"I don't feel unwell."

"Then......are you unhappy?"

"I'm not unhappy."

"Did I do something wrong?"

"No."

Jiang Yao was at his wit's end. He hesitated for a moment, then brought up the guess he hadn't wanted to ask, "Could it be because of what Doctor Feng said yesterday? You......don't want to go through the heat?"

Yin Che was unresponsive for a moment, then gave a small nod.

Jiang Yao suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

The brat doesn't want to spend his heat with me, I was in my own happy little world all day over it.

"......yeah, it's a major turning point event in your life after all. You've only just come of age, so you ought to consider it carefully again." Jiang Yao smiled. "Then I'll go buy you a suppressant, to postpone it for three years, okay?"

He pasted an indifferent expression on his face and reached out to turn the doorknob.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll leave you for someone else in those three years?" Yin Che suddenly asked, catching him off guard.

Jiang Yao paused, "But you aren't with me now anyway."

Yin Che raised his eyes to meet his gaze, his dim eyes filled with a gloomy expression.

"I know that after that incident you basically don't like me as much as before and you're not as happy being with me as before, but I......still like you just as much as before." Jiang Yao scratched at his scalp. "Sometimes I feel like I'm brainwashing you, always telling you both implicitly and explicitly that you'll definitely be with me, wanting to make you get together with me......"

Yin Che cut him off, "I haven't been brainwashed."

"Mhm, how could you be that foolish? Now that your pheromone level has already recovered, plus considering how cute you are, there will definitely be lots of people who like you." Jiang Yao sighed and opened the door. "It's okay, I won't force you if you don't want to share your heat with me, so just postpone it, okay? In these next three years, I'll try my best to make you choose me, but if you do end up liking someone else, I also won't force you to stay with me. As long as you're happy, I......"

He didn't go on, because Yin Che lifted his hand in a stop gesture. "You really are so magnanimous, bowing out and giving way to me so readily."

"That's not it, I......"

"I don't not want to be with you. I just think that it's too fast, I originally thought it would take another year," Yin Che said softly, "I haven't prepared myself mentally and my body also isn't physically prepared yet."

Jiang Yao grasped the key point. "You don't not want to be with me...... Then what exactly do you want?"

"......I don't know."

"Tell me."

"I won't tell you."

"I'm begging you......" Jiang Yao stepped closer, "Put my heart be at ease, okay?"

Yin Che stretched out his hand and braced himself against that close-pressing chest. "Don't take an mile when—"

At that moment, Jiang Yao bowed his head, brushing the tips of their noses together. He pressed their foreheads together and leaned forward even further.

With a soft *boom*, the back of Yin Che's head knocked against the door.

"CheChe."

The scent of that exhaled breath filled his entire mouth.

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