A Cannon-Fodder Omega’s Self-Saving Guide - Chapter 7

The other portion was naturally prepared for Yin Yin.

Auntie Lu’s pastries were very delicious. When Xia Weichen was little, she would often sneak into the kitchen when Auntie Lu was not paying attention and steal some to eat. She had eaten so much that she gained several pounds and had no choice but to be forced by Auntie Lu to jump rope every day until she lost the weight again.

Because of the influence she had received since childhood, Xia Weichen’s aesthetic leaned toward the classical. Most of the furniture she chose was carved redwood, antique and elegant. But the overall tone was ultimately heavy and solemn. She was not sure whether Yin Yin could accept this kind of aesthetic. If Yin Yin did not like it, she could only ask Ming Lanyi to come over and help.

Xia Weichen stood on tiptoe and hung Drooping Willows in Cold Mist on the wall. The willow branches in the embroidery seemed as if they could sway with the wind. The soft greenery slightly eased the heaviness of the room’s overall color palette.

This was the only work she currently kept in her own hands. The others had basically been donated to various fundraising charity banquets. After that, she had shut herself indoors and had not produced any new works.

She was not an artist like Master Yang Shuhe, who made a living from this. Having one more skill was merely adding flowers to brocade; even if she did not know it, it would not matter much. Right now, the more important thing before her was how to try learning to take over a massive conglomerate like the Xia family. Compared to that, everything else seemed especially insignificant.

Looking at the willow branches hanging on the wall, Xia Weichen lowered her lashes, hiding the faint light in her eyes.

At this moment, she really was like a child, using something she liked to try her best to please someone else, regardless of whether that person would like it or not. Even she herself felt that it was childish and laughable.

After arranging the room properly, Xia Weichen called Yin Yin and asked when she would come back.

Although she had only met Yin Yin yesterday, when she asked Yin Yin when she was coming back, it felt like an extremely natural thing to do.

“Miss Xia, I still have some matters to finish. Miss Xia can simply send me the address. After I’m done, I’ll go there myself. There’s no need to trouble Miss Xia to pick me up.”

“Does Sister Yin not like me coming to pick you up?”

Xia Weichen’s voice turned pitiful.

Yin Yin hesitated briefly, then denied it. “No.”

“Then why won’t Sister Yin let me come over? Haven’t we already confirmed our relationship?”

No matter what kind of relationship it was, this phrase could still be used to describe it. Although her words were extremely ambiguous, Yin Yin still could not find anything wrong with them.

Looking at the employees around her, Yin Yin did not want to get entangled with Xia Weichen for too long, so she hurriedly responded and hung up.

However, her phone’s performance was only average, and Xia Weichen’s words just now had already reached the ears of the employees standing closer to her. Unfortunately, one of them loved gossip and shouted at once:

“Boss, are you no longer single?”

This sentence was like igniting a powder keg. The employees in the conference room could not help whispering among themselves. Only when they felt Yin Yin’s icy gaze sweep across the entire room did they finally quiet down one by one.

It just so happened that the meeting was almost over. Yin Yin summarized a few points indifferently, announced the end of the meeting, then turned and left the conference room. She entered the restroom, preparing to calm herself down.

Although her emotions had become very faint because of her excessive pheromone concentration, that did not mean she would never fluctuate. The words just now had been inexplicably grating to her, as if they had exposed something she had been doing her best to hide.

For a moment, she even had the thought of cutting ties with Xia Weichen. But she did not dare, and she could not. The funds Xia Weichen had provided in her time of need last night had saved her company from its current precarious situation. She could also sense that the clients who had previously been extremely difficult in negotiations with her company had become much more courteous. Perhaps that was not an illusion.

Most of those clients had likely attended yesterday’s cocktail party and probably saw Xia Weichen, whom Yin Yin had not known at the time, sitting at the same table as her. Could this be understood as the face given to the young lady of the Xia Consortium?

Thinking of the absurd agreement she had reached with Xia Weichen, whom she had only just met yesterday, Yin Yin felt no great waves in her heart. There was only surprise toward herself. She possessed the pride and unwillingness to submit that ordinary Alphas had. Originally, she should not have accepted such an absurd keeping agreement. But perhaps it was because Xia Weichen did not make her feel any disadvantage of being in a lower position. She was not like the people Yin Yin was used to seeing, those who acted arrogantly toward the little lovers they kept, while those little lovers had to watch their patron’s expression whenever they asked for anything, constantly worrying about gains and losses, afraid of losing favor.

Xia Weichen, however, treated her with exceptional respect. There was not the slightest bit of arrogance from a wealthy young lady. Could it be… just as Xia Weichen had said, that Xia Weichen had liked her for a long time?

Her attitude toward Xia Weichen just now did seem a little perfunctory.

Yin Yin took out her phone, wanting to call Xia Weichen back. But just as she was about to push open the door, she heard faint voices discussing outside.

It should be the employees who had just finished the meeting, coming here to use the restroom or touch up their makeup. Yin Yin knew that going out now would make them embarrassed, so she locked the door from inside.

“Our boss, that ten-thousand-year-old unawakened iceberg, finally knows how to find an Omega? This can’t be a dream, right?”

“I heard it clearly. The voice on the other end of the phone was warm and soft. Definitely a gentle type of Omega. I guess only someone especially gentle could suppress Boss’s temper. Even tempered steel turns soft around the finger, you know.”

“But I heard that our boss seems to have… some problems in that area?”

“How is that possible? It’s probably a rumor spread by someone who couldn’t beat Boss. Isn’t slander just saying whatever sounds the worst?”

The voices gradually drifted farther away and became lighter. After confirming that there were no other people in the restroom, Yin Yin pushed open the door and walked out. The face reflected in the mirror was as cold as a block of ice, with nothing particularly pleasing about it.

It was hard to imagine what exactly Xia Weichen saw in her.

Just then, her phone rang again. Xia Weichen had called her once more.

Her voice was soft and gentle. She did not blame Yin Yin at all for hanging up earlier. Instead, she obediently called, “Sister Yin.”

“Miss Xia.”

After they briefly addressed and greeted each other, Xia Weichen said softly, “I’m near Sister’s company. I’ve parked the car in the parking lot of the shopping center opposite Sister’s company. If Sister doesn’t mind, I’ll drive over to Sister’s company parking lot right away. That way, Sister can walk a little less.”

“Sorry to trouble Miss Xia.” Yin Yin instinctively looked out the window, but then remembered that the parking lot could not be seen from this window. She steadied herself. “Miss Xia can send me the location. I’ll walk over.”

After leaving the company, she did not head directly toward the location Xia Weichen had sent. Instead, she first went into the shopping center and bought some daily necessities she would need.

If she was going to move to Xia Weichen’s place, preparing daily necessities was indispensable. Although her perception in that area was faint, it was not completely nonexistent.

Then her gaze fell on a flower shop nearby. The flower shop must have just opened. All kinds of flowers were arranged in a row at the entrance, fragrant, colorful, and gorgeous.

Usually, she had no interest in such things, but today, for once, she walked inside. The florist was a young girl who quickly stood up to greet her.

“Miss, who are you planning to give flowers to? A lover, or a friend?”

The girl’s attitude was very enthusiastic. Yin Yin hesitated slightly and did not answer the question about their relationship. “Just one perfume rose will do.”

What she had taken a liking to was the rose placed in the most conspicuous spot. That rose was not blood-red and dazzling like the roses one usually saw. Instead, it had a gentle gradient of pale yellow and pink, making it especially tender.

The florist was very skilled at wrapping flowers. Under the shimmering plastic wrapping and the warm-toned lights of the flower shop, the color of the perfume rose became even softer.

“Thank you.”

Yin Yin took the wrapped flower and quickly went down to the underground parking lot. She found Xia Weichen’s car and knocked on the window.

“Sister Yin?” Xia Weichen, who had been looking down at her phone, hurriedly raised her head when she heard the sound. She quickly opened the door and got out, gesturing for Yin Yin to sit in the passenger seat.

Yin Yin could not refuse, so she sat down. Xia Weichen bent over and fastened the seat belt for her.

“This is for you.”

Yin Yin was slightly nervous. Instinctively, she took out the perfume rose she had just bought. At that moment, it happened to touch Xia Weichen’s hand as she was fastening the seat belt.

She instinctively wanted to avoid it, but Xia Weichen had already taken the perfume rose from her fingers. She leaned closer to smell it, her voice full of pleasant surprise. “It smells so good.”

“As long as Miss Xia likes it.”

Xia Weichen kissed the delicate pink petals. “Did Sister Yin specially give it to me?”

Yin Yin nodded. “I passed by a flower shop and thought Miss Xia would probably like it.”

“Sister Yin is so good to me.”

The soft, fine voice rose beside Yin Yin’s ear. Only then did Yin Yin realize that at some point, Xia Weichen had leaned close to her ear. Xia Weichen’s warm breath licked across her neck like a kitten, and a faint itch spread from the base of her ear through her entire body.

For a moment, Yin Yin’s mind became somewhat chaotic.

But that chaos lasted only an instant. Very quickly, she pulled her hand out from between Xia Weichen’s fingers, her voice quiet and faint. “Miss Xia, it’s time to go back.”

When she said this, she could clearly catch a glimpse of Xia Weichen’s disappointment, but she quickly shifted her gaze away and looked out the window.

She heard the sound of the engine starting and secretly let out a breath of relief.

However, she could not have imagined what Xia Weichen was disappointed about.

“System, Yin Yin really seems like a block of wood.” Xia Weichen could not help complaining to her system. “And now I believe it. She really can’t do it.”

“It was true to begin with,” the system said, jumping onto Xia Weichen’s shoulder. “If not for the fact that she’s a block of wood, she probably would have been sent inside long ago for the crime of sexually assaulting an Omega. Host should understand better than I do how things are now, with conglomerates in power. How many small companies that don’t attach themselves to major conglomerates can keep going? And what is the easiest method to use against them?”

Xia Weichen fell silent.

It was indeed as the system said. Small companies that did not attach themselves to major conglomerates had a hard time surviving for long. In the current Empire, the Omega Protection Law was enforced very strictly. An Alpha who sexually assaulted an Omega would receive at least ten years in prison, and the way such cases were judged was also extremely biased toward Omegas. Over the years, Alphas who were accused had almost no way to defend themselves.

After all, the number of Omegas was much smaller than the number of Alphas, and reproduction between Omegas and Alphas could only rely on Omegas. It was precisely because of this rule that such bias toward Omegas existed.

Under these laws, the natural way to frame an Alpha was to have an Omega release pheromones to lure an Alpha who was in their susceptible period. The next day, that Omega would file a complaint and undergo testing for pheromones in their body. If there were traces of that Alpha’s pheromones remaining, as long as the Omega filed a lawsuit, the possibility of sending that Alpha to prison would be infinitely close to one hundred percent.

“Although I’m glad she hasn’t fallen for me,” Xia Weichen said while driving, “it still makes me feel a little defeated.”

Over the years, she had seen no small number of Alphas—those who coveted her beauty, those who desired the Xia family’s power—but without exception, they would all take the initiative to show attentiveness to her. Someone like this, who cared neither for beauty nor background, was truly an exception.

So was this the unique difference between a villain and other characters?

If not for that, Xia Weichen really would have suspected that the perfume rose Yin Yin had given her was meant to flirt with her.

After all, her pheromones smelled like perfume roses.