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Yue Qingyuan tilted his head to the side, expression pensive, his chin finding a place on his fist to rest while he listened to complaints from Liu Qingge.
Listened…
If that could be called listening.
His black eyes were fixated on the ever so poised Shen Qingqiu, who just elegantly fanned himself, expression bored as Liu Qingge accused him of inciting Qing Jing disciples against Bai Zhan’s brutes. He sighed, his pale green eyes glancing over to Yue Qingyuan who just stared at him for some reason.
It was making him slightly uncomfortable because he couldn’t tell what the man was thinking about.
“I would never do such a thing, Liu Qingge." He finally said and watched his rival getting red in the face with anger. Yue Qingyuan looked over to the War god.
“Liu-shidi,” he started with his usual polite and patient smile, straightening his back and putting his hand down. “If Shen-shidi says he wouldn’t do such a thing, why won’t you talk to your disciples about this. It seems that mainly they have been causing problems at Qing Jing peak.” He almost tsked but didn’t do that.
“Zhangmen-shixiong,” Liu Qingge slammed his hands into the wooden table, almost making the distributed tea spill and other present Peak lords flinch. “You always side with him. It’s not fair!” He gestured towards Shen Qingqiu. “He would get away with murder if he told you he didn’t do it!”
“How dare you!” This lifted Shen Qingqiu out of the chair which loudly screeched. “How fucking dare you, you brute!”
Yue Qingyuan’s shoulders tensed up but he was still smiling. However, with closer inspection. it could be seen that his eyes didn’t reflect his current expression as he was very good at dissembling when needed. Everybody else just nervously looked around themselves when there was a sudden burst of pheromones filling the air. It made Liu Qingge back off with a few steps and then he put his head down, a sign of submission.
“Liu-shidi.” Yue Qingyuan traced the edge of the desk with his thumb, looking at him with a warning. “There are things which shouldn’t be said if they are not true. Shen-shidi is a righteous cultivator just like you.” Liu Qingge curled his fingers into the fists, furiously biting down his lip.
“Let’s all calm down and go over this again. Please both of you take a seat, gather your thoughts.” He was now looking at Shen Qingqiu, the sudden outburst of pheromones calmed down as quickly as it appeared, but all the present alphas knew it was Yue Qingyuan’s way to show the other one who was the leader of their pack. They all seemed to be affected by this except Shen Qingqiu who took the cup into his hand and slowly sipped the now lukewarm tea with an indifferent expression.
He was a beta, so he didn’t smell these things. To be exact, he was a married beta.
Well, that’s how he presented himself in front of others. There were only two people who knew that he was a very rare case of a recessive omega which made it easier for him to pass as beta. If he would want to he could get away with pretending to be an alpha. Shen Qingqiu just closed his green eyes when Liu Qingge started talking again, his mind wandering places.
He couldn’t focus on what was happening in the room as he tried to calm himself down, hiding his face once again behind the fan. Liu Qingge’s talking became just background noise as his thoughts turned to his alpha husband and their morning conversation.
Shen Qingqiu hated his own life.
Being sold from one person to another made him feel just like some livestock. He was just a thing to be passed again and again because people would get tired of his temperament until someone would keep him. That’s what his current husband did.
It irked him so much, he was a powerful cultivator by now, an honorable Peak lord and he couldn’t protect himself from that man.
He couldn’t either disobey him because he was bonded against his will. Forced to submit.
Shen Qingqiu cried out in pain as the alpha grabbed his hair to violently pull his head backward, kicking his legs to force him to kneel. He felt hot tears running down his face even though the beating hadn't even started yet and when he tried to say something he couldn’t. His body suddenly felt paralysed and his neck burnt with pain. Exactly where the mating bite was.
He didn’t see much as he tried to cover his face and his vision was blurry anyway. This was so humiliating, he should be able to defend himself!
“Are you even listening?” the man snarled and kicked him down onto the floor, Shen Qingqiu could only blink as the alpha approached him.
“N-no!” He managed to stutter from his throat which felt dangerously tight. “Don’t!” He tried to push the man away but the searing pain in his nape only intensified, forcing a new wave of tears out of his eyes.
“Didn’t I tell you to take care of your condition? Fucking you feels like fucking a beta.” He hissed, disgusted. “I bought you because you are omega, I even allowed you to enter that Sect. This is how good I am.”
“A-alpha please…” He whispered in a pleading voice, trembling. “I-I’m-” A slap on his cheek.
“Shut up.” He held his jaw firmly in hand, squishing his cheeks now, his dark eyes staring into Shen Qingqiu’s green ones before he let go. “Present,” he ordered him in an authoritative tone.
Shen Qingqiu sobbed as his body flinched with the command and he slowly got up, his robes pooling around his bare feet.
He took in a shaky breath as his fingers wrapped around the cup of tea, holding it firmly between them, almost crushing it in the process. He hated his husband, no, he hated his life.
“Shen-shixiong.” Someone pulled him out of his thoughts and when he opened his eyes, he was met with Mu Qingfang’s honest face. “Shixiong, are you alright? You seemed to be in a bit of distress just now,” Yue Qingyuan watched them with concern, he could tell there was a faint sour scent lingering in the air, a sign of discomfort but nobody else seemed to notice that.
“We can push the meeting if Shen-shidi isn’t feeling well?” He offered carefully. He wanted to stand up, to come to Shen Qingqiu, gently touch his shoulder and reassure him that everything was alright and whatever was plaguing his mind would disappear but he couldn’t. Shen Qingqiu was married and a mated omega. Yue Qingyuan felt like going crazy just thinking about the fact it was not him who was the husband.
He wanted to kill that guy.
That alpha wasn’t worthy of his Xiao Jiu.
******
“Shi-zun.”
Shen Qingqiu lifted his head from the reports he was working on when Ming Fan called for him. He acknowledged him with a simple nod.
“Sect leader Yue wishes to talk with you.” The disciple quickly said, still bowing in greeting.
“Tell Sect lea-” He stopped mid-sentence as the man already appeared behind Ming Fan all smiling. Sometimes Shen Qingqiu wanted to wipe that smile out of his face because it irritated him so much. It was annoying. However, he didn’t notice a pair of wine jars Yue Qingyuan was holding in his left hand.
“Shidi, I hope you have been well.” Yue Qingyuan cut in before Ming Fan could finish his sentence, here in the bamboo house Shen Qingqiu’s scent was much more pronounced because he spent most of the days here. The light fragrance of jasmine could be easily mistaken for perfume. Yue Qingyuan bid farewell to Ming Fan, giving him a clear sign to get out as he slowly approached Shen Qingqiu.
“I am working on my reports, make it quick, zhangmen-shixiong.” The omega gritted through the teeth, clearly annoyed.
“I can help you with your work if it's too much.” Yue Qingyuan carefully knelt in front of the low table where Shen Qingqiu had his reports all over the place. It seemed that he was trying to figure out where to put money for the next month, so his funds wouldn’t be cut and distributed to other peaks. Yue Qingyuan didn’t comment on that. Instead, he carefully pushed the wine jars over the floor towards Shen Qingqiu who curiously glanced over them.
A bribe.
His green eyes quickly looked over to Yue Qinguan who was still smiling. “You look like an idiot.” He spat out and sighed, rubbing the root of his nose between the fingers.
“If shidi says so. Do you want me to help?”
“No, you can open the wine.” Shen Qingqiu started putting scrolls back together into the order, so they wouldn’t be in a way as he placed one of the wine jars onto the table. He then proceeded to get up and walk over to his cupboard to leave the documents there.
Yue Qingyuan looked around the room as his shidi left for a short while to get the cups. The omega’s place was perfectly clean and organized, it was just sad that he didn’t see anything close to a nest on his bed. The Sect leader closed his dark eyes for a moment and took in a deep breath then he exhaled, he let out the soft pine scent of his own pheromones, letting them mix with Shen Qingqiu’s.
He wanted to scent the younger man so badly.
Dare to say that he didn’t care that his shidi was already mated with a husband. Other alphas would never prey on taken omegas, even if the omega’s alpha would break the bond with them. It was taboo, it was the scummiest thing one could do to another but there he was. Not ashamed of his thoughts. What if he firmly believed that his Xiao Jiu didn’t wish to be mated with that man?
He always refused to talk about his alpha husband, never answered if he was happy with him. From Mu Qingfang, after some gentle talking, he learned that Shen Qingqiu was seeking the healer out for the treatment of his infertility. Yue Qingyuan would never push his omega to do something like that. If Shen Qingqiu wouldn’t bring the question of treatment himself. There was a little voice in his head telling him that Shen Qingqiu must have been forced to seek the sect healer. He didn’t seem like the type who wanted his own children, not now when he managed to be the Peak lord. Having them on his Peak and guiding them through arts of cultivation was enough for him.
He opened his eyes when he heard steps returning, his gaze fell upon the little toes covered in the snow-white socks. He wanted to… His own scent seemed to thicken in the air, so he let go of these thoughts. He didn’t want to upset Shen Qingqiu who seemed very sensitive towards other smells if they were to invade his personal space. But that didn’t stop Yue Qingyuan from believing that maybe his scent was what made Shen Qingqiu always calm and relaxed at their monthly annual meetings to discuss things.
Soon they both could experience the feeling of slight pleasant lightheadedness, Shen Qingqiu smiled a little bit more when his barriers lowered down slightly with the alcohol and Yue Qingyuan could not stop that possessive feeling spreading inside of him, begging to be released. He wanted these subtle smiles only for himself and he found himself putting the cup down, so he could lean over the table towards Shen Qingqiu.
The small omega blinked a few times and stopped him while taking in a shaky breath.
“What are you doing?” He asked him with a half-lidded gaze.
“Shidi is producing his scent, I just wanted to feel it for myself…”
“Qingyuan!” Shen Qingqiu’s thin eyebrows scrunched together with his forehead. “I am a married man! You can’t do that, that’s inappropriate.”
Yue Qingyuan caught his hand as his shidi was trying to push him away, kissing him down into his palm. “But… is shidi happy?” He asked him, slowly lifting his gaze upwards to the shocked face of the omega. “Are you happy with your alpha?”
“No.” Yue Qingyuan’s ears barely caught the word and somehow he took it as an invitation.
“I would make you happy.” Yue Qingyuan moved to Shen Qingqiu’s side. “I would make you feel loved. You would be better off with me so much.”
“I-I am ma-mated.” Shen Qingqiu stuttered out when suddenly Yue Qingyuan’s scent felt too overwhelming, intoxicating, but he didn’t feel panic rising in his head like when his alpha always tried to intimidate him with pheromones. Instead, he felt… more relaxed. “Qingyuan…”
The older male cut him off before Shen Qingqiu could finish the sentence. He crushed their lips together without a second thought, his tongue sliding over the seam of Shen Qingqiu’s mouth who reluctantly opened it and let him slip in. Something weird happened during their kiss because the Qing Jing peak lord felt his body responding to it. The wetness in his underwear was somehow a very unfamiliar feeling to him, just like the throbbing caused by arousal in his private parts.
“Qingqiu.” Yue Qingyuan murmured. He would love to call him by the previous name but his childhood friend despised it. His fingers found their way into Shen Qingqiu’s collars and he slowly pushed them away. “It hurts me to see you in an unhappy marriage. Let me help you.” Shen Qingqiu quietly sighed and closed his green eyes when he felt the hot mouth on his throat. It made the hair on the back of his neck stand but in a pleasant way, not with fear.
“Is this how you want to help me? To fuck me?” Shen Qingqiu tried to get back his crumbled grumpy facade but he couldn’t stop the man who started nuzzling his neck with his mouth. He felt the sharp canines grazing his scent glands. He let out a quiet moan when he felt a few kisses there too, it was such a sensitive spot on his body and it was surprisingly pleasant when an alpha actually tried to be nice and as the result of such nice treatment he let out a weak scent of his own pheromones into the air. He heard that deep breath Yue Qingyuan took as he tried to monopolize all the jasmine aroma for himself.
“That’s enough,” Shen Qingqiu tried to gently push his shixiong away once again but he wouldn’t let him. Instead, he murmured something but Shen Qingqiu didn’t understand the words at first and then he froze on the spot.
“Xiao Jiu,” Yue Qingyuan started with a sudden urgent tone in his voice. “Please, present for me.” There was the edge of the alpha command in the man’s pleading. However, it wasn’t that cruel, making him uncomfortable like when it was abused by his own husband. Or maybe it wasn’t that strong because they weren’t mated.
“I-I can’t.” Shen Qingqiu tried to be the rational one here but when he looked into Yue Qingyuan’s eyes, they were suddenly golden instead of black. “Yue-shi-shixiong!” He stuttered out, his fingers dug into the man's firm arm muscles. “You are in rut.”
“You did this to me.” Yue Qingyuan blinked a few times, his eyes still golden, indicating the alpha’s cycle. “So take responsibility and mate with me, shidi.” He murmured with the same urgency in his voice just like when he asked the younger man to present himself. “Present yourself to me,”
Shen Qingqiu just deeply inhaled with the last sentence, his body wanting to fulfill the wish of the alpha. “Okay, okay…” He murmured and pushed the other man away from himself, so he could reluctantly put down his complex waist belt. He tried to ignore that hungry gaze that followed his fingers as he worked on the knots tying his elaborate robes together. He weighed his options if he could fold them but Yue Qingyuan’s growl decided for him. He didn’t have time for that.
“Be patient!” He barked at him when Yue Qingyuan approached him again with that heated gaze. “I’m still not… ah! Are you an animal?” He pushed the older male away who licked his lips. Satisfied with a possessive feeling surging in him when he watched the delicate skin of his nape without his bite as there was an imprint of someone else’s teeth. He couldn’t place one there, he could only just helplessly bite his collars, the fabric as some replacement to the real skin.
Then finally he was just in his thin linen undershirt with just pants and socks. He hesitantly turned his back to Yue Qingyuan and put the upper part of his body on the mattress, slightly widening his legs with a red face buried in the sheets as he presented himself to Yue Qingyuan like this and the older male didn’t hesitate for a second.
He lashed against Shen Qingqiu, grabbing his thighs and burying his nose and later on mouth into the rear covered in the thin fabric. “Xiao Jiu smells so delicious here.” He whispered, making the younger male fist the sheets and whine embarrassed. Yue Qingyuan nosed the slightly wet fabric once again, feeling the jasmine filling his nose, and then he decided to teasingly lick the other male over the fabric. He couldn’t wait to really taste him, to feel the hot slick on his tongue.
He couldn’t wait any longer, Shen Qingqiu’s scent was driving him crazy, his vision blurry and head dizzy that he looked as if he was in the rut. In reality, the alpha wasn’t, his body just reacted like this when exposed to his one and only mate that he would ever want to monopolize for himself but it was a great way to make Shen Qingqiu feel less guilty about this whole thing. Let him worship the omega as he deserves because he could tell that his alpha husband didn’t treat him well. Shen Qingqiu would always lock himself in the bamboo house for at least a week after coming back from his regular visits to his husband’s house. There was one time Yue Qingyuan caught a glimpse of bruises on his neck and it made him go wild that he trashed his whole office, splitting a table in two with bare hands.
That man didn’t deserve his Xiao Jiu, Yue Qingyuan on the other hand did.
The reason? Because he was a good man who would treat his lover only right.
Yue Qingyuan tentatively reached under Shen Qingqiu’s stomach and gently caressed it as he carefully went down to find the strings which held the omega’s pants tightly secured to his waist. He noticed that the younger male tried to secretly watch him, so he returned the favor and looked at him too while he started removing Shen Qingqiu’s pants. With that, his adorable blush deepened on his face and he quickly hid it into sheets on his bed. Yue Qingyuan just fondly chuckled and groped that perfect ass that was presented to him.
Shen Qingqiu’s underwear was most definitely ruined by his slick, it was weird to be this wet with an alpha, the one who was his childhood friend. He should feel like this with his husband, right? So why was his body reacting to a total stranger? The cold air which caressed his ass suddenly made him gasp as his hole shyly clutched under the gaze of Yue Qingyuan.
He gently pulled Shen Qingqiu’s right cheek to the side, so he could have a better look at that wet fluttering entrance. He barely held back and Shen Qingqiu wouldn’t be even able to blame him because he was in rut, right? If nothing else then the younger male should probably comment on Yue Qingyuan’s ability to hold himself back when the primal instincts were going wild in him. Slick trickled down his thighs and Yue Qingyuan swallowed heavily when he noticed it. He gently scooped some of it, making Shen Qingqiu whine in embarrassment, once again and brought it to his lips. The jasmine scent was incredibly strong and he felt his temples throbbing from being overwhelmed by omegas pheromones in the slick because he wasn’t used to them very much. After all, Shen Qingqiu was a recessive omega.
When he finally tasted the slick, he didn’t really expect it to be sweet, at most he thought that it would probably be similar to the taste of the cum maybe? Not that he had experience with that either.
“Xiao Jiu tastes so good,” he murmured and proceeded to grab his second cheek, so he could take a proper look at that already twitching hole with anticipation. “And he seems to be excited too.” Yue Qingyuan smiled satisfied, there was nothing better than to feel that Xiao Jiu wanted him too and with that he leaned closer, frowning as he noticed a scarred tissue on the most sacred place of his omega. He deeply inhaled when he carefully touched one of the obvious healed trauma injuries. Shen Qingqiu most definitely wasn’t treated well by his husband if he allowed something like this to happen.
That person who hurt him like this deserved to simply disappear.
He teased the sensitive rim with the tip of his tongue very carefully, gently circling it. At first, Shen Qingqiu seemed as if he was scared, trying to escape with his hips but Yue Qingyuan let out his own pheromones in a try to soothe the omega under him. That seemed to work because Shen Qingqiu slightly relaxed back into the sheets as Yue Qingyuan continued tasting his hole sweet with the slick all around it. At one moment he felt a hot liquid dripping down on his tongue and he shivered with pleasure because Xiao Jiu was this wet for him, producing so much slick, so he could accommodate the alpha soon.
Yue Qingyuan wished to absolutely defile Shen Qingqiu. He wanted the omega to cry under him with pleasure, begging him to knot him… Begging for babies. His cock violently twitched in his pants with these thoughts and he was forced to calm himself down. He couldn’t do that. Not now. Maybe next time when they would be free of that disgusting man.
Shen Qingqiu squeezed his eyes shut the moment something hot and wet touched his hole, visibly scared but then he relaxed when it was only a tongue and fingers touching him down there. Spreading him wide and forcing moans out of him. His hole was tingling with every pass of Yue Qingyuan’s tongue and his legs slightly trembled. Another moan escaped his throat when Yue Qingyuan now pushed the tip of it into his hole, forcing him open until his body gave in and welcomed that object inside. He pulled back and then thrust his tongue right back in, fucking Shen Qingqiu like this on it before his surprisingly skilled fingers replaced it.
Yue Qingyuan was quite proud of how Shen Qingqiu’s body easily swallowed his fingers after the thorough tongue fucking and the adorable hole clutched around them when he found that place. Shen Qingqiu tossed his head to the side and cried out in pleasure, he probably never felt like this with his husband. Soon the walls were tightening around Yue Qingyuan’s fingers the more he rubbed his prostate and the man under him became overwhelmed with the pleasure, ultimately spilling his seed into the wet sheets he laid on, displayed for Yue Qingyuan.
“Xiao Jiu…” He crooned excitedly with the sight of the man in his own blissful paradise. “I can’t hold back anymore.” His pheromones spread around the room, thick and heavy. Shen Qingqiu just sighed and let his eyes close, waiting for whatever Yue Qingyuan would do to him, and he would surrender. His breathing was uneven and his body became suddenly hot, it was uncomfortable.
Shen Qingqiu didn’t really understand that he went to heat after his first orgasm as he wasn’t used to that.
He believed he was infertile with how rare his cycle occurred.
“Do you have any oil?” Yue Qingyuan asked him but Shen Qingqiu barely listened to him. He lifted himself off the soiled sheets, so he could turn to the alpha. “H-hey.” Yue Qingyuan opened his arms to embrace Shen Qingqiu quickly buried his head into the crook of the alpha’s neck, trying to find some comfort in his sharp scent. “Where is your oil, Xiao Jiu?” He asked him again, gently stroking his back.
“It hurts,” Shen Qingqiu whispered, squirming uncomfortably in his embrace. “And it’s so hot,” he cried out, rubbing his neck once against Yue Qingyuan’s scent gland. “Ahng…” Yue Qingyuan tightened his arms around him. “H-hurts so much.” He blabbered again when Yue Qingyuan carefully pulled him away.
“I will help you, don’t worry.” He shuddered when he saw the face Shen Qingqiu made, the younger male was most definitely in his heat and his pheromones became stronger because of that. “But first you have to tell me where your oil is?” He asked him again but Shen Qingqiu's unfocused glossy stare answered him enough that the man wouldn’t be helpful in that.
Yue Qingyuan tried to carefully get up and when he did Shen Qingqiu grabbed onto his robes with a desperate expression. “Are you leaving again?” He cried out, his knuckles going white from the strong grip on the fabric. “Are you throwing me aside again?” Yue Qingyuan gulped and bent down to caress his forehead, push his bangs out of it.
“Of course not, Xiao Jiu, I would never do that.” He took in a shaky breath. “N-not again,” he helped the younger male onto his legs and forced him to sit down at the edge of his bed. “I’ll find the oil okay?” He kissed Shen Qingqiu’s burning forehead when he let go of his robes and moved to the small stand next to his bed. He started shuffling through the things, there had to be oil for Shen Qingqiu and he wouldn’t be surprised if he would find even a bronze or jade phallus. Omegas had their needs and Shen Qingqiu had to have regular cycles and his alpha couldn’t always help him.
Yue Qingyuan flinched when he heard a loud creak of the bed but calmed down when it was just Shen Qingqiu moving himself into it while removing his clothes with whispers of too hot .
“I will take care of you,” he promised once again and looked around frustrated. Even when omega was slicked as Shen Qingqiu now, it was always better and safer to use oil, this much he knew.
“Qingyuan,” Shen Qingqiu whimpered on the bed, his nails digging into the exposed skin of his body, leaving red marks as he clawed it. “I-I… hurt… so much,” he cried out once again and let out a whine which made Yue Qingyuan almost go feral. It was omega’s way of telling the alpha how much he needed him.
Xiao Jiu needed him .
He started removing his robes then too until he was naked together with Shen Qingqiu on the bed. He reached out to Yue Qingyuan and pulled himself up to kiss him, the alpha could feel that the heat finally clouded Shen Qingqiu’s mind because after he pulled away from the kiss, he hastily turned himself onto the stomach. He was offering himself to the alpha and grabbed on the sheets under him. His breathing was labored and Yue Qingyuan could notice how his hole twitched with anticipation and glistened with all the slick he produced just for Yue Qingyuan.
He was this wet for him.
He licked his lips and took in a deep breath, his nostrils filling with Shen Qingqiu’s rich and sweet scent. His hands gently wandered to his perfect ass and gently squeezed the globes as he rubbed the head of his dripping shaft against Shen Qingqiu’s hungry entrance. Catching one time at the already abused rim, making Shen Qingqiu whimper under him with pleasure.
“Alpha, please.”
Yue Qingyuan’s eyebrow twitched. “Don’t call me that.” He murmured slightly disgusted. He hated alphas who forced their partners into submission like this, erasing the lines of humanity, forcing them to become just vessels and slaves to their husbands. Omegas should be cherished, especially the males. Shen Qingqiu should be cherished.
No.
He should be worshipped as a god.
Finally, Yue Qingyuan took mercy on his shidi. Oh, how the tables turned, huh? He lifted his hips for better access and then finally… finally he pressed the head of his cock against the fluttering hole, carefully pushing past the tight ring of muscles. He tried to go as slow as his temper would allow him and suddenly he could feel the body under him tense and it wasn’t in a good sense.
His omega didn’t feel safe with him.
“Xiao… Xiao Jiu…” He breathed out in panic and tried to soothe him with the pheromones but it didn’t work. The omega under him slightly shook with sheets fisted in his hands once again.
“D-don’t hit me alpha, please.” Shen Qingqiu whispered after a while. “I’ll be… I’ll be good.” Yue Qingyuan frowned and tried to gently soothe him by carefully stroking his neck, his thumb softly pressing against the junction of it and his shoulder. He caressed his most sensitive scent gland a few times in an attempt to make him relax again and then he bent down to nose it.
“You are doing well,” he murmured in a calming voice with the edge of his alpha command. “You are so good for me, for your alpha.” That seemed to finally calm him down as the omega under him stopped shaking and the tense body loosened a bit. With that Yue Qingyuan slowly moved his hips to fill Shen Qingqiu up to his hilt, pressing out the excess slick in the process which now trickled down his thighs. It would most definitely make for a great sight.
Shen Qingqiu began trembling under him once again but this time it was from him being so full, heat overcoming his rational thinking once again. He hesitantly pressed himself against Yue Qingyuan’s hips so that he was flush against his pelvis and Yue Qingyuan took it as consent to start slowly moving. He held Shen Qingqiu's neck firmly down when he gave a first slow and gentle thrusts at first.
“Ah, ah,” he gasped as he gripped the sheets in his hands more firmly, trying to brace against the incoming thrusts. “Alpha… ah, alpha slo-w…” His breathing quickened with Yue Qingyuan’s merciless rhythm. He couldn’t slow down now when they barely started.
After a while, he pulled out quickly to flip Shen Qingqiu onto his back before he pushed his cock back in and with a quick thrust he found himself once again in the welcoming warmth of Shen Qingqiu’s body. The man under him softly whined, his lashes were clumped together because of tears that ran down his flushed cheeks. His smaller cock trembled between his legs while Yue Qingyuan just stayed still and took in all the beauty.
He tried to cover his face when he noticed that predatory gaze scanning over it but Yue Qingyuan quickly pulled his hands apart, pinning them down into the mattress.
“Don’t hide away from me,” he smiled at him warmly as he forced Shen Qingqiu to lay down vulnerable under him. With ease he spread out Shen Qingqiu’s fingers with his own, intertwining their fingers together. First Shen Qingqiu quickly glanced at their connected hands and then his eyes found Yue Qingyuan’s, his bottom lip trembled and he softly moaned when the man on top of him rolled his hips.
“Q-Qi-ge,” he called tentatively more likely reluctantly when they faced each other like this and the Sect leader could feel Shen Qingqiu pressing back against his hands. But it was not to get away, he was bracing himself for what was yet to come. “Qi-ge,” he whispered, more sure this time.
“Yeah, Qi-ge will take care of you,”
With that Yue Qingyuan started thrusting his hips once again, this time he tried to reach as deep as possible, to mark his territory because Shen Qingqiu was obviously his. He would just have to take care of that third person in their relationship. He frowned, but let go of that expression when he noticed slight distress on the omega’s face, this wasn’t the right place to think about it. He should take care of Shen Qingqiu who had to suffer because of his own body betraying him in front of a different alpha.
He groaned with each snap of Yue Qingyuan’s hips, his toes curling up in the air when he locked them behind the alpha’s waist. It didn’t take him too long to reach his own peak again, he arched his back with a new wave of tears running down his cheeks. His hard cock twitched between their bodies with every spurt of his release which painted wet, white lines over his stomach, almost reaching his chest. He tossed his head to the side, baring his neck as if he wanted to silently tell Yue Qingyuan to bite him.
But instead of leaving visible marks on his body, Yue Qingyuan violently bit down into the pillow next to Shen Qingqiu, frustrated that he couldn’t ruin that beautiful skin. That perfect ass was however a different story and after a few more thrusts, he spilled deep into Shen Qingqiu.
“N-no!” Shen Qingqiu regained some sense of rationality after his second orgasm when he felt the knot expanding inside. “You can’t!”
“I’ll take care of you, Xiao Jiu.” Yue Qingyuan purred and gently kissed him on his beautifully bruised lips. “Nobody will know, I won’t tell anyone.” He let go of his mouth, only to press smaller kisses into his jaw, avoiding that delicate neck.
******
It was supposed to be a day like any other, Shen Qingqiu would just get checked by Mu Qingfang as always and then descend the Mountain to visit his husband as he hadn't seen him in weeks. This visiting of his day, he actually dreaded and even more after he learned about the news during the check-up.
“You are pregnant, Shen-shixiong.” The Sect healer said as he started washing his hands.
“That’s… that’s not possible. You… You told me that I am infertile when I first came and asked you about this…” He tried to regain his calm composure but couldn’t. The last person he had sex with was Yue Qingyuan but he didn’t remember much of it because it was all lost in that weird fever…
“No.” he put his hand in front of his mouth when he realised what just happened.
“I expected Shen-shixiong to be happy, this is great news for you and your husband. You have probably been trying for years.” Mu Qingfang’s eyebrow slightly twitched when he said that. He figured out the nature of Shen Qingqiu’s relationship with his mated alpha when the man appeared one day at his doorstep with a badly beaten face, broken ribs, and dislocated arm. Shen Qingqiu told him that time that he got into the fight with demons but Mu Qingfang smelled the truth. He caught the scent of an alpha on Shen Qingqiu, it was a painfully sharp and uncomfortable smell of burnt wood that lingered on him that day.
“Y-yeah… that’s a great-t news.” He quickly blurted out, still dumbfounded but his voice cracked. “But you keep this to yourself.”
“Disclosing Shen-shixiong’s medical history to anyone other than him or his immediate family would be breaking the trust between my patient and me.”
Shen Qingqiu looked at him with a fearful expression but nodded in acknowledgement. “Fine, I shall depart.”
“Please take care.”
Shen Qingqiu didn’t spare him a glance anymore and quickly left the doctor’s office. He felt panic rising in him, he even slightly trembled thinking what his alpha husband would do to the baby if he somehow learned the news about Shen Qingqiu’s pregnancy because they hadn’t been intimate for months now.
It scared him so much.
And he was terrified of today’s visit because if his husband was in a bad mood, he could hurt him. However Shen Qingqiu didn’t care about himself, he could take a beating very well which others would deem probably sad. But suddenly he had another life to take care of, to look out for.
“Shidi.” a hand gently pressed against his shoulder and brought him back from his thoughts.
“You!” Shen Qingqiu scowled and quickly shook his hand off of the shoulder. “How dare you show your nose in front of me!” A few of the disciples who were around working on the herb garden tried to ignore these two but they gave them stealthy looks. It was pretty much well known across the peaks that Qing Jing peak lord and the Sect leader couldn’t have a conversation longer than five sentences and Shen Qingqiu seemed already very upset, to begin with.
“Fucker!” He cursed, angry and hit the other male directly in the chest with a fan and Yue Qingyuan just took it with his patient smile on his lips.
“Can I ask what I have done to upset shidi?”
“You know very well!” Shen Qingqiu hissed.
He didn’t. He will.
Soon. With that thought, his dark eyes locked with Mu Qingfang’s who just walked out to check on his disciples. The man pursed his lips together while Yue Qingyuan smiled at him, sending chills down his spine as Shen Qingqiu walked away from them.
******
“You smell.” the alpha sneered disgusted and turned away from Shen Qingqiu who just came in after a while of thinking he added. “Like a whore.” There was a sharp stench coming from Shen Qingqiu which was rather overwhelming and filled his nostrils with the repulsive smell of burnt pines.
“T-there are alphas around me on the M-” Shen Qingqiu was quickly silenced by a fast and strong slap across his face, making him weak in the knees but he still tried to hold his posture high.
“Are you talking back to me?” The alpha’s face scrunched into a scowl and his eyes dangerously flashed, making Shen Qingqiu take a step back. That must have upset his husband because he awarded him with another slap. This time it brought Shen Qingqiu to the ground as one of the tears fell onto the wooden floor.
“I-I didn’t…” He tried to reason with the man, covering his red cheek which was stinging with pain. “I would… never.” He shook his head, he hoped to avoid the misuse of their mating mark with which his husband liked to use to put him in his place. “Please… I didn’t mean to.” He looked up to the man who approached him with clear intention to hit him again and Shen Qingqiu closed his eyes with a desperate whimper leaving his throat.
But the blow never came.
Instead, when Shen Qingqiu opened his green eyes he was met with the sight he never thought he would ever experience. Furious Yue Qingyuan, who held Shen Qingqiu’s husband’s hand in mid-air, preventing him from further hurting the omega.
“Hah.” The alpha looked to Shen Qingqiu with that expression. “Did you open your legs for him? You disgusting slut.” Only with great difficulty, was he able to remove his hand from Yue Qingyuan’s deadly grip.
“Don’t call him like that.” Yue Qingyuan gritted through his teeth, standing between them so he could behave as Shen Qingqiu’s human shield if needed but the other alpha seemed amused. He just rubbed his hand which started to bruise where the Sect leader held him for a short while.
“Call him like what?” The man chuckled and let go of his wrist. “Slut? Whore? Bitch?” He raised his eyebrow smiling at him “ A slave. ”
“He is none of that.”
The other man just inspected his sleeve, looking almost bored now before he finally spared a glance to Yue Qingyuan. If he had to guess it was one of the Sect members. Maybe Shen Qingqiu told one of them about the nature of their marriage but it didn’t matter now, did it? His eyes quickly flicked between these two.
Yue Qingyuan frowned but took a step back then slowly lowered himself down, so he could help Shen Qingqiu back on his legs. “Leave,” he whispered softly into the omega’s ear with a reassuring squeeze on his waist. The younger male didn’t question anything and quickly stumbled away from the house. Only when the door slammed behind him, Yue Qingyuan looked back at the alpha.
“Let’s forget the formalities, shall we?” He creepily smiled at him. “You said something very disrespectful.”
There was just a short second before the alpha was pinned with his back to the wooden wall of their humble house. His forked tongue flicked out of the mouth when he opened it. “What did I say that it offended his dog? '' The alpha’s eyes changed into venomously green as he tried to keep Yue Qingyuan’s hand away from crushing his neck with all his strength. Making him lose the proper human skin in the process, revealing what was under it.
A demon but not pure blood.
His claws dug into Yue Qingyuan’s skin but he didn’t seem to notice that.
“Who are you to hurt my Xiao Jiu?” He finally asked, ignoring the horrible secret which he accidentally uncovered. There was a much more important matter to discuss with this man.
His tongue once again flicked out. “I am his owner.” Yue Qingyuan felt the man’s strength faltering, so he added his, breaking past the defense. Now the man was squirming against his grasp, trying to catch a breath.
“I despise you alphas who think that omegas are just a tool.”
The demon’s eyes rolled up for a second. “You…you don’t… understand…” he managed to choke out, which made Yue Qingyuan lessen the pressure. “I bought him.” The Sect leader scrunched his eyebrows together, his face visibly confused and the other alpha used that second to gain some distance between them. He managed to kick the man and make him falter a few steps back. “So yeah, technically I am his owner.” He said in a rasped voice and massaged his neck.
“I don’t care.” Yue Qingyuan hissed and looked at him, his dark eyes filled with extreme anger, lips stretched wide open, showing off his now sharp teeth. The other male just smiled and let go of his human mask, completely transforming into what he really was.
A disgusting demon.
That made Yue Qingyuan’s decision to murder him much easier. He didn't wait for the whole transformation and jumped at him, holding sheathed Xuan Su in his hand. He aimed against his vulnerable spots but had to quickly retreat when a hand with claws lashed against him in counterattack.
“I can see that,” the man’s forked tongue flicked out and his eyes locked with Yue Qingyuan’s. “Obsessing over a useless bitch who can’t even get pregnant.”
“Don’t talk about him like this.” Yue Qingyuan warned him when he once again rant at him, this time there was an exchange of blows and the demon could smell it this close.
“You are the one who made him smell like that.” He realized quickly and Yue Qingyuan bitterly smiled at him.
“I was just scenting what is rightfully mine .” His sheathed Xuan Su pressed against the strong hand of the demon, so he quickly led another hit with his palm into his stomach, blowing him away through the house wall outside.
Shen Qingqiu was startled to say at least when there was suddenly a demon coughing venomously green blood out of his mouth and Yue Qingyuan walking out of the newly made entrance in the house. His mind instinctively summoned Xiu Ya but before he could use it, he fell to his knees crying in distress. His sword fell next to him as the demon proceeded to slowly stand up. He turned fully to Shen Qingqiu and with a well-aimed kick into the chest, he pinned him to the ground.
“I don’t remember telling you to bitch yourself out when I allowed you to walk into that place.”
Shen Qingqiu trembled under him, clearly in pain as the man abused his power over him, making even more distressed and painful noises that hurt Yue Qingyuan and made him so angry . All he saw right now was red as he gripped the hilt of Xuan Su.
The other alpha grunted with pain and then looked down to find a blade sticking out of his chest. A beautiful but murderous weapon, he looked to the Sect leader who slowly approached him, knuckles white as he tried not to lose his cool in front of the terrified omega. “A demon shall perish if they decide to trespass here.” He said while slowly twisting the blade in alpha’s chest. A dark satisfaction bubbled deep down his own when he heard the painful scream. This was not certainly enough pain for all the years Shen Qingqiu had to live in fear.
Treated like livestock.
His face paled the longer he let his sword out and he backed a few steps away, trying to hold his balance when he finally managed to pull the blade out of the demon’s chest. With practised motions he cleaned it up into his long sleeves, knowing very well he will have to purchase new ones before he sheathed the sword. Just in time to use it as support.
“Qingyuan!” Shen Qingqiu called out worriedly, he wanted to crawl to the man, help him when he saw him coughing the blood but his body had different plans. Since his mate violently died, it also meant that their bond was interrupted in a rather harsh manner. He ended up once again on the ground, covering his neck which burned with sharp pain.
“Shi-shidi!”
******
When Shen Qingqiu opened his green eyes once again, he was in his own room with people hovering over him.
“Get the Sect leader, Shizun woke up.” He heard a soft voice order and someone seemed to dart quickly out as she approached his bed. His initial reaction was to try and touch his stomach.
“Mu-shishu said that Shizun’s baby is alright,” she smiled at him gently and carefully placed a wet cloth on his forehead. “However Shizun might have it hard, now being an unmated pregnant omega.” He just sighed and tried to get one of her hands.
“This master will figure out what to do next.” His voice was hoarse, eyes unfocused but he still tried to reassure his favorite omega disciple that everything will be alright. They fell into a comfortable silence with her carefully sitting down on the edge of his bed, not without his permission.
When Yue Qingyuan came, Ning Yingying greeted him properly and briefly informed him of Shizun’s current state. Then she quickly left because she knew they would need their space as there was a need to discuss Shen Qingqiu’s pregnancy. There were already rumors going around that he might be stripped of his function.
“How is shidi you feeling?” Yue Qingyuan asked but stayed within an honorable distance, more like he was hesitant to approach the omega now.
“Could be worse.” Shen Qingqiu murmured.
“Mu-shidi told me about…” he just vaguely gestured into the room, making the omega sigh. Always bad with words as usual. “You were really in a bad shape... after... after.”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to… keep it?” Yue Qingyuan hoped the answer was yes, if Shen Qingqiu would say no, maybe he would consider perishing on the spot.
“Of course, it’s also my baby.” A fond expression flashed through his face, Yue Qingyuan’s eyes just widening in the shock. That was good news, right? He winced at the entry to Shen Qingqiu’s room and just watched.
“I am… I am willing to take the responsibility for you and shut down anybody who would dare to talk against you.”
“Yeah, you better do.” Shen Qingqiu murmured, then his gaze locked with Yue Qingyuan’s. “He was a demon and… and I didn’t know it.” The Sect leader’s shoulders just tensed up.
“He was just a halfbreed, they easily hide it.” He tried to offer some comfort. “Nobody has to know that, nobody knows what happened under the Mountain.”
“What’s next?” Shen Qingqiu asked him softly while watching his fiddling fingers as he couldn’t bring himself to look straight at the Sect leader.
“I’ll…” Yue Qingyuan cleared his throat and watched him for a second. “I’ll court shidi and… and take responsibility for the child…?” It was more of a question because now Shen Qingqiu wasn’t tied to anybody and was free to choose.
For the first time in his life.