Chapter 40
It was a relaxing and enjoyable day, which would have been perfect if it weren't for Shen Shiqian's adjutant following him and the need to go home. Because he had been forced to stop taking psychiatric medication for a period of time during his hospitalization, Feng Ran started experiencing a sharp, intermittent pain whenever he overthought things.
How can a person not think at all? Just like her current situation, the spacious and bright flat apartment is like an alternative prison for the Feng family, and there is also another unpredictable boss monster inside.
As Feng Ran stepped from the sunken entrance hall into the corridor, she keenly smelled a faint bitter scent. Judging from the timing, it was indeed almost time for Shen Shiqian to become susceptible, but she didn't care much and went straight to her room.
But as they passed the room across the street, someone tugged at them, causing them to fall straight backward into an embrace. Shen Shiqian was unusually hot. He hugged Feng Ran from behind. Feng Ran couldn't see his expression, but she could hear his uneasy voice, filled with heavy breathing and a slight tremor: "Ranran, will you stay with me like this for a while?"
Feng Ran's rare good mood plummeted again and again. She was so calm that she couldn't speak for a minute. She really wanted to ask Shen Shiqian what she was, her inhibitor? She hated being objectified, she hated it so much.
The heat on her neck and ears made her itchy. She wanted to take out the scarf that Basil had given her and put it on, but it would be a waste to let it get covered in Shen Shiqian's pheromones. So she tossed the bag to the robot and Feng Ran turned around to support Shen Shiqian.
His weight was half on Feng Ran, making her feel very uncomfortable, as if she were carrying a furnace. She struggled to support Shen Shiqian, whose face was flushed and whose expression was somewhat dazed.
"You should go back to your room and rest. I'll contact Dr. Nishimura right away."
Shen Shiqian was in so much pain that he was going crazy. It was as if all the cold rationality in his mind was being slowly simmered into a pot of paste over a low flame. Strange pain was tearing at every corner of his body, and an itching sensation like an electric shock triggered a chain reaction, which could not be relieved no matter what he did.
His body seemed to be saying that he wanted to be bitten.
No, I only want you.
The lines, so poignant and sanctimonious, made Feng Ran want to applaud him. She reached out and gently pinched Shen Shiqian's chin. "But what you say and what you do are different. I don't want to believe you anymore. I'm tired."
"I……"
Shen Shiqian stammered for a long time, his eyes reddening, looking extremely pitiful, yet his remaining intelligence was insufficient to defend himself. His mind was a battle between his Alpha's domineering and possessive instincts and his craving and dependence on Feng Ran's pheromones; he only knew that he absolutely did not want to let go of Feng Ran.
He kept releasing pheromones to ignite the flames, filling the surrounding air with a thick, sticky, bitter chocolate scent that made one's mouth water and feel sweet, as if wanting to taste it.
Feng Ran gently pressed the tip of his tongue against his canine teeth, feeling the furnace hanging on his body getting hotter and hotter, and even rubbing against his neck incessantly. He completely lost his ability to think, like a primitive beast.
A dark glint flashed in Feng Ran's eyes, and he suddenly coaxed softly, "You're too heavy, can you get off me first?"
Shen Shiqian remained pressed against him without moving, probably because he was in great discomfort and was trembling uncomfortably without the soothing pheromones of Feng Ran.
Feng Ran wrapped his arms around his neck and whispered in his ear, "If you want my mark, then you'll have to be a good girl, okay?"
The excessive release of pheromones caused an even more severe emptiness. Shen Shiqian desperately wanted something to fill him up. He struggled to understand what Feng Ran was saying and reluctantly let go of his hand.
Feng Ran reached out and grabbed Shen Shiqian's tie, pulling him so hard that he bent over. The tall, handsome man suddenly went weak in the knees and knelt before her, tears welling up in his eyes.
How pitiful. He clearly didn't want to become like this, but he still lost to Enigma's pheromones. Does he even have any awareness of what he's doing?
Feng Ran tightened her grip on the tie, like gripping the reins of a wild beast, causing the person to stumble slightly towards her.
"Shen Shiqian, can you still recognize who I am? What is our relationship?"
He was struggling to think, his tie and shirt were wrinkled beyond recognition, and there was a red mark around his neck. He was breathing heavily, and his upright back swayed in the air.
"Feng Ran... I like it... I like it very much..."
Who was lying to whom? Were they being sincere or not? Feng Ran felt her judgment being shaken, and she was furious. She stepped on Shen Shiqian's shoulder and tightened her tie even more.
Everything that had happened in the past flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern. She had once so longed for and believed in the future he spoke of, only to have it shattered by the Empire, by his single bullet. She had trusted his so-called love, only to be handed over to space pirates and pushed further away! It was all clearly his fault!
Shen Shiqian did not struggle, as if he had completely entrusted his trust to her, but his breathing became shallower and shallower, and his face turned bluish-purple.
Shen Shiqian's terminal sounded an alarm, and the little robot rushed over and cut the tie. Feng Ran slumped to the ground in a daze, waking up from the nightmare that tormented her.
Suddenly freed from death, Shen Shiqian's heart pounded violently, his back felt weak, and he barely regained consciousness for a moment, only to see Feng Ran crying.
"Burning..."
Feng Ran abruptly threw the shredded tie in front of him, his mind extremely tense and sensitive, and screamed in despair, "Don't come any closer! I hate you!" Then he got up and went into the room.
So close, so close, so close...
So cold... So annoying... So disgusting...
I'm so sad...
Feng Ran's head throbbed as if it were about to explode whenever she tried to think about anything, but she instinctively didn't want to let herself suffer like this. She had basically used up all the usable potions in her spatial buttons. She stood there stiffly for a while, then staggered out the door.
Shen Shiqian was carried into the room by a robot, leaving only half of his tie on the floor of the corridor.
Forget it, what does it have to do with her?
She kept telling herself that Shen Shiqian was a fraud, and gritted her teeth as she walked into the laboratory at the end of the corridor.
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Household service robots have a basic ability to judge human health, and can even trigger a built-in alarm if the owner is in danger. So, Xisen, who was forcibly recruited by the robot on the grounds of "life-threatening danger", had a premonition that the situation was probably not good before she came.
Although the pheromones in the air had been mostly dispersed by the air purifier, Xisen was still shocked by the terrible scene when he entered Shen Shiqian's room.
Originally delirious and weak from a high fever, Shen Shiqian gritted his teeth and got out of bed to stay awake. He punched the wall so hard it dented, and the skin on the back of his hand was rubbed raw, looking bloody and mangled. Standing in front of the wall, Shen Shiqian's eyes were bloodshot, like a living Yama.
"Holy crap, what happened to your neck?"
As Xisen got closer, he noticed the purplish marks on Xisen's neck. He had a headache and saw that Shen Shiqian was panting heavily and about to punch the wall again, so he quickly went up and pulled him back.
"Don't go crazy yet, I'll give you an inhibitor."
He messed up. Shen Shiqian couldn't quite put his finger on it. In that instant, his consciousness snapped back to reality, and the image of Feng Ran's collapse was deeply etched into his mind. Even though the restraints had been removed, he still felt trapped in a suffocating pain.
I'm sorry, it's all his fault. He can find a way to make amends and salvage the situation, so please don't hate him, please don't avoid him...
Like someone who desperately seeks the light and finds a lamp in the darkness, only to lose hope as soon as they gain it, despair lurking in a corner, ready to strike at any moment. Everything is quiet and cold, yet bone-chilling.
After giving Shen Shiqian an injection of suppressant, Xisen carefully observed Shen Shiqian's reaction. Although Shen Shiqian was indeed in a normal susceptible period this time, his symptoms were more complicated because his body had already been affected by Fengran's pheromones. In short, the suppressant was ineffective for him.
Xisen: "What are you planning to do now? The inhibitors aren't working for you anymore. Either you get Fengran to mark you, or you isolate and stay in the hospital for a few days to calm down?"
Shen Shiqian leaned slowly against the wall he had dented. He felt that the torment and torture were no longer physical, but mental. As soon as he closed his eyes, he could feel Feng Ran in the laboratory not far from him. The place where he had been bitten before was itchy and painful. His body felt like it was being controlled, going through repeated pleasure, excitement, and cessation. The sensory climax was trying to take away his rationality. The inhibitor seemed to have the opposite effect of catalysis.
He struggled to remain rational and explained to Sissen, "She...hates me..."
Xisen was really not in a good mood for his current miserable state: "She said she hates you, so you're going to give up? When my aunt said she hated you, why didn't you let her off the hook?"
Shen Shiqian and Xisen grew up together. Xisen's aunt was a PhD at the Academy of Sciences when she was young. She was a respected genius, but she was eccentric and disliked children. She lived alone in Huaxin District of Qilia. Half of the finished drugs sold by Kalishu were developed by his aunt.
During summer and winter vacations, Xisen would help run errands to collect and deliver sample materials to his aunt in Huaxin District. He claimed it was a visit out of concern, but it was just to curry favor. His aunt had a certain tolerance for her well-behaved and sensible child, Xisen, but she didn't have such good patience for Shen Shiqian, who shamelessly followed her. She locked him out the door on their first meeting.
When Shen Shiqian was a child, he was a clever little devil. Back then, when Old Shen Jue was still alive, he gave him a research topic on the performance of mecha combat against alien species and asked him to think about it during his vacation. However, he couldn't figure it out. He asked everyone he could, but still couldn't get the answer he wanted. After hearing that Xisen's aunt was a PhD from the Academy of Sciences, he dragged Xisen to Huaxin District every day. He made his aunt hate children even more, which led to Xisen being locked out of the door every time he went there.
Childhood memories were as distant as a past life for Shen Shiqian, not to mention that he had no energy to care about Xisen's aunt. He gripped his palms tightly, feeling his reason melting away with every step he took.
"Just once more... that will do."
Regardless of his so-called lofty ideals and beliefs, or the embers of scientific brilliance that could save the world, Shen Shiqian was simply selfishly trying to satisfy his own desires, wanting to melt away wantonly in that icy, strong liquor.
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