A Cannon-Fodder Omega’s Self-Saving Guide - Chapter 4

Looking at the woman leaning against her shoulder with misty eyes, Yin Yin’s heart softened for no reason.

Her home was on the sixth floor. With Xia Weichen’s leg swollen like this, making her climb the stairs by herself might truly be difficult.

“Although Sister hurt me very badly, I…”

The woman’s soft, gentle voice slipped into Yin Yin’s ears. Yin Yin’s expression became a little subtle, and she instinctively raised her hand to cover Xia Weichen’s mouth.

The soundproofing in this old building was poor. If the neighbors heard that…

Thinking this, Yin Yin secretly felt glad that she had interrupted Xia Weichen. But immediately after, something even warmer and softer brushed against her fingertips, like spring rain falling.

“What skincare products does Sister use? It smells so good.”

Xia Weichen lightly tapped the center of Yin Yin’s palm with the tip of her tongue, like a dragonfly skimming the water—just right.

Yin Yin knew very clearly that if she continued to respond to Xia Weichen, Xia Weichen would do more than just push her luck.

She had taken the initiative to let Xia Weichen enter her home not only because she had injured Xia Weichen, but also because she wanted to figure out what Xia Weichen intended to do.

After leaving the venue in a hurry and returning home, she had looked up information about Xia Weichen. It had not taken much effort to find her background: the only daughter of the person in power at Xia Group, the future heir of Xia Group, and currently in a romantic relationship with the famous Alpha Lin Langruo, with an engagement coming soon.

“Does Miss Lin Langruo know that Miss Xia came here?” Yin Yin helped Xia Weichen onto the sofa in the living room and asked while looking for medicine.

Xia Weichen, who had originally intended to conceal her identity, paused. But she soon realized that before the car accident, she had represented the Xia family at press conferences many times. Anyone with even the slightest intention could search online and dig up her entire past.

Xia Weichen composed herself, lowered her eyes, and said softly, “She and I have nothing to do with each other anymore.”

The letter proposing to break off the engagement had been placed in the most conspicuous spot at her bedside. When Lin Langruo returned, it would be impossible for her not to see it.

At the same time, she had blocked every contact method related to Lin Langruo. At least for a short while, Lin Langruo would not be able to contact her. After hearing Lin Langruo’s conversation with that doctor, she had finally understood why Lin Langruo had insisted on making her move out and live together with her. If they had still been living in the Xia family’s old residence, Lin Langruo would never have been as confident in controlling her as she was now.

If things had developed according to the original plot, after she left the Xia family and lived together with Lin Langruo, her physical condition would have continued worsening day by day. But at that time, she had been afraid of making Lin Langruo worry and afraid that her parents would want to bring her back home, so she had always tried her best to hide it. By the time she faced her own condition honestly, she had already been close to death.

She did not mind explaining the whole matter to Yin Yin, but now was not the right time. She did not want Yin Yin to look down on her.

After all, in the current public opinion, an Alpha’s cheating would only be blamed on the Omega partner’s incompetence.

However, she still had not figured out how she should answer if Yin Yin asked her the reason.

Fortunately, Yin Yin did not ask.

“This medicine may hurt a little when it’s first applied. Please bear with it, Miss Xia.” Yin Yin walked over to Xia Weichen with the medicine, crouched down, and looked at the bruising on Xia Weichen’s leg.

Under the bright indoor light, the bruise was even more obvious. Yin Yin slowly spread the ointment evenly across her palm, then gently applied it to Xia Weichen’s calf. Her fingertips could feel Xia Weichen trembling slightly without stop.

All of a sudden, a cool drop of liquid fell onto her hand. Yin Yin instinctively looked up at Xia Weichen. For a moment, what filled her heart most was helplessness.

Xia Weichen was crying silently. Her delicate makeup had been smudged quite a bit by her tears, making her look very pitiful.

Only then did Yin Yin remember that Xia Weichen was only an Omega.

Omegas were naturally much more fragile than Alphas, whether physiologically or psychologically. Not only that, she had also heard a saying before: the higher an Omega’s rank, the more pheromones there were in their body, and the more sensitive and fragile they would be.

“Are you afraid of pain?” Yin Yin pulled out a tissue and handed it to Xia Weichen. “You don’t need to endure it. I won’t laugh at you. Omegas naturally have a very low tolerance.”

After being caught, Xia Weichen felt a little embarrassed. She wiped away the tears that were flowing uncontrollably, but she did not forget to continue teasing Yin Yin.

“Sister hurt me so much just now. Can you be gentler?”

Her peach-blossom eyes shimmered with watery light. The bright lamp reflected in them, turning into endless softness.

Yin Yin’s heart softened for no reason. She quickly avoided Xia Weichen’s gaze, and her tone once again returned to politeness and coldness.

“It has already been treated. I’ll call a car for Miss Xia later. It’s so late, so it isn’t appropriate for Miss Xia to stay here with me.”

“What’s inappropriate about it?” Those beautiful peach-blossom eyes blinked. “I came to discuss serious business with Sister.”

“What serious business?”

Although Yin Yin knew that Xia Weichen had rarely appeared in public after the accident, it was not impossible that she truly had some proper business to discuss. It was just that if it were proper business, yet she still had to resort to a honey trap…

Even though Yin Yin considered many possible reasons, she ruled them out one by one. With the Xia Consortium’s status, only others would rush to curry favor with them. There was no possibility of the Xia family lowering themselves to curry favor with others.

“I want to keep Sister Yin.”

Yin Yin had lifted her glass of water halfway, but she placed it back down on the coffee table. For once, her expression showed a violent fluctuation. The gaze she used to look at Xia Weichen was also extremely strange, as if giving Xia Weichen a chance to reorganize her words.

The system beside her also quickly reminded her, “Host! Isn’t this a little too eager for quick success? Yin Yin seems like she’s really about to get angry!”

But Xia Weichen had no intention of changing her wording. Instead, she very seriously took a printed contract out of her handbag. The title of the contract was printed openly and boldly in thick black characters: Keeping Agreement.

Perhaps because she was too shocked, Yin Yin stared at the contract with a complicated gaze and said nothing.

Xia Weichen changed from her earlier alluring charm. Her tone and posture both became much more proper as she slowly explained, “Miss Yin, please rest assured. I have already severed ties with Miss Lin Langruo. However, I need to choose an Alpha as soon as possible to shut the Xia family’s mouths. If Miss Yin doesn’t mind changing this into an engagement agreement, I can go back and revise it immediately.”

Yin Yin seemed to have just recovered from her shock. Her voice was faint, without any emotion. “Miss Xia, I may not be able to fulfill what Miss Xia wants… in that regard.”

She paused, then said, “Please find someone more capable, Miss Xia. I still have my own matters to handle. I’ll return to my room for a moment.”

As she spoke, she turned and walked toward her own room. She had just been about to close the door, using it as an order for Xia Weichen to leave, when out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw a slender hand slip into the crack of the door, blocking her movement.

Yin Yin felt somewhat impatient. “Miss Xia, please conduct yourself with dignity. I am not that kind of person. Moreover, excessive indulgence causes obvious harm to Omegas.”

In response to Yin Yin’s warning, Xia Weichen only smiled lightly. “Then isn’t that just perfect?”

Just perfect? What did Xia Weichen mean?

“That’s right. It’s just perfect.” Xia Weichen touched the back of Yin Yin’s hand with her fingertip. Seeing that Yin Yin did not resist, she took the opportunity to hold Yin Yin’s hand and openly guided Yin Yin’s fingers to touch the gland at the back of her neck. “In that regard, I can’t do it either.”

For a moment, the two of them stared at each other. The entire room fell into a strange silence.

On this kind of question that most people would be too embarrassed to mention, both of them showed the same unspoken frankness. This frankness unexpectedly and invisibly drew the distance between them closer.

The way Yin Yin looked at Xia Weichen became even more complicated.

In theory, an Omega’s gland was their most vulnerable part. Stimulating the gland could also arouse an Omega’s pleasure, yet Xia Weichen did not care in the slightest.

Xia Weichen had not lied to her.

“So, what exactly did Miss Xia come here for?”

Yin Yin did not need to worry about other things. Although she looked very young, she had already spent nearly ten years scheming and competing with all kinds of people in the business world. She did not detect any familiar danger signals from Xia Weichen. Compared to any hidden calculation behind this, the most dangerous thing here was still Xia Weichen’s face.

Seeing that Yin Yin had finally taken the initiative to ask, Xia Weichen slowly stepped forward and leaned close to Yin Yin’s ear.

“I really want to see how far Miss Yin’s career can develop when she no longer needs to be troubled by funding problems.”

Her voice was light and soft, somewhat like a venomous snake kissing the back of one’s neck. Although one knew very well that it was dangerous, the snake’s gorgeous colors were still enough to intoxicate.

Right now, she still could not say aloud that she simply wanted to bring down Lin Langruo. Everyone knew about her relationship with Lin Langruo. If she said that directly, then from Yin Yin’s perspective, as someone who did not understand her at all, it would look like two lovers quarreling and then spitefully dragging an outsider into it. If the two later reconciled, that outsider would end up in an awkward position no matter who they were.

“What do you mean?” Yin Yin steadied herself.

The instant Xia Weichen leaned close, Yin Yin could feel the warm breath from Xia Weichen’s lips near her earlobe. Along with that warmth came a faint, almost imperceptible fragrance.

A wisp of subtle fragrance appeared and vanished in an instant, like a dream or bubble, yet it silently settled in her heart.

“Miss Yin can just treat it as an idle person gathering material and making an investment. But I guarantee that I absolutely will not do anything disadvantageous to Sister Yin. You can understand it like this: the current Lin Langruo was also material I was observing, but I am no longer interested in her now. Besides, compared to Sister Yin, who is an Alpha, I am completely an Omega in the weaker position.”

Seeing that Yin Yin did not reject her outright, but instead stood there looking thoughtful, Xia Weichen felt that there was hope. She then lowered her voice again, closing the distance between them until both of them could hear each other’s breathing.

The olive branch Xia Weichen had extended was truly tempting. Yin Yin was very confident in her own abilities, but she was also very clear that in terms of finances, there was no small gap between herself and some of the opponents she faced. After all, in the Empire, the status of conglomerates was ultimately…

Moreover, when it came to the Xia family, if they wanted to make a move against someone, there was actually no need at all to go in such a roundabout way. Going through such troublesome twists and turns was not the Xia family’s style.

“Then why did Miss Xia choose me?”

Amid their intertwined breathing, Yin Yin heard herself slowly ask. This seemed to come more from instinct.

The faint fragrance that had just flowed through Xia Weichen’s breath had already silently seeped into her heart. Even if Yin Yin now wanted to carefully capture it, she could no longer find the slightest trace of it. Yet that faint fragrance had already caused an irreversible, subtle influence on her.

Xia Weichen smiled lightly. “If I said that I fell in love with Sister Yin at first sight, would Sister Yin be satisfied with that answer?”