Chapter 126 Do you feel sorry for him?
Shang Qiyue was dressed elegantly and respectably, but upon closer inspection, one could see faint dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept well all night.
"Yan Yan." Shang Qiyue looked at him and almost subconsciously took a step forward. Mu Yan didn't want to see him, so he subconsciously shrank behind Xie Chen.
His subconscious action stung Shang Qiyue even more, and he looked at Mu Yan, his face turning even paler.
child.......
He and Mu Yan truly had a child born of blood.
Shang Qiyue was somewhat dazed. Yan Yan... he was still a child himself, how could he be pregnant?
After that painful marking, he was pregnant, threatened by Shang Hongsheng, imprisoned by himself, and went to a completely unfamiliar foreign land alone, enduring the days and nights without alpha pheromones.
Is he feeling wronged, upset, or scared?
Xie Chen reached out and gently patted Mu Yan's hand. His palm was dry and warm, as if to comfort him.
For some reason, just one gesture seemed to calm Mu Yan down a bit.
...Shang Qiyue shouldn't have known that he lived here. Even if he had accidentally found out, Xie Chen shouldn't have opened the door for him.
Xie Chen must have his own ideas or plans, but Mu Yan trusts Xie Chen for no reason.
Xie Chen showed no intention of moving aside; in fact, he deliberately shifted his body slightly to block Mu Yan behind him even more completely: "It's kind of you, Mr. Shang, to make the trip yourself. Just give me the things."
Shang Qiyue's smile froze for a moment, his gaze passing over Xie Chen's shoulder and locking onto Mu Yan without fail.
Mu Yan stared blankly at him, and after her gaze accidentally collided with Shang Qiyue's in mid-air, she looked at Xie Chen.
“Just one minute,” he said, lowering his voice, “let me see him.”
“Mr. Shang is truly a businessman,” Xie Chen said, turning slightly to the side. “Now that you’ve seen him, is that enough?”
Mu Yan stood silently behind Xie Chen, not giving Shang Qiyue a second glance. Upon seeing this, Shang Qiyue's eyes dimmed.
Just as he was about to hand the thing in his hand to Xie Chen, Tangyuan, who had been playing with his toys in the doghouse, suddenly darted out from between Mu Yan's legs, happily grabbed the toy, and pounced on Shang Qiyue, wagging its tail like a propeller.
Xie Chen and Mu Yan were both startled and instinctively made way for him.
Shang Qiyue bent down and rubbed its head. The Samoyed immediately lay down, exposing its belly, and purred happily.
"Tangyuan...you've grown so big." Shang Qiyue looked down at Tangyuan, rubbed its head and then started to stroke its chin. Tangyuan didn't seem to mind that there were so many people standing in the entrance hall and it was very happy, making the kind of cute little whimpering sound that it usually made when begging for food.
Sensing the subtle atmosphere in the room, Shang Qiyue didn't play with Tangyuan for long before standing up and handing over the pheromone extract.
Xie Chen reached out and took the small box, opening it to find a small bottle containing pheromones that could be directly inserted into a pheromone diffuser.
Mu Yan was visibly stunned when he saw what was inside. He reached out and tugged at Xie Chen's sleeve: "Why is it pheromone extract?"
“If you don’t want to see me,” Shang Qiyue said, looking at him, “I’ll just show up less often.”
Mu Yan glanced at the small bottle containing pheromones, then at Shang Qiyue.
The process of extracting pheromones is not easy. First, a stimulant is injected into the gland with a long needle to put the alpha into a state similar to the fertile period in advance, and then the pheromones are extracted from the gland.
He had initially assumed that even if Shang Qiyue was there to give him his pheromones, it would be like the volunteers the government assigned to widowed omegas...
Shang Qiyue picked up the glutinous rice ball and brought it over. He then silently handed the toy that had been left on the ground to Mu Yan.
"Thank you..." Mu Yan took the toy, her gaze returning to the small bottle of pheromones in Xie Chen's hand. "But you don't need to next time."
"Do you hate me so much that you find my pheromones disgusting? You're already feeling so uncomfortable, and you don't even want to use my pheromones?" Shang Qiyue asked calmly.
Mu Yan glanced at him again but didn't say anything.
"Tangyuan, I'm closing the door." He called the puppy softly. Tangyuan was very obedient and almost immediately let go of Shang Qiyue and returned to Mu Yan's feet. It turned its head to look at Shang Qiyue with some reluctance, and then rubbed against Mu Yan's leg until Mu Yan closed the door.
Mu Yan watched and felt a little uneasy. It was as if Tangyuan was an overly precocious child caught between divorced parents who considered each other enemies, and he was the villain who prevented Tangyuan from meeting Shang Qiyue.
But when Xie Chen went back and got Tangyuan a bag of snacks, Tangyuan immediately wagged its tail happily at him again.
"Why not let him deliver the message next time? Do you feel sorry for him?" Xie Chen squatted on the ground, feeding the dog while asking Mu Yan, "But I don't think there's anything to feel sorry for about an irresponsible man."
Mu Yan gently shook his head, but did not answer his question immediately.
"And you're in a lot of pain." Xie Chen put the pheromone extract into a special diffuser. Mu Yan couldn't smell the pheromones, but he could smell the highly aggressive, ebony-scented pheromones spreading throughout the room. "You must have been in pain for a long time. Why didn't you tell me?"
"...I want to use my brother's." Mu Yan replied after a while, it was unclear whether she was answering the question of whether she felt sorry for Shang Qiyue, or the question of why she didn't tell Xie Chen.
“Actually, it’s quite obvious when you lie, don’t you realize it yourself?” Xie Chen looked at him, his expression unusually serious.
Mu Yan stared at him blankly, wondering where she had given herself away.
"I contacted Shang Qiyue without my consent. Will you be angry with me?"
Mu Yan shook his head. In fact, even if he was really angry, Xie Chen would not change his decision because of his anger.
Xie Chen sometimes seems to care a lot about Mu Yan's thoughts, but when it comes to things he's decided on, he's completely stubborn and won't listen to anyone's opinions.
“Pregnancy isn’t something one person can achieve on their own,” Xie Chen said, looking at him seriously. “He got you pregnant and then did other things to make you hate him. That’s what he should do.”
No, he didn't show any leniency towards Shang Qiyue, Mu Yan wanted to defend himself.
He wasn't so quick to feel sorry for Shang Qiyue, but it was precisely this kind of thing that might harm his body that he found particularly hard to accept.
In particular, since Shang Qiyue's pheromone disorder was related to glands, he just felt that... he had paid such a painful price... to make Shang Qiyue's illness better.
"I wasn't being mean to you." Seeing Mu Yan's somewhat helpless look, Xie Chen quickly explained, "I just wanted you to know that it was his duty to give you pheromones, not something I forced him to do just to get revenge for you."
Xie Chen and Shang Qiyue formed a strange common ground on this matter. Shang Qiyue continued to send pheromones every two weeks. Although Mu Yan was somewhat resistant, she ultimately could not refuse their joint decision.
Sometimes when he was busy, he would have his assistant deliver it to him. His company was located in China, so it was normal that he couldn't come in person every time. Mu Yan didn't think much of it.
Shang Qiyue's pheromones did indeed improve his health. Mu Yan no longer frequently felt nauseous or weak, and he was more awake and energetic every day.
After he stopped going to class, he took on some outsourcing jobs from clients he knew from his previous job. Occasionally, he would also help college students with their homework for a fee. It wasn't for the money; he just couldn't stay idle. If he spent all day watching TV and playing games, he would feel guilty for no reason.
Because he's been playing a French game lately, he sometimes spends time learning French. Xie Chen noticed he'd bought French books and asked if he wanted Xie Chen to teach him.
Mu Yan shook his head, saying that he might want to learn Japanese again after playing Japanese games tomorrow. Xie Chen smiled and said that he could teach Yan Yan Japanese as well.
Mu Yan said he was just learning casually, and Xie Chen said he was just teaching casually too. But Xie Chen was indeed a very good teacher. He was patient, took things step by step, and had a very pleasant voice, even somewhat similar to the original voice lines of the male protagonist in the game Mu Yan was playing.
The only downside was that he often forced students who were practicing their listening skills through games to go to sleep.
When the baby was a little over four months old, Mu Yan's belly began to show a slight curve.
Actually, Mu Yan's belly had grown a little bigger, which is about the size of a normal person when they are a little full, but for some reason, Mu Yan reacted extremely strongly to it.
He started to be reluctant to go out. Even after Xie Chen put a leash on Tangyuan's neck and let Tangyuan run to his room, staring at him with his dark grape-like eyes, grinning and sticking out his tongue, wanting him to go out with him, Mu Yan would only gently pat his head and say, "Let Xie Chen go play with you by himself."
He also took on projects more frequently than usual. When there were no projects to do, he would stay in his room, wearing loose loungewear and playing games.
Because of his thinness, he couldn't fill out the loose-fitting loungewear, making him appear even paler and thinner, especially his neck and collarbone, which gave off a somewhat sickly look.
Every day when Xie Chen came home, he would see him curled up in a chair or on the sofa, listlessly typing on the keyboard or pressing the controller.
Xie Chen felt this was not good, but he couldn't tell whether Mu Yan was in a bad state or simply didn't have the energy to go out lately.
He didn't want his controlling nature to cause trouble for Mu Yan, so he didn't interfere at first.
Until one day, when he opened the door to Mu Yan's room, he saw Mu Yan crying while looking at the program that kept giving error messages on the screen.
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