ISMW Chapter 33

This time, Pei Xingting didn’t laugh. He was shocked.

 

“Impossible.”

 

After denying Yu Chen’s words, Pei Xingting decided to take back what he said earlier—he felt that Yu Chen’s brain still had some issues, with a high probability of organic lesions.

 

See?

 

Yu Chen was still insisting on his delusion: “We really slept together. I’m a dog if I’m lying to you.”

 

“Impossible, absolutely impossible.” Pei Xingting started urging Yu Chen again, “Old Yu, come to the hospital quickly to check your brain. Active military personnel have to retire whether it’s a psychological or brain problem.”

 

“Fuck,” Yu Chen cursed. “I’m telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? I slept with him all night, I could even see the red mole on his eyelid clearly.”

 

“You bastard,” Pei Xingting also cursed. “You can see the red mole on his eyelid clearly without sleeping with the Third Highness. Besides, I have evidence that you didn’t sleep together. Show me your evidence that you did sleep together.”

 

Yun Xunlan wears a special light brain bracelet. If he’s going to engage in sexual activity, he must turn on silent mode, otherwise, if his heart rate exceeds the limit for more than ten minutes, the bracelet will sound an alarm.

 

And throughout last night, their medical team didn’t receive any notification of the bracelet entering silent mode. How did Yu Chen and Yun Xunlan sleep? Or is it that Yu Chen couldn’t last even ten minutes?

 

The top alpha of the Royal Guard’s First Guard couldn’t possibly only last ten minutes, right?

 

…Could he?

 

Adhering to the principle of rigorous truth-seeking, Pei Xingting asked: “Yu Chen, do you have premature ejaculation? I’ll say in advance, I can’t treat that, it’s not my specialty.”

 

Yu Chen cursed at him: “Are you sick?”

 

Pei Xingting was certain: “If it’s not premature ejaculation, then you definitely didn’t sleep together.”

 

Yu Chen indeed couldn’t produce evidence that he slept with Yun Xunlan, but the “evidence of not sleeping” that Pei Xingting mentioned puzzled him: “How do you have such evidence?”

 

Pei Xingting didn’t explain: “Don’t worry about it, I just do.”

 

“I indeed can’t produce evidence that I slept with him, but Pei Xingting, I’m telling you very seriously,” Yu Chen lowered his voice, speaking extremely solemnly and seriously, “Yun Xunlan and I spent the entire night head to head, foot to foot, lying on the same bed last night. I just got out of his bed ten minutes ago. And me sleeping with him can’t be hidden from his attendant, Ni Chun. If you don’t believe me, go ask Ni Chun, he will testify for me.”

 

Pei Xingting: “Ah, so that’s how you ‘slept’…”

 

Yu Chen: “?”

 

“What other way of sleeping could there be?” Yu Chen felt Pei Xingting’s thoughts were too dirty. “I’m still considering whether to accept him or not. Before I come to a conclusion, how could I possibly sleep with him in any other way?”

 

Pei Xingting laughed again: “Then for the sake of our grand plan, why don’t you just give in to the Third Highness?”

 

Yu Chen said: “Don’t rush me, I’m already considering it. Just wait for the notification.”

 

“Look at you acting all capable,” Pei Xingting gave up. “I was just joking, don’t take it seriously. Old Yu, listen to your brother’s advice. You really should look in the mirror again. Do you look like a fragrant, soft little sweet omega? You’re not as rich as the Third Highness, not as powerful, and you’re more alpha than him. I don’t understand what the Third Highness likes about you.”

 

 

However, Yu Chen wouldn’t listen to advice: “Maybe he doesn’t like omegas, maybe he just likes my type?”

 

Seeing Yu Chen’s originally normal brain deteriorate into a love-struck one, Pei Xingting could only give his final advice: “You still think the Third Highness likes you? Fine, but I think you’d better be more reserved, don’t throw away your virginity. After all, chastity is an alpha’s best dowry. If you give it to the Third Highness, you won’t be able to find a sweet, soft omega wife in the future.”

 

Yu Chen continued to argue: “No, I think when necessary, it can be given up. Anyway, I’ve never thought about finding a partner or getting married. If I can’t find a wife, so be it. What’s the big deal about being single?”

 

Pei Xingting shook his head and sighed, mourning for another poor soul who had fallen for Yun Xunlan’s beauty: “You’re done for. I see it’s not you seducing the Third Highness, but you being seduced by the Third Highness.”

 

“…”

 

Yu Chen didn’t defend himself against this conclusion.

 

Because he admitted that the prince’s seduction had indeed worked, he had been seduced by the prince just a little bit—just a bit, not much.

 

But this tiny bit of attraction, like an unpredictable random variable in an equation, had already become the most mysterious accident in his life, something he couldn’t control.

 

So before leaving after changing into his training clothes, Yu Chen once again stopped by the lychee rose in the water glass.

 

The rose was almost in full bloom now.

 

Only the very center bud was still tightly closed, as if shy.

 

Yu Chen lowered his gaze to look at it, just as he had when lying beside Yun Xunlan last night, gazing at the youth’s closed eyes.

 

At that moment, what did Yu Chen want to see?

 

—He wanted to see Yun Xunlan open his eyes, looking back at him with those star-like golden eyes, as if tidally locked, never changing direction again.

 

Indulging his malicious desire, Yu Chen raised his right hand, inserting his index and middle fingers into the center of the bud, forcefully peeling open the delicate, fragile petals of the lychee rose, exposing its immature golden pistil without resistance.

 

It really looks like Yun Xunlan’s eyes, Yu Chen thought.

 

He withdrew his fingers, examining them for a moment before lowering his head to lightly lick from the base to the tips, tasting the fresh, moist scent of white lychee flesh. The alpha’s canine teeth, used for marking lovers, involuntarily bared and itched, but couldn’t find a soft gland to bite and possess.

 

Every part of Yu Chen’s body—his limbs, organs, all his blood and flesh, every bit of skin and bone—was boiling and burning for this lychee rose.

 

After he had swallowed and consumed all the scents similar to the silver-haired youth, the dormitory became like a sunken ship at the bottom of the sea, completely engulfed by cold, damp seawater—even the lychee rose was no exception.

 

Yu Chen’s body was abnormally hot.

 

He felt he was about to enter his susceptible period again, or perhaps he had already entered it without noticing.

 

So Yu Chen gave himself an injection of alpha susceptible period suppressant, and applied two layers of military-grade strong suppression patches, fully arming himself to ensure he wouldn’t leak even a bit of pheromones before leaving.

 

As a result, during morning training, Song Tingxiao, who was practicing with Yu Chen, was beaten so badly he cried out: “Yu Chen, are you in your susceptible period again? You’re hitting so hard, go easier, it hurts like hell! No way, I have to get my brother to practice with you.”

 

Song Tingxiao couldn’t take the beating anymore, so he darted behind Song Tingyan, unhesitatingly pushing his brother out to take the fall.

 

After being beaten down for two rounds, Song Tingyan also couldn’t bear it anymore. He rubbed his shoulder and asked Yu Chen: “Yu Chen, you’re like you’ve eaten gunpowder today. Did my brother offend you? I have nothing to do with him, we’re not on the same side, you should go beat him up instead.”

 

Song Tingxiao: “?”

 

Just as Song Tingxiao was about to denounce his good brother’s backstabbing, he heard Yu Chen deny: “Didn’t eat gunpowder.”

 

He turned to look at Yu Chen, following up with: “Then what did you eat? Your temper is so fierce.”

 

What did he eat?

 

He really did want to eat something.

 

Yu Chen pressed his tongue against his canine teeth, suddenly missing the long-lasting lychee rose ice cream from Elysian Sweets that sold for eighteen star coins. Its fragrance was similar to Yun Xunlan’s pheromone scent, and melting it on the tip of his tongue was like making a possessive mark on Yun Xunlan.

 

Yun. Xun. Lan…

 

The moment this name appeared in Yu Chen’s mind, its owner also appeared before him.

 

—Yun Xunlan had come again to listen to the guards’ “oath” of loyalty to him.

 

Of course, the focus was still on listening to Yu Chen’s “oath”, after all, the other guards’ “oaths” couldn’t help him complete his daily tasks.

 

However, this time during the listening, Yun Xunlan noticed that Yu Chen’s gaze on him was somewhat different from before, a bit off.

 

He asked the system: “Little Ju, don’t you think Yu Chen’s gaze on me today is strange?”

 

The system said: “I don’t have eyes, I can’t see what’s strange.”

 

Yun Xunlan gave the system a very vivid example: “The way he looks at me is like how Wenxi looks at his pork rib soup, eager to take a bite.”

 

“Must be an illusion? You’re not a bone.” The system asked Yun Xunlan back, “Why would he want to bite you?”

 

Yun Xunlan didn’t think much of it: “Then I must have seen wrong.”

 

His brotherly relationship with Yu Chen was progressing steadily in reality. What was most important now was that he needed to return to work at the Seventh Military Experimental Base.

 

After being absent from work for two consecutive days, Yun Xunlan felt a bit guilty, but Jian Wenxi sent him a message: [Yun Xunlan, I heard your second brother is back? You better hide well in your room, don’t go out! Don’t see him!]

 

This message was sent by Jian Wenxi on the second morning after Mu Xingyu’s return.

 

By then, Yun Xunlan had already seen Mu Xingyu, but he didn’t want to worry Jian Wenxi, so he replied with an ambiguous four words: [Mm, I’ll try my best.]

 

So when he learned that Yun Xunlan had returned to the Seventh Military Experimental Base, Jian Wenxi immediately rushed to his office.

 

Previously, there was usually no one else in Yun Xunlan’s office except himself. However, on this day, because Jian Wenxi was concerned about Yun Xunlan, he momentarily forgot that the youth now often had several guards following him. So when he came in fiercely, he instantly became timid upon seeing two guards standing in the room.

 

He bit his lip, his voice becoming a bit weaker, lowering his eyes with drooping curled lashes, speaking softly: “All of you, get out. I have something to say to Yun Xunlan in private.”

 

Ji Bai and Luo Di exchanged a glance at these words, not responding until they heard Yun Xunlan also say: “You can all go out.”

 

Only then did the two leave the office, thoughtfully closing the door behind them.

 

When only he and Yun Xunlan were left in the room, Jian Wenxi raised his eyes and returned his voice to normal volume: “It’s not even December yet, why did your second brother suddenly come back? Did he come back specifically to scold you?”

 

When asking the latter question, Jian Wenxi’s voice even raised a bit, revealing his agitated emotions.

 

“I don’t know why he suddenly came back either,” Yun Xunlan first answered Jian Wenxi’s previous question, then comforted the omega, “Don’t worry, Wenxi. He didn’t scold me. He hasn’t scolded me for a long time.”

 

“How can I not worry about you? That bastard! A dog can’t change its habit of eating shit, I don’t believe it!”

 

Unexpectedly, Jian Wenxi became even more agitated, even cursing with a string of profanities: “Have you forgotten how he used to scold you? He even told you to go die! Yun Xunlan, tell me honestly, did he really not scold you? If he scolded you, I’ll call him right now and curse him back for you!”

 

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