Give me a suppressant, and leave the rest to me.

"I didn't call you, did I?"

Man Feiluan looked at Yuan Zhanpeng in the doorway and tilted his head in confusion.

"If I wanted you, I'd just call you on my phone."

"Wan Linqing came over just now and said..."

Before Yuan Zhanpeng could finish, Wen Liangtian, who was tidying up nearby, suddenly realized something.

Wan Linqing had only ever shown her jealous side in front of Lan Xiangxian. The others knew nothing about it, so they weren't particularly wary of her.

He put down what he was holding and ran toward Yuan Zhanpeng's room with the other two.

There wasn't a sound inside. He reached out and knocked.

"Is anyone there? Open the door!"

The scent of pheromones kept drifting through the gap around the door. He raised his foot and kicked it.

"Open the door! Hurry up!"

This was not a good sign.

The cameraman hadn't left yet. Seeing this, he immediately contacted Wang Xiao and told him to get there right away.

Lan Xiangxian also came out when he heard the commotion to see what was happening.

Just as the four of them were about to force the door open together, Wan Linqing screamed inside.

"Ah! Help!!!"

The locked door opened, and Wan Linqing ran out, crashing headfirst into a large tree outside.

But she had no time to cry out in pain. Her eyes filled with terror as she stared into the room, as though something frightening was inside.

As the door opened, a flood of pheromones poured out. Everyone nearby immediately covered their noses.

They were almost entirely Wan Linqing's pheromones, filling the air with a cloyingly sweet scent.

Wang Xiao ran over as soon as he received the message. Smelling the pheromones, he asked,

"What happened?! Everyone, stay calm!"

When Wan Linqing saw Wang Xiao, she scrambled toward him as though clutching at her last lifeline.

"Pei Hanmo, Pei Hanmo, he..."

Before she could finish, a hiss came from inside.

By the moonlight, everyone saw an enormous snake coiled inside. The scales on his body glinted, and his blood-red eyes stared fixedly outside the door, seemingly uneasy yet also wary.

"What did you do?!"

Wang Xiao hauled Wan Linqing up from where she had collapsed on the ground and demanded sharply,

"You'd better tell us everything. If anything happens to Pei Hanmo, you won't be able to bear the consequences!"

"I... I sprayed inducer in there..."

Wan Linqing's voice trembled, thick with tears.

She had just seen Pei Hanmo turn from a human into a snake with her own eyes. Those bloodthirsty eyes had stared at her as though he wanted to devour her.

Because she was in heat, her body was still constantly releasing pheromones. If this wasn't handled properly, everyone here would be affected.

"Go back to your room and isolate yourself first. The ambulance I called is on its way."

Wang Xiao quickly came up with a plan, starting by isolating the emotionally unstable woman.

Pei Hanmo was extremely unstable. Whenever anyone approached, he hissed.

"How about I go in?"

Yuan Zhanpeng spoke up, already moving toward the doorway.

"I don't know whether Pei Hanmo is still lucid. I'm the only one here who can hold my own against him. I'll go in, inject him with a suppressant, and come right back out."

Besides, it was his oversight that had left Pei Hanmo like this.

"Don't go in."

Pei Hanmo was a venomous snake, and an extremely venomous one at that. If he wanted, no one who went inside would come out alive.

Why hadn't Chu Xinghui come out yet?

Wen Liangtian looked at the people in the courtyard and suddenly realized Chu Xinghui wasn't among them.

They were indeed quite far from Chu Xinghui's bedroom. Had he not heard?

Perhaps Chu Xinghui would know what to do.

He ran to Chu Xinghui's room, crossing the living room to reach the bedroom inside.

Chu Xinghui was chatting with the viewers in his livestream, competing to see who could be more absurd, when he suddenly saw Wen Liangtian burst in.

He looked up. "Liangtian, what..."

"Chu Xinghui, hurry over and take a look! Wan Linqing drugged Pei Hanmo and induced his heat!"

The live chat immediately exploded.

[What did I just hear?]

[I was wondering why everyone's livestream except Chu Xinghui's had shut down. So something happened.]

[Heat? Holy shit! Wan Linqing is so underhanded!]

[No way... I always thought she was a breath of fresh air in the entertainment industry...]

[Aaaaaah, I heard no one's ever seen Pei Hanmo in heat. Will he really be okay?! I'm so worried...]

With no time to say anything to his viewers, Chu Xinghui shut off the livestream and ran outside after Wen Liangtian.

An ordinary heat would have been manageable, but Pei Hanmo's was different. Sometimes he turned into a snake, and no one at the orphanage except Chu Xinghui himself could approach him. That was why Pei Hanmo always took a suppressant in advance when his heat was drawing near.

Judging by Wen Liangtian's state, Pei Hanmo had probably already transformed.

Under everyone's gazes, he walked to the doorway, patted Yuan Zhanpeng on the shoulder, and said to Wang Xiao,

"Give me a suppressant, and leave the rest to me."

Seeing this, Wang Xiao placed a suppressant in his hand and asked worriedly,

"Will you be all right?"

Even if Chu Xinghui knew him, this was a matter of life and death. They couldn't afford to be careless.

"If anything happens, shout right away. Don't try to tough it out."

Chu Xinghui took the suppressant. He had barely stepped through the doorway when the snake inside moved toward the exit, as though catching his scent.

"Watch out!"

Lan Xiangxian cried out and tried to go in to pull Chu Xinghui back, but Wen Liangtian caught his wrist and shook his head at him.

Pei Hanmo moved to Chu Xinghui's feet, extended his tail, and wrapped it around Chu Xinghui's waist. His body climbed up along Chu Xinghui's side, and he nuzzled docilely into the crook of his neck.

Then he hissed at the people outside, tightening his tail around Chu Xinghui's waist.

Chu Xinghui turned back and pulled the door toward him.

"Don't worry about me. Go deal with Wan Linqing first. I can handle things here."

Then he shut the door, leaving everyone outside.

Wang Xiao immediately directed everyone to lift Wan Linqing onto the stretcher brought by the hospital. She was already delirious, rubbing her body against the stretcher.

"Yuan Zhanpeng, you and Man Feiluan can stay in Chu Xinghui's bedroom tonight. Lan Xiangxian, share with Wen Liangtian."

The concentration of pheromones in the room Wan Linqing had just occupied was too high for Lan Xiangxian to enter right away, so Wang Xiao had no choice but to arrange things this way.

"As for the rest, I'll have someone watch the door all night. If there's the slightest sign that something is wrong with Chu Xinghui, they'll break in."

"All right, Director."

They nodded and returned to their rooms.

The internet had already erupted. The few dozen seconds of footage showing Wen Liangtian bursting into Chu Xinghui's room were spreading widely online.

At the same time, the netizen who had come to the Ancient Town to watch also took photos of Wan Linqing being put into the ambulance.

In the photos, her face was flushed, and her hands clutched the sheet on the stretcher. All the doctors standing beside her wore isolation suits.

Not far away, Wang Xiao, Wen Liangtian, and the others were looking worriedly into the room.

[Oh my god! Is this real?! The entertainment industry is about to be turned upside down...]

[Did Wan Linqing really use an inducer... I don't believe it... How could Qingqing be that kind of person...]

[I'll wait and see for now. I'm not taking a stance.]