Chapter 18 – Have You Taken the Wrong Medicine?
“What are you thinking? Get up!”
Seeing Gu Zhuoran half-kneeling there motionless, Shen Yan retracted his foot in confusion.
The beautiful scenery within his sight was taken away, and Gu Zhuoran suppressed the sparks in his eyes, slowly standing up.
Without changing his expression, he rubbed his shoulder, looking as if he had been kicked quite hard.
Shen Yan glanced at him. Seeing him rubbing his shoulder with a solemn expression, he couldn’t help but mock himself, “I’m the one who presented as an Omega, what are you worrying about?”
Hearing this, Gu Zhuoran suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Yan with a gloomy and aggrieved gaze, his eyes like needles silently condemning Shen Yan’s heartlessness.
Shen Yan immediately shut up, knowing he had overstepped. He understood that Gu Zhuoran was acting out of concern for him.
While his heart was feeling guilty for his words just now, Shen Yan was suddenly startled by a term of address he hadn’t heard in a long time, making him feel all mushy.
“Yan-gege…” Gu Zhuoran called out softly in a softened voice.
It caused Shen Yan to break out in goosebumps instantly. He let out a harsh roar, “Shut up!”
Gu Zhuoran shut his mouth without a word, but the grievance in his icy-blue eyes grew even stronger.
Shen Yan sat there rubbing his forehead, his thoughts derailed by that “Yan-gege.”
Because Shen Yan was a bit older than Gu Zhuoran, this was their childhood address.
Ever since Gu Zhuoran presented as an Alpha, this brat had never used that term to call him again.
In the blink of an eye, five years had passed, and hearing it now actually felt inexplicably terrifying.
“Did you take the wrong medicine, brat? That sounded so disgusting,” Shen Yan asked with a scowl.
“…” Gu Zhuoran was deeply struck.
Dis… disgusting?!
Didn’t he used to call him that all the time when they were little? When he first stopped calling him that, Shen Yan used to beat him up all the time.
Gu Zhuoran was frightened by Shen Yan’s description. Was his calling him that really that scary?
Gu Zhuoran, who prioritized Shen Yan in everything, began to reflect seriously and deeply.
He only wanted to close the distance between himself and Shen Yan, but he hadn’t expected it to cause such an effect.
Was it because he hadn’t said it for too long?
It seemed the decision back then was truly a massive mistake.
If he had known earlier that Shen Yan would present as an Omega, he would never have wasted so many years hardening his heart to pull their distance apart.
Now it was great—he wasn’t even allowed to call him a friendly “Yan-gege.”
Gu Zhuoran looked at Shen Yan with a face full of regret, and Shen Yan was also quietly looking at him.
“Come here for a second,” Shen Yan said.
“?” Gu Zhuoran stood before him, puzzled, lowering his head to inquire.
As he approached, Shen Yan quickly smelled that fiery breath.
He couldn’t help but stretch his neck to sniff it.
Gu Zhuoran froze there, his throat swallowing, not daring to move an inch as he allowed him to sniff lightly at his neck.
After Shen Yan finished sniffing, he nodded slightly. “So this is the scent of your pheromones. I’ve remembered it.”
Shen Yan’s words didn’t originally have any deep meaning, but to Gu Zhuoran’s ears, they sounded as violent as a declaration of possession over him.
Gu Zhuoran suddenly clenched his fist and asked cautiously, “What do you mean?”
Shen Yan glanced at Gu Zhuoran and said, “I need your help to fool those reviewers.”
“What?” Gu Zhuoran looked at Shen Yan blankly.
Shen Yan looked straight at Gu Zhuoran and asked, “I need you to help me get through the Tongkao review. Will you help or not?”
By asking this, Shen Yan didn’t give Gu Zhuoran a choice at all.
Because he knew that Gu Zhuoran would never refuse any of his requests.
Sure enough, Gu Zhuoran opened his mouth, and it took a long while before he gave a bitter laugh, bowing his head in resignation.
He agreed, but this time was slightly different from the past.
“I can help… but I have a condition.”
Gu Zhuoran’s head was lowered, his silver hair obscuring his face and hiding the shrewdness and calculation deep within his icy-blue eyes.
He would naturally listen to Shen Yan’s request.
But that didn’t stop him from fulfilling the true wish in his heart along the way.
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Translator’s Note:
- Yan-gege: An affectionate way of saying “Big Brother Yan.”
- Pheromones: The scent produced by Alphas and Omegas. Wait, did Gu Zhuoran just say “condition”? Our little Alpha is starting to show his “black-bellied” side. Stay tuned for what he wants in exchange for helping Shen Yan hide his Omega status!
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