In the evening, the two families had dinner together.
Li Yuheng practically put down his chopsticks and followed Shu Bai back to the next room, his manner as practiced as if he were going home.
Shu Bai stopped at the doorway, turned around, and looked at the tall and imposing Alpha behind him who was putting on an innocent expression.
"Go back to your own home." Shu Bai said calmly.
Li Yuheng's face immediately fell, and he took full advantage of being childhood friends, starting to act spoiled: "My air conditioner is broken, and the repair robot said it can't come until tomorrow. You know, Alphas have a high body surface temperature, and I can't sleep without air conditioning, I'll die of heat."
He blinked, trying to make his point more convincing. "Besides, we're going to the airport together first thing tomorrow morning. It'll be so convenient to sleep together, saving you from waiting for me or me waiting for you."
Shu Bai listened to his flimsy excuses with a blank expression.
In the interstellar age, how could a home smart system possibly allow an air conditioner to break down all night without any emergency solutions?
But he just stared at Li Yuheng quietly until the other man felt uneasy and could barely maintain his innocent facade.
Just as Li Yuheng thought he was about to be coldly rejected again and was preparing to activate Plan B, Shu Bai suddenly stepped aside and opened the door.
"what ever."
He uttered two words, turned and went into the room, and began tidying his desk.
Li Yuheng was stunned for a second, then a huge surprise welled up in his heart.
It was a success!
He suppressed the urge to smile, fearing that Shu Bai might change his mind, and nimbly slipped into the house, even "thoughtfully" closing the door behind him.
Night quietly descended.
The room, decorated in a minimalist and cool style, was just like him – simple, clean lines.
There was only a faint, almost imperceptible scent of pheromones in the air.
A scent reminiscent of a pine forest after a snowfall made Li Yuheng feel incredibly at ease yet also restless.
After washing up and changing into her pajamas, Shu Bai lay down on one side of the bed, facing away from Li Yuheng, seemingly preparing to fall asleep.
Li Yuheng dawdled through his shower and came out wearing only a pair of pajama pants, his upper body bare, his strong chest and abdominal muscles outlined in beautiful lines under the soft night light.
He deliberately moved quietly, lifted the other corner of the blanket, and lay down.
The bed was large, but the presence of two adult Alphas instantly broke down any sense of distance.
Li Yuheng could even feel the slightly lower body temperature coming from Shu Bai's side.
In the air, the pheromones of two top-tier Alphas inevitably began to intertwine and collide.
Without the sweet attraction of omega pheromones, the pheromones between AAs are more like a silent contest and probing, carrying a strong sense of pressure and territoriality.
If it were any other Alpha, they would probably have felt uncomfortable or even instinctively become hostile by now.
But Li Yuheng felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction filling his chest.
His pheromones are warm and mellow, like top-grade black tea that has been thoroughly sun-dried, exuding a slightly astringent yet sweet aroma.
At this moment, it is carefully enveloping and moistening that cold, snow-covered pine forest.
Li Yuheng lay on his side, his gaze fixed intently on the smooth strands of hair at the back of Shubai's head and the small section of fair neck that was exposed.
The male lead has to test the waters today!
He quietly, little by little, moved closer to his body.
He casually draped his arm over her bare waist, his palms feeling the firm, slender waistline beneath the thin fabric of her pajamas.
Shu Bai's body seemed to stiffen very slightly, but she didn't move or push him away. Her breathing remained steady, as if she had fallen asleep.
Li Yuheng raised an eyebrow.
He pressed his nose close to the back of the sparse white neck and took a deep breath.
The unique aroma of Shu Bai instantly flooded his nostrils, intertwining with the warm scent of his own black tea, bringing a strange sensory impact that almost made him let out a satisfied sigh.
He shamelessly murmured, "Shubai...you smell so good."
His black tea pheromones unconsciously became increasingly rich and warm, like brewed tea, steaming and trying to dispel the chill of the cedar.
His lips almost touched that skin, and his hot breath sprayed unreservedly onto the sparse white neck.
The next second, Shu Bai, who had been silent all along, suddenly moved.
He suddenly turned over, his movements so fast that Li Yuheng was caught off guard.
Their eyes met, and they were very close.
Shu Bai's eyes, devoid of any sleepiness in the darkness, coldly locked onto Li Yuheng.
"Li Yuheng, take back your pheromones."
At the same time, an even colder scent of cedar suddenly spread out from Shu Bai.
Li Yuheng groaned as he was overwhelmed by the sudden, chilling pheromone attack, his fighting spirit and desire for conquest ignited almost instantly.
But when he looked into Shu Bai's calm, almost cold eyes, that flickering flame of desire was forcibly suppressed.
He didn't come here to fight.
He came here... well, to sleep with his wife.
Li Yuheng immediately suppressed the somewhat out-of-control red tea pheromones emanating from his body, put on that innocent and aggrieved expression again, and even shrank back, as if he wasn't the one who had just tried to subtly infect the other person with his pheromones.
"Oh, Xiaobai, it's your pheromones that are so special that I couldn't resist."
Shu Bai stared at him for a few seconds.
Just when Li Yuheng thought he was going to be kicked out of bed tonight, Shu Bai simply turned back to him, his back to him once again, and coldly said: "Go to sleep. If you move around again, get back inside."
Li Yuheng: "Oh."
Although he stopped moving, his gaze remained fixed on Shu Bai's back.
Silence returned to the room, broken only by the intertwined breathing of the two individuals and the two potent pheromones that resisted each other yet strangely intertwined in the air.
Tsk, AA relationship, indeed the road ahead is long and arduous.
The mere suppression of these pheromones is enough to cause problems.
But none of that matters to the male lead.
Moreover, through testing, Li Yuheng discovered that Shu Bai indeed did not treat him as a pure brother.
That's great!
You're just scaring yourself.
He knew it! With his immense charm as the male lead, how could Shu Bai possibly resist him?
At this moment, Shu Bai, who had her back to Li Yuheng, slowly opened her tightly closed eyes.
Shu Bai was speechless. Couldn't Li Yuheng have waited a bit?
If the two of them really did something in his house, with his parents in the next room, even if Li Yuheng is shameless, he still has some dignity.
Before long, Shu Bai's thoughts drifted away quietly in the silent night.
In the air, Li Yuheng's warm and mellow black tea pheromones still stubbornly lingered, trying to penetrate his cold cedar domain.
This intertwining, which should have been full of antagonism, gave Shu Bai a strange sense of familiarity and peace of mind.
When did he begin to develop this possessiveness towards Li Yuheng that went beyond friendship?
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