Chapter 152: Blindfold
"I'm... really useless."
As he finished speaking, Qi Shaoyou felt a deep weariness seeping from his very bones.
It was as if all her struggles over the past few days had been in vain. In the darkness, she couldn't see Su Yan's expression, but she could feel that gaze fixed on her. This made her even more determined to see Su Yan clearly.
“If it were just about money, there would be no need for all this trouble…” She turned her head away, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible, “I have over twenty million in savings in my account.”
"I'll transfer everything to you, not a single penny will be left."
"There's no need to make yourself like this..."
At this point, the reason Su Yan kidnapped her was the last thing she needed to pursue...
After she left, that money was originally going to be donated anyway.
If it's given to Su Yan, at worst she can just go back to living off her past successes after the show ends.
This is where the advantage of having your agent as a friend comes in.
“Miss Su,” she heard her own voice in the darkness, so calm it was unfamiliar even to herself, “you didn’t have to go this far.”
“Miss Qi,” came a soft laugh in response, a laugh with an indescribable warmth, “what do you think… I’m after?”
“When did I ever say,” the voice drew closer, its warm breath almost brushing against his ear, “that I invited you here to rob you?”
Qi Shaoyou's heart trembled slightly at her tone.
"Qi Shaoyou," Su Yan said, pronouncing each word clearly, "What I want is for you to give me a chance to live."
Absurd! This was the most absurd thing she had ever heard...
Qi Shaoyou almost burst out laughing.
A chance to live? She herself is about to die, yet she gives others a chance to live? When did she become someone who can live in other people's lives?
This statement was as if it transformed her from an ant manipulated by fate into a god who controls destiny.
“Miss Su, you must have misunderstood.” She leaned back, trying to avoid Su Yan’s hand. “In my current state… how could I possibly have the ability to influence anyone’s life?”
Silence spread through the darkness, and Qi Shaoyou even thought that Su Yan would not speak again.
After a long, long time, she heard a very soft sigh. Even though it was just a sigh, she could tell it was Su Yan's voice.
"You have."
“My glands… have also reached the atrophy stage.” Su Yan’s voice lowered, but her words pierced Qi Shaoyou’s ears like needles. “The doctor said that unless I find a perfectly matched Alpha to mark, otherwise…”
"I will die too."
She paused.
"I searched for a long time before I found that person, and it was you."
Qi Shaoyou's breath caught in his throat for a moment.
"Temporary marking won't work, absolute marking... is even worse."
She spoke hastily, her throat tightening and her voice becoming distorted: "Miss Su, you may be mistaken. There is absolutely no way that I am the only alpha in this world who can be a perfect match for you."
"Why...why bother with someone like me who's destined to die?" Her voice trailed off. "The requirements for treating my glandular atrophy are too high, far too high..."
“Once the mark is made, it means we live and die together.” The last few words were almost swallowed back down his throat. “What you want is to live, not to die, isn’t it?”
After being completely deprived of sight by darkness, hearing becomes exceptionally acute.
She could hear the sound of Su Yan's fingertips rubbing together, and she could also discern the subtle rise and fall of her breath.
Qi Shaoyou could even imagine the expression on her face when she said those words.
She would definitely help with anything else. But she really couldn't give me a definitive label.
“There is no one else.” Su Yan’s voice carried an almost cruel ease. “I checked every registered Alpha. No matter how many times I checked, the result was the same. There is no one else but you.”
“So, Qi Shaoyou,” she took a step forward, an invisible pressure descending, “even knowing this is the only way out… are you still going to refuse me?”
These past few days together had been enough for Su Yan to figure out her weaknesses. Kindness is a cage, and a sense of responsibility is a chain. And right now, these very qualities were binding Qi Shaoyou firmly in place, nailing him to the cross.
"I……"
Before any words of refusal could even form in Qi Shaoyou's mouth, her mind was a jumbled mess of information.
All her words were sealed in a sudden kiss.
Her neck was gently gripped; the force was not painful, but it demonstrated Su Yan's unquestionable sense of control.
But the touch of Su Yan on Qi Shaoyou's lips was soft and gentle, as if she were afraid of breaking something.
A person with such forceful movements, yet whose kisses are so tender they make your heart tremble.
Su Yan is a person full of contradictions.
Looking at the person, Qi Shaoyou felt as if he were peering at a flower in a mirror through a thick fog; the harder he tried to discern, the more blurred and indistinct the image became.
But it was precisely this inability to see clearly that aroused Qi Shaoyou's almost obsessive desire to explore.
She wanted to see the true face behind the thick fog, and to understand every contradiction in Su Yan's heart.
The moment this thought arose, she suddenly realized that the glands on her neck were starting to feel hot to the touch.
The glands, which had been dormant for a long time, began to heat up, and pheromones boiled in the blood.
If the glands were still atrophied, Qi Shaoyou would never have felt this way. She wanted to get closer, she wanted to possess him, she even wanted to completely merge the person before her into her own essence…
This almost instinctive desire terrified her and made her tremble...
No, no... Qi Shaoyou felt that his glands were about to burst open. Something was wrong!
This would never have happened to her before, so why is it happening? What's the reason?
Suddenly, Qi Shaoyou remembered his dream from last night.
if……
What if... that wasn't a dream she had? Qi Shaoyou gasped, feeling like he was going crazy.
What exactly did she do? Qi Shaoyou's breathing became unstable, and the pheromones in the air reflected this.
"Qi Shaoyou," Su Yan stepped back slightly, her breath unsteady as she whispered against her lips, "to be so distracted during a kiss... you really are going too far..."
“However…” Before she could respond, she kissed him again, this time with a light, punishing bite. “It’s okay. I’m not a very gentle person either.”
"It was wrong of me to insist on this matter today. Qi Shaoyou, I will make it up to you in the future."
"But I really want to live, I need to live..."
It was her fault... She will make it up to her...
...What did she do wrong? What compensation is needed? What did Su Yan do wrong?
Qi Shaoyou's thoughts were already a tangled mess. All his rationality and ability to organize his thoughts were defeated by his gradually recovering glands.
Her mind was hazy, and she felt herself slowly falling. She couldn't hold onto anyone, and the only thing in the world seemed to be the scent of roses at the tip of her nose.
Her glands were burning, burning her whole body with pain...
Her blood was boiling; all she needed to do was pierce the petals of the rose in front of her to get everything she wanted.
A long-dormant instinct belonging to Alphas is awakening.
thirsty.
She was very thirsty.
It felt as if all the moisture in his body had evaporated in an instant, and his blood flowed slowly in his dried-up veins. His glands were burning hot, and a restlessness surged up from deep within his spine, burning away the last shred of Qi Shaoyou's rationality.
Qi Shaoyou didn't know where the strength came from, but she suddenly broke free from the already weak restraints on her wrists.
The sound of tearing fabric was particularly clear in the silence, and the black cloth covering her eyes was also ripped off haphazardly and thrown away.
His vision suddenly returned, and Su Yan appeared starkly clear in front of Qi Shaoyou.
The next second, she had already pinned Su Yan down beneath her.
A dull thud came from the slightly hard hard wooden floor, and the brown wood grain stretched out beneath her.
Su Yan lay amidst that color, her long, dark hair spread out, making her skin appear even paler and colder.
She was so beautiful, almost unreal. It wasn't a gentle, warm beauty, but a sharp, aggressive one.
The man who was usually so aloof and self-possessed, seemingly untouched by worldly affairs, now had a look of almost defiant light in his eyes as she trapped him beneath her.
"You want to tag me, is that it?"
She looked up at her, her lips curving into a very faint smile, her voice soft and slow, like a feather brushing against the most sensitive skin.
"But Qi Shaoyou... can you really mark me properly like this?"
Every word is deliberately drawn out, and every syllable is imbued with a playful quality.
Qi Shaoyou's rationality finally snapped.
She couldn't hear anything anymore, only saw those opening and closing red lips, uttering words that made her blood boil.
She abruptly lowered her head and forcefully silenced that annoying mouth. The world fell silent.
The sensation of touch exploded in Qi Shaoyou's mind.
It was softer and more... alluring than she had imagined.
The moment their lips touched, that cool and subtle fragrance enveloped her, intertwining wildly with the burning desire in her blood.
Those mouths speak so awfully, yet when it comes to kissing... they're unexpectedly perfect. Is this what they call a 100% match?
She instinctively deepened the kiss, prying open her teeth to explore and capture that moisture and breath more deeply.
She vaguely felt as if she were kissing a rose.
The most beautiful and also the most dangerous kind.
The petals were incredibly tender; when pressed between the lips and teeth, it felt as if juice would overflow.
But beneath those beautiful petals lurked sharp thorns, and an unbearable itch that left her helpless…
The more she tried to get the fragrance, the more intensely it enveloped her.
Like the apple in the Garden of Eden, it began to tempt her to fall and succumb.
Su Yan trembled very slightly beneath her, but did not push her away.
Instead, her hand climbed up her back, her fingertips lightly brushing against Qi Shaoyou's back through the fabric.
That subtle movement caused Qi Shaoyou to lose control more than any direct response.
Qi Shaoyou released her lips and instead bit her vulnerable neck.
The sharp teeth lingered on the sensitive skin, and a danger alarm was sounded at that moment.
"Su Yan..." Qi Shaoyou's voice was hoarse beyond words, mixed with burning breath, "You asked for it."
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