Chapter 5 Chapter 5: Pre-adoption "If your Excellency permits, ...
Have you met someone you like?
Isn't that the same as asking if there is someone you like?
This, this, how should I answer this? If I say yes, then if I don’t express it now, then it will be in vain; but if I say no, then wouldn’t that be a lie?
After much hesitation, Xiu Wen chose a conservative and safer answer: "No."
“…”
Huos didn't know why he asked this question, and what kind of answer he wanted to hear after asking this question, but he had to say that at least he knew that Xu Wen would not enter the marriage hall with anyone at the moment, which really made Huos breathe a sigh of relief.
He likes Hugh Wen.
This is undeniable.
Falling in love with Xiu Wen is really a very natural thing, just like liking sunbathing, as simple as breathing.
Hoss thought,
There should be no one who doesn't like such a male insect.
But liking someone is one thing, and there is no possibility between them. This is a fact. Huoss does not intend to speak up, or rather, he probably will never speak up in this life.
Hoss felt that ending this cheap and somewhat ridiculous secret with death was the best arrangement.
During the three years, although Hoss unilaterally changed his contact information, Xu Wen always persisted in sending emails to Hoss's previous email address, one email per week, without interruption.
Hoss never responded.
A year ago, Xiu Wen entered adulthood and had his pheromone level tested - this is a precious A-level male insect, and he is bound to have a bright future.
Although there have been several equal rights movements, in this social system with a huge difference in the number of males and females, high-level male insects can still marry no more than twenty female insects to maximize the utilization of male insect resources.
A-level, what is the concept?
He is definitely the marriage partner that aristocratic families are vying for. At a time when male insects are so scarce, the fact that Xu Wen is single and graduated from a military academy will attract countless olive branches.
This desire that seems to be growing and spreading its branches timidly in a dark and narrow crevice has no possibility of bearing any fruit from the very beginning.
And Hoss didn't want to say it out loud and make Xiu Wen feel alienated and upset.
He forced himself to speak:
"I know many outstanding young female insects. If you don't mind, I can introduce them to you."
"......?" Xiu Wen was silent for a rare time. He even couldn't believe what he heard.
The person you are pursuing now tells you that he can set you up with someone else.
——Oh my God, does his love life have to be so bumpy?
For a moment, Xu Wen didn't know what expression he should make and could only stand there frozen.
However, Hoss took Xu Wen's silence as consideration. He looked up at Xu Wen's straight and beautiful eyebrows. He felt a little bitter in his heart, but he did not show it at all. His face was still calm and composed.
Hawes continued:
"If you allow me, I can adopt you."
In fact, Hoss had already made this decision before he came back. Even the will he had specially made was to give everything to Xu Wen.
Hoss never thought he would come back alive. He wanted to die on the battlefield from the beginning.
He was an orphan, adopted by a federal charity. He had few relatives and friends in this world and almost no worries.
So Hoss wanted to give his inheritance and everything he could give to Hugh Wen.
In fact, this is what was written in the will that Hoss did not have the chance to take out. If he really died on the battlefield, then this will would immediately take legal effect.
However, now that Hoss is back alive and Xu Wen seems to miss him a little, Hoss thinks that nominal adoption might be a good option.
He could protect Xu Wen properly and openly, and watch Xu Wen happily do everything he wanted to do.
"?"
Hearing this, Xiu Wen felt a little confused.
It was like a huge bomb was dropped, which made Xu Wen a little unbelievable, and his bright eyes were full of question marks.
During this moment of pause, Xiu Wen really thought that today might be his Mercury retrograde day, but that was not right, because today he finally saw his brother whom he hadn't seen for three years.
But, anyway,
——I want to pursue you, and you, you, you actually want to be my adoptive father!
At this moment, Xu Wen hoped that Hoss was joking, but he knew very well that Hoss was not the type to joke.
As soon as Xiu Wen lowered his head, they stared at each other.
The female soldier in front of him looked at Xu Wen seriously with her sharp eyes and brows. Xu Wen's gaze moved to Huos's face with difficulty, and then fell on Huos's lips involuntarily.
The tightly pursed thin lips are like a hard clam shell tightly closed in the deep sea.
If pried open,
If you can pry it open...
They were so close to each other, a perfect distance for kissing, but their relationship was not the kind where kissing was allowed. Huos even said he wanted to adopt Xu Wen just now.
What a pity, what a pity.
They are now so close to each other.
Xu Wen just looked at Huos straight, with an aggression in his eyes that he himself didn't even realize, which was completely a masculine instinct. The look under his long eyelashes almost made Huos feel like he was pressing him into the wheelchair.
The air was quiet all around. This was a closed, private space where no outsiders would intrude.
Hoss fluttered his eyelashes and gripped the armrests of the wheelchair tightly with both hands, his fingertips turning white from the pressure.
Amidst the pheromones inadvertently leaked by the male insect, it was difficult to even breathe, let alone escape.
Xu Wen moved closer little by little, unaware of it, his bright eyes staring straight at Huos's lips.
They were getting closer and closer, and could even smell each other's scent...
Just at this moment, the terminal on Xiu Wen's wrist started to make a loud noise as if it was having a seizure.
The sounds of "beep," "beep," and "beep" were particularly obvious in this silent space.
"...Brother, I, I suddenly seem to have something urgent to do, I have to leave first."
Xiu Wen seemed to wake up suddenly. Even though he didn't react, he knew that his behavior just now was extremely rude.
It’s almost over!
The shadow completely enveloped Huos, his eyes hidden behind his eyelashes, making it difficult to discern his true meaning. He struggled to squeeze out a single syllable from his throat: "...Hmm."
Xiu Wen suddenly stood up and ran out in a hurry.
The sunlight coming in from the floor-to-ceiling window stretched Xu Wen's shadow very long, but the moment the door opened, the shadow disappeared.
Then, all the sounds disappeared, leaving only the barely perceptible, faint smell of green grapefruit in the air, which was the smell of Xu Wen's pheromone.
"Bang."
The sound of a door closing echoed in the empty room.
Next second.
It was like a statue that finally couldn't hold on and suddenly shattered.
“Hmm…”
Hoss looked extremely embarrassed at this moment, or rather, he could finally stop hiding his embarrassment.
He was sitting in a wheelchair, his body leaning forward uncontrollably due to the sudden strong reaction to Hugo's pheromones. Hoss clutched the armrests of the wheelchair tightly, trying to steady himself, but eventually he bent down weakly, his forehead almost touching the cold coffee table.
This series of movements caused my legs to start to hurt.
Sunlight filtered through the half-drawn curtains, dappling his body, yet it seemed unable to reach his legs, tightly concealed by his uniform. There, stray bullets left their merciless marks, scars crisscrossing, deep and shallow, branding his skin.
Hoss mercilessly reached out and pinched his nerve-damaged right leg.
It hurts, but at least I can be a little more awake.
The surge of emotion evoked by the pomelo-scented pheromones swept over like a tide, causing Hoss's body to tremble, shake, and sweat involuntarily. The strong light from the window shone on him, and Hoss's inferior thoughts were completely exposed.
With his strong willpower, Hoss pushed the wheelchair open with difficulty and climbed to the seat where Xu Wen had just sat.
No one will see it.
It doesn't matter.
It's okay.
Just a moment, just a moment.
Just like that, Hoss curled up in the remaining warmth left by Xu Wen, as if this could bring him a little comfort. Feeling dizzy and dazed, Hoss took out a potion from his pocket with trembling hands. It was an emergency item he prepared for himself.
Without hesitation, he quickly injected the medicine into his body, his movements very skillful, as if he had done it thousands of times.
The feeling of injecting the cold medicine into the gland was terrible, as if the flesh and blood were being forcibly squeezed apart by something sticky and cold. With tearing pain, the gland, which was completely resisting, twitched and trembled in waves, as if to say, it wanted something else.
Want something else.
Pheromones, grapefruit-flavored pheromones...
If I inject it...I will definitely not feel uncomfortable anymore...
Just a moment of weakness, just a moment of indulgence.
It's okay.
Hoss lowered his head and leaned exhaustedly on the sofa, letting his greed run wild at this moment, breaking away from all rationality, sprouting new buds and growing wildly.
At this moment, Hoss thought a lot.
But in the final analysis, it is still those two words, "Xiu Wen", in the final analysis, it is still this name.
"Xiu Wen..."
Hoss groaned, finally unable to help but called out the name.
As expected, there was no response.
There is no chance of a response.
As time went on, Hoss felt the burning fire in the gland at the back of his neck gradually subside, replaced by an empty coldness.
That's a sign that the body is returning to calm after the pheromones are under control.
He slowly closed his eyes and the tip of his nose moved.
——The smell lingering in the air is that of green pomelo.
No matter how hard you try to retain it, pheromones will gradually dissipate after losing their information source.
Until there was no more scent.
———
But look at Xiu Wen.
As soon as he went out, he opened the terminal to see who was sending him messages almost like a screen flood. As expected, when he clicked on it, he saw Xirui's avatar with a capital "C" flashing wildly.
[Xirui: Dude! Check out StarNet! You're trending!]
[Xirui: Wow, in just the time it takes to send a message, you've already become the number one trending search!]
[Xirui: No, why didn't you ask me to come with you when you went to do something righteous? I'm the most caring citizen.]
Xirui: Why aren't you replying? Fine, fine, you won't reply now that you're famous, right? I think you've forgotten who feeds you snacks every day—it's me, your dad!
[Xirui: Damn, there's still an idiot here who actually wants to find you. Don't worry, I'll kill him for you right now!]
Xiu Wen took a look and replied with a string of ellipsis [……].
After walking a block, Xu Wen suddenly stopped and his mind suddenly reacted.
Depend on!
Damn it, why hasn’t he even added my contact information yet?
Thinking of this, Xiu Wen squatted down in regret, grabbed a handful of his hair, and felt so regretful that his intestines turned green.
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