Xie Qing kept his upper body leaning forward against the steering wheel, turning his head to check on Chen Yunfeng’s condition.
Just in time, he saw Chen Yunfeng touching the bump on top of his head in a daze, blurting out something even Xie Wang wouldn’t be caught saying.
Putting aside the agitation stirring inside him, Xie Qing took a few deep breaths and prepared to drive to the hospital.
He was afraid Chen Yunfeng’s brain had been knocked silly from the pain.
During these fourteen days of military training, Chen Yunfeng had always taken good care of Xie Wang.
Xie Qing had a lot on his plate at his company lately, plus he still had a professional elective course to finish in his senior year.
Running back and forth had left him completely exhausted.
Fortunately, Chen Yunfeng had been able to handle many things casually whenever they came up.
Someone like Xie Wang, who always slipped away the moment things got tough, was a constant headache for the family.
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Never had he expected that Chen Yunfeng would keep him in such good shape. Xie Wang followed behind him every single day, calling him Brother Feng even more diligently than he called his own biological brother.
Inside the car, the brandy soothing pheromones grew increasingly rich, to the point of being somewhat choking.
After feeling around the top of his head, Chen Yunfeng moved his hand down to his neck. After repeating this a few times, he finally confirmed that his gland was normal.
It wasn’t the bump on top of his head after all.
Enveloped in the potent, strong liquor pheromones, though he wouldn’t genuinely have an alcohol allergy, he still felt as if he were soaking in a vat of wine.
Chen Yunfeng sniffed and began to feel more and more uncomfortable.
“Can you pull it back a bit?” he suggested. “I feel like I am getting fumigated.”
Driving the car, Xie Qing glanced sideways at the front passenger seat and obediently reined in his pheromones.
“You are really high maintenance.”
“Cough, cough, thanks,” Chen Yunfeng said, looking a bit sheepish. “Even though you always treat me like a lab rat to observe, I have a big picture mindset and will not hold it against you.”
“I have successfully differentiated now, and you do not have anything left to study about me. I can finally rest easy.”
“You took a casual remark seriously?” Xie Qing flipped on the left turn signal. Seeing from the navigation that they were still eight hundred meters away, he reminded, “Put on another layer of blocker, we are almost there.”
“By the way, what do I actually smell like?” Chen Yunfeng turned his head to sniff at his own neck. “I could never smell it out before, and now it seems to be gone.”
The car slowed down, and Xie Qing rested one hand on the steering wheel.
“Tea,” Xie Qing said.
Chen Yunfeng asked, “Are you going to answer properly or not? What kind of insult is that?”
With a completely serious expression, Xie Qing replied, “Darjeeling tea.”
“Ah.”
Chen Yunfeng slid his hand into the hair at the back of his neck and gave it a couple of short pinches.
“Then drinking water paired with my pheromones in the future, does that count as tasting tea?”
Xie Qing dug out a bottle of long-neglected pheromone neutralizer and sprayed it all around inside the car.
“Novel perspective.” He chuckled, put the reagent away, and urged, “Get out of the car.”
Xie Qing’s neutralizer was the most potent version available. Back then, Xie Wang always forgot to reapply his blockers, causing his pheromones to leak from time to time.
To prevent any residual pheromones, he kept stock of everything he might possibly need.
The effect of the neutralizer was instantaneous. Just as Xie Qing pushed open the car door and prepared to step out,
He was yanked back by a sudden, reckless burst of strength, his shoulder slamming hard against the seat.
“You…” (Note: The manuscript dialogue uses ellipsis here as requested)
Before he could finish his sentence, waves of heat washed directly over his neck.
Chen Yunfeng frantically demanded the remaining brandy soothing pheromones, his previous cheerful demeanor completely gone.
The fingers gripping Xie Qing’s clothes were actually trembling.
Xie Qing hastily shut the car door, and the soothing pheromones once again enveloped the interior of the car.
Chen Yunfeng, who had been pressing frantically against him, gradually grew quiet.
When had Xie Qing ever endured this kind of provocation, especially several times in a single night?
Any normal Alpha simply could not endure it.
Especially since Chen Yunfeng had completely dropped his guard, pressing his entire body forward against him over and over again.
The blocker stood no chance against suppressing his surging pheromones.
Whenever his emotions fluctuated violently, that alluring Darjeeling tea pheromone felt almost tangible as it drilled straight into Xie Qing’s body.
To make matters worse, Chen Yunfeng kept his face buried in the crook of Xie Qing’s neck, muttering, “Senior, your neck is so hot.”
“It is a bit… scalding to the mouth.”
Xie Qing distinctly felt a patch of moisture, and he immediately pinned down Chen Yunfeng’s restless head.
Running his fingers down through his hair, he forced him to look up.
“Do you know what you are doing?” Xie Qing’s chest heaved violently as his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, speaking in a low, fierce roar.
Chen Yunfeng entered another wave of intense discomfort, tossing his head back as he tried to break free from the restraint.
“I know.”
“Let me smell.”
“Senior, it hurts so much.”
Just like back then downstairs at the dormitory building, the blocker was wearing off exceptionally fast.
The Darjeeling tea pheromone grew thicker and heavier.
Xie Qing’s instincts as an Alpha were teetering on the edge of collapse.
He grabbed Chen Yunfeng in a death grip, even going so far as to release his suppression pheromones.
Chen Yunfeng quieted down for a split second before letting out a muffled groan of agony.
“Senior.”
“Releasing suppression pheromones on an Omega… mm.”
“That is illegal.”
Xie Qing was a top-tier Alpha, and his suppression pheromones were particularly overpowering.
With no other choice, he had to stop.
Yet the moment he stopped, Chen Yunfeng immediately leaned right back in.
His approach made Xie Qing’s endurance even harder to bear.
Xie Qing’s biggest regret right now was handing the task of applying blockers over to Xie Wang.
And second, he had vastly overestimated Chen Yunfeng’s self-control.
“Sit properly.” Xie Qing held him down and buckled his seatbelt back on for him.
Fishing out his phone, he urgently dialed a call in the heat of the moment.
Yan Mingzhe was just getting ready for sleep when he received an unfamiliar call. He picked it up with a puzzled expression.
“Hello? Not buying insurance, not opening cards, not joining memberships.”
Xie Qing did not have time to listen to his opening remarks. Panting heavily, he asked, “Do you remember Chen Yunfeng? He is currently going through the differentiation process, and blockers are not doing much for him. Is there any other way?”
Sitting up against the headboard of his bed, Yan Mingzhe processed this explosive piece of news in his mind.
He replied mildly, “Keep your distance from him, just make sure you do not get your competitive spirit triggered. If all else fails, find an Omega to release soothing pheromones and calm him down.”
Xie Qing interrupted him again, “I did not make myself clear. Chen Yunfeng differentiated into an Omega, and my pheromones can soothe him.”
“But the problem right now is that his pheromones are overflowing, and I…”
A sharp clatter came from Yan Mingzhe’s end of the line. “Are you saying that while he is undergoing normal differentiation, you are the one being tempted to the point of losing your mind?”
Xie Qing fell silent for a few seconds before letting out an almost imperceptible, “Mn.”
Yan Mingzhe fell silent on his end for a few seconds as well.
“Then stay away from him.”
“I have to release soothing pheromones for him, otherwise he will be in pain.”
“Then endure it.”
“I cannot endure it!”
“Then make him endure it.”
“He cannot endure it either!”
Chen Yunfeng had regained a measure of clarity. He adjusted the angle of his car seat and asked ignorantly in a raspy voice, “Endure what?”
Yan Mingzhe chuckled a few times and raised his voice.
“If all else fails, give him a temporary mark. It can ease his differentiation pain, and you will not have to hold back either.”
Xie Qing took a deep breath, the veins bulging visibly on the hand gripping his phone.
“No.”
After processing this for a few seconds, Chen Yunfeng tossed his hair back, leaned sideways directly toward Xie Qing, and stretched out his neck.
He said hopefully, “Senior, hurry up, bite me. I do not want to keep hurting in waves anymore.”
The phone in Xie Qing’s hand was not gripped tightly enough, and with a dull thud, it slipped and dropped to the floor.
The screen remained lit, carrying Yan Mingzhe’s voice in intermittent snatches:
“A temporary mark is fine, it will not have any lasting impact.”
“Only when it happens too many times does it create dependency. Just ask Chen Yunfeng, if he cannot stand the pain, why not just mark him?”
Xie Qing immediately raised his hand to cover the back of Chen Yunfeng’s neck, lowering his head to press against his rear shoulder.
“Do you honestly have any idea what you are doing?”
“I know, right? It is just a temporary mark anyway, and besides, I actually really like you.”
The word like struck like a deep-sea bomb, causing ripples to spread across Xie Qing’s chest before rapidly dissipating.
“Like what?” Xie Qing let out a light laugh. “My face?”
“What kind of liking is that?”
“I thought your frivolity was just an act, but it turns out you really are frivolous!”
With that, Xie Qing released a massive wave of soothing pheromones, grabbed the blocker, opened the door, and got out of the car without looking back, slamming the door shut behind him.