Fouls Prohibited

Huo Tinglan arrived quickly, and when he took Ye Ci away from the infirmary, the self-study period was not over yet.

Accompanying Ye Ci to see a doctor was one of Huo Tinglan’s assistants, surnamed Lin, a middle-aged female Beta with a friendly face. A person with such an identification was convenient to accompany an Omega to see a doctor, so as to avoid arousing suspicion.

The three of them went to a private hospital. There were few people present, so there was no need to get in line.

Assistant Lin took Ye Ci’s arm naturally. Ye Ci didn’t have the strength to dodge, and followed her listlessly. She first accompanied Ye Ci to see the internal medicine department. After they did several tests, she followed the doctor’s advice and went to the gland secretion department. After the doctor finished a series of examinations, he saw that Ye Ci was very uncomfortable and didn’t say much. He opened an infusion order to quickly put him on an intravenous drip, and asked the family to enter the consultation room to talk.

Assistant Lin went to the pharmacy and brought back a paper bag stuffed with medicine. Handing Ye Ci a cup of hot water, she stood at his side to comfort him: “I asked when I passed by the clinic, and Mr. Huo said there was no big problem, so don’t worry.”

“En.” Ye Ci took the paper cup. “Thank you.”

“Sure thing,” Assistant Lin said amiably.

Ye Ci held the paper cup in one hand, grabbed the paper bag on the chair beside him, and gestured shortly: “Please sit down, today . . . . thank you for your hard work.”

“You’re very welcome.” Assistant Lin sat down according to his words, and a slight smile appeared in the corners of her eyes.

She was sent by Huo Tinglan to temporarily take care of the child, and thought it would be difficult to serve a rich and powerful young master of seventeen or eighteen years old, not expecting such a temperament. At first glance, he looked rather cold, but after showing kindness to him, he suddenly became very easy to get along with, well-behaved and polite.

The intravenous drip was obviously right for his symptoms, and after a while, the abdominal pain was relieved. Ye Ci took a sip of hot water, pretended to casually pull out a pill box from the paper bag, and looked down at the instructions.

[Indications:] Suitable for relieving symptoms such as fever, abdominal pain, etc. caused by the development of Omega reproductive cavity.

Ye Ci, who was seriously lacking physiological knowledge about Omegas, was stunned for a few seconds, then rubbed his eyes in disbelief: “!”

. . . . What cavity?!

Reproductive what?!

Ye Ci knew that Omegas had that organ, but he’d had an Alpha’s body until the second differentiation, and it hadn’t grown. He had thought . . . . that it wouldn’t grow.

Ye Ci’s hand shook and squeezed the pill box flat.

After Huo Tinglan learned about the situation from the doctor, he was about to return to the infusion room when he caught a glimpse of Ye Ci in the corner, looking like an embarrassed little tomato.

He had probably just read the instructions for the medication, and that little face was red as if it had been steamed. His eyes were perturbed and confused, but he still pretended to be calm, holding his chin and gripping a deformed pill box in his hand.

Huo Tinglan stopped and looked at him involuntarily, his heart swaying for a while.

Ye Ci was twenty-two years old when the two met in the last life. At that time, he had fully accepted his Omega identity, and Huo Tinglan could not accompany him through this confusing and shameful transition period.

The maturing of an Omega’s body would produce various physiological changes – – 

Hidden cavity development.

A belly that softens to protect the fertilization organs in the body.

Touch became more sensitive.

Suet-like skin, softer than an Alpha’s . . . . .

The Omega part of Ye Ci’s body was maturing.

Like an ovary tightly wrapped in a pod, swelling day by day, plumping up, growing like a round green bean splitting open from the pod.

And this whole process would be witnessed by him.

Huo Tinglan tugged at his neckline, and his throat tightened for a moment.

The Alpha glands, which had been soothed and suppressed for many days, started to become active again.

. . . . . .

In the infusion room, Ye Ci was fiddling with the pill box in a panic, and his thoughts went back and forth.

The number of male Omegas were few, and like female Alphas, they belonged to a sexual minority group. He didn’t know about male Omegas, and also lacked the real sense of being secondarily differentiated. During this time, aside from the scent of his pheromones going from cold pine to sweet vanilla, he had never felt anything, and felt lucky that the second differentiation would continue in this way.

In the end, he received a critical blow from reality.

He was caught off-guard.

He was a boy, and he actually grew a . . . .

And so forth . . . .

He seemed to have overlooked something.

Assistant Lin had said that Huo Tinglan was talking with the doctor in the consultation room.

At that moment, wasn’t Huo-shushu the one talking to the doctor about the growth of his new . . . . birth, genital cavity?!

“ !  ! ”

Ye Ci was horrified. His eyes widened, and he suddenly raised his head and looked out the door.

With this glance, he met a pair of eyes that were as dark as a deep pool. 

Huo Tinglan was standing outside the glass door of the infusion room, watching him.

Ye Ci couldn’t understand that look, full of desire, burning and ambiguous. Like a soft, silky hook, it gently took hold of the pit of his stomach . . . . just a glance, less than a second. The top of his head went numb, and he looked away in shock.

When he looked again, Huo Tinglan had pushed through the door, holding a folded medical report in his hand. He looked at Ye Ci calmly, still the proper gentleman. Due to the presence of outsiders, he downplayed the issue: “It’s only a small problem, don’t worry.”

Ye Ci’s throat was dry and his lips moved, but he didn’t know what to ask.

That glance just now . . . . was it an illusion?

He took the medical report with his head down. Thinking that one fold was not enough, he almost folded it into a tofu cube.

All the way back, he kept secretly shooting glances at Huo Tinglan from the corner of his eyes.

He seemed normal.

The moment they looked at each other by chance, Huo Tinglan raised his eyebrows. Innocent and confused, he asked him what was wrong, and his expression didn’t seem to be fake.

Ye Ci had to wave his hand vaguely. After being caught a few times like this, he didn’t even dare to take a peek, staring straight ahead, more disciplined than military training.

It must be his nerves.

He had misread it.

After sending the assistant back to the company, Huo Tinglan led Ye Ci home. He walked into the study on the third floor and closed the door, then tidied the desk and said warmly: “Come sit down, we need to talk.”

Ye Ci pursed his lips and sat down, but his face was tense, as if he was ready to leave at any time.

Fortunately, Huo Tinglan had already prepared the draft on the way back. He had repeatedly scrutinized every word, trying his best to avoid sensitive ones.

Really . . . . even business negotiations were not so meticulous.

“I had a brief talk with the doctor,” Huo Tinglan said calmly, controlling his tone. “This is a normal phenomenon, there’s no need to worry. But you need to take your medicine on time to relieve the symptoms, and take them for half a month before going in for a checkup . . . . do you have questions?”

Ye Ci’s tense shoulders relaxed, and he shook his head.

Huo Tinglan took a marker and wrote on a prominent place on each pill box as directed by the doctor, three times a day, one tablet at a time. “Also, the doctor thinks the reason your symptoms were so severe this time may be related to bad working and sleeping habits. Uncle He said that lately, the little lamp in your room sometimes stays on until two in the morning. Do you go back to your room and secretly study instead of sleeping?  . . . . Being motivated is a good thing, but if your body is overwhelmed and your eyes are strained, what will you do about the college entrance examination?” He slowly and deliberately counted out Ye Ci’s crimes. Seeing Ye Ci’s stubborn resistance, his eyelid twitched and he said in a low voice: “En?”

“. . . . I understand, Huo-shushu,” Ye Ci said reluctantly.

“Will you stay up late in the future?” Huo Tinglan put the several pill boxes into a paper bag, handed it to Ye Ci, and added, “I was afraid that you would take the medicine indiscriminately, so I marked them for you.”

Ye Ci lowered his eyes and looked at the sharply written instructions on the pill boxes. That warm feeling filled his heart again.

He was softened a bit by that warmth, and hesitated before whispering: “I won’t.”

Huo Tinglan was determined to get rid of Ye Ci’s problem of not caring for his body. Leaning back in the chair, he tapped the desk with his fingertips. As if negotiating in the business field, he carefully looked him over, putting pressure on him, and said solemnly: “Will you really change, or are you bluffing me?”

Ye Ci’s pupils shook slightly: “Really, I won’t. Also, also I’ll stop randomly taking medicine . . . . I’m not bluffing you.”

“So it’s settled. Staying up late until the middle of the night,” Huo Tinglan said in a threatening tone, “If I catch you again . . . .”

Ye Ci was just about to make a promise, when he heard Huo Tinglan add the second half of the sentence leisurely: “You’ll move into my room to sleep.”

Ye Ci was stunned for a moment, and was frightened into stuttering. He shook his head and waved his hands with a red face and ears: “No, no need! I definitely . . . .  won’t, won’t do it again!”

There were almost too many ‘no’s’ in that sentence. Huo Tinglan curved his lips: “Are you that afraid of me?”

“Not afraid,” Ye Ci automatically denied. They had been living together peacefully for a month. Huo Tinglan obviously didn’t mind him, and to be on guard against him acting like a scoundrel was just too . . . . He was afraid that Huo Tinglan would be disheartened, and urgently explained himself: “You are good and upright . . . . but I, I’m used to sleeping by myself.”

After saying this, without giving Huo Tinglan a chance to speak, he grabbed the medicine and fled.

His posture was as if a scoundrel was chasing after him.

As a scoundrel, Huo Tinglan was deeply regretful while recalling those little red ears hidden behind black hair.

After a few words, he just ran away.

And he still had a belly full of words that he didn’t get a chance to say.

– – According to his observations, Ye Ci’s knowledge of Omega physiology was close to nothing.

No matter how careless an Omega was, he wouldn’t be ignorant of the phenomenon of “cavity growth pain,” but Ye Ci was clearly a blank piece of paper. He was in pain for three days and was still taking anti-inflammatory drugs ignorantly. But Omegas were restricted by objective factors, and needed to pay attention to the most problems on a daily basis.

Personally giving a sex education class to a young lover . . . . several rogue thoughts flashed through Huo Tinglan’s mind, and he couldn’t help raising the corners of his lips.

It would be his pleasure.

But it was a pity that Ye Ci would die of shame, and maybe even run away.

Eighteen-year-old Ye Ci was much softer than at twenty-two, but he liked to pretend to be tough.

Like a mimosa, with its tough, slender stem – he was tall and straight, high-spirited, thinking that he stood like a small tree. As a result, as soon as he was scratched by a fingertip, he would curl up like a little cactus in a panic. If Ye Ci was repeatedly scratched and provoked, he feared that he could even squeeze out cactus juice.

This made people want to take pity on him.

But even more, it made people want to bully him.

Huo Tinglan hooked his index finger into his neckline and loosened his tie. His eyes were dark.

When the relationship between the two was closer, when Ye Ci trusted him more and was firmly tied to him, and it was difficult to take a tiny step away from him . . . . that would be enough.

He could coax and bully him at the same time.