The Villainous Sister-in-law Mistakenly Marked as the Heroine (Transmigration) - Chapter 7

Early in the morning, just as Rong Jing was about to leave for the office, her pheromones suddenly surged uncontrollably. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed to her knees.

Her skin flushed visibly red as waves of heat coursed through her body. “Mmm.” She bit down hard on her lip.

Struggling to stand, she first turned down the air conditioning before staggering into the bedroom.

She drew her own bl00d, a method left behind by He Yan, instructing her to collect a sample for testing if she unexpectedly entered heat again.

This wave of heat seemed even more intense than the previous two.

By the time she had drawn a small amount of bl00d, her lips were already bitten raw. Trembling, she sealed the vial and reached for the suppressants.

Ding!

Lin Qile stepped out of the elevator and arrived at Rong Jing’s doorstep.

Unable to reach Rong Jing by phone, she had gone to Rong Corporation, only to learn that Rong Jing hadn’t shown up for work.

Suspecting that Rong Jing might be scheming to ruin her reputation behind the scenes, she used a little trick to find out Rong Jing’s home address and rushed over without delay.

Noticing the door was slightly ajar, she cautiously pushed it open.

“Rong Jing?”

As soon as she entered, a cool, intoxicating scent hit her, making her heart skip a beat.

This smell…

It was the same fragrance she had noticed on Rong Jing that night her pheromones?!

Closing the door behind her, she hurried toward the bedroom.

The sight that greeted her made her eyes widen in shock.

A disheveled beauty writhed on the bed, her exposed skin flushed with a delicate pink hue, her face clouded with desire.

“You, you’re in heat?”

She rushed forward to check. “Rong Jing? Rong Jing, can you hear me?”

She patted Rong Jing’s cheek, it was burning hot.

In her dazed state, Rong Jing sensed a cooling presence and instinctively leaned into it, letting out a soft moan.

“Y-you need to calm down.”

As the other woman clung to her like liquid silk, Lin Qile’s voice faltered. Whether it was the pheromones or the scorching body pressed against her, her heartbeat quickened involuntarily.

Before she could react, her hand had already drifted to Rong Jing’s shoulder.

She yanked it back, slapping her own cheeks to stay focused. “Lin Qile, you’re a doctor! Have some professionalism!”

After quickly assessing Rong Jing’s condition, she picked up the fallen suppressants, her expression complicated. “You’re already deep into heat, suppressants won’t work now.”

“Rong Jing, snap out of it!”

She lifted Rong Jing and carried her to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. “Wake up! You’re in serious trouble. Do you have a plan for this? A doctor you can call?”

Taking Rong Jing to the hospital now was out of the question.

An omega in heat appearing in public would be nothing short of a disaster.

“Mmm, it hurts.”

Rong Jing’s voice was hoarse, laced with a sob as she wrapped her arms around Lin Qile, coiling around her like a serpent.

“Hey, don’t. Ah! I’m no saint, stop touching me!”

Warm lips.

Every spot they touched felt like it was melting.

The icy beauty in her arms had transformed into a seductive enchantress.

“I need.”

“I don’t want to! You’ll get mad, and then I’ll be in trouble.”

Teeth sank into her neck.

“Ow! Are you a puppy?! Rong Jing, get a grip! Look at me, do you even know who I am?! Ah! Don’t rip my clothes!”

Rong Jing’s mind had completely lost all reason. She knew this alpha was the one who had marked her she craved her!

Wanting…

“Mmm!”

Lin Qile widened her eyes, feeling a soft, wet tongue lick across her collarbone. “Rong Jing, calm down! My self-control isn’t that great. If you keep teasing me like this, I… I…”

“Too noisy!”

Her cheeks were cupped by a pair of burning hands as lips pressed against hers, a tongue slipping between her teeth.

The thread of reason snapped!

Lin Qile wrapped her arms around the other woman as they rolled across the floor in a passionate kiss.

The next day.

“Mother!  How could I miss your birthday banquet? I’ll be back soon.”

The hoarse sound of a phone conversation disturbed Lin Qile’s peaceful sleep, making her instinctively curl up under the blankets to continue dozing.

After hanging up, Rong Jing gazed deeply at the figure curled into a ball.

Waking up to see a face so close no longer startled her as much as before, but it was still hard to accept.

In her twenty-eight years of life, she’d never imagined being this intimate with someone.

Yet here it was.

And with someone she’d always despised, no less.

Her entire body ached, while this woman slept soundly, even planning to go back for more sleep?

The more she thought about it, the more unfair it felt.

She kicked out with her foot.

Lin Qile woke with a start, her eyes unfocused for a long moment before she slowly sat up, her head still buzzing.

The sound of running water came from the bathroom. She looked up to see a silhouette moving behind the frosted glass the outline of a body.

Curved, perky, soft.

Lin Qile quickly averted her gaze, her face burning with embarrassment.

Memories slowly returned.

She had slept with Rong Jing again?!

The water stopped.

The bathroom door opened.

Rong Jing emerged wrapped in a towel, drying her hair with one hand, her expression unreadable.

Her neck was covered in hickeys.

Remembering she was the one who left those marks, Lin Qile felt both awkward and an indescribable emotion.

“Had enough of staring?”

She quickly looked away. “I…”

Her voice came out just as hoarse as Rong Jing’s.

With a faint smirk, Rong Jing said, “Lin Qile, you’ve got some nerve, even finding out my home address!”

“I’m sorry.” Lin Qile suddenly knelt on the bed, clutching the blanket. “I know my excuses don’t sound convincing, but I really didn’t plan this. Today was the deadline you set, and I didn’t want to face public humiliation. I called you so many times, but you didn’t answer, so I came to your place.”

“Why didn’t you take me to the hospital?”

“I tried! I asked if you knew any doctors I could contact, but you wouldn’t listen, you just kept clinging to me.” Feeling Rong Jing’s icy stare, she quickly added, “Not that it’s your fault! After I accidentally marked you, you couldn’t resist my pheromones. This definitely isn’t your true nature, I know you’d never actually want someone like me.”

“How self-aware of you.”

Rong Jing continued drying her hair leisurely.

“Miss Rong, could you give me a few more days? I’m trying to convince my mother to agree to cancel the engagement. I really do want to call it off I have zero feelings for Rong Wanning, ”

“Enough!”

Rong Jing cut her off. “I don’t have time for this. It’s my mother’s birthday banquet today. You should check your phone too.”

With that, she headed straight for the dressing room.

Lin Qile quickly grabbed her phone and saw multiple missed calls. She immediately dialed one back.

The call connected, and Lin Xinrou’s worried voice immediately came through, “Sweetheart?”

“It’s me, Mom.”

“Phew,  I’m so glad you’re okay. I was worried sick when you didn’t answer my calls.” Suddenly, the voice on the other end changed to Qi Song’s, “Lin Qile, the Rong family is hosting a birthday banquet today. Get your ass over here immediately no being late, no mentioning the broken engagement. If you dare make trouble, don’t blame me for cutting ties as mother and daughter!”

After the threat, Qi Song hung up.

So harsh?

Honestly, she really didn’t sense any motherly affection from Qi Song, nor did the original host’s memories contain any.

Soon after, Rong Jing had changed and came out, finding Lin Qile still sitting naked on the bed, clutching the blanket in a daze. She spoke coolly, “I’m heading out.”

“Huh?”

“We’re not close enough for you to stay alone in my house.”

In other words hurry up, get dressed, and get out!

Lin Qile’s face flushed as she scrambled to change. “Just give me a few minutes!”

She hastily threw on her clothes.

Rong Jing frowned at her outfit. “Don’t move.”

She walked into the dressing room, grabbed a set of clothes, and tossed them at her. “You’re attending my mother’s birthday banquet. I won’t let your appearance ruin her mood. Change!”

“Okay, thanks.”

Once dressed, they left together.

In the elevator.

Looking at Rong Jing, who seemed like a completely different person from before, Lin Qile grumbled inwardly. During her heat, she was passionate as fire, but normally, she was as cold as ice was this woman bipolar or something?

And what did she mean by “not close enough” to stay alone in her house?

They’d already slept together twice! Weren’t omegas supposed to develop dependency on the alphas who marked them?

In her world, the omegas she’d met were either soft and adorable or gentle as water.

But Rong Jing?

She often forgot the woman was even an omega.

When they reached the underground garage, Rong Jing strode straight to her car.

Noticing someone following, she turned with displeasure. “What now?”

Lin Qile quickly put on an ingratiating smile. “We’re both going to your mother’s banquet. Can I hitch a ride? If I’m late, it’ll reflect poorly on your family too.”

“How did you get here?”

“By taxi.”

Rong Jing fell silent for a few seconds. “Leave the same way. Any disgrace will be on the Lin family, not the Rongs.”

She turned to open her car door, only for someone to forcefully squeeze into the passenger seat.

Rong Jing: “…”

“Don’t be so cold. I did help you through your heat, you know. If I hadn’t come today, you might’ve died. You could say I’m your savior.”

Rong Jing: “If I report to the Omega Association that you marked me without consent, do you know what would happen to you?”

Her smile froze.

In this world, alphas and omegas were both rare and precious. Omegas, as the carriers capable of bearing alpha offspring, held status and privileges far beyond alphas.

Centuries ago, it was said omegas could freely choose or discard alphas at will.

So if Rong Jing really pressed charges, she wouldn’t even need to leverage her family connections, Lin Qile would land in prison.

“Miss Rong, you’re ruthless!”

She got out of the car in frustration and was about to close the door when a faint voice came from the driver’s seat, “Get back in. Don’t waste my time.”

Lin Qile: …

This was definitely some split personality disorder!

Opening the door and sitting in the passenger seat, she yanked on the seatbelt, determined not to say a single word to this mentally unstable person.

Noticing someone’s disgruntled expression, Rong Jing’s lips curled into an almost imperceptible smile.

Halfway through the drive, Rong Jing received a call from He Yan, “Why haven’t you shown up all day? Did you suddenly go into heat today? Your heat cycles have been completely irregular lately. I’ve been contacting my professor, she asked me to send her your data and records first.”

“Mhm, I’m driving right now. We’ll talk tonight when I get home.”

He Yan immediately picked up on the gossipy undertone, “Can’t talk right now?”

“Mhm.”

“Who else is in the car with you?!”

“Stop being nosy.”

After hanging up, Rong Jing continued driving.

An hour later.

About two hundred meters away from the Rong family villa, Lin Qile hurriedly called out, “Stop the car here.”

“Why?”

Rong Jing pulled over.

With a smile, she explained, “I’ll get out here and walk the rest of the way. It’d be hard to explain if we showed up together.”

For some reason, the thought of appearing in front of everyone with Rong Jing made her inexplicably embarrassed.

“Suit yourself.”

Getting out of the car and closing the door, she was just about to lean down to say thanks when the car sped off with a whoosh.

Lin Qile: …

Wow. She considered herself such an emotionally stable person, how did she end up dealing with someone so emotionally volatile?

Watching the car quickly disappear around the street corner, the thought of having her secrets held by someone like this made her future seem bleak.

To maintain the illusion that she and Rong Jing weren’t at all familiar, she took a full ten minutes to walk those two hundred meters.

The Rong family villa was already crowded with guests.

So many cars were parked that there was no space left. Rong Jing’s car was parked right at the entrance, where she leaned against the door playing on her phone, responding coldly to anyone who greeted her.

Suddenly, Rong Jing turned her head in Lin Qile’s direction. Despite her striking features, her frosty gaze cast an icy chill over them.

That night had been her first time too, so this other side of her was still something only Lin Qile had seen.

Noticing Rong Jing was still looking her way, Lin Qile could only offer a faint smile in return.

What she was really wondering was, why was Rong Jing standing at the entrance instead of inside the villa hosting her mother’s birthday party?

Rong Jing silently mouthed something.

Lin Qile was about to walk over for a casual “chance encounter” and ask what she’d said when an angry voice demanded, “Lin Qile, can’t you stop pestering me?!”

???

What the—?

Turning around, she saw Rong Wanning glaring at her furiously.

She was completely baffled.

What had she done?

“I—”

Rong Wanning spoke with disgust, “Don’t think just because your mother and my grandmother were college classmates that I have to marry you. Someone like you isn’t worthy of any omega.”

“Rong Wanning, I admit I was wrong before and caused you a lot of trouble, but I’ve moved on. I won’t bother you anymore. I’ve already told my mother I want to call off the engagement.”

Rong Wanning froze for a couple of seconds before her expression turned skeptical, “Don’t try any reverse psychology tricks on me. I’d never believe you. I’d rather marry a pig or a dog than you!”

Lin Qile couldn’t help but laugh in exasperation, “Great! Why don’t you go tell your grandmother then? Have her cancel the engagement, I’ll wholeheartedly support it.”

Exactly!

Who said she had to be the one to initiate breaking off the engagement? If the Rong family proposed it, it would be even more convenient for her.

But to her surprise, the moment she finished speaking, Rong Wanning’s expression twisted in fury. “You shameless, despicable scoundrel!”

After hurling the insult, she turned and stormed off.

Lin Qile was left utterly bewildered. When she turned to look in Rong Jing’s direction, the other woman had already left.

“What on earth did she just say?”