Chapter 53: The Omega Abandoned After a One-Night Stand (10)
When Chu Ruan came out of the bathroom again, she instinctively glanced at the time and realized it was already two or three in the morning. Recalling the consequences of her last late-night visit, she hesitated before stepping into the master bedroom.
Because she had commandeered the master bathroom, Su Mingxiu had used the other one. Now, she was already in her pajamas, sitting by the bed and looking at her phone, browsing information about the current employees of Smith Biological Laboratory.
Noticing Chu Ruan’s hesitation, she asked without looking up: “Don’t want to stay?”
The Omega, her nape still aching faintly, thought about her past experiences with Su Mingxiu and bit her lip. The excuse she was about to give was seemingly anticipated by the other party, leaving her speechless. She could only stand by the bed silently, observing Su Mingxiu’s attitude to gauge how long she could resist.
To her surprise, the Alpha leaning against the headboard only glanced at her and said calmly: “Then you can leave.”
Chu Ruan was stunned.
Perhaps because she had never heard this Alpha speak so agreeably, her already not-so-bright mind started working overtime, suspecting some hidden motive.
She tentatively moved her foot towards the door.
One step, two steps.
Even after her hand touched the doorframe, the person bathed in the warm bedside lamp didn’t move. Even her shadow didn’t shift.
Perhaps Chu Ruan had taken too long. Su Mingxiu had already finished browsing the information and the list of employees on the website. Seeing that Chu Ruan was still within her sight, she raised an eyebrow. “What, do you want me to see you off?”
Although she didn’t know why Su Mingxiu had changed her mind, Chu Ruan could tell from her tone that she wouldn’t go back on her word. She immediately replied: “No need!”
The Omega was about to stride out of the room and close the door behind her. But before she could do so, she heard another voice from behind: “Wait.”
Chu Ruan sneered inwardly. Here it comes.
Su Mingxiu was definitely going to mess with her.
She gripped the doorknob and turned around cautiously, meeting those pitch-black, alluring eyes. Staring at the faint mole under Su Mingxiu’s left eye, she pursed her lips, like a small animal ready to lash out at any moment.
“From tomorrow onwards, we don’t have to see each other anymore.”
“According to federal law, if an Alpha and Omega who have undergone genetic matching at the Matching Center are unable to form a harmonious family and their relationship is incompatible within four years, they can dissolve their engagement after that period.”
The person standing by the door hadn’t expected this matter, which had been troubling her for so long, to be resolved so easily.
She had thought she would have to work very hard to convince this Alpha to change her mind.
After all…
Even if they got married and had sex, it wouldn’t be the Alpha who suffered. There were even people who could help her with her heat cycles, so why not?
Her previous resistance to this marriage was only because she didn’t want to be with a complete stranger, an Alpha who would control her life and her path—
Chu Ruan opened her mouth, wanting to ask many questions. But those questions, tangled together, only allowed her to utter a single sentence:
“Why…”
As soon as she spoke, she suddenly realized that she seemed to be clinging to this person. So she abruptly changed her words: “Four years later?”
Since Su Mingxiu had no intention of being with her, why not just clarify with the Chu and Su families now and dissolve the engagement?
After all, federal law was only for ordinary people. With the Su family’s influence, finding a new wife should be a piece of cake.
Su Mingxiu looked at her with a playful smile, as if she had never met such a person before. She stared at Chu Ruan, making her feel increasingly uneasy. Then, she replied slowly: “I thought… maintaining this fake relationship would be more beneficial to you?”
After all, the future treatment of a rejected Omega from a prestigious family was obvious.
Chu Ruan naturally understood the logic behind her words.
It was precisely because she understood that she couldn’t comprehend it.
To Su Mingxiu, she should be a disobedient and rebellious Omega. Apart from bringing her endless trouble, she was of no benefit. So… why would Su Mingxiu be willing to use this engagement to protect her for four years?
It couldn’t possibly be because she liked her, right?
Hah.
“If you have no further questions, you can leave.” Su Mingxiu put her phone aside. Thinking that she could go to Smith Biological Laboratory tomorrow, get rid of this inhumane system and the ultimate mission, she felt exceptionally happy. She even gave Chu Ruan a rare, gentle reminder: “Be careful on your way back. I don’t want to receive another call from the emergency room.”
***
Chu Ruan left in a daze.
But she took Su Mingxiu’s every word to heart. As soon as she reached the ground floor of her apartment building, she took out her phone and called a ride.
However, when setting up her emergency contact, she hesitated for a long time. After scrolling through her contacts, she realized with a pang of sadness that she had very few people she could trust.
And the only person who had taken her to the hospital after she was injured was her fiancée, whom she hadn’t even exchanged contact information with, and their engagement was already doomed to fail.
She finally entered Zhao Chun’er’s number. After getting into the car, she couldn’t help but roll down the window, letting the night breeze blow on her face. As she watched the streetlights flash by, countless thoughts, like fine dust particles, rose and fell in her mind.
Until dawn.
Su Mingxiu woke up early, bought a plane ticket to the city where the laboratory was located, and transferred between two modes of transportation. But she didn’t feel tired at all. Instead, she was full of energy.
The system, perhaps sensing her loneliness as she traveled alone, actually spoke to her: “Are you trying to play hard to get with Chu Ruan?”
Not keeping her by her side, not marking her against her will, even giving her some freedom, yet still maintaining the facade of an engagement, was it to move Chu Ruan and make her fall in love before…?
Perhaps Su Mingxiu’s completion of the ultimate missions in the previous two worlds had given the system a false impression. Its starting point for all its deductions was that “Su Mingxiu would definitely complete the ultimate mission.”
Su Mingxiu said to the system with a smile: “It’s a smokescreen.”
But not for Chu Ruan.
—
The system, not understanding her answer, soon became confused. When Su Mingxiu arrived at the laboratory and requested to have her brain scanned with the most advanced equipment, it finally realized that this person had come here specifically for it!
The system was shocked. Before Su Mingxiu could even enter the examination room, it released a surge of electricity as a warning: “Host is strictly prohibited from engaging in any actions related to extracting this system! Warning! Releasing 200,000 volts of electricity!”
It had managed to accumulate so much electricity thanks to the torture it had endured from Su Mingxiu and Gui Mian in the previous world!
Now it was time…
For Su Mingxiu to suffer the consequences!
The scientist who was accompanying Su Mingxiu and introducing the laboratory’s facilities was stunned. He pointed at her hair, which was standing on end as if from static electricity. “Dr. Su, what’s wrong?”
“Don’t come near me.”
Su Mingxiu recovered from the electric shock, sneering inwardly. But on the surface, she pretended to be deeply hurt by the system and left the room.
Just when the system thought she had given up, Su Mingxiu went straight to the laboratory director and, using her identity as a member of the Su family, invested in the laboratory—
Within two hours of arriving at the biological laboratory, Su Mingxiu successfully transformed from Dr. Su, the employee, to Boss Su, the employer.
After confirming that she had the right to use and purchase equipment, she quickly ordered a lightning rod and a bunch of conductive equipment. She returned to the room where she could scan her body and said to the system calmly: “Come on, keep shocking me.”
System: “???”
Sensing danger, its automatic protection program activated, releasing electricity. But Su Mingxiu slowly put on a pair of new gloves. This was a new technology used by workers who worked on high-altitude crops during thunderstorms, allowing them to maintain their safety even when struck by lightning.
Moreover, the system’s measly few watts were nothing.
This time, not even a single strand of Su Mingxiu’s hair stood on end.
When two-thirds of its stored electricity was depleted, the system sensed something was wrong. It quickly modified its program in the background, deciding to play dead as long as Su Mingxiu didn’t perform any tests or scans.
It had to save its electricity for the critical moment!
As expected.
Sensing the system’s silence, Su Mingxiu took a step towards the scanning equipment. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and moved away a second before the system released its electricity.
Otherwise, if these delicate instruments and equipment were damaged, the laboratory would suffer millions in losses.
“Playing this game with me?”
Su Mingxiu raised an eyebrow, a wicked smile appearing on her beautiful face, as if she had finally found a worthy opponent.
Then, she found various materials in this private laboratory and started formulating a surgical plan. The system scanned it—
Good heavens, this person is planning to implant an interference chip in herself.
Once successful, the system’s perception of the outside world would be affected, and it wouldn’t be able to judge Su Mingxiu’s actions in time. It had no choice but to shock her…
Thus began a persistent battle between the human and the system.
***
A week later.
Su Mingxiu, with an interference chip implanted in her arm, sat in front of the scanning equipment, looking at her brain scan. She had invited a renowned neurosurgeon in the country and pointed at the rice-sized object in the image, discussing the possible consequences of removing it.
The expert was utterly shocked, looking at her in disbelief. He wondered if this person had been captured by an enemy country and subjected to inhumane experiments or was involved in some secret mission—
Otherwise, how could a normal person have such a thing in their brain, and it could even discharge electricity?
For the sake of the expert’s health, as soon as she woke up from the surgery, Su Mingxiu had a friendly chat with him. Under the original owner’s exceptional hypnosis skills, the expert conveniently forgot the surgical record, thinking he had only been invited to perform a brain tumor removal.
After quickly healing her wound with a bio-therapeutic device, Su Mingxiu sat in her private laboratory, tapping her finger on a sealed container that could trap even light. Inside the translucent observation screen, she could see the rice-sized object imprisoned within.
“Come on, let’s have a chat.”
System: “…”
It couldn’t understand. Why was Su Mingxiu targeting it again in this world, even though it hadn’t been constantly reminding her or forcing her to complete missions with tedious tasks?
Hadn’t the previous two worlds been perfectly normal?
It flashed weakly, displaying a line of Chinese characters on the screen: “Chat about what?”
“Why did you choose me?”
“This is your predetermined fate.” The system still emphasized this line.
“Really? I don’t believe it.” Su Mingxiu decided to recruit some talented people from the biology department, have them sign confidentiality agreements, and then everyone could study the secrets of this system together. It would be a shame not to do some research in such a technologically advanced world.
—She would see what kind of code this so-called fate was made of.
System: “…”
It started reflecting on how it had ended up in this situation.
Why was Su Mingxiu even more difficult to deal with after losing her memories?
If it restored her memories now, would she stop these terrifying thoughts?
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