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The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else Chapter 26.2
Scarlet Rose [ABO] - What Happens When the Villain Dies at the Beginning? (2)
What’s more, the assassinated marshal was Payne’s respected teacher. For both personal and public reasons, he needed to get revenge on Blood Owl.
Payne selected three people from the army to help him capture Blood Owl.
One was Lu Shijin, who was eager to use this event to make a name of himself and volunteered.
Another was the most outstanding mecha fighter, Rondon, a male Alpha.
The last one was Payne’s aide, Maupay, another male Alpha who was proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
Within the group, only Lu Shijin and Payne’s goals were the same. The other two all had their own ideas.
Rondon was Neptune’s spy, ordered to monitor Payne’s actions.
Maupay was also a spy, who had long infiltrated the army on Blood Owl’s orders. He regularly passed news about Payne to Blood Owl.
Payne didn’t know that the so-called “hunt” was a Blood Owl’s trap from the beginning.
Through Maupay’s messages, Payne and the others were caught by Blood Owl the moment they entered his sphere of influence.
Blood Owl locked Payne up and began his search for an Omega to breed with him.
In addition to the parents having good genetics, the Omega and Alpha’s pheromones also needed to match to increase the chances of having genetically superior children.
However, most of the good Omegas have already been taken by the noble families of the empire. It was difficult for Blood Owl to find an Omega he was satisfied with.
Lu Shijin was also captured. He was a real Omega and normally relied on scent and pheromone blockers to hide his real sex.
But none of those things would be provided in prison. His identity as an Omega couldn’t be hidden anymore.
Blood Owl was happy to discover that not only was Lu Shijin an outstanding Omega, his pheromones also had over 99% match with Payne!
It turned out that what he was searching for was right under his nose the entire time— Lu Shijin was the perfect Omega!
Blood Owl arranged to have Lu Shijin and Payne have sex, using drugs to make Lu Shijin’s heat come earlier.
When Omegas were in heat, their behaviour and reason were out of their control. They would only think of one thing, that they need an Alpha.
And the scent of their pheromones would likewise make Alphas lose their reason.
For the entire heat, Lu Shijin and Payne were locked in together, until Blood Owl determined that Lu Shijin was pregnant. Only then did he stop feeding Lu Shijin drugs.
At this point, the plot entered a turning point.
While serving as Payne’s aide, Maupay had begun feeling admiration for this young and handsome crown prince.
He couldn’t let go of his love for Payne and finally decided to betray Blood Owl and snuck into jail to free Payne.
Although Payne was rescued, he was still worried about Lu Shijin, who was under Blood Owl’s control.
Not only because Lu Shijin was pregnant with his child, but also because he had fallen in love with Lu Shijin after over a month of copulation.
After Lu Shijin’s mind cleared, he hated that part of his memory, where he had no control over his actions.
He had always been lofty and proud, unwilling to admit defeat to anyone.
But his high spiritual power, the basis of his pride, was nothing in front of physiological desires. When his heat came, he was just like other Omegas, blinded by lust and willingly succumbing under an Alpha’s body.
He wanted to raise Omegas’ standing, but his dreams of equality between Alphas and Omegas were broken. He even hated Payne, who impregnated him.
Lu Shijin’s life and death were in the hands of Blood Owl, and because Lu Shijin had the child that he cared so much about, the always cold-blooded and ruthless Blood Owl would occasionally show a bit of warmth to Lu Shijin.
Lu Shijin’s mental state had collapsed once already and was dangerously warped.
In those circumstances, as the victim, he had become dependent on Blood Owl.
As long as Blood Owl offered him a few drops of warmth, he would magnify that warmth in his heart, to the point where Lu Shijin even felt like he was in love with him.
Lu Shijin had Stockholm Syndrome.
But fate really liked to play jokes. Blood Owl liked the one he had brought up according to his standards, Maupay.
Maupay’s betrayal made him furious and he ordered all his men to search for Payne and kill him.
So, the four people had formed some sort of love square.
Lu Shijin was bombarded by information, trying to sort out all the character relations.
He massaged his forehead. “Wait wait wait, let me process it. Payne likes Lu Shijin, Lu Shijin likes Blood Owl, Blood Owl likes Maupay, Maupay likes Payne. Is this some love quadrilateral? How come they’re all one sided?”
“Yup.”
Lu Shijin suddenly realized something and pointed at the body on the ground, “You said that he’s the villain, who is he?”
711 answered truthfully, “He’s Blood Owl.”
Lu Shijin: . . .
“I take back what I said about playing two characters.” Lu Shijin felt deep regret.
“Then who’s going to be the villain?”
“I don’t care as long as it’s not me. Think about it, I like Blood Owl in this drama. If I play him, then won’t I be in love with myself? I’ll develop split personalities!”
711 was angry. “Then who let you kill him!”
Lu Shijin righteously refuted. “That’s because you came here later than me! If you came earlier, none of this would have happened!”
“. . . Okay, I can’t win against you. But Blood Owl has already died, so we must think of a way to correct this.”
“Correct what? You’ve been with me for so long, do you still think I’m going to go according to plot? Do you really think that for the male lead, I’d . . .”
Lu Shijin found it very difficult to say the words “give birth.” When he thought about his own stomach expanding so large, he felt his scalp tingle, goosebumps rising all over his body.