Looking at the scene in the room, the bed was a chaotic mess, piled with anything that could possibly carry even a hint of her pheromones. And there was Jiang Tan, sleeping in the bed Jiang Yue had slept in, wrapped in the quilt she had used…
Is she nesting?
This question couldn’t help but bubble up in Jiang Yue’s mind.
“Get out, don’t look at me.”
Sensing that Jiang Yue hadn’t left, Jiang Tan became increasingly overwhelmed and distressed. She wrapped herself completely in the quilt, unwilling to face the fact that such a shameful and transgressive act had been discovered. Furthermore…
Now that Jiang Yue had seen it—seen her doing such a thing with her belongings—what would she think of her?
Would she think she was absolutely terrible?
Already in an emotionally unstable phase, Jiang Tan’s emotions became even more turbulent, and the bridge of her nose stung sharply.
What would Jiang Yue think of her?
Watching the person hiding away like an ostrich, Jiang Yue wasn’t entirely sure what her own feelings should be.
Logically, she ought to feel offended, yet she didn’t experience any sense of violation. She even felt that it was understandable why Jiang Tan was acting this way.
After all, she had once slept in Jiang Tan’s bed as well.
Though Jiang Tan’s current situation was a bit more extreme than hers had been back then.
Jiang Yue remained silent for a long while, but the longer she stayed, the more she could feel her own body reacting to Jiang Tan.
It was the physical instinct of an Omega being influenced by an Alpha.
“Is the suppressant not working?” Jiang Yue looked at the clearly used suppressant vials scattered on the floor. This quantity…
In less than a single day, Jiang Tan had used up an entire box of suppressants?
Wasn’t this dosage… a bit too high?
And it looked as if it hadn’t had much effect at all.
“It’s useless!” a muffled, gritted voice came from under the quilt.
How could she have known the effect of the suppressants would be so weak this time? She truly suspected she had bought a counterfeit batch!
Hearing her voice, Jiang Yue thought for a moment. She still didn’t dare to get too close, so she simply peeled back a corner of the inhibitor patch she always wore over her gland, releasing some of her pheromones toward Jiang Tan, trying to use this method to give her some temporary relief and calm.
“Jiang Tan, should I go out and buy some more suppressants for you in a bit?” Jiang Yue asked.
She clearly couldn’t stay here for long. The only thing Jiang Tan could rely on was… suppressants.
Jiang Tan remained silent under the quilt, but as the previously frantic pheromones in the air began to level out, it was evident that her condition was better than before.
Enveloped by that refreshing and pleasant Omega pheromone, Jiang Tan couldn’t help but stretch her body comfortably beneath the covers; every cell in her body was screaming with pleasure and relief.
Jiang Yue’s pheromones… how could they smell so good?
Receiving no answer, Jiang Yue bit her lip lightly. “Wait a moment, I’ll bring the suppressants to you shortly.”
However, she still didn’t hear a reply this time. Since Jiang Tan was unwilling to answer, the choice was obvious.
She didn’t want her to leave.
Jiang Yue sighed softly in her heart, but staying any longer was too dangerous for her.
Jiang Yue picked up and tidied the suppressant syringes on the floor, lest Jiang Tan accidentally step on them and hurt herself when getting out of bed.
Just as she turned to leave, Jiang Tan’s aggrieved and ashamed voice came from behind her.
“Can I have a bite… please?”
The moment Jiang Tan said it, she knew how outrageous the request was. But she really couldn’t control herself anymore; this rut was far more agonizing than any she had experienced before.
She felt that if Jiang Yue left just like this, she would truly collapse completely.
Jiang Yue turned back as if uncertain of what she’d heard, only to see the “ostrich” still maintaining her state of evasion, clearly not daring to meet her gaze.
A bite?
Actually, the two of them had already bitten each other before; even the mark Jiang Tan left on her hadn’t faded yet. It seemed as though allowing another bite wasn’t something entirely unacceptable.
But… once there was a first compromise, there would likely be a second, a third… countless times.
And what about her own actual situation? Could she handle such a circumstance?
Furthermore, an Alpha in a rut has extremely low self-control. How could she be sure that Jiang Tan wouldn’t completely mark her right now?
“Go, leave quickly!”
Jiang Tan suddenly spoke again, her voice trembling.
The pheromones in the air became restless once more in an instant.
Jiang Yue hesitated for a moment before finally turning toward the mound on the bed. “Can you control yourself and not completely mark me?”
In the end, Jiang Yue’s heart had softened.
She didn’t know if this decision was right or wrong, but it was the only thing she could do for Jiang Tan.
“You’re willing?” Even though Jiang Tan was in such pain, and even though she was the one who had blurted out the request, she still felt a sense of disbelief upon hearing Jiang Yue’s counter-question.
“Do you plan to keep talking to me while hidden under the quilt?” Jiang Yue answered with a question of her own.
Jiang Tan hesitated for a second, but eventually, she tentatively lifted a corner of the quilt, revealing half of her face as she looked up.
She was currently very ashamed and guilty; her gaze flickered unsteadily, not daring to truly meet Jiang Yue’s eyes.
Looking at her shy appearance, Jiang Yue tilted her head slightly, feeling an ill-timed urge to laugh.
Jiang Tan currently looked like a little kitten whose mother had never taught it how to bite. Even in the state of a rut, and even though one could feel her pheromones reaching the brink of collapse, the way she presented herself was actually a bit… easy to tease.
Jiang Yue slowly sat down by the bedside, looking down at the person who was clearly stunned by her proximity. She confirmed once more: “You won’t completely mark me, will you?”
Looking at the Jiang Yue who was within arm’s reach and smelling the incredibly alluring, clear fragrance emanating from her, Jiang Tan’s throat bobbed slowly. Finally, she said with difficult honesty, “I wouldn’t dare to.”
They were currently in a situation akin to a little “affair.” Once the mark faded, the experience of this affair could be buried without a sound. But a complete marking—wouldn’t that flagrantly confirm the affair?
Besides, even if a mark could be washed away, it was a quite painful process for an Omega.
So, she couldn’t cause substantial harm to Jiang Yue…
Jiang Yue wanted to laugh even more. Finally, with a sigh in her heart, since she had made up her mind, she no longer hesitated. She tilted her head, brushing her long hair to one side, and leaned in to bring her nape close to Jiang Tan. She said softly, “But you need to control the amount. You can’t make me go into heat as well.”
If she went into heat under these circumstances, there was no guarantee that things wouldn’t cross the line.
An Alpha and an Omega in their respective cycles simultaneously… the consequences were unthinkable.
“Mmh…”
Jiang Tan’s throat was incredibly parched. her eyes were fixed intently on the reddened gland on Jiang Yue’s nape.
Her throat bobbed even more violently.
At the same time, her heart was extremely conflicted.
She was the one who had first asked if Jiang Yue would let her have a bite, yet when Jiang Yue actually agreed and even approached her so proactively, Jiang Tan felt increasingly uneasy.
She wasn’t sure if this one bite would lower her self-control threshold.
She was also afraid she would become addicted to Jiang Yue’s pheromones.
“Jiang Yue, what if I get addicted to this in the future?” Jiang Tan couldn’t help but sob. She truly felt that Jiang Yue’s pheromones were highly addictive. Even just smelling her lingering scent made her suppressants almost useless.
She was suffering; Jiang Yue’s pheromones were too attractive to her.
“Am I a poppy? How could you get addicted?” Seeing that she hadn’t moved for a while, Jiang Yue sat up straight, though she found the words both funny and tragic.
Jiang Tan’s eyes were red around the rims. “I’m serious. When I smell your pheromones, I can’t stop my body from reacting.”
Jiang Yue was stunned for a moment. Thinking back to the past, she supposed Jiang Tan must have smelled her pheromones many times. “But you didn’t look like you were having a reaction?”
In fact, everything she had displayed was perfectly natural. At times, Jiang Yue even doubted if her pheromones had any attraction for her at all.
“That’s because I was faking it,” Jiang Tan sobbed.
For a moment, Jiang Yue was both amused and helpless. But seeing the way Jiang Tan looked like she was about to cry the next second, she couldn’t help but reach out to rub Jiang Tan’s head. With a light sigh, she said intentionally, “Then, shall I leave?”
Jiang Tan went silent again.
She was annoyed.
She didn’t know which choice was the right one.
Actually, there was another way in this situation: Jiang Yue could bite Jiang Tan. However, for an Omega to reverse-mark an Alpha, it only involved deep marking, which was much more troublesome than Jiang Tan biting her.
An Alpha who had just been marked by an Omega would desperately crave their Omega—becoming extremely, incredibly clingy…
Jiang Yue felt that, compared to that situation, it was more appropriate for her to be bitten by Jiang Tan.
“Hurry up, I won’t be able to hold out much longer either.” Jiang Yue leaned toward Jiang Tan again.
Looking at the reddened gland before her that was emitting a dense, cool fragrance of night-blooming cereus, Jiang Tan swallowed hard. She could no longer restrain herself and lunged forward, sinking her canines into that fragile yet exquisitely alluring gland. Capturing the purest and most concentrated fragrance within, she began—almost trembling—to fuse her pheromones with Jiang Yue’s.
From head to toe, every pore was screaming with satisfaction. This was a feeling that suppressants could never compare to. All the previous dryness and agony were instantly soothed.
Jiang Tan’s head was buried in the crook of Jiang Yue’s neck. Besides the cool scent of the cereus, she could also smell Jiang Yue’s own natural fragrance. Her mind was still dizzy; she felt her whole body grow light, as if she were going to float away the next second.
“Jiang Yue…”
Jiang Tan called Jiang Yue’s name indistinctly, wanting so much to rub Jiang Yue into her very body…
However, as Jiang Tan, soothed by the Omega, gradually regained her senses, she understood that she couldn’t ask for more. Although she felt very reluctant in her heart, she gave a final lick to Jiang Yue’s gland, using the Alpha’s saliva to help the Omega’s gland recover faster.
Yet, with the action of her licking, Jiang Yue’s body trembled again, and her breathing became increasingly disorganized.
“I’m going out first. I’ll bring you the suppressants later.”
After Jiang Tan’s body retreated slightly, Jiang Yue stood up, covering her gland, and backed away two steps. She could feel a familiar surge of passion rising in her own body; she knew she had reached her limit and could not stay any longer.
“Okay…”
Jiang Tan watched longingly as Jiang Yue quickly left and closed the bedroom door. She felt as though her heart had suddenly gone empty.
On the other side, Jiang Yue forced her weakening legs to leave the eye of the storm. Still, she didn’t dare to be careless. She reapplied her inhibitor patch to prevent Wang Xiuya from discovering that she had just been marked by Jiang Tan. Remembering something, she went back to the bedroom door and knocked.
“Grandma Wang and the others cooked for you. It’s on the living room table. Remember to come and eat.”
“Okay.”
Jiang Tan’s muffled response came from inside.
Jiang Yue took a deep breath, but the Alpha’s licorice scent once again stirred the desire in her body through her nose. She hurried, holding her breath, and quickly opened the front door to walk out.
As the door closed, Jiang Yue’s heart continued to pound violently. She spent quite a while outside calming herself down before she finally headed downstairs with slightly unsteady steps to buy the suppressants for Jiang Tan.
Thinking about the amount Jiang Tan used, Jiang Yue sighed softly. She would never again tease Jiang Tan for not being able to save money; the expense of these suppressants was indeed massive.
Jiang Yue couldn’t help but agree in her heart with Jiang Tan’s words about the pharmaceutical companies being unscrupulous profiteers and capitalists.
From the brands she saw while buying the suppressants, it wasn’t hard to see that the brand called “Yuehua Pharmaceutical Group” was almost a monopoly; its market share was enormous.
With her mind wandering, Jiang Yue arrived at the pharmacy. She didn’t have much cash on her, and because the previous situation had been so unusual, she had forgotten to ask Jiang Tan for money. Now, she could only afford a single dose.
Jiang Yue, handing over six hundred yuan only to receive one suppressant: “…”
Profiteers!
In truth, the reason good suppressants were priced so high was also because most people in this world were Betas who didn’t need them. For average Alphas or Omegas, a single dose was usually enough to solve the problem during each cycle. They didn’t need to use as much, so the selling price was naturally high.
But…
Jiang Yue felt there were always people who were a bit different, weren’t there? For those who were a bit “special,” there really wasn’t even a shred of consideration…
Jiang Yue sighed softly, her tone carrying a hint of melancholy.
Returning to the residential building, she greeted the elderly folks downstairs as usual and went up. Opening the door, she happened to see Jiang Tan eating in the living room.