Chapter 141: Fainting
The wall clock continued its rhythmic tick-tock, marking the passage of seconds, but the lethal killing pheromones Qin Yanzhou expected never came. Instead…
Inside the nine-story turret, a refreshing, elegant, and incredibly pure scent of jasmine began to drift and permeate the air. The fragrance deepened, shifting from a light breeze to a rich essence, gradually seeping from the atmosphere into his very marrow.
First, it soothed his frantic, crumbling emotions. Then, bit by bit, it began to erase the dense, angry red hives that covered his skin.
Finally, it merged into his blood, making his whole body boil. His veins surged, and his heartbeat became heavy and feral. Tiny beads of sweat broke across his skin. His mind was suddenly filled with the image of the young femaleāher enchanting voice, her face, her silhouette. He wanted to embrace her, to pin her down, to possess her.
In fact, as he knelt before her now, he felt a pious urge to lean down and kiss her feet.
The sensation was so intoxicating it bordered on the divine, nearly driving him to lose control. He couldn’t help but let out a low growl as he snapped his eyes open.
“Tangtang!”
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the girlās faint, gentle smile.
“Qin Yanzhou, touch the back of your neck.”
As if under her spell, he reached back with numb, obedient fingers to feel the skin there. He froze. It was whole. His protective membrane was… it was intact!
She…
She hadn’t unleashed killing pheromones on him. Instead, she had used her healing and soothing pheromones to restore his membrane to its original state.
In an instant, a sharp clarity pierced through his deep, dark gaze, like a sword shattering a glass prison.
That sword cleaved through the illusory nightmare that had tormented him for years. It reached back to the filthy, terrified child he once was and pulled him out, stitching his soul back together and making his life whole again. Just like that membrane, he was no longer broken.
He tilted his head back, looking up at the radiant, dazzling girl who stood before him like a goddess. His eyes burned with an intense, overflowing love that seemed ready to burst.
“You… Mnn~”
Su Miantang had intended to help him up, but he moved with lightning speed, pulling her into a crushing embrace. He held her with such terrifying strength it felt as if he wanted to embed her into his very bones. His face, buried in her thick black hair, was scalding hot, and his voice trembled.
“Tangtang, Tangtang, Tangtang…”
“Tangtang, Iām sorry. Iām so sorry.”
“Itās okay. Itās all better now.”
Su Miantang reached out, wrapping her arms around his waist and patting him gently, as one would comfort a child who had finally stopped crying after a great injustice.
Though she didn’t know exactly what had happened to him today to cause such a breakdown, she intended to stay by his side until he was fully recovered.
“Tangtang, I don’t have her pheromones in me. I was never marked by her. That membrane… it was only scratched by accident while I was struggling. Iām not dirty. Iām not dirty at all…”
“Yes, I know.”
She knew he was talking about Abigail.
But she didn’t want to hear that name again. She didn’t want to see him constantly picking at his own scars, drowning in misery and self-loathing.
“Qin Yanzhou.”
“Whether you have that membrane or not, whether itās whole or brokenāin my heart, you have always been the cleanest, purest person I know.”
She didn’t realize how much weight those words carried for him. He tightened his grip until she felt her ribs might crack, his embrace so suffocating she could hardly breathe.
“Tangtang.”
“Tangtang…”
How could she be this good?
She was a thousandāten thousandātimes better than any dream of a goddess he had ever had.
Even when he had pushed people away, even when his membrane was shattered, even when he had been driven by a mad desire to imprison her, she had never given up on him.
He loved her so deeply it hurt. He wanted to give her everything he owned.
“Qin Yanzhou, I…”
Just as Su Miantang felt the pain becoming unbearable, the man finally released her. He let her slump against his chest as she gasped for air.
Unexpectedly, his dark, profound gaze locked onto her slightly parted, rosy lips.
“Qin Yanzhou.”
Before she could speak again, his lips were suddenly upon hers.
The girlās amber eyes widened in shock as she met his deep, feverish gaze. Sparks seemed to ignite and explode in the air between them.
It was his first time. He had no experience and no idea what he was doing. He simply sucked and ground against her soft lips with a clumsy, desperate urgency. Guided by instinct, he slowly pried her teeth apart, deepening the kiss…
An unfamiliar, intense heat of masculine energy suddenly flooded her mouth. Su Miantang felt a jolt of electricity shoot through her, leaving her entire body tingling and numb.
Before she could even reactāthump!
The man actually fainted right on top of her.
…Wait, what?
Before Qin Yanzhou lost consciousness, the last of his sensory systems felt like it had been stimulated to the point of explosion.
How can something be this soft, this tender, this hot, and this sweet…
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