Chapter 21
Several drunks were visibly startled.
"Aren't you that guy?" one person said, glancing at his companion. "What's the name of that band, TS?"
The man whose hand was shaken off frowned: "Your family? Do you know each other?"
"Any objections?" Lu Si raised his eyebrows casually, his voice low and nonchalant, "Uncle?"
"You fucking..."
The uncle choked and then scoffed, "I'm just asking this kid for his WeChat. He's just a third-rate singer, so stop meddling in my business."
Gu Fang thought he had a good temper and was able to remain calm when a few inexplicably drunk men blocked his road. However, the man's contemptuous tone of the last sentence immediately made Gu Fang furious.
Lu Si didn't care about this little tickle at all. He was thinking about whether to call the security or do it himself - when it comes to fighting, you, Brother Lu, the bully of the back mountain, are really not afraid of anyone, but it's not a good idea to make a big fuss during the anniversary celebration.
Unexpectedly, the boy who had been quiet and well-behaved suddenly jumped out from behind him. Lu Si's heart tightened, and he hurriedly grabbed Gu Fang's hand in a hurry.
Gu Fang refused to give in, but Lu Si grabbed his hand in time and he started to attack the man.
"If you have such low standards, please take a look in the mirror before you go out. Don't embarrass yourself. It's not up to you to decide whether you're third-rate or not. The person in front of you is a rising star in the music world, a genius composer—oh, and someone like you who just learned some trash talk and shows off, you don't understand what music is, do you?"
His face was expressionless, his tone calm, and he concluded slowly, "I really feel sorry for you."
Not to mention the drunks who were stunned by the output, even Lu Si was stunned, with an unexpected satisfaction in his eyes.
"Aren't you going to get out of here yet?" Lu Si came back to his senses and raised his phone, his eyelids drooping lightly. "I'll call security."
A few of them couldn't help but feel resentful, but they were not really drunk and seeing people looking at them from all directions, they knew they couldn't make a big deal out of it and could only leave in disgrace.
Lu Si nodded to the security guard who rushed over. The security guard chased after the few people. Lu Si then turned his gaze back, lifted his thin eyelids, shook their clasped hands, and said in a tone that Gu Fang couldn't understand: "You have a bad temper?"
Gu Fang drooped his rabbit ears and whispered, "Not very big."
The dizziness in his vision became more and more severe, and there was a burning pain on the back of his neck. This was a sign of estrus, but Gu Fang always felt that he could bear it a little longer, and he didn't dare to shake off Lu Si's hand again.
The estrus period cannot be an excuse for him to hurt Lu Si.
The faint mint scent was tinged with the decadent smell of alcohol in the air, and the remaining rationality supported Gu Fang. He told himself that it would be fine if he just admitted his mistake. Lu Si was so soft-hearted that he couldn't bear to get angry with him again.
Noticing the reddening of Gu Fang's ears, Lu Si also caught a whiff of that faint, cool fragrance, a pheromone he couldn't name, belonging to Gu Fang. Mixed with his minty scent, it made the usually restrained Lu Si's throat slightly hoarse.
Lu Si couldn't control his pheromones after he had a performance and released his emotions. He didn't think much about Gu Fang's reaction, just thinking that his face turned red because of disgust. But out of politeness and the awkward situation between them, he didn't dare to shake him off.
So, he consciously let go of Gu Fang's hand.
He felt inexplicably empty inside, but he pressed down Gu Fang's baseball cap and took a step back.
Lu Si narrowed the corners of his eyes, and his phoenix eyes looked particularly sharp when narrowed.
"Do you think it's okay for an underage Omega to come here just to chase stars?"
Gu Fang felt a chill in his heart. Lu Si's pheromones were still lingering in his world, unable to be shaken off. However, that cold voice seemed to be from across the clouds, too distant.
"If you want to listen, I'll let Xie Ziyao play the drums for you every day." Lu Si's eyebrows almost knitted into a knot. He smelled the smell of alcohol, which he didn't know whether it came from Gu Fang. "Are you still drinking?"
"You don't have a bad temper," Lu Si said coldly, "but you're quite brave."
"That's not the smell of alcohol on me..."
Gu Fang raised his thick eyelashes, his tone a little aggrieved. The burning pain at the back of his neck was too unbearable, making it difficult for him to think, causing him to be unable to understand why Xie Ziyao's name suddenly appeared in this situation.
He really wanted Lu Si to continue holding his hand, even if it was just a drop in the bucket, it was better than nothing. But he was too greedy, and if he got started, he would push further. If that would hurt Lu Si, it was better not to start.
But Lu Si didn't seem to intend to let this underage Omega go, and this dissatisfaction even affected Lu Qi.
His eyes were creepily distant, and he glanced around briefly: "Where's Lu Qi? Didn't she take responsibility for bringing you here?"
As he said this, he took out his cell phone and was about to call to educate the person, but before the person on the other end picked up, the beautiful and fragile Omega in front of him suddenly collapsed against the wall without any warning.
Lu Si's eyebrows suddenly jumped. He didn't have time to retract the phone. He subconsciously took it with both hands, hugged Gu Fang firmly and squatted down. A thin layer of sweat broke out on his back without him noticing. "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
When he turned his face to the side, his jaw accidentally brushed against Gu Fang's cheek.
Gu Fang rested his chin on his shoulder, and leaned softly into his arms. Lu Si lowered his eyebrows, suppressing his restlessness, and his eyes slowly locked onto Gu Fang's porcelain-white and fragile neck.
"It's a bit troublesome." Gu Fang said bitterly, and finally made up his mind not to start. Then he threw himself into Lu Si's arms. It was really...
"I'm in estrus, maybe it's coming," Gu Fang took a hard breath, his hot breath splashing on Lu Si's neck, "The box on the bathroom wall, and the inhibitor..."
Lu Si hurriedly stood up: "I'll go get it--"
Gu Fang's hands tightly wrapped around his waist, his tone sticky, like a spoiled child who doesn't want to drop the candy in his hand and run away: "No, I want a hug, I don't want you to leave."
The dialing phone kept beeping, and finally someone answered the call.
"Hey, brother?" Lu Qi's voice was stained with the night wind. "What's up?"
Lu Si hugged Gu Fang and gently comforted him. He really had no choice but to say to the phone, "Come to the bathroom at Exit C quickly and bring the inhibitor."
"What?" Lu Qi heard it clearly, but didn't quite understand. "Aren't inhibitors used by Omegas? What do you want... I can find it for you... Oh, thank you, Sister Qing... I'll be right there, wait."
The phone was hung up.
Gu Fang buried his furry head in his shoulder, his hands still tightly clasped. Lu Si's frown gradually relaxed, and finally turned into a helpless and gentle coaxing: "Don't worry, I won't leave."
Before and after the estrus period, Omegas will become sensitive and fragile. Moreover, this is an unfamiliar environment. Lu Si thought he understood Gu Fang's mood, and his voice became softer.
"Hug." Gu Fang also felt embarrassed, but he was determined not to start. Once he started, it would be extremely difficult to get him out of the gentle embrace.
I simply buried my head in the mint-flavored paradise called Lu Si, pretending to be an ostrich and acting coquettishly.
"Okay, hug me." Lu Si had a good temper, unlike the one who was teaching the child aggressively just now. He moved his arms to a position where they were not squeezing Gu Fang, and imitated him, tightening them and patting them gently, as if to coax a child to sleep.
In fact, Lu Si was not feeling well.
He was an Alpha, and in his arms was an alluring but unaware Omega.
It can be said that I have personally experienced the feeling of Liuxia Hui.
"Brother, your inhibitor!"
Lu Qi ran over breathlessly, stunned. She could recognize her brother from behind, but she couldn't immediately identify the Omega in his arms. Especially since the Omega was particularly shy and rubbed against her brother's shoulder again.
Lu Si reached out to take the inhibitor and helped the person in his arms to the bathroom. Lu Qi tilted his head, recognized the clothes, and asked in surprise: "Gu Fang?"
She was about to follow.
Lu Si hooked his foot and slammed the door shut: "Men's restroom."
Lu Qi turned around in frustration and bumped into Boss Liang and the security guards. Boss Liang seemed to have seen what had just happened, and his tone was a little complicated: "Just now, that was your brother and..."
Lu Qi wanted to answer his classmates, but felt it was too awkward.
She had never seen her brother care so much about anyone other than his family. Of course, his good brothers in the band were also included, but this kind of care... was different. She couldn't put it into words, it was just an intuition born from her understanding of her brother.
Boss Liang asked an extra question: "Did you call him Gu Fang just now?"
"Hmm?" Lu Qi didn't think much about it. "His name is Gu Fang."
Boss Liang's reaction was a little strange, but he didn't ask any more questions. He greeted Lu Qi, turned around and glanced at the bathroom door, then left with the security guard.
Gu Fang's estrus period finally subsided after the injection of inhibitor, and a chaotic yet secretly happy night passed.
The next morning, the first day of the National Day holiday, the military parade was playing on Suyuan's small TV. Lu Qi was picking extra branches while looking absent-minded. She glanced at her brother who came to deliver the takeaway food, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Lu Si seemed to sense something. He put down the three takeouts ordered by Sister Xi, glanced at her with a sidelong glance, and raised his long eyebrows: "If you have something to say, just say it."
Lu Qi simply put down the bouquet of flowers: "Brother, you and Gu——"
“Ah ...
A series of excited screams came from the greenhouse behind.
Su Yan, wearing a facial mask, came downstairs in slippers, hands on her hips, and shouted to Weng Feng, "Xi Lu Nong, what are you crazy about?!"
Sister Xi rushed into the house excitedly, holding a pot of small, fine-leaved orchid in her hands, like Fan Jin who had passed the imperial examination: "It's blooming! It's blooming! God will not let down those who work hard! The orchid I've been caring for for several years is finally blooming!"
Su Yan also raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Your ancestor pot has finally bloomed?"
The three of them were curious and gathered together to admire the orchid that blooms once every eight hundred years.
The leaves of the cold orchid are beautiful enough, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, slender and thin. The dark green, slender leaves stand upright and then bend in an elegant arc.
After several years of waiting, the two small flowers that finally bloomed were even more beautiful in shape.
The pale green petals are slender, like a dragonfly with wings spread, gracefully perched among the leaves. They also resemble two paper cranes, symmetrical and graceful. If the wind blows, one can imagine their graceful flight.
"The cold orchid is a color-changing flower," Sister Xi couldn't help but boast. "It's green now, but it will gradually turn yellow, and even turn deep red."
"How amazing." Lu Qi exclaimed in admiration.
Lu Si faintly smelled a familiar scent and frowned: "Does it have a fragrance?"
Sister Xi asked him to get closer and smell it. "Of course there is. The fragrance of the winter orchid is not as strong as other orchids. It is a cool and elegant fragrance. It is not very noticeable now, but the colder the weather, the stronger the fragrance will be. Even if it dries up and falls, there will be a lingering fragrance in the room for a long time."
"However," Sister Xi paused, "If this ancestor is not served well, he may not be willing to release any fragrance in the future."
Lu Si lowered his eyebrows and suddenly smiled faintly with an ambiguous meaning.
"So delicate."
"Not only that," Sister Xi complained, "I'm almost going crazy from taking care of you. This one pot is enough for me, I don't dare bring another one home."
After admiring the orchid, Su Yan opened the takeout bag and smiled softly, "Yes, you care about it much more than your partner."
"Ahem!" Sister Xi choked, lowering her head as she helped her get the takeout. "Of course, the partner is more important than the flowers..."
Lu Si's eyelids drooped lazily, but his gaze was focused on the two flowers that emitted a cool fragrance.
"Xiaolu?" Teacher Su turned away. "Do you like this flower?"
Lu Qi also looked over in confusion. She had never seen her brother care about these flowers and plants. He was simply a plant blind.
Unexpectedly, Lu Si nodded and answered honestly, "I like it."
Xi Lu Nong then stared at Su Yan warily. Su Yan smiled and said, "If you like it, then call me—"
Xi Lu Nong quickly replied, "I'll give you a pot of flower seedlings, Xiaolu. This flower is super easy to grow!"
Su Yan glanced at her and asked, "Don't you feel guilty about saying this?"
"It's easy to grow," Xi Lü Nong said calmly, "Grow it for three or four years. As long as it doesn't die, it will basically bloom. How can it be difficult to grow?"
Lu Si took out his phone from his pocket: "I'll pay."
"Okay," Sister Xi understood him and didn't force him. "I'll give you a discount. It comes with instructions for growing flowers. The seedlings are not expensive."
Lu Qi continued to pick flowers silently.
She felt that her brother had changed. He used to consider growing flowers a very troublesome thing, but now he not only had to grow them, but also had to bring them home to the ancestors.
Something is wrong, very wrong. Is this still the brother of her most beautiful woman in the world?
Gu Fang stayed in bed this morning.
He looked at the ceiling, and the embarrassing and tantrum scene from last night emerged unconsciously in front of his eyes. His ears were burning again. He pulled the quilt over him and buried his head like an ostrich.
But, well… addictive.
The warmth of Lu Si coming through the fabric, the glands so close, the minty paradise that I could stay and inhale to my heart's content, the low, gentle voice...
The more I think about it, the crazier I get.
Waking up early inevitably led to an awkward reaction. Gu Fang sighed, waved away the images in his mind, and got up to go to the bathroom.
After wiping his face with cold water and washing up, Gu Fang was tidying up the messy test papers on the table when his charging phone suddenly vibrated.
-Fangfang, let's have dinner together this weekend?
-Your dad has something to do on the 11th and will be back in a few days.
Gu Fang half-closed his eyes, the sunlight from the window fell on his eyelashes like butterflies, and his focus stayed on the screen for a long time.
-Okay, today at noon?
The other side replied quickly.
-Well, I'll pick you up after I finish filming the show. Is the address your new home near the school?
-Yes.
-See you at noon.
-See you at noon.
At noon, after going downstairs, Gu Fang saw the low-key black car from afar, parked beside the flower bed.
As he walked away, the driver's window rolled down, revealing the face of a young man wearing sunglasses and with a delicate chin.
He raised his hand towards Gu Fang, indicating the passenger seat.
Gu Fang sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seatbelt. The man took off his sunglasses, reached into the back seat, and handed him a bunch of blue hydrangeas. His delicate and beautiful eyes curved into a smile. "Before you joined the group, I only sent you a message when school started. Now it's a formal congratulations."
There was still fresh dew on the double-petaled hydrangea, and Gu Fang couldn't help but smile slowly: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The man imitated his tone and said obediently.
Glancing at his seatbelt again, and making sure it was fastened, the man drove out. "I've booked a table at a private restaurant you used to go to. It's in the city center, not too far. I'll take you back after dinner."
"If you're busy, then there's no need." Gu Fang said hurriedly.
"I don't think I have any plans today." The man smiled. "Don't be polite with me. I just happened to be in the city and thought I'd come see you."
Passing by a shopping mall near the private restaurant, Gu Fang saw a large advertisement on the wall through the car window. The spokesperson's face overlapped with the man next to him.
The 30-year-old young actor, Beta, Wen Chuji.
Everyone who had worked with Wen Chuji praised his meticulousness. This was especially evident when he was with Gu Fang, who had a table full of dishes that he didn't like.
This private restaurant is located in the city center, but not noisy.
Outside the independent box is a small courtyard, with bamboo fences surrounding colorful autumn chrysanthemums, carp swimming in a small stone pond, and a clump of bamboo forest forming a natural barrier to isolate the outside world, giving the impression of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence.
After dinner, a tea artist knocked on the door to make tea, but Wen Chuji declined. He did it himself, warming the cup and brewing the tea in a smooth and pleasing manner. Finally, he poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Gu Fang.
While drinking tea, Wen Chuji asked him some irrelevant questions, such as how his school life was, his physical condition, and then shared some interesting things about his work.
Wen Chuji took the lead in the conversation, and Gu Fang occasionally nodded and responded.
In fact, he hasn't grasped the degree of getting along with this person. After all, the relationship is really delicate - Gu Fang is socially phobic, and he finds it difficult to deal with general interpersonal relationships. He has never studied the advanced version of "On How to Get Along with Alpha Dad's Current Partner".
Wen Chuji's attitude is actually like that of a friend, even though this friend is 13 years older than him.
When the chat was about to end, Wen Chuji took a sip of tea and casually said, "Fangfang, I have a partner named Liang who opened a live house in this city. He seemed to have seen you last night..."
Gu Fang's eyelids twitched, and he raised his gaze slowly and thoughtfully.
Wen Chuji smiled and said, "It's nothing. Actually, you don't like to express yourself very much, and your father and uncle are too busy. If you encounter any problems, you can always come to me."
problem?
Does it refer to his recent unstable estrus period, or his inappropriate relationship with his classmates?
Gu Fang soon realized that he was overthinking it. Wen Chuji couldn't be so smart as to deduce all this. Maybe he just heard that an Alpha was harassing him and was worried about his mental health.
"Yeah." Gu Fang put down his teacup, lowered his chin and nodded obediently, "I will. Thank you for your help."
"If there's something wrong with your body," Wen Chuji said with a smile, her eyes full of tolerance, as if she could see through his thoughts. "Don't worry about bothering others. Those who care about you are willing to be bothered."
Gu Fang pursed his lips slightly and glanced at the steaming teacup in front of him.
"You are still a minor. If anything goes wrong, your parents have the responsibility to know." Wen Chuji said gently, "Do you understand, Fangfang?"
Gu Fang nodded.
After finishing lunch, when Wen Chuji took off his windbreaker and put it on his arm, his cell phone suddenly vibrated. He signaled Gu Fang to wait with his eyes, and opened it with one hand and put it to his ear.
Gu Fang pushed open the door of the box, stood at the door frame and turned around to look.
"...Is there something wrong?" Wen Chuji hummed a few times, "I'll come and make up the recording right away... It's not a bother, thank you all for your hard work... Okay, see you in half an hour."
After hanging up the phone, Wen Chuji looked at him apologetically: "I called my assistant to pick you up. Sorry, Fangfang, there was an emergency over there."
"It's okay," Gu Fang shook his head. "I can go back by myself. There's no need to go through so much trouble. Besides, I can go to the mall next door and buy some teaching aids."
The bookstore here is quite big. After saying goodbye to Wen Chuji, Gu Fang walked around it for several rounds out of boredom.
When I left the store, I took away a few teaching aids and notebooks, as well as a bag of watercolor paints and drawing paper.
As he took the elevator down to the first floor, he suddenly felt reluctant to go home. He just wanted to be alone quietly, so he found a bench and sat down.
Looking at the pedestrians coming and going, and the National Day event at a toy store not far away, the children were stunned by the puppet playing the drums, clapping loudly from time to time and cheering for the pink puppet.
Children’s happiness is so simple, and Gu Fang digested his emotions faster.
Wen Chuji's words really hit him hard. He always felt guilty, thinking that he, born with an imperfect gland, had caused too much trouble for his father and other family members.
When he first learned as a child that his father was not related to him by blood, this sense of guilt deepened to an unprecedented level.
The people who love him have no responsibility to bear this trouble.
He hoped that Wen Chuji and his father would be fine, and he shouldn't have come between them.
But sometimes, these kinds of thoughts would pop up inexplicably: I wish Wen Chuji and I were related by blood, I wish he was really my other father.
Then there is no need to be cautious with each other.
The song played by the puppet should be the theme song of a cartoon. Gu Fang always felt that it sounded familiar.
But he plays very well, no worse than Xie Ziyao.
However, this master, a folk drummer, tended to become more and more violent the more he played, and Gu Fang's attention was completely drawn to the performance.
The children were also stunned, looking at the stage with their mouths wide open. This unique heavy metal children's song may become one of the shadows of their childhood.
Finally, there was a sudden gong sound, and the performance ended.
The children forgot to clap, looking confused and unimpressed. However, the adults who were attracted by the event clapped sparsely.
The puppet that had ruined the children's childhood stepped down from the stage and took the flyer from another puppet. After fiddling with it for a while while carrying Gu Fang on his back, he suddenly turned around, looked in Gu Fang's direction, and walked towards him.
“?” Gu Fang was stunned and looked around.
The next moment, a flower made from a flyer was handed to him.
That pink hand is furry and very cute.
Gu Fang asked in confusion, "Give it to me?"
The furry hand shook, and the flower almost touched Gu Fang's nose.
"Oh," Gu Fang said with a confused look in his eyes. "Thank you?"
The puppet shook its big head, as if to say you're welcome. Gu Fang half-closed his eyes and looked for a long time, but still couldn't tell whether the puppet costume was a bear or a rabbit.
The puppet reached out again, and as if to coax the children, it patted his head with its big palm. However, the force was so light that it barely touched a few of Gu Fang's hairs.
Gu Fang's slender eyelashes fluttered a few times, and then suddenly raised as if realizing something, his blue eyes instantly sparkling: "...Lu Si?"
The hand paused and the big head tilted.
"Lu Si." Gu Fang tilted his head back and pronounced the words with certainty.
A furry hand took off the hood. Lu Si shook his head, smoothed his sweat-soaked hair, and glanced at him sideways: "How did you recognize him?"
"It feels like that," Gu Fang said with his eyes shining brightly, "and it also has a taste."
Lu Si raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled casually: "Is it because of the Year of the Dog?"
Gu Fang didn't mention that he was actually more sensitive to pheromones than ordinary people.
Lu Si didn't continue the conversation, nor did he ask why he looked so downhearted. He just lowered his cold eyelids and glanced at the flower: "I didn't pick it well. I just learned it at noon."
"Hmm?" Gu Fang spun the flower in his hand. "Why should I learn this?"
Lu Si glanced at the noisy children over there and said lightly: "Cool the kids."
Gu Fang also looked at the group of children. After he realized the hidden meaning belatedly, his ears suddenly turned red.
Lu Si added leisurely, "Minors are generally considered children."
Gu Fang glared at him angrily: "You are not an adult yet."
Lu Si was surprised to see such vivid emotions on his face, and his narrow eyes curved: "Okay, I'm a child too, do you want to coax me?"
Lu Si regretted the words the moment they left his mouth. He himself hadn't figured out the meaning of this irresistible desire to tease a child, to make him express more.
He didn't think he was the kind of person who had too much free time, but the fact was that he had abandoned his precious working time, and instead of taking advantage of his break to try to win the boss's favor and get close to him, he came to play such idle jokes with his classmates.
Gu Fang's ears were still burning, but he took a flyer from his hand, said nothing, lowered his eyes and folded it up attentively.
Lu Si realized that Gu Fang truly possessed artistic talent. At least once this flower took shape, even someone as blind as himself could recognize it as a lily of the valley. It was infinitely more exquisite than his "broadly defined" flower.
When Gu Fang was folding flowers seriously, the corners of his lips would be subconsciously pursed, and his eyelids would droop, half covering his clear blue eyes.
The serious profile... is very beautiful.
well.
Lu Si got used to it.
After a month of getting along, he has learned to comfort himself that beauty is a normal feeling and aesthetics is a basic human behavior.
When Gu Fang handed the flower to her, his ears burning red, but he still said "to comfort you", Lu Si suddenly understood his previous mood.
The reason why he blurted out "Do you want to coax me?" was probably because he was sure that Gu Fang would not refuse and would definitely come to coax him.
After all, he knew how kind-hearted this Omega was.
"I can also play drums." Lu Si suddenly said lightly.
There was a hint of confusion in Gu Fang's eyes, his face still flushed, but he still looked at him seriously.
The words came out of his mouth without his mind thinking, but Lu Si was clearly sober and realized that he was indeed underage and had developed such a childish comparison mentality. He heard himself saying: "My knocking is no worse than Xie Ziyao, so -"
Stop chasing stars blindly. If you want to listen, I can listen to it for you every day.
"Lu Si!" Someone in the store called his name.
Like a bucket of cold water being poured down on him, the string of calmness in Lu Si's mind was tightened in time in the face of the beauty and the pair of eyes that were only looking at him.
"So?" Gu Fang tilted his head.
"So," Lu Si said quickly, his expression indifferent, "it's time for Xie Ziyao to practice more."
Gu Fang, who scored 140 in Chinese, always felt that the context was wrong and that Lu Si must have filled in the wrong sentence. However, since Lu Si was the one who asked the question, he couldn't question it and could only nod and say, "Yes, I need to practice."
No matter how he practices, in his eyes, Lu Si is the best in the world.
So it doesn’t matter.
Lu Si went back to the store to work. Gu Fang took the flower and the bag and left the mall. Along the way, he thought about Lao Du's instructions on how to improve Lu Si's Chinese performance.
Oh, and English.
The notes have actually been almost organized. Gu Fang looked at the teaching aid in his hand and thought that he should make an extra list of exercises.
After all, it really might be... worrying. Gu Fang sighed sadly.
Gu Fang was busy making a list at home. When Le Jiayu sent him a message in the evening, inviting him to go out and have fun on National Day, Gu Fang originally planned to refuse without thinking.
However, Le Jiayu said that she went to the newly opened forest park in the eastern suburbs to soak in the hot springs.
Gu Fang had heard of this forest park. During the break, he heard Chen Yi and Xiao Yuanshan discussing going there.
I just don’t know if Lu Si will go.
What ultimately moved him was what Le Jiayu said: before his surgery, he'd always liked to stay indoors, because he had to. Now that he'd finally recovered, shouldn't he get out and see more of the world?
Let’s not talk about how the forest park is equivalent to the world. It’s also good to go out for sketching and collecting some materials.
Le Jiayu didn't mention who else was traveling with them. When they arrived at the agreed location the next day, Gu Fang discovered that in addition to them, Jing Xingye and a boy from the street dance club were also there.
His social phobia broke out immediately. Jing Xingye was okay, after all, they had been friends since childhood, and they were already familiar with each other. But Gu Fang had only seen the boy named Gao Hanying during the fight on the rooftop.
This car was provided by Jing Xingye. Xiao Gao was eighteen years old and had a driver's license. Jing Xingye was playing with his phone in the passenger seat and casually said to Gu Fang, "He's just a laborer who works as a driver. You should ignore him."
Gu Fang couldn't really ignore him, so he took out a snow cake from his bag and handed it to the person in front of him: "Or?"
Jing Xingye and Gao Hanying didn't hesitate and took a bag each.
The atmosphere seemed to be eased by this bag of snow cakes, at least Gu Fang felt psychologically comforted.
Fortunately, Le Jiayu got on the car in time with a large bag of snacks. She sat in the back with Gu Fang and started talking like a seasoned social butterfly: "Fangfang, ignore these two. They are purely here to act as bodyguards to ensure the safety of our fragile little O."
"You?" Jing Xingye looked at the rearview mirror suspiciously. "Weak little O?"
"Okay," Le Jiayu said reluctantly, "That hot spring hotel was invested by Jing Xingye's father. He's on vacation now, so let him come out to inspect the property."
These two were the only ones bickering along the way, with Xiao Gao occasionally interjecting a few words. Gu Fang was even more taciturn than Xiao Gao, always tilting his head to look at the scenery outside the window.
As we drove along the ring road to the suburbs, the maple leaves turned redder and redder.
As expected, the traffic was very congested. Gao Hanying said, "Today's traffic is relatively good. Yesterday was National Day, and people coming and going on vacation were said to be stuck in traffic until the evening before they could get off the highway."
"Will the traffic be even worse when we come back?" Le Jiayu couldn't help but worry as they planned to play for two days before returning.
Jing Xingye scoffed, "Other people come back after playing for seven days, but we only have three days off at dog school?"
Gu Fang rarely asked, "Then why did you come to No. 12 Middle School?"
"Ask my old man," Jing Xingye said, concentrating on playing games. "Anyway, he treats you better than me now."
"Haha," Le Jiayu laughed gleefully, "Fangfang, you don't know, but ever since President Jing found out you got first place in the city in the monthly exam, he's been teasing his son all day long. Hahahaha, it makes me laugh to death."
"Le Jiayu, don't be too proud," Jing Xingye said, his neck flushed red from holding back his pride. "If you have the ability, you can also get first place in the city."
"I'm not capable," Le Jiayu said lazily, leaning back. "At least I didn't come in last in the exam."
Jing. Last one. Hoshino: "..."
Gao Hanying couldn't help but let out a "ha".
Jing Xingye immediately glared at him: "Did you just laugh?"
Gao Hanying: "I didn't."
Jing Xingye: "You swear."
Gao Hanying: "I swear on the headlights."
Le Jiayu: "Don't blow up your car lights again, hahahaha."
Gu Fang couldn't help but laugh twice.
Jing Xingye looked at Gu Fang strangely through the rearview mirror, his face still red, but he didn't say much.
Gao Hanying had a questioning face: "Why are you still so hypocritical?"
Yue Jiayu was also completely hypocritical: "It's his honor to let Fang Fang have fun."
Gao Hanying: "?"
Jing Xingye snorted, indicating that he was not willing to refute.
It was Gu Fang who was embarrassed by the two of them singing the same tune.
The traffic volume on the second day of National Day was indeed much less than yesterday. The traffic jam did not last until the evening. Cars entered the park parking lot just at noon.
The four of them decided not to go in and instead find a restaurant outside to eat.
There are so many people that it is difficult to find an empty seat.
"You know, with so many people here," Le Jiayu rubbed her rumbling stomach, "we can get lucky and run into someone we know, so we can sit at the table together, right?"
Jing Xingye didn't have time to sneer.
The next moment, he spotted a table by the window where people had just finished eating and quickly ran over to grab a seat, but he didn't expect that someone had already gotten there and put down their bag on the empty seat.
Jing Xingye suppressed the curse words in his heart, and after seeing the man clearly, he suddenly braked the car, so that Le Jiayu screamed and bumped into his back, with her hand still holding Gu Fang who was behind him.
"Fuck!" Jing Xingye couldn't hold it back this time and looked at the man, "Lu Si?!"
Lu Si had just put down his bag when he heard the noise. He raised his eyelids and glanced at them casually.
He was dressed casually today, in a white long-sleeved T-shirt and an off-white sweater. The warm off-white color weakened his cold temperament and highlighted his height and long legs.
He just glanced at them, then his eyes passed over the people in front and stopped at Gu Fang at the end.
"Dad Lu! You are my real dad!" Xie Ziyao and other filial sons came running over shouting.
When I got closer, I realized that the situation was not right.
"What the hell!" Xie Ziyao looked across at the other side, and they strangely understood each other, "Jing Xingye?!"
It's like when enemies meet, they become extremely jealous of each other.
The two sides froze, and no one sat down. The waiter was stunned when he came: "Uh... are you two here together?"
"Forget it," Jing Xingye scratched his hair and glanced back at Le Jiayu and the others, "Let's find another seat."
The waiter was a little embarrassed: "Eleven people are too many, and we won't be able to wait for the next table for a while..." Looking at Xie Ziyao and the others, he said: "I'm so sorry, would you mind sharing a table?"
Xie Ziyao snorted, but couldn't come up with an idea. He subconsciously looked towards Lu Si: "Brother Lu, do we mind or not?"
Lu Si put his fingertips on the back of the chair and slowly pulled them apart, his voice becoming disjointed.
"No problem."
Jing Xingye was prepared for this man to say nothing nice, but he turned out to be surprisingly easy to talk to, so easy that Jing Xingye's eyelids twitched in disbelief.
Lu Si had already taken his seat. He raised his eyelids slightly and looked directly in the direction of Gu Fang.
"Don't want to sit?"
When Xie Ziyao and others received the order, they thought they were being called, so they just said "eh" and pulled up their chairs to sit down without any courtesy.
Gu Fang's ears turned slightly red from being stared at. He tugged at Le Jiayu's sleeve. Le Jiayu turned around quickly and asked, "What's wrong, Fangfang?"
Gu Fang raised his eyelashes and looked at the seat: "I'll sit inside."
"Okay." Le Jiayu gave in without thinking too much.
It was a large round table, just enough for nine people. Lu Si sat by the window, the one sitting at the edge of the table among the five of them. Gu Fang also sat by the window, the one sitting at the edge of the table among the four of them.
Only after Yue Jiayu sat down did she realize that Gu Fang was sitting right next to Lu Si, but since she had already sat down, she didn't say much.
The meal was extremely awkward, with neither side speaking to each other.
While waiting for the food, Jing Xingye and Gao Hanying were playing ranked games by themselves, Le Jiayu was busy taking pictures of people and the scenery, and Xie Ziyao, Chen Yi and the other three just happened to get together to play mahjong.
The remaining Lu Si was listening to music with headphones on. There seemed to be music editing software on his mobile phone. He frowned while listening.
Gu Fang secretly admired Lu Si's focused profile for a while. After seeing enough, he took out his mobile phone and clicked on the push messages one by one.
Until a follow-up came into view.
-Modern Impressionism exhibition held at the museum, Jiang Li's famous painting "Forest" sold at a high price
Gu Fang's fingertips froze, and when he came to his senses, he had already eagerly clicked on the news. The media didn't provide much information about the painter's current situation, only hyping up the so-called sky-high price. Jiang Li hadn't appeared in China either; the painting was auctioned on someone else's behalf.
The image of "Forest" slowly loaded. Even after countless views, he was still impressed by the artist's masterful figure-drawing technique. The title "Forest" actually depicts a backpacker traversing a forest of rocks. Jiang Li, renowned for his Impressionist figure paintings, created this debut over twenty years ago when he was only seventeen, the same age as Gu Fang today.
What is a genius.
Gu Fang closed his eyes. Perhaps all modern impressionist painters who excel in figure painting have to live under the shadow of Jiang Li.
The food arrived. Gu Fang, standing beside him, was lost in thought. Lu Si was about to remind him when he glanced at the screen. His mildly nearsighted eyes could only make out a blurry painting.
He stretched out his chopsticks, turned his head and handed them to Gu Fang: "Stop looking and eat."
Gu Fang came back to his senses, narrowed his blue eyes, and refocused on the unsealed chopsticks in front of him.
The surroundings were filled with a cacophony of sounds, from those playing games and mahjong to their heart's content. By the window, however, a separate little world had formed for the two of them. Gu Fang's gaze slowly shifted, resting on Lu Si's face, who raised a weary eyebrow at him.
Very...sexy.
It was so sexy that Gu Fang completely forgot about painting and talent. He curved his eyes and said thank you, his heart and eyes filled with Lu Si's eyebrows and Lu Si's scent.
Perhaps they were the only two people who ate the meal as if no one was around, while the others were left feeling as awkward as possible.
After finally getting through, both sides were trying to figure out how to escape when Gu Fang suddenly asked casually, "Are you going hiking?"
There is a mountain to the north of the forest park, which is neither too high nor too low, and is suitable for digesting food after a meal.
Le Jiayu thought to herself, is this our plan? Just as she was about to answer, she saw Gu Fang looking at Lu Si, obviously asking him.
"?" Le Jiayu didn't quite understand where this was going.
What confused him even more was that Lu Si was stunned for a moment, then he nodded his chin and said, "I'm just about to go."
Yaoyaozi was a down-to-earth person, and he was the only one in the room who asked innocently, "Is this our plan?"
Unfortunately, before Lu Si could give him a cold glance, Xie Ziyao was dragged away by Xiao Yuanshan, the only one who understood: "There was such a plan. You have a bad memory, so it's normal to forget..."
Neither side understood how it would develop, but in the end they were indeed on a path of climbing a mountain.
Along the mountain road, the maple leaves burn more fiercely as they go higher. The mountain breeze blows through the red maples, making a rustling sound, like the sea breeze blowing across the vast ocean.
Gu Fang wore a mask all the way, no hat on, and his soft hair was messed up by the strong wind. The hair no longer hung neatly on the side of his face, but was blown up by the wind, revealing his smooth forehead and distinct temples.
Lu Si slowed down a few paces, his eyes looking up at Gu Fang on the steps for a moment. He unconsciously rubbed his fingers at his sides, feeling an inexplicable itch to smooth out his unruly hair.
There is a pavilion on the top of the mountain, with lush trees that are so high that you can't see the top. There is a cool and unique forest scent.
A group of male high school students wailed that they couldn’t take it anymore and rushed into the pavilion and collapsed in a row.
Looking down, there is nothing amazing to see. You can only see a sea of pine trees and cypresses, with tourists forming a long tail from the top of the mountain to the foot.
When going down the mountain, Xie Ziyao found a road that few people had walked on.
To be precise, it has not been fully developed. There are no stone steps at all. There is only a winding dirt road extending deep into the forest.
But this was enough to arouse the curiosity of the young people. Compared with the other planned road full of tourists, even Jing Xingye did not say much. He followed Xie Ziyao and the others and went down the mountain from this path.
Lu Si slowed down a few steps, and when only Le Jiayu was left in front and Gu Fang was at the very end, he caught up with the team and walked side by side with him.
"Are you okay?" Lu Si noticed that Gu Fang took off his mask, his chest heaving slightly, and he began to breathe a little.
"Not bad." Gu Fang glanced at him, his hair stuck to his forehead by sweat, and his cheeks were slightly red.
"Oh." Lu Si seemed to be asking casually. After receiving the answer, he casually withdrew his gaze and looked forward. However, his pace was neither fast nor slow, still keeping pace with Gu Fang.
Jing Xingye and Xie Ziyao, the leaders, had a brief exchange of words, a competitive spirit building up, and they walked faster and faster. Mo Ji and Gao Hanying, unwilling to be outdone, sped up to catch up, and the entire group sped up, even Le Jiayu raising her camera and running.
"Hey! Don't underestimate Omegas!"
He roared and chased after him.
An inexplicable chase down the mountain.
Gu Fang didn't consume much physical strength, but his respiratory tract did not support him to participate in this competition. So he felt at ease and slowly swayed with Lu Si on the tail.
Lu Si simply thought that the person in front of him was childish.
Although Xiaole is usually unreliable, what he said when he invited Gu Fang to come out, "Go out and see the world", does make sense.
He took off his mask, felt the mountain breeze, breathed in the rich oxygen of the forest, and was accompanied by people he cared about. Although Gu Fang's forehead was covered with sweat, his mood suddenly became open, and some of the problems that had been accumulating in his heart on a daily basis also showed signs of loosening.
He never had any clear plan for his life.
A healthy body and an ordinary life were his greatest luxuries in the past.
But the instinct boiling deep in his blood always triggers his deeper greed.
It was this kind of instinct that went beyond the routine that made him approach Lu Si - he transferred to another school based on a confused enthusiasm, and became a deskmate with Lu Si. He had not yet figured out the purpose of this enthusiasm and what the future would be, but his instinct had already pulled him to eagerly see more and more vivid expressions on Lu Si's face.
Even, he longed for that expression to be displayed specifically for himself.
The wind blew through the forest, and he quietly turned his eyes to the side, secretly staring at Lu Si's profile.
He knew in his heart how much he longed for the life of an ordinary Omega.
The abyss that loomed large in his heart was becoming increasingly apparent. He was afraid of making a mistake, afraid of breaking away from the social identity he held, afraid that by doing so, he would hurt his family, friends... and the people he cared about.
So he retreated, not daring to gaze at himself in the abyss.
But if he turns a blind eye to his ugly desires and dresses them up a bit, can he continue to like Lu Si?
……like.
When these two words lightly jumped to the tip of his tongue, Gu Fang found his heart trembled.
My heart was trembling with excitement, but it had no place to rest. It soared to the peak and could only fall back down, into a soft and sweet hell.
Why can't he be a good Omega?
If you pretend for a lifetime, it is no longer a pretend.
……lifetime.
Gu Fang felt embarrassed when he realized that he was thinking too far ahead. He glanced at Lu Si again sheepishly.
The consequence of not looking at the road was that he suddenly stepped on something bumpy and stumbled forward uncontrollably. Even though Lu Si caught him in time, his ankle was still twisted and red.
"I can still walk." Gu Fang pursed his lower lip, feeling extremely embarrassed.
Still in front of Lu Si, his limbs seemed very uncoordinated.
Lu Si squatted down and tried to rub the edge of the red mark. His voice was cold and indifferent, rising from below: "It seems that there is no bone injury, but don't move for now."
Gu Fang supported his shoulders with both hands, lowered his eyelids, and his eyes were filled with anxiety.
"No tendons are injured... I can feel it, I can walk, it doesn't hurt at all."
Lu Si poked with his fingertips, with considerable force. Gu Fang hissed in a cold breath, a faint mist forming in his eyes, and subconsciously grabbed a lock of Lu Si's hair.
"Don't it hurt?" Lu Si raised his face, his eyes raised sharply.
Gu Fang had no choice but to change his words in a low voice: "It hurts a little."
Lu Si ignored him and turned around, his back facing him: "Come up."
"What?" Gu Fang blinked.
"I'll carry you." Lu Si spoke each word clearly. He had never been so calm in his life.
His tone was so cold that Gu Fang recalled the tone he used when he lectured him that night. He unconsciously became timid and obediently climbed onto Lu Si's back.
Walk a distance steadily.
Seeing that he remained silent, Gu Fang felt frightened. He carefully put his arm around his neck and asked softly, "Are you angry?"
"If you don't put in a little more effort," Lu Si said calmly, his eyelids drooping with fatigue, "I'll get angry."
Gu Fang quickly tightened the circle.
Walked some distance again.
Gu put his chin on his shoulder and asked softly, "Are you not angry now?"
"I'm not angry anymore." Lu Si said good-temperedly.
He lamented that his anger threshold always fluctuated around Gu Fang.
A cluster of small buds sprouted in Gu Fang's heart, shaking their leaves happily.
Lu Si couldn't see it, but he could feel his rabbit ears curling up again. He couldn't help but tease him, so he frowned again and said in a calm tone: "If you don't look at the road next time, I will be really angry."
Gu Fang leaned back on his shoulder obediently and whispered, "I won't do that again. I know I was wrong."
Lu Si reluctantly said "hmm".
Walk some distance further.
Lu Si felt Gu Fang's hands around him getting tighter and tighter, and his head avoided the back of his neck and rubbed his cheek lightly through a layer of hair.
Lu Si's feet froze when he rubbed him.
"What's wrong?" Lu Si asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Gradually, scorching heat began to blow on the side of his neck.
Gu Fang said calmly, "Nothing, it's probably her mating season."
? ?
Lu Si found that Gu Fang was a really good person. How could this be considered nothing?
Passing by a large tree, he quickly put the man down, frowning, and pinched his jaw to check on him: "Did you bring the suppressant? Didn't you just start estrus the day before yesterday? It's not over yet?"
Gu Fang was pressed against the tree. He didn't answer, but fluttered his eyelashes. His pupils, half covered by his long lashes, were a deep blue, shimmering with an extremely cold light. He tilted his head and stared calmly at Lu Si's face.
Just looking at his eyes, you wouldn't tell that he's in heat.
You have to look at the cheeks and neck, where there is a layer of overly bright red, and the skin looks like it has been fished out of the water, and feels hot and damp to the touch.
Slowly, Lu Si began to smell the cool fragrance of orchids. It was countless times stronger than the orchids in Sister Xi's pot. He swallowed hard, closed his eyes to hide the turmoil in his eyes, and took out his phone to send a voice message to Xiao Yuanshan to find some inhibitors and send them back to the original path.
"Don't," Gu Fang put his arm around his neck and subconsciously put his ear close to his ear, "Don't let him come."
Lu Si's face was as cold as if covered with frost, and his eyes revealed endless alienation and indifference: "Then you hold it in?"
Gu Fang buried his head in his shoulder and fell silent again, as if he was really holding it in. For a moment, the forest fell silent. Lu Si lowered his cold eyes, glancing over Gu Fang's head and staring straight at the tree trunk. The only sound in his ears was Gu Fang's increasingly rapid breathing.
There is no doubt that Gu Fang would feel much better if he pushed Lu Si away.
But after the last time, he was even more attached to the warmth of her embrace, and couldn't bear to push it away. And Lu Si's eyes would be sad, even if he hadn't noticed it yet.
"I can't hold it in."
Before Gu Fang could say he gave up, Lu Si spoke first in a hoarse voice, untied Gu Fang's hands that were around his neck, and planned to retreat cruelly away from the source of torture.
This retreat should have been extremely decisive, just like any other major choice he had made in his life. However, when he tried to untie the knot, his hand stopped at Gu Fang's wet and messy hair, and inappropriately, he recalled the urge to smooth his hair for him when they went up the mountain.
Because of this pause, Gu Fang was able to circle him tighter, and his whole body almost left the tree trunk and hung on him.
"Tag me."
At this moment, he heard Gu Fang's hot breath blowing on the side of his neck.
"What?"
Lu Si felt that he had misheard, but the person in his arms murmured and repeated it in a firm tone. At the end, the ending tone unconsciously carried a hint of grievance, discomfort and a bit of a tantrum.
"Tag me...okay?"
Lu Si felt that Gu Fang was crazy, or he himself was crazy.
Because at that moment, he realized that it was the vague voice in his heart that was spoken through Gu Fang's mouth. It took shape, landed on the ground, and turned into such a real existence that he couldn't deny it even if he wanted to.
Pheromones were merely an inducement to reveal his inner feelings.
He did have desire for the person in his arms.
Lu Si, who was forced to face this fact, seemed to be frozen in place. He held Gu Fang in his arms, not daring to move his hands at all.
Where he couldn't see, Gu Fang's eyes were filled with the darkness after the thick ink was spilled. No matter how many times his gaze shifted, it would always return to the back of Lu Si's neck.
He felt like he was going crazy, unable to push it away nor to bite it.
Just let Lu Si bite it, beg him to bite it quickly, otherwise I really won’t be able to pretend anymore, I will go crazy, bite the skin on the back of his neck and bite off a piece of flesh.
So I had to soften my voice and act obediently by rubbing the side of his neck.
"I feel so bad... Lu Si, help me... It's okay to temporarily mark it... I can't wait for the inhibitor."
Lu Si's lips moved again and again, and his Adam's apple swallowed again and again.
It feels like there is a very sweet candy in my arms, constantly waving my hands, saying that I am very cheap and I don’t have to be responsible if I bite a small piece of it. You still helped me, so please come and bite me quickly.
Lu Si's eyelids trembled and closed, and when he opened them again, there was a very dangerous look in his eyes.
He suddenly exerted force with his hands, pushed Gu Fang against the tree trunk and held him tightly.
He felt it was necessary to educate this innocent piece of candy about the dangers.
So he bent his neck, lowered his eyes, and accurately covered the pink skin with his lips and teeth and bit it. The cool minty scent instantly infused Gu Fang's limbs and bones.
The feeling of being marked ultimately made Gu Fang physically uncomfortable, but the mint scent injected into him made him feel like he was in heaven. The little bud in his heart broke through the obstacles, grew upward, and grew stronger and stronger.
His gaze, filled with tides, relaxed for a moment, and his swan-like slender neck was tilted as Lu Si held it, allowing him to continue injecting to complete the temporary mark.
The beautiful blue eyes slowly focused and returned to the back of Lu Si's neck, this time even closer, and the piece of flesh seemed to be right next to her mouth.
Like a piece of candy, unaware of the danger, waving at him.
Gu Fang didn't know whether he should be amazed at his own undying evil intentions.
He bit the skin of his inner lip unknowingly. The faint fishy sweetness on the tip of his tongue and the pheromones of Lu Si that covered his body finally made him regain consciousness.
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