After Transmigrating as a Scum Alpha, I Marked my White Moonlight Omega - Chapter 17

“…Is frozen dumplings all your family has?”

Dan Yang sat at the dining table, looking at the bowl of dumplings Jiang Nan had rustled up from the kitchen. They were steaming hot, and the soup was cloudy from the boiled flour; fortunately, the dumplings hadn’t broken and floated whole in the bowl.

Jiang Nan: I finally improved my cooking… and this kid actually has the nerve to be picky?

Jiang Nan pouted in dissatisfaction. Sitting across from him, she retorted in a low, unconfident voice: “What do you mean ‘frozen’? You can even tell that?”

Dan Yang picked up a dumpling with his chopsticks and explained expressionlessly: “This brand of frozen dumplings is the cheapest. I’ve eaten them for many years; I know just by looking at the shape.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nan scratched her cheek awkwardly.

It was one thing to treat someone to frozen dumplings, but she had managed to buy the exact brand the guy ate all the time.

Lin Yu, sitting to the side, picked up her bowl and chopsticks and began to eat without a word. The “double-person exercise” from earlier made her find these high-calorie, cheap carbs surprisingly delicious.

Dan Yang probably wasn’t very hungry; his chewing was slow. He looked up occasionally at Lin Yu and Jiang Nan opposite him and spoke with certainty: “You two… are a couple.”

Jiang Nan nodded and blinked. “That’s right, she’s my wife.”

Seeing Jiang Nan call her “wife” so openly to an outsider, Lin Yu frowned and pouted, too lazy to bother responding.

Dan Yang nodded thoughtfully, his face devoid of much emotion. He set his chopsticks down and spoke flatly: “As neighbors, I still don’t know what your names are.”

Jiang Nan noticed that although Dan Yang appeared cold on the surface, he was quite proactive in conversation.

This led her to believe that if the investigation went this smoothly, they might uncover the inside story very soon.

“Ah, I’m Jiang Nan, and my wife is Lin Yu. Recently… the family fortune declined, business failed, and we really had no choice but to rent a vacant place here.”

Perhaps due to Jiang Nan’s relaxed tone, Dan Yang gradually relaxed as well, a hint of a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth. “No wonder. Usually, the people living around here aren’t like you.”

Lin Yu seemed to catch the key point. She raised an eyebrow and asked back: “People like us?”

Dan Yang gave a polite smile. “Yes. One look and you can tell you aren’t people who have lived in the slums for years.”

After saying that, he shifted his gaze to Jiang Nan. He propped his chin up with his hand and stared at her deeply. His voice was clear, but carried a faint hint of seduction.

“Sister Jiang, you’re a high-quality Alpha, right?”

Jiang Nan was stunned by Dan Yang’s aggressive gaze. She nodded in confusion. “…Uh, yeah, is there a problem?”

Dan Yang shook his head with a smile. He took a deep breath, the curve of his lips deepening.

“Nothing. I just think… Sister’s pheromones smell really good.”

“Wife, actually, Dan Yang might have just… had a slip of the tongue. After all, we just did that stuff in the room, right? Heh heh.”

Jiang Nan stood timidly beside Lin Yu. The moment Dan Yang had said those words, Lin Yu had risen with a dark face, grabbed Dan Yang by the back of his collar with one hand, thrown him out of the house, and slammed the door shut with a loud bang.

Lin Yu suppressed the irritation in her heart, the veins at her temples throbbing with anger. She frowned as she glanced at Jiang Nan’s timid face and instructed unpleasantly:

“In the future, don’t let just anyone into our home.”

If it weren’t for the fact that Dan Yang was their primary investigation target, she would have stepped forward and—true to her usual style—torn the kid’s mouth apart.

What’s with “smelling good”? It was infuriating to hear.

Jiang Nan immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice, obeying her Lady Wife’s command. “Yes, yes, yes. I won’t let Dan Yang in anymore.”

Hearing this, Lin Yu’s ruffled feathers smoothed out. She gave a cold snort, sat on the sofa with her arms crossed, and cleared her throat. “Even though he’s also an Alpha, Double-A couples aren’t uncommon.”

Jiang Nan: ?

She thought her wife just disliked Dan Yang’s personality, but… was her wife actually jealous?

How can she be so cute, wuwu.

With teary eyes, Jiang Nan leaned on the sofa and looked up at Lin Yu, saying with a fake, touched sob: “Wife, do you really like me that much?”

Lin Yu disliked discussing such sentimental topics. She turned her face away, suppressing the feelings she was unwilling to admit, and spoke stubbornly against her heart: “It’s not ‘liking.’ I just don’t have the habit of sharing your body with others.”

In this world divided by six genders, it was constantly being proven that humans’ most primitive desires and animal instincts were paramount.

Bodies, scents, pheromones—these were the first things to flood a person’s senses.

They often came more violently than a heartbeat, to the point where many people couldn’t distinguish whether the heat of passion was pure affection or just instinctive desire.

For Lin Yu, who had walked the underworld for years, she had seen too many people lose control of their lust because of pheromones. In her worldview, perhaps desire was the only true longing; pure feelings were like unreachable Andersen fairy tales.

Jiang Nan’s eyes froze. She hadn’t expected Lin Yu to say such a thing. Her gaze lowered, looking elsewhere in disappointment.

She thought that after spending so many days together sincerely, her “White Moonlight” wife would eventually be moved and like her as deeply as she liked her wife.

But Lin Yu’s words, for some reason, stung her heart like needles, causing a faint sense of pain and itchiness.

“How could you… I only like you, so how could I ever be with Dan Yang? And he’s a guy! In your eyes, am I really that casual of a person?”

Jiang Nan usually appeared lighthearted, but that was because even though her Lady Wife was often cold to her, she had changed somewhat because of Jiang Nan’s actions. This made Jiang Nan gradually believe that her wife must… like her too.

Lin Yu was slightly dazed by Jiang Nan’s sudden emotional outburst. However, hindered by her pride, she furrowed her brow and gave a cold sneer. “Are you not a casual person? Jiang Nan, think about what you did in the past… No matter who it was, couldn’t you sleep in the same bed with them?”

“Could it be you want to say you really like me?”

Jiang Nan, feeling defeated, wiped away her tears. After all these days together, did Lin Yu still think she was the same as before?

An out-and-out promiscuous “Scum Alpha”? Or a lust-driven, brainless pervert?

She wanted so badly to say she wasn’t the old Jiang Nan anymore and that she really liked her wife… but her wife would never believe her.

“Can’t I say I like you? Is liking you such a ridiculous thing?”

Lin Yu hadn’t expected Jiang Nan’s emotions to be so intense today. Those puppy eyes were brimming with tears; the face that usually only showed her smiles was crying so uglily today.

Her heart wavered slightly, but because she had already said so many harsh words, she wasn’t willing to change her tone. She swallowed and continued to argue stubbornly:

“Coming from someone like you, the word ‘like’ is indeed ridiculous.”

Jiang Nan’s pupils constricted. She stood on the sofa in a huff, crying and shouting loudly: “…Do you think I have to be with only you?!”

With that, she jumped off the sofa and charged out of the house with great momentum.

Fine, she did have to be with only her wife.

Wuwu, why was I acting so stubborn…

Jiang Nan was currently wearing only thin pajamas with a hoodie that didn’t block the wind. Being in the slums, she literally had nowhere to go.

Even though she had gone downstairs, all she saw were a few scattered residents drifting by, carrying a musty smell of people who hadn’t seen the sun in years.

Jiang Nan: If I had known, I wouldn’t have run my mouth. Look at me… standing out here in the cold wind.

But Wife was too much. I’m so aggrieved, wuwu.

“Ugh… nngh.”

As Jiang Nan stood at the corner of an alley shivering in the wind, immersed in her sadness, a faint whimper sounded behind her.

She wiped the tears from her eyes and quickly looked back. In an extremely narrow alleyway, a woman dressed in all black was sitting there.

Perhaps because the sunlight was blocked by buildings and awnings, the narrow, rarely-visited alley was dark even during the day.

Jiang Nan walked in. It wasn’t until she stood before the woman leaning against the wall that she could see her features clearly.

Long straight black hair, straight bangs, a high and delicate nose; her brow was furrowed, her eyes were tightly shut, and she was biting her lower lip as if enduring immense pain.

Then Jiang Nan looked down.

Holy crap! What is this! With this much blood, will she actually die?

…Wait? Why does this plot feel a little familiar?

Jiang Nan: !

So, this must be the story’s “Aggressive Lead”—Song Mo?

The author-mama had meticulously crafted this appearance; even in a “battle-damaged” state, her pained expression was still so beautiful. She truly was a top-tier, high-quality Alpha.

Jiang Nan bent down slightly to observe. While Song Mo was indeed important as the protagonist, her appearance now meant that in the near future, she would be picked up by Lin Yu to recover, followed by a series of daily living-together scenarios.

The “Domineering Badass Aggressive Lead” X “Cold and Beautiful Strong Submissive.”

…Then wouldn’t there be no place for Jiang Nan in that house!

Absolutely not! She could not let this happen!

Jiang Nan stood up crossly and turned away without mercy, striding out of the dark alley.

Meanwhile, those tightly closed eyes slowly opened. Her gaze was clear and awake; the corner of her blood-stained mouth curled up slightly as she stared deeply at the back of the figure in pajamas.

“…Ha, an Alpha.”