The White Moonlight Omega Has Amnesia and Always Tries to Seduce Me - Chapter 26

The omega ended the matter without hesitation, not dragging it out at all. Seeing this, Zhou Yue had no choice but to give up. When she pulled a chair and sat down, she glanced at Shen Zhi, her eyes full of disdain for her unfilial daughter.

The matter was thus dropped. Qin Huai sat down on the chair she had just been using, resting her elbow on the table, pressing her thumb against her index finger’s joint. In the crisp sound of the click, she spoke, “During the temporary marking last night, my pheromones seem to be able to affect the alpha.”

Qin Huai narrowed her eyes, carefully recalling the details from last night, her expression calm, without the nervousness or shyness an omega should have.

If Shen Zhi’s initial loss of control last night was due to the rut, then during the temporary marking later, the alpha’s sharp teeth ground against the skin of her scent gland, and the heavy orange scent scattered everywhere like fireworks exploding in the sky.

Bang!

Everything happened naturally. It was the omega being drawn in by the alpha’s pheromones, and the alpha being lured by the pheromones into impulse.

Qin Huai licked her dry lips, her eyes slightly distant. She couldn’t clearly explain the feeling of an alpha marking, so she reached out, grabbed the alpha’s collar, and tugged.

“What?” Shen Zhi asked.

Under the office desk, Qin Huai pointed her index finger forward, then raised her eyes to look up at the alpha behind her, “You tell her.”

Shen Zhi, maintaining a straight face, asked, “Tell her what?”

Qin Huai: “Just briefly describe the specific feeling during the marking last night.”

Sometimes, Shen Zhi genuinely felt a chest pain from how open Qin Huai was about discussing such private matters, yet remaining completely unfazed.

First, she insisted they had no relationship, and now she wanted to talk about the marking experience?

What was the difference between this and writing a reading report after watching a movie?

Shen Zhi frowned at Qin Huai, her tone irritable and perfunctory, “No feeling.”

Qin Huai looked over with a half-believing expression.

Shen Zhi said, “How can you call this a feeling? If I really had to describe it, there’s only one word: exhilarating.”

Shen Zhi said this while meeting Zhou Yue’s gaze, her eyes drooping slightly to observe every subtle detail in Qin Huai’s expression.

She just couldn’t believe it. Was this omega’s heart made of ice? How could it not warm up?

Since Shen Zhi said she couldn’t elaborate, Qin Huai didn’t press further and withdrew her hand. She hadn’t slept well last night, so there was a slight bluish tinge under her eyes, making her cheeks appear paler. She grasped the sleeve around her wrist, covering the area of her tiger’s mouth, and asked, “Is there any solution for this?”

Qin Huai was the only omega known to suffer from this condition so far. There were no cases to draw upon, and all reactions to the illness needed to be carefully recorded.

Zhou Yue typed on her keyboard while recalling Qin Huai’s words. The clattering sound didn’t interrupt her thoughts; instead, it helped her to pull a thread out of a tangled mess of clues.

The typing stopped, and a never-before-seen doubt filled Zhou Yue’s eyes. She recalled the relationship between Qin Huai and Qin Zhijing, then slapped the pen down, asking, “Huai Huai, may I ask your mother’s name?”

The word “mother” had faded from Qin Huai’s life since elementary school, but she would forever remember her maternal grandmother holding her hand and meticulously writing those two characters on clean rice paper. Gu Qing.

The first characters she wrote in her life were not the Arabic numeral 1, nor the capital numeral I, but these two characters.

“Gu Qing,” Qin Huai said the extremely unfamiliar name she found in the box of memories, devoid of any emotion.

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Yue, who had just been sitting in the chair, widened her eyes. Ignoring her usual composure and elegance, she asked in disbelief, “Your mother is called Gu Qing? The Gu from zhaogu (to care for), the Qing from qingbai (innocent)?”

Qin Huai nodded in response to Zhou Yue’s eager and hopeful gaze.

Zhou Yue was always composed and unhurried, whether facing the media or patients. But today, Qin Huai saw the nationally renowned expert in scent gland research lose her composure for the first time. She braced herself against the desk, as if using all her strength to keep from falling. Tears welled up in her eyes despite her look of joy.

Qin Huai stood up and glanced at Shen Zhi next to her, who also shook her head, indicating she had no idea what was going on.

“So that’s how it is,” Zhou Yue murmured to herself. When she looked at Qin Huai again, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes, “Then what about her current body? How is she physically?”

Qin Huai lowered her eyes and pursed her thin lips. After a few seconds, she finally answered, “She’s dead.”

Clang!

Hearing Qin Huai’s words, Zhou Yue accidentally knocked over the glass cup on the desk with her elbow. The cup slid from the desk, scalding hot water splattered haphazardly, and glass shards glittered with a sharp light. For a few seconds, Zhou Yue’s mind went blank, as if she was encased in a hard bronze helmet, blocking out all surrounding noise.

“Mom, are you okay?” Shen Zhi witnessed Zhou Yue’s reaction and quickly walked to the back of the office desk, attempting to comfort her.

“I’m fine.” Some hot water had splashed onto her skin, but Zhou Yue seemed not to feel the pain. She gripped the armrest of the chair beside her, trying her best not to lose control, “Shen Zhi, you take Huai Huai back first. I need to calm down.”

“Mom.” In Shen Zhi’s memory, Zhou Yue had never been this flustered. She couldn’t leave now no matter what.

“I’m alright,” Zhou Yue slowly sat down, leaning on the edge of the desk. The sliding chair slid back a bit under the weight. Her tone was extremely suppressed, “Huai Huai, I’m sorry, I might not be able to give you an objective answer today.”

“It’s okay.” Qin Huai stood up, thanked her, and then left.

The two stood waiting for a car after leaving the hospital.

Qin Huai’s long hair was casually pulled up into a bun at the back of her head. The collar of her hooded sweatshirt was wide, exposing her pale neck, dotted with small marks. Since leaving the hospital, she had kept both hands in her pockets, her head slightly bowed, not saying a word.

There were many shops at the hospital entrance restaurants, pharmacies, countless others.

A simply dressed omega, carrying a food container, rushed toward them, her eyes anxious and her steps hurried. Just as she was about to bump squarely into Qin Huai, Shen Zhi reached out and hooked her index finger around the brim of Qin Huai’s hoodie.

The fabric of the collar pulled against Qin Huai’s neck, gently snapping her back to attention. She stepped toward the inner side of the sidewalk, clearing a path. The omega passed by Qin Huai on that cleared path, and the expected collision didn’t happen.

“What are you thinking about? You look distracted.” Shen Zhi let go of the omega’s hood and returned to stand beside Qin Huai.

“Nothing.” Qin Huai recalled Zhou Yue’s reaction at the hospital. This was probably the only person, besides her maternal grandparents, who had mentioned her mother in all these years.

The alpha wanted to ask a couple more questions, but Qin Huai’s phone rang.

It was a call from her roommate, Liu Nian. Qin Huai didn’t avoid Shen Zhi and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Shen Zhi stood by, watching for the ride-share car. When she spotted the familiar license plate, she waved to indicate their location. The white car stopped in front of them. Shen Zhi pulled the door open, letting Qin Huai get in first, and then quickly followed.

Whatever was said on the other end of the phone, Qin Huai nodded and said, “I don’t know. Okay, I’ll check immediately.”

After the call ended, Shen Zhi asked from the side, “What happened?”

The omega replied, “Nothing,” and then stared at her phone screen, deftly logging into the campus forum. Sure enough, as Liu Nian had said, the forum was practically dominated by Lin Qiu’s name.

[Explosion! Gentle senior sister Lin Qiu is actually this kind of alpha!]

The red text stabbed directly into Qin Huai’s eyes. She clicked on it without hesitation.

The poster’s name was a string of random characters, clearly an account created temporarily. The post time was about half an hour ago, but there were already over two thousand comments below it.

As the page successfully loaded, several blurry, coded photos came into Qin Huai’s view.

In the photos, two people lay on a bed in a small hotel room. The blanket was pulled down below their armpits, exposing their bare chests. One of the un-coded girls was hooking the chin of the coded girl. Their lips were pressed together, tightly embracing one another, inseparable.

The photo quality was blurry, but it was still possible to tell that the un-coded person was none other than Lin Qiu.

When they reached the traffic light, the driver braked suddenly. Qin Huai’s body lurched forward uncontrollably.

The seatbelt held the omega’s body, preventing her from falling. After settling down, Qin Huai scrolled down with her fingertip. A long monologue of a short essay was attached beneath the photos.

[Hello everyone, I am an omega who was marked by Lin Qiu in high school.]

Qin Huai skimmed through the text. The general content could be summarized in two or three sentences.

Lin Qiu had marked many omegas while she was in high school. She was good at pretense, using sweet talk to make fairy tale like promises, then proceeding with marking naturally. Her way of hunting was extremely calculated. If she encountered an omega from a wello ff family, she would only give a temporary mark to avoid trouble. If she met an omega from a less fortunate family, she would go straight for a permanent mark. Many of the omegas’ families, feeling ashamed, had their children drop out of school and took them to the hospital for mark cleansing.

The consequence of mark cleansing was a sharp decline in various bodily functions, potentially leading to lifelong infertility problems.

Qin Huai’s emotions rarely fluctuated greatly, but the discomfort that rose in her heart after reading it, combined with the dizzying motion of the car, made her press a hand to her chest, trying hard to suppress it.

Shen Zhi turned her head and saw the omega curled up, staring at her feet, gripping the seatbelt. Her entire face was extremely pale beneath her dark eyelashes.

“Are you okay?” Shen Zhi gently patted Qin Huai’s back with one hand. Worried about motion sickness, she also told the driver, “Sir, please drive a little slower.”

“I’m fine.” Qin Huai extinguished the screen with one hand, waving the other. Her voice sounded particularly weak, “I need to go to your counselor’s office in a bit.”

Such a major incident naturally alerted the department leadership. Although the photo wasn’t perfectly clear, it was more than enough to identify the people involved.

When Shen Zhi and Qin Huai got out of the car at the school gate, the area was crowded with people. A police car happened to drive out of the campus, its siren deafening.

Shen Zhi stood rooted to the spot, watching the police car drive off. The previously whispered discussions gradually swelled up like an inflating balloon, reaching a peak and then letting out a bang.

“Wasn’t that Lin Qiu who just got taken away?”

“Someone posted a video on the forum.”

“I really couldn’t tell. She sounded so sincere during the sports meeting yesterday.”

Shen Zhi glanced sideways at Qin Huai next to her, her eyes slightly narrowed, containing a hint of scrutiny. An alpha in the rut would not want to see their omega worrying about someone else, especially a former girlfriend. Shen Zhi understood Qin Huai’s temper all too well she appeared unmoved by anything on the surface but was terribly soft-hearted in reality.

The alpha grabbed Qin Huai’s forearm. It looked like a simple supportive gesture, but the force used was like a soft rope, making it extremely difficult to pull away.

If Qin Huai showed even a hint of sadness, Shen Zhi would not hesitate to grip that section of her forearm and drag her to the apartment she rented, then lock her up.

However, the anticipated scene did not occur.

The omega merely frowned, her eyes flashing with unconcealed annoyance. She moved her forearm, trying to break free from Shen Zhi’s restraint, “Let’s go.”

Shen Zhi’s hand did not loosen; instead, it tightened.

Qin Huai turned her gaze to Shen Zhi’s hand. She looked up, first at the tall, lean alpha, the thin skin of her eyelids pulling into a subtle crease, then lowered her gaze, and the crease disappeared it was a clear signal for the alpha to let go.

Shen Zhi suddenly laughed, two shallow dimples appearing beneath her extremely flamboyant exterior.

What was she thinking?

That was Qin Huai. Even saying the words “the experiment is terrible” didn’t prevent her from submitting the published paper.

“Let’s go.” Shen Zhi not only didn’t let go, but leaned in closer. She lowered her head, her lips brushing the omega’s earlobe. From a distance, it looked like lovers whispering sweet nothings, “An alpha in the rut is very reliant on their omega, senior sister. This is my first time.”

Qin Huai felt all the blood in her body rush to the alpha’s tightly pressed earlobe, which was extremely hot, like the temperature of a red-hot charcoal she had just touched barehanded in winter. Qin Huai quickly pushed Shen Zhi’s chest away. As the distance opened, the alpha looked straight at Qin Huai with a hint of reckless abandon in her smile.

“Get lost.” Under Shen Zhi’s gaze, Qin Huai was flushed all over, even her cheeks turning slightly red.

The omega, infuriated and embarrassed, walked a few small steps forward. She was so angry that she stomped back, deliberately stepping on the alpha’s foot. The aim was accurate, a direct hit.

The pitifully tall and thin alpha, Shen Zhi, limped, struggling to keep up right behind Qin Huai.

The counselor wanted Qin Huai to come over because Lin Qiu had been taken away by the police. Even if she returned, she probably couldn’t continue as an assistant. He temporarily couldn’t find a suitable assistant and could only ask Qin Huai to take over for now.

Qin Huai agreed without objection, but then asked the counselor to look for another person as well, as her experiments this semester were at a critical stage and she might not be able to continue indefinitely.

The counselor expressed understanding and agreed to her request.

Shen Zhi took Qin Huai to the academic building and then returned to her rented apartment.

She opened the door, took off her clothes, and went straight into the bathroom. Water from the shower slid down her skin. Shen Zhi could see the faint redness on her abs when she looked down.

That was from last night, after she finished the temporary marking, she had pushed the omega’s head and forcefully pressed it against her abs.

After showering, Shen Zhi put on her pajamas and went back to the living room, using a dry towel to rub her hair. The sweet scent of the omega still lingered in the room. Shen Zhi sat casually on the sofa, letting the scent run wild in the room. She thoroughly enjoyed the stimulation brought by the intertwining of pheromones.

After drying her hair, she went to the kitchen to look for some fruit to eat.

She opened the refrigerator’s crisper drawer. Accompanied by the LED light turning on, bright orange oranges were piled high in the drawer. A fresh, clean orange scent filled the air, refreshing and delightful.

These oranges were all bought by the housekeeper according to a specific variety.

The alpha took them out one by one, sniffing them under her nose, trying to find Qin Huai’s scent.

But almost all the oranges smelled the same, and Shen Zhi lost interest in picking them out. Just then, her phone in the living room rang. Shen Zhi slammed the refrigerator door shut and returned to the living room.

It was her mother Zhou Yue.

Shen Zhi leaned into the corner of the sofa and asked lazily, “Mom, what’s up?”

Zhou Yue had recovered from her emotional turmoil, and her tone was very calm as she asked, “Is Huai Huai with you?”

Shen Zhi rubbed her forehead, her tone a little irritated, “No.”

“Bring Huai Huai home with you this Sunday. There are some things I want to discuss with her,” Zhou Yue said, then prepared to hang up. Suddenly, as if remembering something, she added, “Speed up your pursuit of Huai Huai. Don’t waste the arranged marriage I set up for you.”