When an Alpha is Marked by One of His Own Kind

After a night of unspeakable dreams, Shen Qiao woke up earlier than usual the next day.

After regaining consciousness, he closed his eyes and waited for a long time, but he still didn't hear the alarm clock ringing. Shen Qiao lost her patience, frowning tightly, and stretched out her hand to feel under the quilt for a long time, and finally touched the edge of the phone.

She took it out and opened her eyelids to take a look, and found that it was upside down. Shen Qiao turned around and looked at the time:

Seven thirty.

He let out a foul breath from his throat, threw the phone on the bedside table, knocked something down with a "boom", then raised his hand and pulled the quilt away without looking at it, sat for a while, and then went to the bathroom wash up.

After tidying herself up refreshedly, when Shen Qiao went out again, she habitually went to the closet to look for her swimming trunks, opened the closet door halfway, paused for a moment, and closed it again.

——He didn't go out today with his old backpack.

……

"Master, go to the Beiyuan cemetery." The morning light shone across the city, Shen Qiao stood by the side of the road with a bouquet of lilies in her arms, and raised her hand to stop a taxi to get in.

The driver glanced at him in the rearview mirror, turned the steering wheel and drove the car out.

After more than 40 minutes.

The driver pressed the button of the meter and glanced at the price: "120 three."

Shen Qiao took out her mobile phone and checked WeChat, opened the car door and walked out. The unopened white flowers in her arms were just about to bloom, shaking slightly with his movements, bit by bit.

He went to register at the gate with flowers in his arms, and showed the guard that he had a bouquet of flowers on his body. After there were no flammable items affecting the environment of the cemetery, he was allowed to enter.

Stepping on the stone steps with black sneakers, Shen Qiao walked in the direction of the familiar stone tablet according to her memory.

Turn right, go straight, turn right again, the third floor.

After counting to four, he saw the black and white photo. The woman in the photo had delicate eyebrows and eyes, perhaps because her expression was too formal when the photo was taken. The corners of her eyes, lips, and even her jaw line were all cold. Pasted on this cold tombstone, at first glance, people can see the chill in the bones.

This is his mother, Shen Jinyi.

To be precise, it was his adoptive mother.

Shen Qiao put down the flowers in her hand, raised her hand and wiped the stone slab where the fruit tribute was placed in front of her, and there was a layer of ash with fine gravel on her fingertips.

There was a bit of sarcasm on his face, and he looked at the woman in the photo, with a very faint voice in his voice:

"Find someone to clean up such a simple thing on a regular basis, and Lu Chengzhen didn't even do it for you."

"If you are still alive, you shouldn't be able to bear being trampled on by him like this. After all, Mom, you have always been very strong and refused to admit defeat to anyone."

It was the same for Lu Chengzhen, and it was the same for Su Qiongpei... Later, it was the same for Shen Qiao.

He forgot to bring a paper towel when he went out, so he just wiped his palm on the rough stone surface, and the clean palm was soon stained with fuzzy gray. The bunch of lilies in it was placed in front of the tomb.

The carefully wrapped fresh bouquets in the flower shop still have thin drops of water on them, and the unique fragrance of lilies spreads, swaying with a temperament that I still feel pity for.

Shen Qiao casually patted her dirty palm, then raised her head to look at the woman on the tombstone again:

"It's a coincidence that today I went to a nearby flower shop to buy flowers, and they strongly recommended the freshest lilies to me. I only remembered when I came out of the checkout. You seem to hate this kind of flower the most."

"You said that when you were a child, there were graveyards all over the mountains and plains. They were pure white, but they grew out of the pile of dead people. You didn't even like the smell."

"However, no one will come except me. Mom, let's make do with it today."

Shen Qiao seldom said so many words. He was clearly whispering, but his eyes were filled with fatigue, so he paused uncomfortably, and then pulled the corner of his lower lip, "Anyway, I won't come here again."

His tone was light and light, without any change from before. He seemed to be talking about today's weather in an ordinary way. After hearing the content, other visiting relatives would feel chills on their backs.

The location of Shen Jingyi's tombstone is not good. There are pines and cypresses standing quietly on both sides of the road. As the height of the sun changes, shadows will shelter many nearby tombstones. From morning to night, there are always people who sleep forever. In this hot summer, she is the only one who can get cool comfort in this hot summer...

Unbiased, always exposed to sunlight, regardless of cold or heat.

Shen Qiao even suspected that it was because Lu Chengzhen and Su Qiongpei hated her so much that they deliberately chose such an excellent position, so that she would have no peace after death.

How strange--

When Shen Jinyi was alive, she had such a strong sense of existence, Lu Chengzhen hated her, Su Qiongpei was jealous of her, and the servants at home feared her.

As a result, when she died, everyone seemed to have forgotten their memories of her overnight, leaving her here alone, perhaps this was the cruelest revenge for her.

Only Shen Qiao still remembered to visit her from time to time.

But after today, Shen Qiao couldn't come either.

He still remembered that when Shen Jinyi was most ill, unable to speak, Lu Chengzhen was talking on the phone in the corridor outside, his face was full of chilling indifference, he was clearly just a door away from the ward, not only was he wearing a mask , I don’t know where the secretary got the protective clothing, and standing in the corridor attracted the attention of many people, as if his wife had some highly contagious disease.

Until Shen Jinyi stopped breathing, he didn't take a step into that door, including the follow-up corpse collection and cremation, Lu Chengzhen hired someone to take charge of it.

The only person in the ward was Shen Qiao.

He was standing in front of the hospital bed, Shen Jinyi was wearing a breathing mask, her eyes could hardly be opened, but she was still looking at him persistently, every breath was harder than the next, the oxygen mask was filled with white mist, but she was staring at Shen Qiao .

Her hand, which was exposed outside the white quilt, tightly grasped the cold iron bed pole, her fingertips were no longer green and tender, and the back of her hand was wrapped with an indwelling needle, which made her edematous fingers even paler and sicker.

Shen Qiao looked down at her, looked at the continuously decreasing breathing rate on the instrument next to her, was silent for a long time, and hesitated for a moment: "Lu Chengzhen is outside."

Shen Jinyi didn't seem to have any special reaction to this name.

She stared straight at Shen Qiao, with her messy hair covering her forehead, her expression was almost terrifying.

Only Shen Qiao did not retreat.

He met Shen Jinyi's eyes, remained motionless, and remembered one thing——

It was the period when Shen Jinyi was looking for someone to treat him for his deformed relationship. Shen Jinyi fell ill again and was sent to the hospital by the people from the Lu family's old house in the middle of the night.

Shen Qiao had just received the treatment, the road was unstable, and the elevator was waiting for too long. He held on to the handrail of the stairs and slowly climbed up to the sixteenth floor. The same as fished out.

As soon as she approached the ward, Shen Jinyi had already woken up, and was being rocked and sat up by the aunt who took care of her at home.

Seeing his appearance, Shen Jinyi showed a gentle smile, as if nothing had happened between their mother and child, she was still such a decent and noble lady, and he was still the child with a happy family.

Shen Jinyi patted the bed in front of her and called him: "Qiao Qiao is here, sit down, how do you feel today?"

Shen Qiao didn't show any expression, just looked at her with heavy eyes, and didn't go to sit down, he couldn't go to this mother's side without any grievances like before.

He began to fear this woman.

Shen Jinyi seemed to understand his gaze, the gentleness on his face remained unchanged, but his tone became much crueler:

"Jojo."

"Don't blame mom, didn't I say that? I don't mind who you fall in love with, but Lu Zhe can't, and that woman's child can't."

"If you still refuse to repent until now, then you don't need to recognize me as a mother, and you don't need you to visit me when I die, and you don't need you to visit my grave after I die."

……

Standing in the ward, Shen Qiao and Shen Jinyi, who was confronting the god of death and was unwilling to leave no matter what, looked at each other for a long time.

Then he finally opened his mouth and asked the topic hidden in his heart:

"Does mom want to hear me swear that I will never associate with Lu Zhe again in my life?"

Hearing this name, Shen Jinyi reacted, her fingertips scratched like convulsions, leaving traces on the quilt, which seemed to be struggling and painful.

Shen Qiao hooked her lips slightly.

He didn't do what she wanted.

As if competing patiently with Shen Jinyi, he waited in front of the hospital bed for a long, long time until three o'clock in the morning, when the detection machine sounded an alarm, and the column representing the heartbeat became a straight line.

Shen Jinyi didn't wait for his words until she died.

So she didn't close her eyes until she died.

Shen Qiao was fixed in place by her eyes, but she was pulled away by the medical staff. The nurses hadn't seen this kind of scene because of their young age. Seeing him alone in the ward accepting the departure of his relatives, she hesitated to speak and looked at him For a long time, it seemed to want to comfort him.

Only Shen Qiao knew——

He doesn't need any comfort.

Even seeing Shen Jinyi's appearance, his heart felt happy.

……

"You probably don't remember the first time I saw you."

In front of the tombstone, Shen Qiao spoke again.

"At that time, I had just fought with an older child and lost the fight. My body was covered in mud. I was hiding under the slide in the amusement park. I heard the sound of the dean chatting with someone. When the sound was far away, I sneaked out. I took a look with my head to see which rich man came again."

"Then you saw it at a glance, and it turned out that you didn't leave at all."

"Later the dean told me that I was adopted by your family. I refused to believe it, and I kept regretting why I went out to fight at that time, and why I couldn't let you see me in a better way. At the same time, I also felt that You may just be on a whim, and you will send me back later..."

"Until I saw you again, you said to me, 'Do you know why I picked you? Because you are very similar to me, I like the look in your eyes, and you don't want to admit defeat. We are the same people.'"

From then on, Shen Qiao felt that meeting Shen Jinyi should be the favor of the god of fate.

She brought him home from the quagmire, took good care of him, and gave him the best growing environment.

Even if he did something wrong for a while, such as injecting him with Omega pheromones, in Shen Qiao's opinion, it was not a big deal - he could attribute it to Lu Chengzhen's fault.

But then...

Shen Qiao paused for a long time before speaking again.

"If it weren't for this incident with Lu Zhe, maybe I would have become the most perfect son in your mind."

"But you made me fear love, gave me the deepest pain, and let me see hell." Shen Jinyi pulled him up from the mud, washed every spot of mud on his body, and when he was finally full of hope, he was light and light again. As soon as he raised his hand, he was pushed into the depths of the cliff, out of sight.

"I want revenge on you when I finally lose hope."

"I also want you to know this feeling, so I deliberately refused to swear before you died, and wanted you to die without regret. I deliberately brought your most hated lily to see you, so that you can also understand this disgust, and even want to see you." Every time I come, I tell you over and over again—”

"I will always love Lu Zhe, the son of Su Qiongpei, whom you hate the most."

During the process of narrating, Shen Qiao stopped many times, and the content was also intermittent. It seems that until today, she dared to dig out those invisible scars, and let the sun dry out the rotting flesh that was about to be covered. Once exposed to the sun, it kills viruses and bacteria.

then……

Cut it off quickly.

"But I don't hate it now."

"You're gone, forever in these pains."

"And he came back into my life."

"This time, I'm here to tell you that I will live a good life, quit smoking, follow the doctor's advice, take medicine on time, and exercise. I will live my new life well."

"Goodbye, Mom, thank you for giving me a new life."