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Chapter Thirty Six
Even at this moment, he could still retain his cool-headedness. With determination, he composed himself and steadied his figure. He Yan came around the car carrying a bag in his hand and saw him standing still, so he asked in puzzlement, âWhy havenât you gone in?â
But as soon as he drew near, he smelled the faintly discernible pheromone scent in the air.
âFuck me! Hurry inside. Dixi<sup>1</sup>, donât hurt me!â He Yan, whoâd been a single alpha for many years, acted all flustered, not knowing if he should support him with a hand or not.
Jiang ShaoYan took the bag, sucked in a deep breath, and then said in a firm tone, âIâm fine, letâs go.â
The key was inserted into the door lock and twisted, the noise immediately startling the person inside.
âXuezhang!â Wang Zhe almost ran out from the inside, not even wearing slippers, but when he saw Jiang ShaoYan coming through the door alongside He Yan, he instantly froze in place.
Jiang ShaoYanâs expression went cold. He took a single step forward and was about to release some harsh words. Suddenly, his back was pushed hard and his whole body was propelled towards the unsuspecting Wang Zhe.
He fell into a warm and familiar embrace.
âNo thanks needed. You two hurry up and talk it out. I canât stand the scent, bye-bye!â The culprit, He Yan, grabbed his own forgotten belongings from the entrance hall and hurried away.
The door closed with a *bang* and the house fell silent.
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Wang Zhe tightened his arms, suppressing his instinctual urges. The scent unique to an omega lingered in the tip of his nose, pure and alluring.
There was no other scent on the one in his arms.
âI thought Iâd lost youâŠâŠâ his voice trembled, âDo you still want me? Am I still your alphaâŠâŠâ
Jiang ShaoYan had originally wanted to lecture and admonish him, but catching sight of his red-rimmed eyes and the faint gleam of hope in those dimmed brown-green irises, he instantly lost the heart to lecture him.
âWhen did I say you werenât?â
Wang Zhe choked out a sob. âBut Iâm just a temporary substitute. I thought youâd found someone better and didnât need me anymoreâŠâŠâ
Jiang ShaoYanâs brows pinched tightly together, âNonsense, what substitute? Who are you a substitute for?â
âIsnât itâŠâŠâ Wang Zhe sniffled, âYou like Zou Rui, but he forced you, so you dumped him and ended up with me in a fit of rage, I know all thatâŠâŠ
âBut I really canât refuse you and I shamelessly thought that as long as you didnât meet someone else you liked before your heat, maybe youâd really be with me for the rest of our livesâŠâŠ Such selfishness really does deserve retribution. My Ge really is better than me and you liking him is naturalâŠâŠ. â
This time, Jiang ShaoYan finally understood the crux of the problem. He could only laugh. âThe hell you know! I like Zou Rui? I like your brother? Then why did I still come back to find you? You really are so stupid I could die!â
Wang Zheâs eyes glistened with faint tears, âI am stupid. All I know is what youâve said and how youâve said it. You said you liked Zou Rui. You also said you liked my Ge. You called them Ge and listened to them. They could tell you to do things you didnât want to do, eat things you didnât want to eatâŠâŠ
âBut the way you treat me â you only call me âsilly dogâ and say that Iâm as annoying as a dogâŠâŠ What else can I do besides cling to you, wagging my tail and begging for pity? I just want you to see my merits and like me more, thatâs allâŠâŠ â
His expression was like that of a patient whoâd been declared beyond help by a doctor, desperate and helpless.
âBut youâve never said you like me.â
Wang Zhe raised his hand and wiped his eyes, âI heard you say that Iâm your alpha and I was kissed by you. I was really happy, thinking that, just like you said, one day my merits would inevitably be seen. Afterwards, I found out that wasnât the caseâŠ.âŠ
âI donât blame you for your intentions, because I was so self-righteous that I kept troubling you and annoying you. How could someone like me, who has no good points, possibly be liked by youâŠâŠâ
His eyes were as red as a rabbitâs as he forced the corners of his mouth to curve into a painful smile, âBut you still came back to me, Iâm so happy.â
Tears were spilling out so quickly, but he was saying that he was happy.
Jiang ShaoYanâs heart throbbed with terrible pain.
âIâŠâŠâ He didnât know where to start explaining. He was so irritated he could die and there was a fire burning in his body, scorching and barely tolerable, âCome upstairs with me!â
Heâd always been a member of the hard work club<sup>2</sup>. He grabbed Wang Zheâs collar and dragged him upstairs, not forgetting to firmly grip the bag in his hand. The heat caused him to fundamentally have little strength, but Wang Zhe still obediently let him drag him, loosely holding his arms around him in case he fell.
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When they entered the bedroom, Jiang ShaoYan was already sweating heavily, his body all sticky. He nimbly stripped off his thick coat and the powerful pheromones that had been trapped inside rushed out, flooding the room.
Breathing unsteadily, Wang Zhe grabbed the hand that was about to pull off his sweater, âNoâŠâŠI wonât be able to restrain myself.â
Thatâd be for the best.
Jiang ShaoYan broke away his hands, lifting his arms and throwing off the sweater, leaving only a thin shirt on his upper body. With his hair sticking up a bit due to the static electricity from the previous act and his cheeks glowing red, he looked nothing at all like his ordinary ice-cold aggressive self.
Wang Zhe practically didnât dare to look at him, but Jiang ShaoYan fixed his eyes on him as he approached step by step, until he was forced to the side of the bed and pushed down.
He straddled his legs and leaned up, his hands resting on Wang Zheâs heaving, solid chest. Towering above him, he looked down at him, his gaze burning.
âI like you.â
He had to first emphasize this point.
âAs long as you want me to say it, Iâll say as many times as you want. I like you, I like you very much. Do you know why Zou Rui forced me? Because he said he wanted to mark me at the dance that day, but I refused. I told him that I only wanted to be marked by you, marked by Wang Zhe, and then he got angry and wanted to forcibly mark me. â
Wang Zheâs eyes widened in disbelief.
âIâve always been serious all along. I call you silly dog ââbecause I think you look a lot like my familyâs golden retriever. I always call it the same thing. I like it the most among my pets. I didnât mean to make you think I hated you, making you misunderstand. Iâm sorry. In the future, you can make me call you whatever you want.â
Jiang ShaoYan was heating up so much that he tore at his collar again, exposing his fair collarbone. âBut saying that I like your Ge â thatâs your fault. Heâs your family. I want to look good in front of him, is that a problem? Is there a problem with wanting my boyfriend to think Iâm considerate?â
Wang Zhe was staring blankly at him, mental capacity slowing more and more from the shock of these words and the increasingly rich pheromones, âNo problemâŠâŠâ
âForgetting to say that I like you was negligence on my part, but I havenât confessed to you any less, right? Go ask around about how many alphas I beat up for daring to touch me. But I took the initiative to kiss you, took the initiative to jerk you off, I even asked you to mark me, so why couldnât you see that I liked you from all that? Are you blind? If I wanted a substitute, wouldnât I find a stronger one? Why would I have looked for you? What could Laozi see in your annoyingly weak pheromones? Laozi fucking fell for you, the man!â
This last sentence Jiang ShaoYan practically roared out.
Wang Zheâs brain was shaken by his fierce, imposing manner and it took a long time for him to finally recover his thinking ability, âYou like meâŠâŠ?â\n
(t/n: WZ was shooketh)
Jiang ShaoYan was in a horrible mood. âThat was the first thing I said. Youâre just now reacting? Did you hear anything I said after?â
âI heardâŠâŠbut IâŠâŠâ
âNo buts.â Jiang ShaoYanâs patience was reaching its limit. âThereâs no one else, only you. Only you, do you understand? Laozi only likes you, likes Wang Zhe. As long as Wang Zhe is my alpha, as long as Wang Zhe embraces me, kisses me, fucks me, there will be no one else, understand?â
Wang Zhe finally returned to his thoughts, nodding in a hurry, âI understandâŠâŠâ But his expression was still one of disbelief.
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Upon seeing this, Jiang ShaoYan groped around for the bag heâd brought and took a small exquisite box from it. He threw the bag away to the floor.
He opened the box, revealing two simple, distinctive menâs platinum rings.
âDonât treat that broken pen like a treasure anymore. Iâll give you this instead. These rings are what I made your Ge take me to get these past two days, because I donât know much about this type of thing. I donât have much money, so I couldnât afford anything expensive for right now. Letâs just put up with these for now.â
Jiang ShaoYan took Wang Zheâs left hand and put the larger ring on his middle finger, âI took advantage of when you were sleeping to measure your ring size, so it actually fits just right.â
He took the other one and passed it over.
âPut it on me.â
Wang Zheâs entire body was frozen, his eyes not even shifting, as he stared at the white-silver ring on his own finger.
Jiang ShaoYan couldnât wait much longer. Heâd been able to endure the heat fever and keep calm up until now, far beyond the tolerance of an ordinary omega, but dragging it out any further could possibly hurt him.
âWhen you put that on me, Iâm yours.â He plucked up Wang Zheâs shirt with his other hand, stroking down from his strong abs to the pit of his stomach, where his heartbeat was fiercely throbbing. His palm went numb from the heat of his skin.
He wasnât the only one being tortured by the heat.
Jiang ShaoYanâs lips curled in a smirk, âHurry up. Donât you still want to fuck me?â
Wang Zheâs pupils suddenly contracted. He abruptly rolled over and pressed him down beneath his body.
âXuezhangâŠâŠâ His grip on Jiang ShaoYanâs hand shook. He bowed his head and kissed his fingertips devotedly, then he solemnly put the ring on his matching finger. He then interlocked their fingers, folding their two hands together and then pressing them against his wildly-racing heart.
âIn my heartâŠâŠâ His eyes darkened.
ââŠâŠyou have always been mine.â
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Boom! Jiang ShaoYanâs eardrums echoed with the sound of the words for a moment and the previously-stifled undercurrent of fever in his body suddenly surged violently. This sentence alone had all the heat within him erupting like a volcano in an instant, pheromones like boiling lava flooding through his blood to all four of his limbs and the countless bones in his body, scalding his entire body so that he lost all strength and his limbs went weak.
The beast within his body finally woke up completely due to this loud echo, roaring out in demand for the alpha pheromone that would finally satisfy its hunger.
âCome onâŠâŠthoroughly change me into yours.â He wrapped his arms around his alphaâs neck, unconsciously wanting to press even closer together. âDo you know how to do it?â
Wang Zhe nodded, blushing, and his eyes became even more bloodshot due to the stimulation of the pheromones.
Now this was the silly dog ââhe knew so well.
Jiang ShaoYan lightly raised his fingers, undoing the buttons of his own shirt one by one and pulling it to wide open, revealing his upper body, exposing the only omega-esque aspect of his body, the fair skin that shone with the soft luster of white jade under the light.
âYou said you would satisfy me, donât let me down.â