The Heartless Alpha Just Wants to Follow the Plot - Chapter 27

Watching the cane raised high in the air, Su Mo’s eyes flicked sideways. She deliberately put on a grave expression, closed her eyes heavily, and said in a low voice, “Grandfather, letting her stay with me is what would truly wrong her.”

Old Master Su paused mid-swing. “What do you mean?”

Su Mo turned her head away, clearly struggling to speak. “Actually, I.”

“I can’t.”

The look of difficulty on her face left the old man momentarily unable to process what she had just said. When it finally registered, his face darkened instantly.

His expression twisted into something complicated and vaguely distorted. In the end, the hand holding the cane slowly lowered. Just to avoid having children, this granddaughter of his had really gone all out—she’d even gone so far as to say she was incapable.

Fortunately, the old man wasn’t so unreasonable as to pursue the matter further. He took a deep breath, only to feel that the direction of his upbringing had gone seriously astray—otherwise, how could he have raised someone like this?

“I know it was wrong of me to pressure you,” he said, “but you absolutely cannot go around saying things like that.”

An Alpha claiming she was incapable—wasn’t that just asking to be ridiculed for the rest of her life?

Especially for a family like theirs. If word got out, it wouldn’t be a joke. It would be something others could easily exploit.

Of course, Su Mo understood that. But this was something she had to shoulder herself. Otherwise, if the old man went looking for Qiu Fu instead, that would be real trouble. She’d already said she wouldn’t bring Qiu Fu any more problems.

“Grandfather, this really is my fault,” Su Mo said earnestly. “My body isn’t up to it. My mental power isn’t strong enough, I can’t fully mark her.”

The original owner of this body only had A-level mental power. Even though the current Su Mo could reach the peak of S—almost SS—by the original standards, she truly wouldn’t have been able to fully bind Qiu Fu as her partner.

Old Master Su choked. “…”

If it was a mental power issue, then there really was no solution. An A breaking through to S was far too difficult. What’s more, as Su Mo grew stronger, Qiu Fu’s mental power would also increase. In the end, the gap would still remain.

“Then why have you been living with her these past few days?” the old man snapped. “You knew you couldn’t fully mark her. If you keep doing this, how is she supposed to look for someone else in the future?”

The more he spoke, the angrier he became. Su Mo was practically driving him insane.

Su Mo scratched her cheek and ventured cautiously, “We were just trying?”

Old Master Su burst into a fit of coughing, slapping his chest repeatedly, nearly furious enough to be sent to an early grave.

Trying?

Was this something you could just try?

Su Mo hurried over to pat his back, trying to soothe the anger surging in his chest. The old man shot her a glare. “What’s your pheromone compatibility with the two of you?”

Su Mo reported the compatibility between the original Su Mo and Qiu Fu: “Twenty-five percent.”

Old Master Su: “……”

That low?

Only twenty-five percent—what a sin.

“I’ll beat you to death!”

The old man raised his cane again. Su Mo immediately ducked behind the sofa and shouted, “Grandfather, I didn’t do it on purpose! This time I’m really innocent!”

So angry his vision was swimming, Old Master Su stood up with the cane in hand. “Then tell me—how are you innocent?”

Marking an Omega with only twenty-five percent compatibility, did Su Mo have any idea what that meant?!

It meant their pheromones would repel each other, and the chances of having children would be extremely slim!

This was cutting off the family line!

At the thought of the Su family ending with Su Mo, the old man wanted nothing more than to cripple her on the spot.

Su Mo blinked innocently. “She was poisoned with Trefoil. At the time, I was involved in an accident related to the insectoid incident. During the fight, my pheromones leaked out. Then, on the way back to the hotel, I happened to run into her.”

The other party was drugged and barely conscious. She herself was an Alpha fresh from combat, blood hot and adrenaline surging—how could she possibly resist that kind of temptation?

Of course she took her straight to a hotel room. As for what happened after that.

“Well, it all just happened naturally.”

Su Mo spoke with complete innocence, as if she’d only been overwhelmed by lust by accident, committing this great mistake without any real intent.

Old Master Su swayed slightly. “……”

Logically, it did seem to add up.

The hand holding the cane slowly lowered, as if he’d actually been persuaded. Just as Su Mo began to relax.

Smack.

The cane came down hard on her arm.

“Ah!”

“Grandfather!”

Clutching her arm, Su Mo jumped back, utterly incredulous that the old man had really hit her.

【This old man actually hit me—damn. System, did he notice something?】

The system spread its hands, clearly unable to watch any longer:

【Host, can we stop courting death?】

Su Mo looked innocent. 【What did I do?】

The system sighed helplessly:

【If you keep this up, you’re going to completely derail the plot.】

【Host, let’s follow the story properly, okay? Stop trying to twist everything around.】

【What you’re doing now has already changed the trajectory of the characters. If this continues, the Su family won’t fall, the old man won’t reach his original ending, and our mission will fail.】

The mission will fail?

Su Mo froze. Even her dodging movements slowed. The next moment, the old man’s cane stopped right in front of her, not coming down again.

When it came to matters related to the mission, the urge she’d had to test and change the plot cooled instantly. Her mission could not fail. She was never meant to be the original Su Mo—she had to leave.

She couldn’t lose herself in endless cycles within this world.

Seeing her suddenly stop, Old Master Su felt a flicker of suspicion, but he still restrained himself. He planted the cane back on the floor and let out a long sigh.

“Since this truly wasn’t your fault, then you shouldn’t continue trying with her either. You can’t fully mark her, which means the poison can’t be cured. After three months, she’ll become a cripple.”

His expression was grave. “If she becomes a cripple, then it won’t matter if you don’t honor the marriage.”

The moment Su Mo saw that look, she panicked. “Grandfather, we can’t just—”

“Listen to me.”

On this matter, the old man was unyielding. This concerned the Su family—he couldn’t let Su Mo act recklessly. The Su family could not be without an heir.

Qiu Fu, who was about to become a “cripple,” was clearly unsuitable. She would have to be replaced.

“I still favor Pu Ying more.”

“You little brat,” he continued, “you’ve been lucky since you were young. Everything’s always gone smoothly for you. You’ve never truly experienced what hardship feels like.”

The old man sat back down in his seat, taking a few heavy breaths. He had only played around with Su Mo for a short while, yet his heart was already pounding uncontrollably. If this kept up, he wasn’t sure he’d even last long enough to see his great-grandchild born.

He had noticed it for some time now.

In recent years, the status of federal merchants had risen far too high. And once people had money, they inevitably began to crave power as well.

Some reckless fools had even dared to stretch their hands into the military.

How could those at the top possibly tolerate that?

The counterattack came swiftly. A number of hands that had reached too far were chopped off—but that alone wasn’t enough.

To truly eradicate dissent, one had to be ruthless.

The upper echelon intended to make an example out of certain merchant families—killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.

And the Su family, a long-standing aristocratic clan within the Federation, had once harbored its own ambitions in earlier years. It was only because later generations proved inadequate that they had been forced to rein themselves in.

As the saying went: when a dog falls into hard times, even other dogs will bully it—let alone a once-great family now teetering on the brink. If the Su family collapsed, even their scraps would be enough to allow countless small families secretly nurtured by the upper ranks to rise.

Tempted by various benefits—and spurred on by Su Mo’s own reckless behavior—the Su family had naturally become a fat piece of meat about to slide off the plate, watched intently by all sides.

Everyone was simply waiting for it to fall.

And once it did, it would be torn apart instantly by the vicious dogs below that had been salivating for far too long.

If it wasn’t for this situation, the old man wouldn’t have pushed Su Mo to marry and have children so urgently.

But time waited for no one.

If preparations weren’t made early, no one could say whether tomorrow or an accident would arrive first.

“Grandpa, there’s really nothing between Pu Ying and me,” Su Mo said. “And she’s a beta. Even if we got together, the chances of us having a child are slim—let alone an alpha. It wouldn’t be enough to stabilize the Su family.”

She crouched beside the old man’s legs, her voice full of grievance.

“Grandpa, you can’t expect me to suffer like this forever, can you?”

Old Master Su naturally couldn’t bear it. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have let Su Mo mess around for so long.

But—

“Pu Ying treats you well enough. She wouldn’t let you suffer,” he said.

Su Mo pouted. “I don’t think that’ll work.”

Old Master Su: “……”

“Then what do you think would work?”

His temper flared. This wasn’t acceptable, that wasn’t acceptable—what exactly was she trying to do?

“If you can’t give me a clear answer today, then you’ll follow my arrangements. Get married as soon as possible, have a child, and after that, you can do whatever you want.”

Su Mo stood up, still unconvinced. “I think things are fine the way they are now. As for kids, that depends on fate.”

“What is meant to be will be; what isn’t, don’t force it.”

But it was obvious that the original owner of this body hadn’t had such fate. She had tried for so long and still failed—so Su Mo didn’t dare to hope for it either.

If she really succeeded, she would be disrupting the plot, which could easily cause the mission to fail.

The old man was stubborn. “As long as you work hard enough, fate will come!”

Su Mo was speechless. “……”

“Go deal with your matters first,” the old man said decisively, waving his hand. “I’ll make the arrangements. Omega or beta—it doesn’t matter, as long as they’re suitable.”

With one sweeping gesture, he made the decision final.

Su Mo stared at him. “Grandpa.”

“Go on. Handle your own affairs. Don’t delay someone else’s future.”

The old man waved her off again. Butler Ying immediately emerged from the corner and helped him back to his room.

Su Mo: “……”

When she finally returned to her room, exhausted, she discovered that Qiu Fu who was staying next door was still awake.

At the beginning, because the old man hadn’t understood what Su Mo meant by “not fully marked,” and in his eagerness to obtain a great-grandchild, he had deliberately arranged for someone to live next door.

Now, it only made things even more awkward for her.

“You’re still up?” Su Mo asked.

Qiu Fu stood at her doorway, arms crossed, looking at her calmly.

“I think you owe me an explanation.”

Su Mo hesitated. “Uh.”

There was something she needed to say but she didn’t know how to begin.

For a moment, she couldn’t explain it at all.

“Well.”

“I’ve already tried really hard to explain,” Su Mo said awkwardly, “but the old man is still, um a bit hard to reason with.”

She scratched her head.

“He wants me to go on blind dates.”