Pheromone Deficiency Syndrome chapter 49
Meeting
When Gu Jinyi arrived at the hospital, Xie Ke was already anxiously waiting at the door. As soon as he saw Gu Jinyi walking up the steps, he hurried over.
Although he had just accompanied Xie Huaizhou to Roselle Star a few days ago, now meeting Gu Jinyi head-on, he didn’t know what to say.
His only connection with Gu Jinyi was through Xie Huaizhou.
Fortunately, Gu Jinyi didn’t seem to have the intention of chatting with him. He walked up a few steps, heading towards the hospital’s helipad, and asked him, “How is Xie Huaizhou? What did the doctor say?”
Xie Ke honestly replied, “Not too good. He was just injected with a sedative, and the doctor said they can’t give him any more. Adding more could cause problems.”
He glanced at Gu Jinyi, hesitated, and added, “You’ll see for yourself later. After you left, my cousin’s condition really deteriorated. Last time during the sensitive period, when the hospital asked you to wait outside, it was because he didn’t want you to see him in such an embarrassing state.”
Gu Jinyi didn’t respond to this statement.
Of course, he knew that Xie Huaizhou’s condition was not good, but he hadn’t thought about how bad it would get.
Last time during the sensitive period, he was stopped at the waiting area, and when he finally saw Xie Huaizhou, he had completely recovered his usual composure. Apart from looking a bit weak, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
The elevator quickly reached the top floor of the hospital.
Gu Jinyi paused for two seconds, steadied his mind, and then followed Xie Ke out.
This was the Xie family’s private hospital, and the entire floor was dedicated to Xie Huaizhou’s pheromone deficiency syndrome, so the floor was particularly spacious, and the atmosphere was unusually quiet.
As Gu Jinyi walked through the corridor, his gaze swept to both sides, and his footsteps unconsciously slowed down.
He suddenly understood why the place where Xie Huaizhou was detained in his dream a few days ago seemed so familiar.
It was clearly the look of this hospital.
Mainly white, the rooms were spacious, and the entire floor was like a cage, with only Xie Huaizhou locked inside.
Xie Ke hurriedly brought Gu Jinyi to the outside of the isolation room.
Last time, Gu Jinyi was stopped outside the door, but this time he saw the door open for him.
Inside, there was nothing special, similar to the isolation rooms he had been to before, just much more spacious.
A thick glass wall divided the room in half, with a few doctors sitting on one side and the room where Xie Huaizhou was on the other.
However, the glass wall was now opaque, so Gu Jinyi couldn’t see Xie Huaizhou on the other side.
Xie Ke explained to him, “Alphas during the sensitive period are repelled by anyone other than his partner. We check on my cousin’s condition every hour, and the rest of the time, the glass remains opaque.”
The doctors staying here were all from the Xie family, so they naturally knew Gu Jinyi. Seeing him here, they were both shocked and relieved.
Xie Huaizhou’s condition had worsened significantly, with no signs of improvement in the past two days.
They came over to report Xie Huaizhou’s condition to Gu Jinyi, but Xie Ke stopped them.
“You guys go out first and come back later,” Xie Ke said calmly, sounding more like Xie Huaizhou when speaking calmly, “I’ll watch over him here.”
The doctors understood that this was a family matter for the Xie family, so they tactfully went to the next room.
Only Xie Ke and Gu Jinyi were left in the room.
Although there was no scent of Xie Huaizhou’s pheromones leaking from the room, Gu Jinyi felt oppressed and uneasy from the moment he stepped in.
Now that everyone else was gone, this feeling became even more apparent.
He felt like he had entered a disguised nest, calm and serene on the surface, with bright lights, but everyone knew that behind the glass was a terrifying monster.
Xie Ke’s hand rested on the button of the glass wall.
As long as he pressed it, his cousin would be exposed to Gu Jinyi.
In fact, bringing Gu Jinyi here was his personal decision, not Xie Huaizhou’s. He might even have to settle accounts with Xie Huaizhou when he woke up.
But he couldn’t care about that now.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he reminded Gu Jinyi, “He… doesn’t want you to see him like this. Don’t be too surprised.”
After saying this, he gestured for Gu Jinyi to come closer, then pressed the button on the glass wall.
With a slight click, the opaque glass from before instantly turned colorless, revealing Xie Huaizhou on the other side.
From the moment he pressed the button, Xie Ke turned his head and even stood a little further away, leaving the space completely to Gu Jinyi.
Although Gu Jinyi was mentally prepared, he was still stunned to unexpectedly face Xie Huaizhou in this way.
After several months, they met again.
But it was in a situation neither of them had anticipated.
In the most embarrassing state.
……
Xie Huaizhou wasn’t even conscious. He had been injected with a large amount of sedative, only now having a moment of quiet.
Through this watery glass, Gu Jinyi could clearly see this man who was always calm and composed in front of him, now looking like a monster about to be violently subdued.
His handsome and fair face was adorned with a grim-looking mouthpiece, his limbs bound by heavy metal cuffs, and his white shirt collar stained with scattered blood.
Gu Jinyi’s gaze went down, noticing that his finger joints were also damaged, with slight distortions on the shackles.
But on Xie Huaizhou’s ring finger, he still wore their wedding ring.
And next to Xie Huaizhou, there were several worn soft clothes, the ones Gu Jinyi had left behind at the Xie family’s house.
These inconspicuous pieces of clothing, like a defensive line, sealed Xie Huaizhou behind them.
He was asleep, but not peacefully. His brow furrowed, as if he were struggling even in his dreams.
Inside the isolation room, no one spoke for a while.
Gu Jinyi’s hand slowly pressed against the cold glass.
The room was too quiet, so quiet that he thought he could hear Xie Huaizhou’s breath.
When he came to Baidi Star, he never expected that his meeting with Xie Huaizhou would be like this.
In his memory, Xie Huaizhou was always calm and composed, never revealing any emotion, whether it was six years ago when he wanted to leave him, or six years later when facing their breakup, Xie Huaizhou was always rational and calm.
But now he saw Xie Huaizhou at his most pathetic.
Clearly, he was the handsome lover that countless people in the empire dreamed of, but now Xie Huaizhou looked like an abandoned beast, unable to find peace even in his dreams.
Gu Jinyi leaned forward a bit more, his eyelashes lightly brushing against the glass.
It wasn’t the first day he knew that Xie Huaizhou was sick, but it was the first time he saw what Xie Huaizhou had become because of his departure.
In those years when he wasn’t around, Xie Huaizhou was like this.
Xie Ke had been observing from the side. In fact, he had hoped that Gu Jinyi would see this side of Xie Huaizhou and soften his heart.
But at this moment, he couldn’t see anything from Gu Jinyi’s face.
Gu Jinyi just quietly watched Xie Huaizhou, silent like a statue, showing no emotion except for the slight trembling of his eyelashes, not displaying any emotions.
Xie Ke felt a bit desperate in his heart, suspecting that Gu Jinyi still hated his cousin, so even now, he showed no reaction.
He hesitated to plead with Gu Jinyi, “I know my cousin did something wrong to you, but people always deserve a chance to change for the better, right? Since the day you married Chu Miyun, he has suffered from a lack of pheromones. It’s been four years, and every year he has to endure the sensitive period like this. It would be a good thing for you to go in and see him for a while…”
But as he spoke, his voice gradually lowered, until it disappeared completely.
Because he saw that Gu Jinyi was crying.
It wasn’t the kind of emotional breakdown crying.
Gu Jinyi still had a blank expression, but tears fell one by one, rolling down his chin, wetting his collar.
At this moment, he felt an indescribable fragility.
As if something had shattered him.
Like a deity shedding tears, desperate yet gentle.
Xie Ke suddenly couldn’t continue speaking.
Gu Jinyi’s hand slipped down from the glass.
He thought, Xie Huaizhou was indeed a liar, saying when they separated that he would give him a choice, saying this time he would let him decide whether to stay or leave.
But Xie Huaizhou clearly knew that he was a bird locked in a cage, even if the door was open, he wouldn’t fly away again.
He had come back by himself, hadn’t he?
He glanced sideways at Xie Ke, his eyes shimmering with tears, slightly red, misty, yet inexplicably clear.
He seemed to be asking Xie Ke but also talking to himself, “Do you think, this illness torments him, or me?”
“Anyway, he will let me know sooner or later. His illness is incurable without me, not even with the extract. If I don’t come back, he might even really harm himself.”
“As long as he holds this card in his hand, no matter how far I go, I can only return to him in the end.”
After Gu Jinyi finished speaking, he laughed mockingly, not knowing whether he was laughing at Xie Huaizhou or himself.
Xie Ke stuttered, opened his mouth, but couldn’t refute.
Because what Gu Jinyi said was true.
His cousin was just like that.
In fact, if it weren’t for this unexpected sensitive period, he had planned how to make Gu Jinyi come back to him since returning from Roselle Star.
His cousin would never allow Gu Jinyi to really leave him.
This wasn’t normal love, he knew in his heart, but he couldn’t help instinctively defending his own kin.
Xie Ke swallowed hard, anxiously moving towards the door, afraid that Gu Jinyi would turn and leave in anger.
But Gu Jinyi didn’t move.
On the other side of the glass, Xie Huaizhou, who was sleeping deeply due to a large amount of sedatives, slowly opened his eyes.
He saw at a glance the figure standing opposite him.
The two stood on opposite sides of the isolated glass wall, like looking across the sea.
Xie Huaizhou was embarrassed and miserable, clearly in the most out-of-control and vulnerable period, yet when he saw Gu Jinyi, there was no sign of aggression.
He just quietly gazed at Gu Jinyi.
His hands, bound in chains, unconsciously reached out as if to embrace someone.
Gu Jinyi blinked, a tear rolled down from his eye.
He compromised in front of Xie Huaizhou time and time again, all because he loved him.
This, he knew, Xie Huaizhou also knew.
So he said to Xie Ke, “Open the door, I want to go in.”