Deliberate Mark

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It was just that everything took time.
The butterfly effect, from the moment he crossed over, from the moment he was told he had become an Omega, had begun.
He had been resistant, forced to convince himself to accept it, but thinking of it another way, how was it not a kind of guide?

Guiding him in a new direction, revising all the regrets of his last life.
By getting to the reversal before it happened, the ending had the potential to change.
When he figured this out, Gu Ang was enlightened.

The wall that he had built up with his own hands between the two men had a gap chiseled through by him.
He grinned at Ye Fei, “Do you have a dog’s nose? You’re so smart.”

“Mn, specifically to smell you.” Ye Fei saw that Gu Ang didn’t seem to be as distant from him as before, as if something had changed, but he couldn’t tell what.
It was clear that Gu Ang still had an angry expression when he had just left, but now the face before him looked like it had melted with some subtle closeness.

What happened in between was a mystery.
But he had a hunch that he seemed to be slowly, but surely getting inside Gu Ang’s head again.
Ye Fei sat down against him, feeling the tightness in his body, “What were you nervous about?”

Gu Ang shook his head, “A dumbass was just here and I thought he returned.”

Ye Fei: “……” He deserved to be called a dumbass to his face, so he had no complaints.
He feigned indifference and asked, “Who was it?” 

Gu Ang snickered, “I don’t know, I drove him away.
He was a psycho.”

Ye Fei coughed lightly and changed the subject, “Are you hurt? Let me help you apply the medicine.”

Gu Ang opened his hands and spread the bottle of medicine in his hands, “My back, it’s a bit of a pain to apply it.”

“Turn around.” Ye Fei rolled his cuffs up to his forearms and sat next to him, taking the bottle of medicine.
After what he experienced earlier, he now felt what a joy it was to even simply sit with Gu Ang like this.

Gu Ang turned his back to him, revealing a lean waist, “I can’t see if it’s serious, I only did a simple treatment earlier.”

“The wound isn’t big, but it’s deep, so bear with it, it’ll hurt a bit.” Ye Fei frowned in distress and carefully dabbed the medicine all over the cotton swab, rubbing it on the wound little by little.

Gu Ang closed his eyes to endure it and said stiffly, “Soldiers aren’t afraid of pain.” He felt the antiseptic water soak into the wound, a fine pain spreading in, and Gu Ang gritted his teeth slightly before he felt a cool breeze blow up the wound with a little breath of heat.
Gu Ang twisted his head and asked, “What are you doing?”

Ye Fei’s lips were pressed near his wound, still carefully exhaling, “Blowing on it, so it won’t hurt anymore.”

“It’s not like I’m a child…” Gu Ang was glad the cave was darkly lit and the other couldn’t see his gradually reddening face.  He felt his numb heart reviving little by little under this man’s tenderness, “Ye Fei.”

“Hmm?”

“Nothing.” Gu Ang didn’t really have anything to say, just simply wanted to call his name.

Calling his name and getting a response seemed like something to be happy about in this little planet of the universe.

Ye Fei rewrapped his back with a bandage, wrapping it around his chest and then tying it in a nice knot, “Where else? Left hand?”

Gu Ang got up, ready to move over and get the bottle of medicine, “I’ll do it myself.”

“Don’t move.” Ye Fei reached out to hold him down, causing a vague pain on the wound on his shoulder.
It was a real bummer for them both.
Two wounded men staying together.

The moon was charming and the cave was so dimly lit that only the blurry outlines of people could be seen.
Gu Ang lowered his eyes at the man who was meticulously tending to the wound on his hand, his expression careful like he was treating a precious object.
He felt Ye Fei’s fingers squeeze his, gently holding it in place before applying the medicine.

Time was stretched out indefinitely, and all was silent, except for the sound of the rustling of the medicine.
Ye Fei looked down like he did earlier, applying the medicine while gently blowing on the wound, treating him like a five year old.
Gu Ang’s fingers moved slightly and the wound was pressed against Ye Fei’s lips.

Neither man moved, looking like Ye Fei was kissing his ring finger.

After a few seconds, Gu Ang reacted and removed his hand, “Sorry, my hand was covered in medicine.
It’s bitter, right?”

Ye Fei pursed his lips and raised his eyes to Gu Ang, “It;s pretty sweet.”

The atmosphere was a bit ambiguous, and Ye Fei took advantage of the right atmosphere and was about to say something when he was interrupted by Bai SiNing’s voice.

“Brother Ang, are you in there? Fuck…?” Bai SiNing approached, staring back and forth at the two, one half-crouched, the other half-naked, looking evocative.
“Did I come at a bad time?”

Gu Ang panicked and pulled the shirt next to him and draped it over himself, “What’s with that nonsense? I’m hurt.”

Bai SiNing’s round eyes darted about, “Oh, I should have shown up later, sorry to interrupt.”

Three other figures also appeared at the entrance of the cave against the light.
Lin XiuYong approached and asked, “What’s wrong?”

He was followed by two other seniors he didn’t know.

Gu Ang waved his hand, “It’s just a minor injury.”

Not daring to say that he was in heat, Gu Ang could only make a couple of casual remarks before hurriedly changing the subject to something else, “I couldn’t believe four of you made it in one piece, how lucky.”

Bai SiNing giggled, “Hey, hey, it was all thanks to my brother Lin.
He’s the one who found us and brought us together.”

“Gu Ang, are you there?” Before Gu Ang could say anything, a female shout came again from the entrance of the cave.
Jiang RuiYuan also arrived at the cave with the others at about the same time.

Even Ye Fei didn’t anticipate that the originally scattered eleven would reunite so quickly.

Lin XiuYong and Jiang RuiYuan had two tricks up their sleeves.

When the eleven people sat down on the ground, Jiang RuiYuan, who was the leading teacher, was the first to ask, “Gu Ang, how were you able to send us a message? I tried to contact everyone earlier and found that the communication of this planet was very strongly interfered with, and only the special communicator was able to pick up the signals on the planet.”

Gu Ang immediately waved his hand and explained, “I didn’t send the signal, but I probably know who sent it for me.”

Bai SiNing scratched his head, “Are there others trapped here?”

“A member of an elite Imperial unit reached the planet ahead of us to confirm for us just how high the risk factor of the planet is.” Gu Ang then told the crowd about his suspicions with the mystery man, only omitting the part where he was marked by the other man.

After hearing the summary given by Gu Ang, almost all the students fell backwards.

They didn’t expect things to really get this serious and involve the Federation.

“If it was really as you say, I’m afraid it’s far from simple.”

Jiang RuiYuan said in a low voice, “Thinking deeper, we might all just be some bait thrown out by the masterminds behind the scenes, in order to be able to provoke a war with the Federation, thus diverting the internal conflicts of the Empire.
After all, you guys must be well aware of the Empire’s oppressive policy, war has never been the best means to divert internal conflicts!”

Wei YangZe asked, “What should we do now that it has happened?”

Where do they, a group of students, fit in this conspiracy?

Jiang RuiYuan looked at him, “YangZe, as the oldest senior, do you have any ideas?”

Wei YangZe cupped his hand into a fist, “We’re all soldiers, so I think even if we’re at this point, the first thing we should do is to complete the mission given down by our superiors, which is to complete the beheading of the rebels!”

Ye Fei and Gu Ang nodded in unison, “Agreed.”

No matter how bad the external disturbing conditions were, the priority should be to complete the assigned orders.

“But now that the situation has changed, everything’s out of control!” Jiang RuiYuan countered out loud, “Now we should just find a way to get out of this hellhole first, or at least have to capture a large cosmic signal tower and send a distress signal to the outside world to send us back.”

There was silence in the cave… The crowd didn’t utter a word, and fell into contemplation.

Gu Ang carefully protected his injured hand and spoke, “Dean Jiang, we all understand your good intentions.
But you’re just an R&D officer, not a soldier.
You don’t understand that the first day of a soldier’s job is to complete the operational objective regardless of the environmental situation.
So we must fulfill the orders given by our superiors.”

There was no telling how nasty a fight it would eventually devolve into, but with both him and Ye Fei in the picture, Gu Ang was confident and sure of himself.
Furthermore, he was a soldier, an Admiral, and military orders were like mountains, a truth that had been ingrained in his mind from his first day in the army.

Brainiac Bai SiNing was ignited by this fervor, “Okay, let’s follow Brother Ang!”

The others were pumped up and responded in kind.

Ye Fei raised the corner of his mouth slightly, the thorny Gu Ang was back.

“Then let’s take advantage of the moonlight and act now.”

Everyone was getting up from the ground and heading out of the cave.

Ye Fei reached out to help Gu Ang up and walked at the end of the crowd, carefully admonishing, “I know you’re good, but you’re injured, stay close to me for a while.”

“Don’t worry, I have a handle on it.
I’m stronger than you think, too.” Gu Ang lifted his chin slightly and took a big step across towards the crowd.

The cave was obviously excessively dark, yet Ye Fei felt that he saw light.

Seeing that Ye Fei was slow to follow, Gu Ang turned back to look at the man.
Countless times when he had to go to war, the man was by his side, and this time was no different.
Gu Ang opened his mouth slightly, suddenly not wanting to call Ye Fei’s name.
He took a deep breath, as if doing a tremendous mental build-up, his heart beating so violently that it almost jumped out of his throat.

Gu Ang’s voice was soft, pretending to be calm, “Brother, keep up.”

Ye Fei followed in stride and grabbed his wrist firmly, “What did you just call me?”

 

Author’s Note: 

He called him Gege, satisfied?

ps.
The disguise later won’t even appear, so you don’t have to worry about Guang Guang’s heat later, Ye Fei will show up with his own face, so no need to be anxious.

Of course the vehicle will be driven, and domestic violence will also follow after (doge face)

It’s my birthday today (May 13th), so I hope the new year will make the writing a little better, and I’ll get a bonus for all the comments on this chapter today.