Chapter 41: The Blood of an S-Rank Alpha Becomes the Most Primal Smoothness...

Pei Jiqing strolled slowly through the courtyard, Xiaonan in his arms. The late autumn sun wasn't too scorching.

Then, his gaze suddenly fixed on the bitter orange tree that had been uprooted. It had been replanted at some point.

Its trunk, tightly bound to the nearby redwood, was entwined with coarse wire, as if to entangle the veins of both trees.

Sister Zhang's voice rang from behind: "Mr. Chen dug it up himself."

She gazed at the bitter orange tree, her tone tinged with pity. "It nearly died when it was first transplanted. Mr. Chen hired a gardener to care for it day and night. He said the roots were damaged when it was dug up, so it had to be kept in a greenhouse for a long time before being replanted."

Pei Jiqing handed Xiaonan to Sister Zhang and slowly crouched down. His fingers touched the wire, and he strained to pry it apart. As he pulled, a sharp pain pierced his palm, and the broken wire tore a bright red wound across his hand. Pei Jiqing froze as blood oozed out.

Sister Zhang covered her lips and exclaimed, "Madam!"

Pei Jiqing's palm was wrapped in snow-white gauze. The wound was neatly wrapped, but a faint trace of red still lingered.

Chen Huixing returned from work and looked at Pei Jiqing's hand, her brow furrowed slightly. "What's wrong?"

Pei Jiqing said softly, "I accidentally cut it while cutting fruit."

Chen Huixing looked at Sister Zhang, who nodded quickly.

Chen Huixing suddenly wondered, had she been blinded by her own greed? Why hadn't she realized for all these years that Pei Jiqing was a complete jerk?

And she still pretended to be a good wife in front of him.

Xiaonan was already a month old, but Chen Huixing had no intention of getting married, primarily because the child was too young. When Liang Yi came to see the delicate, delicate baby wrapped in tiny swaddling clothes, his eyes were filled with tender surprise, and he could hardly let go.

Pei Jiqing had just learned from Liang Yi that Mu Xinbai was also about to give birth.

Chen Huixing's unspoken explanation to the public was that Pei Jiqing had simply gone out to relax.

Liang Yi teased Xiaonan, the little bundle of flesh, who had already learned to recognize people. She was most obedient in Pei Jiqing's arms, actively identifying his pheromones and being very affectionate towards Chen Huixing.

Every day, Chen Huixing would return home, remove his coat, stained with the scent of the outside world, and cradle the child in his arms to feed. Xiaonan looked especially delicate in his generous embrace.

Liang Yi held Xiaonan in his arms, his fingertips gently stroking the baby's soft hair. His tone was cautious and tentative, "A few months ago, you and Huixing had a quarrel, and none of us dared to ask. He was caught up in a whirlpool of public opinion at the time... You know him, why didn't you tell us anything?"

"Xinze wanted to show concern for his older brother, but Huixing told him to mind his own business. They had a fight, and when Xinze mentioned you and spoke up for you, Huixing got angry."

Pei Jiqing thought to himself that the two brothers really couldn't get along.

However, Chen Xinze was much easier to communicate with than Chen Huixing, that stubborn stone.

Pei Jiqing said, "Dad, we're fine. You see, everything is fine."

Liang Yi's eyes traced his face carefully, with the sharpness unique to elders: "Is it really okay?"

Pei Jiqing: "Just like before... no different." "

Liang Yi got up to leave after lunch. Before leaving, he patted Pei Jiqing on the shoulder and said that he would talk to Huixing.

It was inevitable that old friends would contact Pei Jiqing. Wei Ji found a new contact method from somewhere and sent him a message. As long as Pei Jiqing was willing to go with me, he would take him away at all costs.

Pei Jiqing stared for a long time and suddenly smiled. If it was the eighteen-year-old Pei Jiqing, he would definitely run away regardless of his own safety, but Pei Jiqing was no longer eighteen years old.

In the eyes of others, everything seemed to be the same as before. Pei Jiqing reappeared from a long period of silence, and the life he and Shen Huixing nurtured together became the most stable bond of this family.

In the newly released dynamic, there was a bit of sourness in the sweetness, which was in line with his hundreds of previous texts showing affection, and it was not abrupt at all.

Recently, Shen Huixing has frequently appeared with him in public. The picture of their fingers interlocked under the spotlight would make anyone who saw it praise them as a fairy couple.

But only Pei Jiqing He knew that the hole in his chest was getting bigger and bigger. He kept asking Chen Huixing for various material compensations, such as real estate, jewelry, and famous paintings, as if he was making a shrewd deal so that he would not appear too cheap.

Every time Chen Huixing signed his name, it was as if he was throwing a stone into Pei Jiqing's heart.

Pei Jiqing deliberately acted nonchalant, but he knew in his heart that he was withering away little by little in this performance.

Because he could no longer find the purpose of doing all this, what were all these carefully maintained performances for?

He suddenly understood the sneer in Chen Huixing's eyes when he called him "hypocritical".

It turned out that from the perspective of an observer, the deliberately sweet interaction turned out to be such a poor performance in the eyes of others.

Why insist on performing a deep affection that does not exist at all?

Perhaps, Pei Jiqing thought, he really didn't love Chen Huixing anymore.

The Chen Huixing he loved was the Alpha who carried him out of the deformed carriage covered in blood, the Alpha he imagined. He thought of the hero who saved him from danger.

At that time, Chen Huixing did not have the power and status he has now. He was just a marriage candidate pushed in front of him. He loved the tall and straight Chen Huixing who would go through fire and water for the country and uphold justice.

Not the current stranger who suppressed him with pheromones, imprisoned him with power, and looked at him with scrutiny.

Pei Jiqing suddenly missed the wind in Nan'an, the sweet scent of grass and trees, and missed that kind of freedom. He thought of the crib that Yan Bo made for Xiaonan, and he didn't have time to say thank you to them.

He also wondered how Chen Huixing survived those anxious nights when his susceptible period was out of control? Does the Omega whose pheromones were highly compatible with his look meet his considerations? What kind of tacit understanding is there between them?

Does a high degree of compatibility really mean the resonance of souls?

Like two symbiotic plants, even their roots are entangled together?

Pei Jiqing would not have thought about these things if he was away from here.

But when he saw Chen Huixing... He thought of the star again, and those unanswered questions grew like vines, entwining his breath.

The thought of having to ponder these questions for the rest of his life made Pei Jiqing feel tired.

He remembered his mother's dying words to him: don't be trapped in a dead sea.

But now he was indeed trapped in this salty, stagnant water, and no matter how hard he struggled, he could not reach the shore. The tide surged over his chest, bringing with it a suffocating feeling of powerlessness.

He had escaped once, but he was caught again.

Looking down at Xiaonan's sleeping face, those once incomprehensible anxieties suddenly seemed so close—he finally understood Yin Ning's fear. What would happen if his daughter was not loved by Chen Huixing one day?

He was just a low-match omega, and his mother had spent her life polishing him to a dazzling brilliance, hoping that he would be noticed by the Pei family. But besides his mother, who had ever truly loved him?

It turned out that some destinies were ultimately inescapable, pressing down darkly, threatening to swallow him up.

He gazed at Xiaonan sleeping peacefully in the crib, his fingertips gently brushing his daughter's soft hair. He would never let this child repeat his own mistakes.

It was all Chen Huixing's fault.

The thought coiled around him like poison ivy. It was all the alpha's fault for having gotten him pregnant.

He didn't want to give Chen Huixing a child anymore, and he didn't need another one.

Tonight, Pei Jiqing had no excuse to coax the child into the nursery. As Chen Huixing approached with the humid heat of her bath, he could smell the restless pinewood scent in the alpha's pheromone. Chen Huixing lowered her lips and kissed his, her hand sliding down his waistline. Just as the alpha was about to press him into the bed—

a flash of cold light pierced the warm yellow light.

Chen Huixing's hand tightly gripped the blade, blood swirls down the silver blade, spreading a glaring red on the snow-white sheets.

"What do you want to do?" The alpha's voice was colder than the blade, and his pheromones suddenly became as violent as a storm.

Pei Jiqing looked up and saw the anger or pain surging in the other's eyes, he couldn't tell anymore.

Pei Jiqing Pei Jiqing's eyes were burning with a sickly fire: "...Chen Huixing, I will never give birth to a child for you again. If you have other children, I will kill them one by one!" "

So? You want to destroy me?"

Chen Huixing stared at him and suddenly laughed softly. There was a dangerous doting in that laugh, as if he was admiring a fascinating collection.

The gloom of many years of high position faded from Chen Huixing's eyes, revealing a bit of the ruthlessness that he had only in his military days. Only in front of Pei Jiqing would he completely lose control like this.

When Pei Jiqing was obedient, Chen Huixing felt irritated; when Pei Jiqing resisted, Chen Huixing was furious.

He didn't know what to do with him?

The Alpha's bloodstained fingers brushed against the Omega's trembling lips, and his bloody breath blew into Pei Jiqing's ear, as if to teach him, "You should have waited until I came in before you made your move. I'd be the least prepared then... If you'd just bit harder, it would have been worth it for me to die on you."

What pheromone compatibility, what AO nature?

Pei Jiqing himself was the most potent aphrodisiac!

The bloodstained knife was thrown to the ground with a thud.

What a madman.

Blood and pheromones intertwined into a web, forcing Pei Jiqing's entire body to burn.

This became their most uncontrollable entanglement. The sheets were soaked with blood, sweat, and more. Pei Jiqing's tears fell on the back of Shen Huixing's hand, burning incredibly hot, and a fragmented "Get out" squeaked out of his throat.

Chen Huixing was slapped twice by Pei Jiqing. He grabbed his wrist and pressed it against the pillow, gnawing at the tip of his red ear with his canine teeth: "I had a vasectomy a long time ago, but you insisted on using a knife. Can't you just talk it over nicely?"

The bed sheet was soaked through, and it was hard to tell if it was sweat, blood, or something else. Pei Jiqing's tears fell on the back of Shen Huixing's hand, burning it incredibly.

Chen Huixing let the blood and tears flow from his palm, forcefully prying open Pei Jiqing's teeth and making him swallow his own blood.