After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 55.2

Chapter 55.2: She Finally Had The Courage to Call Shi Li’s Optical Computer Again and Hoped More Than Ever That It Would Be Answered.

Her heat was starting. She had a syringe of medicinal Alpha pheromones in her bag. Shi Li had carried it with her ever since Dr. Ji gave her the two doses last time.

However, she hadn’t injected it yet, and it was a bit inconvenient to do so in the public restroom of the restaurant. Since she was going home soon anyway, Shi Li decided to use an inhibitor patch to temporarily relieve the symptoms and use the pheromones when she got home.

After paying the bill, she walked out. Due to the alcohol and her heat, Shi Li’s steps were inevitably a little shaky. When she went through the revolving door, she accidentally tripped over her left foot with her right, and a fast-reacting Alpha team member behind her grabbed her. The Alpha’s strength wasn’t controlled well, and Shi Li was pulled into the Alpha’s arms.

She instinctively resisted Alphas. The moment she was pulled into the Alpha’s arms, she immediately stood up straight. The Alpha team member also politely took a step back and gave her some space.

Shi Li saw everyone off and then started walking toward her home.

As soon as she stepped off the curb, she noticed a familiar gaze. She looked up across the street, and Wen Yue’s car window was half-open. Her dead-pan gaze was silently staring at her.

Shi Li’s mind immediately became half-clear.

After she got in the car, Wen Yue asked, “Who was that Alpha?”

Shi Li didn’t answer. Instead, she asked, “Are you following me?”

The star capital was so big. There was no way Wen Yue would have just happened to run into her at the restaurant she was having dinner at.

Wen Yue suppressed her emotions. “I asked Lin Xiaonan, and she told me you were having dinner here. Oh, and she also asked when we planned to get married. Answer my question—who was that Alpha?”

One Zhu Yunqi leaves, and Shi Li gets together with another Alpha so quickly?

“That Alpha’s rank isn’t even as high as yours. She’s not even that good-looking. You’re not picky at all just to make me mad.”

She used sarcastic and nasty language to provoke Shi Li, hoping to see some kind of emotion on Shi Li’s face. Any emotion would do: anger, rage, mockery, or even hate… as long as it wasn’t the expressionless look she had now, as if Wen Yue were air.

Shi Li said, “She’s a coworker from my team. Is there anything you need? If not, I’m going home. I don’t feel well today.”

With that, she reached for the car door. Wen Yue slammed the lock button.

Shi Li said flatly, “Wen Yue, I’m not kidding. I really don’t feel well.”

Wen Yue was a Beta. She couldn’t smell the faint cherry liqueur pheromones in the air. Shi Li’s attitude made her almost lose it.

She stared at Shi Li for a few seconds and then suddenly started smashing the control panel in the driver’s seat: tissues, decorations, the holographic lens she used for work, a small bouquet of Rhodes roses she had brought for Shi Li… Everything in the car that she could reach was smashed.

The thorns of the Rhodes roses cut Shi Li’s arm and cheek. Shi Li felt a slight sting. She ran her finger over the wound, bringing out a string of tiny blood droplets that stained her green onion-like fingertips. Shi Li gently put her fingertip in her mouth. A faint, sweet, bloody taste immediately filled her mouth.

With nothing left to throw, Wen Yue raised her hand and grabbed Shi Li’s neck. A crazy hatred burned in her eyes. “Shi Li, you’re always feeling unwell, or you have work to do, or the military has something for you, or Tang Yingchi needs something! Ever since Zhu Yunqi left, you’ve been giving me an attitude. Haven’t I apologized and admitted my mistakes enough these past few days? I just want to go back to how we were before, to how we were before Zhu Yunqi appeared. Why won’t you let us?”

Wen Yue had said similar things countless times. Shi Li’s ears were practically calloused.

She tried to pry Wen Yue’s fingers off. “I told you, we can’t go back… Wen Yue, we should break up.”

“What?” Wen Yue’s hand loosened, and Shi Li immediately took a big gulp of air.

Wen Yue frowned, her mouth slightly ajar. A look of disbelief flashed in her eyes, followed by a cold laugh of anger. “Do you think I don’t dare to release that recording? Do you think I really don’t dare to do anything to Auntie? Once that recording is released, it’s not a matter of me protecting you anymore. Do you think the Zhu family will let you off?”

Shi Li coughed while holding her neck. No. My gland is getting more and more uncomfortable. The hot flush from the pheromones is making me feel weak and weak all over. I have to get home quickly. But looking at Wen Yue’s almost-insane appearance, Shi Li knew that if she didn’t show Wen Yue something that could scare her, Wen Yue wouldn’t let her go anytime soon.

Fortunately, she had also prepared some “gifts” for Wen Yue these past few days.

“Wen Yue, let’s take a step back and say that even if Zhu Yunqi likes me, do you think the second daughter of the Zhu Holding Group having a crush on a Beta’s Omega girlfriend is worse, or the only daughter of Lieutenant General Wen Lirong maintaining a romantic relationship with another Omega while already engaged is more despicable? As a normal citizen of the Federation, I believe the latter is more likely to cause a public outcry.”

She had thought about it. This was the one thing that could threaten Wen Yue the most right now. Wen Yue might not care and just throw caution to the wind, but Wen Lirong would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen. Even though the conflict would largely be focused on her at that time, she didn’t care. After being tormented by Wen Yue for so many days, she no longer cared.

Under Wen Yue’s utter shock, Shi Li continued calmly, “The evidence that you and I are in a relationship, the evidence that you and Zhu Yunqi are engaged, the evidence that you begged me to continue an improper relationship with you after you got married, the evidence that you have been using my mom’s safety to harass me all this time… I have everything the Federal Police need.”

“Wen Yue, if you just quietly leave me alone, the evidence I’ve prepared will naturally not bother you. And vice versa.”

They had been together for so long. Shi Li still wanted to end things with dignity.

“Shi Li, I love you so much. I’ve done so much for you, and you’re threatening me?” Wen Yue mumbled. It was as if something in her eyes had shattered.

Shi Li retorted calmly, “You threatened me first.”

She was just threatening her back in the same way. Wen Yue was reacting this strongly. She must also know how painful it was to be threatened by the person you loved, but she still chose to use such a cruel method to treat her.

Shi Li closed her eyes and exhaled a long, cool breath.

“Think about it. Until you figure it out, let’s not contact each other. Open the car door.”

She reached for the door handle, but it wouldn’t budge.

She turned her head and met a pair of eyes that were chillingly and crazily cold. The fire of jealousy and chaos that had been burning in Wen Yue’s eyes was extinguished in an instant, replaced by a terrifying, bone-chilling coldness.

Shi Li couldn’t help but lean back.

Wen Yue gritted her teeth and said each word distinctly:

“I told you, even if you die, you’ll die with me.”

…

Zhu Yunqi was calibrating a mech when she received a call from Zhu Jingshan.

The mech had a new feature: mental power shielding. Mechs now generally had a mental power interface. The operator would link with the mech through mental power to achieve a true “human-machine integration.” However, ever since the mental power interface appeared, another problem arose: high-level mental power could directly invade a mech connected to a low-level mental power, directly “forcefully pulling” the person with a relatively low level from the mech’s control system and forcibly taking over the other person’s mech. The operator who was “forced offline” would experience severe headaches and nausea the moment their mental power was invaded.

A very important reason why Zhu Yunqi had always remained at the top of all mech operators was that her mental power was also SSS-class. No one had been able to invade her mech through mental power yet.

The newly updated feature was to protect mech operators with lower mental power. The Sea Serpent Squad was training together. Hai Yao was usually half-hearted when practicing mech piloting. Relying on her roommate Raven to have her back, and now with the mental power shielding device, she was even more uninhibited.

Zhu Yunqi found the right time, bypassed the mental power shielding, and directly cut off Hai Yao’s connection with the mech. Hai Yao rushed out and threw up violently. However, Zhu Yunqi’s successful attack on Hai Yao also meant the failure of the mental power shielding device. At the very least, there were still areas that needed to be improved.

Zhu Yunqi went to the mech research center to report the results of this experiment and described her attack path in detail, waiting for the mech center to process it. Her experimental result was coincidental. After all, 99% of people didn’t have as high of a mental power as her.

The other people were laughing at Hai Yao. Manjusaka laughed so hard her stomach hurt. In the end, it was Raven who handed Hai Yao a bottle of water.

Zhu Yunqi jumped out of the mech. “Hey, sis.”

She frowned slightly.

It was 4 a.m. Upper Star Domain time. Zhu Jingshan would almost never call her at this time.

Zhu Jingshan said calmly, “Yunqi, there’s something I think you need to know. There’s a very high chance that Shi Li is currently missing.”

Zhu Yunqi thought she had misheard.

Why would Shi Li, who was perfectly fine, go missing? And why would Zhu Jingshan be the one to tell her this news?

She was confused, but her feet were already walking out the door.

Zhu Jingshan said, “Don’t panic yet. Listen to me slowly.”

It turned out that after Zhu Jingshan found out about Zhu Yunqi’s unusual reaction to Shi Li from her twin daughters, she investigated Zhu Yunqi and Shi Li’s activities during that time. Combining Zhu Yunqi’s abnormal behavior a few days before her departure, Zhu Jingshan was almost certain that Zhu Yunqi liked Shi Li but couldn’t express her feelings for some reason.

And Shi Li was close to Wen Yue. Zhu Jingshan didn’t have a good impression of Wen Yue’s family. After thinking it over, she decided to secretly have someone keep an eye on Shi Li for Zhu Yunqi and at least make sure Shi Li wasn’t harmed by Wen Lirong. If something happened to Shi Li, Zhu Jingshan felt that with Zhu Yunqi’s seemingly cold but sensitive and rich inner personality, she would be heartbroken.

Zhu Jingshan’s family lived on another planet in the First Star System of the Upper Star Domain. Before she left, Zhu Jingshan hired an experienced bodyguard to be responsible for monitoring Shi Li every day and ensuring her safety.

Everything had been going smoothly so far. But late last night, the bodyguard contacted Zhu Jingshan and said that Shi Li was gone. She disappeared so suddenly that Zhu Jingshan thought the bodyguard had lost her while he was distracted, so she told him to look for her again. But the bodyguard said that he had looked in all the places Shi Li usually went and she wasn’t there. He went to check the nearby surveillance and found that Shi Li had gotten into a car. And that car actually had a very high level of security clearance. A normal person had no right to track its route through surveillance.

Zhu Jingshan had to take it seriously and mobilized more people to secretly search for her. When there was still no news in the early morning, Zhu Jingshan decided that she still had to inform Zhu Yunqi. Shi Li was very special to Zhu Yunqi, and maybe she would have an idea.

After hearing this, Zhu Yunqi was in a daze for a moment. But the next second, she forced herself to get her thoughts together.

Her mental power was still connected to the mech. At this moment, she controlled the mech to fly to her side, jumped into the cockpit, and piloted the mech to the nearest jump point at the fastest speed. At the same time, she called Colonel Cheng Yin’s optical computer and told Cheng Yin that she needed to take a special leave of absence. Cheng Yin was silent for a moment, then, without asking for a reason, she immediately approved it and gave her permission to pass through the jump point.

After arriving at the jump point, Zhu Yunqi didn’t have any time to buffer. She jumped directly from the first jump point in the Black Star Belt to the last jump point on the edge of the Mid-Star Domain. The jump was too draining on a person. She retched a little but didn’t dare to stay for long. She flew and ran with her starship all the way and bought a ticket for the next express intergalactic train before it departed.

She finally had the courage to call Shi Li’s optical computer again and hoped more than ever that it would be answered.

But it wasn’t. All she heard was a continuous busy tone.

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