Chapter 113
Li Songyun almost didn't recognize Jiao Jian , Jiao Jian's brand new outfit today cleared away the decadence of his body, the strong smell of tobacco was replaced by a milky perfume.
Li Songyun asked Jiao Jian in a lowered voice, while the live camera was focused on Tang Bai sampling the food, "Why are you wearing milk candy perfume?"
Jiao Jian hesitated for a moment and whispered back to him, "I saw your circle of friends say that the milky pheromones smell good."
Did his circle of friends say that?
Li Songyun was deep in thought, after pondering for a long time, he suddenly remembered that he did make a similar remark a long time ago, but it was more than ten years ago, when Tang Bai had just differentiated into an omega, Jiang Youwen took Tang Bai to measure the flavor of the pheromone, it was a sweet milky candy flavor.
In the past, the Tang family used to dress Tang Bai in alpha clothes. That time, when the gender differentiation was complete, he accompanied Jiang Youwen to pick out omega children's clothes.
Tang Bai was very cute when he was little, even more so when he wore the lace trimmed dress, he hugged little Tang Bai, who had just completed his differentiation at this time, and would emit pheromones when he was excited, a sweet milky candy flavor.
"Uncle Lai, does everyone not like my pheromones?" Little Tang Bai buried her face into his arms, her little hands clutching his shirt like kitten claws.
"Why do you say that?" He asked Tang Bai softly.
"Grandpa, Dad, and Mom smelled my pheromones and they weren't happy."
He didn't know how to comfort Tang Bai , and could only softly say, "But Uncle Lai likes milk candy flavored pheromones the best."
By this time Tang Bai already had his own light brain and would brush his friends' circles. When he came home that day, he made a point of posting a friend's circle, reaffirming that he really liked milky-flavored pheromones.
Tang Bai liked the friend circle.
Li Songyun smelled Jiao Jian's artificial milk-sugar flavoring for a moment, not sure how to explain it, but it smelled much better than cigarette smoke.
"Although it still tastes like pink fruit, it somehow feels even more delicious." Tang Bai barfed the pink rabbit mecha and replied to the screen full of "How can you eat a rabbit when it's so cute?" pop-ups, "Next time I'll teach you how to make delicious rabbit meat."
Pop-up: "!"
Tang Bai finishes his fruit and helps Li Songyun take out the cleaned grass carp, which he kills crisply with a pat on his little hand, removing the head and tail, and filleting the fish with his knife.
Li Songyun also joined the filleting brigade, he trimmed the cut off fillets into fan shapes while explaining, "The dish I'm going to teach you to make today is called Peony Fish Meat, it's a famous imperial cuisine, it sounds difficult, but the method is not difficult, it only requires patience, care and proficiency, the finished product is elegant and beautiful, it's a good dish for entertaining guests of a home-cooked dish."
Tang Bai nodded along next to me, "I've also made antique food like Buddha Jumping Wall, it's not difficult like Oyster Fish Fillet, it's just time-consuming and labor-intensive, so if you're interested I can teach you to make Buddha Jumping Wall at home sometime as well."
Pop-up: "......"
"Redefining home cooking.
[Is that what you omega's in the Culinary Department of the Liturgical Institute do at home? New life goal there! To marry an omega from the Ceremonial Academy!
[No need. Teacher really thinks too highly of me.]
Despite Tang Bai's help, the process of handling the fillets is still lengthy. In addition to constructing the shape of the fillets, they need to be pressed by hand or tapped with a tool to loosen them for easier shaping.
While Li Songyun was marinating the fish, he would take the time to answer questions from the pop-ups, such as "What does Gu Tunan like to eat".
Selling his son is something that doesn't bother Li Songyun, who replies, "Xiao Nan used to have no particular preference for food, but now he occasionally buys desserts at home, like Ma Kalong and the like."
Gu Tunan didn't even have a big sweet tooth when he was a kid.
I don't know why I suddenly have a sweet tooth.
At this moment, Jiao Jian was sitting on the sofa in the living room to deal with official business, he wanted to finish the work at hand early, then he could help Li Songyun lay down the hands.
At that moment, Jiao Jian heard the doorbell.
Are Li Songyun's friends celebrating Li Songyun's move?
Jiao Jian stood up and walked to the door of the room where he saw a pair of gray-blue eyes through the cat's eye.
Gu Tunan?
I heard from Li Songyun that Gu Tunan is coming to the new house tonight too.
...... And so on.
Jiao Jian narrowed his eyes, and after getting a good look at the face that resembled Gu Tunan's but was more mature and cold, his originally lazy expression instantly became alert, like a lion staring at an intruder in his territory.
"Major General Gu, as I recall you've already divorced Li Songyun, isn't it a bit inappropriate to intrude on Songyun as your ex-husband?"
Gu Mian heard the lazy tones of an alpha coming from the communication device on the door, the exact same timbre as the alpha that had appeared on Li Songyun's live broadcast.
On his way here, he remembered why he thought this alpha looked familiar; while pulling up the home's security video, Gu Mian saw this alpha walk into their home side by side with Li Songyun, enter their bedroom in a dignified manner, and say that the alpha had made a good cut when Li Songyun didn't hesitate to cut the wedding photo in half.
Said it was time for a new life.
Only the alpha in the surveillance video was unkempt, with a heavy scruffy beard, white hair that was on the long side and slightly covered his eyes, and looked listless, whereas the alpha who had just appeared on the live stream seemed to have cleaned himself up as if he were ten years younger.
"Who are you?" Gu Mian stood in front of the door to the unfamiliar room, his handsome face cold and stern.
"Me?" The voice didn't hesitate, "There's no need to explain my relationship with my brother to you."
Gu Mian expressionlessly rang the doorbell again, "Open the door."
Jiao Jian didn't want to open the door, but he wasn't sure if Gu Mian came to the door with Li Songyun's permission, maybe Gu Mian came to the door to talk to Li Songyun about the divorce.
Jiao Jian is not clear about Li Songyun's attitude towards Gu Mian. Li Songyun seldom talks about her marriage to Gu Mian, and when she mentions why she got divorced, Li Songyun says that she simply wanted to be herself, and that it had nothing to do with Gu Mian.
Li Songyun never said anything bad about Gu Mian or the Gu family, he only said that he wasn't good enough and that being the perfect Mrs. Gu was too much pressure on him.
Even something as radical as cropping a wedding photo is just a lighthearted "goodbye to the old life" on Li Songyun's lips.
When Jiao Jian inquires about Li Songyun over the past twenty years, all she hears is that Li Songyun and Gu Mian have a perfect marriage, that they have four children, that the couple is in love and respectful of each other, that the Li family's business is growing with the blessing of the Gu family, and that the Gu family is very happy with Li Songyun.
Li Songyun seems to be living a happy life.
He was so happy that he felt disturbed by the fact that he was expressing his love for Li Songyun.
Li Songyun wiped his hands and thought it was Jiang Youwen, and without even untying his apron, he walked quickly toward the door.
The auto-tracking live ball flew out after Li Songyun, and together with Li Songyun, they saw the scene in front of them--
Jiao Jian opened the door of his house as if he was caught doing something bad, there was a slender and upright figure standing outside the door, the light inside the house was bright, Gu Mian stood in the shadows outside the door, his deep eyes staring firmly at him, his low voice spoke with a Gu Mian style toughness and sharpness, "Li Songyun, let's go home. "
After seeing Gu Mian, the smile on Li Songyun's face disappeared little by little, he seemed to have thought a lot in this moment, but also seemed to have thought nothing at all.
He was not surprised that Gu Mian could find this place. Gu Mian was so powerful, what could Gu Mian not do?
With his condescending attitude, it doesn't matter what he says to Gu Mian, does it?
"Gu Mian, I'm doing a live stream." He said.
He's doing a live broadcast, he's starting a new life with hope, a life without a caretaker.
He wished he could walk out of the Gu family in peace, he could have wanted nothing, if Xiao Feng wanted to stay in the Gu family more then even custody he could have given up.
He had backed down so far he couldn't think of how else he could back down.
The gray-blue eyes under the long, straight eyebrows were so cold that they looked like they had been quenched with ice, and Gu Mian looked at Li Songyun and calmly said, "When you're done with the live broadcast, we'll go home together."
Night had fallen, a clear moon hung high in the deep blue sky, frosty moonlight spilled through the window pane onto the ground, Li Songyun was wearing an apron, a bit of flour was smeared on his face, and he was looking straight at Gu Mian, at the alpha who had been arrogant and conceited from the beginning to the end.
He was already tired.
Li Songyun opened his mouth as he tried to compose himself and said in a calm tone, "No, I'll sleep in this room after the live broadcast, so go back."
With his long eyelashes casting a shadow under his eyes, Gu Mian looked at Jiao Jian, who was standing with Li Songyun, with dark and uncertain eyes.
They stood close together, both bathed in warm yellow light, while he stood outside the door as if he were an abrupt intruder.
What is the relationship between this alpha and Li Songyun?
Why did Li Songyun suddenly divorce him? Why did Li Songyun step into their matrimonial home with this man? Why did Li Songyun smile so brightly at this man?
And why, at the moment, his heart felt as if it was being gnawed by a viper and eaten away by venom.
The sanity he had maintained for a long, long time silently disintegrated in this moment, as cliff-flavored pheromones spread uncontrollably from Gu Mian's body, an early period of susceptibility due to excessive mood swings.
The alpha standing outside the door burst in with a loud stride, dirt-stained military boots on the pure white cashmere carpet, and he squeezed Li Songyun's shoulder with a speed that no one could react to.
The rich pheromones sweep through Li Songyun with a grandeur that is irresistible.
Before she and Gu Mian bonded, Li Songyun had always thought of such an alpha as icy, or rusty, like a machine impervious to fire.
But not really, the brooding cypress flavor is laced with a hint of mint, not sweet, not bitter, a tenderness in the cold.
Cliff cypress is said to have a special odor and is not infested by mosquitoes or insects even if it dries out for a hundred years.
Just like Gu Mian, even if we spend a hundred years together, we will not leave any trace on this person's heart.
Li Songyun's body involuntarily trembled slightly, such a pheromone had dominated him for twenty-six years, an extremely high degree of matching, originating from instinctive submission, making it almost impossible for him to disobey Gu Mian.
"What are you doing?!" Jiao Jian went forward and tried to separate Gu Mian.
Gu Mian raised his head and looked at Jiao Jian with eyes that seemed frozen and poisoned, an extremely dangerous look that meant the alpha was on the verge of losing control at any moment.
Jiao Jian did not dare to easily challenge Gu Mian's precarious sanity at this moment, the susceptible alpha's animalistic nature is greater than his sanity, if it was just him and Gu Mian facing each other, he would not be afraid of Gu Mian in the slightest, but at this time, Gu Mian was firmly confined to Li Songyun, once Gu Mian completely lost control of himself, the first one who would be injured would be Li Songyun, and the first one to get hurt would be Li Songyun. Once Gu Mian completely lost control, the first one to be injured would definitely be Li Songyun.
As Jiao Jian pitched in, Gu Mian lowered his head to gaze at Li Songyun, his voice suddenly muffled, "...... Who is he?"
Li Songyun locked eyes with Gu Mian, and in just a single breath Li Songyun looked as if he had completely detached himself from the effects of the high-match pheromones, his tone calm to a fault, without a single weak tremor, "He's my brother."
"We've known each other since we were teenagers, and you don't know him because you've never followed my life, learned about my past, or reached out to my friends." The hand that dropped to the side of her leg slowly clenched into a fist, blood spilling from her palm.
"Gu Mian, I have my friends too, my social circle, my life doesn't just revolve around the Gu family, around you." Those bright red eyes stared fearlessly straight at him, like fire burning under ice.
-- "Because I want to be Li Songyun, not anyone's appendage."
It turns out ...... One really can understand in a moment what one once couldn't figure out even after staying up all night.
When he looked at each other, Gu Mian's heart suddenly stung, it hurt even more than seeing Li Songyun and Jiao Jian together, it hurt so much that he couldn't bear it.
It was as if a tree uprooted in the sky could not be destroyed by how much wind and rain, but when the moths eroded the heart of the tree little by little, the seemingly sturdy tree could collapse with just a gentle push.
Li Songyun reached out and slowly pushed away Gu Mian's palm that was pressing on his shoulder.
He didn't use much force, but Gu Mian's hand was really pushed away little by little.
In the live broadcast room with tens of millions of viewers, in full view of the public, Li Songyun, in a tone so gentle that he couldn't pick faults, said courteously to Gu Mian, "Gu Mian, you're out of control, you should have injected the inhibitor in time, don't let your body get hurt."
Gu Mian's susceptibility time Li Songyun remembers very clearly, he took out the alpha inhibitor he was carrying and gently placed it in Gu Mian's palm.
The inhibitor is stained with Li Songyun's blood, and what the smell of blood can't hide, Li Songyun's pheromones.
Gu Mian's grip on the Li Songyun pheromone-stained suppressor was like holding a blazing fire, and his hand, which never trembled when he held a gun, suddenly trembled even at the tips of his fingers.
"By the way, have you received the lawyer's letter?" Li Songyun softly introduced, "The quickest way to get divorced is to sign a divorce agreement after our negotiation and register the divorce in accordance with the legal procedures, so that we can instantly obtain a divorce certificate and dissolve our marriage."
"I wish you would have chosen a more efficient method so you could have married the new Mrs. Gu as early as possible as well; after all, a partner's soothing during a susceptible period is more effective than an inhibitor."
Li Songyun turned gracefully after he thoughtfully finished speaking, he bypassed Gu Mian, who was completely frozen in place, and headed for the kitchen while addressing Jiao Jian, "Xiao Jian, close the door and see off the guests."
The door of the room closed with a bang, and no one could see what Gu Mian's expression was outside the door, and even more so, no one knew what Gu Mian was actually thinking at this time.
After a few seconds of dead silence, the auto-ban pop-ups instantly exploded:
[Crap! What did I hear? Li Songyun and Major General Gu are divorced? Aren't they a model couple?
The plants are so grassy! It means Li Songyun initiated the divorce, but Gu Mian is still at it!
Why did you get divorced? I don't believe in love anymore
My mom! How did Li Songyun overcome the attraction of pheromones to reject Gu Mian?!]
Jiao Jian is Li Songyun's brother? What kind of relationship is that?
[Ahhhhhhhhh Mr. Lai you quickly tell me what happened with you and Gu Mian! A friend of mine said he's going to die if he doesn't hear the secret of the family!
I'm the friend!
Ten minutes later, # Gu Mian Li Songyun Divorce climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Star Entertainment Gossip list of hot searches, with over 100 million discussions.
Published at: 06/13/2024 23:00