The Popular Darling Says She’s Pregnant with My Child - Chapter 4

The Transmigration Diary 4

Wen Shiyu: “……”

Pheromones. How could she possibly have that kind of thing!

How on earth did Seraphina conclude that she was an Alpha?

Before the Cavendish family made a Beta cooperate with Seraphina, didn’t they consider how she was supposed to pull it off?

Or was their intention all along for her and Seraphina to clash?

Sure enough, seeing Wen Shiyu’s expression, Seraphina assumed she was intentionally making excuses. The embarrassed annoyance in her eyes was quickly replaced by a flare of rage.

“All those nice words you just said—as I thought, they were all lies.”

“You’re planning to use your pheromones to control me. I knew it, that was your plan from the very beginning!”

Seraphina took a step forward, the distance between them closing abruptly, and she actually grabbed Wen Shiyu by the collar.

Wen Shiyu could even see the faint flush rising at the corners of Seraphina’s eyes due to her agitation. Even in her anger, there was a certain fragility about her.

“Do you really think that just because I’m pregnant, I’m helpless against you?”

“Believe it or not, I can make it so you can’t survive in this school even sooner!”

“No, that’s not it!”

Wen Shiyu’s scalp tingled with anxiety, and she hurried to state her stance. No matter who she crossed, she definitely didn’t want to be at odds with this “thousand-person-crush” protagonist.

“I didn’t do it on purpose, and it’s not that I’m unwilling, it’s just… it’s just…”

It’s just that she couldn’t conjure up something that fundamentally didn’t exist!

Wen Shiyu took a deep breath, and in the end, she could only lie.

“I… I’m dysfunctional.”

Seraphina: “What?”

“What’s so strange? There are Alphas who are dysfunctional too!”

Right?

Wen Shiyu smoothed out her rumpled collar, putting on a look of deep heartache and insecurity. “Not everyone can freely control their pheromones.”

Seraphina was visibly stunned. Her suspicious expression didn’t fade entirely, but the hand gripping Wen Shiyu’s collar loosened.

She scanned Wen Shiyu up and down, seemingly assessing the truth of these words.

Seeing this, Wen Shiyu immediately struck while the iron was hot.

“There’s… a bit of a problem with my body in that regard. Otherwise, why is it that besides you, no one else in school has ever smelled my pheromones? Everyone naturally assumes I’m a Beta, right?”

Seraphina lapsed into a brief moment of recollection and thought.

“You truly did act very much like a Beta before; even I was fooled… but ever since you were rescued from the lake, that time I saw you again in the hallway… I felt like something was off about you. I can’t explain exactly what, but it was just…”

Wen Shiyu was taken aback.

How? She was 100% a normal human being.

She had transmigrated with her physical body; the small scars and birthmarks on her were exactly the same as before. She knew her own body best. It was absolutely impossible for her to have a gland.

It was likely just because of the “transmigration buff” that everyone else immediately perceived her as the Wen Shiyu of this book.

“In any case!” Wen Shiyu hurried to steer the conversation back on track, letting out a light cough while maintaining that expression of “hidden pain” and “low self-esteem.”

“Pheromones… it’s not that I’m intentionally withholding them, I really just can’t release them instantly or at will. I’m very upset about it too. Please… give me a little time to figure something out.”

“When?”

“Huh?”

Seraphina was relentless. “When will you have a solution?”

“Uh… next week…” Wen Shiyu said tentatively. Seeing Seraphina’s face instantly darken, she immediately changed her tune, “Three days! In three days…”

“Tomorrow.” Seraphina didn’t yield an inch, directly issuing a final deadline with a cold voice. “Tomorrow night, after dinner. If you still haven’t found a way…”

She paused, lifting her chin slightly.

“I heard that your family’s business recently ran into a very tight cash flow situation because of that failed new energy project on the East Coast. You are currently applying for new loans everywhere, but meeting with repeated rejections.”

Her tone was flat, as if discussing the weather, but every word hit the mark.

“Coincidentally, one of the largest shareholders of the commercial bank your family is primarily negotiating with happens to be my family.”

Wen Shiyu was stunned for a moment. The Cavendish family’s logic for manipulating people was truly cut from the same cloth.

Watching Wen Shiyu’s slightly shifting expression, Seraphina continued slowly, “Tomorrow night, if you are still unable to provide pheromones… well, you know what the result of your family’s loan application will be.”

Wen Shiyu: “……”

Ultimately, Seraphina seemed to let her off for the time being, even arranging a car to send her back to St. Windsor Academy.

But Wen Shiyu knew that the real trouble was only just beginning.

Tomorrow night… where was she going to find “pheromones” for Seraphina?

Returning to her empty dormitory, she closed the door and let out a sigh, collapsing onto the bed. She pulled out her phone.

The Cavendish couple’s promise only covered her tuition; they hadn’t breathed a word about the Wen family’s precarious financial situation.

This wasn’t surprising; the tuition alone was enough to control her.

Their requirement was merely for her to cooperate with the act and keep her mouth shut. She didn’t have any more chips to bargain for more.

Just as she was staring blankly at the phone screen, weighing whether to speak to Seraphina’s parents, a notification for a new message popped up.

The content was brief and businesslike: [Miss Wen, the matter regarding your tuition has been preliminarily communicated with the school. Please do not worry.]

The wording was subtle—not “resolved,” but “communicated” and “do not worry,” like a piece of driftwood that could be snatched away at any moment.

Immediately following was a second message: [Unless absolutely necessary, please do not initiate contact with this number. Maintaining one-way communication is to ensure secrecy.]

“……” Wen Shiyu stared at those lines of text, silent for a long time.

Finally, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly. It seemed she could even skip the step of speaking up. The other party likely knew her situation perfectly well.

But if they were to settle the Wen family’s economic crisis as well, the commotion would be too large, making it difficult to hide from the already sensitive and currently attentive Seraphina.

They would definitely refuse.

Perhaps… they actually expected her to have further conflicts with Seraphina over the pheromone issue, exacerbating Seraphina’s negative emotions so as to break the “pseudocyesis” psychological state faster.

That way, Seraphina might recover more quickly.

But what about her family’s financial problems…

Just then, the phone screen lit up again.

A familiar ringtone broke the silence of the room. The name jumping on the screen was “Wen Shiyue.”

Isn’t this the original host’s younger sister?

Wen Shiyu took a deep breath, feeling inexplicably nervous. She adjusted her expression and voice before pressing the answer button.

“…Hello?”

“Sis!” On the other end of the line came a girl’s voice, clear yet tinged with unmistakable worry. The background noise was a bit chaotic, appearing to be during a class break. “Are you okay? Mom said you fell into the water a few days ago?”

“I’m fine, I just… uh, accidentally fell into the lake.”

“Ah! Are you really alright?”

Wen Shiyu was stunned for a moment. Being cared for by family was something she truly hadn’t experienced.

In the original host’s memory fragments, this younger sister was well-behaved and sensible. She was an Omega currently attending a key high school back home.

She was a very good kid.

Even though she was younger, she actually comforted Wen Shiyu, saying the family was actually very worried about her and regretted the harsh words they had said.

It was just that things were currently so overwhelming that they couldn’t come to see her. If her sister could take a break from school and hold on for a while, her parents would definitely find a way to help her pay the tuition.

“Sis, if you feel that working part-time is too tiring… I, I can tell Mom and Dad to stop my prep classes for now. And my allowance… I’ve saved some up…”

Wen Shiyu found herself unable to speak. Actually, the original host was truly pampered at home. It was only because she insisted on attending this noble school that the family had gritted their teeth to send her.

The tuition was already exorbitant, and now that the family was in trouble, even her high-school-aged sister was trying to comfort her.

Wen Shiyu lowered her eyes, feeling a bit envious…

No, wait—now, they were her “family” too.

Watching the family go bankrupt before her eyes—she really couldn’t just let it happen.

“Yueyue,” Wen Shiyu interrupted her, “Don’t say silly things. Keep your allowance to buy things you like. As for the family matters, I will find a way. Don’t you worry.”

When she said this, the sister was instead stunned. “Sis, you… you’ll find a way?”

“What kind of talk is that…”

“Ah, I didn’t—I didn’t mean it that way, it’s just…” The sister’s face suddenly flushed.

The previous Wen Shiyu would never have comforted her like this. She hadn’t expected her sister to suddenly become so gentle with her.

She listened to Wen Shiyu’s voice through the receiver.

“Don’t worry. Solutions are found by thinking; there will always be a way.”

Feeling for the first time that her sister was so gentle and reliable, her eyes turned red.

After Wen Shiyu ended the call with her sister, she told herself the same thing while opening her laptop to once again research the settings of this ABO gender system.

After reading more data, she began to understand why Seraphina, despite clearly disliking her, was so obsessed with her “pheromones.”

In the ABO world, “pregnancy” implies having been deeply marked. An Omega’s body and instincts will desperately crave the pheromones of the marking Alpha to obtain a sense of security and soothing; this is a need carved into their genes.

If she refused to provide them, it would definitely cause Seraphina great pain.

…And great anger.

Now this was truly troublesome.

How on earth was she supposed to provide them?

Wen Shiyu analyzed the situation over and over, finally finding a tiny breakthrough. Since all of this was fundamentally within Seraphina’s imagination…

As long as she felt like she had received pheromones, like last time, wouldn’t that work?

The key was: during that accidental heat, how exactly did Seraphina smell her “pheromones”?

Was it purely the plum wine? Or was there some misunderstanding at the time? Perhaps her mind wasn’t clear during the heat?

Seraphina was in a sober state now. Wen Shiyu really didn’t think a cup of plum wine would be effective again.

Carrying a sliver of faint hope, Wen Shiyu clicked on a shopping website and searched for “Pheromone Perfume.”

However, the prices that popped up instantly made her gasp.

The dizzyingly long string of zeros, along with the fine print below stating “Medical necessity certificate required” and “Restricted to patient application only,” essentially blocked this path.

She leaned back in her chair dejectedly, staring at the ceiling.

Time ticked by. Before the lights went out, Wen Shiyu suddenly scrambled up, clutching her hair in desperation.

“Help me!”

She quickly clicked on the food delivery search bar and once again typed in those three words:

Plum Wine.

The next day, Wen Shiyu got up and went to the cafeteria. Just as she was grabbing the free bread, her peripheral vision caught several people walking in through the entrance.

It was Seraphina. By her side, as always, was the tall, cold-faced Alpha, Su Yan. This time, there was another girl who was unfamiliar to Wen Shiyu but equally eye-catching.

The girl had bouncy, pretty short curls. Her hair was a dark shade mixed with chestnut and brown, but she had a pair of striking golden eyes.

According to the original host’s memory fragments, this should be Xia Te. Like Su Yan, she was a friend Seraphina had known since childhood, also coming from an extraordinary background.

The three of them walking together easily drew the gazes of everyone in the dining hall. They were that small group at the top of the St. Windsor Academy pyramid—the center of rumors, admiration, and followers.

Wen Shiyu withdrew her gaze calmly. The appointment was for tonight; during the day, she and Seraphina had nothing to do with each other.

Holding her tray, she was about to look for a seat near a corner.

However, a clear voice pierced through the slight morning clatter and accurately called out her name.

“Wen Shiyu.”

It was Seraphina.

Wen Shiyu froze, looking up in disbelief.

Seraphina hadn’t sat down. Instead, she stood by the table they customarily used—the one with the best position.

Su Yan and Xia Te also stopped their movements. Their gazes, carrying varying degrees of scrutiny and confusion, turned toward Seraphina, and then followed her line of sight to Wen Shiyu in the distant corner.

Everyone knew the two of them were arch-enemies.

The few students in the cafeteria also couldn’t help but stop what they were doing. Gazes waiting for a good show converged silently from all directions, focusing on Wen Shiyu.

What was this about?

Wen Shiyu felt her scalp go numb. But she couldn’t act as if she hadn’t heard.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Seraphina pursed her lips and spoke again:

“Come here.”