A Tsundere Beauty Omega is Stubborn but Sweet - Chapter 22

As soon as Zhou Muxian went up to the second floor, she felt the faint daisy fragrance surging toward her from every direction, making it difficult for her to breathe.

Whenever she accidentally took a deep breath, her heart would start pounding uncontrollably.

Yu You was not in the residence, so why was that daisy fragrance still lingering faintly? The farther Zhou Muxian walked down the corridor, the more that daisy fragrance clung to her like a ghost that refused to leave.

Only when she passed by Yu You’s room and saw that the door was wide open, with a large pile of clothes and dresses she had tried on before going out stacked on the bed, did Zhou Muxian finally understand where the daisy fragrance was coming from.

She tried hard to hold her breath and closed Yu You’s door.

Bang—

The instant the door closed, Zhou Muxian instinctively took a deep breath. The daisy scent seized the chance to slip into her lungs. Her heart suddenly trembled, the blood in her entire body heated, and her mandrake pheromones spread uncontrollably.

Even such a faint trace of daisy pheromones could seriously trigger fluctuations in her own pheromones. This was something Zhou Muxian had never experienced in all the years since she had differentiated into an Alpha.

She hurried back to her own room and injected an Alpha suppressant into her shoulder. The heat in her chest was immediately suppressed quite a bit.

For the next few days, she had to keep a proper distance from Yu You. She also had to find a way to make Yu You wear a pheromone blocking patch every day…

No, that would not work either. Yu You was not even home right now, yet this faint daisy pheromone still affected her so deeply. Zhou Muxian pushed open the window and took a deep breath of the biting night wind.

Just endure one more day.

Once the exams were over, she would use winter break as an opportunity to find somewhere else to stay and come back after her susceptible period passed.

In the quiet residence, a sudden commotion sounded, accompanied by faint laughter and voices. Had Father Yu and Mother Yu returned from their business trip?

Zhou Muxian moved closer to the door and listened carefully. It was Chun Ling’s laughter.

“It’s all my fault. Before coming back to the country, I didn’t even call home. I had no idea my family was renovating, and I didn’t know they’d all moved to the old residence in Hucheng recently. So I’ll have to trouble you for a few days.”

Zhou Muxian instinctively furrowed her brows. Why had Yu You brought her home? There were plenty of hotels outside, so why did she have to stay here?

Yu You was not someone who could not bear to spend money. This person must be especially important. Otherwise, why would Yu You be willing to bring her home to eat and live together?

She also did not know whether Chun Ling was an Alpha or an Omega. But no matter which one she was, staying in the Yu residence was not very convenient, right?

Knock, knock, knock—

The bedroom door was suddenly knocked on. Zhou Muxian was startled and hurriedly took a few quiet steps back before speaking toward the door. “Who is it? What’s the matter?”

“Your Sister Chun Ling will be staying at home for a while. She’ll be staying in the guest room on your left. When I’m not around, help satisfy any needs she has.”

When Yu You said this, she did not treat Zhou Muxian as an outsider at all. Her tone was that of someone naturally ordering around a younger sister.

It made Chun Ling seem like a guest instead.

Chun Ling was only a guest in the first place.

Zhou Muxian felt a bit pleased inside and secretly gritted her teeth to hold back her smile. “No problem. Sister Chun Ling is a guest, after all. I’ll definitely help Sister take good care of Sister Chun Ling.”

Knock, knock, knock—

The knocking sounded again. Zhou Muxian looked up in confusion. Before she could speak, Yu You’s impatient voice came from outside the door. “Why are you keeping the door closed? Open the door and talk.”

Zhou Muxian instinctively threw the Alpha suppressant box into the trash can and turned on the room’s ventilation system, wanting the mandrake pheromones in the room to disperse as quickly as possible.

Knock, knock, knock—

The knocking was a bit more urgent than before.

Zhou Muxian hurriedly found an excuse. “Sister, I’m not wearing clothes.”

“Then just put something on,” Yu You urged from outside.

Zhou Muxian tightly covered her mouth and nose with her hand. After a few seconds, she let go again to check whether there was still any mandrake scent in the room. But the more nervous she became, the more her pheromones fluctuated. A steady stream of mandrake pheromones spread from the gland at the back of her neck.

Now she really could not open the door.

Knock, knock, knock—

“What are you sneaking around doing in there? Hurry and open the door. Your Sister Chun Ling specially brought you a meeting gift.”

Yu You urged her again. The crisp, certain knocking sounded as if it were striking Zhou Muxian’s heart, making the aftershocks of her heartbeat refuse to stop.

“W-wait a moment. You two should rest first. I’ll go find you later. Right now, I’m… I’m a little sleepy.”

The faint daisy fragrance slipped in from beneath the crack of the door. The moment it entered Zhou Muxian’s nose, her mind roared. Her entire face burned red, and her hands trembled uncontrollably from excitement.

Not enough. Not enough. This was far from enough!

She instinctively lifted her foot and walked toward the door, wanting to draw in more of the daisy fragrance. But the knock, knock, knock at the door struck awake the last of her reason.

Zhou Muxian turned and returned to the bedside. With trembling hands, she anxiously tore open the suppressant package and injected it into the back of her neck without caring about anything else.

Yu You’s voice came from outside the door again. This time, her voice was completely different from the impatience earlier. It carried seven parts concern and three parts gentleness. “Are you okay? Are you feeling unwell?”

“No, no. I’m fine. Thank you for caring, Sister.”

Zhou Muxian propped both hands on the blanket and raised her head, breathing heavily. In her heart, she could only pray—

My good Sister, hurry and leave. I can’t take it anymore.

No matter how useful suppressants were, she could not keep injecting several in a row. She would develop resistance.

She did not know how much time had passed. Outside the door, everything remained quiet, without the slightest movement. After Zhou Muxian took hundreds of deep breaths in the room, her complexion finally returned to normal, and she could not help letting out a long breath.

Fortunately, she had controlled it.

Because she had always controlled her susceptible periods very well in the past, Zhou Muxian had never taken susceptible periods seriously. She had even thought that people who lost control were just like drunkards—

All excuses. They used “being unable to control themselves” as an excuse to do bad things conveniently.

Now that she had experienced it herself, she finally knew how difficult it was to hold back when one was lost in desire. In that instant, it felt as if even her brain stem no longer belonged to her. Only the thought of possession remained.

Zhou Muxian prepared to get up and go downstairs to find Yu You. But once she stood, she realized her whole body was sticky. She had not even noticed that she had broken out in a sweat earlier. Now her clothes were damp and clinging to her body.

She simply rushed into the bathroom and took a cold shower.

When she came out again, the corridor was quiet. Light leaked from beneath the door of Yu You’s room diagonally across from hers. Light also leaked from beneath the guest room door on her left, where Chun Ling was staying.

It seemed the two of them had gone back to their own rooms to rest and were not being all clingy together, whispering in private.

In that case, she might as well return to her room and rest too. Whatever it was could wait until tomorrow.

When she turned to go back to her room, her foot kicked a box. The box rolled once across the floor with a clack. Zhou Muxian hurriedly lowered her head to look.

It was a gilded ceramic kitten. On the kitten’s body were four glittering golden characters—

Pass Every Exam.

The kitten’s paw could even sway gently. Each time it swayed, the corners of the kitten’s mouth also lifted, making it look especially cute and affectionate.

This was probably the meeting gift Chun Ling had chosen for her.

Knock, knock, knock—

Zhou Muxian hurriedly knocked on Chun Ling’s door, intending to properly thank her.

Creak—

The door quickly opened, but it was not Chun Ling’s door that opened. It was Yu You’s door. Zhou Muxian turned her head and saw Yu You wearing a grape-purple camisole nightdress, dragging her slippers as she walked toward her aggressively.

With this posture, was she angry because Zhou Muxian had not opened the door earlier?

Zhou Muxian instinctively swallowed. Seeing Yu You stop in front of her and suddenly raise her hand, Zhou Muxian hurriedly closed her eyes and silently prayed that this slap would not knock her pheromones out.

The warm, soft hand did not land on her cheek, but on her forehead.

“You’re a little hot. Is your heat period coming soon?” Yu You’s concerned voice sounded beside her ear. The scent of sandalwood body wash on her body, mixed with the slightest trace of daisy fragrance, was even more like a heat wave crashing toward Zhou Muxian.

Zhou Muxian’s heart trembled. She gritted her teeth and simply responded, “Mm.”

Creak—

Chun Ling’s door also opened at this moment. She was draped in a knitted cardigan, wearing a black facial mask, and smiled apologetically at Zhou Muxian. “Sorry to keep you waiting. I was putting on a face mask just now. I came over as soon as I heard the knock.”

“Thank you, Sister Chun Ling, for the meeting gift. It’s very auspicious. I like it a lot.” Zhou Muxian quickly thanked her, thinking only of leaving this place as soon as possible and returning to her room.

Yu You, a living, breathing person standing beside her, was simply far too tempting!

Seeing the blush covering Zhou Muxian’s cheeks, Chun Ling thought she was shy and immediately smiled in embarrassment too. “Oh, Little Sister, as long as you like it. No need to be polite with Sister. You’re so obedient, Sister would be happy buying you anything…”

Before Chun Ling could finish, Zhou Muxian pressed her lips together and murmured softly while turning away, “I’ll go back to my room first.”

“Are you uncomfortable?” Seeing that she was about to leave, Yu You moved closer without allowing any refusal. Her head pressed tightly against Zhou Muxian’s, and her bright eyes stared straight at her.

The defenses around Zhou Muxian’s heart collapsed with a crash.

This was deadly!

“I’m fine.” She nearly exhausted all her strength to spit out those words, held her breath, and rushed toward her own room. In her panic, she was about to close the door and inject another suppressant.

Smack—

Yu You’s slender hand suddenly stretched across the doorway, stopping Zhou Muxian from closing the door. Again, her tone was full of concerned gentleness. “Are you in heat? Do you have enough suppressants? If not, I’ll go get some from your Sister Chun Ling. On the way back, she bought a lot.”

Zhou Muxian was covered in cold sweat. Her eyes were hazy as she looked at the person before her—

Such moving lips. Such bright eyes. Such fragrant daisy pheromones.

Almost purely by instinct, she lifted her foot and walked toward her step by step.