After Signing a Marking Agreement with the Abstinent Omega - Chapter 12

Even after she parked the car at the company, Lin Wumo’s words were still echoing in Xie Queyou’s mind.

Practical experience.

Practical experience!

She covered her face and sat at her workstation, so worried that mushrooms might start growing on her head.

Although she and Yun Wangqing had officially signed the marking agreement and become partners who would help each other…

What practical experience could she possibly have?

She was only a little Alpha who could not even control the release of her own pheromones.

With her mind full of this matter, Xie Queyou secretly opened her phone during work hours and searched:

What should an Alpha do if they scare an Omega during marking?

After thinking about it, she deleted a few words and typed again:

What should an Alpha pay attention to if an Omega’s gland is sensitive during marking?

The search results were all over the place, and there were even ads pushing medicine.

Xie Queyou skimmed through them and saw a post titled: As an Alpha, How to Make an Omega Feel Safe During Marking.

She clicked into it. The original poster had written a long post.

They described how they and their girlfriend had run into some problems during their first marking. Later, they realized the key issue was that in the early stage, one should not go straight for the gland. Instead, the Omega should first be allowed to adapt to intimacy.

Do not be too anxious. Suppress the Alpha instinct and let the other person feel that you are not impatiently taking from them, but that you care about them.

The post ended with a profound sentence:

Marking is something between two people. You have to make the other person feel cherished, not possessed.

Xie Queyou’s expression turned serious as she carefully read the post three times.

Just as she was about to read it for the fourth time—

“What are you looking at?”

A thunderclap seemed to explode out of nowhere. Xie Queyou shivered all over and hurriedly flipped her phone face down.

She looked up and saw Wan Yanyu wearing a complicated expression.

“How to make an Omega feel safe during marking. Xie Queyou, you have an O.” Her tone was certain.

Xie Queyou almost immediately denied it. “I don’t. I just broke up. How could it be that fast?”

“Then why are you looking at this? During work hours, too.” Wan Yanyu clearly did not believe her. She sat across from her, propped up her chin, and thought carefully.

“I already felt something was off about you these past two days. You just broke up, but you’ve been cheerful every day like you lost your mind. So it turns out you have a new girlfriend.”

“Let me guess. After breaking up with your girlfriend, you were too heartbroken and went drinking, then met a considerate older sister…”

Seeing that she was guessing farther and farther off, black lines appeared on Xie Queyou’s forehead. “With that imagination, you should become a screenwriter. Perfect timing, our company just had a screenwriter resign.”

Wan Yanyu asked, “You really don’t?”

Xie Queyou shook her head. “You misunderstood. I was searching Alpha-related things, and the algorithm pushed it to me.”

“I just broke up. It’s impossible for me to find a girlfriend this quickly. And for a long time after this, I won’t be looking for one either.”

Yun Wangqing and she only had an agreement relationship. Yun Wangqing was not her girlfriend.

She had already signed a marking agreement with Yun Wangqing. Although the agreement did not mention the state of their relationships during the contract period, Xie Queyou was someone who did not allow her body and mind to be inconsistent.

It was best not to date at all.

Seeing her so certain, Wan Yanyu lost her curiosity and started talking business. “The script you were managing before has already been revised as quickly as possible by the screenwriter. Now all that’s left is finding a team and actors.”

Xie Queyou understood. “I’ve already found a team. They’re a new team, but I looked at their previous work and thought it was pretty good. As for actors, I already asked operations to release the recruitment notice two days ago.”

Wan Yanyu raised her brow. “Pretty fast.”

After saying that, she seemed to think of something and sighed. “Thanks to you before, most of the money invested in this project was swept away. The company doesn’t have much funding left either.” She counted on her fingers.

“When choosing actors, if we want traffic, we don’t have the budget. If we want acting skills, there’s no buzz. If we want cheap, no one knows them. What a headache.”

Xie Queyou suddenly thought of the investment Yun Wangqing had promised. “I’ll handle that. I secured an investment. It should arrive soon.”

Wan Yanyu suddenly raised her head. “Where did you get it from? The headquarters? Your sister gave it to you? No, with the way your sister looks down on the two of us, if she gave us investment, the sun would rise from the west.”

Xie Queyou strongly agreed with that statement. “It wasn’t her. It was someone I met at a banquet before. She read the script and said she liked it, so she invested some money.”

Although the rest was made up, she had indeed met Yun Wangqing at the banquet.

So it did not really count as lying.

Wan Yanyu suddenly stood up and strode over, shaking her shoulders. “Not bad, Xie Queyou. You really found investment. This is great.”

“I’m going to send you over to become her lover Alpha!”

Xie Queyou laughed. “I’m a proper producer.”

Wan Yanyu asked, “Have you ever produced something improper?”

Xie Queyou: “…”

Wan Yanyu stopped teasing her and continued along the topic, giving her a reminder.

“But recently, be careful of Wen Jing. After I dug out the mole she planted in the company last time, she threw a huge fit.”

“I went to the Xie family’s old residence two days ago and found that she was there too. Most likely, she went looking for you. I really don’t get it. Why is she so hung up on you?”

“Looking for me?” Xie Queyou frowned slightly, then shook her head and refuted Wan Yanyu’s guess.

“She wasn’t there to look for me.”

Wan Yanyu asked, “Then who else could she be looking for? Other than you, she doesn’t really know anyone in the Xie family, right? Anyway, be careful. Don’t let her cling to you again.”

Xie Queyou could only nod.

Just then, her phone suddenly rang. Xie Queyou escaped Wan Yanyu’s grip and opened her phone.

Y: [You left your coat at my place.]

Attached was a photo of the dark coat Xie Queyou had worn there today.

Xie Queyou lowered her head and typed on her phone: [Then please put it away for me. I’ll get it next time we meet.]

Y: [Wednesday?]

Xie Queyou looked at that date, and her gaze felt as if it had been scalded. Even her control over her fingers became sluggish.

[Mm. Wednesday.]

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The words in the chat box had long since stopped changing. The screen darkened, then lit up again whenever Yun Wangqing’s fingertip occasionally touched it.

She had already finished work and was sitting on the living room sofa. The kitten was comfortably curled up in her arms.

But only a few hours had passed, and the lime scent that had originally filled the air was slowly being drawn away with time, becoming thin and faint.

Yun Wangqing leaned back into the sofa and tore off the suppressant patch at the back of her neck, letting her gland absorb the few remaining traces of pheromones in the air.

The cedar scent that had been suppressed for so long instantly surged out, merging with the faint lime. It clamored with fondness and longing, while also complaining that its owner always deprived it and refused to let it be satisfied.

The hand Yun Wangqing used to hold her phone tightened again and again. Her cheeks burned faintly.

After she signed the agreement with Xie Queyou, Lin Wumo told her that as long as they marked several times, her illness would soon be brought under control.

She had spent countless days and nights enduring the flare-ups of pheromone rejection disorder, falling into the cage of desire, watching the night outside slowly turn white.

The next marking was scheduled for Wednesday, but Yun Wangqing did not know whether she could truly complete the marking with Xie Queyou on Wednesday.

She was used to enduring everything alone. Xie Queyou’s appearance had been something she had never expected.

When someone suddenly had to spend the long night with her, her first reaction was resistance.

That night, when the Alpha said she would help her through her pseudo-heat, the first thing Yun Wangqing thought of was to tell Xie Queyou to leave first.

She wondered if that had hurt the little Alpha’s feelings.

People always instinctively resisted fields they had never touched before. Yun Wangqing was the same. She was afraid of exposing her unbearable side in front of another person.

The gland at the back of her neck grew hotter and hotter with the fluctuations of her emotions. Yun Wangqing’s breathing gradually became rapid, and her consciousness was tugged by pheromones, wanting the Alpha’s comfort.

She reached out and grabbed the neatly folded coat beside her, the one that belonged to Xie Queyou.

The coat was loose and very large. Yun Wangqing buried her face into it, like a drowning person grabbing the only piece of driftwood that could save her.

That sweet, cool lime scent instantly crashed into her breathing, carrying the unique warmth of that Alpha as it drilled straight into the depths of her gland, entwining and fusing with her.

“Mm…”

Yun Wangqing finally could not suppress it. Her brows furrowed slightly, and her fingers clenched so hard that her knuckles turned white. A short, extremely restrained sound spilled from her throat.

After a long while, the entangled cedar and lime in the room finally calmed.

Yun Wangqing opened her eyes. Her long lashes were damp with sweat, and the lingering afterglow had not yet faded from her dark pupils.

Her body told her more clearly than her mind could: she desired Xie Queyou.

The coat was held tightly in her arms, wrinkled beyond recognition. Some parts had already become damp, turning noticeably darker than the rest.

Before their next meeting, she would have to wash it clean before giving it back.

The phone beside her rang. She thought Xie Queyou had something else to ask her and opened it.

It was a message from her assistant.

[Sister Yun, this is your schedule for next week. The Xie family wants to invite you to a private dinner on Wednesday.]

Yun Wangqing steadied her breathing and typed: [Xie Rong’an?]

Assistant: [Yes.]

The light from the screen reflected on Yun Wangqing’s pale yet flushed face. Her fingertip moved slightly, hovering above the screen for a few seconds before finally landing.

[If it isn’t important, decline it.]