SCOM - Chapter 89
Chapter 89
"I have a problem?" Zuo Luohuan couldn't help but frown. She thought it was a lingering side effect from her previous injuries.
"Your pheromone level is too high." Fang Yong had only intended to glance at Zuo Luohuan's report, but he hadn't expected to find something amiss. Her pheromones were practically boiling at all times, yet on the surface, she looked completely fine.
"Just now, I couldn't understand why the precursors to his differentiation period disappeared so quickly. Even if he had a strong desire to differentiate into an Omega, it would require a catalyst and time, not for the gland's contraction and atrophy to stop so suddenly."
As Zuo Luohuan listened to Fang Yong's analysis, she noticed that Ji Yuezhi, beside her, was unconsciously tightening his grip on her hand.
He was nervous.
Fang Yong's gaze fell on Ji Yuezhi. "They say that during the late stage of her differentiation, Zuo Luohuan collapsed in her room with a high fever, and you were the one who found her. Did something happen during that time?"
Although it was a question, Fang Yong was almost certain that something had happened to cause Ji Yuezhi's subsequent changes.
Ji Yuezhi lowered his lashes and said nothing.
"Weren't we talking about my problem?" Zuo Luohuan took a subtle step forward, blocking Fang Yong's line of sight.
Fang Yong grunted ambiguously. "Of course it's your problem. Having such high-level pheromones isn't entirely a good thing for an Alpha. If you can't find a suitable Omega and your susceptible periods go unresolved, you're like a barrel of explosives being constantly filled with more dynamite. Sooner or later, you're going to explode. To put it simply, you're destined for a short life."
Zuo Luohuan: "..."
Fang Yong looked at Ji Yuezhi behind Zuo Luohuan. "Let me make a bold guess. Your gland's reversal is inextricably linked to Zuo Luohuan. When the precursors to your differentiation encountered an extremely high-level Alpha like Zuo Luohuan, who was nearing the end of her own differentiation, you were bound to be suppressed. A normal person in that situation would either collapse unconscious or suffer a major mental blow and never recover. But you two..."
Interesting.
Perhaps one person's subconscious didn't want to harm the other, and the other's subconscious didn't want to resist, which resulted in this reversal.
"Did she bite you?" Fang Yong asked suddenly.
Zuo Luohuan froze at Fang Yong's words and turned her head to look at Ji Yuezhi. He didn't speak, but he didn't deny it either, which was answer enough.
"This is actually quite good..." Fang Yong muttered something under his breath, then said to Zuo Luohuan, "Your pheromone level is too high, and his isn't low either. Perhaps if you mark him, it could actually help his gland develop more completely, and you wouldn't have to die an early death."
"Anyway, if you two are willing, do that... marking thing once, then come back for another check-up next month." After speaking, Fang Yong started shooing them out. "You've taken up so much of my time. You should go. I have other patients to see."
Zuo Luohuan led Ji Yuezhi out. Neither of them spoke until they were seated in the car.
As she leaned over to fasten his seatbelt as usual, Ji Yuezhi asked softly, "Are you angry with me?"
Zuo Luohuan paused, looked up at him, and chuckled. "Why would I be angry? Our Yuezhi is so good."
Because he had unscrupulously schemed against her, every approach and every word carried the undertone of playing hard to get. No one likes to be manipulated.
"Dr. Fang just said that from now on, my life is in Yuezhi's hands." Zuo Luohuan raised her hand and gently touched the corner of his eye. "As long as you're here, I won't die young."
Ji Yuezhi frowned and covered Zuo Luohuan's lips with his hand. "Dr. Fang didn't say that. You will live a very, very long time."
Maintaining the position, Zuo Luohuan kissed his palm. "Alright. You'll accompany me."
It was already afternoon when the two returned to the central city. They didn't go back to the academy, planning to go the next morning instead so they could spend the night together.
Late that night, Dr. Fang secretly sent a message to Zuo Luohuan: 【You can try that temporary mark. You should know the specifics, right? In short, it's not just about the mingling of pheromones; it's best if you can also make him willingly aroused.】
Zuo Luohuan glanced at it and deleted the message. Dr. Fang was sometimes quite improper.
However, she had overlooked the fact that Fang Yong was a man who had removed his own gland for the sake of medical research. To achieve his goals, he would cast aside all shame. He had also sent a message to Ji Yuezhi, using Zuo Luohuan as a pretext, essentially saying that she needed regular release.
Zuo Luohuan ignored Fang Yong, but Ji Yuezhi cared about her.
She had only left the bedroom to get a glass of water, but when she returned, the room was filled with the sweet scent of an Omega's iris pheromones. Ji Yuezhi, dressed in a thin robe, was sitting in the middle of the bed. Hearing the door open, he turned to look at her.
The thin white robe was somewhat transparent under the light. Usually, Zuo Luohuan would pretend not to notice, but now, with him releasing so many pheromones and gazing at her with moist, misty eyes, it was hard not to let her mind wander.
Zuo Luohuan concealed the look in her eyes, walked to the bedside, and sat down. "Drink some water first," she said in a low voice.
Ji Yuezhi was very obedient. He reached out to take the glass from her. As he raised his arm, his sleeve slid down to his elbow, revealing cool, white skin that glowed like jade under the light. He tilted his head back, slowly swallowing the water. He must have been drinking too quickly, as a little water trickled from the rim of the glass onto his collar, soaking through the thin white robe and revealing the skin beneath.
"I've had enough." Ji Yuezhi stopped after drinking half and turned his head to find Zuo Luohuan. "Do you want a taste?"
Although he asked if she wanted a taste, Ji Yuezhi held onto the glass and didn't offer it to Zuo Luohuan. His gaze fell on her lips as he leaned his upper body forward.
His intentions were perfectly clear.
"...I'll have a taste." Zuo Luohuan raised a hand to cup Ji Yuezhi's chin and kissed his moist, full lips. She nibbled and sucked gently, taking in the water that clung to the bead of his lip, then parted his teeth and playfully tangled with the tip of his tongue.
Ji Yuezhi braced himself with his hands behind him, his long, fair fingers clutching the bedsheet. A moment later, she pushed him down. As one of his hands retreated unconsciously, the glass cup tipped over, and the water inside gradually soaked the white sheet.
Neither of them noticed.
The light remained unchanged. The water from the cup had all spilled out, and that patch of the bedsheet, now soaked through, was gradually growing cold. But the body temperatures of the people on the bed only rose, never falling.
The two streams of pheromones in the room slowly mingled, gradually giving off a new, pleasant, mixed scent. Besides that, there were also a few low gasps from time to time.
"Is that enough now?" Zuo Luohuan pulled him into her arms and kissed away the bloodstain on the gland of his nape. Her eyes held a hint of unconcealable wildness, and her voice was a little hoarse. "Next time, don't listen to everything Dr. Fang says. He often exaggerates things for the sake of his research."
In his clinic, Dr. Fang, who had just been baselessly slandered, let out a sneeze.
"...Mm." Ji Yuezhi was overcome with weariness and only wanted to rest against Zuo Luohuan. Whatever she said was fine.
Zuo Luohuan said no more, simply comforting Ji Yuezhi and letting him drift off to sleep.
After Ji Yuezhi was sound asleep, she stared at him for a long while, as if trying to carve his image into her heart, before finally closing her eyes and sleeping.
It was that dream again.
This time, Zuo Luohuan felt like an outsider. She watched herself lying on the bed, hands on her forehead, seemingly uncomfortable. A moment later, she turned to lie on her side.
Usually, at this point, a blurry figure would appear in her arms. After she bit and marked them, just as she was about to see their face, she would wake up.
But this time, the dream had changed.
She saw someone open the door and walk in from outside. It was a youth with a boyish figure. His exposed ankles were clean and slender, carrying a sense of fragility.
The person walked to the bedside and leaned over, wanting to see what was wrong with the person on the bed, but was suddenly pulled onto it. The two became entangled.
The person who was usually cool to the touch was now burning hot, so hot that the youth almost struggled to get up. But when he saw her flushed cheeks, he stopped and reached out to touch her forehead.
"Wake up." The youth seemed frightened, his voice trembling slightly.
The person on the bed did indeed open her eyes. They were bloodshot as she stared at the youth pinned beneath her. She reached out a finger and pressed it heavily against his lips, then her hand moved down to cup the back of his neck and pull him up.
The youth didn't even have time to breathe a sigh of relief before his undeveloped gland on the nape of his neck was bitten.
The person on the bed instinctively bit towards the gland but didn't sense the pheromones she wanted. A manic look flashed in her eyes, but she didn't continue to injure him. She just looked up at the youth, her voice hoarse from the high fever. "You're not an Omega."
An icy chill began to gather in the room. The youth keenly sensed that it was her pheromones. He didn't leave the bed. Instead, he reached out to hug her, leaning on her shoulder, once again exposing the bitten gland on his nape to her.
Even without Omega pheromones, the youth in her arms held an immense attraction for her.
Although Zuo Luohuan was in a third-person perspective, she could clearly perceive what the person on the bed was thinking. She was thinking that it didn't matter if he wasn't an Omega; she liked him very much, and as long as it was him, it was fine.
"Don't bite anyone else," the youth whispered in her ear. "I will become an Omega. In the future, you will only mark me."
"Alright." The person on the bed was delirious with fever, but she agreed to everything he said.
"Then... bite me now." The youth sensed the tension in the pheromones in the air and proactively offered his gland to her, letting her vent.
What followed was a scene that Zuo Luohuan was all too familiar with, yet utterly strange.
The familiarity came from holding someone, lowering her head to bite their gland, and injecting her pheromones into it. The strangeness came from the fact that it wasn't the perfect union of an Alpha and an Omega she had imagined. This time, she encountered Alpha pheromones—also iris, but with a bitter, astringent taste.
When the pheromones of two Alphas came into contact, one was bound to gain the upper hand and completely suppress the other.
However, the resistance that should have been there was gone. The youth completely submitted himself to her pheromones. This almost sacrificial act also made the feverish person subconsciously unwilling to harm him.
The frigid ice and snow pheromones were injected into the gland, and for a moment, they actually coexisted peacefully with the shallow, immature iris pheromones within. The iris pheromones even followed their master's will, tentatively encroaching, bit by bit, upon the space of the frigid ice and snow.
One intentionally yielded while the other wanted to entwine. The two slowly began to mix. The originally bitter and astringent iris was gradually diluted and withdrawn.
The stinging pain from the changes in the gland on his nape made the youth's face turn pale. The person on the bed also sensed something was wrong and actually found it in herself to release him. Even though her consciousness was hazy, she wanted to comfort him first.
Zuo Luohuan watched the youth kneeling on the bed, leaning on her shoulder, revealing half of his face. He called out softly, "...Jiejie, I like you."
...
Zuo Luohuan's eyes flew open. The sky was already bright.
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