After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, My Omega Underwent a Second Differentiation - Chapter 4
The tiny molecules drifting through the air seemed to sense the unusual atmosphere inside the hospital room. They tried their best to move as silently as possible, afraid of being caught up in it.
Yun Keyi suddenly turned around. Her pupils widened slightly as she stared at Yun Rong, as though she was surprised that those words had come from her mouth.
But that surprise lasted for only a second before it was replaced by the ruthlessness rising in her eyes.
She had managed the Yun Group for many years and had long since trained herself to keep her emotions from showing. No matter how angry she was, she would never reveal it.
Yet now, she had actually been angered by this younger sister she had only recently acknowledged.
Without even thinking carefully, she had already raised her hand to strike.
This was actually beyond Yun Rong’s expectations.
Based on her understanding of Yun Keyi, this proposal should have been extremely tempting to her, whether from the perspective of controlling the Yun Group or from the perspective of Yun Rong deliberately showing her foolish side so Yun Keyi would lower her guard.
However, although Yun Keyi’s reaction was different from what she had expected, Yun Rong still put on an obedient appearance. She lowered her eyes and stood in place without moving.
The expected sound of a slap did not ring out. Instead, there came a clattering sound, as though something had been pulled and dragged.
The next second, in Yun Rong’s line of sight, a figure appeared between her and Yun Keyi.
Sheng Yinglan stood in front of Yun Rong, reaching out to grasp Yun Keyi’s wrist and stop her movement.
Her figure was even thinner than that of an ordinary Omega, but she was only half a head shorter than Yun Rong. The hospital gown hung loosely on her body. Because she had moved in a hurry, the hem of her clothes had lifted slightly, unintentionally revealing half a section of her slender, clean waist.
It was like a tender lotus root that had just been peeled. If someone held it gently, it seemed as though water could be squeezed from it.
Clearly, the occasion was not quite right, yet Yun Rong’s gaze was still uncontrollably drawn to that skin, which looked like creamy white jade. She could not help recalling the feeling of holding the other woman in her arms last night.
Although Yun Keyi was an Omega, her strength was not small. Moreover, this strike had been fueled by anger.
Sheng Yinglan had barely managed to block it before the space between her thumb and forefinger went slightly numb from the impact. She also keenly realized that this current body of hers seemed to have very little strength.
However, this ability to be strong only on the outside while hollow within, yet still remain completely composed on the surface, had been carved into Sheng Yinglan’s bones since childhood.
She met Yun Keyi’s gaze without showing the slightest timidity.
“I agree to your condition, President Yun. This matter was my fault to begin with. I will provide the police with everything according to your request and remove Yun Rong and the Yun Group from this incident.”
Yun Rong is the victim. She is also your biological younger sister. Hitting her now would be inappropriate.
Sheng Yinglan’s attitude was neither servile nor overbearing. Her form of address for Yun Keyi was also more respectful than the previous “Miss Yun.” She only said thirty percent of what she meant, but it was enough for Yun Keyi to understand.
Yun Keyi calmed down slightly and withdrew the strength in her hand. With some disgust, she flung off Sheng Yinglan’s hand.
She did not immediately respond to Sheng Yinglan’s words. Instead, she looked Sheng Yinglan and Yun Rong up and down.
It seemed she found the scene of the victim and the perpetrator fighting to use their own bargaining chips to settle matters for each other rather absurd.
Or perhaps she had noticed some hidden, unclear signs between them that even she could not quite understand.
When Yun Rong seemed as though she wanted to say something else, only to lift her head and meet Yun Keyi’s probing gaze, her expression turned slightly unnatural and she turned her head away again.
Yun Keyi felt as though she had understood the scene before her, a performance called “ambiguity.”
But she failed to notice the trace of slyness that flashed through Yun Rong’s eyes.
The face of a CEO was just like the sky in June. One second, it was raging with wind and rain; the next, the clouds had cleared.
Yun Keyi withdrew the ruthlessness that had surged across her face and replaced it with an unfathomable smile that did not reach her eyes.
“No need.”
First, she rejected Sheng Yinglan’s proposal.
“I think Yun Rong’s plan is more suitable.”
Then her gaze crossed over Sheng Yinglan in the middle and landed on Yun Rong as she gave an instruction.
“I’ll have my secretary prepare the share transfer agreement as soon as possible. Once it’s signed, I’ll have the Yun Group announce your romantic relationship to the public. I will also guarantee that Sheng Yinglan’s glandular disability disorder will not be leaked.
“As for what happened in the past, I can stop pursuing it. But I do not want her name appearing in any negative social news again and affecting the Yun Group.”
Her words sounded more like a unilateral notification. After speaking, she did not wait for Yun Rong to express any further opinion and turned to leave.
But after taking two steps, when she brushed past Sheng Yinglan’s shoulder, she paused and released a little citrus-scented pheromone.
“I dislike people who overestimate themselves.”
Although she was very satisfied with this result, she still held a grudge over Sheng Yinglan interrupting her earlier. So she decided to teach the other woman a small lesson.
At first, Sheng Yinglan did not quite understand what Yun Keyi’s warning before leaving meant.
Then suddenly, the area at the back of her neck covered by gauze felt as though it had been sealed inside a vacuum glass dome. The air inside was continuously being drawn out.
The position of her gland began to tighten, like an invisible hand slowly squeezing the back of her neck, trying to wring out the last trace of air inside her gland.
Sheng Yinglan felt that it had become difficult to breathe. She could not even stand steadily and fell backward.
Yun Rong stood behind her, silent for a long while, as though she had been waiting for this exact moment.
She caught the swaying Sheng Yinglan. Her long fingers, without the slightest restraint, lifted the hem of the loose hospital gown. Openly, she wrapped her arm around the place she had glimpsed earlier and was very satisfied by the smooth, slippery feel under her hand.
Half-holding and half-embracing Sheng Yinglan, she placed her back onto the hospital bed.
Just as she was thinking of taking advantage of the other woman’s stress reaction to steal a few touches without much concern, she unintentionally caught sight of the blood remaining on Sheng Yinglan’s hand.
That was from when Sheng Yinglan had gotten up from the bed to stop her from being hit. She had not noticed that the IV tube was still inserted into the back of her hand.
During the pulling, the needle had scratched the back of her hand, leaving a long bloody mark from the base of her little finger to her wrist. The flesh in the middle had already split open, looking rather frightening.
The stress reaction was very strong.
Although she could clearly breathe through her mouth and nose, she still felt as though she lacked oxygen. Her lips parted slightly, as if that would make her feel a little better.
A faint redness had already been forced out at the corners of her eyes. Because her gland was tightening, her gaze had also unconsciously gone empty, her unfocused sight falling somewhere unknown.
Yun Rong suddenly lost all interest in doing anything else.
She raised her hand and pressed the call bell at the head of the bed. Then she adjusted Sheng Yinglan’s position, letting her lean diagonally in her arms while she helped smooth her breathing.
Although she knew it would not physically help much, at the very least, she wanted to make her feel a little better psychologically.
This was the Yun Group’s private hospital. Before the call bell had even rung three times, the doctor had already knocked dutifully and hurried inside.
Although the doctor understood what had caused Sheng Yinglan’s condition, she did not dare ask too much. She quickly gave Sheng Yinglan an injection to ease it, then opened the windows in the hospital room to disperse the faint trace of Yun Keyi’s pheromones that still lingered.
Two minutes later, Sheng Yinglan finally recovered from that near-death state.
The mist in her eyes finally faded as well. Although the suffocating feeling at the back of her neck had disappeared, a lingering soreness and weakness remained.
Instinctively, she wanted to reach out and touch it, but Yun Rong pressed down on her injured hand.
“Don’t move. The wound on your hand hasn’t been treated yet.”
Only then did Sheng Yinglan realize that she was being held entirely in Yun Rong’s arms.
A steady warmth came from behind her back. It was Yun Rong’s body temperature.
She could not see the other woman’s expression clearly, but she could distinctly hear the displeasure and low heaviness in her voice. On top of that, her voice sounded almost exactly like Teacher Yun’s, so Sheng Yinglan could only instinctively obey her order.
She allowed Yun Rong to use a cotton swab dipped in alcohol to clean the wound on the back of her hand.
Yun Rong gently supported the back of her hand with one hand, using the cotton swab to wipe away the blood around the wound. The cool cotton swab would occasionally brush against the injury by accident, making her muscles tremble reflexively.
“Does it hurt?”
Yun Rong lifted her hand and gently blew on it.
Her breath fell across the back of Sheng Yinglan’s hand, a little warm and a little ticklish.
A sudden longing was born in Sheng Yinglan’s heart, a desire to get even closer to Yun Rong.
Just being held like this was not enough.
She wanted to press against every inch of the other woman’s skin. She wanted Yun Rong to kiss the back of her neck. She wanted to be comforted by those large hands. She even could not help wanting to rub herself against Yun Rong’s palm.
Sheng Yinglan was startled by the thoughts that suddenly appeared in her mind.
By the time she realized what she was thinking, her entire face had already flushed red.
Even if she was seeing a face identical to Teacher Yun’s again, she should not be this thirsty!
She shook her head. As though afraid that the person behind her would discover those filthy thoughts, she quickly changed the topic.
“What happened to me just now?”
She knew very little about the ABO world. All of her knowledge came from that novel she had not read carefully.
She only knew that Alphas and Omegas could secrete pheromones, along with some basic knowledge about heat periods and susceptible periods. So she did not quite understand why Yun Keyi had merely stood near her for a while, yet she had suddenly felt so terrible.
Yun Rong’s movements as she cleaned the wound paused.
Then she lifted her eyes and signaled to the doctor, who had been standing at the side the whole time. Only then did the female doctor hurriedly speak.
“Miss Sheng, just now, you experienced a stress reaction due to someone else’s pheromones. This is a normal reaction for someone with glandular disability disorder. After receiving the relieving injection, there shouldn’t be any major issue.
“However, because glandular disability disorder is a rather special and very rare condition, it will greatly affect your life from now on. You must pay special attention…”
The female doctor looked to be in her early thirties. She spoke very respectfully and explained the pathological knowledge related to glandular disability disorder in great detail, as though she had long since prepared herself to wait for Sheng Yinglan’s questions.
“So, having this illness is basically the same as being allergic to most people’s pheromones. Even though I can’t smell their pheromones, I’ll still have an allergic reaction. If I don’t take medicine or receive an injection in time, I could go into shock and die at any moment?”
Although Sheng Yinglan did not fully understand some of the specialized terms, she grasped the general meaning.
She now understood why Yun Keyi had said that as long as she walked out of the hospital, she would not survive for long.
It was also the first time the female doctor had seen a patient compare this condition to an allergy. But although the wording was rough, the logic was not wrong. She could only nod.
Obtaining this piece of information was certainly not good news for Sheng Yinglan.
After all, it was equivalent to being in the real world and walking down the street without knowing which people were carrying guns. As long as the other party wanted to, even a stranger could take her life at any time.
“Is there no way to cure it completely? Or what if that gland you mentioned is cut out of the body?”
The moment Sheng Yinglan finished speaking, Yun Rong’s grip on her hand tightened unconsciously.
Yun Rong had just finished treating the wound on the back of her hand and had not yet had time to withdraw her hand when she heard Sheng Yinglan say something so outrageous.
Unable to control her strength, she left a faint red circle around the other woman’s wrist.
The female doctor also seemed not to have expected that someone would want to avoid this condition by removing the gland.
Seeing that Yun Rong’s expression was already a little off, she hurriedly advised against it.
“Miss Sheng, the gland is an organ as important to Alphas and Omegas as the heart. Although there are successful cases of removal in medical history, they are only a minority. Moreover, after gland removal, the subject’s lifespan will also be reduced.”
While exaggerating the dangers of gland removal, the female doctor quietly skimmed over Sheng Yinglan’s question about a cure.
After saying this, she did not forget to comfort her.
“Actually, Miss Sheng, you don’t need to be so discouraged, nor do you need to be so frightened. Just treat it like an ordinary chronic illness. As long as you take your medication on time, there shouldn’t be any major problems.”
In truth, there was not much medical ethics in saying this.
After all, the gland counted as a secondary sex characteristic for Alphas and Omegas. Not being able to smell pheromones even meant that Sheng Yinglan could not live and socialize like a normal person.
However, Sheng Yinglan had transmigrated from a normal society into an ABO world. In her worldview, she did not realize this point at all. Naturally, she did not make things difficult for the doctor over this issue.
She lowered her head and thought for a while before speaking again, somewhat embarrassed.
“You said just now that I’ll be allergic to most people’s pheromones, but there are also a small number of pheromones I can not only smell, but also won’t be allergic to…”
Perhaps because she had drunk alcohol last night, Sheng Yinglan’s memories of drugging Yun Rong and what happened between them in the hotel had already become a little blurry.
She turned her head slightly to glance at Yun Rong, then continued.
“Last night, I think I smelled a clean woody scent, like agarwood. Does that mean I’m not allergic to… her pheromones?”
She did not know whether that scent was Yun Rong’s pheromones, and she could no longer accurately recall the exact smell. But after hearing the doctor’s words, she still could not help asking.
Seeing that the other woman had finally asked the key question, the female doctor hurriedly fulfilled her duty and explained.
“After last night’s examination, we discovered by great coincidence that you do not produce a stress reaction to Miss Yun Rong’s pheromones. This is a blessing amid misfortune.
“However, some components in Omega heat inducers can cause symptoms such as weakness in the limbs for people with glandular disability disorder like you. So please avoid them as much as possible in the future.
“Also, because your constitution is special, without proper testing at a formal hospital, you must never use your own body to test what kind of pheromones you are not allergic to. In serious cases, it can lead to shock.
“As for pheromones that do not cause a stress reaction, you can spend more time with the carrier. Perhaps it may have some effect on the recovery of your gland…”
The female doctor said a lot more afterward, but Sheng Yinglan did not hear any of it.
Her thoughts had already stopped the moment she confirmed that she was not allergic to Yun Rong’s pheromones.
She had not expected that even after transmigrating into a book, she still could not escape being “disabled.”
Sheng Yinglan unconsciously touched the position of the bone at her right elbow.
Although it was smooth and flat now, whenever she heard the word “disabled,” she still had an instinctive reaction.
After listening to the doctor conceal and falsify part of the truth according to her instructions, Yun Rong wanted to see Sheng Yinglan’s reaction.
But her gaze landed instead on the movement of Sheng Yinglan placing her hand over her right elbow bone.
A trace of confusion could not help flashing through Yun Rong’s eyes.