CH 61

“Yan Yan…do you remember me?” Lu Shangjin gently rubbed his hair and lifted his face to ask, “What’s my name?”

Yan Yi didn’t like having his face held up like this, so he shook his head to avoid it and gently pushed him, “I’m hungry.”

“I’ve told Xiao Ning already. He’ll deliver food in a while, be good.” Lu Shangjin rubbed the little rabbit ears that had regained their spirit, “Let’s have the doctor take a look first.”

Yan Yi frowned, a layer of red emerging on his pale face. He gathered his two small ears into his hands and grabbed them, murmuring, “Can’t touch my ears. No one can touch them.”

Lu Shangjin opened his mouth and asked hesitantly, “Jin ge can’t touch them either?”

The little rabbit froze and fell in a daze for a moment, then pulled his ears and muttered, “Jin ge can touch, but you cannot. Little prince can touch, but the old man cannot.” 

Am I the old man? Lu Shangjin was punched in the heart. 

After the call bell rang a few times, Dr. Zhong came over in person. Yan Yi had woken up as he expected, so he came over to give the little rabbit a brief physical check. 

“Everything’s normal.” Dr. Zhong smiled with ease.

“This is normal?” Lu Shangjin picked up the little rabbit who was moving around in his arms by holding his buttocks facing upwards and grabbed his flailing feet, “He looks only seven years old.”

“Yes, because the newly transplanted glands are currently only growing to the size of a seven-year-old child and will slowly grow to normal size over time. During this period, supplemental growth medications and large amounts of soothing pheromones are needed. Because the brain is not damaged, memory can only be recovered slowly and this cannot be rushed.”

“It is conservatively estimated that it will take a year or two to fully return to normal.”

“That long?” Lu Shangjin struggled to hold down the little rabbit bouncing in his arms, and lowered his head to coax be good, baobei.

It’s good that he was still able to recover.

After hearing this, Yan Yi looked around and wondered who the ‘baobei’ was, and then made a fuss about being hungry.

“You are baobei.” Lu Shangjin changed his position to hug him, “We’ll eat when the food comes in a while.”

Originally, Dr. Zhong was worried that Lu Shangjin would be impatient with the omega. His eyebrows finally relaxed and he wrote a note to Lu Shangjin, instructing, “His glands are in the awakening and undifferentiated stage, and the differentiation potential is still A3. Whether he can differentiate into A3 again depends on luck.”

“If you have an obsession with A3, try to reproduce the previous turning point of his differentiation, the differentiation may be completed under the same stimulation.”

Lu Shangjin’s face suddenly went cold. Reproduce the turning point to differentiate? Stuff the little rabbit’s hand into the juicer again and twist it?

“No…let it be.” He took Yan Yi’s thin hand and silently rubbed the knuckles of his left hand. His differentiation into A3 was too painful and too difficult.

“Stay in the hospital for three more days for observation, and he can be discharged if he has no other symptoms.” Dr. Zhong took a packet of candy drops from his pocket and gave them to Yan Yi, leaning down and said, “Be good and listen to Lu xiansheng.”

Yan Yi bit on the paper, blinking at him.

After Dr. Zhong left, Yan Yi sat obediently in Lu Shangjin’s arms and ate the candy drop. He was quiet for a while, then he suddenly looked at Lu Shangjin with his little nose twitching, “I wanna pee pee.”

Lu Shangjin pinched his cheeks and carried him to the bathroom in the private ward.

Yan Yi didn’t stay still in his arms again, kicking around with his bare feet.

His little toe kicked against the doorframe, and he suddenly became quiet. 

Ten seconds later, his mouth flattened as tears glistened in his eyes.

“Ah.” Lu Shangjin hurriedly squatted down to rub his little toe that hurt from kicking, “It must hurt, don’t mess around.”

“Don’t wanna go to this toilet anymore.” Yan Yi choked with sobs and wiped his eyes. 

“Alright, let’s go to the one outside.” Lu Shangjin carried him out of the ward.

When he pushed open the door, Xia Jingtian was crouched on the floor with his back against the wall.

He just wanted to come to see if he was okay, but didn’t have a position to visit.

He also had his own reasons for getting involved, for Yan Yi to become like this. He wanted to redeem himself and would rather risk breaking into PBB with Lu Shangjin.

He stayed outside for a while, just considering it as if he had been here to visit. 

Xia Jingtian didn’t expect them to come out suddenly. Stunned, he stood up and fixed his hair in a short time. 

Yan Yi’s eyes widened as he studied him, “Kitty.”

Xia Jingtian’s body perked up and leaned against the wall with his hands in his pockets: “…… lion.”

The little rabbit ears that were raised hung down in fear. Feeling wronged, Yan Yi sniffed and looked up at Lu Shangjin.

Lu Shangjin gave Xia Jingtian a sidelong glance.

Xia Jingtian scratched his head in confusion. After a long time, he squeezed out, “Meow.”

When Lu Shangjin returned from taking Yan Yi to the bathroom, Yan Yi was still looking all around for the kitty.

“He smells so good.” Yan Yi played with his fingers and opened his mouth to eat the veggie porridge Lu Shangjin was feeding him, muttering to himself, “Like green grass, like leaves blown by the wind.

Lu Shangjin’s eyes darkened. He held the bowl and remained silent for a while, then scooped another spoonful, shovelling a piece of greens, and blowing on it before feeding Yan Yi, “Eat more.”

Yan Yi felt that this alpha was a little upset. He broke away from his fingers uneasily and comforted him, “You smell good too.”

“Alright, don’t say anymore.”  Lu Shangjin clutched the paper tray padded under the bowl and stirred the vegetable porridge, his voice slightly dull, “Do you want to eat anything else?” 

“I wanna eat carrots.” Yan Yi bit his lips, “Are you angry?”

“I’m not, come baobei.” Lu Shangjin picked him up with one hand and helped him change into a dry hospital gown, “I’m going to buy you carrots. Behave yourself and wait for me to come back.”

The whole way out of the ward, he looked like he was running away.

Children often spoke straightforwardly and innocently, in the most truthful and most hurtful way. 

He went to the outside bathroom and washed his face, shaving the stubble off his chin to try to hide the haggardness.

He looked up and saw Xia Jingtian washing his hands beside him. Seeing Lu Shangjin looking at him, he raised his eyebrows and said, “Don’t misunderstand. My ge is talking to Zhong Xiaobing. I’m waiting for him to go back together.”

The water was still dripping from Lu Shangjin’s chin and hair, droplets trickling down his neck into the slightly open collar of his shirt.

The scent of oppressive narcissus pheromones spread out. Because of the continuous overdraft of energy and constantly squeezing soothing pheromones for Yan Yi the past few days, his glands have dried up, and the oppressive pressure added to his pheromones wasn’t strong enough.

Like a cluster of wilted narcissus, the crinkled petals competed to be fragrant with the hundreds of desirable and beautiful flowers all around. 

Xia Jingtian was an M2 alpha. When similar oppressive pheromones were released in front of him, it stimulated the nature of violence and ruthlessness. At the same time, he released powerful oppression pheromones, and the smell of baby’s breath flooded the room like lightning.

Lu Shangjin gasped wearily. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, pulling back from the strong oppressive force.

“What are you doing?” Xia Jingtian restrained the oppressive pheromone and rolled up his cuffs. “You’re injured into such a manner, and still looking for a fight. This is our family’s territory.”

Lu Shangjin wiped the water from his face that had yet to dry. Leaning his back against the wall, he pressed the glands at the back of his neck. His throat was raspy and he could only speak properly after coughing. 

“How high is your compatibility fit with Yan Yi?”

“You definitely wouldn’t want to hear it.” Xia Jingtian laughed and spread his hands, “96%”

Lu Shangjin quietly held the edge of the sink. His head buzzed, hurting as several nerves were broken one after another.

Xia Jingtian stuck his hands in his pockets and raised his chin slightly, “You should be glad we made a bet earlier that if you brought the stem cells back alive, I’d quit. With our fit and him not remembering anything right now, he would have said yes to me pursuing him.”

Would he? He wasn’t sure.

Lu Shangjin heaved the bathroom door shut when he left and drove to buy carrots for Yan Yi.

It was very eye-catching to see the seemingly tall and imposing alpha standing in the seasonal vegetables area carefully picking carrots. The shop assistant didn’t dare to come up and talk, so they stood by the side and waited for instructions.

Lu Shangjin asked first, “Which one tastes better?”

The shop assistant stared at the deep eye sockets of this alpha with trance, and hurriedly came back to her senses after being called, “Do you want to cook saute or stew and curry, sir?”

Lu Shangjin: “Eat raw, as a snack.”

“……Okay, fruit carrots still taste good.” The assistant gave him a packaged one. Lu Shangjin looked at the fresh watery carrots the size of small fingers, before taking ten boxes to put into the shopping cart and pushing away.

He came to the mall a handful of times, the previous several times were from being dragged by Yan Yi on a whim many years ago.

Yan Yi was a drama queen when he was seventeen, but he was also extremely cute. 

Pushing the shopping cart, he leaned back against Lu Shangjin’s chest and acted coquettishly, wanting the highest box of cereal.

In fact, he could jump up two flights of stairs with a gentle jump, but he just wanted to be coquettish and let his alpha indulge him.

Without the tacit understanding of life and death through years of fighting side by side, with only 75% fit and little trifles of life, would he still fall in love with me?

Lu Shangjin put the carrots in the shopping cart carefully and neatly, then went to pick a small carton of yogurt and imported fine beef jerky.

After all, he still had a human body. If he no longer liked to eat meat, he still had to eat a little. Think of it as grinding teeth. His body could recover faster. He was too thin, like a palm resting on a snowflake that would disappear at any time.

On the way back to the hospital, he passed a florist.

The roses placed outside the florist were delicate and Lu Shangjin pulled over to ask the shopkeeper to wrap a bouquet.

The shopkeeper proudly introduced the flowers, “Drunken Person”, that he took meticulous care of, to Lu Shangjin. The light to dark red petals nestled against each other like a drunken beauty looking for someone to confide in, with unique cuttings and colours.

He spent half a day explaining why this flower cost three hundred yuan a stalk. It didn’t seem like this alpha was a fool with a lot of money. 

Lu Shangjin brought a bouquet of roses back to the ward, and the cold white ward suddenly had colour.

Yan Yi was lying on the bed obediently playing with Lu Shangjin’s phone.

“Mm, you’re back.” Yan Yi tossed away the phone. He raised his head to look at Lu Shangjin and froze when he saw the rose in his hand.

He then drew one into his mouth, crunched it, and bit it off to chew. 

“Ai,” Lu Shangjin sat next to him helplessly and stroked his head, holding the flower-chewing rabbit to his lap, “Eat slowly.”

He picked up his phone to see what else Yan Yi had done. Suddenly, his face crumpled. 

Yan Yi had sent a message to Bi Ruijing: ‘I’m hungwyy’ and added a bunch of random emoticons.

And sent Xia Pingtian a message: Crying.

Bi Ruijing didn’t reply, probably beaten by his wife.

Xia Pingtian replied:

“Jin ge, don’t be so sad.”