There is no dawn in the universe. Bai Li realized it was already the next morning after the robot butler announced the time.
The Emerald Star will sail back to the main planet shortly after breakfast and dock at the port where it departed.
With the surprise just now, Bai Li and Lu Zhao had already lost all sleepiness. After washing up, the robot butler brought the properly dressed military uniform and suit to Bai Li. Bai Li shook his suit and decided to go to the hospital to meet Lao Zheng as soon as he got off the cruise ship.
"You don't look well," Lu Zhao picked up the military uniform, but his eyes fell on Bai Li's face, "Sleep a little longer."
Bai Li had managed to calm down by now, and shook his head: "Forget it, it's easier to have a dream when you're back home."
This time Lu Zhao understood a little: "Did you have a nightmare?"
Young Master Bai refused to admit it: "No."
Lu Zhao looked at him for a while.
Bai Li grabbed the clothes and put them on. His legs were still a little uncomfortable, but it didn't prevent him from getting up and changing clothes.
A very bad dream, it was the plot of the original novel. Bai Li thought while putting on his clothes, maybe he had been living a good life recently, so much so that he almost forgot how he, a cannon fodder in the original novel, was defeated and disgraced.
The original Bai Li was so depressed after he hit the bottom that he couldn't recover at all. Originally, this guy was a bit paranoid. The physical pain and the mentally unacceptable situation made him have an almost pathological desire to control everything around him. He didn't have much feelings for Lu Zhao, but he couldn't bear Lu Zhao leaving him. Because of
this, he forcibly marked Lu Zhao. When he just got married, the original Bai Li's mental strength was relatively stable, and his body was not hollowed out by addictive drugs. After a lot of effort, he still forced Lu Zhao to surrender. After Tang Kaiyuan appeared, the original Bai Li learned about Lu Zhao's old engagement, and new hatred and old grudges surged in his heart, and he beat Lu Zhao.
The feeling of having such a strong omega submit to him made him addicted, so naturally he had a second and third marriage. This kind
of marriage was destined to be difficult to develop feelings, and Lu Zhao did not feel reluctant when he left. The feeling of losing something he could control once again hit Bai Li, the original author. He became weaker and weaker due to insomnia and a large amount of addictive drugs. He did not love Lu Zhao, but he wanted to get Lu Zhao.
In the original novel, after the divorce, Lu Zhao prepared to wash off the mark with the help of Tang Kaiyuan. During this period, Bai Li, the original author, kept pestering him. Tang Kaiyuan took action several times to resolve the troubles that Lu Zhao encountered because of Bai Li. Bai Li, the original author, decided to destroy what he could not get. He blocked Lu Zhao in a spare parts warehouse of the army, hoping to make him addicted to his pheromones before he could wash off the life mark.
But cannon fodder would never succeed, and the actions of cannon fodder would always be in vain.
Not to mention how Tang Kaiyuan smashed the door of the warehouse in a cool way, and took away Lu Zhao, who had been forcibly guided into estrus, amid the cheers of readers, and how the two of them handled this sensitive period... In short, in the original novel, Bai Li knocked over the storage rack after being thrown away by Lu Zhao, and was hit on his fragile left leg by the heavy parts that fell.
This time his body could no longer bear the burden, and his left leg was completely useless, seriously affecting his life. The drugs hollowed out his body and destroyed his spirit. In the original novel, Bai Li never recovered and fell into extreme depression. His evil deeds were exposed and his reputation was ruined. The once glorious Bai Da Shaoye has now become a scum who rapes his partner and beats him.
In the original novel, Bai Li was eventually sent to the hospital due to mental breakdown and spent the rest of his life in the advanced ward with a lame leg.
Bai Li felt that this original brother was really a very authentic villain cannon fodder, who made a huge contribution to the development of the plot, and left the stage happily after the success, and found a very satisfying ending for himself.
The plot seems to have changed a lot recently. The relationship between him and Lu Zhao is not as cold and abnormal as in the original novel. Sometimes Bai Li has to admit that there is a glimmer of hope deep in his heart. His mind is in a mess. Bai Li's movements of tidying up his clothes are intermittent. It doesn't make much difference whether he tidies up or not.
Lu Zhao reaches out his hand, smoothes the wrinkles on Bai Li's collar, and buttons up his clothes.
He lowered his eyes and said, "You are a little unstable."
"A little," Bai Li himself had to admit it. After his emotions stabilized, he also felt the leakage of pheromones. He paused and said, "I'm not tied up. I don't think I bothered you too much."
Lu Zhao patted Bai Li's chest and said, "I told you, you're not that awesome."
"Actually, I'm quite awesome," Bai Li said, "It's mainly because my brother, Major General, is too awesome, which makes me look incompetent."
It seemed like flattery, but Lu Zhao nodded without getting angry, "Indeed."
Bai Li choked and couldn't stop laughing.
The gloom on his face was much less with this smile. Lu Zhao asked, "What nightmare?"
Bai Li looked up at Lu Zhao and said, "I dreamed that I was a bad person and you didn't like me."
There was a pitiful look in his eyes. Lu Zhao felt that Bai Li was setting a trap for him again and trying to coax him.
The next sentence Bai Li said was, "So I did it."
Lu Zhao was stunned and didn't know how to respond.
But Bai Li didn't plan to get any answer. He changed his shoes and pushed Lu Zhao to change his shoes, and hurried to have breakfast.
The two of them packed up and prepared to go out. Bai Li opened the door and was about to go out. Lu Zhao called out from behind, "Bai Li."
He turned around and saw Lu Zhao holding the light golden Kali flower between his fingers, and pinned it to Bai Li's chest pocket again.
"It's just a nightmare," Lu Zhao tried to find a softer way to comfort him, but the words still sounded a little hard, "It's okay."
Bai Li felt the hand holding the flower pause on his heart. It didn't use force, but it seemed to pinch his heart.
No one except Bai Li himself would understand the source of his fear. Bai Li opened his mouth but didn't say the final outcome of the nightmare. The violent cannon fodder got the punishment he deserved. The Imperial Eagle spread its wings and flew high. The wind raised by its wings knocked him to the ground, and he could never get up again.
Bai Li couldn't be sure whether Lu Zhao's hand was comforting him or pushing him away.
He lowered his head and approached Lu Zhao. Just when he was about to say something, he heard a "Fuck" from the corner. Bai Li turned around and saw Situ covering his own eyes with one hand and Si Dong's eyes with the other, walking backwards.
Si Dong grabbed his brother's hands with both hands, and looked over here with his sly eyes through the gaps between his fingers.
"Go on, go on," Situ said as he backed away. "We are all brothers. I'll keep an eye out for you. Hurry up."
Bai Li took a few seconds to react before he figured out the wrong meaning in the words: "Can you fucking think about something serious?!"
Situ and Si Dong had already shrunk back to the corner, and their figures could no longer be seen. All he could hear was Situ's voice: "Don't worry, I've covered my brother's ears too!"
Fortunately, Bai Li didn't faint.
Lu Zhao didn't really understand what he said, but he had a feeling that the two of them were arguing again. He saw Bai Li walking around the corner with a fierce look on his face, and a few seconds later he heard Situ's curse.
Lu Zhao wanted to laugh, but after a final glance around the room to make sure nothing was left behind, he closed the door and followed the three noisy people to the elevator.
There was nothing to do early in the morning. Situ and Si Dong were also awakened by the vibration of the cruise ship. They didn't live on the same floor as Bai Li and the others, so they came downstairs specifically to find Bai Li to have dinner together.
"I specifically checked it yesterday," Situ said to Bai Li in the elevator, "You know what, the mecha made by Lin Sheng is pretty good, and he brought in a partner. Guess who it is?"
Bai Li said lazily, "Tang Xiao."
"Yeah," Situ said, "That's great, Major General Bai, you have first-hand military intelligence."
Bai Li said impatiently, "Is this military intelligence? I'm not blind, do you need to specifically check the enthusiasm of those two people? Can you use your brain?"
Situ choked, "We are in scientific research, and we use our brains on research."
Si Dong, who had been silent, said, "Brother, your little white ball leaked electricity last night, and I had a dream of thunder all night. Can you do scientific research?"
Bai Li and Lu Zhao laughed.
Being humiliated by his brother, Situ frowned: "You have to hold that thing to sleep at night. It must be because you drooled and leaked electricity."
Si Dong scratched his head and wanted to say something but held it back.
Bai Li couldn't help laughing: "Okay, Si Dong, do you like this thing made by your brother so much?"
"Not really..." Si Dong looked at Bai Li, then at Lu Zhao, "Brother Li, I'll tell you something later."
Before he could figure out what Si Dong was going to say, the elevator prompted to the banquet hall floor. The four of them got up and down the elevator. The banquet hall that was filled with alcohol last night had changed its appearance. The robots and waiters had already served all kinds of dishes.
Bai Li whispered in Lu Zhao's ear: "Look, it's a big investment. The food is quite fancy early in the morning."
Lu Zhao nodded.
Jiang Hao also came over there. He probably didn't sleep well. He rubbed his eyes and greeted them all the way: "Are you up? I'm really impressed. It's almost time to return. Why are you still here?" "
It's okay to have a free breakfast," Situ had already eaten a few pieces of pastry. "I drink nutrient solution every day in the research institute. If I keep doing this, my pheromones will smell like nutrient solution."
Jiang Hao and Situ are quite familiar with each other. One is because of Bai Li, and the other is because Situ was from the Imperial Research Institute a few years ago. They often met in the military corps and talked freely. "You come here to have a free breakfast so early in the morning? I guess you came here directly from somewhere else for convenience."
Lu Zhao thought for a while: "Want to skip the immigration inspection?"
"Not really," Bai Li said listlessly, but when Lu Zhao started talking, he followed suit, "The system of this cruise ship is connected to the port of entry. If you pass the identity check on the cruise ship, you don't have to wait in line at the port of entry. It's a semi-noble channel, convenient."
Bai Li suddenly stopped talking and sniffed.
A strange aroma of wine went up his nose and into his lungs, and a nerve in Bai Li's brain twitched.
He finally had an explanation for the restlessness that had been going on since he heard the announcement that someone was boarding the ship in the morning. He
was not unfamiliar with this smell. He had smelled this smell from time to time when Old Master Bai was still alive and he had to frequently attend noble banquets.
They had been tied together countless times and mentioned as the same topic.
Bai Li turned around and looked at the main entrance of the banquet hall.
It was time to officially take their seats. Families with close relations came together, and the banquet hall had regained the liveliness of last night.
Under the bright lights, several new-style nobles were escorting Lin Sheng and Tang Xiao into the banquet hall. Bai Ying was still holding her partner's arm, with a gentle and demure smile on her face. She was leaning her head to the side and whispering to the young alpha beside her. The other party seemed to have said something, which made Bai Ying laugh out loud. Bai
Li looked at her and felt that when Bai Ying tilted her head to the side and laughed, the shaking earrings reflected light, which hurt his eyes.
Noticing that Bai Li was not feeling right, Lu Zhao called out to Bai Li, but when he got no response, he followed Bai Li's gaze and looked towards the entrance of the banquet hall.
The young alpha next to Bai Ying raised his head, and their eyes met. The other was stunned at first, and then smiled gently.
"Hey," Situ said while chewing something, "You're really back, Bai Li, isn't that Tang Kaiyuan?"
If Bai Li's appearance is similar to Zhang Yang's, then Tang Kaiyuan's facial features can probably be considered typical of an aristocrat.
Perhaps it was because of the years of experience, Tang Kaiyuan's appearance was a little different from the vague outline in Lu Zhao's memory. He had deep eyebrows, a smile on the corners of his lips, a calm self-confidence, and a polite and easy-going attitude, which attracted the sidelong glances of many young noble ladies and masters around him.
The light seemed to envelop him, and there was even a bit of tenderness in his smile. His voice was very soft and low: "Long time no see, Lu Zhao."
Not Major General Lu Zhao, nor Mr. Lu Zhao, the two words that came out of Tang Kaiyuan's lips and teeth almost made Bai Li dizzy in an instant.
It was the same in the original book. When Tang Kaiyuan returned to the main star, the first thing he said when he saw Lu Zhao was this sentence.
"Kaiyuan and Major General Lu can be considered childhood friends," Tang Xiao explained with a smile to the people around him, "My family had some friendship with Major General Lu's father in the early years, and we have been in contact."
Lin Sheng smiled and said, "Is that so? Why didn't Mr. Tang tell me earlier?" After a pause, he added, "If Mr. Tang Kaiyuan can pass the assessment at the end of the year and enter the First Corps, then the two of you will have the opportunity to fight side by side."
The people around him sighed at the young man's promising future. Although Tang Kaiyuan was still a young boy in his early years and was always suppressed by the name of Bai Li, after a few years of training, he has the strength to participate in the selection of the First Corps.
The Tang family will have another helper, which is really a cause for celebration.
After talking to Bai Ying for a few more words, Tang Kaiyuan strode towards Lu Zhao. He walked closer, and several people including Lu Zhao could smell the faint pheromone scent on Tang Kaiyuan, the mellow smell of wine, gently lingering around him.
Lu Zhao was a little surprised. Alpha pheromone leakage is basically related to emotional ups and downs, but Tang Kaiyuan's pheromones are very stable, which also means that his mental power is quite stable, and he can maintain the continuous emission of pheromones without affecting the surroundings.
This level of mental power is definitely not to be underestimated.
Almost at the same time as he smelled the scent, Lu Zhao felt Bai Li beside him holding his hand. In just a few seconds, Bai Li let go of his hand again.
Lu Zhao was stunned. Those few seconds passed so fast that he didn't even have time to shake hands with her.
"I heard that you are now a major general, Lu Zhao." Tang Kaiyuan approached and held out his hand. "When you were a child, you said you wanted to drive a mecha. I always thought you could do it."
Lu Zhao's brows wrinkled slightly. He could no longer remember his childhood. He did come to the main planet with his father several times and met Tang Kaiyuan several times, but they probably never became close friends.
Out of courtesy, Lu Zhao still shook hands and said lightly, "I don't remember."
Tang Kaiyuan was not embarrassed by this slightly distant remark. He smiled and said, "We were both young at that time, but I always remember what you said and your ideals."
He did not let go of Lu Zhao's hand.
"Lu Zhao, I'm very happy that your dream is slowly coming true," Tang Kaiyuan's eyes were always on Lu Zhao, and only then did he glance at Bai Li with a slight scrutiny, "Are you doing well? I've been worried about you."
The unrestrained pheromone scent of Tang Kaiyuan in the air seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, but it did not pose any threat. Lu Zhao only felt that the scent seemed to wrap him up, and the hand holding him covered his skin, giving him a slight numbness, and the electric current was also conducted up his arm.
In an instant, Lu Zhao's mind flashed through the midsummer of the Tang family's old house, the bright sunshine, the tree-lined path where his father led him, and Tang Kaiyuan's still young face.
——"Lu Zhao felt a touch of warmth at that moment, and Tang Kaiyuan's appearance made him recall his childhood memories."
Bai Li stood in the same place, and he stood beside Lu Zhao.
But Lu Zhao did not look at him.
——"The warmth of his youth swept through his chest again, and Lu Zhao remembered the ideals he had talked about and the future he had talked about. He was bright and shining in those futures, not here, with overlapping bite marks on his neck, being bound in this house."
——"In this world, besides himself, perhaps only Tang Kaiyuan still remembers what he used to look like."
The description of the original book flashed through his mind like a movie scene, and Bai Li closed his eyes.
Maybe it's here. Bai Li felt that he was split in half, one half was praying, and the other half was coldly saying, it's today.
He looked at Lu Zhao, who lowered his eyes, his brows wrinkled tighter and tighter as Tang Kaiyuan kept talking, and his lips moved as if he wanted to say something. Bai Li thought that if this day really came, he might feel embarrassed, or he might feel finally relieved, but when he really looked at Lu Zhao's face, he found that he had no idea.
His mind seemed to have left his body and disappeared into the dark universe.
There were no stars there.
He fell into a quagmire, which was filled with violence, anger, and unwillingness. In his nightmare, his soul had struggled in it, but now the quagmire was full and almost buried him.
Lu Zhao's brows furrowed more and more, and more and more images appeared in his memory. It seemed that extra memories were forced into his mind with Tang Kaiyuan's voice, which made him feel an unspeakable pain, and his temples jumped.
Pheromones with the smell of alcohol overwhelmed everything around him. Lu Zhao opened his mouth subconsciously and blurted out according to his instinct: "Bai Li."
Lu Zhao felt a fear he had never felt before, and his intuition told him that something was wrong. He couldn't pull his hand back, his body was nailed to the spot like a nail, only his lips opened and closed, and he shouted again: "Bai Li."
Then, a huge pressure suddenly pressed down, and in just a moment, the smell of alcohol was dispelled. Lu Zhao felt Tang Kaiyuan's hand shaking, and the feeling of being pulled disappeared abruptly. Lu Zhao came back to his senses, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He looked carefully and found that Bai Li's hand covered him and pulled him back.
"Take your hand away," Bai Li's voice was very light, which was completely inconsistent with his uncontrollable pheromones, "Don't touch him."
Tang Kaiyuan was not unfamiliar with this feeling of being pressed down and unable to breathe. His smile froze at the corner of his mouth, and he almost subconsciously wanted to retreat.
Unpleasant memories from his youth resurfaced in his mind. If for Tang Xiao, Old Man Bai was a huge mountain weighing on his head, then for Tang Kaiyuan, Bai Li was undoubtedly a peak that he could never surpass in his youth.
This brother of the opposite sex seemed to be born with the synonym of "toughness". He always walked around the aristocratic balls with that attractive face, wearing the military dress that many people envied and yearned for, and glanced at Tang Kaiyuan casually.
The young ladies and gentlemen of the nobles always talked about who was lucky enough to marry such a Bai Li, and every time this happened, Tang Kaiyuan's name would be mentioned. What followed was always that sentence - "Even brothers, not all of them have a promising future."
Bai Li was once a ray of light that made Tang Kaiyuan look dim.
That light once marched forward courageously, cutting through thorns and brambles, and was invincible.
But now...
Tang Kaiyuan stood in the banquet hall shining with bright light, looking at Bai Li's expressionless face, and then moved downwards, his eyes fell on Bai Li's leg injury.
He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
But now, Bai Li has been extinguished.
Tang Kaiyuan looked at Bai Li's face again, and the eyes that once gave him a contemptuous look were filled with countless emotions, hostility, vigilance, anger, and mania.
Those were no longer the proud eyes in his memory.
Tang Kaiyuan was relieved but also a little disappointed. This time when he returned to the main star, he also wanted to fight with Bai Li, who once suppressed him. He knew that Lu Zhao and Bai Li were married. When he thought of Bai Li's not-so-good reputation in the outside world over the years, he felt sorry for Lu Zhao.
At this moment, the aggressiveness in Bai Li's pheromones could not be restrained at all. How could such a manic alpha give his omega the care and consideration he deserved?
"Mr. Bai Li," Tang Kaiyuan's voice was filled with a trace of dissatisfaction and anger, "How can you hold his hand so hard? Lu Zhao is different from you. He wants to drive a mecha."
Bai Li heard the sound of a nerve collapse in his head.
Lu Zhao's hand was pinched and hurt, but he didn't feel pain. There was a familiar warmth in Bai Li's palm. He breathed a sigh of relief and finally felt his five senses return to his body, instead of being trapped in the huge waves of memories in his mind. His head was still hurting, and he couldn't hear the conversation between Tang Kaiyuan and Bai Li clearly, but he could sense that something was wrong with Bai Li, and could only squeeze out a sound from between his teeth: "It's okay, Bai Li."
But then, a wave of pheromones wrapped in fury rushed over him, causing him to palpitate.
He heard Bai Li whisper in his ear: "Why did you let him hold your hand?" It
was very soft, very aggrieved, and very scared.
The pheromones surged, but it was not a stable output.
The uncontrollable alpha pheromones brought tremendous pressure. Situ felt his scalp tingling, and a wave of mania was immediately connected, causing a splitting headache.
"Crazy!" Jiang Hao's voice came over, "Crazy! Bai Li, you are in your f*cking susceptible period!"
Situ saw from the corner of his eye that his younger brother Si Dong could no longer bear the pressure, and squatted down with his head covered. The screams of omegas and the roars of alphas around him rang out. There were not many alphas of Bai Li's level in the aristocratic circle. At this moment, this pheromone that brought a sense of tyranny almost made all the alphas present fall into anxiety and pain.
"We have to stop him!" Situ tried to rush over and pull Bai Li away, shouting, "Bai Li is a fucking bomb during his susceptible period! He's out of control!"
Another pheromone suddenly soared up and collided with Bai Li. Tang Kaiyuan stretched out his hand to Lu Zhao and hurriedly shouted, "Lu Zhao, you have to leave here first! Alphas can do anything during their susceptible period, go!"
In full view of everyone, Bai Li raised his leg and stomped towards Tang Kaiyuan.
Lu Zhao's mind was still echoing with Bai Li's words.
"Why did you let him hold your hand?"
Lu Zhao felt like he was going crazy. Under the pressure of pheromones, at this moment, the only thought he could think of was this.
He was angry.
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