The Spoils of War

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Chapter 36: Fu Yunlu, please leave me from now on

Chapter 36: Fu Yunlu, please leave me from now on

"Brother, your nails are scratching me." Liang Guanyue grabbed his wrist and looked around. Noticing that his nails were trimmed into round shapes and not left long, she asked in confusion, "Strange... how did you scratch me?"

Fu Yunlu bit her lower lip until it bled, and said intermittently: "Liang... Guan Yue..."

"Hmm?" Liang Guanyue tilted her head.

"Get out..." Fu Yunlu seemed to be having trouble breathing. "Get out, come in."

Liang Guanyue smiled and said, "Why? There was no bleeding this time."

Fu Yunlu just shook her head and kept saying something like "No". Liang Guanyue turned her over in that position. Fu Yunlu's eyes turned white and she cried out in pain. She completely lost her strength and let Liang Guanyue do whatever he wanted.

His legs were shaking and he almost wanted to beg for mercy, but the remaining consciousness told him that it was useless to beg for mercy from Liang Guanyue, such a bad kid, so he buried his head in the pillow. The pain was more intense than the pleasure. He still hadn't gotten used to being treated like this by Liang Guanyue, who was also an alpha, even though Fu Yunlu didn't resist.

His resistance came to an end the moment he opened the door and saw Liang Guanyue.

What follows is nothing more than a struggle before admitting surrender.

"Liang Guanyue..." Fu Yunlu was pressed into the pillow by him. He tilted his head and glanced back with difficulty to see Liang Guanyue's expression - there was not a trace of gentle smile on the other person's face. The eyebrows and eyes that were always smiling on weekdays were as cold as ice, and even the look he gave him was cold enough.

Fu Yunlu trembled a little, as if to confirm something, then reached back and grabbed Liang Guanyue's arm, looking at him in panic.

Liang Guanyue was stunned for two seconds, then looked down at Fu Yunlu's hand holding his, and then met his eyes again. She seemed to understand his thoughts and smiled: "Brother, I love you."

He pinched Fu Yunlu's chin, turned him towards him, then leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth, repeating and deepening the sweet words: "You can rest assured to give yourself to me, because I love you, no doubt."

"I won't hurt you."

Liang Guanyue used oaths over and over again to soothe Fu Yunlu's uneasy intuition until the other party hummed muffledly and stopped talking.

It has to be said that Fu Yunlu's intuition had helped him countless times, but when it came to Liang Guanyue, his intuition had just begun to nod when it was strangled in the cradle by his emotions.

The alpha-to-alpha marking wasn't like the AO combination, where one single application was enough to guarantee 100% effectiveness. Furthermore, Fu Yunlu's glands weren't healthy. Liang Guanyue had hoped to finish it in one go, but Fu Yunlu wouldn't let him in, telling him hoarsely, "Not enough."

Liang Guanyue touched Fu Yunlu's slightly bulging belly and asked him, "Are you sure you want to come a second time?"

"The susceptible period hasn't passed yet."

If there was no promotion, Fu Yunlu would have simply overturned the other person and sat on him to do it himself. But now his strength seemed to escape from every pore of his skin, and he was only able to barely speak to Liang Guanyue: "... again."

Liang Guanyue scratched his face, looking like he was saying, "Okay, there's really nothing I can do about you."

At noon, the two of them finally stopped moving. Liang Guanyue lay on Fu Yunlu's back. Fu Yunlu was so pressed that she couldn't breathe. She pushed Liang Guanyue and said, "I want to smoke."

Liang Guanyue rested her chin on the top of his head, and supported her elbows on both sides of Fu Yunlu's head. She laughed and said, "Go outside and smoke. You can't smoke here."

"..." Fu Yunlu bargained, "Just half a stick."

Liang Guanyue patted Fu Yunlu's leg with her calf as if to protest: "It stinks. There's no way."

Fu Yunlu had the will but not the nerve to do it, so she gave in: "Okay, okay, okay, you go down, I'll go to the balcony to smoke."

Liang Guanyue didn't move, and teased: "Just now he looked like he was dying, but now he can walk briskly down to smoke a cigarette?"

Fu Yunlu was so angry that she laughed: "I was so tired afterwards, what's wrong with smoking a cigarette to wake myself up?"

"I exercise much more than my brother, why don't you show some consideration for me?"

Fu Yunlu said, "I'm going to the balcony to smoke." After a pause, he said, "Forget it. I have something else to do this afternoon. It's time to leave."

Liang Guanyue was mercilessly opened by him, and she pretended to yell: "I will throw it away after I use it. I am so pitiful."

Fu Yunlu tried to sit up and confirmed that it was indeed not half as serious as last time. Although walking fast would be inconvenient, there was no occasion that required her to rush around today, so walking slowly should not be noticed as abnormal.

Hearing Liang Guanyue's "making trouble" there, he found it cute. He held Liang Guanyue's hand, put it to his lips and kissed it, and said: "Wife, I am going to work to make money for you."

Liang Guanyue was a little disgusted by this name, and the corners of her mouth twitched, but she raised her chin modestly: "Alright, alright, if you're busy, let's go. Remember to apply the inhibitory patch after applying the medicine." She wiped away a small drop of blood from the gland bite mark with her finger, "It looks scary."

When Fu Yunlu reached the door, she suddenly remembered something and said, "Stay at home and don't go out for the time being."

Liang Guanyue: "Why?"

"It's not safe, because I've been targeted recently. Although they won't attack me, there's no guarantee that you won't be affected." Fu Yunlu sighed, "That's why I didn't want you to come to District 06 later."

Liang Guanyue rolled his eyes and asked, "Is it related to human transformation into insects?"

Fu Yunlu hesitated for a moment: "...Yes."

"Isn't it the Zerg who did it?"

"No," Fu Yunlu said, "it was caused by a bunch of crazy people with too much money to spend."

Liang Guanyue asked seemingly casually, "Are there any members of the royal family involved?"

Fu Yunlu was thinking about whether to let Liang Guanyue know about this. He only paused for a few seconds, and Liang Guanyue said considerately: "Sorry, I said too much."

Fu Yunlu quickly said, "...Based on the results of the investigation so far, there is considerable involvement." He said, "However, I haven't yet determined who secretly activated this strictly prohibited technology."

Liang Guanyue said, "Would you feel offended?"

"What?"

"As an outsider, I'm asking these questions," Liang Guanyue looked at him, "would you be offended? If there's even the slightest bit of it, I'll definitely be careful not to ask in the future. I'm of humble origin, so I shouldn't be curious about these things."

Fu Yunlu, who had changed into a suit, was about to leave, but after hearing this, he returned and sat down on the bedside, stroking Liang Guanyue's cheek, frowning and whispering, "Don't talk about yourself like that."

Liang Guanyue rubbed Fu Yunlu's palm like a cat and smiled: "It's the truth. This is how you thought of me from the beginning."

“…” Fu Yunlu opened her mouth but couldn’t completely refute it.

Liang Guanyue asked: "Brother just likes me more and more, so he doesn't want me to say this about myself, right?"

Fu Yunlu bent down and kissed him almost gently. At the end, she lowered her eyelashes and said, "That was my fault."

Liang Guanyue couldn't believe what she heard from Fu Yunlu: "What did you say?"

Fu Yunlu pursed her lips and said softly, "I'm sorry, Guanyue, I may not have taken you seriously at first, so I had that thought... but that's my fault." He stroked Liang Guanyue's hair. "The fact that you were able to walk out of that place alone proves that you are already extremely outstanding. However, I didn't understand this at first, so I looked down on you. This is my mistake."

"Your background is far from humble. In my heart, you are more resilient and intelligent than anyone else. You are a winner, not a loser crawling at the feet of fate and begging for mercy." Fu Yunlu said with pity, "Today, I formally apologize to you."

“…”

Liang Guanyue has never been able to have the emotions that a normal person should have. He discovered that he had mental problems, but he just thought it was good this way - he would not be overwhelmed by emotions, and he would be indestructible.

So Liang Guanyue was indifferent when his father left, and he didn't take his mother's words of hatred for him seriously before she died. He had a miserable childhood, but he didn't complain about anything.

Because Liang Guanyue's string had never been plucked, he simply thought that he had tripped and his legs were not broken, so he could continue walking in countless ways - even if his legs were broken, he could still crawl on his hands. If he could not move no matter what, then he should face death.

Liang Guanyue therefore looked at Fu Yunlu quietly at this time, like an inhuman animal, unable to understand why the person in front of her had changed so completely.

Perhaps it was the look in Fu Yunlu's eyes that reminded him of his deceased mother - his mother also had such loving and compassionate eyes when she coaxed him to sleep before bed.

Perhaps it was that regret for the deceased—regret that when his mother died, he should have pretended to be sad, so that she could close her eyes in relief, rather than die with eyes wide open—that Liang Guanyue gave him one last chance to escape:

He said, "Fu Yunlu, please leave me from now on. We are not suitable to be entangled together."

For Fu Yunlu, who had just decided to give everything in her body to him, this was like a fairy tale.

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