CHAPTER 68

Shan Pan quickly converted the voice call into a video call.　

After Ye Lianyin's consent, she stepped on the three-dimensional image of Ye Lianyin several times, and finally her eyes rested on her lips.

She smacked her lips in admiration, "I didn't think that you were quite that thirsty, Yinyin, you've cracked your lips."

Ye Lianyin concealed her head down and pursed her lips, "Yesterday, after Qin Zhaoci came back from the dinner party, she asked me if I wanted to try her wine, so I drank a few glasses, but I didn't really think that I  have a poor capacity for alcohol, I got drunk after a while and then......."

Ye Lianyin began to show embarrassment.

Shan Pan raised her eyebrows: "Did you seduce her? Or did you force yourself on her?"

"How can that be?" Ye Lianyin's tone rose, "I just kissed her twice, and not even on the lips."

"But your lips are also cracked? What did you do today?" Shan Pan's eyes were full of gossip.

Ye Lianyin frowned: "Hey, I can't really tell you that clearly, but I just pulled her a bit that time, and she didn't stand steadily and bumped it."

"Ee-yo," Shan Pan's gossip eyes became even more dense, "how did she bump into it?"　

Ye Lianyin frowned and shook her head, "I don't want to talk about it."　　

Shan Pan bristled, "You really like to hung up on people's curiosity. Well... do you want to go to the Yax bar to take a look,  she and Yunyun should be there now."

"This ......" Ye Lianyin frowned with a somewhat hesitant look.　

"Let's go, let's just sneak in the corner to watch them secretly." Shan Pan began to urge Ye Lianyin.

Ye Lianyin frowned and looked at Shan Pan: "You're going too? Are you kidding? You're pregnant, and you want to go to that bar?"

"Yeah, can't I? And my belly hasn't gotten that big yet," Shan Pan deflated, "It's fine for now."

"No." Ye Lianyin shook her head rationally, "You can't do it in this condition, the bar is crowded with people, if you bump into anything, it'll be bad."

After hearing Ye Lianyin's refusal, Shan Pan deflated with disappointment, looked down at her bulging belly, and finally sighed, not continuing to demand.

"Then you can just open the video for me when you get there, I'll watch it here at home." Shan Pan looked at Ye Lianyin expectantly.

Ye Lianyin understood that she also wanted to see what Wan Baiyun was doing, and finally nodded her head and agreed.

After hanging up the video, Ye Lianyin drove to Yax Bar. In order not to be discovered by Qin Zhaoci, she changed her clothes and put on a black peaked cap, which covered most of her face and concealed herself very well.

After entering the bar, Ye Lianyin looked up and scanned around, and finally found Qin Zhaoci talking to Wan Baiyun at the bar counter.

After discovering Qin Zhaoci, Ye Lianyin found a seat with the best view and sat down, turned on her optical brain, and sent a video to Shan Pan.

After Shan Pan got connected, she looked at Qin Zhaoci and Wan Baiyun on her optical brain, and found that Wan Baiyun did not have a glass of wine in front of her, so she curled her lips, it seemed that she had listened to her.

Ye Lianyin looked at Qin Zhaoci, saw that her face was not too unusual, and breathed out silently, it seemed that she was not that angry because of what happened today.

Just when Ye Lianyin breathed a sigh of relief, a man suddenly walked up to Qin Zhaoci and gently patted her on the shoulder.

This man is 184 tall and has short blonde hair. From Ye Lianyin's point of view, the lines of his side face are quite smooth and three-dimensional, so he should be quite good-looking, but Ye Lianyin can clearly see from his clothes and aura that he is a male Alpha.　　 　

When she thought of Qin Zhaoci's previous statement that she likes men, even if this is an Alpha, Ye Lianyin tugged at the heartstrings.

She only saw the man's lips open and close a few times, and Wan Baiyun next to Qin Zhaoci began to cover her mouth and snicker.

Qin Zhaoci then turned her head and glared at her before politely smiling at the man and opening her mouth to say a word.

The man looks surprised, and based on Qin Zhaoci's mouth and the man's expression, Ye Lianyin deduced that Qin Zhaoci should have explained to him that she is an Alpha.

Ye Lianyin originally thought that the accosted man would quickly leave after hearing that Qin Zhaoci is an Alpha, after all, there are very few AA (Alpha-Alpha) couple in the Empire. 

However, after the man was surprised, he lowered his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, then opened his mouth and said something, and his expression was very sincere at the moment.

After hearing this sentence, Wan Baiyun opened her mouth in surprise, but Qin Zhaoci was not too surprised. After a moment of silence, she spoke again.

After hearing these words, the light in this man's eyes instantly went out, and he turned away in frustration.

Seeing that he was gone, Ye Lianyin breathed a sigh of relief and continued to look at Qin Zhaoci.

"Yo, I can't believe it, Qin Zhaoci, you are now simply taking everyone around you. An Alpha actually wants to have an AA relationship with you, I can see that he really fell in love with you at first sight." Wan Baiyun couldn't help but laugh and tease Qin Zhaoci after seeing the man leave.

After hearing this, Qin Zhaoci glanced at hER with disgust, "I don't like his type."

"No way, Qin Zhaoci, you don't mind getting into AA relationship?" Wan Baiyun frowned and looked at Qin Zhaoci with vigilance, subconsciously covering her chest.

Seeing her appearance, Qin Zhaoci snorted coldly: "Wan Baiyun, you are really a Pu Xin woman."

Wan Baiyun's face collapsed: "What does a Pu Xin woman means?" 

"It means that you yourself are quite ordinary, but you still think that excellent people can't match up to your transcendent confidence, what do you even have that is worthy of my attention?" Qin Zhaoci looks disgusted, "You don't know how to cook, you can't beat me, your looks are not that good, tsk, besides Shan Pan, who would even want you?"

Wan Baiyun's face darkened like a pot after hearing this, "I'm quite popular in the army, when I was in the military academy, a lot of people confessed their love to me!"

"Also, Ye Lianyin can't cook, and can't beat you, why not talk about her?"

Qin Zhaoci immediately replied: "But she is good-looking, and beauty is justice."

Wan Baiyun didn't realize that Qin Zhaoci had become a full-fledged face dog after losing her memory, and said with a speechless face, "You are so shallow."

Qin Zhaoci continued to despise: "Tsk, I'm not being shallow, how about you, are you not shallow, why don't you go find an ugly monster, don't you also like Shan Pan because she is cute and has a good personality?" 

Wan Baiyun was speechless, she couldn't refute Qin Zhaoci's comment that Shan Pan was an ugly monster in her eyes, although she wouldn't believe it even if she said it.

"Okay, okay, you won." Wan Baiyun finally gave herself a step down reluctantly, "Then you really don't mind AA love now? Didn't you call yourself a straight Alpha before?"

Qin Zhaoci looked serious, her expression was firm: "What's there to mind, no matter AA (Alpha-Alpha), or OO (Omega-Omega), as long as they like and cherish each other, it's would be the best relationship. It has nothing to do with gender, who cares about this era, as long as they like someone, no matter who the other party is, they can like that someone."

"Hmm, you're right." Wan Baiyun nodded without refuting Qin Zhaoci's words.

"Sister, can I have your number?" Just as Wan Baiyun was about to ask something, someone else came over to strike up a conversation.

Unlike just now, this one was a woman, about 160 tall, with a pure look, but with heavy makeup on her face, looking a bit out of place and weird.

Qin Zhaoci waved off her hand: "Sorry, I don't like female Omega."

"Ah, then sorry to bother you." the woman twitched her lips in embarrassment, and left knowingly.

"Hey, did you feel anything when you saw that woman just now?" After the woman left, Wan Baiyun touched Qin Zhaoci's arm, "Is there any unusual, strange feeling?"

"No," Qin Zhaoci shook her head with a blank expression, "it's just similar to what I'm feeling when I'm around you."　

Wan Baiyun was speechless, turned her head to look around, and found that the female Omega went back and said a few words to the group of people she was with, and those people instantly became excited, especially the male Omega, who looked at Qin Zhaoci with a look that was so eager to eat her alive.　　

Seeing this, Wan Baiyun swallowed, sweating silently for Qin Zhaoci.

Sure enough, as Wan Baiyun expected, within five minutes, a male Omega stood up and came over to strike up a conversation with Qin Zhaoci.

Unlike the previous two, after learning that Qin Zhaoci doesn't like women, his whole action became much more presumptuous, and he even put his hand on Qin Zhaoci's shoulder when striking up a conversation.

After taking advantage of Qin Zhaoci's unpreparedness, he pressed it twice, and was about to slide down along the line of Qin Zhaoci's shoulders.

Qin Zhaoci waved his hand away, and frowned angrily: "You're sick!"

It was the first time that the male Omega was disgusted by an Alpha in this way, and said a little aggrieved, "Sister, don't you like male Omega? Don't you like this?"

It was the first time for Qin Zhaoci to see this kind of male with tears in his eyes and even with a delicate face, she had goosebumps, and her expression was one of naked disdain.

Finally she waved off her hand in disgust and said, "No, I don't like male Omega."

The male Omega left in an aggravated manner.

Seeing this, Wan Baiyun said, "It seems that you don't like male Omega either."

Qin Zhaoci pursed her lips speechlessly, "I really don't like such a delicate man, he's too ominous."

Wan Baiyun frowned, "But most male Omegas are like that, you wouldn't like the kind of male Omegas whose personality is more like Alphas, would you?"　

"Maybe." Qin Zhaoci shook her head, raised her glass and finished it in one drink, "I can't really figure myself out."

Wan Baiyun shook her head and pursed her lips, "I remember that your ideal type in the past was a gentle female Omega, otherwise you wouldn't have liked An Rixi, she did act quite gentle and understanding in front of you."　

"Don't mention the past." Qin Zhaoci frowned, "I have long since ceased to be the former Qin Zhaoci, she's in the past now, I am the new me, we are not the same anymore, and don't mention An Rixi, it's bad luck."

Wan Baiyun bristled, "That's why I think your tastes have changed quite a bit now, Ye Lianyin is just good-looking, but her personality is quite irritable. According to what I've observed, she often urges Shan Dan not to be with me, and she even have a bad temper, I really don't know what you like about her."

Qin Zhaoci glared at her, tone up: "What do you mean she is just good-looking. She's also smart, she has good grades, although she sometimes have a little temperament, she still care for me, she's also sometimes very gentle, you do not understand anything! Besides, she's not wrong, you were nothing before."

Wan Baiyun was speechless, after a moment of silence, she opened her mouth, "Well, judging by how protective you are, you must really like Ye Lianyin."

Qin Zhaoci frowned: "I'm not sure yet."

'After all, it takes some time to suddenly accept the fact that you are not actually straight.'

Qin Zhaoci did not say this sentence out loud, but silently sighed in her heart.

"What are you unsure about?" Wan Baiyun frowned.

Qin Zhaoci glanced at her, pursed her lips and said, "It's only been a month or two since Ye Lianyin and I got married. I can say that we really get along day and night. We actually know each other a little bit, but in such a short period of time, I am not sure about my feelings for her at the moment. I'm not sure if I really do like her, or it's just a short-term affection, or if it's just because of being affected by our pheromones. I'm not really sure, I have to take the time to make sure of this."

"Do these things even matter?" Wan Baiyun looked at Qin Zhaoci, "Even if it's just an affection, it can still develop into a liking, right? Besides, the influence of pheromone is normal between an Alpha and an Omega."

What Wan Baiyun said is precisely what Qin Zhaoci cares most about. She hoped that when the two of them were together, it was a mutual attraction between their soul, and not just a reaction of having s*xual feeling with one another. 

Moreover, she feels that if a person decides to be with another person, he or she should go through careful consideration first and make sure that his or her feelings is not just a momentary passion before proceeding, otherwise it would be irresponsible to both parties and would likely cause harm later on.

So after listening to Wan Baiyun's words, Qin Zhaoci shook her head: "No, I hope that the relationship between me and Ye Lianyin is about liking each other under this human skin, and not just because of the attraction of our pheromones."

"Okay, I don't really understand you," Wan Baiyun shook her head, "But how do you want to be sure?"

"I'm still thinking." Qin Zhaoci looked down at the wine glass in her hand, her heart actually had some hidden thoughts, but did not say them out loud.

.....

"Xixi, look at the person sitting at the bar, doesn't she looks a bit familiar?" In the private room on the second floor of the Yax Bar, a woman touched the hand of the other woman next to her. Through the transparent glass of the private room, she pointed to Qin Zhaoci sitting downstairs by the bar.    

An Rixi followed where she was pointing and frowned, "It seems to be Qin Zhaoci."

"Qin Zhaoci?" The woman was a little surprised, "I didn't even recognize her now because of how she's dressed up like that, how come she didn't come to look for you? You have returned now, and you guys should have already met at the dinner party last time hosted by the Royal family, right? So she must have already know the news about it."

"Yeah." An Rixi recalled that she took the initiative to send Qin Zhaoci the news, but did not get any single response, so her face became a little ugly.

But because the light in the private room was too dim, the woman didn't notice her expression, and continued, "Didn't she ask you out?" 

"She got married." An Rixi glanced at her and answered the question.

The woman frowned: "She did marry that unpopular second daughter of the Ye family some time ago, but she never marked her, I thought she had been waiting for you to come back."　

"Besides, didn't she specifically go out of the Empire to look for you before she was about to get married? She often called you and chased you for so many years, how could she even give up after getting married? She and that second daughter of the Ye family must be just a contractual couple, they also seems not intimate anyway."

"Is that so..." An Rixi stroked her chin, "Where did you know that?"

The woman replied: "I have a friend who is studying at Imperial Academy, that second daughter of the Ye family, how should I put it, although she's not favored in the Ye family, she still looks quite good-looking. After all, the genes of the Ye family are still there, her dynamics are also often discussed by people from their Academy, and I also heard my friend mention it."

"Anyway, how can a normal Alpha be in the same room with an Omega and not have anything happen? It's obvious that she was waiting for you to come back."

An Rixi was convinced by this woman's statement, remembering that Qin Zhaoci had not asked the institute to develop artificial Omega pheromones for five years in order to show her loyalty, and even chose to endure the torture of the susceptibility period for her.

Suddenly, her self-confidence came again, firmly believing that Qin Zhaoci was just playing hard to get, and just wanted her to look for her a few more times.

Thinking of this, An Rixi stood up.

"Where are you going?" The woman was a little curious.

An Rixi raised her proud head and stared downstairs at where Qin Zhaoci was, "I'll go look for her."

"Huh?" The woman raised her eyebrows in surprise, not expecting that An Rixi, who had always hung onto Qin Zhaoci and treated her as the ultimate spare tire, would actually take the initiative to look for her one day.　

An Rixi saw her surprised look, pursed her lips and said, "She doesn't know I'm here, and she hasn't seen me for a long time, you know."

"Ah," the woman nodded knowingly, knowing that An Rixi was trying to give Qin Zhaoci a little sweetness, so that Qin Zhaoci would be more loyal to her. She had always done this over the years, equivocating and straying, giving her a slap in the face and then adding a sweet date afterwards.

Seeing that she understood, An Rixi didn't explain too much, turned around and left the box, then went downstairs.

Not long after, she appeared in Ye Lianyin's optical brain camera.

Shan Pan was the first to notice the anomaly. In order to chase Wan Baiyun, she had also been to several gatherings between her and Qin Zhaoci.

She has met many people, and she has also vaguely heard that Qin Zhaoci used to have a very favorite white moonlight.

After a few times she followed Wan Baiyun, Shan Pan also saw this white moonlight once. After realizing that this woman was an old scumbag woman, she also carefully looked at her appearance, so she had a deep impression on An Rixi.

Seeing An Rixi on the screen walking in the direction of Qin Zhaoci and Wan Baiyun, she felt that something was wrong, and quickly reminded Ye Lianyin: "Yinyin, that woman is a bad news!"

"What?" She pressed the earphone in her ear and didn't understand who Shan Pan was referring to. 

Shan Pan was a bit agitated and said loudly, "Did you see the woman walking towards Qin Zhaoci? She seems to be the person Qin Zhaoci liked before she lost her memory."

"What?" Ye Lianyin frowned , "She used to have someone she liked? Then why did she agree to get married?"

Shan Pan watched An Lixi approaching Qin Zhaoci's direction, and pursed her lips nervously: "Hey, it's a long story, I was pursuing Wan baiyun at that time, and I heard gossip from some people, I don't really know much about it, but that woman seems to be Qin Zhaoci's unrequited love." 

"When did this woman even come back? Didn't she go to another planet to study abroad?" Shan Pan was very puzzled, "Qin Zhaoci doesn't like her anymore, does she?"

Ye Lianyin frowned, looking at An Rixi who had already reached out to pat Qin Zhaoci's shoulder, her eyes became a little cold, her gaze seemed to want to chop off An Rixi's salty pig's hand. [sexual pervert especially those who gr*pes women in public]

Seeing Ye Lianyin's cold face, Shan Pan swallowed cowardly, and comforted her: "Didn't Qin Zhaoci lose her memory? This is something everyone is sure of. She doesn't remember anyone, and for sure, she definitely don't remember this woman, so you don't have to worry too much."

Ye Lianyin gripped the edge of the table, and was not comforted by this sentence. After all, no one can guarantee that a person who has been tempted before will not likely be moved again after they meet.

Worried, Ye Lianyin stared closely at Qin Zhaoci's back, wanting to see how she would react.

After Qin Zhaoci was patted on the shoulder, she turned her head to see An Rixi, and her expression darkened instantly.

Without waiting for Qin Zhaoci to speak, An Rixi took the initiative to greet her first: "What a coincidence, Baiyun, Xiaoci, why are you sitting here instead of going to the box? This hall is very crowded, and sitting here, in case you are targeted by some unscrupulous people, it would be too dangerous."

Wan Baiyun twitched the corners of her mouth in embarrassment after hearing this, and took the initiative to say: "What danger can there be for us two Alphas here, and this is a bar under the Qin family. The staff here all know Qin Zhaoci."

"Why are you here?" Qin Zhaoci was already very upset because of her relationship problems, and when she met An Rixi, she felt even more unlucky. It was really bad luck. The people she met were bad news.

The light at the bar was dimmer than that of the box, and An Rixi didn't notice the subtle change in Qin Zhaoci's expression. She pointed upstairs with a smile: "My friends and I are having a party in the private room above. They said they want to celebrate my return to the Empire. A friend saw Xiaoci and reminded me. that's why I came down here. Why, are you guys free tonight? Would you like to go up and join us?"

Wan Baiyun had an awkward expression, and she didn't know how to reply back. Due to Qin Zhaoci's relationship with the circle, although she hated An Rixi, she had always been very kind on the surface, and never insult her when she's in front of her.

She had already an appointment with Qin Zhaoci, so naturally she couldn't help Qin Zhaoci make a decision, she avoided An Rixi's question and turned to look at Qin Zhaoci.

Qin Zhaoci directly refused: "No, I'm not familiar with your friends."

"We're all in the same circle, and you have been with them before. Let's go, Going there together with everyone might remind you of something from the past." An Rixi didn't give up and continued to invite Qin Zhaoci.

Qin Zhaoci shook her head and refused: "I don't really want to think of the past, and my previous memories are not that important to me. After all, it's not a glorious thing. Just get together by yourself, and I'll be going home in a while."

An Rixi didn't expect Qin Zhaoci to reject her repeated invitations so mercilessly, and she could not bear it any longer.

However, thinking of the purpose of returning to the Empire, she held back the anger in her heart, her face changed, and tears fell from her eyes instantly.

She then said pitiful: "Xiaoci, I know you lost your memory, but I still have the memories of the past with you, are our memories of the past that unimportant to you?"

"We've been friends for so many years but you keep on rejecting me all the time. I just want to know your current situation and how you are doing."

Seeing An Rixi's tears falling as soon as she said them, Wan Baiyun's scalp became numbed. She hated seeing Omega shed tears the most, and she always get annoyed by seeing them. Thinking that she was getting bored to death anyway, it might be better to agree, anyway, there will be a party, and she haven't had a lot of gatherings before. With that, she was about to say yes.

However, she saw Qin Zhaoci shaking her head indifferently: "I'm doing quite well, this is my current situation, now you know."

Author's Note:

Qin Zhaoci: I am just a ruthless rejection machine.

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