GBROTAH CH67

Chapter 67: Secretly Tasting, Secretly Eating, Secretly Biting

The curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows were drawn tightly, their layered folds casting shadows that spread towards the bed. Before they could get close, they were dispersed by the warm yellow light of the bedside lamp.

A single small lamp by the bed cast a halo, creating a sealed-off, warm, and ambiguous space.

Xie Yuanxing was kneeling on the bed. His black pajamas were soft, and the shorts had rolled up slightly due to his posture, barely covering the top of his thighs and revealing his fair, well-proportioned legs.

His expression was innocent and dazed, as if he was completely unaware of any issue with this kneeling position. The malice in human nature would lead one to speculate, to think that perhaps he knew, but was merely feigning innocence.

Fortunately, the childish bright yellow duck pattern on the chest of his black pajamas attested to his purity.

“Baby.”

In front of him, a tall man supported himself on the mattress with one hand, kneeling on the edge of the bed with one knee. His handsome face was covered by a black, cage-like metal muzzle that was cold, ascetic, and yet gave off an extremely strong sense of aggression.

One only had to think for a moment to know what kind of person would need to wear such a thing on their mouth.

At the very least, it would not be a good boy.

Shen Bianye slowly approached the real good boy, his voice husky. “Baby.”

His lips couldn’t reach Xie Yuanxing’s. What touched them first was the cold, hard metal muzzle.

The tip of his scarlet tongue, marked with a small black mole, licked and kissed Xie Yuanxing’s lips. As it did, the tip of his tongue also kissed the name engraved on the cold metal.

His tongue was scorching hot; the cage-like metal muzzle was icy cold.

Yet, as he licked the name on it, Shen Bianye’s pheromones boiled uncontrollably. His entire body seemed to be on fire, his breath was hot, and his gaze was fixed on Xie Yuanxing, almost as if he were about to devour him whole.

It was less like he was licking Xie Yuanxing’s name on the muzzle and more like he was taking Xie Yuanxing into his mouth to chew on him, obsessed and adoring.

The scent of simmering embers left after a raging fire instantly filled the entire room.

Xie Yuanxing was caught off guard, enveloped and covered by the intense pheromone scent. His body reacted instinctively. His delicate eyebrows furrowed uncontrollably, and he began to cough violently.

In just a few short seconds, tears began to fall.

His dark, round eyes were covered by a watery mist, and the rims of his eyes turned a peachy red. He was completely overcome with tears.

Shen Bianye’s large hands cupped Xie Yuanxing’s face, his fingers touching the corner of Xie Yuanxing’s eye. “You look so pitiful when you cry, baby.”

“If I…”

He stopped before he could finish his sentence. There were not so many “ifs” in this world. What had happened could not be changed, and time could not be turned back.

The conflict between his pheromones and Xie Yuanxing’s trauma was an unsolvable problem.

No Alpha could accept their pheromones being rejected and detested by their other half, and Shen Bianye was no exception.

His hand caught one of Xie Yuanxing’s tears, crushing it between his fingertips in frustration. “Baby, I’m going to my room to get an inhibitor.”

Xie Yuanxing grabbed him. His eyes were moist and dark, and with a tremble of his lashes, large tears rolled down, making him look utterly pitiful. Yet, he shook his head. “Don’t go.”

His voice was a sob. “Just suppress it a little. Suppress it a little, and I can get used to it.”

Shen Bianye’s hand clenched so tightly that the veins on the back of it bulged. He spoke in a hoarse, helpless voice, “Baby, I can’t suppress it.”

Right now, his mind was filled with thoughts of pressing the person before him into the bed, of penetrating, deepening, and marking him.

This impulse burned him. His pheromones were excited and agitated, finding no release, urgent and longing.

The more pitifully Xie Yuanxing cried, the more urgent and excited his pheromones became.

Only a tiny thread of reason swayed precariously on a tightrope, pulling Shen Bianye back in the face of Xie Yuanxing’s tears.

Xie Yuanxing rubbed his red eyes, his tear-soaked lashes clumping together. He pressed his lips together firmly, hesitated again and again, but finally said, “I’ll go outside. Can you calm down alone?”

Not wanting Shen Bianye to overthink, he didn’t hide his true thoughts. “Tomorrow is Monday. I don’t want to go to school with swollen, cried-out eyes.”

He pursed his lips again, adding uncomfortably, “A lot of people will ask questions.”

“Can we wait until the holidays? During the summer break, we can try day by day. I can get used to it.”

Shen Bianye’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he said with difficulty, “Baby, you don’t have to get used to it. I’ll just use an inhibitor each time.”

Xie Yuanxing frowned and spoke with unusual firmness, “No.”

“The last time we went for a check-up together, I actually overheard. The doctor said you’ve been overdosing on inhibitors.”

While Shen Bianye was stunned, Xie Yuanxing leaned in and, through the cold muzzle, seemed to kiss him, saying softly, “You’re an Alpha, and I’m a beta. We can’t change the biological facts, but…”

His soft black hair brushed against Shen Bianye’s chin. “Since we’ve decided to be together, you can’t be the only one making compromises.”

“We are equals.”

…..

At eleven o’clock at night, when Shen Bianye walked into the living room, Zhou Chao was smoking while typing on his laptop.

The laptop was full of confidential company files, which he left casually open as he watched Shen Bianye enter.

Zhou Chao raised an eyebrow. “You got kicked out even with that?”

“I didn’t realize Xie Yuanxing had such a temper.”

Shen Bianye scoffed. “You don’t know a damn thing.”

“My wife is the best.”

Beautiful, good at his studies, a great body, and a soft heart. He was the best Xingxing baby in the whole world.

Zhou Chao spoke with playful interest. “Your wife?”

“You’re already calling him ‘wife’? When did you get married? How come I didn’t know?”

Shen Bianye replied bluntly, “Don’t call him that.”

“Why are you in the living room in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?”

Zhou Chao said, “I have a document I need to deal with urgently, and I couldn’t find a charging port in your room.”

Shen Bianye clicked his tongue. “Come here.”

Zhou Chao followed behind him, frowning uncomfortably. “I’m telling you, can you rein in your pheromones?”

Shen Bianye didn’t even turn his head. “Just endure it.”

“You’re not an omega. Why are you so fussy?”

Zhou Chao gritted his teeth in anger, wanting nothing more than to smack Shen Bianye on the back of the head. “Pheromone repulsion between Alphas, okay?”

Shen Bianye walked to an outlet and reached out to pull open a small door on the wall. “Outlet.”

A small light was attached to the wall in the corner. When he reached for it, the light turned on automatically, illuminating the cartoon Tom and Jerry underneath. Next to Tom the cat was a small door. When the door opened, it revealed the hidden outlet sockets.

Zhou Chao was dumbfounded.

Zhou Chao: “Wait, you have something this cute?”

“I complain about you all day, my great young master, and you turn around and start acting like a young lady?”

Shen Bianye said, displeased, “Xingxing did this.”

“He said that when he wants to charge his phone at night, he can never get the plug in, but he’s too lazy to turn on the lights to find the holes. So he installed a small light next to the outlet. You just reach out, and it lights up the sockets.”

“Isn’t that very practical?” He shot a cold glance at Zhou Chao. “Who are you calling a young lady?”

Zhou Chao was somewhat convinced, and also a little amused. “Xie Yuanxing is quite cute.”

Shen Bianye scoffed. “You think I need you to tell me that?”

Zhou Chao: “Then just installing the light would be enough. What’s the door for?”

“Afraid someone will come to your house to steal electricity at night? You have to hide the sockets?”

Shen Bianye: “It’s a matching set, understand? You hick.”

“Xingxing is actually very good at living life. His ideas are sometimes very cute and imaginative. You’re just a country bumpkin, what would you know?”

Feeling uneasy about Shen Bianye, Xie Yuanxing had come out of his room and was standing at the door, only to see the two of them animatedly discussing the outlet decoration.

Having such a childish thing pulled out and shown off by Shen Bianye, and being praised by him in front of others, made Xie Yuanxing’s ears turn a little red, and he secretly retreated back into his room.

Next to the outlet, Shen Bianye was still marveling, but his tone couldn’t help but carry a hint of regret as he spoke.

“When Xie Yuanxing was born, he was predicted to differentiate into an Omega. Although he failed to differentiate and became a beta, he still has some of those traits in his personality.”

Shen Bianye smiled, his eyes gentle. “Those very cute traits.”

“He just doesn’t show them to outsiders.”

Zhou Chao’s teeth ached from the sweetness. “I still prefer the look on our great young master’s face when he’d say with disdain, ‘Who would like a beta?'”

Shen Bianye expressionlessly released his pheromones at double the strength. The pheromones of Alphas repelled each other, and coupled with the suppression from Shen Bianye’s SSS-grade constitution, it caught Zhou Chao completely off guard and made him slide to his knees on the floor.

Shen Bianye smiled faintly. “We’re all friends. No need to kowtow to me.”

Zhou Chao: …Damn it.

……

Once his pheromones were under control, Shen Bianye silently opened the door to Xie Yuanxing’s room.

The small, warm yellow lamp was on, but the person on the bed was already asleep.

Shen Bianye moved with the utmost quiet, pressing himself against Xie Yuanxing’s back without a sound. His hand slipped under the hem of his clothes, the skin beneath his touch fine and smooth, like the highest quality mutton-fat jade.

He kissed the back of Xie Yuanxing’s neck, leaving one faint red love bite after another on the smooth skin.

A beta could not be marked. He was not allowed to bite down, but these closely packed love bites were like some kind of alternative marking.

A silent declaration that this person was his, and could only be his.

Slowly, Shen Bianye was no longer satisfied with just a superficial taste of the back of his neck and began to travel downwards.

His lips brushed aside the collar of Xie Yuanxing’s clothes, licking the fiery red birthmark on his right shoulder. The tip of his tongue was wet and scorching, and he moved slowly and methodically, as if savoring a delicacy.

Baby is so tender.

Tender everywhere.

And so fragrant. The sweet, milky scent lingered at the tip of his nose, incomparably rich and utterly bewitching.

The scent was like a hook, and Shen Bianye was caught fast by it. Whenever he was near Xie Yuanxing, he just wanted to kiss and lick him.

But when Shen Bianye actually did try to lick and taste, he could only chew out a tiny bit of flavor from the repeated licking and kissing.

That little bit of flavor, he couldn’t tell if it was psychological or if he had really tasted it.

But even a little was good. This sweet, milky-scented baby, even if he was so stingy as to only let him taste a tiny bit, he loved it to death.

Xie Yuanxing was sound asleep, while Shen Bianye was excited on his own. His lips, pressed against the fiery red birthmark, opened and closed. As his tongue tasted the tender flesh, he silently called out, “Baby.”

Baby said they are together.

He has been acknowledged.

He could do these things. He didn’t have to worry if it was appropriate or if it would be impolite.

As long as he did it secretly, didn’t go too far, and didn’t wake his sleeping baby, it would be fine.

Of course, he also had to know when to stop, so that his pheromones wouldn’t start boiling out of control again.

Shen Bianye pinched the small nip-ple, kneading it once before pulling his hand away. In the darkness, he silently licked the fingertips that had touched the small peak. In the pitch-black night, his eyes were incredibly dark.