Chapter 24 Part 2

TongYan slept for more than an hour. He was sweating a bit, so Zhuo Xiang Ming wipedit off for him. Looking at the time, it was already half past two, he startedcalling out to Tong Yan: “Tong Tong….Tong Tong?”

TongYan took a while to wake up, but he covered his eyes and most of his face, demandingin a muffled voice: “Knock it off….”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Don’t go back to sleep.”

Theroom was dark and absolutely quiet, after Zhuo Xiang Ming had gotten out of bed,Tong Yan had arrested Zhuo Xiang Ming’s pillow, the alpha shirt still in hisarms. This sleep was too deep, and Tong Yan was extremely reluctant to wake up.

Zhuo Xiang Ming called out to him, gently but persistently: “TongTong, are you a piglet? My mother is still waiting to go shopping with you…Tong Tong?”

TongYan shifted his hands and grumblingly opened his eyes, his eyelids and cheeks alittle red from sleep, his long eyelashes flickering slowly. He turned his headreluctantly, looking at Zhuo Xiang Ming, he whispered: “Brother … you’reannoying.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming lifted the quilt and pulled his shirt out of Tong Yan’s arms,pinching his red face: “Go and wash your face.”

TongYan usually wasn’t a difficult person to wake up, but his sleep was very heavytoday.

Hedidn’t understand why he slept so deeply, but Zhuo Xiang Ming did.

Alpha pheromones were roughly divided into three modes: sexual arousal,suppression and placation. Sexual arousal and suppression were the two mostcommon forms, but the placation effect of alpha pheromones was also equally powerful.So far, no manmade drug could match it.

The placation effect was rare because it was essentially a process that wasmore intimate than sexual arousal–sexual arousal could occur between strange AO,but placation was only useful for an omega who fully trusted their alpha.

Therefore, it usually came out after marking, but because Tong Yan had apheromone stress disorder, he needed to be pacified even if he wasn’t marked.

But now, a mere shirt could make him sleep so well. If they later….

TongYan came out with water droplets all over his face. Zhuo Xiang Ming threw awaythe shirt, promptly cutting off his thoughts.

TongYan shook the water out of his hair. He rarely behaved like this, so Zhuo XiangMing said: “Mischievous.”

Tong Yan leaned against him: “Souncomfortable, my head is still spinning.”

ZhuoXiang Ming conveniently said: “Then don’t go out.”

Heagreed at noon to go shopping with Lin Yue Hua in the afternoon. Lin Yue Huawas in high spirits, and Tong Yan also wanted to go. He had no close femalerelatives, his grandmothers from both parents had died long ago. Lin Yue Huawas the first one, so Tong Yan was actually especially willing to get close toher.

TongYan refused: “Can’t.”

Washing his face and brushing his teeth had driven away most of hissleep, he followed Zhuo Xiang Ming downstairs.

Zhuo Xiang Ming walked slowly, persistent for some reason: “Are yousure you want to go?”

TongYan: “I’m going.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Are you sure you want to stroll around with mymother for three hours, and, believe it or not, not be able to move afterwards?”

TongYan was unconvinced: “We used to play football all afternoon and be just fine.”

Naive.

Zhuo Xiang Ming looked back at him, and finally said: “Go on then.”

Lin Yue Hua wasn’t dressed formally, choosing to wear a rarely worn causaldress. The hair that she always wore pulled up was let loose, and she carried asmall black handbag. She gave off a completely different atmosphere.

She pulled Tong Yan away from Zhuo Xiang Ming and said: “When itrains a few more times, the days will start to get colder. It’s just the righttime to take Tong Tong out to buy something for the changing season. Are you stayinghome?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Yes.”

He found the warning card and put it on Tong Yan’s chest. Tong Yan was alittle reluctant. His stress disorder was almost negligible now, and he alwaysfelt like a pariah when he wore this out on the street.

Zhuo Xiang Ming saw his expression, and lowered his head to say, “Don’twear it if you don’t want to, but you also can’t leave.”

TongYan glared up at him, but his eyes were too round, so it wasn’t very scary.

Zhuo Xiang Ming originally had one hand in his pocket, and hisexpression was serious. Seeing this, he couldn’t help but smile a bit, sayingagain, “Don’t go to any crowded places, okay?”

Lin Yue Hua came over, jokingopportunistically: “Your mother knows that, don’t worry. I know he’s your treasure,I’ll definitely bring him back to you safely.”

TongYan blushed a little, but Zhuo Xiang Ming said: “Would you like me to go withyou? I can carry your bags.”

Lin Yue Hua: “No need, no need. I have a chauffeur to carry thosethings. Besides, you don’t have the patience for my type of shopping. Stay herewith your father and brother.” She also urged: “Keep an eye on Jia Shuo.Make sure he doesn’t antagonize the chickens in the backyard. If he gets achance, the chaos in the yard would worry someone to death.”

Finally, the chauffeur carried Lin Yue Hua andTong Yan away. Zhuo Xiang Ming sent them off all the way to the gate of thecourtyard. When he could no longer see the car, he turned back into the house.

TongYan’s mother passed away a long time ago, and he had no aunts, so it was thefirst time a woman took him out shopping.

There were five people in total. Some managed the shopping bags, and somepaid the bills, but they didn’t follow too closely. They waited outside thedoor, entering when Lin Yue Hua had almost made all her selections.

But this was also novel enough for Tong Yan.

WhenTong Yang took him out to buy clothes, it was always uncomplicated and crude. Finda close enough size, point in a row from left to right. After visiting ahandful of stores, it was enough to replace Tong Yan’s clothes for the season.

However, being crude had a crude advantage. At least no one held clothesup to his body to compare, and he didn’t need to change clothes like a spinningtop.

After trying on three sets, Tong Yan collapsed, sitting in the changingroom, questioning his life choices.

Obviously,his physical strength wasn’t terrible, but why was it so exasperating to goshopping?

Inless than an hour, Lin Yue Hua was still radiant, and Tong Yan was already sighingmournfully.

Four hours later, the trunk of the limo was full. The back seat wasbasically full, only leaving enough room for Lin Yue Hua and Tong Yan to sit.Zhuo Xiang Ming waited outside the car door, happy to lift out a limp small O.

His facial expression management was quite up to par, but Lin Yue Huacouldn’t handle it, after she got out of the car, there was a blatant smile onher face: “Tong Tong still needs more exercise.”

Thetwo got out of the car, and a few servants quickly came out of the house,taking the items out of the car. Lin Yue Hua stood aside and said to Zhuo XiangMing: “Tong Tong is tired out, take him up for a nap, dinner is at 8:30today.”

“OK.” Zhuo Xiang Ming agreed and immediately turned to leave, butTong Yan called out: “Auntie, I’m leaving first.”

Lin Yue Hua nodded smilingly, and the two left.

There was no one in the hall, after taking a few steps into the house,Zhuo Xiang Ming hugged Tong Yan up in a bridal carry, continuing to walkupstairs with nary a pause.

TongYan: “!”

Howshameful, his face turned beet red instantly. It was too late for Tong Yan tobe angry about his own weakness, stuttering, “W-what are you doing!”

Zhuo Xiang Ming had one arm around Tong Yan’swaist, the other arm hugging the hollows of his knees. Despite hearing hisquestion, he still carried him up, saying, “You looked like you were goingto faint.”

TongYan indeed felt like he was going to faint. His head was completely sober, but hiswaist ached, and his feet were cramped.

This shopping trip physically and mentally exhausted him, and he didn’twant to make any choices for a few hours.

Solid color or stripes? Leather or wool? Dark blue, dark green, or lightblue? Embedded diamonds or gems?

If the final choice was all of them, then why did he have to compare?

Several minutes passed, Tong Yan was lying on the bed, still in the sameposition Zhuo Xiang Ming had put him down in. His face was wooden.

Zhuo Xiang Ming brought back a glass of water and looked at hisappearance, his mouth twitching slightly. Finally, he said, “Do you understandnow?”

TongYan gulped down more than half of the glass of water, then said remorsefully:“But it’s too late.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming sat on the edge of the bed, he picked up one of Tong Yan’slegs and placed it on his lap. He started massaging from the lower leg, switchingfrom side to side. Tong Yan remembered that he hadn’t taken off his socks, andasked Zhuo Xiang Ming weakly: “Does my foot stink?”

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “No.”

TongYan was relieved, and he moaned in his throat, letting out intermittent ‘oohs’,‘aahs’, and ‘mhms’. Zhuo Xiang Ming released his leg, and leaned over him, asking:“Today, why are you being so…”

He said: “So …”

TongYan turned to look at him: “So what?”

So cute, so coy, so … so misleading.

Zhuo Xiang Ming: “Never mind.”

Ashe said this, he brushed Tong Yan’s hair out of his eyes again: “Your hairis too long, it’s always blocking your eyes.”

TongYan grabbed his finger before he could take it away, saying: “Take me fora haircut after my exams.”

Zhuo Xiang Ming paused. He tried to pull his finger out of Tong Yan’shold, but Tong Yan firmly held on, after a few back and forths, he unexpectedlycouldn’t pull it out.

“Tong Tong …”

“What?” Tong Yan closed his eyes and straightforwardly turned overto face Zhuo Xiang Ming, leaning towards Zhuo Xiang Ming.

Thiswas a bit rogue. Zhuo Xiang Ming didn’t evade, but he also didn’t hug him indulgentlylike he did at noon, merely saying: “I took a bath this afternoon in orderto appear in front of people. I still have to eat dinner later; do you want meto take a third bath today?”

TongYan had no choice but to restrain his pheromones. After a moment, he said in a quietvoice, “I don’t want to divorce.”

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T/N:

Trying to seduce ZXM? How bold Tong Tong