"What happened? Ahem... Your uncle is giving you trouble again..."
Ning Jiayi endured the pain, tried hard to look weak and caring, and asked Lu Zhizhao with difficulty.
The onset of pheromone addiction is much more painful than Ning Jiayi imagined.
The pain from the non-natural glands on the back of his neck was driving him crazy. Every nerve felt like it was soaked in concentrated sulfuric acid. He longed for Lu Zhizhao's arrival more than ever before. However, the man clearly saw his miserable appearance, but he just stood at the door from beginning to end without taking a single step forward.
As childhood sweethearts for so many years, Lu Zhizhao has always been very doting on Ning Jiayi. According to Ning Jiayi's understanding of him, if something hadn't gone wrong, he would never watch his friend suffer like this without helping.
The young Alpha was observing Ning Jiayi. The scrutinizing and speculative look in his eyes made Ning Jiayi tremble with fear.
"Ah Zhao?"
Ning Jiayi sniffed and made his voice sound choked without much effort.
"Speak up, don't scare me."
A faint, sweet scent unique to undifferentiated Omega emanates.
Based on the nature of Alpha, Lu Zhizhao's originally cold heart softened a little.
"What happened to Su Liang being attacked by the Ning family in the 'Snake Cave'?"
Lu Zhizhao walked step by step to Ning Jiayi's bed. He turned his head, stared into Ning Jiayi's eyes and asked.
Ning Jiayi blinked. He suddenly felt a little fortunate. His face was already ugly due to the pain, and it was impossible for it to get any paler.
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
The fear in his heart did not prevent Ning Jiayi's eyes from turning red.
He looked back at Lu Zhizhao without any concealment. He knew very well that the more it came to this point, the more he could not look away.
He had to act calmer.
"Brother Su Liang was attacked by my family members in the 'Snake Cave'? How is that possible?! That's a snake cave! Moreover, why would my family go to attack--" As Ning Jiayi spoke, he pretended to have figured out the key to the matter, and his voice suddenly became higher.
"You think it was me? Because of my engagement with you, I am black-hearted, jealous, and reckless. I even dared to use the power of my family and go to a place like the Snake Cave to hurt Brother Su Liang?"
As the frail Omega boy spoke, tears began to well up in his eyes as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Seeing Ning Jiayi's tears, Lu Zhizhao, who had originally had an extremely cold attitude, was stunned. His face was still gloomy, but there was an imperceptible softening in his tone.
"The Ning family has always wanted to use you to implicate me. The fact that I like Su Liang must be very bad for them."
Lu Zhizhao gently stroked Ning Jiayi's hot neck with his hand, then he asked bitterly.
For a moment, he didn't know why he was so sad. His soul seemed to have been split into two halves. One half was the gentle, kind, and frank eldest young master of the Lu family. He never wanted to hurt Ning Jiayi, the weak boy who always trusted him like a younger brother. The other half was extremely tyrannical and cold. After reading all the documents sent from the Snake Cave, he even wanted to strangle Ning Jiayi's neck and question why he did such a thing and why he dared to hurt his Xiaoliang——
He leaned over to Ning Jiayi's ear and told him the names of Lu He and the Ning family's little follower, word by word.
He hissed like a poisonous snake and repeated what the two men had done.
"They were all bribed by the Ning family. And that guy, hasn't he been following you all the time? Do you really not know what he did?"
"That's not the case, Zhao, listen to me, I don't know, I really don't know... I never thought they would do this, wuwuwu..."
Because of the onset of pheromone addiction, Ning Jiayi's face was covered in cold sweat, and his limbs felt as if they were being gnawed by countless ants, the pain was almost driving him crazy.
Ning Jiayi was cursing Ning Tangsheng madly in his heart. The cases the latter gave him were all about the feelings of natural Omegas when they had an attack, but no one had ever told him that it would be so painful for someone like him once an attack occurred.
The information glands that originally needed a large amount of drugs to suppress the rejection reaction in the body were now burning his nerves like a branding iron.
Rather than saying that he needed Lu Zhizhao's pheromones to control the natural throbbing in his body, it would be more accurate to say that he simply wanted to relieve the pain.
But at this moment, he still had to pretend to be a natural Omega who was confused and pitiful.
It's not that he hadn't considered that Lu Zhizhao would know about this matter, but he really didn't think it would happen so soon. But there was no other way now, he could only use that method...
Ning Jiayi hugged himself tightly, seemingly crying, but actually he took out something from his pocket and crushed it gently between his fingertips.
The thing was so light and thin that it turned into translucent powder with just a little force.
Ning Jiayi pinched the small handful of powder in his hand, and when Lu Zhizhao approached him again, he sobbed and threw himself into his arms.
"It's my fault." Ning Jiayi's cry sounded extremely desperate. "If it weren't for me, my family wouldn't have done anything to Brother Su Liang. I've said it many times that it's impossible for you and I to be together, but... wuwu... but..."
As if he was out of control, Ning Jiayi suddenly raised his hand, grabbed the water cup on the bedside table and smashed it to the ground. With tears in his eyes, he bent down and picked up a piece of broken glass and was about to stab himself in the back of his neck: "If I dig out the information gland, can I guarantee Brother Su Liang's safety! Will I not become a stumbling block between you and him?!"
"Aning, what are you doing, are you crazy?"
Lu Zhizhao's pupils suddenly shrank, and he subconsciously tightened his grip on Ning Jiayi's wrist, forcing the latter to let go of the glass.
But blood was already dripping out from the wound on Ning Jiayi's palm, and the bright red blood looked shocking.
"I just want to apologize... It's all my fault..." Ning Jiayi lay in Lu Zhizhao's arms. Out of some instinct, he noticed that the strange aura that lingered around Lu Zhizhao and made him tremble had dissipated.
"If I remove my information gland, I won't feel so bad. I really don't want to be an Omega anymore, Zhao. I'd rather be an ordinary Beta like Brother Su Liang..."
Ning Jiayi cried as he spoke, the pain in his body making it impossible for him to control his tears.
Of course, the tears that welled up this time were real, and he was almost driven crazy by pheromone addiction.
"Ah Zhao, I'm really in pain..."
While crying, Ning Jiayi put his arms around Lu Zhizhao. But this time Lu Zhizhao did not push him away.
"never mind."
Lu Zhizhao's expression changed for a long time.
Ning Jiayi's pheromones seemed to smell sweeter and softer than before. It enveloped Lu Zhizhao, and finally made Lu Zhizhao let out a painful sigh.
"You are nothing more than a tool." Lu Zhizhao couldn't help but hug the thin boy in his arms back, "...You and I are just tools to be manipulated."
However, Ning Jiayi did not pay attention to Lu Zhizhao's whispers.
He tore off his collar almost roughly, then lowered his head and buried his face in Lu Zhizhao's shoulder.
"A Zhao, please bite me."
He sobbed.
"I feel so bad."
The soft limbs tightly entangled the young Alpha, but the latter was wrapped in sweet pheromones and became a little weak, completely unable to push the boy away.
"Aning, I... I can't do it." Lu Zhizhao panted and said with difficulty, "I thought about it and felt that this is not going to work. If Su Liang knew that you and I had become like this, he probably would never come back to me."
"He won't know, Zhao. As long as I don't tell you and you don't tell him, he won't know." Ning Jiayi leaned close to Lu Zhizhao's ear and said pitifully, "... Even if he really knew, it doesn't matter. How could a kind person like Brother Su Liang be upset about something like this? He should also know that you made this choice for him."
"Aning, don't be like this—"
"A Zhao, think about it, it's a good thing if he's really angry, he cares about you, so he's angry. It's okay, you and I are just simple friends, I never thought of disturbing you, when this matter is over, I will stay away and never bother you again..."
Sweet pheromones surged over him, and Lu Zhizhao gradually found it difficult to hear Ning Jiayi's whispers.
All his attention was focused on the back of the boy's neck.
The not-yet-fully-mature information glands were wrapped under the skin, constantly tempting him.
It wasn't supposed to be like this.
A vague consciousness flashed by.
But soon, the Alpha's deep-seated instincts took over. By the time he realized it, Lu Zhizhao found that he had bitten Ning Jiayi's neck hard. He should have let go of the other person quickly after releasing some pheromones, but he bit deeper because of some strong impulse.
There was a sweet, alluring smell. In a trance, Lu Zhizhao even felt as if he had become a real Alpha, and the person he was holding...
It’s Su Liang.
He is marking his Xiaoliang.
And this time, he would not allow the other party to resist.
“Hmm…”
Alpha's pheromones continued to flow into Ning Jiayi's neck along with teeth marks.
A warm current came over me and the severe pain was relieved.
The boy couldn't help but let out a satisfied groan.
As the pain subsided and the heat had not yet completely taken over his body, Ning Jiayi secretly sprinkled the last bit of powder between his fingers onto the corner of the bed.
That is a specimen of the Leia flower.
A few days ago, Ning Jiayi's understanding of the Leia Flower was the same as that of everyone in the Earth Alliance - it was just a flower of a precious alien plant.
As the eldest son of the Ning family, he might know a little more than ordinary people. He knew that the Leia Flower was extremely rare. The aroma it exudes is the only drug that can calm the mental turmoil of a high-level Alpha.
Moreover, it does not have any side effects.
No one has really worked out the underlying principles.
But not long ago, the Ning family's research institute accidentally discovered some extremely special effects of the Leia Flower.
For extremely high-level AO partners with a matching degree of over 90, the scent of the Leia Flower will fully amplify the mental and physical attraction between the two. In other words, it is a special potion that completely stimulates the physiological instincts of highly matched AO partners.
[“You should be thankful that there are only a handful of AO partners in the world with a matching degree of over 90. In addition, there are too few of these things themselves, and there is no experimental report at all. Otherwise, this thing would not be in your hands. You should know that we don’t have any actual test results yet, but according to the data deduction, the effect of Leia’s Flower will continue to increase as the Alpha’s level increases.”]
Before Ning Jiayi's pheromone addiction kicked in, Ning Tangsheng handed him a specimen of the Leia flower. Then he looked at his younger brother with a smile and said softly.
[“It can even work on S-level Alphas, and with the current means of detection by humans, no trace can be detected at all.”]
[“If I were you, I would use it with caution. After all, this thing is gone once it’s used up. Whether you can use it to tie up Lu Zhizhao depends on your operation.”]
The flower specimens left behind by the Leia mission many years ago had already faded in color and were as brittle as candy wrappers.
It looks so ordinary.
Ning Jiayi actually had no intention of using it. He was somewhat confident. Having been with Lu Zhizhao for so many years and being such a highly compatible Omega, he felt that he did not need to use any external force to seduce Lu Zhizhao.
But today, he really had no choice.
Lu Zhizhao's questioning was so terrifying, and the truth was revealed so quickly.
With no other options, he could only gently crush the extremely precious Leia flower.
Everything that happened afterwards was within Ning Jiayi's expectations.
Yes, Lu Zhizhao finally believed him, just like he had done so many times before.
Moreover, just as Ning Jiayi hoped, what Lu Zhizhao did to him was not just a simple release of pheromones.
Lu Zhizhao's actions were ferocious and greedy. He recklessly injected pheromones unique to Alpha into Ning Jiayi's immature information glands.
It hurts, and... it's humiliating.
But at the same time, Ning Jiayi also had to admit that being strongly marked by such a highly matched Alpha would be such an addictive pleasure.
“Hiss, it hurts.”
Su Liang took a deep breath and withdrew his fingers from the edge of the leaves of the Leia plant.
The texture of the Lycium plant is very tough. A lot of new leaves have sprouted out these days. The shape of the new leaves is different from before. They are thin and tough. If you are not careful when watering, they can be easily cut.
In the past few days, Su Liang has been slightly cut by these leaves several times.
Although most of them didn't bleed, it was painful enough.
Really...
Su Liang sighed.
Before watering the plants today, he was thinking that he must not get hurt again this time, but he ended up getting hurt because of his absent-mindedness.
This confused and dazed state has lasted for several days.
Su Liang had been trying to alert himself, but as soon as he relaxed a little, he would return to his old ways.
It has been nearly half a month since Mr. Si last came. Su Liang originally thought that he had survived the most difficult period of his information gland development. Who knows, before he knew it, he seemed to have returned to the first night.
I felt a little anxious.
A strange feeling of emptiness.
It was as if a piece of my soul was missing. I couldn't concentrate at all. My mind was full of thoughts about my combat uniform...
Su Liang shuddered, then took a breath, forcing himself to pull his thoughts away from the scent of a black combat uniform.
Yes, Su Liang started to want to sleep with that combat uniform in his arms again these days.
...is very shameful.
Also very perverted.
However, this time Su Liang was well prepared. He put the combat uniform in another room and locked it up. He also worked hard to mentally prepare himself every day and refused to allow himself to get close to the combat uniform again.
From the current perspective, Su Liang's reason still overcomes his instinct. But the price of doing so is that he has been running around in the huge villa these days and has no way to concentrate on his studies.
He had clearly locked up his combat uniform, but whenever he was distracted, he could always feel that pleasant smell lingering around his nose, which made him obsessed.
Is the pheromone confusion reaction caused by the development of pheromone glands so long and difficult?
Several times, Su Liang couldn't help but call the housekeeper. He couldn't bear it anymore and just wanted to use some drugs to control his chaotic and abnormal impulses.
However, even though he was now very close to the housekeeper, Su Liang would still get stuck every time he was about to speak.
He really didn't know how to describe his symptoms to the housekeeper - he didn't have the high fever, drowsiness, and bad temper that other people often had. Fatigue and dizziness also did not occur at all except for an attack on the first day.
His only symptom is that he particularly wants to sleep holding another ALpha's clothes.
This desire to build a nest tickled his nerves, and even made his chest ache from the endurance he endured.
He didn't know how to relieve his unsightly and unspeakable impulse. The only thing he could do in the end was to focus all his attention on growing flowers, well, those Leia plants that were neatly transplanted by robots outside his villa not long ago.
Those Lya plants are indeed as tenacious as the housekeeper said. During the time when Su Liang was absent, their color became dull and they looked as if they were about to die at any time, but after being transplanted to the garden outside the villa, they became extremely lush again in just a few days.
It is so lush that it makes people worry about whether it is overnourished.
The most exaggerated thing is that after Su Liang had taken care of these Lycium plants for a while, he keenly discovered that some changes had occurred in them. Some of the Lycium plants grew sharp leaves that could cut people, and under the layers of protection of those leaves, the delicate and pure white little flowers poked their heads out little by little.
Su Liang never thought that he could actually grow the Leia Flower.
If he had not confirmed with the housekeeper, it would have been hard for him to imagine that this small, seemingly ordinary white flower was actually the extremely precious Leia flower.
Compared with the gorgeous and colorful leaves, these little white flowers look really inconspicuous.
"The Flower of Leia is the most sacred flower in the Leia people's scriptures. According to records, only couples called 'Destiny' are qualified to wear this flower on their wedding night. Of course, for Earthlings, the most important function of these flowers is to calm the runaway mental power of high-level Alphas. As you know, the higher the level of Alpha, the less useful drugs are to them, so this thing is quite valuable. By the way, now they are more or less your work output, and you have the right to allocate them at your own discretion. Do you need me to help you put them on the Star Network?"]
When the first Leia flower bloomed, Su Liang called the butler. At that time, the artificial intelligence kept chattering and confused Su Liang for a long time.
It seemed to be extremely eager to make more money for Su Liang, but Su Liang interrupted it with a smile and reminded: "I remember that Master Lu...should need them too, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be planting these Laya plants in the snake cave?"
Then, Su Liang made an agreement with the housekeeper that when more Leia flowers bloomed, he would send them to the head of the Lu family.
Although according to the housekeeper, the level of the Lord of the Snake Cave is too high, and the pheromone disorder has lasted for too many years, even the Flower of Naia would probably be of no use. But Su Liang still wanted to give it a try.
After all, since entering the "Snake Cave", although he had not actually met the rumored old monster, Su Liang could still feel that he was actually protected by the Snake Lord.
There wasn't much he could do, and the only thing he could give back to the kind-hearted snake owner was probably these few insignificant flowers.
…
"It would be great if it really worked. You are sacred alien flowers after all, so you should give some help."
Thinking of this, Su Liang sighed, muttered softly, then leaned forward and smelled the little white flowers.
Those incredibly precious, incredibly rare, incredibly sacred little flowers had no smell at all.
Is it because I am a beta that I can't smell it?
Su Liang wrinkled his nose and stood up.
I can only pray that a rumored powerful double S-class Alpha like Lu Taipan can smell it...
Just as Su Liang was thinking this, he suddenly turned his head as if he sensed something.
A tall, dark figure stood not far away, looking at him silently.
"I'm here to get my combat uniform."
Meeting Su Liang's surprised gaze, the man was silent for a while, and then his magnetic whisper came from behind the mask.
Even Lu Taipan himself did not expect that he would meet Su Liang again so soon.
Of course, he did promise to come back to see Su Liang, but... no matter what, it couldn't be for such a ridiculous reason as "coming to pick up the dropped combat uniform."
The real reason why he appeared in Mi Garden was that the housekeeper reported to him that Su Liang was acting strangely.
The young, clumsy Beta, who was struggling to develop his information gland, contacted the butler several times on his own initiative, not knowing whether it was because he was in too much pain or for some other reason, but he sent the butler away while hesitating.
Routine daily medical examinations showed that Su Liang's information glands were well developed.
[“…Some of the values are not quite right, but his information glands were redeveloped under abnormal circumstances, so this degree of disorder is acceptable. His body also needs to adapt to the newly grown glands.”]
The housekeeper said to Lu Taipan.
[“But there is a problem here. We cannot use the observations of medical instruments as the final result, because his current situation is very special. It is very likely that everything looks normal to us, but for Master Su Liang, he may be very uncomfortable. However, Master Su Liang has always been forbearing, and I don’t know if he is embarrassed to ask me for help. I am so distressed. Because I am a bionic man, Master Su Liang can’t completely trust me?”]
The butler made a bitter expression in front of Lu Taipan.
“…”
Lu Taipan glanced at the artificial intelligence that was performing very happily and did not respond.
For the rest of the day, he behaved as usual, as if he was not affected at all.
It was not until the evening that the Alpha commander, who was supposed to do physical training, unprecedentedly changed his schedule that had remained unchanged for many years.
"I'm just going to check Su Liang's basic physical condition."
The man's dry whisper was cold and hard, and sounded like it came from a machine.
But when he stood under the tree and looked at Su Liang, there was a tenderness in his eyes that he himself had not noticed.
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