The Matrilocal Alpha and the Cold Actress Sweetly Explode on a Romance Variety Show (GL) - Chapter 2

A fresh and subtle scent spread throughout every corner of the room. It smelled noble and elegant, like the air in a forest after rain—green, slightly tart, and carrying a sense of lofty purity that one shouldn’t desecrate.

In addition, there was another scent in the room: a rich rose aroma, like a freshly bloomed, deep-red flower bud. The two fragrance notes blended perfectly; their pheromones were highly compatible.

Yu Xingyu’s consciousness was very hazy, but her body was experiencing a very strange sensation. Everything was dim, and time seemed to stand still. She could only hear the quiet sound of breathing close to her, softly lingering in her ears, like the stillness before a storm.

Her voice was hoarse, and her heart beat rapidly. She felt an unbearable internal tension and anxiety that couldn’t be relieved. Since transmigrating, she had lacked a sense of security, and her situation was extremely oppressive and difficult.

She felt like someone struggling in a swamp, desperately trying to grab a life-saving straw to pull herself to shore, but unable to find a way out.

Perhaps she was waiting for a turning point.

The scent of pheromones in the room gradually intensified, and the feeling of distress began to transform.

The sweet, green aroma was like salvation for someone parched and near death. The sensation coming from her body slowly nourished her soul.

The skin felt smooth and delicate, like white jade. The faint green scent deeply captivated her. The warm body temperature gradually soothed the restlessness in her heart, and all her anxious emotions quieted down.

In that moment, she felt the deepest comfort—hope in despair—allowing her to temporarily forget the oppression of debt, wanting only to cling to this beautiful feeling.

Yu Xingyu felt sweat pouring down her, and her whole body was reignited with vitality, like a dead tree sprouting tender new shoots in spring.

She didn’t know what was happening to her. It was a feeling she had never experienced before, as if she had a second life, or a completely new body had been born.

Her entire being, from body to soul, underwent a secondary transformation, completely different from before.

Their souls were aligned, and the two scents tightly intertwined, as if proclaiming the intimacy of the moment.

With every drop of sweat that fell, her grievances seemed to be soothed, and her distress slowly dissipated, leaving only pleasure and deep satisfaction in her heart.

She didn’t know how much time passed, but she thought she heard a commotion outside. She vaguely wanted to open her eyes, but the exhaustion was overwhelming, and she fell back into a deep sleep.

When Yu Xingyu woke up again, she felt sunlight streaming in from the window. The luxurious floor-to-ceiling windows and the opulent guest room décor made her abruptly jolt awake.

However, the sight in front of her shocked her even more: she was tightly embracing a cold and beautiful Omega.

More accurately, she was “entwining” her.

Yu Xingyu discovered that a green rose vine had sprouted from her body at some unknown time. The vine was covered in soft, fine fuzz and was intimately wrapped around the beautiful Omega, refusing to let go.

Her vision went white, and she nearly fainted, utterly confused about what was going on.

She knew the original owner was just an unremarkable A-level female Alpha who had never gone through a heat/rut. Her pheromones were also very faint—a condition called Pheromone Deficiency Syndrome in this world—so nothing special had been noticed before.

Seeing this suddenly sprouted vine, she was completely lost.

When she saw the purple and blue marks on the Omega’s pale neck, her mind went blank again. What exactly did I do last night???

Shen Tangxi woke up suddenly, opening her eyes and looking over with a cold gaze.

Yu Xingyu was too nervous to meet her eyes. Her breathing instinctively quickened, and the vine, like a sensitive mimosa plant, suddenly retracted its shoots from the Omega’s soft body, slowly dissolving back into her scent gland.

She had absolutely no memory of how the vine appeared.

But she also realized that it seemed to be a part of her body; with a single thought, the vine would appear or disappear.

Did I actually differentiate into something like this?

The Omega beside her suddenly smiled. Her elegant voice showed no panic, only coolness and composure, as if she already knew Yu Xingyu’s reaction.

“Put on some clothes first. What happened yesterday was quite sudden.”

Yu Xingyu saw that the bodyguards had already prepared a brand-new set of high-end women’s clothing for her. Her work uniform from yesterday was nowhere to be seen.

Her heart was pounding. She took a deep breath, trying to calm down, and changed into the prepared outfit—a plaid dress with a diamond-studded brooch. It looked expensive.

After changing.

The bodyguards had already arranged breakfast.

Yu Xingyu felt awkward.

All she knew was that the Omega in front of her was a celebrity. Without needing to guess, she knew the Omega had a powerful, wealthy background, definitely worlds apart from an ordinary person like herself. She never dreamed such a thing would happen.

She suddenly remembered the red wine from last night. The ice must have melted by now, and the temperature definitely wasn’t $7^circ text{C}$. It had warmed up over the night.

She had come to deliver wine, but after being pulled into the room, she remembered nothing. She didn’t know how she lost control and caused this incident. Now, she was worried the guest would blame her, leaving her feeling uneasy.

Shen Tangxi carefully observed Yu Xingyu, her eyes deep and her expression enigmatic. She touched the damaged spot on her nuchal gland.

Thinking back to last night, it had indeed been wild and unrestrained.

But if her inhibitor hadn’t been switched, her estrus would never have been this severe.

The culprit, Song Hanyue, had intended to sneak into her bed last night. Fortunately, Shen Tangxi discovered it early and had the bodyguards restrain her so she couldn’t approach. Otherwise, the consequences would have been dire.

The Shen and Song families were generational friends. Song Hanyue was also her childhood sweetheart, and if nothing went wrong, the two might have been engaged.

But she never expected Song Hanyue to be so desperate to secure a marriage alliance with the Shen family that she would use ruthless means to calculate against her, switching out her inhibitor.

After using the compromised inhibitor last night, not only did her pheromones not subside, they became abnormally frantic. If she didn’t get timely release and treatment, she would likely lose half her life.

In that moment of crisis last night, Shen Tangxi happened to see a young, green Alpha coming to deliver wine. For some strange reason, a thought flashed in her mind, and she pulled her into the room.

The rest is what happened next.

However, she never expected this Alpha to give her a surprise: a secondary differentiation occurred due to the events of last night.

This was an event with a chance of only one in ten thousand globally—the emergence of a trait only seen in SSS-level Alphas.

Shen Tangxi had a silver tattoo that appeared only when her pheromones burst, so she naturally knew what the change in the Alpha’s body represented. Moreover, their pheromone match rate was a staggering 100%.

And Yu Xingyu had temporarily marked her.

Just as Shen Tangxi was lost in thought, her agent’s call interrupted her.

Shen Tangxi picked up the phone.

“What is it, Sister Zhou?”

“It’s bad! This morning, the media suddenly broke the news that you and Song Hanyue spent the night together in a hotel room. The internet is going crazy discussing whether it’s true. Now, a lot of reporters are staking out the hotel entrance to corner you. What exactly is going on? You have to tell me the truth, did you and Song Hanyue really spend the night together?”

Upon hearing this, Shen Tangxi’s face instantly turned cold. She never expected Song Hanyue to go to such lengths. Last night, she first set a trap, then tried to take advantage to make the incident factual in the hotel, and arranged for reporters to surround them the next day. Once her reputation was ruined, it would be too late.

Song Hanyue knew that Shen Tangxi cared most about her reputation; such calculation was truly malicious.

“Sister Zhou, it’s not what you think. This news was deliberately orchestrated by Song Hanyue to damage my reputation and force me to agree to a family marriage alliance so the Shen family would fund the rescue of the Song family. Something did happen last night, but not the way the outside world is reporting it. Song Hanyue has been knocked unconscious by my bodyguard and is locked in a hotel room. We need to handle the public relations properly.”

Song Hanyue was only temporarily knocked out. Once she woke up, the situation couldn’t be stalled for long. It was possible she would talk to the media. If the media knew that Song Hanyue and Shen Tangxi were in the same hotel, it would still be difficult to explain and would have an impact.

Shen Tangxi had to find a proper way to deal with the media and minimize the damage.

She would absolutely not marry someone as malicious as Song Hanyue.

Meanwhile, Yu Xingyu was incredibly shocked.

Song Hanyue?

She felt she had heard that name somewhere before; it felt familiar.

Though the memory was distant, she faintly recalled that Song Hanyue was the name of the villain in a GL novel she had read long ago.

Because her character wasn’t in the original plot, she hadn’t realized after transmigrating that this was the novel’s storyline.

Song Hanyue and Shen Tangxi were the control group in a GL novel. Shen Tangxi was a top actress and the sole heiress of a wealthy family. Song Hanyue, due to the Song family’s business losses, wanted to marry Shen Tangxi and deliberately engineered a setup.

The plot that was supposed to happen last night was Song Hanyue switching out Shen Tangxi’s inhibitor, successfully climbing into her bed, arranging for reporters to cover it, making the marriage an unavoidable done deal.

After marriage, they went on a variety show. Song Hanyue publicly ruined Shen Tangxi’s public image in the entertainment industry, offended other celebrities on the show, and privately physically abused, tortured, drugged, and eventually destroyed Shen Tangxi’s career and future.

To ensure Shen Tangxi would never leave her, Song Hanyue even bribed a doctor to surgically remove her SSS-level Omega scent gland, utterly destroying her both physically and mentally.

Song Hanyue was an absolute villain Alpha who caused a genius actress to be cyberbullied, develop depression, and eventually retire from the entertainment industry with a ruined future.

Her end was merely going to jail, while the devastated Shen Tangxi had to live the rest of her life in the shadow Song Hanyue cast.

Without Song Hanyue, Shen Tangxi’s future should have been glorious in the entertainment industry, not completely destroyed.

Shen Tangxi’s tragic fate as a supporting character was simply because she was the control group for the main Alpha/Omega protagonists of the in-book romance variety show.

A tool to highlight others’ happiness.

It was unfair. A beautiful and elegant Omega like her shouldn’t have to suffer such things.

But now, something seemed to be different.

Yu Xingyu realized that her appearance had changed the plot. The Alpha who entered the room with Shen Tangxi last night was now her.

When she read the book, she deeply regretted Shen Tangxi’s fate and did not want the events to unfold as written.

Now that the crucial node of the plot had changed, the future events would also be different. She absolutely could not let Song Hanyue succeed.

As Yu Xingyu was thinking, the stunning Omega on the phone suddenly looked over, sizing her up from head to toe. Her fingertips constantly brushed over Yu Xingyu’s dropped service ID badge. As if a good idea had struck her, the beautiful red lips curled up.

Shen Tangxi lifted her cold face and spoke with an elegant voice, carrying a deeper meaning.

“How do you plan to take responsibility for what happened last night?”

Yu Xingyu felt nervous: “I… I’ll do whatever you ask.”

Though she currently had nothing—no money, no power, and a massive debt—she would find a way to take responsibility. Any demand the other party made would be fair. She would do anything.

Shen Tangxi nodded in satisfaction, then said, “The situation is now like this. I don’t know who leaked what happened last night. There are many reporters waiting outside the hotel, and since I am a public figure, if this gets exposed, it will severely damage my reputation and affect my future career. I have a solution: I will pay you 50 million yuan annually, and we will publicly announce that you are the Matrilocal Alpha who married into the Shen family.”

Yu Xingyu’s eyes widened in sudden shock at this proposition.