Chapter 82 I Shouldn't Be Here

Lin Yao felt like he was on fire.

".....all over?"

What kind of dark and gritty term is this?

Originally, it was just about the neck area, but this guy's perversion always exceeded expectations. Lin Yao felt like he had been thrown into a sauna in the middle of summer, so hot he was about to explode.

Xie Xingchen stared at him: "That's right, otherwise how can it be covered?"

Are you a dog?

This is how they claim territory.

Xie Xingchen hummed in agreement: "I don't like the pheromones of other people on you. They're too strong, I can't mark them, I can only cover them up little by little, and turn them into the scent of tequila."

"You mind your godfather too?" Lin Yao was speechless.

“Even my own father is the same.” Xie Xingchen lowered his head, frowning slightly. “So, is that alright?”

His tone was quite serious, making Lin Yao feel that he wasn't joking. Only in a daze did he belatedly realize that they were very close, and the heat of their skin could be felt through their thin clothes.

Too close.

“No…” Lin Yao paused, carefully choosing his words, fearing he might actually mean it, “There are some things that won’t work.”

After all, Xie Xingchen's behavior last time had scared him so much that he almost kicked him into the sea.

Surprisingly, he wasn't slapped or verbally abused. Xie Xingchen asked with interest, "Which ones? I'll try to avoid them."

Lin Yao: "......"

He had thought that he would have grown a bit after so many shameless conversations with Xie Xingchen, but he still couldn't stand the man's bluntness: "Just... the erotic parts are not allowed."

"Pornography, you mean ticklish spots, right? What about the calves? The waist? The hands?" Xie Xingchen asked one by one, his tone extremely pleased.

Hearing this made me feel ashamed.

Lin Yao suddenly stood up, panting heavily: "I just finished training, I'm covered in sweat, let's talk later."

"The bathroom is over there. Do you want to take a shower first?" Xie Xingchen leaned back on the sofa and looked up at him. "You came here yourself."

The tone was entirely declarative, a sarcastic jab at the fact that you insisted on being there and are now unhappy about it.

Lin Yao's face flushed red. This was clearly a fallacy, pushing his luck and having no bottom line!

Xie Xingchen looked at his expression, remained seated, and said indifferently, "Were you scared? Let's go back."

Lin Yao stood still.

It's quite strange, Lin Yao found that every time he was with him, he especially liked to go against him, probably because of his inherent competitive spirit and unwillingness to admit defeat.

His lips tightened for a moment, then relaxed: "Where's the bathroom? I'll take a shower first, we'll talk later."

Now it was Xie Xingchen's turn to remain silent.

Are you serious, Lin? You're incredibly stubborn.

Lin Yao stopped as he passed by him, looking down at him with a disdainful gaze: "Do you have pajamas?"

Xie Xingchen sighed. He didn't know who this was tormenting; it was like he'd brought a calamity upon himself.

She got up expressionlessly and led him to the master bedroom, took a brand new bathrobe from the closet and handed it to him, saying in a low voice, "Did you do this on purpose?"

"What do you mean by 'deliberately'?" Lin Yao stared straight at him.

Xie Xingchen clicked his tongue softly and didn't continue the previous topic: "Take your shower."

The bathroom door closed, and Lin Yao took off his soaked training clothes. It was hot and stuffy. He stood still, staring blankly at himself in the mirror.

Xie Xingchen felt uncomfortable because of Pei Yizhong's pheromones. This was due to the Alpha's innate possessiveness. Being unable to mark or touch him must have been extremely painful for him.

If it can make him feel better.

Lin Yao turned on the tap and splashed cold water on his face to cool it down. Water droplets dripped down, making the sink wet. He raised his eyes and his gaze slowly swept across the spots Xie Xingchen had just mentioned in the mirror.

Even at the very last step, he still couldn't overcome the psychological barrier of Omega.

Recalling those locations I just mentioned...

Lin Yao choked for a moment.

That's definitely a bit perverted.

Even with your favorite filter, you can't suddenly reach such a steep slope.

He turned and went into the shower, repeatedly trying to mentally prepare himself while muttering to himself, "Seriously, did he have to choose such an awkward spot? I wasn't this weird when I was an Alpha!"

Meanwhile, Xie Xingchen downstairs was completely unaware of the criticism he had received, and lit a cigarette with great melancholy.

I knew I shouldn't have let Lin Yao come.

He looked up at the window outside the living room, wondering when he should find someone to nail it shut.

My phone vibrated; it showed a message from Director Cheng.

[He Mu Cheng Shu]: I've prescribed some more inhibitors for you, and I've had Boyan deliver them to you.

[He Mu Cheng Shu]: By the way, the blood samples from some of the soldiers you asked me to check last time have come back with the results. I'll have him send them to you along with the information.

[xxc]: Okay, I'll wait for him at home.

Xie Xingchen slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, thinking that once Cheng Boyan finished speaking, he would have him take Lin Yao back.

A while later, the doorbell rang, and he got up to open the door.

"Why didn't you go back to school?" Cheng Boyan asked, raising an eyebrow as he entered the room, his keen sense of smelling pheromones in the air. "Is there anyone else at your house?"

Xie Xingchen looked up at the upstairs and smiled, "Yes, they're taking a shower."

Cheng Boyan put on a gossipy expression and laughed mockingly: "Bringing someone back with inhibitors, are you afraid of killing them?"

"Get lost." Xie Xingchen raised his chin, gesturing for him to sit down. He took the thick report, opened it, and began to look through it. "Your dad didn't just hand this information over to my dad, did he?"

"It's not that bad, he still has that much medical ethics." Cheng Boyan was still trying to identify the scent of pheromones in the air.

It smells familiar, but I don't know where I've smelled it before.

If He Li were here, his nose would definitely be able to smell it.

Xie Xingchen flipped through the stack of documents in his hand, thinking to himself that even though he had deleted Lin Yao's secondary differentiation report, he still couldn't hide it. The old man wanted to investigate anything, and Director Cheng couldn't hide it from him.

He stared at Cheng Boyan, his tone becoming more serious: "You filled out the form to change your major as soon as you came back, right?"

Cheng Boyan nodded, quite curious: "Why are you and Lin Yao so concerned about my changing majors and my future?"

“I think we were thinking the same thing,” Xie Xingchen said bluntly. “After you switched to research, we had someone we trusted more. We had a very special blood sample that I didn’t even dare to give to your father.”

It was the blood drawn by Lin Yao when he was being induced and controlled while cleaning up the blood plague victims.

The portion that was later airlifted to Director Cheng had almost completely lost its inducing factor, making the previous portion all the more precious.

If we give it to Director Cheng and the old man finds out, there might be trouble.

Cheng Boyan recalled that things had indeed been a bit unusual at the time, and realized, "Lin Yao's?"

Xie Xingchen stared at him for two seconds, confirming that he hadn't mistaken him for someone else.

"He usually plays dumb to get ahead. He looks silly next to He Li, but he's actually quite smart. He's his. You'll have your own lab after you transfer departments, and I'd like you to analyze that sample. Is that okay?"

Cheng Boyan said with a grin, "But I'm a freshman, so my skill level might not be high. Are you sure you can rest assured?"

"Cheng Boyan, a gold medalist in the high school biology competition and a gold medalist in the national competition, is the head of the bioanalysis laboratory. His grades have never fallen out of the top three in the school throughout his three years of high school, but he doesn't want to study medicine like Cheng Shu. Instead, he insists on using connections to get into the Chongqing Comprehensive Warfare Institute, which he is completely bad at."

Xie Xingchen didn't hide what he knew and analyzed, "He probably didn't want to be like him and work for my dad, so even though he changed majors, he didn't switch to medical school and ended up choosing his old field of biological research."

"Why does Young Master suddenly start investigating people?" Cheng Boyan put away his nonchalant attitude and sighed. "Isn't this because he's been suppressed by the powerful and wealthy and has given up? But it proves that you really can't do well what you're not good at."

“Lin Yao’s sample is very important, and I hope you will take it seriously.” Xie Xingchen said earnestly, “It’s related to…it might be related to his past.”

Cheng Boyan hummed in agreement, then simply nodded without saying anything more: "I know."

The two were silent for a while. Xie Xingchen heard the commotion upstairs and was about to tell him to take Lin Yao away.

Unexpectedly, that guy was too bold. He opened the door on the second floor and called out, "Xie Xingchen, come up."

Xie Xingchen: ""

Cheng Boyan; ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

He looked up and saw that the door to the room next to the carved staircase on the second floor was half open. Lin Yao, who had just taken a shower, had wet hair, his bathrobe was half open, and his fair skin was tinged with varying shades of red, making him look both alluring and seductive.

Damn it, I've seen Lin Yao so many times in the dorm, and he always has a cold and aloof expression, looking at everyone like they're trash. This is the first time I've seen him like this.

With Xie Xingchen?

What are we going up there for?

Is that what he meant?

Lin Yao met his gaze and froze: "…………Where did you come from?"

Cheng Boyan thought to himself, "I fucking think I shouldn't be here."

He remained silent for a long time before carefully speaking, "No, does He Li know about this between the two of you?"