The Omega Who Canceled the Engagement Ended Up Falling for Me - Chapter 19

Xu Qing dropped a lukewarm remark, finished washing her face, and briefly tidied up before preparing to head out.

The two were like roommates who didn’t care for one another, each greeting the busy morning in their own way.

Fu Shuang originally had a chance to explain her failure to return home the previous night, but Xu Qing’s cold and distant attitude had cut short her surge of enthusiasm.

She didn’t care where Fu Shuang had gone last night or who she was with; her only concern was that Fu Shuang had dumped the task of cleaning up after the cat on her, causing her a certain degree of trouble.

—At least, that was how it appeared to Fu Shuang.

“Perhaps I’m just being sentimental. My dear Alpha sister isn’t even sensitive to my pheromones; how could she be the type to lose her head over lust?”

Fu Shuang thought this, and a sudden sense of hesitation welled up inside her.

In her original plan, this heroic Alpha sister would fall head over heels for her, following her every word like an obedient puppy and serving as her loyal guard, only to be kicked aside by Fu Shuang the moment she was no longer needed.

But in reality, had she overestimated her own charm?

The fight at the bar was purely out of a sense of justice because she looked pitiful, and providing her a place to stay was merely out of sympathy for the weak. Where was the attraction? That sort of thing wasn’t even as reliable as pheromone matching.

Fu Shuang felt a sense of defeat. She tidied up the room briefly and applied a makeup look that was more vibrant than usual—heavy orange blush, cute little freckles dotted under the corners of her eyes, and carefully lined lips with layered lipstick. Her brown hair was tied into a fluffy bun, making her radiate youthful, vigorous charm.

A pity she didn’t see me after I finished my makeup.

Fu Shuang blew a kiss to the girl in the mirror, picked out a suitable shirt and skirt combination, and then headed out to squeeze onto the subway for work.

Her current job was as an HR Assistant Intern. Every morning at 8:30, the first thing she did was screen resumes for the manager, tossing those that didn’t meet the basic criteria into the trash and handing the rest over to the manager for further review.

Because the company was so famous and there were many open positions, she sometimes had to process over a hundred resumes after a single weekend.

After processing the resumes, Fu Shuang had to contact the people on the recruitment list to ask if they could find time for an interview and remove those who already had offers and wouldn’t be coming.

The afternoons consisted of endless interviews, posting new job advertisements, and contacting different departments for the manager.

Aside from these tedious tasks, Fu Shuang was often ordered around by the manager and her superior to run errands—buying coffee, picking up packages, shredding paper, taking out the trash, and so on.

Strictly speaking, the manager didn’t order her around that often; it was usually the manager’s superior, the HR Supervisor, who was tasking her.

The supervisor was a bald Beta man in his forties, short and stout, who spoke very little and spent all day sitting in front of the computer calculating how to assign tasks to his subordinates.

In the morning, while Fu Shuang was buried in resumes, she suddenly heard the supervisor call her name. When she stopped her work and ran over, the man handed her a piece of paper with a cold face: “Shred this.”

It was just one discarded resume, yet he had specifically called Fu Shuang over to throw it away for him.

She didn’t mind running to get coffee occasionally, but making her walk over just to shred one piece of paper—wasn’t he intentionally tormenting her?

Fu Shuang didn’t reach for it immediately. With a fake smile, she asked, “Supervisor, is there anything else you need?”

The man’s gaze swept from bottom to top across Fu Shuang’s chest. She was wearing a proper shirt, but due to her figure, it looked tight, as if the buttons might pop at any moment.

“The company has clear regulations regarding employee dress code; it shouldn’t be too revealing or too casual. Although the company is inclusive of different genders, there’s been a solar storm outbreak recently, which easily affects people’s emotions. You should be more careful.”

The supervisor rambled on nonsense. Looking up at the other colleagues, he saw expressions of confusion and suppressed laughter. The bald man coughed uncomfortably. As an HR supervisor, for him to get nervous just by looking at a beautiful woman was unseemly; he felt he had to torment this intern properly.

Fu Shuang’s innocent face was filled with question marks. For a moment, she thought the supervisor was speaking an alien language.

“What do I need to be careful of?” Fu Shuang asked sincerely.

The supervisor said, “Did you read the employee handbook?”

“I did,” Fu Shuang stood up straight. “The company’s dress code requires female employees to wear light-colored shirts with black bottoms during working hours. I am fully compliant. Furthermore, this shirt of mine is from the same brand and series as the silk shirt the Director wore yesterday. Learning my style from the Director shouldn’t be a mistake, right?”

The supervisor was speechless. The other party had brought up the Director to pressure him; what could he do? He instantly forgot about the shredding task and said impatiently, “Fine, fine, fine! You even know what the Director wears! You’re really something. Just go!”

“Alright,” Fu Shuang said with a smile. “You just have that one resume to shred, right? Why don’t you save them up? When I’m off work, I’ll take them all to be shredded for you.”

Thus, she rejected the “task” assigned by the supervisor. The bald man placed the lonely resume aside, feeling thoroughly dissatisfied that he couldn’t boss the intern around. Once Fu Shuang was far away, he snorted, “Aren’t interns just for chores? How dare she tell me what to do?”

“Don’t you dare! The last intern was driven away by you. If you drive this one away too, I’m quitting!” Fu Shuang’s manager had just hung up a recruitment call and spoke dominantly to the supervisor. “She’s the assistant I hired; stop ordering her around!”

A bit of firmness really worked. Just when Fu Shuang thought she had caused trouble and would be targeted by the supervisor, the bald man actually restrained himself and stopped barking orders at her. Meanwhile, the manager’s attitude toward her became increasingly friendly, even ordering takeout for her at lunch.

From entering the office building at eight in the morning, she was busy until dark before she emerged.

Fu Shuang sat on the subway holding her laptop, screening unread resumes while sending a voice message to her best friend, Wan Lanruo: “How are you doing today? Feeling any better?”

When she spoke, several glances drifted over from nearby. Fu Shuang looked back without appearing either humble or arrogant, faintly hearing a few subtle gasps of nervous tension.

Fu Shuang used the reflection of the laptop screen to check herself. Her makeup looked even more beautiful as the day went on; she was simply too eye-catching in a crowd.

So, my dear Alpha sister, what reason could you possibly have not to love me?

After screening a few resumes, a reply from her friend popped up on her phone. Wan Lanruo sent a weak voice message: “Much better. My brother found an Alpha to give me a temporary mark this afternoon.”

A temporary mark? It was just a heat period; was it necessary to take such extreme measures?

Fu Shuang shook her head and sighed. She glanced at the people to her left and right, then typed a reply on her phone: “That’s too much. Menstrual pain can be bad enough to call an ambulance, but I didn’t expect a heat period to be this unbearable! I was scared to death last night. If I had the ability, I would have wanted to bite you myself.”

Wan Lanruo: “Ugh, hugs, Shuangshuang.” “Luckily you were there to stay with me last night… Ugh, I literally wanted to die.”

Fu Shuang sent a sighing cat emoji and asked: “Does a temporary mark hurt? My heat is coming up too, and I can’t miss work because of it.” “After all, it’s a job I worked hard to find.”

Wan Lanruo sent a shy emoji. “Do you want to try it? My brother paid for someone who has a health certificate and guarantees privacy. And his technique is okay…”

Fu Shuang: “Male or female?”

“Male! It would be hard to find a female even if you paid!”

The subway was packed with people. Chatting about such private topics with her friend made Fu Shuang’s face flush involuntarily. She guiltily closed her laptop and converted her friend’s voice message to text. She replied: “True. Women tend to have more self-respect; who would do this business just for money?”

Wan Lanruo sent a long voice message: “Actually, I really wanted to find a female Alpha, but there was no choice this time. I didn’t expect this heat to be so difficult. Usually, I can just get by with suppressants, but this time was especially unbearable. I heard it’s related to the solar storm. My dear, you must be careful outside too. Take a taxi if you can; try to avoid public transport. If all else fails, ask that roommate of yours to protect you. Isn’t she a female Alpha? Talk it over with her; when your heat arrives, ask her for a temporary mark. You’re so pretty, she’d surely be willing.”

Fu Shuang: “Hard to say.”

“What’s hard to say? When did you lose so much confidence in your charm? Girls help girls. Isn’t asking her for a mark only natural?”

Fu Shuang thought about Wan Lanruo’s words, and her mind involuntarily flashed back to the first time she sat on the Alpha sister’s motorcycle.

The scent of pheromones lingered in her helmet—the richness of pine nuts mixed with the sweetness of mountain springs, interspersed with a faint woody fragrance. In an instant, it had captured her into another world she longed for. After that, Fu Shuang had inexplicably remembered a poem she had seen somewhere: Brewing wine with pine flowers, boiling tea with spring water.

Girls help girls; the Alpha sister’s attitude toward her was largely just that.

She was like a worldly expert, always wearing a smile so gentle it could kill, carefree and unattached, as if she and Fu Shuang’s spiritual worlds were not on the same level.

If that’s really the case, maybe I should be more serious about chasing her.

She was planning various schemes to pursue the girl, forgetting to reply to her friend’s messages. After a while, Wan Lanruo sent several rambling ones:

“Shuangshuang, you don’t actually have no feelings for her, do you?”

“I know you have an individualistic view on marriage and love, but sometimes you have to look at the situation. Physical needs and spiritual needs are two completely different things. You can totally treat her as a tool for release without involving any feelings. Life is about being happy, haha.”

“If you really don’t like her, why not introduce her to me? I want to try being marked by a woman, slurp.”

It took time to convert the voice to text. When Fu Shuang saw the last sentence, she replied instantly: “Get lost! None of your business!”

During the subway stop, a sudden, jarring Alpha pheromone drifted into the carriage. The crowd became agitated, and as the train departed, the agitation turned into chaos.

“Who has Omega suppressants!”

“Is there a doctor? Someone fainted!”

“Stop the train!!!”

The chaotic carriage instantly turned into a shura field. Fu Shuang tightly gripped the suppressant in her bag, covering her mouth and nose and burying her head in the crook of her shoulder. She endured the intense discomfort, trying to minimize her presence as much as possible.

In the face of beauty, such efforts at self-deception were futile. Just by sitting in the carriage, it was impossible for Fu Shuang not to be noticed.

Someone reached out and brushed against her skirt, throwing a lewd smile at her despite the public setting.

People in the chaos were too busy to help themselves. Fu Shuang’s skin crawled as she remembered her friend’s advice.

Don’t take public transport.

There were still several stops until her destination, but the situation in the carriage didn’t allow for much thought.

She took a puff of suppressant and held her pepper spray as a warning to others.

A few minutes later, the subway stopped. Fu Shuang followed the crowd and rushed out of the carriage, only to be tripped and sprain her ankle just as she left the platform.

A tall young man tried to grab her. Fu Shuang raised her hand and sprayed a burst of pepper spray at him, then stood up on her own and ran out with the crowd.

It was said that solar storms would affect the Earth’s magnetic field, thereby affecting the constitution of Omegas. Fu Shuang had received a call from her friend when she got off work yesterday; even after injecting high-concentration suppressants, her friend was still suffering terribly during her heat. Fu Shuang’s own heat was approaching, and she didn’t want anything to go wrong under these circumstances.

She really envied Betas; they didn’t have to endure the pain of being controlled by pheromones. They lived easily even without glands.

Once she saved enough money, Fu Shuang was definitely going to get a sterilization surgery!

It was peak commuting hour; the platform and entrance were packed with people. Fu Shuang saw a male Omega who, unable to bear the pain, tried to jump onto the tracks. Others were begging strangers for marks. Those willing to oblige were Alphas with lewd smiles and drool, showing off their “helpfulness” as they groped around, following the scent of pheromones.

Fu Shuang hid in a corner behind the elevator, clutching her remaining half-bottle of suppressant, praying that she wouldn’t lose her mind.

In her panic, Fu Shuang received a call.

“I saw the news about the subway. Where are you? Are you home yet?” Xu Qing’s voice was clear and soft, instantly reminding Fu Shuang of the smell of her pheromones.

This was a life-saving candy, but also a poison that would make her sink.

“Help me, sister,” Fu Shuang pleaded almost beggingly.