Transmigrated as the Vampire Alpha of the Omega Heroine - Chapter 14

“Jiang Nian’s final 50-meter sprint was so fierce, she almost caught up to the third-place runner.”

“Yeah, but she nearly fell. Luckily, Gu Li was waiting at the finish line to catch her.”

“Honestly, those two are always together. Are they already dating?”

“Ugh, stop talking about taken alphas. Look at Mu Lan, he just placed second in the 3,000-meter race this morning, and now he sprinted to second in the 200-meter this afternoon. The only ones who beat him were those athletes from Class 1. I swear, he’s the strongest alpha in our class.”

On the Class 3 spectator stands of the sports field, a group of female omegas chattered away. A sign beside them read: Class 3 Athlete Rest Area. They were in charge of providing towels and water for their class’s competitors, along with cheerleading duties they had just finished cheering for Jiang Nian.

Gu Li pressed the towel she brought against Jiang Nian’s face, supporting her as they walked in circles on the field’s grassy center. Around them, javelin and shotput competitions were underway, but the two kept pacing in their own little loop.

“Still sore?” Gu Li draped her jacket over Jiang Nian’s shoulders.

“It’s better now.” Jiang Nian studied Gu Li for a moment. “When I almost fell earlier, you stiffened up completely. You were so focused on catching me that you nearly got hurt yourself.”

She was referring to how Gu Li had rushed to break her fall but almost ended up slamming into the ground with her.

“You were wearing shorts, if you’d fallen, you would’ve scraped your skin. My back was covered, so even if I’d hit the ground, it wouldn’t have been bad.” She was being entirely logical, even considering bringing up an alpha’s superior physical resilience to reassure Jiang Nian.

But the little kitten wasn’t having it. Pouting, she muttered, “Earlier, when you ran the 200-meter with me, you were only slightly faster. And you’re always taking handfuls of pills at once, how is that ‘good health’? Besides, landing on your back is one thing, but what if your head had hit the ground too?”

Gu Li fell silent.

“If you got hurt and started bleeding, do you want me to lose control and bite you in front of everyone?” She lowered her voice, leaning close until her breath brushed Jiang Nian’s ear, turning the tip red but it didn’t erase the displeasure on the younger girl’s face.

Jiang Nian remembered that time in the restroom, when Gu Li had gripped her wrist between her teeth, eyes dark with desire nothing like the gentle expression she wore now.

“You still can’t just ignore your own safety.” She clenched her jaw, inexplicably angry at how Gu Li always disregarded her well-being. Especially when she recalled the last incident, where Gu Li had shielded her from a group of thugs, taking several punches without flinching terrifying Jiang Nian into thinking she might die.

Gu Li was always like this, only ever looking out for her but never for herself.

“Alright, alright. Next time, I’ll protect you and take care of myself,” Gu Li conceded with a helpless smile, her hand soothingly stroking Jiang Nian’s back.

“I’ll protect you too.” The kitten lifted her head earnestly.

Huh? Why does my heart suddenly feel like it’s racing?

Gu Li’s hand stilled. Hearing those words, she instinctively pressed a palm to her chest.

The sports committee member was tallying up the total points from the day and a half of sports events. With only the final 4x100m relay race left in the afternoon, their class had already secured first place in their grade level. Last year, Class 1 had relied on a few athletic students to boost their scores, but this time, their class had won through sheer numbers and teamwork, with awards scattered across various events.

Overjoyed, he waved his hand grandly and decided to treat the whole class to drinks.

When it came to Gu Li and Jiang Nian’s orders, Gu Li immediately requested an original pearl milk tea without pearls, with ice, half sugar, and a milk-to-tea ratio of 2:1. She insisted on getting it from the X Tea shop outside the school, as she had determined through careful analysis that this combination most closely resembled the taste of Jiang Nian’s blood.

Her reasoning was so convincing that everyone wanted to try her special order. In the end, the sports committee member returned to the field with over thirty identical cups of “Gu Li’s Custom Brew,” one for every student in Class 3.

Jiang Nian carefully held her cup of milk tea and sat beside Gu Li, watching her noisily slurp away.

Was it really that good?

She took a sip of her own tea and found it no different from ordinary milk tea. Glancing around, she noticed her classmates seemed similarly unimpressed.

“Gu Gu… Is yours especially delicious?” The curious kitten tentatively reached out a paw to ask.

“Hmm?”

Distracted by her happy drink, Gu Li reluctantly released the straw and offered it. “Want to try?”

Pink lips naturally leaned in to take a sip from the straw before quickly retreating. “Tastes the same to me.”

She wrinkled her nose. “I thought you were secretly enjoying some gourmet delicacy.”

“Not at all, haha!” Gu Li reclaimed the straw, suddenly finding the tea even more addictive than before. Out of thirty-five classmates, she was the only one who finished her cup in ten minutesand even wanted another.

Jiang Nian stared at her lips, noticing how Gu Li’s gaze lingered on her own cup. She pushed her barely touched drink into Gu Li’s hands. “You can have mine too.”

Isn’t this inappropriate?

Gu Li hesitated to accept, but Jiang Nian pinched the middle of the straw and guided it to her mouth.

The moment the tea touched her lips, all refusal vanished.

Jiang Nian rested her chin on her hand, smiling as she watched. So, Gu Li really loves milk tea this much… Next time I invite her over, maybe I should make her a cup.

The Gu family’s driver, Uncle Wang, had been troubled lately. Ever since he reported the precise timeline of the young miss’s romantic developments to Madam, it seemed she had caught on. These days, Gu Li had bought a bicycle and decided to ride to and from school herself under the noble pretext of “exercising.”

But this meant he had lost his front-row seat to the youthful romance drama. Now, his daily routine was reduced to chauffeuring Mr. Gu to and from work, listening to corporate jargon and boardroom scheming.

So boring.

He had been too hasty, revealing his hand too soon. Now he was filled with regret.

Meanwhile, Gu Li, who claimed to be “exercising” was pedaling her best friend Jiang Nian toward her home. She felt Uncle Wang’s imagination was too vivid, turning even the innocent into something scandalous. Best not to give him any material to work with.

Jiang Nian held onto Gu Li’s sleeve as she sat on the bicycle’s rear seat, silently contemplating how to invite Gu Li to her birthday celebration. In previous years, her father and grandmother had celebrated with her, but after her father’s accident, it had just been her and her grandmother. For her 17th birthday, she wanted Gu Li to be the first person she saw.

“We’re here! Jiang Nian’s stop! Passengers, please take your belongings.” Gu Li braked abruptly at the intersection near Jiang Nian’s home, a short distance from the small grocery store where Jiang Nian usually asked to be dropped off.

“Um, Gu Gu, I—” Before Jiang Nian could muster the words, several agonized screams erupted from the intersection behind them.

“Get back on!” Gu Li’s expression darkened as she pulled Jiang Nian onto the bicycle and immediately turned toward the commotion. The small grocery store was in chaos, with objects being hurled out onto the street.

Jiang Nian leaped off the bicycle in a panic and dashed inside.

The cramped store was packed with people. A few delinquent-looking troublemakers had been knocked to the ground, while a man in a black suit carefully supported Jiang Nian’s grandmother.

“Grandma!” Jiang Nian rushed forward.

Her grandmother looked up, tear stains at the corners of her eyes. “Nian Nian, I almost didn’t get to see you again.”

Gu Li followed close behind, nodding at the bodyguard in black. These troublemakers and their gang had always been a menace, but they were hard to catch. In the original story, Jiang Nian’s grandmother had been pushed by these same hooligans on her way home from school, hitting her head on a sharp corner of a shelf. At her age, she hadn’t survived the injury. That night, Jiang Nian had sat alone in the hospital lobby, forced to grow up overnight.

Gu Li had been accompanying Jiang Nian home precisely to prevent this tragedy, later even stationing personnel near her house. Fortunately, today’s incident had been averted.

Grandmother and granddaughter clung to each other tightly, trying to process the terrifying ordeal. Meanwhile, Gu Li and the bodyguard escorted the troublemakers to the police station.

Driver Wang received yet another pickup request from the young miss. Excited, he drove to the location she’d provided, only to sense an uneasy atmosphere.

His young charge wasn’t with her little friend. Instead, he saw the girl sobbing in her grandmother’s arms, her eyes red from crying.

What was this? Had the young miss bullied her?

His questioning gaze instinctively turned to Gu Li.

“Uncle Wang, please take these people to the station with Uncle Gu,” Gu Li said, oblivious to the driver’s wild assumptions. Her only concern was removing the troublemakers quickly so Jiang Nian and her grandmother could calm down.

She shut the car door and waved at Uncle Wang before hurrying back toward the grocery store. To the driver, her haste looked like the frantic scramble of someone trying to appease an angry girlfriend.

Glancing at the stern-faced bodyguard in black beside him, he swallowed his urge to gossip.

Countless melodramatic TV plots flashed through his mind. Had the youth romance drama he’d been following reached its misunderstanding arc?

Were his beloved CP about to break up?

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