In His Youth

Shen Ranxin nodded.

He was fairly obedient when it came to following medical advice. After all, his life mattered more than anything else.

So before he closed his eyes, all he could think about was Shen Qi's face.

Shen Qi's gland was inside him. If Shen Qi had not lied, then Shen Ziqing's reason for taking him to the slave market to choose an Alpha playmate back then had been for that gland?

At that thought, Shen Ranxin subconsciously let out a breath of relief.

An absurd thought leaped into his mind.

Fortunately, he had not chosen Lu Zhi back then.

The thought had barely lasted a second before Shen Ranxin began condemning himself.

After all, Shen Qi's gland was still a gland. He did not know what kind of person he had been before losing all his memories.

But the current him could never claim someone else's possession as his own without any reservations.

As he thought, his consciousness gradually blurred, and Shen Ranxin arrived in a familiar place.

An endless expanse of black stretched around him, with a pulsing white sphere at its center.

He reached out and touched the white sphere. A burst of white light flared before his eyes, forcing him to close them. When he opened them again, he had arrived in another unfamiliar setting.

Two children stood before him. He recognized one of them—it was his younger self. The other child standing beside him was a head taller, his features already beginning to mature, faintly resembling the Shen Qi of later years.

Shen Ranxin shielded Shen Qi behind him, tears streaming down his face. "No! Father, I don't need Little Seven's gland. Don't take Little Seven's gland!"

A pale-faced man stood before the children. His shoulder-length black hair was tied into a small tuft