[Esports] Team Leader Xie, your mid laner is causing trouble again.

Meanwhile, in the isolation room next door, Xie Jichuan was also collapsing in despair.

He has been awake for about ten minutes.

A doctor with a serious expression stood by the bed, holding a medical record book, and was giving him a diagnosis:

"In your case, you were exposed to too many highly compatible pheromones in one moment, which over-excited your nerves and triggered your brain's automatic protection mechanism, causing you to fall into a coma."

"Similar to oxygen intoxication."

The doctor glanced at Xie Jichuan and said, "If you can't handle it in the future, never come into contact with so many highly compatible pheromones again."

Xie Jichuan's expression shattered.

In the doctor's glance, he saw pity and sorrow from a fellow man.

Xie Jichuan was filled with an indescribable vulnerability.

He opened his mouth, his voice weak, his tone as if he were about to leave this world at any moment:

"Doctor, does that mean... I'm not going to make it?"

Damn it.

If that's the case, he would faint if he inhaled just a little more of Kurichi's pheromones.

Does that mean that in the future, when people start dating, they have to have a platonic relationship?

If you can't even touch it, can't even smell it, and will get dizzy if you do, what's the point of being an Alpha?

Even more absurdly, wouldn't all that effort he put into treating that Omega pheromone allergy make him a laughing stock?

Ultimately, they all end up the same way, and no matter what, they'll both faint.

What's even more terrifying is, won't Kuriyuki despise him?

I'm sure I will.

An Alpha who faints from excitement just from smelling an Omega's pheromones—what's the difference between that and dying instantly the moment you enter?

Xie Jichuan slowly closed his eyes, feeling his Alpha dignity shatter into pieces at that moment.

The doctor was still writing something with his head down, completely unaware that the person in the hospital bed had fallen into the darkest moment of their life.

Seeing Xie Jichuan so desperate that he was about to bite his tongue and commit suicide, another doctor who was helping him prepare inhibitors finally couldn't help but laugh.

"Young man, don't worry too much." He said slowly, shaking the syringe in his hand. "This condition is easy to treat. The main thing is to let yourself get used to your Omega's pheromones in small amounts and frequently."

"It's not that you can't do it, it's that you're too good, too good for your own good."

Xie Jichuan slowly turned his head, and a glimmer of light slowly gathered in his lifeless eyes.

The doctor came over and, while injecting him with the inhibitor, continued to reassure him: "I see from your past medical records that you have an Omega pheromone allergy."

"Logically, the higher the compatibility, the more uncomfortable you should feel, and this situation shouldn't have happened at all."

He finished administering the injection, put the syringe aside, straightened up, looked at Xie Jichuan, and his expression became more serious.

"You could take a pheromone compatibility test with that child; you might be destined for each other."

Xie Jichuan is alive again.

Just then, Kurichi pushed open the door and walked in.

He had just received an injection of inhibitors from the next room, and the abnormal flush on his face had subsided considerably, while his eyes had regained their clarity.

He held a small test tube in his hand, containing his freshly extracted pheromone fluid, which shimmered with a faint pink hue under the light.

"Xie Jichuan," Li Zhi stood at the door, holding up the test tube in her hand and waving it, "the doctor suggested we do a pheromone compatibility test."

This was exactly what Xie Jichuan wanted.

He couldn't wait to find out if he and Li Zhi were truly destined for each other.

Xie Jichuan remained expressionless, merely nodding reservedly: "Okay."

However, if Li Zhi looks closely, she will notice the sudden increase in heart rate on the screen of the machine next to the hospital bed that connects to the electrocardiogram electrodes.

A doctor also extracted Xie Jichuan's pheromone fluid and then left the isolation room.

Only two people remained in the room.

Li Zhi leaned against the door, while Xie Jichuan sat on the edge of the bed, two or three steps apart. Neither of them spoke first.

Both of them felt a subtle sense of awkwardness.

One person didn't want to admit that they fainted from excitement just from smelling the other's pheromones, as if they had premature ejaculation.

None of them wanted to mention that they could be induced into false estrus without even smelling pheromones, as if they had taken drugs.

Neither of them spoke, and the air remained silent for a few seconds.

Xie Jichuan cleared his throat and spoke first: "Are you alright?"

Li Zhi looked up at him briefly, then quickly looked away. "I'm fine. How about you?"

Xie Jichuan wanted to say, "I'm fine too," but when he opened his mouth, he realized that he wasn't entirely fine either.

Upon seeing Li Zhi, his heart was still racing, and his palms were still a little sweaty.

The two fell silent again.

Li Zhi stared at a crack in the floor, while Xie Jichuan secretly watched Li Zhi.

The sky outside the window had completely darkened, and the occasional sound of a nurse's trolley rolling down the corridor, along with the sound of a television from a distant ward, could be heard.

After a while, Li Zhi spoke, her voice not loud: "Um... do you believe in a destined person?"

Xie Jichuan looked at his profile; the light fell on his slightly upturned eyelashes, making him look like a delicate and beautiful doll.

He also whispered, "If it's about you, I believe you."

Li Zhi pursed her lips and didn't say anything more.

After a short while, the doctor returned with the test results.

As soon as the door opened, the two of them quickly looked up at the same time.

The doctor paused, his steps faltering under the intense gazes of the two men. His eyes swept over them, and a meaningful smile slowly crept onto his lips.

"The results are in." He walked over and handed over the report. "99.9% match."

Li Zhi reached out to take it, and Xie Jichuan also reached out at the same time; their hands touched in the air.

Li Zhi recoiled as if burned, and Xie Jichuan naturally took the report, glanced at it, and couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.

The doctor pulled up a chair, sat down, opened the patient's medical record, and his expression became serious:

"I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you that your situations are rather unique. One of you has a history of pheromone allergy, and the other is an older woman whose glands are still developing and unstable."

"In the future, you can smell each other's pheromones more often, in small amounts and frequently, or exchange pheromones, which will have a comforting effect on both of you."

That's too blunt.

There are only a few ways to exchange pheromones, it's like telling a couple that they can kiss and hug more, and maybe even go to bed together.

Li Zhi's face flushed instantly, his fingers tightened around the report, and he finally couldn't help but interrupt:

"Doctor, we're not a couple."

The doctor paused, then turned to look at Xie Jichuan, his tone surprised: "Really?"

Ever since waking up, this young Alpha has been calling Li Zhi his Omega. So he hasn't won her over yet?

Xie Jichuan was still immersed in the boyfriend persona.

His lips hadn't even had time to relax from the slight upward curve that had appeared when he saw 99.9%.

The phrase "destined one" kept playing in my head, and I could almost picture where we would get married and what kind of house we would buy.

Li Zhi's words instantly brought him back to reality, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on his head.

He pulled a long face, his voice forced out through clenched teeth: "No."

He paused, then added very carefully, "Not yet."

The doctor glanced at Xie Jichuan's sour face, then at Li Zhi's red but stubborn ears, smiled, said nothing, and turned to leave.

Both patients' conditions have stabilized and they can be discharged immediately.

It was already late at night. Xie Jichuan raised his hand to check the time, then turned to look at Li Zhi:

"It's very close to the new team's base, how about we rest there for the night?"