Chapter 26
Bai He hated being treated with partiality. From a young age, he could not understand why the adults always differentiated him so much from his younger brother.
He ate one fried egg, while his younger brother ate two, because his younger brother was younger than him.
The mobile phone and computer were given to his younger brother to play with, because he was the elder brother and should give way to his younger brother.
He was not taken to the amusement park, while his younger brother was, because his younger brother was a child, and he had grown up and should stay at home to study diligently.
Bai He did not complain, but that did not mean he understood. He had a family, but he always felt so alone.
His parents would reason with him gently, telling him that he was the elder child, that he should learn to be sensible, and that he should learn to make them feel at ease.
These words made Bai He yield time and time again. He was trapped inside, trapped in an invisible cage. The well-intentioned yet malicious partiality made him unable to break free, and he would feel guilty for a long time whenever he had the urge to escape.
Bai He left home early and moved out to rent a place. Even after several years, he still could not come to terms with it. He loved freedom because he had never had it before.
He should have the right to receive the love that belonged to him.
Bai He loathed the suffocating moral blackmail. The gentle traps from his family over the past decade had made him afraid of being psychologically manipulated again, and just now, Guan Jiayue's words seemed to have pulled him back into the past, making him burn with anger.
Why did he have the right to accuse him?
Bai He had an unyielding frustration in his chest, his heart aching as if weighed down by a huge stone, and he panted with great effort.
The gloomy emotion gradually turned sour, his nasal root feeling uncomfortable, and Bai He did not understand why, as his eyes seemed to have become disobedient.
He could not control himself from recalling the past.
Bai He did not want to admit it, but deep down, after hearing Guan Jiayue's words, he had started to unconsciously blame himself.
Like a machine programmed, there seemed to be a demon whispering in his ear, saying that this was how it had always been, that his family members had blamed him, and that he should first admit his mistake because it was originally his fault...
Bai He knew this was wrong, but he could not help but think that way. These habits were ingrained in his bones, coiling and corroding him, bit by bit, ready to devour him.
The deformed psychology cultivated over the past decade was making him submissive.
Guan Jiayue's words were like his parents questioning him: "You are the elder child, why didn't you take good care of your younger brother?"
Bai He wanted to resist, and he had indeed resisted, he had retorted at Guan Jiayue, but the toxic tumor soaked in his original family had made him feel guilty.
This habit of always wanting to take on responsibility and blame was a bad habit that he had not yet overcome.
His fingers were trembling, shaking uncontrollably from the moment he left until now.
He had thought it would be fine after a while.
But after seeing the scene in the alley, the trembling suddenly spread throughout his entire body.
No, no.
His previous anger was just him being angry at himself for not being able to fight, and at Guan Jiayue's matter-of-fact attitude, not because of any prejudice against omegas or alphas...
Bai He's shattered emotions made him not even know what was happening to himself. He felt that he had just broken out of the shackles of his withered soul.
But now, seeing a group of beasts with their pants off surrounding the prostate Yichen, all the rights and wrongs were in a mess.
A complete jumble.
He seemed to have confused his own past experiences with the concepts of this world.
Here, omegas were the vulnerable ones, they were being watched by many pairs of eyes, and they should be protected, but...
Bai He felt that he could not figure it out, his head was in pain, aching as if it was about to split open.
He heard Yichen's cries, waking up as if from a dream, his stomach churning.
Bai He grabbed a stone from the ground and smashed it with all his might towards the nearest naked alpha. The huge stone hit the head with a terrifying sound, immediately splattering blood, and the hit alpha fell back to the ground, convulsing a few times before losing consciousness.
Seeing the blood, the other men exclaimed in surprise, some pulling up their pants, some grabbing sticks, and seeing Bai He at the mouth of the alley, they all heaved a sigh of relief.
"You ruined our mood, we thought you were the police!" The bald alpha eyed Bai He lecherously: "You're a beauty, are you an omega? What, do you want to join in too?"
Bai He frowned, his gaze fixed on the panting Yichen on the ground. Yichen was an omega, his face flushed unnaturally at the moment, his clothes torn to shreds, his pants teetering on the edge of falling off, but the situation had not reached an irreversible point yet.
Bai He gritted his teeth, his angry eyes wide open: "Forcing an omega is against the law!!"
"Oh, look who knows the law." The bald one sneered contemptuously, looking at his accomplices, the flesh on his face stretching like a greasy slab of meat: "I'll tell you, it's this little whore who enticed us with his heat!"
Bai He could guess that Yichen had entered his heat, and although he was not an omega, he could feel the surging pheromones in the air, very thin and messy, a mixture of all kinds of pheromones that made him nauseous: "An omega's heat is a normal physiological phenomenon, it's you who are taking advantage!"
Bai He quietly stroked his phone, but was still noticed by the bald one.
"What are you doing?" The bald one narrowed his eyes, suddenly surging up: "This fucking bastard wants to call the police!! Hold him down!!"
With a shout, the others all rushed towards Bai He. Bai He glanced at the prostrate Yichen, their eyes meeting, and he hardened his heart, gripping his phone and turning to run out.
"Catch him!!"
"Don't let him get away!! Catch him and fuck his reproductive gland, let him get pregnant, so he won't dare to call the police anymore!!"
The filthy language echoed behind him as Bai He ran against the heat wave, as long as he could lure those scumbags to the populated area a hundred meters away, only then...
"Ah—"
A stinging pain in his scalp, the bald one had grabbed his hair, and Bai He instinctively fell back, being dragged back by his hair. He struggled in vain, his mind in a haze, his phone taken away.
Bai He then realized he had not run far at all, and there were alphas among them, using pheromones to oppress him, his fragile gland stimulated, the pain spreading from the back of his neck to his whole body.
Bai He kicked his legs, being dragged back into the alley and thrown next to Yichen. The group stripped off his pants, Yichen's eyes were red beyond belief, he looked at Bai He, his eyes brimming with tears, shaking his head constantly and grabbing the bald one's pant leg.
"...No, no, let him go..."
The omega had softened to the point of having no strength left, the heat made him even struggle to speak, but he kept grabbing the bald one's feet, being kicked away only to grab again, desperately shouting "no".
Bai He was held down by three people, above him, the bald one unbuckled his belt and let his pants fall, his greasy face twisted in a hideous smile.
Bai He's nape was in agonizing pain, the pain unbearable, he had no strength left, his struggling growing weaker and weaker, his pants stripped off, his clothes pulled up, the coarse fingers grabbing the edge of his underwear, and Yichen's heart-rending cries ringing in his ears.
As Bai He lost consciousness from the pain, he thought:
If he had not rushed in recklessly alone, but gone to find someone to help, this might not have happened.
But if he had not come immediately, Yichen's life would have been ruined forever.
But now he couldn't even save Yichen, so it was all his fault for not being able to run fast enough just now.
The stench was nauseating, tears welling up in Bai He's eyes.
How strange, he didn't even intend to cry.
"Bai He—"
A familiar voice, accompanied by a familiar scent, the thick Brandy laced with a raging killing intent swept in, pressing all the alphas in the area to the ground unable to move.
Qin Yao rushed in, grabbed the bald one and flung him away, single-handedly grabbing the bald one's neck and pinning him against the wall nearby.
Qin Yao's veins stood out on his hand, the blood vessels densely distributed, his fingers almost pushing into the bald one's throat.
The alpha pinned against the wall was suspended in the air, his face turning the color of pig liver from lack of oxygen, his mouth gaping as he kept slapping Qin Yao's hand choking his throat, his eyes nearly rolling back.
The pheromone concentration in the air was severely overloaded, the doctors and police in protective gear stopped at the mouth of the alley.
Qin Yao released the man and threw him to the ground, fist after fist slamming into the bald one's face, too many to count, the alpha's face brutally battered to the point of being unrecognizable, until the one on the ground was no longer conscious, before Qin Yao spoke up.
"Qin Yao, that's enough, retract your pheromones, the doctors need to go in."
Qin Yao stopped his actions, his eyes blood-red, glaring fixatedly at the unconscious man on the ground, behind him were the other perpetrators, and he stood up, his gloomy eyes sweeping over them, forcibly suppressing the urge to go berserk, taking off his outer jacket and kneeling down to wrap it around Bai He, carrying him out.
Jifeng rushed over in a hurry, Qin Yao seeing him: "Yichen is fine, he's inside."
Jifeng's face darkened, he nodded to Qin Yao and rushed into the alley, soon coming out carrying the tightly wrapped omega and getting into another ambulance.
The doctors and ambulances left with the victims, Qin Yao stood outside the alley, his powerful aura alone enough to intimidate people. The police arrived just then, and Nan Yu had just caught up.
"What happened? How could something like this happen in an agritourism area?" Nan Yu heard the course of events, his face full of horror, he could barely imagine how desperate Bai He and Yichen must have been at the time.
"This cluster of buildings is a new area, not completely developed yet, those were construction workers, three alphas, two betas." The young police officer took a deep breath: "And since this area is not yet under our jurisdiction, so..."
"Find the person in charge of this area." Qin Yao interrupted the young police officer, his expression calm, gently rubbing Nan Yu's back: "Any clause from the Omega Protection Act will be enough to deal with that bunch of scum."
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When Bai He woke up, it was already late at night. His consciousness gradually returned, but the pain in his head made him ache.
He made a sound like a muffled sob, the pain subsiding after a few minutes, and he slowly opened his eyes, his gaze landing on the pure white ceiling.
He heard the even breathing, and then gently turned towards the source of the sound, only to unexpectedly meet Qin Yao's deep gaze.
Eye contact, silence.
Bai He found that Qin Yao had been watching him the whole time, his gaze calm, yet seeming to hide some anger.
Qin Yao was angry.
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