Lahat ng Kabanata ng Leave Me Alone Alphas: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

That evening, the small wooden house was filled with the rich, savory aroma of home-cooked stew simmering over the stove, filling the humble living space with a cozy, comfortable warmth.Mama Lu sat across the simple wooden dinner table from Lu Chen, using her spoon to pile an extra portion of steaming white rice directly into his bowl with a warm, gentle smile. She acted as if everything in the entire world was completely fine, carefully avoiding any mention of bustling cities, prestigious universities, or sterile hospital wards."Eat up, my boy," Mama Lu said fondly, her eyes crinkling at the corners. "You worked hard out on the field today."Lu Chen offered a weak, tired smile in return, his hand subtly sneaking under the table to massage his agonizingly sore lower back. "Thanks, Mom.""Oh, by the way," Mama Lu casually mentioned, setting her bamboo chopsticks down against the edge of her ceramic bowl. "Auntie Mei from the south side of the village stopped by the house earlier toda

The morning sun rose over the village, casting a warm golden hue over the dusty dirt roads.Lu Chen woke up with a lingering headache, though the memory of yesterday's chaos—and the ridiculously handsome neighbor who had scooped him up like a distressed maiden—remained vivid in his mind. He shook his head violently, pressing his face into his pillow to suppress another wave of embarrassing blushes."Get a grip, Lu Chen," he muttered to himself. "You faint once, and suddenly you're swooning over every good-looking person in a three-mile radius."He padded out to the kitchen, where Mama Lu was already busy packing freshly harvested radishes and leafy greens into heavy woven baskets."Good, you're up," Mama Lu said, glancing over her shoulder with a sharp, approving nod. "Your back rested enough? Auntie Mei is short-handed at the local morning market today. I offered to have you carry two baskets of produce down to her stall to make up for... well, missing her niece yesterday."Lu Chen w

The warm, fragrant steam of the jasmine tea drifted lazily into the cooling evening air.Lu Chen sat on the edge of the low wooden porch, holding a small ceramic cup between his palms. Just a few feet away, leaning casually against the low boundary fence on their side of the property, stood Xie Huai and Gu Yan.Because Mama Lu had strictly forbidden Lu Chen from interacting with any strange city men, the two former millionaires had to play a high-stakes game of stealth. Whenever Mama Lu was home, they acted strictly like polite, distant country neighbors who had just moved in down the road.Xie Huai wore a dark, loose cotton shirt, his broad shoulders relaxed. Gu Yan sat on a low stool, holding his teacup with effortless grace, his dark eyes glittering with quiet amusement."You know," Lu Chen whispered, leaning forward so his voice wouldn't carry into the house where his mother was cleaning up, "for two guys who supposedly just moved here to farm, you two sure spend a lot of time lur

The afternoon sun beat down with relentless, unforgiving intensity, turning the quiet countryside path into a shimmering, suffocating corridor of heat. Work at the commercial vegetable farm had been unexpectedly cut short due to a broken main water pump, leaving Lu Chen with a rare, unscheduled stretch of free afternoon time.Walking back toward his mother's small wooden house, Lu Chen wiped a thick sheen of sweat from the back of his neck with his dusty sleeve. His lower back muscles were stiff from hours of early-morning weeding, and his cotton shirt stuck uncomfortably to his damp skin. As he approached the boundary fence separating his mother's yard from the adjacent plot, he noticed a steady, heavy trickle of clean water leaking out from the side of the neighbors' outer wooden washhouse.The structure was a rustic, handmade enclosure set against the far edge of the property line, carefully designed with slatted wooden walls to catch the cool cross-breeze while keeping the interio

The summer night brought no relief from the stifling heat. Outside, crickets chirped a relentless rhythm in the tall grass, while inside the small bedroom, the air hung thick and motionless.Lu Chen tossed violently on his narrow bed. The thin cotton sheets were twisted around his waist, damp with sweat. His chest rose and fell in shallow, rapid breaths as his mind drifted far away from the quiet countryside, sinking deep into the suffocating fog of a dream.Except... this didn't feel like a dream at all.In his sleep, the rough wooden walls of his mother's cottage vanished, replaced by the cool expanse of a high-rise penthouse bedroom. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows framed a sprawling city skyline glittering like a bed of diamonds beneath a midnight sky. Soft, expensive silk sheets cooled his bare skin, smelling faintly of rich amber and dark cedar.He was pinned softly between two heavy, familiar bodies.To his right, Xie Huai's broad, iron-hard chest pressed firmly against his back