Chapter 100: Make You Call Me Brother (20)
Setting aside his ordinary family background, Gu Yinnian was an Alpha with a high pheromone gene sequence and superiority in both external and internal qualities.
Whether as a whole or in parts, he was an existence worth being very proud of.
But now, looking at Xiao Ji, Gu Yinnian suddenly felt unprecedented self-doubt.
The intense visual impact gave Gu Yinnian the thought that if Xiao Ji differentiated into an Omega, he might as well just die.
He hesitated to approach Xiao Ji—at least he didn’t want to lose to Xiao Ji so blatantly.
Just as he was about to find an excuse to flee, Xiao Ji reached out and yanked him into the misty glass partition.
Hot water poured over Gu Yinnian’s head, nearly suffocating him. He wiped his face and started to speak:
“You fu—”
Before he could finish, Xiao Ji pinned him against the cool glass wall.
When the overwhelming kiss landed, Gu Yinnian stopped caring. He held the back of Xiao Ji’s head and kissed him back.
He had already lost ground in the private cinema.
Now, doing it again, he absolutely could not let Xiao Ji outdo him.
The two fought a life-and-death battle in the narrow glass partition.
More than an hour later, Gu Yinnian, wrapped in a bath towel, stood in front of the sink. Even while brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth, his cheeks felt sore and bloated, making it hard to close his mouth.
Xiao Ji, in contrast, was much more composed. He finished cleaning up first and walked out of the bathroom.
Gu Yinnian didn’t really want to talk anymore.
Why did Xiao Ji’s endurance seem like that of a battle-hardened veteran?
Meanwhile, he had almost completely humiliated himself.
Xiao Ji didn’t know what Gu Yinnian was thinking, but he could see that Gu Yinnian seemed to have suddenly wilted.
When Xiao Ji helped him blow-dry his hair, he didn’t make a sound.
When Xiao Ji dried his own hair, he still didn’t make a sound.
In his previous life, Xiang Yinnian had spent too long in the military; maintenance relied entirely on his natural gifts.
Xiang Yinnian found it troublesome, and Xiao Ji never tried to break his habits or force him to be refined.
But even earlier than that, Fang Yinnian had paid great attention to these things.
Especially after turning thirty-five, he often ordered Xiao Ji to give him massages, apply essential oils, and do maintenance.
Now with Gu Yinnian, although he had no requirements, Xiao Ji was happy to spoil him.
Throwing on a bathrobe and tying the belt loosely, he took the bottle of well-known body lotion from the nightstand, half-knelt in front of Gu Yinnian, held his ankle, and placed it on his knee.
He began to apply the body lotion.
From the root of the thigh to the tip of the toes, the application made Gu Yinnian blush and his heart race again.
Unable to bear it any longer, he pulled Xiao Ji up, made him sit on the edge of the bed, and started to serve Xiao Ji instead:
“I’m an Alpha. Don’t spoil me like this. I pampered you growing up, not so you could serve me.”
Hearing this, Xiao Ji withdrew his pale, clean foot from Gu Yinnian’s hand and stepped on Gu Yinnian’s full, beautiful chest.
“This isn’t service. It’s foreplay.”
Looking at Xiao Ji’s slender, beautiful calf, Gu Yinnian’s throat tightened again.
He grasped Xiao Ji’s ankle again, looked up at Xiao Ji’s breathtakingly beautiful face under the dim light, his Adam’s apple rolling up and down.
“Xiao Ji, did you… learn bad things when you were abroad?”
Xiao Ji looked down at Gu Yinnian.
“Do you think I’ve been with someone else?”
Earlier, when Gu Yinnian was in the bathroom, he had indeed had that thought.
Xiao Ji was too at ease.
Although he didn’t want to admit it, that feeling had persisted until the moment Xiao Ji applied lotion to him.
But now that Xiao Ji asked so bluntly, Gu Yinnian sobered up instantly.
Xiao Ji hadn’t gone abroad to enjoy life; he went to cure an illness.
Although Gu Yinnian’s longing made that one year and ten months incredibly difficult, he knew that Xiao Ji—often covered in tubes, hospitalized for half a month at a time, alone in a foreign country—must have had a harder time than him.
Gu Yinnian felt guilty for his earlier malicious speculation.
He tilted his head, kissed Xiao Ji’s pale ankle, and whispered:
“Sorry. I shouldn’t have thought that.”
Xiao Ji bent down, pinched Gu Yinnian’s chin, and forced him to look up at him.
“Gu Yinnian, aren’t you very domineering? We’ve reached this step, yet you don’t dare use that arrogance on me?”
“See reality clearly. I am yours. This was destined from the day I first met you.”
“I’m not a fragile vase that breaks at a touch, nor will I leave you casually. Do you understand or not?”
Gu Yinnian looked at Xiao Ji’s cold expression and the depths of his swirling eyes. After a long time, he spoke:
“So, what exactly is your phone password?”
Xiao Ji was stunned. After a while, he said speechlessly:
“Is this the reason you’ve been hesitant all this time?”
Gu Yinnian pursed his lips, speaking somewhat guiltily:
“Just one of the excuses.”
Resigned, Xiao Ji took his phone from the bedside, held Gu Yinnian’s finger to register his fingerprint, and then said:
“I thought you knew. It’s always been your birthday.”
Gu Yinnian raised an eyebrow. “But you didn’t tell me after you changed phones.”
Xiao Ji remained expressionless.
“Not saying it means nothing changed. If it changed, I would have notified you.”
Only then did Gu Yinnian curse under his breath. He stood up, pushed Xiao Ji down onto the bed in frustration, slapped the bedside lamp off, and said to Xiao Ji:
“Go the fuck to sleep.”
They lay back-to-back on the bed. Gu Yinnian said sleep, so Xiao Ji stopped talking to him.
A long time passed. Just as Xiao Ji thought Gu Yinnian had fallen asleep, Gu Yinnian turned over and hugged Xiao Ji’s waist from behind.
He had been restrained, afraid to speak, afraid to ask, afraid to lose his temper. To put it bluntly, he was just afraid of losing Xiao Ji.
One year and ten months didn’t sound long, and in retrospect, it seemed like the blink of an eye.
But when he was counting the days, that boundless feeling was like a blunt knife piercing his heart back and forth every night.
Even when Xiao Ji returned a few days ago, standing alive before him, Gu Yinnian feared he couldn’t hold onto him.
He was even more afraid that Xiao Ji wouldn’t want to endure the pain of pheromone repulsion.
He had experienced separation once and barely adapted. If he had to experience a new separation and torture after regaining him, Gu Yinnian feared he wouldn’t have the courage to face it again.
But now, Xiao Ji gave him a clear answer.
No matter the result, as long as Xiao Ji dared to bear it, Gu Yinnian dared to stay with him.
Gu Yinnian tightened his arms around Xiao Ji, kissed the back of Xiao Ji’s neck, and whispered:
“You’ve chosen, so you can’t switch. If you differentiate into an Alpha, you have to carry the consequences too.”
Hearing this, Xiao Ji knew that the trauma he had caused Gu Yinnian back then had largely healed in this moment.
He breathed a sigh of relief, held Gu Yinnian’s hand, interlaced their fingers, and said only one sentence:
“Goodnight, my Alpha.”
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