The White Moonlight Omega Has Amnesia and Always Tries to Seduce Me - Chapter 33

“You want me to switch the person mentoring Shen Zhi?”

In the office, the Omega mentor, nearing forty, had a stiff smile at the corners of her mouth. Raising her eyes, fine wrinkles appeared at the outer corners as she held a steaming cup of tea and asked. Qin Huai stood in front of the desk, her shoulders straight and poised. She nodded her chin, “Mm,” she answered in response to the mentor’s disbelief.

“You ‘mm’? Qin Huai, didn’t I ask you first? You refused, so I gave it to someone else. Now you’re asking for Shen Zhi? Do you think that’s reasonable?” The mentor straightened up, placing the ceramic cup heavily on the desk with a ‘slap’.

If it were anyone else seeing the mentor angry, they would definitely retreat and try to placate her with kind words.

But not Qin Huai. She wore a cold, leadership-level expression and said bluntly, “It’s not that I want to mentor her. I just think Hao Yan isn’t suitable for her. I don’t understand why, on Shen Zhi’s first day in the lab, before she even grasped the content, she was cleaning equipment and wiping tables. If a first-year student is entering to learn how to clean, I suggest we send her back. Her technique for washing test tubes is completely amateur.”

The mentor tilted her head back, focusing her gaze on the Omega’s face. After a moment of stunned silence, she suddenly let out a laugh and asked, “Then who do you think is suitable?”

Qin Huai named a Beta senior student.

The next second, the mentor grabbed the files on the desk and tossed them at Qin Huai with a swift motion. “Then do you think you’re suitable for this mentoring role? You’re just here to cause trouble. What’s your relationship? Are you rumored lovers? Dating? If you are dating, I won’t be the one to break you up. If you’re not, hurry up and go deal with your own business. Have you finished your experiment? Checked the news? Organized the side effects?”

The files hitting her didn’t hurt. Qin Huai caught them, lowered her eyes, and listened quietly with pursed lips until the mentor finished.

The mentor’s throat was dry from talking so much. She grabbed her water cup and gulped it down, the ignited anger finally subsiding a little. She was about to offer some advice, that Hao Yan just had that temper, and maybe things would be fine in a few days. Besides, who enters a lab without washing equipment and tidying up tools? Everyone starts from the basics.

But before she could say anything, Qin Huai, still wearing that stone-cold expression, her eyes unchanged, said, “I hope you’ll consider it.”

Then, she was kicked out of the office by the mentor.

Just as the door was closing, the mentor, surprisingly keeping up with the trends, added three words, “So cringe.”

Qin Huai: “…”

The ‘cringe’ Omega woman could only retrace her steps, go to the changing room to change her clothes, and continue tomorrow.

She would annoy her until she agreed.

The office and the lab were separated by a corner, forming a right angle. Coming from the corridor outside Qin Huai’s office, she immediately saw Shen Zhi standing alone at the lab door.

The Alpha was wearing a clean white lab coat, leaning against the cold white ceramic wall. Her frame was slightly large, with thin but not broad shoulders. Usually, when she looked up, her eyes were always smiling, but now, in the empty corridor, she was looking down, her lashes loosely resting on her eyelids, her feet subconsciously tapping against each other to create some sound. Just a wall away, the lab was filled with lively chatter.

Qin Huai’s steps paused, and she suddenly couldn’t move her legs.

When the Alpha heard the footsteps, she bent down to look, and upon realizing it was Qin Huai, the gloom in her eyes vanished, and a familiar smile spread across her face. “Senior Sister, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

In an instant, Qin Huai felt a dull ache in her heart.

Shen Zhi pursed her lips and jogged over, her eyes sparkling, like a puppy who had been thrown into a trash can and finally found its owner. “Senior Sister, how was it? Did the mentor agree?”

Not good. She didn’t agree.

Qin Huai swallowed the words in her throat, her tongue twisting several times, but she just couldn’t say it. So, she could only avoid the overly dazzling gaze and changed the subject: “The mentor said she’d consider it.”

Shen Zhi’s eyes narrowed into long, thin smiles, the dimples on her cheeks captivating. “I knew it! Senior Sister is so amazing, you’ll definitely convince the mentor.”

No.

Your Senior Sister is actually not amazing at all.

Qin Huai cleared her throat guiltily, looked away, and found a very poor excuse. “I need to go change clothes first.”

Shen Zhi watched her hurried back, realizing for the first time how fun it was to tease Qin Huai. She followed behind Qin Huai and stopped at the changing room door.

To change clothes in the changing room, one only needed to put a lab coat over their outside clothes. Shen Zhi following behind didn’t bother Qin Huai. However, Shen Zhi kept talking about the experiment, then praising how great the Senior Sister was, which made Qin Huai feel increasingly guilty. She couldn’t help but ask, “Why aren’t you inside doing the experiment, wandering around outside instead?”

“Senior Sister Hao Yan hasn’t come, and she hasn’t told me what to do this afternoon.”

Qin Huai zipped down her zipper, recalling the video she watched at noon, and she generally understood the situation.

Hao Yan was not a broad-minded person. Except for the first day in the lab when she greeted Shen Zhi politely, the two hadn’t exchanged a word since, and an enmity had somehow formed. Qin Huai had always been too lazy to deal with complicated relationships; it was meaningless and unnecessary, but that didn’t stop her from guessing.

She vaguely heard the mentor mention in a meeting that the experiment Hao Yan was working on was extremely messy, the data was unclear, and the organization was chaotic. If it were to be revised, they would need to start over from the beginning, which was a complicated process.

She was probably holed up in the library today.

“Senior Sister, can you take me with you for the experiment this afternoon? I’m very good at washing glass tubes and tidying up equipment,” the Alpha weakly recommended herself.

“I can’t mentor you.” Her thoughts were interrupted. Qin Huai draped the jacket she took off on the hanger and refused, “I’ll find someone else to mentor you later.”

“But, I”

The light source in the room was blocked by the curtains, and the surroundings were cast in a dim glow. After putting on her lab coat, Qin Huai dutifully buttoned it up tightly. “Everyone here is more experienced than me and knows better how to mentor a newcomer. My experiments are just so-so, and when I get busy, I can’t look after you, nor can I teach you too much. Do you understand?”

Qin Huai finished speaking with her back to Shen Zhi, took her phone from her jacket, placed it in the storage locker, and then randomly grabbed a pen from the locker. As she tucked it into her pocket, she realized the pen was the one Shen Zhi had given her this morning.

The pen body was about the thickness of an index finger. It had a click mechanism and was pure black, with a ‘C’ shape designed on the pen clip.

Qin Huai, who usually made decisions unilaterally, for once asked for the other person’s opinion. “Speak.”

“Senior Sister, are you afraid I’ll be a hassle?”

Qin Huai was hit where it hurt. She frowned, her lips moving, but she gave up on defending herself.

“Senior Sister Hao Yan told me that you were supposed to mentor me, but you refused in the end, so they switched her in. It’s okay, Senior Sister, I don’t blame you. It’s my fault my grades are bad, and I didn’t skip a grade to be in the same lab as you.”

“Shut up.” The Alpha still had the same face, but her voice sounded particularly downcast. Qin Huai stood with her hands in her pockets, clicking the pen ‘kaka’. “You are not allowed to touch anything I don’t let you touch later.”

This must mean agreement.

Shen Zhi’s eyebrows subtly lifted, her eyes filled with smiles, and she said innocently, “Senior Sister, will I cause you trouble? If I do, then forget it. I can manage on my own.”

You’ll only be standing outside on your own.

Qin Huai pulled the door open with a very sour expression, her jawline taut, and spat out two cold words, “Follow me.”

In the lab, Hao Yan’s spot was indeed empty.

Qin Huai walked straight to her lab bench and neatly set out the experimental equipment one by one.

The news gathering was almost complete. All fingers pointed to the lab that first developed the inhibitor that year which was Shen Zhi’s Omega mother, Zhou Yue’s lab. But this lab had long since fallen apart, and the main participants were scattered all over the world. Just knowing Zhou Yue was far from enough.

Qin Huai wanted to replicate that batch of inhibitors through the experiment and then infer the side effects of that batch through the formula and the development of inhibitors in recent years.

Qin Huai put on her goggles and began to describe the content of the current experiment. Her explanations were clear, her speaking pace was slow, and her cold voice was like a midnight broadcast, especially attention-grabbing. Shen Zhi stood beside her, and if she encountered something she didn’t understand, she would interrupt and ask Qin Huai to repeat it.

Soon, Qin Huai found that although Shen Zhi looked laid-back and unproductive on the surface, she really did deserve to be number one in her major; it wasn’t just boasting. Qin Huai tried her best to explain the principles of some third and fourth-year knowledge using first-year knowledge. Shen Zhi quickly understood, and the questions she raised were very interesting.

The lecture lasted for about an hour. Many senior students initially teased them, but found it interesting the more they listened and gathered around.

This was the scene Hao Yan saw when she pushed the door open.

Under the gentle light, everyone was gathered around Qin Huai’s lab bench. The Omega standing in the center had delicate features, fair skin, and was holding a blue test tube, her expression calm and composed.

Hao Yan had just been called to the mentor’s office. The mentor, who was always strict about experiments, had lost her temper fiercely. She not only criticized her thesis experiment as being worthless but also brought up Qin Huai.

“Even Qin Huai, who is a year behind you, doesn’t write a thesis this bad.”

Hao Yan couldn’t stand being there anymore. She slammed the door shut with a “bang” and strode away.

The loud noise drew countless eyes. When they realized the door was closed again, they refocused their attention on Qin Huai’s hands.

“The addition wasn’t successful. I have to start over.” Qin Huai looked at the discolored test tube, her voice devoid of any warmth.

Experiments indeed required repeated overturning and starting over, a hassle that even the most brilliant experts could not avoid. Qin Huai threw the waste reagent aside and began the next operation.

“Junior Sister, why don’t you take a break?” a male Beta said. “You’ve been at it for a long time. Drink some water.”

Drinking water or eating was not allowed in the lab to prevent contamination. Qin Huai also didn’t have the habit of drinking water during an experiment; it would interrupt her thoughts and be detrimental to the subsequent research.

Qin Huai frowned and shook her head, her eyes never leaving the glass scale for a second. “No need.”

The Beta didn’t press the matter. He stood beside Qin Huai, casually taking notes on a piece of paper. As he wrote, his handwriting became fainter until it completely stopped writing.

Everyone had only come over temporarily to watch, and their pens were all on their own lab benches. The Beta casually picked up a pen from Qin Huai’s desk. “Junior Sister, let me borrow your pen.”

“Go ahead.”

The Beta wrote a few strokes and found the pen surprisingly smooth and effortless to write with. He wanted to buy one himself and asked, “Junior Sister, where did you buy this pen?”

“I didn’t buy it.” Qin Huai held the beaker, turning her face slightly towards Shen Zhi’s side. “It’s hers.”

Shen Zhi immediately curled her lips and smiled happily. “I custom-ordered it.”

The surrounding people immediately made an ‘ah’ sound, and the pen was passed around among everyone.

Qin Huai rarely spared Shen Zhi a glance from the experiment.

“I know this pen. It was very popular online a few days ago. I think it’s a pair of couple pens.”

“I remember now too. Look, isn’t this half of the heart? There should be another color.”

“Shen Zhi, how many did you buy?”

Shen Zhi rested her palm on the edge of the desk, so close she could almost brush Qin Huai’s shoulder. “A pair.”

It was a bit ridiculous for a perfectly good pen to become a ‘couple pen.’

Qin Huai looked away, concentrating all her attention on the experiment, but Shen Zhi didn’t give her the chance.

“Where’s the other one?” an Omega behind Qin Huai asked.

Shen Zhi’s dimples deepened at the corners of her cheeks, and her eyes, which stood out when she smiled, were usually quite aggressive but were now excessively gentle. She put one hand in her pocket, pulled out the white pen, and held it out, her eyes fixed on Qin Huai’s, the words meant for no one in particular, “It’s with me.”