Journey to the Rose

Who is near me?

Ruan Xi didn't realize the meaning of this sentence for a while, until he noticed Lu Zhenghe's expression was not right, the other party seemed to smell something.

Thinking of Wei Hong, thinking of the strange soldiers who were killed, Ruan Xi thought of the strange smell of pheromones that surrounded him, he didn't know how to speak, because he didn't intend to question Lu Zhenghe right now.

He wanted to hear the other party's confession more than the other party's sudden questions.

"What's wrong?" Ruan Xi asked.

Lu Zhenghe leaned forward, "You have the smell of other alphas... more than one."

Ruan Xi didn't know how to answer for a moment.

I underestimated Alpha's "territorial awareness".

Ruan Xi had never encountered such a situation when she was with Lu Zhenghe as a couple before.

In school, there were occasional other pre-differentiated alphas releasing pheromones, most of which were captured in time by the teachers of the Academic Affairs Office and the Moral Education Office, but Lu Zhenghe just followed him inseparably, covering up all the auras that did not belong to the two of them.

Leaving the territory of the city of fire, the heavy rain turned into light rain.The rain pattered until it stopped.

There is no sun in the ice city, only snow.

The inside of the car was too stuffy, Ruan Xi pushed down the window.

A few flakes fell between them, soft and cold and showing no sign of melting.

From childhood to adulthood, Ruan Xi belonged to the kind of thin-skinned person who has learned everything, but has never learned to lie.Usually, when it comes to things that need to be concealed, one either does not speak up, or speaks the truth, but now he does not know how to fool the past.

"Who is it?" Lu Zhenghe repeated.

His tone was sullen, and his natural strength brought an invisible sense of oppression to Ruan Xi.

His eyes seemed to be staring, and when he blinked, it seemed like tears were falling down the corners of his eyes.That feeling is like an injured bird falling into the ocean from a high altitude, and its feathers shattered on the water.

damn...

What on earth?

And obviously it was your brother who came to trouble me, he wanted to ntr you, how could you take it out on me!

Ruan Xi felt wronged.

He raised his head and greeted the other party with calm eyes, "Maybe some ignorant alphas can't control their pheromones in public."

"The ignorant alpha," Lu Zhenghe repeated clearly word by word, "Do you have any old acquaintances of yours?"

The words "old acquaintance" completely annoyed Ruan Xi.

He has a cold personality, doesn't like to cause trouble, and is the kind of person who always says "take care of yourself" on his face, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't care about it, and doesn't mind being hurt by someone close to him.On the contrary, Ruan Xi felt that he was very sensitive, especially able to care about every detail, as long as it was uncomfortable, he could break apart every little thing and explain it to others.

This is him from before.

What about him now?

He felt Lu Zhenghe's irritability, but coincidentally, he also became restless.

After locking the car door, Ruan Xi's eyes were calm and unwavering. He stared at a slow-moving glacier outside the window, and then was in a daze.

The off-road vehicles are still on the ice floes, and the ice floes are still swimming quietly on the glaciers. They are like floating coffins drifting and being transported to other cities.

Nodding, he was so angry that he didn't even want to look at Lu Zhenghe, "Yes, an old acquaintance."

"Who? Is that your sweetheart?" Lu Zhenghe's brows did not relax.

Ruan Xi turned her head, and then turned her gaze to his lover.

But at this moment, the other party looked like the most pitiful person in the world.

Poor people must have something to hate, and what he hates is as much as the unmarried who pretended all the way.

This is like the contractual marriage Ruan Xi imagined, and it doesn't seem like it.

It should take it by force, and give it up to others if it is of no use value... But Ruan Xi still doesn't know why Lu Zhenghe protects himself to go to the snow mountain since Lu Zhenghe doesn't want him anymore?

"No," Ruan Xi suppressed her anger, unwilling to say more, "I don't have any sweetheart."

The other party emphasized again damningly: "This is the taste of alpha."

"Is it related to you?" Ruan Xi's eyes were red.

He was very worried about his problem of red eyes when he was emotional, and his obviously reasonable momentum was greatly weakened.

Lu Zhenghe answered very readily: "Yes."

Ruan Xi almost laughed angrily: "Are you not familiar with this smell?"

"……unfamiliar."

"What do you think it is? Any man you met in Fire City?"

"Ruan Xi, I didn't mean that." Lu Zhenghe looked at him.

Yes, after the initial trust crumbles, fragments break everything.

They are hurting each other with words.

"Is that how you see me?"

When Ruan Xi became angry, her words were extremely harsh: "Besides, what are you going to do with me, with your noble status?"

"take……"

With sharp eyes, Lu Zhenghe saw that Ruan Xi had drawn half of the blade out of the scabbard hanging at his waist, "What are you going to do?"

Ruan Xi didn't answer him, and took out a piece of clean gauze from his pocket with the other hand, his voice became cold, "Don't ask who it is anymore. Come on, don't talk nonsense, let's fight, whoever survives will continue go forward."

After finishing speaking, he bit the gauze in his mouth, slowly pulled out the rest of the knife blade completely, turned sideways, and the tip of the knife touched the steering wheel in the car, and a hole was cut in the leather fabric.

The tip of the knife changed direction and advanced a few inches until it touched Lu Zhenghe's chest.

They had just entered the ice city, before they had time to change into thick coats, Lu Zhenghe was still wearing a cool short-sleeved gym suit.

Seeing his overly calm appearance, Ruan Xi suddenly felt tired.

He wanted to cut off the silk thread with his own hands, but the other party did not dodge in the slightest.The more calm Lu Zhenghe was, the more Ruan Xi felt that he was so pitiful that he had nowhere to hide, and he didn't even have the strength to refute.

"If you want to make a call, it shouldn't be here. Get out of the car and call again."

Lu Zhenghe didn't dodge his knife, and forced the tip of the knife to rest on his chest, and he was not unfamiliar with the sharpness of the knife tip.

As long as Ruan Xi takes one step further, the skin under the knife will be cut open.

In the end Ruan Xi still lost.

He put down the knife, clenched his fists, and put on the posture of starting over, "After this fight, when we get to Bingcheng, let's go our separate ways."

"Impossible." Lu Zhenghe refused flatly, "Not everything can be solved by force, Ruan Xi."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ruan Xilinmen punched him, hitting his collarbone impartially.Lu Zhenghe let out a muffled groan in pain, and then his back was firmly pushed against the car door. It seemed that if he pushed a little harder, the whole car would fall off the ice floe.

He could feel the whole body shaking.

The attacked part of Lu Zhenghe's body quickly turned red, even faintly purple.

He is a distinguished young master, and he has never been beaten like this. He endured the first attack, but when Ruan Xi punched him for the second time, Lu Zhenghe grabbed his arm, turned forward, and leaned over to press Ruan Xi violently. Get on the back of the driver's seat.

He can't let the boundless flames of war continue to burn between each other.

The breath of two people is close at hand.

The air was sticky and the atmosphere was hot, and they suddenly returned to the city of fire, or the night they met in the city of ablaze, which was terrible and beautiful.

One of Ruan Xi's hands was pressed under her body, and the other hand was tightly clamped by Lu Zhenghe's wrist.

His palm is free, can be turned over, and the five fingers can also move, and his palm is right next to Lu Zhenghe's cheek.There is no doubt that Ruan Xi is considering whether to give up the brutal force and give him a loud slap in the face.

Ruan Xi gritted his teeth, trying to make Lu Zhenghe feel ignorant.

However, Ruan Xi couldn't do anything.

He just blinked, venting dissatisfaction from those eyes.It's a pity that Ruan Xi was born well enough, once his mood is low, his eyes are always attractive enough, they look like tears from any angle, and people can't help but want to care.

Lu Zhenghe seemed to ignore his mental attack, and suddenly pulled the distance closer.

The breathing between the nostrils was heavy.

Ruan Xi's heart was filled with words like "farewell without saying goodbye", "forgotten", and "deceived", and his pain flowed into it, like a half-filled water bottle being shaken and jingling.

"You can kill me now," Ruan Xi licked her lips, tasting a bloody smell, "I will save a lot of trouble if I die."

"Kill you?"

"Ah."

"why?"

But Lu Zhenghe was too close.

Maybe it's because of the humid air, Ruan Xi's hair was sticky like water, and it rubbed against his forehead every now and then.As soon as Lu Zhenghe approached, he also felt the tingling breath.

"why……"

Ruan Xi closed her eyes, feeling some warm liquid overflowing from her eye sockets, out of control.

He gritted his teeth, bit his tongue, wanted to speak, but couldn't, just wanted to swallow the embarrassing tears, but unfortunately the piece of gauze was not there, even if he bit his mouth full of blood, the tears would still come out by themselves.

He lowered his eyes in a panic, afraid of being seen by Lu Zhenghe.

He began to wonder, when do people close their eyes and see nothing?When kissing, yes, when two people's lips meet.

It's so close anyway—

Thinking about it, Ruan Xi pulled out the hand that was under her body, stretched out the palm from the arms of the two people, and quietly held Lu Zhenghe's face.

Then he kissed it.

A muffled groan was sealed in Lu Zhenghe's throat.

No depth, no overwhelming intensity.

Ruan Xi opened her eyes secretly, and saw the other party's eyes closed.

Affected by the environment of the ice city, he felt Lu Zhenghe's lips were cold, like the north that would never tell his miss.

Then, Lu Zhenghe made a shot, turned his back on the guest, and propped his strong arms above the back of the chair.

The truce ended, and the easing atmosphere only lasted for a few seconds. Ruan Xi was forced to open his lips and teeth, ushering in an overwhelming attack.He panted lowly, the hand holding the face was taken away, and then pressed to the top of the head.

The long-lost kiss makes the miss overwhelming.

When it was over, Ruan Xi wanted to cry even more.

His wrist that was pressed on top of his head was still firmly held down, Lu Zhenghe's attack was too fierce, he couldn't grasp anything, and he didn't know what to grasp, so he could only pull the seat belt in vain, hold on tightly Let go again.

He never thought that a long-lost reunion kiss could be so long.

The interior of the car is filled with a complex and charming smell, like dense thorns.This smell of roses gave Ruan Xi a sharp tingling sensation.

After the kiss was over, Lu Zhenghe touched the tip of his sweaty nose.

The man in front of him stepped back a little, leaving a distance between the two of them for communication.

Lu Zhenghe stared at him, with a kind of pain in his eyes that made people almost cry.After a while, Ruan Xi's hand was suddenly lifted, and the middle finger touched a cold touch.

That's a ring.

To be precise, a wedding ring.

And this wedding ring is being solemnly and slowly put on Ruan Xi's middle finger by Lu Zhenghe.

What does this mean, recruited?

Ruan Xi was completely stunned, unable to make any expression.

"You know what, we're married."

Lu Zhenghe's expression is so sincere, like a couple who swears at a wedding, saying "I do" with the most sincere attitude in my life.

Lu Zhenghe was aware of the strange smell on Ruan Xi's body, but he was not sure.

The two brothers usually get along for a short time, and they don't get along. Although blood is thicker than water, Lu Zhenghe is extremely disgusted by the completely opposite smell from his body.

He could smell the breath from different people from Ruan Xi, but he didn't dare to be reckless.The smell was not like roses, nor did it have any dull allure, but like a cedar forest behind the mountains after a heavy rainstorm.

He fully felt this smell after getting close to Ruan Xi just now, until Wei Hong's name vaguely appeared in his mind.

Except when she becomes talkative when she is in a good mood, Ruan Xi has always been icy at other times.Apart from being deceived, Lu Zhenghe couldn't think of any other reason for him to be angry.

Just confess it.

At worst, he would be beaten up, but no matter how hard he tried, there might still be room for redemption.

"We...really married?" Ruan Xi repeated with difficulty.

"Yes. I have always carried the wedding ring on my body, thinking that one day I can tell you the truth." He lowered his head and raised the back of Ruan Xi's hand, "Forgive me."

Ruan Xi didn't mention whether to forgive or not, but repeatedly confirmed, "Will the doomed Omega that the prophet predicted for you be me?"

"I think so..." Lu Zhenghe couldn't laugh, "Maybe we met at the North-South rally when we were young?"

He remembered the prophecy that he had met when he was a minor.

But I never left ablaze city before I was an adult.Ruan Xi really wanted to answer this way, but held back.

really.

Lu Zhenghe had a look of conscience on his face, but he really didn't remember anything.

do you like me?Ruan Xi didn't dare to ask.

Perhaps it was God who had mercy on him, and such a result was already relatively good.At least he has a high probability of being the omega of the one he loves, and he is the one who has the right to go to the end of his life with him.

Seeing that Ruan Xi didn't speak, Lu Zhenghe raised his eyes to look at the face that made him feel pain.

Lu Zhenghe studied military force and how to be a leader in the army, but no one taught him how to love someone.

But he knows that love is not only joy, but also pain, and Ruan Xi's hatred can make him feel an inexplicable tear in his chest.

Even though they were married long ago.

Meeting Ruan Xi's beautiful eyes, Lu Zhenghe heard his heart beating like thunder.

Ruan Xi's breathing was very thin, as if she was forcibly enduring something.

He opened his mouth, and the words he spit out trembled slightly: "Lu Zhenghe...sometimes I really want to cut your neck off."

Lu Zhenghe didn't move, just replied: "Yes."

"You kept it from me all the way, seeing me worrying about the marriage contract, seeing me like a doll being teased, don't you have a sense of accomplishment?" Ruan Xi raised his eyelids suddenly, a circle of blush occupied his eye sockets, The fist tightened more and more, "Do you think that I am just something you two brothers are fighting for?"

"No."

The finger that wanted to touch him was stiff for a moment, and Lu Zhenghe's tone became tough, "I never have."

"Really," Ruan Xi forced a sneer, "Why didn't you think about canceling the engagement?"

"I had this plan at the beginning. But after seeing you..." Lu Zhenghe's Adam's apple rolled up and down when he spoke, "I found that I was the one who was favored by luck, and you were the one who was wronged."

Can't listen to his shit, it's a jerk.

Ruan Xi closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down, not to be fooled by Lu Zhenghe's words now.He collected himself and said, "You mean we should continue our spouse relationship?"

"If you are willing," Lu Zhenghe said, "I will fulfill all the obligations that an alpha should have for you."

Ruan Xi really sneered now: "Including going to bed?"

Seeing his nonchalant attitude, Lu Zhenghe was a little injured, his grip on his arm became loose, and finally he had to cry out as if begging for mercy: "Ruan Xi."

"I don't believe you."

Ruan Xi stared at him closely, as if she wanted to see a little bit of pain from those deep eyes...but there was only guilt.

Ruan Xi sighed, and looked away as if accepting her fate.

"No matter what, you have to live," Lu Zhenghe said, "no matter what it is for, whether it's for yourself or for the city of Ablaze, you must live."

Ruan Xi was thinking that if there was no such a disaster that had been foreseen for a long time, if the residents on the land were willing to believe in the prophecy, many deaths could be avoided.

On the day of the wedding, he would take a helicopter to Zenith City in the backyard of Ruan's Manor, and then smoothly meet the person he had been thinking about day and night.Maybe it will be shot down, maybe there will be unexpected events, but it is definitely not like this.

He raised his eyes with a cold attitude: "won't you go to your hometown with me?"

"Yes," Lu Zhenghe forced a smile, put the tip of his nose against Ruan Xi's bright forehead, and softened his attitude, "Bringing you home is the second thing I want to accomplish right now."

"What about the first?"

"Let you survive."

Hearing what he said, Ruan Xi looked up at him: "What about you?"

Lu Zhenghe avoided answering, supported the back of Ruan Xi's head with the palm of his hand, and carefully strapped it to his chest. Ruan Xi buried his face in his neck and did not resist for a while.

The whole world is quiet.

The glaciers and rivers are still, and the sky seems to be blooming with gorgeous fireworks.

Ruan Xi adjusted her emotions for a while, then stepped back, deliberately trying to avoid Lu Zhenghe's approach.

He suddenly imagined everything they should have had.

They should have had a citywide celebration, red roses all over the wedding venue, gorgeous and intricate gowns, a happy and annoyingly complicated ceremony, and congratulations from all their friends and family.

He looked into Lu Zhenghe's eyes, and for a moment didn't know what relationship he should use to face him.

And Lu Zhenghe seemed to be asking him with his eyes: Will you fall in love with me?

I have loved you for many years.Ruan Xi thought.

Glacier·37 What about your husband?