Chapter 29: Her Lover, the Deceiver Part 1

Mo Siyi forced herself up from the floor, raising her head to look at Jia Hua before her. Her voice came out hoarse. “You’re an S-Rank Omega?”

To release such overwhelming mental pressure against her, given her own status as a 5A-Rank Mental Power User, Jia Hua had to be at least S-Rank.

“Not quite,” Jia Hua flashed her a toothy grin, her canines rapidly elongating and sharpening. “I’m an Alpha.”

Mo Siyi’s pupils first constricted, then after a long moment, she lowered her eyes, her voice devoid of detectable emotion. “I see. No wonder…”

“So, what do you royals want?” Jia Hua hoisted Mo Siyi up and tossed her onto the armchair, then threw the tissue box into her lap. “Wipe up.”

Mo Siyi caught the tissue box. “Thank you.”

After wiping the blood from her lips clean, she said, “Just as I said before. They want me to marry Zhen Yan and then have her bear powerful offspring.”

Jia Hua stated, “Impossible. Anything else?”

Mo Siyi looked up at the two across from her, considered for a moment, then said, “Have Zhen Yan lead soldiers to expand the Empire’s interstellar territory.”

In summary: fight interstellar wars and seize resource planets.

Jia Hua wasn’t well-versed in the history and politics of this ABO world. It was Zhen Yan who laughed.

“Currently, the various star nations maintain principles of peaceful coexistence. Yet you want me to lead troops to attack other empires and federations. A thousand generations from now, the criminal who started the interstellar wars will be me. You’ve thought this through nicely.”

Mo Siyi fell silent.

Jia Hua frowned.

The entire living room grew quiet.

It was a long while before Zhen Yan spoke again. “Go back and tell the Emperor and Empress: As a citizen of the Empire, if other nations invade, I will step forward and repel the invaders for the Empire. But if you want me to become an aggressor—impossible.”

Mo Siyi stared blankly at Zhen Yan.

“Alright,” Mo Siyi finally said after a lengthy pause, standing up. “My mission in coming to the Imperial Fourth Military Academy was solely for Zhen Yan. Since you two are together, my mission likely can’t be completed. I’ll probably be leaving here soon.”

Mo Siyi walked before the two and extended her hand, a light smile on her face. “If we can’t be lovers, how about being friends?”

She needed them on her side. If not lovers, then at least friends.

But neither Jia Hua nor Zhen Yan placed their hand in hers.

Mo Siyi’s hand remained suspended in the air.

“Shi Di,” Jia Hua called out Mo Siyi’s former name, looking at her seriously. “Do you truly want to become the ruler?”

Mo Siyi froze, then lowered her eyes. “I have the qualifications.”

Jia Hua shook her head. “It doesn’t suit you.”

Mo Siyi trembled slightly. “How do you know it doesn’t suit me! I have to try it before you can say whether it suits me or not!”

She immediately regained her composure after the outburst, apologizing. “I’m sorry, I lost my composure.”

With that, she used tissues to wipe the bloodstains from the floor clean, then hurriedly left.

Sitting on the sofa, Zhen Yan watched Mo Siyi’s retreating back and asked, “You’re just letting her leave like that?”

Jia Hua’s expression softened. She smiled and pulled Zhen Yan into her arms, nuzzling her. “Come on, she’s the Imperial Third Princess.”

Zhen Yan cast her a sidelong glance. “As if you care about that.”

Jia Hua smiled. “Wife, call home and come clean. Our identities can be made public.”

Zhen Yan gazed deeply into Jia Hua’s smiling face and slowly nodded. “Alright.”

The fact that Zhen Yan was an S-Rank Omega would no longer be a secret. If Jia Hua wanted to stand openly by her side, she needed a powerful identity. An S-Rank Alpha would suit just fine.

“Then you stay in the living room, I’ll go into the bedroom,” Zhen Yan said.

Jia Hua nodded. “Okay.”

Zhen Yan entered the bedroom. Jia Hua initiated a video call in the living room.

The other side picked up quickly.

Jia Hui’s voice came through first: “My good daughter, you finally called home! Your mother and I have missed you to death!”

Jia Hua smiled. “Mom, no work today?”

Jia Hui: “Day off today, on leave.”

Jia Hua smiled. “Is Mama there? Have her come over too. I have something to tell you both.”

Jia Hui: “She’s here… Honey, our daughter called! She wants you too!”

Looking at the two people on her phone screen, Jia Hua’s smile faded. She said seriously, “I have three things to tell you. First, I’m an S-Rank Alpha. Second, Zhen Yan is an S-Rank Omega. Third, we’re together.”

What Jia Hua finished saying in just seconds, Jia Hui and Song Qiaoyi on the other end couldn’t digest nearly that fast.

They were completely frozen.

What did their daughter say?

She was an S-Rank Alpha? S-Rank? Alpha?

Zhen Yan was an S-Rank Omega? S-Rank? Omega?

This news was absolutely absurd!

A D-Rank Omega becoming an S-Rank Alpha? An A-Rank Alpha becoming an S-Rank Omega?

Was she talking in her sleep? It was still daylight!

But just as they were about to tell their daughter to stop dreaming, Jia Hua grinned at them, revealing her canine teeth—long, pointed canines.

Jia Hui and Song Qiaoyi were dumbfounded.

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By the time Jia Hua hung up and walked into the bedroom, she found Zhen Yan sitting motionless in a chair, her gaze unfocused.

Jia Hua approached and asked softly, “What’s wrong?”

The blankness in Zhen Yan’s eyes slowly regained focus. The moment she looked up at Jia Hua, a single crystal-clear teardrop slid from the corner of her eye.

Jia Hua was slightly taken aback. She pulled a tissue from the desk and gently dabbed at the tear, asking tenderly, “What’s the matter? Couldn’t Grandma Zhen accept your true identity?”

Zhen Yan shook her head, then opened her arms and hugged Jia Hua, crying silently against her.

Jia Hua soothingly stroked her hair, her heart aching. But she could see Zhen Yan was deeply saddened at this moment, so she refrained from pressing further.

Only when Zhen Yan’s crying subsided did Jia Hua wet a towel with warm water and place it over her eyes.

Lying in Jia Hua’s arms with her eyes closed, after a long time, Zhen Yan spoke slowly. “After I told Grandma my real gender, she told me about my mothers.”

Jia Hua listened silently, giving Zhen Yan space.

“Jia Hua, would you believe it? My mother and mam… were killed by people my maternal grandfather sent. They kidnapped my mam to force my mother to go back with them. And in the end… both my mother and my mam died.” Zhen Yan’s voice was low. “My mam’s original name was Qin Qiqi. My mother’s original name was Fu Ke, not Zhen Ke.”

Zhen Yan handed her phone to Jia Hua. On the screen was information about Qin Qiqi—very little. But among the sparse details, it stated Qin Qiqi was the younger sister of Qin Bing, the Principal of the Imperial Fourth Military Academy.

Jia Hua scrolled down and found an incident.

#Imperial Major General Qin Bing Upholds Justice, Sends Her Own Father and Stepmother to Prison#

This entry was from seventeen years ago. At the time, Qin Bing was only a Major General.

Clicking in, it described how Qin Bing, returning home from an undercover mission abroad, found her beloved sister dead. Unable to accept it, she delivered justice upon her own family.

The comments below were wildly varied, but most praised the action. Naturally, there were also those calling Qin Bing cold-blooded—her sister dead, yet she personally sent her biological father and stepmother to prison.

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Jia Hua didn’t probe deeply. She held Zhen Yan and kissed her forehead. “You still have me. You have Grandma. In the future, you’ll also have my mothers. We are all your family, all the people who love you most.”

“Mm…” Zhen Yan responded.

Jia Hua stroked Zhen Yan’s hair. “Do you want to go acknowledge her?”

Zhen Yan knew this “her” referred to General Qin. She lowered her head and whispered, “I don’t want to… Jia Hua, I don’t want to recognize anyone else anymore. My family is you, Grandma, and Auntie Jia and Auntie Song. That’s enough.”

“Alright,” Jia Hua kissed Zhen Yan’s hair. “Same for me.”

They held each other quietly, neither speaking. Suddenly, Jia Hua’s brow lifted. She released Zhen Yan and said, “Let’s go. Someone’s here to see us.”

Zhen Yan frowned slightly, but rose and left the dorm with Jia Hua.

Outside in the small courtyard of the dorm stood several officers in military uniform: General Qin, He Tong, Lieutenant Colonel Wu, and others.

They’d come quickly.

General Qin stepped forward, her sharp gaze sweeping over the two. The two returned her look calmly, showing not a hint of fear.

Suddenly, General Qin’s expression softened. Smiling warmly, she asked, “I hear both your Mental Powers are S-Rank?”

Her gaze rested primarily on Jia Hua. “You’re an S-Rank Alpha? Not a D-Rank Omega?”

Jia Hua shrugged and casually fabricated a reason. “Probably a secondary differentiation.”

General Qin’s eyes narrowed, then she smiled kindly, stepped aside, and gestured. “We may need to trouble you both to come with me for another detailed examination. We need to know the precise results.”

Zhen Yan looked at Jia Hua, who nodded. “Let’s go.”

If Jia Hua had no objections, Zhen Yan naturally wouldn’t either. They rode in the same hovercraft as General Qin, stopping at the campus hospital.

Dean Chen, who had received them last time, was already waiting at the hospital entrance.

“Secondary differentiation” was truly unheard of, yet it had genuinely occurred with Jia Hua.

“These two will be in your care, Dean Chen,” General Qin said.

Dean Chen shook her head. “General Qin is too kind. I am also astonished that classmate Qin Hua could undergo a secondary differentiation in such a short time. Being able to conduct the examination is itself an honor.”

Dean Chen quickly led them into the examination room. Jia Hua lay on the examination bed, her right hand completely bare, the Black Ring nowhere in sight.

The examination for Zhen Yan was nearly identical to last time. The only difference: Dean Chen discovered Zhen Yan had been Marked—a Permanent Mark.

Dean Chen said nothing, then moved to check Jia Hua’s test results. Just one look made her eyes widen dramatically.

For every parameter related to Mental Power, Jia Hua reached the maximum grade. Or, in other words, this equipment couldn’t even detect the true Level of Jia Hua’s Mental Power!

How was that possible?! Aware that the cadets at the military academy were exceptionally gifted, the hospital’s testing equipment was the most advanced available—capable of detecting up to 2S-Rank Mental Power! Even with that, it couldn’t detect Jia Hua’s true Mental Power Level!

Dean Chen stared fiercely at the test results in her hand. An unimaginable rank formed in her mind.

SSS!

To prevent errors, she meticulously checked and rechecked every parameter. The final results remained clear: the tests were not wrong.

Dean Chen carried the two sets of results into the waiting room and announced to those waiting inside, “The results are in.”

General Qin, seated on the sofa, asked, “What are the results?”

“Comrade Zhen Yan is an S-Rank Omega. Comrade Qin Hua is an Alpha with Mental Power exceeding SS-Rank.” Dean Chen used every ounce of her strength to deliver this news with a completely calm expression and steady voice.

“WHAT?!! Exceeding SS-Rank!” He Tong cried out in shock.

After He Tong’s exclamation, the waiting room fell so silent one could hear a pin drop. Everyone held their breath, staring in utter disbelief at Jia Hua sitting on the sofa.

Zhen Yan’s result they had already known about, but Jia Hua’s was truly beyond all expectation.

They had originally heard from the Imperial Third Princess that Jia Hua was an S-Rank Alpha, which was shocking enough. But the reality was actually exceeding SS-Rank! In other words, Jia Hua could be an SSS-Rank Mental Power User!

Across the entire galaxy, across all empires and federations, Jia Hua would be absolutely unparalleled.

As everyone was still reeling from Jia Hua’s Mental Power Level, Dean Chen continued calmly, “One additional point: Comrades Qin Hua and Zhen Yan have completed a Permanent Mark. A Mark of this level cannot be washed off by any hospital.”

In the ABO world, after an Alpha and Omega performed a Permanent Mark, if their feelings soured, the Omega could go to a hospital to wash away the Mark and freely love or marry again.

But with a Mark from a Mental Power user of Jia Hua’s super-high rank, no hospital could clean it.

Therefore, in a certain sense of matrimony, Jia Hua and Zhen Yan were locked together for life!

Several officers looked dumbstruck at the young couple on the sofa, while the couple themselves… were blushing somewhat.

Announcing a Permanent Mark so publicly like this… wasn’t it a bit inappropriate?

It was… rather embarrassing.

“Mm, my wife,” Jia Hua declared, hugging one of Zhen Yan’s arms.

They had both read a bit about Permanent Marks in books. Hearing Dean Chen say this, it seemed no one could ever snatch Zhen Yan away from Jia Hua.

The royal family’s dream had shattered into pieces.

Zhen Yan, who had been silent all along, suddenly said, “Release it. Announce our true identities.”

General Qin asked, “Are you both certain?”