The White Moonlight Omega Has Amnesia and Always Tries to Seduce Me - Chapter 69

Fortunately, the laboratory explosion this time was small, not extensive. Qin Huai quickly returned to the lab, grabbed a rag from the sink, and walked toward the workbench.

The liquids had soaked the workbench into a messy state, and glass shards were scattered all over the table, sparkling and translucent in the sunlight. Qin Huai gripped the rag, stacking it on the workbench. Just as she was about to exert force with her wrist, her wrist bone suddenly went soft and limp, crashing down onto the table.

“Bang!”

The crash was sudden. Before Qin Huai could even react, the tearing pain in her wrist bone traveled straight to her nerves.

The cold sweat on Qin Huai’s body hadn’t dissipated, and a new layer formed. Her forehead and the tip of her nose were damp, her face pale as paper. Her fingers gripped the rag tightly, fine indentations appearing on her knuckles.

A sudden sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the hallway outside the lab, moving from the elevator to the lab, from far to near. The lab door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Qin Huai seemed not to hear, her palm still pressed against the edge of the table. Her heavy eyelids lifted, and her eyes looked exceptionally weary.

“Student, are you alright?” The security guard from downstairs immediately came up after hearing the noise. Upon seeing the lab’s disastrous state, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

As long as no student was injured or killed, everything else was unimportant.

However, the student today seemed a bit strange. Usually, when something like this happens, even Alphas get badly startled. But this student, based on the scent patch on the back of her neck, appeared to be an Omega, yet showed no sign of panic.

The guard was surprised, then pushed the door wider. “Student?”

The student lowered her head, her back subtly trembling. Just as the guard was about to walk over, the student suddenly looked up.

The guard stopped, his voice filled with concern. “Student, are you hurt?”

Qin Huai shook her head, her grip on the rag loosened, her eyes panicked, her eyelashes fluttering like a butterfly trapped under a glass jar. “No, I’m fine, I’m fine.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she took a step forward, her voice very erratic. “I need to go out for a moment, I have to make a call. Is she alright? Will she be in trouble?”

Qin Huai was always calm and composed, rarely losing her composure like this. But now, she might not even realize that her eyes were very red, her actions illogical, and her expression looked desperately miserable.

The guard assumed she was just shaken up by the incident and needed reassurance from her family. He nodded and said, “Go ahead. I can handle things here.”

Immediately after the guard’s words, Qin Huai went directly out the back door to the locker room. She didn’t spare time to take off her clothes, only unbuttoning them while retrieving her phone from the locker. By the time the call went through, Qin Huai had just stripped off her outer layer.

“Buzz”

The phone rang for a full minute, but no one picked up on the other side. Qin Huai could only run outside while redialing. Seconds before she reached the elevator, the door closed. Qin Huai frantically pressed the down button, but as she watched the red numbers decrease, she realized it was impossible to get the elevator to come back up quickly. She found the emergency exit and started climbing down the stairs.

With the call unanswered, and unsure if Shen Zhi was safe, Qin Huai’s mind was in chaos, forcing her to rely on pure instinct to think. It was one of the few times she had been so disorganized.

However, even after running all the way out of the academic building, Shen Zhi’s phone still didn’t connect.

Due to the haste and high level of activity going down the stairs, Qin Huai’s cheeks were flushed, her bangs were plastered wetly to her face, and sweat rolled down her forehead and into her eyes, making them sting. She stood at the entrance of the academic building, her fine brows knitted. After confirming she couldn’t get through, she decisively put away her phone and started running towards the school gate.

It was class time, so there weren’t many students on this small road. Weeping willows swayed in the breeze, and tender leaves fell, generously scattering onto the asphalt ground.

Qin Huai usually didn’t have time to linger for such beautiful scenes. Her busy life consisted of eating, sleeping, studying…

She remembered a school parent-teacher meeting when she was little. The homeroom teacher was a very warm Omega. She stood at the podium, praising a student named Qin Huai to all the others. Qin Huai remembered that scene clearly. Everyone’s seat had two people a father or mother with a child but only her side was empty.

She lived with her grandparents, so she desperately told herself to be sensible and not cause them any trouble. The parent-teacher meeting was to report on the children’s performance at school. She felt that as long as she was flawless, the teacher wouldn’t force her to bring a parent.

As she grew up, she also felt that as long as she was flawless in every aspect, she wouldn’t bother anyone. This included her feelings for Shen Zhi. She admitted to feeling anxious and uncertain when faced with such an enthusiastic Alpha. Although she didn’t say it out loud, she always enjoyed hearing the other person utter sweet nothings.

“I only like you.”

“I will always be good to you.”

It was as if through these words, she could feel her weight in the Alpha’s heart. She savored these intimate, whispered words. But emotions are like water no matter what vessel they are poured into, they take that shape.

It’s like she could manage herself, but she completely forgot that Shen Zhi was a person.

A person who feels pain when hurt and cries when sad.

Qin Huai ran non-stop to the door of Shen Zhi’s home. At first, she could control herself enough to tap the door with her knuckles, but after getting no response, the thread of restraint in her heart seemed to snap. Clenching her fists, she pounded on the door, her voice hoarse, “Shen Zhi, are you there?”

Silence answered her in the quiet hallway.

Qin Huai stood on her toes, trying to peer through the peephole.

Still nothing.

Qin Huai knew that what she needed most right now was to calm down. The best way to handle it was either to go back and wait for a call or to stand in the narrow, dark hallway and wait for that familiar sound of footsteps. But she had done this kind of aimless waiting too many times.

She didn’t want to wait anymore.

Qin Huai slid down the door panel and sat on the floor, her trembling hands pulling out her phone from her pocket. Her fingertips had too many marks on them, pinched out in a forceful attempt to calm herself when her emotions were about to peak. In high school, she was actually quite good at this sort of thing until she went to college and quit.

Quitting something is very simple you just need to keep yourself busy. If a person is busy, they don’t have time to think about all sorts of random things, and no time to do all sorts of random things.

But she was too spineless; she didn’t want to quit Shen Zhi. So, she could only dig for news about Shen Zhi bit by bit, searching through the scraps.

She found the number for Shen Zhi’s mother Zhou Yue.

Qin Huai sat curled up by the door, her eyes looking vaguely at the floor around her, her heart pounding with the “dudu-dudu” echo in the receiver.

Just like with Shen Zhi’s call, it didn’t connect.

She didn’t give up. She pushed off the ground with her heel and stood up, brushing the dust off her clothes. Her neck slightly lowered, she took the stairs three steps at a time as she descended.

Since Shen Zhi’s phone wasn’t connecting, she would go to Shen Zhi’s home. If no one was there either, she would go to Zhou Yue’s workplace. She would find Shen Zhi eventually.

Qin Huai stood at the entrance of the residential complex and flagged down a taxi, giving the driver the name of Shen Zhi’s complex in the backseat.

She arrived in less than an hour.

She got out of the car, and just as she was about to take off running, she paused as if remembering something. She raised her arm to wipe her forehead and smoothed out her clothes. After confirming everything was in order, she started running again.

The area hadn’t changed much since her last visit, except that the greenery at the complex entrance was trimmed shorter and more neatly shaped.

Qin Huai, recalling her last visit, was about to walk through the gate when the gate security guard slid open the window with a “pa” sound and shouted at Qin Huai, “Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter.”

Qin Huai was momentarily stunned, then realized. This was a famous wealthy area in Jiangcheng. Security was much stricter than elsewhere, so naturally, they wouldn’t let people in freely.

Usually, when facing such a situation, Qin Huai wouldn’t push it, but today was different. Her worry for Shen Zhi overshadowed everything else.

Qin Huai turned and walked to the window. Her voice was slightly hoarse from not speaking for a long time. “I have an emergency. Please, could you let me through?”

“Everyone who comes here says the same thing. If we let people in freely, no one would buy a home here.” The guard finished speaking, resting his hand on the window, ready to close it.

“I have been here before. You should have a visitor record. You can check. I’m just here to see a friend. Her name is Shen Zhi, and she lives here.” Qin Huai wedged her right hand in the window, stopping the guard’s action while buying herself time to say a few more words.

The guard had encountered many journalists trying to slip in with this kind of aggressive behavior, and the use of the same excuse was countless. Anyone who used the internet would know what kind of people lived here.

The guard looked impatient, ignoring Qin Huai’s hand still in the way. “If you really are friends, have her come and pick you up.”

With that, the window closed with a “pa” sound.

Qin Huai stood there, stunned. The light was intense today. Everything around was steeped in the atmosphere of early summer, radiating a sense of dryness. Qin Huai’s forehead was covered in dense beads of sweat, and the perspiration rolled down her face, dropping onto her shoulder and neck. She stood in front of the small guard post, scrolling through her WeChat contacts to find Zhou Yue’s profile.

She had added Zhou Yue on WeChat a long time ago, but they rarely contacted each other, so she had forgotten to change the display name.

She opened her WeChat contact list, sliding through the profile pictures one by one. If it matched her memory, she would open it to check the chat history. If not, she would move on to the next.

This process wasn’t complicated, but it was tedious and inefficient. Qin Huai deeply resented wasting her time on such things in the past, but now she had no choice.

After about ten minutes, Qin Huai finally found it. She quickly opened the keyboard, tapped a few times, and a WeChat message was sent.

The result was silence. She waited for a full twenty minutes, and the only alert her phone gave was for a text message.

Qin Huai’s face was extremely pale. After confirming the message would not be replied to, she frowned, her finger hovering over the voice call button when a clear honk came from a black car.

The voice call was interrupted. Qin Huai stepped back, moving off the road for the car to pass. She lifted her eyelids and glanced at it.

With just that one glance, Qin Huai’s earlier feeling of loss vanished. She rushed forward, following the car without a second thought.