After Mistaking My Stepsister’s First Love - Chapter 17

Ye Wenjin could barely hear Yin Feifei’s words at the moment. The clash of their pheromones had triggered her own, which were now uncontrollably driving out Rong Yunshu and Yin Feifei’s scents.

High-level Alphas are extremely sensitive to others’ pheromones. Even without hostile intent or aggression, their mere presence can feel like an affront.

Having only recently become an Alpha, Ye Wenjin hadn’t yet grown accustomed to her sudden identity shift, let alone mastered control over her pheromones. Moreover, as a secondary differentiation case, her pheromones were even more unstable than those of natural Alphas.

Under normal circumstances, it was manageable people generally kept their pheromones well-contained to avoid inconveniencing others, so she could usually rein hers in. But in this situation, Ye Wenjin simply couldn’t hold back.

Fortunately, after noticing something was amiss, the onlookers quickly retreated, and someone alerted a teacher.

However, Ye Wenjin was now experiencing pheromone turbulence, a condition that, if mishandled, could lead to serious consequences.

She strained with all her might to retract her pheromones, but the provoked scent remained fiercely active. After expelling Yin Feifei’s pheromones from her territory, it surged aggressively toward her.

Yin Feifei, already affected by the sudden pheromone outburst, instinctively tried to block the attack. Yet Ye Wenjin’s pheromones were like a tyrant, ruthlessly slamming hers back with unstoppable force.

At the moment of impact, Yin Feifei felt an odd sense of familiarity, as though she had experienced this before.

As her consciousness wavered, she finally remembered why it felt so familiar.

The last time she had tried to scheme against Ye Wenjin, she had inexplicably passed out in the hallway. Strangely, when she went to check the hotel surveillance footage the next day, that segment had already been deleted.

Unable to track down the culprit, Yin Feifei took her anger out on the hotel.

But in her rage, she failed to recall that the hotel was under the Jian Group’s partial ownership. Unsurprisingly, she gained nothing from her complaints.

Fuming with hatred, she returned home and, not seeing Ye Wenjin, assumed someone had taken advantage of her inebriated state.

Though she looked down on Ye Wenjin, Yin Feifei recognized her value her greatest worth lay in securing a marriage alliance to benefit the Yin family.

Her plan to drug Ye Wenjin had been to force her into a compromising situation with the Lin family’s daughter. In her mind, since both were Betas, they were a perfect match. Once they were physically involved, the marriage would be unavoidable.

Yet when she later inquired about it, her mother, Yin Yu, no longer seemed interested in pursuing the arrangement.

Yin Feifei was indignant, but Yin Yu explained that the Lin family might have secured backing from the Jian Group. With the situation shifting, the marriage was no longer within their control.

“Jian Group?” Yin Feifei exclaimed in disbelief. “What right does the Lin family have?”

Yin Yu’s expression darkened, her brows furrowed in frustration. The noise only aggravated her further.

“If I knew why, would I be sitting here worrying? Yin Feifei, is this how I raised you? Do you only know how to scream when things don’t go your way? If you don’t have anything useful to say, get out of here and stop making a scene!”

Scolded mercilessly by Yin Yu, Yin Feifei gritted her teeth in frustration but said nothing before turning and leaving.

She just couldn’t understand why the Lin family had managed to win Jian Corporation’s favor.

If only she had been able to pursue Jian Mo back then…

Biting her lip, Yin Feifei’s eyes were filled with regret.

In her foul mood, she didn’t even return to school, instead spending several days fooling around outside.

It wasn’t until she returned home today and saw Ye Shuyao looking utterly despondent, with the servants also acting evasive, that she knew something had happened.

After some questioning, Yin Feifei learned that Ye Wenjin had come back to take all her belongings, and by the looks of it, she wasn’t planning to return.

Yin Feifei immediately flew into a rage and hurled a barrage of taunts at the still-distraught Ye Shuyao.

“Aunt Ye, you’ve really raised a fine daughter, one who doesn’t even listen to her own mother. Aunt Ye, don’t forget that everything you have now was given by us. Is this how you repay us? You can’t even keep a single person under control.”

Ye Shuyao’s face paled, and she said anxiously, “No, that’s not possible. Ah Jin would never leave. I’m her mother, she wouldn’t abandon me!”

Her expression made it unclear whether she was trying to convince herself or seeking comfort.

Disgusted by the sight, Yin Feifei averted her eyes impatiently. “But the fact is, Ye Wenjin ran away. I don’t care what you do, get her back. The arranged marriage isn’t settled yet. She can’t leave.”

Even now, Yin Feifei hadn’t given up on the idea of marrying Ye Wenjin off to that Beta girl from the Lin family.

Though the previous attempt had failed, that didn’t mean there was no chance left. Even if Yin Yu said the Lin family had Jian Corporation’s backing, nothing was certain until the final decision was made.

And,

Looking at it another way, even if the Lin family really did secure Jian Corporation’s support, wouldn’t forming a marital alliance with them be mutually beneficial? It might even help them establish a connection with Jian Corporation.

Just thinking about Jian Mo, who had appeared at the banquet as the center of attention, made Yin Feifei’s heart burn with desire.

She absolutely had to have Jian Mo, only an Omega like that was worthy of her!

However, when Ye Shuyao called Ye Wenjin, the call didn’t go through. Instead, a cold, mechanical female voice repeatedly informed her that the call couldn’t be connected.

Ye Shuyao stared blankly, finally realizing the possibility. “She,  Ah Jin blocked me?”

She refused to believe it, but no matter how many times she called, the same icy mechanical voice responded.

Yin Feifei’s face remained expressionless as she cursed inwardly, Useless. She then demanded Ye Wenjin’s number to contact her herself.

She and Ye Wenjin had never been in touch, so the latter wouldn’t recognize her number meaning she definitely wasn’t blocked.

But Ye Wenjin seemed to have enabled a setting to block unknown calls. After several failed attempts, Yin Feifei impatiently sent messages instead, yet Ye Wenjin didn’t reply to a single one.

Furious, Yin Feifei decided to go to her school to corner her. It was Tuesday, there was no way she wouldn’t be in class.

But when she arrived, she discovered that Ye Wenjin had presented as an Alpha and one of a higher rank than her.

Before losing consciousness from the overwhelming pheromones, Yin Feifei’s eyes remained fixed hatefully on Ye Wenjin.

After such an incident, all parties involved were naturally taken to the dean’s office including the unconscious Yin Feifei.

Fortunately, she had taken the suppressant in time, and the pheromones had retreated back into her body to lie dormant. Apart from her slightly pale complexion, Ye Wenjin had already calmed down.

She had thought that after explaining the whole situation to the teacher, they would be allowed to leave. But then,

“Call your parents to come in.”

Ye Wenjin froze.

For the first time in her life, she was being asked to summon a parent. She was stunned for a moment, but as the reality sank in, she felt a wave of unease.

If she had to call a parent, there was absolutely no way she could ask Ye Shuyao. As for her other mother, they barely had any contact.

Thinking it over…

Taking a deep breath, Ye Wenjin picked up her phone and began typing a message.

[Sis, are you free right now? If you are… could you come to my school? The teacher said I need to have a parent come in.]

She deleted and rewrote the message over and over, carefully weighing each word. After staring at it for what felt like an eternity, she finally mustered the courage to hit send.

Time suddenly stretched unbearably long. Ye Wenjin fidgeted anxiously, her neck slowly flushing red.

Just as her panic was reaching its peak, her phone buzzed. She hurriedly checked the screen.

[Wait for me.]

Her heart settled at once.

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