Rejected by Daughter’s Second Male Lead Chapter 118

In less than two hours, Ricardo brought back the black pouch full of magic stones. Even without opening the pouch, Gillen’s pheromones flowing from within were spreading out refreshingly.

“Give it here.”

Yuan said urgently, rising from the bed. Ricardo quickly offered the black pouch and left the bedroom.

“Haa…”

As soon as he opened the pouch, the even stronger scent of Gillen’s pheromones washed over him. The smell of the forest, of wood and earth. The pleasant scent unique to Gillen, as if it could embrace everything, was concentrated there.

This magic stone, taken from a dragon’s treasure hoard, does not easily release the pheromones it has absorbed and stores them almost permanently. It is also not easily broken, and even if Yuan were to live as long as a dragon from now on, with this amount of magic stones, he would never have to suffer from pheromone deficiency for the rest of his life.

Yes, so Gillen is unnecessary.

Yuan thought so and went to sit on the sofa, taking out one of the magic stones from the pouch and putting it to his lips. He could vividly feel Gillen’s pheromones from within the slightly warm magic stone. It enveloped him through Yuan’s lips, through his nose, through his lungs and heart, through his blood.

“Hooo…”

It was rare but not unheard of for alphas and alphas, or omegas and omegas, to date each other. However, he had never heard of them imprinting on each other. Was it even possible for dominant alphas to imprint on each other bilaterally? It couldn’t be that one of them had suddenly switched to being an omega, because both Gillen and Yuan himself, whom he had met recently, were clearly dominant alphas themselves.

“Is it because we’re both ultra-dominant…”

Even among the minority of trait holders, they were divided into ultra-dominant, dominant, average, recessive, and ultra-recessive. Average alphas and omegas were the most common, dominant and recessive were few, and ultra-dominant or ultra-recessive meant powerful trait holders with a less than 1 percent probability each, and very weak trait holders.

In other words, an ultra-dominant alpha was an overwhelming alpha who could undoubtedly take the lead among alphas. Things that could not be done among ordinary trait holders, such as imprinting, might be possible between ultra-dominants. That’s what it would be like if we only set up hypotheses.

“Anyway, it’s okay now. It’s not like we’re going to live as mates anyway.”

There was no obligation to be bound as mates just because they had imprinted bilaterally—desire had made them mates before obligation. But if there was no such desire, there was no need to live happily ever after with Gillen, talking about destined mates while laughing heartily for a hundred years.

“I don’t want that. That Mister wouldn’t want it even more… so… so…”

Yuan gripped the magic stone tightly. Now, worries about pheromone deficiency were gone. Because Yuan had solved it. As he had originally planned, he would leave this empire and move away from Gillen forever.

Then his eyes caught sight of the communication device that Gillen had returned. Gillen, Gillen, Gillen. He also remembered Gillen’s face as he seriously said his name three times as he was told to do. Soon, Yuan took a deep breath and opened his eyes wide.

“…No, but damn it, why? Why do I have to do that?”

Suddenly, Yuan stood up from the sofa, huffing and puffing. He teleported to the dressing room and began to choose clothes. If someone had been watching him, they would have sincerely suspected that he had completely gone insane.

Yuan picked out the most simple, insignificant, lousy outerwear he had. It was a dark-colored, shabby robe that he used to wear roughly when he was rolling around under the old geezer who was the tower lord.

He put on the robe over his indoor clothes and threw off the accessories he always wore, such as earrings, rings, and necklaces. Then he stood in front of the mirror.

“Certainly, there is a pure and innocent beauty.”

Yuan himself was so dazzlingly beautiful that not decorating himself couldn’t make his light fade. However, he could at least lower the degree of glare a little.

He shone a light on his face diagonally and confirmed that he looked a little more emaciated due to losing some weight. He also did not forget to show off his prominent collarbones without tightening the robe too much.

Then he immediately teleported to Gillen’s bedroom. It all happened in the blink of an eye.

As soon as he arrived, Yuan was surrounded by the cozy and warm temperature of the room, Gillen’s body scent, and pheromones that gave him a sense of relief. But Gillen was not there.

Yuan teleported again to Gillen’s study. Fortunately, this time he found Gillen sitting at his desk, holding a magic stone containing Yuan’s pheromones, and working.

“Gillen…”

Yuan called him in a very small voice. Despite the whisper being like the wind, Gillen accurately raised his head towards where Yuan was. His eyes widened.

“Yuan?”

Yuan was also surprised. He didn’t expect him to hear this small of a sound. But soon Gillen blinked a few times and went back to concentrating on what he was doing.

Yuan’s heart grew impatient. Is it to the point that he doesn’t even care about seeing me anymore? That won’t do. There’s no point in coming all this way.

“Your Lordship!”

Yuan approached Gillen, calling out in an even louder voice. This time too, Gillen looked at Yuan in surprise, but he didn’t say anything else. The expected words like “Why did you come?” or “What’s with that state?” didn’t come out.

Yuan suppressed his misery and said, “I received the magic stones well… But I came because I have something to propose.”

“…What?”

Gillen finally opened his mouth. He stared at Yuan with a dazed expression for a moment before putting down his pen and standing up.

“Are you… really Yuan?”

“What do you mean? Would there be another person who looks like this and can teleport?”

“No… I mean, are you real and not a hallucination?”

Gillen slowly turned away from the desk and stood in front of Yuan. He touched Yuan’s cheek, not even knowing it was embarrassing.

“It’s true… It’s really Yuan…”

“It seems your intelligence has decreased a little while I haven’t seen you. Is it a side effect of pheromone deficiency? I should record that.”

Yuan said worriedly.

“Ha… Haha…”

Gillen laughed hollowly and lowered his hand. It seemed to be the first time he didn’t laugh loudly, doing this kind of crazy act, “Ha! Ha! Ha!” Yuan looked at him strangely and went to sit on the sofa to say what he came to say.

“I said I came because I have something to propose to Your Lordship. Why don’t you sit down for a moment?”

At Yuan’s words, Gillen stammered and sat on the sofa. He still seemed to think that the Yuan in front of him was a hallucination. He kept looking alternately at the magic stone in his hand and at Yuan. As if gauging where the scent of Yuan’s pheromones was coming from.

Does that Mister also often dream about me? Dreams like me coming to the study. Is that why he can’t believe it? Thinking that, he didn’t feel bad. Yuan wore a more forlorn expression than before. When he lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes created a gloomy shadow.

“Let’s make a contract again.”

“…What did you say?”

“Since it seems we imprinted bilaterally, let’s make a contract. These magic stones have a limit. One can last for a month, and since there are a total of five magic stones, I can endure for five months… After that, the illness will start again.”

It was a lie. Each one can easily last a hundred years or more. But Yuan could not leave Gillen for life, as he wanted. After the anger subsided, he had to admit it. He couldn’t live without Gillen now. Gillen had become such an important person in his life. He couldn’t go back to the way it was before he had him.

“That’s different from your previous explanation? You said that these would be enough for life, didn’t you?”

That’s right, I said it with my own mouth. But Yuan feigned ignorance. He looked straight at Gillen with a calm face, and a slightly painful and emaciated face. Because he knew that Gillen was weak to his face.

“Ricardo brought a different kind of magic stone than that, so I came back to explain again. I wouldn’t have even come this far if it weren’t for that.”

“Is that so…?”

“Yes. As you, no, as Your Lordship said, I will be leaving the empire soon. But I can come back once every five months. As you know… I can teleport. Once every five months, let’s meet and exchange directly, or refill the empty magic stones with pheromones again.”

“Exchange? Not just charging the magic stones?”

Yuan had already made sufficient preparations to explain about this as well. He was a genius, after all.

“Of course, the exchange is optional. But one exchange will have a stronger effect than five magic stones. These magic stones will become useless every five months. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to have an exchange once rather than constantly refilling the pheromones? Well, still, they are precious magic stones in themselves, so don’t throw them away.”

Just in case Gillen threw them away and got sick while he was gone, Yuan added a plausible lie.

“I know you don’t want to. I also know that Your Lordship… tends to dislike having sex, uh, exchanges, without love… You might even take in a new spouse.”

Yuan’s heart throbbed painfully as he said these words. He continued to lie with the feeling that he was about to throw up blood.

“But shouldn’t people live first and foremost? Let’s make a contract to meet once every five months, just have an exchange, and cleanly break up. Then both Your Lordship and I will be able to live to our natural lifespans.”

Yuan pursed his lips tightly and bit his tongue. He tasted a bitter taste of blood in his mouth. This was the best method he had come up with. A method that had a low probability of Gillen refusing and that would allow him to see him periodically.

Soon, Gillen opened his mouth.