ISMW Chapter 66

Actually, Yu Chen had seen Yun Xunlan’s chat interface.

 

Yun Xunlan’s contact name for Mu Xingyu was just a simple, straightforward name with nothing special about it.

 

Their chat record started from Mu Xingyu’s “What are you doing now?” The messages above weren’t visible, while below was their question-and-answer exchange, ending with Mu Xingyu’s “Good night.”

 

Their conversation was obviously casual daily talk, nothing particularly special.

 

But Yu Chen just felt something was off.

 

He had seen how Yun Xunlan and Mu Xingyu interacted, which was equally strange.

 

He couldn’t describe it specifically, but it didn’t seem like the interaction mode “brothers” should have.

 

“Oh.” Yu Chen responded flatly, lowering his long dark lashes while raising his chin to point at Yun Xunlan’s light brain. “Then say it.”

 

Yun Xunlan maintained his turned-head posture, staring at the man’s sapphire-like eyes: “Say what?”

 

Hearing this, the alpha turned his eyes, meeting his gaze: “Say ‘good night’ to your Imperial Brother.”

 

Yun Xunlan noticed Yu Chen emphasized the pronunciation of “Imperial Brother.”

 

“I already said it.” He raised his hand, pointing with his fingertip at his own message “rest early” above Mu Xingyu’s 【Good night】, telling Yu Chen, “This is it.”

 

After hearing Yun Xunlan’s explanation, Yu Chen’s originally stern tone warmed slightly, and his speech was no longer the cold single “oh,” becoming: “…Oh.”

 

But his chin still rested on Yun Xunlan’s shoulder, his body weight pressing down heavily, chest pressed tightly against the young man’s back, as if he needed to lean on his lover to stand straight.

 

Yun Xunlan thought he was tired. His slender white fingers that had been pointing at the light brain’s floating screen moved to stroke Yu Chen’s face, asking with concern: “Baby, have you been training too hard lately?”

 

“Hard?” Yu Chen was touched on a sensitive nerve by these two words, his face darkening: “I’m not working hard.”

 

He was just heartsick.

 

Who could be happy coming home to see a damn betta performing a courtship dance for their lover?

 

Not to mention that after approaching Yun Xunlan, he discovered his lover was chatting with another male alpha about that damn betta, and then caught him off guard with a kiss on the mouth!

 

Yu Chen knew he shouldn’t have removed the bite guard. He should have kept wearing that thing, not giving Yun Xunlan any chance to touch his mouth.

 

So now, having been kissed, Yu Chen wanted to wash his mouth, using showering as an excuse to enter the bathroom.

 

After feeding the fish, Yun Xunlan went to lie on the bed waiting for Yu Chen.

 

He didn’t just wait idly, quickly registering a new alt account, but got stuck when it came to naming it.

 

At first, Yun Xunlan wanted to call it “Fish-Keeping Genius.” After typing the four characters, he felt his new alt account’s name was too similar in style to his deleted old account, worried people might expose his identity. After much consideration, he changed it to: Innate Fish-Keeping Sacred Body.

 

Yun Xunlan was very satisfied with this new name.

 

Or he could change the character “fish” (鱼) to “Yu” (虞) as well.

 

He curved his lips in a smile, which was caught by Yu Chen coming out of the bathroom. The blue-eyed alpha raised an eyebrow and asked him: “What are you looking at again?”

 

—And smiling so happily?

 

Yun Xunlan looked toward Yu Chen at the sound, but what met his eyes was a tide of flesh-colored waves surging toward him.

 

Yu Chen hadn’t put on pajamas, coming out with only a bath towel wrapped around him. His upper body was completely bare, the dormitory’s warm-colored lights scattered and cast upon his broad, solid back muscles. Following those undulating muscle lines, they outlined deep and shallow halos of light and shadow, full of wild beauty and undisguised desire.

 

Noticing Yun Xunlan’s gaze, the man—whether intentionally or not—reached up to grab a handful of his half-dry black hair ends, squeezing out the moisture from the tips, which turned into water droplets that rolled down, sliding over his chest and abdominal muscles, finally stopping as a ring of water stains on the bath towel at his waist.

 

He swept aside the hair on his forehead. His sharp brow ridge and blue eyes condensed like an icy sea looked at people like a sharp blade heavily chopping down, splitting open Yun Xunlan’s stone-like heart, letting threads of desire leak through the cracks.

 

When his vision was completely occupied by the alpha’s handsome face and his body was firmly trapped by the man’s looming shadow, Yun Xunlan finally came to his senses, turned off his light brain and said: “Just some bedtime sleep aid reading.”

 

He had to hide his alt account well so Yu Chen wouldn’t discover it, otherwise their relationship would face a crisis. After all, there was still a Comet-S7 that originally belonged to Yu Chen sitting in his North Palace garage.

 

“Baby, why aren’t you wearing pajamas?” Yun Xunlan bent one leg and sat up. “You came out without even drying your hair.”

 

The young man spoke about hair, but his fingers landed on Yu Chen’s chest, using his fingertips to gently wipe away the remaining water traces.

 

Feeling the coolness of Yun Xunlan’s fingertips, the anger in Yu Chen’s heart showed no signs of diminishing—instead, it burned even more fiercely.

 

Why didn’t he wear pajamas?

 

Because he simply hadn’t thought to take any, only thinking about hurrying to wash his mouth.

 

During mouth-washing, he finished showering as well. When he came out to put on pajamas, he saw Yun Xunlan smiling at his light brain projection, and Yu Chen suddenly remembered something—there was a time before when he came out of the bathroom, Yun Xunlan was also lying on the bed looking at his light brain, watching with particular absorption.

 

Oh, “absorption” was too restrained a word.

 

After all, what Yun Xunlan was watching then were those netizens’ malicious comments cursing him, and he got hard from watching them!

 

When he asked what he was looking at, he even lied and said it was bedtime sleep aid reading!

 

Yu Chen remembered this incident and hadn’t forgotten a bit of it!

 

Back then, he thought “bedtime sleep aid reading” was an excuse Yun Xunlan made up because he didn’t want him to worry. Heh, now Yu Chen understood—where was Yun Xunlan trying not to make him worry? He was simply afraid his perverted little fetish would be discovered!

 

Yu Chen tugged at the corners of his lips, his expression seeming to smile but not smile, letting out an ambiguous cold snort from his nose.

 

He yanked away the thin blanket covering Yun Xunlan’s waist. Without the outer covering, that silk nightgown light as mist could hide nothing.

 

—As expected!

 

Yun Xunlan was looking at those dirty things again!

 

Having him wasn’t enough—he still had to look! With the lights on! Right in front of him!

 

“What bedtime sleep aid reading?” The alpha laughed in extreme anger, gazing at the silver-haired young man with a voice made hoarse by jealous flames. “Can you show me?”

 

Yun Xunlan, completely unaware of the approaching danger, refused: “No.”

 

Yu Chen’s heart fire shot straight to the top of his head, but his tone became even gentler, mixed with some feigned grievance: “Even I can’t see it?”

 

“No.” Yun Xunlan seriously made up reasons. “These are all sleep aid readings. You’ll want to sleep after looking at them.”

 

The man raised his eyebrow: “So you don’t want to sleep?”

 

Yun Xunlan had always dared to face all his desires directly and would never feel embarrassed. He actively leaned close to the blue-eyed alpha, his equally husky voice sexy and alluring: “Baby, I want to try the extended version of silent mode. Is that okay?”

 

Yu Chen remained silent, seemingly acquiescing.

 

So Yun Xunlan tilted his face to kiss him.

 

The moment before their lips were about to touch, the alpha raised his hand to pinch his face: “Fine, wear the bite guard.”

 

Yun Xunlan had to turn over and lie face down on the bed, then reach out to hook the black device from the bedside table, pulling it over with his fingertips. Just as he was about to put it on Yu Chen, he suddenly stopped: “I want to kiss you first.”

 

Little did he know this was the last spark that would detonate the alpha.

 

However, Yu Chen didn’t explode in fury. The smile at the corners of his lips deepened as he said something that left Yun Xunlan puzzled: “It’s my fault.”

 

It was his fault for knowing Yun Xunlan had this little fetish but refusing to satisfy him, forcing Yun Xunlan to both look at dirty things and want to kiss his mouth.

 

Yu Chen reflected on himself, thinking he couldn’t continue like this. He was planning to confess his secret to Yun Xunlan. If he didn’t firmly tie down this fickle alpha’s heart, what if his secret was revealed and Yun Xunlan got angry about him hiding things and wanted to break up?

 

And now that they were both in bed, how could he bear to break up with his little slut?

 

Yu Chen barely said any polite words to Yun Xunlan that night, but what did he get in return?

 

The young man’s greedy demand to “say it again.”

 

—He seemed like he could never be filled.

 

Yu Chen’s desire to mark Yun Xunlan reached its peak in that moment.

 

He could satisfy all of Yun Xunlan’s demands, but his own demands couldn’t be satisfied.

 

At the brink, Yu Chen tore off the bite guard and pressed against Yun Xunlan’s nape almost frantically. He was more like the addicted one, obsessed and addicted to his lover’s pheromones, but because he could get nothing, he said with red-rimmed eyes in grievance: “Want your pheromones…”

 

“Want to mark you…”

 

He pressed his nose against Yun Xunlan to smell, taking away every trace of pheromones that seeped out with fine sweat, finally making a request to the young man: “…Mark me.”

 

Yun Xunlan bit his nape as wished, using his canine teeth to pierce through his glands.

 

But alphas could never mark each other.

 

The injection of the highest-level alpha pheromones brought Yu Chen sharp pain. His pheromones and Yun Xunlan’s repelled each other, mutually suppressing. They used his body as a battlefield, fighting in his flesh and blood, killing him into a corpse.

 

But Yu Chen was very satisfied that his corpse was covered with roses from his beloved.

 

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