The Dangerous Omega Who is Good at Disguising Always Wants to Hook Me! - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Respiratory Alkalosis

The soundproofing in this building is excellent, but it can’t withstand the constant noise of things being moved next door.

The impact of the noise caused Qi Yan to shift from a state of indulgence to being half-asleep and half-awake. He watched clearly as the person beneath him gripped the bedsheets tightly; the development of the dream was becoming worse and worse.

One night is not long; he couldn’t afford to waste it.

As the night continued, the clamor from next door grew increasingly rowdy at some unknown point.

Qi Yan could no longer distinguish between reality and the dream. The dim room was too hot and humid, making one’s head spin. The noise outside never stopped; it even grew louder, making it impossible to find peace of mind.

From time to time, the Omega let out muffled groans and low pants, carrying a heavy exhaustion and unsteady breath.

“Clang!”

A deafening sound of a door slamming shut suddenly came from next door, jolting Qi Yan awake from his dream of suppressed lust. Immediately following was the sound of a roar—

“Lunatic! Lunatic!! Your whole Shen family is a bunch of lunatics!!!”

He sat up abruptly in bed, his brain muddled, the sound of tinnitus echoing. Qi Yan’s heart pounded wildly as he gasped for breath, drenched in sweat, directly breaking away from that dream overflowing with feverish desire.

Truly gone mad, hasn’t it?!

Qi Yan pressed his forehead in pain and grabbed his phone from the nightstand. He checked the time: twelve o’clock in the morning?!!

His mood turned incredibly sour at that moment, as if he had stepped into the shoes of himself from the dream, unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. His cold, dark pupils erupted with a thick sense of unfulfilled desire, as if shedding his false disguise and leaking the irritability from the depths of his heart.

This time, he could no longer endure it. He got out of bed, opened the door, and pulled it shut behind him.

He strode toward the neighbor’s door and began to knock.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

The knocking sounded. Qi Yan, carrying an aura of dark pressure from lack of sleep, spoke with a grim face: “Hey, are you home?”

There was no response.

But Qi Yan knew the other party was home; they had been disturbing him for a long time, constantly moving things.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

Suppressing the restlessness in his heart, he exercised patience and continued to knock: “Hello, could you please come out for a chat?”

The door still didn’t open, but a dull thud came from inside, which quickly fell back into silence.

The other party seemed to be trying to pretend they weren’t home, not wanting to deal with him.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

Qi Yan knocked three more times. As time passed, his brain, filled with various gloomy emotions, gradually regained a bit of clarity. He remembered that the neighbor seemed to be an Omega.

And he was an Alpha.

Alphas and Omegas are different. He didn’t know if the other party lived alone. If they were alone, as an Alpha knocking fiercely on their door late at night with a clearly unfriendly demeanor, a solitary Omega would indeed not dare to open the door to confront him.

The thought flashed by, and Qi Yan took a deep breath to regain his composure. He stopped knocking and spoke rationally: “I’m sorry, I don’t know if you can hear me. I think I might have frightened you; I apologize for that first.”

“If you are listening, please don’t be afraid, and there’s no need to open the door. As a neighbor, I just want to remind you—please don’t make noise late at night. I haven’t slept for several days. I could understand the renovations during the first three days, but please respect others as well. Don’t create noise during normal resting hours. Let’s have some mutual understanding, thank you.”

“That is all I wanted to say to you. Sorry to bother you. If you didn’t hear this, I will inform the property management tomorrow to remind you. I hope you weren’t frightened by me tonight.”

Having finished, Qi Yan didn’t want to keep standing at someone else’s doorstep. Just as he turned to leave.

“Click.”

The door opened.

Qi Yan subconsciously looked over. The neighbor had anxiously pulled the door open a crack, then suddenly paused, slowing down the movement of opening the door as if suppressing an inner urgency.

“So… sorry…”

Standing against the light, an Omega appeared in his sight. He was wearing a set of warm-colored loungewear; his somewhat long black hair was a bit messy, and his beautiful face was pathologically pale. He had narrow, long eyes, and three faint beauty marks beneath his left eye, which lent a touch of aloofness to his face, though it was softened by his expression.

He had probably just been washing his face; water droplets were dripping down his cheeks and hair, rolling along his delicate chin and neck. His wide collar revealed a slender, clean neck, with a black pheromone isolation collar fixed around it. The contrast of black and white unintentionally leaked a sense of cold, ascetic beauty.

Seeing this figure, Qi Yan’s mind went blank, and his heart skipped a beat. He almost thought he was still in the dream.

Fortunately, he regained his senses quickly. The Omega before him was different from the one in his dream; he didn’t have that arrogant, cold forcefulness, and his figure was thinner, looking fragile as if he might break in the wind.

“I am very sorry!”

The neighbor Omega’s physical condition was very poor. It seemed he had just rushed from the bathroom upon hearing the knocking, causing his breathing to be rapid and his eyes to be moist and red, making him appear even more vulnerable.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, I just didn’t hear—ha-ah…” Before the neighbor could finish, he became so anxious he couldn’t catch his breath. His fingers clawed at the door frame to support his body, but he couldn’t hold on; his fingers slipped, and his body fell forward uncontrollably.

To avoid any false accusations of “touching,” Qi Yan reflexively took a step back, wanting to avoid contact with the Omega. Fortunately, his reason overcame his instinct, and he reached out to catch the neighbor who was about to fall face-first.

“So… sorry…” The neighbor grabbed Qi Yan’s arm in return. His pale fingers were long and thin, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were clearly visible.

With his head partially lowered and breathing rapidly, he reached out to cover his own mouth and nose, trying to stabilize himself. His body trembled slightly as he still attempted to speak and apologize.

Qi Yan noticed something was wrong: “Are you suffering from respiratory alkalosis?”

He found the symptoms familiar. He reached out to hold the sliding neighbor; the man’s face was pale, his forehead was sweating, and his breathing was incredibly rapid and chaotic. He covered his own mouth and nose with his hand, looking up at Qi Yan. His narrow, beautiful eyes were filled with tears, which rolled down and wetted those three beauty marks: “So… sorry, ha-ah…”

“Don’t speak yet. Calm down, don’t over-breathe.”

Qi Yan was now completely awake. The neighbor’s situation looked bad. He couldn’t worry about the distinction between Alphas and Omegas anymore and hurried to carry him inside. The room was filled with piled-up belongings, so he could only place him on an unboxed sofa. Worried that the neighbor’s condition might worsen, Qi Yan started to get up to get his phone to call for emergency services, but the neighbor gripped him tighter and tighter.

“I…” The neighbor sat on the sofa, his wet hair damply sticking to his cheeks. He looked at him with red eyes, his rapid breathing completely dispersing the innate arrogance of his face.

“Don’t panic, don’t worry. I’m not angry. The most important thing now is your body. Relax, don’t be anxious at all. Try to hold your breath repeatedly, okay?” Qi Yan knelt by the sofa, staring intently at the neighbor’s pale face. His gaze was gentle and his voice steady, constantly soothing the man’s tensed nerves.

The tearful eyes remained fixed on Qi Yan’s face. Those peach-blossom eyes were gentle and affectionate. The neighbor couldn’t calm down; his hands were so numb he couldn’t even cover his mouth and nose. They let go uncontrollably, his breathing in shambles.

In the emergency, Qi Yan couldn’t find a paper bag. He could only hurriedly say “excuse me” and reached out to cover the man’s mouth and nose for him. His large palm almost covered the lower half of the neighbor’s face, yet left enough space for him to inhale the carbon dioxide mixture. Air currents constantly fanned against his palm and slipped through his fingers.

“Ha-ah… ha-ah…!”

The neighbor instinctively gripped Qi Yan’s arm with both hands, like a drowning person desperately gasping for air. With the palm covering his face, the Alpha’s pheromones were well-restrained, not releasing even a bit. The neighbor’s eyes grew redder as he stared into Qi Yan’s gentle, calm eyes, only slowly beginning to level out after a long time.

The sound of rapid breathing was no longer as painful as it was when he first couldn’t catch his breath. The amplitude of his trembling body became subtle, but he still gripped Qi Yan’s arm tightly, refusing to let go.

“Slow it down a bit more. You don’t need to worry about anything. Gradually return to normal breathing. See? Your rhythm is already becoming steady and slow; no need to be nervous.”

Qi Yan observed the neighbor’s condition. The hand covering his face could clearly feel the airflow of his breath. His palm felt a bit itchy and had become moist, covered in water vapor. Hiding the discomfort in his heart, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“I’m sorry, thank you, ha-ah.!” The neighbor could finally speak clearly. Tears rolled from the corner of his eye onto the back of Qi Yan’s hand, but he refused to close his eyes, keeping them fixed on Qi Yan’s face.

Qi Yan comforted him: “It’s okay, you don’t need to apologize. It was my impulsiveness that scared you; I should be the one apologizing.”

Seeing the other party look up with an urgent expression, his soft lips brushing against Qi Yan’s palm as he tried to speak, Qi Yan stopped him: “Don’t rush to talk. Quiet your mind. Don’t worry about anything. Cast aside all tension and breathe slowly.”

If he had known earlier that the new neighbor was so psychologically fragile that a bit of anxiety would cause respiratory alkalosis, he wouldn’t have come to knock and remind him.

If he had just endured it, it wouldn’t have killed him.

Qi Yan felt some regret and guilt. He unconsciously scrutinized the other’s condition; the breathing was returning to calm. The neighbor had his eyelashes partially lowered, appearing to listen intently to Qi Yan’s words to calm his breathing.

It had only been a fleeting glance outside the door, without much observation. Now, kneeling before the other and covering his mouth and nose, the close-up observation made Qi Yan’s heart twitch violently.

They were really too similar.

Having just woken up from a nightmare, the dream was gradually fading, but a small amount of memory still remained. Qi Yan thought with some trepidation.

Wasn’t this person’s physical frame a bit too similar to the unlucky Omega in the dream?

However, the neighbor seemed even thinner.

But he was also wearing the same style of isolation collar as the person in the dream?

A coincidence. It must be a coincidence. It might be a popular brand he didn’t know about; after all, there are many styles of pheromone isolation collars now. As an Alpha, it was normal for him not to know much about them.

But even the sound of their crying seemed very similar.

Especially the sob that leaked out during the rapid panting just now; it was exactly the same as in the dream.

Having woken from the dream not long ago, the panting and crying still seemed to surround his ears, as if someone were leaning against his ear and weeping.

Qi Yan felt he might be losing his mind; otherwise, how could he confuse a dream with reality? It shouldn’t be possible; such a thing would never happen in this world.

So, it must be a coincidence!