After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: I’m Afraid I Won’t Be Able to Hold Back and Do Something to You.

Looking at Shi Li’s hazy eyes, Zhu Yunqi finally realized something was wrong. She placed her wrist against Shi Li’s forehead. A miniature chip was hidden under the skin of her wrist, and her optical computer’s health manager relied on this chip to check Zhu Yunqi’s physical condition.

“Xiao Guang, check her.”

A few seconds later, the health manager reported the results: “Master, the subject’s body temperature is 37.4 degrees Celsius, significantly higher than normal. Pheromone concentration is 69%, already in a heat cycle and requires an inhibitor or an Alpha’s mark as an auxiliary. However, the scent gland is detected to be damaged. It’s recommended to reduce the use of inhibitors. There is an unknown drug in her body. It is speculated that this drug is causing the heat cycle.”

At the same time, Shi Li weakly covered the back of her neck. Her biological instincts made her want to get closer to the Alpha in front of her. Her body felt as if it was being thrown into ice water and then pulled out and put into a hot spring, constantly repeating the process. Every blood vessel in her body seemed to be tingling slightly, crying out for an Alpha’s mark. Especially the scent gland at the back of her neck, which was swollen to its limit, like a perfectly ripe cherry, its fragile skin about to burst from the juicy pulp.

Shi Li had never experienced a heat cycle before. She didn’t know that pheromones could make an Omega feel so uncomfortable. She was acutely aware that she wanted to be marked. She wanted an Alpha’s teeth to pierce the skin on the back of her neck. She wanted to be filled with pheromones. She wanted to be completely possessed. Only then could she survive.

And the person in front of her was Zhu Yunqi. The only Alpha she wasn’t afraid of, the only one she didn’t want to run away from even when she was sober.

Zhu Yunqi.

Shi Li murmured the name.

Zhu Yunqi leaned closer. “What did you say?”

“Zhu Yunqi…”

She heard the Omega’s nasal, sticky reply. Shi Li sat on the ground, without a shred of strength in her body. She was only able to stay upright with Zhu Yunqi’s help. She leaned forward, and her forehead rested on Zhu Yunqi’s shoulder.

She said in a broken, soft voice, “They injected me with something. They said… they said it’s fun when an Omega goes into heat…” Her fingers weakly covered the back of her neck, pulling down the clothes in that area to reveal the scent gland with the inhibitor patch curling at the edges.

Zhu Yunqi’s pupils constricted. The sweet scent of cherry sweet wine pheromones once again filled her nose. She recalled the night she had spent her estrus by relying on Shi Li’s worn clothes. It was as if her most private secret had been discovered. She was afraid of being seen, yet she also secretly yearned to be seen.

Zhu Yunqi tried her best not to look at Shi Li’s scent gland. “Zhu Yunqi, I feel so awful.” Shi Li began to cry. She wrapped one arm around Zhu Yunqi’s back, and with the other hand, she ripped off the inhibitor patch.

In an instant, the cherry sweet wine pheromones filled the entire room. The scent was extremely rich, like gurgling spring water, almost drowning Zhu Yunqi.

“Zhu Yunqi, help me…”

In just a moment, Zhu Yunqi was forced into a surging tide of her own estrus. Shi Li was an S+-class Omega, and her pheromones could easily drive any Alpha to madness. The highly compatible pheromones made her release her own pheromones the moment she smelled Shi Li’s. Although she tried her best to restrain herself, the scent of bitter orange wood slowly seeped into the cherry sweet wine.

Shi Li’s scent gland was right in front of her eyes. Shi Li even lowered her head, presenting her entire scent gland without any cover, making it easy for the person in front of her to bite.

But… Shi Li’s request for a mark wasn’t out of love. Zhu Yunqi remembered very clearly that on Shi Li’s “dislike list,” Alpha was written in plain sight.

Shi Li hated Alphas. And she was an Alpha, so Shi Li would hate her too. The only reason she didn’t show it was because she was the client, and Shi Li was just very polite.

Dr. Ji had said that because Shi Li’s scent gland was damaged, her pheromones were always unstable. Under long-term suppression, once she went into heat, it was very likely to be much more severe than other Omegas’ heat cycles. Shi Li was so disoriented by the pheromones that she had put aside her dignity to ask for an Alpha’s mark. If it wasn’t Zhu Yunqi in front of Shi Li right now, but Siren or any other Alpha, Shi Li would have the same reaction.

The cherry sweet wine pheromones were tempting her, teasing her, urging her to kiss the swollen, hot scent gland. But Zhu Yunqi didn’t even dare to touch it with her finger.

She gritted her teeth. “Bear with it a little longer. I’ll take you to the hospital.” She picked Shi Li up. Shi Li, deep in heat, was so wet that she was clinging to Zhu Yunqi’s shoulders helplessly. When she accidentally touched the wound on her shoulder, Zhu Yunqi let out a small hiss of pain.

Shi Li immediately opened her moist eyes, and by the faint light, she examined Zhu Yunqi’s shoulder. Then she struggled to lift her head, sticking out her pink tongue, and gently licked the area near the wound.

Zhu Yunqi’s mind went “boom,” and she almost knelt down. No one had told her that a heating Omega would act like this. To make matters worse, their pheromone compatibility was as high as 95%. Shi Li couldn’t smell her own pheromones, and she didn’t know how strong the cherry sweet wine scent was at this moment. But she could smell Zhu Yunqi’s pheromones. Clear, with a soft sweetness, and a hint of bitter orange wood.

Calm and self-possessed, sober and restrained, without the arrogance of a superior, just like Zhu Yunqi herself.

Zhu Yunqi’s pheromones soothed the Omega’s hot body. Shi Li’s feverish mind briefly cleared up. She didn’t have time to think about what she had just done to Zhu Yunqi. Shi Li patted Zhu Yunqi’s arm anxiously. “Zhu Yunqi, put me down. I have to wait for Wen Yue.”

From her voice, Zhu Yunqi could tell that Shi Li had regained some of her rationality. And the first thing she did was look for Wen Yue… Zhu Yunqi endured the pain of her own pheromone outbreak, and a trace of jealousy flashed in her eyes.

Was Wen Yue really that important to Shi Li? Of course. They were lovers who had been together for seven years. If she hadn’t suddenly appeared, Wen Yue and Shi Li might have already gotten married. She wouldn’t have had to spend a billion to ask them to date each other.

Wen Yue, a hypocritical and greedy person. What did Shi Li see in her?

…

“No, you need to see a doctor now.” Zhu Yunqi didn’t let go; instead, she continued to walk downstairs. Shi Li buried her face in Zhu Yunqi’s neck and took another whiff, like a cat whose life depended on catnip. “I sent Wen Yue a message on the way here. She’s coming to save me.”

Zhu Yunqi couldn’t help but raise her voice slightly. “There’s no difference between me taking you to the hospital and Wen Yue taking you to the hospital. Don’t you trust me? Or are you worried that I won’t be able to stop myself from doing something to you?” The jealousy in her voice was something she didn’t even realize.

“Zhu Yunqi, do you know about the suspension bridge effect?” Shi Li said breathlessly, clearly also in discomfort. “They kidnapped me and Wen Yue. On the way, some people from the Federation came to save Wen Yue, but they couldn’t find the right opportunity. I rolled out of the car, and they had to stop and catch me, and that’s how Wen Yue was successfully rescued. They didn’t want to come back empty-handed, so they chose to take me with them.”

“Wen Yue will think that I sacrificed myself to save her. She will remember that I chose her during a time of crisis, so she will come back to save me after she is safe, and I must let her save me.”

“This way, our feelings will deepen. No matter what happens in the future, she will remember today, remember that we went through life and death together, and she will have the courage to break off the engagement with you. So I have to give her a chance to save me.”

Under Zhu Yunqi’s astonished gaze, Shi Li gave a tired and painful smile. She closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling from the heat. “Zhu Yunqi, please put me down. If you don’t leave, it’s not because I’m worried you’ll do something to me… it’s because I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold back and do something to you…”

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