Chapter 115

Li Songyun was up early, having made an appointment for the hospital's mark-washing program right after he got his divorce papers.

The only way omega can qualify for surgery is to get a divorce certificate.

Bai Zhi told him that some of the rules should be changed, for example, the requirement of one year of separation for divorce could be changed to the fact that if an omega is willing to go to a legal institution to have his life mark removed, it would be enough to prove that the couple's relationship has broken down, because the fact that an omega is able to overcome his instincts to have his mark removed shows that he has reached the point of intolerance.

Bai Zhi is discussing with Tang Bai about the implications of this, and hearing that they're going to start looking into the data on omega initiating divorces, Li Songyun tries to help, but Tang Bai tells him to take it easy in the meantime.

Washing off lifetime markers is very damaging to the body, the higher the level of the alpha that marks him, the more damage he takes, like the markers Gu Mian left behind, he had to go to the wash four times to get them completely clean.

Accompanied by Jiang Youwen, Li Songyun lies down on the operating table, anesthetics are injected into his body, Li Songyun closes his eyes, and it seems as if he is having a big dream.

The dream was of his wedding night with Gu Mian, red pillows, red sheets, Gu Mian touched his eyes and commented, "Red suits you."

The process of lifelong marking is lengthy, and at this time the omega has no privacy and is more like a bearer of artifacts than a human being.

He felt that his dignity, his personality, was being shattered little by little in the process of marking, and Gu Mian didn't kiss him, didn't touch him, but just watched the whole process of his submission with a kind of overlooking gesture.

The next day he wore a positively red dress lined with a snow-white vintage lace-collar shirt.

He expects a compliment from Gu Mian, then he hears Gu Mian say, "Pay attention to the dress code, throw away anything with lace elements and don't wear colors that are too bright ......"

The momentary sting woke him from his dream.

"The operation was a success, a second marking cleaning will be performed in a week's time, postoperative precautions ......" After the doctor left with his explanation, Li Songyun lay on the bed, the excruciating pain after the anesthetic swept over him, causing his body to shake uncontrollably.

Jiang Youwen was frightened and held his hand tightly, "Songyun, how are you? Is it hard?"

Li Songyun's hands were sweating profusely, and he saw in Jiang Youwen's eyes his own pale, wretched face.

Yet he felt his spirits were better than ever.

Putting back together shattered self-esteem and personality sure hurts, doesn't it?

Li Songyun smiled a little and held Jiang Youwen's hand back, saying softly, "I'm fine, Youwen, I want to go clothes shopping."

"Buy!" Jiang Youwen recalled Li Songyun's usual style of dressing, and was about to name a few brands that Li Songyun might like, when she heard Li Songyun add, "Buy red clothes."

*

Gu Mian stood in front of the school and waited for Gu Peifeng to be dismissed from school for the first time, as Gu Peifeng's dismissal clashed with the end of the military department's shift.

He gave custody of Gu Peifeng to Li Songyun in accordance with Li Songyun's wishes, and half of Gu Mian's property was divided among Li Songyun.

When Li Songyun asked him why, he said that this part was for Gu Peifeng.

After a long wait at the school gate, Gu Peifeng's class was not dismissed at 4:30, and Gu Mian stood for a while and saw several classes lining up to come out.

Parents around the chat about their children's homework, what chores punch card, jump rope punch card, memorization punch card ...... Complaining that parents are more tired than their children in educating them nowadays, saying that they never had to do these things when they were in school.

Another parent said they were unlucky to have been drawn for parent stand duty and will need to stand all day tomorrow, and another said they were chosen to go on a classroom cleanup ......

Gu Mian was unfamiliar with the content of these conversations; he had never heard Li Songyun mention them.

-- "He needs to conceive four children, endure the absence of his husband during pregnancy, endure the absence of his husband during the parenting phase, and endure the absence of his husband during all phases of his children's development."

"Look, isn't that the fifth grade?" "It's finally out!"

Gu Mian stood in the crowd, he saw Gu Peifeng standing in the middle of the group, not very tall, he didn't find the boy at first sight.

The boy walked with his head down and raised it only when he reached the school gate. Gu Mian noticed that Gu Peifeng's eyes were a little swollen, as if he had been crying.

He always thought Gu Peifeng was too soft, weak and gluttonous to be a child from Gu's family.

Then thought beta might be it.

Gu Peifeng seemed to lock eyes with him but did not recognize him, and he saw Gu Peifeng waving to the classmate beside him as he exited the school gate and ran in the other direction.

In the midst of the crowd, his eyes traced Gu Peifeng and finally landed on Li Songyun, dressed in red.

For a moment, Gu Mian didn't recognize Li Songyun.

Li Songyun wears a black veiled hat, a lace veil covering his bright smile and warm red eyes.

Some people wear red to be gaudy or rustic, but on Li Songyun, the red color shows off his calmness and dignity, as he elegantly takes Gu Peifeng's hand and walks towards the distance without any haste.

At this time, the sky was filled with evening sunlight, reflecting Gu Mian's gray-blue eyes, as if a candle flame had been knocked over in the night.

He could feel part of the lifelong mark he had left on Li Songyun being washed away.

This realization made him feel as if a piece of his heart had been plucked out.

He finally realized beyond any doubt that Li Songyun would never come back.

*

"Uncle Lai went to the hospital to wash off the lifetime mark." Tang Bai sits in the theater and bites his ear with Xie Ruhang, "Mom said Uncle Lai's face looks terrible, saying that Uncle Lai wasn't even in such bad shape when he gave birth."

"It feels so painful to wash away the Lifetime Mark." Tang Bai whispered, "The process of forming the Lifetime Mark also hurts."

Tang Bai had looked at the schematics of knot formation in physiology class, and he thought alpha was really kind of sick when it came to lifelong markers.

Xie Ruhang looked at the worried Tang Bai, a delicate little omega, skin so tender that it can be pinched out of the water, a look that has not suffered since childhood, if there is a real-life version of the Princess of the Peas, let Tang Bai to play this persona is absolutely very convincing.

Xie Ruhang held Tang Bai's hand as he pondered for a moment, and as if he had made up his mind about something, he whispered, "Then ...... I don't mark you for life from now on?"

Tang Bai : "......?"

Tang Bai turned his head in surprise and met Xie Ruhang's serious phoenix eyes.

"Brother Xie, are you serious?" Tang Bai said incredulously, "I've heard you alphas have a strong obsession with marking omega for life."

An omega marked for life will be submissive to the alpha, easily unable to disobey the other when the alpha releases pheromones, and it's said that after an alpha with an extremely high match has marked an omega, no matter what over-the-top things that alpha does, as long as they release the pheromones, the omega will be unable to get away from the other, even if it means crawling, to get to the other person's side.

The effect is mutual, possessiveness and protectiveness for the alpha and submission and attachment for the omega.

Tang Bai has not gone to a professional organization to test the match between himself and Xie Ruhang's pheromone, but he feels that they should be a good match.

During Xie Ruhang's susceptibility period, his emotional liking of Xie Ruhang and his willingness to satisfy Xie Ruhang is one aspect, and his body's influence by pheromones is another crucial aspect.

Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang looked at each other for a moment, realizing that those phoenix eyes were so genuine that Xie Ruhang said to him, "Fake."

Tang Bai: "????" How do you people fertilize things?

"I can't subtract the pain you'll feel when you're marked for life," Xie Ruhang assured softly, "but I'll spare you the pain of having to wash your markings."

Tang Bai could sense that Xie Ruhang was very serious at this time, and his tone was so certain that he couldn't help but ask, "How can you guarantee that I won't go tag washing in the future?"

"If I meet someone I like more ......" In front of those gradually narrowing phoenix eyes, Tang Bai instinctively sensed danger, but from the time he knew Xie Ruhang until now, Xie Ruhang had never done anything excessive to him, and suddenly seeing this side of Xie Ruhang, Tang Bai found it quite exciting.

Tang Bai had the audacity to say, "What about trying a new relationship?"

The movie theater was dimly lit, and those dark eyes were like tumbling ink, unreadable for any emotion.

"I'll get you back."

The hand that had been holding him slowly loosened and his palm silently covered his neck, pressing suggestively against his glands.

"And then re-mark you."

Tang Bai's glands were so sensitive that a touch of the coarse fingertips provoked an electric tingle, and his eyelashes fluttered before his eyes widened slightly -

A warm touch came from his earlobe.

Xie Ruhang gently bit Tang Bai's earlobe, and his low, husky, and slow voice resounded in Tang Bai's ear, "Keep marking, marking until you don't dare to wash it off anymore."

He spoke slowly, spitting out his words clearly, constantly marking the depressing and horrific nature of this process all outlined in one short sentence.

Tang Bai covered his earlobes that were licked to the point of numbness, carefully looking at the obscure phoenix eyes, he swallowed a mouthful of water, "Really?"

Phoenix eyes curved and flashed with a helpless smile, Xie Ruhang said in a gentle tone, "Fake."

He didn't know what he was like when he really got mad.

But he still can't let go of Tang Bai if what he has to do will hurt him.

Tang Bai rubbed his ears and meekly conceded, "Let's just get on with the movie."

It's a romance movie where the omega heroine of the movie is unable to undergo the already well-established wash marking procedure because her glands are underdeveloped, which means she can only undergo lifetime marking once in her life.

The heroine is afraid to make a lifelong mark with the hero for fear that she will not know the right person and be entrusted with the wrong person.

The hero, unaware of the heroine's secret, and the heroine engage in a series of cockamamie, cross-channel hilarious exchanges on the subject of lifetime markers.

At this point the movie proceeded to the hero mistakenly thought that the heroine is afraid of pain, he specially ran to the hospital to try the pain of the lifelong markers, the pain of the tiger's eyes with tears, and came back to the heroine said I went to the hospital I understand all ......

Someone in the theater let out a laugh, and Tang Bai tossed a popcorn in his mouth as he said, "Brother Xie, as much as the lifetime markings hurt, if that person was you ......"

Xie Ruhang turned his head to look at Tang Bai and muttered, "I don't think there's a problem."

"Just remember to kiss me if I do cry from the pain when the time comes."