Chapter 109: Make You Call Me Brother (29)
Whether it was Xiao Ji or Gu Yinnian, neither was the type to go unnoticed.
Whether it was An Jing or Xu Xiaolin, they would merely be tiny stumbling blocks on their path of love.
Everyone has their own thoughts. Even those who publicly announce their relationships still have to deal with many individuals with low moral baselines who simply don’t care. Let alone Gu Yinnian and Xiao Ji, who both maintained the image of being single and looked incredibly desirable.
Initially, Gu Yinnian felt that gossip was a fearful thing, worried that Xiao Ji would get hurt, and thus didn’t want to go public.
But now he realized that keeping it hidden would inevitably lead to unspoken grievances.
Once again, Xiao Ji took Gu Yinnian to a hotel.
Unlike the last time they tried their luck with a random hotel, this time, Xiao Ji took Gu Yinnian directly to the most luxurious hotel suite in the city.
And unlike last time’s direct approach, Xiao Ji still went to take a shower first, but he didn’t invite Gu Yinnian to join him.
Gu Yinnian also tacitly understood not to forcefully barge into the bathroom.
They washed up separately, then lay on opposite sides of the large bed. There was enough space between them to fit at least one Lin Mo and one Song Zhi.
The weather in the capital in late November had become noticeably cold, but perhaps because the room’s air conditioning was set very high, Gu Yinnian felt his body temperature subtly rising.
Xiao Ji lay on his side on the bed, his porcelain-white upper torso exposed to the air, quietly watching Gu Yinnian.
Being stared at, Gu Yinnian felt somewhat embarrassed. He stealthily extended his toe, hooked his underwear—which looked a bit glaring against the pristine white bed—from the foot of the bed, intending to silently put it back on.
It seemed doing so would give him a fraction more security and make him feel less out of his depth.
But Xiao Ji bluntly interrupted him:
“You’ll have to take it off again anyway, why wear it?”
Gu Yinnian froze, his toe still hooked around his underwear. Quickly, acting as if nothing had happened, he grabbed the underwear with his hand, folded it neatly, and placed it on the nightstand.
He cleared his throat. “Baby, why am I a little nervous?”
It was only natural for Gu Yinnian to be nervous.
This was different from their intimate activity before Xiao Ji had differentiated.
Back then, without the influence of pheromones, how they got close relied entirely on their own hearts.
But it was different now.
Gu Yinnian was terrified his pheromones would leak.
He didn’t know what kind of reaction the collision of his and Xiao Ji’s pheromones would produce.
Xiao Ji’s pheromone rank was very high, so he wouldn’t be harmed by him, which was good.
But what about himself? Could he withstand Xiao Ji’s pheromones?
If he couldn’t withstand it and passed out, wouldn’t that be humiliating?
Xiao Ji knew Gu Yinnian was overthinking. He reached out, grabbed Gu Yinnian’s wrist, and yanked him into his embrace.
Before Gu Yinnian could react, he lowered his head and kissed him.
The one thing Gu Yinnian could never resist in this life was Xiao Ji’s closeness, Xiao Ji’s kisses, Xiao Ji’s everything.
Almost the instant their lips and tongues met, his pheromones uncontrollably seeped out from the back of his neck.
The scent of scorching flames permeated the air.
“Stop, Ah Ji…”
Gu Yinnian tried to say something, but Xiao Ji pinched his cheeks, cutting him off.
“Don’t speak. Just follow your heart, Gege. Whatever you want to do, we’ll try it.”
Hearing this, Gu Yinnian stopped struggling, allowing Xiao Ji to act presumptuously with him.
Gradually, amidst the scorching flames, a trace of icy aura seemed to weave its way in.
It shifted from the pure sensation of a blazing summer to the feeling of a bonfire burning amidst an expanse of ice and snow.
Gu Yinnian’s glands throbbed frantically.
Xiao Ji kissed the back of his neck over and over again, asking him:
“Does it hurt?”
Gu Yinnian shook his head. He could feel his glands being stimulated and his pheromones leaking, but the anticipated piercing pain never arrived.
“Can I?” Xiao Ji asked again.
Gu Yinnian knew that Xiao Ji wanted to bite him.
He could already feel Xiao Ji’s sharp teeth eager to move.
He gripped the bedsheets beneath him tightly and let out a soft “Mhm.”
They were both Alphas; one of them had to bow their head eventually.
This kind of pain, which went against natural instincts and Alpha physiological structure, Gu Yinnian was willing to bear.
The flames amidst the endless glaciers continued to burn fiercely.
The ice and snow swept over the flames, attempting to envelop and devour them.
At first, the flames fought back desperately, but as they entangled, they found that the ice and snow seemingly had no intention of extinguishing them.
In their clash, they gradually found a certain equilibrium.
Ice and snow entwined within the fire, and the fire burned within the ice and snow.
An intense, overwhelming sensation of being possessed spread across Gu Yinnian’s entire body.
Xiao Ji had guessed that the compatibility between his soul and Gu Yinnian’s wouldn’t be low.
But he hadn’t expected things to progress so unexpectedly smoothly.
He hooked one arm around Gu Yinnian’s throat, lowering his head to lick and kiss the fragile skin on the back of Gu Yinnian’s neck that he had bitten through.
He asked again:
“Does it hurt, Nian Ge?”
Gu Yinnian was definitely feeling pain right now.
But the source of the pain wasn’t on the back of his neck.
It was somewhere else.
For a moment, he didn’t know whether he should say it hurt or it didn’t.
So, after catching his breath, he could only curse with difficulty:
“Just do your job. I’m stuck halfway right now, who has time to care if it hurts or not?”
Having known each other for years, Xiao Ji understood this much about Gu Yinnian.
As long as Gu Yinnian had this attitude, it definitely meant he was still ‘hungry’, and aside from that, there was no major issue.
The room was filled with the tangled scents of Alpha pheromones. For the entire night, Gu Yinnian didn’t have time to carefully ponder the reasons behind it.
It wasn’t until just before dawn, when Xiao Ji was holding Gu Yinnian in the bathtub, that Gu Yinnian asked:
“Why?”
Xiao Ji had his suspicions about this.
Barring any surprises, he and Gu Yinnian had likely successfully completed a pheromone submission.
But historical precedents for pheromone submission usually only emerged after years of painful, agonizing friction and adjustment.
He couldn’t be certain right now if this was the case between him and Gu Yinnian. He could only hold him from behind, kissing the bite mark he had left on Gu Yinnian’s neck, and softly said:
“Regardless of why, it’s a good thing, isn’t it?”
Good thing or bad thing, Gu Yinnian didn’t dare determine just yet.
But after that night, whether it was Gu Yinnian or Xiao Ji, both underwent subtle new changes.
Previously, although Gu Yinnian and Xiao Ji were close, it never reached the point of being overly cloying.
Now, however, even Lin Mo felt that Gu Yinnian’s behavior was getting somewhat ridiculous.
“If it doesn’t work out, what if I move in with Ren Jin?”
When Lin Mo got up to use the restroom in the middle of the night, he noticed Gu Yinnian’s bed was completely empty.
Pushing the door open, he saw Gu Yinnian sitting on the corner of the living room sofa, staring at the door of Xiao Ji’s room.
Gu Yinnian wiped his face in frustration:
“He didn’t mention it, Lin Mo. Do you think he’s trying to hide from me?”
Lin Mo was shocked:
“Nian Ge, excuse my bluntness, but two hours ago he was still squeezed into your bed with you, telling you a story, treating me like I wasn’t even human.”
“Didn’t he just quietly go back to his own room after watching you fall asleep? Where do you get this idea that he’s hiding from you, I ask?”
Xiao Ji could clearly feel himself developing an unprecedented psychological dependence on Gu Yinnian.
Even though they had just seen each other moments ago, the second they separated, Xiao Ji felt unsettled, his mind flooded with unmentionable thoughts.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the image of Gu Yinnian’s trembling leg draped over his shoulder, the slight contraction of his abdominal muscles due to spasms, the hazy, deeply reliant gaze, and the crystalline moisture slightly overflowing from his lips began to run rampant in his mind.
Frame by frame, scene by scene, incredibly clear.
Xiao Ji opened his eyes in frustration. He was just about to get out of bed to drink some water when he heard a soft click from the room’s door.
Following that, someone climbed up the ladder beside his bed and crawled onto his mattress.
A familiar scent and body heat pressed against Xiao Ji’s back, and a pair of arms wrapped around his waist.
The inexplicable irritability vanished instantly.
Xiao Ji turned around, pulled Gu Yinnian into his embrace, kissed his forehead, and whispered:
“Why aren’t you asleep yet?”
Gu Yinnian closed his eyes, burying his cheek into Xiao Ji’s neck. “The moment you leave, I wake up. It’s unbearable.”
Xiao Ji stroked the back of his head. “Do you feel better now?”
Gu Yinnian didn’t want to hear Xiao Ji speak with that beautiful mouth of his.
He tilted his head up to kiss Xiao Ji, dawdling and completely affectionate.
At first, he retained some initiative, but eventually, he merely parted his lips, waiting for Xiao Ji to serve him.
Only when sleepiness surged and he was drowsy did he shift his posture, end the lengthy kiss, and say to Xiao Ji:
“I feel much better now.”
Gu Yinnian felt much better, but Xiao Ji didn’t feel great.
The sensation of his pheromones constantly stirring yet unable to be released was somewhat dreadful.
So the next day, Xiao Ji kept looking at Lin Mo with an expression that said he had something to say but held back.
It wasn’t until Lin Mo let out a long sigh and proactively offered that he was very willing to become Ren Jin’s roommate that Xiao Ji finally ceased his hints and thanked Lin Mo.
Ever since that night, Gu Yinnian sent An Jing a single message:
【I am Gu Yinnian, Xiao Ji’s Alpha. Don’t let me see you again.】
Without waiting to see if An Jing would reply, he directly added the contact to his blacklist.
To prevent future awkward encounters and avoid numerous unnecessary misunderstandings, Xiao Ji and Gu Yinnian discussed it and ultimately chose to withdraw from the student council.
Life finally quieted down. Aside from attending classes, the two spent their time either reading in the library or playing ball on the basketball court.
They didn’t deliberately announce their relationship to the public.
It was just that whether it was the metallic initial badges pinned to their chests, the matching rings, or their constant, inseparable presence, they no longer consciously avoided anyone.
A massive wave of threads about the two began to flood the campus forum, but neither Xiao Ji nor Gu Yinnian read them.
Gu Yinnian felt that looking at them or not wouldn’t change anything; it was completely meaningless and would only add to his annoyance.
Xiao Ji simply didn’t have the mood or the time.
He noticed his state had become very strange lately.
All his attention was focused entirely on Gu Yinnian. What Gu Yinnian said, the expressions he made while speaking, how many bites it took him to finish an egg-filled pancake, the exact minute he yawned—Xiao Ji remembered it all with absolute clarity.
And that morning, when Gu Yinnian woke up, put on the wrong underwear, and tugged it out to show Xiao Ji in the bathroom between classes, Xiao Ji had absolutely no mind left for anything else.
He still appeared calm and quiet, a man of few words, but Gu Yinnian could feel that Xiao Ji’s gaze was constantly fixed on him.
It wasn’t a normal level of attention.
It was the attention of a predator locked onto its prey.
When this state persisted into the third day, Gu Yinnian began to feel uncomfortable too. He couldn’t pinpoint the exact mix of irritability and anxiety, and could only say to Xiao Ji:
“Why don’t we ask for a few days off? I think you’ve been acting a little off these past two days.”
When he said this, he was sitting with Xiao Ji in the last row of the tiered lecture hall.
And Xiao Ji’s hand was hidden under the hem of Gu Yinnian’s shirt, resting on his smooth spine.
Xiao Ji always listened to Gu Yinnian. He absentmindedly agreed:
“Okay.”
After classes ended that day, Gu Yinnian first took Xiao Ji to the campus infirmary.
The blood test results came back, and all blood counts were normal. The few items that were off didn’t indicate pre-susceptibility symptoms, but merely a common cold.
Only then did Gu Yinnian breathe a sigh of relief. He first escorted Xiao Ji back to the dorm, then took Xiao Ji’s test results to the counselor alone, using the cold as an excuse to request three days off for Xiao Ji.
But no one could have anticipated that very night, while Gu Yinnian was still lying in Xiao Ji’s arms, he would be startled awake by a piercing alarm.
Besides the alarm, there were sounds of running and shouting in the corridor.
Gu Yinnian hadn’t slept deeply; he was covered in sweat, feeling hot, bothered, and completely disoriented.
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Xiao Ji sitting beside him, staring at him unblinkingly.
His Adam’s apple bobbed as he asked:
“What’s going on? Is your susceptibility period here?”
Xiao Ji looked at Gu Yinnian, answering a question with a question:
“Can’t you smell it?”
Gu Yinnian’s glands were throbbing wildly. Hearing this, he finally realized that the entire room was engulfed in the scent of blazing fire.
And interwoven within it were myriad threads of piercing chill.
Gu Yinnian’s mind was reeling. Looking at Xiao Ji’s face, he could think of nothing else but wanting to kiss him.
He reached out to stroke Xiao Ji’s face, leaning in to kiss the corner of his lips.
“I’m so thirsty, Xiao Ji. Give me some water.”
…
In just ten minutes, the entire dormitory building was evacuated.
A quarantine cordon was set up around the area, and many people were whispering amongst themselves.
Upon receiving the notice from the security department, Xiao Ji and Gu Yinnian’s counselor rushed to the main gate of the dorm area, panting heavily:
“Which Alpha’s susceptibility period triggered the alarm like this?”
The security captain’s expression was grave:
“It’s not just one Alpha, Teacher Zhao. It’s a huge problem. Two high-level Alphas in your class have entered their susceptibility periods simultaneously. According to the alarm system data, they are staying in the exact same dorm room.”
The counselor instantly gasped.
He was a Beta and couldn’t rely on pheromones to determine exactly which two high-level Alphas were simultaneously in their susceptibility period.
But what it meant for two high-level Alphas to be in susceptibility at the same time was self-evident.
If it wasn’t controlled well, one beating the other to death wouldn’t be considered a rare occurrence.
When he received the security team’s pheromone concentration report, it felt like a bolt from the blue.
He didn’t even need to look to know who the individuals in susceptibility were.
When Alphas ranked in the top ten for pheromone levels experience a pheromone riot in a public area, the impact on other Alphas and Omegas within a certain radius is tantamount to a small-scale explosion.
And right now, in this very building, two Alphas ranked in the top ten were undergoing their susceptibility periods at the exact same time.
In his ten years of teaching, the counselor, who had never experienced anything like this, felt his mind go momentarily blank.
Fortunately, Lin Mo appeared at the right moment. Wearing a thick mask, he patted the counselor on the shoulder and said to him:
“Zhao Ge, don’t panic. Trust me, as long as no one disturbs them, neither Gu Yinnian nor Xiao Ji’s pheromones will absolutely riot.”
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