Chapter 83: Susceptible Period: Passing the Baton part 1
Lu Zhi proposed that everyone go to his seaside villa for a vacation. After a brief consideration, Tang Xingye agreed. Having finished visiting the art exhibition, Tang Xingye yawned listlessly, his eyelids fighting to stay open. He glanced groggily at the clock on the wall; it was only 18:00.
After finally coming out to play, ending up sleeping indoors seemed, to Tang Xingye, a very foolish behavior.
There were other scheduled activities for the evening. Tang Xingye didn’t want to dampen the mood, but he was incredibly sleepy, ready to pass out at any moment. He sent a message in the group chat: [You guys continue strolling. I’m going to find a place to read, no need to look for me.]
Tang Xingye returned to the apartment alone, took a shower, changed into pajamas, and prepared to climb into bed.
Unexpectedly, someone knocked on the door. Tang Xingye glanced through the peephole; it was Lu Zhi. Opening the door, Lu Zhi touched Tang Xingye’s forehead, brows furrowed tightly. “Do you have a fever?”
“No,” Tang Xingye’s voice still carried a trace of weariness. “Just tired, want to sleep.” He had measured his temperature, and it was normal. It might be physical exhaustion from not having walked so much for a long time.
“I’ll stay and keep you company.”
“You go back, don’t make them worry.” Tang Xingye shook his head in refusal. He was no longer the weak child who needed care.
When he was little, there was no one at home. It was pitch black and very cold. In winter, he would wrap himself in a thin blanket and curl up at the door waiting for his mom to come back.
When his mom returned from playing cards and saw him shivering, she would scold him with a smile, “Why so stupid? Don’t know how to get a thick quilt?” Saying this, she would take a quilt from the closet and cover him.
Once, he longed for others to let a little love leak through their fingers for him.
The room door closed. All around was silent. Tang Xingye, however, felt it wasn’t that cold, quietly sinking into dreams.
When Tang Xingye woke up, he smelled cocoa in his breath. He turned his head and, by the moonlight, barely made out Lu Zhi sleeping while kneeling by his bed. Red marks were pressed onto his face; it looked like he had been guarding him the whole time.
“Lu Zhi, go back to your room to sleep.”
Tang Xingye’s voice still carried the drowsiness of sleep. He called softly and shook him. Seeing the other hadn’t woken up, Tang Xingye reached out to pat his face lightly, but was burned by the Alpha’s body temperature.
Tang Xingye turned on the light, only then seeing clearly that Lu Zhi’s face was very red, his forehead covered in fine beads of sweat.
Susceptible Period.
Tang Xingye had heard the phone call between Lu Zhi and his attending physician. He needed pheromone comfort. For some unknown reason, he could soothe Lu Zhi’s condition, leading to slow but effective improvement. The doctor suggested it would be best if he could have a deep bonding. Every time Lu Zhi bit his gland and injected pheromones, his tail hook (knot) would be hard as a rock, but he never mentioned it once.
Tang Xingye dragged Lu Zhi onto the bed, momentarily in a dilemma. It wasn’t that he was hesitant about doing it, but the size looked too terrifying. Tang Xingye had tasted Zhou Lin’s; comparing the length, his finger pressed against the position of his stomach—here?!
Tang Xingye instantly had thoughts of retreating. It would break…
Fear made him almost want to turn and flee immediately. But his gaze fell on Lu Zhi’s sweaty face, thinking of how he gave up the itinerary to guard his bedside, not leaving until the Susceptible Period broke out and he fell into a coma… If something really happened to Lu Zhi and he left him here alone, it would be too outrageous.
The cocoa scent in his breath became increasingly rich, almost tangible as it wrapped around him. Tang Xingye’s head was a bit dizzy; his degraded gland heated up, the intense pheromones rousing his appetite.
He knew why he felt this way.
His fever and need for pheromones also stemmed from his instinctive longing for others’ love and warmth.
Although no one was deliberately stimulating him with pheromones now, smelling the pheromones of the few from the dorm still caused a reaction.
Just checking a bit.
It’s fine.
Even Tarot cards said one must bear what ordinary people cannot to gain new life.
Maybe, he can?
Wrapped in pheromones, the thirst mixed with slight guilt suppressed rational fear. Tang Xingye was basically responsible for lying down; when it came to practical application on his own, he only had the theory from education class. He hesitated slightly, then quickly stripped.
He didn’t know what degree was appropriate. His hand pressed against the snow-colored curve, heart trembling. The cocoa scent in his breath grew mellower, like freshly brewed coffee, provoking his desire. Soon, Tang Xingye added another finger.
Knowledge from paper is shallow; practice is most important.
Tang Xingye’s thoughts were drifting wildly. This feeling was so strange. He recalled the origin point mentioned by the teacher and pressed somewhere. He gasped sharply, sitting directly on Lu Zhi’s abdominal muscles.
To avoid crushing the other, Tang Xingye kept kneeling. Maintaining the same posture for too long made his muscles numb. He was like a child just encountering math, ignorant and clumsy. He tried a few times, but due to excessive tension and the body’s instinctive fear, he couldn’t get the method right.
Tang Xingye didn’t like doing useless work. This futile attempt—the answer clearly in front of him, yet making no progress—only intensified his anxiety. Fine sweat beads fell from his smooth forehead onto the Alpha’s body. Tang Xingye bit his lower lip tight, hands propping on the side, fingertips clenching white, still wanting to try solving this math problem.
Can’t do it!
Reason issued a warning at the last moment, overwhelming the thirst lured out by pheromones.
Tang Xingye propped up his arms, struggling to climb up, but the Alpha, whose consciousness wasn’t clear, gave him no chance. He pressed down on his waist, the strength surprisingly great, almost leaving finger marks on his delicate skin. He was forced to fall back to the original spot. The next second, Lu Zhi’s scorching lips pressed down, lowering his head to latch onto his lips, grinding in a near-biting kiss.
“No… Mmph…”
Tang Xingye was driven crazy by this unreasonable kissing. The voice trying to speak was kissed into fragments, turning into blurry whimpers. “Wu…”
Tears secreted from the corners of Tang Xingye’s eyes. His skin showed pink, cheeks flushed. His arms pushed the other indiscriminately, his voice carrying a sobbing tone, sounding like begging for mercy.
Lu Zhi lowered his head, instinctively feeding his rough tongue in continuously, greedily seizing every inch of sweet water in his mouth, occasionally using his teeth to bite his trembling tongue tip.
Don’t kiss anymore…
Only this thought remained in Tang Xingye’s mind. He wanted to flee, but his whole body went limp as spring water. The strength of his resistance was so weak it felt almost like caressing, a disguised flirtation.
The ceaseless kissing stimulated like surging waves, tossing up and falling down. Tang Xingye was sucked by Lu Zhi incessantly, as if about to be swallowed into the belly, nailed firmly in place, nowhere to escape. Tears and saliva flowed everywhere.
His tongue wasn’t his own; every nerve was screaming overload, yet he couldn’t break free from the Alpha’s embrace.
As if hearing the cry for help from the bottom of his heart, footsteps came from the doorway.
Ji Chen, worried about Tang Xingye, considered Tang Xingye’s most likely path of action was returning to the villa, so he came back. A strong and ominous premonition seized his heart; the smell of cocoa in the air was abnormally strong!
Immediately after, an ambiguous and wet sound faintly came from the crack of the door. Following the sound, Ji Chen pushed open the half-closed door. The sight that entered his eyes made his blood almost freeze instantly.
Tang Xingye was trembling all over. Having been kissed for too long, his eyes were red. Those beautiful eyes were filled with physiological tears, vision unfocused and blank. Seeing the person arrive, he couldn’t help blinking, tears falling, expression looking pitiful and lost.
Realizing someone had come, Tang Xingye used all his strength to call for help to the Alpha at the door. He reached out his hand, the crying tone carrying total reliance, “Ji Chen… help me… Mmph…”
Before he could finish speaking, he was turned around and kissed into pieces by the Alpha again.
The sense of shame magnified the touch infinitely. The soft and pink tongue had long been kissed bright red. Tang Xingye couldn’t stand it anymore, struggling more violently, but the result was the other kissing even deeper, a fierce kiss almost wanting to swallow the person whole.
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