Last Love chapter 47

Wen Ke, feeling sulky, crawled under the blanket with his bare bottom. He turned his back to Han Jiangque, refusing to talk or throw any more punches.

Han Jiangque was a bit stunned. Gradually coming back to his senses from the excitement of the fight, he felt something was amiss. He lowered his head and tossed the boxing gloves aside.

“Wen Ke.” He lifted the blanket from behind, gently slipping into the bed.

Wen Ke still refused to speak.

“Xiao Ke, did it hurt?” Han Jiangque asked.

“…”

Wen Ke remained silent for another two seconds until Han Jiangque brought his warm breath closer. Finally, he couldn’t hold it in any longer.

Turning around, he curled up in Han Jiangque’s arms and whispered, “A little bit.”

It wasn’t really painful, just a slight sense of grievance. He felt like he might be the first one—originally just wanting to be a bit cute in bed, but ended up having his Omega bottom seriously pounded by his own Alpha with boxing gloves.

Han Jiangque reached down and massaged Wen Ke’s ass.

Only when he held the Omega, who seemed much smaller than in his memory, so intimately, was he reminded—

Wen Ke had changed genders.

Omega was a soft and fragile gender, and he couldn’t bully Wen Ke as he did in high school. So, it was like waking from a dream, and only then did he react slowly to the need for care.

He leaned over, kissing Wen Ke’s cheek in a soothing manner, awkwardly consoling him, “Let me touch, does it still hurt?”

Han Jiangque knew he wasn’t very mature, and sometimes this awareness made him nervous. Maturity was a natural stage of life for others, but for him, it seemed the opposite. He felt he had to work hard and slowly learn the meaning of maturity.

Because the process of comprehension was acquired, he had to practice continuously—

Practice to become a mature Alpha.

“Xiao Ke, the scent of your pheromones seems stronger.”

“really? No, it shouldn’t be…?” Wen Ke was a bit confused.

Since differentiation, he had always been an E-ranked Omega, accustomed to daily life like an asexual person. Even at such a close distance during non-heat periods, the scent should be almost nonexistent. However, S-ranked Alphas had an extraordinary sensitivity to pheromones and rarely made mistakes in judging their strength.

“Really.”

Han Jiangque, like a large canine, used his warm nose to seriously sniff Wen Ke’s nape.

For an S-ranked Alpha, the scent was still very weak, but he could feel that from the originally faint grassy scent, it had become a bit stronger. He confidently said, “You smell even better.”

“I…I think it’s just because you like me.”

Wen Ke blushed and, trying to smell himself by turning his head, inadvertently exposed his nape. Han Jiangque suddenly pressed him down, covering the sensitive and delicate gland.

“Ah! Don’t…” Wen Ke couldn’t help but cry out in panic.

Han Jiangque squinted, and he could feel Wen Ke’s tension. Still, he alternated between harshly sucking and gently biting.

Wen Ke trembled beneath him, unable to help pulling at his arm weakly, indicating his resistance.

He really wanted to bite.

This physiological impulse was much stronger than ejaculation, marking the perfect combination of Alpha’s desire and possessiveness.

But he couldn’t act on instinct because Wen Ke didn’t want him to mark him yet.

In the end, Han Jiangque let go of Wen Ke. Like covering up the previous impulse, he gently licked Wen Ke’s neck and then said softly, “Xiao Ke, don’t worry too much about the investment in the app. I won the gold belt, so the organizers will give me a million in prize money. Plus, some miscellaneous bonuses from other organizations, it will add up to two or three hundred thousand. You can use it for the initial development. I’ve thought about this plan carefully before.”

Wen Ke was a little stunned, remembering to take off his boxing glove and placing it aside. He then cupped Han Jiangque’s face with his hands, looking worried, and asked, “Han Jiangque, did you fight in the competition so hard just to earn money for me?”

Han Jiangque’s dark eyes stared at Wen Ke. His long eyelashes twitched, and in that moment, his heartbeat seemed to accelerate because he didn’t know how to express his feelings. After a moment of hesitation, he finally said softly, “I want to take care of you, Wen Ke.”

If he were a bit more honest, he hoped Wen Ke could see… that he had grown up, that he could be relied upon.

What he couldn’t do back then, he could finally do now.

However, the gentle expression of the Omega in front of him gradually became serious. He said seriously, “Don’t be like this.”

“Boxing is really dangerous, Han Jiangque. If you genuinely enjoy it, even if I worry, I will support you. But if you are fighting just to make money for me… I absolutely disagree. I know my situation may not look good right now, but I still have some money in my hands. Even if in the end, Fu Xiaoyu is not interested in my proposal, and I end up losing my savings, I still have a house, a car. I’m not so bad off… If you get hurt for me, I…I will be very sad.”

“I…” Han Jiangque opened his mouth to explain.

But he was unintentionally interrupted by the anxious Wen Ke. His tone, due to worry, was almost severe, “I know you want to help me, whether it’s finding Fu Xiaoyu or boxing for money, you’re doing it to help me. But really, you don’t have to. We’ve just started, Han Jiangque… I don’t want to casually take so much money from you. Also, I don’t want… to owe others so many favors again.”

As he spoke, his voice trembled slightly towards the end, but he didn’t notice the Alpha in front of him seemed to dim at that moment.

Although Wen Ke was still caressing his cheeks, for some reason, Han Jiangque felt that, in that instant, he seemed to become distant from Wen Ke once again.

Distant, just like in the summer of the sixteenth year, that sweltering summer when he could never reach Wen Ke.

He stared deeply at Wen Ke, restrained for a long time, and finally couldn’t help but say, “But you let Zhuo Yuan help you.”

Suddenly hearing that name from Han Jiangque, Wen Ke felt a bit at a loss. He opened his mouth but didn’t know how to respond.

Han Jiangque didn’t stop there. It seemed he had finally revealed what had been bothering him for a long time. He repeated it word by word, emphasizing, “Why can’t I? You can clearly let Zhuo Yuan help you. Wen Ke, you can also accept Zhuo Yuan’s money—can’t you?”

Wen Ke’s face turned pale.

Suddenly, Han Jiangque’s words made him realize that the Alpha in front of him had never let go of what happened between him and Zhuo Yuan. He was abruptly awakened from the illusory sweetness of the past few days, feeling like he had been splashed with cold water.

In that moment, his feelings, besides being sad, seemed more like fear.

He knew how easy it was for Han Jiangque to hurt him, something he realized from the explicit disgust Han Jiangque showed when he got the medical report ten years ago. That revelation made him agonize sleeplessly for nights.

And now, after their reunion, he felt a similar kind of fear once again—

It was like drowning but being afraid to reach out and grab the person in front of him.

“Han Jiangque…”

Wen Ke, like a shrunken little mouse, felt the pain in his chest, but after hesitating for a long time, he only spoke softly, “I… I… I’m going to take a shower, okay?”

He didn’t dare to wait for Han Jiangque’s response. He crawled out of the blanket, still bare-bottomed. In a state of embarrassment, he quickly pulled up the pants that were taken off during the playful tussle with Han Jiangque. Then, he headed towards the bathroom.

Being hurt by the person he loved the most, yet feeling somewhat deserving of it, he could only escape in such a pathetic way. Thinking about it made him even more miserable.

Han Jiangque watched Wen Ke’s back, and the familiar feelings of frustration and despair enveloped him once again.

He knew the gentle Omega was sad, but he couldn’t control himself. He had hurt Wen Ke’s wounds and, once again, hurt himself.

Just because, in that brief moment, he suddenly remembered that thing again—

His memory had always been poor, and during long periods of emotional turbulence, it worsened.

Several days after Wen Ke dropped out, covered in sweat, he was punished to stand in the corridor outside the teacher’s lounge for fighting and skipping classes again.

The old wooden door emitted a decaying odor. Whenever someone entered, it made an unpleasant creaking sound, accompanying the heavy footsteps. A teacher opened the door and walked in, and in that moment, he overheard the neighboring teachers whispering about that news—

“That kid is so pitiful…”

“Yeah, from a single-parent family, his only money-earning mother got cancer. I heard the house isn’t worth much, making it difficult to sell. He almost got kicked out of the hospital because he couldn’t come up with the money.”

“Uh-huh, the school initially planned to help him with donations, but later heard that his rich boyfriend, the one he knew in Class AB, Zhuo Yuan, said he would take care of all the medical expenses. He didn’t want to trouble the school, it seems.”

“That makes sense. It seems that Wen Ke’s mother used to work as a maid in Zhuo Yuan’s house. It’s a kind of fate. But now, with this dropping-out matter… sigh, don’t know what the child will do in the future.”

He rushed out of the school.

The sixteen-year-old youth, armed with only the address of the Alpha father he had barely met, took a hard seat overnight on the train to a distant, unfamiliar city for the first time. Then, he sat upright all night in the smoky, instant-noodle-smelling carriage.

He repeatedly called Wen Ke, wanting to tell him—he had a way, he could get money, don’t be with Zhuo Yuan.

He remembered himself leaning against the train window, staring blankly at the dark night outside, imagining the backward trees and scenery along the way. But for some reason, on that night, he always felt that dawn was approaching quickly. Perhaps it was a vague sense of hope, and he still thought Wen Ke was just angry with him and didn’t want to talk to him.

But it was too late.

Several days later, when he returned to that northern small town…

That year, he never found Wen Ke again.

Since then, even though he went overseas, even though he eventually lived a completely different life.

Yet, a part of him would forever remain on that train journey in the dark night, forever trapped in the fear of being abandoned due to incompetence and poverty.