Seduced By My Omega Stepsister - Chapter 24.1

She gave the two bystanders only a fleeting glance before heading straight to the room ahead. After explaining the situation to the doctor, the red access light slowly turned to a passable green.

She turned back at the door. “Both of you can come in.”

A hint of a smile touched her lips, but since her lips were pale, she looked very much like a “sickly beauty.”

A newly differentiated Alpha should have been full of energy, but Fu Zhou seemed to have no strength, sitting there listlessly. The scent of plum wine pheromones in the air circled her affectionately, but the owner of these pheromones didn’t move, she even squeezed herself further into the corner as if trying to bury herself.

Zhang Meng, who was about to step inside, immediately retracted her foot. She pulled Zhou Heyu back and closed the door.

Young couples’ problems should be solved by the couple themselves.

Inside the ward, Chu Xiyu poured a glass of water for herself and Fu Zhou, then sat down beside her.

“Is there any discomfort?” Her voice was gentle and delicate, like a warm spring breeze.

But Fu Zhou kept her head buried deep in her chest, saying nothing.

“The situation was indeed urgent. Fortunately, our pheromones recognize each other. That boy has been caught by the police. Releasing pheromones in public and intentionally inducing others, causing serious consequences, is punishable by three to ten years in prison and a fine of 100,000 Jinjiang coins.”

Fu Zhou nodded but still didn’t reply. The atmosphere stagnated, like the flow of water beneath an icy pond in winter, moving extremely slowly.

“Fu Zhou.” Chu Xiyu sighed, sitting closer to her and forcing her to look her in the eye. “Are you going to keep ignoring me like this?”

In her line of sight, those overly pale lips parted slightly, but what fell first was a crystal-clear teardrop.

Chu Xiyu looked up to see those dark, puppy-like eyes turned a vivid red, tears falling uncontrollably like a kite with a broken string.

“I’m sorry… Chu Xiyu, I’m sorry… I really don’t know what happened. It was just so hot, and then, then I… you should call the police to take me away, I…” As she spoke, her tears fell even harder until she was sobbing too much to speak.

Chu Xiyu froze for a moment, then took the sobbing little Alpha into her arms, embracing her tightly.

“Fu Zhou, you didn’t force me. I was willing, okay?”

“The situation was very dangerous then. Anyone else, even your best friend, would have done the same. You were very restrained, it was just a temporary marking. It’s okay.”

Indeed, if she had arrived a few steps later, the person sitting here comforting Fu Zhou would have been that friend of hers, Zhang Meng. Chu Xiyu smiled gently, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes.

Fu Zhou was so lucky even when it came to the most intimate act between an Alpha and an Omega, she had a friend willing to do it for her safety.

But Fu Zhou only took it as comfort. Her washed out puppy eyes looked even clearer.

“I will… take responsibility.” The person who had just been sobbing breathlessly now appeared somewhat shy, her eyes looking at Chu Xiyu with a trace of hope.

Chu Xiyu’s eyes crinkled with a gentle smile. She parted her red lips slightly.

“Fu Zhou, I am your ‘elder sister’.”

Fu Li and Chu Wen arrived quickly. It was said they flew back on the earliest flight after receiving the hospital’s call. The two of them sat in the isolation ward with Fu Zhou, while Chu Xiyu sat on the other side.

“Kids these days! Born but not raised! I’ll hire the best lawyers. What their parents didn’t teach them, the law will!” As soon as Fu Li entered, he saw Fu Zhou’s pale face, his eyes filled with unconcealed heartache.

Fu Zhou shook her head. “Dad, I’m fine.”

“This time, it was all thanks to… Sister.” She glanced at Chu Xiyu, who was sitting far away. The latter only gave a soft smile.

“It’s nothing. The situation was urgent, and Xiao Zhou was very restrained, the marking was light.”

A temporary mark would dissipate in a few months, and the impact on the Alpha and Omega would only last that long. Fu Li’s complex gaze landed on Chu Xiyu, and then he sighed softly.

“Xiao Yu, I really have to thank you this time. I’m away all year, and Xiao Zhou grew up alone. If it weren’t for you, who knows what trouble would have happened.”

“Your mother and I discussed it on the plane. A temporary marking is fine after a few months, but it still has some impact on Alphas and Omegas. Why don’t you transfer into the same class as Xiao Zhou so you can look after each other?”

“No!” A voice abruptly pierced the harmony of the room. The corners of Fu Zhou’s mouth sank slightly, like a flickering candle in the wind, her ignited emotions shifted between light and dark.

“Chu Xiyu has her own friends and teachers in her class, and the learning progress of the two classes is different.” Her voice was relatively calm, but it carried an undercurrent of stubbornness.

“She’ll have friends in our class too. I’ll speak to the teachers, and she can catch up. I’m doing this for both of your safety.”

“On what basis can you make her re-adapt to a new environment with just a few words? The two classes are only a few meters apart, is that distance going to cause danger?”

“Fu Zhou, I’m doing this for your own good!”

“I said I don’t need it. Do you not understand?” Fu Zhou stood up, her mouth set in a straight line. She looked down slowly, the anger in her eyes intensifying.

She knew how hard it was to adapt to a new environment. She also knew how much effort Chu Xiyu had put into integrating into this school, joining the student union, working hard on her studies, and even participating in academic competitions for the ordinary classes.

How could Fu Li, just because of one sentence and because Chu Xiyu had helped her through a crisis, repay that kindness with such a burden by forcing her to adapt to her environment?

“If you transfer Chu Xiyu to my class, I won’t go to school anymore. You decide.” Fu Zhou narrowed her eyes and saw, as expected, Fu Li’s conflicted face.

Fu Li was the only person in the world she was absolutely certain loved her. Fu Zhou rarely asked him for anything; this was the first time she used his love for her as leverage to refuse something she disliked.

Fu Zhou knew it, and Chu Xiyu knew it too.

Chu Xiyu’s breathing was light, and the unprovoked throbbing in her heart was slowly suppressed. She remembered the day she differentiated, she had also stayed in an isolation ward alone. All she was left with were cold, inexpensive medical bills and a phone call she couldn’t bring herself to make to any parent to ask for money.

So, she had discharged herself early and used her saved allowance to pay the hospital. She didn’t buy any suppressants, thinking she would come back when she had money next month. She thought it wouldn’t matter; she just had to endure it.

The irony was that her mother who wasn’t even there for her own daughter’s differentiation was now sitting beside Fu Zhou with a face full of concern, not giving her daughter a single glance.

Fu Zhou irritably drove both Chu Wen and Fu Li out, leaving only Chu Xiyu behind. The parents were on a business trip and had only rushed back temporarily; after saying a few words, they got on the next flight back.

Chu Xiyu approached Fu Zhou after the two had left. The youth didn’t look as listless as before, but she wasn’t exactly energetic either. She gave Chu Xiyu an unnatural look and then pulled three boxes from under her pillow.

“This one is for the gland. If it hurts, apply it, it heals faster. The other two are suppressants. I asked the doctor for the best ones. Anyway, it’s charged to Fu Li’s bill…”

Chu Xiyu’s heart was suddenly hit by a wave of bitterness. She instinctively wanted to refuse, the words almost reaching her lips, but she couldn’t say them. She only dryly accepted.

“My dad is just like that. Maybe it’s because my face looks like my mother’s, or maybe because he feels guilty about leaving me home alone all the time, so he puts me first in everything. He often does stupid things like this.”

Fu Zhou curled her lips into a light smile, as if the person whose gaze had instantly dimmed upon hearing “Sister” wasn’t her.

“Don’t listen to him.”

Chu Xiyu looked at her smiling eyes and slowly nodded. “I’ll listen to you.”

The sounds of wind, rain, and falling leaves suddenly exploded in Fu Zhou’s ears, and her heart rhythm fell into disorder. When she came to, Fu Zhou realized that perhaps today was a sunny day.

“I think she definitely has feelings for you, but she lacks a sense of security due to her status. At this time, you just need to show your determination through action. Give her enough security, and she will definitely accept you.” Zhou Heyu took a bite of an apple, her cheeks bulging like a hamster’s as she chewed.

Zhang Meng nodded.

Ordinary people might not be very clear on it, but Alphas and Omegas know how much marking affects both parties. Moreover, Fu Zhou was not conscious at the time, an Alpha about to differentiate has no logic and is very violent. If Fu Zhou had deeply marked her, the two would have been bound together for life. If Chu Xiyu didn’t like Fu Zhou, she absolutely would not have taken that risk.

Zhang Meng remembered the look Chu Xiyu gave her when her hand was on the suppressor patch, it was cold, complex, and filled with a thick sense of possessiveness, as if Zhang Meng were touching something that belonged to her.

“She’s your sister from a reconstituted family. Do you know what her original family was like?” Zhang Meng suggested.

“It seems… they didn’t value her much. They didn’t care if she was an Alpha, Omega, or Beta. Her mother even though she came here with her mother. I feel her mother says less to her than she does to me.”

“Holy cow! How can there be such irresponsible parents? They didn’t even give her an ABO evaluation.”

“And when she first came to the house, she didn’t have suppressants for her heat…”

“Shouldn’t that kind of thing be brought back by the family when she’s sent to the hospital? Even though I’m a Beta, my family is so afraid I’ll suddenly differentiate that they’ve prepared several Alpha and Omega suppressants.”

“Yeah…” Fu Zhou lowered her eyes, one hand propping up her chin while the other lightly toyed with her phone.

“Okay, I get it. I will definitely pursue her properly, step by step, very formally.”

“But does your dad really not mind?”

“Who cares about him?” Fu Zhou dropped those four words coldly.

Fu Li had brought Chu Wen and Chu Xiyu back, but Chu Wen’s status beside him was still that of a secretary. The two of them were not in the same household register as Fu Zhou. A man like Fu Li would maintain his “devoted husband” persona until death; how could he let another woman move in as a second wife?

So, he would object…

A dark, snake-like gloom slowly crawled into her heart. She suddenly picked up the water on the table and took a light sip to hide it.

It shouldn’t be like this.

Even if she wanted to be with Chu Xiyu, she shouldn’t despicably start by targeting Fu Li. In this relationship, the most important thing should be Chu Xiyu’s thoughts. The key figure was her. Whether she was willing or not.

In the following days, Fu Zhou remained isolated in the hospital ward. After Chu Xiyu finished her tutoring, she would stay in the hospital to accompany her. By the day they returned to school, her marking fangs still hadn’t receded, they were still sharp, but beautifully shaped and prominently attractive.

Fu Zhou put on a mask, insisting on going back with Chu Xiyu. Before leaving the hospital, Chu Xiyu specifically asked the doctor.

“I remember ordinary Alpha marking fangs recede in a day. It’s been three days, why are her teeth still sharp? Is there something wrong with her body?”

The doctor, who was also an Alpha, adjusted his glasses and gave an ambiguous smile. “The duration the marking fangs remain determines her marking ability. A Top-tier Alpha, naturally, is top-tier in everything.”

Thus, after Fu Zhou packed her things and prepared to go back to school for evening self-study, she stepped out the door and ran right into Chu Xiyu’s slightly reddened ears.

“Are you hot?”

“Yeah.” Chu Xiyu turned her head away. “Put your mask on.”

Fu Zhou didn’t understand why but obediently put on the mask, covering those two obviously sharp marking fangs.

The news that Fu Zhou had differentiated spread throughout the school by the first period. Consequently, by the second period of evening self-study, a large crowd of people blocked the classroom stairs until they were impassable.

She looked at the surrounding fan clubs listlessly. Her tongue lightly pressed against the marking fangs on her upper palate, a stinging sensation spreading out. Out of the corner of her eye, a pale shadow walked past the door of the Elite Class A classroom and entered the teachers’ office.

Fu Zhou’s eyes lit up. She quickly tapped Zhou Heyu, who was doing homework in front of her.

“Is your homework finished? I’ll help you turn it in.” Zhou Heyu looked at her strangely, then handed her the finished assignment.

“Giving it to the homeroom teacher? Has your brain short-circuited? Why bother approaching that old man?”

“I saw Chu Xiyu go into the office.”

“Got it.”

Fu Zhou grabbed the books and walked out of the classroom. The noisy, clamoring crowd at the door fell strangely silent. Countless eyes quietly landed on her face, carrying a hint of inexplicable restlessness.

As she turned into the office, a faint roar erupted behind her. Fu Zhou’s ears automatically filtered out the “so handsome,” “want to date,” and “how does she feel even more ‘Alpha’ than before?” precisely capturing one sentence: “Don’t you think she and that beautiful Omega from the class next door are a perfect match?”

Fu Zhou nodded inwardly. She and Chu Xiyu were, of course, a perfect match.

She knocked on the door. The old man grading homework adjusted his glasses. “What are you here for?”

“Turning in Zhou Heyu’s homework.”

“Mhm, put it here.”

Fu Zhou nodded. While putting the homework on the desk, she glanced sideways. In her sight was the dark profile of the girl.

Chu Xiyu was in a bad mood. Even those rose-scented pheromones were drifting helplessly in all directions.

Fu Zhou turned her head to look out the window. The light shone through the office window covered in newspaper, and a straight, slender shadow stood there, casting a silhouette on the window paper. Chu Xiyu was still in the office.

When the first bell for the end of evening self-study rang and the tenth graders officially finished school, Chu Xiyu finally emerged from the office. In her hand was an English book for competitions, it should have been a newly bought book, but it was covered in many creases.

She had truly practiced seriously for a long time.

Fu Zhou lowered her gaze and quickly wrote “Solution” on her scratch paper, then stopped her pen, losing the thought for the next step. Not until the ink soaked through the paper into a dark blot did she snap out of it, flipping to a blank page in her exercise book as a way of compensation.

She really hated this feeling.