Chapter 36

“Rumble—”

Thunder that had not appeared in the weather forecast exploded in the sky, adding another considerable obstacle to the already bad weather.

Although Lingzhou was a subtropical southern city, in early winter, the nighttime temperature was still only a little over ten degrees. As an Alpha with an excellent constitution, He Lingxing could still move around freely in costume, but the same could not necessarily be said for Shu Minglan, who was an Omega.

Drone filming was usually combined with manual filming. Today, because the scene was at night and the mountain road was inconvenient to walk, only a few people had gone to film this section. Before departure, He Lingxing had memorized Shu Minglan’s section of the script very well, so of course she knew roughly how long it should take.

Because this scene was not especially difficult, including walking time, even with NGs, based on the acting level of the leads, Shu Minglan and Murong Feng, it should have been kept within half an hour. But now, it was already heading toward an hour.

At this moment, He Lingxing was standing at the foot of the mountain, raising her head to look upward. Even with the strength of a top-tier Alpha, she could only vaguely make out the sparse leaves in the night, which was as dark as a spreading mass of ink. Human voices and figures blurred into a hazy mess before her eyes, almost impossible to catch.

Only an emergency communications staff member was with her, a strong male Alpha bodyguard. Similarly, the people over there had also brought two or three bodyguards. Logically speaking, bodyguards like these had to go through selection before entering the crew, and during their interactions, the people around her had also been quite polite to her…

But judging by Murong Feng’s past behavior, if he did not stir up some trouble in this kind of weather, it simply would not match his disgusting style.

If it were only Murong Feng alone, and with two people beside him, He Lingxing would not be too worried. But he had the help of a system derived from this world’s consciousness. Facing unknown circumstances, Shu Minglan’s chances of dealing with it would be much smaller.

Moreover, Omegas had an innate disadvantage against Alphas. If Murong Feng bought off or controlled those two bodyguards, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The long wait had already made He Lingxing less calm than when she arrived. However, she also had her own system. After adjusting her breathing for a moment, she made an excuse to the bodyguard that she wanted to use the restroom, then walked out in the dark.

Although she did not know why Murong Feng had such an inexplicably strong obsession with Shu Minglan, read the original at bailiantales.com just in case, finding them now was the key.

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In the darkness where one could vaguely see the five fingers of one’s hand, Murong Feng slowly opened his eyes.

An Alpha’s five senses had always been better than other people’s, especially a relatively high-level Alpha like him. He could already follow Shu Minglan’s pheromones to locate her position. Before filming, both of them had naturally applied suppressant patches to prevent accidents. However, when they came down just now, he had already been prepared and reached out to tear off Shu Minglan’s suppressant patch.

The sweet, rich cherry blossom fragrance of an Omega came from an instinctive lure toward Alphas. It was like an invisible thread. No matter the environment, it could guide him over.

The place where Shu Minglan fell should not be too far from him. Murong Feng touched the wound on his leg that had been scraped earlier and estimated that he should be able to make it over in one breath.

Earlier, he had secretly led everyone off course and toward the edge of a steep slope he had found before. But because it was dark and he was nervous, he had not smoothly avoided an upside-down tree hanging above it, so his leg had been injured.

What Murong Feng had not expected was that Le Jiaxuan would actually jump down with them when she saw the two of them fall. During the fall, he had heard the little girl cry out in pain. She had probably been injured too.

Le Jiaxuan had once counted as one of the targets he wanted to win over, but now, Shu Minglan was clearly more important. After scanning the surroundings and not seeing the girl’s figure, Murong Feng decisively walked toward the faint scent of Omega pheromones.

At this moment, Murong Feng seemed to have taken the script of the rebellious tribe in King of the Jungle and was acting in his true colors. The dark night outlined the tall, straight man into a blurry shadow. Like a gray wolf searching for prey, he lurked in the dark, hiding sharp fangs and waiting for a fatal strike.

The highly aggressive mint-fir scent of Alpha pheromones was an enormous temptation to an Omega approaching her heat period. Even though she had given herself a suppressant injection beforehand just in case, Shu Minglan, hidden in the dark, still could not help gritting her teeth.

Her teeth pressed against the soft tip of her tongue and gradually applied force until the stabbing pain from her tongue successfully awakened her reason.

A temporary marking was different from a permanent one. The pheromones an Alpha left on an Omega’s gland would only occupy it for a relatively short time. After about a week, they would almost automatically dissipate. Although Shu Minglan was deeply resistant to Murong Feng’s pheromones in her heart, the instinct [bailiantales.com]of her Omega body still made her unable to stop feeling her strength draining away.

“Minglan—”

The man’s voice carried an ample bewitching quality. His magnetic, low voice might have made some innocent young girl who knew nothing of his true nature sink right in, but when it fell into Shu Minglan’s ears, it disgusted her so much that goosebumps rose.

Fortunately, before going up the mountain, He Lingxing had seemingly casually reminded her of something. Shu Minglan quietly tightened her grip on the weapon she had brought.

The sweet and faint scent of cherry blossom jelly slipped into Murong Feng’s nose as his footsteps drew closer, intoxicating anyone who smelled it. Even though Shu Minglan was not yet his Omega, a wave of heat still rose in Murong Feng’s heart.

He needed to completely mark Shu Minglan before He Lingxing did. Past experience told him that only by permanently marking an Omega would they submit willingly. At the very least, he had to long-term mark her.

“Minglan—”

He called softly, but what he thought of was something else. It was something from a very long time ago. Not long after a certain special ability of his had awakened, he had seen something called “fortune” on Shu Minglan at an awards ceremony…

As long as he fully possessed Shu Minglan, he could seize everything on her that could be taken for his own use. At the very least, she would help him build a great career.

Murong Feng strode into the darkness. Just as he was about to bend down and pass through a row of bushes, a voice suddenly called his name from behind.

The instant he instinctively turned around, a burst of intense light pierced through the rain curtain without warning and struck his eyes directly. Murong Feng instinctively raised his hand to block it. The next moment, a sharp little stone flew through the air with unstoppable force and struck the fatal area with perfect accuracy!

“Ahhh—”

That was the most vulnerable area. Even being touched forcefully there in ordinary times would feel uncomfortable, let alone being suddenly hit by a stone like this. Even an Alpha with a strong physique found it ​stolen content​hard to withstand such a sneak attack. Murong Feng’s legs went weak, and he actually dropped to his knees with a thud.

The pheromones released by an Alpha at full strength made even Le Jiaxuan, who had no interest in Murong Feng at all, feel terribly uncomfortable. The young girl threw away the slingshot in her hand and shouted at the top of her lungs without caring about anything:

“Teacher, run!”

Le Jiaxuan did not know where Murong Feng had gotten such courage, to actually dare attack Shu Minglan despite the risk of going to prison. But she had also seen vicious Alphas before, the kind so crazy that even if they had to spend the rest of their lives in prison, they still wanted to mark the Omega they desired.

Shu Minglan and He Lingxing had given her the kindness of rebirth. Seeing Murong Feng sway as if trying to stand up, Le Jiaxuan gritted her teeth and prepared to go up and help. This Alpha seemed to have the strongest obsession with Shu Minglan. Although she was also very afraid, at a critical moment, going up to help block him was something she could not shirk…

“He Lingxing!”

Just as Murong Feng was clutching a key area and barely standing up, Shu Minglan’s voice, filled with both surprise and joy, nearly made his legs go weak again. The place where he had been beaten back then seemed to faintly ache out of instinct.

Taking advantage of Murong Feng’s momentary daze, the woman crouched in the corner used all her strength to sprint outward. The instant Murong Feng’s hand tried to grab her, Shu Minglan seemed to draw a huge burst of strength from nowhere. She suddenly flung away the hand reaching toward her, and the broken stone hidden in her palm scraped fiercely and without hesitation—

A faint smell of blood spread through the damp air, accompanied by Murong Feng’s low cry. In the chaos, Shu Minglan did not have time to see exactly where she had scratched him. She grabbed Le Jiaxuan and ran wildly outward.

But the Alpha’s highly aggressive pheromones still rode the wind over, forming an instinctive suppression over the Omegas. Even though these two had fairly good constitutions among Omegas, they were absolutely no match for an Alpha.

Enduring bursts of pain coming from his body, Murong Feng stared venomously at Le Jiaxuan, the “culprit” not far away supporting Shu Minglan. He took a spray bottle out of his pocket.

This spray could not be bought on the market. He had spent a great deal of effort to find it. In truth, he had originally planned to use it on Shu Minglan. But from the current situation, the time he could delay had almost reached its limit. It was impossible to long-term mark Shu Minglan in such a short time, so his target turned toward Le Jiaxuan.

Both times, his good affairs had been ruined by this damned girl. If he had known this earlier, he should have [Read on BaiLianTales]killed this little brat first!

However, letting her taste what it felt like to be temporarily marked by an Alpha, then, when her heat period arrived without any soothing agent, being forced to rely on him in pain, would not be bad either.

The two Omegas affected by Alpha pheromones could not run quickly at all, and Murong Feng easily caught up. The instant the person behind them pressed the nozzle, Le Jiaxuan only felt a strange smell rush straight into her nose.

Then, before the strange feeling could arrive, an aggressive, clear fragrance domineeringly drove away the fir-mint scent completely. The entire damp, dark mountain path was filled with a pheromone scent that combined floral fragrance and wine.

The cool fragrance of night-blooming cereus and the rum’s softness with hidden strength strangely fused and pulled against each other. On one hand, it soothed the pheromones in Shu Minglan’s body that were about to go into disorder. On the other hand, it borrowed the advantage of the stronger party without mercy and completely crushed Murong Feng’s pheromones. The man who had been incomparably arrogant a moment ago trembled instinctively under the suppression of a higher-level pheromone over a lower-level one and fell onto the ground on his backside.

He Lingxing. It was fucking He Lingxing again!

Murong Feng was so angry smoke nearly came out of all seven orifices. He wished he had a sharp blade in his hand, one that would let him cut the newcomer into a thousand pieces. But he also knew that even if he truly had a weapon, his male strength would not be able to suppress He Lingxing. Top-tier Alphas had no strength difference caused by sex.

Her pheromones clearly were not especially strong in terms of attack power, but when facing him, their aura opened completely, pressing down on him until fear rose from the source of his instincts, like a mouse seeing a cat.

After helping Le Jiaxuan, whose face was flushed, to stand, He Lingxing approached step by step and looked down from above at the man’s unconcealed face full of hatred. In the darkness where outlines could only vaguely be seen, even with her eyesight, she could only see that there seemed to be a fairly deep mark on Murong Feng’s face, as if something had scratched it.

But He Lingxing did not pay attention to any of that. Her sensitive sense of smell immediately caught the special scent in the air. Although Le Jiaxuan was the one who had been hit, Shu Minglan, who sat beside her resisting with all her willpower, was not much better off.

He Lingxing had never been this disgusted by anyone. Not even Jia Qianmei, who had wanted to unspoken-rule Omega actors; Yu Fanhui, who changed with the wind and did not know her own limits; or the black-hearted parents had made her feel such disgust from the depths of her heart, hatred so intense that merely breathing under the same sky as them made her feel sick.

It was the banned drug “Little Chili” spray produced in a certain black market. It had very strong hallucinogenic properties. After inhaling a large amount, an Omega would directly enter heat within fifteen minutes. A temporary marking would be very difficult to satisfy them; more markings would be needed to soothe them.

From then on, “Little Chili” would make the victim secrete a certain special substance deep within their nerves, ​bailiantales.com​causing the victim to develop Stockholm syndrome. They would then completely depend on and submit to the Alpha who marked them, and would not think they had been harmed. Naturally, they also would not sue.

Only when this thing appeared before her did the core hidden mystery plot of the script finally trigger. 520 told her that the reason Shu Minglan had been so devoted to Murong Feng in the original book was because he had used this thing.

Le Jiaxuan leaned against Shu Minglan with trembling shoulders, biting her lips with all her might to make herself calm down. Her sour eyes were already full of tears. And when Murong Feng saw He Lingxing’s expression suddenly change greatly, he guessed something and directly stuffed “Little Chili” into his own clothes.

Given He Lingxing’s personality, she definitely would not search his body. But before the others arrived, that little bit of time was definitely enough for him to destroy this evidence silently. It would only cost him some price.

But under Murong Feng’s cold, mad gaze, He Lingxing approached him step by step.

“What do you want to do?” Murong Feng had never expected He Lingxing would actually do this. “I’m a man, you’re a wo—”

The woman’s hand did not reach into his clothes. Instead, she quickly pinched the area Shu Minglan had injured earlier and made sting. The darkness prevented him from seeing the extremely tiny thing in He Lingxing’s palm, but instinct made Murong Feng feel that something was wrong.

The light of strong flashlights and footsteps in the rain grew closer and closer. He Lingxing stepped back a few paces, expressionlessly took out a small flashlight, aimed it at her palm, and raised the 0.05-version micro camera in her hand toward him.

Murong Feng’s expression changed drastically.

“Lingxing, Minglan, Brother Feng, Xuanxuan… are you all right!?”

After the drone suddenly broke and they could no longer see the situation here, the rescue team immediately set out. At this moment, seeing the miserable appearances of several people, they hurriedly asked.

He Lingxing waved her hand, telling them to first take the injured Murong Feng and Le Jiaxuan back, while she first went to support Shu Minglan. If she walked together with Murong Feng again, she was afraid she might lose control and directly solve him on the spot with a broken stone shard.

“Shushu…”

She saw Shu Minglan lowering her head, seeming to be enduring something with all her might, and hurriedly reached out to touch the other woman’s warm cheek. But her pale wrist was suddenly grabbed in the woman’s hand.

In the dark night, those damp eyes revealed a dangerous and mesmerizing expression. The woman holding her wrist used great force. The distance between the two had unknowingly drawn closer beyond the safe range of social distance, so close that He Lingxing could feel the heavy breaths falling on her cheeks.

The faint fragrance and embrace of the woman were the warmest comfort in the mountains and the darkness. The instant she grasped familiar flesh and bone, Shu Minglan struggled to pull closer to the other woman. Again and again, they pressed closer. Chaotic emotions and instinct made Shu Minglan wish she could merge He Lingxing into her own flesh and blood.

Her voice was hoarse, but amid the muddled haze, her will was firm.

“Bite me, He Lingxing.”

Author’s Note:

Countdown to the male lead going offline!