Xu Xinghe felt that he had slept for a long time, and when he woke up, only three hours had passed.

It was still dark outside the window, and dark clouds shrouded the entire city of Sooke, making the sky at four o'clock in the afternoon look like a dark night.

Xu Xinghe listened to the rain alone for a while by the window, then turned and left the room, walking towards the ward.

In the distance, before approaching the ward, saw a small pink lump.

Xu Xinghe was taken aback and stopped.

At the door of the ward, stood a little girl in a pink dress.

The girl was holding a rag doll in her left hand and a book in her right hand, standing alone at the door of the room, looking up at the door.

She looked about four or five years old, and she was thin and small. Hearing the sound of footsteps, the girl jolted, spread her short legs and ran behind the wall, then stuck out half of her head, carefully looking at Xu Xinghe.

Xu Xinghe's heart trembled.

The girl has a pair of black, translucent, lovable deer eyes.

A bit like her mother, and a bit like herself.

Perhaps due to the lack of sunlight in Su Kecheng, the girl's skin is very white, and her hair is slightly darker. Although she is small, her face still has some baby fat.

Xu Xinghe stepped forward and squatted down in front of the girl.

"Are you Lily?"

He remembered the first name the woman on the hospital bed called when she opened her eyes, guessing that it should be her daughter's name.

The little girl nodded and asked curiously, "Big brother, who are you?"

"I..." Xu Xinghe was at a loss for words, "I am my mother's... relative, and also your relative."

The girl was half-hiding behind the wall, tilting her head and looking at him.

The pair of deer blinked, with a bit of curiosity in their eyes, but they didn't continue to ask, just nodded ignorantly.

Xu Xinghe asked warmly, "Why are you standing at the door and not going in?"

Lily replied in a milky voice, "The doctor is examining my mother, let me come out first."

Xu Xinghe nodded: "How old are you?"

Lily stretched out her small arm and compared the number "five" with her right hand: "I'm five years old, and I can go to school next year."

Her little appearance is really cute, Xu Xinghe couldn't hold back, and reached out and rubbed the little girl's head.

Lily shrank her neck, but did not hide.

Xu Xinghe smiled and asked her again, "You... Where's your brother?"

"My brother should be going to school. He used to live at the school all the time. After his mother got sick, he didn't go to school much, but his mother kept telling him to go back to school. They quarreled about it yesterday..." Lily said. After speaking, I suddenly remembered that my mother told me not to chat casually with strangers.

She quickly covered her mouth as if to make amends, and then put it down again.

The big brother in front of her had a very comfortable intimacy, which made her feel that she was not a bad person, so she said a lot without knowing it.

While the two were talking, the door of the ward was opened and the doctor came out.

Xu Xinghe got up and took the little girl's hand: "Come on, I'll go in with you to see my mother."

The woman on the hospital bed was still looking very bad, but her originally dull eyes were brightened again by the presence of the two of them.

Lily pounced upon seeing her mother, and Xu Xinghe followed behind her and once again held the woman's outstretched hand.

Women's physical condition is very poor, and about half of the day is spent in sleep.

She no longer has the strength to play with her little daughter, and the five-year-old little girl doesn't cry or make noise, she just sits quietly on the carpet in front of the hospital bed, holding the doll and reading a book by herself, she is a little obedient It hurts.

Xu Xinghe sat on the chair in front of the bed. When the woman was awake, he would tell her some stories that had happened to him over the years. When the woman fell asleep again, he walked over to Lily and sat next to her on the carpet. Come down, then turn on your portable optical brain, pick an e-book that you haven't read before, and read it together under the light.

After staying until dinner time, Lily warmly invited Xu Xinghe to stay and have dinner together.

Xu Xinghe reached out and touched the little sister's head, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, my brother has an appointment tonight, so I can't make it up. You have dinner with your mother today, and I'll come back to eat with you tomorrow."

He thought that there were some things that he had to make clear with Ling Changfeng.

Lily was a little disappointed, but she nodded obediently, hugged her rag doll and said, "Well, see you tomorrow!"

When Xu Xinghe left the ward, he suddenly realized that he didn't know where to go.

Before Ling Changfeng left, he said that he would come to pick him up at night, but now it is past six o'clock in the evening, and he has not received the other party's email, nor has he seen Ling Changfeng himself.

Just as was about to make a phone call to ask, the mailbox suddenly rang—

Ling Changfeng said in the e-mail that he had something to do temporarily, and the dinner could not come, so he asked him to eat first.

Xu Xinghe was stunned for two seconds, then closed the screen calmly, turned and walked back to the ward.

He recalled the conversation between the two before they parted, and realized with hindsight that they seemed to have quarreled.

In fact, for a moment, he was sure that Ling Changfeng was angry, and he seemed to know why the other party was angry, but he still couldn't do anything about it.

It's probably not anyone's fault, it's just that the two sides have different ways of thinking and different perspectives, so it's inevitable.

Xu Xinghe returned to the ward, and in Lily's surprised eyes, he told her with a smile that he had come back to have dinner with her and her mother.

The girl's cheers and expectations gave Xu Xinghe reason to keep smiling. She began to tell him about the children's books she read, and even made an exception to let herself hug her doll.

Therefore, Xu Xinghe had to quickly pack up his mood and start eating and chatting with his sister like a real big brother.

The first night in Sooke City passed like this.

That night, Xu Xinghe was lying on the bed alone, wanting to say something to Ling Changfeng.

But edited the email back and forth several times, but in the end it was not sent.

He wanted to say sorry to Ling Changfeng, but vaguely realized that doing so would not only be useless, but might even make things even more rigid.

I want to say thank you, but also feel that these two words are too perfunctory.

In the end, just fell asleep in silence.

It rained heavily all night.

The next day, Xu Xinghe woke up very early, raised his hand to check the time, it was only early six o'clock.

He dazedly clicked on the beating mailbox sign, only to realize that Ling Changfeng had actually sent him another email just after one o'clock in the morning yesterday.

Marshal Ling said in the email that he had encountered something temporarily and would not go back for the past few days.

Xu Xinghe sat up and leaned on the head of the bed, feeling a little dazed.

Ling Changfeng... Was he deliberately avoiding himself?

He carefully recalled the last conversation before the two parted, and always felt that it did not seem like the beginning of a cold war.

Things shouldn't be this serious. Even if there is, Ling Changfeng is not the person who will use the cold war to deal with problems.

Is there anything else they haven't talked about?

Xu Xinghe stared at the email for a while, then raised his hand and dialed Qin Yuan's video line.

Soon, Adjutant Qin appeared on the screen with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.

"Sorry, did I disturb you to rest?" Xu Xinghe was a little surprised, "Isn't it noon now in Xingfu City?"

Qin Yuan chuckled and waved his hand: "It's okay, do you have anything to do with me?"

"I... We seem to have quarreled." Xu Xinghe got straight to the point, briefly described the unpleasant conversation that happened yesterday afternoon to Qin Yuan, and then said a little lowly: "He said I wouldn't believe his promise... Actually I just feel sorry."

While listening to him, Qin Yuan made himself a cup of black coffee and asked, "Why do you feel sorry?"

Xu Xinghe took a deep breath and replied, "My mother's business...is my personal business, and I shouldn't have bothered him so much. I am very grateful for what he has done, but I have nothing to give back, so... You know, you always feel like you owe something, and you're sorry."

Qin Yuan sighed calmly, took a sip of coffee and said, "What do you call a quarrel, but don't worry, the alpha's possessiveness is at work in the short term, but it's not a big problem. But Xinghe, think about it in a different position, When you are willing to help others, do you prefer to hear them say 'Thank you, this helped me a lot' or 'Sorry, I'm so bothering you'?"

Xu Xinghe was slightly taken aback.

Qin Yuan continued: "It's not a shameful thing to accept help from others. If you are grateful to him for this, go and say thank you generously, but you don't need to feel sorry for it, and he is definitely not a figure. What do you give back to do this for you. You are the one who is loved, Xinghe, human beings are instinctively willing to do something for their lover, you don't need to think too much about this behavior, otherwise it will cause unnecessary damage to each other Besides, this matter is no trouble for him, it is also my trouble if you want trouble..." Qin Yuan said, taking another gulp of coffee, "Remember to invite me to dinner when you have time. Bar."

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He fell silent for a while.

Qin Yuan wanted to say something else, but the encrypted communication rang again.

Adjutant Qin looked stunned, raised his head and said to Xu Xinghe, "Sorry, I still have something to do..."

Xu Xinghe came back to his senses: "Okay, don't bother you anymore, I'll go talk to him about the rest."

Just as Qin Yuan was about to turn off the communication hand, he paused for a moment: "Just a few more days."

After saying that, without waiting for Xu Xinghe to ask more, he hung up the video call.

Xu Xinghe vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Ling Changfeng will not really have anything wrong, right?

Thinking like this, he rolled over and got out of bed, quickly cleaned up and walked out of the door, directly finding Colonel Lewis, the captain of the personal guard of Marshal Ling.

"Take me to see him."

For this request, Colonel Lewis looked embarrassed, trying to dissuade him, but he was a little powerless.

Xu Xinghe asked calmly, "Your marshal ordered you not to see me?"

Lewis shook his head quickly: "No, no, why do you think so..."

"Then did he say that I'm not allowed to go to him?"

Lewis replied embarrassedly, "Neither, but..."

"Then take me to see him." Xu Xinghe said, "I'll take care of it if something goes wrong. Since he never said he would not see me, then I'll go to my legal spouse. Is there any problem?"

The place where Marshal Ling stayed was far away from the city and was located on the outskirts of Su Kecheng.

When Colonel Lewis personally helped him open the car door, Xu Xinghe thought he had arrived at some practice base.

"He lives here?" Xu Xinghe looked at the large metal building in front of him and became more and more suspicious.

Colonel Lewis lowered his eyes and said, "Yes."

Xu Xinghe took a deep breath and followed Captain Lewis in.

He passed through three gates successively before arriving at the accommodation area.

When the last silver metal door opened, Xu Xinghe's body froze suddenly, and even his breathing stopped for half a beat.

Surrounded by the breath of the sea.

It seemed that there was an overwhelming turbulent swept over the sky, causing his hands and feet to become cold and weak, but a tingling electric current flashed through his spine.

——It is Ling Changfeng's pheromone.

"This... what's going on?" Xu Xinghe's face was a little bad.

Captain Lewis lowered his head and replied: "That's what you feel, the marshal won't let us talk. I told the marshal that you were coming, and he didn't refuse, but are you sure you want to move on? Will... "

Before he finished speaking, the people around him rushed towards the bedroom like a gust of wind.

Lewis: "..."

He wanted to follow, but he was afraid that he would be silenced when he saw something he shouldn't watch.

Having been Marshal Ling's personal guard captain for more than ten years, he knew too well how dangerous, manic, and aggressive Ling Changfeng was in the susceptible period.

Like a powerful, cold-blooded, but irrational super lethal weapon.

In the past, if there was an emergency in the war, Ling Changfeng would let the military doctor overinject himself with an inhibitor in a powerful and physically damaging way, delaying his susceptibility period.

When the battle situation is not urgent, he will set aside three to five days of isolation to get through these difficult days alone.

Captain Lewis knew that yesterday afternoon, Ling Changfeng originally planned to delay the susceptibility period by injecting inhibitors.

But don't know why, the inhibitor didn't work.

He had to start isolating so as not to cause harm to those around him.

Thinking of this, Colonel Lewis suddenly recalled another incident.

Ling Changfeng's last susceptibility period, which was the susceptibility period caused by Xu Xinghe's estrus period, seemed to have passed unexpectedly safely.

That was the most stable period of susceptibility he had seen him go through in the ten years he had followed Ling Changfeng.

In those days, Marshal Ling was not violent and irritable. On the contrary, he was as high-spirited as a contented lion...

why?

Captain Lewis looked at the back of Xu Xinghe leaving, and suddenly thought—

Is it because, tagging a beloved omega?

On the way to the bedroom, Xu Xinghe also thought that before coming to Pelpa Star, Qin Yuan told them how to cope if someone entered the estrus or susceptible period.

Timely injection of inhibitors is one aspect, but from Qin Yuan's mouth, he learned that Ling Changfeng's susceptibility period is longer than that of ordinary alphas, and the symptoms are much more severe than those of ordinary alphas.

Normal alphas will enter a susceptible period every two or three months, during which they will be irritable and irritable, and they will be more sensitive and thirsty for omega pheromones. This symptom will last for about a week and repeat.

And Ling Changfeng will only usher in a susceptible period about half a year, and the performance of the susceptible period is also more intense.

He can be dangerous, tyrannical, manic, irritable...

And very very uncomfortable.

In particular, he has been taking a large number of inhibitors for a long time, and his body has developed drug resistance, and it is difficult to relieve these symptoms through pure drugs.

Xu Xinghe came to the door of the bedroom, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.

Unlike the imagined storms and messes, the bedroom is clean and tidy and quiet.

No headlights were turned on in the room, only a small orange light was lit on the bedside table. The color was warm, which was Xu Xinghe's favorite mode to turn on at night.

Ling Changfeng sat quietly beside the bed, facing the floor-to-ceiling glass window outside the window, leaving only a back view of Xu Xinghe who pushed the door in.

The building materials of the room should be specially made, which not only blocks Ling Changfeng's pheromone breath to a certain extent, but also has excellent sound insulation. When people are indoors, they cannot hear the sound of rain falling outside the window.

This was supposed to be a warm and peaceful rain-watching scene.

However, there was an oppressive pheromone aura in all directions, making Xu Xinghe's body tense immediately, and even his breathing became a little heavier.

In particular, the moment he stepped into this place, he clearly felt that the sea-flavored pheromones in the air became manic.

But when he looked up, Ling Changfeng still quietly turned his back to him and sat on the bed.

Hearing the sound, his ears moved slightly, but he didn't even turn his head back.

Xu Xinghe pinched his palm uneasily, walked forward, and stopped behind Ling Changfeng across a bed.

"How are you?"

Xu Xinghe knew that he asked nonsense, but Ling Changfeng's back was so calm and his pheromones were so chaotic, he was a little unsure about the other party's situation for a while.

Ling Changfeng spoke, but did not turn around, did not turn his head, and did not answer his words, he just asked, "Why are you here?"

There seemed to be nothing unusual about the voice, except that it was deeper and more hoarse than usual.

Seeing that he was still rational, Xu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why didn't you tell me when you were susceptible? Don't you know..."

As soon as the words came out, they suddenly stopped.

Of course Ling Changfeng knew.

He knew that alpha's difficult susceptibility period could be comforted by omega's pheromones.

He also knew that his own pheromone was the best medicine for him.

He just didn't say it.

Probably too, can't speak.

Xu Xinghe was silent for a moment, then walked around the big bed and walked to Ling Changfeng's side.

Reaching out his hand, lightly placed it on the other's shoulder.

"I'll help you?"

Xu Xinghe's voice sounded in the dark and quiet room.

Ling Changfeng never turned his head to look at him, and Xu Xinghe couldn't see his eyes either.

So take this as a tacit consent.

He released a trace of sweet pheromone and gently climbed up Ling Changfeng's body.

Like a blossoming tree with soft branches, it gently entangles people.

Ling Changfeng's body suddenly moved slightly.

The violence in the air seemed to have diminished.

Xu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Ling Changfeng was more comfortable.

But the next moment, the wrist suddenly hurts.

The world was spinning in front of him, and before he could resist, or even exclaim, he was pushed down on the bed by a tremendous force.

And the surrounding pheromones also rioted again, as if breaking through the last shackles of rationality, and became completely unscrupulous.

Xu Xinghe raised his eyes in panic and met those terrifying eyes.

His body trembled, and only then did he see clearly that Ling Changfeng's eyes were bloodshot, and his eyes were almost dyed red.

Marshal Ling, who was in the susceptible period, deceived himself and pressed the person on the bed, and his right hand firmly pressed Xu Xinghe's wrist.

With a mouth, his voice was even more hoarse than before: "Why do you think I won't let you over?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his left hand again, ignoring Xu Xinghe's struggles, and gently rubbed the fragile and sensitive glands on the other's neck.

Those eyes that were almost dripping with blood were more frightening than ever.

Ling Changfeng leaned down and whispered in his ear, "It's too late for you to regret it now."