Chapter 96: Walking into a Trap
"I don't want to be an omega."
"I know you're unwilling, but the result of differentiation has already appeared. You are not someone who cannot accept reality. Even if it is differentiated into O, it doesn't matter. I will not let you leave the Yuan family."
"I found it."
"What?"
"Why has our great aunt, who we've never seen before, never returned to the Yuan family for so many years?"
"In order to establish a relationship with the Huo family, I was forced to participate in a transformation program, changing from A to O and marrying them. No one would be able to help but resent such coercion, but I feel fortunate because—"
The eighteen-year-old Yuan Zhiyi spread out the relevant information he had found in front of Yuan Zhiren, his eyes filled with determination to obtain it:
"This means that through the same method, I can also differentiate from O to A."
Yuan Zhiren rejected her without a second thought:
"I won't allow it."
"It's not up to you to decide."
Yuan Zhiyi smiled at him:
"I've already spoken to Grandpa about this, and he agreed to let me restart this plan. Big brother, your refusal is invalid."
At that time, Yuan Zhiyi really thought that Yuan Zhiren refused her participation in this plan because he was worried that if the second gender differentiation was successful, he would replace him.
After all, their talents in all aspects are almost the same, and Yuan Zhiyi's style is even more aggressive, making her more dazzling in comparison. Yuan Zhiren just took advantage of being born early, and now, he has taken advantage of being differentiated into A, so it is even more impossible for him to agree to become A and take away his halo.
But after restarting the plan, she realized what a path of no return she had embarked on.
The relevant information she obtained with great difficulty only recorded the relevant records of her aunt's successful secondary differentiation. However, after she signed various consent forms and really got access to the inside story of this transformation plan, she realized that behind the successful experiment were countless bloody failures.
She was wrong from the beginning. The plan was never abandoned. It was not restarted by her, but continued by her.
"Why do you think the Yuan family became the masters of the Yuanshang District? Why are they so advanced in the entire empire? Why are they particularly unrivaled in their research on secondary differentiation and pheromones? Is it because they have innate talent?"
The grandfather whom I always admired laughed mockingly, and then said sentence by sentence:
"No, all these achievements are the result of countless experiments."
"On this journey of exploring free differentiation, countless experimental subjects, including rabbits, mice, and humans... encountered various accidents, some even resulting in death. It was precisely because of these repeated solutions that Yuan's research progressed by leaps and bounds."
The data on the people who participated in the experiment, the various consent forms and confidentiality agreements they signed, and the related materials alone would fill up a room, and a large part of the content was about failure, accidents, and death.
Yuan Zhiyi felt as if she was facing countless silent corpses when facing the wall of information, which made her feel suffocated.
"But you don't have to feel guilty. By accepting this experiment, you've become one of countless experimental subjects. As an experimental subject, you truly have the qualifications to compete for the position of Patriarch. Your innate sin becomes a glory shared by the experimental subjects. It's that simple."
Although her grandfather said it lightly, Yuan Zhiyi couldn't really have no grudges, especially after she caught a key message from her grandfather's words.
"Big brother, he—"
Before she could ask, her grandfather gave her the answer directly.
"He had already become a test subject before differentiation. Controlling the direction of differentiation in advance is just one of the countless attempts in this plan."
Grandfather wiped the tears from her face and said in an old voice:
"There's no need to suffer, because the most painful times have passed, the deepest sins have already been borne, and the final result has been settled. What you, the younger generation, are doing is just filling in some gaps. There's no need to even conduct any more live experiments."
But now, this long-abandoned research institute has welcomed a new experimental subject after Yuan Zhiyi.
***
The offspring of the experimental subjects will mutate, but what about the offspring of the mutated offspring? What kind of monsters will be born?
Ever since Lin Guantang celebrated his grandfather's birthday that day, his fate was destined to be rewritten.
It is impossible for him to give birth to an unpredictable monster. If he really wants to be with Huo Shizhen, then he can no longer continue to be an omega.
This was the reason given by his grandfather, but Yuan Zhiyi always felt that his grandfather had other intentions.
Because my grandfather's tone was too urgent.
Especially after learning that Lin Guantang went to visit Zhou Chunyu, Yuan Zhiyi was still thinking that maybe Lin Guantang just happened to visit Zhou Chunyu by accident and wanted to try his luck, but his grandfather was certain that Lin Guantang had already uncovered the truth of the matter.
Then he told her not to delay any longer and to pick up Lin Guantang immediately.
She even had to first ask Lin Guantang how much he had figured out about the truth behind his eldest brother's murder.
The reason was that she didn't believe it, so I asked her to verify the results herself.
Also, she could use reasons related to this transformation plan - such as the secret of Huo Shizhen's life experience, to lure Lin Guantang over.
This made Yuan Zhiyi feel even more strange. This reason was not bad, but - this plan had at least been abandoned for many years and was intentionally kept from being known to later generations. So why did he specifically use this reason to find Lin Guantang?
She couldn't fully understand it, but her grandfather didn't intend to give her any deeper reasons, nor did he have the energy to talk to her about too much.
After all, my grandfather was already eighty years old, and his illness was getting worse. I even worried whether he could survive this birthday party.
If it weren't for this, the final inheritance result would not have been announced at this birthday party.
***
Yuan Zhiyi stood at the door, waiting for the results of Lin Guantang's surgery.
When he wakes up again, he will be just an ordinary beta.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with being a beta. You don’t have to be bothered by your omega identity and have to deal with marriages with noble families.
Although he is now hanging out with Huo Shizhen, probably no one in the imperial capital dares to make a move on him, but Huo Shizhen is destined to be a short-lived person, and he may not even live to be thirty. By then, Lin Guantang's situation will only become more difficult.
If you put it that way, you are actually doing a good deed.
but……
No matter how many excuses I find, I cannot erase the fact that I forcibly removed his glands without his consent.
Yuan Zhiyi sighed, and a mocking voice rang in his ears:
"After doing something evil, saying you had no choice or it was for your own good is just too hypocritical, isn't it, big sister?"
"I haven't asked you anything yet."
Yuan Zhiyi looked up at the newcomer—Yuan Zhizhi—with disgust in his eyes:
"How dare you come and show yourself in front of me."
"Why not?"
Yuan Zhizhi smiled at her:
"I'm not like you, my elder sister, who has become an accomplice of the family and harmed innocent outsiders."
As the two men confronted each other, the light and shadow behind them suddenly changed from red to green, indicating the end of the process.
"It's over so soon?"
Both of them looked at the closed door in surprise. Not to mention that the end time was not even half of the estimated time, it could even be said that it had just begun.
Was the process going too smoothly, or was it——
The tightly closed door was pushed open, and the person who walked out met Yuan Zhiyi's gaze with a helpless look, as if he also felt that what he was about to say was too speechless:
"He has two pheromones in his body and has been marked within the past 24 hours. He cannot continue with the surgery or he will definitely die."
"How is that possible?!"
Yuan Zhiyi stood up straight and looked at him in disbelief:
"How can you be temporarily marked if you're not in estrus?"
She had imagined countless accidents that might occur during the process, but she never thought that an accident would happen in this most basic place.
She even asked Hara Chixin in advance——
When Hara Chixin said he wanted to stay there, I told him that if there was a special occasion, it would be unnecessary for him to stay there.
Then Hara Tomoshin replied that he had asked Kobayashi brother, who said it had just happened not long ago, so he didn't need to worry about it.
Even if this reason is excluded, whether it is from Huo Shizhen's style of behavior, he should not be the kind of person who would casually mark O, or from the fact that she didn't smell any alpha pheromones from Lin Guantang all the way here, nor did she see any bite marks on the back of Lin Guantang's neck...
Yuan Zhiyi's rapidly spinning thoughts came to an abrupt halt when he saw the transparent sticker peeled off from Lin Guantang's neck.
***
Huo Shizhen had no habit of labeling omegas casually, and Lin Guantang was even less accustomed to having his neck bitten frequently.
Just from an instinctive point of view, stretching your neck for someone to bite is still a challenge to your self-defense ability.
What's more, being frequently tagged in a short period of time, even if it is a temporary mark, can easily make people feel dependent on the party who made the mark.
but--
I did this before going out in the morning.
"I can already guess what's going on."
Lin Guantang walked directly to the study table, leaned sideways on the edge as he was used to, spread out the clues he had found in front of Huo Shizhen, and then told him all his inferences, and finally concluded:
"Next, we just need to find Zhou Chunyu to confirm whether there was any deal between him and Yuan Zhiyi. Then we can re-investigate the scene. We'll soon understand the whole thing and clear your name."
He talked incessantly, but Huo Shizhen did not seem too excited to regain his innocence.
In comparison, he was more concerned about the change in Lin Guantang's attitude - it seemed that since the "showdown" that day, Lin Guantang's attitude towards him had become quite casual at a very fast rate.
Before, when Lin Guantang was with her, her attitude was somewhat tentative and cautious, but now she can completely ignore his busyness and come to harass him anytime and anywhere.
Although they were originally some unimportant matters, and some accidents happened somewhere and he was asked to rush to rescue them, he had no interest in leaving at all.
Huo Shizhen was multitasking, answering various greetings while listening to Lin Guantang's vivid narration. His gaze lingered for a few seconds on the clue he had found about the long-abandoned plan. He was actually a little surprised that he could find this.
But he did not express much opinion on this matter. After Lin Guantang finished his speech, he just wished him a safe journey.
He acted as if it had nothing to do with him at all.
Lin Guantang stretched out his fingers and tapped the table with his knuckles:
"That's it? Don't you have anything else to say? The murderer I found is one of the Yuan family's own. Aren't you afraid that I'll be silenced when I confront them in court?"
"so--"
Huo Shizhen accepted his seemingly dissatisfied mood and replied after thinking:
"Giving you a temporary mark?"
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