When Mo Lingqiu and Jiang Chenming arrived on the cafe, Fan Nian was sitting on a seat within the nook masking his nape. 

The elegant combination of a powerful rose perfume and a chilly wine aroma reached their noses. The rose scent got here from Fan Nian’s pheromones. 

“Right here.” Mo Lingqiu handed him the inhibitor.

Jiang Chenming stood distant, not daring to go close to them, however the expression on his face was incomprehensible. 

Fan Nian gratefully took the inhibitor and drank it multi functional gulp. “Thanks.”

“You’ve been marked?” Mo Lingqiu frowned. The wine aroma appeared very acquainted.

“…En, quickly marked. I’m alright.” Fan Nian’s eyes had been a little bit evasive.

Jiang Chenming stared at him for a second earlier than taking out his cellular phone to name Jiang Junshen. He took some time to reply, and, when he did, his voice was a bit hoarse.

“Howdy, Chenming.”

“Brother, the place are you?” Perceptive, Jiang Chenming shortly seen one thing was off and took a step outdoors. 

“…I’m on the workplace.”

“Brother, I noticed Dr. Fan.” Jiang Chenming didn’t even must suppose deeply to know that Jiang Junshen was mendacity.

On the opposite finish of the cellphone, there was a second of silence till Jiang Chenming mentioned, “Dr. Fan virtually went into warmth. Brother, did you…” 

“The place is he?” Jiang Junshen requested by way of clenched tooth.

The suspicions in Jiang Chenming’s thoughts had been regularly confirmed. “He’s advantageous now, and Trainer Mo is conserving him firm. There’s one thing else I’d reasonably ask…Did the 2 of you could have dinner collectively at present?” 

“…En,” Jiang Junshen slowly replied after listening to that Fan Nian was okay.

“Did you guys know one another earlier than this?” Jiang Chenming roughly knew what his brother’s temperament was like. There have been solely two varieties of people that might make his brother voluntarily exit for dinner: those that he needed to cooperate with for work and people who he related to in his private life. It was apparent, he guessed, that Fan Nian was within the latter group. 

Jiang Junshen didn’t say something, clearly not eager to reply the query.

Jiang Chenming fell silent for a second earlier than he mentioned, “Compelled markings have results for Omegas.”

“…I do know.” Jiang Junshen grinded his again tooth collectively—he might style a drop of blood, blended with the faint scent of roses. 

“Brother, please apologise to Dr. Fan when you could have the possibility to, or else Trainer Mo will likely be indignant.” Jiang Chenming didn’t wish to see Mo Lingqiu indignant.

“En.” Jiang Junshen as soon as once more requested the place Fan Nian was earlier than he hung up the cellphone, however Jiang Chenming saved his mouth shut and didn’t say something. Jiang Junshen might solely surrender and finish the decision. 

Jiang Chenming put his cellphone away and reentered the cafe. Fan Nian had calmed down, and Mo Lingqiu was sitting in entrance of him with a severe expression, attempting to ask him what had occurred. 

Fan Nian bit his decrease lip and refused to inform him. “It’s okay, I can repair it on my own.”

“If it is advisable to repair it, then why did you get marked? Who did you meet with at present?”

Fan Nian couldn’t say that it was the blind date he’d launched him to. Furthermore, he and Jiang Junshen had been in any other case concerned and he couldn’t clarify it abruptly. 

“You don’t wish to say?” Mo Lingqiu’s face grew darkish, clearly very sad and anxious about Fan Nian’s situation. Though the non permanent mark would disappear in time, Fan Nian clearly valued the pheromone compatibility fee, so, if it was compelled, how might or not it’s factor?

“I’m actually okay.” Fan Nian sighed. “I allowed it.”

This time Mo Lingqiu was dumbfounded. Fan Nian had allowed it?

“one hundred pc compatibility fee?”

“…No.” He and Jiang Junshen didn’t have a one hundred pc compatibility fee; their compatibility fee, in actual fact, even belonged to a decrease percentile. 

Mo Lingqiu was amazed. No one hundred pc compatibility fee, however Fan Nian had allowed the mark. Who was it that had, as soon as and for all, made him make such a compromise? 

“It’s actually okay. You’ll discover out later.” Fan Nian didn’t dare to admit at that second, afraid that Mo Lingqiu would blame himself upon discovering out who it was. 

Mo Lingqiu grew to become sullen after not receiving adequate solutions to his questions. He and Jiang Chenming despatched Fan Nian house earlier than they returned to the Jiang household’s home. 

Jiang Chenming was hesitant to inform Mo Lingqiu—he was afraid that after revealing Jiang Junshen as the one that had made the mark, Mo Lingqiu would actually get right into a battle with him. Moreover, after listening to what Fan Nian and Jiang Junshen had each mentioned, he felt that they had been hiding one thing. 

It was late at night time and Mo Lingqiu was already lifeless asleep. Jiang Chenming heard a door shut subsequent door. He quietly received up from the mattress and walked out of the room. 

Knock, knock. He knocked on Jiang Junshen’s door.

Not lengthy after, Jiang Junshen opened the door. “…What’s mistaken?”

“Can I are available and speak?” Jiang Chenming was afraid that he would get up Mo Lingqiu in the event that they saved speaking within the hallway. 

Jiang Junshen’s expression was dismal. After a second, he turned his physique and gave approach. 

Jiang Chenming walked in with just a few strides and Jiang Junshen closed the door. “What do you wish to ask?”

“Brother, what’s happening between you and Dr. Fan?”

“We knew one another earlier than.” Jiang Junshen regarded chilly to the purpose of being detached. 

Jiang Chenming was surprised for a second. He requested, “Is he the individual you used to love?”

Jiang Junshen froze, silent, however his expression was so clear that Jiang Chenming might inform in a single look that he was proper. 

“I guessed it proper?” Jiang Chenming was shocked. “Brother, you and Dr. Fan was classmates?”

“En. Highschool classmates,” Jiang Junshen answered. However that was all he mentioned.

Jiang Chenming saved asking questions, however Jiang Junshen saved his mouth shut till he was suggested to correctly chase Fan Nian.

“I do know. We nonetheless have some misunderstandings that haven’t been solved.” Jiang Junshen was at a loss, which was a uncommon second. “I’ll make preparations afterwards.”

“Then, Brother, I received’t ask anymore because you’ve mentioned so. However Dr. Fan is Trainer Mo’s good friend. I hope you could deal with him effectively. In any other case, Trainer Mo received’t be the primary one to get indignant—I’ll.” Jiang Chenming at all times prioritised Mo Lingqiu’s feelings. 

“…En.” Even Jiang Junshen wasn’t certain of himself. Issues hadn’t even began to take form but, and he’d gone overboard at present. He nonetheless didn’t know the best way to clear up this. 

Jiang Chenming fell silent after which returned to his room.

Simply as he laid down, Mo Lingqiu, who he had thought was in deep sleep, quietly spoke. “Did you go speak together with your brother?” 

“…Trainer Mo.” Jiang Chenming panicked, like he’d been busted. 

“Did you go?” Mo Lingqiu opened his eyes, catching his eyes within the darkness.

“…En. I requested him just a few issues,” Jiang Chenming mentioned. “Trainer Mo, about Dr. Fan…”

“I already guessed.” Mo Lingqiu had truly remembered after returning to the villa the place he had already smelled that wine aroma: it was the scent of Jiang Junshen’s pheromones. 

Though the residual scent within the villa was very faint, Mo Lingqiu might nonetheless detect its traces. Nonetheless, he hadn’t opened his mouth as a result of he couldn’t actually determine a great way to ask Jiang Chenming. 

“Okay, then.” Jiang Chenming was helpless. As anticipated, his Trainer Mo was nonetheless very sensible. “I went to ask my brother what was happening with Dr. Fan, however he didn’t inform me.”

“En.”

“He solely mentioned that they was classmates.”

“In highschool?” Mo Lingqiu shortly requested. He had identified Fan Nian in school, however he hadn’t identified that Fan Nian was hanging round Jiang Junshen.

“Sure.” Jiang Chenming nodded. “Didn’t I inform you yesterday that my brother used to have an individual he appreciated when he was learning?”

“…Don’t inform me that individual is Fan Nian.” Mo Lingqiu didn’t fairly consider it; it was a bit too coincidental.

“It’s him. Once I requested my brother, he didn’t deny it.” No denial meant that it was the right reply. 

“…No marvel Fan Nian didn’t inform me about it.” Mo Lingqiu figured that Fan Nian had in all probability acknowledged Jiang Junshen, and that the 2 of them should have been in some way concerned in highschool. 

“…No marvel my brother agreed with out hesitation to the blind date yesterday.” Jiang Chenming was additionally helpless. Their matchmaking effort had certainly produced outcomes, however, in some way, that they had felt that the method was very peculiar and that it will be a bit troublesome to foretell the result. 

Within the darkness, their eyes stayed locked on the opposite’s. Jiang Chenming heard Mo Lingqiu’s brief sigh. 

“Trainer Mo, don’t fear an excessive amount of. Weren’t you the one who mentioned Dr. Fan isn’t a sheep?” Jiang Chenming didn’t know the best way to consolation him.

Mo Lingqiu thought of it. “Though I did say that, I’m nonetheless hoping he isn’t.” 

“My brother continues to be dependable. If one thing goes mistaken, I’ll be the primary to seek out him and straighten him out,” Jiang Chenming assured him with conviction.

After that, till the eve of the Spring Competition, Fan Nian and Jiang Junshen didn’t meet with one another. Or, they may have met, however Mo Linqiu and Jiang Chenming weren’t made conscious.

Mo Lingqiu and Jiang Chenming regularly put the matter apart and started to organize for the New Yr.

Mo Lingqiu’s dad and mom didn’t have a vacation this 12 months and needed to keep on the Analysis Institute throughout the Spring Competition. Mo Lingqiu additionally deliberate to remain within the Jiang home, at Jiang Chenming’s request, to mark the primary Spring Competition for the reason that begin of their relationship.

Nonetheless, his Yuanqiao House home and Jiang Chenming’s home in Shihao Backyard nonetheless wanted to be cleaned a bit, they usually needed to put up Spring Competition couplets in each homes.

After Mo Lingqiu went house and completed cleansing, he took out the Fortune character that he had introduced again and pasted it on the door with Jiang Chenming. He then went downstairs to stick a small Spring Competition couplet saying “Wishing us peace and security wherever we go. Glad New Yr” on the again of the silver automotive.

The 2 of them didn’t want to wash something after they arrived at Shihao Backyard for the reason that hourly aunt normally cleaned the place on a regular basis, however there have been a variety of Spring Competition couplets that wanted to be put up. 

They first put up the couplets on the gate outdoors the compound earlier than going to the doorway. Ranging from the doorway door, they pasted issues up one after the other as they moved deeper into the home. Some had been couplets and a few had been simply the phrase Fortune. After half an hour of labor, they received all of it executed. 

“It’s not good to have a giant home,” Jiang Chenming mentioned, teasing himself. 

“Wouldn’t this be tougher in your loved ones’s home?” Mo Lingqiu considered their unrealistically massive home after listening to Jiang Chenming’s phrases. 

“Sure, Uncle Yu is there. He’ll convey somebody to place every little thing up,” Jiang Chenming mentioned.

Mo Lingqiu was speechless. Later, he and Jiang Chenming left the home and received into the automotive. Jiang Chenming was driving for as soon as and he chatted with Mo Lingqiu as he drove. 

“Trainer Mo, I’m taking you someplace tonight.”

“Huh?” Mo Lingqiu froze. It was New Yr’s Eve, the place else might they go at night time?

“Don’t fear, it’s close to my home.”

Mo Lingqiu didn’t reply. Close to Jiang Chenming’s home, however it appeared reasonably far. 

“It’s actually close to.” Jiang Chenming twisted his head to take a look at Mo Lingqiu who didn’t appear to consider his phrases. He smiled as he defined, “It’s a spot I appreciated to go to once I was a child. I’ve some surprises for you there.”

Upon listening to the second half of Jiang Chenming’s clarification, Mo Lingqiu’s eyes began to mild up. “Is that so?”

“En. Should you prefer it later, promise me one thing.”

A/N: Nian Nian and Brother don’t have a one hundred pc compatibility fee~