After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 57

The pitch-black night was dotted with twinkling stars. A cold wind swept across the land, passing through streets and alleys. The branches outside the window shook in the wind, making a rustling sound.

The two people on the sofa huddled together in a storm of pheromones.

The large room was as quiet as a silent mountain, so quiet it was scary.

After some time, Jiang Youli felt that Lu Yaoyi, who was sleeping in her arms, had returned to a normal temperature. The sweet and rich scent of hyacinths in the air was also completely devoured by her pheromones, leaving only the scent of fir.

Everything that happened tonight finally returned to peace.

Jiang Youli felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted from her heart, and she was exceptionally relaxed.

She looked down at Lu Yaoyi in her arms. In order to suppress her instincts and not bite Lu Yaoyi’s gland to mark her, the clothes on Lu Yaoyi’s shoulder were almost bitten to shreds. However, the unruly thing was still standing strong against Lu Yaoyi.

“…”

She sighed helplessly.

She was so tired.

Her legs, which had been weak for a long time, also slowly returned to normal.

Jiang Youli leaned wearily on the sofa and rested for a few minutes.

After her weak body had completely recovered its strength, she carefully lifted Lu Yaoyi and carried her horizontally. She then turned and went to Lu Yaoyi’s room.

Jiang Youli pushed the door open, walked in, placed Lu Yaoyi on the bed, and covered her with a blanket.

She stood by the bed, looking down at Lu Yaoyi, her heart filled with mixed emotions.

After a few seconds of silence,

She turned and went back to her own room.

She went to the bathroom and stood under the shower, taking care of the thing that had been hard for a long time. Her mind was filled with images of kissing Lu Yaoyi and opening her up, but this time, she didn’t feel as guilty as before.

She didn’t want to run away anymore. She simply liked Lu Yaoyi’s pheromones.

It was a natural instinct for an Alpha to like an Omega’s pheromones.

Her and Lu Yaoyi’s pheromone compatibility was a 99% perfect match, so it was very normal for her to like Lu Yaoyi’s pheromones. This had nothing to do with whether she wanted to get with Lu Yaoyi or not. It wasn’t that she had an uncontrollable desire for Lu Yaoyi.

So, there was no need for her to avoid Lu Yaoyi anymore.

Now that she had figured it out, she finally felt relieved.

But that was a close call. She almost slept with Lu Yaoyi just now.

At the thought of this, a wave of anger inexplicably burned in her heart.

She was lucky it was her.

She had injected inhibitors and used all her strength to suppress her instincts. She had also endured not marking Lu Yaoyi. What if Lu Yaoyi had met another Alpha? What if Lu Yaoyi had been marked for life by another Alpha?

A lifelong mark was a lifetime commitment.

It was too dangerous.

She was so angry. She really didn’t know what to say about Lu Yaoyi.

It was already 4 a.m. when Jiang Youli came out of the bathroom.

She was both tired and sleepy.

She dried her hair and went straight to Lu Yaoyi’s room.

The door closed.

Jiang Youli walked to the bed and looked down at Lu Yaoyi. Although she was very angry that Lu Yaoyi didn’t take care of her own body, Lu Yaoyi was currently in heat, and her pheromones were very unstable. To prevent Lu Yaoyi from getting into heat again, she decided to stay with Lu Yaoyi tonight and watch over her.

She was an Alpha. Lu Yaoyi would definitely get a good night’s sleep from smelling her scent.

So she sat on Lu Yaoyi’s bed, hugged a pillow, and closed her eyes out of exhaustion.

The next day,

The bright sunlight shone through the gap in the curtains, illuminating the dim room.

Lu Yaoyi on the bed finally stirred. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the familiar floor-to-ceiling windows. She felt that she had a very deep and secure sleep last night.

Last night…

Didn’t she go into heat last night and run to Jiang Youli’s room? Why did she wake up in her own room? She realized what had happened and was instantly fully awake.

She turned over with a head full of questions.

She then saw Jiang Youli sitting on the bed, hugging a pillow and leaning against the headboard, sound asleep. She sat up in surprise and looked at Jiang Youli next to her.

What was going on?

Why was Jiang Youli sleeping on her bed?

She reached out and gently pushed Jiang Youli a few times.

“Jiang Youli…”

Jiang Youli gradually became conscious from Lu Yaoyi’s light pushes and calls.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked up at the person in front of her. Her blurry vision gradually became clear, and she finally saw what the person in front of her looked like.

She was as beautiful as ever.

She moved her lips, and her voice was hoarse from just waking up. “You’re awake.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

She paused and asked in a low voice, “Why are you on my bed?”

Jiang Youli was, of course, not going to tell Lu Yaoyi why she was sleeping on the bed.

She just said faintly, “I accidentally fell asleep.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Last night…”

Jiang Youli’s gaze subconsciously landed on Lu Yaoyi’s fair and smooth neck. The hickeys clearly told her what she had done last night. She pursed her lips, uncomfortably looked away, and said, “Let’s talk later. I’ll wait for you in the living room.”

With that, she got out of bed and walked toward the door without looking back.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli’s retreating back, her mind a mess.

The bathroom was filled with steam.

Lu Yaoyi stood in front of the mirror, looking at her naked body. The hickeys on her neck were obvious and shocking. They were like enchanting poppies on her fair skin, especially seductive and alluring. She remembered what happened last night, and a warmth crept up her cheeks. Her entire face was flushed.

She was so shy.

She suddenly remembered something and reached up to touch the gland at the back of her neck.

In such a critical situation last night, Jiang Youli hadn’t marked her?

And her body didn’t feel like it had been opened up. It seemed that besides kissing her and rubbing against her, Jiang Youli hadn’t done anything out of line.

“…”

She was an S-class Omega.

She was in heat, and Jiang Youli could actually hold back from doing anything to her?

She couldn’t help but wonder if Jiang Youli was really an S-class Alpha.

Was Jiang Youli not capable?!

She didn’t know how long she had been in the bathroom, but Lu Yaoyi finally finished her shower and came out.

She changed her clothes and left the room. She went downstairs and walked into the living room, where she immediately saw Jiang Youli sitting on the sofa, teasing Lucky and having fun.

She walked over and called out, “Jiang Youli.”

Hearing this, Jiang Youli stopped teasing Lucky and looked back at Lu Yaoyi.

Lu Yaoyi was a little embarrassed. “Last night…”

Jiang Youli immediately clarified, “Nothing happened last night.”

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli and didn’t say anything.

Jiang Youli looked at Lu Yaoyi for a few seconds, then bent down to put Lucky on the floor. She then stood up, walked to Lu Yaoyi, and asked unhappily, “Why didn’t you take an inhibitor last night? Why did you just let yourself go into heat without taking an inhibitor?”

Lu Yaoyi could feel that Jiang Youli was angry. “I…”

“It’s very dangerous for an Omega to go into heat without taking an inhibitor,” Jiang Youli looked into Lu Yaoyi’s eyes, suppressing the anger in her chest. “Don’t you know that?”

Lu Yaoyi replied softly to Jiang Youli, “I know.”

Jiang Youli: “Then why didn’t you take one?”

Lu Yaoyi didn’t say anything.

Jiang Youli: “Were you waiting for me to come home so I could comfort you?”

Lu Yaoyi wasn’t actually waiting for Jiang Youli to come home to comfort her. After Jiang Youli came home, she had injected herself with an aphrodisiac. To make herself go into heat earlier, she had specifically bought an aphrodisiac for Omegas at the pharmacy.

Aphrodisiacs were drugs used by Omegas with certain physical deficiencies.

In other words,

Omegas who didn’t have a heat period and couldn’t be strongly induced into heat by an Alpha.

Because an Omega’s reproductive cavity could only be easily opened by an Alpha after an orgasm during heat, aphrodisiacs helped Omegas with certain physical deficiencies get into heat so that their reproductive cavity could be opened to be marked for life by an Alpha.

Aphrodisiacs could only be purchased with a real name.

Physiologically normal Omegas generally wouldn’t deliberately buy aphrodisiacs to get themselves into heat, because an Omega’s heat was very difficult to endure and required inhibitors to suppress.

Lu Yaoyi had bought the aphrodisiac to go into heat earlier.

However, she had underestimated the effects of the aphrodisiac.

She just wanted to go into heat.

She hadn’t expected to go into heat immediately after injecting the aphrodisiac. She also gradually fell under the effect of the aphrodisiac, desperately wanting Jiang Youli to enter her territory and fill the emptiness in her body. She even uncontrollably lured Jiang Youli into a rut.

She was already prepared to become an Omega who belonged only to Jiang Youli.

But Jiang Youli held back from getting with her. Of course, she wouldn’t tell Jiang Youli the truth. So she just nodded slightly without changing her expression.

“Mhm.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

She was going to be so mad. “Do you know that I almost…”

Lu Yaoyi listened to Jiang Youli and didn’t answer, her lips pursed.

But her heart was inexplicably racing.

Jiang Youli had used all her strength to suppress her instincts last night to not hurt Lu Yaoyi. She had been in pain for so long and had to endure that unruly thing for so long. She had even accumulated a stomach full of resentment, and there was still a faint tooth mark on her arm from biting herself.

She was so wronged. She wanted to get her revenge on Lu Yaoyi and vent her frustration.

But in the end, her words were full of concern. “Did you ever think about the consequences of going into heat in front of an Alpha? What if you had met another Alpha instead of me? Not every Alpha can withstand temptation and suppress their instincts like me. Not every Alpha can control themselves like me, okay?”

Hearing this, Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli blankly, her nose a little sore.

So it wasn’t that Jiang Youli wasn’t capable.

It was that Jiang Youli was protecting and caring for her, an Omega. This was a resistance against her innate instincts. Jiang Youli’s self-control was stronger than she had expected.

“Although I promised to help you get through one heat, you can’t just not take an inhibitor and go into heat in front of me,” Jiang Youli gritted her teeth and looked at Lu Yaoyi a little awkwardly. “I… I’m not as noble as you think.”

Lu Yaoyi was so touched by Jiang Youli’s words that she wanted to cry.

But Jiang Youli’s last sentence made her laugh.

She looked at Jiang Youli, trying to hold back her laughter. Her voice was so gentle it could melt the ice of winter. “Jiang Youli, but you are a gentleman, aren’t you?”

“You didn’t mark me, and you didn’t do anything out of line.”

She took a step forward, shortening the distance between them, and asked in return.

“Am I wrong?”

Jiang Youli was even angrier when she saw Lu Yaoyi acting as if she hadn’t taken her words to heart. So she said, “I will definitely do what I promised you, so can you please stop playing with your body? You should be glad you met me. If you had met another Alpha… what would you do?”

Hearing this, a misty layer of water filled Lu Yaoyi’s eyes.

“Are you worried about me, Jiang Youli?”

Jiang Youli was slightly taken aback.

She then realized that she was so angry with Lu Yaoyi that she had said some strange and misleading things. She immediately put on a stern face and said fiercely, “Don’t be so conceited. Who’s worried about you? I’m scolding you on behalf of Aunt Guan and Aunt Lu, okay?”

Lu Yaoyi gazed at Jiang Youli affectionately without saying anything.

Jiang Youli felt uncomfortable under Lu Yaoyi’s gaze, so she said something that didn’t match her true feelings. “I controlled myself and didn’t mark you or do anything to you because I don’t want to be responsible for you. Don’t think of me as a noble person, and don’t get the wrong idea, okay?”

As soon as she finished speaking,

Lu Yaoyi, who was standing in front of her, suddenly took a step forward and threw herself into her arms.

Then, Lu Yaoyi’s extremely gentle voice came from her arms. “I’m sorry. I won’t do it again. Jiang Youli, can you not be mad at me, please?”

“Jiang Youli… please don’t be mad anymore…”

Her tone was very much like someone who had realized their mistake and was apologizing to their girlfriend.

Jiang Youli’s mind went blank for a moment as she smelled the faint scent of hyacinths. Even though Lu Yaoyi wasn’t in heat, her pheromones, which were in a heat-like state, still had a faint mating signal. When she came to her senses, she reined in her thoughts and pushed Lu Yaoyi away. “You took advantage of me all night.”

“Don’t try to take advantage of me again.”

With that, she walked around Lu Yaoyi and headed toward the entryway.

Lu Yaoyi quickly turned around and asked, “Jiang Youli, are you going out?”

Jiang Youli: “Yes. I don’t want to see you right now.”

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli’s retreating back and didn’t say anything.

After a few steps, Jiang Youli suddenly stopped and looked back at Lu Yaoyi, saying helplessly, “I’m going to buy breakfast. Tell me, is there anything you want to eat?”

Lu Yaoyi was slightly taken aback.

She then realized that Jiang Youli wasn’t going out to deliberately avoid her. She was going out to buy her breakfast. She suddenly felt that Jiang Youli seemed to be a little bit pampering her. It would be best if she was just overthinking it, otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to help but want to take advantage of her.

She gave Jiang Youli a gentle smile. “I’ll eat whatever you eat.”

Jiang Youli: “I’m eating air. Do you want to eat that?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Yes.”

Jiang Youli rolled her eyes and turned to leave.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli’s back, her eyes slightly curved, and the smile on her lips deepened.

She knew she hadn’t liked the wrong person.

Never.

Author’s note:

Xiao Lu: Jiang Dingding, can you please not hold back in the future?

Xiao Jiang: I’m telling you there is no “in the future”!

Xiao Lu: Okay, you can hold back, but don’t make Dingding hold back, okay?

Xiao Jiang: …What do you mean?

Xiao Lu: Your Dingding said it likes me and wants to slept with me.

Xiao Lu: You can hold back, but can’t you just let Dingding do it?

Xiao Jiang: …