After being moved to tears by the sworn enemy's pheromones - Chapter 27
No one objected. Soon, a group of people gathered around the sofa and quickly drew lots. Each person took their designated number.
For convenience, the contents of Truth or Dare were chosen using a mobile app.
Shen Jin’s capacity for alcohol was more than sufficient for such occasions. Unfortunately, Gu Yu, beside him, had consumed two more drinks and seemed slightly intoxicated.
He lowered his head and asked Shen Jin, seated to his right, “Why are you so eager to play this game, Shen Jin?”
“Calling me by my name again?” Shen Jin held the cigarette in his mouth and smirked playfully. “Then don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
He swiftly opened the voice recording app on his phone with the agility of a professional gamer. Taking the opportunity to tease, he said, “I’m not interested in Truth. Call me ‘Senior’ first, and be obedient.”
Gu Yu’s face was cold and self-contained, but his speech was already disordered. “Alright, Senior. I’ll be obedient.”
He appeared earnest, causing Shen Jin to pause. Suppressing a laugh, he quickly tilted his phone towards Gu Yu.
The surrounding noise was loud, but capturing a rough recording was still feasible. Shen Jin felt like he could make a fortune from this segment alone, even without extorting five million, to be looped at Gu Yu’s wedding. He teased Gu Yu a couple more times as “brother” before considering it complete.
Amidst the commotion, Tao Yan drew a slip of paper. The first person selected in this round was number 3, Jiang Lan.
Naturally, everyone enthusiastically cheered for today’s birthday boy, and Shen Jin joked, “A real man always chooses Dare.”
But Gu Yu leaned closer upon hearing this amidst the lively atmosphere and whispered, “Why choose Dare… Senior, don’t you want to hear my truth?”
Gu Yu’s breath carried a hint of alcohol, tickling Shen Jin’s neck.
He shrugged and quickly moved away, explaining, “This round drew Jiang Lan, not you. Besides, what truth could possibly be interesting? I’m not interested in knowing how old you were when you stopped wetting the bed or how many centimeters you are now.”
Initially intending to tease, Shen Jin was caught off guard by Gu Yu’s overly serious tone. He couldn’t help but cover his stomach and the hem of his shirt nervously crumpled.
As an omega, he suddenly felt he might not measure up.
In a sense, he had a stomachache and realized Gu Yu’s eyes were still pure. “Next time, I’ll give you accurate experimental data under precise conditions, okay?”
He dutifully discussed academics, but Shen Jin’s throat churned, quickly pushing him away. “No need!”
Others continued to tease Jiang Lan, who was probably also drunk, smiling and refusing all suggestions, saying, “Choose Truth.”
The app’s host, Song Yizhi, pressed the selection button once. This round’s Truth topic was to describe the person opposite with an animal.
Facing Jiang Lan, he considered his answer thoughtfully, saying, “I’m deciding whether a pig or a dog would be more appropriate.” Soon, this would lead to a fight between rivals.
However, Shen Jin overheard Gu Yu muttering to himself, “Like a little rabbit—twitching when touched, crying when its tail is pulled.”
“What?” Shen Jin flicked away his cigarette. “I told you that’s not a tail!”
In less than half a second, he realized Gu Yu had tricked him. He clenched his teeth and added, “Listen, a lion or tiger, pick one to describe me. At worst, that pet turtle you kept, at least it lived a long time.”
But Gu Yu’s mouth twitched slightly, reminiscing about the white moonlight he was forced to break up with. “No, a little turtle… I only loved Mianmian.”
Shen Jin surrendered, completely giving up on communicating with the intoxicated Gu Yu: “Sooner or later, I’ll cook Mianmian into soup.”
After several rounds of games, questions included first kisses, 20 push-ups on the spot, and going to the next room for food. Tao Yan was forced to sit on Jiang Lan’s lap in the ninth round. Seeing his own slip drawn, Shen Jin said nonchalantly, “Let’s go with Dare.”
Song Yizhi smiled at Shen Jin and raised his chin. “I knew Senior would choose this.”
After exchanging smiles, Song Yizhi lowered his head to tap the app for selection.
Everyone else was either cheering or drinking and eating. Only Tao Yan, with his peripheral vision, observed Song Yizhi tapping the screen once or perhaps several times.
After selecting, Song Yizhi placed his phone on the table. The screen displayed the Dare for this round: feed the person on your right a potato chip with your mouth, without kissing.
This was probably the most challenging task in several rounds. People leaned over to look at the screen, and some put down their half-drunk glasses. The room grew even livelier.
“Damn, wouldn’t a long biscuit be normal? How big are potato chips?”
“Son, don’t lose your father’s face. People in the city have already switched to candy. Can you be a little more knowledgeable?”
“Okay, okay, if you want me to say it, just hug and kiss your brother.”
Everyone was puzzled, and in the midst of laughter, Song Yizhi tore open the bag of potato chips and handed them to Shen Jin. “Senior, give it a try. It’s not difficult.”
Shen Jin tightened his grip on his palm, hesitating to take the potato chip. Song Yizhi stuffed the blue package into his hand, saying, “Here, it’s rare for Brother Jiang Lan to celebrate his birthday today. Everyone is happy.”
At this point, Shen Jin couldn’t directly refuse either.
Sitting to his right at this moment was Tao Yan.
Both of them seemed hesitant, unsure of what to do.
Tao Yan opened his mouth to say something, but the surrounding drunken voices drowned him out. Shen Jin could only clutch the bag of potato chips tightly, reluctantly turning towards his right.
In the swaying light, he leaned back slightly, but still managed to take out a chip and bite the edge, knowing he had to admit defeat.
Someone said, “It’s okay, just take a small bite. Can we call it good?”
In this atmosphere, Shen Jin couldn’t back out. He was so nervous that he felt tense all over, holding his breath as he leaned closer, hoping the potato chip in his mouth would break cleanly.
His foggy purple hair obscured his overheated ears. Just as he instinctively raised his left hand to retreat for help, Tao Yan suddenly staggered, as if accidentally bumped by someone.
The distance between the two was about to close instantly, but Gu Yu’s hand moved faster than everything else.
The air froze for half a second as Shen Jin was abruptly pulled back by Gu Yu, almost stumbling.
The surrounding voices seemed to change urgently. Before Shen Jin could regain his senses, Gu Yu had already leaned down, tilting his face to hold the potato chip in Shen Jin’s mouth. His eyes lifted to meet Shen Jin’s, shining like myriad ice and snow, pure and transparent, captivating.
There seemed to be an explosion in his ears, but nothing compared to Shen Jin hearing his own heartbeat.
The closeness between the two was too much for him to comprehend what was happening. He trembled involuntarily, just as Gu Yu described, shaking at the slightest touch.
At that moment, he was about to give up on being a long-lived turtle. He might really be a little rabbit being kneaded in the palm of Gu Yu’s hand.
He was dumbfounded, barely daring to breathe too hard. The tangy flavor of the potato chip quickly broke in the smell of alcohol. Someone seemed to want to declare the end of the challenge, but Gu Yu went a step further. In front of everyone, he bit the remaining half of the chip in Shen Jin’s mouth again.
This time, their faces were so close that their fur seemed to be brushing together.
Shen Jin’s tightly clenched palm instantly grew hotter and hotter. He wanted to pull away, but Gu Yu held his wrist lightly as if to soothe him into compliance.
After marking each other, the pheromones between them were only detectable to each other.
The exclusive scent of strawberry liqueur intensified, invading Shen Jin’s entire body in front of everyone, secretive yet unrestrained, making him unable to stop trembling and pleading.
But the alpha in front of him kept grinding him bit by bit with his breath, patient, lingering, meticulous, and irresistible.
Not exaggerating, at that moment Gu Yu was like a beautiful beast playing with his prey under his claws. The thoroughly wet little rabbit struggled under him, belly up, without the slightest possibility of escape.
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In a moment of advance and retreat, Shen Jin was about to give in.
Finally, their lips barely touched, and only then did Gu Yu release him, quickly pressing a light kiss on Shen Jin’s lips to take the last piece of potato chip.
Caught off guard, Shen Jin’s pupils were full of astonishment, frozen in place.
Gu Yu’s breath lingered on his lips, making his chest swell with the thumping of his heartbeat, his voice barely coming out, “What—what are you doing?”
Bullying the teacher and destroying the ancestor, all treason and betrayal.
Suddenly, everyone realized that Gu Yu was asserting dominance, and their astonishment increased.
After a while, everyone agreed that changing the recipient of the potato chip wouldn’t hurt anyone. The game challenge ended there—so no one expected Gu Yu to casually grab Shen Jin’s chin, place another chip in his mouth, and earnestly answer his question, “Of course, eating potato chips.”
Immediately, the previous process repeated itself, catching everyone off guard, and the room erupted in voices.
“Oh my God—”
“? Once can be sadistic, but twice is against the law!”
“Wait, why does Wild King treat me like this on the first day we met?”
Amidst the noisy voices, Gu Yu once again retrieved the desired potato chip from Shen Jin’s lips, satisfying himself, then distanced himself, muttering to himself, “Lime flavor… delicious.”
Shen Jin’s gaze trembled, too afraid to speak again, especially since Gu Yu seemed to have a strange sense of crisis, reaching out to loosely encircle his chin, making it impossible for him to move.
His whole body felt weak. It took him almost half a minute to stabilize his breathing and hastily push the remaining potato chips back to Song Yizhi. “Yizhi, you have them.”
The effect of the pheromones still lingered, sneaking into his entire body and kneading him—afraid that if he didn’t take away the potato chips again, he might not be able to withstand another round with his sensitive physique.
In a sense, Gu Yu saying he was like a little rabbit wasn’t entirely derogatory.
In the increasing smell of alcohol, Song Yizhi held the bag of potato chips, his lips tightly sealed.
After a while, he looked at Shen Jin, who still looked bewildered, to confirm something, “Just now, did Brother Gu Yu drink too much and not understand the rules of the game? If that counts as a kiss… was it Senior’s first kiss?”
If it was his first kiss, everything between Gu Yu and Shen Jin before would still be worth questioning. Clearly, Shen Jin didn’t have the time to think carefully about his question, instinctively answering honestly, “Huh? No.”
“…” Song Yizhi was momentarily too shocked to speak, and Tao Yan, sitting between the two, called him out first, “Yizhi, come here for a moment… I have something to tell you.”
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The party didn’t disperse until 9 PM.
In the cooling autumn breeze, others were playing around, but Shen Jin was pulled by Gu Yu, who was worried, holding his hand and leading him out of the villa.