Chapter 40.1
“Whether I’m telling the truth or not, can’t you just come over and check for yourself?” Xue Wu laughed softly, appearing both indifferent and provocative.
Luo Yan stared at her for a long time, carefully checking her face, body, and hands for bloodstains. She eventually determined there were none; furthermore, she didn’t smell the scent of blood on her, so she knew the woman was likely lying to her—she hadn’t killed anyone.
In the book, even when the big villain took revenge on others, she wouldn’t kill them; instead, she would find a way to catch them and send them to prison. Since transmigrating, the big villain had indeed acted this way, so Luo Yan didn’t believe she would abandon her principles and commit murder, which would block her own way out.
After all, this wasn’t ancient times, but an ABO world with complete laws; it was very difficult for criminals to escape.
However, she did smell the lingering scent of Omega pheromones on her—not her own, but others’. She could faintly distinguish the scents of those two Omegas.
…So she really did go to see them?
Luo Yan felt conflicted but didn’t intend to criticize further; it really wasn’t much of her business.
Luo Yan said nothing to her and continued walking. Xue Wu didn’t chase after her, but as she was about to leave, she said softly: “Sorry, Luo Yan. I indeed misunderstood you before.”
Luo Yan hadn’t expected her to apologize, which made her mood even more complex. In her memory, the big villain never apologized to anyone. Before her blackening in the book, she often apologized, but that was only when forced by her agent or adoptive parents; in most cases, she didn’t think she was wrong and those were apologies of helplessness.
After blackening, she turned her back on everyone and was even less likely to apologize—it was already good enough if she didn’t give you a taste of her wrath.
So now, she was apologizing to her? Luo Yan thought she was hallucinating.
“Your apology…”
However, just as she was about to speak, before she could get out more than a few words, she heard a “thud” behind her—the big villain had actually fainted on the floor!
“Second Miss, Miss Xue has fainted!” Zhao Xin was also startled. She didn’t see Xue Wu’s assistant; what was going on?
Luo Yan never expected her to faint after just a few words. Seeing her face deathly pale and her brow furrowed, she ultimately couldn’t harden her heart. She walked to her side, picked her up, and headed toward the elevator.
“Second Miss… we could actually just call the doctors and nurses over.” That way, she wouldn’t have to carry her.
“Zhao Xin, I can’t help but be soft-hearted.” Alphas might be a cold and proud species, but she just couldn’t do it.
But she would only pick her up and send her back; she wouldn’t do anything else.
If it were before, she would have released pheromones to help her, but now she was desperately holding back and wouldn’t be “lowly” again.
She had even helped that Eldest Miss Omega who was in danger; although she had a deep conflict with Xue Wu, she couldn’t sit by and watch someone die. If she did that, she wouldn’t be herself, and she didn’t need to lose herself for the sake of others.
Zhao Xin looked at her boss with increasing respect and growing heartache, offering a suggestion: “Boss, once you’re better, I’ll find thirty Omegas for you, one for each day. That way, you’ll get over this quickly.”
“Pfft—don’t scare me, Zhao Xin. Who says I haven’t gotten over it?” Luo Yan was nearly horrified; her words were terrifying, weren’t they?
Because she was so startled, she didn’t see Xue Wu’s fingertips move slightly, and her aura became slightly scary.
“Second Miss, you’ve been putting on a brave face all day today… Miss Gong Lin called you nearly ten times when she had dinner with you tonight, and you didn’t respond once. You replied to the same work report five times back and forth; that employee thought her phone was haunted, or that you were so dissatisfied with her report that you were sending multiple warnings.”
“And also…”
“Alright, if you keep exposing my secrets, even my ‘underwear’ will be exposed by you.” Luo Yan neither admitted nor denied it but changed the topic: “I’m just worried about my design final in two days.”
“Second Miss must be the most capable! I support you a hundred times over!”
“…Then you’d better not support me.”
“Why?”
“It would be too hard for you to split into a hundred versions of yourself to support me.”
“…” Don’t you have any sense of humor?!
Luo Yan looked down at Xue Wu and saw a slight curve at the corner of her lips. She glanced at the rising elevator and looked away.
…Just this once. She wouldn’t be fooled by her again next time.
Soon they reached the correct floor. Luo Yan quickly carried her out of the elevator and back to her ward. The doctors and nurses there were surprised to see her. Chen Jia had been waiting here as well, worried because Xue Wu hadn’t let her follow; she had been gone for most of the day and Chen Jia was about to go look for her herself. She hadn’t expected Luo Yan to carry her back.
“Miss Luo, Sister Wu, she…”
“She said she went to see those two Omegas and likely did something. Why would she think of going to find them?” In fact, Luo Yan had already asked Zhao Xin to investigate while they were in the elevator.
“…Because Sister Wu had me confirm those recent events again. She felt she owed you an apology; you shouldn’t have had to endure those things.”
“…All of that is in the past. Let’s both look forward.” Luo Yan didn’t want to mention it again; she felt it was useless now that the dust had settled.
She just needed to investigate those victimized Omegas to prevent any more bad things from happening.
“Miss Luo, can you really let it go? Time cannot wash away everything.”
But Luo Yan didn’t answer this time and headed toward the elevator.
“Quick! The patient’s pheromones are abnormal! Inject the stabilizer immediately!”
Just as Luo Yan was about to leave, a doctor’s urgent voice came from the ward. The other nurse was also very nervous, monitoring the data: “We already injected it; we can’t inject any more!”
“Where is her Alpha?”
“I just saw her in the corridor.”
“Quick! Find her and bring her back!”
Luo Yan: “…”
…
So, however reluctantly, Luo Yan’s ward was arranged right next to Xue Wu’s. The doctor responsible for her also came over to check her wound and pheromone levels.
The hospital normally separated Alpha and Omega wards and wouldn’t let them stay together under normal circumstances to prevent accidents, so Luo Yan’s ward hadn’t been arranged here initially.
“The situation is stable today; keep it up.” The doctor finally relaxed after checking her. “It’s good for you to stay by your Omega’s side; even if you do nothing, she can keep your pheromone levels stable.”
“I am not her Alpha.” Luo Yan didn’t want to talk anymore and started seeing the guest out: “I’m tired; you should rest early too.”
The attending doctor: “…” She couldn’t help but offer a few more words of advice: “Although you had a conflict with Miss Xue, your own health is more important.”
“Mhm, okay. Goodnight.”
The attending doctor: “…” However, hearing that the neighboring ward had also stabilized, she could feel a bit more at ease. High-compatibility AOs could influence each other, even if Luo Yan did nothing and was simply present.
…
When Luo Yan said she was sleeping, she really was sleeping; she hadn’t lied to the doctor. However, her sleep wasn’t particularly peaceful, and she had one nightmare after another, which prevented her from resting well at all.
Suddenly, something cool was placed on her forehead to wipe away her sweat, accompanied by her favorite pheromone scent. Luo Yan hadn’t woken from the nightmare yet but instinctively grabbed the person’s hand.
The person’s movement stopped, as if waiting to see what she would do.
Luo Yan’s furrowed brow relaxed slightly. She seemed to struggle in her sleep and finally forced herself to wake up. Upon opening her eyes, she saw Xue Wu sitting before her in the dim light, with Luo Yan holding her warm, slender wrist.
It was so thin it felt as if it might snap.
In fact, Luo Yan actually did just that. She likely thought she was still in a dream and could act as she pleased. However, when she felt a slight ‘crack’ from the wrist in her palm and saw the Omega sitting before her frown slightly, she knew she wasn’t dreaming—this was real.
She immediately let go of her hand, sat up, and asked with a frown: “What are you doing?”
“Can’t sleep.” The Omega before her was also wearing a hospital gown; the gauze on her forehead had been removed, leaving a striking scar that pained Luo Yan to see.
“Coming to me won’t help if you can’t sleep,” she said heartlessly.
“Were you just having a nightmare? I was too.” Xue Wu didn’t answer her question but spoke to herself.
“…That’s none of my business.” She lay back down and began seeing the guest out: “I’m going to sleep; you should leave.”
“Yanyan, it’s good that you’re still alive.” Xue Wu didn’t force her to talk, or rather, she was talking to herself the whole time, not caring about her response.
“…” Luo Yan pretended not to hear, even though she could guess she likely had a nightmare and came over to confirm she was still alive.
She had done many similar foolish things herself.
Xue Wu remained sitting quietly. Her gaze, which felt almost physical, was impossible to ignore. Even if Luo Yan tried to force herself to sleep, it seemed impossible. She opened her eyes under the covers, thought for three seconds, then sat up again to look at her: “If you have something to say, say it all at once. And don’t lie or pretend to faint to fool me again in the future.”
“Can you give me a chance to make amends?” Xue Wu seemed to have been brewing this sentence for a long time; as soon as Luo Yan spoke, she voiced it.
“…I don’t think that’s necessary, is it?” Luo Yan hadn’t expected her to say this and was extremely surprised.
“Why isn’t it necessary? We simply can’t let go of each other.” Even from the perspective of pheromone compatibility, it was very difficult to completely cut ties.
“You don’t have to give me any response, but please don’t refuse me,” Xue Wu continued, sounding like both a request and a direct command, very overbearing.
Luo Yan laughed: “Miss Xue, you must have heard the saying—no matter how perfectly a cracked cup is repaired, there will always be a crack—”
“But that crack can also be very beautiful, can’t it?”
“…That’s just sophistry.”
“I went to see those two Omegas. The things they said were truly unpleasant, especially Hao Ya. She also mentioned the pheromone interferent will last for at least a month. If you still don’t want to forgive me a month from now, I will destroy my gland and leave voluntarily, never to appear before you again.”
“…Why go to such lengths?” Luo Yan hadn’t expected her to say this and widened her eyes in shock.
Xue Wu laughed and reached out to wipe the lingering sweat from Luo Yan’s forehead, “Anyway—living isn’t really that interesting.”
“You know I’ll be soft-hearted, so you say that to ask for my forgiveness?” Luo Yan heard a trace of self-abandonment in her words: “But it’s truly unnecessary. You weren’t actually wrong in this matter, and neither was I. The mistake is that we simply aren’t a match.”
“Like… I thought before that you would go public with our relationship, or at the very least acknowledge that I’m your Alpha when you were on that call with Zhong Ting, but you didn’t—”
Luo Yan reached this point and didn’t want to continue. She felt miserable. It wasn’t that she absolutely needed a formal status, but… wasn’t that a basic rule in the ABO world? Was it so hard to acknowledge her? Since she was so difficult to present in her heart, there was truly no need to start.
Forcing a beginning… their current situation was the outcome.
“It wasn’t that I wouldn’t acknowledge you…” Xue Wu hadn’t expected her to still be dwelling on this. Recalling her various anomalies before, she realized… they had already had a conflict back then. It was truly unexpected.
“The reason doesn’t really matter anymore. I don’t care.” She just felt better after saying it out loud.
“How could you not care?” Xue Wu felt that if she didn’t care, she wouldn’t have kept this matter in her heart and waited until now to say it: “How could you not care…”
“I didn’t tell her, didn’t publicly acknowledge you, and didn’t even mention you to my adoptive parents and younger sister because I didn’t want them to cause unnecessary trouble for you.” Their greed and malice… she had endured enough of it in her previous life. Her adoptive parents owed others a lot of money right now; otherwise, they wouldn’t look for her so frequently and ask for money to pay their debts, even going as far as to smear her with rumors.
And her adoptive sister wouldn’t be competing in the entertainment industry for fame and fortune, and then coming to her for help because her family’s background wasn’t strong enough to back her.
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