A Scummy Alpha and An Award-Winning Omega Actress Fell in Love After an Arranged Marriage (GL , ABO) - Chapter 1

The night was dark as ink, and the moon hung high above like a silver lamp in the sky.

Sheng Lan arrived at the suburban villa just before midnight. As soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Lu Xueyin lying on the floor.

She was completely defenseless, like a rose that had lost its thorns, waiting quietly to be picked.

Moonlight slipped through the curtain’s slit and spilled across her body.

The deep blue silk nightgown made her skin look even paler and colder. A strap had slid off her shoulder beneath the crescent moonlight, casting a dazzling yet dreamy glow over her cool figure.

Soft and alluring.

As Sheng Lan stepped closer, she could hear faint whimpers escaping from Lu Xueyin’s throat.

It was a sound born of restraint and suppressed desire, an involuntary moan slipping from damp, reddened lips.

For an Alpha, this was an immense temptation.

Especially for an Alpha in heat.

But Sheng Lan was completely unaffected.

Because she was wearing a gas mask.

The story behind this absurd yet helpless situation began two hours earlier.

Two hours ago, she had dreamed that she was a scumbag Alpha in a yuri ABO novel. In the dream, furious about her family’s arranged marriage, she took it out on her wife, Lu Xueyin.

On their wedding night, she left to party, abandoning Lu Xueyin alone in their new suburban home. The area was remote, and leaving Lu Xueyin there alone was unsafe. Her so-called friends even offered to “teach her a lesson.”

Before Lu Xueyin moved in, odorless and colorless arousal agents had been sprayed through the humidifier for three days. The entire house was saturated. Staying in it too long would lead anyone to enter heat.

They even cut off her options for escape. Using her family as leverage, they threatened her and took away her phone, forbidding any contact with the outside world. She was told that the scumbag Alpha would be back that night to “consummate the marriage.”

Under the influence of the scent, Lu Xueyin thought this was just part of the plan. When it became unbearable, she tried to relieve herself with suppressants.

What she didn’t know was that those suppressants had been swapped for more arousal agents. The more she sprayed, the worse it got.

In the original story, the scumbag Alpha never came home. Lu Xueyin spent the entire night alone, suffering through her heat. It caused a disorder in her pheromone system, and her uncontrolled scent spill nearly ruined her career.

The Alpha felt no guilt at all. Instead, she humiliated Lu Xueyin, calling her a filthy woman who slept her way to the top.

Later in the marriage, she abused her. She hated how Lu Xueyin resisted her, and after forcing multiple marks, one heated conflict ended with her gouging out Lu Xueyin’s glands in rage. It left her permanently disabled.

Now, Sheng Lan crouched down and placed a gas mask over Lu Xueyin’s face, hiding her devastating beauty. Then she wrapped her in a trench coat and carried her out of this poisoned room.

The coat placed a barrier between their bodies.

But Lu Xueyin was determined to break that sense of safety. She reached out, as if she had been wandering the desert for years and finally saw an oasis.

Yet when she leaned in to drink, she found an invisible wall separating her from the water.

She could smell its sweetness and see its clarity, but not a drop would reach her lips.

Her soft, pained whimpers now carried a hint of helplessness and sorrow.

Sheng Lan remained unmoved. Her heart was like iron.

Once in the car, she sprayed Lu Xueyin with suppressant and told the driver to go straight to the hospital.

A partition blocked off the front seats. The windows were sealed, and the small space was quickly filled with the cold scent of the suppressant.

It created the illusion that maybe she could take off her mask now.

But Sheng Lan did not want to die as fast as the original “scumbag Alpha,” so she opened a new bottle and sprayed herself relentlessly.

After that, she was calm as still water.

Even if ten top-tier Omegas tried to seduce her right now, she would not flinch.

Then she looked down and met Lu Xueyin’s eyes.

Lu Xueyin’s eyes were a gentle, transparent green, like the soft warmth of early spring.

Now they were filled with humiliation and fury, shadowed by fear after despair. The passion of her heat had been forcibly suppressed. A thin layer of frost now covered her gaze, fragile and within reach yet painfully distant.

It pierced straight through Sheng Lan’s heart.

She couldn’t help but soften her voice.
“Don’t be afraid. We’re on our way to the hospital.”

Lu Xueyin closed her eyes and said nothing.

Sheng Lan blinked, wondering if maybe the gas mask had made Lu Xueyin unable to recognize her.

Just as the silence was stretching unbearably long, Lu Xueyin gathered her strength and said,
“I don’t accept being marked by more than one person. Let me out of the car.”

Some people are just naturally absurd.

Like Sheng Lan.

Upon hearing that, her first thought was,
Wow, she has some wild ideas.

Thankfully, she kept that thought to herself.

Lu Xueyin could not see the expression of someone biting back their words. All she heard was awkward silence and imagined that Sheng Lan felt guilty. She responded with a mocking snort.

She didn’t want to keep lying on Sheng Lan’s lap. She tried several times to get up, but failed. Instead, her movements looked more like intentional teasing.

Seeing she was too weak, Sheng Lan helped her up and seated her beside her.

Lu Xueyin still insisted on stopping the car.

The heat brought on by the arousal agent was too intense.

A single bottle of suppressant could only help her cool down temporarily and regain a bit of clarity.

If Sheng Lan really let her out now, what awaited Lu Xueyin would be worse than the original story.

There was no doubt she would be blamed for it.

They would say she abandoned a vulnerable Omega in heat on the street and let who knows how many people violate her.

Sheng Lan leaned over and whispered,
“Forgive me for this.”

She pulled off the coat and wrapped Lu Xueyin in it again, this time more tightly.

She slid her hands around from front to back, tied the belt in place, and buckled her seatbelt securely.

Just in case Lu Xueyin mustered enough strength to open the door and jump.

Once everything was done, Sheng Lan ignored the glare filled with silent rage from Lu Xueyin and leaned back against the seat.

The gas mask was a minimalist model. It could only filter for thirty minutes to an hour.

She was already starting to catch the faint scent of roses in the air. The mask’s protection was weakening.

Sheng Lan quietly shifted away from her.

When the scent of May roses became impossible to ignore, she opened a new bottle of suppressant and sprayed it again, urging the driver to go faster.

In the middle of her anxious instructions, Lu Xueyin suddenly said, “Mark me.”

Sheng Lan froze.

Her voice was soft and almost pleading.

The gas mask covered her entire face, leaving only a pair of dazed, peach blossom eyes exposed.

Those eyes, filled with quiet longing, locked onto Sheng Lan’s.

Unfortunately, Sheng Lan had no interest in marking anyone tonight. All she wanted was to survive.

She sighed.
“I really wish I could help you, but I’m a fake Alpha. I can’t mark anyone.”

Lu Xueyin’s body tensed ever so slightly. Even her soft, seductive gasps faltered.

Sheng Lan didn’t notice. She leaned farther away, toward the car door.

Lu Xueyin’s breathing grew louder.

Even from a distance, it sounded like a whisper right next to her ear.

Sheng Lan unlocked her phone to check the time.

It would take about an hour to get from the suburbs to the city.

Both she and Lu Xueyin had millions of fans in the entertainment industry, so they couldn’t go to just any hospital. She had chosen a private clinic owned by a friend. The drive would take about an hour and a half.

The appointment had already been made. There were ten minutes left.

Without hesitation, Sheng Lan opened another bottle of suppressant and sprayed it into the air.

It seemed to work. Lu Xueyin quieted down.

She subtly pulled her legs under the trench coat.

Only then did Sheng Lan feel a flicker of fondness for her.

But the moment that thought formed, her mind immediately recalled the ending of the scumbag Alpha in the book.

After having her glands removed, Lu Xueyin reached her breaking point. She exposed the real reason she had been forced into the marriage and revealed the abuse she suffered afterward. The entire internet was shaken.

The Alpha’s reputation was completely destroyed. The Sheng family was driven to bankruptcy by Lu Xueyin’s admirers working together. The scumbag Alpha was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where she suffered through pheromone electric therapy that left her wishing for death.

Sheng Lan instinctively touched the back of her neck and shivered. Her will to survive grew even stronger.

When they arrived at the hospital, Sheng Lan called over a nurse to help Lu Xueyin inside. The mask stayed on to prevent any sneaky photos.

Her friend Meng Chan had stayed late just for this appointment. When she saw Sheng Lan arrive, she frowned and said,
“Your phone’s been off. I couldn’t reach you.”

Sheng Lan replied,
“I switched to airplane mode. Otherwise, the calls would’ve driven me crazy. I didn’t have time to block everyone one by one.”

She had turned on airplane mode right after making the appointment.

Halfway there, she remembered she needed a suppressant and a gas mask. By then, she was already near the outskirts and had to grab them from a small pharmacy last minute.

Because Lu Xueyin was in heat, she had to use a special entrance. She couldn’t go through the main lobby.

The side route wasn’t isolated, but it was late at night and only the four of them were around. That made Lu Xueyin feel incredibly unsafe.

In the car, she repeated herself, holding back her shame and anger.

“I don’t accept being marked by more than one person.”

They were practically at the emergency room doors.

Sheng Lan pointed at the red-letter sign ahead and said,
“Take a good look.”

Lu Xueyin’s eyes were misty with tears. She could barely see anything clearly.

She could hardly walk in a straight line. Even on flat ground, she stumbled. When she looked up, she gave a cold laugh.

“We’re almost there, and you’re still pretending?”

If it wasn’t some twisted plan to share her with others, why would they use so much arousal agent on her?

Reality proved louder than words.

Before Sheng Lan could respond, more medical staff came out from inside.

Lu Xueyin refused to lie on a stretcher. Sheng Lan told the nurse to let her walk, with someone helping her on either side.

Someone behind them sprayed deodorizer to clear the pheromone traces. Lu Xueyin assumed it was to erase evidence. She clenched her jaw and refused to say another word.

When the emergency room doors opened and she saw that the room was indeed filled with medical equipment and supplies, her eyes flickered with disbelief.

It was actually a real hospital?