After the System Called Me Mom, My Arch-Nemesis Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 29

Lu Lingzhi opened her eyes. Her arm felt heavy. Seeing an Omega lying beside her, she spent a moment recalling the previous night, she had called Chang Xi.

But this didn’t seem like Chang Xi.

The voice she heard yesterday was distinctly younger. She stiffly rolled her eyes, and what came into view was a patch of smooth, delicate back skin marked by several faint hickeys. Most glaring of all was the fresh bite mark on the Omega’s gland, clearly her own doing.

She had bitten more than once.

Her arm was still draped around the other person, her palm resting snugly against the Omega’s cheek.

Lu Lingzhi sat up. This movement disturbed the person beside her. Without opening her eyes, the woman let out an indistinct mumble, “Lu Er, stop it… what time is it?”

That voice…

Lu Lingzhi’s breath hitched. She looked incredulously at the sleeping face so close to her exquisitely beautiful, with ink-black hair scattered about, a few strands playfully resting on her cheek, and the corners of her eyes slightly reddened.

The buttons of her pajamas were all undone, revealing the spring scenery beneath, the undulating curves and the collarbone bore the marks of last night’s “atrocities.”

The other woman’s hand rested naturally on Lu Lingzhi’s wrist, as if fearing she would pull away at any second, a gesture full of dependence.

It was Jiang Mingyue.

“Do you like me? The kind of ‘like’ that wants to possess me exclusively?”

[Crash!]

The scene reconstructed itself; time had returned to half an hour ago.

The bedroom was dim, and everything seemed identical to before. Jiang Mingyue was still sleeping soundly beside her, breathing evenly.

However, in the next second…

The question that should have appeared thirty minutes later rang out exactly as before, soft and coquettish, falling into Lu Er’s ears with terrifying clarity: “Lu Er, I’m asking you a question.”

Lu Lingzhi: “!!!”

What? Jiang Mingyue wasn’t controlled by the time loop.

She had been awake for a long time.

Lu Lingzhi thought back to their first meeting at the bar. She wasn’t going to be confessed to ten times in a loop, was she?

I was at the KFC outside the Beijing General Hospital, recording the scene of a rich Omega tearing into a scumbag Alpha. It reset three times. She was also in the loop. I remember it was during PE class. Nothing should have happened then.

I was in her hospital room, and I had those two phone calls with my sister. Did she see everything? Once we were cursing each other out, and the next we were being sentimental sisters, she saw it all. I… I have no face left to live.

If her sister found out that her “ugly side” had been witnessed by Jiang Mingyue, Lu Lingzhi bit her lower lip.

She could already imagine it: her sister throwing out her suitcase and her cat, telling her to “Get out, get out of this house!”

Then, she would keep knocking on the iron gate, shouting: “I’ve been lying around at home for so many years, what’s another few decades? What about the money in my card? Lu Ningzhi, if you kick me out, next time I’ll return like Consort Xi returning to the palace, someone you can’t hope to reach!”

Finally, the old butler would open the door a crack. She’d say happily, “My sister has changed her mind.”

But the old butler would cover her mouth and say, “My Second Miss, that shout just now let the Eldest Miss know you still have private savings. She’s frozen your cards. The good news is, she spared the cat.”

She felt like she’d been struck by lightning.

The old butler would pull out a piggy bank: “Second Miss, live a hard life outside for a few days. When Eldest Miss cools down, come back. These are the private savings I’ve scraped together. Otherwise… you could go to the Jiang family’s Eldest Miss and ‘lie flat’ there.”

Then, she was packed off by Jiang Mingyue.

And finally, she ended up in the same bed as Jiang Mingyue.

Lu Lingzhi looked speechless. Why was it that every time she fought with her sister, the ending was always her lying in bed with Jiang Mingyue?

Jiang Mingyue poked her. “I want some water. Go pour a glass for me.”

Lu Lingzhi suddenly felt a wave of dizziness. Something sticky entered her mouth, and she tasted the scent of rust…

Fine, let’s do this!

I’m fainting!

[System: (Flashes virtual warning lights frantically) Mama, you’re trying to play dead to escape responsibility after ‘eating’ her clean? Scumbag Alpha behavior! Strongly condemned. Your reputation has dropped by 60.]

[Lu Lingzhi: (Kicks the noisy system light ball in her mind) Shut up and let me faint for a bit. Jiang Mingyue isn’t controlled by the system, don’t you find that alarming?! Look at the marks on her neck. How am I supposed to face her now? This is a strategic faint, a stalling tactic. I’ll wait until she leaves.]

Jiang Mingyue waited for a moment, but received no answer. She only heard the person beside her breathing more heavily.

Her long, thick eyelashes fluttered slightly as she slowly opened her eyes.

She had been tossed around too late last night, and her whole body felt as sore and weak as if it were falling apart. She had woken up half an hour ago and had been pretending to sleep. Just as she prepared to prop herself up, a warm but heavy body suddenly slumped down, landing right in her arms.

Immediately after, a warm liquid soaked the skin on the side of her neck.

Jiang Mingyue was now fully awake.

She looked down at the silk lingerie she had recently bought; it was now being rapidly stained by a piercing, bright crimson.

Jiang Mingyue: “…”

She had originally intended to turn over, pretend she wasn’t fully conscious, and give Lu Lingzhi a kiss. To soothe an Alpha in their differentiation period, an Omega would naturally develop a series of dependencies due to pheromone attraction.

Instead, she saw Lu Lingzhi’s half-face smeared with nosebleed, eyes tightly shut, brows furrowed in “pain,” and blood droplets even clinging to her long lashes. She looked pitiful yet somewhat hilarious.

Jiang Mingyue watched in silence and sighed soundlessly. She grabbed some wet wipes from the nightstand and cleaned the blood. The air was filled with the scent of blood mixed with the lingering pheromones of cherry and tulip, creating a bizarre and ambiguous atmosphere.

This must be the legendary “excessive indulgence resulting in weakness.”

No way.

Lu Er is actually physically weak?

She had seen her at the hotel eating king crab, lobster, abalone, sea cucumber, bird’s nest, and deer antler to her heart’s content. Her diet at home certainly wasn’t worse.

“Lu Er, your body is truly weak.”

“Is the endurance and recovery of an A-level Alpha always this poor?”

“Weren’t you taking small supplements every three days and big ones every five?”

“You didn’t supplement at all this month, look how weak you are. Your kidneys are failing. Even those three thousand yuan wouldn’t be enough to fix you. You feel quite soft to the touch, though.”

[System: Mama, your reputation has dropped another 40 points.]

[Lu Lingzhi: (Screaming in her mind but not daring to wake up) She… how can she talk behind my back like this?! We are, after all, one night… uh, intimate bed partners. I’m only bleeding because of her… I’m an Alpha, who could stand it? Pui! I’m not weak, I’m NOT weak!]

Ding.

Jiang Mingyue’s phone lit up.

She stripped off the silk lingerie stained with blood and, after a thought, threw it directly into the trash can.

She got up, opened Lu Lingzhi’s suitcase, picked out a clean set of underwear to change into, and casually grabbed a silk robe Lu Lingzhi often wore, draping it loosely over herself.

The clothing carried Lu Lingzhi’s unique sweet cherry scent, now clinging closely to Jiang Mingyue’s skin. She returned to the bedside but didn’t leave; instead, she sat sideways across the “unconscious” Lu Lingzhi’s thighs.

Lu Lingzhi: “…”

She’s not going to do anything reckless, is she? Although my beauty is unparalleled, still…

Jiang Mingyue took out her phone, her fingers tapping rapidly on the screen. She seemed to be ordering something, a task that felt completely out of place in this ambiguous and chaotic morning.

[Lu Lingzhi: System, what is she doing?]

[System: Ordering breakfast.]

[Lu Lingzhi: (Curiously) Why is she unaffected by the time control?]

[System: This is a bug, Mama. Unless you let me reach my final form, the Master of Time, I cannot investigate the reason.]

Having finished her task, Jiang Mingyue put down her phone and leaned down. She pinched Lu Lingzhi’s chin with her fingertips, carefully scrutinizing the sleeping face that looked exceptionally obedient and almost pitiful.

Suddenly, she lowered her head. Her soft lips, carrying the cool morning air and the residual scent of tulips, began to kiss and nibble.

Lu Lingzhi: “…???”

Is she taking liberties with me? Or is she just self-soothing?

“Mnh.” Jiang Mingyue felt a wave of pleasure. Her pheromones dampened the sheets, emitting a faint, elegant fragrance.

But it seemed that wasn’t enough for her, she switched on her camera. Adjusting the angle, she lowered her head and pressed her lips down once more, this time intentionally letting a soft, wet sound escape.

The room was filled with the sound of a watery friction.

It was an ambiguous sound that sparked wild imaginings, yet made it impossible to look away.

Through the phone screen, the ethereal Jiang Mingyue, who usually looked like she was above earthly desires, actually curled her lips into a smile, her eyes dancing with mischievous cunning. “The Moon doesn’t know,” she whispered.

Once finished, she saved the video.

She pulled her silk robe tighter around her graceful body. She didn’t look like a twenty-year-old university student, she looked like a legendary temptress capable of toppling empires.

She turned and headed for the bathroom, acting as if the bold person from a moment ago wasn’t her at all.

[System: Congratulations Mama, Jiang Mingyue’s favorability has increased by 60 points.]

[System: Congratulations Mama, Jiang Mingyue’s favorability has increased by 80 points.]

[System: Congratulations Mama, Jiang Mingyue’s favorability has increased by 100 points.]

[The System immediately knelt, banging its head on the ground several times: Mama, you really are my good Mama. To help me level up quickly, you actually sacrificed your virtue and ‘used your body’ for the cause!]

In her sea of consciousness, Lu Lingzhi was completely petrified.

A non-existent wind blew past, and she felt as if she could hear herself cracking. Her reputation was shattered, broken into a million pieces.

[Lu Lingzhi (Covering her face in a breakdown): I got ‘robbed’ of my virtue in the broad daylight of morning! I was already fainted, and she still wouldn’t let me go. She even recorded… a kissing video. My purity, my purity… it’s gone again.]

Fainting or not, she was destined to be bullied by Jiang Mingyue.

Because she didn’t want to take responsibility, Jiang Mingyue treated her that way. But wait, that’s not right, the nosebleed was a sudden accident!

[System (Offering advice eagerly): Mama, you can let her support you. Spend her money and make her heart ache. You two have kissed and slept together anyway.]

[Lu Lingzhi (Slaps the system): She’s not the Jiang Mingyue I used to know. This woman… she’s evolved! She’s turned dark! She knows how to record videos!! Therefore, I must…]

[System (Eyes lighting up): Mama, are you going to become a yandere?]

[Lu Lingzhi: I already am one, okay?]

She used to be a delicate Omega; now she was a delicate Alpha. Jiang Mingyue even called her weak. So she was a “Sickly A” and a “Delicate A” put them together, and she was a yandere Alpha.

[System: Mama, you’re the best! You’re going to…]

However, the weak flame of “yandere” in Lu Lingzhi’s eyes flickered for only three seconds before being snuffed out by a giant sign labeled “DANGER.”

[Lu Lingzhi: Run.]

[System: …???] [System: …!!!]

[The system light ball instantly went grey, and the BGM stopped abruptly: …Ma? Let’s just say, is there a possibility, even a tiny one… that you could show some backbone?]

How could this be called having no backbone?

The “Cold School Beauty” has been remodeled into a “Dark Queen.” I can’t handle her. This is called ‘preserving my vital forces.’

[System (Setting conditions): Mama, if you give me a performance as a yandere Alpha, I’ll tell you who betrayed you. Someone tipped off Jiang Mingyue that you were faking being sick, which is why she kissed you by force.]

[Lu Lingzhi: Who? Which shameless brat?]

[System: The big villain, Xie Fuyun.]

Xie Fuyun, you just wait.

I can’t handle Jiang Mingyue, but do you think I can’t handle you? I’ll make you realize that having me in your life is your ultimate nightmare.

[System: Your favorability toward Xie Fuyun has decreased by 100.]

Lu Lingzhi immediately took out her phone and found Chang Xi’s WeChat.

[Lu Lingzhi: Little Mommy, I had a huge nosebleed. Mingyue said I’m weak and was being all sarcastic. She was never like this before. I don’t know who corrupted her. I don’t want to go to school for the next two days. I’m feeling a little bit depressed again.]

[Chang Xi: What’s wrong? Depressed again, my Lu Treasure?]

[Lu Lingzhi: I’m just an unlikable person. I can feel that President Xie really dislikes me as a daughter. she doesn’t care about me at all.]

[Chang Xi: Lu Treasure, President Xie loves you most.] (Chang Xi immediately withdrew the message) [Chang Xi: What happened?]

[Lu Lingzhi (Performing “Green Tea” arts): My body is too weak. I just took a little nap in her class, and she hit me in the head with a piece of chalk. The whole class laughed at me. Even when I answered the question and explained it to everyone, she still wouldn’t let me go. I had to mention your name twice before she let me sit down. Little Mommy, you said I could rely on you and President Xie in the capital. Is that true? [Crying Cat Emoji]]

Lu Er didn’t mention that she slept from beginning to end, nor that she had a “spicy” dream in class. She didn’t mention that she had talked back to Xie Fuyun during the loops or that she had labeled Xie Fuyun as a “lover of married women” in front of the whole class. Nor did she mention that when Xie Fuyun threw chalk at her, she had thrown it right back.

[Chang Xi: Call me that one more time. Send a voice note.]

[Lu Lingzhi (Sweetly): Little Mommy~~ Little Kitten~~ Muah~~]

[Chang Xi (Satisfied): I don’t like her either. Who could live with a woman like her?]

[Lu Lingzhi (Getting excited): Little Mommy, hurry up and break up with her. I’ll tell the judge I want to go with you, and then make her pay you mental distress fees, youth compensation, lost wages, and so on. I’ll call the Lu family’s elite legal team right now to help you take half her assets. Take me, Jiang Mingyue, and my cat with you, and we’ll live happily ever after. Hahahaha!]

[Lu Lingzhi (Still dreaming of Chang Xi’s future): I’ll arrange 99 fresh young Alphas for you, how about 22-year-olds? Little Mommy, look at the beautiful world outside. Don’t follow President Xie anymore, she’s an old fogey, she’s almost 40. You should be a single rich Omega, raising a child without the pain, your child is already an adult, no need to worry about schoolwork and you’ll have a cute little kitty.]

A long time passed, and the other party didn’t reply.

Considering Jiang Mingyue is Chang Xi’s student and I am Chang Xi’s goddaughter… Chang Xi will have many students, but as for daughters, I’m the only one right now.

Lu Lingzhi walked step by step back to the bed. Her gaze fell on the messy sheets, where there was still a small, undried damp patch. She reached out a finger to stroke the wet trace, then lifted her finger and stared at the tip.

She began to complain in a low voice:

“You wore away my favorite pajamas…” “You stole my… purity…” “And, and you recorded that kind of evidence…” “Hmph…”

Suddenly, a bolder, more rebellious thought seized her.

Driven by a strange curiosity, she lightly pressed that slightly damp fingertip against her soft lips. Then, very slowly, she poked out the tip of her tongue and gave it a cautious lick.

In that instant, the scent of tulip pheromones, concentrated to the extreme, exploded on her taste buds.

Her pupils dilated slightly, as if she were truly tasting some forbidden, addictive delicacy of the world.

An Omega’s pheromones were actually this incredible. She forgot to take her finger out of her mouth for a moment.

However, right then…

“Does it taste good?” A low, teasing voice pierced through her trance without warning.

“Second Miss Lu, it turns out you like my pheromones that much.” The voice was right there. A few drops of moisture from a recent shower seemed to fall onto her.

Lu Lingzhi was scared out of her wits. Her feet stumbled, and she fell right onto her butt on the carpet.

She looked up sharply. Jiang Mingyue was leaning against the doorframe. She was loosely wrapped in a white bathrobe, revealing an exquisite collarbone and a slender neck.

Her wet long hair was draped over her shoulders, water droplets falling from the tips. Her skin glowed with a pinkish hue from the steam of the bath.

“You…”

Just then…

Knock, knock, knock. “Police! Routine check!”

[System: Chang Xi’s favorability has increased by 100.]

[System: Xie Fuyun’s favorability has decreased by 20.]