Transmigrated as the Vampire Alpha of the Omega Heroine - Chapter 22

The phone rang for a moment before being answered, but Gu Li on the other end remained silent.

Jiang Nian turned on the speakerphone, placed the phone on the pillow, and sprawled across the bed, idly twirling a strand of hair she had found on the pillow around her fingers.

“Gu Gu, where are you?”

Her voice had become softer and sweeter after her differentiation, carrying a hint of a sugary lilt at the end.

“I’m at the door,” Gu Li’s voice was slightly hoarse, and after those few words, she fell silent again.

If she was at the door, why didn’t she come in? Had the door automatically locked?

Then why didn’t she ask Jiang Nian to open it for her?

Jiang Nian got up and walked toward the door. The differentiation room door was designed to automatically lock from the inside. She pressed down on the handle, intending to push it open from within, but unexpectedly met resistance.

Gu Li was holding the door shut from the outside.

“What are you doing?” Jiang Nian caught a glimpse of Gu Li’s sleeve through the narrow gap in the door, unable to understand her behavior.

Gu Li shifted her foot slightly, allowing the door to open just enough to pass through a bag containing breakfast, suppressants, and inhibitor patches. “You’re still in heat. Take care of this first.”

Jiang Nian silently accepted the items. She rummaged through the bag, counting the suppressants and patches, then impulsively asked, “You still haven’t answered my question from yesterday.”

Gu Li’s face remained hidden behind the door, out of sight. Jiang Nian tentatively guessed her position and spoke toward it. “After we start university… can we be together?”

The omega pheromones seeping through the door crack affected the alpha who had marked her the night before. Emotion urged her to agree to Jiang Nian’s request, but reason held her back with an iron grip.

She should have been excluded from the list from the very beginning. Back when Jiang Nian had her cycles, Gu Li hadn’t even dared to show her face. And in the future? A partner who couldn’t even stand by her side in times of danger or worse, might actively harm her, as she had last night.

A monster had fallen in love, yet didn’t dare accept the heart offered to her.

The silence didn’t last long, but to both of them, it felt agonizingly drawn out.

Gu Li pressed a hand to her forehead, then slowly dragged it down to cover her mouth. “Jiang Nian, class is about to start. Get ready and come to the classroom. I’ll go ahead.”

She chose to run away, even slamming the door shut with unnecessary force before Jiang Nian could open it again. Without waiting, she turned and sprinted down the hallway.

In the span of a single morning, Jiang Nian’s emotions had shifted from joy to unease, then from unease to sorrow. Clutching the door handle, she watched Gu Li’s retreating figure until it nearly disappeared from view, tears of frustration welling up in her eyes.

Had she ruined everything? Gu Li wouldn’t even call her “Nian Nian” anymore. The brave, decisive step she had taken seemed to have pushed their relationship back to square one or worse.

Still in the throes of her heat, the omega’s shoulders trembled slightly. The pheromones at the nape of her neck stirred restlessly. She sniffled, forcing a weak, crooked smile. Even now, the alpha pheromones she had drawn from Gu Li the night before silently soothed her unsettled heart.

When Mu Lan came to school in the morning, she could tell something was off with her deskmate’s mood. Yesterday, she’d watched Gu Li carrying someone toward the differentiation room. A beauty rescuing another beauty without hesitation in a crisis even if this wasn’t outright accepting a confession, it definitely showed mutual concern and unspoken affection.

So why did Jiang Nian, who’d just experienced such a beautiful moment, still have tear stains at the corners of her eyes?

“Are you okay?” Jiang Nian still carried traces of lavender alpha scent. Normally not overpowering, the pheromones now clung possessively around the omega, creating an invisible barrier that made Mu Lan reluctant to approach.

Jiang Nian slowly raised her head: “I messed up.”

She’d returned to class clinging to hope that she and Gu Li could talk things through properly. But Gu Li never came back. Even when the class bell rang, that familiar silhouette she could always spot with a glance remained absent.

Jiang Nian felt as if Gu Li had vanished completely.

By the time Gu Li took a taxi home, the second wave of her rut agony had begun. Staggering out of the car toward the isolation room, the butler immediately understood everything upon seeing his young mistress’ bloodshot eyes. Panicked, he carried her inside.

“Tie me down.” Pain blurred Gu Li’s consciousness. She could have returned home sooner, but thoughts of the omega in the differentiation room made her pause. She’d instinctively bought breakfast, suppressants, and scent blockers before standing frozen outside the door, unable to knock.

Who knew if she’d transform back into last night’s monster pinning that fragile body beneath her, taking without restraint?

The pain drove her to self-harm, to smash her head against the floor, until the butler strapped her to the bed. Wiping sweat from restraining her, he measured colorful pills from the nightstand: “Miss, what happened? Should I call Dr. Ji?”

What good would Dr. Ji do?

Between gasps of pain, Gu Li kept seeing last night her fangs elongating as she savored Jiang Nian’s neck, her body betraying its hunger in ways that filled her with shame.

What right did a monster like her have to dream of being Jiang Nian’s partner?

Tears traced her cheek as she suddenly stopped struggling. “Don’t,” she whispered hoarsely. “Just leave me.”

Let the pain kill her. She deserved it.

The butler called anyway. Dr. Ji rushed over after alerting Chairman Gu. Even through soundproofing, Gu Li’s screams echoed when he arrived.

Inside, the bound alpha writhed drenched in sweat, veins bulging at her temples from agony.

“Gu Li! GU LI!” When she bit her tongue, the doctor forced a padded tongue depressor between her teeth. “Stop this self-destruction! The more you resist, the worse it gets! Snap out of it!”

Expert Ji had witnessed Gu Li’s father in this state many times before, but it was his first time seeing Gu Li like this. Her will to survive was far stronger than her father’s, and they had already found the special treatment, why was this happening again?

He took out a specially formulated sedative and administered it to her body, hoping to spare Gu Li from the more severe pain she had brought upon herself.

At that moment, Gu Wei arrived, having rushed over from work in such a hurry that she was drenched in sweat. Seeing her daughter like this, she couldn’t help but recall her deceased husband, and the fear of losing a loved one gripped her heart once more: “What’s going on? Gu Li’s sensitive period shouldn’t be due yet. And didn’t you find that girl’s blood could ease her suffering? Why has it come to this again?”

Expert Ji lifted Gu Li’s eyelids for examination, then carefully peeled off the suppressant patch on the back of her neck to inspect her glands. Frowning, he said, “I’m not sure what happened to her. Her emotional fluctuations are extreme, and it seems her glands have been marked by someone. I’ll draw some blood for testing to see her current condition. Do you have that classmate’s phone number? The sedative will only last seven or eight hours at most, we still need that young girl’s blood.”

Gu Wei didn’t have Jiang Nian’s contact details, but Gu Li’s phone likely did. She stepped forward to check her daughter’s glands, then took Gu Li’s sweat-drenched hand to unlock her phone. The first pinned contact on WeChat was Jiang Nian.

She opened the chat and made a WeChat call, which was quickly answered. The person on the other end remained silent, with only hurried footsteps audible, she must have been in class and stepped out to take the call.

Gu Wei spoke apologetically, “Is this Jiang Nian? I’m sorry to bother you, I’m Gu Li’s mother. There’s something I need to ask of you.”

After explaining the situation, Gu Wei waited for a response, but the other person suddenly asked, “So my blood doesn’t just help with her condition, it’s the only thing that can help her, isn’t it?”

There was a world of difference between “helping” and “being the only solution.” Gu Li had always been vague about it, initially saying she craved blood, then later claiming Jiang Nian’s blood helped her condition. But in truth, only Jiang Nian’s blood could treat her illness.

“That’s correct. If you feel…” Gu Wei frowned slightly, hesitating before continuing, “If providing blood is too much, I’m willing to pay for it.”

This statement completely distanced the two of them. Jiang Nian fell silent.

“You can name the price.”

“No need. Just send me your home address, and I’ll come right away.” With that, Jiang Nian hung up, patiently waiting for the location pin to appear in the chat.

It was still class time, and the school gates were firmly locked. The security guard stood at the entrance with a baton, eyeing any students who might consider skipping school. Jiang Nian ran in the opposite direction of the main gate, checking her phone’s GPS to see the distance to Gu Li’s home and the navigation route. For the first time in her life, she climbed over the abandoned and locked back gate.

Her Omega constitution not known for physical strength left her panting heavily after the jump.

“Continue straight along this road for 1 kilometer, then turn left,” the phone’s navigation voice promptly sounded, guiding Jiang Nian through this deserted alley toward his destination.

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