When Jiang Yu spoke, Yu Shiqing quickly glanced around them.
Luckily, they were close enough that only he could clearly hear Jiang Yu’s lowered voice.
“Are you okay, Teacher Jiang?”
The action coordinators instinctively rushed over to check what was wrong.
Jiang Yu tightly held Yu Shiqing’s hand and urged in a low voice, “Hurry!”
Yu Shiqing acted at once.
“That’s all for today. Jiang Yu isn’t feeling well—I’ll take him to rest.”
Jiang Yu focused all his energy on suppressing the disorder in his pheromones.
As soon as Yu Shiqing finished speaking, he turned around and quickly walked to the lounge with him.
The two were tall and had long legs.
Some people behind them tried to follow but quickly fell behind.
Seeing the two walk off without pause, they stopped and didn’t follow.
Yu Shiqing didn’t look back at them.
He hurried into the lounge and had just closed the door when Jiang Yu grabbed his wrist.
“No time!”
Jiang Yu leaned against the wall by the door, his eyes faintly red as he looked at Yu Shiqing.
“Move faster!”
This was Jiang Yu’s private lounge.
No one would interrupt them.
But once an alpha’s pheromones exploded, the entire set could fall into chaos.
Same-gender instinctive rejection, opposite-gender attraction—
In a place mixed with alphas and omegas, pheromones could stir those instincts into something overwhelming.
Yu Shiqing knew how serious this was.
He had already agreed to help.
When he saw Jiang Yu had voluntarily exposed his gland, he said nothing more.
He stepped closer, reached out, and held Jiang Yu’s throat, lowering his head.
Jiang Yu’s throat tightened as his vulnerable artery was gripped.
For a second, he had an urge to attack—but quickly suppressed it.
He clenched his fists, ready to endure the pain he knew was coming.
As expected, the next second, a sharp pain hit him when Yu Shiqing’s canine teeth pierced his gland.
Yu Shiqing heard him suck in a breath through his teeth.
Even though he had done this before, it was his first time biting Jiang Yu’s gland while fully conscious.
It felt strange.
Then Jiang Yu gritted his teeth and growled, “What are you waiting for!”
Pain radiated from his shoulder and neck to his back.
He almost lost his balance and had to brace his hand on the wall.
Yu Shiqing noticed right away and helped shift his waist, letting him support himself with both hands.
Jiang Yu stared at the wall in front of him.
This scene, this posture reminded him of the forced marking that day.
His expression darkened.
“Yu Shiqing—”
Before he could finish, the pheromones invaded.
Caught off guard, Jiang Yu gasped.
His trembling breaths filled the room with heat.
Yu Shiqing paused for a moment.
Jiang Yu quickly came back to his senses.
His face turned dark, almost pitch-black, and he tried to pull away.
But Yu Shiqing’s hand on his waist held him in place.
He couldn’t move.
He had no strength left.
Even lifting his hand was difficult.
Yu Shiqing raised his head from Jiang Yu’s neck.
His deep voice was low and magnetic.
“How do you feel?”
His warm breath brushed past Jiang Yu’s ear and over the bite wound.
A tingling sensation spread through his body, forming a heat he couldn’t describe.
Jiang Yu was prepared.
He furrowed his brows and endured it.
He didn’t want to lose control in front of Yu Shiqing again.
Yu Shiqing pulled him into an embrace, holding him steady.
He felt Jiang Yu tense up but after a long time, he finally relaxed.
Jiang Yu closed his eyes to hide his exhaustion.
He didn’t have the strength to care how Yu Shiqing was treating him.
He gave up and leaned on Yu Shiqing’s shoulder to rest.
After all, Yu Shiqing had seen him in worse states.
This time, the marking wasn’t as rushed.
Yu Shiqing lowered his eyes and saw that Jiang Yu’s ears were red like blood.
The redness had spread from behind his ears to his shoulders and neck.
His shoulders rose and fell with each breath, slowly calming.
Yu Shiqing looked up again and noticed Jiang Yu’s slightly open lips had turned bright red.
He looked very different from his usual cold and powerful self.
A while later, Yu Shiqing held his shoulders and turned him around to lean against the wall.
Then he raised Jiang Yu’s hand and placed it around his neck—
“If you dare carry me again, I won’t let you off!”
Jiang Yu’s voice was weak but threatening.
Yu Shiqing paused, looked up at him.
“You can’t even stand properly.”
Jiang Yu said coldly, “At least my legs aren’t broken.”
Yu Shiqing didn’t argue.
He had spent a few days with Jiang Yu and understood his personality a bit.
Jiang Yu held grudges—and always got revenge.
Usually on the same day.
No need to give him another reason.
“Then—”
Knock knock knock
Just as Yu Shiqing opened his mouth, someone knocked on the door.
Before they could reply, the door opened.
“Shiqing, they said you were here, your mom—”
Halfway through, Ren Bai froze when he saw the two of them near the door.
“…Phone call…”
He thought nothing would happen just because they were in the same room.
He never imagined—
He had miscalculated.
Ren Bai stood there, frozen in place.
What he saw shocked him so much, he didn’t know how to react.
Yu Shiqing and Jiang Yu stood face to face.
There was almost no space between them.
Yu Shiqing had one hand on Jiang Yu’s waist.
Jiang Yu’s hand rested on Yu Shiqing’s shoulder.
Their pose—he’d only seen it between lovers.
Without thinking, he blurted out:
“Are you two… dating?”
Jiang Yu gave him a cold look.
“Come in or get out.”
Ren Bai heard the threat in his voice and shut up right away.
He obediently stepped inside and even closed the door behind him.
Yu Shiqing helped Jiang Yu to the sofa to sit down, then turned to Ren Bai.
“Give it to me.”
Ren Bai was still confused.
“Give what?”
“My phone.”
“Oh!”
Ren Bai finally remembered why he came and quickly handed the phone over.
Yu Shiqing called back.
While waiting for the call to connect, he said,
“Jiang Yu isn’t feeling well. Get a car ready to take him back to the hotel.”
Ren Bai agreed.
But Jiang Yu said, “No.”
Yu Shiqing looked at him.
Jiang Yu explained,
“There are probably still paparazzi near the hotel.”
That was a problem.
If a public place wasn’t safe…
Ren Bai suddenly suggested,
“Then just go to your place, Shiqing. It’s only an hour and a half drive. I’ll drive!”
The room fell silent.
Ren Bai felt awkward.
He had seen Jiang Yu often these days.
Yu Shiqing and Jiang Yu seemed close, but actually, they had only known each other for a few days.
After that incident, Yu Shiqing had become distant from people.
Letting someone he barely knew stay at his place might be a bad idea.
Jiang Yu glanced at the silent Yu Shiqing, his lips pressed tight.
Just then, the call connected.
Yu Shiqing said, “I’ll be back soon,” and left the lounge.
Once he was gone, the room became quiet and tense.
Ren Bai glanced at Jiang Yu, whose blank expression made him nervous.
Luckily, Yu Shiqing soon returned.
Ren Bai sighed in relief.
“About the money?”
“Mm.”
Ren Bai hesitated, then said, “Forget it. She has her struggles too.”
Yu Shiqing said nothing.
He handed the phone back to Ren Bai, took Jiang Yu’s coat from the rack, and said, “Let’s go.”
Jiang Yu asked coldly, “Go where?”
Yu Shiqing paused.
“My place.”
Jiang Yu was stunned.
He looked at Yu Shiqing, then turned his face away.
“I’m not going.”
“Put this on.”
Yu Shiqing draped the coat over him.
“Then give me another address you can go to.”
Jiang Yu couldn’t.
“Anywhere but your place.”
Yu Shiqing finally noticed the emotion in his voice.
“What’s wrong?”
Jiang Yu suddenly turned to him, eyes cold and dark.
“I don’t want to force you to do something you don’t want to do.”
Yu Shiqing looked at Ren Bai.
“What did you say to him just now?”
Ren Bai was confused.
“Nothing!”
Yu Shiqing looked back at Jiang Yu.
“Are you talking to me?”
Jiang Yu: “…”
His expression turned even darker.
“I’m talking to myself.”
Yu Shiqing helped him up.
“You like talking to yourself?”
Jiang Yu: “…”
He was so angry he could hardly breathe.
“You care too much!”
Yu Shiqing didn’t respond.
Hearing Jiang Yu’s tone, he wisely chose to drop it.
Ren Bai watched them with mixed feelings.
Was it just him, or was their communication style really strange?
Later, he drove them to Yu Shiqing’s place.
He still didn’t understand what was going on.
Yu Shiqing’s house had only two bedrooms.
After helping Jiang Yu upstairs, Ren Bai went to find another place to stay.
Yu Shiqing poured Jiang Yu a glass of water, then went to the bathroom to wash off his sweat.
When he came out, Jiang Yu was still sitting there, unmoving.
“You feel better?”
Jiang Yu leaned against the couch with his eyes closed.
He opened them when he heard the question.
Yu Shiqing remembered last time and asked,
“That night, when did you recover?”
Jiang Yu’s eyes turned sharp.
“Five thirty in the morning.”
Yu Shiqing: “…”
Now he finally understood why Jiang Yu’s attitude toward him had changed since then.
Seeing the damp marks on Yu Shiqing’s shirt, Jiang Yu frowned.
“Do you have a bathtub?”
After a whole day of training, he felt sticky and uncomfortable.
Yu Shiqing paused, then asked calmly,
“You want to shower?”
His expression annoyed Jiang Yu.
“I won’t let you wash me, even if I have to crawl to the bathroom!”
Yu Shiqing stayed expressionless.
“Good.”
Jiang Yu: “…”
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