Chapter 101: AE25
The sky was bright.
Gu Xiu woke up from the large white bed in the hotel, first touching the back of his neck. The skin was smooth, and the gland was intact.
It was as if nothing had happened.
But this was not the hotel room he was staying in.
Gu Xiu quickly looked at his hand. The illusion-like snowflake pattern had long since disappeared without a trace, and the bloody hole that the Enigma had bitten had also completely healed, leaving only a faint red mark, reminding him of what had actually happened last night.
After digesting all this, a strong doubt arose: Then where did Jin Chenhan go?
Gu Xiu sat on the bed and looked around. The hotel room was only so big, but there was no shadow of an Enigma.
That bit of doubt gradually turned into a strong anxiety. He didn’t know what was wrong with him, like a child who had overslept his nap and had woken up to find that his parents had disappeared, so panicked that it was as if the sky had fallen.
He hurriedly got out of bed, stumbled, and forgot to wear his slippers.
After finally steadying himself, he heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom. He quickly ran over, pushed open the door without a word, and rushed in.
Jin Chenhan was taking a shower.
But at this time, he had no time to care about his superior’s privacy. He only smelled the strong, cold woody scent in the air. He greedily took a few deep breaths, and his anxious heart slowly calmed down and returned to normal.
Only then did he see the man’s faint figure in the mist.
“Ah… Mr. Jin!”
His face and ears instantly turned red, but it was incredibly strange. His body actually continued to move forward uncontrollably, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Splash, splash—
He was splashed in the face with hot water, and Gu Xiu woke up as if from a dream. However, the man’s naked body was already right in front of him. He only needed to move his fingers to touch every exquisite muscle and caress the source of the charming pheromones.
“Sorry, I knocked you out last night,” Jin Chenhan said softly, first explaining the end of last night.
The man’s gray eyes were deep, faintly visible through the mist, and his feminine voice was also a little hazy. “You reacted quite strongly to my pheromones. After being soothed by me, you were stimulated into heat instead. I had no choice but to knock you out first, and then stay by your side, so you could get used to my pheromones and slowly calm down—last night should have been your first heat period without using inhibitors. How did you feel?”
Gu Xiu was stunned.
After talking for a long time in the inappropriate bathroom, Jin Chenhan was still calm and composed, and he asked him again, “Your neck shouldn’t hurt anymore, right?”
Gu Xiu was startled and quickly checked the back of his neck again. Only then did he remember that Jin Chenhan might be referring to the carotid artery on the side of his neck. It was said that a single tap there could knock someone out.
He also vaguely remembered that in the instant he had fainted, the man had caught his arm in time.
“Your pants are all wet… but, they should have been changed anyway,” Jin Chenhan lowered his eyelids and swallowed quietly in the sound of the water. “Wipe yourself dry and go to my luggage to find a clean set of clothes to change into. They have my pheromones on them. You should like them very much now.”
“Huh…?” Gu Xiu didn’t dare to move and just stared at the Enigma’s eyes in a daze.
“Still not going out?” Jin Chenhan reached out his hand and gently poked the Alpha’s chest.
Gu Xiu was already slow to react, and now his body was still filled with some of his pheromones, so he was even more unguarded.
Jin Chenhan held back with great difficulty, his fingers traveling up to the Alpha’s gland.
“Do you really want me to mark you?”
Jin Chenhan pressed gently.
Gu Xiu shivered violently and popped out of the bathroom in a panic.
An Alpha’s instinct was just like that. Even if the fusion last night had made him unable to help but get close to this Enigma, if his bottom line was touched—for example, an Alpha’s inviolable gland, he would immediately and fiercely resist.
Not to mention, the Alpha’s tightly guarded, degenerated reproductive cavity.
When he returned to the bedroom, Gu Xiu found that the bathroom actually had a frosted glass wall facing the large bed. As long as he adjusted the angle, he could see the hazy and slender figure inside.
His cheeks grew hot again. He tried his best to turn his face away, shook the water off his body, and went to find clothes as Jin Chenhan had said.
Jin Chenhan’s suitcase was full of a charming and pleasant smell, as bewitching as a poppy flower.
He used all his self-control to not drill in and roll around a few times.
Before long, Jin Chenhan finished his shower and came out in a bathrobe, explaining to the dazed Gu Xiu, “Although biting your hand doesn’t count as a mark, there are some of my pheromones in your body. Your mental power state should have improved a little because you’ve been soothed by me. Correspondingly, you will also rely on me and crave my pheromones… Don’t worry, this symptom won’t last for a few days. It’s probably like… the feeling of an Omega after a temporary mark.”
Gu Xiu nodded repeatedly, and only at the end did he wrinkle his nose. “But I’m an Alpha…”
Jin Chenhan was unconcerned. “So what?”
That’s right. After all, Jin Chenhan is an Enigma.
After he had quieted down, Gu Xiu seemed to have just noticed the bathrobe on Jin Chenhan and couldn’t help but ask, “Mr. Jin, are you going to change?”
“Mm,” Jin Chenhan was still casual. “I’ll just change here. If you mind, you can sit over there—don’t go too far. I still have a few words to say to you.”
The current Gu Xiu was engrossed in the poppy-like pheromones. In fact, his body was reluctant to leave at all. But his eyes didn’t dare to look. He just sat on the sofa by the bed as Jin Chenhan had instructed and looked at the scenery outside the window.
A rustling sound came from behind him. It was probably Jin Chenhan who had loosened his bathrobe belt and had taken a clean set of clothes from his suitcase.
Gu Xiu observed his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, and he lowered his head to rub his fingers.
Jin Chenhan put on his shirt and said, “Gu Xiu, you should know that your mental power is severely damaged, right?”
In the novel, Gu Xiu’s mental power downgrade was purely for the sake of face-slapping. If he could have maintained his A+ rank, he might have had a chance to wash away the Enigma mark on the protagonist shou with his 100% compatibility.
Unfortunately, he didn’t cherish the protagonist shou when he had him and had forcefully downgraded himself. Later, he regretted it and wanted to possess the protagonist shou, but he couldn’t do it anymore…
He had completely lost his 100% compatible Omega, and his mental power was in a state of disrepair. At the end of the novel, he even had a car accident that led to an amputation. The once arrogant elite Alpha could be said to have been crushed into mud and had nothing.
The state of his mental power was not a secret that needed to be hidden. Since Jin Chenhan had asked, Gu Xiu answered truthfully, “Actually, when I first differentiated, my mental power was rated A+, even stronger than a normal A+ rank Alpha. My heat frequency was high, and I needed to take more than three inhibitors for each heat… over time, it dropped to C-rank.”
Jin Chenhan was not surprised to hear this. He zipped up his pants with a screech. “I thought so.”
Jin Chenhan was like a doctor who was concerned about a patient’s physical condition and asked about his privacy without a trace. “Then how long has it been since you two have done it?”
Gu Xiu subconsciously turned around, his expression dazed. “…Huh?”
Jin Chenhan was putting on his belt, and his shirt was unbuttoned. His disheveled appearance was even more indecent than his naked body, which had been blurred by the mist in the bathroom.
Gu Xiu’s pupils trembled slightly. He quickly turned back, leaving a black back of the head and a pair of crimson earlobes. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine,” Jin Chenhan calmly continued to ask. “I’m asking you, how long has it been since you’ve had sex with your fiancée, that Omega?”
Jin Chenhan was blunt and his words were more and more explicit. “Or, have you never… never drilled into an Omega’s reproductive cavity, never left your own mark in the deepest part of an Omega’s body…”
Gu Xiu was so red from listening that he covered his ears and stammered, “Mr. Jin! Don’t, don’t say it.”
“Okay,” Jin Chenhan’s throat rolled, and he almost hurt his hand with the belt buckle. He composed himself before he said, “I won’t say it.”
At this point, he had already confirmed it.
His little Alpha is really pure.
The most innocent and pure, the seduction that the person involved was completely unaware of. No wonder he couldn’t resist and was willingly hooked.
…
Gu Xiu was not used to it for the first few hours after he woke up. He would drool and wish he could hang on his superior. It was very embarrassing.
But Gu Xiu was an Alpha, after all. He quickly pulled himself out of this state and calmed down.
The positive effect of the mental power comfort was also very obvious. The current Gu Xiu was full of vitality and energy, and he didn’t feel tired at all when he worked.
He had been in a state of pheromone damage for a long time and had gotten used to it. But after experiencing the comfort of being soothed, it was like a person who had been starving for a long time and had eaten a full meal for the first time. It was difficult to go from luxury to frugality, so the state of damage became unbearable.
Three days later, at the A79 Group company.
Jin Chenhan observed the person in the secretary’s office through the glass wall for a long time, then he gently pushed the door open and asked, “Gu Xiu, what’s wrong?”
The faint mark had completely disappeared. Gu Xiu sensed the coldness of the Enigma pheromones, shivered, and came to his senses. He looked at the page of gibberish that he had unconsciously typed on the computer and let out an “ah.”
Jin Chenhan quickly walked over and caught him slacking off.
Just as Gu Xiu was about to apologize, the Enigma’s hand came first and skillfully and intimately pressed against his forehead.
“Mmm…” Gu Xiu squinted his eyes uncomfortably and slowly shrank back.
Jin Chenhan confirmed the temperature of his forehead and withdrew his hand. “You have a slight fever.”
Then he ordered, “Come to my office.”
Gu Xiu obediently followed.
The CEO’s office had solid walls on all four sides and was also the area with the best soundproofing in the entire company.
007 had been out for two days, had used up the time limit for its human skin, and then had been dejected in Gu Xiu’s sea of consciousness for a day. At this time, it finally entered work mode and, after checking the host’s physical indicators, it said, 【Jiujiu, you really have a slight fever…】
Only then did Gu Xiu tell 007 about the chaotic night in the hotel. 【Mr. Jin bit my hand and gave me some pheromone comfort. Now his pheromones should have completely dissipated.】
007 searched its database and gave a professional ABO sex education lesson: 【Jiujiu, you’ve never been marked before…】
Gu Xiu’s brain seemed to have rusted, but his reaction to this sentence was fast. 【Of course! I’m an Alpha. I won’t be marked by others.】
【Oh, it’s about the same,】 007 said vaguely and continued, 【In short, you’ve never exchanged pheromones with anyone before. Your current state is like a normal human’s first time masturbating. After you’re done, you can’t help but think about it every day at school and at work. It’s also like… a withdrawal reaction after stopping an addictive drug.】
Gu Xiu: “…”
007: 【See, you can’t even speak now.】
Gu Xiu: 【Get lost.】
007: 【…】
“Gu Xiu?”
Jin Chenhan waved his hand.
“…Huh?” Gu Xiu blinked and came back to his senses. “Mr. Jin?”
Jin Chenhan was much more reliable than 007. He saw Gu Xiu’s state at a glance and guessed the cause and effect. “Is this your first time experiencing pheromone comfort? That’s why the side effects after the mark has faded are so strong… even though that doesn’t even count as a mark.”
Gu Xiu touched his nose. “Mmm… I’ve had mental power guidance at the hospital before.”
Jin Chenhan had already seen through everything. “That’s just machine therapy, after all. It’s completely different from real pheromone comfort.”
He no longer brought up the matter of whether Gu Xiu had slept with an Omega and chose a gentler, seemingly kind method to set a trap step by step.
“You can’t work like this. Your mental power damage can’t be dragged on like this,” Jin Chenhan didn’t even consider the fiancée at the other’s home and said directly, “I’ll give you another… deeper mark.”
“But I…”
“It’s fine. I won’t bite your gland. After all…” Jin Chenhan paused for two seconds. “You have a fiancée. That’s not good.”
Gu Xiu: “…” Which way is good?
But for a moral model to do these things, the other’s psychological burden was probably much heavier than his.
He knew very well that he and the protagonist shou were innocent. In the end, he couldn’t get him back even after the crematorium. Besides, there was already a big problem with the plot now. The protagonist shou had already hit a home run with his childhood friend.
His head was shining green.
But the protagonist gong didn’t know or see any of this and was bearing the moral pressure alone—for his health.
A warm feeling rose in Gu Xiu’s heart. He looked at the man with gray eyes in front of him, his gaze as gentle as water. The more he looked, the more familiar it became.
A familiarity that made him unable to be on guard, and even made him feel nostalgic and reluctant.
“I…”
“Do you want it?” Jin Chenhan asked politely.
Gu Xiu frowned, avoided eye contact, and hesitated. “But…”
Jin Chenhan raised his hand to caress his auricle. “Didn’t you promise to be obedient to me?”
The place that had been touched for the first time was extremely itchy. Gu Xiu couldn’t help but squint half of his eye, and his breathing also became a little chaotic.
Jin Chenhan tried his best to control his breathing. His fingers slowly slid down from the Alpha’s soft ear to his porcelain-white side neck, and he hooked open his proper shirt collar. “I won’t touch your gland.”
“Then…” Gu Xiu’s throat rolled heavily. “Alright.”
Having gotten permission, Jin Chenhan undid his two shirt buttons without a word.
Gu Xiu was startled and was held by the wrist. Jin Chenhan’s voice seemed to have a magic that made people unable to refuse or doubt. “Don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you. The mark needs to be a little closer to the gland for a better effect.”
Then, Jin Chenhan pulled his collar, revealing most of his collarbone and shoulder.
Gu Xiu was startled and his voice trembled. “Mr., Mr. Jin!”
Jin Chenhan gently stroked his shoulder and opened his mouth above his collarbone.
“The effect is good here, and it’s not easy for others to find out,” Jin Chenhan’s voice was low. “I’ll bite a little deeper this time…”
007 popped out at an inopportune time and gave a live physiology lesson: 【Jiujiu, in the ABO world, this is considered a borderline sexual act… I won’t say more. I’m shutting down.】
A “get lost” came to Gu Xiu’s mouth, but he swallowed it back.
007 had just reminded him at the right time. As soon as his voice fell, Jin Chenhan’s canines had seeped into his flesh. It was a foregone conclusion, and Gu Xiu had missed the last chance to refuse.
In the instant the pheromones were injected, a numbing electric current ran through his whole body. Gu Xiu couldn’t help but let out a “mmph” sound, his eyes squinted, and his fingers curled.
“Don’t worry. You might become more dependent on me this time. This is all normal. You can completely trust me,” Jin Chenhan looked at the beautiful silver snowflake pattern that was spreading little by little and said in a low voice, “I will also comfort you in time whenever you need it.”
After the marking was completed, he licked the red tooth marks with a lingering taste, using his own saliva to speed up the healing of the wound.
He licked the Alpha’s skin until it was wet, and he was convulsing and trembling. Then he said with a somewhat sanctimonious tone, “Don’t be afraid. My saliva also has a small amount of pheromones. You’ll like it.”