A Brief Infatuation

Chi Yue fell in love with Fang Jingzhou.

Everything about Fang Jingzhou, the contours of her profile, the lines of her fingers, her voice, her scent, made Chi Yue's heart race until she felt dizzy.

She liked her so much that her pheromones boiled, her forehead burned, and she ran a fever for days.

But Fang Jingzhou was a cool, reserved alpha, the pampered young lady of a wealthy family.

Chi Yue was just an ordinary person in the crowd, and she hadn't even presented yet.

This love was doomed to go nowhere.

Still, she couldn't control her racing heart and kept trying to get closer.

She secretly wrote love letters to the young lady, used her part-time job money to buy her flowers, and rode several kilometers through the rain to bring her an umbrella. She did everything she could, even though the young lady was always cold and dismissive, looking at her with annoyance.

Chi Yue was happy to do it all anyway.

On graduation day, emboldened by alcohol, she worked up the courage to confess.

To her surprise, the young lady didn't push her away. Somehow, they ended up spending the night together.

Chi Yue hadn't even had time to feel happy before she woke the next morning and presented as a beta.

And then she came to her senses.

Looking at the young lady asleep beside her, she suddenly understood.

This wasn't love at all. Her pheromones had been acting up before presentation, making her mistake it for being in love with Fang Jingzhou.

Now that the fever brought on by her pheromones had subsided, her feelings had stopped boiling, too.

To Chi Yue, it had been nothing more than a brief infatuation caused by her pheromones surging out of control.

But to Fang Jingzhou, it seemed to be something else entirely.

The young lady somehow found Chi Yue's address and stopped her, looking disheveled as she demanded, "Where have you been?"

Chi Yue lowered her eyes. Remembering that inexplicable night they'd spent together, she looked back awkwardly and said, "These past few days were just an accident. It was only my pheromones acting up. I don't actually like you at all."

In a quiet, relieved voice, she added, "Good thing you don't like me either."

The young lady's eyes reddened, and her expression turned frighteningly dark. Gritting her teeth, she asked, "Who said that?"

The young lady pinned Chi Yue's fingers to the pillow, kissed her again and again, bit her gland, and leaned close to her ear, her voice stubborn. "Say you love me."

Chi Yue fell silent, unable to understand what she had done wrong.

She had only mistaken that dizzying summer pheromone reaction for a racing heart, but now the young lady wouldn't leave her alone.

Unable to hold back, she asked worriedly, "Fang Jingzhou, do you have a fever?"

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