Warm breath brushed the side of his ear, bringing a slight lemony fragrance.

    Duan Jiayan knew well just how much alcohol Lu Xingci had drunk, and looking at the appearance of the other party, even if he was not drunk, he was definitely not very sober.

    The person behind him was like a ticking time bomb. Duan Jiayan knew that he couldn’t move, but it was too tiring for him to keep turning his head and looking back all the time. Duan Jiayan slowly turned his head back, trying not to affect Lu Xingci as much as possible.

    But his behavior seemed to be understood by the other party as a pursuit of escape.

    Lu Xingci clasped his shoulders and hugged him tighter.

    “I wasn’t going to run.”

Thinking of the other party’s current situation, Duan Jiayan sighed helplessly and explained to him as calmly as possible: “You don’t have to hold on so tightly.”

    Lu Xingci nodded, but showed no intention of letting go.

    Duan Jiayan tentatively tried to convince him, while also wanting to divert his attention: “Can you let go of your hand? Isn’t it tiring to hold it like this?”

    “Well.” Lu Xingci answered. After a while, he added, “I’m not tired.”

    “…”

    Duan Jiayan wanted to continue convincing him, but Lu Xingci fell silent and buried his head in the crook of his neck.

    His long legs were propped casually on the ground, wrapping Duan Jiayan in his arms. This gesture made it hard to tell whether it was a show of weakness or possessiveness, indeed it was a bit abnormal and it caused others to take a few more glances involuntarily.

    “What’s wrong with Brother Lu? Not feeling well?”

    “Is he drunk?”

    “A little.” Duan Jiayan said to the boys, “He should slow down.”

    “Ah-ye.”

The man lying behind him suddenly called out to him, as if he didn’t like his attention being taken away.

    “I’m here, ge.” Duan Jiayan heard him calling himself, and asked casually, “What are your orders?”

    Zhou Xingchen had drunk himself into oblivion, and suddenly looked up blankly: “Ah what? Ah-ye?”

    Lu Xingci paused, saying it word by word: “Ah-ye”

    Zhou Xingchen: “Oh, ah——”

Lu Xingci interrupted him: “You don’t say it.”

    Zhou Xingchen: “…”

    “Why are you so clingy?”

Chen Yue really couldn’t figure out the impulses behing his actions: “Duan Jiayan, you be careful of him, or he might lock you up in the house in the future.”

    Duan Jiayan didn’t think it was anything that serious, and thought for a while: “It’s okay, when I’m drunk, it’s the same as him.”

    When Chen Yue heard this, he said meaningfully: “Don’t give in to him too much, he is not the same as you.”

    Lu Xing raised his head, seemingly feeling that Chen Yue was probing too much into his relationship with Duan Jiayan. An expression of annoyance painted his face.

Tsk.

 The boy’s dark eyes looked straight at him, and the emotion in his eyes couldn’t be any clearer.

   Leave.

    “Okay, okay, I understand.” Chen Yue looked at him with disdain, and nodded at Duan Jiayan with a smile: “I’ll get out of Mr. Lu’s sight, it also happens that my mother urged me just now.”

    Not only Chen Yue, everyone else also started receiving calls from home one after another. It was already early morning after all.

    Song Yi had just finished sending his mother a message, and looked sideways at Duan Jiayan.

    “Xiao Duan,” Song Yi called to him, “Go back together?”

    Lu Xingci jerked alert. Duan Jiayan was just about to get up, when his wrist was caught. Before he could ask Lu Xingci what he wanted to do, he was dragged back.

    Since he was unprepared, his whole body fell back onto Lu Xingci. The latter stretched his arms to hug him, and because of the weight, Lu Xingci’s back pressed against the sofa. He snorted lightly.

    Looking at the scene in front of him, Song Yi was stunned.

    Having heard what Song Yi had just said, Lu Xingci hugged Duan Jiayan with one arm and sat up on the sofa with the other: “He won’t go back.”

    Duan Jiayan didn’t expect that his whereabouts would be decided just like that, and he repeated blankly: “I’m not going back?”

    “Want him to spend the night?” Song Yi murmured to himself: “Isn’t it appropriate to atleast wait for next month?”

    “…” Duan Jiayan was speechless: “What are you doing waiting for next month? What are you two thinking in your head? Something dirty?”

    Lu Xingci and Song Yi both thought differently, he said casually: “Nothing is inappropriate, he will sleep in my room.”

    Song Yi choked on his words: “His glands may not grow well.”

    Lu Xingci let out an ‘Ahh’, then laughed again: “What’s wrong with his glands not growing up?”

    Song Yi was completely speechless.

    Seeing Song Yi’s terrifed expression, Duan Jiayan couldn’t help but interrupt: “He’s drunk, don’t care what he says.”

    Song Yi nodded, seeing that Duan Jiayan was still being hugged by Lu Xingci, he whispered:

“Why don’t you just come with me, the class leader…” It doesn’t seem very normal.

    His voice was as soft as possible, but Song Yi underestimated the sensitivity of alpha’s senses.

    “You go first, there will be a driver waiting when you go out.” Lu Xingci looked at Song Yi, who looked up at him. While speaking, his palm slowly stroked the back of Duan Jiayan’s head, down the soft strands of hair, and finally pressed down on Duan Jiayan’s shoulder: “He doesn’t want to go anywhere.”

    Song Yi: “…”

    He looked at Duan Jiayan with sympathy, but also barely suppressed excitement. Duan Jiayan read a series of unpredictable and complex emotions from the other party’s eyes, such as ‘fuck you’, ‘do well’, and ‘it’s really fucking exciting’.

    Duan Jiayan sighed: “You go.”

    Song Yi hesitated: “Then you…”

    “I’ll take care of him,” he paused and patted Lu Xingci’s head: “This unreasonable drunken lunatic.”

    The latter was slapped on the head by him, but had no other reaction, only glanced at his hand slowly.

    When Song Yi left, Duan Jiayan was about to ask Lu Xingci how he felt when a gentle female voice came from the door.

    “Xingci,” Jiang Yao came out from the banquet hall, still wearing a dress: “Are all your friends gone?”

    She walked into the living room gracefully, and behind her, there was a tall and elegant middle-aged man. It should be Lu Xingci’s father.

    Duan Jiayan quickly pushed Lu Xingci away and stood up.

    Duan Jiayan’s strength was not small, Lu Xingci was pushed away by him like this, and he was a little dissatisfied with him, he whispered next to him: “What are you hiding, our relationship is not unspeakable.”

    Duan Jiayan looked at him confused, deciding on ignoring him:

“Auntie. Uncle. Hope you are doing well.”

   The two elders responded one after the other.

    Seeing that everyone else had left, but Duan Jiayan was still here, Jiang Yao had a general understanding of the situation, and her eyes widened.

    “Would you like to stay here for the night?” Seeing him nodding, Jiang Yao asked, “Still staying in your previous room?”

    Duan Jiayan glanced at Lu Xingci, who was languidly spread out on the sofa, and hummed in agreement.

    The latter heard this and was not very happy: “Didn’t you mean to sleep in my room?”

    “Lu Xingci.” Duan Jiayan blushed embarrassedly, warning him in a low voice: “Your parents are still here.”

    “Xingci.” Jiang Yao said, “You should sleep by yourself.”

    Seeing Lu Xingci behaving like this, Lu Hongchuan frowned slightly, as if dissatisfied.

    He seldom saw his son’s appearance like this, he nearly started to chuckle, when Jiang Yao glanced at him sideways.

    Lu Hongchuan straightened his face and said solemnly, “Sleep by yourself, don’t think about it, and cause trouble for others.”

  Since his parents said so, Lu Xingci slowly sat up on the sofa, and under the watchful eyes of several people he stood up.

    Duan Jiayan saw him standing alone, his long eyes drooping slightly. Inexplicably, he felt that he was a little pitiful.

   Seemingly hesitating, Jiang Yao turned to face Duan Jiayan: “I’ll take you to the room.”

    Duan Jiayan couldn’t brush Jiang Yao’s kindness, so he nodded.

    On the way back to the room, Jiang Yao saw that Lu Xingci had been absent-minded and temperamental the entire way: “How much did you drink? Do you still remember where you live?”

    “Remember,” Lu Xingci raised her chin and motioned to Duan Jiayan: “He’s next door.”

    He paused and said, half to himself, “Why don’t you just sleep with me, there’s only a wall in between, so it can’t stop me anyway.”

    Duan Jiayan couldn’t help but curl his lips, almost laughing . If it wasn’t for Jiang Yao’s presence, he would have wanted to tease Lu Xing with a few words.

    Jiang Yao shook her head in her heart when she saw Lu Xingci’s rambunctious appearance.

    After sending Duan Jiayan into the room, she thought about the situation of the two children and felt a little worried.

    “You lock the door tonight.” Jiang Yao instructed: “I will also pay attention to Xingci.”

    Duan Jiayan was stunned, and then agreed: “I’m sorry to bother you.”

    “No, no, I’m sorry to bother you. He rarely gets drunk. He went to bed as soon as he got drunk last time, but I don’t know what happened today.”

    After talking to Duan Jiayan, Jiang Yao knocked on Lu Xingci’s door.

    Seeing that he changed his clothes and seemed to be going to take a shower, Jiang Yao said, “Mom will bring you sobering soup in a while, you remember to open the door.”

    Hearing this, Lu Xingci looked up at her: “I won’t open the door for you.”

After a pause, he pointed to the next room with a smile: “You ask him to bring it to me, and I’ll open the door.”

    Jiang Yao nearly had a headache: “Why are you like this tonight?”

    Lu Xingci smiled, clearly he was in a good mood: “He doesn’t dislike me acting like this.”

    “…” Jiang Yao was silent for a while, then handed over a key to Lu Xingci.

    “That apartment in Nanshan, your father and I are giving it to you as a birthday present.” Jiang Yao said, “I’m handing the only key to you.”

    “Thank you mom,” Lu Xingci was a little surprised, his eyebrows curved into a shallow arc: “Help me thank Dad as well.”

    Jiang Yao patted his shoulder.

    “Rest early, don’t think about all this.”

    Duan Jiayan came out of the bathroom slowly after taking a shower.

    It was late, and with the few glasses of wine he’d drunk, he was already very sleepy. Just two steps ahead, he suddenly saw someone sitting beside his bed.

    Duan Jiayan: “…”

    Duan Jiayan sighed in his heart, “How did you get here?”

    He definitely locked the door.

    Lu Xingci raised his chin and gestured to the bedside table, where Duan Jiayan saw the key to his room.

    Duan Jiayan said strangely: “Are you sober? You can even find the key and unlock it again.”

    Lu Xingci didn’t answer him directly.

    His gaze swept across Duan Jiayan’s slightly moist hair, and followed a drop of water that slid down his thin shoulders and neck.

    Lu Xingci watched him for a while and called out: “Come here.”

    Duan Jiayan didn’t move.

    “Let me dry your hair for you.”

    Duan Jiayan hesitated for a while, but walked over in the end.

    The scent of the shampoo melted combined with the hot gust of wind from the dryer. The body temperature of the person holding him was a little higher than his. In the quiet and cold winter night, such an intimate embrace had an indescribable attraction.

    Long fingers ran through his hair. Duan Jiayan’s body relaxed, and the person became more and more sleepy.

    In a daze, when he recalled the entire night, he found that the guy behind him liked physical contact when he was drunk.

    After a while, the sound of the hair dryer stopped.

    Duan Jiayan was about to open his eyes.

    But a pair of hands pulled him into the quilt.

    Suddenly pulled into the bed, Duan Jiayan kicked him due to his conditioned reflex. He was slapped lightly on his backside, as if punishment for his restlessness.

    Duan Jiayan lifted his eyelids and was about to ask him where he got the guts, but the culprit complained first: “What are you kicking me for?”

    “You climbed on my bed.” Duan Jiayan stared at him: “Aunty and uncle asked you to sleep by yourself. .”

    Lu Xingci met his eyes and repeated: “Sleep by myself?”

    Before Duan Jiayan could speak, Lu Xingci remembered the attitude of his parents and muttered to himself: “Just hug and sleep, what can happen? Hugging you can’t mark it or something…”

    Duan Jiayan listened to him, thinking that his lazy muttering was infact quite cute.

    Lu Xingci glanced at him and continued: “But you have already been marked by me. It’s useless for anyone to stop me.”

    Duan Jiayan was shocked by his rude words, and he was already a little sober: “Let me remind you, you should be my lick dog next month, your words and deeds now determine what kind of lick dog you will become.”

    Seeing that Lu Xingci didn’t respond, Duan Jiayan continued to remind him: “You still remember that you tied me with a tie before.”

    The person beside him heard his threat and laughed instead: “Then you want to tie me back?”

    The pheromone belonging to an alpha was released, like a forest being covered with thick snow, it pressed heavily on him.

    There was a feeling of numbness and weakness in the limbs, and the nerves all over his body were affected.

    Their match is far beyond common sense, making him destined to be unable to resist Lu Xingci’s pheromone.

    Seeing that he didn’t speak, the boy’s long eyelashes were drooping, and his smile was a bit rambunctious: “How will you tie me?”

    Duan Jiayan was stunned when he saw him smile like this.

    Suddenly reacting, his ears warmed and he scolded in a low voice: “I’m not as perverted as you, peak properly.”

   The alpha pheromone made him feel uncomfortable, Duan Jiayan couldn’t bear it anymore and turned to avoid him: ” Take back the pheromones.”

    When his voice fell, the pheromone belonging to alpha did not decrease but increased instead, it’s spreading intensified.

    Duan Jiayan closed his eyes, his hands a little itchy.

    He was wondering if he should let this ignorant guy know what it means to be stopped, when the overwhelming sense of oppression suddenly disappeared.

    Lu Xingci restrained his pheromones, leaned over, and rubbed his cheek against Duan Jiayan’s auricle intentionally or unintentionally.

    He kissed the corner of his lips, with possessiveness in his tenderness: “You can do whatever you want.”

    It was a shallow kiss that brushed past his lips like a floating feather.

    When he retreated, Duan Jiayan’s eyelashes trembled and suddenly he said, “Don’t move.”

    Hearing his request, Lu Xingci obediently did not move, and looked at him gently.

    Duan Jiayan stared at him for a moment, and felt that his heart seemed to be trappe, his breath sinking involuntarily.

    He leaned forward a little, hooked Lu Xingci’s neck, and kissed him back.

    The first snow fell in the middle of winter.

    The temperature this winter was very low and it was said to be the coldest winter in recent years.

    Lu Xingci walked into the living room. Jiang Yao was wearing a face mask while watching a drama, and when she saw him come in, she called out, “Aunt Wei wants to get together in two days.”

    Lu Xingci put down his schoolbag and poured water for himself: “Which Aunt Wei?”

    Jiang Yao looked at him, not impressed but finding his attitude a little funny: “Wei Xuelan’s mother. Her daughter is going to the UK and she wants to invite everyone to dinner.”

    “Chen Yue and the others were also invited. His mother asked me today if I am familiar with Mrs. Wei. It’s a little strange.” Jiang Yao paused: “You say, she came back for so long, and she didn’t try getting closer to anyone. Isn’t it unusual to think about socializing when she’s leaving soon?”

    After understanding what she was saying, Lu Xingci smiled and said, “If there is really any reason, won’t we know tomorrow?”

    Jiang Yao also laughed: “Yes, let’s not talk about this. Let’s eat first, and I’ll go wash off the mask.”

    Jiang Yao stood up, suddenly snorted, and stopped: “Why didn’t you bring Jiayan over to play?

    Lu Xingci stared at her for a few seconds: “Want to see him?”     

Jiang Yao glanced at him, non-committally: “Next time, you say I want to see him and bring him over for the weekend.”

In the private mansion. The lights in the hall were like waterfalls, and there were delicate white roses arranged on the long table. Several violinists in black dresses played some melodious classical music.

    Lu Xingci and Jiang Yao had just sat down, and Chen Yue also took a seat. Lu Xingci glanced at him: “Didn’t sleep well?”

    Chen Yue yawned and said in a lazy voice: “I stayed up for half the night to study the questions last night, I fell asleep after lunch, and was pulled up by my mother in the evening.”

    Lu Xingci couldn’t help but sneer: “Brother, do you want to die like this?” 

    Chen Yue shook his head: “I won’t be able to go to college if I don’t work hard. If I fail the college entrance examination, my dad will pick up the ashtray and drive me out of the house.

     When Mrs. Chen heard their conversation, she said angrily: “What nonsense.”

  When everyone had arrived, Mrs. Wei raised her glass and stood up: “I’m so sorry to invite everyone over suddenly today.”

    She looked around with a smile on her face. : “Our Xue Lan is going back to the UK. She is an introverted child and doesn’t know how to make friends.”

    Beside her, the girl in a dress lowered her eyebrows gently.

    “Unexpectedly, she will leave again.” Mrs. Wei’s eyes swept over Jiang Yao and Lu Xingci, who were on the side, and said softly, “I just thought, I should still let her get together with everyone. It’s easier to stay in contact.”

    Several wives present listened, raised their glasses, and blessed Wei Xuelan with a smile.

    Wei Xuelan thanked them one by one, and when she sat down, her eyes swept over the boy beside her.

    Lu Xing had taken off his coat, the figure outlined by his shirt was extremely good looking, with straight and broad shoulders.

    He listened to them and smiled occasionally. Good upbringing was done just right in his case. Wei Xuelan looked at his dark eyes and her cheeks went slightly red.

    When arranging seats, she’d discussed with Mrs. Wei and deliberately placed Lu Xingci’s seat next to her.

    After leaving the main house of the Lu family that day, she went back to the banquet hall to find her mother. Recalling that the other party had previously suggested that she had more contact with Lu Xingci, in a fit of rage, she couldn’t help but confide what she had seen and heard.

    While surprised, Mrs. Wei didn’t quite believe her words: “Did you understand it wrong?”

    “I didn’t, Mom.” Wei Xuelan complained, “He already kissed someone, and you’re asking me to marry him! He already gets along with that person. Aren’t you just hurting me?”

    “I haven’t heard of the Lu family’s marriage plans. He can’t be so close to anyone.” Mrs. Wei thought of a possibility and said in surprise, “unless he……”

    But Lu Xingci was not like the kind of person who was neither here nor their. It was too unscrupulous to bring people home so openly. No matter how she thought about it, it didn’t make sense, and she had some doubts about Wei Xuelan’s words. 

Compared with the Wei family, the Lu family’s conditions are better in all aspects. If theses two can get married, it will not be harmful to the development of the Wei family. 

Mrs. Wei could see that her daughter was complaining to her on the surface, but she actually had a good impression of Lu Xingci, and the two families were also considered to be a good match…

After the mother and daughter discussed it, they decided to take the opportunity of Wei Xuelan’s departure to test the Lu family for the last time.

     “Lu Xingci.” Wei Xuelan whispered to him: “Will you study abroad in the future? It seems that the elder brother of the Xu family was also sent abroad when he was in college.”  

   “Probably not.”

His tone of voice was not impolite.

“I don’t have this plan for the time being.”    

“Then have you thought about where to take the test?”

Wei Xuelan paused: “If it’s too far away from Ning City, maybe the local living habits are different from here. When you are far away from home, sometimes you feel very lonely.” 

Lu Xingci glanced at her and said softly, “I haven’t thought about it.”

    She searched for a topic several times, but to say she was turned down by the other party was an understatement. Soon, she could clearly feel the change in his attitude.

    Wei Xuelan bit her lower lip, holding her breath in her heart.

    All night, Lu Xingci was polite and distant to her.

    Why?

    So cold and indifferent on the surface, isn’t he still messing around behind the scenes?

    Thinking of the scene she saw at Lu’s house that day, she was unwilling to bite down on her pride.

    It was obvious that her family was in the same league as the Lu family, but he was hanging out with people from unknown origins and ignoring her.

    She clenched her fist, then released it.

    The fire in her heart grew stronger.

    “I saw it that day!” Wei Xuelan suddenly said: “On your birthday, you brought an omega! I don’t know who it was, and you were in the yard…”

    She said, and everyone around her looked at her in astonishment.

Heartlessly she continued: “You were there at the time—”

    Jiang Yao frowned when she heard this.

    She could probably guess who Wei Xuelan saw, but she didn’t expect the little girl to be so impatient. In front of so many people, she wanted to make a mess.

    “Xue Lan,” Seeing that Jiang Yao’s face was not looking very good, Mrs. Wei hurriedly pulled her arm: “Don’t talk about it.”

    “What happened in the yard?”

Only Lu Xingci looked at her gently: “Go ahead.”

    Even Chen Yue was stunned.

    He hadn’t seen Lu Xingci lose his temper for a long time. Contrary to most people, the angrier Lu Xingci got, the calmer he became. He was acting so calm now, it could only mean that he is suppressing his anger.

    Seeing that Wei Xuelan really planned to continue speaking, Chen Yue swiped on his phone twice.

    When he received the news from Chen Yue, Duan Jiayan was playing games with Hei Pi in an Internet cafe.

    On a rare weekend, since he rarely came out to surf the Internet these days, he’d just happened to meet Hei Pi.

    Duan Jiayan felt that he really had a fated relationship with this brother: “Didn’t you go to the training camp?”

    “Came here to play for two days, and then go back next week.” Hei Pi looked at his left hand skillfully tapping the keyboard: “Wasn’t your hand hurt?”

     “How long has it been?”

Duan Jiayan suddenly remembered something: “I forgot to ask, what do you learn at camp?”

    “Basketball.” Hei Pi was disappointed: “You don’t even know this?”

    ” Ning City, LeBron, the scoring champion on the court.” Duan Jiayan boasted: “You are amazing, hey.”

    “Yeah, you are over blowing it, buddy.” Hei Pi was amused by him: “What about you?”

    “Studying hard.” Duan Jiayan clicked the mouse to fill up his troops.

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone vibrated.

    Duan Jiayan picked it up and took a look.

    Chen Yue: [I think the one from your family is going to run wild. ]

    Duan Jiayan: “?”

    Duan Jiayan: “!”

    As soon as Chen Yue finished sending the message, Wei Xuelan moved her lips before he could reply to Duan Jiayan’s string of question marks.

    “You were in the yard,” Wei Xuelan said word by word: “You kissed his neck, and you hugged him intimately…”

    For some reason, facing the calm eyes in front of her, she became more and more timid. There was none of the previous confidence, and her voice gradually became smaller.

    Everyone around was watching silently.

    When Lu Xingci saw her voice had stopped, the corners of his lips twitched.

    “I hope Miss Wei can figure things out before she arbitrarily criticizes others next time.” Compared with Wei Xuelan, who was speaking in a chaotic manner, his appearance was much calmer.

    “The person you saw will marry me in the future.” He turned his face, but the heat in his eyes was very apparent: “It seems that it is not your turn to discuss my private affairs with him.”

Here’s an early update.

Just because I have nothing better to do than to translate other people’s successful love stories while sitting around trying to convince myself I’m single by choice lol.

Somebody pick me up please, hehe.