Chapter 7

On Saturday morning, the hospital called toremind Tong Yan to come get the results.

It has been more than half a month since the startof the desensitization treatment. How well he was recovering depended on thetest results. He also required a doctor’s certificate in order to report to schoolon Monday. In the end, this was also a decisive factor in the original decisionto get married.

TongYang had just returned from a business trip, he had nothing to do for the timebeing, so he was idle at home this weekend. Of course, Tong Yan didn’t need himto accompany him, but Tong Yang insisted, in the end, the two left together.

The test results were as expected. Tong Yan’s stress disorder had droppedfrom severe sensitivity to class B sensitivity. The doctor issued him a certificatepermitting him to attend school, but as part of the sensitive community. Beforehe healed completely, for his own safety and to prevent disturbances, when hewent out in public places, like a school, he was required to wear a warningcard.

After seeing the doctor, the two left. Tong Yang flipped through a fewpages of the file, his heart was happy, but his mouth couldn’t help but be despicable:“Almost done already, my dear baby brother, this marriage was not pointless.”

Withoutwaiting for Tong Yan’s rebuttal, he raised his hand and rubbed Tong Yan’s head vigorously:“Your performance in the hospital today was also very good.”

TongYan was irritated by his actions, and struggled to get away. Instead, the otherman grabbed his arm and wrapped the sign issued by the doctor around his neck.

This warning card wasn’t a rare object. It was most commonly seen inschools. It was modeled after a work pass, but the border was red. At night, italso reflected under light. The card was labeled “Sensitive Person”,words that prompted nearby alpha to restrain their pheromones.

Tong Yan couldn’t fight back, and could only randomlystuff the sign into his thin coat. This time, Tong Yang didn’t bother him.After returning home, Tong Yan was heading to his bedroom when he was stopped byTong Yang, who said seriously: “You can’t hide it at school. Wear it well,understand?”

Tong Yan said, “I know, I know.”

“Brat.” Tong Yang scoffed. “I’m going out this afternoon, I don’tthink I’ll be back early. You can eat by yourself, and pack up your things, I’llsend you over tomorrow.”

“To where?” Tong Yan asked, “School opens the day aftertomorrow.”

TongYang had already turned around and walked away a few steps, hearing those words,he turned back, and looked at Tong Yan with a faint smile, “Comehere.”

“Why?” Tong Yan definitely wouldn’tlisten to him.

TongYang scowled: “I told you to come!”

“Why are you shouting?” Tong Yan also scowled, but he still movedforward a few steps, “What the hell is it?”

TongYang looked down at him, fighting back a smile: “What did you tell me lastnight?”

TongYan felt that this flipping between angry and happy expression was simplyneurotic, but they were standing too close, he didn’t dare say that out loud, sohe could only curse silently.

“… Hugging isn’t a temporary mark.” After organizing his language,Tong Yang said, “Fortunately, I called Zhuo Xiang Ming this morning tofind out what happened. Do you have a brain?”

TongYan was stunned: “Why did you call him?”

“Areyou kidding? After only a few days, he dared ‘temporarily mark’ you, why wouldn’tI look for him?” While Tong Yang spoke, he again looked like he didn’t knowwhether to laugh or get angry, “Have you never taken a biology class?”

Althougha temporary mark was called temporary, and indeed, compared to a true mark, thedegree of intimacy was much shallower, but for the current Tong Yan, it wasstill a little too much.

TongYang knew that the reason the family sent off his younger brother was to askZhuo Xiang Ming to do a humanitarian job on the basis of a business partnership.Although he enjoyed teasing Tong Yan about it, his internal boundaries havealways been very clear: Tong Yan was only eighteen, he was still in school, hewas a naïve boy. Zhuo Xiang Ming was a twenty-seven year old man, to say thathe had a lot of life experience wouldn’t be exaggerating. Although the reportswere good, if something really happened emotionally, it was obvious that TongYan would be at a disadvantage.

Buthe never thought that Tong Yan would really have something with Zhuo Xiang Ming,nor did he think that they could have anything. Nothing was impossible, but in justa few days? Leaving a temporary mark when you barely know each other, aren’t youa scoundrel? Could Tong Yang let someone play around with Tong Yan?

He wasn’t that much older than Tong Yan, additionally, when their motherleft after contracting a sudden illness, Tong Yan was the only omega in their family.Although the two brothers were close, there was still a distance between them,he couldn’t be called overprotective.

But having an outsider bully Tong Yan, he could never be lenient.

However, due to his understanding of Zhuo XiangMing’s character, he decided to call before doing anything. After exchanging afew trivial words, Zhuo Xiang Ming by chance asked about the results of TongYan’s examination.

Itturns out that he was worried that Tong Yan would feel uncomfortable going tothe hospital without an alpha to accompany him, so he’d hugged him a littlelonger, to allow him to get accustomed faster, and also carry around the pheromonesfor comfort.

Hearingthis, Tong Yang sighed in relief, luckily, he hadn’t embarrassed himself.

“That’s the schedule from now on, stay homeon Fridays and Saturdays, return Sunday afternoon.” Finished speaking, TongYang left to get ready to go out, leaving behind a, “Brat.”

Oh… so it wasn’t a temporary mark …

For the time being, Tong Yan didn’t realize thathe had almost ruined Zhuo Xiang’s reputation, he was too caught up in feelingreluctant to leave his home again.

Now, Zhuo Xiang Ming wasn’t a stranger tohim, but he wasn’t a marriage partner. He called him brother, but they weren’t bloodrelated. Maybe he could be considered a sort of friend, but on what level washe a “friend”?

No one lived at a friend’s house on school days, and in addition to theage difference between the two, Zhuo Xiang Ming was also physically andpsychologically more mature than Tong Yan. There was no way Tong Yan could reallytreat him as a peer, an ordinary friend.

When they separated yesterday, he’d honestly felt that Zhuo Xiang Mingwas a good person, and today, he honestly didn’t want to leave home. Both feelingswere true.

In the evening, Zhuo Xiang Ming called and asked him how he’d managed at the hospital. Tong Yan still hadn’t come out of his depressed state, so he spoke very little.

ZhuoXiang Ming asked: “Your brother said that he’d drive you back, do you know whattime?”

TongYan: “I don’t know, he didn’t say.”

“Ithink it’ll be at night.” Trying to be clever, he added a sentence, “He’sbusy during the day.”

“All right, “Zhuo Xiang Ming said, “I have to meet someone in the morning, so you can sleep in. I’ll pick you up at noon.”

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T/N:

TYang’s thinking is pretty weird. You stickan alpha and an omega together, and even require that they have intimatecontact, but the thought that they’d go further than hugging never occurred toyou? Evil people pretend to be good all the time. You basically handed ZXM afree omega.