After Transmigrating As The Film Empress Sister’s Kept Alpha - Chapter 7

Only after finishing the cigarette did Ji Xiangyu gradually regain her composure. The unusual emotion between her brows and eyes slowly faded as well.

She stood, pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, then sat back down on the bed and rubbed the space between her brows.

Shen Yishu leaned casually against the wall beside the bed and helplessly pinched the back of her neck, which was beginning to heat up.

Ji Xiangyu had relieved her own discomfort by hugging her. Now it was Shen Yishu’s turn to suffer.

After two people had recently engaged in marking, they would develop a certain dependence on each other’s pheromones.

They were like a matching lock and key. As long as they remained near each other, they could not help wanting to draw closer and unlock one another.

Seeing that Ji Xiangyu remained silent for so long, Shen Yishu smiled lazily.

“Sister, you couldn’t have asked me to visit you tonight just because you wanted what happened earlier, could you?”

Ji Xiangyu crossed one leg over the other and supported herself with both hands beside her.

A section of fair calf showed beneath her wide-legged pants. She wore a pair of classic black canvas shoes, but had not pulled them on properly, using them like slippers instead.

The traces of spring in the air blended into the night with the evening breeze.

Her entire body relaxed as she leaned slightly backward, showing none of the tension that had drawn tight around her waist when Shen Yishu held her earlier.

Shen Yishu felt that had Ji Xiangyu looked like this when they first met last night, she probably would not have been able to call her Sister.

“No,” Ji Xiangyu replied, tilting her head.

After that single response, the room fell silent again.

Ji Xiangyu’s irises were unusually dark, resembling a pool thousands of feet deep whose contents were impossible to discern.

Shen Yishu sensed that Ji Xiangyu was examining her, seemingly trying to determine something.

There was no malice in her gaze, however—only pure curiosity.

“If there’s something you want to know, Sister, you can ask me directly.”

Shen Yishu sighed softly.

She had underestimated the power of pheromones. If she stayed with Ji Xiangyu much longer, she feared she might burst into flames.

“You just saw Lin Luosheng.”

It was a statement, not a question.

“Mm.”

Not only had she seen her, she had also stared at her several times and memorized every detail of her features.

She definitely would not mistake someone else for her again.

According to the original novel, Ji Xiangyu and Lin Luosheng were cousins.

Therefore, the most likely explanation was that Ji Xiangyu had heard Lin Luosheng’s accusations and had come to question Shen Yishu on her cousin’s behalf.

“What do you think of her?”

The question went in a direction Shen Yishu had never expected.

“Huh?”

She met Ji Xiangyu’s gaze in astonishment.

“…”

Ji Xiangyu also realized that her question sounded somewhat strange.

Ever since entering Shen Yishu’s room, her behavior had become slightly difficult to control.

“She’s encountered some trouble recently,” Ji Xiangyu continued, following the direction of the conversation.

“I think she seems quite nice,” Shen Yishu answered honestly.

The original story was a sweet, indulgent romance. Many readers had said they liked Lin Luosheng’s personality.

She only acted spoiled with her destined Alpha, Zheng Shu, and never complained about exhaustion or hardship while filming.

“Does she need my help?” Shen Yishu added after thinking for a moment.

Her reasoning was simple.

Even though the current events had already deviated from the original plot, she, as cannon fodder, should still play a role in helping Lin Luosheng achieve success in both her career and love life.

Since that was the case, Shen Yishu might as well act proactively and become a positive supporting character.

Ji Xiangyu gave her a very strange look, her eyes plainly filled with incomprehension.

Shen Yishu: “…”

She had almost forgotten that with Zheng Shu and Ji Xiangyu around, there was hardly any positive role left for her to play.

“She doesn’t need help. She wants to ask whether you were responsible for what happened last night.”

Ji Xiangyu’s gaze became piercing as she stared fixedly at Shen Yishu.

“…”

Shen Yishu found herself in a difficult position.

She genuinely did not know whether the original owner had done it.

Given the original Shen Yishu’s reckless and immoral character, she was capable of almost anything.

The problem was that if Shen Yishu confessed on her behalf, she would be the one punished.

She had transmigrated without any special abilities.

Aside from what she remembered from the original novel, she knew nothing.

If she recklessly accepted responsibility for the original owner’s wrongdoing, then under her current circumstances, she would have no way to deal with the trouble if Zheng Shu, Ji Xiangyu, and Lin Luosheng decided to retaliate.

Moreover, Shen Yishu had always accepted responsibility only for her own behavior.

She was unwilling to claim something she had not personally done.

But if she denied it and Ji Xiangyu later discovered the truth, Shen Yishu feared she might die even sooner.

Ji Xiangyu did not pressure her.

She simply waited in silence.

The atmosphere became heavy.

The two faced one another without speaking.

Suddenly, Shen Yishu pinched her own thigh hard.

Ji Xiangyu: “?”

More painful than being unable to think of an answer was the fact that inside this room, where the scent of rosemary had not yet dissipated, Shen Yishu was being tempted to embrace the Omega before her.

It was a normal physiological reaction.

It had simply appeared at a thoroughly inappropriate moment.

Ji Xiangyu frowned and, after two seconds of silence, asked, “Are you all right?”

Shen Yishu thought, I’m not. I have a very serious problem.

It felt as though she had returned to the moment she first awakened last night.

Her entire body was burning, and the desire aroused by the Omega urged her to do things she did not want to do.

She had not done them yesterday.

She would not do them today either.

However, enduring it was truly agonizing.

Shen Yishu could only pinch herself and use the pain to control her thoughts instead of allowing desire to take over.

She inhaled deeply.

While the clarity created by the pain remained, she hurriedly said, “Can I give you an answer tomorrow?”

Ji Xiangyu assumed Shen Yishu could not immediately think of an excuse to absolve herself and was therefore postponing her answer until tomorrow.

Her frown deepened.

She began wondering whether asking Zheng Shu for several additional days had been the correct decision.

She should never have requested that extra time.

Zheng Shu always handled matters cleanly.

Once Shen Yishu was driven from the industry, Ji Xiangyu would no longer have to worry that the fact she was an Omega might be exposed prematurely.

Nor would she have to fear Shen Yishu using what happened last night to threaten her.

Yet whenever she remembered the inexperienced, restrained bite the Alpha had given her the previous night, or how Shen Yishu had protected her from Jiang Wu today without revealing her secret, Ji Xiangyu felt the matter could not be so simple.

Withdrawing the interrogation from her voice, Ji Xiangyu asked indifferently, “Why?”

Shen Yishu felt hot enough to remove her clothes and take a cold shower, hoping it would calm her restless pheromones.

For every additional minute Ji Xiangyu remained, the pheromones inside Shen Yishu grew several degrees more agitated.

It took nearly all her reason to suppress the attraction.

She reached out and, close to tears, pinched herself again.

“Sister, if you crave my pheromones, do you think I don’t crave yours too?”

Ji Xiangyu: “…”

That possibility had not occurred to her at all.

Feeling unbearably hot, Shen Yishu reached out and lowered the room’s air-conditioning temperature by another two degrees.

Cold air blew across her face and neck, relieving some of her discomfort and allowing a little reason to return.

“You should go back first. I promise I’ll give you a satisfactory answer tomorrow.”

Seeing that Ji Xiangyu had also lost her earlier relaxed posture, Shen Yishu felt relieved.

As long as Ji Xiangyu left, Shen Yishu could stand in the cold air for a while and calm down.

Ji Xiangyu hesitated before saying, “You can hug me too.”

Shen Yishu: “?”

Shen Yishu: “What???”

Covering the burning back of her neck, Shen Yishu repeatedly refused.

“I’m fine. Once you leave, I won’t feel uncomfortable anymore.”

A faint blush colored Ji Xiangyu’s porcelain-white cheeks.

She was also somewhat embarrassed by what she had just said.

Assuming Shen Yishu was thinking about their agreement from last night, she cleared her throat.

“Consider it my apology for suddenly hugging you earlier.”

Shen Yishu had many concerns.

Whatever fleeting connection existed between her and Ji Xiangyu should have ended last night.

Unfortunately, because they belonged to the same production and the attraction between their pheromones was too powerful, tonight’s situation had occurred.

An embrace was even more intimate than a night of passion.

Sharing a bed might happen because of a physiological need, but an embrace should be based on love.

Pressing her entire body against the cold wall, Shen Yishu gently refused Ji Xiangyu’s suggestion.

“That wouldn’t be appropriate.”

Ji Xiangyu stared at her face for three seconds before suddenly laughing.

She stood and walked toward the door.

When her hand rested on the doorknob, she turned to look at Shen Yishu, who was watching her leave.

“I nearly forgot. You said you like delicate, spoiled Omegas.”

Shen Yishu did not understand what she meant.

“And I’m an overbearing Alpha.”

Ji Xiangyu turned the handle and strode away.

The door slammed against the frame, creating a gust of air that left Shen Yishu standing there in complete confusion.

Shen Yishu: “?”

She did not understand the meaning of Ji Xiangyu’s final two sentences, but she did know that Ji Xiangyu must have heard everything she and Jiang Wu had said.

She could only feel grateful that she had not said anything bad about Ji Xiangyu, much less revealed even the slightest hint that Ji Xiangyu was an Omega.

According to Zhu Li, Jiang Wu could crush her effortlessly.

If Ji Xiangyu, who was even more powerful than Jiang Wu, wanted to make her life miserable, would it not take even less effort?

Shen Yishu limped over to the bed and sat down, examining the place she had pinched earlier.

It was already red.

Although Shen Yishu’s skin was not as pale as Ji Xiangyu’s, it was still several shades lighter than the average person’s.

The red, swollen patch stood out clearly on her thigh, as though reminding her of the price of becoming involved with Ji Xiangyu.

She sighed.

Shen Yishu, Shen Yishu. You should finish this job as soon as possible and stay far away from both the female lead and Ji Xiangyu.

The air conditioner gradually drew the pheromone scent from the room, allowing Shen Yishu to clear her head.

She took out her phone.

Since she had plenty of time today, she decided to investigate the life of “Shen Yishu,” this cannon-fodder character, and find out what else existed besides the entire ocean of romantic partners she had been keeping on the hook.

The moment she took out her phone, she discovered more than a dozen missed calls, all from the same person.

[Eldest Uncle]

Shen Yishu considered it for a moment before calling back.

The moment the call connected, the person on the other end impatiently asked, “Xiaoshu, how did last night go?”

Shen Yishu lowered her eyes.

She had just found a potential breakthrough regarding the answer she needed to give Ji Xiangyu tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Ji Xiangyu took a mask and hat from the pocket of her sweatshirt and rode the elevator back to the top floor.

In the elevator mirror, only her delicate, narrow eyes were visible, filled with sharpness.

Ji Xiangyu had heard that after an Alpha experienced marking for the first time, she would become addicted to the taste and be reluctant to leave her Omega.

Shen Yishu, however, seemed remarkably carefree.

Either she had long since passed the age of first experiencing such things…

Or she simply was not very capable.

Whichever explanation was true, it was good for Ji Xiangyu.

Still, when she remembered the Alpha looking up and admitting that she also liked delicate, spoiled Omegas, Ji Xiangyu wanted to sneer.

Hmph.

Scumbag Alpha.