After Signing a Marking Agreement with the Abstinent Omega - Chapter 6

The sword of Damocles hanging over her head was finally about to fall. Whether she lived or died depended entirely on one word from Yun Wangqing.

As Xie Queyou was led forward by Yun Wangqing, this was the only thought filling her mind.

Had the resentment from the previous two times accumulated too much, so now it was all going to be settled at once?

Her second differentiation had happened too suddenly. Even now, she was not entirely clear on what had happened at the time.

But no matter what, Yun Wangqing had left too hastily last time. There were some things Xie Queyou had not had time to say to her, and they had been stuck in her heart, growing more and more clogged these past few days.

Xie Queyou thought the whole way, until Yun Wangqing led her into a room. The light that was switched on dazzled her eyes for a moment, and only then were her thoughts interrupted.

This was Xie Rong’an’s study.

Xie Queyou looked at Yun Wangqing in confusion, asking with her eyes what she meant.

Yun Wangqing had already sat down on a chair in the study. Her sitting posture was elegant and proper, as if it were carved into her bones, allowing no impropriety in any of her movements.

She was beautiful, like a proud and noble cat.

Yun Wangqing’s eyes were also beautiful. Her dark pupils seemed capable of containing all things. The slightly upturned corners of her eyes carried a feeling that was both cool and gentle, always making people feel at ease.

Xie Queyou’s heart slowly calmed. She pressed her lips together, clasped her hands tightly, and sat opposite Yun Wangqing.

“How has your gland been these past few days?”

Why did that sound like old lovers catching up? Xie Queyou’s expression stiffened for a few moments.

Yun Wangqing did not twist the ambiguous meaning in her words. “It’s been all right.”

Seeing the way Xie Queyou nervously tapped her clasped hands, Yun Wangqing relaxed a little. “You don’t have to be so nervous. I’m not going to kill you.”

You will!

Even if you don’t, Xie Rong’an will kill me! Xie Queyou screamed inwardly, though her face remained calm.

“About the marking, I still have to apologize to you. At the time, I didn’t expect that I would suddenly undergo a second differentiation either. In the end, it was still my problem. Whatever compensation you want from me, I’ll agree to it.”

As long as you don’t kill me, she silently added in her heart.

A trace of surprise appeared on Yun Wangqing’s face, as if she had not expected her to be so direct. At last, another emotion appeared on that face that always seemed cold and indifferent.

“I already made this clear to you at the time. It was mutually consensual. No one owes anyone an apology.”

Xie Queyou was puzzled. “You didn’t come here to talk to me about this?”

Yun Wangqing took a document envelope from the bag beside her and handed it to Xie Queyou.

“I came to see you because of the pheromone marking. I want to ask you to sign this agreement.”

“Because of certain circumstances, my gland rejects most Alpha pheromones, and you happen to be the exception.”

As Xie Queyou listened to her, she opened the document envelope and took out a file. Written clearly on it were the words:

Pheromone Treatment Agreement

Xie Queyou: “?”

After hearing Yun Wangqing’s explanation, Xie Queyou: “???”

After that day, Yun Wangqing had not gone to the hospital to wash off the mark, so her mark was still on Yun Wangqing’s body!

Xie Queyou’s entire body heated up with a whoosh.

When a person grew nervous, their mind became extremely active. She suddenly thought of the family banquet from a few days ago. When Xie Wanyue was chatting with Yun Wangqing, she had unintentionally mentioned Yun Wangqing’s illness.

At the time, she had only said that Yun Wangqing had been abroad receiving treatment, but had not clearly said what illness it was. And back then, Yun Wangqing had also glanced at her.

So it had not been her imagination. Yun Wangqing really was receiving treatment.

Xie Queyou opened the pheromone treatment agreement in her hands. Many clauses were listed inside, and the general contents matched what Yun Wangqing had said.

“You only need to follow the contents of the agreement and stay by my side to help relieve my symptoms when I enter heat or experience a rejection reaction. Alternatively, you may provide a temporary mark. Outside of those times, you are completely free.”

Yun Wangqing continued, “Correspondingly, as payment, I will give you an investment. I looked into your background before. Your company has only just started, and not long ago, it fell into a crisis. You need funding very much.”

“Xie Rong’an is a businesswoman. There are many small subsidiaries under the Xie Group. She won’t invest extra money into a company with a low rate of return. This agreement is a decent transaction for both of us.”

So Yun Wangqing had investigated her before. The corner of Xie Queyou’s eye twitched, but she said nothing.

She lowered her head and continued staring at the document, though she could not actually take in a single word. Her mind was blank.

Her fingers gripped the paper tightly, hard enough that her knuckles turned slightly white.

“This… is a little too sudden.”

One second ago, she had still been wondering whether Yun Wangqing would call the police and have her arrested. The next second, Yun Wangqing was asking her to continue maintaining this kind of intimate relationship with her.

“You can’t accept it?” Yun Wangqing’s voice softened slightly. She leaned forward, and the cool cedar fragrance on her body flooded toward Xie Queyou.

In an instant, her breathing was filled with that refreshing cold scent. Xie Queyou came back to herself, raised her head, and crashed into a pair of moist, glistening eyes.

Yun Wangqing was undoubtedly beautiful. Xie Queyou had once gone back and watched one of her movies. In it, she had played a tenacious and determined princess of a fallen kingdom. The scene where she wore blood-stained white clothes and walked step by step toward the imperial palace was so stunning it was suffocating.

Xie Queyou hurriedly turned her head aside, her cheeks somewhat red.

“Aren’t you going to enter a marriage alliance with Xie Rong’an? Marking is such a private matter. Are you really going to discuss it so openly with me?”

The original owner was a playgirl, but Xie Queyou was not. In the first twenty-three years of her life, she had never had an ambiguous relationship with anyone, let alone dated.

After coming to this world, no matter how dull she was, she knew that marking was something done between lovers.

Not to mention, this matter involved Yun Wangqing, who would later become her sister’s fiancée.

Just thinking about it made Xie Queyou’s heartbeat nearly leap out of her chest. She felt as though she was wildly testing the edge of death.

Yun Wangqing’s eyes darkened slightly, and she sat back.

“This is not marking. It is treatment.”

She looked at the document that had been wrinkled by Xie Queyou and spoke in a slow, explanatory tone. “The matter between Xie Rong’an and me has not been decided yet. Right now, we are only ordinary friends. You don’t need to feel any psychological burden. It is only treatment.”

She took a sip of water, her tone unhurried.

“To put it another way, to me, you are a very useful medicine. Medicine does not require feelings. You also do not need to take responsibility.”

She was only a medicine.

Xie Queyou carefully chewed over those words in her heart and unexpectedly tasted a trace of bitterness.

Of course she knew that Yun Wangqing and Xie Rong’an had only just met not long ago. According to the novel’s plotline, the earliest they would get engaged was this winter.

But Yun Wangqing did not know that the two of them would not get engaged. How could Xie Queyou, who already knew the plot, not know? Asking her to sign this agreement and risk danger with a clear conscience was something she could not accept right now.

Suppressing the strange feeling in her heart, she hesitated, her brows knitting together.

“I still can’t give you an answer right now. Give me a few days. By this weekend at the latest, I’ll reply to you.”

From the corner of her eye, she saw a pair of slender, well-defined hands push a glass of water in front of her. Yun Wangqing knew her hesitation and understood it. She did not press her step by step.

“That’s fine. After all, some clauses in the agreement do restrict you.”

“If you still feel it isn’t secure, we can draw up an agreement through a medical institution to guarantee your rights.”

Yun Wangqing glanced at the standing clock in the study and rose. “It’s getting late. I’ll leave first.”

Xie Queyou stood up. “You’re not waiting for Xie Rong’an to come back?”

Yun Wangqing’s gaze rested on her. “I came specifically to see you.”

Seeing Xie Queyou’s shocked expression, she realized that the Alpha in front of her had misunderstood. Yun Wangqing smiled faintly.

“Because I didn’t have your contact information. If I wanted to find you, aside from your company, I could only come to the Xie family.”

Only then did Xie Queyou suddenly come back to herself. Her face reddened unnaturally, and she coughed awkwardly.

“Then let’s add each other’s contact information. It’ll be convenient for later.”

Xie Queyou! What were you randomly thinking just now? Yun Wangqing came to talk to you about serious business!

After exchanging contact information with Yun Wangqing, the two left the study. Xie Queyou also turned on the study’s fresh air system on the way out.

Yun Wangqing said, “Doing this really makes it seem like there’s something between us.”

Xie Queyou pretended not to hear the other layer of meaning in her words. “It’s always better to be cautious.”

They walked along a small path all the way to the garden. Under the moonlight, there were only the shadows of the two of them. Neither spoke, until they were about to part. Xie Queyou threw away the flower petal she had thoroughly tormented in her hand and mustered a bit of courage.

“You said earlier that you reject most Alpha pheromones. What about Xie Rong’an’s?”

Yun Wangqing stopped and turned around. Xie Queyou’s courage suddenly vanished again.

“Sorry. That was a bit abrupt.”

Yun Wangqing shook her head. She considered Xie Queyou’s words, and her clear, jade-like voice slipped into Xie Queyou’s ears with the wind.

“I reject hers.”

“Among the Alphas I’ve come into contact with so far, aside from you, everyone else causes a rejection reaction.”

“So, thank you for that day.”

—

Yun Wangqing left.

Xie Queyou stood in the vast garden. All kinds of floral fragrances scattered around her, and she could not stop herself from sneezing.

She reached out to cover her nose, but the flower juice staining her palm made her nose feel even worse. She quickened her steps and left the garden.

When Yun Wangqing had been beside her just now, had her nose felt this uncomfortable?

It seemed not. The faint cold fragrance on Yun Wangqing’s body had always gently covered her breathing, blocking out most of the floral scents.

If she asked herself honestly, Xie Queyou liked Yun Wangqing’s pheromones very much.

That cool fragrance was cold without losing its gentleness. Anyone who smelled it would not be able to help sinking into it for a while longer.

In a certain sense, Yun Wangqing was right. Their relationship was indeed one where each took what they needed.

Even after taking a shower and lying in bed, Xie Queyou was still thinking about everything Yun Wangqing had said.

Pheromone rejection disorder. Xie Queyou searched this illness online. It was a rare condition that appeared among Omegas, and there was currently not a single curable case in the country.

The illness was so rare that the information page only had one case from several decades ago. A female Omega had developed pheromone rejection disorder after differentiating. Because there had been no effective medicine at the time, that woman had passed away two years after her differentiation.

Aside from that case, there was no useful information.

The previous case had been several decades ago. Now, technology was so advanced, yet this rare illness still had no useful treatment?

Xie Queyou pulled the quilt over her head and screamed inwardly.

Why her?

She had clearly already prepared herself to stop getting close to Yun Wangqing.

If things were truly as the news said, and there was no medicine in the world that could treat pheromone rejection disorder, then Xie Queyou was that one and only exception.

But Yun Wangqing was an important reason the original owner died. Xie Queyou could not get too close to her.

She was also Xie Rong’an’s future marriage-alliance fiancée, her future sister-in-law in name.

Even if Yun Wangqing and Xie Rong’an did not have much to do with each other right now, the development of the world would always firmly bind the two of them together. Otherwise, the plot would not be able to continue.

Xie Queyou did not know what kind of result would be caused by the decision she made and the cause she interfered with.

Xie Queyou took out her phone and tapped open the contact she had added not long ago.

[Hello, Dr. Lin. There’s something I’d like to ask you about.]

—

When Yun Wangqing received Lin Wumo’s message, she had just returned to her own residence and fed her kitten. Those eyes that were always cold carried gentleness when she looked at the kitten.

She took out a specially made suppressant patch from the drawer, preparing to change it after taking a shower.

When her fingertips touched the patch of skin at the back of her neck, her feather-like lashes trembled slightly.

At some point, the suppressant patch had been dampened by her own pheromones, but she had not experienced any discomfort.

It was Xie Queyou helping soothe her.

And she had actually grown so fond of Xie Queyou’s pheromones that just ordinary contact was enough to make her…

A trace of heat colored the tips of her ears. She shifted her legs unnaturally, then froze, her whole body stiffening.

Just staying in the same room as Xie Queyou had already made her… damp.

Yun Wangqing bit her lip and expressionlessly threw the suppressant patch into the trash can.

The phone in her pocket rang. She took it out.

Lin Wumo: [How did your discussion go?]

Yun Wangqing’s fingertips trembled slightly.

Yun Wangqing: [She said she would give me an answer.]

Lin Wumo: [That doesn’t seem to be all. She asked me some things just now about pheromone rejection disorder.]

Lin Wumo: [She asked me what eventually happens to people who develop pheromone rejection disorder.]

Yun Wangqing’s gaze darkened slightly. The kitten curled by her feet seemed to sense its owner’s mood and lifted a paw, placing it on her dress.

She laughed softly, reached out, and touched the kitten’s head. She let the kitten lick her fingertips, and gentleness once again covered her gloomy brows.

Yun Wangqing: [What did you say?]

Lin Wumo: [What else could I say? The moment she asked me, I knew that person was you, so I told her the truth about your condition.]

Lin Wumo: [Although saying this in this kind of situation sounds a little like a sympathy tactic, I really was just telling the truth.]

Lin Wumo: [Your gland is deteriorating too quickly. The research progress can’t keep up with the changes in your gland at all. Without a special effective medicine, it will be very difficult for you to live until next winter.]