After an Alluring Alpha Provokes an Unhinged Omega 24

Chapter 24: Try

In the open space of the red carpet waiting area, Jiang Mi hooked her fingertips around her tasseled shawl, listening with a smile as apple recounted her recent situation. The person before her was smiling faintly. Although she was still very thin, she was in much better shape than last time.

Seeing her like this, the worry that had been hanging over Jiang Mi’s heart for the past few days finally settled.

Jiang Mi asked, “What about the new crew you joined? Is it harmonious?”

The air conditioning in the venue was too cold. Jiang Yuying nodded and couldn’t help but wrap her shawl tighter around her upper body. “I can adapt. But you, after what happened with Qin Yao today, you still have to be careful.”

“I know. But today, I really had no choice. She was pushing too hard…” Before she could finish, Jiang Mi’s voice suddenly weakened. She looked at the few people approaching in the distance. The spotlight seemed to converge on the woman in an instant.

Yan Wei walked step by step into the area, disappearing for a few seconds in the shadow of a pillar behind her. Before her figure reappeared, Jiang Mi averted her gaze. She took a step closer to Jiang Yuying and turned her back to the direction of the approaching person.

She remembered something. “By the way, I’ll give you the autograph you wanted at dinner tonight.”

Jiang Yuying said happily, “Thank you on behalf of my little fan.”

Jiang Mi resisted the urge to let her gaze wander and replied with feigned ease, “No problem, no problem. I’m going to have a big meal tonight.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you down.” Jiang Yuying covered her mouth and laughed. “Did you get an autograph for Shanshan?”

Jiang Mi was silent for a moment. “Hers… I’ll find another chance next time.”

“Then I’ll have to keep it a secret, otherwise she’ll be mad with jealousy.”

The two were talking in low voices, but Jiang Mi had the strange feeling that she was being watched from behind. She raised her hand and touched the secure suppressor patch, forcing herself not to turn around. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to greet Yan Wei; she had just been on the hot search with Qin Yao today, and it was better to stay far away from the spotlight.

Moreover, the thought of keeping her distance from Yan Wei hadn’t disappeared; on the contrary, it had become firmer.

As for why? She actually knew in her heart, she just wasn’t willing to think too deeply about it.

Yan Wei turned into another corridor not far from them. In the split second their paths crossed, a cold light refracted into her eyes. After a few steps, her footsteps suddenly stopped. The milky pheromone scent in the air seemed to be chasing her, lingering around her.

Normally, when she was close to Jiang Mi during filming, the milky scent wasn’t this strong.

Was Jiang Mi in heat? Or… did her pheromones become so strong when she was with that woman? Either way, she didn’t seem very happy.

Surui suddenly asked from the side, “The person with Jiang Mi seems to be called apple, right?”

Someone responded in a low voice, “Yes, their scandal is still ongoing.”

As those two sentences landed, Yan Wei took a light breath. She was quiet for a moment, and when she looked up again, the temperature in her eyes was even lower than before. Her nails scratched her palm, digging in slightly.

The emotions of the past few days had come to a conclusion here.

Yan Wei confirmed one thing here—she just didn’t like Jiang Mi smiling at others while being so passionate towards her.

What she wanted was for Jiang Mi to only look at her, even if she was standing in the distance.

The source of this thought was too easy to trace.

Emotionally, she was attracted to Jiang Mi. Even if it wasn’t deep, Jiang Mi was indeed the only Alpha she had had feelings for in so many years.

Physically, there seemed to be no need for debate.

When there were thoughts, there would be entanglements. She detested the feeling of entanglement; it would make her lose her clarity. In fact, she had already begun to feel a threat from Jiang Mi.

The kind of threat that was about to subvert her control…

She had tried to control it. Between indulging herself and restraining herself, she had chosen the latter. The result was simple: the current situation.

Yan Wei sneered inwardly. Then forget it. If I’m going to indulge, I’ll just have to drag the person who provoked me along with me.

Yan Wei wanted to smoke a cigarette at this moment. Did she want to turn back and do something?

For example, turn around, walk up to Jiang Mi, and whisper in her ear: Jiang Mi, do you want to do it with me now?

What kind of expression would Jiang Mi look at her with?

Would she think she was crazy?

**

Over here, Jiang Mi and Jiang Yuying hadn’t chatted for long when someone approached and stood beside them, a polite smile on their face, their voice cool.

“Can we talk after? We should go touch up our makeup.”

Chen Qiao, Jiang Yuying’s manager and also her girlfriend.

She had neat short hair and sharp features, which made her look very serious. In addition to handling all of her work, she also arranged all aspects of Jiang Yuying’s life. The two had known each other for ten years, with a ten-year age difference, and this was their third year of dating.

It had been a long time, but the relationship between Jiang Mi and Chen Qiao was only polite on the surface. She was indifferent to Chen Qiao, and Chen Qiao didn’t like her and her friends either.

The age difference between apple and Chen Qiao was too big. At that time, she was worried that apple’s dependence on Chen Qiao would outweigh her love. When they confirmed their relationship, she, Zhou Shanshan, and Jiang Hu had all tried to persuade her, but apple’s feelings for Chen Qiao were too deep, and in the end, they could only offer their blessings.

Actually, later on, the few of them had thought about trying to get along, but after a few times, they found that they were not on the same page, whether in terms of values or behavior.

In short, their interactions were very superficial.

That was why they were more concerned about apple, always afraid that she would be taken advantage of and not dare to say anything, or be too embarrassed to say anything.

Jiang Yuying looked at Chen Qiao and nodded cooperatively, then turned to say goodbye to Jiang Mi.

“You guys go ahead.” Jiang Mi waved. “Talk to you later.”

Only then did Jiang Mi look at her phone. She still had half an hour to prepare. Her styling was done, but Zhao Jia, who had gone to get the gown’s belt, hadn’t returned yet.

She waited for another two minutes, then sent a message to Zhao Jia, but there was no reply for a long time.

Jiang Mi touched her neck. The heat from her glands was starting to become slightly higher than other places. It felt raised to the touch and was more sensitive than usual. This was a sign of an impending heat.

But fortunately, it wasn’t serious.

Her pheromone scent was in the air, but others couldn’t smell it, and it was also blocked by the suppressor patch. Therefore, Jiang Mi wasn’t too anxious. In addition to the suppressor patch, she had also prepared enough suppressors in her bag just in case.

She was fully prepared.

Seeing that it was about time, Jiang Mi didn’t wait for Zhao Jia any longer and went to the restroom with her small bag.

Entering the restroom, Jiang Mi locked the stall door behind her and fumbled to tear open the edge of the suppressor patch. The cool adhesive, carrying the milky pheromone scent, made a faint peeling sound at her glands.

The vent above her head suddenly vibrated, and a basin of cold water suddenly poured down!

“I—fuck!”

The moment the cold water seeped into her gown, Jiang Mi’s knee slammed heavily against the stall door. The stall door made a teeth-grinding creak, and at the same time, a sweet perfume smell came from outside, with a pungent smell of glue if you sniffed carefully.

She kicked off her high heels and, barefoot, kicked the door frame. From the crack in the door, she saw a flash of purple.

Jiang Mi kicked a few more times, and the door finally creaked open a crack.

A thick layer of tape was stuck to the outside of the door. After a combination of kicking and tearing, she finally kicked the door open.

There was no one in the restroom.

She stood soaking wet at the restroom door, tried it without much hope, and as expected, it wouldn’t open. She knocked a few times, but let alone a response, it was as if everyone outside had left.

“Seriously, they play so dirty.”

Jiang Mi cursed as she looked at herself in the mirror. The straight black gown was now clinging to her skin, and the smudged eyeliner had left a grayish-blue trail at the corner of her eye. Even if she had time to change, she definitely couldn’t go on camera like this.

Whether she could make it to the event or not, she was destined to make a fool of herself today.

Crazy.

These people are really crazy!

Jiang Mi went back to the stall to get her phone. Zhao Jia’s call still didn’t go through.

Then she called Jiang Yuying, only to hear a busy tone.

What was there to struggle for? Just call the police. But that would cause too much of a stir, and the organizers would blacklist her forever.

No, she could still struggle. She could still ask Shen Ruoxi for help. Jiang Mi walked to the door, listening to the sounds outside. At the same time, she opened WeChat. Just as she was about to make a voice call, the crisp sound of high heels came from outside the door.

She pulled herself together and immediately said:

“Hello, could you find someone to help me open the door? Or could you see if it’s locked from the outside? I can’t open it from here. Thank you.”

After she finished in one breath, it suddenly became quiet outside the door.

Jiang Mi knocked on the door. “Hello, is anyone there?”

This time, after waiting for two seconds, there was a sound from the lock.

She took a step back. “Thank you, thank you so much.”

The person outside had been silent the whole time. Having just been ambushed, Jiang Mi couldn’t help but be wary. She gripped her phone tightly. If anything happened, no one could help her at this moment but herself.

She gathered her strength in her legs, ready to kick the person away at any moment.

As Jiang Mi was thinking and preparing, she was actually starting to get anxious. The increasingly strong pheromones around her indicated that the water-soaked suppressor patch on her neck was losing its effectiveness.

At this moment, her glands were like an inflamed wound, and her temperature was clearly rising. She didn’t dare to be too careless.

The bag had been soaked, so the suppressor patches inside were unusable.

And with someone here now, she couldn’t give herself a shot of suppressor.

As she was thinking of a solution.

With a “click,” the lock sprang open from the outside. A crack appeared in the restroom door. Jiang Mi took a deep breath. The words of thanks were still on her lips, but a familiar scent had already entered her nostrils.

The door was fully opened from the outside.

Yan Wei stood at the door, wearing a black haute couture gown, paired with pearl earrings. She was so beautiful she seemed to be glowing.

How could it be Yan Wei?

Jiang Mi was stunned for two seconds. “Teacher Yan?”

Yan Wei swept her gaze up and down, took a step into the restroom, and then slowly closed the door again.

The milky pheromone scent in the restroom instantly enveloped Yan Wei like a cocoon. Her breath hitched. The pheromones, as if they had found a breach, surged in from all directions, hovering around her glands, as if looking for an opportunity to attack.

Before entering, she hadn’t expected Jiang Mi’s pheromones to be so strong.

Yan Wei’s high heels moved back two inches, not in retreat, but because she had almost lost her balance.

This feeling surprised her, and at the same time, an indescribable thrill shot from her waist to her brain, so much so that a cold sweat broke out on her back. She lowered her eyes to compose herself.

Her gaze swept over Jiang Mi’s phone. Before the screen went black, she saw the three words “Shen Ruoxi.”

“Teacher Yan, why are you here?”

The glands that she hadn’t noticed before suddenly felt as if they were being pricked by a needle after Yan Wei entered. Jiang Mi raised her hand and pressed the suppressor patch on the back of her neck, her breathing uneven. “Thank you for today. I’ll go out first. If there’s no one, you can come out.”

She had no intention of admitting defeat. Right now, she had to hurry out and see if there was still hope. And, Yan Wei’s pheromone scent was too sensitive for her right now.

As for other things… now was not the time to talk about other things.

She was about to walk past Yan Wei when a cool touch suddenly came from her wrist.

Yan Wei had grabbed her hand.

Jiang Mi trembled unconsciously. Heat instantly radiated from her body, and her body became scorching hot in an instant.

“…”

Her heat hadn’t really come yet, but if she continued to be stimulated by Yan Wei’s pheromone scent, she wasn’t so sure.

Jiang Mi gritted her teeth.

Yan Wei asked faintly, “Heat?”

Yan Wei’s face was undoubtedly cold. Jiang Mi didn’t know why, but in the short time since she had entered, the hot and cold feeling had descended upon her again.

“Not yet, just… soon.”

How soon? Actually, she wasn’t sure either, which was why she had brought a suppressor.

Yan Wei’s gaze swept over Jiang Mi’s neck. “So you’re looking for Shen Ruoxi to help you at a time like this?”

The brandy pheromones seemed to thicken in an instant. Jiang Mi’s glands felt as if they were covered by a layer of liquid silk, and the suffocation and dull pain intensified layer by layer. Jiang Mi thought it was because of her special period that she was particularly sensitive to Yan Wei’s scent.

Her canines hurt the tip of her tongue. She stared at Yan Wei and responded, “Can’t I look for her?”

A playful look appeared in Yan Wei’s cold eyes. She suppressed the pleasure again and again and said slowly, “You can.”

Her tone seemed to have softened a little, but for some reason, Jiang Mi felt it was even colder than before.

Yan Wei asked her, “Why didn’t you look for apple?”

Yan Wei even knew that she and apple knew each other? Jiang Mi was quite surprised. She thought for a moment and simply said, “She didn’t answer the phone.”

The smile in Yan Wei’s eyes disappeared.

“Is that so?”

Jiang Mi met that gaze and was speechless for a moment.

“Do you think…” Yan Wei suddenly took a step forward, the surrounding air pressure dropping, “…they can help you get through this heat?”

Hearing this, Jiang Mi froze. “That’s not what I meant!”

She probably knew which sentence Yan Wei had started to target her from. Just guessing made the feeling of frustration even stronger. She simply stopped explaining.

And the tingling numbness in her glands was becoming more and more impossible to ignore. Perhaps it was because of the contact, but the scent of brandy on Yan Wei’s body continuously penetrated her breath. For the first time, she felt how dangerous a heat was.

The energy in her body felt like it was about to break through the suppressor patch and gush out at any moment.

“I’m not going to make it to the red carpet. Thank you so much for today.”

After Jiang Mi finished speaking, she looked down in surprise. Yan Wei was holding her even tighter than before. This was the first time Yan Wei had been so assertive in her actions.

Yan Wei seemed not to have heard. Her gaze fell from her struggling hand to Jiang Mi’s bare, white toes, then moved up. There was a small sun tattoo on her right ankle. She had occasionally seen it during filming.

The tattoo didn’t quite match this person’s image, but the sun, it seemed to be just like Jiang Mi.

So warm it was suffocating.

It was like a volcanic membrane covering her face, drawing out her breath to the human limit, a pain and ferocity that made one lose control, and then the air returned, and she gasped for breath, clutching the person in front of her.

Yan Wei was completely different from usual. As for where, Jiang Mi couldn’t say.

She seemed to have been forced to do things a lot recently. Jiang Mi stared at the hand that had grabbed her. The woman’s pinky finger was almost digging into her skin, but it didn’t seem intentional, more like an unconscious action.

Jiang Mi took a breath. “Do you also think I look easy to bully?”

Yan Wei felt the long-absent, violent throbbing of her glands. She looked up, not caring that her voice was hoarse. “Do you think you’re easy to bully?”

Probably not.

If Jiang Mi’s heat were to suddenly come at this moment, she was afraid she would die.

“You seem to think so,” Jiang Mi said.

After she said it, she suddenly felt very angry.

She didn’t want to pretend anymore.

At worst, they would have a falling out and never see each other again after filming—this was the worst-case scenario she didn’t want to see happen.

Jiang Mi looked up and directly at Yan Wei. “Yan Wei, I don’t understand. I really don’t understand! You clearly seem to resist me sometimes, but other times you take the initiative to get close to me. Even now, anyone could have appeared here, but you, I never thought you would come. I really don’t understand what you’re thinking!”

She straightened her back and, this time, took the initiative to attack. “So what are you thinking? At this very moment, what are you thinking? Can you tell me?”

Yan Wei stared at that gaze and couldn’t help but take a few more breaths. High-compatibility pheromones were indeed addictive. She seemed to have been mistaken. The gentle Jiang Mi also had a predatory side, which was simply stunning.

Her teeth were itching, burning, and aching in her mouth. Her glands were being stirred by the Alpha, and her pheromones seemed to have turned into liquid, flowing out of her glands in gushes.

Alright, you were the one who provoked me first anyway.

“What am I thinking? Do you want to try?”

***

Author’s Notes:

Psychological drama version [Sunglasses]

Mimi: Try what?
Yan Wei: Get on me.
Mimi: ?
[Pity]