he been too polite to those people?
Should he have stopped pretending to be civilised because the cub was nearby and simply kicked the attacker away?
Perhaps that would have prevented the child from becoming frightened.
Parents were models from whom cubs learned.
But for a child like this, an ordinary teaching process was clearly unsuitable.
Bai Sheng thought:
It did not matter.
He could create a plan and slowly raise him properly.
Bai Sheng closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, his expression had softened slightly.
He leaned against the chair and looked at the cub sitting in his arms, crying quietly while Aunt Feng circled anxiously and Assistant Li approached.
“Does Nuo Nuo think protecting Daddy is troublesome?”
“Hm?”
Bai Nuo looked up with tears still hanging from his long lashes.
He remained dazed, but his sluggish mind considered the question for a while before he slowly shook his head.
“Then there was no trouble.”
Bai Sheng directly reached the conclusion for him.
“Nuo Nuo is simply still young. You’ll become very powerful in the future.”
“Nuo Nuo will…be powerful?”
The cub blinked. His soft white face carried the weak flush of illness.
“Tell Daddy what you like eating. Daddy will make it for you in the future. Nuo Nuo will grow tall and strong.”
Bai Sheng rested his chin on one hand and made grand promises to the child.
Aunt Feng and Assistant Li looked at him simultaneously.
Have you ever approached a kitchen in your life?
And now you intend to cook?
Are all capitalists like this?
Do they make impossible promises at every opportunity?
“And—”
Bai Sheng opened the tablet on which he had been writing.
“This is a training plan. Once you recover, we’ll begin training. Then none of the other children will defeat you. If anyone provokes you, hit them.”
And you still claim not to be a villain?
The more you speak, the more villainous you sound!
Assistant Li glanced at the densely packed training plan the boss had designed for his cub and hesitated.
“…Boss, the young master is still very small. Isn’t immediately filling his schedule excessive?”
“Oh. This is the later-stage plan. Naturally, the early stage will progress gradually. It’s fine.”
Bai Sheng tapped the cub’s cheek.
“An Alpha cub can do it.”
For now, he would give the cub confidence.
Later, after he raised the little thing to be more lively, he could reduce the requirements.
“Alpha cub…”
The child tilted his head and repeated the words in his childish voice.
“Can do it? Nuo Nuo will be powerful? Nuo Nuo…can do it!”
Bai Sheng nodded with satisfaction.
His phone continued ringing.
He pressed the cub back into his arms.
All right.
He had successfully comforted him.
Now the child should sleep.
The dazed, sick cub rested inside the warm, strong embrace.
He thought:
Oh.
That was right.
The wandering days and the pain of illness had already become the past.
Bai Sheng glanced at the messages continuing to appear on his phone.
Unexpectedly, they came from Bai Jingyun.
They began by asking about the cub and continued with the results of the investigation.
The old master took a hands-off approach.
He had asked one question at the beginning and then made no further movement.
The longer Bai Sheng looked at Bai Jingyun’s name, the more unpleasant it appeared.
He frowned.
This man kept appearing before him and was extremely irritating.
But before Bai Sheng could respond, someone knocked twice and opened the hospital-room door.
Bai Sheng instinctively turned his head.
His expression remained unpleasant.
Then he saw Xu Chuan, clearly out of breath from running, holding printed documents.
At the same time, Bai Sheng’s phone received the hospital’s compiled comprehensive examination report.
“Boss.”
Still panting, Xu Chuan hurried inside.
His breathing was unstable, and he could not organise his words properly.
He simply handed the printed report to Bai Sheng.
“Why are you panicking?”
Bai Sheng frowned and looked down at the report.
His heart tightened.
Was something wrong with the examination?
…Didn’t it say his body was generally healthy?
Apart from the known malnutrition and other minor problems caused by the laboratory, what else could there—
Hm???
Wait.
Bai Sheng’s eyes widened slightly.
He had been holding the cub casually, pressing the child’s head against his chest with one hand.
Now he abruptly sat upright and stared at the final line.
Omega?
Bai Sheng turned.
With hesitation and several additional degrees of care, he lifted the cub’s chin and examined him closely.
The dazed cub did not understand.
He continued mumbling sleepily:
“Daddy…Nuo Nuo trains…Nuo Nuo powerful…Nuo Nuo is…powerful Alpha cub…protect Daddy…”
No, no, no.
Wait.
Wait, wait.
Pretend Daddy never said that.
An Omega?
An Omega cub???!!!
So this soft, adorable little thing who instinctively made everyone’s hearts soften was a lovely young Omega?
Bai Sheng, who had never even raised an Alpha cub, went completely blank.
He instinctively wanted to search his phone for information about raising Omega cubs.
Then he saw another message from Bai Jingyun.
Bai Jingyun: “I know you’ve seen my messages, but whether I contact you has nothing to do with you. Grandfather learned that your previous carelessness produced a cub. He’s furious and is travelling to Ang City.”
Bai Yan was their grandfather and Bai Nuo’s great-grandfather.
He had an eccentric and strict personality and was a standard perfectionist.
After withdrawing from the Bai family’s centre of power, he moved to a coastal provincial city, where he grew flowers, raised various things, operated several small businesses that interested him, and spent his retirement.
Although he had left the Bai family’s power centre, the old man still possessed extensive connections and resources and remained decisive in many places.
Bai Jingyun did not believe he would soften toward the cub.
After receiving the news and thinking of Bai Nuo, he finally could not resist warning Bai Sheng so that he could prepare.
Then his phone sounded.
Had Bai Sheng replied?
Bai Jingyun was slightly surprised.
With his face expressionless, he opened the message.
The words scarcely resembled anything Bai Sheng would say.
Bai Sheng: “How did you know Nuo Nuo is an adorable little Omega cub?”
Author’s Note:
Daddy: It doesn’t matter whether he’ll become a weak little Alpha. First, convince the cub that he’ll be powerful. As long as I watch over him, no one will dare bully my child anyway—wait. What did you say my cub is?
Bai Nuo [certainly]: Nuo Nuo is a powerful Alpha cub.
Eldest Uncle, who was already feeling very sour: ??????????