After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

“Miss Gu.”

Shen Han grasped the other’s slender hand, halting her application of medicine.

The skin in her palm was soft and smooth, like the finest silk in the world.

The alpha’s heart grew increasingly heated.

Seeing that Gu Junwan didn’t seem angry or try to pull away, Shen Han felt encouraged.

With her heart in suspense, she leaned forward, slowly approaching those soft, inviting red lips.

The crisp scent of snow cedar wafted over, causing Gu Junwan’s breath to hitch.

Her beautiful lashes fluttered like butterfly wings, but her eyes closed nervously.

Before the alpha’s lips even touched hers, the snow cedar pheromones seemed to have already invaded the omega empress’s taste buds.

At this moment, her tongue was rolling with the other’s taste.

“Ring ring ring!”

An urgent and abrupt phone ring exploded on the coffee table, interrupting their impending intimacy.

Shen Han startled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, nearly jumping off the sofa.

Gu Junwan quickly lowered her eyes, reaching up to smooth her black hair, which wasn’t disheveled in the slightest.

Her delicate ears were adorably flushed.

The phone continued to ring incessantly.

It seemed determined not to stop until answered.

The ringing phone was Gu Junwan’s private line.

Generally, only the empress’s family members could call this number.

Even if others knew the number, they couldn’t successfully connect a call.

Shen Han cursed the caller hundreds of times in her heart.

Then she quickly picked up the phone from the coffee table and handed it to Gu Junwan.

When she saw the caller ID was Gu Yuwei.

The empress’s embarrassment immediately disappeared, replaced by calm solemnity.

As soon as the call connected.

Gu Yuwei’s smug voice blasted through: “My dear sister, I’ve poached Professor Wu Yan, whom you relied on so heavily, to the north!”

“I just couldn’t wait to share this good news with you, hope it helps you sleep well tonight!”

“Alright, I know.” Gu Junwan dropped these words and hung up.

After a thought, she turned the phone off temporarily.

On the other end, Gu Yuwei was stunned for a full half minute before furiously dialing again.

But all she received was a busy tone.

Gu Junwan put away her phone and said: “The Professor Wu Yan she mentioned is an expert in aerodynamics and one of the Free Federation’s top scientists.”

Shen Han nodded; the voice on the phone had been so piercing that she heard everything clearly.

Seeing Gu Junwan speak to her about these matters without reservation, she also smiled and said: “Your sister has quite a big heart. Doesn’t this count as leaking military intelligence?”

Gu Junwan’s lips curled into a smile.

“She’s quite naive in some aspects. Actually, I arranged for Professor Wu Yan to ‘defect’ to the north.”

With this small interruption, the earlier intimacy that hadn’t reached its final step naturally couldn’t continue.

After chatting a bit more, Gu Junwan stood up to leave.

“Wait!” Shen Han picked up the barely-touched white fungus soup from the table, her eyes full of expectation as she looked at the other. “You haven’t drunk this yet.”

Gu Junwan actually didn’t like eating sweets at night.

But she didn’t want to disappoint Shen Han.

She slightly lowered her head towards the hand offering her the soup, and gracefully took two sips.

“I have to go. The upcoming training will be tough, take care of yourself.”

After saying this, Gu Junwan, her face once again tinged with a rosy hue, quickly left Shen Han’s room.

Just now, when she lowered her head to drink the soup, she had been pressing on Shen Han’s hand the whole time.

This gave the omega empress the illusion that she was kissing the other’s palm.

Shen Han stared at the now-closed door.

The air and her chest were filled with Gu Junwan’s refreshing cold plum fragrance.

She lowered her gaze to look at the more than half-full bowl of white fungus soup in her hand.

Raising the bowl to her lips, she gulped down the sweetness left by the other in big swallows.

…

The special training that followed was not conducted in the compound.

Shen Han and over 300 other alphas were transported to a border camp in the Sixth Southern District.

They stayed for over a month.

After eliminating more than 200 people, Shen Han returned to the compound with sunburned skin and a heart longing for the empress.

Ning Xi and Ma Haoyu also successfully passed this round of selection.

After a month of interaction, she had become very good friends with Shen Han.

Battlefield friendships are always quick and pure.

Now, Ning Xi wanted nothing more than to be by Shen Han’s side every day, to play and improve together.

She even changed her form of address, directly calling Shen Han “Boss.”

This made Ma Haoyu frown; the small special agent often felt like someone had stolen his job!

After returning to her dormitory, Shen Han quickly washed herself until she smelled fragrant.

Then she turned on the TV, killing time while keeping her ears pricked for any movement outside the door.

Around 11 p.m., there was a knock at the door.

But when Shen Han happily ran to open it, it was Xu Zhao standing outside.

Seeing the tall alpha’s face immediately fall, Special Assistant Xu unceremoniously rolled her eyes at her.

“Take it! This is from Her Majesty for you, to apply morning and night so you don’t turn into a lump of charcoal!”

After saying this, Special Assistant Xu shoved the package in her hand to the other and turned to leave.

Shen Han hugged the box and chased after her, blocking the elevator door to ask: “Where is she? Why didn’t she come?”

Xu Zhao took off her glasses, revealing eyes full of bloodshot, and calmly said: “Do you see my eyes? The pressure Her Majesty bears is even greater, and she’s a hundred times more exhausted than me.”

“If you insist on asking her to come see you, I will convey it, and she will certainly come. But I think you could be more considerate of Her Majesty, don’t you agree?”

Shen Han naturally wouldn’t make such a request.

She silently walked back hugging the medicine box, her heart full of pity and concern.

…

The empress’s personal guard team would ultimately keep only thirty people.

Therefore, among the hundred-plus people who passed the training assessment, there would still be second and even third rounds of screening.

Physical fitness, resilience, combat, weaponry, and absolute loyalty.

These were all items the prospective guards had to pass.

After a week of rest, the hundred-plus alphas faced an even more systematic special training.

Shen Han and Ning Xi walked side by side in the bright indoor corridor, with Ma Haoyu following behind, looking around curiously.

At this moment, Ning Xi suddenly bumped the arm of the person beside her and asked in a mysterious whisper: “Boss, inside scoop! The training we’re about to receive is to temper our willpower, hehe!”

Shen Han turned her head to look at her as if she were an idiot.

She raised her hand as if to press the other’s forehead, her voice heavy: “Did you hit your head during rock climbing last time? Let me take a look!”

Ning Xi ducked to avoid the other’s “sneak attack,” then covered her mouth with her hand and continued to leak information.

“An S-rank omega is coming today, the super sexy and professional kind! She’ll release pheromones to tempt us. Boss, you absolutely must stay steady! We’re definitely the key targets!”

Hearing this, Shen Han asked curiously: “Why focus on the two of us?”

“Well, not just us two, there’s also Ji Kang. We’re the only three S-ranks in the team, of course they’ll come at us hard! I wonder what fragrance that omega sister will have? So excited!”

Ning Xi continued to say some flirtatious things afterward, but Shen Han didn’t pay much attention.

She was pondering a question in her mind.

Was her easily ignited possessiveness towards Gu Junwan entirely due to this world’s pheromone settings?

If that were true, it would be too depressing.

Wouldn’t that mean she would also have that uncontrollable desire for others?

Falling for everyone she met?

And it could all be chalked up to: It’s all the pheromones’ fault?

What kind of situation is this? Am I the player myself?

That won’t do!

Seemingly frightened by this thought, Shen Han shook her head vigorously and turned back to ask Ma Haoyu for a stack of suppressant patches.

…

Gu Junwan had just finished handling the affairs at hand, rubbed her brow, and leaned back slightly in her chair.

A month of continuous busyness had finally been paused yesterday.

The bait had been cast, and now they needed to wait patiently for a long while, unable to rush things.

Suddenly, Gu Junwan thought of something and looked up to ask Xu Zhao, who was standing nearby: “How’s the guard team’s recent training going?”

Knowing what her empress really wanted to ask about was that certain person, Special Assistant Xu very thoughtfully recounted all the information related to Shen Han.

For instance, she had won first place in the shooting training competition.

And her combat skills had even received repeated praise from the instructors.

After finishing, Xu Zhao specifically added: “But one thing is a bit strange, she can’t drive a hovercar. The whole team was shocked at the time.”

Gu Junwan imagined the scene, her lips curling into a light smile that she herself didn’t even notice.

“By the way, Your Majesty, you don’t have any necessary engagements today. The prospective guard team is about to undergo a willpower assessment. Would you like to go watch?”

Hearing Xu Zhao’s words, Gu Junwan shook her head slightly.

“I won’t go. Appearing frequently at the training ground wouldn’t be good.”

Xu Zhao pushed up her glasses: “Oh, I was going to report to you that the S-rank omega who will be releasing pheromones to them later is quite notable.”

Hearing this, the empress, who had been resting with her eyes closed in her chair, immediately opened her eyes.

A meaningful light flowed in her golden phoenix eyes.

“Let’s go to the training ground.”

Xu Zhao smiled, pressing her lips together, and quickly stepped forward to lead the way for her empress.

…

In a warm-toned special training room, Shen Han and the others sat down in their designated positions one by one.

This was a sealed room without any furniture or decorations.

Over a hundred black interrogation chairs were arranged inside, with leather straps on the armrests to restrain wrists.

As soon as Shen Han sat down, two staff members came over and fixed her wrists to the chair armrests.

Then, one of them took out a bite inhibitor from the toolbox behind him.

The thing was made of leather and looked like a cool vampire mask from comics.

Shen Han’s eyes widened.

She tilted her neck to dodge the staff member’s “binding” and asked: “What’s this for? Is this a muzzle for walking dogs?”

The staff member was completely stunned by the question.

Just as he was thinking about how to explain, an instructor strode in.

“This isn’t a pet muzzle, it’s a bite inhibitor specially designed for alphas. Please cooperate!”

After saying this, the instructor held down Shen Han’s head.

The staff member hurriedly fitted the leather device over the alpha’s face.