“There are plenty of instructional videos online about how to please an alpha. I hope you’ll study them properly.” Xia Feng spoke without a flicker of expression. “That’s the message Pei Fan’s manager asked me to pass on to you.”
“What? Young Master Pei still hasn’t had his rut satisfied?” Qi Yue said flippantly. “I figured that after today he’d be hiding from me.”
Curious, Xia Feng asked, “Did Young Master Pei offend you? What did you do to him?”
“Nothing much. He’s got a thing about saving face, so I won’t go into details. Just tell him this.” Qi Yue flashed a wicked smile. “I’ll study hard, guaranteed to satisfy him.”
Watching Qi Yue smile, Xia Feng felt a chill crawl down his spine.
When Qi Yue smiled like that, he was even more terrifying than when his face was blank.
No. Qi Yue was terrifying no matter what.
He had no idea how Pei Fan had offended Qi Yue, but from now on, Qi Yue would probably be a psychological scar he’d carry for life.
“He actually agreed?” Pei Fan looked utterly incredulous.
Hu Fei nodded. “Xia Feng, Qi Yue’s manager, told me Qi Yue got the message and would study properly.”
Pei Fan paced back and forth across the office twice. “No, I don’t think that’s safe enough. Find some videos online, show them to him, make him learn.”
Hu Fei: “…”
“Okay.”
Pei Fan waved a hand again. “Forget it, I’ll find them myself. Give me Qi Yue’s email, I’ll send them to him.”
Pei Fan didn’t need to go looking; he had quite a private collection of his own.
He packed his favorites into a collection and sent it to Qi Yue’s email.
Two hours later, a reply landed in Pei Fan’s inbox. The one who had written it was none other than Qi Yue.
Pei Fan opened the email. Inside was only one image and two words: a QR code, with “Add me” written in the email. That showed just how domineering Qi Yue was.
Pei Fan snorted coldly and added Qi Yue as a friend.
Qi Yue: Learned it all. When are we going to put it into practice?
Pei Fan: So you can’t wait any longer?
Qi Yue: That’s right. Don’t tell me you don’t miss me?
Pei Fan: Bullshit. I’d never miss you.
Qi Yue: Let’s set a time. When’s the next one? I’ll get prepared.
Pei Fan sneered. The fish had taken the bait.
This time, he wouldn’t let Qi Yue off.
Pei Fan stopped replying to Qi Yue’s messages and set him to do-not-disturb.
A while later, Hu Fei walked in holding a plush toy of a hamster hugging a sunflower seed.
“From a fan?”
“From Qi Yue. He said you’d need it.”
“Throw it away, I don’t want it. Giving an alpha a cotton plush doll, only he would do that.” Pei Fan wore a look of contempt.
Over the next few days, Pei Fan threw himself into his events.
In front of the cameras, he maintained his elegant, refined persona perfectly.
Back at the hotel after the event, Pei Fan’s true colors showed.
“Who put together today’s outfit? I don’t want to wear blue today!”
Hu Fei wiped the cold sweat from his face. “Brother Pei, yesterday you said you wanted to wear a blue suit.”
Hu Fei counted the days on his fingers. Pei Fan’s rut was coming up soon, no wonder he was so irritable.
When in doubt, start with a shot of suppressant.
“Brother Pei, I’ve got the suppressant ready.”
At the word suppressant, Pei Fan’s temper flared even hotter.
His rut had long since passed, induced early by that damned Qi Yue.
Having been at Pei Fan’s side for years, Hu Fei had long since learned to act by reading his moods.
“Brother Pei, I’ll call the doctor right now.”
Pei Fan knew his emotions were off; he had never been like this.
An inexplicable irritability, a groundless panic, and…
Missing Qi Yue.
He was actually missing that alpha?
Ridiculous.
He would never miss Qi Yue. He only missed Qi Yue’s ass.
Pei Fan took a deep breath. The crazed images of those three days would not leave his head.
The moment he thought of them, a certain place began to ache faintly.
Pei Fan’s rut was unlike an ordinary alpha’s.
The higher an alpha’s level, the more severely they were affected during rut.
But he happened to have no interest in omegas. The most effective omega pheromones were like poison to him; the scent of an omega in heat made him physically nauseous.
The doctor glanced up at Pei Fan several times, his mouth opening and closing, but he did not manage a single word.
“What are you looking at me for? Say something!”
“Has Young Master Pei had any sexual activity recently?”
The doctor was obviously asking a question he already knew the answer to. Pei Fan’s expression turned ugly; he nodded. “Yes.”
The doctor glanced at Hu Fei. Hu Fei understood and left the room.
“What is it?” Pei Fan’s heart skipped. Was there something his manager could not be allowed to hear?
After all, Hu Fei had followed him for years and was practically his full-time butler. He never hid any of his problems from Hu Fei.
“Have I got some incurable disease?”
“No, no, no, of course not.” The doctor spoke with difficulty, trying to find the right way to put it. “Young Master Pei, after an omega is marked by an alpha, they become dependent on that alpha. You know this, right?”
“I know.”
And the dependence grew with the alpha’s level: the stronger the alpha’s pheromones, the stronger the dependence the omega developed.
Pei Fan didn’t follow. He frowned. “I didn’t mark any omega.”
An alpha could not mark an alpha either.
That day, he had bitten the gland on the back of Qi Yue’s neck.
But the pervert had not stopped; he had only sped up, going at it harder.
That bite had become Qi Yue’s stimulant.
“Young Master Pei, you… call the person from that day here. He’ll have a way.”
Pei Fan’s eyes went wide. “Bullshit! How could I be dependent on him? He’s an alpha, he can’t mark me!”
“Young Master Pei.” The doctor spoke helplessly. “The test results say so, and the sooner the better. If he doesn’t come, the consequences will be serious.”
“How serious?”
The doctor said solemnly, “Young Master Pei, have you ever seen an omega with a severe dependence on an alpha?”
Pei Fan shook his head. Apart from work, he never came into contact with omegas at all.
“When an omega goes a long time without an alpha’s pheromones, the gland develops pathological changes. In severe cases it causes pheromone disorder. Once the alpha appears, they’ll beg shamelessly for the alpha to release pheromones.”
Pei Fan roared, “I’m not an omega! How could symptoms like that happen to me?!”
The doctor tried to say more, but Pei Fan used all his strength to shove him out. “Get out! Don’t any of you bother me!”
Hu Fei was waiting outside the door. Seeing the doctor shoved out, he went over and patted his shoulder.
There was more the doctor wanted to say, but he’d been thrown out just like that.