What to Do if You Mess With an Omega? - Chapter 41

“Why do you stand so far away? Do I look like I will eat you?”

“Haha, how could that be?”

An Omega as delicate and fragile as Xu Yuqing would hit like a tickle. Even if she wanted to eat someone, she probably would not know where to start. One bite might just break her own teeth instead.

“Come here.”

“…”

Ning Hanzhu hesitated for two seconds and shifted a tiny step toward the bed.

Xu Yuqing saw she had barely moved and nearly laughed out of anger. But her whole body felt powerless, as if a fire blazed inside her without cease, roasting her endlessly. She lay on the bed and let out a soft hum of discomfort.

To Ning Hanzhu’s ears, it sounded entirely different. She had sensed something off with the breathing in the room the moment she extended her senses.

“Are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

“Mm.”

“!!!”

She truly felt unwell.

Ning Hanzhu had already sensed something amiss with Xu Yuqing’s state. Since she felt unwell, then she— she rushed to the bedside in a single stride. “Where do you feel unwell? I will take you to the hospital right now.”

Xu Yuqing’s eyes reddened at the corners. She looked at Ning Hanzhu with restraint and endurance. Ning Hanzhu simply could not read it. She only felt the other seemed terribly sad, with red eyes and faint glimmers of tears in those cool depths.

Xu Yuqing reached out a hand toward Ning Hanzhu.

Did she want help sitting up?

Fine.

In Xu Yuqing’s eyes, she probably amounted to a maid’s life: lifting the trailing skirt for a red carpet walk, shelling thorny shrimp for a meal…

Whatever. She would not hold a grudge.

She generously offered the back of her hand. Your Majesty, please.

A pair of boneless, soft hands draped languidly over her wrist. Ning Hanzhu had not yet risen when she suddenly got yanked. Caught off guard, she tumbled straight onto the bed.

Fortunately, her other hand braced quickly. Otherwise, that fall would have landed squarely on the reclining Xu Yuqing.

Phew, close call.

Xu Yuqing’s other hand, however, swiftly circled her waist. Ning Hanzhu’s sensitive waist muscles went slack at the touch, and her whole body pressed down.

“So comfortable.”

“?”

In this position, she dared not move a muscle.

As Ning Hanzhu struggled to rise, she felt a supple leg hook around hers. Xu Yuqing’s beautiful face drew right up.

In her view, that high nose bridge, those vermilion lips parted slightly.

Ning Hanzhu’s breath caught. Her mind filled with Xu Yuqing’s overly soft and sweet lips. She clutched the sheet beneath her in tension. But those red lips brushed her jaw, and then her head buried into Ning Hanzhu’s neck. “Comfortable.”

“!!!”

It scared her to death.

She had thought Xu Yuqing meant to kiss her again like last time.

Oh, so she had overthought it.

Ning Hanzhu could not tell if her heart held more regret or relief. She could even feel Xu Yuqing’s hot breath spilling out, scorching her heartbeat into disarray.

Thump thump thump.

So noisy.

Xu Yuqing felt as if she hugged an ice block. It briefly quelled her heat. But at any sign of the ice block trying to leave, she would muster all her strength to hold on.

Ning Hanzhu came back to herself and shifted slightly to avoid pressing on Xu Yuqing. Her peripheral vision, however, caught a glimpse of familiar fabric. Hm? Hmm, this was the shirt she had worn and washed for the first time. Had she not hung it in the closet?

When had she taken it out?

“Your, your breathing feels so hot. Do you have a fever?”

“Do not go.”

“I am not going. Let go of me first— no, loosen your leg a bit.”

She had never known Xu Yuqing’s slender legs held such locking power, pinning her utterly immobile. Ning Hanzhu could break free if she tried, but it would surely hurt the other.

Right now, one kick from her could send a grown, burly Alpha flying. If applied to Xu Yuqing, that would… punch right through to the Audit Department.

Whatever, whatever.

Xu Yuqing lifted her head. Her hazy eyes seemed to look at her, yet not. Ning Hanzhu felt she must have burned out her senses.

Xu Yuqing shook her head. She had finally found another way to cool down. Like a kitten, she rubbed against Ning Hanzhu— arm against arm, face against her neck. In this spot lay the scent that soothed her, faint though it was. “Ning Hanzhu, will you help me, please?”

Her tone was soft and coquettish.

Ning Hanzhu had never seen Xu Yuqing so soft. People truly turned fragile when ill. Her heart softened. “You have to let go of me before I can help.”

The best course now was the hospital. If not, the nanny robot.

But the nanny robot was downstairs.

She had no habit of having the robot look after things.

Ning Hanzhu’s head throbbed. But the person in her arms not only refused to loosen but locked even tighter. They pressed closer, skin to skin without gap. She could even feel the other’s scorching temperature and the softness piled in her embrace.

Mm, she was not thinking anything.

Absolutely not. It was just that an Alpha’s senses were too keen. The slightest touch amplified endlessly. This wave was not her fault.

But was not this temperature too hot? Like a furnace.

Xu Yuqing had seemed fine during dinner. How had one bathroom trip changed everything? Could it be—

At the thought of a certain possibility, Ning Hanzhu’s hairs stood on end.

“You you you— do not tell me your heat has come?”

“Mm, I permit you to bite me once.”

“???”

What, bite?

She was not a wild boar.

Ning Hanzhu felt annoyed yet could not help thinking rapidly. Once an Omega entered heat, their pheromones drew Alphas without limit. Oh, no wonder Xu Yuqing had barged into her room. She must fear her pheromones scattering and summoning Alphas.

Such a clever girl.

But she recalled that Omegas in heat could delay it with inhibitors.

“Did you bring your inhibitors? I will fetch them for you.”

“No, no use.”

Xu Yuqing felt a bit puzzled. At a time like this, this Alpha actually thought of fetching inhibitors for her. Did she hold no attraction at all? But she still explained with effort. “I have injected too many inhibitors lately.”

Especially at Wen Yuan Shuang’s home. To suppress the heat triggered by Luo Tianran’s pheromones, she had injected several at once.

The AI had warned her.

Her long-term use of such methods to suppress her heat had ultimately backfired. And this time, the heat arrived with overwhelming force, catching her utterly off guard.

Xu Yuqing felt Ning Hanzhu’s big ice block seemed to lose its chill the more she rubbed. The heat only grew. “Ning Hanzhu, are you really an Alpha?”

No Alpha would think of inhibitors at a time like this!!!

Ning Hanzhu, “…”

She would never fall for such a goad.

What was wrong with being an Alpha?

Did Alphas have no right to choose?

Besides, she could simply be one of those indifferent Alphas, refusing to play tool.

But gazing at the woman on her bed, radiating fragrance and dampness, Ning Hanzhu silently stepped back a full pace.

The two pulled some distance between their upper bodies.

Xu Yuqing lowered her gaze. “If not a bite, then kiss me once.”

Ning Hanzhu’s tongue nearly tied in shock. “Kiss, kiss once!!!?”

This, this— what did it look like?

Xu Yuqing’s scorching palm pressed against her abdomen. Half her body leaned over, drawing inch by inch closer. Ning Hanzhu could even feel the other’s hot breath on her face, thick with woody fragrance. She swallowed rapidly and blurted in panic, “I I, no becoming a guardian.”

She did not want to turn into a guardian like Yang Xiu. When an Omega needed them, they could become the world’s most intimate pair, so merged you were in me and I in you, their sweet devotion envied by all. But if one day that Omega needed another Alpha for some reason, they still had to yield gracefully, show magnanimity, and not fight or grab.

Ning Hanzhu knew she could not do it.

The thought of the person she liked openly cuckolding her with countless others made her unable to accept it. Better to be an indifferent Alpha.

Xu Yuqing’s fingers clenched tight. She even considered stopping right there. But once she left this door, she would need an Alpha to endure the heat.

She thought sorrowfully that she had finally become the very thing she despised most.

Since anyone would do, Ning Hanzhu could too.

Ning Hanzhu watched her tensely. Then her abdomen cooled as a hot hand slipped in, roaming against her skin. She felt a bit ticklish. “Do not.”

Xu Yuqing flipped upward and blocked that mouth that spat no ivory with her own. In her haste, their teeth grazed lightly. Saliva mingled, and the familiar, reassuring wine scent leaked bit by bit, drawing Xu Yuqing deeper into addiction.

Not enough.

Still not enough.

Ning Hanzhu’s pupils dilated wide. She only felt a nimble tongue stir a pool of water. She followed the other’s rhythm without thought, her scalp numbing in bliss, her soul seemingly sucked away.

She, a single soul who had never even kissed anyone, could not withstand Xu Yuqing’s fierce claiming. In moments, a wave of heat swept from her abdomen, and her body grew hot too.

This body clearly felt off.

Ning Hanzhu felt that if this continued, something beyond expectation might happen.

“No, no wait.”

Had she not said just one kiss?

Ning Hanzhu swallowed unwillingly. She even feared Xu Yuqing might fall and steadied her waist. She swore it was pure reflex.

But that steadying only ignited Xu Yuqing’s wild side.

She cupped Ning Hanzhu’s face and kissed downward. By the time Ning Hanzhu came to, Xu Yuqing’s backless dress hung half-off her arms, neither on nor off.

Ning Hanzhu’s shirt buttons had come undone too. She panted heavily, stupefied. Had she done this???

Such a fervent kiss overwhelmed her. Xu Yuqing was simply too passionate, a stark contrast to her usual demeanor. Just seeing that expression of unrestrained desire sparked a rebellious thought in Ning Hanzhu.

This was no good.

Ning Hanzhu, “Are you feeling better?”

No, not better at all.

Xu Yuqing felt her body grow emptier than ever, her heart itching unbearably, something burrowing endlessly in her bones. Her lower parts turned to a muddy mess.

She had thought one kiss would suffice. Instead, it failed to suppress her and only heightened her longing. She longed for the person before her, for those hands to caress her inch by inch, for more kisses like just now, for even more intimate acts.

Xu Yuqing closed her eyes. “One kiss is afraid it will not solve it.”

Ning Hanzhu, “!!!?”

If one kiss would not do, did two suffice?