After Being Transmigrated into a Cannon Fodder Scum Alpha - Chapter 17

At the Ducal Mansion, Lin Chen woke up. She was a bit dazed at first, instinctively reaching out for a source of warmth, only to grab empty air. The person beside her had clearly been gone for a while; the sheets were cold, which snapped Lin Chen into full alertness.

She opened her eyes and found herself covered by Yun Qi’s clothes, clutching a tangled mess of garments in her arms. Perhaps because she had held them for so long, Yun Qi’s pheromones had been overtaken by the scent of her own; this loss of the Alpha’s scent was what had triggered her awakening.

Her body was still uncomfortable. A slight movement of her waist brought an almost unbearable ache, and her arms were too sore to lift. But these weren’t the main issues; the thinning scent of Sea Lavender pheromones in the air was the problem that gave Lin Chen the biggest headache.

Did that person have any idea how much an Omega in a “special period” needed the soothing pheromones of their partner?!

Lin Chen, whose temperament had always been stable, felt a desire to roar for the first time. However, given her physical discomfort, she remained motionless on the bed, not getting up immediately.

The bedroom was dark and silent. Lin Chen could only hear the sound of her own breathing. Originally, she just wanted to empty her mind and think of nothing, but the soreness and the marks on her body reminded her of last night’s scenes at every moment, and that annoying person kept drifting through her mind’s eye.

The only consolation was that Yun Qi had denied liking Lin Yaoyao last night. Lin Chen was inclined to believe words spoken at that kind of time.

A faint sound came from outside the door. Lin Chen thought it was Yun Qi returning, but she was destined for disappointment.

The footsteps stopped at the door, and the butler’s voice drifted in.

“Madam, before the Master left, she instructed the chef to prepare some supplements for you. Do you require them now?” Even though the Duke was being irresponsible, the butler still hoped to salvage a sliver of her image in the Madam’s heart.

‘Before she left?’ Lin Chen felt a mix of anger and amusement. She had expected that ostrich to run, but she thought she’d only run to the study to hide; she hadn’t expected her to leave the mansion entirely.

Unlike the other servants, the butler had witnessed the friendship between the late Dowager Duchess and Lin Chen’s mother. That lady had been very gentle; every time she visited, she would bring Lin Chen along, and the butler would prepare snacks that Omegas loved.

In the butler’s heart, Lin Chen would always be the mistress of the Ducal Mansion. No matter how many Omegas the Duke might bring back in the future, or what her attitude toward Lin Chen was, Lin Chen was the formal daughter-in-law recognized by the old masters.

“I don’t need them yet. Leave them in my bedroom; I’ll head back there in a while.” Not being the person she expected, Lin Chen’s voice sounded somewhat listless.

With the sound of departing footsteps, the bedroom returned to its previous tranquility.

After lying there for a bit, the soreness in her body subsided significantly compared to when she first woke up. The Alpha’s residual pheromones in the room gradually mingled with the pheromones leaking from Lin Chen’s glands, and what Lin Chen could sense became less and less.

When the scent was almost undetectable, Lin Chen dressed and left the room.

“Mama, are you okay?” Lin Xi was waiting for Lin Chen in her bedroom.

“Why do you ask, Xi’er?” Lin Chen stroked her treasure’s head. Due to physical reasons, she couldn’t lift Lin Xi right now.

“The butler auntie said Mama wasn’t feeling well and asked me to keep Mama company.” Lin Xi looked worriedly at her mother’s somewhat sluggish movements. “Is it… did she hit you again?”

Lin Xi’s voice became tiny and full of disappointment. She had thought her Mother had turned good, but after only a few days, she was bullying Mama again.

“How could that be?” Lin Chen smiled and ruffled Lin Xi’s hair. “This is something every Omega has to go through. You’ll understand when our Xi’er grows up.”

Lin Chen didn’t keep Lin Xi to sleep with her like she usually did; she had marks on her body that hadn’t faded yet, and it wouldn’t be good for the child to see.

After coaxing Lin Xi to sleep in her own room, Lin Chen returned to her own bedroom. She ate the supplements the butler prepared, took a quick bath, and went to bed.

But she couldn’t fall asleep. There was none of the scent she craved in her bedroom because Yun Qi had never entered this space; there wasn’t a trace of Sea Lavender here.

After tossing and turning, Lin Chen finally sat up.

“Damn instincts!” She put on her pajamas and went to Yun Qi’s bedroom. Although the scent there wasn’t strong either, it was better than her own room.

She opened Yun Qi’s wardrobe and, relying on memory, pulled out several garments Yun Qi frequently wore. She put one on, finally feeling a bit more comfortable, and arranged the others on the bed like a nest before crawling under the covers to doze fitfully.

Every so often, she would wake up, only to find with disappointment that Yun Qi hadn’t returned.

Each time she woke, Lin Chen’s expression grew a shade darker. By the time sunlight spilled into the room, her face was like a thundercloud.

Yun Qi actually stayed out all night! While this was common in the past, it was now exceptionally unbearable. When Yun Qi returned, if she smelled anything she shouldn’t have… she…

On the other side—

Yun Qi didn’t sleep well either. She kept instinctively trying to bite something, only to snap her own teeth together.

When she first transmigrated and learned that Alphas and Omegas bite each other’s glands during bonding, Yun Qi thought the behavior was barbaric. The gland is an Omega’s most vulnerable spot; how could anyone be addicted to the feeling of piercing it with their teeth?

Now, however, she dreamed time and time again of sinking that unique fang into Lin Chen’s gland. The Omega beneath her would tremble incessantly as if trying to flee, forcing her to imprison her prey tightly and slowly inject pheromones into the gland. Only when the prey was saturated with her scent from head to toe would she withdraw the fang, turning instead to rub her teeth gently against the gland.

Yun Qi’s arms were also held in a semi-arc; instinct drove her to want to hold something—or rather, to imprison something. The empty feeling made it impossible to sleep.

Finally, she got annoyed, stuffed a pillow into her arms, and tried to sleep again, but hugging an inanimate object did nothing without the soothing presence of the Lily.

Waking up repeatedly exhausted her meager patience. Yun Qi got up. Outside the room, the scene was still one of debauchery. The turbid air and the dazed crowd made Yun Qi feel disgusted. She bid farewell to the original host’s friends, dodged Jin Mo who tried to follow her, and began walking aimlessly.

The Empire’s capital was indeed the most prosperous place; even at this hour, there were many pedestrians.

Yun Qi saw a young couple on a bench. The Alpha seemed drunk, half-lying with his head in the Omega’s lap. The Omega stroked her lover with one hand, while the other was held by the Alpha, who toyed with it—sometimes intertwining their fingers, sometimes holding the Omega’s ring finger like a child refusing to let go…

When he caught the ring finger again, the “drunk” Alpha suddenly slid a ring onto it, laughing and saying that since she wore the ring, she was his. The Omega seemed surprised, laughing and scolding him for being a “cunning” liar for faking being drunk, but she didn’t take the ring off.

The Alpha let the Omega squeeze his face in annoyance, pleading that this just proved he wanted to marry her even when he was wasted.

Lin Chen’s fair fingers inexplicably appeared in Yun Qi’s mind. She didn’t think she had ever seen a ring on them. There wasn’t much about Lin Chen in the original host’s memories, so she didn’t know if a ring had even been bought when they married.

With the night as cover, couples like this were everywhere; “spring” was in the air.

Shaking her head, Yun Qi tried to shake the person out of her mind. She was here for a mission, not to experience life. Soon Mu Yu would appear, and under the influence of the world line, Lin Chen would meet her. She would be exposed to brand-new ideas, learn what an Alpha who truly respects Omegas looks like, fall in love with her, and work with her to overthrow this twisted world.

And she, Yun Qi—one of the leaders of the old guard, a Grand Duke—would die at Lin Chen’s hand, symbolizing the start of the open conflict between Mu Yu and the Empire.

Then she could return to her original world. This experience would become a bizarre dream, fading with the passage of time. She would forget Lin Chen, forget Lin Xi, forget Demi…

Most importantly, Yun Qi didn’t believe she could fall in love with someone in such a short time. She had lived for over twenty years in her past life without a single romance; how could she suddenly like someone here for no reason?

Regarding the views on Alphas and Omegas, Yun Qi agreed with that prince: missing someone uncontrollably just because of pheromone compatibility—how was that different from being an animal?

Sea Lavender and Lily—she had checked—were a rare 100% compatibility match. That was why she had so many strange illusions. Once she returned to her original world—a world without pheromones—she would surely return to normal…