Chapter 35 Zhai Wenxi X Jingyue 02
"..." Jing Yue felt dizzy and the pain in his abdomen made him curl up slightly. He subconsciously held onto the wall and barely managed to stand steady.
Zhai Wenxi immediately reached out to support him, his tone filled with regret and anxiety: "Are you okay? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have deliberately angered you..."
He paused, staring at Jing Yue with burning eyes, and said in a low and firm voice, "But I really like you. I can't control myself when it comes to things I like... no, people I like. Even if you think it's ridiculous, just think of it as love at first sight, okay?"
Love at first sight? Jing Yue sneered inwardly.
You even forgot the first time we met, yet you still have the audacity to say it was love at first sight.
He closed his eyes, suppressed his surging emotions, raised his hand and pushed Zhai Wenxi away: "I have to catch the bus."
Jing Yue's tone was cold, revealing a hint of tired compromise, "If you want to follow, then follow, but let's make it clear in advance that the road is long, and if you can't stand it, then leave on your own."
Zhai Wenxi's eyes lit up, and he immediately followed, a triumphant smile on his face: "Don't worry, I have great endurance, I can definitely go home with you!"
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An hour and a half later, Zhai Wenxi followed Jing Yue to a dilapidated neighborhood with no street lights at all.
"Let me help you a little, you are in a special situation now."
Zhai Wenxi took the initiative to support Jingyue's arm and said tentatively, "The place where you live is a bit dangerous. If you don't mind, you can come to my house..."
"I do mind." Jing Yue looked at him calmly, "Master Zhai, I don't think it's shameful to find a place to live through my own efforts."
"That's not what I meant. You're pregnant now. What I meant is that living in this shabby neighborhood is not good for your health."
Zhai Wenxi followed him, damn it! I absolutely love this little rabbit, otherwise I wouldn't come to such a remote place.
He followed Jingyue into the dilapidated elevator.
The elevator stopped running when it reached the underground floor, and Jingyue pushed open the rusty safety door.
Then, a downward spiral staircase appeared, with an unknown liquid oozing from the walls, emitting a strange luster under the dim emergency lights.
"There's no elevator downstairs. You have to take the stairs."
Jing Yue lowered his head, not daring to look at him, and walked ahead, "Master Zhai, you should go back as soon as possible. This place is not suitable for you."
The soft voice echoed slightly in the empty stairwell.
Zhai Wenxi frowned, his expensive leather shoes were stained with unknown stains on the stairs.
He had never imagined that there was such a space under the city.
It's like another world.
"No matter where you are, it's suitable. Xiao Yueyue, slow down and wait for me."
As they descended floor by floor, the air became increasingly turbid, a mixture of musty smells, dampness, and the sound of a leaking pipe in the distance.
The corridor on the third underground floor was filled with debris. Several haggard-looking people suddenly appeared, squatting in the corner to eat, and cast wary glances at them when they saw them passing by.
“Do you walk this route every day?”
Zhai Wenxi couldn't help but ask, with shock in his voice that was hard to conceal.
"Yeah." Jing Yue nodded, his fair face expressionless. "Illegal residents don't have the right to live on the land."
He deliberately slowed down his pace so that Zhai Wenxi could see the mottled mold on the wall and the rats running in the corner.
Jing Yue didn't know why he suddenly felt very awkward. This unequal status relationship made him feel so embarrassed for the first time.
"Go back and stop following me... A nobleman like you shouldn't be here."
Zhai Wenxi didn't answer, but Jing Yue could hear his heavier breathing.
His alpha instinct made him feel repulsed by such a harsh environment. He pretended to be calm and said, "Since I'm here, you must invite me to your home."
"Go away, mouse... Don't disturb the mice digging holes. They are working hard too."
When Zhai Wenxi turned around, he got goose bumps all over his body.
Finally reached the lowest underground level, the fifth floor.
Fine beads of sweat were already oozing out of Zhai Wenxi's forehead.
The air here is almost stagnant, and I can feel the discomfort in my lungs with every breath.
Jing Yue walked through the corridor with familiarity and finally stopped in front of a rusty iron door.
The door hinge made a harsh creaking sound, and what appeared before Zhai Wenxi was a room of less than ten square meters.
A narrow single bed was pressed against the wall. The sheets were worn but clean. A few books were neatly placed on a rickety wooden table. The whole space was damp and cold. Large areas of the wall paint had peeled off, revealing the blackened concrete underneath.
Zhai Wenxi stood at the door, too shocked to speak.
The toilet in his house is several times bigger than this, and Jingyue lives in such an environment.
"Are you scared?"
Jing Yue walked into the room and put his backpack on the bed. "Master Zhai, I said we are not from the same world."
Zhai Wenxi's throat tightened. "You've been living here? How long?"
"Three months."
Jing Yue answered calmly, looking at the man in the dim light.
He is indeed handsome, and even in this environment, one can feel his innate nobility.
Jing Yue didn't like him getting close to her, but she was willing to follow him to a place like this. She suddenly wanted to stay with her child's father for a while.
"Why don't you live in school? Schools don't have basements like this, right?" Zhai Wenxi, who is always talkative, didn't know what to say for a moment.
"I've graduated and can't live here anymore."
Jing Yue dragged a plastic stool out from under the bed and said, "Sit down. It's not a good place, but at least there are no mosquitoes."
Indeed, there were no cockroaches or mosquitoes commonly found underground in the room, and there was a dry grass fragrance in the air.
Zhai Wenxi took a deep breath. This was his favorite pheromone scent.
"You... like my pheromones?"
"Well, when I first saw you, I felt that we were made for each other! As soon as I smelled your pheromones, I couldn't help but want to get closer."
Zhai Wenxi's impatience came back again.
He hugged Jingyue and pressed him down on the bed.
"I'm sincere to you, not just saying it casually. You can feel it, right?"
He took a sharp breath of his pheromones.
"You..." Jing Yue tried to push him away, but Zhai Wenxi pressed him even tighter. He felt the breath of this strange yet familiar alpha.
"I know why you like my pheromones. Your spirit body should be a herbivore, right?"
Zhai Wenxi paused.
"My pheromone smells like timothy grass, which is particularly attractive to herbivorous spirits. This is just a biological instinctive reaction."
He looked directly into Zhai Wenxi's eyes, "Do you understand now? Your feelings for me are nothing more than a short-term physiological reaction of your body."
"No, I don't have a spiritual body. I just simply like you."
The room fell silent, with only the sound of dripping pipes in the distance.
"Then take a closer look here. Can you stand this kind of environment? We are not the same kind of people. Don't come to me again. I am not worthy of you."
Zhai Wenxi's eyes swept across every corner of the room. The old newspapers on the wall were used to prevent moisture, the mold spots on the ceiling formed strange patterns, and the plastic box under the bed probably contained all the family's belongings.
This is a space where people struggle to survive, a far cry from the luxurious world he grew up in.
Zhai Wenxi caressed his delicate little face lovingly, "Not worthy of me? Who said that? Are you using money, or the circumstances of my life, to measure my feelings for you?"
"To me, none of this matters. As long as you are with me, you will have everything you want."
"But, that's yours, not mine."
"Does it matter? What's mine in the future is yours..."
Jing Yue suddenly interrupted him, "Of course it's important! Do you know what it means to be undocumented? I have no health insurance, no pension, and even no legal right to reside there! Any homeless person out there is treated better than me!"
His voice began to tremble. "And you, the young master of the Zhai Group, have had ample food and clothing since childhood. If you hadn't met me, you might never have known about this kind of place in your life, right?"
Zhai Wenxi was stunned. He really didn't know.
In his world, places like the fifth underground floor only existed in news reports and were another parallel universe that had nothing to do with him.
Jing Yue smiled bitterly, "You won't be like me, struggling every day just to get enough food, nor will you live in such a dilapidated house, and you won't fight so hard just to get a household registration..."
Suddenly, a dull roar drowned out the sound of his voice.
Perhaps due to the vibration of the passing subway train, the light bulb in the room flickered a few times, casting a changing shadow between the two of them.
Zhai Wenxi listened and was silent for a long time, but finally did something that Jing Yue did not expect at all.
He took off his coat.
"What are you doing?" Jing Yue asked warily.
"Go to sleep."
Zhai Wenxi answered as a matter of course, hanging his expensive suit jacket on the only nail behind the door. "It's so late, are you going to kick me out?"
Jing Yue's eyes widened. "You want to sleep... here?"
"I smell like you here, I like it."
He smiled brightly, as if the heavy conversation just now had never happened.
Jing Yue felt powerless.
Doesn't he understand what people say?
I've already said that, why is he still laughing?
"Whatever you want."
Jing Yue didn't know why, but when he didn't drive the alpha away, her first feeling was happiness, not anger.
He pulled out a folding mat from under the bed and spread it on the floor, "Then...you sleep on the bed, and I'll sleep here."
Zhai Wenxi stuffed the mattress back under the bed and said, "No, I want to sleep with you in my arms. You don't even have a circulating AI air conditioner here. I will feel uncomfortable in the middle of the night."
"But, but, I'm pregnant and can't be with you."
"What are you afraid of? I won't touch you. Since you want to keep him, it's fine for me to be your father without any pain!"
"...You, what are you talking about?"
Zhai Wenxi hugged the person standing beside the bed into his arms, "I like all the children you give birth to. Even though the child is not mine, you are mine, that's all!"
"I've always been very generous!"
"Once your body recovers, with my strength, I can make you pregnant with twins!"
"You..." Jing Yue's lips were trembling with anger. He could not accept anything that was not his. His bottom line was too low. He must not be allowed to know about the child.
"I know what you're thinking. Do you think I'm just attracted to your pheromones, that the class gap between us is unbridgeable, or that I'll regret it when I wake up tomorrow?"
Zhai Wenxi hugged his waist and murmured, "I tell you, it won't happen."
Jing Yue then realized how incredibly strong Zhai Wenxi was. He just said weakly, "Let me go."
"No." Zhai Wenxi leaned even closer. "I want to prove to you that some things are more precious than pheromones, money, status, or anything else."
"You don't understand at all..."
He bit his lip, and his trembling voice echoed in the small space, as if carrying long-suppressed anger and grievances.
"I don't understand now, but you can tell me."
Zhai Wenxi comforted him softly, "I care about what you have experienced since you were a child."
Jing Yue froze.
No one had ever said anything like that to him.
In his world, suffering is the norm, and complaining only makes him more miserable.
And this pampered alpha in front of him actually said he wanted to know about his life...
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