Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 53

The air conditioner in the room was shut down by Shen Tingwei. The slightly sultry air was filled with pheromones that Shen Tingwei released unconsciously in his sleep. The rich aroma of sweet wine filled his breath.
Since entering the fourth month of pregnancy, this situation has occurred almost every morning and Shen Tingwei has become accustomed to it.
He didn’t like too heavy curtains. Lian Jue went to Shen Tingwei’s room few times before and noticed that the curtains in his room were always open. Later, he called someone to replace them with light-transmitting curtains made of tulle.
The morning light was abundant but not dazzling. The warm light spread evenly into the room. He slowly opened his eyes and calmed his self down for a while. He raised his hand to press his swollen and painful temple and slowly moved his slightly sore arm from the sun that Kang Tong had pulled out the night before.
Shen Tingwei sat up from the bed and looked at Kang Tong, who was still soundly asleep beside him. Although, he was aware of the fact that most of the people here didn’t seem to be able to smell his pheromones, he got out of bed and opened the windows. ‘Does the people here can be influenced by his scent?’ After all, his pheromone scent is really not enough for children… healthy children.
The morning breeze in summer is not too cold on the body. It is soft, as if it has the temperature of a little sunshine.
He don’t know if it was because his conversation with Kang Tong was too heavy last night that Shen Tingwei wasn’t able to sleep well. He had a messy dream all night and when he first opened his eyes, he felt that his chest was stuffed with dullness.
As a result, when he turned over and sat up again, dreaming had been long forgotten.
He just woke up yet the brain is not very awake. Shen Tingwei stood in front of the window for a while. After dispelling the chaos in his mind, he noticed that his body was even weaker than usual. He straightened his back, stretched his waist lightly and slowly twisted his neck again trying to move his muscles and bones. But Weiwei felt an even more awkward feeling.
He raised his hand and touched the glands under the skin on the back of his neck that had a slight burning sensation. The sore and unbearable feeling seemed to seep directly to the seams of the bones making him feel uncomfortable.
He stared out of the window unfocused, his slender fingers by passed the glands and gently massaged the surrounding skin trying to relieve his pheromone disorder that was temporarily uncontrollable due to the reaction from his pregnancy.
Suddenly, he heard a “beep” sound when the electronic door on the first floor opened. Shen Tingwei lowered his sight, just in time to see Lian Jue coming out of the house.
Lian Jue wore formal clothes as usual. The fitted suit jacket outlined a tight and clear waist line. The ironed trouser covers his straight and slender legs. Shen Tingwei felt that Lian Jue’s dressing style was really simple and the colors were mainly dark. It was rare to see bright colors on him which was consistent with the feeling of Lian Jue itself – stable and a little boring.
Shen Tingwei saw him raise his arm and glance at his watch. He should be in a hurry his pace quickened a little but he didn’t show the slightest rush.
When approaching the stone road in the middle of the courtyard, Lian Jue’s footsteps paused for a while and suddenly raised his head to look upstairs for no apparent reason.
Shen Tingwei didn’t expect him to look at him suddenly and his eyes collided with Lian Jue’s. He had nowhere to hide, so he had to bite the bullet and look at him. He silently spoke to him with his mouth to voice: “Morning.”

Before Shen Tingwei finish speaking, he saw that Lian Jue’s eyes didn’t move for a while and then he suddenly thought that Lian Jue might not be able to see his mouth clearly because of the height of two floors.
He wants to speak louder but Kang Tong was still sleeping in the room, so he smiled gently at Lian Jue and didn’t speak again.
After a few seconds, Lian Jue nodded at him calmly then withdrew his gaze, quickly walked out of the yard and got into the black car parked at the gate of the yard.
Shen Tingwei watch the car leave and turned around. The smell of alcohol in the air seemed to have dissipated a lot but the faintly hot back of his neck was still releasing pheromones continuously.
Shen Ting turned on the air conditioner in the room, it wouldn’t be too cold even with the windows open in this weather. He picked up the thin quilt that touched the ground when Kang Tong turned over, draped the corner of the quilt on Kang Tong’s wrinkled pajamas and exposed belly. Then, he went out from the bedroom door.
He thought it was the same pheromone disorder as the previous few times and it would be fine after a while but this unfamiliar feeling was so threatening that he could not even restrain his dizzy drunkenness several times in just one morning.
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When it was time to eat at noon, even Kang Tong, who was not sensitive to his pheromones could smell a little sweetness on him and he found a reason to prevaricate it.
Fortunately, Kang Tong had a lot of trust in him that he didn’t have any doubts. He only told him to eat less candy, otherwise his teeth would break.
Shen Tingwei responded but his heart couldn’t help but panic.
After lunch, Shen Tingwei sat on the sofa and knitted a scarf for Kang Tong but it was too difficult to concentrate. He was stabbed several times by the tip of the needle and Kang Tong coaxed him to stop and rest from knitting for now.
Kang Tong knelt down on the sofa, looked at Shen Tingwei’s slightly pale face and asked, “Weiwei, are you not feeling well?” Because of the death of his biological father due to illness, Kang Tong has always been concerned about illness. He felt deeply afraid and nervous once anyone around him felt a little uncomfortable. He touched Shen Tingwei’s forehead and could feel the heat but he was not sure if it was a fever, “Do you want to see a doctor? I’ll call Daddy…”

“Uncle is fine.” Shen Tingwei held his hand and shook his head at him, “Dad is very busy, don’t disturb him.”
Kang Tong’s eyes turned red with anxiety: “But you…”
“It’s really okay.” Shen Tingwei endured the discomfort, touched his face, made a relaxed expression, took his hand, put it on his stomach and reasoned, “It’s the baby who is being too naughty.”
Kang Tong carefully touched his bulging belly. After a while, he seemed to really feel the slight throbbing under his belly.
Kang Tong raised his head and asked Shen Tingwei, “Does it hurt?”
“At some point.” Shen Tingwei said to him, “It will be fine in a while, it doesn’t matter.”
Kang Tong knelt down on the floor to got close to Shen Tingwei’s belly and said softly to his lower abdomen: “Little baby, be obedient, otherwise Weiwei will be in great pain.”

Shen Ting caressed his stomach. A forced a smile formed from the corner of his mouth.
The loungewear on his body is made of soft pure cotton but under the stimulation of pheromones his chest is tingling due to congestion and it is also unbelievably sensitive.
The wet clothes were sticking to his body. The cold air in the living room felt very cold. The cold and the heat were fighting in his senses. Shen Tingwei did kept tugging his clothes, so he had to go back to the room, took a shower and change his clothing again.
He didn’t use too hot water when he took a bath worried that his not-so-clear consciousness would be completely dizzy by the heat, so he just rushed in and came out.
His brain was a little awake. He came out of the room, afraid that Kang Tong would be worried about him, so he acted as if nothing had happened and asked Kang Tong if there was anything he wanted to do.
Kang Tong knew that he was not feeling well, so he didn’t dare to disturb him. He shook his head and said that he had to do his summer homework. He told him to sit down and have a good rest.
Kang Tong might be really worried about him. He followed him all afternoon. Shen Tingwei felt embarrassed several times and told the child not to worry. He nodded his head but he didn’t dare to let go of Shen Tingwei under his observation. Shen Tingwei had to pat his head and lay on the sofa with the cat, while Kang Tong’s attention was on the coffee table and continued to solve math problems. Occasionally, when he came across to a problem that he was not sure about or could not do, Shen Tingwei would come over to help him.
Shen Tingwei was exhausted. He leaned on the sofa and was dizzy due to the smell of his pheromone. He didn’t know when exactly that he fell asleep. He only knew that when he woke up, it was already dark outside. He was covered with a thin blanket covered with cartoon patterns. The cat was still asleep on the other corner of the sofa and Kang Tong was nowhere to be found.
He sat up from the sofa, picked up the remote control on the coffee table, turned on the light, and looked around.
“Tongtong?” Shen Tingwei called out, only to realize that his voice was hoarse.
He frowned and cleared his throat. The door squeaked. Kang Tong walked in with a few plastic bags. Seeing the lights in the room were on, he asked, “Weiwei, are you awake?”
Shen Tingwei answered “um” in a hoarse voice and turned his head: “You went out?”
“I went to the mall in front to buy a lot of delicious food~” Kang Tong changed his slippers, trotted over, took out the lunch boxes in the bag one by one and placed them on the coffee table. He pushed them in front of Shen Tingwei as if offering treasures. “This is delicious. Many people are queuing up. You can try it.”

Shen Tingwei glanced at the things he bought, not only snacks but also vegetables and porridge.
This is because he felt uncomfortable and doesn’t want to cook…
Shen Tingwei’s heart was warmed by Kang Tong.
The drowsiness subsided. However, the strange scorching heat in his body came back again. He took a custard from the carton handed over by Kang Tong, chewed it slowly but he couldn’t eat it for a long time.
Kang Tong noticed that Shen Tingwei had a thin bead of sweat on the tip of his nose. He tilted his head and asked, “Weiwei, are you hot?”
Shen Tingwei responded casually, “Yeah”, Kang Tong hesitated a bit and said, “But Dad said that the air-conditioning can’t be turned up too high you and the baby will get sick…”
Shen Tingwei took a tissue to wipe off the sweat and smiled at him: “It’s just that I’m feeling too hot. I’ll be fine in a while.”
After he finished his dinner groggyly, Kang Tong helped him clean up the table and lunch box then he continued writing his homework on the table for a while.
When the wall clock in the living room rang for the second time, Kang Tong went back to his room to take a shower and sleep. He was reprimanded yesterday that he didn’t dare to go to bed so late today.
Before Shen Tingwei finished saying good night to him, he helped him close the lights and door. After unloading the high spirit that he had held up in front of Kang Tong, the whole figure seemed to have taken off his strength. His forehead was against the cold door panel. The newly changed pajamas had already been wetted by sweat again and heated by body temperature. Sticking to his sticky and damp body.
Shen Tingwei’s breath was filled with the scorching smell of alcohol making his consciousness gradually hazy.
The cold sweat oozing out of his forehead made him a little bit unable to withstand the door panel. The light downstairs had not been turned off but he couldn’t hold it any longer. His slender hands were pressed against the door, propping him up. He was leaning against the wall while slowly walk towards his own room.
Shen Tingwei’s soft-soled slippers stepped on the carpet however with each movement of his foot, walking felt harder and harder, making his pace slower. The corridor was lit with warm-colored wall lamps, which melted into a large halo of dim yellow in his increasingly blurred vision.
His brain was in a trance and the only remaining consciousness told him that he should go to a safe and familiar place immediately.
Shen Tingwei kept following his body’s instinct and walked to a door. He seemed to know where it led but he doesn’t clearly know as to why. It was just the uncontrollable desire that forced him to make a quick choice. When his hand touched the cold door handle, all hesitation disappeared. His body felt so soft that he could barely stand up. As the door pushed inward, he stumbled and fell in.