Both the big and the small understood Shen Que’s words, but their reactions were completely different. Little Potato was so scared that he kept hiding behind Shen Que, while Dreamer insisted on sniffing after him, wanting Little Potato to play with him.
Seeing that Shen Que wasn’t helping him, Little Potato scurried back into the house on his little paws, hoping to find his other fierce master. But he realized that once he was inside, the giant creature stopped chasing him.
“Woof!” Little Potato, convinced that Dreamer didn’t dare to come in, let out a provocative bark.
Dreamer’s face darkened. He sat right at the doorway, refusing to leave, and growled a low, threatening “hmm.” Little Potato whimpered a few times with a trembling voice but eventually slunk away.
“Woof~” Dreamer looked at Shen Que with a pitiful expression, as if saying he wanted to come in too—he wanted to play with Little Potato and Shen Que.
Shen Que found both the big and the small utterly adorable. “Once I get closer to Mr. Xuan, I’ll ask him to let you stay inside, okay?”
Dreamer’s eyes lit up, and he wagged his tail excitedly, licking Shen Que’s neck.
“Alright, alright~”
Shen Que spent a little more time with Dreamer before returning to the room he had stayed in the night before.
When Shen Que pushed the door open, Sheng Xuan Zhu was on the bed, fiddling with a pair of glasses. He looked like an exquisitely crafted yet cold-blooded work of art. Seeing the timid omega enter the room, he didn’t put the glasses down or even look up.
“Mr. Xuan?” Shen Que remembered he didn’t wear glasses. “I didn’t know you were staying here. I’ll switch to another guest room…”
“Not allowed.” Sheng Xuan Zhu had no intention of letting him go.
Shen Que glanced at his cold face, regretting how he could have thought just moments ago that Mr. Xuan was actually a very gentle person.
With Mr. Xuan’s command, Shen Que had no choice but to accept his fate.
Sheng Xuan Zhu tossed him a brand-new set of pajamas—not the one that had been torn and ruined the night before. “Change.”
When Shen Que came out of the walk-in closet after changing, Sheng Xuan Zhu had already turned off his bedside lamp and was resting.
He tiptoed to the bed. This was already the second time sharing a bed with Mr. Xuan, but for him, it still made his cheeks flush involuntarily.
Sheng Xuan Zhu felt the person beside him lying down like a robot, deliberately moving to the edge of the bed after settling in, as if getting too close would make him get eaten.
But he couldn’t let him have his way. Sheng Xuan Zhu reached out a long arm and pulled him close.
Shen Que thought he had escaped, but in the blink of an eye, he found himself in Sheng Xuan Zhu’s embrace, surrounded once again by the heavy scent of leather.
He thought that would be enough, but then Sheng Xuan Zhu suddenly spoke. “Turn around.”
Shen Que’s body stiffened, and he didn’t dare to move.
Turning over in his arms? Wasn’t that too intimate…
The alpha, whose patience was gradually wearing thin, let out a soft sigh. The next moment, warm breath brushed against his ear. “If you’re not obedient, you know what will happen…”
The alpha’s scorching palm slid in as he spoke. Shen Que didn’t catch the rest of the threatening words, too busy burying his face in the blanket and trying to suppress the trembling of his body.
Shen Que bit his moist lips and quickly turned around in the narrow embrace, even wrapping an arm around his waist.
“Mr. Xuan… I’ll be obedient. Please take it out…” The little omega’s soft, pleading voice, coupled with a somewhat coquettish plea for his hand not to continue…
The obedient one felt his blood surging.
Sheng Xuan Zhu was satisfied and, true to his word, withdrew his hand.
He closed his eyes, mentally calming himself down again and again. He didn’t want to scare his prey back into its original form just when he had finally tamed it into obedience.
He really liked Shen Que like this.
“Why did you run back home last night?”
Shen Que, his whole body tense, nervously looked up and saw that Sheng Xuanzhu hadn’t opened his eyes to look at him. He was about to come up with an excuse when the man suddenly opened his eyes.
Shen Que froze, their gazes hanging in the air.
“Last night… I…” Looking into the man’s deep eyes, Shen Que didn’t dare lie. “I was afraid of disturbing you and Nuo Feng.”
“Who told you that?” Sheng Xuanzhu’s eyes gradually turned cold.
“Dr. Xie. He was the one who brought me back last night.”
Sheng Xuanzhu leaned in closer, pressing down. “You and Xie Lan are that close?”
“No! I just met him while taking care of Grandma.”
“Stay away from him from now on.”
Shen Que had the illusion that the alpha in front of him seemed… jealous?
Seeing the omega lost in thought, the man’s voice deepened. “Understood?”
“Mm-hmm.”
Shen Que nodded, then quickly closed his eyes, trying to use sleep to escape the conversation that was almost face-to-face. The warm breaths carrying their respective pheromones mingled in the air—it was far too intimate.
As the night deepened, Sheng Xuanzhu didn’t press him further, but he silently added another mark against Xie Lan in his heart.
In the following days, Shen Que took Little Potato to get vaccinated and have a check-up, and also gave Dreamer deworming treatment. The two little ones still caused a commotion whenever they met—one was an attention-seeking troublemaker, while the other yelped in fear. However, Little Potato wasn’t actually afraid of Dreamer. It would often deliberately provoke Dreamer, then hop inside the villa gate, wagging its tail smugly as it looked at Dreamer.
Stupid big dog! Can’t get in now, can you?