Chapter 51
With a splash, Jiang Yun was put into the double bathtub filled with hot water.
Hot water overflows from the edge of the bathtub, and steaming mist rises slowly, filling the bathroom and slowly creating a private, soft space.
Lu Huai put Jiang Yun into the bathtub, but did not get in himself.
He turned on the shower next to the bathtub, thinking of taking a quick shower first to prevent his hot sweat from contaminating his wife's bath water.
Every night he spent with Jiang Yun, he would sweat all over with pheromones. Sometimes, the sweat would even drip onto Jiang Yun as he moved.
In terms of exercise volume, that pitiful amount was far from enough to make him sweat.
The reason he behaved like this was because he was trying hard to restrain himself.
Jiang Yun even accused him of being a liar, and he felt so wronged that he wanted to laugh.
When Jiang Yun is allowed to accompany him through a period of high susceptibility, Jiang Yun will behave himself.
Warm water poured down from the top of the young man's head. A small part formed two small pools in the depression of his collarbone, while more of it flowed down along the thin and tight muscles, disappearing into the hidden and dim light and shadow.
It’s a pity that no one appreciates this tense scene.
The only Omega who was qualified to watch this scene was currently lying in the bathtub with his eyes closed, his delicate and beautiful face full of fatigue and sleepiness.
It was almost time for breakfast. Lu Huai wanted Jiang Yun to eat something before going to sleep, so he called Jiang Yun several times, but Jiang Yun didn't respond.
Lu Huai turned off the shower, sat down on the edge of the bathtub, and said, "Aren't you still upset about the fact that we didn't talk afterward? Do you want to talk today?"
Jiang Yun's eyebrows moved slightly, and the tears in his eyes that had not yet dissipated began to flow again the moment he opened his eyes.
"We need to chat afterwards," Jiang Yun said, his eyes blurry as he forced himself to speak, "We need to... make up for the regrets."
Lu Huai's heart sank, and he reached out to lift Jiang Yun's face.
"Then let me check first - well, your eyes are swollen from crying, and your lips are swollen from kissing..." Lu Huai looked at Jiang Yun's eyes, which were tormented but still full of charm. Although he felt distressed, he did not regret it at all. "Baby, why are you swollen everywhere?"
Jiang Yun frowned in Lu Huai's palm, vaguely feeling that there was something wrong with the content of the subsequent conversation.
But he was so obsessed with the word "regret" that even though he knew Lu Huai had bad intentions, he couldn't help but respond to Lu Huai: "How dare you comment on my condition? Who hurt me?"
"Can you blame me for this? Both children are almost sixteen years old, but your reaction is still the same as before. You start crying as soon as you enter, and you can't handle it if it's a little excessive." Lu Huai deliberately teased, "I say, Jiang Yun, are you really a married woman who has been married for seventeen years?"
Jiang Yun took a deep breath, pretending not to hear Alpha's dirty talk, and stated slowly: "First of all, Colonel Lu himself doesn't look like a husband; secondly, how can I be your wife when you're not here?"
Lu Huai pretended to think and agreed: "That makes sense. You can really blame me for this." Lu Huai said, and then lowered his head and kissed Jiang Yun again, "I will definitely make it up to you in the future, at least make you more like a wife in bed."
Jiang Yun huddled in the hot water, his voice muffled in the water: "If this is the content of the chat afterward, then I'd better go to sleep."
Lu Huai couldn't help but laugh at his wife's cuteness. His heart was filled with joy and he stepped into the bathtub.
Although the bathtub was called a double bathtub, the actual space could accommodate four or five people without being crowded. But Lu Huai insisted on sticking close to Jiang Yun, and Jiang Yun was squeezed to the edge of the bathtub by him.
Jiang Yun couldn't stand it any longer. "If you want to take a bath, take a good bath and don't squeeze me."
Lu Huai: "But I just want to help you clean up."
Jiang Yun: "What do you want to clean? You're not in there... Take your hands out!"
Lu Huai: "Oh, yes, I forgot I just wore a condom for the first time in my life. Sorry, I was being empirical. Wait for me to make up another reason - you are so cute, I want to sleep with you again?"
Jiang Yun: “…”
Jiang Yun thought the bathtub was the end, but he didn't expect that he had just been washed clean by Lu Huai, his hair dried and laid on the bed for less than two minutes before he was picked up by Lu Huai again.
Jiang Yun was forced to sit on Lu Huai's waist, so weak that he didn't even have the strength to curse.
If Lu Huai hadn't held him, he wouldn't have been able to sit still.
Jiang Yun's eyes were filled with tears. With the remaining strength, he asked the question deep in his heart: "Lu Huai, you...are you still susceptible to the disease?"
Lu Huai looked up at him and said with a smile, "Hold on, Jiang Yun, don't faint. We still have to talk [afterwards]."
Jiang Yun weakly retorted: "We've already talked about this..."
Lu Huai, however, started to talk logically with Jiang Yun: "That's not right. Now it seems that what we just did should be considered as a [chat during the event], not a [chat after the event]."
Jiang Yun suddenly felt that he was not so obsessed with making up for his regrets. "Okay, you can shut up now."
…
The breakfast they had booked turned into lunch, but fortunately it still tasted great, and the housekeeper was so considerate as to replace the bread with freshly baked bread.
But those two extra times made Jiang Yun angry, and he refused to even look at the bread that was fed to his mouth.
Lu Huai remembered that Jiang Yun liked to eat this kind of sweet freshly baked bread, so he tried to coax him for a long time, but it was of no use.
In the end, Jiang Yun only drank a bowl of cream soup reluctantly, and then fell asleep in Lu Huai's arms.
The hotel suites can perfectly simulate the day and night environment throughout the year, so even if the day and night are reversed, it will not affect the guests' sleep.
When the sun was at its brightest at noon, Lu Huai switched his bedroom to night sleep mode.
The curtains block out the light and the walls muffle the sound.
I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't see anything, and time seemed to stand still at this moment.
Apart from his thoughts, it seemed as if nothing existed, and the whole world was dead silent.
He was about to face the darkness again.
He knew that he only needed a simple command to turn on the sleep light that would bring him light.
But he no longer needs it.
This was the first "night" he and Jiang Yun slept together after their reunion.
He was so excited that he didn't even have time to be afraid.
Lu Huai leaned against the head of the bed. A sleepless day and night didn't bring him any sleepiness.
He lay on his side next to Jiang Yun, supporting his chin with one hand on the bed, and interlocking his fingers with Jiang Yun's with the other hand under the quilt.
In the darkness, he couldn't see Jiang Yun's face, but he kept his head down and eyes cast down, as if... as if he could still see Jiang Yun in his mind.
In that vast world constructed solely by his consciousness, he could always find Jiang Yun's most likely current expression among the countless expressions he had seen.
——So what if it’s in perpetual night mode? He can still see his lover.
Perhaps because he was overworked, Jiang Yun slept very uneasily, his brows tensed and relaxed, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on the palms of his hands.
Lu Huai touched Jiang Yun's forehead and glands.
Jiang Yun's temperature was slightly elevated, but not to the point of a fever. The glands were heating up, probably because he'd injected too many pheromones.
Lu Huai used Jiang Yun's watch to measure Jiang Yun's hormone levels, and the results showed:
[We have detected that your hormone levels are about to exceed the threshold. Under normal circumstances, your estrus period will begin within a week. Please prepare in advance.]
There is still a week until the estrus period, and Jiang Yun's emotions will enter a less stable stage, but the body's reaction will not appear for a few days.
Is Jiang Yun having a nightmare now?
Lu Huai couldn't bear to wake up his wife, so he could only pat Jiang Yun's back and release soothing pheromones.
The nightmare that haunted Jiang Yun did not seem to dissipate.
Although Jiang Yun's breathing calmed down under the soothing effect of her husband's pheromones, her tears silently wet the pillow.
Lu Huai was startled when he felt the wetness on Jiang Yun's face. He quickly shook the thin body in his arms: "Jiang Yun?"
Lu Huai didn't turn on the light, and there was no Jiang Yun in his sight.
But he knew that Jiang Yun had opened his eyes.
Jiang Yun's hand carefully slid across the pillow. When it touched another body, he suddenly paused, and his voice was filled with disbelief: "...Colonel Lu?"
"It's me." Lu Huai asked him softly, "Are you having a nightmare?"
Jiang Yun nodded, then quickly shook his head.
It seemed that even he himself didn't know whether what was haunting him was a sweet dream or a nightmare.
"I...I'm dreaming." Jiang Yun murmured, "I'm dreaming again."
Lu Huai lowered his voice: "What did you dream about?"
Jiang Yun was silent for a long time, so long that when Lu Huai thought he would not get an answer, Jiang Yun actually took the initiative to curl up in his arms.
"...I'm sorry." Jiang Yun whispered.
Lu Huai was stunned: "What?"
"I'm sorry, Colonel Lu. I shouldn't have eaten that bread on the day you were taking me for a physical exam—the day before you were leaving for the mission. If I hadn't eaten it, you would have taken me to the hospital, and you would have known I was pregnant..." Jiang Yun clutched her husband's clothes tightly, tears streaming down her face, quickly wetting her husband's chest. "But I was really hungry at the time, I... I couldn't help myself... I'm sorry..."
Lu Huai was stunned for a moment.
He was so flustered that he didn't have time to feel the dull pain in his heart. He immediately picked up Jiang Yun and held him in his arms.
It was like holding a fragile baby in his arms, tightly and airtight, ensuring that every inch of Jiang Yun's skin fell into his arms.
"Baby, what are you talking about?" Lu Huai tried to comfort Jiang Yun with his usual relaxed tone, but the trembling at the end of his voice betrayed him mercilessly. "I couldn't come back to you seventeen years ago simply because I was too incompetent. It had nothing to do with you."
Jiang Yun's shoulders trembled slightly and tears fell silently.
"I'm sorry, Jiang Yun. I'm not strong enough. It's all my fault." Lu Huai hugged Jiang Yun tightly, his eyes red in the darkness, unknown to anyone. "Please, don't blame yourself anymore, okay."
Jiang Yun didn't say anything else and closed his eyes again.
"How long have you been thinking this? Have you always thought this way for the past seventeen years?" Lu Huai's throat felt like it was blocked by a sharp knife, and every movement of his lips was accompanied by intense pain. He smiled, his vision blurring as he tried to comfort his wife incoherently, "Don't do this, Jiang Yun... Please, don't do this, my heart is breaking..."
Jiang Yun seemed to have not yet woken up from his dream, and seemed to have fallen asleep again because he was too tired.
But he liked the smell lingering around him, and he also liked the feeling of being held in Lu Huai's arms and listening to him talk.
In his dream, Jiang Yun felt an unprecedented sense of security.
His brow gradually relaxed.
This might be the last time he has this dream.
He finally fell asleep peacefully in his husband's arms.
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