After Transmigrating Into a Scummy Alpha, I Have Unlimited Krypton Gold (GL) - Chapter 1

Xue Cheng was in her second year of university. A couple years ago, when the research on pheromone stabilizers was all the rage, she got caught up in the hype and impulsively enrolled in the hottest program at the time—AO pharmaceutical development—determined to make her contribution to the betterment of humanity.

It wasn’t until she was neck-deep in the program that she realized: never study medicine. Never. Anything even remotely related to medicine was hell. She basically lived between the library and the lab, while everyone else walked around hand in hand, enjoying their romantic college life.

Meanwhile, she was out in the wild with a fat textbook in her arms, hunting through fields of overgrown weeds to identify herbs with potential for stable extraction. And once she made it back to campus, it was straight to the lab to experiment with formulas.

Sometimes, even the slightest fluctuation in a single variable meant she’d be staying up all night recalibrating her data.

The country had a massive shortage of talent in the pheromone stabilizer field, so the job prospects were great—but nobody told her it would be this exhausting!

But hindsight’s a luxury, and by now it was too late for regrets.

This past month, she’d been working nonstop on a tricky formula, and finally, she was on the verge of a breakthrough. She swore to herself she’d push through and solve this problem so she could go home for the Lunar New Year with peace of mind.

She didn’t want to spend her whole break haunted by unfinished assignments. Failing a course was the kind of reality no bright-eyed, foolish college student wanted to face.

But all that nonstop research and lab work took a toll. Her body was drained, yet every time she lay down, her brain wouldn’t stop buzzing. She just couldn’t fall asleep.

Restless, Xue Cheng picked up her phone and scrolled through her apps. It was 3 a.m., and predictably, no one was online.

Her family group chat had gone quiet since 11:30 p.m.—back when she was still tearing her hair out in the lab.

She didn’t socialize much; most of her time went into studying and experiments.

Still wide awake, Xue Cheng wandered into the app store and randomly downloaded a novel app with a green icon—green like the herbs she worked with every day, full of life.

Being a young and curious Alpha, naturally she gravitated toward something spicy, dramatic, and rated for adults.

One novel caught her eye. The title was plain, but the blurb reeked of forbidden desire. It was called The Mute Little Omega’s Adventure. Honestly, from the title alone, she thought it might be some kind of action story.

But one look at the summary and—whoa. Oh boy.

So this so-called “adventure” was actually a journey through one romantic trial after another. Scummy Alphas, clingy Alphas, manipulative Alphas, creepy Alphas, and loyal puppy-dog Alphas…

The love affairs were intense, the rating practically off the charts. One look at the comments, and Xue Cheng could tell something was up. Readers were convinced the author had some kind of deal with the moderators—how else could such scandalous content get past censorship?

Innocent little Xue Cheng, who’d never even held hands with anyone, found her curiosity piqued. She opened the first chapter to “read a little” before bed.

Except, the more she read, the more hyped she got. Her bl00d was practically boiling. Before she knew it, she’d binge-read over half the book.

Just as she was planning to power through to the finale, her preset alarm went off, dragging her back to reality. Disoriented and half-zombified, she smacked the snooze button and glanced at the time, then at the sky outside.

Welp. Time to go back to the lab again.

Thanks to her youthful resilience, she didn’t feel too awful after pulling an all-nighter. She rolled out of bed, still groggy, and headed to the bathroom—but halfway there, a dull ache throbbed in her chest.

She didn’t think much of it, just splashed cold water on her face and got dressed, ready for another long day of trial and error.

Even on the way there, she was thinking about the book. Tonight, I have to carve out time to finish the rest.

She didn’t really care about the plot anymore. It was all about the delicious push-and-pull between the mute Omega and all those hot, messy Alphas.

Her cheeks flushed red.

She’d never told anyone, but the heroine was totally her type. She was obsessed with that “beautiful, strong, tragic” vibe—just the right amount of damage, outwardly harmless like a soft little bunny, but secretly a black-hearted queen who’d rip you apart without blinking.

It was basically her kryptonite.

The only downside? One of the scummy Alphas at the start shared her exact name—Xue Cheng. That part was a bit uncomfortable. After all, she was a twenty-year-old who’d never even had a crush, let alone any experience with other Omegas.

Still, it was just a novel. No harm in a little guilty pleasure.

With those thoughts in mind, Xue Cheng dove headfirst back into her experiments. She skipped breakfast, riding on the high of excitement. By the time her stomach started growling, it was already afternoon.

She’d felt hungry at noon but was too focused on an important data point to stop. Now that she was done, she felt like a wrung-out rag.

She grabbed some old wafer biscuits and chocolate bars from her locker to hold her over, planning to crash for a nap in her dorm.

The moment she hit the bed, sleep took over. She pulled the blanket over her head and passed out cold.

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So hot.

Xue Cheng groaned, half-asleep, trying to kick off her blanket. Her eyelids felt like they were glued shut. She fumbled near the pillow, trying to find the AC remote.

Weird. It’s nearly fall—why is it this hot?

Her brain felt like it was filled with cement, sluggish and heavy. She struggled to wake up, the heat unbearable. There was a sweet scent in the air, soft and sugary like milk or cotton candy—sweet but not overwhelming.

The aroma made her mouth water. Her marking glands began to itch. She suddenly wanted—no, needed—a taste.

She squirmed in bed, tossing and turning, then rolled right off the mattress with a thud. The jolt of pain finally cleared her mind, and she forced her heavy eyelids open.

Still dazed, she sat up—and met a pair of trembling, terrified eyes.

The girl in front of her had the kind of beauty that looked like it had been washed clean by a spring rain—delicate and radiant. At the moment, she was staring at Xue Cheng like she was begging for mercy.

Xue Cheng stared back in confusion. What’s going on? Did someone break into my dorm? Am I still dreaming?

But… why was this girl covered in injuries? And were those shackles on her ankles?

Wait—

Shackles?!

Her eyes flew wide open in shock. What kind of messed-up criminal dropped me into this hellhole?!

Only now did she fully register her surroundings. The girl with shackles was wearing old-fashioned clothes—like something out of a historical drama.

The furniture and décor around her all had that ancient, antique vibe. She looked down at her own clothes, then spotted a bronze mirror on the nearby table. She rushed over to check it.

Yep. That was still her face.

So… who changed her clothes while she was sleeping and tossed her into some weird cosplay set?

She turned to look at the beautiful girl curled up in the corner, on the verge of tears, and blurted out instinctively, “Are we playing a murder mystery or something? ”

The girl flinched the moment she spoke—clearly terrified.

The girl looked at Xue Cheng, confused by her question, and could only shake her head silently, clearly not understanding what Xue Cheng meant.

Although shackled, she still seemed capable of moving. Yet for some reason, she remained curled up in the corner, too afraid to budge. In fact, when Xue Cheng woke up, the girl even shrank back further into the wall.

Still feeling overheated, Xue Cheng tugged at her collar and fanned herself with her hand. Her head was fuzzy, and she continued mumbling, “Do you smell that? It’s like… milk and cotton candy?”

Her stomach, which she hadn’t fed properly before bed, growled the moment she caught another whiff of that sweet scent. Her nose twitched instinctively as she followed the smell, craving just a taste to satisfy the hunger.

But the beautiful girl quickly shook her head, her big dewy eyes filling with tears that spilled down like broken pearls.

Xue Cheng froze. Was this level of acting really necessary for a role-play? The emotions, the beauty—this girl could walk onto a film set and win Best Actress on day one.

Her suspicion deepened as she studied the girl in the corner, silently crying. That’s when she noticed her bare feet—chained and exposed beneath the slightly lifted hem of her skirt. On her ankle bloomed a small, crimson tattoo of a spider lily.

It looked strangely familiar… and yet completely foreign.

The contradiction unsettled Xue Cheng. She had imagined this flower before—but this was the first time she had actually seen it, right here, in real life.

She stared at the vivid, enchanting red of the spider lily birthmark, her voice trembling slightly, disbelief laced in every word:
“…Are you… Liu Wuyuan?”

The girl froze the second she heard the name. Her body tensed, and she tried to shrink even deeper into the corner—but her back was already pressed to the wall. There was nowhere else to run.

Liu Wuyuan didn’t understand why Xue Cheng was asking what she clearly already knew. Had she thought up some new way to torment her?

Still, she didn’t dare ignore the question, afraid that silence would earn her another unpredictable beating.

So, helplessly, she nodded.

That was all the confirmation Xue Cheng needed—she’d transmigrated into the novel.

Into The Mute Little Omega’s Adventure, the very book she hadn’t even finished reading. And the girl in front of her—the one that hit all her buttons—was none other than the mute little Omega heroine, Liu Wuyuan.

Which meant…

She was the scummy Alpha. The one who had forced the heroine into submission, abused her until she was half-dead, and in the end got skinned alive, her bones ground to dust and flesh chopped up as dog food by the heroine herself.

Xue Cheng: “…”

She squeezed her eyes shut and weakly crawled back into bed, pulling the blanket over her head like a human burrito.

“This is a dream,” she muttered. “It’s got to be a nightmare. Wake up. Please wake up…”

Sure, the beauty in the corner was heartbreakingly gorgeous—but if it cost her life to even get close?

No thanks.

Wuwuwu… this is too scary!

Xue Cheng, a pure and innocent little Alpha, only wanted a sweet, wholesome romance. She never signed up to become a criminal… and definitely not to become minced meat in some rabid Alpha’s dinner bowl!