Chapter 2

In more than twenty years of life, Song Xu had probably encountered similar situations twice.

One of them occurred during the first month she spent as Lu Lingze’s kept canary. After finishing a shoot, Song Xu decided to stop by Lu Lingze’s company since it was on the way.

But when Song Xu stood outside her “lover’s” office, preparing to go in and surprise her, she heard the intertwined, intimate, and sticky panting of two people inside.

Even though she was a Beta who couldn’t smell pheromones, she could still sense the undercurrents surging inside the room.

That day, Song Xu clearly realized how foolish she had been to define their relationship as that of “lovers.”

From then on, unless Lu Lingze asked, Song Xu never voluntarily showed up in front of her again. After enough time had passed, Lu Lingze even frowned and asked whether Song Xu had been so overworked and exhausted lately that she no longer had time to visit her, and whether she needed Lu Lingze to have someone cancel some of her jobs.

At the time, Song Xu remained silent for so long that Lu Lingze thought she wouldn’t answer. Only then did she slowly and calmly reply, “I’ll make sure to visit more often from now on.”

The scent of alcohol at the tip of her nose grew increasingly thick, forcefully dragging her wandering thoughts back. She remained frozen with her hand pressing down on the door handle, pricking up her ears to carefully distinguish the sounds inside.

There was the faint rustling of fabric, a woman’s short, light breaths escaping despite her extreme restraint, and hidden among them, extremely quiet sobs.

Unless something unexpected had happened, there was only one person inside.

It seemed this was the second kind of situation.

Song Xu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn’t some strange play between a pair of clandestine lovers, it was fine. After all, everyone attending tonight was a unauthorized copy public figure. It would be inappropriate to stumble upon anyone’s intimate affairs.

After mentally preparing herself, she politely knocked on the door:

“Hello, do you need help? You don’t have to be nervous. I’m a Beta, so if there’s an emergency, I can help you.”

Her only close friend in the industry was a high-grade Omega. Song Xu had once witnessed her heat arrive early, so she knew how dangerous this situation could be.

Although every Omega’s constitution was different and their reactions after entering heat varied, there were generally only a few main symptoms:

Their entire body became feverish and weak, their limbs lost strength, and they needed pheromones to soothe them. During the process, their desire was easily aroused, and the slightest loss of control could land them in intensive care.

At a time like this, all one had to do was inject an inhibitor directly into the gland.

If one dose wasn’t enough, then give them another.

Song Xu wasn’t boasting, but in all her years of giving injections to Alphas and Omegas, she had never once missed the target. She was strong, too—even if the other person were an ox, she could pin them down and make them behave.

Don’t underestimate her!

The sounds inside stopped, but no one responded. Seeing this, Song Xu edged slightly forward, widening the narrow gap in the doorway.

The corridor light squeezed inside without restraint. Only then did she realize that the lights in the room were off. Through that faint illumination, she could vaguely make out someone kneeling on the floor.

From a distance, she heard the other person say in an icy voice:

“Get out.”

“All right.”

Song Xu replied meekly and quickly pulled the door closed again, though she still left a narrow gap.

She had anticipated this situation as well. Driven by instinct, most Omegas in heat strongly resisted being approached by strangers. There was no need to rush, though. As long as the other person still retained some rationality, she would ask Song Xu for help once she had thought it through.

Song Xu leaned against the wall with her arms crossed and waited.

Song Xu waited outside the door for one minute.

Song Xu waited outside the door for five minutes.

Song Xu realized that the room had fallen completely silent—as silent as death.

“Are you all right?” she called with her neck craned. Whether the Omega inside hadn’t heard her or was no longer capable of hearing her, she didn’t respond.

Song Xu hissed in frustration. After saying, “Excuse me,” to the person inside, she pushed the door open without hesitation.

This time, the cool white light poured fully into the room, casting a neat rectangle over the carpet, with one portion blocked by Song Xu’s silhouette.

Her gaze quickly locked onto the Omega collapsed on the floor. The woman’s back was turned, so Song Xu couldn’t see her unauthorized copyface, but even from her silhouette alone, it was obvious that she possessed an extraordinary bearing.

When her gaze shifted to the side, she saw several empty inhibitor injectors lying near the woman’s feet. Song Xu’s approaching footsteps faltered, and she almost thought her eyes were deceiving her.

How many were there?

Four?

Did she have a death wish?!

There was no time to think. Song Xu stopped hesitating and headed toward the Omega, without even paying attention when the door automatically closed behind her.

By the moonlight filtering in through the screened window, Song Xu knelt on the plush carpet and tried to help the woman up. When her palm touched the woman’s smooth arm, the scorching temperature inevitably burned her. Song Xu’s grip slackened, and the woman fell limply into her arms.

She was so warm, just like the long-haired lion cat at home that used to love lying across Song Xu’s legs…

Except that lion cat would never remain as silent as this woman was now.

She couldn’t really be dead, could she? After all, she had used so many doses, and it wasn’t as though there had never been similar cases before…

Feeling around, Song Xu held a knuckle beneath the Omega’s nose. Fortunately, she was still breathing. She had only temporarily lost consciousness.

Perhaps Song Xu had been frightened by the woman’s condition, or perhaps she had been affected by the little sun’s temperature in her arms, but her entire body inexplicably began to feel hot and restless. The back of her neck, in particular, was both hot and painful, and even her head began to spin.

This situation was definitely beyond what a Beta with no medical background could handle.

But the banquet organizers had forbidden them from bringing electronic devices inside. Song Xu’s phone was currently being kept by her assistant outside the villa, so she couldn’t call for help anytime soon.

Fortunately, the room had a shower. Song Xu recalled how she had cared for her friend before and planned to take the woman inside and rinse her with cold water to temporarily relieve her symptoms, then go out to seek help.

After saying, “Please forgive the offense,” to the woman, Song Xu was just about to slide one arm beneath her knees and lift her horizontally when the person who had been as quiet as a doll suddenly groaned and mumbled something indistinctly.

Thinking that she had something to say, Song Xu instinctively bent down and moved closer so she could hear clearly. Unexpectedly, a tremendous force struck her the next second. The world abruptly spun, and her entire body fell onto the thick carpet.

Immediately afterward, a weight settled over her waist, and Song Xu realized that the other woman had thrown her whole body on top of her. Song Xu wanted to push her away, but her body reacted faster than her mind. She reached out and caught the Omega, firmly steadying her before she could fling herself away from using too much force.

A pair of burning hands clamped around her neck. Song Xu couldn’t help swallowing, her breathing becoming increasingly difficult as the other woman tightened her grip. She did her best to keep her voice calm as she reassured her, “Don’t be nervous. I don’t mean you any harm.”

Despite saying that, she was no less nervous than the other woman.

Logically speaking, an Omega deep in heat shouldn’t even have enough strength to inject herself with an inhibitor.

Song Xu genuinely suspected that the woman before her wanted to strangle her to death.

But the next second, the Omega straddling her waist shuddered again, and even the force choking Song Xu weakened slightly.

Amid the rich scent of alcohol and the faint woody perfume clinging to the woman’s clothes, Song Xu heard the second thing she had said to her that day:

“Inhibitor… help me.”

Her voice was deep and hoarse, making Song Xu even more certain that she had been crying earlier.

“You’re awfully forceful for someone asking for help.” As Song Xu spoke, she braced her elbow against the floor and raised her upper body.

She withdrew the hand resting against the woman’s lower back, then gently yet firmly pulled away the delicate hands clamped around her throat like burning pincers. Unexpectedly, as soon as Song Xu released her, the other woman seemed unable to support herself and fell solidly against her.

The impact made Song Xu cough twice. The spot where the young server had collided with her earlier was still aching faintly. Even so, she continued coaxing the woman in a gentle voice. “You’ve already exceeded the recommended dosage. If you keep using it, you’ll die. How about this? Rest here while I go outside and find someone to help you—”

Before the words “resolve this” could leave her lips, Song Xu felt her poor neck suffer its second serious assault of the day.

A moist, warm sensation pressed against a small patch of skin on her neck, completely overwhelming the throbbing discomfort that had been there ever since she entered the room.

Song Xu’s already oxygen-deprived brain completely crashed.

But the other woman still had no intention of letting her go. In fact, when Song Xu didn’t resist, she became even bolder. Licking, sucking, and finally—

The Omega gently bit her. It didn’t hurt. Instead, it aroused a wave of craving and a maddening itch.

Song Xu didn’t know whether it was her imagination, but her own teeth felt itchy now. She desperately wanted to find something soft and warm to bite a few times.

Her vision began to blur, while her breathing gradually grew rapid and heavy. The blood throughout her body seemed to boil, as though something were being drawn out of her little by little.

Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong.

She raised a hand to pull the woman away, but before she could move, her wrist was loosely caught by another hand.

Song Xu narrowed her eyes. By the moonlight, she saw that sweat-soaked strands of hair messily obscured most of the woman’s face, making her appear slightly disheveled. Her chin was delicate and pointed, and the exposed skin was fair with a suggestive flush of pink.

Her full, vivid lips opened and closed. With her ears already ringing, Song Xu couldn’t hear what the Omega was saying at all. She could only clumsily imitate the movement of the woman’s lips in an attempt to decipher the message she was conveying.

Pheromones.

Yours.

Give them to me?

Sorry, she wanted to help, but her factory settings genuinely didn’t include that function.

Song Xu opened her mouth to explain, but the other woman ignored everything and reached up to sweep aside the long, dark chestnut hair covering her neck. The ruby ring on her right index finger resembled a pool of dried blood, making the skin there appear even fairer and more translucent.

The Omega bent down, exposing her most vulnerable and guarded place before Song Xu without reservation. When Song Xu failed to give the response she wanted, she pushed herself even closer.

It was like an invitation, like a temptation, yet it also carried the reckless desperation of someone clutching at their only lifeline.

Song Xu unconsciously ground her teeth. She could clearly feel saliva being produced much faster inside her mouth.

She moved forward only a few centimeters before her lips touched the raised patch of skin.

The gland.

Song Xu slowly closed her eyes. Following her instincts, she tentatively opened her mouth and took it between her lips.

She lacked experience, but she had always been a quick learner. Plenty of people had praised her for it ever since she was young.

Recalling how the woman had treated her earlier, Song Xu began to imitate her in a green and clumsy manner, carefully touching, licking, sucking, and circling the gland with her tongue. An Omega in heat was already sensitive, and these movements alone were almost more than she could endure.

Hearing the rapid breathing and faint sobs beside her ear, a secret sense of pride rose in Song Xu’s heart. By the time she came back to her senses, the tormented whimpers in her ears could no longer be concealed.

Song Xu startled herself with her own behavior. She had never imagined she could become so wicked, and she couldn’t help stopping to give the woman a moment to recover.

But the other woman didn’t appreciate it at all. When the Omega realized Song Xu had suddenly stopped moving, she grew dissatisfied, and her sharp nails dug urgingly into Song Xu’s bare back, exposed by her gown. Song Xu flinched in pain and instinctively bit down hard.