After the Beautiful Omega Was Targeted by His Straight Roommate - Chapter 19

“Qi Yuxiao, are you unwell?”

Seeing that Qi Yuxiao remained silent, Tao Ran grew a bit anxious.

His worried gaze searched Qi Yuxiao’s face, but when his eyes met the other man’s, he could not help but freeze.

Dark waves were churning in the depths of the young man’s eyes. He was staring at Tao Ran like a hungry wolf eyeing its prey, his entire body radiating a sense of latent danger.

Tao Ran’s heart skipped a beat under that gaze, and the hair on his arms stood up for some inexplicable reason.

He felt that Qi Yuxiao was acting very strange.

However, his underlying concern took over. Tao Ran looked up at Qi Yuxiao’s face and asked haltingly, “Did you… not sleep well? Is the perfume not working for you?”

“Tao Ran.”

Tao Ran’s vision suddenly dimmed. At some point, Qi Yuxiao had moved to a distance less than half an elbow’s length away from him. His tall, broad figure blocked out a large portion of the early morning sunlight.

Before Tao Ran could react, the exceptionally tall young man suddenly lowered his head. He pressed his face close to the side of Tao Ran’s neck and took a deep, heavy breath.

A patch of goosebumps immediately broke out on Tao Ran’s delicate neck. He was so startled that he froze in place.

“What is… wrong with…” Tao Ran’s voice grew weaker until the end of his sentence vanished into the air.

He felt like a piece of food that had finally been captured by a starving beast after being watched for a long time. Holding his breath, he did not even dare to move his hands as he allowed the other man to keep sniffing near his neck.

Dozens of seconds later, the young man buried against his neck finally let out a heavy sigh.

Hot air brushed against his skin, causing Tao Ran’s shoulders to tremble slightly.

He thought it was finally over, but Qi Yuxiao showed no intention of pulling away. He whispered into Tao Ran’s ear, “That perfume is not the same as the scent on you.”

“Is… is it?” Tao Ran felt a nerve twitch. He blinked rapidly in guilt.

His attention was instantly diverted, leaving him unaware that Qi Yuxiao’s nose had moved even closer, shifting to the edge of his pink-tinged earlobe.

“Yes.” Qi Yuxiao spoke with absolute certainty. “The one you gave me is different from the one you use, right?”

Tao Ran was completely stunned. “How can that be?”

He felt that the similarity between the perfume and his pheromones was as high as ninety-five percent.

He could not believe Qi Yuxiao could still tell the difference.

What kind of terrifying sense of smell was that?

Qi Yuxiao finally opened his eyes with a sense of satiation, the clarity returning to his gaze. He slowly straightened up and lowered his eyelids, looking directly at Tao Ran with a deep stare. “Did you not say the one you used before was out of print?”

Tao Ran had completely forgotten when he had made that excuse. His heart gave a thud, and his brain began to race at high speed.

In his desperation, he came up with another random reason. “Even though it is out of print, the brand released a new one. I checked the ingredient list and they were about the same, so I bought it.”

He had never been good at lying, and his words were full of holes.

Qi Yuxiao looked at him with a profound gaze and said indifferently, “But the brand you bought has never released a chamomile-scented perfume before this year.”

Tao Ran: “…?”

“It is because… I…”

Tao Ran’s eyes widened. He clearly had not expected Qi Yuxiao to know so much. He was nervous to the extreme; his brain short-circuited, and he stammered for a long time.

Qi Yuxiao saw that his face was turning red with anxiety and he could not come up with an explanation. After a while, he interrupted him directly: “Actually, it is not perfume, is it?”

They stood in silence on the balcony in the cool morning breeze, looking at each other.

After a long time, Tao Ran finally spoke with difficulty. “Do you not find it strange?”

His voice was low and soft, as if it would break at the slightest touch.

“What is strange?” Qi Yuxiao looked at him, seemingly puzzled.

“It is just…” Tao Ran choked up slightly, his eyes already clouded with mist. “Do you not find it strange for a boy to naturally have a fragrance on his body?”

Qi Yuxiao’s expression froze slightly.

Seeing his reaction, half the light in Tao Ran’s eyes went out.

His heart felt cold.

It was colder than the damp morning wind.

As expected, even if Qi Yuxiao liked his pheromones, he only liked the scent itself. He could only accept Tao Ran as a medium for that fragrance.

After all, in this world, no one would inexplicably and continuously emit a fragrance from their body.

Except for him.

Tao Ran’s heart sank to the bottom, filled with a sense of desolation.

He wondered if he was about to lose another friend because of his pheromones.

The color drained from Tao Ran’s face and his eyes lost focus as his memory drifted back to his third year of high school.

At that time, he had just come into contact with this world and was not as guarded against his peers as he was now. When Dr. Chi sent him to an art training camp, it was his first time staying with strangers alone. However, he quickly became friends with a boy in his dormitory.

That boy also liked the scent on his body and frequently asked what kind of laundry detergent, body wash, or perfume he used. Tao Ran was embarrassed by the praise. After being asked several times, he proactively confessed that the fragrance was natural to his body.

Unexpectedly, the boy’s eyes instantly filled with horror, as if he were looking at a monster. He warned Tao Ran not to come near him. After that, he never spoke to Tao Ran again and avoided him at all costs.

Tao Ran could not understand why there was such great malice between peers until he heard that boy in the cafeteria loudly mocking him with other boys. They said how could a man naturally have a scent, that he was a born sissy, and that it was a pity someone looking like that did not go film adult films.

Later, Tao Ran was isolated by those boys. Eventually, every boy in the training camp would keep their distance whenever they saw him.

His pheromones were a very sweet and fresh chamomile scent. It was fragrant and had been a very popular type of herbal pheromone in the old ABO world.

But for some reason, here it became a source of malice.

That boy had also praised it as very fragrant at the beginning. But why did his pheromones become a nauseating smell to him once he knew it was natural?

During that period, Tao Ran lived in extreme suppression and pain. However, he was the type of person who kept everything bottled up inside. It was not until Dr. Chi called him and noticed something was wrong that he finally forced the truth out of him.

Dr. Chi hurried over immediately and demanded that the camp teachers call the parents of the boys who had bullied Tao Ran. He refused to let the matter go without an explanation.

Dr. Chi comforted Tao Ran, saying that not everyone was like that, and then found him a new training camp. The classmates Tao Ran met afterward were very friendly, and when he went to university later, everyone was also very kind.

But Tao Ran always felt that it was likely because he never dared to confess the source of the fragrance again.

Whenever he was asked after that, he learned to find excuses to brush it off.

No one would accept it.

Qi Yuxiao would not be able to accept it either.

But Tao Ran had confessed anyway. Qi Yuxiao was the one who insisted on asking, so he had no choice.

Tao Ran was immersed in the past, feeling as if he were being submerged bit by bit by the malice and bullying of that time.

Suddenly, he felt a hand patting the back of his head. The strength was neither too heavy nor too light, just enough to pull him back from the waves of his memories.

“What is there to be strange about?” Qi Yuxiao said. His tone was serious, without the slightest hint of joking.

Tao Ran’s eyes widened. He glanced at Qi Yuxiao but felt the tears he had accumulated were about to fall, so he quickly lowered his head again.

He repeated, “But… I am a boy, and yet…”

Looking at his fluffy head, Qi Yuxiao felt an itch in his heart. He could not help but lean in a little closer to smell the fresh fragrance of his hair.

His Adam’s apple moved. After a moment, he said, “I think it is quite suitable.”

“…What is suitable?”

Tao Ran could not help but look up blankly, his slightly red eyes shimmering with tears.

“Such a pleasant fragrance, when placed on you, is very suitable.”

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