“How can you——” Qin Cheng was just about to finish his sentence when a sudden commotion broke out over the cheerleading team. The teacher was holding a flushed and paralyzed Omega in his arms, calling for the school nurse.
Qin Cheng’s heart tightened and then relaxed in a strange manner. Fortunately, Jian Heng frowned not because of him.
The physical education teacher over there has already begun evacuating the Alphas.
Omega’s sudden onset of heat, and still in a place where the crowd is so dense and most of them are Alphas——something serious is going to happen.
The pheromones released by Alpha subconsciously alone are already problematic enough1夠喝一壺 (gòu hē yī hú): or 夠喝一壺的 (gòu hē yī hú de), lit. enough to drink a pot; to make big difficulty to someone; the problem is serious and the person responsible must bear all the consequences.; not to mention the fact that there’s a super-bomb here——Jian Heng.
Qin Cheng grabbed him and said: “I’ll take you out. With you here, that Omega will go crazy.”
Jian Heng’s face was grim, his brows were furrowed, and the hand resting on his shoulders was clenched tightly. The sound of his heavy breathing made Qin Cheng’s heart tighten.
Qin Cheng looked at his face and asked uncertainly: “You’re not… sensitive to this pheromone, right?”
Jian Heng didn’t speak. He frowned and put his head on the crook of his neck. His breath burned, obviously uncomfortable.
Qin Cheng didn’t hesitate even for a second. He picks up the person and runs outside.
He can already smell the faint scent of incense. When Jian Heng’s pheromones exploded, not only the Omega, but the Alphas must also felt collectively uncomfortable.
“I’ll take you to the infirmary,” Qin Cheng felt uncertain, “Why don’t you take the medicine with you if you have a history of pheromone hypersensitivity? How dangerous!”
Jian Heng’s reaction is obviously abnormal. After smelling Omega pheromones, except for those like Qin Cheng who were indifferent because of his condition, the rest of the Alphas would at most become physically and mentally restless for a while. They could all recover immediately after the Omega sprays the inhibitor
Jian Heng’s case is more like extreme rejection due to pheromone oversensitization of some kind.
He has learned in physiology class that this situation is extremely rare, but severe cases may lead to death!
Qin Cheng ran so hard that his legs almost broke.
“…I’m fine,” halfway through the run, Jian Heng suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse, “Go to the rooftop…”
“What?” Qin Cheng didn’t dare to stop.
“It’s not sensitivity.” Jian Heng said in a low voice.
A wet and warm feeling brushed against the back of his neck. Qin Cheng stood still; the whole person frozen in place for nearly ten seconds before he realized that the feeling should be Jian Heng’s lips! No, Jian Heng said that he is not hypersensitive…
“It’s not…” Qin Cheng was covered in sweat and his breathing was unstable, “Then I——”
Jian Heng repeated: “Go to the rooftop.”
“Ah,” Qin Cheng silently changed direction and carried the person on his back to the rooftop. He looked distracted, “Go to the rooftop, what for?”
He was kissed, right? Kissing the neck is considered a kiss, right? Holy shit, does this count as a first kiss? Doesn’t it count as a kiss if it’s with an Omega? Wait, they didn’t even touch lips, but since Jian Heng used his mouth to kiss, it doesn’t matter where he kissed. The person kisses with his lips; then it counts as their first kiss, right?
Damn it, his first kiss wasn’t with an Omega. Doesn’t this count as a first kiss before marriage? No, no, how could he possibly marry Jian Heng, an Alpha…
Jian Heng moved and got off his back. The storm in Qin Cheng’s head still didn’t stop.
“What are you thinking about?” Jian Heng frowned, still hadn’t recovered from the burst of Omega pheromones.
“What?” Qin Cheng was stunned. After a few seconds, he turned his head sharply and hurriedly supported him to move forward, “What, what? I didn’t think about it. You are so interesting, I was just in a daze for a moment, do I have to think about something? Do I have to think about why you kissed me?”
Qin Cheng: “…” Fuck (a kind of plant)2草（一種植物） (cǎo (yī zhòng zhí wù)): T/N: Ok, I don’t know what the author mean by this. 草 is a slang for curse word in Chinese, but it also means grass..
The air seemed to freeze at this moment, and everything around him, even the curtains floating on the windows, were laughing at his stupidity.
The world is always so cruel to straight men.
Qin Cheng thought he was used to it, but when everything really happened, he just wanted to turn around and hang himself. Before he died, he asked the air; who should be more embarrassed at this time, me or Jian Heng?
“Did I kiss you?” Jian Heng glanced at him, his expression as natural as if he was asking ‘Did I beat you?’
Qin Cheng froze. Jian Heng’s calmness allowed his thick skin to regain some dignity. After thinking for two seconds, he quickly said: “Ah, you kissed, you kissed my neck! Think about how you can compensate me, this is my first kiss! Qin-ge’s first kiss was priced at thousands in the Fifth High School, tell me how you will compensate for it! ”
The air was quiet for a few seconds, then Jian Heng suddenly laughed softly and looked at him without saying anything.
This look made Qin Cheng confused, “Why are you laughing?”
Jian Heng still didn’t say anything. His eyes fell on his neck, and then slowly moved to his face, the bottom of his eyes carried an unknown emotion.
Qin Cheng couldn’t understand and didn’t want to guess. He turned his head and didn’t look at him: “You’re not fucking crazy, are you?”
Jian Heng turned his head and walked forward with his back straight. It couldn’t be seen that he was feeling uncomfortable just now: “Let’s go.”
Qin Cheng paused but still kept up.
The rooftop had been exposed to the sun all day, and the lime floor was warm. Qin Cheng sat next to Jian Heng.
Like last time, no one spoke.
Qin Cheng was the first to lose the battle again. He tilted his head and touched Jian Heng with his elbow, “Are you sure you’re okay?”
“I’m fine,” Jian Heng took out the cigarette and held it in his hand. He handed the cigarette case to him, “It’s not hypersensitivity.”
It wasn’t that he was hypersensitive, but it was so scary. Qin Cheng took the cigarette case but didn’t take it out, still staring at him.
Jian Heng calmly lit the cigarette and put it in his mouth. He tilted his head slightly and looked at him with half-lidded eyes, looking unusually lazy. There was an inexplicable gentleness in his cold voice. “Pheromone, let me smell it.”
“Why?” Qin Cheng looked at him with undisguised inquiry in his eyes. “Student Jian Heng, you feel your conscience——your own. Tell me, do you feel that our secrets are not equal to each other?”
The corners of Jian Heng’s mouth curved slightly, a puff of cigarette blew onto his face. There was a smile in his eyes: “Pheromones.”
“Fuck.” Qin Cheng stared at his eyes, but he didn’t move, so he had no choice but to transform into a ruthless pheromone machine. The top Alpha’s pheromones were fully released without any suppression, occupying the entire rooftop almost instantly, arrogant and domineering.
It’s still Jian Heng who was too cunning. He has said so much, but it’s hard to get a word out of him. There is no sincerity in making friends, no comparison to him at all.
The moment Qin Cheng’s pheromones were released, Jian Heng breathed a sigh of relief visibly. He relaxed his brows, closed his eyes, and leaned against the wall, tapping his knees lightly with his cigarette-holding hand.
In a good mood. No, a very good mood.
Not bad, not immediately confessing for leniency. Cunning city dweller.
Qin Cheng stared again for a while, and suddenly felt something was wrong——when did he become a person who forced others to confess?
Qin Cheng turned around and took out his mobile phone with some irritation. Repeatedly opening and closing locks pointlessly.
It’s his fault. He must have been under too much stress during the exams these two days and his nerves were tense.
Tsk. Qin-ge wasn’t like this before. Tan Qi had something he didn’t want to say, but he didn’t use the trump card of friendship first to force him to say it.
It’s normal for brothers to have secrets. So what is he doing now?
This is crazy.
“Want to hear a story?” Jian Heng’s hand flashed before his eyes, and his fingertips lightly brushed his forehead. The clear touch left an inexplicable trace in his heart.
Qin Cheng let out an ‘Ah’. The back of his hand rubbed his forehead somewhat unnaturally. There are still shadows of those hands in front of his eyes, which is strangely beautiful.
“Actually,” Qin Cheng drew out a cigarette and lit it. He didn’t dare to look at him. He held it in his mouth and said vaguely, “It’s not absolutely necessary either; listening to your story.”
“Oh,” Jian Heng blew out a beautiful smoke ring. His eyes blurring infinitely in the smoke, “then I won’t talk about it.”
“Fuck,” Qin Cheng pushed him hard, “Don’t force me to fight you.”
“Scared me to death,” Jian Heng looked at him and suddenly smiled, “Say something nice.”
“Jian-ge, I really want to hear it. You’re the most handsome, the best, and the most awesome. Oh my God, just the sight of you makes me crazy.” Qin Cheng looked at him expressionlessly, with no fluctuation in his tone, “like this?”
“Let’s fight,” Jian Heng looked at him, “mop the floor tonight.”
Qin Cheng immediately made an OK gesture: “I’ll wash the dishes too.”
Jian Heng didn’t say anything. The atmosphere was suddenly silent.
It wasn’t until Qin Cheng finished smoking the cigarette in his mouth that Jian Heng moved his arm. He touched his wrist and tapped it: “Pheromone, don’t take it back.”
Qin Cheng released the pheromones again in silence. This time, there was no fire in his heart. It was well controlled within the small area around Jian Heng.
The damp, thick smell of wood was accompanied by the pungent aroma of tobacco. The nerves fell as if they were in a state of collapse.
“Just now,” Jian Heng began, “you can’t smell the pheromones?”
“Can’t smell it at all,” Qin Cheng shook his head and sighed, “I can only smell Alpha.”
This is the truth; otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to differentiate between Beta/Omega.
“What’s her pheromone?” Qin Cheng asked.
“Rose,” Jian Heng’s eyes darkened, dark tides surging in the bottom of his eyes, “pure rose pheromone.”
“Pure?” Qin Cheng was incredulous.
Roses are very common, but several hundred years ago, the concept of purity or impurity was not popular, leading to the rarity of a certain pure pheromone.
Even the news would occasionally report about a certain Omega with pure pheromones being forced into marriage, and Alpha just wanted to pass on the bloodline…
Of course, kindness limited Qin Cheng’s imagination. He couldn’t fathom why anyone would still care about this bloodline thing in the 21st century.
“My stepmother’s pheromone is this.” Jian Heng suddenly said.
“Stepmother?” Qin Cheng knew that his mother had passed away, but he didn’t know that he still had a stepmother. It’s clear from his expression what kind of person this stepmother is…
“Um,” Jian Heng tilted his head to look at him, his tone did not fluctuate, “My mother passed away when I was six years old. She married in when I was seven years old. The house smells of roses all day long.”
“The whole…” Qin Cheng opened his mouth, not knowing where to start.
He remarried a year after his wife passed away. He and his new wife emit pheromones ‘all day long’ and in front of their children… What the hell kind of father is he?
Jian Heng’s expression was calm as if he was telling someone else’s story: “My grandfather made a will. All the property in the family will belong to me when I come of age.”
“Not just her, even my dad can’t get a cent. So she looked at me like I was a thorn in her side, and she’d die if she didn’t get rid of it every day.”
“I was still young at that time. She would beat me behind everyone’s back, and she would pretend to be nice to me in front of others——”
“Wait——” the expression on Qin Cheng’s face twisted into a mosaic, “She beat you? Fuck! Child abuse?”
“Sort of,” Jian Heng nodded. He took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, “I was seven years old at the time.”
“Then your father, your father just, doesn’t care?” Qin Cheng’s family education made him extremely unfamiliar with this kind of thing. What’s on the news is still news after all. Only when things happen around him that he understand the shock and anger.
“Care,” Jian Heng said, “beat together.”
“Fuck!” Qin Cheng didn’t know what to say. Just for that little money, his own son is like this. What the hell kind of father is he!
“I was too young at the time, so I couldn’t beat her,” Jian Heng’s gaze was far away, gently biting on his cigarette, “It lasted until I could beat the two of them, and then it was over.”
“That’s why smelling this kind of pheromone makes me sick.”
I truly apologize for the slow update. I got sick a few days ago and my medication makes me so drowsy. I’m better now, but still a bit out of sort. My brain feel fuzzy & sluggish, so I translate slower too. Once again, I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
LMAO, QC is so dramatic, the secondhand embarrassment is real 🤣
Gosh! Hearing JH’s backstory makes me want to hit his father & stepmother!! (ﾉ °益°)ﾉ 彡 ┻━┻
List of Idiom in Chapter 23
魂不守舍 (hún bù shǒu shè): lit. one’s spirit has left one’s body; to be preoccupied (idiom); to be inattentive; to have lost one’s concentration; to be frightened out of one’s mind; be absent-minded; be panic-stricken; the soul has left the body, refers to a person who is about to die, and also describes a person who is in a trance.手忙腳亂 (shǒu máng jiǎo luàn): to act in an disorderly and flustered manner; to act with confusion; to be in a flurry; to be flustered; be in a rush/flurry; be thrown into confusion; be in a frantic rush; be in a great bustle/hurry; describes being in a panic and not knowing what to do.
一目了然 (yī mù liǎo rán): obvious at a glance (idiom); clear at first glance.
要死要活 (yào sǐ yào huó): lit. to live or die; repeatedly threaten suicide; terribly; awfully; desperately; describe a very fierce scene.
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