Chapter 26

When Yun Wangqing woke again, what she saw was a white ceiling and, in the center of her vision, a pair of anxious dog-like eyes.

“You’re finally awake. How do you feel now?” Xie Queyou immediately let out a breath of relief and handed her the warm water prepared beside her.

Yun Wangqing blinked and struggled to speak. “Where is this?”

Xie Queyou said, “It’s a small lounge above the banquet hall. Not many people come here.”

She supported the back of Yun Wangqing’s neck and brought the warm water to her lips. “Drink some water. I asked the server to prepare some porridge for you.”

Yun Wangqing was taken care of by her as she drank half a glass of water, then was fed a bowl of porridge.

Throughout the whole process, Xie Queyou looked serious and exceptionally attentive, as if she were taking care of some delicate, fragile treasure.

With something in her stomach, Yun Wangqing no longer felt as uncomfortable, and her pale lips gradually gained some color.

Only then did Xie Queyou truly relax. “What happened after you two went in?”

Her brows furrowed, her tone becoming urgent, faint anger rising in it. “Did she hit you?”

When Yun Wangqing had collapsed into her arms just now, she had seen it.

There was an injury on Yun Wangqing’s face.

It had not been there before Yun Wangqing left her. After seeing Xie Rong’an, it appeared. If Xie Rong’an had not done it, who else could it be?

Xie Queyou felt her temples throbbing. Something pressed against her chest, wanting to burst out, and her eyes burned red.

“Beast!” she cursed under her breath.

Seeing this, Yun Wangqing held her wrist and gently rubbed it, telling her not to be so angry.

Xie Queyou’s reaction was too real. Her concern and pity for Yun Wangqing were also displayed without reservation.

Yun Wangqing was somewhat fascinated by her reaction. She pressed her lips together and did not hurry to explain.

“How do you feel now? Do you want to rest a little longer?” Xie Queyou looked at the time.

“It’s still early. Rest for a while first.”

Her stomach still hurt somewhat, so Yun Wangqing stayed in the room with her for a while longer. During this time, Xie Queyou released some pheromones to help the woman recover more quickly.

Another half an hour passed before the two finally prepared to leave.

Xie Queyou had already developed the good habit of eliminating pheromones anytime and anywhere. She took out the perfume she had bought before and sprayed it, then turned on the lounge’s fresh-air system.

Before long, the pheromones in the lounge had disappeared without a trace.

“Let’s go.” Her movements flowed smoothly as she supported Yun Wangqing by the arm and prepared to leave.

When they reached the door, they suddenly heard footsteps approaching from afar, accompanied by two familiar voices coming this way.

The two froze and looked at each other.

“Hide quickly.”

Yun Wangqing frowned unhappily. “Why do we always have to hide?”

To Xie Queyou, what exactly was so shameful about Yun Wangqing?

Xie Queyou felt as if her throat had been choked. She did not know how to explain. Was she supposed to say, I know you and Xie Rong’an are going to get married, and I also know I’ll be killed later, so I have to avoid you two?

While she was stunned, those two people had already reached the door and were about to push it open. Xie Queyou had no time to explain. She wrapped an arm around Yun Wangqing’s waist, picked her up, and carried her into the lounge bathroom.

After setting her steadily on the bailiantales.com floor, she looked up and sure enough saw Yun Wangqing’s displeased expression. Her heart felt as if it had been pricked by a needle.

“I’m sorry. I really can’t let Xie Rong’an know about our relationship. The Xie and Yun families are already discussing a marriage alliance. I don’t know if it will still proceed if she learns about our agreement.”

Yun Wangqing instinctively wanted to retort that the marriage alliance had already been canceled, but the two people outside did not give her a chance to speak. They had already pushed open the door and entered.

The repulsive sandalwood and peach scents instantly swept through the room, and Xie Queyou and Yun Wangqing both frowned.

Xie Queyou instinctively protected the woman in her arms and pressed her closer to herself, while her ears perked up sharply.

“Sister Rong’an, this is too sudden.” Wen Jing held Xie Rong’an tightly, leaning in her arms.

Her lips were blocked, and ambiguous pheromones flowed through the room.

“Sudden? With our relationship, this counts as sudden?” Xie Rong’an buried herself in the peach scent and said shamelessly, “Back then, while you were still dating that Beta, didn’t you already come to me? You don’t like this kind of relationship now?”

“Mm—you’re too rough. Why are you still bringing up that Beta? Isn’t that all in the past? She’s boring and stupid. How could she compare to you?”

Wen Jing endured the pain of the Alpha’s sharp teeth piercing her gland and curved her lips in pleasure.

More than ten minutes later, the noisy pheromones in the air finally stopped, and the two finally began talking about proper matters.

“Why exactly did you call me here?”

After her rut was soothed, Xie Rong’an’s voice softened quite a bit. “The Yun family joined together to play me. Am I not allowed to strike back? If they can cooperate with the Yun family, they can cooperate with the Wen family too. Substituting one thing for another—aren’t you Wen family people the best at that?”

After that, the two who had just marked each other discussed in the room how to transfer the project cooperating with the Yun family to the Wen family.

Xie Queyou and Yun Wangqing stood in the bathroom, pressed closely together. Hearing those two people’s voices, Xie Queyou hurriedly pressed her ear closer to the door, and her hand hanging at her side clenched extremely tightly.

She had wondered why Wen Jing was so arrogant and domineering in front of her. So it turned out Xie Rong’an was backing her up.

That beast Xie Rong’an even wanted to scheme against the Yun family!

Xie Queyou thought furiously, her brows furrowing together. At the same time, she suddenly thought of a plan.

Just as she was considering the plan’s feasibility, a pair of soft hands suddenly covered her ears.

Xie Queyou froze and looked down, meeting a pair of gentle eyes.

Yun Wangqing’s ink-dark pupils flowed with warmth. Her hands rested against Xie Queyou’s ears, making Xie Queyou look at her and stop listening to the voices outside.

Yun Wangqing was stopping her from hearing those hurtful words, afraid she would be sad and upset.

Xie Queyou’s heart felt as if a small stone had been dropped into it, creating faint ripples.

She slowly shook her head and told Yun Wangqing with her lips that she was fine.

Yun Wangqing did not move. She still covered Xie Queyou’s ears, looking very stubborn.

Xie Queyou could not help curving her eyes.

Not long after, the two irritating people outside finally left. Xie Queyou and Yun Wangqing also did not want to stay in the lounge filled with disgusting pheromones, so they pushed open the door and walked out.

When they reached a remote corridor, Xie Queyou looked at the marble-covered floor and still could not help speaking.

“You heard what they said just now. Xie Rong’an wants to frame you. I’m sorry. I didn’t expect her to go this far.”

Yun Wangqing said, “It’s fine. Whatever she wants to do, let her do it.”

She wished Xie Rong’an really would frame the Yun family. The already crumbling “Su family” was just missing her attempt to swap the crown prince.

But to Xie Queyou, these words sounded like Yun Wangqing was excusing Xie Rong’an.

Her steps paused, and she looked at Yun Wangqing in disbelief.

“You heard what they were saying in the lounge, right? Xie Rong’an was even with Wen Jing…”

A breath of frustration lodged in Xie Queyou’s chest, neither going up nor down. Her hand hanging by her side clenched, her nails digging deeply into her palm.

Did she love her that much?

Yun Wangqing pressed her lips together. “I heard.”

She was also very angry that Xie Queyou had suffered these things, but at the same time, she felt a trace of relief she should not have. If not for the breakup, she would not have met Xie Queyou so quickly.

The two of them were thinking about completely different things, so to Xie Queyou, these words were equivalent to Yun Wangqing being helpless and having no choice but to accept this arranged marriage alliance.

A towering anger burned from the soles of her feet to her head. Xie Queyou suddenly laughed in anger.

What kind of bullshit plot was this? Even after everything had become like this, it still arranged for Yun Wangqing and Xie Rong’an to enter a marriage alliance.

Bullshit plot!

She had never doubted Yun Wangqing’s judgment. She only felt that this plot that kept controlling everything was so disgusting—disgusting enough that she was full of anger and had nowhere to vent it.

She seemed to finally understand what that flame of anger she felt whenever she saw Xie Rong’an these past few days was.

That beast Xie Rong’an. If she were not the protagonist, would Read on BaiLianTales she even be worthy of a marriage alliance with Yun Wangqing?

Even if Xie Rong’an was the protagonist, even if Yun Wangqing was Xie Rong’an’s white moonlight, Xie Rong’an still could not treat Yun Wangqing like this!

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After the banquet ended, Xie Queyou returned home. It was too late, so Xie Wanyue directly changed clothes, washed up, and went to sleep.

Every time Xie Queyou returned to the Xie family home, she had gotten used to putting on two layers of suppressant patches from the research institute to prevent her pheromones from leaking.

She stood in the hall. Because of what had happened that night, her heart felt very gloomy, so she walked step by step toward the balcony of the main building, wanting to get some air.

Before she even got close, she smelled the sandalwood that made her nauseous.

“You can’t even find one Alpha? A bunch of useless trash!”

“There are only so many people around Yun Wangqing. She’s an Omega who can’t be marked, and everyone around her is a Beta. Is it really that hard to find one Alpha?”

“If you still can’t find them within three days, then don’t even think about keeping your jobs!”

Xie Rong’an angrily hung up the phone and hurled it to the ground. She took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a fierce drag. Only then did her mood become slightly smoother.

Suddenly hearing footsteps behind her, she frowned and turned around.

“Who allowed you to come to the main building?” She was angry, and her tone was completely impolite.

“This is my home too. What does it have to do with you where I want to go?” Xie Queyou stood in the shadowed part of the balcony. Seeing Xie Rong’an made her anger rise with nowhere to go.

Xie Rong’an suddenly felt that the current Xie Queyou was a little different from before, as if something about her had changed. She could not help looking at Xie Queyou a few more times, but the contempt rooted deep inside her had not changed.

Thinking of something, she took a drag of her cigarette and ordered Xie Queyou, who was standing in the corner.

“Haven’t you been filming in Qianlin recently?”

“I’ll give you a job. Watch Yun Wangqing. See if she has any contact with other Alphas. Report every person she comes into contact with to me. After it’s done, I’ll give that little company of yours some resources so it can survive.”

Xie Queyou raised a brow, a bit of vigilance rising in her heart. “Alpha? You even know there’s an Alpha around Yun Wangqing?”

Xie Rong’an frowned. “Nonsense. She is my… fiancée. Although she has some hidden illness, I can’t despise her for it.”

Fiancée.

Xie Queyou narrowed her eyes. “Your fiancée.” She carefully chewed over those words, her tone growing lighter and lighter.

Xie Rong’an did not notice unauthorized copyanything abnormal about her. After thinking for a moment, she named a date.

“On that day, Yun Wangqing had pheromones on her when I ran into her. So start checking from that date onward. You don’t need to care about anything before then.”

“And Yun Wangqing will also be your sister-in-law in the future. You’re doing this for the Xie family too.”

Xie Queyou’s brows jumped.

This date…

Memories seemed to be unlocked. That day, Yun Wangqing had suddenly entered heat. Her gland had been terrifyingly deficient, and her whole body had softened in Xie Queyou’s arms, even her breathing burning hot.

At the time, Xie Queyou had thought it was a sudden, early flare-up of her rejection disorder. She had even blamed herself for not taking good care of her.

So this was the reason.

So it had not been sudden. Someone had forced it out.

So Yun Wangqing had gone through all this that day. Her gland had been forcibly stimulated, and her body had uncontrollably fallen into pain.

And what about herself?

What had she been doing? Feeling wronged because of Yun Wangqing’s distance, suffering because of Yun Wangqing’s read the original at bailiantales.com attitude, wondering whether Yun Wangqing cared about her.

Of course Yun Wangqing cared. She had been forced into heat by Xie Queyou’s own biological sister, yet she had not rejected Xie Queyou. She had dragged that body to find Xie Queyou and entrusted her most fragile gland to her, only to receive Xie Queyou’s restraint and distance in return.

Xie Queyou’s mind was full of Yun Wangqing’s helpless, suffering appearance from that day. Her breathing felt as if someone had choked it, and overwhelming heartache burned through her consciousness.

More terrible than heartache was belated heartache.

The hand hanging at Xie Queyou’s side began to tremble. She still remembered how cautious she had been while marking Yun Wangqing, afraid of biting too hard and hurting her, afraid that too much pheromone would make her faint.

And Xie Rong’an?

Xie Rong’an had caused her to fall into rejection disorder.

Such a wonderful Yun Wangqing had been treated like this by her.

Anger surged upward from her stomach like flames. But the angrier she became, the calmer she was instead.

“I’m doing this for the Xie family? Sister, are you underestimating me too much, or overestimating yourself?”

Xie Rong’an frowned and had not yet had time to scold her when Xie Queyou stepped forward.

It was only walking, yet Xie Rong’an felt an enormous pressure, forcing her to take half a step Read on BaiLianTalesback. When she reacted, anger immediately ignited.

She had actually felt an aura that made her afraid from this lowly Beta.

“You keep saying it’s for the Xie family, but in reality, the marriage alliance with the Yun family is to fill the hole you created with those overseas shell companies, isn’t it?”

Xie Queyou walked over and elegantly straightened Xie Rong’an’s wind-wrinkled collar. Her voice was very low, but every word was like a blade scraping across Xie Rong’an’s heart.

Xie Rong’an’s brows tightened. “You… investigated me?”

“If you don’t want people to know, then don’t do it. I simply didn’t want to get involved. That doesn’t mean I know nothing.”

Xie Queyou stood in the darkness before Xie Rong’an. Anger made her consciousness exceptionally clear, and the contents of the original novel’s plot all surfaced in her mind.

In the original plot, after Xie Rong’an and Yun Wangqing entered a marriage alliance, the two families cooperated. After Yun Wangqing passed away, Xie Rong’an swallowed up the Yun family’s influence and used it to fill the overseas deficit.

She had merely asked Wan Yanyu to look into it. She had not expected that it would really be uncovered.

And she had also only found out not long ago that in the last board election, Wan Yanyu had actually been only one vote behind Xie Rong’an.

“Before teaching others how to do things, first think about whether you yourself are clean.” Xie Queyou had a smile on her lips, but her gaze at Xie Rong’an carried sharp needles.

“You haven’t seen the news yet, have you? The headline from ten minutes ago.”

Xie Rong’an froze, clearly seeing some bad sign in her eyes.

She hurriedly took out her phone and opened it, only to see a news item prominently appearing in her phone’s recommended messages.

Xie Group, Overseas Deficit.

Her expression suddenly tightened. She clicked in frantically, and the comments below had instantly increased by thousands and tens of thousands.

[Isn’t Xie Group very powerful? How did they lose so much money overseas?]

[Who dug this out? They’re amazing. This is simply too horrible to look at.]

[Looks like these companies were all led by Xie Rong’an herself. Didn’t expect her to lose this much money. She’s in trouble now.]

[Can she still sit in the CEO’s high position during next year’s board election?]

Xie Rong’an stared fixedly at the contents, her eyes red. These things she had hidden so well had actually been dug out. She suddenly looked at Xie Queyou across from her.

“You did this?”

She suddenly walked over and grabbed Xie Queyou’s collar. “What are you trying to do? What good does [Read on BaiLianTales]bringing me down do you?”

Xie Queyou lowered her eyes and glanced at the hand gripping her collar, then lazily lifted her gaze.

“You don’t know why I’m doing this?”

“On one hand, you want to marry Yun Wangqing as your wife. On the other, you’re hooking up with your younger sister’s girlfriend.”

“Xie Rong’an, you want too much.”

She broke free from Xie Rong’an’s hand. Under Xie Rong’an’s deathly stare, she took out a phone.

Her fingertips tapped on it a few times, and Xie Rong’an and Wen Jing’s voices suddenly came from the speaker.

It was what they had said in the lounge tonight.

Xie Rong’an’s pupils shrank. She instinctively wanted to snatch it, but Xie Queyou avoided her.

Xie Queyou did not even look at her. She let the phone recording play until the moment the two of them began marking, then turned it off. She put the phone back into her pocket and spoke unhurriedly.

“If I hadn’t happened to pass by, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have heard such a wonderful conversation. What a pity. I couldn’t help going to throw up halfway through listening to you two, so I didn’t record everything.”

“My dear good sister, tell me, if tomorrow’s headline is that Read on BaiLianTalesthe eldest daughter of a wealthy family colluded with her younger sister’s girlfriend, how much do you think the Xie family’s stock will fall?”

“With tonight’s recording, plus this news, guess how Xie Group’s internal people will judge you. And when that happens, will the Yun family you want to marry into still agree to this marriage?”

Xie Rong’an’s face, which had still been angry moments ago, froze instantly because of her words.

“Xie Queyou, you dare threaten me?” Xie Rong’an’s voice trembled with anger, finding it unbelievable that she had actually been suppressed by a Beta she looked down upon.

Xie Rong’an was an extremely selfish elitist. In her eyes, Omegas were only toys for amusement, while power, face, and the right to inherit the Xie family were her life!

Xie Queyou’s words were no different from stepping directly on her landmine. She could not imagine being hung on the front page, condemned by thousands for stealing her younger sister’s girlfriend, judged as being inferior even to that younger sister she looked down on.

She could do it, but others could not say it.

That idiot Wen Jing. If she had not deliberately seduced me back then, why would I have to stand here saying these things to Xie Queyou now?

And this useless Beta—how dare she climb over my head!

“This isn’t a threat. I’m reminding you, Sister.” Xie Queyou straightened her clothes. The sandalwood clinging to them made her nose uncomfortable.

“When you do things, do them cleanly. Don’t eat from your bowl while eyeing what’s in the pot. Next time, it won’t be as simple as a reminder.”

Xie Rong’an stared fixedly at Xie Queyou. Those eyes that had always looked down on bailiantales.comothers finally revealed a hint of fear.

Monstrous anger clamored in her heart. Xie Queyou actually dared treat her like this. But for now, she could only temporarily lower her momentum and first go along with Xie Queyou.

“What do you want? Just because I took your girlfriend? You should know we are one entity. Taking me down does you no good.”

Money, shares in the Xie family—she could give them all.

Xie Queyou did not speak, only laughed softly. “I’m just a spoiled, useless second-generation rich kid. I do whatever I want. Your ambition is too great, so don’t reach your hand too far.”

What exactly was her goal? Even Xie Queyou herself did not know.

She only knew that whenever she thought of that person as cold and bright as moonlight suffering because of trash like Xie Rong’an, the anger in her heart could barely be restrained.