After Signing a Marking Agreement with the Abstinent Omega - Chapter 9

The living room fell silent for a moment. For a while, only someone’s heartbeat remained.

This time, Xie Queyou did not shrink back. She urgently wanted to know what Yun Wangqing was thinking.

“I think that, as your partner in this cooperation, I should have the right to know this.”

Yun Wangqing’s gaze flickered. She looked toward the kitten curled by her feet, licking its fur.

Xie Queyou actually had the illusion that Yun Wangqing did not dare look at her, and she became somewhat at a loss too.

The moment both of them looked away, Yun Wangqing gave her answer.

“I would ask you to give me a little of your pheromones. I would entrust the researchers to study their components and develop a special suppressant targeted to me.”

“Technology is so advanced now. With your pheromones as a guide, I believe that after some time, a special medicine for me would also be developed.”

Her words were concise, but every single word felt unbearably heavy.

Research.

Such a simple word. As if, to her, research was something that could be obtained immediately.

But pheromone rejection disorder had existed for decades without a cure. How could it possibly be as simple as she made it sound?

Research might have encompassed most of Yun Wangqing’s life.

Xie Queyou felt somewhat glad that she had agreed to Yun Wangqing’s request.

After this answer was given, the room fell into a long silence again.

Feeling that she had made the atmosphere stiff, Xie Queyou took the initiative to change the topic.

“Let’s not talk about that anymore. How did you feel tonight? Were my pheromones useful?”

The corner of Yun Wangqing’s eye twitched. “When you went to the hospital before, did you ask the doctor how to control your gland?”

Xie Queyou froze. “That needs to be asked?”

Yun Wangqing sighed very softly. “After anyone differentiates, they are unfamiliar with this sudden ability. So sometimes doctors explain the tricks for controlling it and the appropriate degree of release.”

Xie Queyou understood the meaning behind her words. “I gave you too much on the suppressant patch, didn’t I?”

She lowered her head, her entire posture revealing a bit of guilt.

She definitely had to go to the hospital and properly make up for this lesson later. She had thought her ability to control the release of her pheromones was pretty good, but…

“I’m sorry. I’ll definitely go to the hospital and ask about it later. This won’t happen again.”

Yun Wangqing laughed softly where Xie Queyou could not see. “It’s not entirely your problem. My gland is too sensitive. Even a tiny bit of Alpha pheromone makes it uncomfortable. As an Alpha who only differentiated a week ago, you already controlled it very well.”

Seeing Xie Queyou raise her head, she took the initiative to change the topic again. “Are you free this Saturday?”

Xie Queyou nodded. “I’m free. Are we going to sign the contract?”

“No. I routinely go to the research institute for an examination on Saturdays. Come with me then. It will be convenient for the doctor to ask questions. As for the contract, I’ll give it to you after it’s revised.”

Xie Queyou understood. “All right. I’ll come find you then.”

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Xie Queyou went home.

For the next two days, apart from paying attention to Yun Wangqing’s messages, she poured all her thoughts into finding a team and improving the script.

Wan Yanyu spent some effort and dug out the mole in the company. Then, during a meeting, she fiercely warned the remaining employees. For the near future, there should not be any similar incidents again.

Xie Queyou was not particularly flustered by this. After the meeting ended, she asked Wan Yanyu to announce within the company that they had hired a famous screenwriter and would be making major revisions to the script.

Then she calmly focused on revising the script and looking for a team.

The only team that had shown up during the previous interview submitted their interview results. Although they still could not compare to famous directors, Xie Queyou thought they were workable, so she prepared to find a time to sign a contract with them and officially cooperate.

However, before the contract with the directing team was signed, the first thing to arrive in her hands was a formally revised pheromone marking agreement.

Early Saturday morning, Xie Queyou ran her usual lap around the villa, then headed to the front hall for breakfast.

Last night, Yun Wangqing had already sent her the electronic version of the marking agreement. Xie Queyou looked it over and found no problems, so the two agreed to meet and sign the agreement today.

Along the way, she kept thinking about the contents of the agreement.

The moment she stepped into the front hall, a sweet, cloying cake scent quickly surged to the tip of her nose.

She frowned and looked toward the source of the scent.

Not far away, Xie Rong’an was standing by the second-floor railing with a cigarette between her fingers, looking down at her from above.

“Who allowed you into the main building?”

Her tone was not heavy, but it carried matter-of-fact disgust and control.

Xie Queyou met her gaze without the slightest fear. “I remember this is my home too. Do I need to report to someone before coming into my own house?”

Xie Rong’an gave a sneer and exhaled a smoke ring. She was wearing a refined black-and-blue silk pajama set. The scent of cigarette smoke and sandalwood mixed with a cloyingly sweet cake fragrance, so intense it made people unable to open their eyes.

“Home?”

She slowly exhaled another smoke ring. “You really do know how to find a place for yourself.”

Her gaze swept over Xie Queyou. Her nose seemed to sniff slightly, and then she looked at Xie Queyou with disgust.

“But that’s fine. In any case, she isn’t here. No matter what you do, she won’t see it. That innate scent on you… she won’t smell it either.”

As soon as those words fell, the temperature in the air suddenly dropped by several degrees.

Xie Queyou subconsciously sniffed herself. Her originally clean shower-gel scent had almost been completely covered by that mixture of sandalwood and sickeningly sweet pheromones.

She frowned and stared straight at Xie Rong’an. “You keep talking about me. Then what is that smell on you?”

She did not know whether the scent on herself that Xie Rong’an constantly despised was really there or not, but the unpleasant smell on Xie Rong’an had already filled the entire front hall.

Just that scent of rouge and powder was enough to make one realize that there was another woman’s scent on her.

Xie Rong’an flicked ash from her cigarette. “Just a tool for satisfying needs. You’re only a Beta, so how could you understand the needs of an S-rank Alpha?”

After saying this, she did not even bother lowering her gaze to Xie Queyou again and turned back into her room.

The instant the door opened, an even stronger cloying cake fragrance surged out. Xie Queyou was smoked back several steps, finally realizing where that sweet cake scent had come from.

There was an Omega in Xie Rong’an’s room.

Xie Queyou stared tightly at the door Xie Rong’an had closed, her gaze so heavy it seemed about to condense into water.

She did not eat breakfast. Xie Queyou returned to her own residence again.

She stayed in the bathroom for more than an hour, only stopping when she had nearly scrubbed her skin red and almost raw.

Afterward, she drove toward the address Yun Wangqing had given her. When the car stopped outside the high-end residential compound where Yun Wangqing lived, Xie Queyou filled in the visitor information and was allowed inside.

The last time she came had been at night, so she had not been able to see most of the surroundings clearly. Now that she entered the compound during the day, she discovered that Yun Wangqing’s community was truly quiet.

Whether it was the greenery—

The floor where Yun Wangqing lived did not allow strangers to enter on their own. Xie Queyou stood outside and picked up her phone, only then seeing that Yun Wangqing had sent her a message more than ten minutes ago.

Yun Wangqing: [Something suddenly came up at work, so I have to work overtime for a while. Go to my home first and wait for me. Tell the security guard in the lobby downstairs your name, and she’ll have the housekeeper come down to get you.]

Xie Queyou: [Okay.]

She walked to the lobby and spoke to the security guard. Very soon, the elevator on the first floor rang, and an older woman walked out.

“Are you Miss Xie? I’m the auntie who works at Miss Yun’s home. Please follow me.”

Xie Queyou nodded to her, thanked the security guard, then followed the woman into the elevator.

Yun Wangqing’s home was on the thirteenth floor. Xie Queyou watched the numbers on the elevator display jump one floor at a time, then lowered her head to sniff the scent on herself.

Mm. A very pleasant lime shower-gel scent. No other unpleasant smells.

A bit of reassurance rose in her heart.

The auntie entered the password at the door and opened it. “Please come in.”

She took out the slippers placed in the entryway. Xie Queyou looked down and saw that they were not the disposable guest slippers she had worn last time. They had been replaced with a simpler pair of slippers she had never seen before.

Xie Queyou then looked at the slippers on the housekeeper’s feet.

Disposable slippers.

Her brow lifted slightly, and something in her heart began to beat rapidly.

“Has anyone come to see Miss Yun recently?” she suddenly asked.

The auntie, who had just come out of the kitchen with warm water, paused and thought for a moment. “I don’t think so. During the days I’ve been here, no one has come over.”

She looked at Xie Queyou, who was standing at the entryway with her head lowered, staring at the slippers. “What are you looking at, Miss Xie? Do you really like the slippers I bought?”

Xie Queyou almost stumbled. “Y-you-you bought them?”

The auntie’s Mandarin carried a bit of an accent. She sounded like someone from the north and spoke very straightforwardly. “I bought them the day before yesterday when I went to the supermarket to buy things. Miss Yun told me that day that a guest would be coming, so I bought some things to prepare. Look at how intently you’re staring at them. I can tell you really like them. If you like them, take them with you.”

The corner of Xie Queyou’s mouth twitched, and she put on a bright smile. “Of course I like them very much, but there’s no need to take them away.”

Xie Queyou, what on earth is your brain thinking? Even with your toes, you should know that Yun Wangqing is so busy. How could she go to the supermarket to buy supplies herself?

Please let this embarrassing matter pass quickly.

Seeing that the auntie was getting happier the more she spoke and was even about to go to the study to show Xie Queyou all the other newly bought things, Xie Queyou quickly stopped her and took the cup from her hand.

“Auntie, how did you know I was thirsty? Ah, such refreshing honey lime water.”

The auntie turned and took out a large teapot for her, extremely enthusiastic. “Drink more if you like it. You’re such a sweet-talking girl. Come, Auntie will pour you another cup.”

Xie Queyou was fed two more cups by the auntie before she finally stopped.

However, this interruption also made the auntie forget what she had been talking about earlier, and she went back to her work.

Bored with nothing to do, Xie Queyou followed her and helped feed the kitten.

The first time made them strangers, the second time made them familiar. This time, when the kitten saw her, it no longer ignored her and even rubbed its head against her.

Xie Queyou was so excited she froze.

The auntie smiled so widely her teeth disappeared. “The kitten seems to like you quite a lot. When I first came here, it wouldn’t let me touch it at all. It ate its food and left. I fed it for a whole week before it was willing to rub against me.”

Xie Queyou’s eyes lit up. “Then it looks like cats really like me.”

The auntie looked at the kitten fondly. “Yes. This little cat really likes you.”

After feeding the kitten, the auntie went off to continue working. Xie Queyou sat on the floor and accompanied the kitten for a while longer.

The kitten still refused to let her hold it, but this did not affect Xie Queyou’s mood at all. She sat cross-legged on the floor. Suddenly, the phone in her pocket rang.

She opened it. It was a boring news push notification.

She was just about to tap “not interested” when she suddenly saw the contents of the news clearly.

[Xie Film and Television Group and Yun Jewelry Officially Sign Cooperation Agreement, Joining Hands to Build a New Field in Film and Television.]

Her gaze stopped on it. The hand holding the cat teaser also stopped, and the toy was easily caught by the kitten, who rolled to the side and played with it.

As if possessed, Xie Queyou tapped into it. The first thing she saw was a photo of Yun Wangqing and Xie Rong’an standing together.

As representatives of the two cooperating parties, they shook hands and smiled at the camera.

Yun Wangqing wore a white qipao. Intricate patterns were embroidered across it, like blooming white lotuses, outlining the woman’s figure.

With just one glance, she easily seized the viewer’s gaze and refused to let it go.

In the photo, less than a meter away from her stood Xie Rong’an as the representative of the Xie Group. She wore a proper women’s suit and smiled with an impressive, respectable-looking face.

At such a close distance, they should be able to smell each other’s scents, right?

Xie Queyou suddenly thought of the unpleasant smell she had smelled that morning, then thought of Yun Wangqing’s body. Her heart suddenly sank.

After preparing the meal, the auntie left. In the vast apartment, only one person and one cat remained.

Not long after, Xie Queyou’s phone sounded.

Yun Wangqing: [Almost there.]

Xie Queyou suddenly grew nervous again, as if a kitten were scratching at her heart.

She tidied up her appearance and sat properly on the living room sofa, waiting. Then she heard a mechanical voice from outside:

[Fingerprint recognized.]

After that came the sound of the door opening.

Yun Wangqing pushed the door open. Before she even saw the person, the first thing she smelled was the faint lime fragrance unique to a certain Alpha.

The long-unseen pheromones could not control their longing and rushed straight toward her.

But at the last moment, afraid of truly offending her, they became cautious, pressing close to her and wrapping around her.

Her tightly furrowed brows were smoothed open. The faint fragrance dispelled the messy scents on Yun Wangqing’s body, forcefully squeezing into her nose and gland, even wiping away the unpleasant memories along with them.

She pushed the door open and finally saw the source of the lime scent.

Xie Queyou was sitting on the sofa. Seeing Yun Wangqing come in, she obediently stood up in a way that was completely different from her forceful pheromones, her hands clasped in front of her.

“You’re back.”

Yun Wangqing raised her brow slightly.

“Mm. Sorry. Work suddenly came up, so I made you wait so long.”

Xie Queyou poured water for her. “No, Auntie was here talking with me too.”

When she lowered her head, she was still secretly driving her gland to release pheromones, trying her best to cover the scent on Yun Wangqing’s body.

Although they had not officially signed the contract yet, she had already begun working hard.

The smell on Xie Rong’an was so unpleasant. She was also an Alpha, and this morning Xie Queyou had even run into her with another Omega, which made it even worse.

Last time, when they had dinner at the Xie family, Yun Wangqing had already felt so unwell. This time, without Xie Queyou’s pheromones around, Yun Wangqing’s gland must have been suffering even more.

She secretly gritted her teeth and worked even harder.

She thought she was doing a good job. The surroundings were soaked in the scent of her own pheromones, and she praised herself with great satisfaction in her heart.

But the moment she raised her head, she met Yun Wangqing’s eyes, which had turned moist and dazed at some unknown point. Her fair cheeks were flushed, and she was biting her lip as she looked at Xie Queyou, with a hint of anger in her eyes.

Xie Queyou: Oh no QAQ.

She had accidentally overdone it again.