Chapter 25 Part 1

“Really…?”

Lu Ningshuang recalled for a moment.

It seemed that as she met Qin Yushu more often, even if they weren’t exactly familiar yet, she had gained a basic understanding of the other woman. After learning a bit about her personality and quirks…

She had become slightly more lively in her behavior.

—Lu Ningshuang’s personality was a little bit like that: she killed familiars.

But this really wasn’t being clingy!

She had truly learned something extraordinary and was trying to remind Qin Yushu…

While her Alpha brain was still organizing the wording, figuring out a more appropriate way to give the hint.

Her hands activated the ancestral skill and typed away.

[It’s fine if you don’t want to say.]

[I know I have no right to pry into your whereabouts right now…]

By the time she realized it, the message had already been sent. Lu Ningshuang looked down.

Save me!!!!!

She hurriedly withdrew it, only praying that Qin Yushu was busy at that moment and hadn’t seen anything.

Nearly a minute passed with no reply from Qin Yushu.

She had… probably gotten away with it?

As Lu Ningshuang breathed a sigh of relief, her phone vibrated again. She nervously checked it.

It was a photo with medical equipment in the background, clearly taken in a hospital.

Qin Yushu seemed to have snapped it casually; the entire frame was tilted. She sat there, with a section of her slender arm visible on the table in the lower left corner, even through her clothing.

Further ahead on the table sat a roll of candy.

The outermost wrapper had been torn open, clearly missing one piece inside, and the wrapper from the eaten candy lay beside it.

The colorful candy wrapper stood out sharply against the plain white surroundings.

—It was exactly the roll of mint candy that Lu Ningshuang had handed over when she got out of the car, complete with her little personal stash.

Q: [Miss Lu’s suggestion was good. I’ve decided to heed it.]

Q: [Are you satisfied now?]

Lu Ningshuang: “…”

This, this, this… The body was clearly Qin Yushu’s own. She had told her to go to the hospital purely for her own good—what did she mean by asking if she was “satisfied”?

Wait.

That wasn’t right either.

Huo Yunyi could control Qin Yushu’s heat period cycle through the System, but every time, he ended up with all sorts of mishaps due to inadequate preparation, ultimately benefiting her instead.

If she ignored the process and only looked at the results, she—this cannon fodder character from the original plot—was the ultimate winner?

Every time Huo Yunyi stirred up trouble, he was actually giving her welfare. Telling Qin Yushu to go to the hospital for a check-up was actually cutting off her own good life?

?????

Whatever.

She decided not to take such a deadly bargain.

Qin Yushu had been lucky to run into her the first couple of times, but the unstable factor was always there. If an accident happened one day or she didn’t arrive in time… it would be a lifelong regret.

Moreover.

Qin Yushu had “bought” her to solve physiological problems. Such things were fine occasionally, but for someone as willful and dominant as her, she was born to conquer the business world with decisive kills, expand territories, and build her own commercial empire.

Not to hole up in a corner, controlled, casting everything aside to indulge solely in the vortex of desire.

…Devolving into the most primal beast.

That would be like breaking the wings of a proud eagle, plucking its beautiful, sharp feathers, locking it up, and raising it merely as a domesticated sparrow.

Some might revel in that sense of power from “taming a wild beast.”

But Lu Ningshuang clearly wasn’t one of them.

Considering the huge gap in their backgrounds—though Lu Ningshuang never felt inferior about her family’s relative “poverty,” the chasm of difference still existed, unbridgeable.

Meeting Qin Yushu was her luck.

But for Qin Yushu to encounter a poor Alpha like her during such a critical heat period was misfortune.

A flurry of thoughts flashed through Lu Ningshuang’s mind in an instant.

She had realized this gap ever since she woke up in the plot and learned Qin Yushu’s identity. She understood it crystal clear.

Thinking about it now didn’t make her feel excessively dejected or sad.

Qin Yushu was taking photos and revealing her location, showing such a willingness to communicate. Maybe she didn’t need to hold back so much…?

So, Lu Ningshuang edited: [Did Huo Yunyi come looking for you?]

Q: [What?]

Seeing that she hadn’t answered directly, Lu Ningshuang continued sending messages.

[I ran into him downstairs when I returned to the company at noon. He waited a bit and seemed to be waiting for you.]

[Later, he probably realized you weren’t there and left quickly. I was wondering if he went to find you somewhere else.]

Q: [I’m in the VIP ward, being examined by my private doctor. I haven’t seen him yet.]

[Oh, I see.]

Lu Ningshuang slowly let out a breath of relief.

Good that they hadn’t run into each other. Huo Yunyi needed to contribute his own Luck Value to get the System to help him.

He hadn’t succeeded in causing trouble these past times, and unless he drew from Qin Yushu, his own Luck Value was very limited—they weren’t even close yet.

He would probably cherish it, give that Transmigrator brain of his—which was all ocean noise—a slight shake, and not act rashly in the short term.

Lu Ningshuang thought it over but still didn’t tell Qin Yushu the truth she had “heard.”

On one hand, the matter was too bizarre; it was really hard to explain clearly in a short time.

Lu Ningshuang herself didn’t know if this “cheat” of overhearing Huo Yunyi and the System was stable, or if the next time the System upgraded, she wouldn’t be able to hear it anymore? Or if it would go offline directly?

On the other hand.

No matter how the Transmigrator “Huo Yunyi” operated, from the final results, she was the one who benefited.

Those in high positions were suspicious by nature.

Even though she and Qin Yushu had gotten their marriage certificate, aside from the physical aspect, their relationship could be described as “stranger” or “awkward”—far from the point of baring their hearts.

Perhaps.

If in the future their relationship didn’t end hastily, and they grew more familiar, and she understood more of the other’s temperament… at a suitable opportunity, she would tell her.

Lu Ningshuang: [As long as you’re okay.]

Qin Yushu seemed quite free over there; the reply came almost instantly.

Q: [Next time, Miss Lu, you can be a little more honest.]

Lu Ningshuang: ?

Q: [If you want to ask if I’m with someone else, just say it directly. No need to beat around the bush.]

Q: [After all, you’re the one on my marriage certificate, my rightful Alpha in name.]

Lu Ningshuang just read those two sentences and felt that, at that moment, on the other end, the glands at the back of Qin Yushu’s neck were probably heating up again?

The stunning beauty was always hot and cold by turns. Fortunately, the young Alpha had gradually gotten used to the rhythm and wouldn’t feel as lost as she did at the beginning, like some immature kid.

Lu Ningshuang: [Can I be jealous too?]

Q: [?]

Oh.

Lu Ningshuang understood—this was the “cold” phase again.

Fine.

She was already very happy just to tease like that.

Then—

Q: [There’s only ever been you. Who would you have to fight for jealousy with?]

!

The young female college student Alpha couldn’t hold it together; she bloomed on the spot, and even her previously clear-headed brain turned a little mushy.

Lu Ningshuang: [Anyway, be careful of Huo Yunyi.]

[I feel like he has ulterior motives toward you. He doesn’t seem like a good person anyway.]

A while later.

[Miss Qin, you’re married now. At least during the marriage, don’t give any Alpha the chance to be a homewrecker!]

…

In the hospital, inside the private ward.

Qin Yushu’s various body test reports had come back. The radiantly arrogant woman looked up at the doctor in front of her.

“How is it?”

The middle-aged chief physician in the white coat was all deference. “After testing with our instruments and analyzing the data, Miss Qin’s glands show no abnormalities in any functions.”

“But…”

Qin Yushu’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“But Miss Qin’s glands have never been marked by anyone before. Now suddenly finding a matching Alpha, you should exercise a bit of restraint.”

Qin Yushu: “Anything else?”

“Additionally, we speculate that Miss Qin’s gland abnormality might be because it was the first time accepting an Alpha’s marking, and the dosage was too intense all at once, so… it wasn’t quite adapted.”

A moment later.

Qin Yushu said, “Got it. You can go.”

All the medical staff present withdrew, leaving Qin Yushu alone in her exclusive ward.

The facilities here were top-notch, all funded by Qin Yushu herself. It wasn’t just for serious illnesses; she could come for a headache, brain fever, or any discomfort.

Of course, for minor ailments, her private doctor could come to her directly.

The reasons given were more or less the same as what she had told Lu Ningshuang back then.

But.

Was that all?

In this modern society full of complex information, as President Qin, had she never eaten pork or at least seen a pig run?

As the one who experienced it firsthand, she could feel just how compatible her pheromones were with Lu Ningshuang’s. That lime scent of hers was practically made to soothe her, so even if it was the first time, even if she’d never used it before… there shouldn’t have been such a rejection reaction afterward.

There was definitely something off here.

Something that current medical science couldn’t explain.

—She had faintly sensed this even before Lu Ningshuang advised her to come for a check-up.

Qin Yushu had an intuition.

An innate intuition, as if blessed by the heavens.

She rarely perceived it, but the few times it kicked in allowed her to dominate the business world, unbeatable.

Thus, Qin Yushu trusted it deeply.

With the report out, Qin Yushu was wondering whether to discuss this with the newly acquired “clingy” little Alpha pet at home.

As she looked down, she saw the three latest messages from Lu Ningshuang.

The tone of the first two was too aggressive, not like her; the third seemed like she was scrambling to make up for it after blurting something out.

—She had tricked it out!

Lu Ningshuang herself might not have realized it, but she was overly concerned about Huo Yunyi’s presence.