After Transmigrating Into a Scummy Alpha, I Have Unlimited Krypton Gold (GL) - Chapter 23

“With a whimper, Xue Cheng’s legs went weak, and she instinctively backed away.”

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The grandmother’s worries weren’t unfounded. Getting tangled up with a loan shark would ruin Xue Cheng for life. But Xue Cheng had been prepared for this. She recited the lines she had prepared to reassure her grandmother.

She leaned in conspiratorially and whispered, “Grandmother, you don’t know the whole story. When your granddaughter found Liu Wuyuan…”

She chattered on for a while, and the old woman’s expression shifted multiple times. Even after Xue Cheng finished, her brows remained furrowed.

Looking at Xue Cheng, she asked, “If what you say is true, this Liu Wuyuan’s background is probably not simple. And now you two are…” She was worried that if Liu Wuyuan ever regained her memory, or her family came looking for her, things wouldn’t end well.

Xue Cheng, however, didn’t share this concern. She had previously told her grandmother that when she found Liu Wuyuan, she had bank notes on her but was afraid to use them freely. Having read most of the original book, Xue Cheng knew there was no mention of Liu Wuyuan’s family background. In the later parts of the story, Liu Wuyuan was bullied so much by different manipulative women precisely because she had no one to rely on. Even if Liu Wuyuan’s family did show up, Xue Cheng would be more concerned about whether they truly cared for her.

She nonchalantly told her grandmother, “My wife and I have a great relationship now. She even agreed for me to use this money. Grandmother, you don’t have to worry so much.”

This implied that even if Liu Wuyuan regained her memory, she wouldn’t hold it against her. And if her family did come, they were a legally married couple. What could anyone say to that?

The grandmother nodded, relieved that Xue Cheng had a plan and wasn’t acting impulsively.

She squeezed Xue Cheng’s hand and said, “It’s good that you’ve thought this through. Don’t worry about what your aunts and uncles say.”

Xue Cheng shook her head. “I’m not taking it to heart.”

As a family matriarch, the old woman didn’t want to see her children and grandchildren fighting tooth and nail over property, potentially becoming estranged after she was gone. She knew she was being a little partial, but her eldest son was her first child, and the one she had poured the most effort into raising. When his wife was pregnant, the grandmother was a poor Omega with nothing to her name. It was only with the help of her in-laws that she could afford to buy a hen to nourish her wife. She gradually built the Xue family into what it was, but her wife didn’t get to enjoy many good years; years of frugality had taken a toll on her health, leading to her early death.

The grandmother transferred all her guilt towards her wife to her eldest son, whose health wasn’t great either. After all, if the family hadn’t been so poor, her wife and son would have had better nutrition. Sadly, her eldest son was also unlucky, dying young in an accident with his wife, leaving behind only the baby Xue Cheng. So, the grandmother’s special favoritism towards Xue Cheng was a way of making up for the debt she could no longer repay to her wife and son.

Listening to the old woman talk about the past, Xue Cheng finally understood the original owner’s background. The grandmother was indeed a very capable woman. As a young person, she wasn’t doted on by her father, who was a foolish man who favored his concubines. She was often tormented by the concubines and their children. This was why she was so firm about the rules of primogeniture. She had endured such hardship and didn’t want to become a foolish person like her father.

The two talked for a long time. When Xue Cheng saw that it was getting late, she took her leave. Before she left, the grandmother repeatedly reminded her that it was good to have ideas for business, but she had to think things through carefully, not just act on a whim. She told her to “think three steps ahead and plan for ten.”

She also said, “Now that you’re married, no matter what you do in the future, you must think of your wife.”

“Yes, Grandmother, I understand. Don’t worry.”

Xue Cheng nodded in agreement, and the grandmother finally let her go.

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On her way out of the old compound, she inevitably ran into the people from the other branches. Xue Cheng couldn’t be bothered to argue with them and left in a hurry without looking back.

She went to check on the construction at the shops to make sure the workers weren’t slacking off and were following instructions. She then waved to a small worker and had him buy some refreshing sweet drinks to reward the crew. With two bowls of sweet soup in hand, she headed back to her own little home.

Liu Wuyuan was reading at home. Hearing a noise, she came out and saw Xue Cheng returning. She nodded and pointed to the kitchen, indicating that she had kept food warm for her on the stove.

Xue Cheng’s heart felt warm. The feeling of someone cooking for you and waiting for you to come home was just too wonderful. She grinned, wagging her imaginary tail like a pug greeting its owner, and hurried to pull Liu Wuyuan back into the room. “It’s too hot outside, let’s go back inside. I bought some sweet soup to help you cool off…”

Xue Cheng was careful, only holding Liu Wuyuan’s sleeve to pull her into the room to escape the heat. It was a hot day, and after running around, she was a little sweaty. She hadn’t noticed it outside, but once inside Liu Wuyuan’s small-ish room, the crisp, fresh scent of her lime pheromones became especially noticeable.

Liu Wuyuan couldn’t help but twitch her nose, carefully inhaling the lovely scent. She suddenly realized that aside from their accidental bond, Xue Cheng had been very careful to control her pheromones. It had been a long time since she had smelled this fresh scent that had once melded with her own.

At that moment, she couldn’t bear to be far away from it and moved closer to take a deep breath. Xue Cheng, not paying attention, put the sweet soup on the table and turned to talk to Liu Wuyuan.

But their faces were too close, and their noses bumped. Both of them let out a muffled sound, one clutching her nose, the other her forehead.

Fortunately, Xue Cheng, with her Alpha’s quick healing, recovered quickly. Rubbing her slightly numb nose, she asked in a muffled voice, “Are you okay? I’m sorry, I wasn’t watching.”

Liu Wuyuan shook her head, indicating she was fine. But Xue Cheng, still concerned, gently pulled her hand away and saw a faint red mark on the beauty’s pale forehead. Omegas have delicate skin, and even a light bump left a mark. Xue Cheng, in a moment of madness, remembered her own mother gently holding her and blowing on her bumps and scrapes as a child.

Then her mother would softly say, “A little blow-blow and it won’t hurt anymore.”

So she instinctively cupped Liu Wuyuan’s face, parted her lips, and gently blew on her forehead. Then, like she was comforting a child, she said, “A little blow-blow and it won’t hurt anymore.”

Liu Wuyuan’s eyes sparkled, her eyelashes fluttering like a butterfly about to take flight. She looked at Xue Cheng, who was so focused and sincere in comforting her, and at her lips, which were a perfect thickness and looked as tempting as the softest, pinkest fruit. Her heart thumped a frantic rhythm. She felt a sudden urge to bite them.

Xue Cheng, unaware that she was being seen as prey, said with a hint of remorse, “It’s all my fault for being so careless.”

That faint blush of red stubbornly remained on Liu Wuyuan’s forehead, and Xue Cheng ached just looking at it. She lowered her gaze and, looking at Liu Wuyuan, asked cautiously, “Does it hurt a lot?”

Liu Wuyuan thought for a moment. Seeing the look on Xue Cheng’s face, as if she wanted to make it up to her, a mischievous idea suddenly sparked in her mind. She gave a small nod. In her heart, she knew it didn’t really hurt that much, but she just wanted Xue Cheng to dote on her, so she feigned a little pain.

Seeing her nod so pitifully, Xue Cheng felt even more guilty. Her fingertip gently traced the light pink mark on the forehead, rubbing it with a look of genuine heartache.

“What can I do to make you feel better?”

She thought it, and she asked it, not realizing that her question was exactly what Liu Wuyuan had been waiting for.

Liu Wuyuan raised her arms and draped them around Xue Cheng’s neck, her fingertips tracing the lines of her neck. Suddenly, she gave Xue Cheng a seductive smile, which left the innocent Alpha staring at her in a daze.

Quickly, Liu Wuyuan’s fingertips moved to their destination, circling the area around Xue Cheng’s scent gland. Occasionally, she would accidentally brush against the raised, soft skin of the gland, making Xue Cheng’s legs feel weak.

The innocent Alpha still didn’t realize what she wanted to do. With a soft “Hmm,” her face turned as red as a monkey’s bottom, and she asked in a husky, pitiable voice, “W-what is it…?”

She wanted to ask, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud. After all, Liu Wuyuan’s actions were nothing short of a provocation. Although they were a married couple in name, they had only had one accidental moment of intimacy. Afterward, they had slept in separate rooms and treated each other with a polite distance, never crossing any lines.

But at that moment, Xue Cheng finally caught the sweet scent of milk and cotton candy filling the air. Her face grew even redder as she asked with uncertainty, “Is it… is it your heat cycle?”

Xue Cheng mentally calculated the timing. In theory, it shouldn’t be time for Liu Wuyuan’s next heat, but given Liu Wuyuan’s health issues, even with medication, it only slowed the progression of her illness. A sudden onset of her heat cycle was entirely possible.

Xue Cheng assumed that Liu Wuyuan’s current state was due to her illness. She suppressed the urge to release her own pheromones in response and hugged Liu Wuyuan tightly by the waist. Biting her lower lip, she said, “I’ll go get you some suppression patches.”

But Liu Wuyuan held her back. She shook her head, and her finger gently tapped Xue Cheng’s nape, on the scent gland that was now swollen and red from the milk and cotton candy pheromones.

It was at that moment that a realization dawned on Xue Cheng. She saw the inexplicably aggressive look in Liu Wuyuan’s eyes.

She asked in a trembling voice, “Is this… the way you want me to make it up to you?”

Liu Wuyuan smiled.

Seemingly satisfied that Xue Cheng had finally understood her intentions, she suddenly pressed down with her fingertip. With that press on her sensitive scent gland, Xue Cheng’s lime pheromones could no longer be held back.

Xue Cheng let out a soft whimper. Her legs went so weak she almost couldn’t stand, and she instinctively backed away. Fortunately, there was a table behind her, and she managed to steady herself. But Liu Wuyuan followed her, pressing closer, burying her head in Xue Cheng’s neck and deeply inhaling the fresh lime scent.

Xue Cheng desperately wanted to do something. The soft, fragrant human-sized milk and cotton candy was in her arms. She felt an ache in her fangs, a powerful urge to pull back Liu Wuyuan’s hair and sink her teeth into the sweet-smelling scent gland. Being provoked like this by an Omega easily triggered an Alpha’s primal aggression.