Chapter 21 | TOC | Chapter 23

Chapter 22 I’m Afraid That Someone Would Come

To Ling Che’s surprise, after he spoke those words, Xu Tangzhou actually didn’t say anything else.

The two remained in a stalemate, and their group’s following assistant Momo came over and carefully asked if Xu Tangzhou was fine.

Their abnormal behavior to the side had already attracted the attention of everyone in the show. Everyone was looking at them from afar, but they were blocked by Ling Che’s instructions, and they didn’t dare to go over.

Xu Tangzhou’s finger by his side lightly trembled. He was about to say that he was fine, but someone else was a step ahead.

“It’s his first time going into the water, so he’s very nervous.” Ling Che answered that question. “He’s fine. He’s just not used to the water pressure. I’ll bring him to rest first.”

Xu Tangzhou was surprised, what was Ling Che doing?

He thought that Ling Che wanted to embarrass and maliciously tease him.

The dressing room wasn’t too far away. Inside, there were a few benches and sofas for resting. Ling Che had spoken naturally and Momo didn’t suspect anything. She said they’ll first film the other guests.

After Momo briskly walked away, Ling Che returned to his indifferent tone: “Get up.”

Xu Tangzhou’s arm was grabbed by him.

Ling Che had no expression on his face, but Xu Tangzhou could understand his behavior. He knew that Ling Che meant to support him.

Xu Tangzhou had a head full of question marks.

He stood up, and his legs were a bit soft.

Because Ling Che was close to him, his glands began to throb uncontrollably with excitement, as if they had a life of their own. In contrast to before when it had calmed down when he went away from Ling Che, it now began to throb more fiercely the further he went from Ling Che. Only by going closer, just a little bit closer, could he gain a bit of relief.

His reaction has already reached a critical level.

Ling Che’s body had an aura of the scorching sun.

Enveloped by this aura, Xu Tangzhou couldn’t remember how he got to the dressing room.

At this moment, there was no one in the area. Not further than 20 meters away, the commotion of the program group and the guests on the beach could be faintly heard.

“I-I’ll be fine after sitting for a bit.” Xu Tangzhou sat on the bench and spoke through gritted teeth.

Ling Che saw Xu Tangzhou lower his head. Even his earlobes turned red, but his expression was unable to be seen since he was wearing the mask.

Ling Che stood to the side, with his tone the same as before: “And then?”

After reuniting, he maintained a “wait and see” attitude toward all of Xu Tangzhou’s actions. What Xu Tangzhou wanted* to do was far less important than what Xu Tangzhou would like to* do.

TN: Take note of the different “wants” in this chapter. There are a few ways to say “want” in Chinese, with varying degrees of “want”. In this chapter, the “want” means “I want, and I’ll do it”, while the words “would like” mean “I want, but I don’t know if I’ll do it”. 

Xu Tangzhou: “... I would like to give Huang Ge a call.”

Contact Huang Qian and have him ask the program group to go to the pharmacy on the island and buy some over-the-counter medication. It doesn’t matter if it was effective, it’d be fine even if they numbed him with anesthesia. The next few days would pass by very quickly, and he’d figure it out after going back.

Ling Che’s face suddenly turned dark.

Contacting the agent in an emergency was what he had taught Xu Tangzhou.

At some point, the air-conditioned dressing room became hot and dry. The presence of an adult Alpha with S-class pheromones was extremely powerful, not to mention that Ling Che himself was already extremely attractive.

Within the stalemate atmosphere, Xu Tangzhou heard the sound of his rapid breathing from within the mask.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cold air in front of him as fresh air poured into his nose.

Within his daze, it was Ling Che who squatted in front of him and took off his mask: “Xu Tangzhou. You want my pheromones, would it kill you to say it?”

Xu Tangzhou, wasn’t the first one to say “like” after reuniting obviously you?!

Xu Tangzhou was startled, and he suddenly raised his head.

Ling Che knew?!

With such a close distance, he could anxiously see his own appearance within Ling Che’s light brown eyes.

As expected, he had a nosebleed.

An inconspicuous drop of fresh red blood stained the area under his nose. His fair and glossy face was dyed crimson, and the corners of his eyes were wet from either sweat or tears.

Anyways, it was very embarrassing.

Unexpectedly, the dark-faced Ling Che used his thumb to gently wipe away that drop of blood.

He said coldly: “If you don’t want it, then forget about it.”

They were so close, the scent of the Omega’s pheromone was spread by the blood, stimulating the nerves of the Alpha. For the single Alpha and Omega, this involuntary suggestion was enough to send their blood pumping.

That’s right. What’s there to be embarrassed to say?

According to Qiu Yin, even if this unexpected situation appeared within a platonic friendship, the Alpha could also help.

But he still couldn’t say it out loud.

Ling Che was too far from his reach. No matter what he had dreamed of before, or how he did this and that with Ling Che in his dreams, they still had an unequal relationship, and they were also unfamiliar with each other. He was worried that Ling Che’s prejudice of “Omegas are creatures that don’t have any self-control” would be even more ingrained, and he was worried that Ling Che would show some disgust… It was because he liked Ling Che.

But, he wasn’t asked to confess right now and Ling Che also wouldn’t know, so what’s there to be afraid of?

“...... I want.” Xu Tangzhou was a bit fearful. He was slightly trembling, yet he grabbed onto the corner of Ling Che’s clothes, “Please… don’t leave.”

Ling Che felt irritable.

He reached out and touched Xu Tangzhou’s neck, deliberately pretending to think about it, and the redness from the other person’s face spread to the back of their neck.

“I’m sorry.” Xu Tangzhou quickly explained, “I didn’t mean to cause you any trouble. My medication to control my pheromone sensitivity disappeared. It was inside that cloth bag that disappeared. I had been taking it for a while, and I thought that it would be alright……”

A “zip” sound.

The zipper of the diving suit was unzipped.

Xu Tangzhou’s words abruptly stopped.

“You’ve already caused trouble for me.” Ling Che interrupted him.

*

After Mi Fei finished recording a segment, he couldn’t find a trace of Xu Tangzhou.

As an older brother to an Omega younger sister, Mi Fei was a gentle person. After hearing Momo say that Xu Tangzhou wasn’t feeling well from the water pressure and had left to rest with Ling Che, he talked with Lu Chengan and bought a bottle of water to give it to them.

The dressing room door was half closed. Before he could speak, Mi Fei stood where he was in astonishment.

Xu Tangzhou sat on the bench with his back to the door, while Ling Che half-knelt in front of him, biting his neck in a possessive posture.

Perhaps it was too painful, but Xu Tangzhou’s hand clutched onto the edge of the seat, and even his joints turned white.

Mi Fei couldn’t see his expression.

But he could see Ling Che’s.

Ling Che embraced the delicate and fragile Omega within his arms. One arm circled around the other person’s back, while the other arm was clasped behind the other person’s head, not allowing the other person to escape.

That pair of canine teeth were deeply embedded in the Omega’s bulging glands, and the delectable pheromones were insatiably consuming him. The powerful S-class scorching sun pheromones were continuously injected into the glands. Xu Tangzhou’s originally tense body became limp. He couldn’t support himself anymore, and he completely melted into the Alpha’s embrace.

When Xu Tangzhou’s back became scarlet, Ling Che discovered the intruder.

The usual light brown eyes became bottomless. As if disturbing the feeding of a ferocious beast, Mi Fei’s heart suddenly jumped.

He felt a chill behind him.

At this moment, Che Shen was too terrifying.

Xu Tangzhou was completely unaware.

With the soothing pheromone, he felt much more comfortable. When he spoke, his voice sounded like a cry of pain: “Is it done? … I’m afraid that someone would come.”

Ling Che didn’t say anything.

Mi Fei felt the area behind his ears burn. He could never have dreamed of encountering this type of situation.

But the situation in front of him didn’t allow him to think too much. He quickly took a few steps back and left without a sound.

He only walked forward a few steps before meeting Lu Chengan and their following cameraman.

“How was it?” Lu Chengan asked, “Are they fine?”

As the only Omega, he was the one the entire show cared about the most. Lu Chengan suspected that the show group arranged this on purpose. 

In front of the camera, Mi Fei smiled: “They’re fine. They should be out soon.”

Lu Chengan said: “Then we should also change clothes. We won’t even go diving. If I’d known earlier, I wouldn’t have brought the swimsuits today.

“Wait!” Mi Fei pulled him away and said, “The sea has such a pretty shade of blue, help take some pictures for me*.”

TN: … I’m changing this sentence a bit QAQ

The footsteps faded away.

Xu Tangzhou heard the sound and regained some clarity.

He had a strong desire to survive and said: “Ling Che, it should be… fine now? If we’re filmed… I’ll die.”

He rashly asked Ling Che to temporarily mark him. No matter how he would explain, the fans wouldn’t let him go.

“So noisy.” Ling Che finally let go of him. He wiped the remaining saliva on the corner of his lips with his thumb and said impatiently, “I’m giving you a bit more, so you won’t come to find me and want* more at any time.”

TN: Here’s the “want” again…

It was clearly a proper thing, but it kept becoming more and more perverted*.

TN: The word is actually 色情, but ah… yea, I’m not dealing with tling that today

Xu Tangzhou’s idea of asking for help wasn’t like this. What did he mean by wanting more at any time?

He only had pheromone sensitivity, not some disease that makes him crave to satiate his thirst.

But right now, Xu Tangzhou was simply in a weaker position, and he didn’t dare to talk back. He foolishly said: “Thank you. I’ve truly troubled you. I’ll try my best to not find you… to want more.”

Ling Che stood up with a “hmph”. Without answering, he had “You’d better do what you said” written on his face.

The two changed out of their diving suits, tidied up, and left.

That day, Xu Tangzhou wore a shirt with a collar that happened to block the bite mark.

The program staff was about to end work. Everyone worriedly asked him if he was fine. Of course, nothing had happened. The more questions he was asked, the more unhappy Ling Che seemed. He could only tell everyone again and again that he really was fine, emphasizing the word fine.

But Ling Che appeared even more unhappy.

Xu Tangzhou was in a weaker position, so he could only be very obedient.

When he ate dinner that night, he fortunately returned to his usual liveliness.

After eating, the guests played “The King Game*”.

TN: It’s a game that originates in Japan, where they draw cards and the others must follow what the “king” says.

Ruby circled around the table and picked up one of the commands at random from the game for the king to order others to do.

Xia Xing drew the king card and she happened to point to Ling Che’s card.

Ruby picked up the command to speak the truth.

Everyone was very excited because it was difficult to get any information about Ling Che from him. Usually, Ying Chen exposes more about him than himself.

Xia Xing asked: “Che Shen! Everyone said that your song “Asteroid” was written for your first love, is that true?”

Everyone looked toward Ling Che.

But… Ling Che’s phone suddenly rang.

It ruined the mood.

Xu Tangzhou was also looking forward to it. When he first became Ling Che’s fan, aside from those dreams that made his face and ears red, it was because of the song “Asteroid”.

“Revolving around a galaxy

The orbit remained constant for millions of years

I can't stop wanting to get a bit closer to you

The more impulsive I am, the farther away you are…”

Who was it written for?

It seemed to be a song written after breaking up. Could it really be as the rumors say, that Ling Che was abandoned by an Omega?

Ling Che stood up and went to the yard to answer the phone.

Standing under the banana trees, he heard jeering coming from the room. They said that Xu Tangzhou and Ling Che were of the same group and that Xu Tangzhou needed to choose another task to complete in place of Ling Che after he had left.

Situ Ya said on the phone: “We have a conclusion to Xu Tangzhou’s matters. I asked Huang Qian to look over the recording studio’s monitoring. Indeed, there was a worker who took away the items while packing the luggage.”

Ling Che: “Took away?”

Situ Ya smiled: “It’s very interesting. That person put the items into another guest’s luggage*.”

TN: Start guessing who :)

Ling Che lowered his head.

Situ Ya told him what had happened in detail, and not to startle the snake*.

TN: Not alert the other person

Finally, Situ Ya spoke about another thing.

“That, ahem.” Situ Ya was quite embarrassed, “I didn’t mean to tell Huang Qian that you were dumped by Xu Tangzhou. After all, I don’t have the face to say it. It’s just that this time, just in case, I talked with Huang Qian.”

Ling Che: “......”

How did it sound so unpleasant?

Situ Ya comforted him: “But no need to worry or be embarrassed. Xu Tangzhou doesn’t remember anything anyways. Just pretend that nothing happened before.”

Ling Che frowned: “What do you mean?”

Situ Ya was extremely surprised: “It can’t be, you still don’t know? Xu Tangzhou has amnesia.”

TN: Chinese terms as pinyin in this chapter

"Ge" (older brother, could be used as a respectful address for male acquaintances) 

“Shen” (literally: god, but mainly for a highly respected and revered figure)

See glossary for more info.

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Chapter 21 | TOC | Chapter 23

TN: FINALLY

AFTER 22 CHAPTERS

LING CHE FINALLY KNOWS THAT XTZ HAS AMNESIA

OTZ

TN: Ling Che was like: “I don’t care about what he ‘wants’ to do, only what he ‘would like’ to do”, and then proceeds to literally focus in on what XTZ “wants”. I tried my best to be consistent in this chapter cuz as mentioned in the TL note earlier, the “want” in this chapter is an “I want and I’ll do it”, while the “would like” is an “I want, but not certain if I’ll do it”. 

TLDR: Ling Che is a tsundere, part (way too many parts to count)

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