Stealing Moonlight (Lily ABO) - Chapter 25

Ruan Jing started to unpack her luggage, her hair still dripping wet. But when she was halfway through, she suddenly realized something was missing.

The blue cloth bag she had tucked deep inside her luggage, wrapped specifically in several layers of clothes, was gone. It contained over twenty inhibitor patches!

Li Ling’er was immediately cast aside in Ruan Jing’s mind. She frantically began to search, but she turned her small amount of luggage inside out four or five times, and the cloth bag was nowhere to be found.

Ruan Jing wouldn’t give up. She picked up her luggage bag and shook it several times, even meticulously checking if a thief had subtly cut it open along the way. Of course, there was nothing.

In truth, who stole the inhibitor patches was obvious, but Ruan Jing genuinely didn’t want to admit it. In the end, she had been tricked by Li Ling’er yet again!

She angrily threw her luggage bag onto the floor, but its flimsy woven material offered no satisfying thud.

She stomped her feet hard a couple of times, but that didn’t help either.

Ruan Jing stood in the center of the dorm, hands on her hips, her chest rising and falling violently. She closed her eyes, and Li Ling’er’s face, always carrying a subtle hint of mockery, appeared vividly before her.

“College student’s angry? Oh, why such a temper!” Li Ling’er’s voice echoed in her mind, laughing slyly. The scent of vanishing cream became clear again.

Ruan Jing plunged her hand into her pants pocket and felt the floral handkerchief Li Ling’er had given her. Her first instinct was to tear the thing to shreds and be done with it!

But as she heard the ripping sound of fabric, Ruan Jing suddenly stopped. She held the floral handkerchief before her eyes; most of it carried her own scent, while Li Ling’er’s vanishing cream scent was actually very faint now.

Ruan Jing watched it silently for a moment, then bent down to grab soap from under her bed and returned to the washroom.

She vigorously scrubbed the handkerchief, whose corner she had torn, determined to make Li Ling’er pay when she next saw her.

But she also knew in her heart that, across such vast distances, with Li Ling’er’s cunning, she probably wouldn’t see her again in this lifetime.

Ruan Jing knew her immediate priority was to quickly replace the more than 20 inhibitor patches Li Ling’er had stolen.

At Huaxi University, students could obtain inhibitor patches either through free application or by purchasing them with vouchers.

An Alpha with a pheromone rating of C or higher could purchase 10 patches per month with vouchers, costing 8 mao for 10. This was enough for most Alphas.

But for Ruan Jing, it was barely enough. She needed at least 15 to 20 patches a month, using one every two days at most. And if her emotions fluctuated, even if the pheromones were new, that sweet-bitter wheat seedling scent could spread everywhere.

Shao Huainian’s rating was A-. There were fewer than 10 students in the entire school with that pheromone level, and they had an unlimited supply of inhibitor patches.

However, Ruan Jing’s rating was only B-. She barely even qualified for inhibitor patch vouchers.

“Be content. Your roommate is also a female Alpha, yet she doesn’t have as many issues as you. She doesn’t even use inhibitor patches!”

Ruan Jing only learned that Zheng Fangfang could only smell others’ pheromones and had none of her own after living with her.
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“I’ve been getting injections to boost my pheromone levels recently. I think there’s a slight scent now; do you smell it?”

Zheng Fangfang often asked her this, but Ruan Jing had never smelled a single trace of Alpha pheromones on her.

Ruan Jing knew that Qinghe Bay, less than 3 kilometers from Huaxi University, was a famous black market nearby. Anything could be bought there for money, even contraband. Inhibitor patch vouchers were a piece of cake.

Although the school strictly forbade students from participating in black market transactions, with students being publicly criticized or even directly expelled each semester.

The problem was that pheromone overflow during class hours would result in a deduction from one’s conduct score—two points per instance. Too many deductions would not only mean losing the three yuan monthly stipend but could also affect graduation assignments.

Ruan Jing relied on that three yuan monthly stipend to live. She naturally understood which was more important.