After Teasing the aloof Arch-Nemesis Omega - Chapter 15

When Yu Yunlan said this, there was a faint stubbornness in her voice.

The third floor was quiet. No one came by. The Alpha from earlier had long since sensed something was wrong and run off.

The entire floor was so silent that it seemed only the two of them were left.

Yu Yunlan’s appearance was already cold and aloof to begin with. Now, like this, she seemed even more distant and unapproachable. Yet Fang Zhijin somehow had the illusion that the other girl was upset.

Through the narrow gap in the bookshelf, Fang Zhijin’s eyes carried a trace of scrutiny as she tried to carefully study her.

Unfortunately, the gap left by a single missing book was too small. She could not see the other girl’s entire expression.

“You can smell that scent?” she asked.

She was certain that the amount of drug scent clinging to her was not much, yet Yu Yunlan could smell that faint trace on her from this distance.

As expected of a high-level Omega. Her five senses were very sharp.

However, Fang Zhijin had no intention of explaining. First, there was no need. Second, the matter of this drug could not be explained clearly in a short time, and she had no way to explain why her timing had been so coincidental that she just happened to appear in the school library.

Seeing that Yu Yunlan, separated from her by the bookshelf, seemed to move a little closer, Fang Zhijin took a step back and distanced herself from her, reaching a safer distance.

Since Yu Yunlan could smell this drug, for safety’s sake, it was better not to let her come into further contact with it.

She had no idea that because of her retreat, Yu Yunlan’s mood became even more stifled.

Yu Yunlan knew that her emotions were very strange right now. From the moment she took the book down and saw Fang Zhijin, from the moment she realized that the scent suspected to be Omega pheromones came from Fang Zhijin, from the moment Fang Zhijin stepped back, her chest had felt as if it were stuffed with cotton, so heavy that she could almost no longer breathe.

This was a feeling completely unfamiliar to her before, yet ever since enrolling, she had often found herself in this state.

Yu Yunlan tightened her fingertips, thinking of the words she had heard in class.

So, was there an Omega clinging to Fang Zhijin? Were they together?

The Omega pheromones inside Yu Yunlan’s body kept surging. Ever since she smelled that scent on the Alpha, they had been desperately trying to come out, carrying agitation and panic.

Fang Zhijin seemed to notice something. She tilted her head slightly. “Classmate Yu, are you angry?”

But why would Yu Yunlan be angry? And what exactly was she angry about?

Yu Yunlan raised her eyes. They seemed covered in a layer of cold mist as she uttered three words:

“No boundaries.”

Fang Zhijin raised the corners of her lips, as if she found it novel. “Are you talking about me?”

Those three words again.

Whether in the dream or outside of it, Yu Yunlan gave the same comment. It was just that one had been said behind her back, while this one was said directly to her face.

Fang Zhijin suddenly felt somewhat curious. Outside the dream, she had indeed carried a certain wicked intent and deliberately provoked Yu Yunlan several times. So the other girl could indeed say that she had “no boundaries.”

But in the dream, she clearly had not had much contact with Yu Yunlan in the early stage, so why had the other girl said that?

This curiosity only existed for a few short seconds before fading from her heart. A dream was ultimately only a dream. Since the beginning of the story had not unfolded the way it did in the dream, it was destined that she would never be able to get the answer from the Yu Yunlan in the dream.

The atmosphere between them carried an invisible chill.

“Zhijin, did you find the materials?” Yuan Qiaoqiao’s voice suddenly sounded, with the usually quiet Jiang Wan following behind her.

The strange atmosphere between the two was finally broken.

Perhaps because Fang Zhijin had not come down for a long time, the two of them had simply come upstairs to look for her.

Yuan Qiaoqiao walked a little closer and only then realized that not only Fang Zhijin, but Yu Yunlan was also there. She simply greeted her too. “Eh, Yu Yunlan, you’re here too. What a coincidence.”

Before Yu Yunlan could respond, Fang Zhijin withdrew her gaze and looked toward Yuan Qiaoqiao and Jiang Wan, revealing a smile. Before the two could get too close, she spoke first.

“I already found the materials. But something came up suddenly, so I’ll leave first.”

“Oh… oh, okay.” Yuan Qiaoqiao answered blankly.

She looked at Fang Zhijin’s back as she deliberately walked around them and left without looking back, then looked at Yu Yunlan on the other side of the bookshelf, whose face was as frosty as ever and who kept staring at Fang Zhijin’s retreating figure. Yuan Qiaoqiao could not quite figure out the situation.

She whispered to Jiang Wan beside her, “What’s going on? Why does it feel kind of strange?”

Just now, she had almost thought those two were about to argue.

The expression on Yu Yunlan’s face looked very unhappy, almost as if she were angry.

Yuan Qiaoqiao racked her brains and finally came to a sudden realization. Using an extremely tiny voice, she shared her discovery with Jiang Wan.

“Sure enough, Yu Yunlan and Fang Zhijin really don’t have a very good relationship, do they?”

Jiang Wan did not answer her immediately. Instead, she observed Yu Yunlan’s expression, thoughtful.

…

Yu Yunlan no longer had the heart to keep staying in the library. The suffocating feeling in her chest had never disappeared.

When she returned to the dormitory, before entering her bedroom, she first looked in the direction opposite her.

That was Fang Zhijin’s room.

The door across from her was closed. The dormitory doors had excellent soundproofing and light-blocking effects, so she had no way of knowing whether Fang Zhijin had returned.

She stood there silently for two seconds, equally unable to understand the meaning behind her own actions.

Once again, she attributed the reason to the side effects of G13.

Everything strange about her was only because of the side effects of G13’s drug effects.

Yu Yunlan restrained herself and withdrew her gaze. She entered her bedroom and closed the door. The Omega pheromones inside her body were surging intensely, likewise unhappy about something.

Yu Yunlan’s thoughts were somewhat chaotic. She sat quietly at the head of the bed. After an unknown amount of time, her communicator vibrated. Ye Su had replied to her message.

They did not chat often. When Yu Yunlan opened the chat box, she could still see the message she had sent not long ago.

She had told Ye Su about the strange symptoms she had been experiencing recently: her emotions were always fluctuating, she would feel stifled because of inexplicable things, and she kept dreaming.

Below that, Ye Su’s new message popped up.

ovo: I don’t think so? Logically speaking, G13’s side effects seem to be related to the body and pheromones. Could these symptoms of yours have some other cause?

Yu Yunlan thought for a moment.

: I don’t know.

Her heart was still feeling stuffy even now, as if it had been blocked by a ball of cotton. This feeling made it somewhat hard for her to breathe.

She covered her chest. After a long while, she added:

: My body also feels strange. My heart feels very heavy.

ovo: This… That’s way too strange. G13’s current known side effects really shouldn’t be connected to emotions. Maybe your situation is special? You should inject G13 as little as possible if you can.

ovo: Right, did you read the materials from last time? What did they say?

Yu Yunlan thought of the contents of those materials. Her lips pressed into a straight line, and she only replied:

: It’s hard to say.

ovo: ????

Yu Yunlan did not reply again this time and ended the chat.

On the other side, Fang Zhijin was in her own bedroom. She casually placed the box containing the drug from her bag onto the bedside table, then injected herself with an Alpha suppressant. The scent that had clung to her quickly disappeared.

A high-level Alpha’s pheromones easily dissolved the already-small amount of drug scent. Fang Zhijin casually tossed the used suppressant to the side.

With a thud, it landed accurately in the trash can.

Along with that sound, Fang Zhijin propped up her chin. She first thought about Yu Yunlan’s reaction in the library. Unable to sort it out for now, she did not dwell on it too much. Instead, she turned her thoughts to tomorrow’s deputy grade chief election.

She did not want anything unexpected to happen in tomorrow’s election after her interference.

Perhaps because one dreams at night of what one thinks of during the day, Fang Zhijin had the same repeated dream again that night.

In the dream, Chen Nanqi became the deputy grade chief, while she was surrounded by the crowd as she walked out.

Yu Yunlan stood outside the crowd, her face pale as she looked at her.

She looked disheveled and pitiful.

This time, Fang Zhijin used her own perspective in the dream to look more carefully.

This cold novel protagonist carried a trace of an expression Fang Zhijin could not understand as she watched her. Yu Yunlan seemed somewhat weak, yet she was forcing herself to stay upright. Her lips moved slightly.

Fang Zhijin thought, Yu Yunlan, what do you want to say?

Her gaze fixed on Yu Yunlan’s lips. She watched those lips tremble, watched her teeth press against her lower lip, then loosen gently, watched the shape of her mouth change.

In the dream, Fang Zhijin tried to distinguish those mouth movements.

Finally, she saw clearly. The pronunciation of those words was—

Fang. Zhi. Jin…

Her name.

Yu Yunlan was calling her name.

Before she could confirm it further, just like in the previous dream, someone soon blocked her view.

She was carried away by the crowd, and she and Yu Yunlan passed each other by just like that.

One side was lively, the other lonely. They were clearly divided, like parallel lines that would never intersect.

The scenes in the dream jumped around, chaotic and blurry, like irregular blocks of color. Looking at them for too long made one feel dizzy.

The noisy sound of rain rang out. That rain pulled the dream back to the rainy night of her death.

Likewise, someone in the rain called out in a voice filled with despair:

“Fang Zhijin… Fang Zhijin…”

The heavy rain blurred the tone of that voice. Amid the repeated calls of her name, her consciousness scattered, and everything returned to cold silence.

This dream was far too long. It had been some time since Fang Zhijin had had such a long dream.

After she woke up, she realized it was raining outside again.

No wonder the sound of rain in the dream had been so noisy too.

She no longer felt sleepy. She simply draped a coat over herself, pulled open the curtains, and without turning on the light, looked at the night outside.

Domain A had been cloudy for nearly half a month in a row. Who knew when the sky would finally clear?

Tonight, heavy rain had even begun to fall. The rain was vast and forceful, carrying a pressure that seemed capable of overturning everything. It made Fang Zhijin’s mood turn unpleasant as well.

The environment outside was very dark. If one looked at it for too long, it seemed capable of swallowing a person whole. Only the blurry streetlights flickered in the rain and darkness. Their light was tiny and indistinct, spreading a small halo, giving off a feeling of being helpless and alone.

Fang Zhijin could vaguely glimpse her own outline in the reflection on the window.

But at this moment, what appeared in her mind was not herself, but someone from the dream.

Yu Yunlan seemed very pitiful in the dream.

This thought flashed through Fang Zhijin’s heart for an instant.

But very soon, that thought disappeared again.

As the protagonist of a novel, the difficulties and setbacks Yu Yunlan received in the early stage would all turn into motivation for her growth. Later, her official Alpha love interest would also appear to redeem and warm her.

Although Fang Zhijin did not know what the ending of the novel was, she guessed that it should be the kind of happy ending everyone liked to see.

The protagonist probably did not need her sympathy. Maybe after she died, Yu Yunlan would even breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, there would no longer be anyone opposing her.