Omega Taming the Black Moonlight - Chapter 20

The Training Room was silent, not a word spoken.

Yan Liu sipped her water in tiny sips, so quiet even her swallowing was barely audible, like an overly cautious little hamster.

Once her pheromones had fully stabilized—at least outwardly—Ji Yilian appeared utterly calm. She turned to the girl huddled in the corner, slowly drinking from her water bottle, and spoke softly.

“Come here. Let me take a look.”

Yan Liu’s body trembled slightly, her distinct eyelashes fluttering a few times as her almond eyes widened.

“…Look at what?” she asked in a small voice.

Her posture, both wary and afraid of provoking Ji Yilian, was truly pitiful.

Compared to her earlier, when she would argue back with spirit, Yan Liu now seemed as docile as a kitten, even her meows were soft.

Seeing her fear, Ji Yilian felt an inexplicable irritation rising within her.

“At where you fell,” she explained tersely, pressing her lips together.

Yan Liu’s almond eyes were watery, but when she looked up, a lingering wariness remained.

“There’s no need to look,” she tried to refuse.

Thanks to Ji Yilian’s pheromone release earlier that day, Yan Liu had finally managed to mentally distinguish between Alphas and Omegas. Even though they both appeared as girls, they were fundamentally different.

She felt a primal, instinctive wariness.

The Training Room was equipped with quick-acting medicine specifically for students. A few sprays of the quick-acting spray could completely reduce swelling from minor sprains, bruises, or falls within the same day.

Some students who were usually frugal with their Star Coins would come to the Training Room just to use the quick-acting spray for free.

The Academy was generous with these resources. The corners of the room were always stocked with various medicine bottles, and automated systems immediately detected when supplies were running low and replenished them.

Ji Yilian rose silently and walked to the corner to retrieve a bottle of quick-acting spray.

As she approached Yan Liu, the latter nearly transformed into a small rabbit desperate to hide.

Waaah, I really wish I had three burrows like a clever rabbit!

Because Ji Yilian had already discovered her previous hiding place, it was no longer safe.

Yan Liu resisted any concern from Ji Yilian.

Her voice was strained as she blurted out, “Don’t come any closer.”

The moment the words left her lips, she realized her voice had warped, sounding far too hostile and distant.

This was hardly conducive to capturing Ji Yilian.

But Yan Liu simply couldn’t keep up the act any longer.

She couldn’t feign any warmth toward such a dangerous and volatile scumbag Alpha.

Even speaking required careful control of her tone, lest she inadvertently trigger Ji Yilian’s earlier outburst.

It was terrifying.

If not for the System’s requirement—that she complete the capture mission to return to her own world and continue living—Yan Liu would have abandoned this task without hesitation.

“You don’t need it? You couldn’t get up after you fell earlier, and you have bruises.”

As if oblivious to the girl’s wariness, Ji Yilian slowly approached, lowered her gaze, and offered the spray.

Yan Liu accepted it like a ticking time bomb, her hand trembling slightly, her smile forced.

“I’ll check it when I get back.”

Yan Liu’s strategy was to maneuver carefully, avoiding direct confrontation with Ji Yilian to avoid provoking her.

Yet even with this cautious approach, Ji Yilian refused to let her off the hook.

The S-class Alpha, a stunningly beautiful woman with a refined and icy demeanor, silently fixed her gaze on Yan Liu.

“Are you afraid of me?”

Just moments ago, Ji Yilian had glared fiercely, pointing at the door and demanding Yan Liu leave. Now, she had shrunk into herself, her muscles tense as she tried to evade the question.

Yan Liu’s grip tightened on the spray bottle, her knuckles turning white as Ji Yilian’s words exposed her fear.

“Anyone would be scared after what you just did,” she murmured, turning away and gently rolling up her sleeve.

Ah, just as I suspected, she thought. A bruise marred her arm, the result of her earlier fall.

This body’s sensitivity to pain rivaled her own from before the transmigration. Yan Liu had always been terrified of pain, prone to tears, and had avoided physical activities since childhood. She simply couldn’t endure physical discomfort.

To her surprise, after transmigrating, she discovered that the character in the novel not only shared her name and appearance but also mirrored her physical weaknesses.

So this is why I transmigrated?

Yan Liu muttered to herself, her heart filled with the despair of someone who’d given up entirely.

She knew how to use the spray and shook it over the bruise on her arm.

Noticing Yan Liu’s back turned and her reluctance to speak, Ji Yilian watched from a distance, making no move to approach or say anything. She simply observed the girl quietly.

“Ah, it hurts!” Yan Liu’s voice trembled.

Why does it hurt so much?!

The bruise on her arm had felt numb just moments ago. How could this spray make it burn like this?

She spun around like a startled cat, her teary eyes fixed on Ji Yilian.

“?”

Yan Liu’s pitiful expression softened Ji Yilian’s cold demeanor.

“Heh, you didn’t know?” Ji Yilian’s lips curved into a smile, her beauty striking but with an undercurrent of malice.

Yan Liu stared in disbelief. When those light brown eyes focused on someone, they carried an otherworldly allure, shimmering like two exquisite gemstones.

How could she have known this quick-acting medicine would hurt so much?

The pain was searing, as if the skin were about to burst into flames.

Waaah! Ji Yilian isn’t just a scumbag Alpha, she’s a complete villain, laughing at my misery!

Knowing full well the spray would sting, Ji Yilian deliberately made Yan Liu look foolish.

Yan Liu swiftly added another few marks to Ji Yilian’s mental ledger.

“I’ve never been to the Training Room before,” she said, her voice softening with a hint of a sob. “How would I know?”

Her tear-prone constitution wasn’t just a figure of speech. The moment the pain hit, she lost control, tears streaming down her face like beads from a broken string.

Ji Yilian’s eyebrows arched slightly as she watched the girl before her. In just a moment, Yan Liu’s palm-sized face had become drenched in tears.

She looked like a kitten suddenly bullied and abandoned—furry and disheveled, yet unable to conceal her delicate, pitiful charm.

“Are you blaming me?” Ji Yilian finally understood the meaning behind the girl’s gaze.

She took a few steps closer to Yan Liu and leaned down slightly to meet her eyes.

Yan Liu threw the spray bottle to the ground in a fit of pique, her lips pressed tightly together, her brows furrowing in pain.

Waaah, this is inhuman!

She had always disliked novels, especially those where the protagonist transmigrates to romance the villain. She had always avoided them like the plague.

Yan Liu firmly believed that villains became villains because their inner worlds had collapsed, or because they had never been nurtured in fertile soil, causing them to grow twisted.

A tree grows into the shape it’s meant to be, even if it’s a crooked one. Trying to straighten it would be like chopping it down and planting a new one.

How much effort would that take?

Most people wouldn’t have the passion or energy to change the fate of a crooked tree.

Now, unfortunately, Yan Liu was forced to confront a scumbag Alpha villain from the original novel, and she had to pretend to be wholeheartedly devoted to winning her over.

She wasn’t happy.

Yan Liu wasn’t happy.

She could tolerate anything but pain.

Pain easily broke her defenses, as it was doing now.

The aggrieved young woman, tears still welling up like pearls in her eyes, looked soft and easily bullied, but her gaze was fiercely adorable.

“You know it hurts, yet you made me spray it. You did it on purpose! Ji Yilian isn’t a good person!”

Ji Yilian stared blankly at the sulking girl, feeling as if tiny kitten claws were scratching at her heart.

So cute.

Yan Liu was so cute like this.

She had to restrain herself from laughing.

“You just don’t know how to use it.”

The usually cold and impatient Alpha gently bent down to pick up the spray bottle from the ground.

She reached out to grasp the girl’s wrist, a hint of emotion flickering in her dark eyes.

“You’re not using it right. Let me show you.”