Jiang Ci had never realized before that an alpha’s pheromones could have such a powerful effect on him.
Previously, he had thought it was because of his injuries and his fragile state, along with the side effects of the drugs, temporary markings, and a series of other debuffs, which made him completely defenseless against Huo Xianfeng’s pheromones.
―But things were different now.
Jiang Ci had already been treated by Dr. Wen, restoring his body to its prime condition. He had also taken medication to enhance the metabolism of alpha pheromones. Logically speaking, he shouldn’t have been completely defenseless.
After all, although alphas had natural sexual advantage over omegas, they were also influenced by genetics and levels.
It was difficult for a S rank omega to be stimulated into heat by an alpha of a lower rank because it was the omega’s genetic predisposition. In order to produce superior offspring, they would only seek out and submit to more powerful alphas.
Therefore, Jiang Ci would only feel disgusted by other alpha’s pheromones, even those that deliberately intended to stimulate estrus. This was also an important reason why he was able to enter the First Legion.
S-rank alphas were rare throughout the empire, and most of them being powerful figures from Huo Chao’s era. Apart from Zhou Jiuya, most alphas of such caliber had found their omegas for bonding early on. Therefore, after reaching adulthood, Jiang Ci was not troubled by the threat of alphas, except for his two to three heat periods every year.
—That is, until he met Huo Xianfeng.
The reality of this moment shattered all of Jiang Ci’s hopeful speculations. Because the other person slightly lost control and released some pheromones conveying lust, yet he had already begun to experience the prelude to passive heat within a few short seconds.
This was even faster than some banned drugs circulating in the underground market that forced omegas into heat!
“Uh… How… How is this… so…”
How could it happen so quickly?!
Jiang Ci tightly covered his mouth and nose, holding his breath. However, pheromones were not odor molecules. Although most were ingested through breathing, a small amount could be absorbed through the skin. So no matter how Jiang Ci held his breath, he couldn’t stop them from seeping into his body bit by bit.
He curled up in the farthest corner of the bed from Huo Xianfeng, trying to create a safe distance. But at this moment, every cell in Jiang Ci’s body was urging him to get closer.
Now! Immediately!
Get closer to that alpha!
Kiss him! Embrace him! Open your body to him!
Jiang Ci keenly felt his body’s desires. His instincts were desperately greedy for the alpha in front of him.
It wasn’t like before, when he was forced to choose him during the panic in the underground city, but a clear and absolute certainty.
―It was just Huo Xianfeng.
This means they probably had a high pheromone compatibility rate.
Every omega, from the age of fifteen until their official marriage, will be arranged for free pheromone matching by the Omega Conservation Association every year. This is also considered a civic obligation due to the precarious fertility rates.
Jiang Ci had also gone for the test, but the final results were mostly low percentages. Recently, he had finally achieved a compatibility percentage of nearly sixty, the one he met in the Capital before. In less than two hours of their meeting, the other intentionally released his pheromones towards him.
Of course, the outcome doesn’t need to be mentioned; Jiang Ci had simply beaten that person into the hospital. As the empire’s only S-rank omega, Jiang Ci had a very strong resistance to most inferior alphas’ pheromones. But Huo Xianfeng was different…
Completely… different…
The person who couldn’t resist became Jiang Ci himself.
At this moment, Huo Xianfeng noticed the abnormal flush on Jiang Ci’s face. The latter curled up in the corner, tightly clutching the blanket, as if trying hard to suppress something uncontrollable.
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There seemed to be a pool of water in those beautiful eyes, constantly rippling with waves of emotions and desires.
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This action clearly startled Jiang Ci, and he couldn’t quite articulate what he was expecting.
By now, the young man had forced himself to regain his usual calmness and quickly suppressed the release of pheromones from his body. He turned the ventilation system in the room to the maximum power, trying to dissipate the scent as quickly as possible.
Jiang Ci watched this entire process without blinking.
When he saw that Huo Xianfeng didn’t come towards him but instead went to open the ventilation system, an indescribable and uncontrollable sense of loss and sadness surged in his heart.
This signifies that the balance between him and Huo Xianfeng has completely tilted towards the latter.
While Jiang Ci has almost no secrets in front of the other, he knows nothing about Huo Xianfeng.
While Jiang Ci was desperately craving him at this moment, unable to restrain his instinctual impulses, the latter can calm down in just two minutes and quickly shake off the influence Jiang Ci has on him.
It’s like when one person is deeply mired in mud and unable to extricate themselves, while the other can easily withdraw.
But reason tells Jiang Ci—
This is the right thing to do.
This is safe.
This is… the best choice for now.
The air in the room was instantly replaced, and the dangerous concentration of pheromones quickly fell to a very safe level.
Jiang Ci couldn’t tell if it was because of Huo Xianfeng’s decisive action just now or because of the newly replaced air in the room. In any case, his body, which was stimulated to the brink of passive heat, finally began to calm down.
He blinked hard, feeling the familiar bitterness return.
Beep beep—
At this moment, Huo Xianfeng’s alarm clock went off.
Xiao X finally came down from the curtain, hovering towards the great demon king. It awkwardly settled in a position not too close, and the blue data stream swiftly flashed across the screen—
“The analysis of the transport ship’s route is complete, and the results are being generated…”
Huo Xianfeng closed his eyes, barely suppressing the residual heat in his body. Despite his calm and composed appearance, that brief contact just now was enough to cause a change in his rational mind towards collapse.
He didn’t even need to sense the pheromones.
The young man casually grabbed the silver bracelet from mid-air, and his spiritual power invaded without warning, swiftly reading the neatly organized information inside.
The vast and turbulent spiritual power made even Bai Ze tremble involuntarily.
Xiao X directly cried out, “Ying—”,
“A-Ci, how could you do this?!!!”
“It was obviously you who did it! Why was I the one who got hurt in the end!!!”
Fortunately it transmitted these words directly to his auditory nerves through the biochip, otherwise if the other party heard it…
“…”
Jiang Ci stiffened all over, slightly embarrassed as he turned his head away without saying a word.
However, at this moment, Huo Xianfeng’s nose twitched slightly, catching a faint, sweet and sticky smell. He lowered his head, and his gaze fixed on the hem of his own clothes, where there was a faint dark stain.
“Jiang Ci…”
Huo Xianfeng suddenly spoke, his Adam’s apple bobbing slightly, seeming hesitant to speak,
“Do you want to… take a shower…?”
Jiang Ci: “…?”
Just then, Bai Ze also took the initiative to remind him,
“A-Ci, maybe you need to replenish your body water percentage now.”
Replenish your body water percentage.
These five words were simply too familiar to Jiang Ci. He unconsciously swallowed hard, feeling thirsty, but thirst wasn’t the point. The point was that he instantly understood the implication behind Huo Xianfeng’s words just now.
Then, he saw the faint dark water stains on the hem of the other’s clothes.
“…”
—This is actually a normal physiological phenomenon for omegas.
Jiang Ci experiences it every time he goes into heat, and the amount of water lost during a formal heat is several times more than just now, but all of that always happened in Bai Ze’s cockpit, without anyone knowing.
Rip—!
Jiang Ci never thought he would one day be in a situation where he’d be tearing off an alpha’s clothes.
And even Huo Xianfeng didn’t react, he had his shirt ripped off by Jiang Ci, and then watched as the other hugged his clothes and swiftly darted into the bathroom, slamming the door shut.
Bang—!
The wind from the closing door hit the young man’s face, blowing his obedient bangs upwards.
Huo Xianfeng, who was now shirtless: “…”
Although it’s all stolen clothing, at least leave him one to wear.
Shaaaa
The shower in the bathroom turned on, and the sound of rushing water instantly filled the narrow space.
Jiang Ci crouched on the ground, quickly being soaked by the cold water. Although he had withdrawn from the dangerously close state of passive heat, in such a short time, he still couldn’t return to a completely normal state like Huo Xianfeng.
He hugged his knees, clutching the shirt he had just torn off from Huo Xianfeng’s body. As he lowered his head, he buried his burning cheeks deep into his arms.
The cold water poured down from above, and his sensitive, overheated skin trembled incessantly under the relentless flow, replaying the embarrassing scene from earlier over and over again in Jiang Ci’s mind.
“Ugh…”
The omega’s slender back tightened with extreme shame, like a bowstring pulled to its limit, exhibiting an extremely subtle tremor.
Jiang Ci took out the shirt from his embrace and vigorously rubbed away the faint traces at the hem, even though they had disappeared the moment they met water.
The omega’s eyes were moist and red at the corners, a layer of mist covering the surface of his pupils. Water droplets continued to accumulate on his thick lashes, resembling tears as they fell down in large drops.
But in the end, his movements suddenly paused, the tip of his nose quivering, and after remaining stiff for more than ten seconds, he finally gave in, burying his face into the shirt and taking a deep breath.
—There was still a lingering scent of alpha pheromones on the clothes.
“Huo Xianfeng,” Jiang Ci gasped, his hoarse voice sounding muffled amidst the flowing water, but he gritted his teeth strangely, “Asshole!”
But no one saw that hidden beneath the soaked fabric, the flushed cheeks showed an infatuation couldn’t be restrained.
Half an hour later…
Thud—
Huo Xianfeng saw the bathroom door open, and the cold-looking omega major general walked out from inside. Except for the slightly reddened corners of his eyes, he showed almost no signs of having just been on the brink of a passive heat.
Jiang Ci glanced faintly at Huo Xianfeng’s newly changed shirt.
—That was his.
After all, they had stolen a set of clothes, and Huo Xianfeng could only temporarily pick one from Xiao X’s storage room.
Jiang Ci pursed his lips, averting his gaze.
“Has the route for the transport ship been analyzed?”
There were several different shipping routes for the transport ship, each with different times and cargo capacities. They were planning to go to the factory.
Actually, following the suggestion of the bearded uncle, going to apply for jobs or something like that was just too inefficient. Moreover, they didn’t have any identification, so they could only decide to sneak into the transport ship in the end.
“…It’s done. Xiao X sent the route map to Bai Ze,” Huo Xianfeng said, somewhat surprised by Jiang Ci’s calm demeanor, but he didn’t ask further.
“Shall we go?”
“Yeah.”
Jiang Ci pushed open the window and smoothly got out with just one hand. Huo Xianfeng was originally about to follow immediately, but he reconsidered, turned back, turned up the background music in the room to the maximum, plugged in the power source of the bed, turned it on, and then followed Jiang Ci out.
The sound of music and the vibration of the bed continued until noon the next day. When the shop owner couldn’t take it anymore and kicked open the door, he was deeply shocked by the scene before him.
This…
This…
Was last night really that intense?!!!
Jiang Ci has fallen for Huo Huo – he’s never had such a strong connection to another Alpha 💖 🥰
Thanks for the chapter 💞
💜💜💜 Thanks for the chapter!!
This novel is so so good. But I also feel incredibly impatient for them to just BE together 😭 Thank you for the chapter!
The shop owner 😭😭😭
Lmao the last sentence 🤣🤣