MRE – Chapter 9

Chapter 9

“Your Majesty, after investigating the man that you’ve mentioned, I am afraid that we cannot locate any man with that name. Although we have investigated the Wang family but none of them are connected with the Jiang family nor the Wen clan, even with His Highness, no one know who he is I even asked Wen Ning and Wen Qing but they are not familiar with him,” Xue Yang reported after Lan Zhan asked him to investigate that Xiao Zhan had mention.

 

“Mn, thank you, you are dismissed.”

 

Lan Zhan has been thinking the whole time, who that man is, he knows how Wei Ying feels about him. He even confessed to him before, so why did he call someone’s name who is not familiar with. Is he an alpha? Is he someone that he met before knowing the Wen siblings? Do I really look like him?

 

There’s a lot of questions that’s bothering Lan Zhan, even though he doesn’t know why it bothers him so much. He even rejected Wei Ying before, Lan Zhan sighed and decided to get a battle of potion. He needs to end this misunderstanding with Wei Ying, he needs to know about what his schemes are together with the Wen Clan.

 

That night he informed Wen Ning that he would visit the empress, and this news put Xiao Zhan in a bad mood. It means that will formally consummate their marriage, he is not ready and doesn’t even want to be a bottom again. The worst is his body is feeling weird and it’s getting hot, he mentioned this to Wen Ning, but he just congratulated him for no reason and told him that it is really a great timing for his heat.

 

The maid prepares Xiao Zhan for the night, they bathe him, put face mask on and thoroughly massage his body. They even put too much fragrance on his bath and dress in red and beautiful clothes.

 

Wen Ning announced Lan Zhan’s arrival, and this made Xiao Zhan flinched while waiting on the table. The door opens and Lan Zhan quickly catches the smell of an apple, even though there’s no apple on their table, but there is alcohol and some fruits. He knows this is Wei Ying’s pheromone, but still proceeds to enter the room.

 

“Greetings, Your Majesty,” Xiao Zhan greets him sarcastically and added, “So, are you now willing to be my ally?”

 

“I’m still thinking about it, by the way, I have this alcohol named Emperor’s Smile and thought that it might fancy you. Think of it as a gift,” Lan Zhan said as he asked the servant to serve the drink.

 

Xiao Zhan suspiciously looks at the drink while Lan Zhan pours into their cup. It is customary to drink the drink that was given by the emperor, but since Xiao Zhan is suspicious about it, he asked him what’s with the sudden gift.

 

“We will consummate our marriage, can you do it without getting drunk?” Lan Zhan said.

 

“Uhm, can we not do it, like you know we really don’t like each other,” Xiao Zhan said.

 

“Is it because you are still hanging up with that Yibo guy?”

 

“Huh? What are you saying! I am already moved on with that guy!”

 

“Mn. But it seems like you haven’t forgot him, as you still call him during yo—”

 

“Okay okay stop! He has nothing to do with this, okay?!” Xiao Zhan said as he reached for his forehead, he feels hot and has a headache because Lan Zhan.

 

“I didn’t know that you have two hearts, you even confessed to me not a long time ago.”

 

“Stop! I told you I moved on even with you I already moved on,got it?! So, I don’t care if you didn’t consummate our marriage and marry Xingchen instead, besides you, giving a gift to me whom you’ve rejected not a long time ago is suspicious, go ahead if it’s not suspicious drink that first!” Xiao Zhan burst out, he had enough, and his body is getting hot, and he even attracted Lan Zhan’s neck as if he wanted to sniff and snuggle on it, he is trying to control himself. Lan Zhan drinks the Emperor Smile without hesitation to prove that it doesn’t have any poison.

 

“See, it’s safe, drink this and let’s finish our task. Don’t forget that it is your task as an empress to give birth to an heir,” Lan Zhan coldly said. Since the potion is just a truth serum and a tonic for birth control, nothing happened to him, and as an heir, his body is already used in taking different kind of poison and become immune to it.

 

Annoyed by his sudden action, Xiao Zhan stood up and drank the whole alcohol from the bottle, Lan Zhan just watched him and waited for the potion to take effect.

 

“Ah! Happy now?!” Xiao Zhan was annoyed and went back to his seat. Somehow it became more uncomfortable for him, he knows that the alcohol is strong but as far as he knew this is not this strong, it is more uncomfortable for him and hotter. He wanted Lan Zhan to hug and hold him, but his pride wouldn’t allow him to.

 

“Heh! You bastard emperor, ever since I come here everyone wants to kill me! What’s so good about being an empress?” Xiao Zhan said as he stood up and tried to leave his place, he wanted to run away as he could no longer resist himself.

 

“It’s really irritating that you look like Wang Yibo! You both are handsome, manly and with stoic faces, what am I saying really?” Xiao Zhan abruptly said, he’s muttering different things like he has no control over his thoughts and a sudden realization hit him as Lan Zhan grabs his arm tightly.

 

“Tell me, who is this Wang Yibo?” Lan Zhan said as he pulled Xiao Zhan’s face into him. This is not what he wanted to ask.

 

“Wang Yibo? He’s my beloved one, but he’s no longer mine, we broke up, okay?! Wait, you really put something on the drinks! Tell me what it is?!” Xiao Zhan said as he is trying to keep sane, but he is really uttering some stuff that he shouldn’t have said.

 

“It won’t harm you, it’s just a truth serum. Tell me what the Wen Clan’s planning is and what are your schemes!”

 

“Hah! So, you really put something!” Xiao Zhan said but Lan Zhan grips his arms tightly and won’t let him go. Xiao Zhan pulls the hidden dagger on his robe using Lan Zhan’s other hand and points it at his own neck.

 

“You can just kill me you know! I do not belong here so why do I need to suffer like this! I don’t know about that clan! They wanted to kill me too you know!” Xiao Zhan screams at him.

 

“Then tell me, why are you following us to that pub? Why are you there not once but twice, that cannot be a coincidence?” Lan Zhan asked him as the dagger was still on Xiao Zhan’s neck. He wanted to make sure, even with a little hope, he wanted to trust him. Xiao Zhan leans closer on Lan Zhan’s face as he is trying to identify someone.

 

“You, you’re the one who tried to kill me that night, right?” Xiao Zhan mutters with a shocked face but clear enough to be heard by Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan flinched at the question and loosened his grip on Xiao Zhan.

 

“See, I’m correct. Hah! How dare you! So, you really hate me to the point of even trying to your spouse? Hahahahaha” Xiao Zhan sarcastically laugh, it is even absurd for him to think how much they hated Wei Wuxian to point that even his husband was trying to kill him. He is pitiful, no doubt he is suffocated by this place.

 

“I need to!” Lan Zhan said as he pinned down Xiao Zhan on the bed.

 

“Then kill me right now!” Xiao Zhan said with determination in his eyes. He keeps pressing the dagger using Lan Zhan’s hand but for some reason Lan Zhan has been fighting his effort. But still the dagger scratches his neck, but he keeps his determined face while staring straight to Lan Zhan, he doesn’t even feel the pain as his body is getting weirder as time goes by. Lan Zhan noticed that the neck of the man below him bleeding and forcibly throw the dagger away.

 

“I’m sorry, I, I didn’t mean to. I had to follow you, we thought that you heard us when you walked in front of us. I’m not forcing you to understand but—”

 

“Aiyo, my dear emperor, the bottom line is you tried to kill me. Here I thought you are fighting for something great, but you are just like them, killing someone who is weaker than you, just like the Wen Clan!” Xiao Zhan as he trying to fight something inside of him, it’s getting hotter, he is hundred percent sure that his mind is cursing Lan Zhan because he tried to kill him, but his body feels the opposite, that is why he is cursing himself as well.

 

Due to the heat, his body wants to cuddle the man in front of him, do a lot of things as he discreetly sniffs the other man’s pheromone. Lan Zhan noticed how the man below him is cursing with his mouth but squirming and releasing a lot of pheromones.

 

Lan Zhan felt guilty when Xiao Zhan said that he is just killing someone who’s weaker than him, but he can’t help to react by the other’s pheromone. He loves the scent, it’s nostalgic, seductive and smells delicious. He promised to the Wen Clan that he will produced an heir and it is part of their plan as well, but he will not crave in to that, this is the limit that he can give to consummate their marriage while giving Wei Wuxian a tonic for birth control, and will have a child with Xingchen as his concubine, but the side effect of the potions trigger more the heat of the omega.

 

Lan Zhan has been resisting the seductive smell since earlier and right now it’s more arousing than before, he is trying to control himself as he looks on the omega below him, with his ruifeng eyes, plump lips, thin waist, and clear skin.

 

Xiao Zhan could no longer resist the heat inside of him and reached for Lan Zhan’s face, leaning closer and abruptly kissed his lips. Lan Zhan frowns with the seductive lips and tries not to open his mouth.

 

“You should open your mouth Yibo, I know you like this,” Xiao Zhan said, clearly, he is no longer in his right mind and give in to his heat, as he seductively licks Lan Zhan’s mouth to give him permission to enter.

 

“You’re not in your right mind, I’m not the man—” Lan Zhan was cut off by Xiao Zhan as he enters his soft and naughty tongue on the alpha’s mouth, while Lan Zhan can no longer resist the omega beneath him and fight back using his mouth and tongue. They look like they are eating each other’s mouth and the kiss deepens, Xiao Zhan hands travel around Lan Zhan’s neck while Lan Zhan’s right-hand travel through the other man’s thin waist and the left hand on the other’s man nape.

 

“Yibo, I missed you; I didn’t let anyone enter me like you do,” Xiao Zhan said with half-lid eyes.

 

“I’m not him,” Lan Zhan sternly said and released pheromones to calm down the omega’s pheromone.

 

“But you really look like him, if you are not him, then who are you? He’s the only person who kissed me with so much love and passion, not just lust,” Xiao Zhan said, his heat subsides due to alpha’s pheromones but the drank too much potion and alcohol and now getting sleepy and still not thinking straight.

 

“Don’t ever mention his name again, you should remember the name of your husband Wei Ying, you said that you already move on” Lan Zhan angrily said, but he noticed that the other man is getting sleepy and calmer than before. He hates the fact that he is calling others’ man name while they are trying to consummate their marriage, and what does he mean with he didn’t let anyone enter him? Did something happen between the two of them?

 

But he shouldn’t care, this is not the man that he loves but he is still mad, who is this Wang Yibo, that he cannot forget him, Wei Ying should only focus on him. Should he hide in their house on the mountain?

 

Lan Zhan flinched with the thought and noticed the man beneath him already fall asleep. He took a deep breathe, they shouldn’t do this. He’s hard, but they cannot do it while the others are not on their right mind. But they said that omega’s heat is painful, and one of the alternatives is to give them an alpha’s pheromone.

 

He wanted to respect him but he’s sure that he won’t let him help once he woke up. Besides, it was partly his fault because his heat triggers, after his self-deliberation, he leans down on the man and bites his neck to inject pheromones and kissed it after. The omega grunts in pain and pleasure but still asleep. Lan Zhan tucked him in bed properly and lay down beside him to sleep and promise that he will talk to him tomorrow, without any potions, and a talk like a proper husband and wife.