Leng Xuelang was a snake.
Naturally, very few people knew about this.
Her identity as a snake could be traced back to the year she turned eighteen and differentiated into an Omega. Not only did she develop a gland that confirmed her second gender, but her legs also inexplicably transformed into a snake’s tail. It was absolutely terrifying.
Later… after burning with a high fever for seven days and seven nights, she actually transformed entirely into a massive silver snake, the kind that could scare you to death just by looking in the mirror.
Eventually, her body gradually stabilized, and she was able to change back into a human. However, she would still occasionally manifest a phantom snake tail or other features from time to time, making it exceptionally difficult to control.
After that happened, Leng Xuelang spent a considerable amount of time trying to understand why she had become like this. She had investigated and observed her family, and they weren’t snakes. She was the only one, and she was likely the only snake in this entire world.
She went to great lengths to conceal her identity and even developed a corresponding medication to control her body.
Yet, for some unknown reason recently, the medication had gradually lost its efficacy, and the duration of her phantom tail manifestations was growing longer. She was truly worried that her body would completely undergo an atavistic regression, if that happened, it would be a massive problem.
Furthermore, a very important scale of hers had somehow gone missing, and this scale was vital to her future survival.
To find this scale, she had exerted immense effort, going so far as to assume a false identity just to get close to Si Yining. Yet, she discovered… the scale didn’t seem to be on him.
She had also approached Si Jiu Yi, but she found no trace of the scale there either.
Until now, she still had no idea where the object she was looking for was.
But she could still tell that Si Jiu Yi might not hold any goodwill toward her.
Though that was still under the assumption that Si Jiu Yi didn’t know her true identity.
Leng Xuelang was by no means a fool. At eighteen, after differentiating into an Omega and turning into a snake, her absolute first instinct was to figure out how to hide herself.
And to hide her identity and her distinct differences, she needed a vast amount of money. Her biological family wasn’t anything good either, constantly thinking of selling their daughters for prosperity.
She and her elder sister were nothing more than goods in the eyes of their scum parents. Her sister had already been sold by them before Leng Xuelang turned eighteen, married off to a scum Alpha. Although Leng Xuelang later rescued her sister, she was still unable to bring her back to her senses from her chaotic state of mind.
To this day, her sister remained in a sanitarium, acting completely delirious, it was a heartbreaking sight.
Therefore, Leng Xuelang realized the importance of money very early on. And after turning into a snake, she had somehow become exceptionally sensitive to scents and certain objects, such as gold, silver, and precious jewels.
This meant that she was practically like a detector, able to swiftly locate where valuable things were and buy them up ahead of time.
It was precisely to mask the source of her immense wealth and treasures that she began establishing companies.
She had good friends, too. After earning her first pot of gold, she had gone into business with two partners, hoping to expand and grow strong.
Both partners were her good friends. One of them… unable to withstand the temptation of money, later conspired with outsiders to betray her, leaving her in a near-death situation.
The other one was still her good friend today, acting as the public face to manage the entire conglomerate, while Leng Xuelang was responsible for providing funds, partial technical support, and core management, essentially allowing her to completely coast along.
However, these peaceful days were shattered after Jiu Yi ascended to power.
Many of the sectors Jiu Yi favored happened to be the exact ones Leng Xuelang had her eye on, such as artificial intelligence, exoskeleton assistance, medical technology, and so forth. In many instances, Jiu Yi beat her to the punch.
After several rounds of confrontations, the two sides practically became arch-rivals.
Except, she actually hadn’t known who the person opposing her conglomerate was before, she only knew they belonged to the Si family, and she had assumed it was Si Yining, that playboy trust-fund baby who did nothing but seek pleasure.
She hadn’t expected that through a bizarre twist of fate, she would discover it was Jiu Yi who had been working against her all this time.
Since things had turned out this way, it was truly going to be fun.
Particularly since Jiu Yi currently had absolutely no idea of her true identity, believing her to be “Leng Xuelang,” and was even forcibly keeping her around out of fear that she might be bullied by her nephew.
Since Jiu Yi was showing such sincerity, Leng Xuelang naturally wouldn’t let the opportunity slip. She was definitely going to play this to her heart’s content and get revenge for their past grudges first.
Consequently, she had been making petty moves constantly over the past few days, never expecting that she would still capsize in a dismal ditch, letting things escalate to this point. She couldn’t even control herself now, shamelessly wrapping her phantom form around the other woman.
What frustrated her even more was that even though Jiu Yi was extremely close to her, with a hand clasped around her waist, and even though her own gland was hotter than imagined, making feelings impossible to restrain. Jiu Yi still didn’t take any action.
Jiu Yi merely kept her head lowered, eyes cast down as she looked at her, her gaze devoid of joy or sorrow, resembling someone detached from the mortal world.
“CEO Si, what are you pretending for? Those people… the ones they wanted to catch just now was you, not me. Why did you hide me?”
The space here was far too narrow; even turning around was difficult. Speaking felt as though their breaths were pressing against each other, the hot air steaming up as a variety of ambiguous atmospheres that shouldn’t exist continued to climb.
Leng Xuelang couldn’t bear the thought of struggling alone in this sea of desire. She deliberately wanted an Alpha who appeared so moral and proper like Jiu Yi to sink along with her. Even if Jiu Yi didn’t want to, she was going to drag her down into it.
Leng Xuelang knew she had never been a good person. She even possessed an extremely wicked sense of amusement, she loved watching people struggle, loved watching them suffer, loved seeing them run into misfortune, and loved seeing them filled with deep, bitter regrets…
Over the years, she didn’t know if it was due to her identity as a snake, but this malicious sense of amusement had only grown more intense.
Making someone like Jiu Yi, whose exterior was as pure as a flower on a high mountain peak, seemingly devoid of emotion and desire, fall into hell… that was what she wanted to see most. She never grew tired of it and wished for nothing more than to ruin her.
That way, she would also rid herself of a powerful opponent like Jiu Yi.
Just the thought of it made her even more excited.
“Do you want a whole mob of thugs to see what you look like when you’re in heat? To see you involuntarily tearing at your own clothes, begging them to mark you… even the embarrassing plight of having them mark you in turns?”
Jiu Yi pulled away the hand that Leng Xuelang had pressed against her lips, remaining entirely unmoved. “If you want that, I’ll throw you out right now.”
“If you dare throw me out, I’ll tell them you’re hiding here too, and make them give me an even bigger reward.”
Leng Xuelang wasn’t afraid of her at all, but the words “in heat” were truly grating to her ears. Did Jiu Yi really think Alphas during their susceptibility period were any better off?
To say they turned into wild beasts that indiscriminately harmed Omegas was entirely possible.
Jiu Yi was an Alpha herself, what right did she have to lecture her?
“Do you want to guess whether they would actually give you money? A bunch of desperate criminals, you’re counting on them to give you a reward?” Jiu Yi let out a mocking laugh. “Aren’t you being a bit too ridiculous?”
Previously, Jiu Yi had harbored misgivings about Leng Xuelang’s identity, feeling that her words and behavior really didn’t align with what was described in the book.
Though the “love-brain” trait was indeed confirmed, given that under these circumstances, she would rather stay with her nephew than with her.
Jiu Yi truly didn’t know what to say.
“Even that would be better than staying here and suffering with you!” Leng Xuelang was truly being tormented severely. She was clearly a cold-blooded snake, yet under these circumstances, she had been reduced to such a state, she absolutely couldn’t endure it.
“I can find a clean Alpha to mark you,” Jiu Yi said, refusing to yield from start to finish, her tone cold and heartless.
However, before she could finish her sentence, she was suddenly shoved hard against the wall by Leng Xuelang. The woman coldly pressed her lips against hers, though it wasn’t so much a kiss as it was biting her lips and her face, refusing to let her resist in any way.
Her phantom tail seemed to sense its master’s displeasure, tightening its coil around Jiu Yi’s body, almost cutting off her breath.
Jiu Yi hadn’t expected her to react so violently. Moreover, inside her mind, hatred values and affection values were actually broadcasting in alternating successions:
【 Leng Xuelan Hatred Value +1 】
【 Leng Xuelan Affection Value +1 】
【 Leng Xuelan Hatred Value +1 】
【 Leng Xuelan Affection Value +1 】
Jiu Yi: ?
【 Host! Hurry up and comfort her! Ah ah ah ah! Just say something, anything! 】 The system was so anxious it could barely form words, completely frantic.
Jiu Yi felt her head spinning slightly, that dangerous, slimy sensation of being targeted by an unknown creature clinging to her like a shadow.
She didn’t know if it was her own illusion or something else, but she unexpectedly discovered that Leng Xuelang’s pupils had turned green, and they seemed to have vertical slits, exceptionally vivid within the darkness.
She snapped into complete alertness almost instantly, pinching her chin to draw her a bit closer, wanting to see more clearly.
Leng Xuelang stared back at her stubbornly, refusing to back down in the slightest. Her expression appeared highly unyielding, even haughty, cold, glamorous, and wild.
Looking at her like this, she really didn’t seem like the Leng Xuelan from the book.
“Do you still like my nephew?” Jiu Yi released her, wiping her own lips as she asked expressionlessly.
“What? Do you want him to come and mark me?” Leng Xuelang understood her meaning, the cold smirk at the corner of her lips deepening.
“Is that not allowed?”
“Then why did you interrupt him just now? Otherwise, I would have been marked by him long ago. Why play the hypocrite here trying to arrange someone else for me?”
Leng Xuelang grew increasingly fierce and aggressive. The massive white snake wrapped around Jiu Yi didn’t seem satisfied with merely coiling around her, it wanted to plunge deeper to search for some delicious delicacy.
The snake’s tail was the first to lose restraint, slipping past the corner of her shirt and trying to crawl further up.
It could feel the increasingly taut muscles and the faint scent of pheromones, which was nothing short of a “delicacy” to Leng Xuelang while she was in her special period.
In her heart, she grew to detest Jiu Yi’s hypocritical refusal to mark her even more.
The moment this thought crossed her mind, she could no longer control her fury. Straddling Jiu Yi’s lap, she began to both kiss and bite her lips fiercely, completely refusing to let her reject her.
The forbidden, sweet taste of blood quickly melted into this tiny space, turning murky and making it impossible to distinguish good from bad. It sent their heads spinning, causing the rationality that Jiu Yi had maintained for so long to finally snap and crumble apart.
Licking the blood from the corner of her lips, Jiu Yi locked her arms tightly around the Omega’s waist to keep her from thrashing further. She brushed away her long hair, exposing the gland at the back of her neck, and bared her sharp canine teeth, preparing to bite down.