After Mistaking My Stepsister’s First Love - Chapter 16

After stumbling back to the dorm in a daze, Ye Wenjin suddenly realized that what had happened the day before felt like a dream.

Moreover, her luggage was still at her sister’s house.

Ye Wenjin froze for a moment, then sank into deep thought, unable to figure out how things had ended up this way.

Originally, she had planned to leave her things in the dorm. Staying there during holidays was no issue, and she could even apply to remain during winter and summer breaks.

She had already made up her mind.

The only slight complication would be tuition and living expenses in the future, but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Ye Wenjin had long prepared herself to leave home. This time, she had taken everything with her, including her previously confiscated phone and bank cards.

The money she had saved was in those cards, she had to take them. Though it wasn’t an enormous sum, it was enough to cover her tuition and living expenses for the remaining two years. Most of that money had come from tutoring fees she earned by helping others with their studies.

Even though she was an art student, her academic performance was solid. With more freedom in university, she had managed to save quite a bit.

When she moved all her belongings out, Ye Wenjin had already decided: she would live in the dorm until graduation, and then rent a place shortly before finishing school.

But she never expected her sister to offer to store her things at her place. Ye Wenjin didn’t want to refuse Jian Mo, thinking it would be fine to leave them there temporarily, just drop them off and leave.

And then, somehow, she ended up spending the night at Jian Mo’s house.

The idea of living together resurfaced in her mind. Ye Wenjin abruptly closed her eyes, waiting until she had calmed down before continuing toward the dorm.

It was already past seven in the morning, and she had class. But when she opened the dorm door, she froze.

The room was eerily quiet. Ye Wenjin initially thought everyone had already left for class, but when she looked up at the beds.

All three of her roommates were fast asleep, as peaceful as if there were no classes that day.

Seeing that it was almost time for class, Ye Wenjin snapped out of it and quickly woke them up. The moment they realized they were about to be late, panic ensued.

The scene instantly descended into chaos.

Ye Wenjin watched silently, somewhat amused.

Chu Yunsheng was one thing, she always woke up at the last minute and rushed to class but Rong Yunshu and Zhou Wuhuan also oversleeping was downright bizarre.

She remembered Rong Yunshu usually woke up quite early. And Zhou Wuhuan wasn’t she usually already in the classroom by this time?

As she watched the three of them scramble through their morning routines, Ye Wenjin fell into thought again.

Rushing against the clock, they finally made it to the classroom just in time.

Ye Wenjin couldn’t help but chuckle as she watched Rong Yunshu trying to catch her breath. Curious, she asked, “Yunshu, how come you didn’t wake up on time today either? Did you stay up late last night?”

Rong Yunshu studied Ye Wenjin. She could tell Ye Wenjin looked refreshed, clearly having slept well the night before.

A pang of bitterness rose in her chest.

Truthfully, she wanted to say that the reason she hadn’t slept was because she couldn’t stop thinking about the woman she had seen that afternoon.

Rong Yunshu couldn’t shake the feeling. Her intuition told her that woman’s relationship with Ye Wenjin wasn’t simple. She desperately wanted to ask who that woman was, why she had come to pick Ye Wenjin up, and what their connection was.

But she didn’t dare.

Afraid of hearing the answer she least wanted from Ye Wenjin’s lips, she had tossed and turned all night and naturally, couldn’t wake up on time in the morning.

She didn’t know why the other two had slept in, but if it weren’t for Ye Wenjin’s return, all three of them in the dorm would have been late, no exceptions.

Rong Yunshu hesitated for a moment before saying, “I was thinking about some things last night and lost track of time, so I ended up sleeping a bit late.”

Ye Wenjin nodded. “I see.”

Rong Yunshu looked at her and couldn’t help but open her mouth. “Wenjin, you…”

Just as Ye Wenjin turned to listen, her peripheral vision caught sight of the teacher approaching. She immediately forgot about listening and quickly warned, “Yunshu, the teacher’s here. We’ll talk after class.”

Unable to finish her sentence, Rong Yunshu felt a lump form in her chest.

When the class ended, Ye Wenjin remembered that Rong Yunshu had seemed to have something to say earlier, so she turned to ask, “By the way, what were you going to say just now?”

Rong Yunshu paused, then shook her head. “I forgot.”

Despite saying that, barely a second later, she couldn’t resist probing further. “Wenjin, last night when you didn’t come back, were you resting at home?”

This was actually strange because Ye Wenjin rarely went home to rest. Even during holidays, she seldom returned. Everyone knew her relationship with her family wasn’t good.

Frequent short trips home like this had never happened before.

Rong Yunshu felt something must have happened, but when she had asked earlier, Ye Wenjin had insisted nothing was wrong.

It wasn’t until she saw that woman yesterday that Rong Yunshu had a strong sense that things had veered off their original course.

So she couldn’t help but ask.

At the question, Ye Wenjin’s mind was immediately flooded with memories of the previous night.

The mingling of pheromones with Jian Mo, the two of them sharing a room, the ambiguous temporary mark.

Each thought made her ears burn and her face grow warm the moment she recalled them.

But with Rong Yunshu there, she had to force herself not to dwell on it, nodding vaguely instead.

However, what she didn’t realize was that Rong Yunshu’s expression changed the moment she saw her reaction.

She was almost certain that Ye Wenjin hadn’t slept at home last night. As for where she had been.

The woman’s face flashed through Rong Yunshu’s mind.

She clenched her fists, an inexplicable impulse rising in her chest, but she didn’t dare act on it.

Ye Wenjin didn’t notice her odd expression because her phone suddenly buzzed. Before checking the message, she never expected it to be from Yin Feifei.

The moment she saw the message, her fiery heart was instantly doused with cold water.

She glanced at it but didn’t reply or open it for a closer look. Calmly, she put her phone away and began preparing for the next class.

By the time Rong Yunshu composed herself and looked at Ye Wenjin again, she immediately sensed something was off. But just as she was about to ask, the bell for the second class rang.

Rong Yunshu had no choice but to set it aside for now, planning to ask after class.

Yet even after class started, she could still hear the faint vibrations from Ye Wenjin’s phone. Worried, she glanced at her.

Ye Wenjin naturally noticed it too. To avoid disrupting the class, she simply turned her phone off, and the world fell silent.

Morning classes ended quickly. Ye Wenjin hadn’t given Yin Feifei’s message a second thought, so when Rong Yunshu asked about it, she shook her head. “It’s from someone unimportant.”

So Rong Yunshu understood, it must be her family.

But Ye Wenjin hadn’t expected that Yin Feifei, not receiving a reply from her, would actually come looking for her at her university.

Back then, Ye Wenjin had wanted to attend college in another province but ultimately failed to leave. Yin Feifei, on the other hand, had simply chosen to study in the same city because Yin Yu said their company’s roots were here, and studying elsewhere wouldn’t help with networking.

Yin Feifei’s school was right next to hers, a rather prestigious one and she was even studying finance, a field directly related to their family business.

Yet in the past two years, Yin Feifei had never once set foot in Ye Wenjin’s university. So when she saw her appear that day, Ye Wenjin thought she was hallucinating.

But she wasn’t. Because Yin Feifei was furious, her eyes practically burning with the desire to tear her apart.

Ye Wenjin stayed silent, watching wordlessly as the other girl stormed toward her. However, before Yin Feifei could get close, Rong Yunshu blocked her path. Sensing hostility, Rong Yunshu naturally wasn’t about to let her approach.

Blocked, Yin Feifei scowled. “Who the hell are you? A good dog doesn’t block the way. I’m here for Ye Wenjin, what’s it to you?”

Rong Yunshu narrowed her eyes, about to retort, but before she could speak, Ye Wenjin pulled her behind her.

“What do you want?” she asked calmly.

Yin Feifei crossed her arms, her gaze disdainful. “Come back with me.”

Ye Wenjin truly didn’t understand where she got the confidence to think she’d just obey.

“I have nothing to do with the Yin family anymore. From now on, I won’t be going back.”

Yin Feifei glared at her. “You don’t get a choice.”

As soon as she spoke, Ye Wenjin noticed several figures emerging behind her clearly intending to forcibly take her back.

Rong Yunshu’s frown deepened. “Are you trying to kidnap someone on campus?”

Mindful of the bystanders, Yin Feifei naturally didn’t admit to kidnapping.

“I’m just taking my sister home. None of your business.”

Rong Yunshu remained expressionless. “Wenjin said she’s not going back. Can’t you understand human speech?”

Never before had Yin Feifei been so repeatedly rebuffed. Humiliated, her pheromones surged toward Rong Yunshu in an instant. She had absolute confidence in her rank and could already imagine the other girl’s pained expression.

But Rong Yunshu wasn’t to be trifled with either. Her jasmine-scented pheromones clashed violently with Yin Feifei’s, the two forces locked in an invisible battle.

Seeing the situation escalate, Ye Wenjin quickly urged Rong Yunshu to calm down. There were others around, if an Omega was nearby, things could get messy.

But while Rong Yunshu might listen, Yin Feifei wouldn’t. Instead, she intensified her pheromones, trying to overwhelm Rong Yunshu.

Alphas were naturally repelled by each other’s pheromones, and Ye Wenjin, caught between the two, was suffering as well.

Worse, having just presented, her pheromones were still unstable. Provoked like this, they surged out uncontrollably.

The air was suddenly filled with the scent of rosemary, aggressively driving back the two warring pheromones.

At first, Yin Feifei didn’t notice until she abruptly felt an overwhelming sense of threat. Only then did she realize a third presence had joined.

But when she traced the source of the pheromones to Ye Wenjin, Yin Feifei blurted out in disbelief, “Ye Wenjin? You actually presented as an Alpha?!”

How is this possible? Ye Wenjin was clearly a Beta, how could she have differentiated into an Alpha? When did this happen? Why didn’t they know about it?

And her pheromones, they actually made her feel threatened, which meant her rank couldn’t be low.

But she was just a mediocre good-for-nothing!

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