Chapter 20 [Soothed by the Little Beast’s Pheromones]
One o’clock in the morning.
You Yuanyuan tossed and turned in bed, entirely unable to suppress the flushed heat within his body. Instead, like a prairie fire, it burned hotter and hotter. Finally, it burned away his rationality. You Yuanyuan opened his mist-clouded eyes, suddenly realizing in shock that his heat period had arrived early!
The scent gland at the back of his neck burned intensely, almost hot enough to scorch the barrier patch. He violently tore off the patch, and in an instant, the S-grade Omega Snow Mountain Cold Cotton pheromone bloomed in the bedroom like fireworks. Pervasively, it seeped into every conceivable crack and crevice.
So this was what an Omega’s heat felt like. Having been an Alpha for over thirty years, his susceptible periods were always filled with a maddening desire to conquer others. But now, for the first time, he felt an intense, craving desire to be marked, to be conquered.
This was the innate destiny of an Omega!
This desire filled him with extreme terror, as if a faith he had held as firmly as his own life had instantly been overturned, forcing him to accept an entirely different belief.
He felt the blood in his entire body boiling, his body alternating between hot and cold. The air felt incredibly thin; he gasped for breath, feeling as though he was about to suffocate. It felt like countless ants were crawling over his body, teasing every single one of his nerves.
You Yuanyuan gripped the bedsheets tightly, veins bulging on his forehead as cold sweat poured down. With a tearing sound, he accidentally ripped the bedsheets and tumbled off the bed, his world spinning.
With a thud, his head slammed against the floor.
Curling into a ball in agony, he clutched his head with both hands. His eyes were bloodshot and red, his jaw clamped shut tightly. His body was extremely tense, muscles trembling.
“Ah…” You Yuanyuan let out an uncontrollable cry.
His fist pounded viciously against the floor, cracking the expensive, high-grade floor tiles, venting the unrelieved desires surging within his body.
His rationality… was almost entirely gone.
He was going to lose his mind.
The inhibitors were right in the nightstand by the bed. All he had to do was get them and inject himself three times, or five times, to suppress these fierce, maddening desires.
But injecting too many inhibitors would negatively impact his body. He was someone who needed formidable physical strength, making a living off his combat skills. If he relied on inhibitors, his strength would be weakened. He would gradually become as fragile, soft, and easily bullied as those Omegas who couldn’t even tie up a chicken.
In the past, he had endured his Alpha susceptible periods time and time again without relying on medication. Could he really not endure this Omega heat period?!
He, You Yuanyuan, would absolutely not submit!
You Yuanyuan lifted the small sofa in the bedroom and violently smashed it open. He roared, venting his frustration.
Smashed the vase!
Broke the chair!
Overturned the cabinet!
Tore the books on the bookshelf to shreds!
Everything in the room that could be smashed, was smashed. Everything that could be broken, was broken.
A total mess.
Suddenly, his world spun and he collapsed in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror against the wall. He saw his own wretched, terrifying, ferocious, and desperate-to-be-fucked face.
He viciously punched and shattered the mirror.
The broken glass pierced the skin of his hand, and blood dripped down his pale, flushed skin onto the floor.
Meanwhile, in Xing Lie’s bedroom on the second floor.
Complete darkness.
Xing Lie opened his eyes in the dark, hearing the continuous crashing and banging sounds coming from You Yuanyuan’s room upstairs, as well as You Yuanyuan’s unrestrainable roars.
He knew You Yuanyuan had gone into heat. Today was August 24th.
This must be You Yuanyuan’s first time experiencing what an Omega’s heat felt like. Right now, he must be desperately craving to be conquered, to be taken. Yet, internally, he was intensely resisting it. Thus, his psychological suffering was even more torturous than his physical agony.
Who was You Yuanyuan? The famously renowned top-tier Alpha of Dongcheng. Formidable, fierce, indestructible, invincible, and proudly looking down on all others.
Once, during a mission to protect an employer, he fought a hundred people alone, creating the legend of Dongcheng’s number one bodyguard. To this day, no one could break his record. Everyone who saw him had to respectfully call him “You Ye.”
Just mentioning You Yuanyuan’s name was enough to make people understand the meaning of “invincible.”
He was just that powerful. Even after differentiating into an Omega, he was a rare S-grade Omega. He was a formidable existence capable of taking on thirty Alphas single-handedly while in a weakened state.
It was merely a heat period; what did that mean to You Yuanyuan? He could endure his susceptible periods without relying on any medication. Therefore, You Yuanyuan absolutely did not need any Alpha’s soothing pheromones.
Thinking this, Xing Lie closed his eyes again.
However, his body was involuntarily releasing soothing pheromones. Subsequently, he clearly felt his scent gland continuously pouring out the S-grade Alpha Glass Wood soothing pheromones.
If his suppressive pheromones were like bombs detonating explosively, then his soothing pheromones were like a river, pouring and flowing gently. If pheromones had a color, one could see this soothing pheromone filling the entire room in a gentle yet rapid manner.
Xing Lie’s mind went blank for a moment.
Earlier today at the forest training base, he had also tried to release soothing pheromones, but it had been as ineffective as drifting silk, completely useless. Because he couldn’t imagine feeling protective over any Omega. He couldn’t find that so-called feeling of “desire to protect.”
But right now, his entire room was saturated with intense soothing pheromones.
By the time Xing Lie sat up, his heart churning in shock, the Glass Wood soothing pheromones in the room seemed to overflow, surging out toward the open window.
The gentle river of pheromones washed over the potted flowers on the balcony, poured over the windowsill, and flowed into the air. Caught by a sudden strong gust of wind blowing from the forest, it swept up to the third floor and poured into You Yuanyuan’s open window.
The river continued to flow, the wind continued to blow.
Endless, intense, and smooth. It blew into You Yuanyuan’s bedroom.
By now, You Yuanyuan had exhausted a massive amount of physical stamina. He lay prone on the completely trashed floor, his clothes torn to shreds by his irrational self, hanging off his body in tatters.
His cold, jade-white skin had also been cut in several places by the debris on the floor, and his hands were covered in bite marks he inflicted upon himself. He looked so wretched he was on the verge of dying. Yet the burning in his body still persisted.
For an S-grade Omega’s heat to be this terrifying…
It almost rivaled the grand spectacle of him fighting a hundred people all those years ago.
You Yuanyuan’s dying gaze looked toward his final lifesaver—the inhibitors in the nightstand.
Like a dying dog, he dragged himself inch by inch toward the cabinet.
However, just as his hand was about to reach the cabinet, he suddenly felt a wave of warm, formidable soothing pheromones.
So familiar, yet so foreign.
It gently enveloped his entire body, so comfortable that he couldn’t help but let out a muffled groan.
What a miraculous feeling it was. It was like a dying person regaining life; like someone dying of thirst in the desert finding a sweet spring; like someone drowning and suffocating finally breathing in oxygen.
You Yuanyuan lay on the floor, his entire body comforted by the intense soothing pheromones. It felt like when he was a child, returning home battered and bruised from his mother’s training and lying on the floor, while his little puppy rubbed against him, licked him, and comforted him. It made him feel that he, too, was loved.
Even if the one loving him was only a dog, he cherished it immensely.
As the years passed, that feeling of being treated gently had long been worn away by time, vanishing completely. Now, experiencing such tender caresses once again, You Yuanyuan was incredibly greedy and intoxicated by it.
He closed his eyes, and at some point, tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, crystal clear.
Amidst the gentle soothing, he fell into a deep sleep.
There were no more sounds from upstairs; it was so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
But Xing Lie suffered from insomnia.
One building, two people, two silent rooms, without a trace of romance.
Early the next morning.
Zhou She knocked on You Yuanyuan’s door for a long time without a response. Worried that something might have happened, he slammed the door open. Upon seeing the floor covered in a total mess, he froze in sheer terror.
Was this World War III?
He practically had nowhere to step.
Zhou She walked carefully across the floor, finally spotting a figure lying on the ground on the other side of the bed.
“You Ye!” Zhou She’s heart leapt into his throat. In his panic to get over there, he tripped over something on the floor. Scrambling up again, he walked to You Yuanyuan’s side.
He saw that You Yuanyuan’s clothes were torn to shreds, his skin was cut, and his hands were bleeding from glass shards.
And You Yuanyuan still showed no signs of waking up. His face was pale, his lips cracked. That already icy face was even colder now, as if devoid of all signs of life. He looked so fragile he might shatter at a single touch.
“Good heavens, how did it end up like this?” Aching with concern, Zhou She scooped up You Yuanyuan’s arm, intending to drape it over his own neck and carry him to the bed.
But as he tried to stand up while holding him, he almost threw his back out. He immediately set him back down, clutching his waist and groaning in pain for a while.
“Let me.” Xing Lie’s deep voice sounded out.
Zhou She had no idea when Xing Lie had arrived. He watched as Xing Lie effortlessly picked You Yuanyuan up with an expressionless face, stepped steadily across the trashed floor, walked to the bed, and laid him down.
“Uh… Xing Zong, thank you, you can go back to your business. I will take care of You Ye.” Zhou She had already guessed that You Yuanyuan’s heat period had arrived early last night. Making such a huge ruckus upstairs, Xing Lie, living directly below, had definitely heard everything.
Xing Lie looked at him with a chilling gaze.
Zhou She felt his blood run cold and quickly tried to cover for You Yuanyuan, saying, “He was in his susceptible period last night. When he wakes up later, he’ll likely act up again. Don’t let him accidentally hurt you.”
Xing Lie let out a cold scoff through his nose. His black pupils were as deep as freezing pools, even carrying the viciousness of an enraged beast. His voice was low and dark: “Do you take me for an idiot?”
Zhou She’s heart trembled. So… he knows?
“Why didn’t you prepare inhibitors for him?” Xing Lie asked.
Zhou She: “I did, they’re right there in his nightstand.” Only after speaking did he realize in shock that he had just confessed.
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over.
That little wolf cub Xing Lie knows about You Ye differentiating into an Omega.
Good heavens, good heavens, good heavens.
Now that the little beast has a hold on You Ye’s weakness, he won’t be afraid of him or wary of him anymore. He’ll definitely force You Ye to step down, and even release Alpha suppressive pheromones to threaten You Ye.
You Ye is so beautiful, and his pheromones are so alluring. What if the little beast harbors malicious intentions, suddenly gets a wicked idea, and takes You Ye by force?
In an instant, countless terrifying consequences flashed through his mind. Cold sweat couldn’t help but pour down his back.
Just then, You Yuanyuan woke up.
His thin eyelids fluttered open, revealing cold, indifferent eyes. Upon seeing Xing Lie standing by the bed, his emotions violently surged, anger attacking his heart.
He grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Xing Lie.
“Scram!”
“Bastard, get the hell out!”
“Don’t you fucking appear in front of my eyes ever again!”
“Get as far away from me as you possibly can!”
With a single glance, Zhou She knew this was the primary personality. He hurriedly restrained his agitated body: “You Ye, calm your anger, calm your anger. You’re very weak right now. You can’t get angry, it will severely harm your body.”
You Yuanyuan gasped for air, glaring at Xing Lie with utterly freezing eyes. If it hadn’t been for this little beast, how could his heat have arrived early? It caught him completely off guard and tortured him to the point of near death.
The pillow hitting Xing Lie’s tall, hard body was like striking a rock with an egg—completely painless. He merely looked down at You Yuanyuan from above, his back teeth clenched tightly, seemingly indignant. He looked as if he wanted to say something, but ultimately said nothing at all. He abruptly turned and walked away.
The moment he left, Zhou She breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly went over to close the door. Returning to You Yuanyuan’s bedside, seeing that You Yuanyuan had gradually calmed down, he helped him sit up leaning against the headboard before saying, “You Ye, were you affected by his pheromones yesterday, causing your heat to arrive early?”
You Yuanyuan lowered his eyes, looking at his battered, bruised hands. Feeling somewhat weak and powerless, he gave Zhou She a brief rundown of what happened yesterday.
After hearing the story, which matched his own speculations, Zhou She sighed heavily. Finally, he said, “How about we go find Boss Lu for help?”
You Yuanyuan instinctively frowned and refused: “No. Brother Lu has already helped me enough. I owe him far too much; I can’t bear to keep asking him for help.”
Zhou She: “But Lu Yunjian is, after all, the person who treats you best in this world. Now that you’ve differentiated into an Omega, he’s the only one who will truly, sincerely help you. You’ve been keeping this from him—even though your original intention was to prevent him from worrying—but he will feel like you’re treating him as an outsider, and it will chill his heart.”
You Yuanyuan frowned in silence.
Zhou She continued, “Since you can’t collect soothing pheromones from Xing Lie, go collect them from Boss Lu. He’s also a top-tier Alpha, after all. It’s just releasing some soothing pheromones; it’s not like asking him to drink blood or cut off his own flesh. Boss Lu will definitely help.”
You Yuanyuan’s fingers curled slightly, a trace of emotion showing on his face as he hesitated internally. Suddenly, he remembered last night. It seemed as if pheromones had been blown in by the wind. He forgot what kind of pheromones they were, but regardless, they had extinguished the burning fire within his body and comforted his mind and body.
Could it be… Xing Lie’s Glass Wood soothing pheromones?
But didn’t he say he couldn’t release them?
If it truly was Xing Lie who released the soothing pheromones, then he definitely knew he had differentiated into an Omega.
As expected, he couldn’t keep it hidden after all.
You Yuanyuan slowly buried his hands in his hair, burying his head deeply as he inhaled a deep breath of the world’s murky air. In his heart, he cursed, “This fucked-up life!”
I’m tired, just destroy it all.
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