Chapter 13
Zhai You nervously rubbed her hands together.
Don’t misunderstand. She had done pretty well in sex education, but this world was different from her original one!
Zhai You had already checked and confirmed that she hadn’t suddenly grown an extra appendage, so logically speaking, she shouldn’t be able to get a girl pregnant… But Father Zhai and Mother Zhai had managed to have her, right?
A female Alpha and a female Omega could have a child together too, right?
The original novel hadn’t described much about this, probably because it had been serialized on a certain JJ site.
Anyway, it was very clean.
And unlike in other novels, Zhai You hadn’t inherited the original owner’s memories. Even now, she was still fumbling her way through how to interact with everyone.
In short, Zhai You was very curious about how she could make Jiang Bailu have her child.
It was honestly mortifying to ask this question out loud.
Father Zhai pressed her fingers to her temple. This was the first time she had ever felt this exasperated.
She wanted to shove Zhai You back in and have her reborn.
But that would mean making her wife suffer through childbirth all over again, so Father Zhai took a deep breath.
As a father, teaching her Alpha daughter about reproductive physiology wasn’t that big a deal. It was just… Father Zhai looked at her with bitter disappointment. “I told you to go study, but you insisted on herding cattle!”
She actually had to ask about something this basic.
Zhai You pitifully defended herself. “I’m just too nervous. I figured asking you would make me feel more certain.”
That was true, Father Zhai thought.
She and Mother Zhai hadn’t been nearly as nervous their first time. Her daughter really was hopeless.
“Pheromones.”
Father Zhai set aside what she was working on and looked lovingly at her foolish daughter. “You haven’t bitten through her gland yet, have you? That’s one of the ways an Alpha marks an Omega.”
“Once she’s marked, other Alphas won’t be able to sense her pheromones anymore. She’ll belong exclusively to you.”
Zhai You’s throat moved.
That was true. Although Mother Zhai was physically affectionate with her, Zhai You couldn’t sense Mother Zhai’s pheromones as an Omega.
If Father Zhai knew what Zhai You was thinking, she would probably throw a folder at her.
Unfilial daughter.
“After the marking, when the two people’s pheromones mingle, it can lead to conception. The more intense the heat period, the higher the chance of pregnancy.”
Zhai You listened with her mouth hanging open.
She wanted to say that this didn’t conform to scientific common sense… but then she thought about it again. ABO already existed, so what use was the common sense from her original world?
In this world, this knowledge was the truth.
After Father Zhai finished speaking, she paused. “Have you two done it yet?”
Zhai You stubbornly said nothing. She had originally planned to grit her teeth and say yes, but when she met Father Zhai’s knowing gaze, she couldn’t force out a single word.
“Sigh.” Father Zhai sighed, her disappointment in her daughter difficult to describe.
“You got your marriage certificate far too impulsively. Your mother is very upset.”
“I didn’t want it to be like this either.” Zhai You pursed her lips. She also wanted to naturally get together with Jiang Bailu, tell both sets of parents about their relationship, then register their marriage, hold a wedding, and have a child.
But special circumstances called for special treatment.
Jiang Bailu didn’t like her. You could even say she hated her.
Because of that, Zhai You had decided to take a more roundabout approach.
After thinking everything through, getting the money she wanted, and asking everything she needed to know, Zhai You decisively said, “Then I won’t bother you anymore. Keep it up, Dad!”
Father Zhai stared at her for a long moment before parting her red lips.
“Get out.”
Gladly.
After leaving the room, Zhai You sent Sister Ji a text asking where Director Guo planned to film.
She hadn’t gone far before running into the butler.
The butler was holding a small card with a strange expression and said to Zhai You, “Young Miss, I found this in the pocket of your coat. You should keep things like this properly in the future and not let Madam see them.”
A little card from her coat pocket?
Zhai You took it in confusion. When she had gone out, she had casually thrown on a coat and hadn’t paid any attention to whether there was anything in its pockets.
Or rather, she hadn’t even realized the coat had pockets.
Zhai You held the little card up in front of her.
Several large hearts were printed on it, along with a drooling yellow-face emoji.
[Sexy Beauty, Available for Online Chats]
“……” Zhai You’s expression stiffened. “Let me explain.”
“Young Miss, you don’t need to explain anything to me.” The butler looked at Zhai You with complete indulgence. No matter what Zhai You did, he would always take her side.
“It’s just that now you have Miss Jiang, perhaps…”
The butler paused for a moment. “In the future, you can go to her instead. There’s no need to keep contacting women of unknown origin like this.”
If Qiao Yan knew the butler had called her a woman of unknown origin,
she would probably jump three feet into the air in fury.
Serves her right.
Who told her to stuff a little card into Zhai You’s pocket! Only then did Zhai You understand why Qiao Yan had suddenly gone crazy and thrown her arms around her neck. So she had wanted to attract attention just so she could plant incriminating evidence on her!
Her neck, which had stopped hurting as much, started aching again.
And it wasn’t just her neck.
Now her head hurt too.
“Don’t tell my parents about this,” Zhai You instructed after having just come from Father Zhai’s room, then added, “And Jiang Bailu too. You absolutely can’t let her know!”
Even though Jiang Bailu had been there at the time.
To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Zhai You still couldn’t let her know.
“I understand.” The butler nodded.
Zhai You breathed a sigh of relief. She thought that if the butler really hadn’t understood, he wouldn’t have come to her with the little card—he would have gone straight to Mother Zhai.
So she relaxed and tried to put the whole matter out of her mind.
Huh? After returning to her room, a thought suddenly occurred to Zhai You.
She pulled the card out again.
Her eyes lit up with excitement, and she hurriedly called Qiao Yan.
*
“You’re saying…”
Mother Zhai was testing perfumes in her room. She wore a long white dress, its hem spilling across the polished floor, her bare feet resting on the ground.
Looking utterly charming, she waited in the room for Father Zhai to finish working.
The butler knocked and came in to tell her something.
“Youyou had another woman’s little card tucked into her clothes?” Mother Zhai frowned. Just hearing the words little card made it sound improper. It seemed it was time to start restricting Zhai You’s outings.
She hadn’t interfered much before, but Zhai You had already brought a woman home now.
Mother Zhai pouted. Her daughter had learned bad habits.
As she rubbed perfume onto her wrist, Mother Zhai suddenly paused. “Does that little girl Youyou brought home know about it?”
“Young Miss specifically told me to keep this matter hidden.”
“Then she doesn’t know.” Mother Zhai’s lips curved upward, and she looked a little pleased. “It seems Youyou doesn’t like her that much after all. That puts my mind at ease.”
The moment she saw Jiang Bailu, she couldn’t help disliking her.
If Zhai You liked her, then Mother Zhai would simply pretend she hadn’t seen anything, ignore her, and keep her out of sight and out of mind.
But if Zhai You didn’t like her—
Then she might as well have Zhai You find someone else. As her mother, she could handle something like that herself.
*
Jiang Bailu lay near the edge of the bed, leaving a large stretch of empty space beside her.
She occupied only a small corner.
She closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling like butterfly wings about to take flight. A faint flush had appeared on her pale face. Her fever had left her somewhat delirious, and uneasy murmurs slipped from her lips.
“Mom, you’ll be okay…”
“I won’t agree to it.”
“No—”
Jiang Bailu suddenly opened her eyes. Her cheeks were burning hot, yet the dream she had just had sent her heart plunging into an icy abyss.
In the dream, Zhai You had ruthlessly ravaged her, refusing to spare a single part of her.
She had even roughly bitten through Jiang Bailu’s gland, leaving her powerless to resist, able only to let out kitten-like whimpers.
It was like an abyss she could never escape from. Jiang Bailu woke with a start, her eyes still filled with terror.
She slowly sat up, covering her face with both hands.
Trying to calm herself down.
Her thoughts returned to two months ago. She had just signed a contract with her agency when she received the devastating news that her mother had cancer.
At the time, she had been completely at a loss and attended a banquet arranged by the company.
That was where she met Zhai You.
Back then, Jiang Bailu was only a newcomer, standing in the farthest corner of the banquet hall. She noticed Zhai You in the center of the room, who had also only debuted not long before.
The lights fell across Zhai You’s face, her features like an oil painting painstakingly crafted by an artist, so richly beautiful that one almost didn’t dare disturb her.
Jiang Bailu quietly moved to the other side and carefully looked at Zhai You.
At the time, Jiang Bailu had thought, She’s so beautiful. She’ll definitely become hugely popular in the entertainment industry.
From the conversations around her, she learned that the woman’s name was Zhai You.
Not long afterward, amid startled exclamations, she discovered that Zhai You was walking toward her step by step—
That beauty transformed into the fangs of a demon.
Jiang Bailu swallowed. Her entire body was covered in cold sweat, leaving her mouth dry and throat parched.
She wanted to find some water in the room, but after looking around, she couldn’t see any.
Only then did she remember in a daze that this was Zhai You’s room. For Zhai You, all she had to do was call out and someone would immediately bring water in.
Jiang Bailu could only endure it in silence.
She lay back down and closed her eyes, yet Zhai You’s face appeared in her mind again.
“I’m letting you sign this contract. Don’t be ungrateful—”
It had been a contract requiring Jiang Bailu to obey Zhai You unconditionally as her kept woman.
“Do you want to… marry me?”
That was Zhai You with warmth in her eyes.
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