Reborn as a Scummy Alpha, I Became Every Heroine's Obsession - Chapter 55

“Why won’t you mark me?” Feng Jiying traced her fingers over her throat, unable to speak, conveying the words through faint breaths and lip movements for Gu Qiqi to see.

Gu Qiqi looked as though she had just heard the most absurd joke.

“Just because I’m an alpha, I should casually mark an omega?”

Frowning, Gu Qiqi stood up from her chair and took two steps back, maintaining a safe distance from Feng Jiying.

“I hope Miss Feng understands, what exists between us is hatred. Marking you would bring me no pride, nor would it give me any sense of vengeful satisfaction.”

Feng Jiying raised a hand to press against her chest.

All her life, what she had pursued was freedom from the constraints of pheromones. Yet the person standing before her now possessed that very advantage effortlessly.

Gu Qiqi gathered a pheromone sugar cube in her palm. “In fact, I despise the very concept of ‘marking.’ My lover will receive one hundred percent of my love and respect. She won’t need to beg for my affection, nor will she need my pity. If she were an omega, I would make sure she understood whether it was her pheromones that chose me, or her own heart. If she were a beta, I wouldn’t have to worry about her being controlled by pheromones at all.”

Her gaze was unwavering.

Feng Jiying’s feverish glands gradually stabilized.

For some reason, an inexplicable sense of security welled up inside her.

Just like when she had been with Gu Qiqi before even now, in the midst of her heat, with Gu Qiqi standing before her, she could clearly sense that Gu Qiqi would never harm her.

Yes, she had known from the very beginning. Gu Qiqi was always this straightforward.

Gu Qiqi never looked down on herself for her origins in the fringe districts, nor did she grow arrogant because of her S+ level psychic abilities.

She treated everyone equally, without bias, placing herself on the same level as others.

That was why Gu Qiqi was always surrounded by so many people.

Only by her side could Feng Jiying find this long-lost peace and relaxation.

Gu Qiqi continued, “As for Miss Feng’s secondary gender whether you presented as an omega was your fate, just as presenting as an alpha was mine. You’ve lived in privilege in the central city for so many years, far luckier than most.”

She tossed the pheromone sugar cube lightly in her palm. “And that’s exactly what makes me resent you. High and mighty in the central city, oblivious to the suffering of the fringe districts, treating lives as worthless over a hundred living people, slaughtered at your command. And yet now, you wear this pitiful, helpless expression. Miss Feng, the irony is truly staggering. You, who once stood at the pinnacle of power, are now an omega, a gender with a fatal weakness, forever at the mercy of those higher on the food chain.”

Feng Jiying’s eyes locked onto the sugar cube in Gu Qiqi’s hand.

If she could just consume it, she could temporarily suppress her heat and regain her rationality.

She would uncover the truth.

But Gu Qiqi abruptly clenched her fist, crushing the sugar cube into fine dust that scattered into the air.

Feng Jiying instinctively reached out but grasped nothing.

Gu Qiqi stood with one hand in her pocket, her face an unreadable mask of calm. “This is the composure of those in power. This is the innate advantage of an alpha, the merciless disdain for omegas. Miss Feng, have you considered that pheromone cubes can be produced anytime, but the dead cannot be revived? What price are you willing to pay?”

Feng Jiying clutched her throat, kneeling on one knee, her strength completely drained.

Her glands kept releasing desperate cravings.

Her consciousness was on the verge of collapse.

Just as Feng Jiying was about to collapse completely, Gu Qiqi suddenly raised a finger.

The pheromones that had dispersed in the air abruptly gathered, guided by Gu Qiqi’s psychic energy, swirling like a gust of wind before enveloping Feng Jiying’s body.

Gu Qiqi: “Miss Feng, our accounts aren’t settled yet. However, I have no interest in discussing serious matters with an omega who’s lost her rationality.”

After speaking, Gu Qiqi gently placed Xiao Qi back in the cat bed and turned to leave, leaving Feng Jiying with the last shred of dignity.

Feng Jiying felt Gu Qiqi’s pheromones merging with her own, slowly seeping into her body. It was as if her soul had been liberated, blessed by a savior’s grace. Her entire body relaxed from within, the relief spreading from her spine to every limb.

Gu Qiqi was a 3S+ alpha and her pheromone cubes could completely suppress the symptoms of a sensitive period and instantly restore an omega’s rationality and clarity.

Feng Jiying hugged herself, curled up on the ground. But the next moment, when she lifted her gaze, her eyes had regained their usual icy detachment.

Her swollen, feverish glands had calmed.

The pheromones laced with mating intent had completely vanished.

Now, she was like any normal omega, as if she had taken suppressants and had a patch over her glands.

For the first time in half a month, her chaotic mind cleared in an instant.

A cold smirk tugged at Feng Jiying’s lips.

Someone had deliberately kept her teetering on the edge of a sensitive period, preventing her from thinking straight.

Where had things gone wrong?

As soon as Xiao Bai regained consciousness, she rushed to the CEO’s office and pushed the door open in a hurry. “President, the Grand Elder has fled!”

Feng Jiying stood straight. “Investigate the maid who bathed Xiao Qi recently. Find out what she applied to its fur.”

Xiao Bai froze. “President, your neck!”

She had passed out earlier and hadn’t seen the bruises on Feng Jiying’s neck.

Feng Jiying instinctively touched her throat.

She could speak again.

Her expression shifted briefly, a faint, involuntary smile flickering before she quickly suppressed it. “Look into everything the Grand Elder has done recently. With his power stripped by Gu Qiqi, his actions should be easy to trace. And—”

She began recalling when she first started feeling off. “The Grand Elder bribed the villa’s staff. Re-examine the incident from back then. We must uncover what really happened with the three great families.”

Xiao Bai nodded.

Feng Jiying’s gaze gradually darkened with danger.

She had let her guard down just a little here, and it led to a major stumble.

Feng Jiying looked down at Xiao Qi sleeping soundly in the cat bed, her heart in turmoil.

The Grand Elder had once said that after Gu Qiqi and she ended their forced sensitive period, she would often sleepwalk into Gu Qiqi’s room to sleep.

Back then, she had realized that there were people from the Grand Elder in her villa.

But she hadn’t expected the Grand Elder to be so impatient, acting so swiftly.

The Grand Elder had done many things she wasn’t aware of, pinning all the blame on her. If that was the case, then the truth the Grand Elder had told her about the Gu family and the three great families back then might not be true at all.

Xiao Qi had been dosed with a special drug that would slowly push an omega into a sensitive period. The dosage was small, making it hard to detect. Moreover, the Grand Elder knew that Xiao Bai had her gland removed, making her extremely insensitive to pheromones. The drug the Grand Elder used could only induce a minimal amount of pheromones in her, not enough to be noticed by others, which was why her emotions had been in chaos this whole time.

It was indeed a clever scheme.

Flawlessly designed.

Only afterward did Feng Jiying have no choice but to confront her own heart.

Why was it Gu Qiqi who affected her emotions when her sensitive period was triggered?

At that time, she hadn’t been fully marked by Gu Qiqi. Temporary alpha pheromones only last in an omega’s body for about seven days, just enough to help them through the sensitive period.

Feng Jiying was extremely intelligent.

Some answers had long been in her heart she had just been avoiding them, unwilling to face them.

In her understanding, falling in love with an alpha was shameful. As someone who had differentiated into an omega, she would only love an alpha because of their pheromones. Therefore, in this lifetime, she shouldn’t fall for any alpha.

So, if she had developed feelings for Gu Qiqi, if she had fallen in love with Gu Qiqi, all her beliefs would crumble.

Everything she had held onto would become meaningless.

But even if she kept running away, could she really be sure she hadn’t felt even the slightest bit of attraction toward Gu Qiqi?

Xiao Bai suddenly spoke up with an extremely conflicted expression, “President, you’ve fallen for Miss Gu, haven’t you? With your abilities, even if you were affected by alpha pheromones, it would only amplify during the sensitive period. Once you’re out of it and regain rationality, you wouldn’t be influenced by an alpha. So why?”

Xiao Bai continued, “The President isn’t some kind of villain. If you like someone, you like them. What you love is Miss Gu herself not whether she’s an alpha, beta, or omega, not whether she’s from the Central City or the outskirts, not whether she’s a descendant of the Gu family, one of the four great families, not whether she has a powerful background or family influence, and not even whether she grew up as an orphan.”

Every one of Xiao Bai’s questions left Feng Jiying unable to deny them.

She, who was decisive and ruthless in business, had become utterly cowardly when it came to this matter.

Feng Jiying tilted her head slightly. The sunlight fell on half her face, and the shadow of her lashes obscured the usually inscrutable depth in her eyes.

“Yes…”

The answer she could no longer escape, the one she had suppressed in her heart for so long, slipped quietly from her lips at this very moment.

A faint smile suddenly appeared on Xiao Bai’s face, like that of an NPC without self-awareness, an instinctive smile after completing a task.

Feng Jiying suddenly saw a floating electronic terminal before her, displaying three exclamation marks.

[System: Warning! Warning! The protagonist of the system has exhibited severe OOC behavior. The game has deviated from its normal trajectory. A large number of players are quitting. Correcting the main storyline now. Primary target for elimination: cannon fodder character Gu Qiqi.

Protagonist, please choose: Agree/Reject.]

The countdown for the choice was only ten seconds.

Feng Jiying’s heart clenched. With her high intelligence, she reacted swiftly.

She had no time to examine the suddenly appearing electronic terminal or the self-proclaimed system.

Feng Jiying immediately clicked “Reject.”

She couldn’t bear to see Gu Qiqi disappear before her again.

[System: You still have one more chance to choose. The system has detected that the protagonist’s OOC behavior is not of their own volition but is caused by the cannon fodder character Gu Qiqi. The system is recalibrating. Therefore, the primary target for elimination remains the cannon fodder character Gu Qiqi.

Regarding your previous choice to reject, you will die in Gu Qiqi’s place. However, the system does not recommend this. As one of the game’s protagonists, you are entitled to all privileges and rights. If you choose to reject, the previous prompt will reappear. If you choose to agree, your self-awareness will be erased. You have ten seconds to decide. After ten seconds, the system will default to “Reject.” As the protagonist, you need not sympathize with the fate of cannon fodder characters their existence is solely to highlight yours.

Protagonist, please choose: Agree/Reject.]

Feng Jiying’s hand moved faster than her mind.

Her slender fingers lifted.

So this is love impulse and fear intertwined.

Agree.

From this moment, her body was no longer under her control.

The floor-to-ceiling window, the shattered glass.

Feng Jiying fell like a butterfly.

Plummeting from the 46th floor.

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