After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 64

Lu Yaoyi had just been ready to give herself to Jiang Youli.

But then Jiang Youli left and ran away from her.

She thought that Jiang Youli stopping halfway and running to the bathroom meant that she was rejecting her and didn’t want to make the deal with her. She didn’t expect Jiang Youli to come back from the bathroom and agree. She looked at Jiang Youli in disbelief and confirmed, “Really?”

Jiang Youli said seriously, “But we are only each other’s inhibitors.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Of course, we are only each other’s inhibitors.”

She did want to be Jiang Youli’s girlfriend and become an Omega who truly belonged to Jiang Youli. But she knew that Jiang Youli, who didn’t like her, wouldn’t agree. So she could only use this “inhibitor” method to make a deal with Jiang Youli.

After all, a difficult rut was an Alpha’s weakness.

This was also the only chance she had to approach Jiang Youli openly without beating around the bush. From what she knew about Jiang Youli all these years, Jiang Youli must have thought about it carefully before agreeing to the deal. She believed that one of the reasons was that Jiang Youli liked her pheromones, which was why she decided to agree to the deal.

Actually…

She could feel that Jiang Youli’s attitude toward her had changed a lot.

If she got a little closer,

She thought Jiang Youli would eventually fall for her.

She was hopeful.

Although she proposed the deal of being each other’s inhibitors for her own selfish reasons, she also thought of a reason for Jiang Youli to end the partnership, just so Jiang Youli would feel at ease being her Alpha.

So she continued to say to Jiang Youli,

“Jiang Youli, just like I said before, we are only being each other’s inhibitors to help us get through our heats. During this time that we are in this partnership, we have no right to interfere with each other’s love lives.”

“If one day in the future you find an Omega you like, “

“Or… I find an Alpha I like,”

“We’ll end the partnership.”

“How about it?”

Every word Lu Yaoyi said hit Jiang Youli’s heart.

This kind of mutually beneficial partnership, where they both got what they wanted without any worries, was very tempting to her. Anyway, neither she nor Lu Yaoyi would be at a disadvantage by using the other as an inhibitor. So she agreed to Lu Yaoyi without hesitation. “I agree. But I have one condition.”

Lu Yaoyi: “What condition?”

Jiang Youli: “We can’t cross the line.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Can’t cross the line?”

She raised her eyebrows with interest. “What kind of line are you talking about?”

Jiang Youli suddenly didn’t know how to explain it to Lu Yaoyi.

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm? What kind of line?”

Jiang Youli thought about it.

Anyway, she and Lu Yaoyi had already reached this point, so there was no need to be shy. What’s more, she had already lost all her dignity in front of Lu Yaoyi.

She looked at Lu Yaoyi without changing her expression. “What do you think ‘crossing the line’ means?”

Lu Yaoyi: “I don’t know.”

Jiang Youli: “Of course, it means not sleeping together.”

It didn’t matter if she and Lu Yaoyi were old enough to sleep together or not.

She wouldn’t sleep with Lu Yaoyi.

This was her bottom line.

She would only sleep with an Omega she liked.

If she ever slept with an Omega, she would take responsibility for that Omega to the end. So she and Lu Yaoyi absolutely couldn’t cross the line.

Lu Yaoyi was slightly taken aback.

She didn’t expect Jiang Youli to say something so direct to her.

“I know you were affected by your heat, which is why you were so bold and took advantage of me. I can pretend that nothing happened,” Jiang Youli looked down at Lu Yaoyi, who was lying on the bed. “I also reflected on things in the bathroom, so we will only be each other’s inhibitors and not cross the line.”

Lu Yaoyi suddenly felt that Jiang Youli was adorably naive.

Jiang Youli actually thought she was just affected by her heat.

However, this was also the result she wanted.

As for sleeping together…

Anyway, her original intention of proposing the deal wasn’t to sleep with Jiang Youli.

So it didn’t matter if they slept together or not.

“During our partnership, we can only release pheromones or hug each other to get through our heats,” Jiang Youli went on and on about her conditions. “And what you said about us having no right to interfere with each other’s love lives, if either of us finds someone we like, we will immediately end the partnership.”

“Okay,” Lu Yaoyi agreed without a second thought. “I agree.”

She then asked tentatively, “What about the duration?”

Jiang Youli didn’t quite understand. “What duration?”

Lu Yaoyi threw the question back to Jiang Youli because she wanted to know where Jiang Youli’s bottom line for this deal was. “Of course, the duration of our partnership.”

The duration of the partnership…

Jiang Youli had overlooked the duration of the partnership. Since she and Lu Yaoyi were going to be each other’s tools to get through their heats, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to continue this win-win partnership until they found someone they liked, to make things easier for both of them.

So she said to Lu Yaoyi,

“Then let’s end it on the day we find someone we like.”

Hearing this, Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli with some surprise.

Jiang Youli’s answer was completely unexpected.

She suppressed the excitement in her heart and asked calmly, “Are you saying that if we never find someone we like, then this deal is for an indefinite amount of time?”

Jiang Youli thought about it and said, “You can think of it that way.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then from now on, you are my Alpha.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

She was a little unaccustomed to this title. “Mhm.”

Lu Yaoyi’s heart felt warm. “I’m your Omega, too.”

Jiang Youli: “Mhm.”

A satisfied smile gradually appeared on Lu Yaoyi’s lips. “Since you’re my Alpha now, shouldn’t you fulfill your duty?”

Jiang Youli asked, confused, “What duty?”

Lu Yaoyi held out her hands to Jiang Youli. “I want you to hug me while we sleep.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

Lu Yaoyi: “Me wanting you to hug me while we sleep isn’t crossing the line and sleeping together.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

Fine. As expected, Lu Yaoyi would be insatiable if she got an inch.

Since she had said it herself, she could only accept her fate. She lifted the blanket, got into bed, and let Lu Yaoyi get into her arms. “Lu Yaoyi, don’t tell anyone about this deal we made. Otherwise, I will unilaterally end the deal with you.”

Lu Yaoyi didn’t say anything as she leaned into Jiang Youli’s arms.

After a moment of silence,

She closed her eyes and hugged Jiang Youli tightly. “Okay.”

Jiang Youli: “Go to sleep. We have to wake up early for school tomorrow.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

The two of them stopped talking.

The large room was so quiet that only their breathing could be heard.

Time passed by second by second.

Jiang Youli held the sleeping Lu Yaoyi in her arms, unable to fall asleep.

She had never thought that she would one day become Lu Yaoyi’s Alpha. In fact, she could have completely refused to make this deal with Lu Yaoyi, since Lu Yaoyi was once the person she hated the most. Besides not being able to refuse Lu Yaoyi’s pheromones…

She always felt that there seemed to be another reason in her heart.

She didn’t know what it was.

She was getting more and more confused about herself.

Whatever, she was too lazy to think about it.

Then let it be this way.

The next day, before leaving for school,

Jiang Youli received a partnership agreement from Lu Yaoyi to sign.

She looked at the partnership agreement in her hand, confused.

“Why do we have to sign an agreement?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Since we’re in a partnership, of course we have to sign an agreement.”

She knew that Jiang Youli was a person who kept her promises and meant what she said.

If Jiang Youli signed the agreement, she would definitely abide by it.

Jiang Youli looked down at the clean, neat, and strong handwriting on the agreement.

It read:

[Partnership Agreement between Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi as Each Other’s Inhibitors]

Partnership conditions:

—Both parties will only be each other’s inhibitors during the partnership.

—Both parties cannot cross the line and request to sleep together.

—If either party finds someone they like, the partnership will be immediately terminated.

—The duration of the partnership is—indefinite.

Jiang Youli: “…”

A strange feeling suddenly came over her as she looked at these conditions.

Why did she agree to make this deal with Lu Yaoyi?

“I’ve already signed it,” Lu Yaoyi put the pen in Jiang Youli’s hand. “Jiang Youli, it’s your turn to sign.”

Jiang Youli slowly lowered her eyes and glanced at the pen in her hand.

She then, as if by magic, signed her name on the agreement.

After she finished signing, she put the pen down. “Is that good now?”

Lu Yaoyi looked at the signature on the agreement with satisfaction.

“Mhm.”

After they signed the agreement, they went to school together.

The entire day at school, Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi maintained their usual distance, without much communication or contact. No one knew that they had made a deal in private, and they didn’t plan on telling their parents.

This deal was their little secret.

That night,

After Lu Yaoyi finished dinner at Jiang Youli’s house and went home, she suddenly received a call from Lu Meishan. She answered the phone and put it to her ear. “Mom.”

“Yaoyao.”

Lu Meishan’s gentle voice came from the phone. “Did you have dinner?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Yes, I did. Mom, did you have dinner?”

Lu Meishan: “I’m about to go have dinner with your Aunt Yuan.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Lu Meishan: “Sweetheart, I should be back next week.”

Lu Yaoyi: “You’re coming back next week?”

If Lu Meishan came back, she wouldn’t be able to live with Jiang Youli anymore.

But she had already achieved her goal with this opportunity.

She was very satisfied.

“I’m not sure which day next week yet,” Lu Meishan’s voice was so gentle it could melt ice. “When I get back, I’ll take you and Dingding out for a big meal.”

Lu Yaoyi smiled slightly. “Okay.”

Lu Meishan: “Sweetheart, I’ll have to go now.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm, goodbye, Mom.”

Lu Meishan: “Goodbye, sweetheart.”

Lu Yaoyi’s heat finally ended this week on Wednesday.

That day,

Lu Yaoyi had to take Lucky to the vet for a vaccine at night.

After dinner,

Li Henian had to go out for something and it was on the way, so he drove Lu Yaoyi and Jiang Youli to the vet to get Lucky vaccinated. He then left the vet.

She didn’t know how long passed.

It was already 7:30 p.m. when Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi left the vet with Lucky after the vaccine. They walked to the side of the road and got into a taxi.

The taxi weaved through the bustling traffic.

The inside of the car was quiet, and no one spoke.

The dark night sky was decorated with countless twinkling stars.

Jiang Youli looked at the brightly lit streets outside the car window and secretly decided in her heart that she couldn’t let Lu Yaoyi hug her while sleeping tonight. After all, Lu Yaoyi’s heat had already ended. She couldn’t continue to let Lu Yaoyi take advantage of her.

Just then,

Jiang Youli suddenly felt something press against her shoulder.

She looked away from the car window and turned her head to see that Lu Yaoyi was leaning on her shoulder, with her eyes closed, asleep. She quietly looked at Lu Yaoyi’s peaceful sleeping face.

For a moment, she couldn’t look away.

“Little girl.”

The taxi driver’s voice suddenly broke the silence in the car.

Jiang Youli looked at the driver. “What is it?”

“You’re an Alpha, and the little girl next to you is an Omega,” the driver looked up and glanced at Jiang Youli in the rearview mirror. “You two must be a couple, right?”

Hearing this, Jiang Youli slowly lowered her head and looked at Lu Yaoyi.

Were she and Lu Yaoyi a couple?

How could that be?

She and Lu Yaoyi were just in a literal partnership.

“No,” Jiang Youli pursed her lips and answered. “She and I aren’t a couple.”