On the Brink of Losing Control: His Trembling and…

Cheng Lie’s patience was wearing thin. That prickly, eccentric girl Tang Tang—the one who normally had no problem blasting him head-on—had been dodging him for a solid week. She barricaded herself in her dorm, eyes always flitting away, every breath laced with a rigid, forced distance. When Cheng Lie kicked the door in, frustration was already burning at the back of his throat, but the moment she looked up, he caught a specter of vulnerability he’d never seen before. Her ability, Infestation, was spiraling into an uncontrollable cyclic rampage, a feral beast crashing through her body, shredding every sense into unspeakable, aching need. She told him to leave, her voice nearly a plea, but Cheng Lie had never been the type to abandon a teammate to lick their wounds alone—especially not her.