Runaway Guide

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Joen had been unconscious for a long time, so when he opened his eyes, he felt vaguely that he was still in dreamland.

However, his natural vigilance quickly sobered him.

—This wasn’t the Royal Hotel on the capital planet.

Joen narrowed his eyes and took a look at his surroundings, immediately assessing the situation. He was in a strange place, and the room was sealed. Only a faint ray of light passed through the crack under the door. By that bit of light, he could see that the walls were hung with various instruments of torture.

He was just wondering where this was when the door creaked, and someone walked in.

This person was wearing a pair of black leather boots, and around his waist he wore a belt with a delicate alloy buckle. His attire was simple and neat, setting off his physique so he looked slender and well-proportioned.

This figure looked a little familiar…

Joen narrowed his eyes slightly. The man walked with quick steps towards him, and those jet-black, bright eyes appeared before him.

“Xi Wei, it’s you…” Joen smiled, harboring bad intentions. He still remembered how back in the hotel, Xi Wei’s pheromone levels had risen so high it was hard for him to control himself. The way he looked with his cheeks flushed, struggling desperately to restrain himself, aroused him so much he hated he couldn’t strip his clothes off right there and fiercely bully and violate him.

At the moment, in casual wear and black leather boots, the eldest prince had as always a certain characteristic—he clearly looked aloof and remote, but this actually made it so others couldn’t help but want to conquer and possess him.

Delicate and docile omegas were too common. Overpowering an omega like Xi Wei would give a greater sense of accomplishment, wasn’t that so?

Joen lightly licked his lips. He hadn’t gotten around to speaking yet when with a thump, Xi Wei’s strong fist smashed nimbly into his jaw!

“...” The eldest prince’s ability to fight was really top-rank! When he made a move, it was fast, fierce and accurate. This one punch knocked one of Joen’s teeth straight out, and his mouth was filled with the strong taste of blood.

“Do you know that the way you lick your lips with your tongue is particularly disgusting?” Xi Wei moved up and grabbed Joen’s collar. He said word by word, “Joen, the way I see it, you’re just like a rat in a sewer. There’s nothing in your head but garbage!”

Xi Wei didn’t speak politely at all, but Joen was shameless enough to not feel embarrassed in the slightest. Instead, he licked the blood on his lips and looked at Xi Wei with shining eyes. “I don’t know what you used back there to knock me out, but Xi Wei, one day when your heat arrives, you’ll cry and beg for me to top you. When that time comes, can you guess how I’ll satisfy you?” Joen said in a low voice, smiling.

“...” Xi Wei held back the strong urge to throw up and frowned. He grabbed Joen and had him sit on the interrogation chair, then took the leather belt down from the wall and swiftly bound Joen up tightly.

“Even now you’re still unrepentant. It’d be better to first let you have a taste of the means the military uses to interrogate traitors, and after you’ve tasted enough, you can talk to me again.” Xi Wei smiled and sat down nearby. He took up the remote control and pressed the start button, and succeeded in seeing Joen’s face instantly twist.

High-tech torture devices were so easy to use…

Xi Wei thought pleasantly.

With just the press of a button, the chair would calculate the limit of the pain the person sitting on it could bear according to their pain threshold, and then shock them again and again. It would make their every nerve experience an agony like they were being torn apart, and would keep that agony at the peak level they could experience without fainting.

Joen felt like every pore of his body was being stabbed by a needle. With every shock, he felt like he was about to give up the ghost!

The continuous shocks made his internal organs feel like they were being twisted together, but he couldn’t pass out…

In just half a minute, Joen’s clothes were drenched with sweat.

And Xi Wei…

He was actually holding a cup of coffee, sitting there and smiling while watching the show, just like he was looking at a clown.

Joen clenched his jaw and glared fiercely at Xi Wei.

Xi Wei calmly took a sip of his coffee and said dispassionately, “Kneel down and beg me, and I’ll let you go.”

“...” A gleam of hidden malice flashed through Joen’s eyes. “Ah—”

After a shock of increased intensity, his whole body spasmed hard.

“Have me beg an omega? Don’t even think about it… Ahh, ah!”

The heart-rending screams carried from the interrogation room. Xi Wei’s ways of tormenting people were really ruthless…

Klaire, seeing this scene on the monitor, couldn’t help the corner of his lips rising into a faint smile.

In any case, Joen had offended Xi Wei, so it was a good idea to hand this matter over to the big beast so he could vent. Klaire didn’t need to worry. He trusted that Xi Wei had the ability to make Joen feel like death was preferable to life.

Lieutenant Paterson saw that the general was actually smiling, and he couldn’t help but cough and say, “General, aren’t you afraid that the eldest prince’s methods...will one day...be used on you?”

Such a ferocious omega was simply too frightening. Not to mention tormenting the alpha that offended him until he screamed miserably again and again, he actually wanted him to kneel down and beg him. How could he think of something like that?

When Klaire heard the lieutenant’s question, he smiled and said, “That won’t happen. Xi Wei knows what’s appropriate. He’s only fierce to those who anger him or provoke his hatred, and he’s actually very softhearted towards the people he cares about. If I happen to make him angry after getting married, the most he’ll do is ignore me, or ground me for a few days.”

Lieutenant Paterson looked awkwardly at the general, who had a smile on his face, and couldn’t help but think... You’re probably the only one who’ll dare to marry him!

Klaire continued watching the show on the monitor. In the interrogation room, Joen had been tormented until his whole body was twitching, and he was almost foaming at the mouth.

Unfortunately, the damned pride in the alpha’s bones wouldn’t let him do something like kneeling down and begging Xi Wei, so he just grit his teeth and bore it.

Xi Wei saw that his whole body was twitching nonstop and his head hung down, and finally pressed the pause button. He lifted Joen’s chin with the tip of his boot, and said, “Do you know why I look down on you?”

Joen narrowed his eyes and didn’t speak. He was still coughing out blood nonstop.

Xi Wei said coldly, “First, you don’t know what love is at all. When you love someone, the premise is that you have to respect them. But you narrow-mindedly thought that possessing them would be enough."

Xi Wei moved up the tip of his foot and lifted Joen’s chin a little higher. He met Joen’s gaze straight on and with a face full of contempt, said, “Second, your brain is full of a “I’m an alpha, so I can have everything” kind of reasoning that I feel is really ridiculous and childish. You’re an alpha, and I’m an omega, it’s true, but we were born that way, and didn’t have a choice in the matter.”

“Did you know? People who depend on the advantages they were born with to bully others are the ones who most lack future prospects. Because besides the advantage of being an alpha, you really...don’t have a single other merit.” Xi Wei smiled and let his foot drop. He said, “Actually, you’re really sad, so I won’t kill you today. For me, killing you is no different from stepping on a rat. I don’t feel like dirtying my hands.”

Joen: ‘......”

After Xi Wei finished saying his piece, he turned away and left freely. The cup of coffee he’d been holding was left casually on the chair. The wisps of steam coming from it seemed to be openly mocking Joen.

Joen watched Xi Wei’s back as he left through narrowed eyes. He didn’t know whether it was because of the light or the angle, but Xi Wei’s shadow seemed to have drawn out a lot longer, and even his figure looked inexplicably taller.

At that moment, Joen’s mind suddenly had a strange thought—although the man in front of him was an omega, he always stayed at a place where he couldn’t reach.

It wasn’t just Xi Wei’s status that was set up on high. It was his temperament that made him unattainable.

Maybe, in this world, there wasn’t any alpha who had the qualifications to stand at his side.

Joen thought this in a daze. At last, the sharp pain all over his body made him sink into unconsciousness again.

At the moment the door opened, Klaire immediately walked over from the monitor.

Lieutenant Parson said tactfully, “General, I have something to do, so I’ll leave first. You take your time talking with His Highness.”

Klaire waved his hand and let him leave. Only the two of them were left in the room.

Xi Wei’s expression was very calm, as if nothing had happened. Klaire walked up to him and stopped half a meter away. He smiled and asked, “Have you done enough venting?”

“Yeah.” A little tired, Xi Wei sat down on the sofa and rubbed his temple. “For an unrepentant, chauvinistic pig alpha like that, giving him a lesson is enough. I don’t feel like wasting my time on him.”

Klaire patted Xi Wei’s shoulder lightly and said softly, “Don’t be angry anymore.”

“I’m definitely not angry.” Xi Wei laughed and said, “It’s the same as being angry with a rat. Why should I lower myself for the sake of a rat?”

Klaire nodded in appreciation.

Xi Wei’s character had always been optimistic and open-minded like this. That was why, despite being an orphan, he had been able to pass through difficulties to obtain the throne of Film Emperor in the previous world. In this world, he’d been born as an imperial prince, and he received the affection of multitudes. Unfortunately, as an omega, he’d been unable to fulfill many of his ambitions. But even though he had turned into an omega, he wasn’t sad or upset. Instead, he adapted to the situation and lived freely and at ease.

—It was really too difficult to obtain his heart.

—But such a frank and sincere heart, once obtained, what great happiness it would be!

Klaire watched him turn around and look for a cup to pour coffee in, and couldn’t help but laugh despite himself. “Did you leave that cup of coffee in the interrogation room on purpose to annoy Joen?”

Xi Wei looked back, and said innocently while drinking coffee, “Am I that bad? I just forgot it, that’s all.”

“...” This guy sometimes angered people to death and didn’t take responsibility for it. Joen almost got toyed with to death today.

The fragrant, strong coffee moistened Xi Wei’s lips, and they glistened under the light. Klaire remembered very clearly how sweet those lips had been when he kissed them. At the moment, Xi Wei was right before his eyes, but Klaire didn’t know where to put his hands and feet. He could only look away and discreetly swallow his saliva.

Xi Wei saw how Klaire had turned his head away, and couldn’t help but ask doubtfully, “What’s wrong?”

Klaire smiled slightly and said, “My lieutenant was just saying that your way of giving someone a lesson was a bit ruthless, and he worried that you’d bully me after we got married. I told him that you and I had been old friends for many years, and you wouldn’t treat me that way. Right?”

“Of course, I’m not so much of a sadist that I’d use an interrogation chair to torment you.” Only after he replied did Xi Wei realize he’d been taken in. The words that came before that sentence were “after we got married.”

Finding he’d been fooled, Xi Wei couldn’t help but glare at him. “Klaire!”

“Here.” Klaire smiled and walked forward a step. His gaze was incomparably gentle. “A moment ago, you told Joen that he didn’t know what liking someone meant. Then, do you know?”

Xi Wei: “......”

That question stunned him to stillness for a moment.

—He’d only been using pure reason to teach Joen a lesson. He himself actually didn’t know how it felt to like someone either.

“When you like someone, whenever you’re alone, you always think of him. In your dreams you often see him. When you can’t see him, you’re on pins and needles that he’s not doing well, and when you see him, you feel especially happy. If he commanded you at a word, you’d be happy to do anything for him. If he suffered the slightest wrong, you’d feel even worse than him.”

Klaire looked earnestly at Xi Wei and said word by word, “The love I have for you is just like this.”

Xi Wei: “......”

—Wait, Klaire, did you pick up the wrong script? How come you’re suddenly confessing?!

“I know that right now you only see me as a friend, but Xi Wei, the love I have for you is based on the premise of respecting your personal wishes. I would absolutely never do something to make you sick of me like Joen.”

Klaire looked down into Xi Wei’s eyes and said seriously, “Loving you is just my personal matter. You’re free to not respond. So you don’t have to feel too much pressure, I won’t force you into anything. I just want to stay quietly by your side. I’m begging you, fulfill this little request of mine, alright?”

Xi Wei: “.........”

Even though as a top actor, he’d suffered through countless sappy lines in melodramatic romance scripts, he’d been bulldozed by Klaire’s “sappy romance edition” today!

—Goosebumps were about to pop up all over his body!

—Bro, don’t be like this, why can’t you get it through your head that we’re both men!

But unexpectedly, when he heard Klaire say those words in a gentle tone, Xi Wei couldn’t stop his heart from throbbing fiercely.

Having someone who was dead-set on liking him and also respected him as a person actually didn’t feel that bad.

He just stayed there quietly loving you, and if you just turned your head you would see him. If you didn’t want to see him, you could just turn your head away, and he would stand there quietly without bothering you…

It was just like having a warm down jacket. When it was cold, you could put it on, and when you didn’t need it, you could put it aside. It would always be there and would never leave…

If Klaire was willing to live that kind of existence, how could Xi Wei have the heart to say no?

But…

They had been friends for so long that he had no way to adapt to this sudden change to their relationship. What’s more, in this exotic sci-fi world, omegas had to get pushed down, and even get pregnant... Getting pregnant with his best friend’s baby, wouldn’t that scene be wonderful?

Xi Wei forcefully chased those chaotic thoughts out of his head. He looked away and changed the topic. He coughed and said, “Let’s not talk about that for now. Didn’t you say that Carlo had Aiden send Joen over? Where’s Aiden?”

Klaire smiled and followed along with Xi Wei’s topic. “He’s in the lounge.”

Xi Wei immediately turned and ran away.

Klaire found that as Xi Wei hurried to leave, his ears were actually tinged a pleasing shade of red.

—Xi Wei, after accompanying you in two worlds, I might understand you even better than you do yourself.

—Your heart already isn’t as firm as it was at first, isn’t that right?

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5 hours and 21 minutes for 2,757 words, or 11.6 minutes for every 100 words. An increase in rate by 0.8 minutes.

I thought this chapter was particularly sweet. Really, what Joen feels for Xi Wei is just lust, in comparison.

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