The rain had stopped.
The brilliant blue sky had given way to a bright sun, with burning light streaming in from outside the house.
Pei Zhaozhou’s hair was adorned with wisps of white smoke, while his exposed ears appeared as perfectly ripe, soft, pink peaches. It was his serene state as he peacefully slept.
His lazy and pleasant breathing was still undulating in the air.
The rain had stopped a long time ago, and he couldn’t sleep all night because of the incident that happened at night, but he was lethargic and refused to wake up.
For Si Huaixi, who hadn’t slept all night, Pei Zhaozhou appeared to be a big cat with warm hair lounging in the sun.
Si Huaixi let out a faint sigh. His sea-blue eyes squinted at the distant landscape, and his mind couldn’t stop replaying the thrilling scenario from the night before.
He could still hear Pei Zhaozhou’s patient, endearing gasp, scratching his heart like a kitten.
Mingming’s fever persisted at first.
Or perhaps he was overheating and dreamed about doing something with his beloved.
But he nearly lost control when approached by a man with a cold face and a good-looking figure.
Si Huaixi hid his face behind his hands, embarrassed by his focus. He turned his back on Pei Zhaozhou, trying to hide his red face, and his heart filled with sourness and resentment.
If he has a partner, there is nothing wrong with it. He is delicate and fragile, and he is just an ordinary person. Who can’t be concerned about him? Having an additional person to look after each other is typical and appropriate.
Pei Zhaozhou isn’t like him.
He had always been alone. His parents were also magical beings, but they were slaughtered by zombies shortly after he was born.
Taking care of a baby who hasn’t been born for a long time1 means that he is not that old. He was just a newborn and couldn’t contribute to the base. is difficult, especially since this is the end of the world with material scarcity. The acquaintances of his parents were reluctant to accept him.
The people at the base sent him to the orphanage solely because of the credit and supplies his parents had left behind.
The orphanage was crowded, with youngsters whose parents were either deceased or had abandoned them. The youngest were between the ages of five and six.
He became the orphanage’s youngest child after entering.
Because he was the youngest among them and since his look was uncommon, including his remarkable sea-blue eyes, other youngsters labeled him as a monster.
He began to grow flesh since it pains to bash people with his tiny fist. Now, it was his chance to beat the evil kids who had stolen his food.
Eventually, the bad kids didn’t dare to offend him and were frightened to exclude him, but some kids were bullied and sought refuge in him.
But he didn’t want any of them.
He had expected his journey toward working for the base would be slow and gradual. He had planned to wait until he became a teenager before asking for permission. However, things took an unexpected turn. The settlement was on the verge of destruction before he could even reach adulthood. The other kids who had teased and rejected him from the orphanage were no longer around.
The world’s end is so awful. Even if the individual is incredibly talented and supernatural, there is no guarantee that he will not perish.
As a result, he has always lived alone, preferring not to become entangled in any relationship.
Because of population scarcity, the base encourages early marriage and pregnancy, but he never expected to find a mate.
He didn’t want his children to suffer the same fate as him and become orphans, leading a rough life if he suffered a mishap one day.
Thus, it was preferable to live alone.
Pei Zhaozhou, on the other hand, is unique. He has typical requirements. Finding a companion is normal.
He saved Pei Zhaozhou, as he has other individuals, and there is no need to repay him.
He made an exception and invited Pei Zhaozhou to accompany him because he observed a delicate, frail, dying cat with moist amber golden eyes and a forlorn and abandoned expression. That’s why he immediately considered taking him home.
He ought to have disregarded it regarding Pei Zhaozhou’s contacts and previous interactions, but..
However, Si Huaixi’s deep eyes rose with displeasure that he hadn’t observed, and his dark eyes filled with unexplained possessiveness that overturned the deep blue eyes.
The restlessness, thirst, and desire prompted him to learn everything he could about Pei Zhaozhou to completely tame the cat that had inadvertently strayed into his private realm.
It’s getting late.
Pei Zhaozhou awoke groggily. The warmth he felt last night had vanished.
After a good night’s sleep, his skin turned ruddy, and his tired body, which had previously been struggling with pheromone disorder, was revived and relaxed like never before.
He simply appears to have forgotten something.
He appeared to have dreamed that his susceptibility period advanced again last night.
In his dream, he frantically wanted to lock himself away in a dark area without anyone contacting him.
He was alone, as usual, waiting for the pheromone to blow up, going insane, becoming a beastly creature till he ran out of energy. All of a sudden, he noticed that the door was open.
The person who walked in was the last person he wanted to see, Si Huaixi.
Really…
The susceptibility period becomes the irritating susceptibility period.
The embarrassment of suddenly advancing the susceptibility period in front of Si Huaixi the previous time remained etched in his consciousness, making him want to dig a hole and bury himself in it.
To dream means to be more terrified of something.2It means that the more you are afraid of something, that thing will haunt you even in your dreams
The alpha pheromone prompted him to seek out the omega spouse. However, he could not find it and wandered awkwardly where he was.
Si Huaixi broke into his territory with an innocent expression, watching him ridiculously spinning in place, reaching out to touch him. Suffering from the susceptibility period, he gritted his teeth and was frightened that his sensitive body would feel hot. He could not bear the collapse.
Perhaps it was because of humiliation and fury that he could afford to flee and hide.
Pei Zhaozhou had a sudden dream of a large white pillow and immediately buried himself in it as if he was going to dig a hole into it, hoping Si Huaixi would not notice him in this embarrassing situation.
The pillow was comfortable and warm, and he gradually let go of his heart, hugging it closely before falling asleep unknowingly.
He was awake now.
Pei Zhaozhou sensed the vanilla pheromone that remained in the air, and his bright amber pupils became confused.
-Isn’t he awake yet? How could he smell his pheromone? It was so sweet that it made him panic making it seem like he had returned to the early susceptibility period.
Pei Zhaozhou returned to his senses and subconsciously went to the only person he was familiar with in this world.
He saw Si Huaixi standing by the empty window. The bright light fell on his slightly drooping eyelashes, and the clear light melted into the pure sea-blue eyes, faintly overflowing with light-colored broken light.
The darkness in the room, the light outside the window, the light and shadow at the junction of light and dark and the outline of his stunning profile of the side face, the stagnant arc of light on the straight nose tip, the thin lips with half a cigarette, and the continuous burning white smoke floats on it. Everything was so beautiful that it made his heart suffocate.
Like uncontrollable gravitational force, his eyes were firmly attracted by the cold and handsome man in front of him.
Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes seemed to be connected to the heart, falling little by little as if a passing butterfly fell into an elusive spider web ignorantly.
Just looking at it, it’s like a collector standing in a museum looking at his favorite paintings, with the doors and windows of his eyes staring at the people in the painting as if they are so full of soul, so intoxicated that they can not feel the time passing.
Standing one meter from the painting, I thought that I was a viewer and a passerby, but I didn’t know that I was already deeply involved. And I didn’t realize it was love at first site.
The cold and steady voice broke the stagnant and quiet atmosphere.
Si Huaixi: “Should we leave?”
Pei Zhaozhou was stunned and nodded subconsciously: “Okay.”
He was still wondering in his heart, could it be aftereffects of the susceptibility period? For a moment, he felt that Si Huaixi was so beautiful that he couldn’t move his eyes away. He was better than any omega.
But why does he care so much about a man who is so good-looking?
Si Huaixi is not an omega, and he is not crooked either.
Some omegas had pursued him in his previous life, but he refused all of them.
Some difficult omegas took advantage of the estrus period and actively exuded the sweet omega pheromones, trying to seduce him with pheromones and make him succumb to the instinct to mark omega.
But those omegas didn’t know that, he was from the First Military Academy of the Empire. Not long after entering the school, he offered to take a pheromone temptation resistance class.
Ordinary omega using pheromone could not seduce him but make him feel tired and vigilant.
Out of an alpha’s politeness and respect for the weak omega, even if these omegas’ impulsive behavior caused him serious trouble, he still safely sent the omega to a nearby hospital, asking the doctor to inject them with a pheromone inhibitor, and then notified their parents to send the omega home.
Anyway, after trying a few times, Pei Zhaozhou said it was very effective.
From then on, those annoying omegas stared at him from a distance. Although they don’t know why their eyes are red, no omega comes to him to confess.
But Pei Zhaozhou didn’t know it was those omegas who were crying and complaining on the Star Network.
Together with many omegas, they compiled a list of “Straightest Male Alpha Ranking.” And Pei Zhaozhou was undisputedly ranked first.
Many omegas, who confessed to Pei Zhaozhou and were bitterly rejected, commented sadly below, blaming Major General Pei for being a straight male with no emotional intelligence.
[You are clueless when it comes to overtures of omega, and releasing pheromones is an act of flirting.]
[When Major General Pei smelled omega’s pheromone, he immediately warned them vigilantly and seriously, thinking that they misplaced the pheromone, and sternly stated that this behavior was as shameful as a puppy peeing. If they can’t control their pheromones, he will not mind sending them to the hospital.]
[Asking a question.]
[Yes.]
[He really will send Omega to the hospital?]
Several omegas aimed at Major General Pei’s identity and the great potential of S-level alpha and wanted to use the omega estrus period to make Major General Pei out of control and completely mark them.
According to the “Omega Protection Act,” the out-of-control alpha needs to be responsible to the omega for whatever reason. Either go to jail or negotiate a huge fine with the victim omega.
But Major General Pei did not act like a normal alpha.
Not only did he have no response to omega’s pheromone, but he calmly escorted that ill-intentioned omega to the hospital with a face of abstinence and asked the doctor to inject pheromone inhibitors.
Because the alpha did not mark them, those omegas were forced to terminate the omega estrus period by the doctors with tears in their eyes.
If it weren’t for the fact that they were sure that they were emitting omega pheromone, the alpha along the way would pounce on like a hyena-smelling fleshy bone.
Major General Pei defeated those irrational alphas time and time again and used cold and powerful S-level alpha pheromones to suppress low-level alphas. They felt that Major General Pei was a beta disguised as an alpha.
And! And!
In the face of some young omegas who are still young and look underage, Pei Zhaozhou, like the director of the teaching department informs their parents.
An adult but baby-faced omega complained aggrievedly on the Star Network.
[I am an adult omega, but I never thought that someone would call my parents on me. When I grew up, I confessed to them and they turned around to call my parents. I was advised to study hard because I am still young. Why can’t I just spread a few drops of omega pheromones to show my goodwill…Isn’t this stated in the internal omega essential confession manual? Appropriate omega pheromone can relax the atmosphere and increase the success rate of confession (╬￣俣)~ ┴┴]
[Notify parents]
[This kind of trump card can be used by orphans.]
The omegas who regarded Major General Pei as a male god all vomited blood, indicating that they could not take this peerless lone alpha down who had reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Pei Zhaozhou didn’t think too much. It would be better if there were less omegas to disturb him.
In the military academy, he was busy training and had no intention of falling in love. After entering the Odesi Empire army, he repeatedly made military exploits. He relied on many Zerg beheading operations to become a major general of the Empire and went to the imperial border defense line to fight against the Zerg.
But later in a battle, his mecha was tampered with, and the rear regulator overheated, causing an explosion. He survived, but his glands were damaged, and he suffered from pheromone disorder.
The doctor told him that he could only relieve the pain and that his condition could not be cured. The irreversible damage to the glands has made him no longer able to mark an omega and he would not be able to have offspring.
He became a disabled alpha who couldn’t mark omega.
Because of the pheromone disorder, his life has also started the countdown, so how could he start a family and delay other omegas?
So.
To some extent, Pei Zhaozhou and Si Huaixi are both of the same kind.
Unwilling to get involved with unimportant people. Unwilling to find a partner to drag each other down, seemingly indifferent but dealing with it gently.
Two equally lonely people are attracted to each other like a close-fitting magnet and are already connected through an invisible tacit understanding.
Si Huaixi turned his face to look at Pei Zhaozhou, who seemed to be a little stunned. There were red marks on his forehead from sleeping on his stomach, and a few strands of hair made the dull amber cat eyes even more stunned…
A smile flashed across Si Huaixi’s deep eyes.
He looked confused and stunned and had no idea about the trouble he had caused last night, and that he still slept all night leaving him to suffer.
It wasn’t until the early morning that he eased from his rigid posture, and put the unconscious cat aside, thinking about how to treat him in the future.
“The rain has stopped. It’s time to wake up.”
Si Huaixi leaned against the door with his back to the light.
The sea-blue eyes were clearer and purer than the blue sky outside. The dust floating in the light fell directly from the old door frame and ceiling, outlining the slender and sturdy figure of Si Huaixi, like a glowing halo of the gods.
For fear that the halo behind him would turn into wings in the next second and he would fly away.
This scene made Pei Zhaozhou dazed for a long time, and then…
Pei Zhaozhou: “Return the jacket to you, thank you.”
Si Huaixi glanced at the big sun outside.
The black rain has stopped, but the plants on the ground were all watered to death by the rain last night, and the soil on the ground turned into hard black masses. Suddenly, the sky was cloudless, and the ground was even drier and cracked from the sun as if last night the dark clouds were a dream, let alone the useless rain.
The spreading heat caused him to frown unconsciously and glance at Pei Zhaozhou’s ruddy cheeks again. It seemed that the fever had subsided, and he was afraid that the fragile and timid cat would get sick again. It should be good to leave it in his hands. Right?
Si Huaixi said, “No, I’ll give it to you.”
Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes narrowed slightly, not knowing what he was thinking, he took the jacket in his hand walked forward, and returned it to Si Huaixi, saying, “I am grateful to you for lending your jacket. You can’t let me rely on you for everything. “
…Alright.
It’s just an insignificant jacket. Take it back, even though it’s a bit hot.
Si Huaixi didn’t want to hold it all the way back to the base, so he simply put it on. However, a sweet and sticky vanilla scent from last night was still on the coat, and the feeling of wearing it became more obvious.
Si Huaixi subconsciously wiped it with his hand and was stunned by the sweet vanilla smell lingering in his nose, recalling the accident that only he knew about.
Turning his back to Pei Zhaozhou, his ears turned red and said: “You can go…The black rain has stopped now, but the weather in the apocalyptic wilderness can change at any time. I am not sure if it will rain again. We are still three miles away from the Lucheng base. For the four-hour journey, we must hurry up.”
Pei Zhaozhou watched Si Huaixi put on his jacket, and a halo of light seemed to be sucked away by the black jacket.
The whole person was pulled down to the mortal world, and dust suddenly fell from the old ceiling, all sprinkled on his shiny black hair.
He didn’t mind being dirty either. He patted the dust on his black hair, and his dangling sea-blue eyes appeared bright and vivid, unexpectedly looking down-to-earth, handsome.
Just go ride a motorcycle, like the young and handsome protagonist in the Interstellar movie, after defeating all the enemies. At the last moment before the curtain drops, he will take the heroine to the beach for a ride.
Pei Zhaozhou squinted his eyes contentedly and suddenly asked: “Can you ride a motorcycle?”
“Motorcycle?”
Hearing this question, Si Huaixi was surprised and puzzled but replied honestly: “Yes, I picked an abandoned motorcycle in the wilderness before and brought it home for renovation. Do you want to sit?”
Pei Zhaozhou’s mouth evoked a self-amused smile, and he didn’t mention whether or not to sit.
Si Huaixi saw his kitten’s ‘stealing a fish’ smile, and for some reason, he also smiled.
Thinking in his heart, that when the motorcycle is taken out from the warehouse, it might be broken if it hasn’t been driven for a long time.
