The Aloof Arch-rival Insists On Carrying The Child Of A Useless Alpha - Chapter 3

“Host! There are only 5 hours left to complete the mission! Stop joking around with her!”

Looking at Jiu Yi pulling out two stacks of half-human high documents and placing them right in front of Leng Xuelang, the System was completely dumbfounded. So, her sudden, inexplicable trip to the study earlier was just to fetch these files to humiliate the male lead’s white moonlight substitute?

But this was… a massive waste of time. Couldn’t she just bite her and be done with it?

“I’m not joking with her. You said earlier that my mission in this world is to rescue the male lead’s white moonlight substitute so she doesn’t get treated so miserably by him. If she gets marked by me and becomes my canary here, how is that any different from being with the male lead?”

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

“But… you and the male lead are different! Besides, she is currently under the influence of a drug. Can she even resolve it by looking at these dry financial statements?!” Host, your operations are truly a baffling mystery!

The System felt like it was about to lose its mind. This was just too classic.

“Why wouldn’t it work? This is the ultimate cure.”

Turning around, Jiu Yi saw Leng Xuelang staring at her with wide eyes, the corners of her eyes flushed red, looking as though she had suffered an immense grievance.

“What? Unwilling to read them? Then let’s go to the hospital.” Jiu Yi was highly democratic, offering her a choice between the two.

“Are you trying to humiliate me?” Leng Xuelang clenched her fists, practically speaking through gritted teeth as she glared at her, wishing she could strangle her on the spot.

Jiu Yi felt that inexplicably dangerous sensation approaching again. Yet, for some reason, she felt Leng Xuelang resembled a small animal begging for pets. She reached out and ruffled her hair. “If I were truly humiliating you, you wouldn’t be sitting here right now.”

Leng Xuelang wanted to brush her hand away in disgust. However, while Jiu Yi’s hand on her head didn’t seem to exert much force, it carried a weight that could not be underestimated, making it impossible to shake off.

This audacious and detestable Alpha even let her hand slide down to the gland at the back of her neck, lightly flicking it. It was utterly infuriating.

“Your gland is still very hot. Hurry up and read. I remember your major is Finance, with a minor in Law. Don’t let such an impressive academic background go to waste.” As Jiu Yi spoke, she retracted her hand, unconsciously clenching her fingers as if scorched by the other’s pheromones, causing her own heart to ignite slightly.

Leng Xuelang: “???”

What Finance major with a minor in Law? Is she talking about me?

However, by the time she wanted to clarify things with Jiu Yi, she was the only one left in the guest bedroom. Whatever she wanted to say could no longer be uttered.

Looking at the two stacks of documents that stood half as tall as her, while enduring the physical discomfort of the drug, Leng Xuelang found it truly unacceptable.

Instead of giving her an antidote or marking her, she actually told her to read files… A cursory glance revealed they were all financial documents, including annual reports from past years. They were extremely dull, making her feel even more agitated.

What kind of terrible day was this? She had only come to find something, so how did she end up here? Not only did she fail to find the item and get drugged, but now she was forced to review financial statements?

Ring, ring, ring…

To her surprise, there was a landline phone in this guest bedroom. The sudden ringing startled her, and her instinctive reaction was to ignore it.

Yet, the phone seemed intent on ringing forever if she didn’t answer, forcing Leng Xuelang to walk over and pick it up.

“Hello? Leng Xuelan, I forgot to tell you just now. What I gave you are the financial and tax reports of a game development company under the Si Corporation from the past 10 years. Finish reading them tonight. Then, look at the 7 o’clock position behind you.”

“Do you see the laptop placed there? After you’re done reading, write me an analysis report. At least 3,000 words.”

Leng Xuelang: “???”

“On what grounds are you making me do work for you?” Leng Xuelang sneered, wondering if the woman had lost her mind.

“I believe you need a job. Doesn’t your family have a severely ill mother and a young sister waiting for you to take care of them?”

“How much can you pay?”

“It depends on your capability. But what I give you will definitely be more than what you get from that worthless nephew of mine.”

“Fine, I’ll let you witness my capability.” Without waiting for a reply, Leng Xuelang slammed the phone down in a fit of rage.

“Quite a temper, huh?” In the master bedroom, Jiu Yi hung up her phone. She could tell the other woman was incredibly furious and in a terrible mood.

This seemed somewhat different from the data provided. According to the information, the white moonlight substitute the male lead found was… weak, gentle, and lacked a mind of her own. She did whatever the male lead told her to do, completely clueless about standing up for herself, and was bullied miserably.

Ultimately, after the original white moonlight returned to the country, she was directly abandoned by the male lead without a single place to call home. Left with neither money nor love, she fell to the point of being trampled on by everyone.

Jiu Yi’s mission was to alter her destiny so she would no longer be wantonly mistreated.

What better way was there than giving her a stable job, a steady salary, and cultivating her capabilities?

She believed her current approach was absolutely correct and brooked no argument.

“But… Host, Leng Xuelan’s hatred toward you has reached its peak. She doesn’t understand your good intentions at all.”

“Furthermore, you could mark her while letting her calmly read the statements. Wouldn’t that also achieve ‘teaching a man to fish’?”

“…Are you a demon?” Jiu Yi’s tone was beyond description.

“Sob.”

Jiu Yi couldn’t care less about that. She cleaned herself up to take a hot bath, intending to properly sort through the current condition of this body.

She had just roughly examined the state of her legs and found the situation to be far from optimistic.

From the data, the original owner hadn’t always been crippled. She was perfectly fine during her childhood. However, starting from the year before last, her legs gradually began to fail. They would suddenly cramp and frequently stiffen up, rendering her unable to move. She had visited numerous hospitals for check-ups, yet none could determine the cause.

Originally, her status within the Si family was already very marginal, and now it had worsened. Her legs continued to deteriorate until she was relegated to a wheelchair, virtually unable to walk.

The System had mentioned not long ago that the original owner was poisoned. Naturally, she now needed the System to use its authority to conduct a thorough investigation.

“Host, this body is indeed poisoned. The specific toxin cannot be identified yet. It shouldn’t be a common poison, and it’s highly likely that a specialized antidote needs to be formulated.”

“Who are the possible culprits?” Trying to analyze what poison was inside the original owner’s body was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It would be much easier if they could identify the motive or the perpetrator.

“Quite a few. Many people in the Si family find you an eyesore. Although they don’t know you possess many industries in secret, your background itself is an original sin. Finding you an eyesore, they would naturally want to eliminate you.”

Hearing its words, Jiu Yi fell into a slight silence. The original owner’s background… to be honest, was incredibly bizarre and twisted.

The original owner’s father was a male Alpha who married into the family. He had been deeply in love with her Omega mother for ten years without change. However, when her mother was pregnant with twins and preparing to give birth, her father launched a strike, causing her mother to suffer a difficult labor. Currently, the original owner’s younger sister was still bedridden in the hospital.

The original owner grew up with difficulty in such a family. Coupled with the fact that her abilities were actually not weak, even though she deliberately hid her talents, her brilliance still showed. Rather than waiting for her to fully grow her wings, it was better to eliminate her now while they were incomplete.

However, since they couldn’t make it too obvious, they naturally had to do it surreptitiously.

For instance, wasn’t poisoning her to make her disabled the best method?

That scumbag father of hers certainly didn’t need a disabled successor. And the Si family didn’t need a cripple like her opposing them either.

“Also, Host… if this poison isn’t neutralized soon, it will likely damage your central nervous system. In the end, you might turn into an idiot.”

Jiu Yi listened without speaking. She hadn’t avoided encountering such methods in other worlds; she had even faced things far more cruel and ruthless than this.

There were actually quite a few clues right now, and Jiu Yi felt they could be systematically eliminated.

However, there was no rush. It was better to enjoy the bath first.

Except…

“System, didn’t you say you would choose a good world for my retirement? You also said the missions wouldn’t be too difficult and the characters chosen for me would get better. Take a look at this now, where is the ‘good’ part?”

“Well, isn’t the ‘filthy rich’ setting good enough? Besides, you’ve executed missions like saving the male lead’s white moonlight substitute before. Why not give it another try?”

“Heh.”

Jiu Yi didn’t feel like talking. Whether it was because she hadn’t fully integrated with this body upon arrival or due to some other reason, she began to feel drowsy not long after conversing with the System. Furthermore, the water in the bathtub seemed to have a sleep-inducing effect. In the end, she couldn’t resist and fell directly asleep.

The System was somewhat worried about her body. Just as Jiu Yi felt, this body was weaker than an ordinary person’s, and adding the poisoning made it even more troublesome.

But this world was already the best one it could select. Choosing other worlds involving ‘running away with the ball’ or ‘giving birth to 99 babies’ was nowhere near as simple and easy as this one.

Though, looking at it now, it really wasn’t that easy either.

Staring at the Host’s slightly pale face, the System felt a twinge of guilt.

Nonetheless, it still needed to check on Leng Xuelang’s situation. It truly didn’t believe Jiu Yi’s method would work. That wasn’t an ordinary heat cycle, it was an induced heat caused by a drug, further exacerbated by the influence of Jiu Yi’s pheromones. Relying on financial statements to calm a heat… dreaming about it might actually be more realistic.

It glanced at Jiu Yi to confirm she was merely asleep temporarily before leaving to check on Leng Xuelang.

To its surprise, when it arrived at Leng Xuelang’s room, she was nowhere to be found.

Some financial statements had indeed been reviewed, but its scan revealed that there was absolutely no one in the room, and the door was locked from the inside…

So where did she go?

The System grew inexplicably panicked. At the same time, it noticed winding traces of water on the floor, extending all the way toward the master bedroom, only to vanish right at the wall.

System: “???”

What kind of supernatural event is this?!

Meanwhile, in the master bedroom.

Just as the System left, a succession of bubbles suddenly surfaced in the warm water of the bathtub where Jiu Yi was soaking. Immediately following that, a transparent, humanoid figure manifested out of thin air.

It looked as though it was enveloped by invisible water. Finally, revealing a hazy true form, it lunged violently toward Jiu Yi’s throat.