Chapter 116: Plus more

It was almost 8pm when they left the cinema, and Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang were walking hand in hand down the street.

Tang Bai has never been seen wandering alone at this time of the day, either with her elders like her father and grandfather, or with Gu Tunan, who acts as a blind date shield, on a mission.

He remembered the future described in the book, where years later omega could wander around alone without worrying about what she was wearing, without fear of being teased, molested or even raped.

You don't have to be afraid to walk down the street even in the middle of the night.

"Thinking about what?" Xie Ruhang asked.

Tang Bai shook his head as he pointed to the entrance of a bar down the street and whispered, "I haven't been here yet."

"Want to go in?" Xie Ruhang asks.

A beta couple pulled open the hidden bar door just at that moment, and for a moment the restlessness of the door spilled out.

It's a great place to get your energy out and maybe even have a good encounter.

"I used to want to." Tang Bai rested her head on Xie Ruhang's shoulder, interlocking her fingers with Xie Ruhang, "But you've shown me more exciting and better things."

The cheering and dancing, both in the underground arena and throughout the square, far exceeded his expectations.

Xie Ruhang was worried about Tang Bai catching a cold in the summer, so he took off his jacket and draped it over Tang Bai as they went to the last destination on their date.

Pheromone Museum.

The Pheromone Museum has recorded tens of thousands of pheromone scents and has thoughtfully designed a perfume that can also be smelled by beta.

Tang Bai saw several messages on the message board, "When will the curator be able to simulate Xie Ruhang's pheromone scented perfume?" "I'll die if I don't smell Xie Ruhang's pheromones" "Please give me a dream material about Xie Ruhang" ......

Tang Bai unhappily took a pen and wrote: " Xie Ruhang's pheromones can only be smelled by Tang Bai!"

The corners of Xie Ruhang's mouth curved as he followed suit, picking up a pen and writing after messages like "I want to inhale Tang Bai's pheromones" and "Tang Bai is so sweet, the pheromones must be strawberry flavoured". "Tang Bai's pheromones can only be smelled by Xie Ruhang."

The two naive children put down their pens and joined hands to smell the different flavours of pheromones.

"It doesn't even smell as good as yours, Brother Xie." Tang Bai inhaled and commented with a fair conscience.

Xie Ruhang nodded approvingly as he cupped Tang Bai's face and pressed the tip of his nose against her cheek, slowly sniffing the scent of Tang Bai's body.

Tang Bai was slightly tickled by Xie Ruhang's rubbing and he retaliated by tickling Xie Ruhang's itchy flesh, "What are you doing?"

Xie Ruhang pressed Tang Bai's fidgeting hand and said with a straight face, "Wash your nose."

Tang Bai: "Pfft."

Tang Bai was thin-skinned about such things, and as he hesitated to push Xie Ruhang away, Xie Ruhang gave him a peck on the cheek, a hint of satisfaction in his low voice: "It smells so good."

For a moment Tang Bai thought Xie Ruhang wanted to kiss more than just his face, but luckily Xie Ruhang restrained himself, otherwise ......

Tang Bai turned her head to see the staff member approaching and heard the excited question, "Hello! Are you Tang Bai, please? I'm a fan of yours and I like you a lot!"

Tang Bai smiled sweetly, "Hello~"

The staff member glanced at Xie Ruhang, "Would you like to be tested for a pheromone match? It's free."

Tang Bai was curious to see how he matched up with Xie Ruhang as they were directed into the apparatus by the staff.

After waiting for some time, the test results came back.

The staff member was amazed, "100% pheromone match!"

"You are the fated ones!"

A pheromone match of 100 percent means that this alpha and omega are destined for each other.

*

Tang Bai was so happy all the way out of the museum that he said he would return after the pheromone museum, but he couldn't stop and dragged Xie Ruhang with him to continue.

"We are destined to be together!" Tang Bai wondered, "No wonder I liked you so much the first time I saw you!"

"But we didn't smell each other's pheromones then either." Tang Bai frowned, "Doesn't the Destined Fans smell pheromones to be attracted to both sides?"

Xie Ruhang said softly, "Then we are more fated than fated."

"Even without the pheromone attraction, I still like you."

Tang Bai was so happy to hear that he didn't care if anyone was looking, he stood on his tiptoes and gave Xie Ruhang a good bite, exclaiming, "Me too!"

On a brightly lit night, Tang Bai walks past a long queue of hot pot restaurants with a steaming soup skewer, and Xie Ruhang catches a lot of dolls in the crane machine.

There were many pedestrians on the road and some recognised Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang, but Xie Ruhang was so overwhelming that passers-by who wanted to strike up a conversation hesitated for a moment before they were seen walking past in front of them, seemingly talking about whose house they were going to for the evening.

Fans of the road: "!!!" What's going on at home?!

"Go to my house and watch the video of the Imperial gang's game." Tang Bai found Xie Ruhang holding his hand very tightly, like he was afraid he would run away.

But when he looked up at the side of Xie Ruhang's face, he could see nothing. Xie Ruhang's expression was calm and restrained, his eyes lowered to his in a gentle gaze, "Good."

When Xie Ruhang arrived home, only Grandpa Tang and Papa Tang were at home, Mama Tang had gone to stay with Li Songyun.

Grandpa Tang is in the weapons research room, Papa Tang is in the study and Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang are in the bedroom with a pile of dolls.

Placing the new dolls next to a teddy bear of equal height, Tang Bai introduces Xie Ruhang to the dolls he grew up with.

"I like to sleep with Jojo the most." Tang Bai picks up a small, fat chirp that has faded a little in the wash and boops at the fat chirp doll.

Xie Ruhang solemnly touches the tips of the little chubby chirp's wings, "They're soft." Not only was it soft, it smelled like Tang Bai's milk sugar.

He looked at the mountain of dolls and suddenly realised that he didn't need to build a nest when his susceptibility period arrived, he just needed to dive into this pile of dolls and be surrounded by Tang Bai's scent.

"Grandpa made this for me with his own hands." Tang Bai holds out a robot doll.

"This is what mummy sewed for me." A kitty doll is stroked on the head by Tang Bai.

"Daddy bought this for me." A beautiful Palulu doll, which looks expensive, sits on the shelf.

"These are the ones you caught for me." Tang Bai gleefully placed the plain plush dolls Xie Ruhang had caught for him next to Palulu.

" Brother Xie, I'll show you my photo albums." Tang Bai brings out three thick photo albums and pulls Xie Ruhang to sit down on the thick cashmere carpet. The hovering starlight automatically flies to Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang, illuminating the open photos with a light as vast as a river of stars.

"Look, this is what I looked like when I was 100 days old." Tang Bai covers the picture of his newborn baby and does not show it to Xie Ruhang.

The full moon photo shows little Tang Bai holding a pacifier and sitting in the centre of a red cloth filled with various items, his chubby hands clutching a super miniature starship and mech.

"Mum said Grandpa was overjoyed when I grabbed the starship model and the mech model at the time."

Xie Ruhang looked at the starship and hated the fact that it was embedded with all sorts of shiny special metals that attracted the attention of young children, and he thought understandably, "You were so cute as a child."

"I won't show you the picture of me as a newborn, my mother was in premature labour and I was born very small, my mother took one look at me and the whole thing went bad."

"She thought there would be such an ugly child, such an ugly baby that she gave birth to." Tang Bai imitated Mama Tang's tone of voice and described it in graphic detail to Xie Ruhang.

Xie Ruhang couldn't help but smile a little.

"But yeah, at the time my grandfather and my dad both closed their eyes and blew that the baby was just too cute, what with eyebrows like grandpa and eyes like dad."

"My mother wanted the kid to have little eyebrows, so why not say the hair looks like grandpa? It's bald anyway." Tang Bai covered Xie Ruhang's mouth, "You're laughing too loud!"

"Then when I slowly got better looking, the three of them told each other that they all thought I looked too ugly as a newborn and were just too embarrassed to say so." Tang Bai grunted.

Xie Ruhang was curious about what the photo covered by Tang Bai looked like, but Tang Bai refused to show it to him.

"This is a picture of me on my first day of kindergarten!" Tang Bai flipped through the pages and came to a picture of herself majestically entering the school gate in her kindergarten uniform, carrying her little school bag.

"The whole family was worried that I would cry at my first school and my grandfather and father took time off work to accompany me into the nursery. I was surprised that I didn't shed a single tear and couldn't wait to get in and say I wanted to see meet my new friends." Tang Bai laughed, "They said they felt the depression of being a widow and orphan in advance."

"I was the most popular child in kindergarten and I still have contact with my kindergarten teacher who says I was the sweetest, most obedient and polite child she ever met! Tang Bai says proudly.

The album flips from page to page, from Tang Bai's first ride on a foal, "This is a rare account of the early days of human taming of sweatbloods", to Tang Bai going on a farm to jerk a lamb to be overwhelmed by marshmallows, "This is the story of a human cub and a lamb fighting to the death " ......

From kindergarten to primary school, from primary school to middle school, from middle school to high school and finally to university, Tang Bai's silhouette has gradually lost its roundness, but the light in her eyes has never dimmed.

He is always the first glimmer of light for all to see in group photos.

Turn to the newest page with two photographs.

One is an official picture of them with their fingers interlocked and their two rings intertwined.

Another screenshot of the game shows them all wearing Discovery crew uniforms and smiling brightly in front of a vast sea of stars.

On the photo is a line in Tang Bai's handwriting: "On the 1st day of the 7th month of the 231st year of the astrological calendar, I found someone to conquer the starry seas with."

Xie Ruhang stares in awe at the group photo.

Those first twenty long years of his life that he could not be a part of were finally turned over page by page, and he would not miss every important moment of Tang Bai's life that followed.

*

After looking at the Empire players' match files, Xie Ruhang came out of Tang Bai's bedroom to see Grandpa Tang and Papa Tang waiting for him in the living room.

Three alpha's of different ages sit at a table, this time with their cups filled not with hot tea, but with intoxicating wine.

The three of them drank a lot.

There was also a lot of chatting.

At the end, Grandpa Tang said to Xie Ruhang: "Tang Tang is also old enough to get engaged."

"If you win the Mecha Cup this time, take the trophy and get engaged to Tang Tang."

"The prize for winning the Mecha Cup is a congratulatory gift I have prepared for you both."