After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 69

Jiang Youli’s heart felt a wave of warmth as she listened to Lu Yaoyi’s gentle words.

She found solace in Lu Yaoyi from the fear and shock of almost being set up by another Omega. Lu Yaoyi was like a calming pill that soothed all the unease in her heart. She felt as if the entire world had been saved.

She suddenly felt a great sense of security.

She felt so at ease.

Was this… the warmth that Lu Yaoyi brought to her?

The bright moonlight shone on the two people who were hugging each other under the moon.

The evening breeze blew, bringing with it a hint of coolness.

A little while later,

Jiang Youli smelled the familiar scent and was no longer scared. The feelings of being wronged in her heart also gradually faded. She calmed down and realized that she had been hugging Lu Yaoyi for a long time. So she immediately let go of Lu Yaoyi and looked away awkwardly.

“…”

She suddenly didn’t know what to say.

So embarrassing.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli strangely. “Jiang Youli.”

Jiang Youli said stiffly, “Huh?”

Lu Yaoyi: “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Youli’s eyes darted around. “Nothing.”

Lu Yaoyi saw Jiang Youli’s awkwardness and knew that Jiang Youli was hiding something from her. Otherwise, Jiang Youli wouldn’t have hugged her or shown her such a vulnerable side. “Then why did you come to see me so late?”

“…”

Jiang Youli really didn’t know how to explain it to Lu Yaoyi.

She didn’t want to tell Lu Yaoyi that she had almost been set up by another Omega.

So she pursed her lips and remained silent.

Seeing that Jiang Youli hadn’t answered for a long time, Lu Yaoyi asked, “You missed me?”

Hearing this, Jiang Youli suddenly felt guilty, as if she had been caught.

She subconsciously retorted, “When are you going to stop being so narcissistic?”

“Then why did you suddenly come to my house so late?” Lu Yaoyi looked Jiang Youli in the eye and pressed on. “And… what are you scared of?”

Jiang Youli: “…”

She felt so uncomfortable being stared at by Lu Yaoyi that she decided to selectively ignore Lu Yaoyi’s question and deliberately change the subject. “I came to ask you a question.”

Lu Yaoyi: “What question?”

Jiang Youli: “What if I mark another Omega?”

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli in surprise.

She couldn’t help but wonder if Jiang Youli had someone she liked, which was why she had come to ask her this question. So she asked, “Did you mark another Omega?”

Jiang Youli: “No.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then why are you suddenly asking me this question?”

Jiang Youli: “I was just asking.”

Lu Yaoyi was a little nervous. “Do you… have someone you like?”

“No, I don’t have anyone I like. Didn’t I just tell you? I just suddenly wanted to ask you this when I came to see you so late,” Jiang Youli looked at Lu Yaoyi with an unchanging expression. “What if I mark another Omega?”

Lu Yaoyi pursed her lips and didn’t answer Jiang Youli’s question.

After a few seconds of silence,

She looked at Jiang Youli seriously. “If you mark another Omega, you won’t be my Alpha anymore, so don’t mark another Omega.”

Jiang Youli didn’t say anything.

Lu Yaoyi: “If you have someone you like, you can tell me. But during our partnership, don’t mark another Omega.”

She paused and looked at Jiang Youli with a complicated expression. “Otherwise…”

Jiang Youli: “Otherwise what?”

Lu Yaoyi didn’t dare to reveal her true feelings, so she just said, “Otherwise, I won’t want you anymore.”

Jiang Youli was slightly taken aback.

Lu Yaoyi: “I’ll also immediately end our partnership and go our separate ways.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

“So, please don’t mark another Omega, okay?” Lu Yaoyi’s voice was as gentle as a warm spring breeze. “Besides… don’t you still have me by your side?”

Jiang Youli’s heart felt a wave of warmth.

The faint scent of hyacinths wafted into her nose.

At that moment, she suddenly remembered the scene of being tackled by Chen Xi and the cherry-scented pheromones that Chen Xi had released. She didn’t know why she found Chen Xi’s pheromones so unpleasant. They were so disgusting that she felt nauseous and her whole body was in pain.

An Alpha should not dislike an Omega’s pheromones…

Thinking of this, she felt that agreeing to partner with Lu Yaoyi was the right decision.

But…

She wanted to know what Lu Yaoyi meant.

“I can promise you that I won’t mark another Omega during our partnership.”

“Then what about you?”

Lu Yaoyi didn’t quite understand. “What about me?”

Jiang Youli: “What if you get marked by another Alpha?”

Lu Yaoyi answered without hesitation, “I won’t be marked by another Alpha.”

Jiang Youli: “Why?”

Lu Yaoyi: “There’s no why. I just won’t.”

Jiang Youli: “What if?”

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli gently.

Her tone was firm and confident.

“There is no ‘what if’.”

She was only willing to be marked by Jiang Youli and be Jiang Youli’s Omega in this life.

When Jiang Youli heard Lu Yaoyi say this, she knew that she wouldn’t get a proper answer even if she kept asking. So she said, “Okay, then that’s that.”

“Nothing else. You can go back now.”

Lu Yaoyi: “You called me down this late just to send me away like this?”

Jiang Youli: “What else?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then tell me, what are you so scared of?”

Jiang Youli stared at Lu Yaoyi blankly and didn’t say anything.

Scared of what?

She…

She was scared of falling into a trap and uncontrollably marking another Omega.

And she was even more scared of…

She would never tell Lu Yaoyi the truth. “I’m not scared of anything.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Really?”

Jiang Youli: “Mhm.”

Lu Yaoyi: “It’s okay if you don’t want to tell me.”

Jiang Youli didn’t say anything.

“Jiang Youli, if you’re scared, you can come to me anytime, anywhere,” Lu Yaoyi’s lips curled up slightly. “I said I’ll always be here.”

Hearing this, Jiang Youli’s heart rate quietly fell out of rhythm.

She awkwardly looked away. “I know, I know. You’re so annoying.”

“I’m going back.”

With that, she turned around and left without waiting for Lu Yaoyi to say anything.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli’s retreating back helplessly.

The smile on her lips deepened.

Jiang Youli had just walked out of Lu Yaoyi’s yard and slowly stopped.

She looked back at Lu Yaoyi’s house for a few seconds.

Then she looked away and walked toward her own house.

Lu Yaoyi told her she would always be there.

If they ended their partnership, would Lu Yaoyi still be there?

Then this ‘always’…

Lu Yaoyi…

Must be coaxing her.

Regarding Jiang Youli almost being set up by Jiang Hao at Shengda KTV,

Besides Jiang Youli,

The other three friends who knew about it also didn’t mention it again.

The main reason was—

Jiang Youli didn’t want Lu Yaoyi to know.

Yan Xiao forced Jiang Hao to drop out of school and made it impossible for him to stay in Jiangcheng.

In the end, he left Jiangcheng.

A few days later,

The matter passed just like the evening breeze passing by.

Winter arrived.

The biting winter wind swept through the streets and alleys, and the cold air completely enveloped the land.

The wildly growing leaves gradually withered.

The big trees on both sides of the street revealed their bare branches. The leaves drifted with the wind to various corners of Jiangcheng. The entire bustling Jiangcheng was covered by the freezing cold of winter. People started to put on thick cotton jackets and down coats.

Winter had a unique, lonely, and cold charm.

Early December.

Lu Yaoyi received the news that the first-year high school students at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School would be going to a high school in the capital as exchange students. A total of ten students from both schools would be exchange students.

The exchange period was one month.

When Lu Yaoyi heard about this arrangement, she knew that she wouldn’t be able to trick Jiang Youli into getting a room with her during this month’s heat. However, the high school in the capital was one of the best high schools in the country. It would also be great for her to go there to study and experience the atmosphere.

If she missed this opportunity, there would be another one.

It was okay.

Monday.

Lu Yaoyi and the other nine students boarded the school bus early in the morning and headed to the airport. The team was led by the head of the first-year class.

The cold wind constantly blew into the classroom from the window.

Jiang Youli looked at the empty seat behind her and felt a wave of emotions.

She didn’t expect that she wouldn’t see Lu Yaoyi for a month.

She couldn’t describe what she was feeling.

It was just that without Lu Yaoyi,

She…

Was so not used to it.

Time passed quickly, and more than half a month went by in a flash.

That evening,

Jiang Youli took a shower and lay comfortably in bed, playing games with Chen Huaian and the others. After the game ended, she found out that Lu Yaoyi had sent her a message.

She looked at the red notification in the chat box.

Since Lu Yaoyi had gone to the high school in the capital at the beginning of the month, they hadn’t contacted each other in all those days. She pursed her lips and opened the message from Lu Yaoyi.

—Jiang Youli, why aren’t you here with me.

—I feel so uncomfortable right now.

Jiang Youli’s heart trembled slightly as she looked at the message from Lu Yaoyi.

Her gaze slowly moved up.

It showed that the time the message was sent was half an hour ago.

She thought Lu Yaoyi must be in her heat.

She thought for a moment, then typed her reply.

—Are you in your heat?

Lu Yaoyi replied almost instantly.

—You’re asking the obvious.

Jiang Youli replied.

—You’re far away in the capital. I can’t fly there to help you.

—So just inject an inhibitor and bear with it.

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—Mhm.

A few seconds later,

Lu Yaoyi sent another message.

—If I was home right now, would you get a room with me?

Jiang Youli: “…”

Lu Yaoyi really wouldn’t give up on getting a room with her, would she…

She typed a vague reply.

—I won’t tell you.

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—Then I’ll just assume that you would.

Jiang Youli replied.

—I didn’t agree to that.

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—You should be close to your rut, right?

Jiang Youli replied.

—Mhm.

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—I’m not with you right now.

—Don’t miss me too much.

Jiang Youli replied.

—Don’t worry.

—I will absolutely not miss you, okay?

Lu Yaoyi’s heart was filled with mixed feelings as she looked at Jiang Youli’s message.

She missed Jiang Youli so much. She missed her so, so much every day.

She stared at her phone screen for a while in silence.

Then she replied.

—Jiang Youli, it’s almost Christmas next week.

—Do you think Santa Claus will bring the person I want to see to me?

Jiang Youli was slightly taken aback.

The question of who the person Lu Yaoyi wanted to see was immediately popped into her mind.

“…”

Who cares.

What does it have to do with her who Lu Yaoyi wants to see?

She typed her reply with a complicated heart.

—I don’t know.

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—Christmas is on the weekend.

—I really hope Santa Claus can bring the person I want to see to me.

Jiang Youli looked at Lu Yaoyi’s message and slightly narrowed her eyes.

Speechless.

Does Lu Yaoyi want to see that person so much?

She kept telling herself that she didn’t want to know who the person Lu Yaoyi wanted to see was.

But she still couldn’t help but ask Lu Yaoyi.

—Who do you want to see?

Lu Yaoyi replied.

—You.