This Scumbag Alpha Is a Little Sweet - Chapter 5

“Ms. Ning Zishu, your partner, Ms. Lin Yihan, has been in an uncontrolled pheromone rut for over twenty minutes. According to the Alpha and Omega Management Regulations, please drop all of your work and return immediately to soothe your partner.”

“I understand. Thank you for the notice. I’m on my way. I’ll be there in twenty minutes at most.”

After hanging up with the building manager, Ning Zishu lightly knocked on her father’s hospital room door.

“Dad, Mom, I have to go now. I might not be able to come for the next few days, but please make sure to let me know if anything happens.”

“What could possibly happen to us? Just go and don’t worry. You have to live a good life. That child Yihan is really great.”

“Yes, I know.”

Ning Zishu smiled and replied, showing no sign of distress. She quietly closed the door to the hospital room.

Then, her expression immediately changed, and she sprinted down the hallway.

“Excuse me, my partner is in trouble! I need to get back right away!”

The nurse who was about to reprimand Ning Zishu immediately understood the urgency and called her colleagues to prepare a car to take the young lady back.

“Nurse, please give me two powerful inhibitor shots. My Alpha’s rut doesn’t seem to be a normal one; her pheromones are out of control.”

“What?!”

“Get a special emergency vehicle, now!”

With the hospital staff’s help, she had a clear path and arrived at her destination in just ten minutes.

Almost all of the building’s residents had been evacuated, with only the manager remaining at the entrance.

“Excuse me, please move.”

Before the manager could say anything, a visibly anxious Ning Zishu rushed into the elevator. Four medical staff in full protective gear followed, pushing a completely sealed stretcher cart into another elevator.

This was no small matter.

A rampaging S-class Alpha’s pheromones should indeed be taken seriously. It was lucky that it was happening inside an apartment, which at least had a pheromone purification system to minimize the impact on the outside world. If she went into a rut on the street, it would likely lead to widespread violence and bloodshed. Public opinion would definitely be in an uproar again.

The manager shook her head and admonished the crowd of onlookers.

“You’re all Betas who can’t even smell pheromones. What are you doing here? Go home and eat; your breaks are almost over!”

Ning Zishu had never realized how inconvenient living on the top floor was. Even waiting for less than a minute felt like an eternity.

Staring at the changing numbers on the elevator screen, Ning Zishu nervously pinched her fingers.

Damn it, how could the person who took over Lin Yihan’s body not even know she needed an inhibitor for her rut? The inhibitors were right in the bedroom’s bedside cabinet!

Had she not taken physiology and health classes? That was a required course that even Betas had to pass!

Ding!

Without a second to spare, Ning Zishu rushed into the apartment. A pheromone scent that was more than ten times stronger than what was outside immediately flooded her senses. Her head spun, and she had to lean on the wall to get used to it.

Since Ning Zishu had already injected herself with an inhibitor on the way, she was still able to remain somewhat conscious in the extremely potent scent of strawberry milk.

The four medical personnel who followed her were immediately choked by the intense pheromones and had to retreat. Even with their protective gear, they couldn’t freely walk around in an out-of-control S-class Alpha’s territory.

This was a no-man’s-land that only an Alpha’s recognized partner could enter.

So fishy, bitter, sour, and acrid. How disgusting was this pheromone normally? It was a miracle this Omega could handle it. They felt like they would vomit if they smelled it for one more second.

Unaware that she was being perceived as an Omega with a strange taste in partners, Ning Zishu’s condition was not as good as they imagined.

At this point in time, she had not yet been marked by Lin Yihan. With their high pheromone compatibility, Ning Zishu should have lost control the moment she entered the apartment.

Was she lucky? Ning Zishu had faced an out-of-control Lin Yihan countless times in her previous life and had, as a result, developed some resistance.

Relying on the endurance she had cultivated in her past life and her resistance to Lin Yihan’s pheromones, Ning Zishu finally made her way, step by step, to the bathroom, where the pheromone scent was strongest.

For some reason, amidst the familiar and loathsome scent of Lin Yihan’s pheromones, Ning Zishu felt a strange and profound sense of despair.

With their extremely high compatibility, Ning Zishu, who was completely enveloped in this despairing pheromone scent, was soon affected as well.

Helpless, unable to trust anyone, no one could help her, lonely, isolated, cold, and scared… These negative emotions combined into an intense despair.

It was exactly what she had felt in her past life.

But… why?

Ning Zishu fought the dizziness and the urge to vomit, staggering into the bathroom. She took the inhibitor and savagely injected the unconscious Lin Yihan, who was collapsed in the bathtub.

Lin Yihan was clearly feverish, and she was murmuring something under her breath.

Ning Zishu’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed. She pulled Lin Yihan out of the water and, fighting both her mental and physical discomfort, roughly dried Lin Yihan with a towel. It was then that she finally heard what Lin Yihan was mumbling.

“Mom… Dad… sister…”

“I… I want to go home…”

Ning Zishu froze. It was only now that she realized the difficult position this girl was in.

She was forced into a completely foreign environment, married a stranger, was sharing a bed with her, was clueless about everything, and had to hide her fear and helplessness. Now, her pheromones were out of control, and she was at risk of dying at any moment.

Her despairing emotions were fully reflected in her pheromones.

In the end, Ning Zishu’s heart softened.

Even when facing the face she hated so much, she couldn’t bring herself to let an innocent girl bear the pain that she shouldn’t have to.

The things the original Lin Yihan did shouldn’t be the responsibility of an innocent person.

“Don’t be afraid. You’ll be okay.”

Ning Zishu wrapped Lin Yihan in a large bathrobe and held her in her arms as she walked out of the bathroom.

Because Lin Yihan had been given a pheromone inhibitor, and the apartment’s ventilation system had been working properly, the pheromone concentration in the room had already dropped significantly.

Ning Zishu’s body was no longer as uncomfortable as when she first came in. Holding the not-so-heavy girl was no problem for the physically fit Ning Zishu.

In a daze, Lin Yihan felt a warm embrace. The faint, sweet scent of citrus inexplicably cleared her mind a bit.

The woman holding her was a stranger, but at the same time, she didn’t feel like one… And she was so pretty.

Is she worried about me?

This big sister is so nice.

Ning Zishu, holding Lin Yihan wrapped in a towel, slowly walked to the medical staff waiting outside and handed Lin Yihan over to them.

“Big sister… don’t go… I’m cold.”

“I won’t go. I’ll stay with you. I won’t leave.”

Ning Zishu released the hand that was holding onto her shirt, bent down, touched Lin Yihan’s forehead, and gently comforted her.

The groggy Lin Yihan seemed to have really heard Ning Zishu’s promise. She no longer resisted and completely relaxed, allowing the medical staff to place her into the isolation pod, completely separating her from the outside world.

“Ms. Ning, it looks like your Alpha’s condition is already improving. She really is an S-class Alpha—her recovery ability is excellent.”

“And she trusts you so much.”

“…Yeah.”

Even in her most desperate moments, she had received the full support of her friends, but this girl only had her, a person she had just met, to rely on.

Ning Zishu’s gaze softened as she looked at Lin Yihan on the stretcher.

If this Lin Yihan really couldn’t go back to her world, she didn’t mind helping her a little.

They could both just be considered victims of the “original Lin Yihan.”