He rubbed his forehead and looked around.
The room had returned to its usual quiet.
Everything that had just happened seemed like a hallucination.
He wiped his face and cursed under his breath.
After showering, before he had dried himself, Shao Siyan braced both hands on the washbasin and carefully studied his reflection. He looked no different from usual.
Lowering his head with a self-mocking laugh, he pulled over a bath towel, wrapped it around his waist, and went to dry his hair.
To think he could experience pleasure that intense. If he were still an adolescent lost in dramatic fantasies, he might have believed Chi Junyan was his destined partner and that dual cultivation with him could open every blocked meridian in his body.
That man, whose very name was false, truly was remarkably capable.
Shao Siyan’s gaze darkened again.
When Chi Junyan awakened, he first stared blankly at the window.
The curtains were drawn, so he could not see the sky.
Like an overwound mechanical doll, he turned his head toward the bedside clock one notch at a time. He squinted and calculated for a long while, then widened his eyes in alarm.
Forcing himself upright, he rummaged through the bedside cabinet for the contraceptive medicine he had bought yesterday. Without even fetching water, he pushed out a tablet and swallowed it dry, choking until tears sprang to his eyes.
Gripping the headboard, he repeatedly swallowed. At last, he managed to force down the pill.
Fortunately, it had not quite been twenty-four hours.
Those movements exhausted him, and he lay sprawled on the bed for a long time before gathering strength again.
He sat up. The coolness slowly spreading behind him filled him with shame.
He remembered last night, when he had asked Shao Siyan to use protection. The man had coldly brushed him aside and said, “Didn’t you buy contraceptive medicine?”
“A precaution?”
The man had scoffed.
“There isn’t even one chance in ten thousand.”
“Don’t you just want to play a game of ‘having a baby’? I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll play along.”
Chi Junyan abruptly shook his head as though he could throw out every unbearable memory of the previous night. No, he did not want to have a baby!
In his original world, Chi Junyan had been a specialist employed by the military.
Who said only sentinel Alphas could serve on the front lines?
Guide Omegas had their own areas of expertise.
When extracting information and influencing others, their mental tendrils were more powerful than any truth serum. Because they left no trace, they were also more covert and safer than administering such a drug directly.