What to Do if You Mess With an Omega? - Chapter 23

This made Ning Hanzhu recall some details about this world’s setup. Alphas had strict hierarchical divisions, all based on whose mental strength was stronger.

Elf Star lacked advanced equipment for detecting mental strength. The best device there could only detect up to A-level. She remembered how Lu Yutang, upon testing at A-level mental strength back then, had been so thrilled that he ran out and picked a fight with someone.

As for the original body…

She had apparently never been tested.

Ning Hanzhu had faced dire poverty from the moment she arrived, leaving no time to worry about such things. But even so… no one could just declare her an inferior Alpha.

On what grounds!!!

Just because this guy flapped his lips?

She glared at Yan Bojing with puffed-up cheeks, about to retort, when she saw Xu Yuqing not even lifting her head. “I just like her like this.”

The temperature on Ning Hanzhu’s face rose at a speed too swift to cover one’s ears, flushing red like a big red apple, the kind with tender pink skin.

Xu Yuqing seemed to sense something. After glancing up at her, the corners of her mouth curved slightly.

She blushed just like that.

And… she was surprisingly innocent.

Ning Hanzhu felt as if her whole body was about to combust, completely unaware that her pheromones were leaking bit by bit along with her surging emotions.

Yan Bojing, closest to her, bore the brunt of it. Before he could rein in the contempt and anger on his face, a fiercely domineering wine fragrance assaulted his nostrils. It made his head spin and his vision blur in that instant, his body staggering back two steps involuntarily.

Xu Yuqing also noticed the anomaly on Ning Hanzhu. She propped her chin on her hand and closed her eyes, as if she had stumbled drunk into a room filled with wine aroma. Every breath carried the intoxicating, sweet grape scent.

This person truly released her pheromones without regard for the occasion.

After today, plenty of people would likely be displeased.

But she did not find it particularly unpleasant.

The person in question remained oblivious to it all. After all, she had zero clue about her own pheromones.

Yan Bojing sensed something amiss and immediately released his own pheromones. Ning Hanzhu’s expression did not change. No, her flushed face turned as she sneaked a glance at Xu Yuqing, paying him no attention whatsoever.

Utterly arrogant.

“Who exactly are you?”

“Hm?”

Ning Hanzhu glanced behind her and realized the space around them had emptied. The people who had just been gathered nearby watching the show had scattered three meters away as if chased by something. She pointed at herself. “Are you talking to me?”

Yan Bojing nearly spat up a mouthful of old bl00d.

“Don’t get too cocky. If you’re an Alpha, come out with me.”

“…”

Such verbal goading had zero effect on Ning Hanzhu.

She spread her hands, embracing full slacker mode. “If you think I’m not, then I’m not. Anyway, I don’t really want to be one.”

Being an Alpha was not a choice she had made. She was forced into the role, okay? If she could choose, she would rather be an utterly ordinary Beta, just like Xu Yuqing.

At the thought of Xu Yuqing, Ning Hanzhu finally noticed that the other woman had been propping her head the whole time, her face flushed as if drunk. “Are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

Xu Yuqing lazily lifted her eyelids. The half-open eyes shimmered with moisture at the bottom, her voice low and hoarse, carrying a hint of softness and weakness. “I don’t want to see him. Help me chase him away.”

Yan Bojing, “?”

Ning Hanzhu, “?”

She blinked lightly. “You heard her. Why don’t you just go?”

She was just a delicate Alpha.

Yan Bojing clenched his fists. “Don’t think this will win Yuqing’s favor. I can give her anything she wants. What can you give her?”

Ning Hanzhu lit up with surprise. “Really?”

Yan Bojing choked, then heard the follow-up. “She wants me to chase you out. Didn’t you just say you could give it?”

Yan Bojing’s face shifted colors like a chaotic palette, nearly turning into a rainbow. Then he took several deep breaths and strode away.

Ning Hanzhu let out a breath of relief.

That had been scary. She had thought he might throw punches regardless of the setting. Her little frame could not withstand that.

“Miss Xu, he’s gone now.”

Xu Yuqing lifted her head. Her hazy eyes narrowed halfway, misty moisture swirling in their depths. Her cheeks flushed red, her alluring lips slightly parted.

Ning Hanzhu felt something was off with her state.

She reached out, thinking Xu Yuqing wanted support, and offered her arm. But the woman collapsed bonelessly into her embrace like a puddle, even letting out a soft gasp.

Ning Hanzhu, “?”

She suspected her hearing had failed her.

Xu Yuqing buried her head in her chest and lightly bit her lip. She must have forgotten her inhibitor. She knew she should let go right away, but this damn embrace felt so comfortable. Her hand, clutching Ning Hanzhu’s collar, tightened instead. “I feel unwell. Protect me. Don’t let anyone else see.”

Ning Hanzhu touched her forehead and found it scorching.

“Why are you running a fever?”

“Mm.”

Ning Hanzhu supported her for two steps and saw her steps unsteady, struggling even to walk. She simply scooped her up horizontally with ease, light as a quilt.

She was pretty impressive.

Back then, forget carrying a person—even lugging a twenty-jin bag of rice five hundred meters would have exhausted her.

At that moment, Ning Hanzhu thought being an Alpha was barely tolerable, at least for the strength. Carrying Ning Qianqian or Xu Yuqing felt effortless.

Not long after they left, someone in the silent banquet hall finally exhaled. The tense standoff just now had been suffocating.

Terrifying.

“Oh my god, that Alpha actually made Yan Bojing retreat in embarrassment.”

“This… this can’t be real.”

“But actually, she doesn’t seem all that bad.”

“I’m a bit envious of Xu Yuqing. How does she have such good fortune? They all revolve around her. It’s so unfair.”

“No way. I don’t believe it.”

Ning Yingwu, who had just finished a video call with his family, stood there dumbfounded. He had only seen Ning Hanzhu carrying Xu Yuqing away, pressed so close. How dared she? That was Xu Yuqing, the goddess every Alpha on the capital star dreamed of marrying.

His face paled. In disbelief, he grabbed the person beside him. “Who is that Alpha you’re talking about? The one who made even Yan Bojing retreat—who is she? Is it Du Yunjia, or that Xu Shenjing?”

“No, no. I heard she’s surnamed Ning. Right, Young Master Ning, same surname as you. Maybe you two were from the same family three hundred years ago.”

“…”

What the fvck about three hundred years ago being family.

Ning Yingwu felt he needed to report this to the family. Ning Hanzhu had not only returned—she, she… He wandered out of the banquet hall in a daze and, not watching his step, took a hard tumble down the stairs.

Meanwhile, the person in question wore a complicated expression as she looked at the one in her arms. Xu Yuqing, like a little kitten, nuzzled and rubbed against her chest.

The woman felt entirely soft all over, her rubbing making Ning Hanzhu’s heart itch.

Ning Hanzhu figured the other had burned her brains out and was using her like a human popsicle?

“Xu Yuqing, how about I take you to the hospital?”

“No.”

At the mention of hospital, Xu Yuqing’s muddled mind cleared a bit by force. “Help me open that box. One shot and I’ll be… fine.”

It felt awful.

Her whole body seemed gnawed by endless ants.

Only by getting close to this person did that unbearable itch subside for a moment. Xu Yuqing felt something off with herself. She must have been stimulated by the pheromones from Ning Hanzhu and Yan Bojing, entering her heat early.

In the cramped hover car, filled with a cool woody cold fragrance, Xu Yuqing had no time to worry about her vest dropping in front of Ning Hanzhu.

After all, they were back on the capital star. The other would learn she was an Omega sooner or later.

“Hurry.”

“Is this it?”

Ning Hanzhu saw her hands shaking as she unpacked and simply helped. With a light tear, Xu Yuqing shuddered and gave herself the injection. She seemed on the verge of collapse.

In that short time, Xu Yuqing was drenched all over, especially below. The slightest movement sent a hot flow trickling down.

She was sitting on Ning Hanzhu.

Xu Yuqing closed her eyes and suppressed the shame in her heart. When she opened them again, she had regained her usual composure. “Don’t you have anything you want to ask me?”

Ning Hanzhu asked curiously, “You… this is a fever-reducing shot?”

“…”

She eyed the other suspiciously for a moment and found Ning Hanzhu’s gaze clear from start to finish. From boarding the hover car to now, at least ten minutes had passed.

Those ten minutes were enough for an Alpha to lose control from her pheromones.

Xu Yuqing could hardly believe it. “Ning Hanzhu, don’t you have anything else you want to say to me?” Or do to me?

“Something else?”

Ning Hanzhu looked her up and down, then reached out.

Xu Yuqing’s fingers curled tight. Then she felt her forehead touched. Ning Hanzhu said delightedly, “This shot of yours works wonders. One jab and the fever’s gone so fast—immediate effect.”

Interstellar medicine truly lived up to its name.

Ning Hanzhu saw her face expressionless, her whole body like something fished from water. She even suggested considerately, “Your clothes are soaked through. Is there spare clothing in the car? Change quickly to avoid catching a cold.”

Xu Yuqing took deep breaths—in, out, repeating three times. “Get out of the car.”

Ning Hanzhu, “?”

Mysteriously kicked out.

Ning Hanzhu suddenly remembered that though they were both girls, their genders differed. They should indeed keep some distance. But she waited and waited, only for the hover car to start up and drive away on its own.

Ning Hanzhu, “??”

Wait, she had not gotten back in yet.