Lop-Eared Guard

Edited and Proofread by: acro

Warning: dub con

It’s fine?

These words were stuck in his throat. Lu Shangjin mulled over it for a long time before he pulled the blanket up for Yan Yi. The concentration of his soothing pheromones gradually weakened and he gradually stopped releasing them. 

His vision became a little blurry. He could always vaguely recall the period of time when he was still at school. With his age and grades, he was still the pride of heaven in the special elite school. 

In the first semester, he got a score of S in 16 subjects and S overall. No matter how cold, arrogant and unsociable a child was, the moment he got a good grade, he would always want to show it to his parents.

He pretended not to leave the final evaluation report on the table as he read a book while looking at Lu Lin from the corner of his eyes with an awaiting gaze. 

Lu Lin glanced at the final evaluation report on the table, then asked him to go for differentiation training to break into the M2 grade. 

On that day, Lu Shangjin rebutted against him again, coldly questioning if Lu Lin was only a J1 alpha; what qualifications did he have to make excessive demands for his son to reach A3? There must be a limit to how much one held great ambitions for his son. 

Lu Lin hardly ever hit him, but on that day in front of a dozen bodyguards, he gave him a slap in the face and told him to get lost and not to spread that disgusting smell of narcissus in front of himself.

The hot water from the shower poured over the wound, stirring Lu Shangjin to wake up a little.

After taking a shower, the smell of the body wash masking his pheromones, he climbed into bed and hugged Yan Yi through the thin quilt.

“Maybe it’s a little uncomfortable if you smell it too much.” Lu Shangjin smiled gently and rubbed the tip of his nose against Yan Yi’s glands, “My wife smells so good, no one would dislike it.” 

With his back facing Lu Shangjin, in a direction he couldn’t see, Yan Yi bit his lips silently. 

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As he left work a little late on the weekend, the florist had run out of roses, so Lu Shangjin inserted a small bundle of baby’s breath flowers on the dim sum box he brought back.

When Yan Yi passed by the foyer, he saw a bit of fatigue on Lu Shangjin’s face, but as soon as the latter saw Yan Yi, he regained his spirits and handed over the gifts he brought every day.

The look in the alpha’s eyes was a little strange, like a puppy abandoned in a cardboard box in the garbage on a rainy day.

Perhaps it hadn’t been very smooth sailing at work lately and the alpha was a little tired, and after coming home he still had to face obstacles everywhere. Yan Yi felt that this was unnecessary for Lu Shangjin  to go through, so he took the gift in his hand. 

“You’re so good today.” Smiling as though he had been comforted, Lu Shangjin walked in and pulled Yan Yi by the waist into his arms, lowering his head to kiss between his brows, “Did baby bully you today? I’ll teach him a lesson later.”

Yan Yi pushed his chest. “No.”

“You look very good today.” Lu Shangjin stuck to him without letting go. Only when Yan Yi said he was hungry did he go into the kitchen and wash his hands to cook dinner.

When he came out with a pot of lotus root and rib soup, he saw Yan Yi on the balcony holding a vase he found from the pantry and inserting a bunch of the baby’s breath flowers he had just brought back, before placing it by the French windows. 

Lu Shangjin gazed at the omega leisurely arranging in the balcony that he wasn’t even aware that the soup had spilled and scalded his hand.

During dinner, he picked out the bones, put the stewed meat into the plate, scooped the lotus root and corn into a bowl and pushed them to Yan Yi.

Lu Shangjin talked about his company languidly, saying that the continuous troubles had been taken care of. Yan Yi, in turn, relaxed.

He took a mouthful of soup himself, his cuffs neatly and properly pulled up to the elbow. The former young master had already become a skilled hand. While there was also a natural reserve in his every move, there was no longer a hint of indifference and arrogance. Each glance he cast towards Yan Yi was full of sincerity. 

The alpha released soothing pheromones less often, but the amount didn’t change much, squeezing the concentration as much as possible each time he released. 

After releasing, he hurriedly went to take a shower and came back.

Yan Yi couldn’t sleep for a while. He held the tablet to watch the recording of Dr. Zhong’s lecture.

Today’s content was about the differences of the A/O gender body structure. Omegas are small in size and have light bones, and their glands can withstand less energy. So after performing higher-grade evolution, their glandular cells will proliferate, showing the awakening proprioceptive characteristics, like the rabbit ears and tail of a lop-eared rabbit omega.

Alphas’ glands are tougher and can withstand more energy. The evolution of M2 and below will not cause their glandular cells to proliferate to carry excess energy, hence no ontogenetic features will appear. 

After listening to a lesson, Lu Shangjin came in wearing a cross-neck bathrobe, hair dripping water down to his collarbone and his chest, leaving a thin trail of water. 

Sitting on the edge of the bed, he held Yan Yi’s swollen calves and kneaded them with hands warmed by the hot water. “I won’t have to go to work from tomorrow onwards. I took a paternity leave to stay at home with you and the baby.”

Yan Yi put the tablet aside. Having his legs kneaded and massaged by the alpha was very comfortable, but he was still a little unused to it. “You should do your work, I can do it myself.” 

“You do everything by yourself, that makes ge useless.” Lu Shangjin lifted the white and tender foot in his hand and kissed the middle of it. Yan Yi kicked him gently, tucking back into the quilt from feeling itchy. 

“Alright, I’m afraid it’ll be too hard for you to carry the baby alone.” Lu Shangjin closed the pale yellow wall lamp on the bed and laid next to Yan Yi. He really wanted to hold him, but he only reached into the quilt and held his hand, rubbing the base of his finger where the tattoo was removed. 

Yan Yi’s fingers stiffened, feeling a little guilty like a thief having their pockets containing stolen goods petted down by someone. 

“I… has baby missed me?” Lu Shangjin very much wanted to touch the baby, yet, scrupulous of his own hands that have sinned, did not feel free to touch Yan Yi’s belly at will. 

However, Yan Yi heard the uneasiness in his hesitant words and hesitantly put Lu Shangjin’s hand on the rise of his belly.

After all this time, he still forgot the pain and foolishly reached out to touch the flames.

The bedroom was silent and dark, and the beating movement from another small life under his palm was particularly clear.

The flames, however, did not burn him, but faintly warmed his fingertips.

Lu Shangjin suddenly rolled over to hold Yan Yi tighter, tucking the little rabbit in his arms. His breathing was much heavier, his heart beating so fast that a faint sound could be heard. 

Pillowed on the alpha’s chest, Yan Yi’s cheek was knocked by every rapid beat of Lu Shangjin’s heart. 

“Does your back hurt?” Lu Shangjin seemed as though he was evading the current ambiguous atmosphere. He gently pressed his hands on Yan Yi’s back. “I read online that when you’re pregnant, your lower back and legs hurt, and it’s uncomfortable everywhere.”

Listening to the alpha’s constrained voice, Yan Yi gave a laugh. “I can endure it all.”

Lu Shangjin knew how much he could endure. His hands relaxed a little, and with a bit of regret and heartache, he subconsciously released soothing pheromones, then immediately put them away when he came back to his senses. 

“Have you ever liked me.”

The words that had been buried in his heart for a long time were finally asked. His heart felt like a boiled clam, desperately struggling to clamp tightly shut, but it opened helplessly.

He waited for a long time but didn’t get an answer, only to find that Yan Yi had fallen asleep, his rabbit ears covering half of his face.

Lu Shangjin was a little disappointed, but more than that, he was glad. Looking down at Yan Yi’s sleeping face, he kissed him on the cheek.

He didn’t know if he was attracted to the pheromones that were inadvertently emitted when the omega was asleep, but Lu Shangjin felt feverish all over. His lower part had also stood up slightly, a bulge tenting through his underwear. 

Grabbing himself and moving up and down in agitation, he sniffed Yan Yi’s smell as he masturbated in the dark. 

Relative to the theory of higher-grade dependencies in omegas, alphas had higher-grade reproduction. The higher the grade of the alpha, the stronger the desire to mate, which was also a racial instinct that arose to reproduce better offspring.

An alpha unsatisfied during their rut was in more pain than an omega, and the inhibitor was only an emergency measure to quench their thirst by drinking poison. After developing the resistance to the drug, they began to experience frequent ruts, becoming trapped in a deadly cycle.

“Baobei, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Lu Shangjin gently grasped Yan Yi’s hand and put it on his neck. The faintly tangible touch of the omega’s fingers to his glands brought a bit of pleasant sensation that failed to scratch his itch.

“I’m sorry…I couldn’t help it…”

He sat up and leaned against the bed, recklessly pulling his underwear down and holding Yan Yi’s hand in his. His right hand impatiently grasped his cock, moving it up and down one stroke at a time.

“Mmn…” He leaned back against the wall with a ragged gasp, beads of sweat trickling down the knot of his Adam’s apple and into the hollows of his collarbones.

Finally having his release, Lu Shangjin rested for a while before going downstairs to the bathroom to get an inhibitor.

He carefully turned over the medical kit, which only had a bundle of strong inhibitors left. There was no other way, so he had to bite open the seal and insert it into his forearm.

The instructions say that the strong inhibitor was only for A3 glands, or glands that developed resistance to the drug. Yan Yi should have previously used this type of inhibitor before. If an omega can use the inhibitor, then it shouldn’t be a problem for an alpha to use it.

The cold medicinal liquid pushed into his veins like a tube of chili liquid injecting inside. 

A sharp pain rose along his veins, forcibly suppressing the incomparable agitation of the glands caused by his rut. Lu Shangjin held the sink and squatted down, silently enduring the stabbing pain that felt like ants gnawing at his bone marrow.

Half an hour later, the pain subsided, Lu Shangjin was drenched in cold sweat and had to take a shower again. 

He didn’t go back to the bedroom, but felt for his cigarettes and lighter from the coffee table, and sat down by the French windows on the balcony.

The bright lights outside the window went out one by one, leaving a few scattered street lights in the park. There were no pedestrians walking on the streets, leaving only a few traces of cold wind pouring into Lu Shangjin’s collar through the open window. It had long passed the beginning of summer, and the night was still chilly.

The French windows reflected the red sparks of his cigarette butt. Lu Shangjin sat on the ground in a daze, recalling the three years of the breakup. What did Yan Yi rely on during his heats when he was by his side?

It wasn’t that Yan Yi refused to say anything, but at that time, he himself had refused to listen to anything.

He looked at the vase of flowers sitting side by side with him, the bouquet of baby’s breath was still in full bloom.

When Yan Yi got up at night to use the bathroom, he suddenly heard a burst of broken glass coming from downstairs. Startled, he hurriedly went downstairs and turned on the lights.

The lights in the living room turned bright and glaring all of a sudden, and both people covered their eyes. Yan Yi raised his hand to cover the light, while Lu Shangjin was covering the bitterness in his eyes.

“What are you doing?” Yan Yi walked over and saw a puddle of water spilled on the balcony, the broken glass pieces of the vase and baby’s breath scattered all over the place.

Lu Shangjin squatted on the ground, picking up the glass fragments piece by piece with his hands. Unaware of the cuts on his hands oozing blood in the darkness, he smeared his attractive face and eyes dirty.