After Losing My Memory, I Went After My Archenemy - Chapter 11

Jiang Manqing was stunned, a subtle flash of displeasure quickly crossed her eyes, then vanished, replaced by the aloof demeanor of a young lady from an artistic family. She said indifferently, “This is a matter between the two of us; it’s not convenient to invite others.”

Well, well, she has two faces.

When facing Xia Rou, Jiang Manqing reverted to the persona of the arrogant dance student, acting as if no one mattered except for Lin Xi.

Xia Rou had already expected to be rejected.

She was just annoyed that besides herself, someone else was openly coveting Lin Xi. In an ABO world with six genders, pheromone matching was paramount, and she and Lin Xi were a match made in heaven.

“Is that so? Alright then.” Xia Rou turned to Lin Xi, “How about I treat you to dinner tonight?”

Lin Xi’s eyes flickered. She seemed completely unprepared for the suggestion, and for a moment, her brain stalled. After a while, she refused, “I’m busy tonight…”

As she spoke, she looked up at Jiang Manqing, her tone polite yet distant, “I have something else to do. I’ll leave first.”

Jiang Manqing looked slightly anxious and wanted to say something more, but the Alpha didn’t give her a chance, turning and walking away briskly.

In the next two seconds, she was filled with hostility towards the other Omega in her peripheral vision.

“Xia Rou, what do you mean? Are you deliberately trying to cause trouble?”

Jiang Manqing looked at her, speaking without reservation.

Facing her accusation, Xia Rou wasn’t intimidated at all. Instead, she spread her hands innocently, her eyes seemingly asking: Was it that obvious?

Jiang Manqing became even more irritated, and her aloof demeanor took on a few points of malice. “Is it true that you won’t allow others to like anyone you dislike?”

“Oh, so you admit you like Lin Xi?” Xia Rou seized the opportunity to ask.

“Yes… so what?” Jiang Manqing lifted her chin and puffed out her chest proudly.

“Then naturally, I have to interfere, because I like her too.” Xia Rou squinted and smiled. She looked naturally harmless, carefree, and beautiful, but was actually full of provocation.

The high-and-mighty dance academy campus belle, usually composed and reserved, became flustered, to the point where even her smooth strands of hair seemed chaotic.

“Didn’t you used to dislike her?!”

“I like her now. Is that not allowed?” Xia Rou lazily crossed her arms, then added, “You look quite scared.”

As if her deepest fear had been exposed, Jiang Manqing forced a fearless cold laugh and lashed out at her, “Why would you think I’m scared? Do you think you’re a strong competitor? Given what you’ve done to Lin Xi in the past, do you think she’d still favor you? Pheromones aren’t a cure-all.”

Xia Rou didn’t take the criticism to heart at all, because it precisely confirmed that Jiang Manqing was very concerned about having a competitor like her.

“You’re right, but I won’t back down either.” After saying that, Xia Rou politely waved at the other person, turned, and walked away quickly.

She didn’t look back, but she could bet that Jiang Manqing’s face must have been a sight to behold.

Before going to bed, Xia Rou habitually checked the weather for the next day. A 50% chance of rain. Should she have someone prepare an umbrella?

She hated such ambiguous uncertainty; she preferred 100% clarity.

Just like the 100% pure, unadulterated pheromone match between her and Lin Xi.

Thinking of this, Xia Rou couldn’t help but bury half her face in the quilt, giggling to herself like a girl in the throes of first love.

The next day, the young lady of the luxurious mansion left for school as usual. The driver had parked the car outside the main gate early and was waiting.

A middle-aged woman, elegantly dressed, chased after her slowly, tucking a folded umbrella, only the size of a palm, into the girl’s hand. She instructed with concern, “It will rain; take this with you.”

“The weather forecast only says a 50% chance!” Xia Rou muttered but still obediently put it in her bag.

Her mother, Wu Daiyun, paid no attention to her rambling, instead asking somewhat eagerly, “How is it going now?”

Xia Rou didn’t react for a moment, asking blankly, “What… what’s going on…”

The middle-aged woman smiled “mischievously” and got straight to the point, “Didn’t you already have someone you like? Have you made any progress?”

“Mom—” Xia Rou called out shyly, then ducked into the car quickly as if to escape.

Her heart was pounding fast.

She covered her chest with one hand and quickly pressed the electric door closing button with the other.

As the car’s taillights disappeared into the distance, Wu Daiyun finally withdrew her expectant and gossipy gaze, wondering to herself:

Did her daughter’s reaction just now mean progress, or no progress?

There were no general education classes today. To create an opportunity, Xia Rou had to excuse herself halfway through a class, then seize the moment to sneak into Lin Xi’s classroom through the back door.

Having someone suddenly appear next to you in the middle of a class was like a ghost story in broad daylight.

Therefore, when Lin Xi saw her, she was both speechless and helpless.

Xia Rou sat next to Lin Xi and did nothing but offer a barrage of caring inquiries.

She was immediately reprimanded.

“Focus on the lecture.” The Alpha frowned as she took notes, her pen dancing effortlessly between her slender fingers.

The person in front of her was truly beautiful, with a cool temperament. Her grayish-brown bangs clung to her face, making her skin appear even fairer. When she focused on something, even her pores seemed to exude charm.

“You look so handsome when you’re serious.”

Xia Rou propped her chin on her hand, looking lovesick.

Oh dear, she accidentally said her thoughts out loud.

When she wanted to take it back, it was already too late; the person in question had already turned her head.

Embarrassment, helplessness, and shyness all turned into a flush on her face.

The Omega in front of her was like a ripe peach, full of allure.

Lin Xi’s eyebrows subtly furrowed. An uncontrollable, unknown emotion surged in her heart, a tingling sensation that slowly crept from her spine to her fingertips. Then, she calmly clenched her fingers and turned her head away somewhat unnaturally.

The dismissal bell rang throughout Lincou University, and crowds poured out of the various academic buildings.

“Shall we have lunch together today? Outside, in the cafeteria, wherever you want!”

“Hey, Lin Xi, wait for me!”

Seeing the gray-haired Alpha walk faster and faster, gradually merging into the crowd, Xia Rou, unable to keep up, had no choice but to stop.

“What’s wrong with you today? It’s unprecedented for you to suggest eating in the cafeteria?”

Shen Miao was surprised but her body cooperatively walked towards the cafeteria with Xia Rou.

The Omega smiled without a word, but a single expression made the person next to her instantly understand.

“Ah, you’re doing this for Lin Xi. No wonder. I was wondering what could make a young lady of your status willingly lower herself to eat at the school cafeteria.”

Xia Rou didn’t listen to anything, only talking to herself, “I crashed Lin Xi’s specialized class today.”

“How did it go? Any new progress?” Shen Miao asked curiously.

The Omega sighed softly, “We didn’t say much… I think she was a bit annoyed with me.”

Seeing her lost and pitiful look, Shen Miao couldn’t help but encourage her, “It’s okay, it’s okay. We’ll take it one step at a time. If you didn’t say much, at least you said something, right? Any progress is good.”

Xia Rou thought about Lin Xi’s lecture-like “Focus on the lecture.”

Hmm… that shouldn’t count as zero communication, then.

“You’re right, any progress is good.” Xia Rou quickly smiled, feeling much better.

Watching her regain her spirits, Shen Miao felt extremely complicated and conflicted, vaguely worried about the day Xia Rou regained her memory…

Forget it. Let’s just focus on the present for now.

“What’s wrong? You’re distracted. Is today’s food not to your liking?” Since they arrived at the cafeteria, Shen Xuan hadn’t heard Lin Xi say much. Although she was usually a woman of few words, she wasn’t usually like this.

Lin Xi snapped out of her thoughts and shook her head, pretending nothing was wrong. She didn’t want to admit that the Omega had disturbed her peace of mind.

Shen Xuan was about to say something else when she suddenly saw a student walking toward their table.

It was a female Beta, quiet and scholarly, wearing glasses, with an average build.

“Excuse me, are you Lin Xi?” The female Beta’s voice trembled slightly due to nervousness.

At this moment, Shen Xuan couldn’t help but sigh at her friend’s charm again, a kind of charm that a moderately-above-average Alpha like herself could only envy.

“I am.” Lin Xi looked up politely.

“Someone asked me to give this to you.” After placing a lemon cheesecake on the table, the female Beta ran away, her face flushing with shyness.

“Who is this? They know your favorite?” Shen Xuan was overly surprised.

Lin Xi didn’t say a word. When she looked up again, she noticed Xia Rou smiling and waving at her from a table diagonally across the room, where she was sitting with her friends.

Shen Xuan followed her gaze and exclaimed, “Oh, wow—”

Leaving the cafeteria, Shen Xuan was carrying the palm-sized, but exquisitely packaged cake box, feeling conflicted.

“Are you really going to throw it away? That’s a shame, and this brand of cake is quite expensive.”

“Besides, this was sent by that young lady…”

“Why would she send you a cake for no reason? Is she trying to poison you?”

Seeing Shen Xuan’s worried face as she muttered to herself, Lin Xi finally couldn’t help but speak, “It’s not poisoned.”

“How can you be so sure… Hey, Lin Xi, wait, where are you going now?”

“The library.”

“What about the cake?”

“You can do whatever you want with it.” The Alpha strode forward, leaving behind a slender, cold, and enigmatic back.

Shen Xuan carried the cake box to the trash can, hesitating whether to throw it away. Finally, she couldn’t help but glance at the prominent logo brand. It was so expensive, she should keep it and eat it. At worst, she would be the one to taste the poison!

[According to unofficial sources, Lin Xi did not leave school after classes but went to the library.]

After receiving the news that Shen Miao had gathered, Xia Rou headed straight for the library.

She wasn’t someone who excelled at studying, and since enrolling, she had rarely visited the library, only a handful of times.

The place was huge, and finding someone wasn’t easy. Upon reaching the first floor and seeing the dazzling floor directory, Xia Rou took out her phone to check the picture Shen Miao had sent her, which showed Lin Xi’s location as discovered by a passerby.

Arriving at the third floor, World History section, Xia Rou ‘successfully’ found the person. She was quietly reading among the crowd, doing nothing special, yet standing out and shining, separate from the others.

Xia Rou was about to loudly say hello, but remembering the quiet environment, she chose to keep silent and sat down in the empty seat at the table across from Lin Xi.

Lin Xi was reading very attentively and didn’t notice Xia Rou for a long time.

After reading for a while, Xia Rou began to feel drowsy. She propped her forehead with her hand, yawning repeatedly as she tried to stay awake.

Finally, after round after round of endurance, the Alpha couldn’t help but look up at the person across from her. In fact, she had noticed her the moment she appeared, but pretended not to see her.

And since then, she couldn’t fully concentrate on her studies. A feather seemed to be lightly tickling her heart, over and over again.

Her head dipped, and Xia Rou suddenly woke up. The person opposite her was still engrossed in her book, and her proper sitting posture hadn’t changed at all, as if she had never looked this way.

It wasn’t until the library’s closing time arrived that students began to flow out.

Xia Rou tried very hard to keep up with Lin Xi, but was still separated by the crowd.

Leaving the library, it started to rain. Students who had forgotten their umbrellas scattered, running for cover. Xia Rou took out her spare umbrella from her bag, looking around until her eyes focused on Lin Xi standing alone on the steps.

“Here’s an umbrella for you.” She ran over.

“Keep it for yourself,” Lin Xi refused faintly, and the next second, she plunged into the rain.

“Lin Xi!”

Xia Rou hastily opened her umbrella and chased after her.

The rain poured down, and soon no other students were visible on the road.

Seeing the gap between her and Lin Xi widen, anxious Xia Rou had to speed up, but she accidentally stumbled and fell hard.

Hearing the commotion behind her, Lin Xi suddenly stopped. Firstly, she hadn’t known the other person was still following her.

Secondly…

There was no secondly. The moment she realized Xia Rou had fallen, Lin Xi immediately turned back and rushed to her.

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