After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Shi Li Was Like a Little Beast, Gently Licking the Area Near Her Wound with Her Tongue.

Zhu Yunqi was so angry she almost laughed.

“Shi Li, do you have to be so dedicated?”

She still didn’t know what kind of drugs those pirates had injected into Shi Li, didn’t know if Shi Li had any hidden injuries, and didn’t know if Shi Li could handle such a tumultuous heat cycle for the first time… She didn’t know anything. Shi Li also knew nothing.

And yet, Shi Li wasn’t concerned about her own body; instead, she was thinking about fulfilling her contract? Was she trying to fulfill the contract, or was she afraid that Wen Yue would be angry?

Shi Li said, “Zhu Yunqi, that’s what I promised you. I will definitely do it.” Even if she couldn’t, she would try her best.

At this moment, Wen Yue’s call notification popped up on Shi Li’s optical computer. Shi Li glanced at Zhu Yunqi, holding back the moans that were reaching her throat.

“A-Yue.”

“I’m so scared… Save me… It’s so uncomfortable…”

“Hurry.”

Finally, Shi Li ended the call and let her hand drop weakly. “Wen Yue will be here soon. Zhu Yunqi, put me down.” She had run out of strength and couldn’t say much more.

Zhu Yunqi didn’t put her down, but she also didn’t continue carrying her down the stairs. She stopped in the hallway, as if tangled in a mess, unsure whether to go forward or backward. After a moment, she chose to follow Shi Li’s decision.

She carried her back up to the second floor, but she didn’t put her back in the bedroom full of violent and hateful memories. Instead, she put her in a place on the second floor where she could see the moonlight. She let her lean against the wall so she could be more comfortable and not have to lie on the cold floor.

Zhu Yunqi’s voice sounded a little hoarse and sad.

“You have my contact information. If you need me, I’ll be there anytime.”

She wiped a bloodstain from Shi Li’s cheek. Her fingertip just happened to brush against the beauty mark under Shi Li’s moist eye. It was like brushing against a star in a distant sky.

Not far away, Federation Security Department vehicles were speeding toward the villa. Zhu Yunqi seemed to have already heard the subtle rumble of their silent engines.

Zhu Yunqi took a step back. Two steps. Three steps. Then she turned and disappeared into the darkness.

Shi Li collapsed on the ground, greedily inhaling the last trace of bitter orange wood pheromones that Zhu Yunqi had left in the air. Shi Li watched Zhu Yunqi leave, swallowing the bloody taste that surged up in her throat, until she heard the police cars stop downstairs and Wen Yue’s anxious voice from a distance.

“Shi Li! Baby, are you okay?”

Her consciousness gradually blurred. She had watched Zhu Yunqi leave with her own eyes, but her intuition told her that Zhu Yunqi hadn’t really gone far. It seemed like a pair of beautiful, melancholic gray eyes were always watching her.

“If you need me, I’ll be there anytime.”

Shi Li repeated the last sentence Zhu Yunqi had said before she left.

Would she be there? Just like tonight. In her most helpless and terrifying moment, Zhu Yunqi appeared out of nowhere, cleared away everything that made her feel scared, and let her lean on her warm shoulder, so she didn’t have to worry about anything else and just had to fight the discomfort of her heat cycle.

She had explained to Zhu Yunqi so many reasons why she wanted Wen Yue to save her. She wanted to fulfill the promise she had made to Zhu Yunqi and help her break free from the constraints of the family engagement. When she bravely jumped out of the moving car, she wasn’t thinking about whether she would get hurt, but whether Wen Yue could be rescued successfully and whether she could have another bargaining chip to get Wen Yue to break off the engagement with Zhu Yunqi.

She said this was similar to the suspension bridge effect. The impact of a life-and-death experience on Wen Yue would definitely be more profound than a slow-burn romance. When Wen Yue was on the brink of death, she threw herself in… Wen Yue would mistake this for love.

But she couldn’t say everything. She probably wouldn’t have the chance to say it in this lifetime—The earth-shattering feeling Zhu Yunqi’s appearance had brought her was no less than the emotion she had given to Wen Yue.

…

Zhu Yunqi didn’t go far. She climbed to a nearby tall building and watched Shi Li through the window bathed in moonlight. She watched her biting her lip in distress, watched Wen Yue and her team rush over, watched her fall asleep soundly and safely in Wen Yue’s arms, watched Wen Yue ask the accompanying doctor for an inhibitor, watched the needle pierce Shi Li’s scent gland, and watched Wen Yue take Shi Li away in a car speeding toward the capital’s general hospital…

She opened her communication channel with Siren.

Siren: I caught him. Broke both of his legs.

Siren: Captain Zhu, come pick me up. It’s inconvenient to have someone with me. I can’t move without a car.

Siren: The Federation is so cheap. I came all this way to do their dirty work, and they won’t even give me a car.

Siren: Is she okay?

Siren: I really didn’t know those jerks would target them.

Siren: Captain Zhu, I was wrong. I really was. May my fingers get shorter if I’m lying. People with short fingers can’t find a wife.

…

Zhu Yunqi drove to Siren. Siren was holding a rope and squatting on the ground, bored, braiding her hair. She had chased the interstellar pirate to the suburban park. It was almost midnight, and there was no one in the park. The pirate she caught was miserable. Not only were both of his legs broken, but he was also wrapped in a rope with sharp barbs. He didn’t dare to move. If he did, the barbs on the rope would pierce his skin and flesh. It wasn’t fatal, but it hurt. This was the kind of vicious weapon that only people from the Black Star Belt’s Silver Serpent Legion would use. They had clearly investigated beforehand and knew that no one from the Silver Serpent Legion was stationed in Z3291, yet they still ran into two of them.

Although male Alphas are physiologically stronger than female Alphas, female Alphas have evolved to have more endurance and more flexible muscles. In a fight between people of the same class, it’s basically 50/50. But the two women in front of him were S-class, and the one with gray eyes was very likely SS-class or even a one-in-a-million SSS-class. It was no problem for them to beat up a low-level Alpha. A male Alpha who was only A-class didn’t dare to cause trouble.

Siren looked at Zhu Yunqi eagerly. Zhu Yunqi knew what she wanted to ask. “She’s fine. The Federation people took her away.” Siren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Yunqi opened the car’s trunk, and together, she and Siren lifted the pirate inside. She closed the trunk and turned back. There were three other unlucky bastards in the villa to deal with. Colonel Cheng Yin’s plan was to hand them over to the Z3291 Combat Department and Security Department for a joint investigation. The military’s main area of responsibility was the Lower Star Region and the Black Star Belt. Their ability to interfere in the Middle and Upper Star Regions was limited. Since this incident happened on a planet in the Upper Star Region, it was more convenient for the local system to investigate.

When they got to the villa, the Combat Department people had already set up a cordon. The three men were being lifted into a special prisoner transport vehicle, cursing at the young police officers who were guarding them. Siren walked closer and “hissed” at them, and the three of them immediately shut up and lowered their heads obediently.

Zhu Yunqi looked around and found that Wen Yue and Shi Li were long gone. The rich scent of cherry sweet wine still lingered in the air, causing the faces of the Alphas present to blush. After inspecting the scene, there was nothing left to explain. They all knew what to do next. Zhu Yunqi hesitated for a long time before finding someone who looked like the person in charge and asking a question.

The person said, “You mean the Omega who was involved? Lieutenant Wen Yue took her away. I think they’re heading to the capital’s general hospital.” As he spoke, he shook his head and added with a sigh, “So pitiful. She was unconscious when she came out, and her pheromones were everywhere. I don’t know how much she suffered. Omegas shouldn’t go to bars in the middle of the night. They should just stay at home.”

These words made Zhu Yunqi very uncomfortable. She glared at the person and retorted coldly, “If people like you can just stay at home in the evening, Omegas can go out safely.” It took the person a while to realize that he had just been called an interstellar pirate. In the eyes of Federation citizens, interstellar pirates were lower than rats. By the time he wanted to find the gray-eyed woman with the silver hairpin to argue with, she was long gone.

All that was left was the woman’s sharp-tongued, sexy blue-haired companion. The person considered his debating skills and ultimately chose to swallow his anger.

Before going home, Zhu Yunqi gave a brief report to Cheng Yin. Cheng Yin was very satisfied with the results of their operation. Other than alarming the people in one bar, they had managed to handle the situation silently. The bar witnesses were easy to deal with. The government lied and said that a group of drunk, rebellious teenagers were pretending to have a shootout, and the bullets weren’t real, and the blood was just ketchup. Their purpose was to cause panic in a crowded area, and they had already been taken away for education.

She returned home quietly. Everyone else was already asleep. Zhu Yunqi first threw herself into the shower. She was very dirty and was disgusted by her own smell. There was a bullet graze on her shoulder. Her clothes were stuck to her skin, and the blood had already dried. Zhu Yunqi took out a medical kit, took off her clothes in front of the mirror, put some painkillers on the wound, cleaned it with antiseptic, and finally put on a healing patch.

After smoothing the patch, Zhu Yunqi looked at herself in the mirror, her arms hanging limply at her sides. In her mind’s eye, she saw Shi Li, like a little beast, gently licking the area near her wound with her tongue. Shi Li, dazed by the heat, innocently thought that licking the wound would make it stop hurting.

She wondered how Shi Li was doing now. Had her pheromones stabilized? Was her body still uncomfortable? Would she have nightmares because of what happened tonight?

Zhu Yunqi opened her optical computer and found her chat with Shi Li. Their last message was from a few hours ago, when Shi Li had told her that she was going to a bar with Wen Yue that night. But she had been busy catching pirates at the time and hadn’t noticed the message.

Zhu Yunqi typed a few words into the chat box. “What did the doctor say?” She then deleted it. She replaced it with: “Don’t worry. My family has the Federation’s most elite pharmaceutical research institute. There are many top doctors there. There’s no illness that can’t be cured.”

She deleted that too.

After a long time, Zhu Yunqi quietly closed the chat box.

Wen Yue was with Shi Li now. They probably didn’t want her to disturb them.

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