Medical instruments made a slight "beeping" sound, and there was a fruity scent mixed with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

Mrs. Tang was concentrating on peeling the fruit in her hand. The bruises and scratches on her face were still obvious, and one of her eyes was swollen, which looked a little funny.

The peel was cut several times because of her shaking hands. She took a deep breath to calm her mood and trembling body.

The slightly fat man on the bed moved in a coma. She glanced at him and continued her hand movements.

But her thoughts were still in the old Tang family house yesterday evening.

On the evening of the 17th, Tang Xiao received news that Tang Kaiyuan attacked Bai Li after losing the game.

At that time, Tang Xiao had just beaten her up.

Mrs. Tang's investigation of the machine was exposed, and Tang Xiao was very angry.

For Tang Xiao, Mrs. Tang is probably the character he can control the most. But now even this quiet and docile omega dares to do something behind his back, which makes Tang Xiao feel that his dignity has been challenged.

In addition, he has not been very happy recently. The public opinion and Lin Sheng's matter have made him afraid to leave the house, and he was scolded by the first heir.

Not to mention that Tang Kaiyuan lost the live broadcast competition completely.

Mrs. Tang became a punching bag, because she didn't have to leave the house, so the bruises finally spread to her face.

When the call came in, Tang Xiao had just calmed down some of his anger, but he was still panting, his face was like pig liver, and he took the personal terminal to the small lounge next door to answer the call.

Mrs. Tang got up from the ground. The voice of the call was a little low, and she moved forward cautiously.

The first thing she heard was Tang Xiao's roar: "I know! I know he lost!"

The person on the other end of the line said a few more words, and Tang Kaiyuan's anger was suppressed in an instant. She was suspicious: "What?! You mean he... Impossible!... He really?"

This tone made Mrs. Tang's heart skip a beat.

"What do you mean he's crazy!" Tang Xiao went from suspicion to panic, "... He just can't control his pheromones well, that's okay, right? I'll spend money to settle these-"

He stopped suddenly as if his neck was strangled. A few seconds later, Mrs. Tang heard his unbelievable voice.

"He stabbed someone?" Tang Xiao said, "Who did he stab? Bai Li?"

Mrs. Tang's hands suddenly lost strength and fell to the ground.

Her mind was blank, and she only felt that she was thrown into the bottomless ice sea.

After the person on the other end of the line gave a brief answer, Tang Xiao was silent for a long while, then asked with a slight tremor: "Is Bai Li dead?"

Mrs. Tang did not hear the rest of the words.

She sat on the ground woodenly for a while, then slowly stood up.

In the small lounge, Tang Xiao was still asking which hospital Tang Kaiyuan was taken to, and he was contacting people to do public relations to suppress the news. He was cursing inaudibly and smashing things at hand on the ground to vent his anger.

Mrs. Tang took out the medicine box, prepared the medicine that Tang Xiao was going to take, paused, and added one more pill. She knew that Tang Xiao would never care about the dosage.

She straightened her clothes that were torn into a mess, and stood there quietly waiting for Tang Xiao to come out.

While waiting, she heard Bai Li's name again, followed by words like "leg" and "hospitalization". Bai Li's leg injury relapsed and he was rushed to the military hospital.

Mrs. Tang's fingers dug into her palm and made it bleed.

Ten minutes later, Tang Xiao walked out of the small lounge with a red face and bloodshot eyes, and glanced at her: "Your son did this!"

"Are you going out?" Mrs. Tang asked softly, her head down, staring at the pattern on the carpet.

"Kaiyuan was asked to be hospitalized, saying he had a mental breakdown! I have to go to the hospital to see if he can come to his senses!" Tang Xiao swore, "The hospital only exaggerates the facts! It's just... humph, it's just a scratch, he was just overwhelmed by the mental power, he will be fine after a rest!"

Mrs. Tang clearly felt that Tang Kaiyuan's problem was probably hopeless.

If he stopped using the machine in time, he might be able to recover to normal with later care, but he not only used it again before this game, but also increased the intensity.

A person's tolerance is limited, he thinks too highly of himself.

But Mrs. Tang did not say these. She handed the small dish with medicine to Tang Xiao: "Take the medicine before going."

Tang Xiao said "trouble" impatiently, grabbed it and swallowed it, then picked up the coat hanging on the hanger, glanced at Mrs. Tang's face again, frowned and smacked her lips: "Don't go yet, look at you like this, others will think I did something to you."

"I'll take you to the door." Mrs. Tang wiped her face.

This gentleness pleased Tang Xiao, he did not refuse, pushed open the door and walked away while cursing.

Sometimes he cursed the machine, and sometimes he cursed Bai Li. Mrs. Tang followed behind him with a calm face, and only smiled and nodded when he turned around to ask for her approval.

Tang Xiao, who was walking in front, began to curse less and less. His steps began to stagger, his body was swaying, his breathing was rapid, and he had to walk slower because of dizziness.

He had a hunch that something was wrong, and stopped at the stairs holding the handrail.

"What's the matter?" He even had difficulty speaking, "I'm dizzy..." His

vision was blurred, and the stairs under his feet seemed to be far away and near, floating in the air.

Mrs. Tang, who was following behind him, seemed not to hear his shouting. She kept walking, passed him, went down two steps, and then suddenly stopped, turned her head and looked up at him slightly.

"Come over and hold me!" Tang Xiao cursed, panting, "Can't you see I'm not feeling well?"

Mrs. Tang still looked at him like that.

Tang Xiao couldn't see her expression clearly due to the blurry vision, but he only felt that the eyes looking at him were full of frost, which made him shudder.

"Don't you want to know how the news of you splashing dirty water on Baili got out?" Mrs. Tang suddenly spoke.

Tang Xiao held the handrail and smelled the pheromones on Mrs. Tang, which made him even more dizzy. The

pheromones of alpha can make omega fall into an estrus that they can't extricate themselves from, and the pheromones of omega can also arouse the deepest desires in the hearts of alphas, making their rationality shake.

Tang Xiao shook his head: "What do you mean?"

"I recovered the data from your personal terminal and social account and transferred it to my hands," Mrs. Tang said gently, "and then released it."

Her voice was like a soft dough, but it rubbed Tang Xiao's nerves hard.

"What did you say?!" A burst of anger went straight to the top of his head. Tang Xiao let go of the handrail and punched Mrs. Tang's head, "You bitch!"

With the intense ups and downs of emotions, Tang Xiao felt his heart suddenly tightened, and he couldn't breathe for a moment. His brain was lacking oxygen and his eyes went black. The

sweet and delicate pheromone smell of Omega enveloped him like an explosion. He reacted almost immediately, his body was slightly weak, and he couldn't help but grab the source of the pheromone.

This slight feeling of weakness was not serious for the alpha, but it had a fatal effect because of Tang Xiao's physical condition and the place he was in.

His body tilted forward, and he lost his sense of balance in dizziness, and rolled directly onto the platform below the stairs.

Mrs. Tang lifted her skirt and ran down, without stopping for a moment, gritting her teeth and pushing Tang Xiao's fat body from the platform down again, until he rolled completely down the stairs and lay on the ground like a dead pig, unable to move.

Tang Xiao, lying on the cold floor, was like a pile of rotten meat. Apart from a few "hehe" moans from his throat, there was only labored breathing.

Mrs. Tang couldn't help shaking her body, and she couldn't tell whether she was afraid or excited.

"...bitch..." Tang Xiao uttered incoherently.

"You feel dizzy," Mrs. Tang tried hard not to let her voice tremble, and slowly went down a few steps, standing at a higher place and looking at him, "Your heart is beating fast, you can't breathe, your spirit is a little scattered, and you can't concentrate on releasing pheromones, right?"

Tang Xiao was lying on the ground, his head hit hard in the process of rolling. He was not young anymore. In addition to the diseases brought by age, unhealthy obesity, bad eating habits and alcoholism made his body just a shell, and he could not withstand such a level of impact.

"I changed your medicine to a concentrated pill, one pill for the original 2-3 pills, but the ingredients are the same," Mrs. Tang said, "so that even if you are checked, you will only be considered to have overdosed - and you always overdosed. I have checked this medicine, and overdosing can cause dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, low mental strength and other symptoms."

The medicine had been changed long ago, and Tang Xiao had been overdosing for several days without knowing it. She

originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to do it, but today she couldn't bear it.

With one more pill, plus the pheromone temptation, Tang Xiao was caught off guard and fell down the stairs.

"Doctor...doctor..." Tang Xiao spoke incoherently, "You...are finished..."

"You will miss the best time for treatment," Mrs. Tang said with a trembling voice, "Wait a little longer. The housekeeper is not here today, you can still lie on the ground for a while longer."

Tang Xiao felt that he was going to be burned to ashes by anger. He hated it so much that he wanted to scream, but his whole body was paralyzed and he couldn't move. He opened his mouth and yelled a few times, saliva flowing out: "Why...why..."

Submission has been engraved in your bones. You should have been scared and numb by the beatings.

If you had backbone, you would have resisted long ago. You have been through so many years, why can't you bear it anymore. With

her hands and feet still shaking, Mrs. Tang stood up straight, raised her hand to tuck her hair behind her ears, and raised her bruised face.

"My life is ruined. I have made it like this," she walked downstairs in her thin high heels and stood a few steps away from Tang Xiao. "I can't blame anyone. I deserve it."

Tang Xiao stared at her.

The next second, Mrs. Tang turned around suddenly and shouted hoarsely, "But you shouldn't touch my child!"

The hysterical roar made her jade-like voice break, and the deep hatred burst out from it.

The sound of rain and thunder outside the house was intertwined, and the old Tang family house was brightly lit. She was like a beast in the light, and the ferocity in her eyes made Tang Xiao shudder for a moment.

He felt that if he gave her a knife now, Mrs. Tang would stab him in the chest the next moment.

"But I was too weak, so I was a step slower. If I had known, I should have given you... I will pay for my mistake and be punished." Mrs. Tang recovered her strength and looked down at Tang Xiao, "Don't even think about escaping."

Tang Xiao panted, stared at her for a few seconds, and pulled the corners of his mouth.

A burst of alpha pheromones suddenly rose, and the glands on the back of Mrs. Tang's neck were numb and itchy. Her body could not help but react. She fell to the ground, her face flushed with a sickly red, and her legs were clamped together.

Reason made her want to escape immediately, but her body spontaneously took a deep breath, trying to absorb more pheromones into her lungs.

She struggled to climb the stairs. Her finely crafted skirt was torn. Her delicate skin was scratched by the edges of the stairs. The pain made her more conscious.

Fortunately, Tang Xiao's body could no longer support the release of pheromones for a long time. He twitched all over and lay on the ground looking at Mrs. Tang and said, "You... can't leave me."

Mrs. Tang dug her glands with one hand, her nails sank so deep that she almost dug out a piece of flesh. Hearing this, she turned around and sneered, "Idiot."

This vulgar curse that was completely inconsistent with her background and education successfully made Tang Xiao roar in anger, but after this roar, he fainted completely.

After the pheromones that prevented her from moving freely dissipated, Mrs. Tang finally regained control of her body. The back of her neck was numb because of the excessive pain.

"Calm down," she swiped her bloody hands on her skirt and muttered to herself, "Calm down, it's okay, I've already thought about what to do first, and then..."

Bai Li's face flashed through her mind, and she let out a sob.

After the sob, she immediately got up and ran to the study.

Tang Xiao probably never thought that she, the background board, had already memorized the password to the safe in the study.

She took out several storage devices and data files inside, and connected to her personal terminal for repeated confirmation before finally breathing a sigh of relief.

Police staff and medical personnel arrived at the Tang family's old house at the same time in the early morning of the 18th.

When they walked through the gate, they saw Tang Xiao with a crooked mouth and squinting eyes and Mrs. Tang with a bruised face and nose.

Mrs. Tang was sitting on the stairs in a daze, her skirt was torn and her exposed skin was covered with marks of violence, but she had her hair tied up high, revealing her slender neck

and the horrible back of her neck.

In the midst of the chaos, the medical staff put a blanket on Mrs. Tang. Captain Tong, who led the police station, was a little embarrassed: "Madam, what exactly happened? Please tell us in detail after receiving treatment..."

Before he finished speaking, his arms were filled with the memory stick and miscellaneous things that Mrs. Tang handed over.

"Here," Mrs. Tang said, "How about a white calendar?"

This fruit peel was perfectly peeled. Mrs. Tang put it aside and picked up the next one to continue.

There were already several peeled fruits on the small table, from the initial bumps to the current perfection.

Mrs. Tang's hands were no longer shaking.

Tang Xiao on the hospital bed finally regained some consciousness. He opened his eyes and saw himself sticking out of the ward. Then he turned his head and met Mrs. Tang's indifferent gaze.

"It seems...Puzhi..." He struggled to move, but found that his limbs could not be coordinated and he could not support the whole body. His crooked mouth would drool as soon as he opened his mouth. He really couldn't speak clearly.

The nurse who happened to come in held him down: "Mr. Tang, you can't move now."

"The doctor said you hit your head. If you find it too late, you will have permanent sequelae." Mrs. Tang said softly, "Don't be afraid, I will take care of you."

Tang Xiao's eyes were wide open.

"Don't worry about my son," Mrs. Tang lowered her head and pressed her eyes, "I will arrange for Kaiyuan to receive the best treatment. His condition..." Speaking of this, Mrs. Tang still felt uncomfortable. She paused and said, "He needs to rest. The scenery of the B20 satellite star is very good, and there is also a suitable hospital. I will arrange for him to go as soon as possible."

Tang Kaiyuan left the main star, and Tang Xiao was unable to move, which meant that Mrs. Tang was the only one who could move in the Tang family.

Tang Xiao struggled to sit up, but he could only wriggle slightly on the bed like a maggot.

"Don't be too sad, Madam. The wound on your face has just been medicated," the nurse hurriedly comforted, and glanced at Tang Xiao with disgust. Without saying much, she just stroked Mrs. Tang's back, "I have changed the medicine for Mr., if there is anything, can you call me?"

Mrs. Tang nodded gratefully: "Thank you."

The nurse hurriedly said no, and walked out of the ward after saying a few words.

The door closed, the footsteps faded away, and Mrs. Tang's gentle expression faded. She picked up the fruit and continued to peel it: "You know, it was me who let you find me to investigate that machine."

Tang Xiao looked confused.

"The more pressure you put on me, the harder you hit me, and the more marks you will leave," Mrs. Tang smiled, "so that people outside can see it clearly."

"Crack!" Tang Xiao coughed.

"While you were asleep, the photo of my face has probably spread on StarNet," Mrs. Tang brushed her hair and said gently, "and the police department should have read everything from the memory device."

Tang Xiao was stunned for two seconds, then he trembled with fear and anger: "蔔...蔔..."

He wanted to say "bitch", but because he hit his head when he rolled down the stairs, his brain nerves were damaged, so he could only utter the word "蔔", and spit out a lot of saliva.

Mrs. Tang nodded happily: "Yes, yes, it's the record of Lin Sheng and the first heir messing around with those young people in the club."

Her tone and innocent expression were the same as when they first met, but at this moment Tang Xiao felt only shocked and angry.

"Actually, I originally wanted to kill you first," Mrs. Tang said softly, "but you are still useful now. It's not because I can't live without you, but because the Tang Group will be in a lot of trouble if it collapses now. I still have a lot of things to do, and your name is still useful."

These words made Tang Xiao's fear overwhelm his anger, and he glanced at the fruit knife in Mrs. Tang's hand.

"And then I thought about it, sometimes it's better to live in pain," Mrs. Tang stood up. She had changed into casual clothes given by the kind nurses in the hospital, but she was still wearing high heels. She walked to a medical instrument that was in operation and stopped. "Do you know what this is?"

Before Tang Xiao could answer, Mrs. Tang said, "This is a machine that regularly adds repair fluid to your injection. It's amazing, isn't it? It can also relieve pain, so you won't have too much of a headache."

"When I was young, I liked to tinker with these things. I just looked up the structure of this machine, and found an old classmate who worked in medical equipment to learn about its operating principles. Then I found that with a little manipulation, the repair fluid can be prevented from being injected," Mrs. Tang stroked a corner of the machine and looked at Tang Xiao, "but it looks like it's operating normally on the outside. In this way, even if I replace the drug and prevent you from releasing pheromones, no one will find out."

Tang Xiao's heart sank little by little, swallowed by despair.

"I will transfer you to a private hospital later. Don't worry, it's run by my friend," Mrs. Tang said softly. "I asked someone to find the nurse who will take care of you, but you will only come into contact with robots, of course, robots that I have touched before. You should have a good rest and try not to stay in bed for the rest of your life."

Tang Xiao felt his head start to hurt again. He lay motionless in bed with black eyes.

"Speaking of nurses, I really have no one to turn to," Mrs. Tang said with some annoyance, "so I can only contact the former housekeeper of the Bai family. The old housekeeper is in good health and immediately introduced me to a suitable candidate."

Bai family.

This nightmare-like existence once again shrouded the rest of Tang Xiao's life.

A call notification sounded in her ears. Mrs. Tang picked it up and took a look. She apologized, "I have something else to do. I have to go first. The nurse will be here soon. Don't worry. I told you to rest and no one will come to see you - but now they probably don't want to come."

She put the peeled fruit on the table and let it oxidize and rot.

Mrs. Tang picked up her beautiful bag, stepped on her high heels, and walked out gracefully.

Her high ponytail swayed slightly as she walked, revealing the back of her neck covered with gauze.

Bai Ying walked out the door, raised her bruised face in front of everyone, and answered the call with a nervous and anxious expression: "...Yes, I'll go now, alone!"

The two adults who were almost crying and hugging each other came to their senses. It was already dark, and the dampness brought by the night rain flowed into the house through the open window.

Lu Zhao closed the window. He was completely calm. His mind became clearer after venting his emotions.

Bai Li on the hospital bed had already dozed off. He had just received another dose of analgesic injection. The side effects and fatigue after the high fever made him drowsy.

He couldn't resist the sleepiness, put his arms over his eyes, and hummed vaguely: "My eyes are swollen, and I don't have the image of a fierce A anymore."

Lu Zhao really didn't understand Bai Li's obsession with the word "fierce", but he still walked over and asked: "Are you uncomfortable with the swelling?"

"Hmm."

He knocked on Bai Li's arm that was covering his face like knocking on a door, and said softly: "Let me see."

"Swelling under the eyes is ugly." Bai Da Shaoye was not happy.

But when Lu Zhao tentatively pulled his wrist, he found that he had easily removed Bai Li's arm.

The exposed eyes were still slightly red, as if they were thoroughly soaked in wine. When he half-squinted and looked at Lu Zhao, he brought out a little light that made people feel tipsy.

Lu Zhao felt that Bai Li really did what he said.

He would only make him more addicted.

"My upper eyelids are so heavy that I can't open them," Bai Li was drowsy, "It's still hot, feel it."

Before the expected touch of fingers came, Bai Li felt his eyelids touch Lu Zhao's lips first.

Warm and soft, covering his heavy and slight pain.

Except for the initial period of mutual testing and consideration, they never had any doubts or hesitations about their feelings for each other, so there has never been a lot of intimate contact, and Bai Li is also keen on kisses and hugs, but today is a little different.

Probably because Bai Li has not recovered from the impact of Lu Zhao's three words.

Human language is very magical.

The kiss after "I love you", even if it is just a light touch, can bring more heart palpitations than before.

Master Bai immediately blushed from the tip of his ear to the base of his neck.

"I told you to touch me with your hands!!" He was awakened from his sleepiness at this moment, and he covered his face and shouted, "Can you stop making surprise attacks all the time?!"

Lu Zhao was shocked by the speed of his face flushing instantly, and after a few seconds he said woodenly, "I couldn't help it."

"...Don't talk," Bai Li said, "Give me a moment to breathe."

Lu Zhao pinched his red ear tips, knowing that he was shy again. Master Bai was very good at being a hooligan, but when he was beaten passively, his face seemed as thin as paper.

He was a little amused and wanted to say "shy again", but suddenly remembered that he had said the same thing to Bai Li in the main arena. It hadn't become like this at that time.

"Go to sleep for a while," Lu Zhao's mood dropped, but he didn't show it. He paused and whispered, "She's here, I'll go see her."

Bai Li's expression couldn't be seen because he was covering his face. He was silent for a few seconds, and then he said "hmm".

"It's okay." Lu Zhao could only comfort him dryly, "I'll be back soon."

"Oh," Bai Li said, "Don't worry, Li Li is old enough to stay in the ward for a few minutes by herself."

His tone was quite relaxed, and Lu Zhao's mouth curled up, and he tried to pull Bai Li's hand again.

This time Li Li refused to obey, covering her red face tightly, and Lu Zhao didn't pull her hard anymore. He kissed the back of Bai Li's hand, and then he took his own hand and walked out of the ward.

Bai Li slowly put down his hands after the sound of the door closing.

He rubbed his brows, which were numb from sleepiness, and sighed when he thought of Lu Zhao. He took out his personal terminal from under the pillow and flipped through the address book.

The military hospital was brightly lit at night. Compared with the noise on the lower floors, the high-end ward floor could be considered quiet.

Lu Zhao turned a corner and saw a man standing in the rest area of ​​the corridor with his back to him. He seemed to be in no mood to sit on the chair. He turned around quickly when he heard the noise.

"Major General Lu!" Bai Ying came up and asked anxiously, "How is Bai Li?"

"He slept." Lu Zhao said lightly, "Very tired, legs hurt."

Lu Zhao and Bai Ying really had nothing to say, especially today. Lu

Zhao didn't really want to see anyone who had anything to do with Tang's.

But these few short words were enough to make Bai Ying take two steps back with a pale face: "Then, what did the doctor say?"

"The injury is very serious. He will be hospitalized for pain relief first. The experts are still discussing the follow-up treatment." Lu Zhao replied, "He can't play in the game."

If the first few sentences brought Bai Ying a piercing pain, then the second half of Lu Zhao's sentence was an overwhelming bitterness.

She knew very well that physical pain is far less destructive than mental torture. Bai Li was so close to the final victory, but now it is all gone.

There is nothing more devastating than the despair after having no hope.

"Do you want to see him?" Lu Zhao asked.

"If I see him like this, it will only make him feel worse." Bai Ying touched her face, "Besides, the matter has not been completely resolved. How can I have the face to see him?"

Lu Zhao frowned. He was a little puzzled by "the matter has not been completely resolved", but he intuitively felt that Bai Ying seemed a little different.

She didn't cry and her mind seemed clear.

This is good, a good time to talk.

It seems that Bai Ying did not intend to disturb Bai Li from the beginning. She called Lu Zhao to find out the situation, but Lu Zhao still told Bai Li.

Bai Li also did not want to see Bai Ying. When the call came in, he was still in a state of emotional distress. He just asked Lu Zhao to meet him once and deal with it. But Lu Zhao had his own things to deal with.

"I have a recording in my hand," Lu Zhao said bluntly, "The content is very simple. Tang Xiao said in person that he wanted to take over the Bai family's property and hoped that Tang... Madman could eventually replace Bai Li."

Bai Ying reacted for two seconds, then remembered the scene on the cruise ship and nodded immediately, "Yes, he did say that. More than once, but unfortunately I..." She bit her lip, secretly hating her previous weakness, "I'm sorry."

"I will hand the recording to the police station," Lu Zhao said lightly, "but there are also contents related to you in it, so I think I still have to tell you."

He didn't point it out, but Bai Ying knew very well that this was talking about Tang Xiao beating her.

Bai Ying's expression was a little dazed, and when Lu Zhao thought she would not speak again, he heard her firm answer.

"As soon as possible," said Shiraha, "I can cooperate with all investigations if necessary."