I Am Her Secret Beauty and Strong Alpha (GL) - Chapter 10

After going back, Mu Xi and Nan Xi missed afternoon tea but arrived just in time for dinner.

During dinner, Vincent brought out a precious bottle of red wine from the cellar, said to have been stored in the manor for decades.

Mu Xi, thanks to the young master and miss, also got a glass to taste. The moment it touched her lips, she immediately felt the difference from ordinary wine. Its aroma and taste were unparalleled, so smooth that she only felt a soft coolness as it went down her throat, and before she knew it, the wine was gone.

Even with such fine wine, Nan Nan was still sulking at Nan Xi, not saying a single word to her throughout the entire dinner.

After dinner, Nan Nan said in a muffled voice to Vincent that he wanted to go back because he had work the next day and couldn’t stay overnight.

Mu Xi knew that his original plan was to stay one night before leaving, but she didn’t say anything. Vincent had already noticed the subtle tension between the young master and miss during dinner, so he just smiled and said he understood, not trying to persuade Nan Nan to stay.

As for Nan Xi, she ignored Nan Nan’s mood throughout dinner, focusing on the food in front of her.

When Nan Nan said he wanted to leave, she didn’t say she would go with him. With so many drivers in the Nan family, she didn’t necessarily have to go back in Nan Nan’s car.

Even when Nan Nan was about to leave, she said quite cheerfully to Mu Xi, “The environment here is very nice. Let’s stay another night tomorrow.”

This angered Nan Nan so much that he slammed the door as he went out, leaving only a “bang” and the three calm people inside.

Mu Xi felt a moment of guilt.

But the reality was that Nan Nan’s position in the family was indeed low, and as a housekeeper, she had to be good at observing people’s expressions.

After dinner, Nan Xi went back to her room, saying she had brought some documents to read. Mu Xi stayed downstairs chatting with Vincent.

The old man was quite old, but his spirits were always good. He told Mu Xi that being a housekeeper was an honorable job. His parents had opposed his decision to become a housekeeper, but he felt he had found the meaning of life after actually doing it, which was to shine in the domestic service industry…

As he spoke, Vincent raised his hand to wipe away tears from the corners of his eyes and asked Mu Xi, “What about you? Why did you want to become a housekeeper?”

“I’ve enjoyed the sense of accomplishment from serving others since I was a child, so I applied to domestic service university after the college entrance examination,” Mu Xi replied without hesitation. This sentence was like an easily memorized principle for her, and she would answer this way whenever someone asked a similar question.

“Domestic service university? That’s really good. We didn’t have such schools back then; we all learned through trial and error,” Vincent said with longing in his voice. Then, recalling those so-called learning experiences, he shook his head and sighed, “Being a housekeeper in a wealthy family is not easy.”

Mu Xi immediately nodded and smiled along with Vincent.

However, the image that appeared in her mind was the slap she had received from Nan Xi.

Even though she had encountered many challenges in her career as a housekeeper, the only thing she could immediately recall when Vincent said this was that slap.

Mu Xi had never realized before that she cared so much about that slap.

“When I worked for the previous family, the master’s wife had an affair with the master’s father. I was the only one who knew about it. At that time, I was young and timid and didn’t dare to tell the master. As a result, the master found out and kicked me out. I don’t know what happened to their family later,” Vincent recalled his younger days, a kind of vicissitude that Mu Xi couldn’t yet empathize with.

Mu Xi found this unbelievable and was about to ask more when she suddenly heard a muffled sound.

It was very soft and far away, probably coming from upstairs.

Mu Xi immediately focused her attention, holding her breath and trying to find any trace of the sound in the air to determine if it had really existed.

Vincent looked at her in confusion.

The sound was indeed very faint. Mu Xi, being a top-level alpha, only heard some uncertain movement, and Vincent didn’t notice it.

But then, Mu Xi heard another similar soft sound, just a little quieter.

“Young Miss. Something fell.” She concisely informed Vincent of the situation and immediately got up and ran upstairs.

After confirming the direction of the sound, Mu Xi also clearly heard a more subtle and weak sound accompanying the two soft noises. It was human breathing, but it sounded faint and unclear because of the distance.

Nan Xi was in a dangerous situation in her room and might be injured.

In the midst of the confusion, she accidentally knocked something over in the room.

Having realized this, Mu Xi quickly arrived at Nan Xi’s door. She knocked twice symbolically and then pushed the door open directly.

Nan Xi was curled up in bed, making some small, broken sounds. A bag and a book had fallen under her bed, which were the sources of the two sounds Mu Xi had heard.

Nan Xi’s condition was indeed not good, but it was somewhat different from what Mu Xi had imagined.

At the same time, Mu Xi, who had been neglecting something due to her anxiety, finally belatedly smelled an unusual scent in the air—

It was like the fragrance of flowers, but it didn’t seem to belong to any kind of flower. A soft, alluring, cold fragrance was spreading in the room, not strong, but only like a little bit leaking from the glands.

But that little bit was enough to disturb the mind of an alpha, let alone an alpha like Mu Xi with particularly strong senses.

A scarlet color gradually crept into Mu Xi’s eyes.

Before hurriedly fleeing the room, Mu Xi caught a glimpse of the scene on the bed in her confused state.

Nan Xi looked even worse than she did, her face flushed as she curled up in bed, scratching at her clothes. Her long, curly hair was completely disheveled, half scattered behind her and half sticking to her face like tangled seaweed, revealing only two dazed eyes.

She had already unbuttoned two buttons of her collar, and Mu Xi saw her snow-white shoulders and her neck was also turning an eerie pink.

Mu Xi couldn’t hear the words Nan Xi was murmuring, nor could she continue listening.

She almost stumbled as she immediately retreated from Nan Xi’s room, trying her best to close the door to block the alluring scent from the room, but it was no use.

Vincent was a bit slower than her. When he arrived, Mu Xi was already sitting in the hallway, beads of sweat on her forehead.

The old butler was very surprised and wanted to help her up, but he heard her say, “Don’t, Young Miss, go help Young Miss…”

Vincent was a beta and already at this age, so it was safe for him to help Nan Xi.

Vincent naturally knew that the master’s safety came first, so he had to leave Mu Xi on the floor for the time being and opened the door to check on Nan Xi’s condition. The moment he opened the door, an even stronger fragrance rushed out, overwhelmingly occupying Mu Xi’s senses.

Instinct told Mu Xi that she should go in, find the omega’s glands, and mark her.

Her legs were already doing so, trying to stand up from the floor and walk into the room.

This was certainly… not okay.

Vincent kept the door wide open for his own safety and the young miss’s reputation, which made Mu Xi even more tormented. Her heat was still more than ten days away, so she didn’t carry any inhibitors with her and could only collapse on the floor at this moment.

Mu Xi knew that this couldn’t go on. She couldn’t entrust the young miss’s safety entirely to her own will, especially since her will was already faltering.

At the last moment, Mu Xi took a somewhat extreme measure.

She reached out and struck her own jaw…

This required strong control of strength and some understanding of human anatomy. Fortunately, Mu Xi had received an A in strength control during her domestic service university studies, and she was also proficient in basic nursing.

As dizziness set in, the thought that flashed through Mu Xi’s mind was:

Safe, both the young miss and she were…

When Mu Xi woke up, it was already the next morning.

After Vincent had people help Nan Xi, he turned back to check on Mu Xi and was shocked to find her passed out outside Nan Xi’s door.

The old man, who didn’t quite understand the power of pheromones, thought Mu Xi was overwhelmed by her own desires, wanting an omega so much that she fainted.

After Mu Xi wearily composed herself and came out of the room to explain last night’s situation to Vincent, the elderly butler only said, “No wonder they say betas are the most suitable group for domestic service work…”

Mu Xi just smiled helplessly.

She was already a housekeeper; wasn’t it too late to say that now?

Vincent told Mu Xi that last night he had someone bring an inhibitor to inject into Nan Xi. After the injection, Nan Xi quickly returned to normal and then immediately fell asleep again.

As for the cause of this accident, everyone believed it was due to the young miss’s unstable estrus cycle. Perhaps she had been stimulated by something external, or perhaps she had emotional problems, leading to excessive pheromone secretion and almost triggering an early heat.

They didn’t inject Mu Xi with an inhibitor because she had already fainted at that time. Out of a sense of frugality, everyone wanted to wait until Mu Xi woke up to decide whether to inject her based on her condition.

…It sounded strange that both of them needed to be injected with inhibitors… as if they had done something…

Mu Xi somewhat awkwardly told Vincent that she had now fully recovered. Her estrus cycle had always been very stable, and she had no inhibitor intolerance at all. She was only affected when encountering an omega in heat.

Soon, Mu Xi and Vincent met Nan Xi in her room.

Nan Xi had also calmed down completely, but her lips were pale. When she saw Mu Xi, she asked gently, “I heard Housekeeper Mu also fainted yesterday. How is Housekeeper Mu doing?”

“I knocked myself out,” Mu Xi had to explain again. “I recovered quickly after the influence of your pheromones disappeared. Thank you for your concern, Young Miss.”

Nan Xi said “Oh,” lowered her head to look at the documents, and said no more.

Vincent and Mu Xi began to discuss whether Nan Xi needed to be sent back to the Nan family early for the sake of her health.

The two housekeepers thought it would be safer for the young miss to return to the Nan family, which had more complete medical facilities, but Nan Xi herself didn’t want to go back immediately and wanted to stay at the manor for another night.

Vincent was flattered, not expecting that this remote manor he managed would be so favored by the young miss.

Mu Xi chose to respect Nan Xi’s wishes but said she needed to report the young miss’s physical condition to the madam.

Nan Xi immediately stopped her.

“You are the only alpha here.”

“If you tell my mother, what will she think of you? Don’t you really like this job? Then don’t tell her.”