Why are you crying again?

"Mm..."

This time, Li Mao was fully awake.

Since this was not waking up after anesthesia but simply waking from sleep, he opened his eyes almost instantly, wanting to confirm whether those fragmented memories had been a nightmare or reality.

Yet when he opened his eyes, he was still trapped in darkness. Something seemed to be tightly covering his eyes.

He could clearly feel the cool, smooth touch of silk bedding beneath him.

"Fuck..."

Unable to swallow this humiliation, Li Mao cursed under his breath despite not knowing whether his surroundings were safe.

He never should have trusted that bastard doctor.

He had thought that at most, the unscrupulous doctor would draw a few extra tubes of pheromones from him, or scam him out of some money under the pretense of removing his mark.

He never expected there would still be idiots bold enough to force a sale on someone!

Li Mao swore that if he got out alive today, he would send that black-hearted doctor to prison. Otherwise, he, Li Mao, deserved to spend the rest of his life lying there and letting people fuck him!

And that filthy-minded man who had dared to molest him with his dick!

They were equally guilty!

He was sending every last one of them to the police station!!

Li Mao was not the type to bury the truth just to save face.

The first time that Enigma had forced himself on him, Li Mao had been the one at fault first. If he reported it to the police, he would probably end up in jail himself and even have to compensate the Enigma for emotional damages.

That was why he had swallowed his anger.

Li Mao lay sprawled across the bed, thinking up his revenge plan.

Unbeknownst to him, every sound he made and every little movement since waking had fallen into the eyes of the man standing beside the bed.

The man still wore that unreadable expression. He merely stood at Li Mao's side with his hands hanging at his sides, as though admiring him, yet also restraining himself.

Seemingly having watched enough of Li Mao's silent performance, he lifted a foot and walked toward the person on the bed.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

The sudden footsteps immediately made Li Mao tense.

He hurriedly curled up his naked body as tightly as possible, then faced the direction of the footsteps and said with feigned calm, "I think we c-can talk this out!"

The footsteps did not stop because of his plea.

"Ah!"

The man remained silent.

"Mmgh! You... you fucking bastard, this is illegal!" Li Mao roared hoarsely, no longer caring about anything else.

He seriously suspected he had stepped in some dog shit that had cultivated for a thousand years to end up with this kind of rotten luck.

For the first twenty-five years of his life, he had been a perfectly fine Alpha, fantasizing every day about earning enough money to marry a beautiful, gentle Omega wife.

Who would have thought that before he could even climb out of one pit, he would tumble into ditch after ditch?

He wasn't going to become the world's first Alpha to be fucked by thousands and ridden by tens of thousands, was he...?

At that thought, Li Mao—already prone to losing control of his emotions after having a tube of pheromones drawn—was completely crushed by the fear of being trapped in darkness and his long-standing anxiety about the future.

He stopped resisting the man and merely turned his head aside, allowing the blindfold over his face to gradually soak through with tears.

Li Mao had thought he could no longer cry.

Without exaggeration, he sometimes wondered whether someone had dug out his tear glands and sold them.

But now he knew they were definitely still right there in his eye sockets.

The black silk blindfold did not show moisture very clearly, but when the small piece of fabric was completely soaked and a tear slipped through the gap, Wan Fuqi finally noticed that the person beneath him was crying again.

He lowered his eyes at the Alpha who seemed determined to compete with him and pursed his lips in thought.

What was he crying for?

Wan Fuqi had not even settled the full score with him yet, and he had already cried several times.

After hesitating for a long while, he ultimately raised a hand and wiped away the tears on Li Mao's face.

The instant Li Mao sensed the hand touching his cheek, he recoiled in disgust.

Because of the loss of pheromones, the pheromones in his body were temporarily in disarray. He was extremely insensitive to other people's pheromones and could not smell anything at all.

So Li Mao did not realize that the Enigma who had marked him that night was right beside him.

It was precisely because his marker was present that Li Mao appeared increasingly vulnerable.

"Get lost, get lost! D-don't fucking touch me!" Li Mao roared, defending the last shred of his dignity.

Though he used all his strength to avoid the man's hand, the crisscrossing tear tracks were still wiped clean.

"Is this the result of the three days you spent diligently researching how to arouse your husband's sexual desire?"

Wan Fuqi finally spoke his first words to Li Mao.

He was very unhappy.

Ever since someone had said they found information on "Xuanyuan Feifei" in a pimping group.

The photo in the group had been secretly taken by Baldy with his phone beneath the desk during the consultation.

It was not particularly clear, but Wan Fuqi, who had bared everything with Li Mao, recognized him almost at a glance.

An Alpha who had already been fucked.

Since the request was to sell pheromones and remove a permanent mark, there was an excuse to administer general anesthesia. Anything could be done during the anesthesia while ensuring safety.

The name was Xuanyuan Feifei.

His pheromone scent was green apple.

Wan Fuqi had not been in a hurry to find the Alpha from that night.

After all, finding someone in this city was absurdly easy for him.

That golden-haired Alpha could not run away.

And with a permanent mark in place, he would never endure his heat without Wan Fuqi's soothing pheromones. No suppressant would work.

Wan Fuqi had quite a lot on his plate recently anyway, and this was not a good time to tangle with that Alpha who was like a little wildcat, constantly baring his claws and leaving scratches on Wan Fuqi's face and body.

But he had not expected that the little cat would be so bold and so stubborn.

Removing the mark.

How could he dare do something like that?

And he had even gone to such a low-grade clinic to remove the mark. Now he had been put up for sale without knowing a thing about it.

Hadn't he been quite clever that night with Wan Fuqi?

How had he become this stupid around other people?

The moment Wan Fuqi saw Li Mao's smiling, crescent-shaped eyes in that secretly taken photo, he wanted nothing more than to tie this Alpha who did not know his own limits to his side and teach him a proper lesson.

Tell him what he should do and what he should not do.