Chapter 60: The Omega Abandoned After a One-Night Stand (17)
As they left the bar, a light drizzle began to fall on the city.
Autumn’s chill had finally crept into this city. Su Mingxiu sat in a red sports car, the windows rolled down. She had chosen this car to blend in with the local police for her task, but now it had become the most eye-catching presence.
There were many luxury cars and beautiful people outside the bar, but anyone who glanced at her couldn’t help but stop in their tracks. In just five minutes, countless people had approached her, only to be turned away dejectedly.
Chu Ruan, after saying goodbye to Zhao Chun’er, hurried out of the bar and saw Su Mingxiu sitting in the car, her head tilted as if smiling at someone—
In the humid city, the fine drizzle couldn’t conceal the bright red of the sports car, making both the car and its owner the most dazzling presence on this night.
She puffed out her cheeks, sulking at someone unknown, and walked to the other side of the car with her head down, opening the door and silently getting in.
Su Mingxiu heard the noise and turned to look at her. Before she could speak, she saw Chu Ruan suddenly reach for the seatbelt, fastening it properly without even greeting her.
“Who upset you?”
She asked with a chuckle, her melodious voice, like a mountain spring, flowing through the car.
Chu Ruan was actually angry at herself, angry at her own cowardice and her inability to express her thoughts. Now, being asked this, she didn’t know how to answer. Her lips moved for a long time, but no words came out.
The Alpha seemed to have anticipated her reaction and guessed: “Could it be me?”
She played out the entire scene by herself, the teasing tone in her voice particularly strong, making the only listener in the car feel embarrassed.
“I remember giving someone a chance earlier, asking her what she wanted.”
“She said she only wanted dinner, right?”
Chu Ruan clutched the seatbelt in front of her, her eyes downcast. After a long silence, she finally said: “I’m not angry at you.”
Su Mingxiu let out a soft “Oh.” Having received her answer, she didn’t press further. Instead, she stepped on the gas pedal, and the sports car, like a red lightning bolt, roared into the rainy night.
***
After arriving at their destination, Chu Ruan realized it wasn’t a place she had been to before.
It was a townhouse. They walked through a rose garden, and half of the house lit up before them. The windows were washed clean by the rain, water cascading down the edges, while raindrops clung to the rest of the glass.
She followed Su Mingxiu, thinking about her silence in the car, feeling that it was impolite to visit someone’s home like this.
So she pushed down her jumbled thoughts and asked proactively: “This place is beautiful. Is this your current residence?”
Su Mingxiu stood by the entrance, pulling down the shoe cabinet on the wall. She turned to Chu Ruan and said: “Didn’t you dislike my previous apartment?”
The implication behind these words was too much.
Chu Ruan’s barely calmed heart started to race again.
Was it because she disliked it that Su Mingxiu had chosen a different place tonight?
Or was she just teasing her?
But the person who had dropped this bombshell didn’t seem to notice her inner turmoil at all. After taking out a pair of white rabbit slippers for her, she walked straight to the four-door refrigerator and asked, her back to Chu Ruan: “We’re too late, even if I called someone to prepare, it’s hard to get many fresh ingredients at this hour. But I have some steaks in the freezer, do you eat Western food?”
“Yes.”
Chu Ruan walked behind her, wanting to ask if there was anything she could help with, but before she could speak, she saw Su Mingxiu looking into the refrigerator, taking out a box of sashimi and some fresh sushi that the housekeeper had left for emergencies.
“If you’re hungry, have some of this first.”
Su Mingxiu placed the two boxes on the dining table, took out a packet of wasabi and soy sauce, and turned around, smiling at Chu Ruan. “Although eating cold food isn’t good for your stomach in this weather, I remember you like spicy food, right?”
Chu Ruan, who had wanted to refuse the sushi, swallowed her words upon seeing the playful glint in Su Mingxiu’s eyes.
She could only watch helplessly as Su Mingxiu went to the kitchen and retrieved a small celadon dish for the sauce.
The Alpha wasn’t wearing her usual uniquely designed suit today. Instead, she had changed into a black cocktail dress with a cinched waist. This made her less intimidating, highlighting her softer side, and the distance between them seemed to disappear, making it easier for those unspoken desires to surface.
Chu Ruan looked at her shoulders, her long legs, the faint glow of her collarbone as she walked over with the small dish, the shadow and the pale skin of her swan-like neck.
Until Su Mingxiu picked up a piece of sushi with her rosewood chopsticks, dipped it in the soy sauce mixed with a whole packet of wasabi, and brought it to her lips. Chu Ruan opened her mouth and ate it without hesitation.
Then: “!!”
A wave of spiciness shot straight to the top of her head!
Chu Ruan’s eyes instantly welled up with tears. She couldn’t even taste the sushi, only feeling a burning sensation in her mouth and throat, not knowing whether to spit it out or swallow it. Through her blurry vision, she vaguely saw the beautiful woman leaning closer, asking curiously:
“Is it good?”
Chu Ruan struggled to move her jaw and finally swallowed the sushi. She blinked away the tears clinging to her eyelashes, which were caught by Su Mingxiu’s approaching fingertip.
“Don’t tell me you’re crying from the spiciness?”
Those red lips moved, her voice incredibly pleasant, yet every word was like adding fuel to the fire.
Perhaps overwhelmed by the wasabi, hearing Su Mingxiu’s teasing, she suddenly reached out, wrapped her arms around Su Mingxiu’s neck, and leaned in, transferring the remaining spiciness in her mouth—
The floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room were covered in a layer of cold mist, the blurred surface making the scene even clearer.
The girl in the beige dress was leaning over the table, pinning the woman in the black dress against the chair. Her closed eyes trembled, whether from nervousness or something else.
She couldn’t see the amusement flashing in the eyes of the person she was kissing.
A raindrop slid diagonally across the mist, abruptly dividing the scene.
Inside the house.
After tasting the pungent spiciness, Su Mingxiu waited patiently for a while. Seeing that Chu Ruan had no intention of stopping, she didn’t know if it was because of the wasabi’s influence or simply because Chu Ruan wanted to get back at her. She chuckled softly and placed her hand on the Omega’s shoulder, gently pushing her away.
“Okay.”
As if coaxing a child, she said softly: “Teacher Chu only said she wanted to eat, she didn’t say she wanted to eat me.”
“Ah!” Chu Ruan suddenly snapped out of her daze, her face flushed red, her limbs flailing awkwardly.
Especially after seeing the smudge of her orange lipstick on Su Mingxiu’s lips, she was even more flustered.
After a long while, her slow brain finally replayed the scene, and she said defensively: “You knew I was lying about liking spicy food, and you still deliberately messed with me.”
So it served Su Mingxiu right to be fed that spiciness.
Su Mingxiu leaned back against the dark wooden chair, her smile alluring, making it impossible to tell if she had been affected by Chu Ruan’s childish actions. After a while, she said innocently: “How would I know?”
“Could it be that Teacher Chu enjoys lying, so she’s always waiting for someone to expose her?”
Chu Ruan: “…”
Hearing the title “Teacher” at this moment made her feel uncomfortable, as if she was doing something bad while wearing a saintly disguise. So she instinctively refuted it: “Don’t call me Teacher Chu now.”
Su Mingxiu readily changed her address: “Ruanruan.”
She continued the previous topic: “What else did you lie about?”
The Omega couldn’t answer. She stammered for a while, then suddenly pulled Su Mingxiu up and pushed her towards the kitchen, mumbling: “The steak seems to be thawed, Dr. Su.”
***
Raindrops pattered against the windows.
Chu Ruan sat at the dining table, smelling the sizzling sound of the steak being pan-fried. The enticing aroma of meat filled the room, and she was indeed starving. She took a bite of the sushi to tide her over.
But having learned her lesson with the wasabi, she didn’t dare to dip it in the soy sauce again.
Soon, two plates were brought out, each with a piece of M9 steak. The meat was cooked perfectly, the glistening fat on the dark marbling making one’s mouth water. After Su Mingxiu heated up the black pepper sauce and served it, Chu Ruan couldn’t wait to dig in.
As usual, she ate too quickly. For the rest of the time, Chu Ruan could only watch the person across from her.
“Want some red wine?”
Su Mingxiu, thinking about the collection in the wine cellar, looked up and asked.
When the Omega shook her head, she added softly: “That’s fine, I can still drive you back later.”
Hearing this, Chu Ruan glanced at the rain outside, which still hadn’t stopped. She hadn’t felt anything when she got out of the car earlier, but now, thinking about leaving this place, she felt a chill for no reason.
She didn’t want to move, didn’t want to leave.
She suddenly changed her mind. “I’ll have some.”
Su Mingxiu raised an eyebrow in confusion. Chu Ruan bit her lip and quickly explained: “The wine here must be good, it would be a shame not to try it.”
Just like that, she extended her stay by two hours.
When the aroma of wine filled the living room, Su Mingxiu picked up the transparent decanter and poured red wine into two goblets, handing one to Chu Ruan.
The Omega, who had never had alcohol in school and, as a teacher, rarely had the opportunity to attend social events, took the goblet and cautiously took a sip.
Bitter. Astringent.
She swirled the wine in her mouth, unable to understand what was so good about this expensive drink.
Su Mingxiu, seeing her put down the goblet, hesitate for a long time, then pick it up again, reached out and stopped her.
Ever since removing her gloves at the bar, her beautiful hands had been constantly in Chu Ruan’s sight.
Now, she asked with a smile: “If you don’t like it, why drink it?”
Chu Ruan looked up at her, silent.
She had only taken one sip, but the alcohol was already rushing to her head, making her feel warm all over. When Chu Ruan looked at Su Mingxiu, her eyes were filled with a watery sheen.
She looked like she had been wronged, like an abandoned pet.
Su Mingxiu, caught off guard by her accusing glare, initially found it amusing. But after a few seconds, smelling the wine mixed with a faint rose fragrance in the air, her expression changed.
She looked at Chu Ruan with surprise. “I thought those cases of alcohol allergy triggering pheromone outbursts only existed in textbooks.”
She hadn’t expected Chu Ruan to also…
The Alpha immediately stopped teasing and gave a command to her phone: “System, call the nearest hospital emergency line and ask them to prepare suppressants.”
“Your command has been received.” The phone screen lit up, displaying the dialing interface.
But a hand pressed down on it. The person slumped on the table mumbled in protest: “No suppressants.”
Su Mingxiu raised an eyebrow, grabbed the wrist resting on her phone, and asked with a playful smile: “Ruanruan, do you know what you’re saying?”
“Yes!” Chu Ruan replied loudly this time.
Whether it was the effect of that sip of wine or the feeling of her pheromones breaking through the suppression sticker, she opened her eyes, her round eyes looking at Su Mingxiu. She grumbled: “Only you don’t know…”
“What don’t I know?”
“Uh…” A silent pause, accompanied by the spreading floral fragrance.
After a long while, Su Mingxiu finally sighed. “Ruanruan, if you don’t tell me, how would I know what you want?”
“You know!” This time, her voice was even louder.
But it was laced with a sob.
The Omega, dominated by her pheromones and a bit of alcohol, was acting on impulse, yet also exceptionally sincere. Even though she knew that the Alpha’s previous attempts to force her were only to hear her true feelings,
She genuinely wanted to stand before Su Mingxiu and confess everything.
Chu Ruan wanted Su Mingxiu to stop touching and embracing other people, to only look at her, to only smile at her.
She wanted to ask Su Mingxiu if they could stay engaged, because she had realized that she liked her a little.
But she just couldn’t bring herself to say those words.
She kept retreating, again and again.
Every time she mustered up her courage, as soon as she met the Alpha’s smiling eyes, which seemed to see through her, she couldn’t confess her feelings. She was afraid of being laughed at, afraid of being rejected, afraid of being humiliated.
Tears rolled down her cheeks.
Drip, landing on the table.
Chu Ruan was battling with herself, afraid that Su Mingxiu would call an ambulance, but also afraid of missing this opportunity. She grabbed Su Mingxiu’s hand, her grip tight, her silent sobs turning into choked sounds: “I…”
“I will tell you…”
“But can’t you… wait a little?”
Even though she hadn’t said the most important words yet, she was already afraid of being rejected. The sunlight from the opening ceremony was still imprinted in her memory, making Chu Ruan feel that if she didn’t give a reason, she might hear Su Mingxiu’s rejection.
After all, this Alpha was so unpredictable. She could be kind to her one second and ask her to leave the next.
Just like three years ago, wanting to hold her while sleeping on their first meeting, then disappearing for so long.
When she returned, it was as if she didn’t know Chu Ruan anymore. If it weren’t for Su Xinyan, Chu Ruan wouldn’t have known how to reconnect with her.
From then till now, Chu Ruan had never understood Su Mingxiu’s thoughts.
Because of the unknown, she was afraid, unsure if she could hold on.
So she raised her tear-filled eyes, her vision blurry, and looked at Su Mingxiu. Her voice hoarse, she carefully placed her only bargaining chip on the table, praying for a bit of luck: “They… they’re not engaged to you.”
“Only I am.”
So, could you give me another chance?
Be patient, wait for me to slowly confess my feelings to you?
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