Transmigrated as a Scum Alpha: Now I Have a Wife via the Heartless Dao - Chapter 39

The courses at the Qilin Military Academy were grueling. Once the freshmen finished reporting and received their schedules, maps, and textbooks, classes began in full force the very next day.

As students in the Command Department, and specifically in the ace major of All-Combat Command, Yu Qianyan and her peers had a full day of classes, plus additional physical training during morning and evening drills, which Rong Shu’s Science Academy didn’t have.

Aside from their military physical education classes, the Science Academy didn’t require extra physical training, but that didn’t mean their curriculum was any easier. Essentially, like Yu Qianyan and the others, they were packed with classes from eight in the morning until the end of the day. They had to squeeze in their experiments and practical work whenever they could, not to mention the mandatory requirement of completing at least one research paper that met publication standards every semester.

There was no helping it, that was the teaching model of the military academy. Countless new pieces of knowledge were shoved into the students’ brains like spoon-feeding during the lower grade years, and then, over the following academic years, they were consolidated, digested, and integrated through constant practical training and drills.

Back when Yu Qianyan was cultivating, she had long since abandoned the need for regular food or sleep. Aside from cultivation, her time was spent completing sect missions or traveling to explore secret realms. She was a true genius who lived to grind. Consequently, she adapted well to the military academy’s learning pace, and the course difficulty wasn’t high for her. She was learning quite comfortably.

Zhu Lanjun, on the other hand, was simply too intelligent. Her brain was just too good. As a talented prodigy, she could effortlessly keep up with and even stay far ahead of the class just by listening casually. Various individual experiments and group experiments were also second nature to her. As for the semesterly paper requirements, by the time others had just determined their research topics, Zhu Lanjun had already communicated with her advisors several times, and her drafts were nearly finalized. How could she possibly feel pressured?

Qin Zhiyu and Qi Yan had similar levels of adaptability and learning ability. When Qin Zhiyu encountered problems she didn’t understand, she would ask Yu Qianyan for help, while Qi Yan relied on her special status to receive preferential treatment from the instructors. No matter when, as long as they had academic questions, the instructors would carefully guide them, so their grades were similarly excellent.

As time passed, the four of them, living in very close proximity, all became somewhat famous within their respective majors.

Especially Qi Yan and Yu Qianyan. One was a princess born with exceptional looks, talent, and personality, while the other was a noble who perfectly embodied the textbook example of a playboy Alpha who had turned over a new leaf, and both possessed terrifyingly high ranks. In an environment that extremely worshiped strength, they quickly became the two most famous celebrity Alphas in the whole school.

Qi Yan at least had the royal filter of being a princess, which made others not dare to get too close easily. Yu Qianyan, however, because of the original body’s excessively dissolute and dark history, while becoming famous in the military academy, also saw her pursuers increase steadily. The confession letters and gifts she received could fill several burlap sacks, and some people even shamelessly rushed in front of her to offer themselves.

Even though many of them actually knew that Yu Qianyan was no longer single, they felt that having a fleeting relationship with such a high-ranked Alpha who was destined for a bright future was not a loss, after all. Most of these pursuers were Betas who wouldn’t be marked, so it wouldn’t affect them going their separate ways or marrying others later on.

If they were lucky enough to get pregnant, the benefits would be even greater.

Although the hot post about Yu Qianyan on the campus forum had been deleted, quite a few people had secretly taken screenshots. Coupled with Yu Qianyan’s current prominence, the rumors in the thread about her marriage status spread even more widely. Who knew how many people believed the thread’s claim that her relationship with her Omega was not harmonious and that divorce was only a matter of time. Those with great ambition were truly planning to use a child to climb the social ladder.

Who didn’t know that Omegas couldn’t attend school after marriage, yet Yu Qianyan had to stay at the military academy for several years. In that case, what difference was there between this AO couple, whose relationship was already bad, and a long-distance, or even long-star-system relationship? If people with immoral thoughts didn’t make a move now, when would they?

With so many crazy bees and butterflies swarming in, the one feeling annoyed wasn’t just Yu Qianyan, whose normal life and studies were severely impacted, but also Rong Shu.

Rong Shu was the only one among the five of them who felt quite overwhelmed at the military academy.

She wasn’t stupid, on the contrary, she was quite smart, but this kind of intelligence and academic talent couldn’t be equated. At least, it wasn’t the kind of intelligence suited for the Biotechnology major.

For knowledge points that Zhu Lanjun could grasp after one look, Rong Shu needed to listen to the lecture carefully, do the problems repeatedly after class to consolidate the material, and then take it out again after a period of time to review and recall, before she could thoroughly master them after several rounds.

Of course, this was a perfectly normal learning process, and many people were like this. Rong Shu’s grades in her major were not low, sitting in the middle-to-upper range.

But the problem was that her point of comparison was Zhu Lanjun, that academic monster known to the entire Biotechnology major, the one whom every single instructor in the entire college had come to suck up to since her first year, trying to take her on as a disciple for a direct-admission Ph.D. program!

In her previous life, Rong Shu had known that Zhu Lanjun was powerful, but no matter what, that was just hearsay. She hadn’t studied that knowledge or researched those topics herself, so she didn’t know that on the path of scientific research, the gap between a genius and a talented individual was wider than the gap between a human and an insect. That was why she had chosen Biotechnology in this life, vainly attempting to compete with Zhu Lanjun in academics.

The gap in academic talent was already enough to leave Rong Shu’s confidence battered and bruised. Being roommates with Zhu Lanjun, coming and going with her almost every day, and witnessing with her own eyes how effortlessly Zhu Lanjun learned, was equivalent to rubbing salt and alcohol into her wounds and then polishing them back and forth with sandpaper.

On top of this, it coincided with the news of Yu Qianyan receiving burlap sacks full of love letters. Only then did Rong Shu, under the crushing pressure of her studies, realize with a start that she and Yu Qianyan hadn’t had a conversation longer than five sentences in a long time. Even though they lived in dorms right across from each other, it was no different than one living on campus and the other living at home.

The pain of being crushed by her love rival from her past life increased and overlapped exponentially in her heart at this moment. Rong Shu began to become more silent with each passing day.

In her daze, she felt as if she had returned to the lightless abyss of her past life, imprisoned and tormented by the “Yu Qianyan” of that time in the Yu household. Before her eyes, she saw Zhu Lanjun’s supreme glory, and in her ears, she heard Yu Qianyan’s skillful maneuvering in the romantic field.

When she was awake, the exhaustion of being unable to catch her breath under the weight of her studies felt like a form of relief, because once she fell asleep, Rong Shu began to struggle in nightmares.

Under Yu Qianyan’s familiar face, different souls kept replacing each other, and the environment she was in changed along with them. Often, one second she was frantically drilling problems in a dream, trying not to be left too far behind by Zhu Lanjun in some exam, and the next second, she was back in the Yu household of her past life, being choked to the point of suffocation and death by “Yu Qianyan.”

The nightmares were an endless cycle of pain. Rong Shu began to suffer from insomnia, or rather, she didn’t dare to fall asleep. She feared that sooner or later, she would go completely insane in her dreams.

Her mental state grew worse and worse. Her memory was decaying, her attention couldn’t be focused. Even when sitting in the middle of the first row in class, she could go an entire lesson without turning a page of her textbook or writing a single note.

Apart from the unavoidable Zhu Lanjun, Rong Shu tried her best not to socialize with anyone, including Yu Qianyan. She always walked around her, seeming unwilling to meet her, and spent all day clinging to her communicator, opening some unknown, strange software from time to time, swiping through it over eight thousand times a day.

By the time the final exams of the first year ended, Zhu Lanjun really couldn’t let go of her concern for Rong Shu’s state. Finally, while Rong Shu was taking a shower, she couldn’t help but run over and knock on the door of the opposite dorm.

Coincidentally, Yu Qianyan was also very worried because she hadn’t seen Rong Shu for a long time. As soon as Zhu Lanjun brought it up, she immediately agreed, letting Zhu Lanjun stay in her dorm for a while to leave enough space for her and Rong Shu to communicate.

Rong Shu came out after her shower, preparing to blow-dry her hair, when her gaze fixed on the unexpectedly appearing Yu Qianyan in the dorm. Immediately, she shrank back visibly, turning to dive into the bathroom.

Yu Qianyan grabbed her, and just as she was about to ask why she was running away, she saw Rong Shu’s current appearance.

Her face was pale, devoid of color. Her once plump and soft cheeks had become much thinner, and there were large, dark circles under her eyes. Her eyes, however, were hollow and pitch-black, looking empty and void, inexplicably reminding Yu Qianyan of a desolate mansion abandoned for many years, hiding many resentful ghosts unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation.

Coupled with the wet hair hanging beside her face and the wrists that felt bony even in her grip, Yu Qianyan didn’t need to ask to know that Rong Shu’s mental state had gone seriously wrong.

Recalling what Zhu Lanjun had said, Yu Qianyan’s eyes were full of pity, and she urged, “Rong Shu, shall we transfer colleges? If you really don’t like Biotechnology, we can change majors. It’s only been one academic year, it won’t delay anything.”

Rong Shu turned her neck extremely slowly to look at Yu Qianyan, asking her in an incredulous tone in a low voice, “Transfer majors? Only one academic year? Yu Qianyan, am I that bad in your heart? What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I’ll be so ashamed in front of Zhu Lanjun that I won’t be able to live on, so you’re rushing to have me transfer away, lest I die one day and dirty the major and dorm of your beloved?”

“What nonsense are you talking about…”

“How is this nonsense!” Rong Shu shoved Yu Qianyan away violently. As if the long-repressed emotions had suddenly erupted, she questioned her hoarsely, “How long has it been since I’ve spoken to you? When did I tell you I couldn’t keep studying? Wasn’t it Zhu Lanjun who told you? Where is she? Hiding? When did she tell you, why didn’t I know… I’ve been watching every day before, there was nothing, today, it was just today that she told you, wasn’t it?! I knew you two had dealings in private! Where is my communicator!”

As she said this, Rong Shu began to anxiously toss and turn everything in the dorm. After finding the communicator, she opened that most frequently used software and flipped through it, but found nothing.

She started to nibble on her fingernails neurotically. Only then did Yu Qianyan notice that Rong Shu’s fingernails had long been gnawed down to the quick. Some of the fingertips had even been bitten until they bled and had formed thick scabs, but Rong Shu seemed not to feel the pain, gnawing hard.

Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably, as cold as rain in deep winter.

Yu Qianyan felt that Rong Shu was now like a bow pulled to the extreme, ready to snap completely with the slightest bit of extra force.

Suddenly, Rong Shu lifted her head violently, staring fixedly at Yu Qianyan, asking her, “You didn’t use the communicator to contact each other, did you? Or do you have another communicator? Have you been lying to me the whole time? She wasn’t there, is it because she just went to find you, is that it?”

“Yu Qianyan, say something! Even if you want to lie to me, say something!”

Yu Qianyan sniffled and looked at the medicine on the table that hadn’t been taken on time.

After nearly a year, she finally smelled that thick and familiar, enticing, glamorous fragrance that seemed ready to run wild and bewitch the entire dorm room.

She gazed at Rong Shu, who was on the verge of a breakdown, knowing this was pheromone backlash caused by extreme emotional fluctuations and the failure to take her medication on time. Once the deep heat began, it would, in turn, further aggravate the extreme emotions, thus falling into a vicious cycle until Rong Shu was marked by an Alpha, ending this sudden estrus.

Omegas were such fragile creatures, seemingly like porcelain dolls controlled by emotions and pheromones. No matter how beautiful the soul, no matter how profound the mind, they could only submit to despicable physiological reactions.

For the first time, Yu Qianyan had the urge to completely eradicate the Omega heat cycle.

But now, that wasn’t the most important thing.

The most important thing was that the deep heat caused by Rong Shu missing her medication time couldn’t be resolved by inhibitors. It could only be stopped by an Alpha marker.

Rong Shu lived in a Beta dorm without a specialized ventilation system. This matter had to be resolved as quickly as possible, otherwise, the pheromones filling the room that couldn’t be vented would definitely expose her fake gender.

The options lying before Yu Qianyan seemed to leave only one.

She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, stepped forward, pulled the collapsing, hysterical Rong Shu tightly into her arms, and kissed her lips.

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