The Alpha Who Played Me Has Re-Differentiated Into a Delicate Omega - Chapter 9

The sunlight streaming through the floor to ceiling windows was warm, slowly flowing over the two sleeping figures. Long accustomed to rising early, Jiao Jin opened her eyes the moment the chip on her wrist began to vibrate. She lifted the covers and first checked on Cui Yu, who was still lying there.

Despite her enchanting and mature features, Cui Yu currently had the lower half of her face buried under the duvet. Her picturesque features looked clean and innocent. Jiao Jin felt as though she were looking at the eighteen-year-old version of her.

Yet, this woman was already twenty-eight.

With an unreadable smile, Jiao Jin walked lightly to the bathroom. Upon entering, her eyes met two sets of matching toiletries, her own toothbrush cup was also bought from that same supermarket, and now, one black and one white, they looked like a pair.

Shaking her head to dispel these stray thoughts, Jiao Jin quickly finished grooming. As the hands of the old-fashioned clock reached eight, she put on her sneakers. Thinking of Cui Yu, she went to the kitchen to heat up a sandwich and some milk, leaving a voice message on the smart dining table.

“Eat breakfast when you wake up. I’ll bring lunch back.”

She went to the bedroom to grab her coat, preparing to leave, but her peripheral vision caught the corner of the wall from last night. The image of that lonely, pitiful figure wouldn’t leave her mind. Helpless, Jiao Jin released a faint trace of her pheromones, the scent of gardenia and lychee unique to her.

She twitched her nose, ensuring the amount was just enough for Cui Yu to smell without triggering a heat cycle. Only then did Jiao Jin feel at ease, putting on her coat and heading for the capsule elevator.

“Deputy Bureau Chief Jiao, why are you a few minutes late today?”

At the Interstellar Bureau at 8:30 AM, her assistant was already at her workstation. Jiao Jin smiled helplessly. “Humans can’t be as punctual as machines every single day.”

Bai Wenmu swiveled her chair, looking a bit dejected. “I was hoping you wouldn’t be so hardworking. Work doesn’t even start until nine. If you come this early, I have to come too.”

“There’s no need, right? I’m just here to process today’s tasks. It has nothing to do with you.”

Biting her lip until it paled, her eyes darting away for a second, Bai Wenmu took a sip of the lychee sparkling water on her desk before speaking. “As an assistant, how can I be sleeping soundly at home while you’re already here?”

“By the way, regarding that protection order for the second Miss Cui, is it confirmed to be assigned to me?”

Jiao Jin didn’t ask directly if it should have been for the eldest Miss. After all, Bureau Chief Cui certainly didn’t want others to know Cui Yu was with her. Jiao Jin turned on the projector, and a computer screen flickered into the air.

“Yes. Last night, the second Miss Cui received a death threat via email, so she applied for a protection order.”

“What kind of protection?”

“She wants you to live with her and provide close range protection.”

A phrase like “Is she insane?” almost escaped Jiao Jin’s lips. But with a bit of thought, it was obvious the girl just wanted to see her sister, Cui Yu, and used her authority to assign the task. Sighing, Jiao Jin dialed the number on the work email.

She glanced at Bai Wenmu, who nodded and pressed the isolation button. A transparent glass partition rose slowly, ensuring the conversation remained private. Jiao Jin then spoke, “Second Miss, so, is the death threat email real?”

“Of course it’s real. Why else would I apply for a protection order?”

“I thought you just wanted to see your sister.”

“That’s part of it, of course. But the truth is, I’m afraid you’ll do something bad. How can an Alpha live alone with an Omega?”

Exasperated, Jiao Jin nodded, her voice dripping with sarcasm. “Right, right. So you want me to live with two Omegas instead?”

“You! You’re shameless!”

“Shameless again? My suggestion is that you take your sister home immediately. You think I’m enjoying this?”

Cui Peining was nearly dying of anger back at the villa. she was terrified her sister would be bullied by this person, yet she was equally infuriated by Jiao Jin’s apparent lack of care for Cui Yu. Caught in this contradiction, she tilted her head back and demanded arrogantly, “You! Come and drive me to work!”

Dammit, once I see Jiao Jin in person, I’ll strangle her!

Sighing yet again, Jiao Jin felt that whenever she dealt with Cui Peining, she ended up arguing with this childish girl. She didn’t budge. “The protection order hasn’t taken effect yet. Crawl to the hospital yourself.”

“Jiao Jin!”

Before she could finish her string of curses, the call was disconnected. Cui Peining was fuming. In front of Bureau Chief Cui and Madam Cui, who were still eating breakfast, she prepared to storm out.

However, a casual remark from Bureau Chief Cui halted her steps. “The hospital starts at nine. It’s 8:40 now. One late arrival and your entire month’s salary is docked.”

Damn it. Next month was her sister’s birthday, and since graduating from university, her allowance from home had been cut off. Cui Peining took a few deep breaths, her voice carrying a hint of a tearful sob. “I’m going to work.”

Madam Cui looked at her daughter’s retreating back with heartache, but General Cui shook her head. “We can’t let Peining bully Little Jiao.”

“But Peining is the one being wronged right now!”

“I intend to have Little Jiao take over my position. Besides, over these years, we owe her too much.”

After annoying the second Miss, Jiao Jin’s mood improved significantly. But as nine o’clock arrived, the protection order took effect. Jiao Jin was summoned to Bureau Chief Cui’s high-level office.

“Hello, is there something you need?”

In truth, Jiao Jin was slightly worried that the mother was there to seek justice for her second daughter. But she didn’t regret her actions, in Jiao Jin’s worldview of equality, Cui Peining’s sense of superiority was simply wrong.

“Rest assured, I am a fair person.”

Jiao Jin didn’t relax. She lowered her head respectfully. “I know your character, Bureau Chief Cui.”

“Little Jiao, do you have any objections to protecting Peining? I want to hear your honest thoughts.”

Bureau Chief Cui looked down, observing Jiao Jin. Though her head was bowed, her back was straight, elegant, tall, and neither humble nor arrogant. “By the way, Little Jiao, I’ve prepared a three bedrooms apartment for you. Can you move in today? It’s more suitable for protecting Peining and taking care of Xiao Yu.”

Moving?

She wasn’t particularly sentimental, but she didn’t want her life to change too much. Jiao Jin didn’t hesitate. “Bureau Chief Cui, I think you should send someone else to protect the second Miss. I’ll be traveling to many places recently and might not be able to look after her properly.”

It was exactly this straightforwardness that Bureau Chief Cui liked. She nodded, her eyes shifting as she asked, “Actually, I intend for you to be my successor. Of my two daughters, which one do you like more?”

Jiao Jin snapped her head up instantly, shocked. She couldn’t interpret the question in any other way. Her brow furrowed deeply. “What do you mean by that?”

“Just asking for your thoughts.”

Jiao Jin’s expression became solemn. She couldn’t exactly say “I don’t like either.” Her voice turned cold. “Bureau Chief Cui, I feel you should also ask your daughters for their thoughts. They are not objects.”

“You child… you really are to my taste.”

The Chief smiled with relief. She would have been disappointed if Jiao Jin had shown joy at the prospect. One must respect others to be a leader. Bureau Chief Cui pulled a management authority chip for the Memory Bureau from her drawer. “The Memory Bureau I promised you, it’s yours to manage now.”

Only then did Jiao Jin realize the previous question was a test. Clearly, she had passed. She took the chip and installed it on her wrist, but then suddenly remembered: “Wait, what about the protection order for the second Miss?”

Almost forgetting, Bureau Chief Cui lamented her aging memory while pulling a key from her pocket. “This is the key to the apartment. I’ll send you the location immediately. I’m entrusting Peining and Xiao Yu to you.”

Helpless, Jiao Jin took the key. Lacking the power to refuse, she bit her lip. “Understood.”

All other trivial tasks were delegated to Bai Wenmu, who was very tactful. Jiao Jin took the keys and returned home, she needed to bring Cui Yu along to move their things to the new residence.

The moment she stepped through the door, she was hit by a wave of “Cold Mountain Osmanthus Rain” chilly, moist, and filling the room with fragrance.

She quickly covered her nose, her mind becoming a chaotic swirl. Realizing that the sweet scent of this Omega was pushing her toward a rut, Jiao Jin staggered into the living room. Her trembling hands searched for a while until she bit her lip hard enough to bleed, the pain clearing her mind slightly.

The inhibitor cooled her burning veins.

She calmed her ragged breathing, not understanding what was happening, though she knew this was the scent Cui Yu emitted after her secondary differentiation. With reddened eyes, Jiao Jin entered the bedroom. She saw the woman had tangled her pajamas into a mess, exposing large patches of skin. Her original porcelain-white skin had turned a flushed pink, it was clear she was burning up.

Furthermore, Cui Yu had somehow crawled onto Jiao Jin’s bed, hugging the duvet tightly, her nose buried in the spot that carried Jiao Jin’s scent.

As a single Alpha, Jiao Jin couldn’t possibly have Omega inhibitors at home. Seeing Cui Yu’s pained, frowning face, she must have been in heat for a long time. Jiao Jin scooped up the weightless body, immediately breaking into a sweat from the heat radiating between them.

In the car, she straightened Cui Yu’s clothes and rushed to the nearest affiliated hospital, thinking it didn’t matter if Cui Peining misunderstood again.

However, this was no longer just a misunderstanding. Having finally stabilized her sister after an hour of intense heat, Cui Peining’s expression had never been colder. She grabbed Jiao Jin’s collar, her eyes red. “How the fuck did you take care of my sister?! Do you know that if you were thirty minutes later, her glands would have been ruined?!”

Jiao Jin didn’t make excuses, allowing herself to be held. “I’m sorry.”

Having received the news, Bureau Chief Cui also arrived. Seeing the scene, she rushed forward to pull them apart. “Peining, why are you acting like this toward Little Jiao?”

“Mom, she almost killed my sister!”

Looking at Jiao Jin, who still had her head lowered, General Cui softened her voice. “Little Jiao, what happened?”

“I… because yesterday Cui Yu said she felt scared without me nearby, I released a tiny amount of pheromones in the air before leaving this morning. But I made sure the dosage was absolutely not enough to trigger a heat cycle. I don’t know why it turned out like this.”

“You’re an Alpha! Releasing pheromones in an Omega’s room, what were you planning?!”

Just as Cui Peining was about to strike again, Bureau Chief Cui held her back, suddenly realizing something. “Could it be… an Absolute Match?”

“What?”

“It means your pheromones and Xiao Yu’s are a 100% match. Even a trace amount would trigger a heat cycle.”