But Yun Chuji was no longer the feudal woman who had just arrived. She had learned a few things now.
So, when faced with a dying woman who would stab people with a knife, she didn’t scream and cry in terror like her old friend, Miss Wang, had upon discovering a servant beaten to death with clubs.
She calmly began to call for help—
“Miss Tang, I need your help.”
After she gave a rough description of the situation, Tang Jianxi calmly instructed her, “Don’t move her, and don’t call the police. I’ll send someone over.”
“Mhm, mhm, mhm.” Yun Chuji nodded while watching the woman. She was lying in the middle of the alley again, her eyes closed and her lips deathly pale. It looked as if she could pass away at any moment.
“Miss Tang, please hurry. I don’t think she’s going to make it.”
“Someone will be there within ten minutes. Talk to her and keep her conscious.”
“Don’t get too close.”
“Alright, Miss Tang. I’m hanging up now.”
“Wait… your wound?”
“It’s fine. It’s just a small cut. It’s not bleeding anymore.”
“Okay. Goodbye.”
“Goodbye, Miss Tang.”
“Don’t be afraid.” Tang Jianxi added hastily before hanging up.
Through the optical computer’s signal, Yun Chuji could even hear the slight tremor in Tang Jianxi’s voice. She couldn’t help but smile faintly and promise with great solemnity, “I’m not afraid.”
In reality, she was still a little scared.
She was just comforting Miss Tang.
Yun Chuji slowly walked forward, suppressing the involuntary trembling in her wrist. The woman was still holding the bloodstained curved blade, which bore the blood of them both—only later would Yun Chuji learn that it also held the blood of a third person.
She crouched at the alley’s entrance, softening her voice as much as possible. “It’s okay, you don’t have to be afraid. I’ve already called for help. You’ll be safe soon.”
But these words were like a stone cast into a calm lake, stirring up a thousand waves. The woman tightened her grip on the knife and seemed to struggle to her feet. Terrified she would fall, Yun Chuji rushed over to support her, only to get another cut on her hand.
In an instant, tears welled up in her eyes.
This person… how could she be even more violent than Miss Tang in heat!
Yun Chuji wanted to snatch the knife away but didn’t dare. She couldn’t bring herself to run away, either. All she could do was clutch her wound and stand half a meter away, pleading, “Please stop cutting me. If you cut me again, there’ll be no one left to save you.”
“Don’t… need… you… to save me.” The woman forced out the words, one by one.
“But you’re going to die.”
“Look how much blood you’ve lost.”
“It’s dangerous for you to go on like this.”
“You’re a young lady. What will you do if this leaves a scar?!”
The woman was half-sitting in the alley, blood soaking her neck and chest. She lifted her eyes slightly and said, “Shut up.”
Yun Chuji felt terribly wronged. If it weren’t for the woman’s critical condition, she would have left the moment she was told to get lost. When had the great Young Miss of the Yun family ever been treated with such disrespect?
As expected, Miss Tang was the gentlest.
Yun Chuji glanced at her optical computer. Five minutes left.
She started rambling again. “Miss, what’s your name?”
“My surname is Yun. Oh, but I can’t tell you my given name. Mother said a young lady’s name shouldn’t be told to just anyone. Although I’ve already told many people, I think it’s best to tell as few as possible.”
“After all, the people here are different from where I’m from. You people here are so fierce.”
“Of course, Miss Tang is a good person.”
“Are you a good person?”
“Hey, hey, hey, Miss, don’t move the knife!”
Yun Chuji moved a little farther away and continued her rambling. “I can’t smell your scent. Are you a beta?”
“I think betas are the best. They’re not much different from the people where I’m from.”
“But being an alpha is fine too. Being an alpha lets me help treat Miss Tang’s illness.”
“Miss, don’t worry. You have to pull yourself together. Miss Tang’s people will be here soon, and they’ll save you.”
“After they save you, we’ll send you home, okay? You must have met with some kind of accident.”
“Miss Tang will help you. She’s very kind. She even helps someone like me.”
The woman’s lips moved.
She seemed to say something.
Yun Chuji saw it in the moonlight.
Mustering her courage, she avoided the knife and went to the woman’s side. “What did you say? I didn’t quite hear you.”
“Are… you… crazy?”
In her mind, the woman’s words were actually laced with profanity, but saying the full, curse-laden sentence was simply too long. Her current physical condition didn’t allow for it, so she extracted the general meaning to insult the alpha before her.
Who would have thought that not only did this alpha not get angry and storm off, but she even replied with a look of pleasant surprise, “Miss Tang says I’m crazy too!”
“But Miss Tang said that’s a bad thing to say, and I should refute it when I hear it.”
“So, Miss, you can’t say that about me.”
Just as the woman was so tormented that she wanted to raise her knife again, the person Tang Jianxi had called finally arrived.
To be precise.
It was only one person.
Xie Xiaoxiao, carrying several large and small bags, following her optical computer’s navigation.
She dropped her bags, took out a few vials of medicine and a syringe, and strode over nonchalantly.
Yun Chuji guessed this was the person Miss Tang had sent and quickly tried to stop her. “Don’t come any closer! She has a knife! Let me try to persuade her.”
“Oh?” Xie Xiaoxiao didn’t break her stride. She crouched down, reached out, and snatched the knife from the woman’s hand with an ease that was almost mocking. “Not anymore.”
With that, she injected the medicine into the woman’s forearm. The woman quickly fell unconscious. Throughout the process, Xie Xiaoxiao kept shooting glances at her.
These glances made Yun Chuji understand that her mockery was more than just a little.
Her scorn was practically overflowing!
I knew it! The people in this place are all terrifyingly fierce!
While Yun Chuji was wallowing in self-pity, Xie Xiaoxiao, who had more or less finished bandaging the woman, stood up and pointed at the unconscious figure. “What are you spacing out for? Carry her and let’s go!”
The delicate Miss Yun never thought she would one day become manual labor. She asked in disbelief, “Are you the only one here?”
Xie Xiaoxiao had little goodwill for the alpha who had taken advantage of her best friend, and this alpha was now acting clumsy and completely oblivious to the situation. This soured her tone even more. “Who else? Can’t you tell? She cut out her own gland.”
“Strictly speaking, it’s illegal for an omega to privately remove their own gland. The more people involved, the more complicated it gets. Do you want her to go from the hospital straight to the police station?”
Yun Chuji quickly shook her head.
So, this young lady was an omega.
She crouched down, gently lifted the woman into her arms, and turned her head to ask Xie Xiaoxiao, “Where are we going?”
“Your place.”
“Huh?”
“Hurry up! Any slower and she’ll die!”
Yun Chuji broke into a sprint.
After returning home, Yun Chuji cleaned up her room. Xie Xiaoxiao used her equipment to perform a simple disinfection and set up, then closed the door and began the surgery.
As she had said before, she didn’t actually know how to perform a gland removal surgery.
However, when it came to simply repairing, suturing, and bandaging the wound from a violently removed gland, Xie Xiaoxiao was more than capable.
It was just that this omega would probably not live past sixty now.
After observing the wound more closely, Xie Xiaoxiao sighed. It was more likely she wouldn’t live past forty-five.
This omega’s gland must have been in terrible condition to begin with. I really don’t know what she’s been through.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the wall, Yun Chuji was clumsily applying medicine to her own wounds. During her time as a young miss, she had never once gotten a scrape. Even as a child, she always had maids supporting her. She never expected to get injured one time after another after coming here.
The last time she was injured at the hotel, her rut had started soon after. She had been in a daze and hadn’t felt the pain. By the time she was clear-headed again, an alpha’s powerful self-healing ability had already caused the wound to scab over.
As for now, she grimaced as she looked at the puncture wound on her lower abdomen and the cut on her right forearm. Following the optical computer’s instructions, she bandaged herself with extreme slowness.
Just then, a video call came in from Tang Jianxi. Yun Chuji fumbled to decline it, but in her panic, she accidentally accepted it instead.
In the ABO era, although the optical computer was worn on the wrist, the camera was usually an invisible drone that floated in the air to allow for a free and wide field of view. It was only a few nanometers in size, but its functions were fully developed.
In other words, its resolution was excellent.
Which meant that what appeared before Tang Jianxi’s eyes was a half-dressed Yun Chuji.
Tang Jianxi was dumbfounded.
Then she saw the wound on her lower abdomen.
Before she could ask, Yun Chuji, who was about to explode from embarrassment, quickly ordered her optical computer to end the video call.
Ah, wait, haven’t I already seen it all?
Making such a fuss. Tang Jianxi silently grumbled to herself, though it didn’t stop her own ears from turning red.
Remembering the wound, she placed a voice call to Yun Chuji.
No answer.
She only picked up on the third try.
“Miss… T-Tang…”
Sigh, and here I thought she’d recovered. Tang Jianxi continued to grumble with perfect composure in her mind.
Her mouth, however, asked with a distinct lack of composure, “Y-you… you call that a small wound?”
Tang Jianxi silently smacked herself.
Calm down!
“It just… looked like it was bleeding, that’s all. The wound isn’t actually big.”
“Is it deep?”
“It’s fine. I’m… bandaging it now. It should… be better… in a few days.”
“You could… let Xie Xiaoxiao take a look. It looks… pretty serious to me.”
“There’s no need, Miss Tang. Alphas and omegas must maintain their distance.”
“…Then I’ll find a doctor for you?”
“…O-okay. Thank you, Miss Tang.”
“Um, could it be a female beta?” she added.
Good grief. Tang Jianxi had thought Yun Chuji was finally learning the rules of the ABO world. As it turned out, she had merely expanded her own system of etiquette.
Adding ‘alphas and omegas must not touch’ to ‘men and women must not touch’—she had no idea how this person was going to live her life.
Tang Jianxi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Ha, alright. Wait a bit. I’ll have a doctor come over after Xiaoxiao finishes the surgery.”
“Okay, thank you, Miss Tang.”
“…”
“…”
“Then I’ll hang up?”
On the other end, Tang Jianxi bit her lip. Remembering the other woman’s former identity, she finally asked, “Does it hurt?”
“A little.”
“Then put some Difuning on it first, and then apply a cooling patch. It’ll feel a bit better.”
“Okay.”
“Mhm, that’s much more comfortable. But Miss Tang, how do you know so much about this?”
“Oh, I learned how to fight for a while.”
“Huh? Miss Tang, how could a woman…”
Be so uncivilized?
But before she could finish, Tang Jianxi cut her off, seizing the pause between her words to shut her up. “You learn fast, though. I thought you’d still be wearing a dudou!”
Learn what? What does that have to do with a du… dou…
Yun Chuji was stunned for a few seconds, looked down at herself, and then hung up the phone, her face beet red.
She clutched her clothes tightly around herself.
Miss Tang, Miss Tang, as a woman, how could you be such a rogue?!
In A-District, Miss Tang’s lips curved into a smile. Heh, you think I can’t handle you?
Immediately, she called her assistant. “Change my ticket for tomorrow evening to tomorrow morning. Cancel the lunch meeting.”
After hanging up, she tilted her head back and looked out at the night sky.
A moment of introspection—
Mhm, close friends talk to each other like this, right?
Besides, it’s not like I was thinking about anything else.
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