Jin Tiancheng and Wu Xinyou returned to Auntie Zhang's house with everyone's help.
Wu Xinyou hadn't been hurt at all. He quickly changed into clean clothes and went to see Jin Tiancheng.
The moment she pushed open the door, she froze in place, her face deathly pale.
Jin Tiancheng was sitting on a wooden stool, bare from the waist up.
His back was covered in scratches, the deep ones seeping blood and the shallow ones oozing tissue fluid.
Small, dark pebbles were still clearly visible embedded in the cool, pale skin of his back.
The doctor was carefully wiping it with gauze dipped in povidone-iodine.
"None of the wounds are deep, but there are so many that this might hurt quite a bit. Bear with me, Teacher Jin."
Jin Tiancheng was about to nod when he heard the door open-
He couldn't bear it at all.
He was desperate for Wu Xinyou to see it, preferably getting so distressed that her eyes reddened and she offered to apply his medicine herself.
That way, the gaze that always clung to Lu Ye's retreating figure would shift to him.
But...
When he actually saw Wu Xinyou's reddened eyes and trembling lips, his heart tightened, and that little scheme vanished completely.
He couldn't bear it.
Jin Tiancheng curled his lips into a radiant smile.
"It doesn't hurt. It really doesn't. I'm an S-rank alpha. What's a little scratch to me?"
Wu Xinyou abruptly turned away, lowering her head to wipe the corners of her eyes.
He didn't know what was wrong with him either.
Back then, he had been fully prepared to differentiate into a tough-as-nails alpha.
Although he had ultimately differentiated into an omega, with his physical capabilities dropping drastically as a result, his family's strict expectations of him hadn't changed at