The looming haze engulfs the twilight, and the last lingering aftertaste of the setting sun melts into the dark night sky.
Ge Xiu looked away from the silver-white mecha and turned to look at Hines standing beside him.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a little spark of fire in the dark pupils, and he asked lightly:
"So, this is your wedding gift for me?"
Hines looked up at the mecha standing in front of him, laughed softly, and shook his head: "No."
He looked down at Ge Xiu and said quietly:
"It's a birthday present."
Although the other party didn't say it clearly, Hines was very clear about the deep meaning of the question he asked - what was the purpose of his gift? Is it out of the marriage contract between the two
Then, this mecha is no different from an expensive diamond necklace. In the final analysis, it is just an alpha's purchase and possession of what he belongs to, and it is an invisible bribe derived from desire - Hines has no doubt that if he gives The answer is yes, and the other party will refuse the gift in the next second without saying a word.
Hines stared at the boy in front of him and continued unhurriedly:
"Actually, if you're not happy with our engagement, I don't mind letting it be annulled."
He raised his hand to caress Ge Xiu's face, gently rubbed off a smear of oil on his side face with his fingertips, and said in a low voice, "This mecha belongs to you, because only you can be worthy of her—and others. is irrelevant to any factor.”
Hines' eyes were as deep as the night sky, the faint blue light condensed in the depths of his pupils, a little aggressive dark fire was hunting and burning in the bottom of his eyes, and the almost paranoid fiery affection seemed to be able to burn the two of them out, the corners of his lips lightened. hook:
"You are mine—and have nothing to do with the engagement."
Whether there is a marriage contract or not, we are destined to be together again.
Ge Xiu's pupils trembled slightly, and for a while he forgot to open the distance between the two.
Hines traced the outline of the boy's graceful jaw with his fingers, and he whispered firmly: "In this world, only we are worthy of each other - you and I are born to be a match."
They are too close.
Ge Xiu could smell the taste of the pheromone that came from the other party, which was deliberately restrained - like rum mixed with a strong burning sensation, the very aggressive breath rolled down the nose like fire and rolled into the throat, arousing a burning sensation. The tingling sensation is straightforward and strong, and it comes with a sense of presence, predatory occupation and squeezing every trace of the surrounding air.
A fiery heat like drunkenness rushed to his cheeks from the depths of his blood vessels.
Ge Xiu was startled, and out of instinct, he suddenly pulled back.
He was so panicked that he even stumbled a few steps because of his unsteady center of gravity. Thanks to Hines' quick-witted hand, Gexiu didn't fall down.
The hot taste of rum hits again.
Ge Xiu was shocked and quickly broke free from Hines' embrace.
Before today, it was not that Gexiu had not smelled the pheromone of Hines - although he deliberately suppressed it well, in daily life, even the strongest person could not be able to cover everything.
But Ge Xiu removed his glands after all, his sensitivity to pheromones has been greatly reduced, and he has always been very careful to keep a distance, so even if he has smelled the pheromone on the other party before, he has never reacted like this today. So big.
Hines let go of his hand and watched the boy quickly distanced himself from him as if he had been scalded, and only stopped a few meters away from him.
Ge Xiu pursed his lips tightly and gave a cold face, but in sharp contrast to this deliberate indifference, the intense physiological flush started from the cheekbones, spread on the white skin, and continued. When Shen reached his ears, it was like a warm and gorgeous sunset, and there was a layer of light water in his eyes, like a lake full of clear moonlight, glistening in the night.
Hines was a little surprised at first, but he quickly recovered his calm and asked without changing his face:
"The banquet is about to start, go back?"
Ge Xiu avoided his gaze, nodded expressionlessly, and squeezed out a short syllable from the depths of his throat:
"Um."
After he finished speaking, he didn't mean to wait for Hines at all, but walked directly towards the villa, and then disappeared into the lush vegetation of the garden like an enclave - his back was still straight, but it was inexplicable. Means to flee.
Hines stared at the boy's rapidly disappearing back, frowned slightly, and then followed slowly.
The sound of the leaves of the vegetation being flicked brushed past him, Ge Xiu heard the footsteps of the other party being thrown far away, and finally slowed down his pace.
He raised his hand and rubbed his hot cheeks vigorously, and took a deep breath slowly, finally calming his chaotic mood.
The breeze gently brushed his ears, and then was sent silently into the dark night sky.
- In fact, during this period of time, Ge Xiu has basically determined that the other party is [that] person.
But the most important question, he still did not find the answer.
[He] Why does he appear in this virtual world, and why does he appear by his side again and again - who is he? What is his purpose? What are the people behind the scenes who arrange these punishments for the world
The information that Ge Xiu now knows is pitiful, and even the memory before his arrest is blank, which makes him completely unable to sort out his thoughts from these miscellaneous clues, and has no choice but to take a step by step.
And Hines...
Ge Xiu forcibly removed his thoughts from Hines himself, determined not to dig deeper into what the other party had just said.
He stood in the icy night wind and waited until the effect of the other party's pheromone on him had completely subsided before stepping back into the banquet hall.
In the banquet hall, the lights were brilliant, and the people in suits and leather shoes were chatting and laughing.
Ge Xiu slipped to one of the long tables, felt a few candies and stuffed them into his pockets.
Before he could peel off the outer packaging of one of the candies, the voice of Admiral Drost came from behind: "Where did you go just now?"
Ge Xiu made a move.
He sadly glanced at the half-peeled candy in his hand, then turned to look at Admiral Drost behind him, with a well-behaved look on his face: "Actually just now I..."
"Don't make any excuses for me!" Admiral Drost's suppressed anger interrupted Gossiu's unspoken words: "Do you know how long the housekeeper has been looking for you? The guests downstairs—"
"He was with me just now."
A lazily familiar voice sounded, and Ge Xiu's back suddenly stiffened.
A strong and mellow wine aroma hits.
Hines walked over unhurriedly and put his palm lightly on Ge Xiu's shoulder. He glanced at the boy beside him who was lower than him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, half true and half false. He said flatly, "After all, we need to communicate our feelings, right? Father-in-law?"
Father-in-law's face turned into a pig's liver color.
He was accustomed to hearing Hynes sneer at his opposite, and the sight of him standing in front of him calling him "father-in-law" was like some absurd dream—although he was telling the truth—but Admiral Drost really I didn't expect that the other party was really so thick-skinned that he could say this name in public without changing his face.
Simply… Simply…
Admiral Drost couldn't think of any suitable adjective to describe this shameless man.
He glanced at the two people in front of him with a complicated expression, and the evil fire that rose in his stomach just now was directly quenched by this inexplicable feeling of suffocation.
"You... Forget it..." Admiral Drost hesitated.
He took a deep breath, raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose a little tired, and said weakly, "Wait when I announce the marriage of the two of you... just... don't do any more shit for me."
After he finished speaking, he turned around slowly, and left the scene as if escaping.
Hines squinted his eyes without a trace—
The father and son looked alike as if they had been carved out of a mold in terms of escaping the scene quickly.
After General Drost left, Ghosh quickly opened the distance between the two.
He lowered his head and continued to peel the candy in his hand, and then stuffed the candy ball into his mouth. The soft fruity sweet aroma spread and slipped into his throat along his mouth, but he still couldn't get rid of the spicy and exciting rum smell. Driven away from your own senses, on the contrary, the smell of candy is lined with the taste of Hines pheromone more clearly.
Ge Xiu took two steps away again without a trace.
Hines keenly noticed Ge Xiu's small movements, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
Ge Xiu shook his head unnaturally: "...Nothing."
Hines frowned and asked:
"Is it because of what I just said?"
He sighed:
"Don't worry, I don't mean to force you to make any choice, although my previous behavior may not prove my point... But I am serious. If you are not satisfied with our engagement, I don't mind letting it be voided."
Hines stared at Ge Xiu and said seriously: "I will not give up pursuing you, but before you are willing to accept me, I will never force you to fulfill the marriage contract. If you don't believe me, I will go to you now. The father explained the situation and canceled the marriage-"
He said, and turned to leave.
But before he took a few steps, Hines felt his arm being grabbed. He was stunned and turned his head to look behind him.
I saw that Ge Xiu's cheekbones were still marked with an abnormal blush, his eyes were shining, his eyes were slightly dodging, he gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice, "It has nothing to do with what you said just now... It's the smell of your body... "
Hines was slightly taken aback: "What?"
Ge Xiu raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, and said in a low voice, "Your pheromone tastes like rum—I'm really bad at drinking... I can't stand it."
Hines stared at him with a frown, and after thinking it over slowly asked, "You smell my pheromones? Are you sure?"
Gossi nodded.
Hines continued to ask, "What about you before? Did you smell it?"
Gossi nodded again.
Hines looked at Ge Xiu with an unpredictable expression, and asked a third question: "What about other people's pheromones? Have you smelled it since you came back?"
Gossi was stunned.
He thought about it seriously, then looked up at Hines a little unexpectedly, and said, "I don't have any memory... But I really rarely have contact with other people, so maybe I didn't pay attention?"
Hines shook his head.
He sighed: "Who taught your physical hygiene class? Why don't you have any common sense in this area?"
Gossi raised his eyebrows at him in offense.
Hines stared at him inquiringly: "The function of the glands is not only to release pheromones, but also to distinguish the pheromone emitted by other people is also related to the gonads. If you completely remove the gonads like you, the perception of other people's pheromones will be affected. It should be extremely slow, and it is even more impossible to distinguish the taste of the other party when the alpha deliberately converges the pheromone... Unless... "
Ge Xiu asked, "Unless what?"
Hines chuckled softly: "Unless the pheromone match between the two is more than 90%, this can happen again."
Ge Xiu couldn't help but be surprised.
Although his physiology class is really bad, he still understands the concept that the pheromone matching degree is higher than 90%...
Nothing in a million.
The corners of Hines' lips were slightly raised, and his eyes were as deep as the sea. He whispered:
"You see, as I said, we were born together."