STIDM 16

Time passed slowly. The wound on Yan Lu’s arm began to scab and heal.

The two of them returned to the rhythm of old friends. After his heat ended, Zhong Zong never touched him again. During the day, Yan Lu went to work. At night, he came home for dinner.

Zhong Zong was busy with his own affairs. Yan Lu had no idea what exactly he was working on.

His father had tried calling him a few times, but after so many years, Yan Lu no longer held out hope for any real response from him.

Rather than pick up the phone just to end up fighting again, he chose to ignore it.

His own phone had a cracked screen, so Zhong Zong tossed him one of his old phones to use. When he inserted his SIM card and powered it on, Yan Lu secretly checked his messages.

There were none.

The empty inbox left him oddly disappointed.

That evening, when he returned home, the house was pitch black. Only a few flickering candles lit the space.

Before he could figure out what was going on, Zhong Zong appeared out of nowhere and pulled him into the living room.

Yan Lu had a bit of night blindness. He stumbled around, bumping into things, until Zhong Zong simply picked him up and carried him.

Before Yan Lu could shout at him to put him down, they had already arrived.

There was a single large bed in the middle of the living room. It was a custom fold-out design that could turn into a wide sofa.

Zhong Zong tossed him onto it and covered him with a blanket. Then the projector turned on, and a film started playing on the wall screen.

Yan Lu sat there, confused.

Zhong Zong returned with a bag of chips and wrapped an arm around him.

Soft music began to fill the quiet room.

The movie was about a man who had guarded a library for ten years, waiting for someone.

The library could reverse time under special conditions and send people into the future.

When the man was young, he had once been sent back in time while in the library.

There, he fell in love with the librarian.

The librarian rejected him again and again, warning him he would regret it.

But the man was persistent and eventually won his heart.

One day, the librarian told him that if he ever wanted to see him again, he should guard the library. Someday, they would meet again.

On the way to the library, the man got into a car accident and was sent back in time.

He remembered the librarian’s words and waited, day after day.

Eventually, he met a messy, disheveled young man.

It was his younger self.

In the end… he had been the librarian all along.

By the time the ending song played, Yan Lu was dumbfounded.

He couldn’t believe he had watched the whole thing so seriously, only to get played like that.

Besides, the librarian was an Alpha, and so was the young man. How could anyone not recognize their own pheromones? That made no sense at all.

He couldn’t stop complaining about the plot holes.

Then he realized Zhong Zong was watching him. Under the dim lighting, his expression seemed strange.

He asked, “You really didn’t get anything out of that movie?”

Yan Lu blinked. “Get what?”

Zhong Zong chuckled softly and pulled him in closer. “Never mind. It’s fine if you didn’t.”

Still confused, Yan Lu found his mouth stuffed with chips.

“What’s the movie called?”

“Untouchable.”

“Oh…”

“By the way, Yanyan, happy birthday.”

The sound of Yan Lu chewing suddenly stopped.

He had never celebrated his birthday before.

In the past, Zhong Zong had tried inviting him out, hoping they could spend the day together.

But every year on Yan Lu’s birthday, his father would take him to the cemetery to visit his mother’s grave.

They would spend the entire day there.

By the time they got home, Yan Lu would always bury himself in bed and fall asleep. No matter how many pebbles Zhong Zong threw at his window, he would never wake up.

This year, having left home and not gone to the cemetery, a strange heaviness crept over him. He sat up, staring blankly at a single point in space, not sure what he was even feeling.

There was no way to describe it clearly.

Zhong Zong stood up and handed him a beer. “Don’t overthink it. I’ll go with you tomorrow. It’s your birthday. You deserve to spend it like anyone else. Just because Uncle Yan can’t move on doesn’t mean he should drag you down with him.”

Yan Lu closed his eyes and tipped the bottle back. The cold beer slid down his throat.

The word “mother” had always been just that to him. Iy was nothing more than two unfamiliar syllables.

Maybe he was just cold and heartless, unable to understand even a fraction of his father’s grief. Maybe that was why his father hated him so much.

He had been born as a living reminder of everything that was lost. A breathing, walking proof of guilt.

The alcohol hit him fast. Yan Lu started running his hands all over Zhong Zong’s thighs, abs, face, and then suddenly pushed him down, trying to get on top.

Zhong Zong didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He let the drunk, clingy Yan Lu crawl all over him. Wet kisses soaked in booze landed on his brows, the corners of his mouth, his chin, and slowly trailed downward.

Yan Lu, dazed and tipsy, licked him like he was sampling candy, lifting Zhong Zong’s shirt and dragging his tongue across his skin, smacking his lips like an idiot with a grin.

Zhong Zong picked him up. Yan Lu blinked through the haze, looked at him, and giggled. “Not bad looking. Behave and serve me well, I’ll…”

Before he could finish, something hot and hard pressed up between his legs, and Zhong Zong kissed him, sealing his lips.

Yan Lu whimpered, squirming his thighs. The thick heat grinding between them made his ass twitch uncontrollably. Every pulse from that erection pushed insistently against the cleft of his ass.

Then his top half went cold. His shirt had been stripped off. He blinked groggily and saw Zhong Zong hovering over him, teasing and toying with his nipples. Originally a soft tea brown, they were now swollen and flushed from the stimulation.

Omegas naturally had more prominent nipples, and now his stood large and round, the center slightly sunken and glowing pink.

After being licked and sucked, a wet sheen coated them. Yan Lu, still dazed, arched his chest up to feed them into Zhong Zong’s mouth. But the bastard just smiled, backed off, and pushed him down, holding his chest in place so he couldn’t move.

Zhong Zong trailed his fingers down Yan Lu’s abdomen, gliding along the ridges of his abs and down to his V-line. Feeling the trembling beneath him, he thrust his hips forward. The hardness hidden beneath the fabric squeezed firmly between Yan Lu’s cheeks, throbbing with heat and dominance as it pressed closer to his hole.

The Alpha’s pheromones swept over Yan Lu like a storm. He couldn’t resist. He let his own pheromones flood out, mingling with Zhong Zong’s.

His lower belly burned with need, but Zhong Zong still took his time, touching and caressing but never giving him what he wanted.

Frustrated, Yan Lu twisted up and flipped him over, straddling him and yanking down the waistband of his pants. His hand landed right over the other’s crotch.

The tip of Zhong Zong’s cock, already wet, pressed into his palm. Sticky precum dribbled out, slick and hot.

With a wicked grin, Yan Lu smeared the mess onto Zhong Zong’s face. “Trying to play it cool? You’re this soaked and still not fucking me?”

Zhong Zong laughed and cursed, grabbing a handful of Yan Lu’s ass and squeezing hard enough to make him hiss through clenched teeth.

There were probably two finger-shaped marks left behind.

Yan Lu gave his glans a sharp squeeze in retaliation. Zhong Zong’s hips twitched, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Proud as hell, he swayed his hips and said, “Don’t fuck with me. Be good and take off your pants, and I won’t squeeze your dick again.”

Drunk Yan Lu was a little thug.

A sweet-smelling Omega thug.

That little thug leaned in close, slobbering all over the face he liked so much.

Just as he was being cocky, he felt a chill on his ass. His underwear had been yanked down. His slick, soft hole was breached with a finger. The sticky, hot flesh eagerly sucked it in, tightening and releasing around it like it was begging to be fucked.