After Becoming a Scummy Alpha, I Met the Reborn Omega - Chapter 61

“I want to talk to you—the real you.”

A girl, dressed in white, curled up in the middle of endless darkness. She hugged herself tightly, shutting her eyes and blocking out the entire world. In that sea of black, she was the only trace of white.

For all these years, this was the first time someone had spoken to her—spoken to the scared, fragile part of herself she always tried to hide.

“Su Jing… I know the pain you’ve been through. I know you’re still in there. I understand that justice that comes too late means nothing—but could you talk to me? I’ll wait. I’ll wait until the day you’re willing to open up to me.”

That gentle voice kept speaking to her, comforting her again and again—even without a reply.

And after a long silence, Su Jing slowly opened her eyes. She saw a girl’s kind face—Chen Lin—smiling softly at her, reaching out a hand.

Su Jing didn’t know who she was, but somehow, she felt no danger. The warmth in Chen Lin’s eyes reminded her of sunlight.

Su Jing reached out too… but their hands never touched.

The light vanished.

Chen Lin’s image shattered like a fragile bubble.

Then came a voice from the shadows—cold, familiar:
“No one can protect you… except me.”

Someone wrapped their arms around Su Jing from behind and slowly pulled her back into the darkness.

Even though their bodies were pressed close, Su Jing couldn’t feel a trace of warmth.

Tears slipped down her cheeks. Once again, she sank into sleep.

Meanwhile, Lin Changsheng had made a breakthrough in her research on herself and Xingyun.

The strange “multiple souls in one body” wasn’t caused by dark energy, like the system had claimed, but by a parasite from another world—one that lived beneath the Longevity Flower.

This parasite could take over a host’s body and completely replace their soul, becoming a new being. That was the usual result.

But Xingyun was only half of that creature. The other half was inside Su Jing.

Since neither of them was complete, they couldn’t fully erase their hosts’ souls. Instead, they could only force the original soul into a deep sleep.

Su Jing had inherited the evil side of that creature, which was why she wanted to bring chaos to the world. Xingyun had inherited the good side.

But Su Jing had always influenced Xingyun.

Xingyun could feel Lin Changsheng’s pain—and because of that, she began to want to protect her.

That desire to protect became the weakness that allowed Su Jing to control Xingyun.

Lin Changsheng wondered—what would happen if the two souls merged?

Would Xingyun survive? Would it be Su Jing’s dark side that remained? Or would both of them vanish entirely?

It was a huge risk.

But after talking it through, Xingyun agreed.

After all, during this time, Lin Changsheng had treated her like a true friend—like someone separate and real, not just a shadow of Lin Changsheng herself.

For the first time, Xingyun didn’t have to live under someone else’s name. And didn’t she wake up in the first place just to protect Lin Changsheng?

Somehow, along the way, she had forgotten that.

If she was never meant to exist, then maybe she could disappear—so the world could return to the way it was meant to be.

Lin Changsheng didn’t know what would happen when they met again. She didn’t know what she or Su Jing would face after the fusion.

The only thing she knew for sure… was that she was afraid.

All her life, she had planned ahead—because she had lived through it all before.

But this time, she chose to face her fear head-on.

The unknown future was terrifying.

Would she die?

And what about Mo Zhaoyan?

If I’m gone… will Mo Zhaoyan still foolishly walk toward that same future?

Will she have to repeat everything all over again?

Oh heavens, if no matter how many times I try, I can’t change my fate… then please—let Mo Zhaoyan forget.

Let her forget I ever existed.
Let her forget every day we spent together.
Let her forget a future that doesn’t have me in it.

Put all her pain on me instead.
Just let her live a happy, peaceful life.

The moment Lin Changsheng stepped into the prison gates, Su Jing was already waiting.

She hadn’t expected Lin Changsheng to really come.

Ever since Chen Lin died, the soul inside her had grown restless. And just then—Lin Changsheng arrived.

The two of them happened to be assigned to the same dorm room. It almost felt like fate.

They sat across from each other on the bed, silent and unusually calm.

Lin Changsheng studied Su Jing closely. She looked even more worn out than the last time they met. Clearly, what happened before had hit her hard.

“What are you here for?” Su Jing was the first to speak.

Lin Changsheng didn’t answer. Instead, she asked, “Do you know Lin Wan?”

Su Jing frowned, clearly confused. She seemed genuinely unsure who that was. Lin Changsheng could tell she wasn’t pretending—probably because, to Su Jing, failed experiments weren’t even worth remembering.

So Lin Changsheng added, “That little fangirl of yours.”

Recognition finally dawned on Su Jing. She tapped her forehead. “Oh… right. I think there was someone like that. Why bring her up?”

“She tried to kill me, just to win your approval.”

Su Jing burst into loud, unrestrained laughter, as if she had just heard a ridiculous joke. “Her? That coward? She didn’t have the guts to do it last time—what makes you think she could now?”

To Lin Changsheng, her words were unbearable. Lin Wan had spent her entire life devoted to Su Jing—only for that belief to be crushed like nothing.

“As I thought. You and I will never coexist. We are fundamentally different. There’s a stench of rot on you—something that drives people to do evil.”

Su Jing dramatically sniffed her own sleeve. “Smells fine to me. I take care of myself. But you—what are you doing here? Weren’t you the one who hated people like me the most?”

“Lin Wan tried to kill me. I killed her instead.”

Lin Changsheng said it quietly, almost indifferently.

Su Jing looked her over and shook her head. “You? Killing someone? Do you really expect me to believe that?”

After all, even when Su Jing had tortured her in the past, Lin Changsheng hadn’t made a sound. Someone like her—would she really go against her own principles to kill?

“Isn’t that what you always wanted? So why don’t you believe me now that I’ve done it?”

Su Jing went quiet at that, the laughter fading from her face.

“Let me talk to the other Su Jing inside you. After all, neither of us is truly just one person, are we?”

Su Jing’s gaze flicked toward Lin Changsheng’s side. The will of Xingyun drifted out from within her—it was the first time Su Jing saw her directly, not just through subconscious influence.

Ordinary people couldn’t see Xingyun. But because Su Jing and Xingyun came from the same origin, she could.

“You actually accepted it… you accepted that thing’s existence.”

Xingyun still felt a little scared of Su Jing, but when she met Lin Changsheng’s encouraging eyes, her fear faded.

“Of course Changsheng accepts me. Because I’m nothing like you. You’ll never earn a host’s trust. You’ll never live in harmony with one.”

Su Jing shot her a cold look. Xingyun instinctively stepped back.

The words had struck a nerve.

Su Jing couldn’t deny it—she couldn’t coexist with the real Su Jing. She had to force her other self into sleep just to take control of the body.

“Aren’t you afraid she’ll take your body from you one day?” Su Jing’s voice was full of mockery, trying to provoke her again.

Before Xingyun could reply, Lin Changsheng spoke up for her.

“She won’t. Xingyun has her own name. And you? You’ve carried someone else’s name your whole life.”

Su Jing smirked. “It’s just a name. If she gets to be called Xingyun, why can’t I be called Yunxing?”

It was clearly meant as a joke, but to her surprise, Lin Changsheng actually started using it.

“Well then, Miss Yunxing—may I speak with Su Jing now?”

Yunxing immediately regretted giving herself such a ridiculous name. “What do you want to talk to her about?”

“You think using ‘protection’ as an excuse makes it right to do cruel, unforgivable things? That making her close her eyes means she can stay blissfully unaware forever?”

“This is my business.”

“It never was just your business. Me and her, Xingyun and you—the four of us have been bound together from the very beginning.”

There were only two people sitting in the room, yet the conversation belonged to four souls.

From the moment they were chosen by that meteorite, Lin Changsheng and Su Jing were the same—both meant to be hosts. The only difference was that Lin Changsheng’s light still remained, while Su Jing’s had already faded before it could even arrive.

Lin Changsheng thought: If Chen Lin were still alive, she would want to save this girl.

And now that Chen Lin was gone, she had to take her place—and save her instead.

Suddenly, Yunxing felt a sharp pain in her head, followed by a floating, weightless sensation.

In the blink of an eye, she realized—she had become a soul again, just like when she had first entered this world.

How?

Yunxing snapped her gaze to Lin Changsheng’s hand, which carried a faint, nearly undetectable scent.

Lin Changsheng had developed a formula—a drug that could separate her soul from her body.

Without Yunxing inside her, Su Jing collapsed onto the bed in a faint.

“How… how did you do that?” Yunxing asked.

Lin Changsheng had used constant conversation and subtle provocation to distract her from the scent on her hand.

To her surprise, the plan had worked. Finally, she let out a breath of relief.

“Xingyun is amazing,” Lin Changsheng said softly. “Her research abilities are far beyond mine. As expected—you are destruction incarnate, and she is the essence of creation.”

“You both have your own powers. Yes, you can see the weakness in human nature, and manipulate it. But you’re not invincible.”

Yunxing, now in her soul form, tried to return to Su Jing’s body—only to pause as she saw Su Jing slowly opening her eyes.

Su Jing blinked awake, her hand instinctively covering her head.

The cold, murderous glare was gone from her eyes.

And with it, the rotten, corrupt aura that had once clung to her—gone.

She looked at Lin Changsheng in fear. This prison, the place where she had lived for so long, now felt strange and foreign—like a deer who had wandered into a world it didn’t belong in.

She shrank back on the bed, trembling slightly, like a lost child.

Lin Changsheng looked at her gently, then reached out her hand.

“Don’t be afraid. I’m a friend of Chen Lin.”

At the mention of that familiar name, and seeing the kind smile on Lin Changsheng’s face—so much like Chen Lin’s—Su Jing finally relaxed a little.

In a soft, childlike voice, she asked, “Big Sister Chen… is she doing okay?”

Lin Changsheng’s heart clenched.

She had known Chen Lin had spoken with Su Jing’s true self once or twice—but she hadn’t realized Su Jing didn’t know that Chen Lin had already passed away.

Maybe, just maybe… a lie could be a kindness.

Right now, there was no way Lin Changsheng could bring herself to tell the truth.

“She’s doing very well,” she said gently. “She even asked about you. She’s the one who sent me here to help you.”

Her voice dropped as she spoke, her eyes avoiding the pure, innocent gaze in front of her.

Upon hearing those words, Su Jing lit up with joy.

“Then… why didn’t she come to see me herself?” Her joy faded into quiet disappointment.

Lin Changsheng fought back the lump in her throat, quickly wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

“She went on a long trip… really far away. She can’t come anymore.”

She’ll never come again.

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