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Perhaps, deep down Huayong knew this day would come. The day he will give up denying the wishes of his loved one.
“Huasheng change his mind today.” Shaoyou started the pillowtalk like that tonight. They were just getting comfortable. Huayong makes his body smaller inside his alpha’s embrace. Letting the alpha spooning him like usual. Back to chest. Shaoyou’s warm breath tickling his sensitive gland and making the enigma shiver silently. “Instead of a little brother, he wanted a little sister. Doesn’t want Shen Lele jealous, he said.”
The statement followed by a chuckle. Like it was only a funny joke that Shaoyou wanted to retell without any meaning behind.
Yet, Huayong always listened seriously. Following Shaoyou’s words as a command from god. He also noticed, this conversation regarding wanting a second child already came up for the thirteen times this month. A rare situation, where Huayong doesn’t fulfill Shaoyou’s wishes in a blink of an eye.
He doesn’t give any answer for awhile. Not even a sigh.
Thinking that the silence from Huayong is the sign he was getting upset, Shaoyou immediately turns the enigma’s body softly. Making them face to face. Showing a guilty expression, while repeatedly rubbing Huayong’s cheeks softly as a sign of apologies.
“Sorry. I will not talk about this again.” Shaoyou said, embarrassed of his own joke. “Don’t be upset, okay?”
Huayong is silent. Deep in his own thought. Five days ago, Shaoyou talked about a baby name for their second child if they have any in the future. Huayong did get so upset then. The image of Shaoyou trembling with blood gushing heavily from his bottom, a month earlier than he was supposed to give birth, flashed continuously in his mind. Those shaking pupils. With fear and helplessness. How can he not get upset remembering the distress he had to endure while watching the only source of breath he had in this world, fighting death just to give life to another?
He doesn’t want to repeat that twice.
But Shaoyou doesn’t know that. He didn’t understand. The pain Huayong went through. The trauma that left him trembling in fear, every nightmare that follows.
Just how important this second child is for him?
Huayong frowned. Am I not enough?
“Mr. Sheng….” Huayong takes a deep breath. Eyes staring at Shaoyou deeply. Searching for the real answer behind those sunny gazes that always make him warm. “Do you really want a second child?”
That question perhaps being understood differently by Shaoyou. A glimmer of hope shining behind his eyes. Like a kid being promised big prizes on a christmas night. He thought, Huayong finally relent to give Shaoyou a dream he had kept hidden for the past three years.
Do you really want a second child?
“Yes.” Shaoyou answered quickly. It was so quick that it gave a hard pang inside Huayong’s chest which is not missed by the alpha. He immediately looked guilty again. “I–I mean, yes. If you want. I want a second child. Huasheng does too. But, forget it if it upsets you. Okay? I know you went through a lot that day. I do too. It was only our first time after all.”
A silence.
“Huayong.” Shaoyou finally sighed. Choosing to hug the rigid enigma tightly and kissing his hair repeatedly since Huayong seems refusing to give any responds tonight. “Forgive me, hm? I will not bring this conversation again. Forget it. Huasheng doesn’t need a younger sibling anyway. He is already too spoiled to share his parent’s love.”
Liar.
Huayong thought silently. Closing his eyes, as his hands slowly hugged his beloved alpha back to reduce the uncomfortable tightness inside his chest every time this conversation aired.
Huasheng perhaps doesn’t need a younger sibling.
But Shaoyou really does want a second child.
***
It’s such a rare occasion for the current head of X Holdings to attend a meeting directly. Sitting at the end of the table. Listening carefully to the laboratory progress about the ongoing research about Enigma’s pheromones and its function. Instead of waiting for the right hand of the young boss, Chang Yu, to report.
“That’s all to report, S–Sir.” To say that the head lab stutters and trembles are understandable. It’s not everyday you give a direct presentation to the infamous master of the country's biggest rulers which comes unannounced, in a meeting that's neither really important nor urgent. “Please give us a suggestion and lead for the upcoming course of this project, Sir.”
“Hm.” Huayong, with a face as cold as a mountain of ice, doesn't give much reaction. He actually doesn't really care about the topic of this meeting. He believe Chang Yu can give the right suggestions.
He came today for another purpose.
“As a head lab of the biggest corporation this country fully respected,” Huayong started. “What do you think of the possibility of an Enigma being pregnant?”
The room was already silent to begin with during the meeting. Right now, following the startling question, no one seems to even breathe. Which makes even Chang Yu, the professional poker face businessman, left with mouth agape.
Because only him, that understand the purpose of that question.
“Sir–”
“Silence.” Huayong cut his secretary’s interruption coldly. Eyes glancing at him sharply before shifting back to its first target whose now standing in front of the room with cold sweat dripping down his neck.
“I’m not asking you, Chang Yu. I’m asking the head lab.” He said. “So, is it possible?”
“T–to say it’s possible is right. Science is all about probability after all–”
“To the point. I don’t have much time to waste on you.” Huayong sneered.
The head lab grimace. He adjusted the collar of his white coat repeatedly as a sign of distress while trying to construct proper answer for the unforgiving young boss. “We can make it happen. But Enigma was known to be the top of the ecosystem right now. Being impregnated means there is another highest being which hasn't been identified yet–”
“You said, you can make it happen.” Huayong interrupted again, seemingly to get the answer he wanted.
The head lab cursed himself mentally for choosing the wrong answer.
“Yes, yes. We can make that happen. But the Enigma has to willingly be degraded temporarily into lower ranks by continuous medication. Lowered to Beta, perhaps. Or best, Omega. Which one has the higher fertility.”
“Omega?” Huayong smirks. Suddenly feeling funny by the familiar coincidence. “Mr. Sheng’s wish would be fulfilled twice after all.”
“...Sir?”
“Sir!”
There are two very different responses following Huayong monologues. One came from the head lab which only left confused by the statement. And the other came from the very furious secretary who was shaken by the whole conversation and strong willpower of his unpredictable young master.
“Boss, you can’t—"
“You have three months to invent this medication.” Huayong ended the meeting like that. He stood up, dismissing any protests and refusal that will never be aired after all.
He will get what he wants, every time.
Chang Yu run as fast as he can for the first time in his life, trying to catch up.
“Boss—” He doesn’t even think much when blocking Huayong. Desperate to make the young man change his mind. “Are you—really have to?”
Huayong never speak much. Never to anyone beside Shaoyou. Eventhough they have known each other long before Huayong was even born, Chang Yu was only given silence. Which not much answer beside the strong willpower behind his gaze and sharp expression.
“Even then.” Chang Yu swallows down nervously. Hands trembling, almost reaching out to shake Huayong so hard until the enigma realized what danger he invited upon himself. “Even then, three months is too short. You can’t take a rushed medication that will mess with your gland like that. Carelessly.”
“I have a birthday to catch up, Chang Yu.” That was all Huayong could give to answer. Determinations lay in every sentence he said. “This will be the most beautiful birthday gift Mr. Sheng ever had if I could give him. He can finally has a second child without undergoing the pain and fear he did during Huasheng’s pregnancy and birth. I don’t have to experience that nightmare again.”
Hearing that, the vulnerable confession, for the first time, left Chang Yu speechless and gave up all the reasoning he wanted to give to change Huayong’s mind.
Because for the first time ever since Chang Yu laid his eyes to the kid in front of him, dedicating his life to protect the enigma with his life, Chang Yu sees the hopelessness coming from the mouth of the man himself. The man that rarely shows his pain in the most fatal situations. Even when he’s being stabbed in the gland, bleeding hard, and ended up passed out when his body finally gave up.
“Besides, I am already three years late to fulfill it.” Huayong sighed softly. Seemingly talking to himself while Chang Yu looking at him worriedly yet can’t seem to find the right words anymore to refute the hopeless young man.
“I can’t make him wait any longer.”
***
As expected of the best laboratorium the country ever had, the medication was invented a month prior to its deadline.
The instruction note beside the first small vial of injections that Huayong received is simple.
- Huayong had to take the injection once a day.
- A heat cycle will be the sign that the experimentation succeeds.
- He needs an alpha to fuck him during those periode and left his seed inside.
- The rest would depend on luck.
Huayong is good with luck.
But, from that day onwards, he takes that medicine thrice a day to make sure luck is not messing with him. []