After Being Forcibly Marked By My Fiancé’S Best Friend Chapter 16

“Have a child? What gives you the right?” Lian Xu questioned coldly.

He Yu nibbled his earlobe, his palm gripping Lian Xu’s waist. “Yin Zhuo is the Prime Minister of the Inner Cabinet. His father would never allow him to marry an Omega from the Command Center. But I am different. For me, marrying anyone is just a matter of a single word.”

“Is that so?”

Yin Zhuo’s father might not want Yin Zhuo to marry a member of the Command Center, but it depended on who that member was. Now, the question was no longer whether they wanted Lian Xu, but whether Lian Xu was willing to cooperate.

An Imperial Prime Minister, a strong and healthy Alpha, could not smell any pheromones. Without the ability to smell pheromones, he couldn’t release them normally to bond with an Omega. He was also the only son in his family. This defect was not only a disgrace for him as an Alpha but also brought shame to their entire family.

To cure this defect, Yin Zhuo’s father did not hesitate to kill innocent people across an entire planet, all to find the so-called cure. If the medicine was gone, Yin Zhuo would have to live out his life alone with his defect.

Hope was slim, but then Lian Xu, an Omega whose pheromones were perfectly compatible with Yin Zhuo’s, appeared on the Imperial Planet. Yin Zhuo couldn’t smell anyone else’s pheromones, but Lian Xu was the exception. Not only could he smell the cedar, but he would also enter rut due to the Omega’s influence.

At the banquet, Yin Zhuo was drugged and mistakenly took Lian Xu for the Omega in the dark room on the Ruin Planet. After regaining consciousness, his first thought was to kill Lian Xu to eliminate future trouble, but his father stopped him and instead insisted that the two of them marry.

Lian Xu was already struggling to find an opportunity to approach Yin Zhuo and his father. This turn of events meant he wouldn’t have to waste time plotting; he might as well go along with the mistake.

Who knew He Yu would suddenly appear halfway through?

Lian Xu leaned his back against He Yu’s chest, lifted his chin, and stared at the Alpha with watery eyes, a look of complaint on his face.

Why appear now, not earlier or later, but right after the banquet?

“Why are you looking at me like that?” He Yu asked. “Do you want me to kiss you?”

With that, He Yu placed a kiss on Lian Xu’s forehead.

As he drew close to Lian Xu’s feverish forehead, the cedar pheromones suddenly spilled out uncontrollably, merging with the white camellia. He Yu’s shoulders twitched, and he felt a sharp ache in his lower abdomen.

He gripped the Omega’s waist, lifted him up entirely, and dragged him back onto his lap, facing him. Their breaths were hot and ragged, their breathing disordered.

He Yu suddenly grabbed Lian Xu’s hand, buried his head in the Omega’s heaving chest, and whispered, “Help me.”

Lian Xu tilted his head back, took a deep breath, and forcefully pushed the Alpha, who was pressing his full weight onto him. “Get up! Stop rubbing!”

The Alpha unbuttoned the front of Lian Xu’s shirt, pushed aside the inner lining, and bit down hard. He pinched the button, which had somehow been knocked open, and forcefully ripped it off.

“What was that blond man doing pressed against you?”

“What?” Lian Xu asked, confused.

He Yu smirked. “Before you left, a blond man was squeezed into the flight vehicle with you, pressed against your chest. What were you doing, hmm?”

The blond man he referred to was His Highness Lan Jia, but nothing had happened between them. At the time, His Highness had even pointed out that Lian Xu’s button was different from his own. Lian Xu hadn’t paid attention, but now it seemed that button was problematic.

“A surveillance device?”

He Yu gave a soft snort. “Mhm, smart.”

“Did he touch you?” He Yu’s voice was thick as he moved Lian Xu’s hand up and down.

Lian Xu’s palm was scorching hot from the friction. He didn’t know what the Alpha ate to grow up like this; he was practically abnormal. If Lian Xu’s skin were any more delicate, it felt like a layer would be rubbed off.

“Do you think everyone is like you?” Lian Xu snapped.

He Yu was noncommittal, his lips gently sucking on the Omega’s collarbone.

The temperature plummeted at night. The flight vehicle screen showed the temperature had dropped below freezing. Both of them were lightly dressed. If not for the temperature control system inside the flight vehicle, they might truly freeze to death by morning.

The temperature control system showed 20 degrees Celsius, but pressed tightly together, their body temperatures had long exceeded normal. Lian Xu’s eyes were moist, his shoulders flushed red, and his chest was red and bruised from the Alpha’s rough bites.

“Are you a dog? I told you not to bite!”

He Yu ignored him, continuing to suckle Lian Xu until the flight vehicle was completely saturated with their combined pheromones, and their bodies were slick with sweat. Only then did he finally stop.

“My rut is approaching.”

Lian Xu pushed him away, tidied his clothes. “If your rut is approaching, you should stay put at the base. Why run out here and act crazy?!”

He Yu gritted his teeth. “It’s all because of you!”

The Alpha was slightly angry. If Lian Xu hadn’t insisted on running off to this wretched place, he wouldn’t have risked his approaching rut to chase after him.

“Lian Xu, come back with me.”

“I came here to complete a mission, not to wander around.” Lian Xu turned away with a cold face, fastened the Alpha’s belt, wrapped himself in his clothes, and retreated to a corner. “You should go back. Otherwise, if you die here during your rut, I won’t be able to explain it to your brother or the Yin family.”

He Yu’s parents were deceased. Before they died, they entrusted the Yin family to look after their two brothers. The Yin family had always treated the two brothers as their own children. If something truly happened, it was hard to say whether Yin Zhuo’s father would prioritize protecting He Yu or protecting Lian Xu, the cure for the Alpha’s defect.

Lian Xu didn’t want to take risks and test the other party’s limits.

“You really are…” He Yu brushed the stray hair from his forehead, put on his leather gloves, and pulled the Omega into his embrace. “Let me hold you for a while.”

They suddenly fell silent. The flight vehicle was so quiet that only the beeping of the system could be heard.

After a long moment, He Yu pulled out a new button and placed it in the Omega’s palm. “This is your original button.”

Lian Xu examined it carefully but found nothing unusual.

He Yu saw his apprehension and smiled. “No tricks. I only made that one, and I ruined it.”

“Are you feeling wronged?”

Lian Xu was puzzled. He Yu was clearly the one who had acted with ill intent, yet he sounded as if someone else had wronged him.

He Yu didn’t speak, but he genuinely did feel a little wronged.

“What did he ask you to do? I’ll help you. Let’s finish quickly and go back.”

“Find rare earth minerals,” Lian Xu said.

Rare earth minerals? Could this desolate place possibly hold such precious resources?

Or was that dead-faced man intentionally trying to separate them?

He Yu licked his lips, no longer wasting time guessing the Commander’s purpose. He just wanted to find the rare earth minerals quickly and return.

“When we get back, can you separate from him?” He Yu kept backing down, even feeling that he was condescending himself. He had made his intentions so clear; surely Lian Xu wouldn’t trample on his sincerity repeatedly.

In fact, he was wrong.

Lian Xu was perfectly capable of doing just that.

Lian Xu gripped He Yu’s restless hand, his expression calm, lying without batting an eye. “Marrying him is my dream.”

With such a firm refusal, he only hoped the Alpha wouldn’t waste time on him. After returning from the Barren Star, they could both go their separate ways. He wouldn’t actively provoke He Yu, and it would be even better if he could get him transferred away from the training grounds.

“Rest. It will be light soon.”

With that, Lian Xu closed his eyes to rest.

In the darkness, He Yu stared at Lian Xu’s cheek, his gaze deep, lost in thought.

When dawn broke, Lian Xu returned the clothes to He Yu and opened the flight vehicle hatch. The dense pheromones had been confined in the nearly sealed space all night; it was time to air them out.

The man they had brought up yesterday still hadn’t woken up. Lian Xu stepped down and went to the other flight vehicle, asking the little girl, “We need to leave now. Where is your home?”

The little girl looked up at Lian Xu with wide eyes and slowly extended her arm. On her forearm was a greenish mark, the pattern resembling a symbol.

“My name is Fiya.”

Lian Xu paused, then offered a gentle smile. “Hello, Fiya. My name is Lian Xu. Shall we take you home?”

The little girl tilted her head, looking at the person in front of her with some confusion. After a few seconds, she said, “Aren’t you here looking for me?”

He Yu suddenly looked up, meeting Lian Xu’s eyes. The two exchanged glances.

“Fiya doesn’t have a home, but Fiya owns the only research base on the Barren Star.”

A research base?!

“You just told us that. Aren’t you afraid we might be bad people?”

Fiya shook her head. “Brother Lian Xu isn’t a bad person. I can feel it.”

She carefully touched the deep wound on Lian Xu’s arm, then turned her head to meet He Yu’s eyes, which were full of danger and warning, and smiled. “Brother, will you come back to the base with me? There is medicine there that can treat wounds.”

There was anticipation and worry in the girl’s eyes. These two contradictory emotions manifested simultaneously, making it confusing. Was this an invitation, or just a formality?

Before Lian Xu could voice his confusion, Fiya pulled out a badge from her person, hanging from a gold chain, shaped like the pattern on her arm.

“I can offer the base key as collateral.”

Lian Xu’s eyelid twitched.

He suddenly realized where the sense of incongruity came from.

The little girl in front of him looked about ten years old, but the calmness she displayed far exceeded that age, especially when she offered the key as collateral to invite Lian Xu back to the base with her.

A child her age would likely have been shocked into silence by the events of last night, crying and calling for their mother.

He Yu supported Lian Xu’s waist from behind, lifted him down, grabbed the hatch handle, stepped up, and took the badge from Fiya’s hand.

He pointed the gun precisely at Fiya’s forehead. “Don’t try any tricks, or your fate will be the same as those walking corpses last night.”

Lian Xu pinched He Yu’s thigh and whispered, “Don’t scare her.”

He Yu grabbed the hand that was pinching his thigh, licked his lips, cocked the trigger with one hand, and stared directly at Fiya. “She’s much braver than you.”

Fiya ignored his threat and tilted her body to look at Lian Xu.

“Brother, the base isn’t easy to enter. You need to disguise yourselves.”

Fiya preferred the seemingly cold but inwardly gentle Lian Xu over the Alpha who only frowned and resorted to military threats.

“So what?” He Yu said. “Why not just blow it up?”

“If you do that, Brother Lian Xu’s injury won’t be able to heal, and there’s a high chance of infection,” Fiya said.

Thinking of the Omega who had been huddled in the corner of the flight vehicle last night, shivering with a tight frown, He Yu had to suppress his restless emotions, no matter how unwilling he was, and obediently follow the method Fiya provided.

That method could only be described as a last resort.

“Brother Lian Xu, can you pretend to be my mother?”