MFIMM Chapter 35
by VolareMarking
“Lin Xi, I’m going downstairs for the ribbon-cutting ceremony; you rest in the hotel,” Pei Jiashu said as he entered Lin Xi’s room.
Lin Xi didn’t know if he’d heard him or not, but he gave a sound of acknowledgement.
Pei Jiashu went downstairs, and the hotel manager rushed up to him as soon as he saw him, guiding Pei Jiashu to Liang Siqi.
Facing the media and other elders, Pei Jiashu immediately put on that fake smile.
If Lin Xi were here, he would definitely notice that even the curvature of Pei Jiashu’s fake smile was exactly the same.
Liang Siqi stood with the hotel staff, taking a group photo of the ribbon-cutting, and also took a group photo with the bosses present.
As the celebratory fireworks rose into the sky, the ribbon-cutting officially began.
Lin Xi was awakened by the sound of firecrackers in the room. He muttered a few complaints and looked for Pei Jiashu in the room, but found that he was not there.
Recalling the voice in his dream, his heart tightened. Could Pei Jiashu be with Liang Siqi?
He walked to the balcony, tilted his head back and could overlook the entire hotel. Amidst the noise outside, he caught sight of Pei Jiashu walking with Liang Siqi.
Good, good, good.
Leaving him alone in the hotel to go find his ex-fiancé.
Lin Xi almost crushed his back teeth.
But then he thought, if Pei Jiashu left, wouldn’t this room be his alone? He could do whatever he wanted.
Lin Xi immediately opened his suitcase. Inside, apart from his cosmetics and clothes, was a silk pajama set, wrapped layer upon layer, that Chen Mingxuan had insisted on stuffing in.
Lin Xi threw it aside, blaming Chen Mingxuan for insisting on packing these pajamas.
Pei Jiashu bringing him to this hot spring hotel was clearly for Liang Siqi.
He had actually listened to Chen Mingxuan, thinking that Pei Jiashu had some feelings for him.
How self-deceiving.
Lin Xi changed into a bathrobe, casually opened a bottle of red wine from the hotel display case, and lay down in the hot spring pool.
The warm water gurgled from the spring, enveloping his whole body, washing away the fatigue of the past few days.
He turned on the music on his phone, connected to the room’s speakers, and blasted it, drowning out the noise from downstairs.
A mouthful of red wine went down, feeling like swallowing a ball of fire that burned from his throat all the way to his stomach. Having only ever drunk fruit wine, he coughed violently a few times. Sure enough, this kind of wine was not for ordinary people.
It wasn’t as good as cocktails.
But Lin Xi still sipped it little by little like a kitten.
Drinking and cursing Pei Jiashu.
The back of his head felt a little heavy, especially lying in the hot spring, he felt even sleepier.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Lin Xi stumbled out of the hot spring, put on his bathrobe, and jogged to the door.
“Sir, the other gentleman in your room ordered lunch to be sent up for you.”
“Oh.” Lin Xi’s hand slipped from the doorknob, and he opened the door to let the server in.
The server arranged all the dishes on the table, and the exquisite and delicious food looked very appetizing.
But perhaps Lin Xi was a little drunk; the back of his head felt heavy, and he just wanted to sleep.
As the server was about to leave after setting everything up, he couldn’t help but ask, “Did that gentleman say when he would be back?”
The server shook his head. “The banquet downstairs is estimated to last another two or three hours.”
“Oh.” Lin Xi slumped on the sofa, took out his phone, and took several selfies with the exquisite food.
Because of the alcohol, his face was flushed, and his hair was still wet, dripping into the deep V neckline. The neckline revealed almost everything, and his slender collarbones were slightly red, particularly eye-catching.
Lin Xi paused, and posted a moment on WeChat.
After posting, he fell asleep on the sofa.
He didn’t know how long had passed when he heard the noise again. Lin Xi opened his eyes and woke up, seeing Pei Jiashu entering the room.
“You’re back?” He smiled, his head still a little dizzy, but behind Pei Jiashu was another person.
Liang Siqi looked at Lin Xi, covering his nose slightly with his hand, and said with disdain, “How much did he drink?”
“I only had one glass,” Lin Xi said unhappily, looking at Liang Siqi, then turned to Pei Jiashu and said, “Why did you bring him back?”
“Siqi, he’s drunk, I won’t entertain you.”
“The banquet hasn’t ended…” Liang Siqi said indignantly. Pei Jiashu interrupted him before he could finish, “I believe the others will understand.”
Liang Siqi looked at Lin Xi condescendingly, as if looking at something dirty. “Hmph, he’ll only hold you back. Do you like him that much?”
Pei Jiashu was stunned by the question, hesitating whether to nod or not, when Liang Siqi had already come forward and flipped over the back of Lin Xi’s collar.
It was very clean there; not only was there no permanent mate mark, there wasn’t even a temporary mark.
He snorted. “Looks like he’s not that loved, not even a temporary mark.”
Lin Xi seemed to be triggered by these words. He suddenly grabbed Pei Jiashu’s collar. Pei Jiashu thought this drunkard wanted him to mark him.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xi moved closer to the back of his ear, where the alpha’s scent gland was.
The moist tip of his tongue licked the gland, circling it lightly. Pei Jiashu’s body stiffened, barely restraining the urge to slap Lin Xi away.
While pushing Lin Xi away, he said to Liang Siqi, “He’s drunk, you should leave first.”
Lin Xi clung to him relentlessly. The further he pushed, the tighter Lin Xi clung.
“Let me bite you.”
Liang Siqi couldn’t stand Lin Xi anymore and wanted to pull him away. “Are you crazy? You can’t bite an alpha’s scent gland!”
After all, they were in front of Liang Siqi, and Pei Jiashu couldn’t be too resistant to Lin Xi, so he half-heartedly let Lin Xi bite him.
Omegas didn’t have canine teeth; like a kitten, he nibbled and gnawed at Pei Jiashu’s scent gland.
But the alpha’s scent gland was fragile after all, and Lin Xi’s persistent nibbling broke it. Pei Jiashu hissed in pain; it was hard to describe the feeling.
An omega couldn’t mark an alpha, but the mark from a highly compatible omega still gave him a thrilling pleasure.
He shook Lin Xi off, and Lin Xi fell back on the sofa.
The taste of blood and mint intertwined in his mouth. Lin Xi stood up from the sofa again, hugged Pei Jiashu’s neck, and gently licked the wound he had bitten.
Pei Jiashu’s hand rubbed Lin Xi’s lower back, his breathing becoming heavy.
Both of their pheromones were uncontrollably released, and Lin Xi’s body craved more pheromones. If this continued, things would get out of hand.
Pei Jiashu shouted angrily, “Aren’t you leaving yet?”
Only then did Liang Siqi recover from the shock, slamming the door and leaving without looking back.
Pei Jiashu immediately tore off the clinging pest, covering his neck, where the bloodstains had already been licked clean by Lin Xi.
“Lin Xi, are you a dog?”
Last time he bit his hand, this time he bit his scent gland directly.
What would Lin Xi bite next time?
He picked Lin Xi up from the ground and threw him on the bed, wrapping him in the blanket. “Where is your inhibitor?”
The pheromone concentration in his blood was too high, and Lin Xi was directly experiencing a false heat. Pei Jiashu wasn’t in a good state either.
He found the inhibitor in Lin Xi’s suitcase, picked up the person on the bed, and directly injected it into Lin Xi’s scent gland.
Lin Xi hugged Pei Jiashu’s waist tightly, his screams almost piercing through the room.
“Now you know it hurts? Why didn’t you know when you were biting my scent gland?” Pei Jiashu resignedly put the person back on the bed. Lin Xi had fallen asleep heartlessly.
He turned around and went to the bathroom to take a cold shower.
When Lin Xi woke up again, it was already five or six in the evening. Pei Jiashu had also changed into casual clothes and was sitting leisurely in the living room.
Lin Xi covered the back of his head, which felt like it had been hit with a club, throbbing with pain.
On the table was his opened but unfinished bottle of red wine. As soon as Pei Jiashu saw him, he looked at him warily.
Lin Xi frowned in confusion, especially since Pei Jiashu still had a piece of gauze on the back of his neck.
The fragmented memories flooded into his mind along with that piece of gauze. He felt like he was watching a movie with himself as the protagonist, seeing every detail clearly.
Lin Xi covered his face, wanting to crawl back into the room.
What had he done?
Pei Jiashu snorted. “You remembered?”
Lin Xi shook his head rapidly like a rattle-drum. “Didn’t remember.”
“That means you remembered.”
Lin Xi looked at the red wine on the table, feeling a little uneasy. He immediately knelt down and apologized, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to bite you. I’ll never bite anyone randomly again.”
“Never again? Who else do you want to bite?” Pei Jiashu’s voice suddenly became dangerous.
Lin Xi closed his eyes, his heart as dead as ashes. “There won’t be a next time, and there’s no one else.”
He opened his collar like a hero severing his wrist, exposing his fragile scent gland to the alpha. “If you’re really angry, I’ll let you bite me back, and we’ll call it even.”
Pei Jiashu was amused by his reaction. “You’re so skilled at biting an alpha’s scent gland, are there any other victims? Did you let them bite your scent gland too?”
An alpha’s temporary mark on an omega would only disappear after a maximum of seven days. If Lin Xi had been temporarily marked by someone before, he wouldn’t be able to tell.
Pei Jiashu’s heart felt like it was being strangled when he thought of this possibility.
He swallowed that breath and continued to stare at Lin Xi.
“Get lost, how could I be so bored as to bite other people’s necks.”
Hearing the satisfactory answer, the corners of Pei Jiashu’s mouth bloomed into a smile. Lin Xi felt a chill and said to him, “Don’t smile so creepily. It’s wrong of me to bite you, but why did you bring your ex-fiancé into the room?”
Lin Xi slowly straightened up, put his hands on his hips, and said to Pei Jiashu.
Pei Jiashu rubbed his forehead. “Take a look at the moment you posted.”
“Moment? When did I post a moment?” Lin Xi opened his phone and saw 99+ messages on WeChat, almost kneeling down to WeChat.
The moment he posted clearly showed he was drunk. Everyone on his contact list had specially asked him what was happening.
“I’ll never drink again.”
But among those concerned messages, one WeChat message was particularly glaring.
“Is that the newly opened hot spring hotel in Nancheng?”
“Did you go alone?”
It was Zeng Zhiyang who sent it to him.