A Fatal Attraction from Lawyer A - Chapter 41

The night curtain quietly descended, gradually swallowing the last trace of light in the sky.

“What happened to you?!”

When Qi Lin received Gu Yuxi’s call, he rushed over immediately. He found Gu Yuxi lying on a stone bench outside the Jiangtianyisu villa complex, looking quite unwell. Although his clothes were relatively intact, the exposed skin was covered in either hickeys or pinch marks, especially the area around his wrists.

It was evident that he had just finished an intimate encounter, and it had not been a gentle one.

Gu Yuxi had originally planned to take a taxi home, but he started feeling extremely dizzy the moment he walked out of the Jiangtianyisu villa area. He felt a sharp pain in his abdomen with every step. Left with no choice, he had to find a place to rest. He used his remaining strength to call his friend, Qi Lin.

Upon hearing Qi Lin’s voice, he opened his eyes, and the hand resting limply outside the bench moved weakly: “…Quick, help me up.”

Qi Lin immediately lifted Gu Yuxi’s arm over his shoulder. Feeling Gu Yuxi’s weak and heavy body, his brows furrowed tightly: “Why are you here? How did you end up like this? Didn’t you go to work today?”

When he inadvertently touched Gu Yuxi’s body, he felt that his temperature was scalding hot. Why was there another Alpha’s scent on him? This wasn’t Gu Yuxi’s pheromone!

He subconsciously glanced at the Jiangtianyisu complex behind him.

Isn’t this the renowned affluent district?

A possibility suddenly occurred to him, and his face instantly darkened: “Was it Luo Panzhi?”

“Don’t ask. Just take me back first. I’ll tell you after I rest for a while,” Gu Yuxi leaned on Qi Lin’s shoulder and tried to walk forward, but he found that the pain in his abdomen intensified. It was so agonizing that his entire body trembled, making it impossible to walk, and his face became deathly pale.

The pain in his lower abdomen was coming from the anal cavity, which had been penetrated too fiercely just now.

The pain made his vision darken.

“What is going on between you two? Did he touch you?” Qi Lin saw Gu Yuxi suddenly stop halfway: “Why aren’t you walking—Yuxi!!!”

The words were still hanging in the air when Gu Yuxi let go of his shoulder and collapsed downward.

—Baby, isn’t this the anal cavity? Why can’t I get in?

—…It hurts so much, it really hurts, Luo Panzhi, it hurts…

Luo Panzhi suddenly opened his eyes, breathing rapidly. He stared blankly at the ceiling, his ears echoing with Gu Yuxi’s choked sobs.

“You’re awake?”

A somber voice came from beside the bed.

Luo Panzhi was momentarily stunned when he heard his Elder Father’s voice. He slowly turned his head and, sure enough, saw both his Father and Elder Father sitting by the bed, staring at him. He was so startled that he sprang off the bed: “…W-What’s wrong?”

Luo Qingye picked up a cushion from the sofa and threw it at Luo Panzhi: “What do you mean, ‘What’s wrong,’ you brat? Don’t you know what you did?”

Luo Panzhi frantically caught the cushion, looking bewilderedly at his Father, Chu Yiqiao: “What did I do?”

“Did you forcibly mark Yuxi?”

Luo Panzhi’s head buzzed immediately. His face instantly turned grim as the image of Gu Yuxi’s pain-stricken, pale face flashed through his mind. He quickly jumped out of bed: “Where is he?!”

It’s over; he really did forcibly mark Gu Yuxi.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, it’s over! How could he touch Gu Yuxi?

He must be crazy! He explicitly told himself not to touch Gu Yuxi!!!

“He’s at Jiangtianyisu Hospital.” Luo Qingye walked up to Luo Panzhi and slapped the back of his head, annoyed: “He fainted outside Jiangtianyisu just now. If I hadn’t asked Zuo Gu, I wouldn’t have known you were in a heat cycle. A heat cycle is one thing, but you dared to forcibly mark an Alpha? Is that how we raised you?”

“…He fainted?” Luo Panzhi’s face went deathly pale, and an icy chill instantly rose from the soles of his feet. So, he really did hurt Gu Yuxi. He quickly grabbed his Elder Father’s arm: “So, what floor is he on? I need to go find him.”

“You are not allowed to go near him.”

Luo Panzhi looked at his Father, Chu Yiqiao, in disbelief: “Dad…”

“What did you promise me last time? And what did you do this time? Do you even know what you’re doing?!” Chu Yiqiao criticized him sternly and coldly, with a seriousness Luo Panzhi had never seen before: “Luo Panzhi, have you completely lost your mind?!”

—You Pan, if Yuxi enters a heat cycle, you can help him. But if your heat cycle comes, can you guarantee you won’t hurt him? You should be very clear about the specific symptoms of a heat cycle—it’s a state that can make an Alpha instantly lose control, fall into anxiety and frenzy, and desperately need an Omega.

—Can you guarantee it?

—I can.

Luo Panzhi froze on the spot, his blood seeming to flow backward, and the coldness rising from the soles of his feet made him tremble all over. He looked at the changed bed sheets, then at the French window’s location. Remembering something, he tremblingly raised his hand, lowered his head, and looked at his palm.

His fingertips slightly curled; his palm still retained the feeling of having gripped something.

No, it wasn’t a grip; it was practically a choke.

He definitely hurt Gu Yuxi.

He had already sworn at Gu Yuxi to keep him away, and now he had left the proud Gu Yuxi covered in injuries, even going so far as to forcibly mark him.

“I…” Luo Panzhi felt a lump in his throat. His eyes reddened, his hands trembled, and a giant rock seemed to press on his heart, making it nearly impossible to breathe, slowly giving rise to the suffocating feeling of being about to lose Gu Yuxi.

It’s over. What should I do?

Gu Yuxi must have been terrified. How was his behavior any different from Mo Wenbin’s? How was he any different from a beast? If he couldn’t even control his own heat cycle, what else could he do?

A crisp “slap” sound suddenly rang out. Judging by the force, it was extremely hard and merciless.

Luo Qingye and Chu Yiqiao both frowned simultaneously, watching their son slap himself.

Luo Panzhi slapped himself hard, a clear handprint immediately appearing on his right cheek. With bloodshot eyes, he looked at his fathers, his gaze full of pleading: “…I want to go see him, Dad, please, I know I was wrong.”

No one knew that he and Gu Yuxi were together. No one would believe that this forced marking was a consensual act. Even if it was, he had still hurt Gu Yuxi. Otherwise, why would Gu Yuxi leave?

—Luo Panzhi, this time, it’s my turn to protect you.

That sounded like a farewell.

Chu Yiqiao looked at his son’s pleading face. Regarding this matter, which had crossed a major boundary, he absolutely would not soften his heart: “You Pan, do you know what happened to Yuxi in the past? Your heat cycle is painful, but you cannot build your pain on others, especially by causing Yuxi secondary trauma. You should know that your forced marking behavior will cause him physical problems, not just physiological ones, but psychological ones too.”

“He was an Omega before, and he has an anal cavity. Because he was young when he differentiated into an Alpha a second time, the anal cavity closed before fully developing. During an Alpha’s heat cycle, the knotting behavior, driven by instinct, will urge you to enter his anal cavity to fully mark him by knotting. Even though Yuxi has an anal cavity, he is already an Alpha, and his body is not meant to allow an Alpha to enter the anal cavity and knot.”

“If your behavior this time causes him a secondary differentiation stress reaction, it could be severe enough to endanger his life! Haven’t you seen the news lately? Aren’t you familiar with the Mo Wenbin case?”

As soon as Chu Yiqiao finished speaking, he saw his son kneel down in front of him.

Luo Panzhi knelt before his fathers, looked up, and his already tear-stained face showed breakdown and supplication. His voice trembled: “Please, Dad, let me see him, I beg you…”

He couldn’t lose Gu Yuxi.

He knew he was wrong.

He was a complete bastard.

Chu Yiqiao sighed barely audibly: “You Pan, forcing things will not yield results. Your liking him doesn’t mean Yuxi likes you back, especially since you are both Alphas. Let him go.”

“We were already together.”

Chu Yiqiao: “…?”

Luo Panzhi lowered his head and laughed self-deprecatingly: “We’ve been together for almost two months, but I’ve always been afraid to tell you and the outside world, afraid someone would hurt him. Now it seems it was all my fault. It’s because I was incompetent and couldn’t confidently protect him that I said we wouldn’t go public. I made him suffer.”

Luo Qingye’s expression was subtle: “I didn’t realize you were the deep, reserved lover type. Not telling the outside world is fine, but you didn’t even tell us?”

Luo Panzhi cried even harder upon hearing this: “I was planning to take our family photo this year, and when you joked that I didn’t have a partner, I could bring him home to show you that I wasn’t alone this year! I didn’t expect this to happen, woo woo woo…”

After saying that, he crawled to Chu Yiqiao’s leg and hugged it, humbly sobbing and pleading: “Dad, please let me go see him. I’m so worried about him now; he must really need me.”

“Where do you get that confidence?” Luo Qingye distastefully peeled his son’s hand off his wife’s leg: “If I dared to say that word to your Dad, even you might have to pack your bags and leave. Let alone me; I would know better and leave on my own.”

Luo Panzhi: “…He won’t break up with me, will he?”

“Hard to say,” Chu Yiqiao and Luo Qingye said in unison.

Luo Panzhi collapsed onto the floor in anguish.

《Concerning the Young CEO Luo’s Imminent Breakup After Only Two Months of Dating》

《Concerning the Wife Who Ran Away After Being Sworn At》

🏥 Outside the Hospital Ward

“His pheromone concentration is very unstable, but because of the Alpha’s forced marking effect, the concentration will drop once his fever subsides.”

“There is also one issue: his previously closed anal cavity was forcefully opened, causing some tearing and damage. He cannot engage in any further sexual activity for a short time, and even after recovery, he may still experience abdominal pain.”

“After all, he is an Alpha. The anal cavity, which has been closed for a long time, is different from the fully developed, soft reproductive cavity of an adult Omega. However, due to the existence of the anal cavity structure, this complete marking behavior is established.”

“As for the scent gland marking, no matter how an Alpha attempts to mark another Alpha, the bite marks on the back of the neck will fade over time, unable to leave your pheromones behind. This is the irreversible repulsion between Alphas.”

“We will apply the medication after he wakes up.”

The doctor spoke to Luo Panzhi, while silently considering a new direction for research.

Luo Panzhi silently noted all the precautions the doctor mentioned, then asked the question he was most worried about: “How should I manage my heat cycles after this?”

“Lawyer Gu’s constitution is very unique. Young CEO Luo, you previously performed a pseudo-marking on him, and it is precisely this pseudo-marking behavior that allowed your pheromones to fuse with the pseudo-Omega pheromones Gu developed. Even without a complete marking, you have already recognized him as your mate, which is why your heat cycle triggered the seeking-a-mate syndrome.”

“However, the complete marking has been established. If your heat cycle comes again, all you need is for Lawyer Gu to be by your side. Any activity can help alleviate your heat cycle.”

Luo Panzhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief: “Understood, thank you.”

After the doctor left, he hurried into the ward.

The ward was quiet, with only the ticking of the wall clock and the sound of the air humidifier on the bedside table.

Gu Yuxi was still asleep in the clean white hospital bed. His face was flushed because of the fever, and his breathing was slightly heavy. A bit of skin peeked out from the loose hospital gown collar, revealing haphazard hickeys, while the hand receiving the IV outside the blanket had a circle of glaring red marks on the wrist.

Luo Panzhi sat by the bed, afraid to make any noise. He gently took the other hand outside the blanket, his thumb stroking the marks he had left on the wrist, his eyes welling up with tears.

“…Baby, I’m such a bastard.” After saying this with a choked voice, he could no longer hold back his tears: “I had planned to endure it alone, but I still touched you.”

He then carefully lifted the blanket, moved the hospital gown aside, and looked at the scattered hickeys on Gu Yuxi’s chest. He cursed himself as a beast several times under his breath, wondering how desperate he was to have gnawed on Gu Yuxi like that.

He put the clothes back on Gu Yuxi, sat back on the chair, and began to repent.

In his repentance, he couldn’t help but curse himself again:

“Luo Panzhi is a beast.”

“He definitely is.”

Luo Panzhi sharply lifted his head and saw Gu Yuxi looking at him with open eyes. Seeing him awake, his tears immediately streamed down: “Baby…”

Gu Yuxi was expressionless, and he opened his lips to speak one word:

“Get lost.”

Luo Panzhi broke down and cried: “Wuu wuu wuu wuu wuu!!!”

Author’s Note:

Seeing You Pan cry genuinely makes me laugh out loud.

Luo Panzhi and Gu Yuxi’s child is named Luo Songran, who is the protagonist of the third-generation novel in the column. Interested readers can check it out!

The super-sweet, short wife-chasing arc is about to begin. It should only get sweeter from here.

Red envelopes will continue for this chapter!!!

An extra chapter will be added if comments exceed 6000!!!