Too fragile.
Unable to withstand the slightest bend.
The hovering aircraft traveled extremely smoothly.
Out of the corner of his eye, Pei Guangji noticed Xin Hexue holding his lower back. "What's wrong?"
"...I bumped it."
When Pei Guangji had pounced on Xin Hexue and knocked him down, the seat belt buckle had dug into his lower back.
Xin Hexue didn't need to think twice. He was sure his lower back would be black and blue when he woke up tomorrow.
The effects of the rut made it difficult for Pei Guangji to stay rational, but they also made him more candid than usual. Looking at the young man's sickly face, he apologized. "I'm sorry. I didn't notice just now."
His temples throbbed.
Pei Guangji urged his special assistant, "Go faster."
He probably couldn't stay clearheaded much longer.
The special assistant asked, "Eldest young master, where in District One are we going?"
Pei Guangji owned several properties in District One.
But the one with the best surroundings was on the outskirts of District One, and it was also the closest place he lived. Pei Guangji said, "Take us back to the Halfway-Up-the-Mountain Villa in South City."
The special assistant reminded him, "But... the second young master goes to South City No. 1 High School. I think he's staying there."
Pei Guangji hadn't been back to the Halfway-Up-the-Mountain Villa in a long time and had completely forgotten that he had lent it to Pei Ying so he could commute to school. "Tell him to stay at a hotel or a classmate's place for the next few days. If neither works, pick out a key to one of my other properties and give it to him."
The special assistant had more to say, but Pei Guangji had already switched on the soundproofing between the aircraft's compartments.
Even at the aircraft's speed, it took an hour to return to District One from the Sixth District.
Xin Hexue was a Beta. His physical structure was identical to that of a young man in the normal world, and he perceived smells through the olfactory bulb in his brain.
He lacked the gland at the back of the neck that only Alphas and Omegas possessed, and therefore lacked the ability to perceive the scent of pheromones.
So he had no way of knowing that the aircraft was filled with the intense scent of patchouli produced by Alpha pheromones, seeping into every opening in an attempt to invade him.
Pei Guangji's voice was low and hoarse. "Can you let me hold you for a moment?"
Perhaps the sight of Xin Hexue shedding tears just now had shaken him deeply. Pei Guangji had learned to treat him more politely, as if he subconsciously feared shattering the exquisite porcelain before him.
Xin Hexue gave him a leisurely glance and crooked a finger.
With his sluggish brain, all the Alpha could do was obediently lean closer.
"You can hold me," Xin Hexue said, "because I'm allowing it."
He had noticed that something was unusual about Pei Guangji's current state.
Although Pei Guangji's arrogant attitude was extremely irritating, the dim-witted obedience he was showing now made up for it.
So when the Alpha wrapped an arm around him, Xin Hexue didn't resist.
The Beta had no pheromones, but he carried a faint scent of green sandalwood, mingled with the slightly bitter smell of medicinal herbs.
Processed through the olfactory bulb, Xin Hexue's scent connected directly to the amygdala and hippocampus in Pei Guangji's brain, which governed emotion and memory.
From the depths of his soul, he felt a calm unlike any he had ever known, his mind sinking into the vast, gentle scent of sandalwood.
But that was nowhere near enough. He craved more, more...
After school let out at South City No. 1 High School, Pei Ying took his communicator from his school locker.
"..."
His brows knitted, making his expression look even more indifferent.
His older brother's special assistant had texted to tell him to stay at a hotel or a classmate's place for the next few days; he couldn't return to the Halfway-Up-the-Mountain Villa. If he needed help, the assistant could also fetch him a key to another property.
He easily slung his schoolbag over his back, with just one workbook tossed carelessly inside.
Pei Ying and Pei Guangji weren't particularly close, even though they shared the same parents.
He had been born seven years after Pei Guangji. Under the Pei Corporation's strict rules for controlling its heir, the eldest son was the creation with the finest genes and would inherit the Pei Corporation in its entirety.
Apart from the eldest son, the other children were merely defective products born of their parents' sexual impulses.
In fact, as they grew up, the Pei family would deliberately raise children other than the eldest son to become useless, spoiled wastrels.
Pei Ying had been excluded from succession from birth. Once he reached adulthood, he would leave the main family and receive a small amount of compensation, and, like an illegit
imate
child, he was not allowed to lay a hand on any property belonging to the Pei Corporation.
Though the brothers weren't particularly close, their relationship wasn't too bad, either.
At least Pei Ying could stay at the villa closer to South City No. 1 High School.
It was raining that evening.
Strong winds swept across the mountainside, and the shadows of trees swayed.
Pei Ying hadn't brought an umbrella. Fortunately, the villa was only a ten-minute bicycle ride from the school.
Pei Guangji disliked living people. He had money to spare, so he didn't hire cheap hourly workers. Every villa under his name was equipped with a complete smart home system and an expensive robot butler.
Pei Ying underwent an iris scan outside the gate. The heavy rain had soaked his school uniform, and the damp fabric clung heavily to his body.
In a foul mood, he swept the black hair hanging over his forehead up to the top of his head, leaving his hand covered in rainwater.
Fortunately, the special assistant hadn't yet had time to delete his iris access.
His eyes narrowed like a wolf's, and his sharp gaze lifted to lock onto the master bedroom on the villa's second floor.
The curtains hadn't been drawn over the floor-to-ceiling window, revealing what was happening inside.
A tall, broad-shouldered Alpha had his back turned, someone held in his arms.
Pei Ying had excellent eyesight, but the distance was too great, and Pei Guangji was evidently more than a size larger than the other person, as well as a head taller.
All he could see was soft black hair showing over Pei Guangji's shoulder and pale ankles trembling slightly, the feet resting atop Pei Guangji's shoes.
Beautifully shaped hands with cool, pale skin and faint blue veins curled their fingers, clutching the fabric stretched across the back of the black suit into a wrinkled bunch.
The smart home system drew the curtains shut along their motorized track.
However poor Xin Hexue's health was, he was still a young man with normal male anatomy and functions.
The Alpha was evidently clueless and didn't know the trick to it. All he knew was to kiss and embrace him frantically, even taking the back of his neck in his mouth in an attempt to inject pheromones.
Although Xin Hexue couldn't break free, all of that was still within the range of what he could tolerate.
It was just that when the other man stroked his back, his large hands were lightly callused and he rubbed too hard. Xin Hexue's skin was thin, and it hurt a little.
Xin Hexue gritted his teeth and endured it.
Until Pei Guangji kept moving lower, and Xin Hexue's member was suddenly taken into a scorching, dark mouth.
"Ah...!"
The young man couldn't help biting the knuckle of his right thumb.
Only by biting hard enough to leave teeth marks did he stop himself from making an embarrassing, overly undignified sound.
His eyes grew hot.
A gorgeous pink soon bloomed from within his snow-white skin.
His hair was grabbed and his scalp pulled, making the Alpha's jaw involuntarily clench.
"Ah..."
The young man's slender, pale neck arched backward like that of a dying swan, and involuntary tears wet half his face.
Before he could react, the Alpha's Adam's apple bobbed.
All Xin Hexue felt was half a knuckle sinking into the hollow.
He couldn't help cursing and began struggling fiercely.
The Alpha suddenly toppled over from his half-kneeling position.
K: [I stunned him.]
[?] Xin Hexue asked, [You can do that? Then why didn't you use it earlier?]
K paused, then answered honestly, [You only said you couldn't have sex.]
Xin Hexue: [...]
Unable to help himself, he kicked Pei Guangji onto the floor and gave his cold assessment: "Beast."
He struggled down from the bed, his legs still weak from the excessive pleasure.
His body felt sticky, and his obsession with cleanliness made him intensely uncomfortable.
He went into the bathroom in the room and washed himself thoroughly.
The villa's robot butler could also cook.
Xin Hexue grew thirsty while waiting in the kitchen, so he went to the living room and poured himself a glass of water.
Pei Ying came quietly down the stairs from the third floor.
He could sense that the second floor was saturated with his older brother's pheromones, fiercely clamoring to drive away the unfamiliar Alpha.
The instincts between Alphas stirred a restless fighting spirit in Pei Ying as well.
He restrained himself, however, and watched the young man in the living room from his vantage point on the stairs.
The young man wore his brother's shirt, his smooth, supple legs bare to the air.
His body was perfect, and every patch of cool, pale skin visible to the naked eye was covered in the marks left by an Alpha's possessive kisses.
The young man lowered his head, and his sleek black hair fell on either side, revealing a small patch of delicate skin at the back of his neck. After the Alpha had repeatedly taken it in his mouth and ground his teeth against it, the area had turned a vivid, almost dripping red.
Chapter 6: Face blindness (6)
A Beta.
Pei Ying made his judgment.
He couldn't sense any Omega pheromones in the air, which would have been impossible after intimate activity between an Alpha and an Omega.
So this was an ordinary Beta without a gland.
Though his looks had nothing at all to do with the word "ordinary."
Pei Ying watched him lean lazily against the bar and tilt his head back slightly, his delicate Adam's apple bobbing. A few drops of the steaming water in the glass spilled past his lips after wetting them.
His lips were pale pink, made lustrous by the clear water.
Pei Ying thought his brother probably hadn't kissed him too hard. Otherwise, lips that beautifully shaped should have been a brighter color.
The bar on the first floor was on the side near the kitchen. It had been designed to meet the homeowner's needs for making pour-over coffee.
But Pei Ying didn't like coffee, so after he moved in, a set of tools for shaking cocktails had been added to the bar.
Pressing his tongue against a sharp canine, Pei Ying felt the malicious streak in him stir.
Betas generally had dull personalities. They made up the largest proportion of the population, and their basic characteristic was that they had no bad habits. Like a cog in a cargo ship, they were always busy carrying out their work, obediently accepting the unequal treatment that could be called "oppression" in the Federation's pyramid-shaped society.