After Marking the Villain Professor (ABO, GL) - Chapter 49

Chapter 49

The term “sister” held a specific meaning in Xu Man’s mind—it was something one used only for those with bl00d ties.

In their relationship, it felt a bit too shameful.

Moreover, Xu Man had grown accustomed to calling Zhou Yutao by her name, so the sudden request to call her “sister” left Xu Man quite hesitant.

The two of them pressed close together, and even the slightest change in expression on Xu Man’s face could not escape Zhou Yutao’s notice.

That inexplicable anger Zhou Yutao felt because of Wang Kang flared up even more in an instant.

She yanked open the thin shirt Xu Man wore and sank her teeth hard into her shoulder—unlike their earlier intimacy, this time she truly put force behind it.

A sharp pain struck, and Xu Man gripped the bedding beneath her tightly. A layer of mist clouded her eyes as she clenched her teeth, not daring to make a single discordant sound, afraid that the people below would hear.

Xu Man still had not figured out why Zhou Yutao had suddenly lashed out, and a trace of lingering daze remained in her eyes.

She looked two parts more delicate than an ordinary Omega.

Especially with the fresh red bite mark on her fair, tender shoulder—it added a few shades of pitiful allure.

Some of the frustration in Zhou Yutao’s heart dissipated. She raised her head and wiped the speck of bl00d from the corner of her mouth. “Manman likes calling others ‘big brother’ but won’t call me ‘sister.’ Is it because she prefers male alphas more?”

All right, now she understood.

Xu Man’s slightly pale face flushed red inch by inch. “I just think this term of address feels a bit embarrassing.”

She paused, and her voice dropped low. “Sister.”

Such an obedient and delicate appearance made Zhou Yutao’s heartbeat quicken a few beats.

If her waist did not still ache and her gland was not brimming with the alpha’s pheromones, Zhou Yutao truly would have wanted to repeat what they had done before with Xu Man.

In the end, she was an Omega, and in this regard, she fell far short of an alpha—even a strong-willed Omega like Zhou Yutao was no exception.

She had the desire but not the strength.

But there would be plenty of days ahead.

“This is more like it. Call me one more time.”

Zhou Yutao raised her eyebrow in satisfaction.

Xu Man obediently called her “sister” once more.

Zhou Yutao’s hand gently brushed over the bite mark on Xu Man’s shoulder. “Does it hurt?”

“It hurts.”

The tears Xu Man had held back in her eyes finally fell.

She had drawn bl00d—how could it not hurt?

But the tears did not stem from affectation; rather, she simply could not control her body’s instinctive reaction.

Zhou Yutao smiled instead and lowered her head again. “Then I’ll blow on it for Manman. It won’t hurt after I blow on it.”

Those words were obviously meant to fool a child, and Xu Man was no child.

But when that warm breath carrying the peach fragrance landed on her shoulder, Xu Man truly felt it did not hurt so much anymore. Instead, a tingling itch seeped into her very bones.

They had done far more than this before.

Yet this moment made Xu Man’s heart race to its peak.

Yutao was coaxing her. Though she had made the bite mark herself, she was willing to use such a childish method to soothe her. She liked it so much.

This was the renowned Professor Zhou, who spent all year in the lab and rarely smiled.

Xu Man stared at Zhou Yutao’s profile, her gaze slowly shifting to her lips. She swallowed with difficulty. “Can I have a kiss, sister?”

She knew Zhou Yutao liked this form of address, and after calling it twice, it came even more naturally.

Zhou Yutao’s body stilled for a moment, and the next instant, she took the initiative to offer her lips.

Xu Man grew a bit excited, and in her forgetful kiss, she did not pay attention to where they were. With a roll, the bed creaked once.

The voices of the people below talking fell silent as well.

After a long pause, Xu Er’s voice came. “Eat up, everyone. Keep eating. I made a lot. I saved some for the boss and Madam Boss.”

“Haha, all right then. We won’t disturb the boss and Madam Boss.”

“Yeah, yeah. I won’t hold back either.”

Xu Yi and the others’ voices carried a hint of awkwardness.

Zheng Rong, however, frowned. “She has no sense of propriety at all. Some random ‘big brother’ popping up out of nowhere is one thing, but dragging our Professor Zhou away during mealtime—what does Boss Xu mean by this?”

Xu Yi and the others’ expressions shifted slightly as they looked at Zheng Rong. The atmosphere no longer felt as harmonious as before.

In the end, they were the Xu family’s people, and naturally, they did not want to hear anyone speaking ill of Xu Man.

At this moment, Xu Si had already relieved Qi Rui, and Qi Rui was drinking a beverage. At those words, he choked.

“Cough, cough. Boss Xu and our Professor Zhou share a deep bond. It’s normal for them to spend time together often.”

“Come on, Captain Zheng. This shrimp Brother Xu Er made is delicious. Try another one.” Qi Rui picked up a shrimp and placed it in Zheng Rong’s bowl, signaling him wildly with his eyes.

To be fair, it had clearly been Professor Zhou who dragged Boss Xu away just now.

Never mind that Professor Zhou really liked this alpha Xu Man—everything they ate and stayed in belonged to her people, after all.

Speaking like that in front of her subordinates was truly a bit unfair.

Their captain was just too much of a straight man, with eyes only for Professor Zhou. He could not stand to see her suffer the slightest grievance.

In his view, Professor Zhou handled things adeptly around Boss Xu and would not suffer any grievances, so there was no need to worry at all.

Compared to Zheng Rong, Qi Rui saw things much more clearly.

Zheng Rong immediately fell silent and quietly ate the shrimp from his bowl.

After all, they were brothers who had fought side by side for years, and they understood each other to a certain degree.

Though he did not know why Qi Rui let this alpha Xu Man offend Professor Zhou, he trusted his brother.

They shared a common mission: to ensure Professor Zhou’s safety.

Qi Rui smiled. “Let’s talk about that alpha named Wang Kang instead. Just now, he was still unwilling to give up and said he wanted to see Boss Xu.”

Xu Yi withdrew his gaze from Zheng Rong. “No need to pay him any mind for now. We’ll see how the boss wants to handle it when she has time.”

Xu Wu said, “Exactly. He’s not anyone too important anyway. At least in the boss’s heart, he’s not as important as Professor Zhou.”

Under Qi Rui’s lively lead, the atmosphere below eased.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Xu Man had broken out in a full sweat.

The sound from her roll earlier had startled her, but more than that, it embarrassed her.

After all, people were still eating downstairs, yet she and Zhou Yutao were up here being intimate. It was simply too thrilling.

After the kiss ended, Xu Man dared not make any other moves. She panted on one side while whispering softly, “Sister, let’s go downstairs to eat.”

“All right.”

With her irritable mood eased, Zhou Yutao had no objection. She buttoned Xu Man’s shirt and took a silk scarf to tie around her neck, covering the marks she had left in her loss of control.

Zhou Yutao and Xu Man came down one after the other.

The group was still eating, and Xu Er astutely brought out the reserved food.

“The boss and Madam Boss finished so quickly.”

“The dishes are still hot. Come eat while it’s warm.”

The speaker meant nothing by it, but the listeners took it to heart.

Coughs rose and fell around them.

Qi Lin gave Xu Man a meaningful glance.

As if to say, I knew it all along. Her time last time was this short too.

Xu Man: “…”.

She had not felt anything about the words at first, but now she overthought them, and her face quickly flushed red.

They had not done anything too excessive at all—just a kiss.

But did explaining something like this even make sense? Clearly not.

Zhou Yutao, however, paid no mind to these things.

The two sat silently at the table and began to enjoy the delicacies Xu Er had made.

What could she say? As expected of the team’s professional chef, everything he made was delicious, but Zhou Yutao seemed utterly uninterested.

Qi Rui understood and said to Xu Er, “Next time, trouble you to make something light and simple. Professor Zhou, she…”

She was afraid of the hassle and did not have the patience to peel shrimp, crack crabs, or pick out fish bones.

Zhou Yutao spent most of her time either teaching students or in the lab and did not have time for relatively troublesome foods.

She liked eating shrimp and fish but disliked peeling the shrimp or picking out bones.

Qi Rui’s words cut off abruptly when he saw Xu Man placing one peeled shrimp after another into Zhou Yutao’s bowl, and Zhou Yutao eating them with evident pleasure.

This alpha seemed to understand Professor Zhou a bit—not for nothing was she the only alpha who could get this close to Professor Zhou.

She was quite considerate. Many alphas could not manage that, and in the precarious apocalypse, such people were even rarer.

Perhaps what Professor Zhou lacked by her side was exactly someone like this.

“Madam Boss, what’s wrong? Don’t you like the food I made?” Xu Er looked baffled.

But he was not upset. Instead, he smiled and said, “If Madam Boss does not like what I made, then the boss can make it. Our boss’s cooking is pretty good too.”

Xu Man nodded. “All right. From now on, I’ll make sister’s meals.”

After that one time, she had not cooked for Zhou Yutao again and had not had the chance.

In truth, cooking for the person she liked was something she enjoyed.

Zhou Yutao smiled. “Then, thank you, Manman.”

Just then, the noisy voices outside grew louder and louder, faintly audible even inside.

“Xu Man, Young Master Kang wants to see you. Just come out and meet him.”

“To find you, he has not eaten or drunk anything for days.”

It turned out Wang Kang had instructed his subordinates to keep shouting like this, just to catch Xu Man’s attention.

With no other choice, since Xu Man had not shown herself for so long, they had temporarily resorted to this method.

Wang Kang had no intention of clashing with Xu Man’s people. After all, he just wanted to be with her.

Even stepping back ten thousand times, if it came to blows, victory was not guaranteed.

Xu Man’s vehicles fit the apocalypse perfectly, so their safety was naturally high.

With the group shouting nonstop like this, it gave Xu Si a headache. He did not know where he dug out a megaphone from, and he said to Wang Kang without any politeness, “What are you yelling for? Get lost.”

“Our boss is busy making babies with Madam Boss. Where does she have time to deal with you?”

“If you attract zombies, see how I deal with you.”

“Are you as pretty as Madam Boss? Can you give our boss a big fat girl? If not, shut your mouth.”

Wang Kang grew furious and pointed at Xu Si for a long while, unable to say a word.

But Xu Si had not said anything wrong at all.

For a general alpha, they would absolutely choose the Omega by Xu Man’s side over him.

But Wang Kang still firmly believed that Xu Man was the same as before and liked alphas. She had simply been hurt too many times and then seduced by that fox-like Omega, which was why she acted this way toward him.

Xu Man: “…”.

She felt a headache too.

Xu Si’s temperament had not diminished at all from the old days.

Even though she was truly with Zhou Yutao now, she could not withstand words like Xu Si’s.

Zhou Yutao, however, let out a low laugh and slowly wiped her hands with a napkin. “Since Manman’s big brother Wang Kang wants to see her so badly, then let her see him.”

Xu Man’s eyelid twitched, and she lowered her voice. “Better not to meet, sister.”

She always had a bad premonition about it.

Zhou Yutao looked at Xu Man without speaking.

Xu Man had no choice but to compromise. She said to Xu Yi, “Tell Xu Si to let them in.”