Transmigrated into a Scummy Alpha, Marked Intentionally by a Gentle Omega - Chapter 2

Zhizhi?

Hua Zhi’s cat-like eyes gazed at Xie Shimian, as if savoring this new name.

Xie Shimian said, “Let’s get in the car. It’s getting late.”

Before she could turn away, her fingers were suddenly caught by the little cat.

Hua Zhi’s hands were covered in scars, yet the softness unique to a young girl couldn’t be overshadowed by the rough scabs.

Xie Shimian felt as if an electric current ran through her body, her mind flooded with thoughts of Omegas, heat cycles, ruts, and mating marks…

In this world, a woman could get pregnant just by being bitten on the neck.

This world was filled with dissonance.

Seeing Xie Shimian’s frozen expression, Hua Zhi thought she had displeased her. “Miss Xie?”

Tears instantly welled up in the cat-like eyes, thinking her filthy body had offended the noble lady. She quickly withdrew her hand.

She stood there, fidgeting uneasily.

If Xie Shimian didn’t want her, she would have to return to that cold, drafty orphanage.

The little orphan bit her lower lip, recalling the seductive and dirty tricks she had seen in her family since childhood.

She didn’t understand why her benefactor had adopted her. The goddess of fortune had never favored her before.

In a moment of distraction, Xie Shimian suddenly felt her wrist seized by Hua Zhi, who placed it on her own thin shoulder.

Xie Shimian’s fingers brushed against the girl’s bony collarbone, and as she moved, the collar slipped slightly, revealing a patch of snow-white skin…

Xie Shimian’s pupils trembled. “Let go—”

She had a premonition that if this continued, she would see far more than just a glimpse of collarbone.

Xie Shimian’s face burned. Those around her simply assumed the little orphan from the wasteland planet was showing her normal gratitude.

“Miss?” Ke Rong, the assistant trained by the Xie family since childhood, asked with concern. “Are you feeling unwell?”

Her face was so red it looked about to combust.

Xie Shimian replied dreamily, “No, I just saw something R-rated in her eyes.”

Ke Rong: ?

The orphanage director smiled as he saw Xie Shimian off, bowing deeply. “If you have any dissatisfaction with Hua Zhi, we can replace her with a more outstanding child at any time.”

“No need. Hua Zhi is fine.”

She just had a mind full of indecent thoughts.

Inside the aircraft,

The interior of the interstellar-era aircraft was at least twice as spacious as the cars Xie Shimian had driven in her past life.

Hua Zhi curled up in a corner like a little cat, her tattered clothes barely covering her body.

Xie Shimian asked, “Are you cold?”

She didn’t want to be accused of mistreating the future big boss, but her gaze lingered on the little beauty’s dirty cheeks.

Her damn preferences were stirring.

Who didn’t love a stray cat?

Xie Shimian wrapped Hua Zhi in her expensive coat and gently wiped the grime from her face with a wet tissue.

“Zhi Zhi.”

Xie Shimian called her name. “Are you spacing out?”

Hua Zhi trembled and clutched Xie Shimian’s sleeve. “I’ll serve you well, Miss Xie. Please don’t send me back to the orphanage.”

Humans were greedy. At first, she just wanted to escape her humiliating family. After the storm, she wished only to leave the wasteland planet. When she arrived at the orphanage on the capital planet, she hoped a kind soul would adopt her. Seeing Xie Shimian’s photo in the papers, she dreamed of catching even a distant glimpse.

Now, she wanted to make a home by her side.

Xie Shimian’s touch was gentle as she cleaned Hua Zhi’s face, gradually revealing her fair skin.

“Truly a little cat.”

Bringing a stray cat home, the cat would always cling to its owner’s shoulders, full of insecurity.

Xie Shimian initially wanted to say, “I won’t send you away,” but the words twisted mischievously at the last moment into, “Depends on your performance.”

“I’ll be good,” the soft-spoken little girl nestled obediently in her arms. The air conditioning in the aircraft hummed as it blew warm air, it was already early winter.

Outside the window, a light snow began to fall.

Bzzz—

With a sharp screech, the entire vehicle suddenly jolted violently!

Xie Shimian tightened her grip around Hua Zhi, shielding her while grabbing onto a handrail.

The aircraft skimmed close to the ground, plunging forward until, at the next intersection, it collided head-on with a small railcar.

In an instant, the aircraft swerved sharply to avoid the crash, just as another small car lurking at the alley’s entrance sped out.

On the surface, it seemed like nothing more than an accident at an unregulated intersection.

Ke Rong steadied the aircraft, bringing it to a stop, and Xie Shimian immediately flung the door open.

She wrapped her coat tightly around Hua Zhi. “Stay put!”

From the narrow alley emerged several masked betas.

The assault unfolded so swiftly that even surveillance cameras couldn’t capture all the details clearly.

Under normal circumstances, Xie Shimian should have been terrified, but somehow, her body seemed to have inherited the original owner’s strength.

She swiftly picked up a gun from the ground and aimed it at the leader of the assailants.

This was an attack targeting the Xie family.

Moments later, the alley was painted in crimson. The snowflakes drifting from the sky settled over still-warm blood.

And dusted Hua Zhi’s eyelashes as well.

“Miss Xie!”

Xie Shimian’s arm was wounded, staining her coat red.

Hua Zhi rushed over in panic, her eyes brimming with fearful tears.

Half of those tears were fake, she wasn’t afraid of blood.

The other half were real because she was terrified of Xie Shimian getting hurt.

Ke Rong efficiently checked the fallen assailants’ identification, made a call, and nodded. “The Xie family will handle this immediately. There’s no need for concern, Miss.”

But her gaze turned cold as it swept over Hua Zhi. “Miss, with all due respect, people from the Frontier Planet haven’t been thoroughly vetted. That region is rife with rebellion, and local families are deeply entangled. Hua Zhi’s background should be investigated further.”

Hua Zhi clutched Xie Shimian’s sleeve tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably with fear.

She was afraid of being investigated.

Afraid of her unsavory past coming to light.

“It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!” Hua Zhi’s tears spilled over as she stammered desperately.

A streak of bright red blood splashed across Xie Shimian’s cheek, accentuating her striking beauty.

She scooped up the frightened stray kitten.

Pfft, as if she’d ever investigate the big boss.

Besides, the current big boss probably knew nothing at all.

“The Xie family has many enemies in the Empire. I know who’s behind this.”

Xie Shimian pulled Hua Zhi into her arms. “Zhi Zhi is scared out of her wits. You should be gentler with her.”

Ke Rong: “…”

Once inside a new vehicle, Xie Shimian pressed her middle finger to her temple.

“Miss Xie, your wound needs immediate treatment,” Ke Rong noted Xie Shimian’s discomfort. “Is it a headache from pheromones?”

Xie Shimian hissed, “My head hurts so bad, it feels like my brain’s about to grow out.”

She vaguely recalled the original plot and knew which faction was responsible.

“Brain?”

Ke Rong didn’t quite catch it, thinking any issue involving the brain couldn’t be delayed.

Xie Shimian hugged the panicked stray kitten tighter. “A love brain.”

Ke Rong: ?

The luxury car drove smoothly as Hua Zhi stared blankly at Xie Shimian’s wound, which had been hastily bandaged to stop the bleeding.

Hua Zhi thought those people truly deserved to die. If she ever found out who they were, she would definitely…

Kill them all.

Born and raised in the savage wilderness, Hua Zhi thought this way without hesitation.

Xie Shimian poked Hua Zhi’s little cheek. “Scared of blood? If you’re scared, don’t look.”

She noticed Hua Zhi’s eyes nearly crossing as she stared at the wound.

No sooner had she spoken than she felt something warm and damp brush against the edge of her injury.

The little kitten extended her rough tongue, licking at the dried blood around the wound on Xie Shimian’s arm.

The slightly prickly tongue touched the fragile injury, sending a shiver through Xie Shimian’s entire body.

Gradually, her blood surged, and her mind grew hazy.

Damn this rut.

“Don’t move!” Xie Shimian pulled her away. “What are you doing?!”

Sticking out her tongue without a word, did she really think she was a cat?!

Hua Zhi, wrapped in Xie Shimian’s clothes, looked obedient.

“Saliva disinfects.”

Through personal experimentation, Hua Zhi had confirmed that saliva really could disinfect.

If her savior had any other requests, she could do much more with her tongue.

Xie Shimian: “…”

Once again, she saw something indecipherable in Hua Zhi’s clear eyes.

“You’re still young. You… go rinse your mouth.”

She tossed Hua Zhi a bottle of ice water.

Hua Zhi clutched the bottle, a faint disappointment in her expression.

Rejected again.

Weren’t Alphas supposed to love this kind of thing?

The lingering taste in her mouth carried a faint metallic tang, mixed with the distinctive fruity rum scent of Xie Shimian’s pheromones.

Even her savior’s pheromones were delicious.

At the hospital, Xie Shimian leaned back in a plush chair, letting the nurse clean her wound.

The private hospital had excellent facilities, with beautiful beta nurses bustling around her.

They brought a fruit platter, the highest-grade nutrient solution, and soft, comfortable silk slippers.

Xie Shimian closed her eyes, enjoying the service, then pointed at Hua Zhi, who stood nearby looking lost and uneasy.

“Give her a full checkup.”

The nurse handed her a form. “Please check the items you’d like examined.”

A stingy employer might only select basic tests to fulfill the bare minimum for the adoption process.

Xie Shimian skimmed the list and checked none.

The nurse thought, Another family adopting an orphan without real commitment.

Who knew what they’d do after taking the child home?

“Run every test available,” Xie Shimian said flatly. “Put it on my tab.”

The nurse froze for two seconds. “Understood. I’ll prepare everything right away.”

Once the unnecessary crowd had dispersed, Xie Shimian entered the office of an elderly doctor.

The original owner of this body suffered from severe pheromone dysfunction. Her rare scent made it nearly impossible to find a compatible Omega, forcing her to rely on suppressants to endure her ruts.

Over time, this led to severe headaches and volatile moods.

“No improvement?”

The doctor examined her test results. “It seems slightly better than before, but we’ll need to monitor further.”

Slightly better but only slightly.

Probably related to her transmigration.

Xie Shimian pinched the bridge of her nose. “I’d rather just be a beta.”

The doctor looked horrified. “You… must be joking. Betas are mediocre, they don’t even have pheromones.”

Suppressing the jackhammer-like pain in her head, Xie Shimian muttered, “I could wear perfume.”

Whatever scent she wanted.

She had spent over twenty years as a corporate drone wasn’t that the backbone of society? She was a beta, and she was proud.

The doctor: “…”

“Let me prescribe some medication to help regulate your condition.”

Xie Shimian stepped out of the examination room and faintly heard the girl’s sobbing, soft as a kitten’s whimper.

Frowning, she pushed open the door to see a nurse tugging at Hua Zhi’s clothes while the girl desperately clutched the jacket Xie Shimian had draped over her earlier.

“Don’t take it off! I don’t want the examination!”

The nurse turned to Xie Shimian with a troubled expression. “She needs to remove outer clothing for the scan, but Miss Hua Zhi refuses to cooperate.”

Hua Zhi clung fiercely to the jacket, the only thing Xie Shimian had given her.

If she took it off, would she ever get to touch this jacket carrying the scent of fruity rum alpha pheromones again?

Xie Shimian massaged her throbbing temples.

Right now, Hua Zhi looked exactly like the Ragdoll cat she used to own when being forcibly taken for baths at the pet store.

Fine. If keeping Hua Zhi attached to her pheromones meant the girl wouldn’t kill her later, then being an alpha wasn’t so bad after all.

Xie Shimian lifted the jacket from Hua Zhi’s shoulders with resigned indulgence. “I’ll keep it safe for you. I’ll stand right outside the glass window where you can see me. Don’t be afraid.”

Her old cat had only stopped yowling during baths when she stayed nearby.

The little orphan nodded tearfully in compliance.

“You won’t leave?”

She seemed desperate for confirmation Hua Zhi couldn’t bear being abandoned again.

“I’m not going anywhere. Be good.”

As the door closed, Xie Shimian kept her promise, standing visible through the glass partition.

Turning to Ke Rong, she instructed, “Prepare a room near my bedroom in the estate for her.”

Ke Rong hesitated. “That’s… rather unconventional.”

Though nominally an adoption, everyone knew Hua Zhi was essentially being taken in as Xie Shimian’s young attendant.

Having a servant sleep adjacent to the master’s bedroom breached all decorum.

Ke Rong’s orphan instincts told him there was more to Hua Zhi than met the eye.

Xie Shimian smiled faintly. “Is arranging another room inconvenient?”

“In that case, just bring an extra quilt. She can share my bed.”

She’d feel more at ease keeping the girl within sight.

Ke Rong: !

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