After Becoming an Alpha Upon Meeting an Alpha - Chapter 2

Although she did not want to bother with Su Yunshan either, he was, after all, the original body’s father, as well as the backer who allowed the original body to remain wealthy. Before she was certain she could leave him and still live well on her own, she could not clash with him head-on.

Thinking of this, she swallowed her frustration and respectfully said to Su Yunshan, “Father.”

Su Yunshan was somewhat stunned when he heard the form of address. This was the first time he had seen this daughter of his look at him without that gaze he found hateful, and the first time she had not used that sticky, cloying “Daddy” to disgust him. But did she think changing her expression would make him stop disliking her?

Thinking of his wife, the slight softness in his eyes instantly returned to coldness. He ignored Su Cha and continued looking at his light brain without answering.

Su Cha: “…”

Good grief. Wasn’t he ignoring her a little too thoroughly? He could not even be bothered to pretend?

After understanding what kind of status the original owner had in this family, Su Cha finally understood why the original owner had been so easily led astray and psychologically twisted in the book. This was clearly a case of lacking love.

Of course, although she understood, she did not agree with it.

Fortunately, she was not the original owner. Toward this kind of father who did not acknowledge his daughter, she did not feel much anger. She only said calmly, “I’ll go back to my room first.”

Giving up on the idea of communicating properly with Su Yunshan, Su Cha called for someone and went up to the second floor, returning to her room.

Su Yunshan froze for a moment and furrowed his brows. He felt that this daughter seemed somewhat unfamiliar. She had actually not come up to him as usual to try to attract his attention.

Could it be that she had really changed her method of causing trouble?

He could not be blamed for thinking this way. The original owner had used all sorts of strange methods to draw attention more than once. Only this time, Su Yunshan felt that something about this daughter of his seemed off.

But even if she had changed, he would not care.

Meanwhile, Su Cha fell silent after opening the door to her room. She did not have many of the other party’s memories, but she had read the book and knew a lot of the sins the original owner had committed, so she roughly understood the original owner’s background and memories.

But there were also many things the book had not mentioned. For example—this room full of pink, girlish energy.

After she stepped into the room, a robot that bore an eighty-percent resemblance to Qu Yanting strolled over. Using a voice seventy-percent similar to Qu Yanting’s, it said respectfully and gently, “Welcome home, my dear little Cha Cha.”

Su Cha felt as if something was stuck in her chest. “…”

Disgusting!

What kind of address was that?!

The face on the robot had been secretly photographed by the original owner, and the voice had been recorded when she found chances to speak with Qu Yanting. Without permission, importing another person’s data into a robot was also illegal.

Even though the original owner was the marshal’s daughter, if Qu Yanting really pursued the matter, she would still have to go to military court. Fortunately, when it came to this kind of invasion of privacy, the original owner had at least not been stupid enough to announce it to the world.

That was why the robot in her room was an older model. It could not connect to the internet to update its system, nor would it leave any trace backups on the star network.

Because of this, the original owner had never been detected.

When Su Cha thought of all the messes the original owner had left behind, her head began to ache. What kind of stalker behavior was this?!

Thinking of the name the original owner had given the robot, Su Cha was so ashamed that she almost could not say it. “Most… most beloved… Little Tingting who loves Su Cha the most.”

The robot said, “I am here, my dear little Cha Cha.”

“Change your name and appearance.”

“Beep, beep, beep—”

The robot’s eyes flashed red. Then the expression on its face returned to calm, and everything reverted to its original data.

“Please confirm the modified data.”

Blushing, Su Cha opened the data matched to the robot and casually selected a cute modeled face. “This one, then. As for the voice and name…”

“What were you called before?”

The robot had returned to its mechanical electronic voice and calmly said, “Replying to Master, J22.”

“Then from now on, you’ll be called…”

For a moment, Su Cha really could not think of what name to give it, but anything was better than that shameful name. She cleared her throat and said, “You’ll be called 66. Also change how you address me to Master, or Su Cha.”

“My dear little Cha Cha” and the like was truly too shameful.

“As for the voice, just use the current electronic voice.”

Using someone else’s voice was not only illegal, it was also awkward.

The newly renamed 66 blinked its mechanical eyes. “Yes, Master.”

“The previous modification and implanted data records can all be deleted, right?”

The original owner’s criminal evidence and the like had to be removed quickly.

66 tilted its head and said innocently, “Master, if you wish to delete the records, high-level authorization is required.”

The original owner’s clearance was quite high. On top of that, the original owner herself was a genius. Aside from her love brain and her desire to gain attention, she could be said to be very perfect.

Whether in terms of appearance or academics, the original owner had the capital to be proud.

Su Cha said, “I’ll give you authorization. Remember to delete all the data that was implanted in the past!”

66 asked, “Including all the previous backed-up recordings?”

Re… recordings?!

Su Cha looked horrified as she remembered that in the original novel, the original owner loved recording every conversation she had with Qu Yanting, or even any time she passed by and heard Qu Yanting speak.

Su Cha: “…Delete them!”

She gnashed her teeth. “Delete all of them cleanly. Make sure absolutely nothing is left!”

“Not just the recordings. Delete the photos, videos, and memos too! Nothing is to be backed up. Smash it all into pieces. Make sure no one can restore any of it!”

66 did not understand why, after only one day apart, its master seemed to have become a completely different person. But since this was its master’s request, it would obey.

After it obediently deleted every trace, Su Cha finally let out a breath of relief.

Since she had come here, she had to obey the law. She absolutely could not do illegal things like this.

Just as she relaxed, 66 suddenly said, “Master, a network has been detected. The system can be updated. May I ask if you wish to update and overwrite the past data?”

“If it overwrites the past, will all previous traces be completely deleted?”

“Yes.”

As soon as she heard that it would delete everything from the past, Su Cha felt even more reassured. “All right, update.”

After finishing these things, Su Cha only felt unbearably thirsty. It was as though a ball of flame was constantly burning inside her body, scorching her internal organs. She tugged at her tight collar, a flush rising on her face. The place on her neck where she had been bitten was burning especially hot, and a tingling numbness spread from her neck all the way down to her tailbone.

“Hah… hah…”

Su Cha’s eyes grew moist, and her mind went completely blank. She only felt dizzy and lightheaded, and she badly wanted to throw up. With difficulty, she moved to the bed. Then her legs went weak, and she collapsed onto it, unable to move for a long time.

Str… strange. Her body seemed… wrong?

After a wave of numb blankness swept through her mind, Su Cha felt that it was hard to breathe. Her entire body was burning hot, and she had turned as red as a shrimp.

“6… 6…”

“Master.”

66, which was in the middle of updating its system, walked to Su Cha’s side. A trace of confusion flashed across its expressionless face, and its mechanical voice carried urgency. “Master’s body temperature is detected to be gradually rising. Possible imminent differentiation!”

“Currently contac—”

“Beep, beep, beep!”

“Attention! Attention! System update in progress. Entering forced hibernation!”

Before 66 could finish speaking, its mechanical eyes, which had been flashing red, dimmed.

Su Cha, who was burning so badly she wanted to whimper, was in even greater agony. Now, the only one who could help her, 66, had fallen into hibernation. The light-brain bracelet she normally used to communicate was fastened around her wrist, but at this moment, Su Cha’s thoughts had been burned into a haze and she could not remember it at all. Instead, she kept feeling around in her pockets, trying to find the “phone” she was familiar with.

Where…

Where was her phone…

“Hah… hot…”

“So hot…”

With dazed eyes, Su Cha kicked off her shoes and rolled around on the bed nonstop. Weakly tugging at random, the buttons of her clothes popped open. Her scorching skin touched the cold air, but even that still could not save Su Cha, who had fallen into a high fever.

“Hot…”

Su Cha murmured over and over that she was hot, constantly wanting to take off the clothes on her body. But her hands were growing weaker and weaker. She could no longer tear at her clothes.

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Downstairs, Su Yunshan sensed a violent fluctuation of mental power from upstairs, as well as a surging, intense scent of pheromones. Realizing that Su Cha was differentiating, he fell silent for a moment, then called his son.

Su Hanmo, who was training soldiers, did not expect to receive a communication from his father. After a moment of confusion, he nodded to the people around him, then walked to a corner and accepted the call. “Father?”

Su Yunshan briefly explained the situation. “Su Cha is differentiating. Judging from the fluctuations in her mental power and the pheromones leaking out, she is very likely to become an alpha.”

Su Hanmo: “…”

Su Cha had differentiated?

So soon?

Based on her aptitude, he had thought she would probably have to wait until she was twenty.

From birth, everyone was a beta. Only on the day of their coming-of-age ceremony at eighteen would they differentiate. At that time, whether they became an alpha, an omega, or remained a beta would become clear at a glance.

Of course, some people with insufficient aptitude would also delay until the age of twenty before differentiating.

He had thought Su Cha would also have to wait until twenty. He had not expected her to differentiate before even passing her eighteenth birthday.

Yes, in three days, it would be Su Cha’s birthday.

But almost no one remembered this day.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Hanmo said, “I’ll have a doctor go over to take a look.”

Su Yunshan said, “Mm.”

Then he ended the call without saying another word.

Su Hanmo was used to his father being like this. Although he had been naturally born, when he was born, his mother had suffered difficult labor, causing him to almost die of suffocation at birth.

Fortunately, in the end, both mother and child survived. But for a long time after that, whenever his mother said she wanted a second child, his father refused to allow it.

Unfortunately, in the end, his father still lost to his mother’s persistence. Because his mother’s body was no longer suitable for carrying a child herself after what happened back then, the two of them used test-tube methods together.

The test-tube method of this era was different from that of the past. It could directly synthesize a fertilized egg from both parents’ genes, then place it into an artificial womb. The child would be carried and born inside the artificial womb. However, children born this way generally did not have aptitudes as high as those personally carried by the mother. The probability of differentiating into an alpha or omega was less than thirty percent. Most of the others would only be betas.

For the many nobles who needed alphas to maintain their noble image, this was not acceptable.

Many people had no affection for children born this way. But because the stronger an alpha’s mental power was, the lower their compatibility rate tended to be, and the lower the compatibility rate, the smaller the chance of both parties being able to have children.

This left many people with no choice but to accept this method of reproduction.