Chapter 28
The moment those words fell, Xie Queyou’s gaze immediately began to drift. She lowered her head and looked at Yun Wangqing’s hands resting on her knees.
Yun Wangqing narrowed her eyes. “What? You came to my house this late at night, and you’re still unwilling to tell me the reason?”
Xie Queyou swallowed. She had never lied before. She took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself.
Then she raised her head pitifully, tears welling in her eyes, about to fall but not quite.
“I… I was kicked out.”
Yun Wangqing’s teasing expression instantly froze, and she suddenly stood up from the bed. “Who? Xie Rong’an?”
Xie Queyou nodded heavily. “Mm.” She lied without even drafting it first.
“She’s been PUA-ing me all this time, saying I’m useless, and then she kicked me out.”
She took a step forward, moving closer to Yun Wangqing. The shadow cast by the light enveloped the woman on the bed, and a few tears squeezed out from the slightly drooping corners of her eyes.
“I didn’t know where to go, so I could only come find you.”
Look, someone like Xie Rong’an, who only knows how to PUA people and is selfish to the core, even kicked out her own younger sister.
What is so good about her?
So, don’t like her, and don’t enter a marriage alliance with her, okay?
Xie Queyou nearly ground her teeth to pieces.
Someone like Xie Rong’an could act however she wanted just because she was the protagonist.
The thought that in the future, Yun Wangqing would enter a marriage alliance with someone like that, marry her, be trapped in that small corner of the Xie family, and might even be PUA-ed by Xie Rong’an until she sadly blamed herself—
The anger in Xie Queyou’s heart nearly burned her to ashes.
She only hated that she had not let Yun Wangqing see that person’s true face, had not made Yun Wangqing completely cut ties with her.
Yun Wangqing quietly looked at the Alpha in front of her. Faced with Xie Queyou’s grievance and timidness, she did not feel sad. Instead, her lips curved.
She was an actress. One could even say she was among the top tier of actors in the entertainment industry. She could see through the smallest expressions on anyone’s face.
For someone like Xie Queyou, she could tell at a glance that the other party was lying.
The corners of her eyes lifted slightly. Yun Wangqing half-lowered her eyes and, while Xie Queyou was panicking and not paying attention to her, revealed an expression of watching a show.
Xie Queyou mixed truths and lies as she said a pile of bad things about Xie Rong’an. She spoke until her mouth was dry, then raised her head and looked at Yun Wangqing.
“So, I could only come find you.”
Yun Wangqing withdrew her “let’s see how you make this up” expression at just the right moment and revealed the perfect amount of concern that Xie Queyou had imagined.
“How could she do that?” Her tone was very angry.
Xie Queyou’s heart jumped. She felt she had succeeded halfway. Her eyes curved, but when she looked at Yun Wangqing, she returned to that wronged appearance.
“Exactly. And she even treated you like that. She’s really scum!”
That sentence was sincere.
Xie Queyou leaned closer and crouched beside Yun Wangqing, revealing those clear, large eyes as she stared directly at the woman.
“Don’t get close to her anymore. And don’t… with her…”
Halfway through, her tone suddenly turned fierce, adding a few traces of gritted hatred.
“Enter a marriage alliance.”
On the rainy road here, Xie Queyou had thought a lot. She had thought of the plot when she transmigrated into this book, thought of Yun Wangqing’s predetermined death, and thought of her own ending.
After thinking and thinking, it was simply that she was too afraid Yun Wangqing would repeat the same mistakes, afraid that interfering with the plot would cause a butterfly effect.
All of Xie Queyou’s guesses were based on the original novel. In the original, Xie Rong’an was indeed this kind of scumbag in the early stage. Otherwise, she would not have met the protagonist shou and treated her as Yun Wangqing’s substitute.
But what right did Xie Rong’an have to marry such a wonderful Yun Wangqing, just because she was the protagonist?
An unnamed fire burned in Xie Queyou, and she was mad with jealousy.
She did not want Yun Wangqing to marry Xie Rong’an. She absolutely did not want it.
She suddenly thought that if Yun Wangqing did not enter a marriage alliance with Xie Rong’an, couldn’t she still become the white moonlight?
It was not as if a white moonlight only became a white moonlight after death. A white moonlight had always been a white moonlight.
According to the plot’s setting, the marriage alliance between the Xie and Yun families was the will of the families. Xie Queyou had only just transmigrated into the book and had not yet found her footing, so she was powerless to interfere.
But on Yun Wangqing’s side, she could still whisper in her ear.
Coming back to herself, Xie Queyou looked at Yun Wangqing and spoke.
“In short, she’s a terrible person. She’s scum. And her pheromones are disgusting. If you can avoid contact with her, then don’t contact her.”
After she finished speaking, Yun Wangqing lowered her head. Her ink-dark eyes met hers, seeming to hide a depth that could see through everything.
The room fell into dead silence. Only the wind and rain howled outside the window.
Xie Queyou nervously clenched her fists, waiting for Yun Wangqing’s final verdict as if she were being sliced apart.
“You seem to always think I’ll marry her?” Yun Wangqing spoke. She did not agree, nor did she refuse. She only asked in return.
Xie Queyou froze. “Huh?”
Wasn’t that the truth? It was written in black and white in the original novel.
Could it be that the novel’s plot had not yet reached the point where the two families discussed the marriage alliance, so Yun Wangqing also did not know they would enter one?
That was perfect. Before Yun Wangqing knew, she could make Yun Wangqing completely stay away from Xie Rong’an.
Thinking this, Xie Queyou cleared her throat. “A marriage alliance is only one possibility. I just don’t want you to have contact with her.”
Yun Wangqing smiled. Xie Queyou had lied and circled around the topic so much just to keep her from getting close to Xie Rong’an.
Her intuition told her that Xie Queyou’s words definitely did not mean only that. Last time, when she had gotten close to Xie Rong’an, Xie Queyou had also bristled all over like a hedgehog raising its spines.
She did not want her to meet Xie Rong’an. This unwillingness had already become so strong that even mentioning Xie Rong’an’s name made her angry.
This person already cared about her to this extent?
This feeling of being valued by someone else was something she had never experienced before.
She was so fascinated by Xie Queyou’s concern for her that all the blood in her body trembled along with the Alpha’s gaze.
Something in her body seemed to be clamoring, telling her to lock down this gaze and allow it to look only at her.
“I don’t know how to answer you about this.”
Xie Queyou’s clear eyes quickly dimmed. Sure enough, the original plot could not be broken so easily.
She heard the sound of her own heart shattering. Could Yun Wangqing’s ending not be changed?
Xie Queyou’s mind was a mess, all her thoughts focused on what to do. Then she suddenly heard Yun Wangqing continue.
“After all, the two families have just begun cooperating. There definitely won’t be few occasions where we meet in the future.”
Yun Wangqing lowered her head, hiding the inappropriate morbidity in her eyes. Her tone softened as much as possible, trying not to let Xie Queyou notice anything unusual.
When she raised her head again, tears had also gathered in her eyes. She caught Xie Queyou’s wrist, and a hot tear fell on the back of her hand, burning into her heart.
Her voice was so soft it could drip water.
“I don’t want to smell her pheromones either, but…”
“So every time we meet from now on, you stay with me.”
“All right?”
Her gaze carried restraint and pleading, treating Xie Queyou as her final hope of escaping the mire.
Xie Queyou took a deep breath. Something clamored and boiled in her heart, making heat rise through her whole body. The corners of her eyes reddened completely.
“Okay. I won’t let her get close to you!”
She gritted her teeth deeply, her hatred toward Xie Rong’an almost bursting out.
Her pheromones seemed to inherit their owner’s anger too. Part of them flew angrily back and forth through the air, while another part took the initiative to wrap around Yun Wangqing, telling her not to be sad.
Where Xie Queyou could not see, the corner of Yun Wangqing’s lips curved into a faint smile.
—
After the discussion ended, Xie Queyou had barely slept all night. Sleepiness and heat swept over her, and she returned to that obedient appearance.
Clutching the sleeve of the sleep shirt, she smiled obediently at Yun Wangqing.
“Okay. Then I’ll go to the guest room and rest first.”
Yun Wangqing frowned. Under Xie Queyou’s gaze, she suddenly walked toward her by several steps.
Then a warm hand covered her forehead.
So soft. So fragrant. How could every part of Yun Wangqing make her this happy?
Xie Queyou thought dazedly, looking straight at Yun Wangqing and only curving her lips in a smile.
Yun Wangqing lowered her hand, her brows already furrowed.
“Why are you suddenly this hot?” She glanced at Xie Queyou and saw Xie Queyou looking at her with a face full of fondness, smiling. Yun Wangqing became thoughtful.
She reached out and pulled this fool by the wrist, drawing her into her arms. Leaning closer to the other woman’s neck, sure enough, she smelled that burning-hot and intense lime scent.
“Your rut has arrived,” she said.
Xie Queyou’s mind was sluggish, and she repeated after her, word by word. “Rut… has… arrived.”
No wonder my whole body feels hot, and I feel like my consciousness is floating a little. So my rut has arrived.
Because the room was filled everywhere with the scent of their pheromones, and Xie Queyou was also wearing Yun Wangqing’s clothes, she had been wrapped in cedar from the beginning. She had not even noticed that her own pheromones were actually this hot.
It lit up her neck and followed her blood into her brain. Xie Queyou could not help hugging the woman in her arms, who had softened like a snake.
“Yun Wangqing, why do your pheromones smell so good?”
She lowered her head. Her long hair fell over the two of them, brushing back and forth with her movements and making Yun Wangqing extremely ticklish.
“All right, all right. Rest on the bed, okay? I’ll go find a doctor for you.”
There were no Alpha rut medicines at home, and Yun Wangqing also did not know what should be done during a rut. She could only first coax this large Alpha into sitting properly, then call Lin Wumo to ask.
Although Xie Queyou was very obsessed with the scent on Yun Wangqing’s body, when she heard Yun Wangqing say she was leaving, she pouted in grievance.
But the reason she still had left knew that she had come here and caused trouble for Yun Wangqing. She had to listen to Yun Wangqing, or else she would be thrown out.
Reluctantly, she let go.
“Then I’ll wait for you.” She walked to the door and was about to open it.
Yun Wangqing called out to her, “Where are you going?”
Xie Queyou was dazed. “To the guest room.”
If she did not sleep in the guest room, was she supposed to sleep beside Yun Wangqing?
Although she wanted that very much too, it was simply impossible.
The scene in the Hengdian break room was still vivid in her mind. The loneliness and hurt in Yun Wangqing’s expression before she left still stung Xie Queyou’s heart now.
She was so guilty it hurt. She knew Yun Wangqing was angry with her, so she did not dare hope that she could sleep together with Yun Wangqing again.
At least, she did not dare now.
Yun Wangqing was truly amused by her. Sometimes she really felt she was no longer young and could not keep up with young people’s thinking. Why was this person still paying attention to this at a time like this?
She walked over, rubbed Xie Queyou’s face, and her eyes held a smile, as if an entire spring had been lit up.
“You’re already in rut, yet you’re still thinking of going to the guest room? What is it about the guest room that fascinates you so much?”
Clearly, the guest room and master bedroom had exactly the same furniture. How was Xie Queyou somehow so attached to the guest room?
“Be good. Rest properly on the bed. I’ll come back in a moment.”
Xie Queyou was made numb all over by her lingering tone. Her consciousness surrendered to the sky full of cedar before her body did.
She lay on the bed. This was the place where Yun Wangqing had been lying just now. It still held the warmth of her body, and even the cedar scent was much richer than in other places.
She liked it so much, so much!
No matter how much she smelled it, it did not feel like enough.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in, scattering the cold fragrance filling the room.
Xie Queyou abruptly raised her eyes and stared at the ventilating window Yun Wangqing had just opened, fury burning in her gaze.
Hateful window. It actually dared to steal Yun Wangqing’s scent from me.
Not allowed, not allowed!
She angrily rushed over and closed the window, even baring her teeth at her own reflection in the glass.
Mine!
She twitched her nose and smelled the cedar in the room. It was no longer as rich as before.
She was so angry she wanted to cry.
She wanted more. She wanted more of Yun Wangqing’s scent.
Xie Queyou thought hazily, her whole body burning. Only one thought remained in her mind.
She wanted to wrap all of Yun Wangqing’s pheromones around herself.
And so, when Yun Wangqing returned after making the call and pushed open the door, what she saw was a messy bed.
And an abrupt Alpha on the bed, gathering the quilt into a half-circle shape and curling herself inside it. Her long arms hugged it tightly, and her head was buried inside as she sniffed in satisfaction.
Yun Wangqing: “…”
She pressed a hand to her forehead. She really should have Lin Wumo come over and take a look.
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