After Entering A Marriage of Convenience With My Omega Rival - Chapter 16.2

Chapter 16.2: Infatuated and Blinded

Since these two had such a close relationship, why did Sheng Ruxi specifically request that the real situation not be disclosed?

As a doctor, she needed to respect the patient’s subjective wishes first.

But she also had to inform Jian Jixing of the necessary matters.

“How is your life as partners normally?”

Jian Jixing replied: “Few and far between. Twice a month.”

“At your age, this frequency is too low,” the doctor said as a matter of fact. “Is it because you’re too busy, or because the Alpha has very little demand in this area?”

For someone in Sheng Ruxi’s situation, twice a month was even less than average. No wonder it turned out like this.

Jian Jixing pondered for a moment and, under the doctor’s concerned gaze, answered truthfully: “Sorry, the Alpha has normal needs, but my Omega wife is relatively frigid toward me. I think that’s the reason.”

Frigid? The misunderstanding is huge!

Jian Jixing attributed the doctor’s shocked gaze to their marriage itself and didn’t think much of it. Issues involving Alpha/Omega pheromones almost always involved questions about sexual activity, and she wasn’t embarrassed to hide the truth.

The doctor: “The reason she fainted today is due to excessive suppression of pheromones. She couldn’t hold them back, and when they surged, they weren’t released. The environment was secondary. I believe her previous doctor has already warned her not to overuse suppressants.”

After saying this, the doctor looked at Jian Jixing with some reproach: “In your wife’s physical condition, don’t just care about your own pleasure. Since you’ve started, you need to see it through to the end.”

Two pieces of important information arrived at once, and Jian Jixing needed a moment to digest them. When they got married, the Sheng family elders only mentioned that Sheng Ruxi had a habit of using suppressants, but they never mentioned “overuse.”

What surprised Jian Jixing even more was the phrase “weren’t released.”

It was a bit ridiculous. Had Sheng Ruxi become that sensitive to her pheromones?

But Sheng Ruxi hadn’t said she wanted it this morning…

Jian Jixing hadn’t encountered such a difficult problem in her life. Her expression shifted several times before settling into a blank face: “We had a fight this morning. She said she never wanted to see me again, so I left.”

“Young people having some ‘mood’ is a good thing, but don’t take it seriously when someone says the opposite of what they mean.” The doctor frowned and spoke seriously: “You need to understand your wife more.”

Jian Jixing: I didn’t, I haven’t, how could that be considered ‘mood’?

In the doctor’s eyes, once the pheromone and physical conditions were out, they couldn’t be hidden. Jian Jixing’s words were just embarrassed excuses.

“So, is there anything wrong with her body now?”

“Not for now. But I suggest you increase the frequency, especially when your wife needs it. You must satisfy her promptly. Avoid using suppressants unless there are special circumstances.”

“The solution is?”

“This month, do it more.”

Jian Jixing silenced herself to digest this for a while before asking:

“I want to know why she overuses suppressants. Sometimes she doesn’t react when she encounters out-of-control Alpha pheromones on the street—is it because of this?”

“No. Those details are private and I cannot disclose them to you per the patient’s request. But what you can do as a partner is to relieve her desires. This will benefit the stability of your relationship.”

“Is it possible,” Jian Jixing said, “that she doesn’t want to fulfill her partner obligations because she hates me too much? She…”

Jian Jixing hesitated and kept the rest of her words to herself.

Sheng Ruxi was set on pursuing Chu Wu in the future, so why would she want to keep fulfilling obligations with her?

Unless it was a situation like today where they had no choice.

Finally, when Jian Jixing left the office, the doctor even smiled and said, “Happy wedding.”

Jian Jixing smiled back.

She felt weighed down by this sudden task assigned by the doctor.

Jian Jixing had rushed back. By the time she came out, Sheng Ruxi had finished cleaning up and was ready to leave the hospital for a hotel.

Jian Jixing stood at the door, watching Tuanzi straighten every wrinkle on Sheng Ruxi’s dress.

Having competed for many years, Jian Jixing realized she didn’t know Sheng Ruxi well, just as Sheng Ruxi didn’t know her. Yet they ended up together like this.

Knowing Jian Jixing couldn’t enter a rut, Sheng Ruxi used to tease her, asking if she “couldn’t do it.”

Now knowing that Sheng Ruxi heavily relied on suppressants to stay calm, Jian Jixing could actually mock her and hold this over her as leverage to tease her.

Just as Sheng Ruxi used to do to her: Do you want to bite me? Beg me.

—If you want me to help you, you beg me too.

But for some reason, seeing Sheng Ruxi standing there in high spirits, she didn’t want to say anything.

Sheng Ruxi was a born swan, precious and graceful. Every feather seemed to demand care. Even when this beautiful swan was arrogant, it was hard to truly get angry.

She was a pearl to be held, a princess.

Sheng Ruxi put on her high heels, looked up, saw Jian Jixing, and arched an eyebrow: “Staring at me like an idiot? Can’t bear to leave? I have work tomorrow, I won’t ask you to stay.”

Sigh, if only the eldest miss didn’t open her mouth, she would almost seem like a normal person.

Once she spoke, Jian Jixing lost interest in seeking trouble. She stayed by the door without going in and waved: “Since you’re fine, I’m leaving. I’ll pick you up next Wednesday. Send me your schedule.”

“Who’s giving it to you? I didn’t ask you to pick me up. I have a car, can’t I go home myself?” Sheng Ruxi raised her hand and poked at the air toward Jian Jixing, “What, so clingy all of a sudden? Wanting to pick me up after work.”

Jian Jixing was speechless. She closed her eyes, sighed, said “I’m off,” and headed toward the roof.

The helicopter was waiting for her.

Seeing Jian Jixing leave, Sheng Ruxi stopped talking too. She lowered her eyes, unsure who she was angry with.

…

Sheng Ruxi didn’t want to bring up the reason, and Jian Jixing tacitly didn’t mention it. In fact, Tuanzi didn’t send out Sheng Ruxi’s schedule either, so Jian Jixing had to search for it online.

Sheng Ruxi’s schedule was a mystery.

Jian Jixing stopped worrying about it. It was already night when she reached the mountain area by helicopter, and she headed into the mountains overnight. The road to the pastoral area was bumpy. Jian Jixing brought nothing; her luggage had been taken by colleagues earlier. She just wore a coat as the temperature dropped to nearly zero at 3 AM.

The driver couldn’t stand it and tossed her a thick blanket, which smelled of fresh sheep. Jian Jixing wrapped herself in the blanket with a blank face, gripping the car handle tightly to keep from being bounced into the roof.

If Sheng Ruxi had to come, she’d have to suffer like this. How could she take it? She definitely couldn’t.

When she got off, Wang Renqing, who came to meet her, was dressed very thickly and brought a padded coat for her. Jian Jixing put it on immediately, and Wang Renqing pulled her onto a horse.

Inside the tent, Jian Jixing’s buttocks were sore. She fell asleep as soon as she entered the tent with the stove burning, too tired to say a word.

That little heartless one must be very comfortable in a five-star hotel right now, Jian Jixing thought before sleeping.

There was internet here, but her phone truly didn’t receive a single word this time.

She slept until past 2 PM the next day.

Wang Renqing seemed to know she was awake and called her from outside to come out for milk tea and food.

The weather had warmed up, and the sky was clean and vast.

Not having seen Wang Renqing for a long time, she looked more like a local now. Her exposed skin was a healthy wheat color, her eyes bright, her posture agile, and her thick black hair was tied in a long braid behind her.

“Yan Ci went out for inspiration. I’m here to bring you something.” Wang Renqing smiled and took out a scroll tube nearly half a person tall. It must have had something inside because it was heavy.

However, Wang Renqing carried it easily.

“Your wedding gift. I really didn’t expect you’d be the first to marry. Prepared it on short notice. Congratulations!”

Jian Jixing opened it and found a large, soft blanket with a faint sandalwood scent. It was very different from the ones outside; it was large and handmade.

Wang Renqing: “This is the most suitable gift our region prepares for newlyweds—a hand-felted eight-treasure cashmere blanket. You can’t buy this outside.”

Jian Jixing laughed and accepted it: “Thanks. You really are looking more like a local. You don’t plan on going back, do you?”

“I was half-local to begin with. It’s the same everywhere,” Wang Renqing said. “Since you and Miss Sheng are married, why are you still acting like that?”

Jian Jixing was indifferent: “Like what?”

“Like you’re intentionally annoying her.” Wang Renqing had also watched their award ceremony. “I’ve never seen you act so childish. Aren’t you worried about her? You rushed back to see her despite the hard work.”

Me, childish? The childish one is clearly that eldest miss, Jian Jixing refuted in her heart.

“Since you’re married, you can try to understand your wife more.”

Jian Jixing smiled slightly and said slowly: “My wife hates me very much.”

She was telling the absolute truth.

Who would have thought Wang Renqing would react with surprise: “Were you rivals before? That’s even more impressive! If people who normally repel each other can come together, then the love between you is bound to be more passionate.”

Jian Jixing was speechless: What kind of extreme romantic brain is this?

While waiting for notice before she needed to film, Jian Jixing let herself lie in the tent for four days.

Tuesday morning, she set off back to the capital. Although she wasn’t supposed to return until Wednesday, the journey was long, so she had to prepare early.

And she had a lot of things to prepare.

Before leaving, she told Wang Renqing: “You’d better make that driver’s car a bit softer. It was so bumpy my butt hurt, and he drove so fast I felt like throwing up the food from two days ago.”

Wang Renqing nodded repeatedly: “I heard from Yan Ci that Miss Sheng has work and will be coming over in a while. I understand what you mean.”

Jian Jixing: “That’s not what I mean! Don’t change it!”

She set out at dawn, switching transportation methods repeatedly, finally returning to the villa as night fell.

It was quiet and pitch black.

No one was here.

Without Sheng Ruxi, the place was exceptionally quiet.

When she entered, Jian Jixing actually felt a bit of expectation. But once she opened the door and entered the foyer, she laughed at herself.

What was I thinking?

Jian Jixing was already familiar with the place. She set her luggage bag aside.

The curtains hadn’t been closed when she left last time, and the moonlight shone through. To her, the interior wasn’t too dark. She was very tired and didn’t want to turn on the lights or move around, so she sank directly into the sofa.

She wanted to sleep.

Until her phone vibrated, and Jian Jixing opened it immediately. A moment later, the playfulness in her eyes turned into calm.

[Rongrong, have you prepared Xixi’s gift for tomorrow? If you’re unsure of her taste, your sister has recently taken a liking to necklaces from the Fan family or paintings by Liang Xiangyi. Either would work.]

Jian Jixing didn’t reply immediately but placed the phone gently to the side, looking out at the night sky through the window.

The villa was indeed very large and empty. As early summer approached, it actually gave her a hint of a chill.

Suddenly the phone rang. Jian Jixing glanced at it, her eyebrows arching slightly, and she answered quickly.

At this time, what orders did the eldest miss have?

Jian Jixing didn’t change her sitting position. A lazy “Hello” had just come out when Sheng Ruxi spoke first: “It’s this late and you haven’t called me yet?”

“It seems we haven’t reached the point where we need to report our schedules to each other.”

The living room was unusually large. Jian Jixing put the phone aside and turned on the speaker.

With the volume up, she could even hear the complaint and small emotions in Sheng Ruxi’s tone.

“Don’t flatter yourself too much.” Sheng Ruxi said coldly, “I’m going to your house as a guest; logically, you should have made arrangements for me in advance.”

They had clearly agreed before to pick her up on Tuesday, but this eldest miss didn’t provide her schedule, didn’t need to be picked up, and after a few days of no contact, she really was blaming her. This wasn’t “logical”; it was “Sheng Ruxi’s logic.”

Jian Jixing spaced out for a moment and didn’t speak. Sheng Ruxi followed up: “Where are you now?”

Jian Jixing fanned herself with her hands in front of the receiver, a smile on her lips: “Didn’t you hear? I’m still chasing the wind on the grasslands, very free.”

“What time is it and you’re still there!” Sheng Ruxi’s voice rose a few notches, but she quickly calmed down, took a deep breath, and asked, “You’re not planning to come back, are you?”

“Mm.”

Jian Jixing’s affirmative hum nearly made Sheng Ruxi faint with anger. Who gave her permission to just say “Mm”? Sheng Ruxi hated this kind of perfunctory response the most.

She truly didn’t understand how Jian Jixing seemed not to want to come home at all. Usually, she hadn’t heard that Jian Jixing had a bad relationship with her mother; on the contrary, it wasn’t easy for Yan Yaojin to raise her alone.

“Mom really wants to see you. She might be happier to have you go in my place.” Jian Jixing chuckled, acting as if she didn’t care at all. “I wonder what Princess Sheng is doing right now. You haven’t returned to the villa, have you?”

“How could that be?” Sheng Ruxi let out a ha, “I’m having a great time at a party someone organized, drinking champagne, and watching countless top Alphas vying for my attention. I’m just taking a moment to ask you.”

Jian Jixing sat up straighter on the sofa, her long legs crossed casually. She picked up the phone: “Oh? Seems like you’re having so much fun you’ve forgotten home. What kind of Alphas? If you’re unsure, I can vet them for you.”

“Who told you… who told you…” Sheng Ruxi was stuck again. “You don’t have the slightest self-awareness of being married, even missing a family gathering. Are you being held back by something in that deep forest?”

Jian Jixing chuckled and gave two mock claps for Sheng Ruxi’s imagination.

What was in her mind was actually the image of Sheng Ruxi crying with her eyes closed on the hospital bed that day.

“I’m being held back by a beautiful female demon. She said as long as I follow her, I can have freedom. It’s very tempting.”

Sheng Ruxi’s side was silent for a long time. Jian Jixing didn’t hang up, listening to Sheng Ruxi’s breathing. Finally, Sheng Ruxi sneered: “I won’t disturb Director Jian’s gallop across the plains.”

The call ended, and the living room fell back into silence.

Well, she made her angry again. Jian Jixing smiled silently, remaining on the sofa without moving.

Not long after, her closed eyes suddenly snapped open. Though she still lay unmoving on the sofa, a clear playfulness appeared in her eyes.

The moonlight was no longer cold and aloft. Along with those somewhat hurried footsteps and the beep of the fingerprint recognition, someone had truly arrived at her side.

The door opened, and the person coming in was muttering in anger, click-clacking as she kicked off her high heels. Because of her irritation, she lost her usual poise for the first time. The faint light from her phone reflected on her jade-like face.

“Jian Jixing, stinky Jian Jixing, changing her mind at the last minute to probably mess around with someone… Fine, great! If you’re not going, I won’t go either! You think I care about going?”

“If I ever see you messing around with some female demon, I’ll expose you and ruin your reputation! …Just you wait, I’m definitely going to tell Mom this time. How can anyone be so messy? Tricking me into coming back while you’re out there living it up, probably with someone soft and warm in your arms, truly enjoying yourself…”

Sheng Ruxi was so focused on venting that she didn’t even put on her slippers properly. She tried for a while and finally stomped her foot in frustration, turning to tell the slippers: “The slippers Jian Jixing bought are as annoying as she is!”

Hate the house, hate the crow.

It wasn’t the shoes’ fault. If she had turned on a light, wouldn’t she have put them on quickly?

Jian Jixing didn’t make a sound, the corners of her mouth merely turning up further.

She felt very good right now and had plenty of patience, so she wasn’t in a hurry to speak. She wanted to see what Sheng Ruxi would do.

With Sheng Ruxi’s entrance, even the air in the house began to stir.

Sheng Ruxi squeezed her phone and felt her mouth was dry.

What party, what dinner, what Alphas waiting to be chosen? To clear two days for tomorrow and the day after, she had squeezed all her commercial shoots into the past few days. She was exhausted.

When she came downstairs and didn’t see Jian Jixing coming to pick her up, it was bad enough. She hurried back herself, only to find Jian Jixing had been hooked away by a “female demon”!

Crazy.

They said Wednesday they’d go home, and now she’s just not going?

Her heart was full of anger with nowhere to vent. Jian Jixing wasn’t around, so she could only resort to scolding things related to her.

Anyway, Jian Jixing didn’t know.

That person was still in the grasslands breathing the “wind of freedom”!

She didn’t turn on the light and didn’t even glance at the living room as she went to the kitchen to pour some water.

The button on the water purifier had a light, so she could touch it accurately without turning on a light.

She poured the water and gulped it down, feeling restless. She hadn’t used suppressants for a few days. Tuanzi and Zhou Mei strictly controlled her diet, only letting her drink plain water every day.

“Fickle, neglecting the home after marrying her wife, looking down on everyone… told you not to come home, wasting a beautiful night with this princess…” Sheng Ruxi was furious, her words unfiltered as she searched for every term she could find.

Holding the empty glass, she wanted to go to the window for some air. Her eyes had some astigmatism, making her vision poor in this lack of bright light.

Coming to the sofa, Sheng Ruxi really wanted to smash the glass Jian Jixing bought to vent her anger, but she didn’t know how to clean up broken glass. In the end, she chose to swallow her anger and tossed the glass onto the sofa.

This way it wouldn’t break, but she still got some venting done.

This sofa is really soft; it didn’t make a sound when I threw it.

“Why buy such a good sofa? You don’t come back to sit on it yourself. Might as well let the sofa go chase the ‘wind of freedom’ too.”

Sheng Ruxi was grumpy, and as she sat down, she said.

A pair of hands wrapped around her waist.

A thief?! Before Sheng Ruxi could scream, familiar pheromones surged out, like another pair of large hands firmly pressing her down.

“Drinking champagne, waiting for other Alphas to vie for your attention, having a great time?” That annoying voice was right in her ear, teasingly brushing against all her sensitive spots.

Jian Jixing let out a low chuckle. “Little princess, how could you bear to come back?”