Volume Eight: Those Years When I Was an Alpha
Getting the Certificate1
The two of them drank for a long time, until all the wine Feng Ban had brought was gone.
“Alright, the farewell is over. I’m leaving,” Feng Ban said, getting up to depart.
Seeing she was about to go, Wen Nuan stood to see her off. “When do you set out?”
“Maybe now, maybe tomorrow.”
Wen Nuan smiled. “Then I won’t see you off.”
“I know.”
Neither of them were people who could stand scenes of parting. Why bother with such sentimental feelings?
Feng Ban walked out of the room, paused, and then suddenly spoke, “Your glands are unable to undergo gland differentiation surgery. You knew about this for a long time, didn’t you?”
Wen Nuan hadn’t expected Feng Ban to bring this up so suddenly. She nodded. “Indeed.”
She had known back when she was researching the gland differentiation surgery, but at that time, she was preparing to leave the mission world and didn’t pay it too much mind.
Feng Ban said, “Being unable to have the gland differentiation surgery means you’ll have to experience a susceptible period for the rest of your life.”
Wen Nuan nodded. “I know.”
“Does that also mean… you’ll be subject to the soothing of Jiang Yichuan’s pheromones for your entire life?” Feng Ban blurted out.
Wen Nuan smiled, unconcerned. “I’m happy with that.”
Feng Ban opened her mouth, but said nothing more. She turned, waved her hand, and disappeared into the night.
Wen Nuan watched the direction Feng Ban had gone, naturally understanding the purpose of her words. But Feng Ban likely also knew what her answer would be, which is why she left without saying more.
【The Female Lead’s Blackening Value has decreased. Current Blackening Value is 0.6!】
Wen Nuan was surprised. “Hm? Why did it drop so suddenly?”
The System shrugged. 【Not sudden. Turn your head.】
Wen Nuan turned her head and saw Jiang Yichuan standing in the distance, watching her silently.
Wen Nuan walked over. “When did you get back?”
Jiang Yichuan said, “Just as you were about to see Feng Ban off.”
“Then you heard everything we said?”
Jiang Yichuan nodded. “Mhm.”
She bit her lip, her expression troubled. “Can you really not have the surgery?”
“Even if I could, there’s no one who could perform it on me.”
Her glands were too unique; no one in the entire interstellar universe could operate on her, not even Feng Ban.
Jiang Yichuan hugged Wen Nuan, burying her face in her embrace, her voice hoarse. “I don’t like being marked, I don’t like being tied down.”
Wen Nuan stroked her back. “I know.”
“But I also don’t like you being constrained by me.”
Her tears flowed onto Wen Nuan’s neck, scalding hot.
She had heard Feng Ban’s words with perfect clarity. If Wen Nuan couldn’t have the gland differentiation surgery, she would have to endure the pain of the susceptible period for the rest of her life, always subject to the soothing of her pheromones.
In other words, Wen Nuan was now completely possessed by her.
She had once so crazily desired to possess Wen Nuan, but now that it had truly happened, she despised and loathed this insatiable version of herself.
Wen Nuan knew her girl was bothered. “Is this really a constraint?”
Jiang Yichuan choked back a sob. “It is.”
“It’s not,” Wen Nuan denied.
Jiang Yichuan repeated earnestly, “It is.”
“It’s not.”
Before Jiang Yichuan could say “it is” again, Wen Nuan broke into a radiant smile. “Xiao Chuanchuan, being constrained by you is my good fortune.”
Jiang Yichuan froze, then began to cry even more fiercely.
The System joyfully announced: 【Blackening Value has decreased. The Female Lead’s current Blackening Value is 0.3!】
Feng Ban left the next day. Drobu once again vanished from the interstellar universe, becoming the ghost planet people knew it as.
The month was up, and Wen Nuan no longer needed to be abstinent. Jiang Yichuan had been silently preparing, waiting for Wen Nuan to pounce on her.
But after a day or two, she still hadn’t seen Wen Nuan make a move.
Even when she deliberately wore sexy clothes and paraded in front of Wen Nuan;
Even when she threw herself into Wen Nuan’s arms and even invited her to bathe with her;
Even when she was on the verge of bluntly saying saucy words2 like “hurry up and sleep with me”;
Wen Nuan’s reaction was one of complete indifference, as if she had suddenly become detached from worldly desires, and no person or thing could stir her emotions.
Xi Chen looked at the constantly sighing Jiang Yichuan and asked, puzzled, “What’s wrong? Did you do poorly on your exams?”
The two of them were in the same examination hall, and he remembered that Jiang Yichuan always handed in her papers early. It didn’t seem like she had done poorly.
“I did quite well.” Jiang Yichuan passed her newly refreshed optical computer interface to Xi Chen.
Xi Chen took one look; her score was even higher than his. “Then what’s the matter?”
Jiang Yichuan propped her chin on her hand. “We’ve already graduated, right?”
Xi Chen nodded. “Mhm, graduated. I’m planning to go to the Federation’s Tenth Legion. What about you?”
“Same as you, Major General Ning Qiu assigned me to the Tenth Legion,” Jiang Yichuan sighed again. “Then tell me, what is she still waiting for?”
“What waiting for what?” Xi Chen was completely baffled by her question. “What are you worried about?”
Jiang Yichuan didn’t have many friends, and the only one she could confide in now was Xi Chen, so she could only turn to him for discussion.
Xi Chen saw her suddenly looking at him with such seriousness. If he didn’t know that Jiang Yichuan wasn’t interested in him, he would have almost thought she was about to confess to him.
“Wh-what are you doing?”
Jiang Yichuan let out a breath and said with great solemnity, “Tell me, I’ve clearly graduated, and the exams are over, so why hasn’t she made a move?”
Xi Chen mulled over her words for a moment, and his face instantly turned red. He stammered, “Wait, why are you talking to me about this?”
“You’re the only friend I have. Who else would I talk to?”
“Don’t you know that AOs are different, and that men and women are different?”
Jiang Yichuan said dismissively, “I don’t think of you as a man, and you can’t beat me in a fight. I don’t think of you as an alpha either, so you don’t need to worry.”
Xi Chen: “….”
He said, exasperated, “You’re not telling me all this because you want me to give you an idea, are you?”
Jiang Yichuan’s eyes lit up. “Can you!?”
“….” Xi Chen was speechless. “If Mu Wen Nuan won’t take the initiative, then why don’t you?”
Jiang Yichuan said, puzzled, “I did, but she’s ignoring me.”
“How did you take the initiative?”
Jiang Yichuan explained her recent initiatives to him in detail, making the little virgin boy Xi Chen blush crimson.
He said with difficulty, “Could it be that Mu Wen Nuan is scared from being rejected by you, so now she doesn’t dare to touch you?”
Jiang Yichuan found this reason very plausible and said with remorse, “But that was for the sake of her health. She couldn’t overindulge for that month.”
Xi Chen sighed. “I don’t know what a woman is like when she’s been holding back for a long time, but I know a man will go crazy.”
Jiang Yichuan: “….”
“Alright,” Xi Chen said, seeing Jiang Yichuan’s dejected look. “The results are out, and we’ve graduated. Let’s go home for now. You can’t rush these things.”
Jiang Yichuan followed behind Xi Chen with her head hanging low.
Suddenly, there was a commotion around them, and many people were discussing something. Jiang Yichuan had no heart to pay attention, but her arm was nudged by Xi Chen.
“What?”
Xi Chen poked her and asked, “Look, that hovering car at the gate is of five colors and brilliant stripes, there’s a ‘Congratulations on Graduating’ banner hanging on it, she’s holding ninety-nine roses, and she’s wearing a suit that is saucy through and through. Is that woman Mu Wen Nuan?”
Jiang Yichuan’s head snapped up. She saw Wen Nuan dressed in a red suit. The brilliant red color made her skin look like jade, radiant and dazzling, and passersby frequently turned to look.
Jiang Yichuan’s brow furrowed. She decisively abandoned Xi Chen and immediately walked to Wen Nuan’s side, blocking every gaze that came their way.
“Why are you here?”
Wen Nuan took off her sunglasses, a corner of her mouth hooking up. “Surprise! Xiao Chuanchuan, congratulations on graduating. Are you happy?”
Jiang Yichuan took the roses and smiled. “I’m happy.”
Wen Nuan caressed Jiang Yichuan’s cheek and said with emotion, “From now on, our Xiao Chuanchuan is an adult and can enjoy the obligations of an adult.”
The obligations of an adult?!
Some colorful images instantly flashed through Jiang Yichuan’s mind.
Her face turned red, and she replied shyly, “Mhm, I’m ready.”
Wen Nuan lifted her chin. “Get in the car. I’m taking you to a good place.”
Jiang Yichuan grabbed Wen Nuan’s clothes, saying embarrassedly, “Not today. I got my… you know.”
Wen Nuan paused, understanding what Jiang Yichuan meant, and waved her hand. “It’s fine, it won’t get in the way.”
“….” Jiang Yichuan opened her mouth.
Since Wen Nuan said it wouldn’t get in the way, then let’s do it.
Wen Nuan watched as Jiang Yichuan bravely got into the car, looking as if she were preparing for a bloody battle.
Xi Chen watched the two get into the car. The dazzlingly colored hovering car did a divine dragon swings its tail3 and disappeared from the school gate.
He pulled the banner off himself and looked at the congratulatory words on it, saying helplessly, “Ah well, I’ll just take it as a blessing for me. Thanks.”
Jiang Yichuan was a little excited, her fingers twisting together nonstop. She had already secretly unbuttoned her shirt to make things easier for Wen Nuan in a moment. It was just that today’s pants might be a bit difficult to take off; she would have to cooperate with Wen Nuan then.
The car stopped. Jiang Yichuan took a deep breath and shouted, “Let’s begin!”
Wen Nuan paused. “Begin what?”
Jiang Yichuan said nervously, “Sleep… sleeping with me?”
Connecting this with what Jiang Yichuan had said earlier, Wen Nuan finally understood and couldn’t help but laugh. “Xiao Chuanchuan, how can you be so endearing?”
Her right palm suddenly cupped the back of Jiang Yichuan’s neck, stroking her glands. A faint, sweet fragrance drifted from her lips and tongue into Jiang Yichuan’s heart.
That tender yet forceful assault shattered all her defenses.
Wen Nuan licked her lips and said softly, “Baby, look where I’ve brought you.”
Jiang Yichuan’s eyes were hazy. She followed Wen Nuan’s hand and turned towards the car window. Looking at the building outside, her eyes widened, and she exclaimed, “The Marriage Registration Office?!”
“That’s right,” Wen Nuan smiled. “Baby, let’s get married.”
Jiang Yichuan hastily buttoned her shirt, her face flushed red as she followed Wen Nuan out of the car to register their marriage. The process was quick, and the two walked out holding their respective little red books4.
Wen Nuan saw that Jiang Yichuan kept looking at the little red book, the smile on her lips never fading.
She started the car. “Do you like it? Wife.”
Jiang Yichuan nodded emphatically. “I like it. What did you just call me?”
Wen Nuan glanced at her. “I called you wife.”
“Can you say it again?” Jiang Yichuan pleaded.
“Wife,” Wen Nuan’s eyes were full of doting affection.
She called her again and again, “Wife… wife…”
These calls of “wife” made Jiang Yichuan ecstatic, but the “wife” that came later left her physically and mentally exhausted, unable to extricate herself.
Jiang Yichuan wanted to escape, but Wen Nuan grabbed her by the ankle and dragged her back fiercely.
It was clearly she who had constrained Wen Nuan, but at this moment, it was she who was tightly held by Wen Nuan.
“Wife, where are you planning to run to?”
Wen Nuan kissed her, the desire-filled kisses landing in unexpected places.
“This time, I’ve booked an extra-large bed. You can’t escape.”
She had already been turned upside down by Wen Nuan.
Jiang Yichuan’s throat was already hoarse, and there were many places she could no longer keep closed.
She had lost control of her own body; she could only beg for a trace of pity in Wen Nuan’s scorching palm.
“Wife, you parading in front of me every day for that month nearly drove me to death.”
“Wife, I like it when you throw yourself into my arms. Next time, you have to be as proactive as you were these past few days, okay?”
“Wife, you don’t know how many times I’ve… wanted to… do you to death…”
Jiang Yichuan’s eyes gradually lost focus. She felt that Wen Nuan had made good on her word.
Until the night was so dark you could not see one’s five fingers5, until everything was damp.
The clamorous sounds gradually subsided, and the world slowly fell silent.
The System, which had been let out after a day and a night, said speechlessly: 【Beep! The Female Lead’s Blackening Value has been cleared. A duplicate body is being constructed. The task-doer will soon be detached from the mission world. Please prepare.】
Wen Nuan held the unconscious female lead in her arms, looking with nostalgia at the scar on her chest. She placed a light kiss on her forehead and said, “I love you.”
【Three, two, one… Duplicate body construction successful. Detaching the task-doer!】
-Wait for me.
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