After Transmigrating as a Scum Alpha, I Marked my White Moonlight Omega - Chapter 28

After exiting the aquarium, the corners of Jiang Nan’s mouth remained curved upward. Her eyes were filled with joy, and she cast sidelong glances at Lin Yu from time to time.

Lin Yu’s eyes, under the outdoor sunlight, had long since lost the burning heat from earlier. Her cold features gazed forward as usual, making that moment in the aquarium tunnel feel like a fleeting, dreamlike illusion.

It was nearly 1:00 PM. Jiang Nan noticed that the restaurants in the nearby mall weren’t very crowded, as it was past the peak lunch hour.

She turned to Lin Yu and asked in a cheerful tone, “Are you hungry? Do you want to go grab some lunch together?”

Lin Yu noticed the various cafes and restaurants in the mall and gave a slight nod. She spoke in a flat voice, “Let’s go. We agreed on a one-day date, so of course we should eat together.”

Hearing this, the smile on Jiang Nan’s face froze, and an inexplicable pang of bitterness rose in her heart.

Fine, a one-day date as promised is exactly one day… but isn’t that a bit too short? Wuwu.

Seeing that Jiang Nan didn’t respond and her eyes were cast down, Lin Yu couldn’t see her expression. She frowned in confusion and couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Nan reined in her emotions and shook her head with a smile, shifting her gaze to a nearby restaurant. “Nothing! Let’s go, I really want to eat at that Cantonese tea restaurant!”

As she spoke, her pace quickened, becoming slightly faster than Lin Yu’s, leaving the other woman with a silhouette that looked as if she were simply starving.

Lin Yu’s brow furrowed even deeper. She stopped in her tracks, her eyes fixed on the retreating figure ahead. She spoke in a voice that was neither loud nor soft: “You are unhappy.”

As she said it, she clearly saw Jiang Nan’s footsteps falter before she came to a dead stop.

After all, no matter how cold or indifferent Lin Yu usually was toward things, she wasn’t a fool who couldn’t read the room.

Lin Yu walked up to Jiang Nan’s side and looked down to observe her expression, but she found the other girl’s head lowered, her face hidden behind falling strands of hair. This stirred a sense of irritability in Lin Yu.

“What is the matter with you?”

Jiang Nan finally looked up. Her eyes were red, stubbornly brimming with tears that glistened conspicuously under the reflection of the sun, making Lin Yu’s heart tighten.

Lin Yu instinctively reached out to wipe a tear from the corner of Jiang Nan’s eye, her voice tinged with uncontrollable worry. “Why are you crying?”

Jiang Nan finally met her gaze. Feeling the slightly cool touch of Lin Yu’s fingertips on her cheek, she couldn’t help but nuzzle into her palm. With a faint sob in her voice, she asked cautiously, “Will we… never date again after today?”

Lin Yu hadn’t expected Jiang Nan to be shedding tears over this. However, faced with those watery puppy eyes, her tone softened in a way she didn’t even realize.

“How many times do you want to date?”

Jiang Nan sniffled, taking Lin Yu’s hand in her own palms as if trying to keep the winter air from stealing its warmth. She answered tentatively, “Can’t we… just keep dating?”

Lin Yu stared at Jiang Nan’s piteous state, her throat tightening. Memories of their time together flashed through her mind like a film, but she also remembered that the killer of her adoptive father had basically been identified. The organization would likely face massive upheaval soon.

From the beginning, it had been a last resort for her to drag Jiang Nan into the Lin family’s muddy waters.

Now that Jiang Nan reached a point where she could extricate herself, given their time together, Lin Yu felt there was no reason to keep her in such constant danger.

She pondered for a moment, her lips pressed thin. “We’ve only slept together a few times. What kind of relationship do you want this to become?”

“Don’t tell me you actually want to be in a relationship with me?”

Jiang Nan froze where she stood. The tear tracks on her cheeks were clearly visible, and her lips trembled slightly. “It’s not… but every time, you’re the one who proactively cares for me, holds my hand, and asks me to kiss you.”

“You even said you wanted to date me! And whenever we’re together, the atmosphere is always so good.”

Lin Yu gazed at her with a flat expression, suppressing the bitterness in her own heart. “Because it’s a date. A date should look like a date.”

Jiang Nan: “…”

So, what does that make this?

She had held onto a sliver of hope that Lin Yu might develop a deeper emotional connection with her because of this proactively suggested date.

Everything had been so harmonious and sweet; was it all just a performance directed by Lin Yu to compensate her?

Jiang Nan’s hands at her sides curled into fists. She protested in a trembling voice, “How can you say that? Then why did you act like that when we weren’t on a date?”

“…No, then why did you come to find me to apologize? Why talk about compensating me?”

Lin Yu looked straight into Jiang Nan’s tear-filled eyes. The sight of her looking like she might burst into a loud wail at any second made Lin Yu turn her face away, unable to bear it. She adjusted her emotions and said, “Because you helped me identify my father’s killer.”

Jiang Nan violently wiped away a falling tear with the back of her hand. Looking at the indifferent Lin Yu, she made a final struggle. “So, really… after being together for so long, you still don’t have a single thought about me? Not a shred of feeling?”

Enough is enough… who’s the “scumbag” one here!

Lin Yu went silent for a moment as if seriously considering the question. Then, she shifted her gaze back to Jiang Nan’s face, her deep gray eyes devoid of any emotion.

“If I have to say something, I think having sex with you feels exceptionally good… If you’re willing, we can keep sleeping together often in the future.”

Jiang Nan was stunned into a daze by these words. Soon, however, the tears she had been holding back flowed freely. Frowning, she shouted at the expressionless Lin Yu:

“Do you… really not take my feelings seriously at all?!”

“How can you treat me like this!”

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow. While she did feel pity for Jiang Nan’s weeping state, her heart was filled more with doubt and confusion.

She didn’t understand why, in a society that submitted to the desires of various pheromones, one had to obsess over the question of “liking” someone or not.

Besides, she didn’t feel she had done anything particularly terrible.

At least during her time with Jiang Nan, she hadn’t broken any moral principles, nor had she done anything to ruin the atmosphere.

“How have I treated you?”

Jiang Nan stood there, her vision blurred by tears. The bitterness and dull ache in her heart served as a constant reminder that Lin Yu had never liked her—not even a little bit.

“You… you bastard!!”

Being cursed at didn’t make Lin Yu feel any better. Her brow furrowed tightly as she stared at Jiang Nan, her voice deepening as she retorted without backing down: “Aren’t you the same?!”

Struggling with her emotions, Jiang Nan asked in disbelief, “…What?”

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow, her eyes turning cold and her tone aggressive. “Is it not true? Your ‘like’ for me was always shallow. You say you like me, but how much do you actually know about me?”

“Talking about ‘sincere love’… in reality, you’re no different from those Alphas whose brains are ruled by their lust.”

Jiang Nan hadn’t realized Lin Yu thought of her this way.

Ha, so these are her true thoughts, aren’t they?

So, no matter what I do, I can’t escape that ‘Scum Alpha’ identity I started with?

Seeing Jiang Nan’s silence, Lin Yu assumed it was a tacit admission. She let out a cold laugh in her heart and continued, “You’re attracted to my pheromones and everything I possess. You pounce on me without regard for anything, and then you leave whenever you feel like it.”

“Now, I am simply doing the same thing.”

Tear tracks covered Jiang Nan’s face. Unwilling to look up at the emotionless Lin Yu, she lowered her eyes and admitted truthfully, “Yes, I like your pheromones, I like your looks, and I like the way it feels when you’re by my side.”

“Just because my love is shallow, you have to ignore it and trample on it like this?”

As she spoke, she became more agitated, her voice growing louder. “Then why didn’t you reject me from the start!”

“Why let me have these illusions! Why give me hope!”

Jiang Nan’s tears became a deluge, soaking the scarf wrapped around her neck. Her lips trembled as she continued, “Because you were really good to me, I always mistakenly thought we both…”

Lin Yu’s pupils constricted, her expression freezing. She took a few steps closer and spoke with a troubled look: “Jiang Nan…”

Jiang Nan snapped her eyes up and retreated two steps. Sniffling, she looked away and shouted, “Since that’s the case, let’s end it here.”

She turned around, her tears still flowing uncontrollably, her voice carrying an unrestrained sob. “I understand what you mean now, Lin Yu.”

“I won’t like you anymore. Is that enough?”

Jiang Nan then strode away. Lin Yu, frowning, followed quickly and grabbed her wrist, her voice significantly softer.

“Jiang Nan, this is the outskirts. You won’t find a taxi here. Let me drive you.”

Jiang Nan used all her strength to shake off Lin Yu’s grip. Trying to salvage the last shred of her pathetic dignity, she wailed at the top of her lungs: “It’s already come to this, do you still want to sleep with me one more time!”

Shit, why did I still expect Lin Yu to stop me? Ha, seriously… I hate how much of a ‘love-brain’ I am.

“…It’s not like that, Jiang Nan!”

A hint of defiant ferocity flashed in Jiang Nan’s eyes, though her teary gaze made her look like a wounded little animal.

“Can you stop pretending to be gentle? Lin Yu, I’m begging you.”

After turning away from the aquarium, Jiang Nan ran to a bus stop two kilometers away, her heart full of unvented resentment. She violently wiped away the tears she had just pathetically shed, but the cold wind by the suburban road made her shiver.

Dammit, why is the wind from a breakup so cold!

Also, Lin Yu was right… why hasn’t a single car passed by! Plus, the awning of this bus stop is already starting to wobble. Does a bus even come here?

Jiang Nan sat at the stop, looking dejectedly at the afternoon winter sun. Squinting her eyes, she took a deep breath, wanting the cold wind to blow away the chaos in her heart.

The promised date… in the end, I still messed it up.

Although she knew Lin Yu was naturally cold, in their actual time together, she had been a very good and gentle person to her.

Jiang Nan thought her efforts could make Lin Yu completely move past the past and start dating her seriously.

It seemed things weren’t as simple as she imagined.

Jiang Nan’s heart ached with a dull pain, like someone who had harbored a long unrequited crush, longing for contact, and then more contact, until finally greedily wanting a relationship that could last.

The feeling of being rejected, trampled on, and looked down upon… she really hated it.

Yet, she still couldn’t stop herself from thinking of Lin Yu’s face. She couldn’t stop herself from liking her more and more as time passed.

“Hey, Jiang Nan, what are you doing sitting there like a fool?”

A voice nearby interrupted Jiang Nan’s thoughts. She blinked, her vision momentarily blurred by the sunlight. After a moment, she finally saw the figure sitting in a car not far away.

Song Mo?

Why was she here?

Song Mo was in the driver’s seat of a flashy sports car that looked conspicuously out of place on the desolate suburban road.

Despite it being deep winter, she was only wearing a thin deep-V knit top with a leather jacket over it. The slightly open neckline left much to the imagination.

Jiang Nan: “…”

Seeing Jiang Nan dazing at her, Song Mo curled her lips into a scoff. Leaning her arm on the fully open window, her eyes lazy, she reminded her in a clear voice: “This bus stop has long been abandoned. If you want to keep sitting there waiting, be my guest.”

Jiang Nan stood up immediately and walked over to Song Mo, leaning down slightly to look at her. “You… your injuries are healed?”

Staying by Lin Yu’s side, she knew that Song Mo had been heavily hunted by her own family recently. How did she have the mind to drive such a conspicuous sports car for a joyride in the suburbs?

Inside the car, Song Mo hadn’t expected the first thing Jiang Nan would say to her was that. Her deep, dark eyes froze for a second, but it vanished instantly. Her seductive “fox eyes” curved slightly as she answered in a low voice.

“Hiss, it seems… it still hurts a bit.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nan immediately grew worried. After all, if the protagonist wasn’t healthy, she, the cannon fodder, might face a “game over” in this collapsing book world.

No protagonist halo, no cheats, not even a system to guide her.

Very well, they really did set her up as a total cannon fodder.

She poked her head into the car window, wanting to ask more.

Song Mo chuckled and stopped her. “Get in. My car is very expensive. If it gets scratched…”

The moment Jiang Nan heard Song Mo mention money, she immediately opened the door and dove inside. Seeing this, the curve of Song Mo’s lips deepened. She slammed on the accelerator, and the car sped away with a roar.

“Hey, hey! Song Mo! I—I haven’t buckled my seatbelt yet!”

Jiang Nan wasn’t even surprised by this kind of behavior from this “Aggressive Lead” anymore.

Always so rude, and not caring about others’ feelings at all!

Jiang Nan, already in a bad mood, sat in the passenger seat with a dark face. Song Mo seemed to notice her expression; she eased off the gas slightly and slowed the car down.

Seeing Jiang Nan looking aggrieved, and noticing the redness and tear tracks at the corners of her eyes, Song Mo raised an eyebrow and spoke in a slow, deliberate tone: “Aya, why are you crying?”

Jiang Nan turned her face away, clearly unwilling to talk about her embarrassing moment. She pouted and watched the scenery flashing by outside the window.

Song Mo didn’t get angry; instead, she acted as if she were thinking seriously. Tapping her fingers on the steering wheel, she drawled, “It couldn’t be… that you had a fight with your wife, right?”

Jiang Nan’s body stiffened. She instinctively turned to look at Song Mo’s smirking profile.

Crap, how did Song Mo know? Was it that obvious?

Seeing Jiang Nan staring at her in a daze confirmed her suspicion. Song Mo began to talk even more outrageously: “…Could it be a breakup?”

At these words, Jiang Nan thought back to what Lin Yu had said. The tip of her heart began to ache again. Her face turned somber, and her eyes lowered without an answer.

Song Mo had intended to tease Jiang Nan, but she didn’t expect to have hit the nail on the head.

The playfulness in her eyes faded significantly at Jiang Nan’s bleak expression. She couldn’t help but recall her previous conversation with Lin Yu on the balcony and let out a cold laugh.

“What did I tell you? Lin Yu is no better than me… aside from being boring and no fun, now she’s openly bullying an Alpha. How pathetic.”

Jiang Nan had expected to be mercilessly mocked by this rude person, but she hadn’t expected her to say that. Her brow furrowed, and she instinctively defended Lin Yu. “Lin Yu isn’t like you. She’s very good, it’s just… she doesn’t like me, that’s all.”

Song Mo’s eyebrows shot up. She gripped the steering wheel tight and let out a cold scoff, her tone harsh: “I say, are you just pathetic?”

Shit, enough is enough. I’ve never seen such a spineless Alpha.

But… why the hell am I feeling so irritated here?

Normally, she would have teased her wickedly and offered a bit of “comfort”—maybe even rolled in the sheets with a newly heartbroken puppy to satisfy her own malicious playfulness.

But as Jiang Nan listened to Song Mo’s scolding, the grievance in her heart burst forth.

Her eyes instantly wet, she began to wail back inside the car: “Is liking someone being pathetic! Is that any way to talk? Huh? And someone as rude as you will never be liked by anyone in your whole life!”

“Do you have to belittle people just because of a breakup? This… this was a mutual thing, how can I force someone! You’re really… I want to get out!”

Song Mo’s pupils constricted at Jiang Nan’s wailing. She immediately adjusted her tone and sighed, offering a helpless comfort: “Alright, alright. I didn’t mean it like that. I just… I can’t stand people like Lin Yu.”

Jiang Nan wiped her tears, her shoulders hitching with sobs. Her voice was thick with crying. “Then what can I do… I just happen to like her, wuwu.”

Looking at Jiang Nan’s miserable state, Song Mo’s stray thoughts were cast aside. Frowning, she cursed irritably.

“So what do you plan to do now? Go back to her house? Or that crummy rental apartment?”

Jiang Nan stopped sobbing and shook her head, speaking dejectedly: “I don’t want to. I already… told her. I won’t like her anymore, and I won’t see her again.”

Hearing this, Song Mo suddenly felt a strange sense of satisfaction. She couldn’t wait to see the look on Lin Yu’s face after being told it’s over. The corners of her mouth curled up, and she licked her lips.

Ha, that must be a sight.

Song Mo’s expression softened, and her eyes filled with a smile. She reminded her in a cheerful tone, “How about you come to my place? You saved me once, after all. This counts as returning the favor.”

Jiang Nan scratched her cheek awkwardly, her tone hesitant. “This… isn’t that a bit much? It might be too much trouble.”

Though they were both Alphas and living together shouldn’t be a problem…

But what if Lin Yu came looking… No, why would Lin Yu come looking!

Lin Yu must feel incredibly relieved right now, having finally gotten rid of her affection and pestering.

Why would she go out of her way to seek out trouble and find her?

Truly… what am I still hoping for.

Song Mo glanced at Jiang Nan and spoke nonchalantly, “What? Unwilling? Fine, go sleep on the streets then.”

Provoked by Song Mo, Jiang Nan’s temper flared. Thinking about how a cannon fodder like her would probably die immediately if she slept on the streets in the dead of winter, she snapped:

“I didn’t say I was unwilling! You… can’t you just speak properly… seriously.”

Watching Jiang Nan get worked up with her face still covered in tear tracks, Song Mo found it quite interesting. She leaned her elbow on the car window, her voice low and seductive.

“So you are willing?”

Seeing Song Mo’s curved eyes staring straight at her, Jiang Nan suddenly felt strange. She hurriedly looked away, nodded, and gave a soft “mm.” “I’m willing.”

Wait, what was with that look in Song Mo’s eyes? Or am I overthinking?

I must be overthinking. After all, a protagonist carefully crafted by the ‘Author-Mama’ is usually this charming… yes, that must be it!

Song Mo turned the steering wheel, pretending to pull at her wound. She hissed in a breath and frowned, seemingly enduring a sudden pain, but a hint of cunning flashed in her long fox-like eyes.

Jiang Nan immediately looked at Song Mo’s lower abdomen, her face showing clear worry.

“…The wound doesn’t seem to be healed yet. When we get home, can you help me check it again?”

Suddenly feeling like the “Aggressive Lead” is quite tempting too (?)…