One-way Passage

de to leave, but before he could turn, he felt a hand around his wrist and looked down to see Ming Sichen’s grip.

Ming Sichen pointed to the bedside table, where a pen and paper lay.

Xia Wennan handed them to him.

Ming Sichen laid down, and the sounds of pen scratches filled the room as Ming Sichen wrote on the paper in an extremely difficult position.

Ming Siyan was found by the police and sent back to the hospital the next morning, and the alpha who abducted him was apprehended.
After two more days, Aunt Zhang came forward and confessed to drugging Xia Wennan and feeding Ming Siyan psychotropic drugs on Ming Sichen’s orders.

Ming Sichen had written a lengthy letter in which he explained everything he’d done, including how he’d tricked Ming Siyan into accompanying him on a trip to Southeast Asia for a short vacation and staged a car accident in order to obtain Ming Siyan’s glands for transplant.

Ming Siyan’s initial injuries were so severe that Ming Sichen assumed he wouldn’t make it, but to his surprise, Ming Siyan survived, only to lose consciousness as a result of a serious brain injury.

Ming Qin entrusted Ming Siyan to Aunt Zhang, a woman who had adored the Ming family’s only beta son, Ming Sichen, since the twins’ childhood.
Ming Sichen had told Aunt Zhang everything, then asked her to assist him in keeping a close eye on Ming Siyan.

Ming Siyan’s tenacity exceeded everyone’s expectations, as he progressed from being incognisant to gradually recognising the people around him.
Ming Sichen noticed that Xia Wennan was privately in contact with Ming Siyan around that time; he was always restless, unsure of how much Xia Wennan actually knew, and in the end, he decided that he couldn’t just let Xia Wennan be.

Ming Sichen’s current situation appeared to be the result of his ruthlessness falling short—he was easily shaken at every turn, cutting grass without removing its roots; but if he hadn’t been greedy, he wouldn’t be where he was today.
Maybe, if not Lu Huaiye, he would’ve been able to find someone to love who loved him back, whether they were an alpha or a beta.

At the end of his letter, he expressed his desire to return Ming Siyan’s glands.
However, the doctors determined that the glands had already been damaged to some extent, and if he insisted on a second transplant, there was a good chance that they would lose their original function.

As the other party involved, Ming Siyan, was temporarily unable to make his own decisions, Ming Qin made it for him, deciding that Ming Sichen would keep the gland and not undergo a second transplant.

Xia Wennan underwent a cranial CT scan, accompanied by Ming Luchuan and Lin Shuqiu, who confirmed that the previous night’s head injury had only resulted in a minor contusion.
Following a simple treatment, he was quickly discharged.

Ming Luchuan was supposed to take Xia Wennan home to rest, but the latter refused, and when they left the hospital, he went straight back to the lab without getting so much as a change of clothes.

The decisive image of Ming Sichen attempting suicide filled every corner of his mind.
It was the final piece of his beta perfume puzzle—a desperate love on the brink of despair.
Because it was difficult to express, one expressed, it was reckless and all-consuming.

Xia Wennan forbade Ming Luchuan from accompanying him this time, and when Ming Luchuan was finally allowed to enter the lab after two days, Xia Wennan presented a scent strip under the man’s nose.

The smell took Ming Luchuan by surprise.
“It’s a very unique smell,” he said.

Xia Wennan’s eyes were flushed, but they twinkled brightly.
“Its name is Trees and Flowers,” he explained to Ming Luchuan.

Ming Luchuan gently waved the scent strip under his nose and asked, “Is it related to Xishui Hall?”

Xia Wennan smiled, and recited, “Entering an ancient temple in the early morning, the rising sun shines through the high forest.
A winding mountain path leads to the Buddhist hall, hidden deep in the midst of trees and flowers.”

There should always be a path that leads to the depths of an ancient temple.

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