A Disguised Scum Alpha Marked Her Aloof Ex-Wife - Chapter 1

Zhu Yu often fell into the same dream.

In the dream, everything was barren. There was only a slender, porcelain-white hand slowly reaching toward her through the darkness, like a sculpture carved out of moonlight. Faint blue veins rose and fell along the inside of the wrist, jade-like in their delicacy, with a small red mole suspended above them.

That hand was long and strong, impossibly cold, yet it held on to her with such stubbornness.

The girl stood high above. She had pale blue eyes, almost the color of the sky, as if they could contain the joys and sorrows of all living beings—compassionate, yet indifferent.

Zhu Yu looked at her with expectant hope, like every devout believer waiting for salvation.

But she let go.

She allowed Zhu Yu to fall into the boundless dark.

No, don’t go!!!

Sister?

Little Zhu Yu curled up in terror inside the darkness, like an insect sealed in amber. Even struggling had lost all meaning.

She could not feel the passage of time. She could not hear any sound. She had no strength to resist, and no way to wake.

Until the first light of dawn suddenly broke through.

Blinding radiance crashed down, and she fell into a magnificent thicket of roses. Scarlet petals flew into the sky, and vines surged all around her.

Zhu Yu’s eyes snapped open.

Cold sweat crawled down her spine, sticking damply to her shirt and sending a chill through her body. She gasped for breath.

This time, what she saw was no longer her empty bedroom.

It was that hand.

It had appeared before her, so real and so vivid.

Long, pale, raised high in the air like a white bird flying over the sea—

Then it struck down hard.

Smack!

Her cheek burned with pain.

“Zhu Yu…!”

The woman’s hoarse voice pulled Zhu Yu’s frozen thoughts back into place. Her face had been knocked slightly to the side, but her gaze was still fixed on the mole at the woman’s wrist.

It hurt.

This time, it was not a dream.

She remembered lying in bed. Before going to sleep, she had even set seven alarms because she had an early class tomorrow morning…

So what was happening now?

Those pale blue eyes were filled with hatred. Though the woman was in a helpless position, she still lifted her chin with pride. Her silver hair was damp with sweat, falling messily against the side of her neck.

The scent of roses flooded Zhu Yu’s nose.

She swallowed instinctively. The taste of blood, mixed with some secret desire, was swallowed down into her stomach, igniting a wave of heat.

Her ears rang. Zhu Yu lowered her head and saw the woman’s legs covered in injuries. Her own hand was very close to them, tightly wrapped by vines.

The woman was sitting on the desk in her arms, biting her lip in pain. Bright red blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, striking and sorrowful against her snow-white skin. Yet her low, hoarse voice was still bewitching.

“Zhu Yu, if I survive this, I will make you repay me a hundredfold…!”

For a brief instant, Zhu Yu’s mind went completely blank.

This scene.

This line.

This was not a dream.

This was not reality either.

She had transmigrated!

This was a scene from an interstellar ABO novel. The woman before her was Bai Shuzhou, the protagonist of The Rise of the Imperial Princess. And Zhu Yu, who happened to share the same name as the novel’s cannon-fodder villain, was Bai Shuzhou’s first wife—a scummy Alpha.

Bai Shuzhou was not like ordinary Omegas who would try to please their partners. She also refused to allow an Alpha to give her a permanent mark. She pursued a union of souls, but all of that scummy Alpha’s warmth and sunshine had been nothing but an act.

Born in the slums, the original Zhu Yu became increasingly convinced that the princess looked down on her, and resentment grew in her heart.

She listened to Bai Shuzhou’s deepest wounds only so she could grind her heel into the scabs and humiliate her more effectively. After abusing her, she would pretend to regret it, carving the same wounds onto her own body and weeping in anguish as she begged for forgiveness…

At last, Bai Shuzhou could no longer endure it and filed for divorce.

During the mandatory cooling-off period before the divorce, the scummy Alpha suddenly pretended to have turned over a new leaf. She even took the initiative to accompany Bai Shuzhou to the border to offer condolences.

But unexpectedly, Bai Shuzhou’s sensitive period arrived.

The pheromones of a top-tier Omega would not only attract Alphas—they would also attract starving, ferocious creatures.

The scummy Alpha deliberately pushed Bai Shuzhou outside the defensive line, injuring her leg. She fabricated the illusion that they had been separated during an insectoid attack, when in truth, she wanted to take advantage of the chaos to imprison Bai Shuzhou, permanently mark her, and force the matter beyond repair.

Right in front of Bai Shuzhou, she had even thrown the only inhibitor out the window and said with a smile, “Beg me.”

She wanted to trample Bai Shuzhou’s dignity underfoot. She wanted to force her into submission while she remained clear-headed and despairing, carving an eternal brand of shame into the depths of her soul.

She wanted that high and mighty woman to bow her head to her.

Scum.

Trash.

Death was too good for her.

After Bai Shuzhou blackened and seized power, she ordered people to sever the scummy Alpha’s limbs and plant flowers in the wounds, keeping her alive forever by a single breath so she could witness the glory of the Empire.

Back then, Zhu Yu had even praised Bai Shuzhou for doing a beautiful job.

Yet now, the moment she opened her eyes, she had actually become this scum with the same name?!

The vines tightly wrapped around her arm had been formed from Bai Shuzhou’s mental power. Now they were soft and weak. Zhu Yu broke free with only a little force, causing the woman to tremble again. Bai Shuzhou covered her mouth and began coughing violently.

“Your leg…”

Zhu Yu reached out, instinctively wanting to check her injury, but Bai Shuzhou slapped her hand away hard. Tears slid from the corners of her eyes as she snapped coldly, “Don’t touch me!”

Zhu Yu noticed that Bai Shuzhou’s other hand was clutching her own thigh with a death grip. Her nails had sunk into her flesh, but she seemed completely unaware.

Zhu Yu cried out, “If it isn’t treated in time, your leg will be ruined!”

Bai Shuzhou loved ballet. At such a young age, she was already a principal dancer. To someone like her, her legs were no different from her life.

“Isn’t that exactly what you want?” Bai Shuzhou stared at her coldly.

As the woman rebuked her in that icy voice, Zhu Yu’s gaze was involuntarily drawn to her opening and closing lips. A wave of dizziness surged up from the back of her neck.

The entire room was filled with a sweet, alluring fragrance.

An Omega in her sensitive period released pheromones that were fatally attractive to Alphas. The physiological yearning could not be suppressed, just as a bee could not resist the blooming of a flower.

It was an attraction born from biological instinct.

For a moment, Zhu Yu felt as if her entire body had been set on fire.

Impulse. Heat. Restlessness.

And the Omega’s tears were like a clear spring capable of easing that torment. She should kiss her. She should plunder more…

The Alpha unconsciously leaned closer.

The buttons on her military dress uniform flashed with a cold gleam. Like a mountain collapsing toward a delicate Omega, she could not be moved no matter how Bai Shuzhou pushed at her.

Although Zhu Yu was only an inferior Alpha with a D-rank genetic grade, she had clawed her way up from the slums of a remote star system and graduated from the Royal Military Academy with excellent results. Her powerful physical constitution was, of course, far beyond that of an ordinary person.

Bai Shuzhou closed her eyes in despair. An uncontrollable gasp slipped from her lips.

Her mental power was ranked SSS, and yet before an inferior Alpha, she had no strength to fight back.

Was this the fate of an Omega?

Bai Shuzhou’s eyes darkened completely. She used all her strength to try to move her legs, but only numbness remained there. Even pain no longer existed.

The mental-power vines lightly wound around Zhu Yu’s neck, hanging there like a collar.

Then the weight on her body suddenly lifted.

Bai Shuzhou raised her gaze, cold to the extreme.

Through the blur of tears, she saw the young woman in the military dress uniform suddenly pull back and slap herself across the face.

Zhu Yu’s face was flushed. “I’m sorry! I don’t want to hurt you…!!”

In this situation, the words sounded both hypocritical and ridiculous.

Pain should have made her clear-headed.

But this time, it did nothing at all. Instead, it made the feelings churning in her chest grow even more excited, like a young deer crashing wildly through a mountain spring, trampling a patch of sticky fallen flowers underfoot—lingering and shameful.

She…

She actually felt it even more now.

It was as though a rush of hot air was rampaging through her body. Zhu Yu did not dare look at Bai Shuzhou’s tearful eyes. Her voice trembled as she said, “I’ll go get the inhibitor back. You’ll be safe right away!”

Although the outside was full of insectoid warfare, with this wicked fire burning inside her, what could she not do?

Since she was going to be impulsive anyway, she might as well rush out, get the inhibitor back, and stop things from getting worse!

She held her breath and opened the window. Sure enough, she saw the silver-white inhibitor still lying on the ground.

Fate had finally shown her a little mercy.

Zhu Yu rushed downstairs at once.

However, just as she picked up the inhibitor, she heard a faint, hair-raising buzzing sound.

It felt as though she had fallen into a trap. A powerful sixth sense sent every hair on her body standing on end.

Something had been waiting here for a long time.

The ground collapsed.

The sand beneath her feet churned, and six crimson eyes emerged from the earth, all staring straight at Zhu Yu. Each eye was the size of a palm. Then the creature broke through the ground.

Bzzzz—!

Zhu Yu had never seen such a huge insect before. It was more than half a meter long, pitch-black all over like a centipede. Its dense, arched legs crawled over the top of her foot.

Zhu Yu rolled sharply to the side, dodging its attack.

A sizzling sound came from where she had been standing moments ago. The ground had already been corroded by dark green slime. Zhu Yu’s legs went weak, and she nearly dropped to her knees. Her hand was still gripping the inhibitor tightly.

Transmigrating into a cannon-fodder villain was already hellish enough.

Now this thing had appeared too?

She would rather see an actual ghost!!

The insect looked at Zhu Yu, then lifted its gaze toward the open window on the second floor.

Somehow, she actually saw a “smile” on an insect’s face.

Thick saliva dripped onto the ground.

The insect climbed nimbly up the wall.

Its target was Bai Shuzhou!!

Zhu Yu was so shocked she could not speak. Her legs felt as though they had been filled with lead. A secret voice deep in her heart spoke mockingly.

Run.

As long as you run now, none of this will have anything to do with you.

You were born into an ordinary, happy family. You were ordinary and timid. The boldest thing you ever did in your life was climb a tree to save a cat, only to find the cat sleeping belly-up while you fell and injured yourself, then had to wear a cast for a month.

You are afraid of insects. Because of nightmares, you are afraid of heights. You hate every difficult challenge. You are kind, weak, and useless.

You are no heroine.

You can barely protect yourself.

Zhu Yu shook her head hard and stared fixedly at the window. Her right hand searched her waist, trembling as it found a short blade.

Damn it. Wasn’t the original body a soldier?

Why didn’t she have a gun on her?!

She usually needed an extra-long fly swatter just to kill a tiny flying bug. Now she was supposed to fight with a short blade at close range?

How was that any different from suicide…

Oh.

Suicide would be faster.

Zhu Yu tightened her grip on the hilt.

This place was extremely remote, located between the Empire and the Federation. She looked back and saw only endless yellow sand behind her. Even the rumble of artillery fire sounded very far away.

The second floor of the base was silent.

No wailing.

No screaming.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Supple vines bound the enormous insect, creaking under the unbearable strain. The back of the woman’s pale hand was taut, and her knee had already been pierced by its arched legs.

The insect did not seem in any hurry to eat her. Its two antennae stood upright, waving as if dancing.

Facing danger so close at hand, Bai Shuzhou’s expression instead grew calm.

Her icy, pale-blue eyes met those six insect eyes, and she asked in a low voice, “Are you transmitting information?”

The vines condensed from mental power had already reached their limit. They were gradually turning transparent, a layer of sacred, gentle light appearing along their edges. The fangs sank a few degrees deeper into flesh and bone.

On the insect’s pitch-black face, that smile appeared again.

Its six eyes narrowed at the same time, and it nodded toward Bai Shuzhou.

A foul, bloody stench rushed over her.

“Go to hell——!!!”

At the instant its eyes narrowed, a young woman holding a short blade descended from above.

The sharp blade flashed with cold light, instantly piercing through the energy gland on the insect’s back before twisting inside.

Zhu Yu clearly felt the insectoid’s shell shatter beneath her hand.

Crack.

Crack.

Sticky, yet hard.

She did not let go.

Splurt.

Her cloak swept around.

The young woman hugged Bai Shuzhou tightly, trying to use her own slender body to shield her from the spray of corrosive liquid.

Her eyes were squeezed shut. She did not dare look directly at death.

All the courage she had faked had been used up just now, leaving even her fingertips numb. She held Bai Shuzhou as though she were holding a fragile statue of jade.

After an unknown amount of time, the woman’s cold, suppressed breathing sounded from within her arms.

“How long do you plan to keep holding me?”

Author’s Note:

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