The Villainous Sister-in-law Mistakenly Marked as the Heroine (Transmigration) - Chapter 42.2
Among the thirty or fifty people at the party, this woman seemed to be the only other alpha, with most attendees being omegas or betas.
The woman, sensing another alpha’s presence, began walking toward her.
Like a queen making her entrance, the crowd parted wherever she stepped.
Tsk tsk!
If Rong Jing were an alpha, this might be the feeling, right?
No, Rong Jing was feeling exactly like this right now!
No, even stronger than this!
The person approached, stopping in front of her, and glanced at Xu Jiao first. “Is this your friend?”
“Yeah, Alice.”
Alice smiled at her, suddenly leaning in close. Lin Qile instinctively took a step back, uncomfortable.
“Haha, such a shy alpha. I almost thought you were an omega.”
Lin Qile offered a polite smile. “I’m married. It must be my wife’s scent.”
Alice froze for a moment, studying her before her smile took on a different nuance. “I can tell, you carry a very strong omega scent. I’m Alice. What’s your name?”
“Lin Qile.”
Alice turned around. “Everyone, let’s welcome our new friend, Lin Qile!”
The crowd cheered.
Though it was called a cosplay gathering, it felt more like a masquerade ball. After watching the excitement for a while, Lin Qile quickly lost interest. If not for Xu Jiao, she would have gone home already.
Rong Jing hadn’t replied to her messages. She didn’t even know if she had eaten properly as told.
Holding a glass of wine, she leaned against a corner, silently reciting medical terms in her head: The four valves the aortic valve connecting the left ventricle to the aorta…
“Hey.”
She turned to find Alice standing behind her.
“Hey,” she replied politely.
“Why aren’t you joining the fun with everyone else?”
“Not really my thing.”
Alice tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, exposing her slender neck. With each breath, the curves of her chest rose and fell subtly, accompanied by a faint fragrance.
“You’ll get used to it once you start playing.”
She reached out with delicate fingers, but Lin Qile dodged before they could make contact.
Lin Qile was baffled. This person was an alpha, she couldn’t possibly mistake that. But this woman… seemed to be, well, flirting with her?!
But she was an alpha too!
“I should go find Xu Jiao.”
Just as she was about to leave, Alice blocked her path with her wine glass. “Cheers.”
Lin Qile didn’t move.
“Won’t even give me that much face?”
For Xu Jiao’s sake, she reluctantly clinked glasses. “Cheers.”
She took a small sip.
Then she strode away.
After searching everywhere without finding Xu Jiao, her body gradually began to heat up, that familiar sensation creeping in.
Damn it!
She’d been drugged!
But how, the wine?!
“Xu Jiao!”
She called out but couldn’t find her. Staggering out of the party hall, she instinctively dialed a number.
The call connected. “What?”
Hearing that familiar voice, Lin Qile’s nose tingled with emotion. Leaning against the wall, she panted slightly. “Rong Jing?”
“Your voice, what’s wrong?”
“I… I think someone drugged me.”
At the sound of Rong Jing’s voice, her eyes stung. “I don’t feel good.”
“Where are you?!”
Rong Jing’s expression darkened. Still in her evening gown and heels, she stormed out.
“Rong Jing, where are you going?”
Bai Jiao called after her. “This is Aunt He’s ball. You’re leaving before it even starts?”
She turned back to Aunt He. “Auntie, it’s an emergency. I’m sorry.”
With that, she sprinted out.
Running, she demanded into the phone, “Lin Qile, where are you?”
On the other end, an unfamiliar voice sent Rong Jing into near frenzy. “Sweetheart, who are you calling for help? Oh, my ‘Miss’? Who is this?”
“Ugh… let go!”
The call ended abruptly. Lin Qile tried calling back, but the phone was already turned off.
“Lin Qile!”
Only the busy tone remained on the line. She took a few deep breaths and immediately dialed her secretary. “Find me Xu Jiao’s phone number, Lin Qile’s best friend. Now!”
Hanging up, she clenched her phone tightly, her eyes dark and icy.
In less than a minute, Xu Jiao’s number was sent to her phone.
She dialed.
The call connected quickly, and Xu Jiao’s voice came through. “Who is this?”
Striding toward the garage, she replied coldly, “This is Rong Jing. Where did you take Lin Qile?”
“Huh?”
Her voice was like frozen steel. “Answer me now! Someone drugged her. Xu Jiao, if anything happens to her, I swear I won’t let you off!”
Xu Jiao froze for a second before frantically looking around. Sure enough, her friend was nowhere in sight. Panic set in. “We’re at the ** Hotel, tenth floor. We came for a cosplay gathering.”
“Who organized it?”
“Alice.”
Rong Jing hung up, flung open the car door, and started the engine. At the same time, she made another call. “Find me everything on a woman named Alice. She’s hosting a cosplay event at the ** Hotel today. I need the whereabouts of everyone at that gathering, immediately!”
“Understood, Miss Rong.”
As the car sped out of the garage, her eyes burned red, veins of fury surfacing.
Before she even reached the hotel, the information she demanded came through.
“That Alice is a sadistic alpha who gets off on dominating other alphas. She films them, then blackmails them into becoming her slaves. She’s never failed before. Cosplay gatherings are one of her hunting grounds.”
Gripping the steering wheel, she demanded, “Where would she be now?”
“She has a secret hideout. I’ll send you the address.”
The moment she got the location, Rong Jing slammed the accelerator, pushing the car to 120 mph through the city streets.
…Dominating alphas, filming them, then blackmailing them!
…She’s never failed before!
“Lin Qile, you idiot you’d better hold on until I get there!”
Rong Jing’s eyes were bloodshot, brimming with desperation and rage.
When she arrived at the hideout, she bolted from the car and sprinted toward the entrance.
But as soon as she reached the door, she froze.
Lin Qile stood on the steps, hair disheveled, as if trying to figure out where she was.
Their eyes met.
Lin Qile blinked. “Rong… Jing?”
She took slow, unsteady steps toward Rong Jing.
“Am I hallucinating?”
Her voice was hoarse as she reached out hesitantly, afraid it might all vanish.
Just as she was about to lower her hand, Rong Jing grabbed it. “You absolute fool!”
Rong Jing yanked her into a crushing embrace.
The familiar scent finally snapped Lin Qile back to reality. She clung to Rong Jing. “That psycho drugged me. I knocked her out and ran. The drug she used… heh was child’s play compared to what you gave me back then.”
“Lin Qile.”
Rong Jing held her so tightly it felt like she was trying to fuse them together.
“Ow… mm… Rong Jing, don’t hold me so tight, I, I feel awful…”
As she spoke, she uncontrollably pressed kisses along Rong Jing’s neck.
Rong Jing pushed her head away. “You’re insufferable. Hold it in!”
Half-dragging, half-carrying her to the car, Rong Jing tried to keep her under control.
“Rong Jing…”
Like a parched traveler in the desert who finally found water but couldn’t drink, Lin Qile whimpered pitifully, hands pawing at Rong Jing.
“Hold it in.”
“Wuwu… I can’t hold back anymore…” Seeing the hand so close to her, she couldn’t resist sticking out her tongue to give it a lick.
“Are you a dog?!”
Rong Jing’s eyes flashed with panic as he hurriedly pulled his hand back.
She had no choice but to grab a bottle of mineral water, open it, and splash it in the other person’s face. “If you don’t calm down right now, I’m throwing you out of the car.”
The icy water snapped Lin Qile back to semi-consciousness. She stared blankly at the interior of the car before her gaze finally settled on Rong Jing’s feet clad in high heels, now stained with blood.
She reached out and grabbed Rong Jing’s foot. “You’re hurt?”
“Let go of my foot!”
Lin Qile’s awareness flickered in and out. She looked up at Rong Jing. “How long were you looking for me?”
Rong Jing turned her face away. “Not long.”
“Rong Jing.”
She leaned forward and embraced Rong Jing, waves of heat surging through her body. Gritting her teeth, she suppressed the sensations, holding the woman in her arms with nothing but tenderness. “Thank you for coming to find me.”
“I just didn’t want my property getting dirty!”
“Mmm… that drug is so messed up…”
Rong Jing could feel Lin Qile’s body trembling uncontrollably, her temperature far exceeding normal levels. Gripping her shoulders with one hand, Rong Jing slowly pressed her into an embrace while the other hand groped around for something.
“What are you doing… Rong Jing…”
“Wait a second.”
“Huh?”
A belt dangled from Rong Jing’s hand. Lin Qile blinked dazedly at it, her mind sluggish. “W-what are you doing?”
Ten seconds later.
“Ahhh! Why are you tying me up? Wuwu… I feel awful, Rong Jing…”
But no matter how much she struggled or cried out, Rong Jing, focused on driving, didn’t spare her so much as a glance.
The car pulled up to their home.
He Yan was already waiting at the door.
“What’s going on?”
Rong Jing opened the car door. “Give her an inhibitor shot.”
He Yan curiously peered into the back seat, then froze.
Lin Qile, drenched and disheveled, had her hands bound behind her back. Her clothes were in disarray, her hair plastered wetly to her face as she whimpered and panted.
“She… she’s…”
“She’s an idiot. Went to a cosplay party and got drugged.”
He Yan: “And you’re not helping her?”
Rong Jing frowned. “Why should I clean up after her stupidity?”
He Yan: “…”
“Just give her the shot.”
“Fine, fine.”
He Yan prepared the inhibitor and administered it to Lin Qile. Looking at the pitiful figure in the back seat, she couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy. With an omega like Rong Jing as her partner, Lin Qile was truly going through trials.
What kind of omega refuses to help their own alpha when they’ve been drugged, instead calling someone from afar just to administer an inhibitor?
Shaking her head again, He Yan sighed.
Rong Jing couldn’t resist asking, “Is she okay?”
“She’ll be fine in a few minutes.”
“Then you can go.”
He Yan: “Right.”
After He Yan left, Rong Jing stood by the car, neither abandoning the person inside to enter the house nor offering any assistance.
An indeterminate amount of time passed.
Movement came from inside the car.
Lin Qile felt as though she had died and come back to life. That sensation, she never wanted to experience it again.
Clutching the car door, her legs gave out as she tried to step out, nearly collapsing. The person beside her didn’t even lift a finger to help. “Hey, would it kill you to give me a hand?”
Rong Jing narrowed her eyes. “What did you say?”
“Uh… nothing.”
Damn it, why was she so spineless?
Staggering into the house.
“Go take a shower. You’re not getting into bed like this.”
Lin Qile: “…”
She was practically on the verge of collapse!
But one look at Rong Jing’s expression made her bite her lip and head into the bathroom.
Midway through her shower, exhaustion overwhelmed her. She simply lay down in the bathtub and—
In a daze, she felt herself being lifted into someone’s arms. The familiar scent made her relax completely, and she couldn’t help but wrap her arms around them.
“Let go! Don’t hug me!”
“Rong Jing…”
The person paused for a moment, then stopped resisting her embrace, grumbling unhappily: “Sleeping like a log anyone could just pick you up!”
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