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Duan JiaYan couldn’t be bothered with him. Just as he was about to tell him to get lost, a surge of electricity coursed through his body.
The irritation which spread from his spine made him felt extremely sore. Duan JiaYan’s breathing also got a lot faster, his pale neck becoming as red as peach blossoms.
The pheromones from his body bared their fangs and spread out, the scent both sweet and without restraint, like a newly sprouted bud.
Duan JIaYan’s pheromones were too intense. Lu XingCi got so stimulated by him that the horrible possessiveness from his Alpha bone couldn’t help rearing its head. His gaze unconsciously swept across Duan JiaYan’s nape.
It looked so fair.
His instincts told him this was an Omega that has never been marked. It was as if a button was pressed in his head, the urge to possess the other person was madly coursing through his veins.
Lu XingCi averted his eyes and asked hesitantly, “Are you…?”
It was still pretty tolerable when he wasn’t talking. The moment he spoke, the aura that belonged solely to an Alpha become all the more prominent. Duan JiaYan suppressed the wave of desire that came over him.
“I’m going to the washroom,” after throwing that sentence out, Duan JiaYan immediately made his way to the washroom.
“Wait,” Seeing Duan JiaYan stopping in his steps, Lu XingCi paused for a moment before continuing, his voice a little hoarser than it was before. “I’ll accompany you.”
Duan JIaYan knows it was a dangerous period for him right now, so walking alone might not be the best idea. It will be safer walking with an Alpha. Without caring too much about anything else, he quickly nodded his head.
Lu XingCi followed behind him, the two of them maintaining a safe distance of one metre.
But even so, the pheromones from the people they met along the way did not have as strong a presence as the person behind him. That sort of terrifying, difficult to deny attraction is making Duan JiaYan’s entire body giddy, he unsteadily made his way to the washroom and even stumbled a little when pushing the door open.
He had only just presented and his heats were still irregular. As a precaution, Fu Yuan would also remind him to bring along an inhibitor.
Duan JiaYan dug out his inhibitor from his pocket and sighed in relief. Thankfully he listened to his mother’s words and it actually worked out.
After Duan JiaYan took the inhibitor out, he puzzled over how to use the item and it slipped from his hands, dropping to the ground.
Duan JiaYan angrily muttered under his breath. Bending over, he picked the inhibitor up.
Lu XingCi, who was standing on the other side of the wall heard him and asked if everything was okay. Duan JiaYan vaguely reassured him that everything was fine.
Lu XingCi waited a long while for Duan JiaYan to use the inhibitor but the Omega pheromones in the air were not going away. In fact, it was getting even stronger. He couldn’t help asking, “Are you done?”
“I’ve no idea how to use this,” Duan JiaYan’s voice carried hints of hesitance and desapir. “Why won’t this cap open?”
Isn’t it because you don’t have any strength right now?
“Pass the inhibitor to me.”
“How am I supposed to do that?”
“……” Lu XingCi was originally becoming quite short tempered by Duan JiaYan’s pheromones and was caught off guard by the silly question. Thanks to that his short temper got better and he laughed, “Open the door and stick your hand out? Open a small gap for me.”
Duan JiaYan had also realised how silly his question was. He opened the door a little and held the inhibitor out through a tiny gap.
The wrist that was held out was pretty to look at, and perhaps because he was going through his heat, even his fingertips were flushed pink.
Lu XingCi did not look at it for too long and returned the inhibitor quickly after unscrewing it.
Seeing that the inhibitor was open, Duan JiaYan quickly stuck the needle into his arm. The effects of the inhibitor was immediate, the unnatural heat in his body quickly went away once it was used.
Duan JiaYan threw the inhibitor into the trash bin once he felt a little more refreshed.
Opening the door, he gave Lu XingCi a look and walked straight to the sink to wash his face. It was only after the cold water washed away the desire inside him that he turned to look at the other person.
Duan JiaYan softly muttered a word of thanks and Lu XingCi could see that his ears were still red. With his pheromones still floating around the washroom, it was not exactly appropriate for the both of them to stay in this place. He took the initiative to ask, “Let’s go out first?”
Duan JiaYan nodded his head.
But once they opened the door, Duan JiaYan felt that something wasn’t right.
He was now especially sensitive to the smell of pheromones and the air was teeming with the scents of different Alphas. The different pheromones made the hairs on the back of his neck stand and his skin felt like it was in pain.
The closer he got to a crowded place the worse Duan JiaYan felt. Lu XingCi initially saw that he was reluctant to leave the washroom and initially thought that he was just joking but he soon noticed that Duan JiaYan’s bare skin was slowly turning red.
His neck and face were both showing small patches of unnatural looking pink, it was different from the crimson colour of his heat. It looked like he was was having an allergic reaction.
“You should get it checked out,” Lu XingCi noticed that what Duan JiaYan was experiencing wasn’t normal. After he said that, he noticed Duan JiaYan turning to look at him, his eyes a little glassy.
Lu XingCi hesitantly raised his hand, wanting to just touch the patches of red on Duan JiaYan’s skin to see if it was swollen. Just as his hand was being raised, Duan JiaYan instantly caught it. Both of them were stunned the moment that happened.
Duan JiaYan never knew that physical contact with another person could feel this comfortable. It was just like when someone finally finds an oasis in the middle of a scorching desert, or drinking a potion when your health is about to be depleted.
What’s even more unbelievable was that the red patches that resembled an allergic reaction on his hand were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“I’m going to go see a doctor,” as he said that, Duan JiaYan was a little reluctant to let go of Lu XingCi’s hand. He tried asking, “… Why not, you come along with me?”
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Initially, the both of them were unaware and went to see the dermatologist.
The dermatologist took one look and said Duan JiaYan might need to be directed to an ABO specialist instead. Once they managed to make their way over, the doctor took one look at Duan JiaYan and immediately brought him in for tests.
While Duan JiaYan was doing his tests, Lu XingCi was waiting outside.
Their journey to the consultation room could be called a bloody rain. More than once Duan JiaYan almost lost his temper because a stranger was walking past him. If it wasn’t for Lu XingCi holding him down, Duan JiaYan could have found trouble already.
After a while, Lu XingCi could stand it no longer. He swept his gaze of Duan JiaYan’s face and asked, “Can you be a little more well behaved?”
Duan JiaWan was very depressed, “I want to but with all these people walking around me, I just feel like beating them.”
Lu XingCi saw the look on his face and was about to laugh out of exasperation, “Then, with me this close to you, do you feel like beating me?”
He did not expect Duan JiaYan to blink his eyes and say, “I don’t want to beat you.”
While waiting for Duan JiaYan to come out from the consultation, Lu XingCi was a little bored so he took his phone out to play. He answered a call from Jiang Yao.
“Grandma said you left two hours ago, why don’t I see you at home?” Jiang Yao’s voice was very gentle. “Auntie Su bought a salmon today. Autumn salmon was very fatty and good. She’s already steamed it, we’re just waiting for you to get home.”
“I met a classmate along the way,” Lu XingCi lazily stretched his legs out and moved around his neck that was always facing down. “He got into a little accident so I’m accompanying him to see the doctor.”
“Is it serious? Which hospital are you guys at? If it’s at Nan Shan do you need–”
“It’s okay,” Lu XingCi said. “He’s almost done.”
“That’s good then,” Jiang Yao said. “Then I won’t rush you any longer. You take your time.”
Lu XingCi gave an ‘en’1 in reply and hung up. Just then a nurse stopped in front of him.
“Hello, are you Lu XingCi?”
Lu XingCi nodded his head.
Looking closely at his face, the nurse gently said, “Your friend is asking for you in the consultation room.”
Inside the consultation room, Duan JiaYan and a male doctor were waiting for him. Seeing him enter the room, the doctor asked Duan JiaYan, “This is the student you previously mentioned?”
Duan JiaYan nodded his head.
The look on his face was not particularly good, his whole body was sprawled over the chair lethargically but at least the red patches on his body were gone.
Looking at Lu XingCi, the doctor motioned for him to sit down.
He told Lu XingCi, “Your classmate is suffering from Alpha Stress Disorder. As he presented too late, the suppressors in his body is a little damaged. As long as he is in heat, any interaction with Alphas will result in him suffering from pains all over his body. If there is physical contact, it can even result in a wide range of allergic reactions.
Lu XingCi was stunned.
An Omega’s heat usually happened once or twice a month, and it is typically three or four days, sometimes even up to a week. Someone like Duan JiaYan who just presented will usually have irregular heats that could flare up anytime.
Lu XingCi asked, “Is there any way to treat it?”
“Currently there is no definite way to treat this kind of Stress Disorder. We usually recommend the Omega to quarantine themselves whenever their heat arrives for about three to five years. As the Omega grows up, the Stress Disorder will slowly go away.”
“He still needs to go to school. Quarantining himself is not a viable solution.”
Duan JiaYan softly gave an ‘en’ in agreement.
Lu XingCi glanced at him and Duan JiaYan said, “I’m a little touched, you’re finally speaking human words.”
Lu XingCi ignored him, “Is there no other way?”
“There is one, which is also why I called you in here,” the doctor looked at him with an interested gaze, as if he was a rare specimen that needed to be examined in a lab. “I might need to test your blood.”
“According to your classmate’s statement, he might only be not allergic to your pheromones. The percentage of this happening is extremely low but it has happened overseas before. If both of your pheromones have a compatibility of 95% and above, then you can help him deal with his Stress Disorder.”
If it was only his pheromones that were needed to help deal with the Stress Disorder, Duan JiaYan’s face would not be looking this ugly.
Lu XingCi felt that something was not right and asked, “How am I supposed to help him?”
“Kissing, extended hugs, temporary marks…” The doctor could see that with every word he said, the boy’s eyes were getting more and more expressionless and figured he might as well add, “Or even a permanent mark.”
After hearing it once and having to listen to it again, Duan JiaYan could feel his ears burning up.
God damn it…
What kind of horrible shit is this?
He raised his head and happened to meet Lu XingCi’s gaze.
Duan JiaYan was thinking of what to say to help resolve this awkward situation when he saw Lu XingCi’s beautiful black eyes narrowing.
He heard Lu XingCi say, “I suddenly think that quarantining him is actually not a bad idea.”
Author note: Mom will give you another chance, you think hard about what you should say.
嗯 – If you’ve read CN novels before you will have heard of this but if you haven’t, it’s basically just a sound people give when they are acknowledging or agreeing with something.
T/N: Happy Lunar New Year everyone! If you celebrate it I hope you’ve had a great time with your family this year  I know I did haha
Here’s one more chapter for the week to make up for my long absence ;;; Hope you guys like it! Also LXC, you sure you want DJY to be quarantined? (¬_¬)