Gu Xizhou spent a long time in the bathroom before her body finally calmed down. The physical reaction had embarrassed her terribly. She sat in the bathtub, hands covering her face, looking utterly dejected.
In the master bedroom, Su Zhiyi waited on the bed for a long time, but Gu Xizhou still hadn’t emerged. After thinking it over, she walked to the bathroom door and knocked gently. “Xizhou…”
Hearing her voice, Gu Xizhou reflexively looked down. Seeing the part of her that showed no signs of subsiding, she collapsed backward in a minor breakdown, slapping a hand against her forehead with a helpless sigh.
Ah…
Since her differentiation, she had rarely used this superfluous organ. Because of Su Nanfeng, she even felt some disgust toward her own body.
Maybe she should just get it removed. She could say she had an accident when she was young and developed a psychological block.
If she actually went all the way with Su Zhiyi and got marked by the other’s pheromones, she might even risk triggering a heat cycle herself.
Wouldn’t that be a loss outweighing the gain?
Gu Xizhou’s thoughts were myriad, but the core was one: the version of herself that had agreed to date was a giant idiot.
She never should have crossed paths with Su Zhiyi. Why hadn’t Su Zhiyi fallen for someone else yet?
Was the pull of pheromones really that strong?
Outside the door, Su Zhiyi, having received no answer for a long while, knocked a few more times. “Xizhou… are you still awake, Xizhou?”
Still awake, Gu Xizhou thought. Very much, vibrantly awake!
With a kind of reckless abandon, she got out of the bathtub, dried her body, put on her pajamas, and yanked the bathroom door open.
The door slid open with a whoosh, startling Su Zhiyi outside. She pressed a hand over her heart, looking down at Gu Xizhou before her, a pink blush dusting her cheeks. “Are you okay?”
She asked carefully, as if choosing her words with great deliberation.
Seeing Su Zhiyi’s face, a wave of nameless irritation rose in Gu Xizhou. Suppressing it with force, she spoke with a grave seriousness: “Zhiyi…”
Su Zhiyi blinked, her long lashes quivering slightly. “Hmm?”
Gu Xizhou took a deep breath, looked up at her, and cautioned very seriously: “I am, provisionally, an Alpha.”
Su Zhiyi nodded, agreeing obediently: “I know.”
Gu Xizhou felt she didn’t know at all. She pursed her lips, thinking, her tone carrying a hint of frustration: “Don’t tease me like that next time. If this continues, you could get pregnant.”
Su Zhiyi’s face instantly flushed red. Her heart pounded wildly, and she started stammering nervously: “It’s not… it’s not that extreme.”
It was just a bit of intimacy. Even if they did something, there were contraceptive measures. How could it come to that?
Gu Xizhou was somewhat angry: “What if it does? What if it happens? What will you do with a child? Will you marry me?”
“You’re about to start grad school soon. Having a baby at the research institute wouldn’t be good.”
“And what if I can’t help but mark you when I touch you?”
Gu Xizhou was furious. She knew what she was angry about, but she couldn’t articulate it clearly to Su Zhiyi.
What could be more absurd and preposterous than falling for her nemesis’s sister? She was a complete and utter joke.
If Su Nanfeng returned and saw all this, would she see right through her intentions and mock her?
Ah, I deserve it.
Late night is the season when animalistic instincts stir. Pheromones and long-suppressed emotions tightly gripped Gu Xizhou’s mind, leaving her in a state of extreme dissonance.
Her reason told her she should turn and leave immediately, yet her emotions urged her on, driven by instinct to tear the Omega before her apart.
Tear apart, chew to pieces, swallow into her belly, to fill the pheromone hunger she had long ignored.
And yet Su Zhiyi remained completely oblivious. Hearing Gu Xizhou, she couldn’t help but let out a puff of laughter. She took a step forward, looped her arms around Gu Xizhou’s shoulders, and pulled her into a tight embrace, saying with a grin, “Gu Xizhou, you’re so adorable…”
Gu Xizhou was hugged full against her, her mouth and nose filled with the Omega’s sweet, fresh scent. She felt she was losing control again.
Ah, so annoying!
Gu Xizhou thought: If I don’t teach this woman a lesson, she’ll never understand just how terrifying a creature an Alpha is.
With self-destructive resolve, Gu Xizhou yanked her close, pressing their bodies tightly together.
When the earlier sensation touched Su Zhiyi’s inner thigh, her ears immediately turned red. Embarrassed, she stammered, “Why haven’t you… settled down yet?”
Su Zhiyi was a medical student, after all. Although she knew female Alphas had practically no refractory period, for Gu Xizhou to remain like this was just too much.
Gu Xizhou pressed against Su Zhiyi, her voice hoarse: “So, do you understand how dangerous you are now?”
Unfortunately, her height lacked the necessary intimidation, and she disliked suppressing Omegas with pheromones. Moreover, after so many years together, Su Zhiyi knew her true nature well and wasn’t frightened at all.
Su Zhiyi’s face felt hot. She slipped both hands under Gu Xizhou’s arms, embracing her deeply. Their breaths mingled, their bodies pressed together, radiating heat.
Feeling like the older one, Su Zhiyi suppressed her own shyness and spoke: “If you can’t endure it… do you want to try?”
Compared to Gu Xizhou, who was treading on eggshells in this relationship, addicted yet tormented, unable to bear leaving—Su Zhiyi experienced what felt like a much healthier romance.
Raised with a mother’s love, Su Zhiyi was a person capable of loving. This meant she wasn’t averse to physical intimacy.
In fact, she even took the dominant role in this relationship.
Su Zhiyi leaned down, letting her kisses fall faintly, like teasing, on Gu Xizhou’s cheek, pecking gently: “If you don’t dislike it… I’m going to kiss you now.”
Gu Xizhou turned her head and captured her lips.
The alluring scent of cherries descended upon Gu Xizhou like a misty rain, seeping into her very marrow in silken strands.
Gu Xizhou closed her eyes, reached out to grasp Su Zhiyi’s waist, and like a barefoot child plunging headlong into the rain, let herself go without restraint.
In the air, pheromones mingled. Embracing Su Zhiyi, Gu Xizhou stumbled back into the room, only to be pushed down onto the bed by the other woman.
When Su Zhiyi straddled her, looking down from above, Gu Xizhou lay beneath her, gazing up at her face. In that haze of passion and confusion, she glimpsed a corner of the past.
It was another late night like this, after a wild birthday celebration. She had just escorted Su Nanfeng back to her hotel room.
As she was leaving, Su Nanfeng didn’t let her go. Su Nanfeng knelt on the bed, hooked an arm around her neck, and sprawled drunkenly against her back, poking her face. “Gu Xizhou, I just realized you’re actually quite good-looking.”
“Prettier than a lot of Omegas.”
Gu Xizhou’s hair stood on end. Su Nanfeng wrapped an arm around her neck, pulled her close, and held her, pinching her chin to appraise her with drunken, bleary eyes. “You’re a very strange person.”
“You clearly hate me, yet you go along with me. But you’re different from Ding Yi. Ding Yi’s family elders asked her to suck up to me. You’re purely scared of me.”
“The way I treated you before, you never resisted, you endured it all. You’re really something.”
Gu Xizhou clenched her fists, longing to punch Su Nanfeng.
But she didn’t dare. She was too used to this kind of torment.
Gu Xizhou slapped Su Nanfeng’s hand away, her voice trembling: “You’ve had too much to drink.”
“You should sleep.”
Su Nanfeng was all smiles. Her hands fell onto Gu Xizhou’s slender waist, her tone clearly curious: “A petite, delicate Alpha like you… do Omegas ever confess their feelings to you?”
Gu Xizhou abruptly pushed Su Nanfeng’s hands away, raising her voice: “You need to sleep! I’m leaving!”
She turned to flee, but Su Nanfeng, with her long limbs, yanked her back into her arms. With one hand, she pinned Gu Xizhou’s wrists above her head, holding her down.
Gu Xizhou instinctively kicked at her chest, but Su Nanfeng used her legs to clamp down on hers, trapping her firmly underneath.
Gu Xizhou was like a lamb pounced on by a beast, isolated, helpless, nearing despair. She trembled all over, horrified. “Let me go… let me go, Su Nanfeng…”
She struggled, but they were both Alphas, and Su Nanfeng was much taller. She could barely escape her.
Gu Xizhou fought back, defiant pheromones spilling from her nape, filling the room.
The high-level Alpha pheromones made Su Nanfeng deeply uncomfortable; she was even trembling slightly.
Su Nanfeng narrowed her eyes, scrutinizing the pinned Gu Xizhou: “Quite potent…”
Su Nanfeng released her own pheromones. In that mutual torture, she yanked down Gu Xizhou’s clothing and closed a single hand around her.
Gu Xizhou’s eyes widened in terror, a scream tearing from her throat: “Su Nanfeng!”
Su Nanfeng acted as if she hadn’t heard, letting out a scornful laugh: “You’re getting off easy.”
Su Nanfeng lowered her head and took Gu Xizhou’s most vulnerable place into her mouth.
“Nngh…”
Gu Xizhou gasped sharply, her voice momentarily stolen. Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes, falling heavily, relentlessly.
She felt nothing of what followed. Su Nanfeng straddled her, her tall body sinking down. Amidst her own pained, soft cry, Gu Xizhou sensed a wet trail winding across her own belly.
That superfluous organ of an Alpha female, as if it didn’t belong to her body at all, was completely controlled within Su Nanfeng’s body.
She kept crying… kept crying… silently, without a sound…
Just like right now.
Gu Xizhou looked up through her blur of tears at that achingly familiar face, her whole body shuddering.
Su Zhiyi, who had been leaning down to kiss her, vaguely heard sobbing. She lifted her head. Seeing Gu Xizhou staring up at the ceiling, eyes vacant, tears streaming down her face, every trace of amorous thought vanished.
Su Zhiyi hurriedly pulled back and gathered Gu Xizhou into her arms. “What’s wrong? What is it?”
Even if she didn’t want to go further, there was no need to cry like this, looking exactly like someone who’d been wronged.
The Omega’s sweet scent was fresh cherry, starkly different from the Alpha’s bitter green tangerine.
When she couldn’t see her face, Gu Xizhou could briefly make herself forget the blood relation between these two people.
Gu Xizhou buried her face in Su Zhiyi’s chest, tears flowing freely into her soft center. She sobbed brokenly: “Su… Su Zhiyi…”
Why must you be Su Zhiyi?
