Lu Ningshuang felt that her current condition was a bit off.
Of course it was.
The flawless beauty before her eyes was like the finest mutton-fat warm jade, personally unearthed by her own hands.
The more she admired it closely, the more captivating it became.
Moreover, she was a normal Alpha, and their relationship was now perfectly legitimate—they had even marked each other before, twice.
It was only natural for such thoughts to arise…
Her emotions continued to brew and ferment, flooding her brain and nerves. As Lu Ningshuang gazed at her, she felt her body growing hotter and hotter, as if a wildfire blazed fiercely in her chest.
Vaguely,
she seemed to catch a whiff of the sweet, cloying pheromones of an Omega—the cherry scent she loved most. Then that sickly sweet aroma intensified, combined with Qin Yushu’s earlier actions…
Lu Ningshuang’s muddled mind suddenly flashed with realization!
She asked the Qin Yushu across from her, “Your glands are acting up again?”
In Lu Ningshuang’s understanding, Qin Yushu, who was enduring glandular disorder and the torment of her heat period, looked perfectly natural in this state.
Lu Ningshuang understood.
This was the “self-control” that the domineering CEO had honed over years, something she prided herself on!
If she was like this, then Qin Yushu’s condition could only be worse. Everything that had just happened suddenly made sense.
Now that she had pierced this window paper, it was time to lay it all out, right?
Lu Ningshuang waited and waited.
“No.” Qin Yushu denied it, her usual calm, cool tone carrying an extra layer of detachment at that moment.
“This time, it seems the problem is on your side.”
Lu Ningshuang: ?
She used her brain, troubled by this mysterious Alpha rut period, to think for a moment, and then—
Damn it!!!!!
Alpha… pheromones… rut period…
Lu Ningshuang finally remembered something she had been ignoring all along.
That transmigrator Huo Yunyi had said he would use a rut period to deal with her, letting him have his way with both A and O to cuckold Qin Yushu.
What kind of thunderous Day-A literature was this?!
Never mind that she and Qin Yushu had left the banquet for over an hour already. If Huo Yunyi wanted to pull something like this, even without prior preparation, he should at least confirm her location with the system first, so he could rush over immediately after and achieve his goal.
Just charging in blindly—what kind of idiot move was that?!!
Oh, right.
Querying a location also cost fortune points, and she wasn’t like Qin Yushu, the female protagonist Omega; it should cost fewer points for her.
Huo Yunyi didn’t want to spend the money, and as for why the system didn’t remind him, it was probably to squeeze that fortune difference out of him.
What did it care if it succeeded or not?
The system never lost out. If it failed once, it could sabotage again next time and squeeze another sum from Huo Yunyi.
What a shrewd deal!
Qin Yushu’s sharp observation skills had already picked up on Lu Ningshuang’s abnormality.
Realizing this wasn’t the right place for such a conversation, she turned and grabbed a suit jacket from the wardrobe, casually draping it over her shoulders to cover her glands.
Instantly, the Omega transformed from that jade-like beauty into something sharp and imposing. Only then did she look back at Lu Ningshuang and ask,
“What’s going on with you?”
Lu Ningshuang couldn’t tell Qin Yushu about the brain-dead antics of the transmigrator. After a moment of silence,
“Maybe… you’ve heard of an Alpha’s rut period?”
Qin Yushu replied coolly, “I haven’t.”
Lu Ningshuang: Sigh.
This wouldn’t be easy to brush off.
She had only ever heard about pitiful Omegas tormented by their heat periods in those literary works. Now that it was her turn to experience it firsthand,
Lu Ningshuang could only say it was even worse than described.
An Alpha’s rut period—or more accurately, the rut period—was inherently triggered by Omega pheromones. In a sense, an Omega’s heat period was the switch that set off this state in them.
At that time, any Omega in the vicinity would suffer even more than the Alpha, so the two trapped beasts would naturally come together, marking and mating.
But the state Huo Yunyi had inflicted on her through the system, though catalyzed by Omega pheromones, was one only she could smell. She might be the first Alpha to enter a rut period on her own like this.
Qin Yushu across from her showed no effect whatsoever, completely clear-headed and rational.
Lava seemed to scorch inside Lu Ningshuang’s body, while waves and tsunamis raged on the other side.
Cold and heat clashed and collided within her—the situation was imaginable, enough to tear a person apart!
“Could you…”
The Alpha pitifully lifted her head, her skin and even the skin around her eyes flushed red.
She pleaded, “Could you get me some suppressants?”
Lu Ningshuang had always been clear about her position.
The reason Qin Yushu married her was nothing more than her youth and cleanliness, her simplicity and gullibility, and the fact that she was an Alpha.
To President Qin, Lu Ningshuang, Miss Lu, or even the new “Youyou” were essentially just handy tools.
If the tool turned into a person, it was still just a tool-person.
Whenever Qin Yushu needed her, she had to show up and satisfy all demands—that was what she should do after enjoying so many benefits.
But if the one in need was her…
No need.
—Ever since Qin Yushu’s identity as President Qin was exposed, their statuses had never been equal.
Only… only on that unnamed night when the Omega beauty sought help during her heat period and President Qin’s acting was atrocious, perhaps there had been a rare moment when they were on the same level.
But that was only from Lu Ningshuang’s perspective. Qin Yushu had probably known everything from start to finish.
Talking about it now was just being sentimental.
Most importantly, Alphas didn’t have that function—who could have anticipated this?
Qin Yushu didn’t turn and leave. Instead, she chose to stay with the Omega trapped in this bizarre “rut period.”
To an Omega, an Alpha was a creature born to conquer them, inherently dangerous.
Especially when deep in their rut.
At that point, the “human” aspect of an Alpha was already very thin—just a primal “beast,” knowing only to seize the Omega before it and fulfill the instincts of marking and reproduction.
And that was the relatively better outcome.
If that basic need went unmet, it would lead to a frenzy period—that was the real danger.
Qin Yushu neither left directly nor called the Beta Housekeeper Nangong to deliver the suppressants the Alpha so desperately craved.
She just watched Lu Ningshuang—
Perhaps because this Alpha had an unusual background, dreaming as a youth of differentiating into an Omega, even in this moment, Lu Ningshuang’s endurance was extraordinarily strong.
Even now, there were no overstepping actions from her.
Just like every time before.
She had even put to use the basic physiological knowledge from her student days, fearing she might hurt someone. At this point, Lu Youyou was no longer standing before her but had retreated all the way, shrinking herself into the corner by Qin Yushu’s big bed.
Her limbs and body curled into a ball, hands hugging her knees, head lowered and buried deep between her knees and thighs.
Her body trembled slightly.
The gradient fishtail gown hadn’t been changed out of yet, trailing on the floor like a mermaid princess who had just left the sea for land, still unaccustomed to walking on two legs.
Even less accustomed to the pain of her toes feeling like they stepped on knife blades with every step.
She looked truly pitiful, and… fragilely alluring in her vulnerability.
This had never happened to Lu Ningshuang before, so why had it suddenly appeared now?
A figure flashed rapidly through Qin Yushu’s mind.
Qin Yushu maintained her posture with the suit jacket draped over her shoulders and walked over to check on her little dog.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
After a long while, the little dog finally reacted, nodding her head emphatically with a dazed expression.
Qin Yushu didn’t speak.
In the previous two times, including the earlier undressing mishap, whether teasing or seducing, Qin Yushu had always held the dominance and reaped the pleasure.
Even if it ultimately turned into the same satisfying intimacy, on the matter of who served whom, a certain Omega never yielded an inch.
Another moment passed.
Lu Ningshuang’s throbbing head seemed to ease a bit. Her voice came out muffled.
“You’d better stay away from me right now.”
“Why?” Qin Yushu responded slowly, as if coaxing a puppy, even teasing her.
Lu Ningshuang: “I’m a bit fierce right now.”
“How fierce?”
“The kind that bites people directly!”
Qin Yushu: “Oh.”
Qin Yushu acknowledged it, then there was a long silence with no movement.
Lu Ningshuang was still struggling against her instincts, and to distract herself and alleviate the discomfort, she mentally cursed Huo Yunyi and the system, that dog pair, a hundred times over!
Her head had been buried low the whole time, avoiding the light, so even when Qin Yushu squatted down, she didn’t notice for a moment.
“What are you thinking?” Qin Yushu asked.
Lu Ningshuang’s mind didn’t turn the corner right away. “Huo Yunyi…”
Qin Yushu’s eyes narrowed, flashing with danger.
So it was him, after all.
Lu Ningshuang hadn’t even seen it, and with her slow brain, she didn’t need to cover it up—Qin Yushu immediately steered it away with a joking tone.
“It seems Youyou’s Alpha rut period isn’t that bad after all. You still have the energy to think about someone else at a time like this?”
Lu Ningshuang felt indignant.
She couldn’t even remember what nonsense she had muttered in her haze, only that she had been uncomfortable, so uncomfortable, and there was someone in front of her who called her “Youyou”!
No one had ever called her that, but she knew this person was calling her now. Youyou must be an exclusive nickname from someone very close to her.
Yet she just kept watching without coming to comfort her.
When she was sick and miserable as a child, even unreliable Old Lu and Lady Ning would grant some excessive requests she made that would normally be refused.
This wasn’t right.
It shouldn’t be like this.
“It hurts.” Lu Ningshuang’s grievance came out in a tiny voice. “It hurts so much, and you won’t even come comfort me?”
“But Youyou isn’t looking at me either,” Qin Yushu said.
Whoosh!
The dazed, feverish Lu Ningshuang suddenly looked up.
Just as Qin Yushu had guessed, though she was an Alpha in beast mode, Lu Ningshuang’s expression wasn’t fierce at all—it was full of grievance. Her snow-white skin was tinged with blush, even the corners of her eyes smudged with rouge.
Utterly pitiable.
As Lu Ningshuang herself had said before, her appearance was one that took full advantage.
Especially now.
A teardrop hung at the corner of her rouged eye, moistening her lashes in a heartbreakingly endearing way.
“Youyou’s crying too?” Qin Yushu deliberately raised her voice a bit.
Though Lu Ningshuang’s mind was muddled, she knew “crying” was deeply embarrassing. She hurriedly wiped it roughly with the back of her hand and lied fiercely,
“No!”
Her clear eyes brimmed fully with misty vapor, making her even more pitiable and adorable.
Fortunately, President Qin’s penchant for teasing had its limits. She asked again, “If I comfort you, will it feel a bit better?”
Lu Ningshuang nodded earnestly. “Yes.”
She added rigorously,
“At least a little in my heart.”
“Alright then.” Qin Yushu said, “I’ll comfort you.”
And it wasn’t just verbal.
Though it was a mishap stirred up by the system, with Lu Ningshuang in this state, Qin Yushu as an Omega couldn’t be entirely unaffected.
Moreover, she was marked by the other, rightfully belonging to her.
She had just controlled it well before.
Qin Yushu continued, “Comfort’s done. Now let your big sister Lu Ningshuang out.”
Lu Youyou: ???
Another moment passed.
The “twin sister” Lu Ningshuang finally emerged, looking much the same but with a mix of affection and desire added to her gaze toward Qin Yushu.
Yet those beautiful almond-shaped eyes remained mostly clear, pure, and warm, without any hint of violent intent.
Thus, this mix of affection and desire came across as straightforward and genuine, without eliciting the slightest disgust from the Omega before her.
—Perhaps the saying “love is blind” played a significant role here as well.
Qin Yushu smiled faintly.
Her suit jacket was merely draped casually over her shoulders, not properly worn, leaving that piece of fine jade fully exposed.
It was utterly captivating once more.
A stark contrast to how she had just coaxed little “sister” Lu Youyou.
“What a coincidence,” Qin Yushu said, calling out to her. “Miss Lu.”
Lu Ningshuang lifted her head and listened attentively.
“There’s a problem with my glands. And now it seems you have one too. Quite a matching pair, wouldn’t you say?”
“So, Miss Lu, could you tell me now what I need to do to make you feel better?”
Lu Ningshuang didn’t answer. Her gaze lingered on Qin Yushu’s face and neck, wandering and circling restlessly…
“As expected.”
Qin Yushu sighed, then reached up to brush aside her disheveled hair, which had been pressed down by the suit jacket.
Halfway through the motion, she suddenly paused.
Lu Ningshuang, who had been watching her intently, froze as well.
In the next second—
The Omega’s eyes locked onto her. Then, she took Qin Yushu’s hand, guiding and drawing it forward, making the Alpha’s fingers—now far hotter than before—part her hair.
They passed through the thick curtain of strands, and her scorching fingertip finally settled on the Omega’s gland at the nape of her neck.
She pressed down with the tip of her finger and rubbed gently.
“Bite me,” Qin Yushu said calmly, her voice laced with allure.
She tilted her head slightly, guiding Lu Ningshuang’s hand to press deeper, until the warm, soft skin there sank under the pressure.
This motion exposed even more of her gland’s precise location.
“As protocol partners, to maintain a long-term, stable relationship, we at least need to be mutually beneficial, don’t we?”
The Omega’s expression was open and fearless, never shrinking away.
“Then, Youyou—”
“You can mark me now.”
