[Esports] Pheromones say we're a match made in heaven.

Chi Feifan initially just wanted to stand there and space out for a while.

Anyway, when he entered the internet cafe, he found that the song was still playing for some reason. Maybe the receptionist accidentally turned it on repeat.

But before long, he actually started to listen to what the girl was saying, letting it go in one ear and out the other.

It turns out that this girl had a crush on a boy in college for four years, but she was afraid that they wouldn't even be able to remain friends, so she never dared to confess her feelings.

Near graduation, the two had a small misunderstanding and deleted each other's contact information. It wasn't until today that she learned from a friend that the boy had also liked her for a long time.

Unfortunately, after graduation, the boy went abroad to study, and the two went their separate ways, perhaps never to meet again in the vast sea of ​​people.

The girl was heartbroken to suddenly lose someone very important to her, but what was even more painful was realizing, upon looking back, that she had never truly possessed him in the first place.

"If I had been braver back then, would I have missed out on him?"

For some reason, those words struck a nerve with Chi Feifan.

He looked down at the girl squatting on the ground, then looked away before she could look at him, and rubbed his nose.

He pursed his lips, and after a long pause, managed to utter a dry sentence: "You can be brave now too."

"But I don't know where he is, and I don't have any way to contact him..."

"Don't you have any mutual friends? He went to study abroad, it's not like his whole family moved away, you can't go to his house..." Realizing that his tone wasn't very good, Chi Feifan paused halfway through his sentence, "If we think of more ways, we can definitely get in touch."

The girl's tears had almost dried in the wind: "He won't approve it. We had a big fight before."

Chi Feifan frowned even more: "It's just a misunderstanding. It's not like I don't like you anymore. Can't we just talk it out?"

At this point, Chi Feifan unconsciously clenched his fist in his pocket.

His thoughts had been in turmoil these past few days, especially when he saw Qin Yi; his mind became a complete mess. So, he'd often gone out to clear his head, trying to calm down and think things through.

The shadow cast by his family of origin is hard to erase, making it difficult for him to fully trust anyone again.

He's here encouraging girls to be brave, but he himself is a coward.

The girl wiped away her tears and gripped the tissue in her hand tightly: "I understand, thank you. I really can't bear to live with this regret for the rest of my life. I'll try to find a way."

The smell of nicotine spread through his nasal cavity. After the girl left, Chi Feifan smoked another cigarette. He hadn't smoked in so long that he almost choked on it.

Smoking used to be a way to relax for a short time, but now it doesn't feel that great.

Chi Feifan took a deep breath and stubbed out his cigarette on the dark gray cement wall.

I'm not going to think about it anymore. I'll have to tell Qin Yi sooner or later anyway, so I might as well tell him tonight.

As for Qin Yi's reaction after hearing this, he had imagined countless possible outcomes these past few days, both good and bad, and he was mentally prepared.

Back on the second floor of the internet cafe, Cheng Yuan had finished his game and was curled up in a chair watching a beautiful live streamer dance.

Cheng Yuan looked up: "Why did you take so long? I was just about to call you."

Chi Feifan glanced at the time: "Something came up along the way, I have to go now."

He got off the plane, hailed a taxi on the roadside, and expertly gave the Chi family's address. There was some traffic on the way, and what should have been a half-hour drive turned into an hour.

Chi Feifan stood in front of the familiar villa. No one had lived in the Chi family for a long time. All the servants in the house had been dismissed by Jiang Wei. The huge house looked dark and empty under the deep blue sky. The yard was also messy, and there were many weeds growing by the roadside.

With a creak, Chi Feifan pushed open the courtyard gate and walked up the stone path to the steps in front of the villa.

He was about to raise his hand to open the door.

"Hey, are you Chi Jianye's son?" A rough, hoarse male voice came from behind.

Chi Feifan turned around and saw two unfamiliar middle-aged men standing at the bottom of the steps. One of them was tall and thin, with a cigarette in his mouth, while the other was the man who had just spoken. His hair was completely sparse and clean enough to reflect a mirror.

Chi Feifan didn't respond, his gaze was icy.

The bald man took it as a tacit agreement: "Chi Jianye owes money and won't pay it back. You're his son, so you have to help him pay it back. We're just helping our boss collect debts. It's only right that a son should pay his father's debts. We don't want to make things difficult for you. So, we won't charge you interest. Just pay back the principal."

"How much do you owe?"

"One million four hundred and fifty thousand."

It's clear that Chi Jianye didn't borrow the money through legitimate channels.

Chi Feifan thought for a moment: "Debts are settled when a person dies. He's in jail now, so it'll be faster for you to go in and kill him."

Bald man: "..."

We live in a society governed by the rule of law. They had been to jail twice before for violent debt collection, and now they get nervous whenever they hear about such places.

Seeing Chi Feifan open the door with an indifferent expression, the two looked at each other for a while.

Is this kid really Chi Jianye's son? He didn't even blink when they told him to kill Chi Jianye.

Chi Feifan had just stepped inside when another taxi pulled up at the gate.

Qin Yi got out of the taxi and saw two middle-aged men in the yard. His S-level pheromones immediately surged: "What do you want?"

The two were overwhelmed by the pheromones and couldn't breathe. They couldn't get much money from Chi Jianye's son anyway, so they didn't dare to stay there any longer and slunk away, covering their noses.

Chi Feifan looked at Qin Yi striding towards the villa, somewhat surprised: "Why are you here?"

"Didn't Aunt Jiang ask you to come and check tonight if there's anything you need to take? I happen to be free tonight, so I'll help you pack up."

By the light of the streetlights and moonlight, Chi Feifan noticed that Qin Yi's face seemed paler than usual. When Qin Yi approached him, he first smelled the disinfectant and alcohol smell of a hospital, and then his gaze fell on Qin Yi's neck.

Chi Feifan's pupils contracted.

"What happened to your glands? Why are you wearing gauze?"

Qin Yi's down jacket was zipped up, the collar inside was pulled down, and the area around the nape of his neck was covered with thick, breathable gauze, from which the scent of hyacinths wafted out.

"I received a pheromone-blocking injection."

The words "pheromone blocking needle" struck Chi Feifan like a heavy hammer, making his ears ring.

"What did you say?"

"I just had the pheromone blocking injection this afternoon," Qin Yi repeated slowly but firmly.

The pheromone-blocking injection is injected directly into the glands, which are extremely vulnerable areas for both Alphas and Omegas.

This needle is very expensive; it was only developed a couple of years ago.

Chi Feifan felt like he couldn't breathe, and his throat was trembling. He grabbed Qin Yi's clothes and said, "Do you know what the consequences of getting this kind of injection are?"

"I know." Qin Yi's expression was calm and his tone was very composed. "After receiving this injection, I can no longer smell the pheromones of other Omegas, unless it's a pheromone that is 100% compatible with mine."

Only 0.001% of people worldwide can differentiate into S-level Alphas, whose hearing is three times that of ordinary people, dynamic vision is twice as good, and sense of smell is five times as good.

The sensitive and complex olfactory nerves can distinguish dozens or even hundreds of odors at the same time.

They are more than ten times more sensitive to Omega pheromones than other Alphas. This is a kind of survival of the fittest ingrained in the genes of a race in order to quickly find a suitable partner and reproduce higher quality offspring.

The probability of a 100% match in this world is even smaller than the probability of differentiating into an S-level Alpha. Scientific data shows that it is infinitely close to zero. Therefore, this kind of needle is widely used in the military field to prevent Alpha soldiers from being affected by pheromones.

But now, the first exception has occurred after the injection of the nerve block.

"I went to the hospital to see a doctor today. I heard that your second differentiation is complete, but the lifelong markers can never be removed. You've been avoiding me these past few days because of this. I wonder if I guessed right."

Qin Yi smiled. After the anesthesia wore off, the pain in the back of his neck made every word he spoke feel like a million needles piercing his glands.

"Since you can only be bound to me, shouldn't I be bound to you in the same way to make it seem fair?"

The villa was completely silent; you could hear a pin drop in the empty house.

A long time passed—

"Qin Yi, are you stupid?"

Chi Feifan felt like he'd been punched in the nose; the pain made his tone even more foul than his expression.

But the hand gripping Qin Yi trembled uncontrollably, and her eyes seemed to be filled with sand: "What if I change my mind? When did I ever say I wanted to be bound to you for life..."