Chapter 46 – Let’s Not Fight For Each Other

Jian Songyi did say to put then thousand hearts and wait for him to return triumphantly. But in this case, Bai Huai came to pick him up so that he can return triumphantly. 

Jian Songyi saw Bai Huai as a beam of light in the dark alley, penetrating the darkness and filth. He is both strong and fearless.

When Bai Huai had seen Wang Hai, he had already guessed what had happened. 

At that moment, he moved with all of these emotions mixed up inside of him. He could not even determine each apart from one another: Was it guilt? Heartache? The yearning for love and affection? Breaking through confinements? A way to vent out? – it was everything at once. In the end, he can only express all of these through a shallow kiss.

Jian Songyi was frozen in his seat. He leaned against the wall completely motionless.

It was until the police showed up. In a dull manner, one of them pointed over at the cell phone as they wrapped it in, taking it as evidence.

The police had picked it up and found that the camera was on. It recorded some clips that were not that clear but was enough to gather some pieces as to what had happened there. “With this, things would be relatively clear, but we still need two students to cooperate with the investigation and go back with us to make the transcription.”

“And then, do you need professional psychological counseling about this Omega student? When I called other officers in our headquarters, I emphasized that we have an Omega in his special period across the scene. That is why a responsible person accompanied me from the Omega Association. After I saw the scene, I was already worried. But then, I saw the vacancy look on this Omega’s face that made me feel more worried. He might’ve suffered a great mental blow.”

Bai Huai: “If you can, please give us ten minutes. I want to appease my Omega.”

“Okay. No problem. It’s most important to pacify the Omega’s mental state. We are not in a hurry. I will wait for you at the entrance of the alley. You can ask for help anytime if you need it.”

It is known that an Omega is rare and fragile. That is why they are specially protected.

Everyone understands that fact except for Jian Songyi.

The officers gave them the privacy they needed. And now there were only the two of them inside. 

Jian Songyi started to relax until he realized once again that Bai Huai had just kissed him. Before he could find a reasonable excuse for Bai Huai’s behavior, Bai Huai already managed to lift his chin and press another soft kiss against his lips. 

This time it was not a short and tender one, but an unreasonable overbearing with both anger and heartache. Along with the feeling of restraint he tried to endure for a long time now.

It’s like some kind of punishment.

The oozing blood beads brought sweetness, stirring Bai Huai’s worry and anger that his pheromone almost got out of control.

The meaning of what the entourage said just now is very clear. Under such circumstances, Omega is very likely to be irreversibly harmed. At the moment of thinking of what kind of injury it is, Bai Huai’s reason is almost out of control.

He can’t imagine what could’ve happened if today’s Alphas were a lot stronger than what they are now. Or if Jian Songyi’s state ended up being worse? What if he came in a little bit later? Then what could’ve happened to him?

Bai Huai had been spoiling him in his heart for more than ten years now. Jian Songyi is the most precious thing ever. How can anyone dare to touch him? How can anyone be worthy of him? And why shouldn’t he love and care for himself?

Jian Songyi’s ability to think was blocked by the kiss they shared. 

He had never seen Bai Huai so cold and hostile. He is much stronger than he expected.

And then there’s the fact that Jian Songyi had never felt this way before. The hot tide that he had been suppressing inside his body suddenly surged out because of this slightly cold kiss.

He was pressed against the wall, enjoying the kiss, with his eyes slightly squinted. He is sizing up Bai Huai, finding that this man’s eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips- how all of them are so nice and perfectly beautiful.

His pheromones smell good too.

He is perfect.

He forgot everything else and just thought he wanted him.

It was not Bai Huai who conquered him.

It was he who wanted Bai Huai.

Jian Songyi reached out his hand around Bai Huai’s neck while the other rests upon the back of his head to press Bai Huai’s face closer to himself. 

It was an instinctive response. He wanted more, and he thought he could get it.

However, Bai Huai stopped.

He looked up to look directly at Jian Songyi: “Do you want me to mark you?”

The fingers that Jian Songyi inserted into his hair pause slightly. It tenses and relaxes as a tacit acknowledgment.

Bai Huai’s pheromones and the kiss they shared infinitely amplified his senses. His and Bai Huai’s pheromones fit perfectly with each other, so perfectly that even the inducer became the most delicious seasoning.

He who had survived the triggering agent and the inducing pheromone had failed to survive the kiss.

Then there’s no reason why Bai Huai can’t mark him either.

He closed his eyes and waited quietly.

However, it was not until the heat flow spread from his glands because of the excessive oppression just now. At this moment, he could not wait for Bai Huai to bite him when he was so attracted to the powerful Alpha pheromone.

Sweat dripped from across Jian Songyi’s forehead. His back was soaked and his limbs began to spasm.

It’s a pain he had never experienced before.

Bai Huai seemed to know everything as he asked before anything else: “Tell me, are you getting uncomfortable now?”

Jian Songyi nodded, thinking that Bai Huai would simply coax him after saying that.

However, he never thought that for the second after that, Bai Huai would actually push him away.

“Just continue feeling bad.” He said in an extremely cold tone.

It was like a basin of cold water getting splashed against his head.

Jian Songyi opened his eyes blankly towards Bai Huai. His eyes, which always had been determined, were now somewhat wet at this moment. He is like a small animal that had been spoiled and now is up for training for the very first time.

But Bai Huai looks more distressed than anyone else.

Either way, he tried to look at the rational way. “I will not mark you nor will I give you inhibitors because I want you to remember this very pain you are feeling right now.” He said indifferently. “Remember this. This is the feeling of an Omega in heat. Your first two times are only the early stages. That is why you didn’t think of them as a big deal. But I am telling you now, it’s worse than you think. And after a while, you will feel worse than it is now.” 

Jian Songyi felt more than worst that he almost couldn’t stand. If he hadn’t leaned against the wall, he would have fallen.

He only wants to hug Bai Huai. Just a hug from him would suffice.

Jian Songyi held out his hand, but Bai Huai took another step back.

Jian Songyi’s hand was frozen mid-air. He didn’t know what to do. 

He has no idea how to be an Omega. Bai Huai helps him every time, but this time Bai Huai refuses to help him. What should he do?

He’s a little overwhelmed.

 Jian Songyi, who is always strong and conceited in front of the enemy, shows fragility and unease in front of the person he trusts most for the first time.

Bai Huai was so distressed that he could not breathe, but he was so calm that he was frighteningly calm: “Jian Songyi, I know you are excellent in everything you do. In fact, there is nothing you can’t solve. There is nothing you can’t survive. You held it in just right even if you ended up being an Omega. But have you ever wondered what an Omega is like? “

“Yes, it’s okay this time. But what if it’s an Alpha that’s just as good or better than me next time? What if it’s an Alpha that fits just as well as you do? What if it’s an Alpha with a case of triggers? What are you going to do? What can you do?”

“I know you will overcome these weaknesses someday. I never doubted it because I have not met anyone more resilient than you, and you will always do it if you want to. But like I said, it’s not something that can be rushed, the days are still so long, and I’m still here.”

“So can you face up to your weaknesses? Can you try to rely on me? Can you remember that you still know a man named Bai Huai, a man who couldn’t let you get hurt a bit even if he had to fight for his life?”

“If you won’t be able to remember it then simmer this bad feeling you’re experiencing right now. Indulge into it until it leaves a mark for you to remember.”

Bai Huai seldom speaks so much. With his cold voice, suppressed emotions, indifference, and ruthlessness, the top Alpha shows that he is born to be superior to others.

However, Jian Songyi is lenient and partial.

He raised his head and looked directly at Bai Huai in the same calm indifferent voice: “Okay. I’ll endure it then.”

Without marking him, no inhibitors, not to mention the heat arousing through his body: all under Jian Songyi’s willpower, in one cold word after another, he was pressed back.

He bit his lip and the beads of blood oozed out from him again.

He straightened his back stubbornly without saying a word.

Bai Huai was badly poked in the heart. He even struggled to maintain the final indifference: “Do you think I am wrong?” Are you not convinced? “

Jian Songyi pursed his lips and said nothing.

There was always no quarrel between them in the past, since after a few exchanged words, Bai Huai would always coax him in the end. He would never lose his temper with Jian Songyi, and he did spoil him very much.

However, this time is different. Bai Huai just looked at him coldly. He then nodded before saying calmly. “Alright. It doesn’t matter if you are not convinced, then continue to endure it until you are convinced.”

With that, Bai Huai turned around and walked out of the alley. He then released a powerful pheromone at the same time as if for fear that Jian Songyi had not suffered enough and still didn’t learn his lesson.

However, Jian Songyi still did not open his mouth to give in.

He then took his first step.

He still did not open his mouth.

He took his second step.

He still did not open his mouth.

The third step.

He still did not open his mouth.

…..

And then, he finally had taken his seventh step.

Jian Songyi still refused to speak. 

Bai Huai stopped and did not go anymore further. He was too distressed to take another step.

The alley fell into a dead silence, and the taste of wild roses was stubborn and arrogant, resisting the powerful snowstorm and refusing to yield.

Bai Huai sighed and then turned around. He walked over as fast as he could and then hugged Jian Songyi into his arms. He then proceeded into turning his powerful pheromones into the ultimate gentle pacification.

“Jian Songyi, you just ate it up, and I couldn’t let go.” His voice was warm and helpless.

“I did not.” Jian Songyi responded while being engulfed in his arms. His voice trembled a little, but he tried his best to make it sound firm. 

“I am just not convinced.”

Bai Huai hugged him in silence, listening to his sensible and calm statement word by word.

“I am not stupid. If I knew there were three Alphas here, I wouldn’t have come. If I knew that Wang Hai learned that I was an Omega, I wouldn’t come either. Who would know that Li Ting is that stupid that he hooked up with Wang Hai? Who would have thought a high school student could be so dirty? I’m conceited, but I’m not stupid. I won’t be so arrogant if that was the case. “

“I came here just because I didn’t want those bad things to come back to you. I thought it wasn’t a big deal, so I’d rather have trouble myself than Wang Hai bouncing in front of you and making you unhappy. Because I’m afraid you’ll be unhappy and leave again for another three years.”

“I’m not unconvinced. I know I’m wrong. I know I shouldn’t be so self-righteous. I know I shouldn’t always forget that I’m an Omega and that I shouldn’t run away from those weaknesses. From that, I’ll slowly change.”

“I was just not convinced that there was a man named Bai Huai who was reluctant to let me get hurt even if he gave his life.”

“You tell me, the person who said this, who is he to lose his temper at me? If he can’t give up, do I have to?”

Jian Songyi had really suffered enough. In addition to the pain he is experiencing due to his heat, there’s also this crippling pain on his back that came from the wooden stick. But even so, he still stubbornly straightened his back and stood there, refusing to soften up a bit.

He used up a stubborn tone, which only made Bai Huai feel even worse. 

Jian Songyi’s eye sockets are sour with the tip of his nose reddening. Not to mention his now broken heart.

He doesn’t want to give up.

Bai Huai pressed Jian Songyi’s head into his shoulder so that he won’t be seeing his reddish eyes. With his trembling voice, he spoke: “Jian Songyi, what do you think should I do with you?” 

He couldn’t be fierce with him or scold him. And basically, letting him go is already out of the question. Bai Huai likes Jian Songyi so much and it would be more difficult than dying.

Alas, affection still won in the end as Bai Huai’s coldness only turn to helplessness. 

It has been a long day with more than a few ups and downs. His physical strength and willpower shoot through the drain. He was so exhausted in the extreme sense. Jian Songyi didn’t feel at ease until he was pressed into Bai Huai’s arms.

After a quarrel, Bai Hui will still end up coaxing him.

With that in thought, Jian Songyi suddenly felt confident and laughed: “What can you do for me?”

“Anything. I can give it up.”

“Then promise me one thing.”

“What?”

“None of us should fight for each other in the future.”

It’s obviously for their benefit. They shouldn’t face it by themselves. They should simply work together to solve the case at hand.

The righteousness of youth is not an immutable impulse.

They’ll all grow up.

Bai Huai hugged Jian Songyi more tightly: “Okay. I promise.”

At that moment, Jian Songyi finally took off all his sharp precautions. His strong will collapsed in an instant as his body function finally exceeded his load. Jian Songyi instantly fell asleep in Bai Huai’s arms.

When Jian Songyi woke up, his limbs felt like they were about to fall. He felt as if he was beaten to a pulp.

He sat up from the bed he was laying on and then looked around. He was not at home, but he was now cleaned and tidy. Where was he? It didn’t look like a hospital room either.

A young girl in a police uniform came in and saw him wake up. She hurriedly leaned over and asked with concern, “Are you feeling any more discomfort?”

Apart from being very tired, Jian Songyi is alright.

“No.”

“That’s good.” The young policewoman poured him a glass of water and proceeded to answer his mental questions one by one. “This is Public Security Bureau’s lounge. You passed out due to low blood sugar and slept for five to six hours. I hung two bags of glucose for you. And because you are a minor, the person in charge from the Omega Association gave you free inhibitor injections. You should be in good health now. Your boyfriend has finished his statement and now it is the other party’s family who is asking for a settlement and negotiating. “

Jian Songyi hadn’t had the chance to listen to anything else as he only caught a few words from her. And it was enough to ignite the reddishness on his ears. “He is not my boyfriend.”

“You don’t have to be shy.” The policewoman smiles. “It doesn’t matter if it’s just puppy love. You don’t have to deny it.”

“He is not really.”

“You can’t be just brothers now, are you? I mean, isn’t your boyfriend so kind to you? I am not saying that an Omega and Alpha can’t have a pure friendship between two genders but I’ve never seen a pure friendship before performing a princess hug.”

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Translator’s Note:

I would like to thank @selenegin for appreciating my effort and sponsoring my coffee for today. This is such a pleasant surprise that kicked me off to start translating again as soon as possible. As a little token, I hope you get to enjoy the remaining of chapter 46.“A princess hug?!”

“Yes, your boyfriend swept you off your feet and carried you all the way to the police car. Oh, why are you so thin-skinned and shy? Is that a blush of youth? Ah, why are kids so adorable these days?”

Jian Songyi’s ears turned very bright red that it is very much visible through the naked eye. He might look like someone who is about to faint any second now.

It’s also not helping that the policewoman happened to be a talker: “But you are lucky, you know. Your boyfriend is so handsome. And also the fact that he loves you so much. I have never seen such a boy so meticulous. You should’ve seen his attitude toward the opposing party’s family. He was so tough. He didn’t look like an 18-year-old high school student. It’s as if he was a bossy president who will protect his wife to the point of boundless.”

“Sister, please stop.” Jian Songyi barely even whispered as he was so ashamed that his ears were burning.

“Alright, I’ll stop talking.” The policewoman was afraid that Jian Songyi would run away if she continued on. “Take a rest then. I’ll go and see what’s going on. I’ll ask your friend to pick you up when it’s all over there.”

With that, she went out.

The word “friend” was especially emphasized.

Jian Songyi was so embarrassed that he laid back down on the bed. He wrapped himself under the blanket and assumed an ostrich posture. In fact, he even tried to suffocate himself. 

He tried suffocating himself, but instead of suffocation, the memories before he collapsed slowly seeped through his head.

One of those being the kiss he shared with Bai Huai.

Or those two kisses they shared, to state a fact.

He, Jian Songyi, was forcibly kissed by another Alpha after being Alpha for more than ten years.

And that Alpha is still his best friend.

Today is the day.

Today is that day.

Ten thousand grass horses a day.

Bai Huai, is there something wrong with that man? Why did he have to kiss him? What did he have to kiss for? Isn’t he supposed to be a gentleman? He just actually took advantage of the danger from earlier.

The key point is that this person kissed him, hooked him up, and actually refused his invitation?

Jian Songyi is simply an Omega, but he is the most attractive Omega. How dare anyone refuse his invitation of marking?!

This only shows that Bai Huai doesn’t want to be responsible after taking advantage of him.

Shit, that garbage guy. He is such a fool. A beast. A bastard. A perverted old hag. Scum.

It’s better than this fool wouldn’t try to mark him for the rest of his life. Otherwise, he would rather die than have his way with him!

He only belongs to himself. Jian Songyi, the Omega of the iron Zhengzheng!

Jian Songyi once again remembered the way he suggested that Bai Huai marked him over. In his initiative. He was so ashamed and angry with himself that he could die on the spot. 

But then again, the most crucial question is why Bai Huai kissed him?

And then there’s also what the policewoman said, the legendary princess hug- by carrying him bridal style.

And those things that are blind and messing around that are innumerable.

Jian Songyi had downtime and was stuck in the quilt.

Single-celled organisms digest the emotions of higher-order humans with little difficulty.

But no matter how hard it is, it digests a little bit.

He dared not move, as if as long as he did not move, the answer he dared not touch would not fall out.

Suddenly, his quilt was pulled and loosened, and he pulled it back, tucked it in, and hid.

The blanket was pulled again and yet Jian Songyi pulled it back to him. 

After the back and forth of the blanket, Jian Songyi heard someone laughing.

“Do you think I can’t see you if you’re holding the blanket? Or do you think I can’t pick you up with the blanket wrapped around you? “

Jian Songyi was afraid that Bai Huai would really carry him in princess style again in such a sacred place as the Public Security Bureau. And so, he hurriedly said, “Wait for me to get this straight! I won’t argue with you until I figure it out!”

“I won’t argue with you.”

“But I want to argue with you!”

“What do you want to fight about this time?”

“It’s noisy…”

Why did you kiss me?

But Jian Songyi could not say it.

He tried to brew the mood and make the wording more rigorous and standardized to make the issue less embarrassing.

After brewing for a long time, Jian Songyi found that no one had spoken outside the quilt for a long time. Not only did Bai Huai not speak, but there was no other movement. It seemed that no one was there.

Is Bai Huai gone already?

Jian Songyi secretly opened a crack in the quilt with his little head covered and tried to observe secretly.

But as soon as he opened it, a slender and powerful hand took advantage of it. He took the edge of the quilt and pulled it up over on top of his head. Bai Huai then leaned over at Jian Songyi’s little face. Afterward, he quickly committed a crime on his lips under the cover of the blanket.

The light under the blanket was dim. There is only a faint incandescent light, leaking through the cracks in the corner, which made the fox look more sly than he already is supposed to be.

He looked over at Jian Songyi and chuckled softly. “Is this what you want to argue with me?”

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Translator’s Note:

This honestly took me too long to translate because of all of the feels encrypted to it. I was dying along the way, getting eaten up by the emotions. At last, love won. Especially, the last line. It really hit straight through my kokoro. K. Bye. Let me scream at the corner of my room for now. Author-san really got me good! 

PS. This chapter is still dedicated to @selenegin. Many thanks!