After Transmigrating as a Scum Alpha, I Marked my White Moonlight Omega - Chapter 32

Hiss, this… hurts like hell.

Jiang Nan felt as if her arm had been cleaved open. Blood instantly soaked her entire sleeve; even though she was wearing black today, the depth of the wound emitted a heavy metallic scent as blood dripped onto the floor from her hand.

As the poster child for being afraid of pain, she finally couldn’t help but curse under her breath, her brow knit in agony as she glared fiercely at the half-crazed Jiang Zhou.

If this… had landed on Lin Yu, how much would it have hurt?

Someone in the crowd shouted, “Quick! Call the police! Call an ambulance!”

Just as Jiang Nan thought to turn back and check on the unharmed Lin Yu, Lin Yu stormed past her. She clenched her fist and landed a solid, heavy punch right on Jiang Zhou’s face.

Jiang Zhou was sent flying back onto one of the dining tables. The sound of bowls and chopsticks shattering on the floor echoed through the hall. Dazed and seeing stars, Jiang Zhou coughed up a mouthful of blood, staring at the ceiling in a state of pathetic shock.

Lin Yu’s face was taut, her eyes so cold they made one’s heart shiver. The onlookers had backed away four or five meters, terrified of being caught in the fallout of this farce.

Lin Yu didn’t stop there. She stepped forward, grabbed Jiang Zhou by the collar, and began to rain down punches one by one, her face dark. Even though Jiang Zhou’s face had become a gruesome mask of nosebleeds and bloody foam, she didn’t slow down.

Jiang Nan was startled by Lin Yu’s ferocity. Her pupils constricted as she noticed Jiang Zhou looked like he might kick the bucket at any moment. She hurried forward and grabbed Lin Yu’s arm.

The movement pulled at her own wound. Blood flowed into her palm, and the wet, hot sensation made Lin Yu’s movements freeze abruptly.

“Lin Yu!! Stop! If you keep hitting him, you’ll kill him!”

Bellowed at by Jiang Nan, Lin Yu turned her head with unfocused eyes to look at the anxious, pale girl who had lost too much blood. Her hands finally went still.

Seeing Lin Yu stop, Jiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief. But her puppy eyes were full of unmistakable worry and urgency. Her tone softened as she comforted her: “Lin Yu! It’s enough… it’s over now. Don’t hit him anymore, okay?”

Lin Yu’s dazed eyes slowly came into focus. Her cold features were flecked with blood from the assault. She looked down to see her hands covered in thick, sticky blood.

Jiang Zhou had already passed out on the table, his face washed in red, looking nauseatingly broken.

Lin Yu shifted her gaze to Jiang Nan’s bleeding arm. Through the shredded sleeve, she could see the jagged, deep wound. She frowned, her lips parting as she murmured: “Jiang Nan, your hand… what do we do? Your hand…”

Seeing Lin Yu staring at her injury, Jiang Nan’s heart softened. She forced a light smile and let out a scoff, her eyes curving as she looked at her seriously. “I’m fine, really. It doesn’t hurt at all.”

She saw that Lin Yu was still staring blankly at the wound, as if she hadn’t heard a word.

Jiang Nan dragged her injured arm and pulled Lin Yu into a tight embrace. The days of separation and misunderstanding seemed to dissolve in that single moment.

She buried her head deep into Lin Yu’s neck. The fragrance of Photinia instantly filled her senses, causing her to take a deep, greedy breath.

Lin Yu’s eyes instantly turned red at the sudden embrace. Remembering Jiang Nan was injured, she tried to pull away.

Jiang Nan tightened the grip of her injured arm around Lin Yu’s waist. She was trembling, but she persisted, trying to dispel the fear and panic from the woman in her arms. She patted Lin Yu’s back gently, speaking as if coaxing a child.

“I’m really okay… just let me hold you a little longer, Wife.”

The Hospital.

Jiang Nan’s left arm was wrapped in a thick bandage. Sitting on the soft bed in a VIP ward, she scratched her cheek in embarrassment. She looked at Lin Yu sitting by the bed and whispered.

“Actually, I just got cut once. There’s no need… to stay in such a fancy ward, right?”

“A place like this must be expensive. I won’t be staying more than a few days anyway; the injury isn’t that heavy.”

In truth, she was quite enjoying herself; she just wanted to see what her caring “Lady Wife” would say.

Lin Yu leaned her forehead against her hand, propping her elbow on the bed, seemingly unable to forget the sight of Jiang Nan covered in blood. “Ha, you really… what time is it, and you’re still worried about that.”

She slowly looked up, brushing her hair back, and gazed at Jiang Nan. “Just focus on recovering here. That way, I can at least feel a little bit more at peace.”

Jiang Nan looked at the dark circles under Lin Yu’s eyes and the abrasions on her knuckles from the punching. She asked worriedly: “Are you okay?”

She could guess how much of a bloodbath was happening within the Lin organization now that the killer was identified. Lin Yu must be exhausted after handling everything these past few days.

A flash of confusion crossed Lin Yu’s eyes. After all, in that chaos, she wasn’t the one who got hurt. “Why do you ask?”

Being stared at like that, Jiang Nan looked away awkwardly and gave a dry laugh. “Nothing, I just saw the skin was scraped off your knuckles.”

Lin Yu looked down at the back of her hand. There were indeed obvious abrasions from the beating, but having spent years in the underworld, she hadn’t even noticed these minor injuries.

She gently rubbed the red marks and wounds, her eyes lowered and her expression unreadable. She spoke very softly: “Jiang Nan… that was the first time I’ve ever hit a family member.”

Jiang Nan: ?

Ha, from Wife’s ferocity just now, I thought… Jiang Zhou was a regular punching bag for her.

Lin Yu’s tone grew even softer. Her eyes remained downcast as she spoke her true thoughts to Jiang Nan for the first time.

“I am an adopted daughter of the Lin family. No matter how out of line they were, I felt I had no right to lay a hand on them.”

“But when I saw you get hurt, my mind went blank… Why did you do it?”

Startled by the question, Jiang Nan struggled to organize her words.

“Why did I do it… I just did it instinctively. I didn’t think at all.”

Lin Yu finally looked up at Jiang Nan’s pale face. Her brow furrowed, followed by a very faint sigh, but her tone held no blame.

“How can you be so impulsive?”

Seeing Lin Yu so concerned, Jiang Nan’s eyes curved into a sweet, obedient smile.

“It doesn’t matter. It’s just a small injury; it’ll heal soon.”

Lin Yu countered sternly, “It matters very much.”

Jiang Nan pouted: “…”

Fine, if Wife says it matters, it matters.

A brief silence fell over the room. Jiang Nan looked toward her phone on the nightstand. Remembering something, she looked at Lin Yu with a look of grievance.

“I have to ask you! Why did you do that before?”

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow. “What did I do?”

A flash of panic crossed Jiang Nan’s eyes. She looked elsewhere, her hand instinctively clutching the bedsheet. After a moment, she asked: “That day… why did you just leave after kissing me?”

Thinking of what Lin Yu had said to her before, her voice grew more emotional. “After that, you didn’t contact me! When we met, you acted like nothing happened! Were you… playing with me again?”

Lin Yu’s gray eyes seemed clouded with mist. She went silent for a moment before speaking.

“I know that in your eyes, I am a very strange person. I told you before that I didn’t necessarily have to sleep with you; I could find other spirit mediums.”

“So during those few days, I had Yue Qian and Nan Zhi look for Alpha spirit mediums with high pheromone compatibility. I wanted to try.”

“…To verify if you were only a matter of pheromones to me.”

Lin Yu’s eyes, usually full of sharp edges, revealed an unmistakable confusion. Her voice was raspy. “But it didn’t work.”

“Those people wanted to kiss me, but whenever they got close, I felt only irritability and disgust. I didn’t feel the beauty I feel when I kiss you.”

“So, these past few days, my heart has been in chaos.”

Jiang Nan froze, her cheeks turning pink. She looked at Lin Yu in shock.

She hadn’t expected Lin Yu to truthfully reveal her actions and feelings like this.

So, is Wife… confessing to me right now?

Lin Yu seemed to think she had said something unpleasant, showing a hint of embarrassment and self-reproach. “Jiang Nan, if I hadn’t used that method to verify it, maybe… I would never have known what ’emotion’ truly is.”

“From the moment I became a Lin, I grew used to the filth and ugliness of the family. I couldn’t imagine that someone like me, stuck in the mud, could be enveloped by pure and beautiful feelings.”

Jiang Nan’s face turned even redder as she pressed: “So, kissing me that day was because…?”

Lin Yu’s eyes found Jiang Nan’s again. Her hands instinctively gripped her own clothes, the wounds on her knuckles stinging slightly from the tension. Her gaze was burning and thick with certainty, her voice long and lingering.

“Kissing you was an uncontrollable impulse. I had never before felt a feeling override my logic like that.”

“This is the first time I’ve had this feeling, so… I needed some time to figure it out.”

She thought back to handling affairs at the Lin house over the last few days while Jiang Nan’s bright, smiling face kept popping into her mind.

Lin Yu licked her dry lips. “Every day I was thinking… what exactly is this feeling I have for you?”

Sitting on the bed, Jiang Nan’s eyes grew red. She thought of the grievance and loss she had felt while struggling between hope and giving up.

Hearing Lin Yu say this made her want to cry.

She sniffled. “So… have you figured it out now?”

Lin Yu pondered for a moment and nodded slowly. She didn’t dare look directly into the puppy eyes that made her heart race. She answered softly: “Yes. Just now, I figured it out.”

She paused, then continued. “When I see you unhappy, I care. When you smile, I want to smile too.”

“When you cry, my heart feels like it’s being wrenched. When you lose your temper, act stubborn, or act dazed, I think it’s all very cute.”

As she spoke, a shallow curve appeared on her lips. Her cold eyes turned tender. “When I see you sleeping, I want to kiss you. When I see you close to others, I feel very uncomfortable.”

“Whenever you push me away or doubt me, I wonder… if your love for me is real.”

“My feelings have been complicated, but… I still want to be with you all the time.”

Lin Yu remembered that night under the winter streetlight where she instinctively kissed Jiang Nan. She stared deeply at the girl on the bed.

“When we’re together, I want to hold you. When I’m holding you, I want to kiss you… and knowing you hit Jiang Zhou for my sake made me very happy.”

“But seeing you get hurt for me made me very angry.”

Jiang Nan bit her lip, looking away to keep her tears from falling.

Lin Yu, breaking her usual silent image, continued.

“And, and… I’ve missed you all the time.”

“People call this feeling love, right?”

Jiang Nan couldn’t hold back anymore. She began to sob softly, her face turning red. Tears dripped onto the bedsheets, creating dark water spots.

“Waaa… hicu.”

Panicked, Lin Yu moved closer. She didn’t understand why Jiang Nan was crying and asked cautiously: “Why are you crying again? Did I say something wrong? Or… is the painkiller wearing off?”

Jiang Nan, tickled by Lin Yu’s cluelessness, shouted back with a sense of shame: “No! You idiot! Your questions are… terrible, you know that?”

Though she didn’t understand, Lin Yu followed her instinct to appease her and nodded.

Jiang Nan noticed her dazed look and continued her protest: “Ha, since you know… get closer.”

Lin Yu didn’t know why, but seeing her teary-eyed and pouting made her heart melt. She sat on the edge of the bed. “What is it?”

Jiang Nan’s eyes were clear from the tears. She grabbed Lin Yu’s sleeve and said with a sob: “Kiss me!”

Lin Yu felt her heart swell with a warm, fizzy sensation.

Seeing Jiang Nan looking so stubborn yet saying such… cute words, her guilt vanished, replaced by the peace of finding something she had lost.

Lin Yu’s brow relaxed into a gentle curve. She realized she was falling for Jiang Nan completely. She took Jiang Nan’s hand—the one with the IV—carefully tucking away her usual sharpness.

Her cold eyes, usually devoid of smiles, curved softly, like a demon in the mud witnessing a pure emotion that could cleanse her soul.

“Okay.”

Her voice was faint, but Jiang Nan heard it clearly as the scent of Photinia enveloped her.

Those cool lips touched hers, and Jiang Nan felt her heart was about to leap from her chest.

They had done things far more intimate than a kiss, but this simple kiss, mixed with the salt of her tears, made her heart feel like it would explode. Her mind turned to mush.

Lin Yu opened her eyes slightly, noticing Jiang Nan’s furrowed brow and the tears escaping her closed eyes. Her throat tightened.

Perhaps… Jiang Nan didn’t know that she had wanted to see her again all this time.

Not just this time, but every time.

Ten years ago, High School.

“Ha, so she’s the adopted daughter of the Lins? I heard she moved into the old mansion the moment her dad died. What a… filial daughter.”

“Right? She’s not even that pretty and her personality stinks. No idea why President Lin likes her.”

“She’s a high-quality Omega, at least. Just has to spread her legs… Hahaha.”

Sitting in class, Lin Yu stared silently at her perfect test score. Her oversized school uniform made her look small and fragile. Her eyes were indifferent; she didn’t seem to care about the talk behind her.

When she walked out with an empty water bottle, she noticed the group follows her. A cold glint flashed in her eyes. She intentionally detoured to the water fountain behind the teaching building.

It was an old area that students rarely visited now that the building had better water dispensers.

The silent, narrow space was a natural venue for school bullying.

Just as Lin Yu was about to fill her bottle, a girl slapped it out of her hand. The plastic bottle hit the concrete and cracked against a sharp stone.

“Ha, what? Living with the Lins and you can’t even afford a decent water bottle?”

“Aya, don’t say that. Lin Yu looks poor as dirt. Does she even belong there?”

“Look at her eyes. How interesting… wouldn’t it be more fun if I poked them out?”

Lin Yu looked at the three girls. Her face was icy, her voice full of mockery. “What? Do you like me?”

The leader froze, while her two lackeys started laughing. “Hahaha, no way! Lin Yu says you like her…”

The leader’s face contorted with rage as she grabbed Lin Yu’s collar.

“You bitch! What the hell are you saying? Who are you trying to disgust?!”

“You think everyone is like your dad, an Omega who gets used? Ha, telling everyone you like them just so you can spread your legs?”

Lin Yu’s brow knit. Her rage reached its peak. Her fist at her side was ready to strike that ugly, smiling face.

“Tsk! Three Betas bullying one Omega, have you no shame?! Huh?”

A dangerous, warning voice interrupted the scene.

The four turned to see Jiang Nan walking out from the side, looking like she’d just woken up.

Having presented as an Alpha after middle school, Jiang Nan was already tall and slender. The powerful pheromones of an Alpha released a thick sense of irritation, as if she might snap their necks in the next second.

Jiang Nan scratched the back of her head, looking bored as she stared at the three Betas.

“Aren’t you going to get lost?”

Everyone in school knew Jiang Nan. As a powerful Alpha and delinquent leader who hated her family’s medium heritage, she was extreme and rebellious. Even the teachers couldn’t handle her.

The three girls turned and fled immediately, vanishing within three seconds.

Jiang Nan saw Lin Yu still standing there. She pouted, pulled a cigarette from her pocket, lit it, and took a drag, shifting her gaze to Lin Yu’s cold face.

Lin Yu noticed her gaze.

That was the first time Lin Yu saw those puppy eyes filled with complex emotions—sadness mixed with unrestrained irritation.

Her first thought was: I want… to see these eyes full of smiles.

Lin Yu stepped forward, took the lit cigarette from Jiang Nan’s hand, and put it in her own mouth, taking a sharp drag.

She immediately burst into a violent coughing fit, doubling over as if she would cough up her lungs.

Jiang Nan’s expression faltered, but then her lips curled into a smile. “Lunatic.”

That was the first time Lin Yu smoked.

And it was the first time she saw Jiang Nan smile.