Wang Luan seemed to have stabilized, but in fact she was still in her susceptible period. Compared to her normal state, she was somewhat sluggish, and not as clear-headed and composed as she herself felt. From the string of silly questions she kept asking, it was obvious.
Yan Qiongyu did not want to continue discussing questions that were so stupid they were bubbling over. He brushed aside the still-damp hair at his forehead, sat up from the bed, and made a physical data record and analysis for both of them.
Both of them were now showing some signs of a fully marked state, but the cavity in his body had not fully opened. Judging from this point alone, this marking should be considered a failure.
Yan Qiongyu had long anticipated the Wang family’s reaction. As he flipped through the data, his black eyes flickered slightly. This “failure” might very well be a good thing.
He could use it to better achieve his own goals.
Thinking of the mental power suppressor in his brain, Yan Qiongyu lowered his gaze and smiled faintly. This was an excellent opportunity to remove the shackles.
“Miss Wang Luan,” Yan Qiongyu said to Wang Luan. “Because of this marking between us, the Wang family will definitely have you undergo a complete examination. They should discover the abnormality in your mental power… Your mental power anomaly is because of this marking. You understand, right?”
This was the most reasonable explanation. Because 3S omegas were rare, and their situation was so special, it was entirely possible that abnormalities during a full marking could affect her mental power.
He had to conceal the true timing of when Wang Luan’s mental power became abnormal. This was to protect her secret from being discovered by the Wang family, and even more so for his own sake.
Although Wang Luan did not think as far as he did, she also understood that, under the current circumstances, they were grasshoppers tied to the same rope. She nodded and agreed with what he said.
“Alright, then we should prepare,” Yan Qiongyu said as he walked into the bathroom. There were some things that should not remain here, and he needed to deal with them.
Wang Luan watched the back of the young man and saw a vicious, torn-open wound on the back of his neck.
That wound looked very much like something bitten out violently during an alpha’s marking. But they both knew clearly that Wang Luan had not touched him at all. Those wounds were something Yan Qiongyu had inflicted on himself, forcibly stabbing them in, in order to extract pheromones and to keep himself clear-headed.
At such a young age, how could he be so ruthless toward himself? Wang Luan felt uncomfortable, curling up on the sofa and staring off blankly.
After thinking through the possible situations that might occur while facing the mirror, and settling on his countermeasures, Yan Qiongyu came out of the bathroom. Seeing Wang Luan listlessly curled up there, he immediately raised his eyebrows.
He walked over and tapped the back of the sofa. “No need to worry, neither of us will get pregnant.”
Even though there was the impact of the susceptible period on the brain, Yan Qiongyu felt that he might need to give this Miss Wang Luan a bit of basic physiological education later on.
Wang Luan shook her head. Seeing that the gland on the back of his neck was still red, swollen, and a mess of erosion, she said dejectedly, “Why didn’t you treat the wound on your neck?”
Yan Qiongyu truly had not expected that this was what she was concerned about. He answered matter-of-factly, “There’s no need to treat it. It looks more like a complete marking this way.”
Wang Luan said weakly, “Be a bit nicer to yourself. Next time, don’t be so ruthless to yourself.”
Yan Qiongyu: “………………”
His expression turned strange, and he began observing the changes in Wang Luan’s physical data again.
Could it be that she was still affected by this strange marking? Otherwise, why would she be so genuinely sad and worried for him?
“You don’t need to feel upset about this, because I don’t care about this bit of pain,” Yan Qiongyu said. “Compared to such a trivial matter, what comes next is the real trial.”
The Wang family waited a full day and night before the special omega pheromone around Wang Luan’s room gradually dissipated. Upon receiving the news, Butler Wang immediately had someone bring Yan Qiongyu out to check whether he had been fully marked.
This omega, who was clearly fragile from having just been marked, had a pale face and swollen glands. When he was led out of the room by a male servant, his eyes were half-closed, as if he were not very clear-headed.
When Butler Wang saw his appearance, his heart leapt with joy. He thought that this sudden marking had succeeded and that there had been no severe rejection reaction. However, after the doctor examined him, it was discovered that the reproductive cavity in his body had not opened. This was a failed complete marking.
Before Butler Wang even had time to feel disappointed, he received another notification.
“What? Miss Luan’s mental power has changed?!”
Because of the abnormal pheromone scent that appeared on Wang Luan’s body, while Yan Qiongyu was being taken away, the still-dispirited Wang Luan was also sent to the Wang family’s private hospital for examination.
Just as Yan Qiongyu had previously guessed, this time it was not merely an ordinary physical examination. Because pheromones were involved, a mental power examination was conducted at the same time.
This examination produced a startling result: Wang Luan, whose mental power had originally been at c level, had suddenly risen to a.
This increase in mental power could only be described as a miracle, and for the Wang family, it was an enormous surprise.
It must be known that improving mental power was extremely difficult. Forcibly enhancing it through medication had a low success rate and would also leave behind aftereffects of genetic collapse, yet Wang Luan’s mental power condition was unexpectedly stable.
Even the head of the Wang family, upon learning of this news, changed his usual coldness and impatience toward Wang Luan. He put aside the matters at hand and personally went to the hospital to confirm her condition.
“Her mental power has indeed increased by two major levels? Reaching A level?”
After receiving a confirmed answer from the doctor for the second time, a rare smile appeared on the Wang family head’s face.
Butler Wang, who had come ahead to understand the situation, stood beside him and reported softly.
“Miss Luan’s mental power increase this time may be due to her having carried out a complete marking on Young Master Yan Qiongyu. Although the complete marking did not succeed, Young Master Yan Qiongyu’s high-level mental power inadvertently stimulated Miss Luan’s mental power, causing a mutation…”
“We asked Young Master Yan Qiongyu about what happened during the marking process. According to him, because of a pheromone eruption, his mental power went into turmoil, and midway there was a state of mental power depletion. The doctor’s examination has also confirmed this. It may be precisely because of the mental power depletion that this complete marking did not succeed…”
The Wang family head’s expression shifted from joy to calm. He seemed to think of something, and a shrewd, greedy light appeared in his eyes.
The Wang family head murmured, “As expected of 3S. No wonder Yan Mu made those people go mad back then.”
Back then, because of inherited genetic defects and his unstable position, and because he was busy with internal family struggles, he had not participated in those studies on Yan Mu more than ten years ago.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the Emperor allowed him to seize Yan Qiongyu for the continuation of his own family.
Thinking of how Yan Qiongyu had not completed the full marking due to mental power depletion, the Wang family head clasped his hands behind his back, pondered for a moment, and made a decision.
He knew that because of the tragedy that had occurred back then to Yan Qiongyu’s mother, Yan Mu, many people had developed fear toward 3S, and so Yan Qiongyu had had a mental power suppressor implanted since childhood.
Although he bore the name of 3S, his current mental power was suppressed. If this suppressor could be completely removed, perhaps if Wang Luan marked him again, her mental power could continue to rise.
The Wang family head could not restrain his greed.
Yes, although this useless daughter Wang Luan now possessed A-level mental power and was much improved compared to before, what the Wang family head wanted even more was for her to become S-level like himself. Only then would she be qualified to formally inherit the Wang family, and only then would she have the possibility of continuing to bring prosperity to the Wang family.
Moreover, since Yan Qiongyu could raise Wang Luan’s mental power, then in the future their children would also be very likely to inherit high-level mental power. He could not allow the suppressor inside Yan Qiongyu’s body to continue existing and affect the qualifications of the Wang family’s next generation.
For this, he had to do something—such as reaching a consensus with the Omega Protection Association that supervised Yan Qiongyu, and removing the mental power suppressor from Yan Qiongyu’s brain.
The Wang family head came to the hospital in haste and left just as hastily, only instructing Butler Wang to take good care of Wang Luan and the two of them.
Wang Luan was fine. Her susceptible period had eased considerably because of the marking, though her emotions were still somewhat uncontrollably pessimistic and depressed. There were no major physical issues, and she had even gained a blessing in disguise with her mental power increase. As a result, the Wang family servants and private doctors responsible for her care all became countless times more enthusiastic and considerate toward her.
As for Yan Qiongyu, because of mental power depletion and abnormal pheromones, he was transferred to White Oak Hospital, which was more familiar with his physical condition.
Doctor Hu Qingyu, as before, was responsible for his treatment.
In the treatment room where only the two of them remained, Doctor Hu Qingyu sent Yan Qiongyu the materials he had organized regarding androsterone, and asked him about the results of this experiment.
“This is the data from this marking process,” Yan Qiongyu said, sending over a set of data he had compiled.
Hu Qingyu looked at the data and quickly frowned. “You included Wang Luan’s mental power comparison data as well. This will make people misunderstand and think that her mental power fluctuations were caused by this marking.”
Yan Qiongyu smiled. “That’s exactly what I want—people to misunderstand. Aunt Hu, you can get in touch with Weier Ting of the Weier family, can’t you? I heard he has always been researching the enhancement of mental power. You can send this set of data to him. I believe he will be interested.”
Hearing him call her Aunt Hu rather than Doctor Hu, Hu Qingyu knew that she had no way to refuse Yan Qiongyu.
Because this intimate-sounding Aunt Hu did not merely represent closeness. More often than not, it was closer to a kind of threat.
“You want to meet Weier Ting?” Doctor Hu Qingyu asked hesitantly.
“Yes.” Yan Qiongyu flipped through the materials on androsterone that Hu Qingyu had sent him, and smiled with unclear intent. “He participated in many studies related to Yan Mu back then. I want to meet him.”
This Mr. Weier Ting was also one of the possible biological father candidates he suspected.
For many years before, this genius of the Veer family had stayed in another star system, obsessed with research, even harder to approach than those high-status family heads. Now was the perfect opportunity to use this rare set of data to lure him over.
Hu Qingyu’s pheromone research had intersected with Weier Ting’s work, but the two were not close. Holding the data Yan Qiongyu had given her, she hesitated for a long time without taking action.
Noticing the struggle on her face, Yan Qiongyu softly asked through the glass of the treatment room, “Aunt Hu, have the people from ‘Utopia’ contacted you recently?”
Upon hearing the word ‘Utopia,’ Hu Qingyu’s expression changed. She quickly lowered her head and pretended not to care, but the fingers tapping on the data tightened and turned pale.
She tried to keep her tone normal, but her voice unconsciously dropped. “You know that they haven’t contacted me for two years already.”
