As soon as Yu Chen entered, Yun Xunlan stubbed out the cigarette.
The silver-haired alpha’s face was clearly revealed before Yu Chen. He smiled with curved eyes and called him, his voice somewhat hoarse and abnormal, “Baby.”
Yu Chen looked at the white mist around the youth that hadn’t completely dissipated and suddenly understood why Yun Xunlan’s voice was often slightly hoarse.
“Still uncomfortable?” Yu Chen stepped forward, lowered his head, and touched the youth’s face.
Although an alpha’s body temperature rises during the susceptible period, the touch under his fingertip was soft and cool, not a healthy temperature.
Yu Chen looked around the room but found no bloodstains.
Just like before, Ni Chun always took care of cleaning and removing anything stained with Yun Xunlan’s blood.
“I’ve taken the suppressant,” Yun Xunlan tilted his head and pressed his face against Yu Chen’s palm, “It’s not very uncomfortable.”
Alpha suppressants for the susceptible period also have unpleasant side effects.
Seeing the confusion in Yu Chen’s eyes, Yun Xunlan explained, “It’s a new suppressant not yet on the market. The side effects aren’t as strong as the previous three generations.”
“What about other places? Any other discomfort?” Yu Chen stopped asking about the susceptible period and squatted by Yun Xunlan’s leg, holding the youth’s hand seriously, “This is your second nosebleed this week.”
—This week, not this month.
3S-level alphas are naturally strong. Even without training, their physical fitness far surpasses ordinary alphas. This is determined by unfair genes. Yun Xunlan is sick, and his physical condition differs from normal 3S-level alphas. Yu Chen understands this, but he can’t wait until Friday to hear Yun Xunlan confess what illness he has.
Yu Chen wants to know now.
He has an inexplicable premonition that something beyond his control will happen on Friday.
He had this premonition once eighteen years ago, and later, he became an orphan.
“Which alpha feels comfortable during the susceptible period?” Yun Xunlan skillfully threw the question back to Yu Chen, “The nosebleed is because of my long-term susceptible period disorder.”
Yu Chen noticed the wording and frowned slightly, “Long-term?”
Yun Xunlan nodded, “Yes.”
Yu Chen asked again, “How long has it lasted?”
“Longer than you can imagine. It’s a secret the royal family has kept for many years.” Yun Xunlan straightened up from the pillow, leaned forward with half-closed eyes, and looked into Yu Chen’s blue eyes, “Baby, you should have heard the rumors about Wenxi and me, right?”
Yu Chen didn’t want to mention another person’s name between him and Yun Xunlan, especially since that person was an omega: “I’ve heard. The rumors say… the royal family once intended to marry into the Jian family.”
“That’s not a rumor.” Yun Xunlan admitted directly, “Wenxi and I have a high compatibility. When he was first sent to the palace, the Jian family hoped to marry into the royal family. My parents and Imperial Sister tacitly agreed because they thought the omega pheromones with high compatibility could alleviate my discomfort during the susceptible period and make me less resistant to contact with living people.”
Yu Chen hadn’t seen how unwilling Yun Xunlan was to go out and meet living people in reality, but he had heard from others and personally experienced it in the virtual battlefield during tutoring.
But what Yu Chen cared most about was not that the royal family had tacitly agreed to the marriage between Jian Wenxi and Yun Xunlan, but that the event happened thirteen years ago. Counting back, Yun Xunlan was only five years old then, and Jian Wenxi, three years older, was only eight.
But the secondary sexual characteristic differentiation period usually occurs around fourteen or fifteen years old, earliest no younger than ten, latest no older than eighteen.
“You differentiated into an alpha at five? Wenxi differentiated into an omega at eight?” Yu Chen frowned deeper, “How is that possible?”
His own differentiation period was already early, but it started at twelve.
“Wenxi did differentiate into an omega at eight, but it wasn’t natural.” Yun Xunlan stopped there.
There are many secrets in noble families. The phrase “not natural” was enough for Yu Chen to understand.
What Yu Chen didn’t understand was Yun Xunlan’s next sentence: “But I didn’t differentiate at five. I was earlier.”
The silver-haired youth made a “three” gesture with his nicotine-scented hand.
Yu Chen lowered his eyes to look at Yun Xunlan’s fair and slender fingers and asked hoarsely, “…Three years?”
“Three months.”
Yun Xunlan smiled and cupped Yu Chen’s face, brushing aside the stray hair on his forehead, “But I differentiated naturally.”
“Natural differentiation at three months?”
Yu Chen suddenly didn’t know what expression to make. It was so absurd it was laughable, yet Yu Chen couldn’t laugh.
Yun Xunlan’s expression was calm: “Yes.”
“When I was born, I was already an SSS-level alpha.” He told Yu Chen, “So my susceptible period has never been normal.”
Yu Chen remembered how uncomfortable he was when he experienced his first susceptible period after completing differentiation.
At that time, he couldn’t control his emotions well—the irritation that could burn every nerve in his body, the heat that could boil every drop of blood dry, the restlessness with nowhere to vent in every corner of his flesh, bones, and marrow… They all tortured him, making him feel he wasn’t a living person but a beast with lava flowing and filling his body.
This kind of pain, even for a teenager, required training and guidance to learn to endure and adapt.
Yu Chen couldn’t imagine how a newborn baby, an ungrown child, could get through the susceptible period. Even with suppressants, the side effects weren’t something a small child could bear.
No wonder Yun Qihe hated Jian Chexiao so much yet was willing to let another child with Jian family blood enter the palace—as a father, he probably just wanted his child to suffer less.
And Jian Wenxi was probably an omega “manufactured” by the Jian family to marry into the royal family, with high compatibility with Yun Xunlan.
Yu Chen remained silent for a long time. He had received too much shocking information tonight. It wasn’t until he lay in bed with Yun Xunlan that he felt his wandering spirit return to earth. But he tossed and turned with his eyes closed for a long time, and even after midnight, he had no sleepiness.
Gently holding one of his arms, Yun Xunlan, whom Yu Chen thought had already fallen asleep, suddenly spoke: “Baby, are you still awake?”
Yu Chen said in a low voice: “…I can’t sleep.”
“Then I want to hear you talk.” Yun Xunlan moved his body upward, making rustling sounds under the covers. His bewitching, slightly hoarse voice reached Yu Chen’s ears: “Just say what you said when you fucked me last night, any sentence will do.”
Yu Chen: “…”
He was really done with Yun Xunlan.
Why could the young man make such requests without any burden or psychological pressure, ignoring the heavy or stiff atmosphere around them?
“Baby, stop being horny.” Yu Chen also called Yun Xunlan baby and tucked the covers around the young man, “Let’s rest well tonight and not do anything. I’ll say it for you tomorrow night, okay?”
Yun Xunlan wouldn’t behave, continuing to tug at Yu Chen’s arm: “Baby, I’ll rest after you say it.”
The problem is this is your special fetish. After hearing it, would you really be willing to rest obediently?
Yu Chen now felt he couldn’t get hard no matter what. He couldn’t say it.
But alphas in the susceptible period naturally have strong sexual desires… It didn’t seem right not to satisfy his lover’s needs.
After much consideration, Yu Chen asked him: “…Do you really want it that much?”
Yun Xunlan repeatedly said: “Mm-hmm.”
Fine.
Yu Chen decided to force himself.
Moreover, Yu Chen’s own susceptible period hadn’t ended either. He discovered this wasn’t forced at all for alphas in the susceptible period. His mind didn’t want to do it, but that thing didn’t listen to him. After he hoarsely said one sentence to Yun Xunlan, it completed the blood engorgement preparation.
Then Yun Xunlan tucked the covers around him: “Baby, thank you. Let’s rest well. Good night.”
Yu Chen: “…?”
Yu Chen couldn’t sleep even more.
The next day his susceptible period ended, and he could move in public without wearing the bite guard. But his face looked as bad as if he were still in the susceptible period. However, with the pheromone isolation mask covering him, no one noticed any difference from yesterday.
Fu Yanxi only mentioned in the morning: “Yu Chen, why are you wearing a mask instead of the bite guard? I’m starting to forget what you look like when you have a mouth.”
This was exactly what Yu Chen wanted: “It’s best to forget.”
Fu Yanxi: “?”
Gui Yan thought more: “Did you secretly apply the same pheromone lip balm as the Third Prince and are afraid we’ll find out?”
“You dare mention that?” Yu Chen asked him, “Did you throw away the lip balm I told you to throw away?”
Gui Yan nodded vigorously: “Threw it away, threw it away, threw it away long ago, I swear.”
He did throw it away, then picked it back up.
Yu Chen knew his nature and said suspiciously: “Didn’t pick it back up?”
Gui Yan shook his head like a rattle drum: “No, no, absolutely not.”
Yu Chen saw through his lie at a glance and sneered: “Why didn’t you swear on this sentence?”
Gui Yan: “…”
Gui Yan: “Yu Chen, Officer Dike is looking for you.”
“Still trying to lie to me?”
Yu Chen rotated his wrist, preparing to beat up Gui Yan first to force him to throw away that lip balm completely, then return to Yun Xunlan’s dormitory to tutor him—Yun Xunlan’s susceptible period happened to fall on the weekend this time, so it was inconvenient to return to Crescent Moon Peninsula. He also didn’t want to go out, so he agreed with Yu Chen to stay in the dormitory for a day of tutoring.
Anyway, he often had “autism” episodes, and no one would find it strange for him to stay in the dormitory for several days. This was also the main reason the royal family could hide the secret of his susceptible period disorder for so many years.
But after Yu Chen took two steps toward Gui Yan, Officer Dike really pressed his shoulder: “Yu Chen, come with me for extra training.”
Yu Chen had no objection to extra training, but not today. Today was his shift, and Yun Xunlan was in his susceptible period, needing his lover’s company. So Yu Chen turned to Dike and said: “Officer Dike, I made an appointment with His Highness to tutor him today.”
“What a coincidence, I also made arrangements with His Highness.” Dike opened his light brain and showed Yu Chen his private chat interface with Yun Xunlan publicly, “Your extra training can’t be delayed, so His Highness agreed you could tutor later.”
At the same time, Yu Chen’s light brain bracelet vibrated. He opened it in privacy mode and found a message from Yun Xunlan:
【Darling Lanlan Wife: Baby, train seriously. We’ll tutor later.】
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