A Fatal Attraction from Lawyer A - Chapter 42

Gu Yuxi was expressionless, and he opened his lips to speak one word: “Get lost.”

His gaze, however, fell on the handprint on Luo Panzhi’s right cheek. His brow furrowed. Who hit him so hard?

Luo Panzhi had never felt the word ‘get lost’ possessed such destructive power. Now, recalling the times he had said “get lost” to Xu Wen when he was in a bad mood, it barely registered with him. But now that it was directed at him, he felt it intensely, and it was hard to bear; his chest felt tight.

He was blacklisting this word starting now.

He needed to give Xu Wen a raise when he got back.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that to you, and I shouldn’t have kept my heat cycle a secret. It’s my fault; I was wrong.” Luo Panzhi choked up, his eyes gradually turning red. He held Gu Yuxi’s hand and rubbed his forehead against the back of it, his apology sincere: “Baby, I was wrong. I’m sorry, okay?…”

He thought to himself, Wifey probably won’t bear to let me get lost, right? After all, he helped me through my heat cycle. As long as I apologize very, very seriously and very, very sincerely, he won’t really have the heart to make me leave, right?

Gu Yuxi withdrew his hand from Luo Panzhi’s grasp: “Luo Panzhi, I’m very hurt. You didn’t put me in your heart at all.”

Although he understood that Luo Panzhi didn’t want to hurt him, the fact that Luo Panzhi’s first thought during his most difficult time wasn’t to turn to him made Gu Yuxi feel like he couldn’t be relied upon; that Luo Panzhi didn’t trust him enough.

“I do have you in my heart! I love you so much! I treat you like my ancestor!” Luo Panzhi rushed to explain, hearing Gu Yuxi say this made him want to rip his own heart out with a knife.

Gu Yuxi felt dizzy from the man’s crying: “Keep it down. You’re giving me a headache.”

Luo Panzhi immediately zipped his mouth shut and became obedient.

“Fine, get lost then,” Gu Yuxi said coldly.

Luo Panzhi’s expression instantly collapsed, his tears streaming down like a burst dam. Crying pitifully, he quickly hugged Gu Yuxi’s arm: “No, I won’t get lost! Wuwuwuwu, I can’t leave! I have to stay by your side! How can you be so weak and have no one with you!”

“Your voice is too loud,” Gu Yuxi said flatly.

Then he heard Luo Panzhi lean in and cry in a whisper: “Then I’ll cry more quietly, wuwuwuwu, I won’t get lost! I won’t! Wifey, wifey, I won’t leave you~~~~”

Gu Yuxi narrowed his eyes. He’s so irritating; he deserves a beating. He turned his face away, avoiding the man who was rubbing against him: “Stay away from me.”

If acting cute worked, his pain would have been for nothing. The forced opening of his anal cavity truly hurt.

Seeing Gu Yuxi’s cold, dismissive attitude, Luo Panzhi’s eyes and brows instantly drooped, looking like a pitiful, wronged large dog: “I know I was wrong for not telling you about my heat cycle. I just wanted to avoid hurting you and make you stay away.”

“So, you have a mouth, but you chose to make me get lost instead of speaking properly?” Gu Yuxi couldn’t understand and felt angrier the more he thought about it: “Stay away from me now. I don’t want to see you.”

A surge of anger made him feel dizzy, and his lower abdomen began to ache faintly. The pain reminded him of Luo Panzhi’s forceful penetration of his anal cavity at noon. He had never known Luo Panzhi to be such a savage person.

“I know I was wrong…” Luo Panzhi slumped pitifully by the bed, holding his hand and shaking it gently: “I’ll do anything you want, just please don’t leave me.”

Gu Yuxi tried to pull his hand back, but Luo Panzhi held it tightly: “Let go.”

“No.”

“My stomach hurts.”

Luo Panzhi’s expression instantly changed. He jumped up from the chair: “I’ll go find the doctor!”

“What’s the use of finding a doctor? You were the one who hurt me so badly,” Gu Yuxi watched Luo Panzhi practically bolt out: “Can the doctor come and rub my stomach for me?”

Luo Panzhi immediately sat back by the bed, pulled up his sleeve, and lifted the blanket: “I’ll rub it for you.”

“No need,” Gu Yuxi decisively refused, raising his hand to block Luo Panzhi’s outstretched hand.

“Then who do you want to rub it for you?” Luo Panzhi’s hand froze in mid-air, then withdrew with a look of disappointment, his eyes filled with worry and guilt. He recalled what the doctor had just said—that he had injured Gu Yuxi’s anal cavity, and it might ache faintly even after healing.

“Anyone but you,” Gu Yuxi put his non-IV hand under the blanket, holding it over his lower abdomen and rubbing it himself, then closed his eyes: “You’ve broken my heart. You don’t deserve to rub my stomach.”

Luo Panzhi knew Gu Yuxi was upset about his “get lost” comment, so how should he appease his wifey now: “Baby, what do you need me to do for you to forgive me?”

A brief silence fell over the ward.

“Did you take what I told you before to heart? You didn’t tell me about your heat cycle, and you’ve been avoiding me these past few days. Were you planning to wait until the pain was unbearable and then find an Omega to help you?” Gu Yuxi broke the silence first: “I thought we were already lovers, and since we are both Alphas, not everything you can handle alone needs to be kept from me. If you hide things from me and bear it alone, I will only feel hurt, not touched.”

“If you choose to hurt yourself to avoid hurting me, and you conceal it from me instead of finding a suitable solution, I will feel like you don’t see me as an Alpha.”

“Luo Panzhi, you know my personality. If I decide to leave, no one can stop me.”

“And if I want to leave, I will definitely leave.”

Luo Panzhi suddenly stood up, the chair scraping sharply against the floor. He stared intently at Gu Yuxi: “Leave? No, you can’t leave. I won’t let you leave.”

“We are both adults. Think about this carefully yourself.” Gu Yuxi glanced at the almost empty IV bag above his head. He lifted the blanket and sat up, but as he did, he strained his waist and let out a muffled groan of soreness.

The next second, a large hand supported his lower back.

Luo Panzhi quickly bent down, his hand supporting Gu Yuxi’s weak waist: “Baby, be careful.”

The distance between the two instantly closed, their reflections mirrored in each other’s eyes. Time seemed to stop, and surrounding them were their blended pheromones, intensely clear, as if reminding them of what they had done to leave such a strong scent on each other.

The last time they were this close was only two hours ago, a distance far more intimate than this.

For a completely marked Alpha and Omega, it is difficult to resist the proximity of their partner. Since their pheromones have merged into their blood, the closer they are, the more they will want to get closer.

Gu Yuxi wanted to shift his gaze away from Luo Panzhi’s face, but his eyes finally settled on the handprint on Luo Panzhi’s right cheek. Half his face was swollen. Did CEO Luo or CEO Chu hit him?

“I really know I was wrong,” Luo Panzhi sat on the edge of the bed, letting Gu Yuxi lean on him. He massaged his lower back with one hand and gently held the IV tube with the other. Glancing at the nearly finished IV bag, he pressed the call bell by the bedside: “You can be mad at me, you can hit me, you can curse me, but don’t joke about your health. You still have a fever.”

Gu Yuxi’s lower back felt comfortable being massaged by the warm palm, and he instinctively wanted to lean into Luo Panzhi’s embrace. But he suddenly remembered they were still arguing. What kind of argument is this? He quietly straightened his back, but his waist was encircled by Luo Panzhi’s strong arm.

The large palm moved to his abdomen, gently rubbing it in circles, the perfect pressure soothing the faintly aching spot.

No, I’m still keeping track of that ‘get lost’ comment.

Suddenly, a warm press landed on his scent gland, which had been bitten countless times. His body involuntarily trembled with sensitivity.

“I bit you up like this; I really am a scumbag,” Luo Panzhi turned his head to look at Gu Yuxi in his arms, his gaze landing on the back of his neck, which was so close. The naturally faded, barely visible scent gland was densely covered with hickeys, a sight that pained him endlessly.

Yet, it also reminded him of something else.

“You know yourself you’re not a good thing. You kept trying to mark me even though you knew you couldn’t scent mark an Alpha,” Gu Yuxi recalled the part where Luo Panzhi bit his scent gland over and over by the window, attempting to inject pheromones. It was a completely pointless action, yet he kept doing it.

In the end, Luo Panzhi’s teeth broke the skin of his scent gland.

“I’m sorry,” Luo Panzhi rested his chin on Gu Yuxi’s shoulder, muttering sorrowfully: “I won’t do that again.”

“There is no ‘again’,” Gu Yuxi said.

Luo Panzhi’s eyes widened abruptly, his lips trembling lightly. He looked at Gu Yuxi in disbelief: “…Are you… are you really going to break up with me?”

Just as Gu Yuxi was about to speak, the ward door was pushed open from the outside, and the doctor and nurse walked in, followed by a large family crowd.

Luo Qingye and Chu Yiqiao, along with Chu Guzhi and Yan Lu, Luo Yuchu and Yuan Nai, and even Jian Wenxing, had all come.

Luo Panzhi and Gu Yuxi hadn’t had time to separate from their embrace, and the line “Are you really going to break up with me?” was spoken simultaneously with the opening of the door. The atmosphere was momentarily delicate.

Gu Yuxi: “…” He shifted forward slightly, trying to distance himself from Luo Panzhi’s embrace.

Luo Panzhi couldn’t care less that his family had arrived. All he knew was that he was about to lose his wifey. Feeling Gu Yuxi trying to break free, he hugged him tightly, his eyes turning red again in distress: “No! We can’t break up! You can’t be so cruel as to leave me! I’m already yours!”

Gu Yuxi: “…”

The nurse suppressed a smile and walked to the bed to remove Gu Yuxi’s IV needle.

Luo Panzhi, seeing the nurse about to pull out the needle, seriously instructed: “He’s afraid of pain, Miss Nurse. Please be gentle.”

Gu Yuxi cast a look at Luo Panzhi.

Luo Panzhi conceded and let his eyes droop: “Fine, actually, I’m the one who’s afraid you’ll feel pain.”

Gu Yuxi: “…” With so many people around, this was so embarrassing.

The family members nearby: “…” Luo Panzhi has been single for so many years, and now that he finally has a boyfriend, he has to be like this even for a simple injection. It seems he wants to get revenge for years of them teasing him.

However, if they hadn’t misheard just now, were they talking about breaking up?

The doctor performed a simple examination on Gu Yuxi: “The fever hasn’t subsided yet. You can be discharged once it does. The medication that needs to be applied is all here. Apply it once in the morning, noon, and evening.”

“How should this ointment be applied?” Luo Panzhi took the ointment handed over by the nurse, his face serious: “One person can’t apply this easily, right? Wouldn’t it be better for someone else to help apply it?”

Gu Yuxi grabbed the medicine from Luo Panzhi’s hand, making a move to get out of bed: “It’s fine. I can manage myself. Can I be discharged now?” Their issue should be resolved privately. This was no time to be making a scene in front of Luo Panzhi’s family.

Luo Panzhi raised an eyebrow at Jian Wenxing by the door.

Jian Wenxing understood and nodded, then raised his hand to block the door frame.

Yan Lu and Luo Yuchu stood beside Jian Wenxing. The three guarded the exit strictly; no one was getting out.

The moment Gu Yuxi got out of bed, his legs felt weak. He swayed, unable to stand steady, but just as he gained his balance, his waist was encircled by Luo Panzhi’s arm. He instinctively looked up and met the meaningful smiles of the two CEOs, CEO Chu and CEO Luo, standing before him.

“So, what is the situation here…?” Chu Yiqiao asked with a half-smile.

Gu Yuxi was about to speak, but Luo Panzhi beat him to it.

Luo Panzhi stood up, drew Gu Yuxi into his embrace, and faced his family: “I formally introduce you all. This is my Alpha, Gu Yuxi.”

Gu Yuxi silently cursed, then pulled Luo Panzhi’s arm away from his waist and looked at them calmly: “Luo Panzhi is indeed my Alpha, but that doesn’t prevent us from having just broken up.”

Luo Panzhi instantly panicked. He quickly grabbed Gu Yuxi’s hand: “Baby, stop kidding! How could we possibly break up!”

That single ‘Baby’ instantly made everyone present cringe. Is this the power of the formerly-single finding a partner?

“I’m serious,” Gu Yuxi said earnestly. He calmly tried to shake off Luo Panzhi’s hand, thinking silently, This guy thinks he can use CEO Luo and CEO Chu to pressure me? No way. This is something we have to solve ourselves.

Then he saw Luo Panzhi look like he was about to burst into tears again.

Luo Panzhi’s eyes were red again. He clutched the corner of Gu Yuxi’s shirt, humbly sobbing: “Baby, we can’t break up! We can talk things through!”

Gu Yuxi looked down at Luo Panzhi clinging to his shirt and trying to use the cute act on him again: “Let go.”

Luo Panzhi felt terrible hearing Gu Yuxi’s cold voice. He genuinely hadn’t expected things to escalate like this. The thought that Gu Yuxi was seriously going to break up with him made his tears stream down instantly.

The family members watching: “…” This You Pan. Crying at home is one thing, but he’s this much of a crybaby in front of the person he likes, too. He’s a lost cause, a lost cause.

Seeing Luo Panzhi still crying, Gu Yuxi frowned tightly: “Still crying? I’ll sue you.”

Luo Panzhi: “?!” He looked at Gu Yuxi, his eyes wide in disbelief, feeling even more distraught. He slumped back onto the edge of the bed, burying his face in his hands, looking thunderstruck.

Is he going to sue me just because I cry too much?

Does he have to be this cruel?

Gu Yuxi felt a tug on the corner of his shirt again. He looked down.

Luo Panzhi fought back the tears in his eyes, tugged at the corner of Gu Yuxi’s shirt, looked up at him pitifully: “Baby, if I don’t cry, will you not break up with me? Please, I won’t cry. Look at my eyes. I’m not crying.”

His eyes were teary and glistening.

Gu Yuxi: “…” He took a deep breath.

The family members behind him: “…” Absolutely mortifying.