WMSR — QT Chapter 175

 

Chapter 175

Colin's breathing tightened, and he felt somewhat heated all over by this imagined scenario. Yet when his consciousness returned to reality, he couldn't help shaking his head, his expression turning rather dejected. He realized that although he had successfully gotten the alpha he liked, the alpha he liked didn't like him very much. Over the past few days, no matter how hard he tried to approach him and curry favor, all he received was coldness and alienation; Bai didn't like him getting too close, and these past few days, he hadn't even been able to step foot into Bai's bedroom to take a look.

Just as Colin was standing there feeling disheartened and grieving, a loud crashing sound suddenly echoed from outside. Colin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly recalling something, he jumped straight up from the bed and ran out, shouting, "Bai, are you alright?"

As he spoke, Colin rushed out of the room, and at a single glance, he spotted that figure collapsed on the floor. At that exact moment, Colin's heartbeat nearly stopped. He sprinted downstairs with a speed he had never imagined possible, then dropped to his knees beside the fallen figure, frantically and anxiously extending his hands to carefully flip the person on the ground over. "Bai, are you alright? What's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"

The turned-over Bai Yichen was covered in cold sweat, but he was still conscious. Using his utmost willpower, he said to Colin in a trembling voice, "Send me... back to my bedroom."

Although Colin didn't understand what was going on, at this moment he could only do as Bai Yichen said. He first managed to lift Bai Yichen up with all his might, then supported him as they went upstairs, taking him into his bedroom. This was Colin's first time stepping into this room he had fantasized about countless times, but because of Bai Yichen's condition, he had completely no heart to look around carefully.

Colin laid Bai Yichen flat on the bed, anxiously hovering around him. Having never witnessed this kind of situation before, seeing the painful expression on his beloved alpha's face felt like his heart was being wrung out. Yet he forced himself to stay calm—right, call someone, someone needs to be called to save Bai! However, just as Colin opened his terminal and prepared to call emergency personnel, a restrained and trembling voice came from the bed: "Don't... call anyone. There's medicine..."

The moment Colin heard this sentence, he immediately halted his actions, hurried over to Bai Yichen, and asked nervously, "Where is the medicine?"

Because Bai Yichen's voice was somewhat weak right now, Colin leaned very close to him, even able to sense the warm breath radiating from the other person's body. Faintly, Colin caught a trace of a sweet, bewitching scent drifting into his nostrils. But given the special circumstances, he couldn't care about any of that at all. The moment he heard Bai Yichen's trembling words—"the bedside drawer"—he immediately opened the small bedside drawer, and sure enough, he spotted a medicine bottle inside.

Colin adroitly pulled out the medicine bottle, opened it up, and asked anxiously, "How many pills?"

"Two pills."

Just like that, Colin fed the medicine to Bai Yichen, only then feeling as though he had finally come back to life. Still, he looked extremely worriedly at Bai Yichen lying on the bed; for some reason, he had a strong gut feeling that Bai hadn't improved very much. Thinking this, Colin naturally voiced his concern, "How is it? Are you holding up? Do you want me to call the emergency personnel again?"

Bai Yichen shook his head with difficulty, gritting his teeth as he said, "No need... Tomorrow... I'll be fine."

Noticing that Colin had no intention of leaving, Bai Yichen closed his eyes and used his absolute maximum willpower to say, "Can you... go out? I want to... be alone. Tomorrow... I'll talk to you."

Watching Bai Yichen's state, Colin was filled with hesitation. He didn't know whether he should leave or not; although Bai looked like he didn't want him to stay, seeing Bai in this condition made him genuinely terrified.

Just as Colin was hesitating and unable to make up his mind, a faint and trembling word drifted from the bed: "Please."

Hearing this unexpected word, Colin couldn't help trembling all over. This was a word that had also appeared in his fantasies, but hearing it now brought him no sense of joy whatsoever. Because despite only sharing a few short days together, he already knew what kind of personality the alpha he liked possessed. Given an alpha's pride, it was hard to imagine him ever saying this word to an omega. How utterly agonizing and unbearable must it have been for him to actually utter such a word?

In that instant, Colin panicked somewhat. Overwhelmed with the helpless fear that he might have hurt his beloved alpha, he stammered, "Alright, I'll go out, I'm going right now. I—I'll be right outside the door. If you need anything, just call me."

With that, Colin bolted out of the bedroom and pulled the door shut behind him, only then feeling a little better.

However, true to his word, although he had left the bedroom, he didn't feel entirely at ease; instead, he stayed right outside the door, carefully listening to the movements inside.

Meanwhile, after Colin departed, Bai Yichen managed to muster a bit of strength, supporting his softened body as he dragged himself off the bed without making a sound. He opened a cabinet and pulled out a syringe.

Once he had the syringe, Bai Yichen expertly and unhesitatingly pierced it into his own arm. The "medicine" he had mentioned to Colin earlier was naturally a lie; it had merely been some useless nutrient pills. Yet items like inhibitors were hardly unfamiliar to an omega. He had been afraid that pulling out an inhibitor would raise Colin's suspicions, which was why he had fabricated a story about oral medication.

Having finished injecting the inhibitor, Bai Yichen finally felt a wave of relief. He placed the empty syringe back into the cabinet, carefully closed it up, and then laboriously crawled back onto the bed.

It would take a little while for the inhibitor to take full effect, so all Bai Yichen could do right now was endure. Still, he honestly hadn't expected this episode to flare up so completely without warning, giving him not a shred of buffer time, and on top of that, he had even been caught in the act by Colin.

He wondered if Colin suspected anything, but for now, he could only hope Colin hadn't discovered anything amiss. Everything else would just have to wait until tomorrow to be explained.

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