After Becoming an Alpha Upon Meeting an Alpha - Chapter 18

Qu Yanting’s eyes were red, her expression aggrieved and filled with confusion. “Do you know how long I’ve been looking for you? Where exactly did you go? Why didn’t you come find me?”

Leng Zhuoyan leaned against the bookshelf in the library with her arms crossed, looking at her calmly and at leisure. She asked casually, “Why should I look for you?”

Qu Yanting had not noticed that Leng Zhuoyan had already differentiated into an alpha. She was trapped in her own emotions, her low voice carrying accusation and dissatisfaction. “I know something happened to your family, but right now, I’m the only one who can help you, aren’t I? As long as you came to find me and begged me a little, I could do anything for you. Why did you willfully run away from here?”

As she spoke, she even tried to reach out and grab Leng Zhuoyan’s hand, wanting to forcefully take her away.

Leng Zhuoyan did not want to listen to these words anymore. She casually pulled out a book and stared at Qu Yanting, preventing her from approaching. “Look carefully.”

Qu Yanting had stayed up for several days and had not even tidied herself up. Even less would she notice anything else. “?”

“What’s wrong? Are you still angry that I wasn’t there back then? I…”

She thought Leng Zhuoyan was angry that when something happened to her family, Qu Yanting had not been there to help, and had only appeared after everything was over. So she planned to first say a few nice words to stabilize her, then take her back.

“I’m an alpha, Qu Yanting.”

Leng Zhuoyan frowned. Seeing that Qu Yanting clearly had not reacted, she directly released her pheromones. The rich sweet-and-sour scent of lemon tea filled this small corner.

The mental power of an S-rank alpha pressed down on Qu Yanting. Caught off guard, Qu Yanting was actually forced directly to her knees.

Qu Yanting stumbled and instinctively reached out to grab whatever she could beside her. “??”

Her mind went somewhat blank, and her breathing became difficult.

“S… rank alpha?”

“How could…”

She raised her head in disbelief and looked at Leng Zhuoyan’s expressionless face. How could this person have differentiated into an alpha?

Clearly, when the school doctor had examined her before, he said Leng Zhuoyan was very likely to differentiate into a high-rank omega. That was why Qu Yanting had approached her. How could she have become an alpha in the blink of an eye?

Where had the problem appeared?

Leng Zhuoyan lowered her eyes and looked at Qu Yanting, who still had not recovered. A mocking smile hung at the corner of her mouth. “What? You can’t process it?”

“Now that you know I’m not an omega, are you giving up?”

Leng Zhuoyan withdrew her pheromones and patted the sleeves of her dust-free clothes, looking at Qu Yanting mockingly.

Without the suppression of mental power, Qu Yanting immediately stood up. “You… how could you… not be an omega?”

That should not be right. The equipment the school doctor used should not have made a mistake.

Leng Zhuoyan said, “Why can’t I be an alpha?”

“But the examination…”

Before she finished speaking, she knew she had said the wrong thing.

Sure enough, Leng Zhuoyan immediately reacted to the meaning within her words. Her expression instantly cooled. “So, you got my examination results from the school doctor. And it was because the examination said I would differentiate into a high-rank omega that you approached me?”

Qu Yanting’s lips moved, but in the end, she did not open her mouth to defend herself.

Leng Zhuoyan sneered. “Sure enough, soldiers raised by nobles only serve nobles.”

Even Central Academy had been arranged so thoroughly. As expected of someone who possessed her own family corps.

Qu Yanting furrowed her brows tightly. Since the other party was an alpha, then she could not treat her the same way as before. She had to change methods. After all, this was an S-rank alpha.

S-rank…

Qu Yanting gritted her teeth. S-rank again. Why were so many people S-rank, yet she alone could not be?

Where exactly was she inferior to these people?

She shut her eyes hard. When she opened them again, the jealousy in her eyes was already gone, leaving only undisguised worry and persuasion. “Since you’ve already differentiated into an alpha, then you even more so cannot leave the school. Only Central Academy can give you what you want. No other place can possibly support you like this.”

“Your talent cannot be wasted. It should be used to protect the people and establish achievements.”

Leng Zhuoyan looked at her hypocritical appearance and only wanted to sneer.

If Qu Yanting had said before this that it was for her sake and for the people, Leng Zhuoyan might have believed a few parts of it. But now, after seeing these people’s methods, she could no longer believe even the slightest bit.

Hypocritical. Too hypocritical.

“I know in my heart what I should do. As for what you said, let’s talk about it when it’s time for me to contribute. In any case, the empire isn’t short of one alpha like me.”

Qu Yanting blurted out, “But it is short of S-rank alphas!”

There were not many S-rank alphas. In the entire empire, there were fewer than twenty.

They basically controlled the empire’s important lifelines. It could be said that everything capable of changing the empire was controlled by people with high status and high ability. For ordinary people, even touching the edges of that circle was a luxury.

Qu Yanting’s plan was to rise up and eventually succeed her father, becoming a general.

But that relied mostly on ability. The empire was not a system where power was inherited.

For this thought, and even more so for her father’s desire to control the empire, she had to find an S-rank omega and give birth to an heir. But now, the only hope of giving birth to a high-rank heir had vanished.

Because Leng Zhuoyan had differentiated into an alpha.

The chances of an alpha and another alpha having a child were too low, even lower than a beta and an omega.

Her heart sank. For the foundation and future of the Qu family, she had to find a high-rank omega.

Among the current A-rank omegas, there were only five. Most were in great families. If she wanted to marry them, she could only do so through a marriage alliance.

Of the five A-rank omegas, two were engaged and one was already married. That left only the final two.

Among the five generals, one had a daughter who had been raised by her family as if she were an alpha: Bu Fu. The other A-rank omega was that arrogant and unreasonable Zeng Yu.

Bu Fu was said to be an omega, but her strength was not much weaker than an alpha’s, and her personality was extremely explosive. It was said that she could drink three bottles of nutrient solution in one meal and was extremely capable of eating.

And if she did not drink nutrient solution and only ate ancient Earth dishes, she could eat eighteen plates of food by herself in one meal, plus a whole bucket of rice.

Although Qu Yanting could afford to feed her three bottles of nutrient solution per meal, just looking at it was very strange. She ate too much.

If Leng Zhuoyan had not been there as a backup, Qu Yanting absolutely would not have wanted to approach those two people.

But now there was no other way. She could only first go make contact with Bu Fu. Compared with Zeng Yu, Bu Fu was clearly a little more comfortable to deal with. She only ate a little too much. That was still better than Zeng Yu, that dissolute omega.

Seeing the subtle changes constantly passing over Qu Yanting’s face, Leng Zhuoyan could roughly guess what she was thinking.

It was nothing more than thinking about the omegas in noble families.

In her previous life, Qu Yanting had been exactly like this. After getting engaged to Leng Zhuoyan, aside from wanting her to have children, she spent the rest of her time moving among those noble omegas and betas.

Betas were not easy to impregnate, so compared to omegas, Qu Yanting preferred those obedient and adorable betas. Back then, the first time Leng Zhuoyan had caught Qu Yanting doing that sort of thing with those noble betas, Leng Zhuoyan had been angry.

She hated that Qu Yanting had gotten engaged to her but still flirted everywhere. But later, after getting used to it, she no longer thought that way.

It was just keeping colorful flags fluttering outside. In any case, she did not love Qu Yanting either, so that was fine.

She had only planned to leave after using Qu Yanting, but unfortunately, when she secretly drove a spaceship away from the Imperial Capital Planet, she encountered pirates and was ultimately killed in the sea of stars.

In her previous life, she had not had the ability to escape. But in this life, she did.

In her previous life, even if she fled, there had been nowhere to go. In this life, there was.

Thinking of Su Cha and those citizens of Water Blue Planet, every one of them was cuter than Qu Yanting.

The image of Su Cha righteously asking for money flashed through her mind, as well as the satisfaction in Su Cha’s slightly curved eyes when she smiled. Leng Zhuoyan no longer had any expectations toward the Imperial Capital Planet.

She did indeed need power, but if this power required her to sacrifice her entire life, then she had no interest in it at all.

“If there’s nothing else, you can leave. The door is behind you.”

She did not want to get too entangled with Qu Yanting right now. She only wanted to stay far away. Once she had the ability, she would come back and beat up these people who were as detestable as they had been in her previous life.

Qu Yanting said, “There is.”

Leng Zhuoyan’s tone gradually became impatient. “What is it?”

Qu Yanting choked, but still insisted on persuading her. “Come back to Central Academy with me. Based on your grades and mental power, you can completely enter the military academy under the military directly and obtain a military rank through practical service.”

“That’s impossible. I’ve already left the school, and I will not enter the military either.”

After saying that, Leng Zhuoyan put down the book, got up, and walked outside, completely unwilling to pay attention to Qu Yanting.

Qu Yanting followed behind her. Only after the two walked out of the library did Qu Yanting loudly say, “Why? The military can give you anything you want, and it can also help you take revenge and seize back the recipe book, can’t it?”

“Seize?”

Leng Zhuoyan sneered. Why would she seize it?

Only when taking someone else’s things did one need to seize them. Taking back what belonged to her was called reclaiming.

“I don’t need your charity.”

Seeing that Qu Yanting was still trying to follow her onto the flying vehicle, Leng Zhuoyan said without the slightest politeness, “Stop following me. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude to you.”

Qu Yanting said, “I…”

It was the first time Qu Yanting had suffered such a blunt rejection. No matter how she tried to persuade her, the other party would not listen. Anger immediately surged in Qu Yanting’s heart. She opened her hand, wanting to act against Leng Zhuoyan and forcefully seize her back home.

So what if she was an alpha?

As long as she obtained her genes, copy-pasting a child would not be difficult.

Leng Zhuoyan had long been guarding against her. She was only an ordinary citizen, so her genes did not have anti-decryption protection set up. Only nobles and people from the military would set anti-decryption protection.

Because of Su Cha’s existence, Leng Zhuoyan had always been wary of Qu Yanting taking action. She would absolutely not allow an unwanted child of hers to appear.

Leng Zhuoyan’s hand rested on her light brain’s alarm, her face expressionless. “Are you planning to attack me here?”

Qu Yanting said arrogantly, “So what if the interstellar police come? Do you think they would act against me for your sake?”

“Now you don’t even bother finding an excuse to cover up your despicableness?”

As early as when she found out the other party had stolen her examination data, Leng Zhuoyan knew this person was shameless and disregarded the law. But she had not expected that even on the main street, Qu Yanting would dare to be this arrogant.

She narrowed her eyes slightly. Sure enough, only the people of Water Blue Planet were adorable.