Chapter 64: The Omega Abandoned After a One-Night Stand (21)
Chu Ruan stared at her flamboyantly dressed cousin and asked calmly, “Is this how you treat family and relatives? Giving someone a suppression collar that accelerates pheromone release and then watching them make a fool of themselves in public?”
The person she was looking at didn’t even blink, replying with a confused expression: “What suppression collar?”
After a while, Chu Huanzhi pretended to remember reluctantly. “I did give you a gift like that before. Did something happen? Is there a misunderstanding?”
“Uh…” Chu Ruan felt that her own shamelessness paled in comparison to her cousin’s.
She said listlessly: “Just leave. I already said, I have nothing to do with the Chu family anymore—”
“But Sister, you’re still a Chu…” Chu Huanzhi said with a smile, as if she was determined to have this lunch.
“I can change my surname to Su today, do you want to as well?” Chu Ruan looked into her eyes and asked the most crucial question.
Everyone knew why Chu Huanzhi was here, but she was the only one pretending to be oblivious. Chu Ruan’s question finally rendered her speechless.
What could she say?
Yes? Too straightforward.
No? It would cut off her own path.
Only now did Chu Huanzhi dare to steal a glance at Su Mingxiu. But the Alpha had been watching them with a faint smile in her alluring eyes. However, from the beginning, her gaze had only been on Chu Ruan.
Hearing Chu Ruan’s words, Su Mingxiu chuckled softly.
The sunlight seemed to brighten her face.
“If we don’t leave now, we’ll be late.” Saying this, Su Mingxiu opened the car door and said to Su Xinyan: “Get in the car with Teacher Chu.”
Su Xinyan, hearing this, happily pulled Chu Ruan towards the car and said excitedly: “Auntie is a great foodie, the restaurants she picks are always amazing. This one has great reviews too. Teacher Chu, why don’t we check out the menu online?”
Chu Ruan didn’t want to leave, but with the younger girl acting coquettishly, she could only get in the car. However, her gaze was still fixed on Su Mingxiu.
The closed car door blocked out the outside noise—
From Chu Ruan’s perspective, she could only see Su Mingxiu taking two steps towards Chu Huanzhi, her lips moving, probably saying something brief.
But Chu Huanzhi’s expression suddenly changed, and she took several steps back. Even after Su Mingxiu turned and got into the car, her cousin didn’t try to approach them again.
But as the car door opened, a faint sweet scent wafted in with the breeze brought by Su Mingxiu.
It was the Alpha’s pheromones.
Even Su Xinyan, sitting in the back seat, rubbed her nose. “Eh? I can smell it today. But why does it smell like strawberries to me?”
No way, no way, her cool and powerful aunt, with a strawberry scent? That’s too weird!
“Hmm?”
Chu Ruan turned around from the passenger seat, looking at Su Xinyan with uncertainty. “Strawberries?”
Su Mingxiu, who was driving, glanced at her and said calmly: “I forgot to tell you, my pheromones don’t have a specific scent. Everyone smells something different.”
Chu Ruan suddenly remembered the night they parted ways three years ago, when Su Mingxiu had asked her several times what she smelled.
—So that’s how it was.
She sat up straight, holding the seatbelt, and asked softly, “Then what… what’s your true pheromone scent?”
But the driver didn’t answer, instead bringing up another topic: “Didn’t you just say you could change your surname today?”
“Uh…” It was just something she had said during an argument, but now, coming from Su Mingxiu’s mouth, it had a different meaning.
Chu Ruan’s throat tightened nervously. She clutched her seatbelt, wanting to explain, but afraid of Su Mingxiu misinterpreting her refusal. As she hesitated, Su Xinyan in the back seat exclaimed excitedly: “Wow! I just checked the lunar calendar, today is an auspicious day for everything, it’s truly a good day!”
“Right?” Su Mingxiu echoed. “I also think today is a good day.”
Especially because…
While waiting for Chu Ruan, she had received a message from the research institute. The research that had been stalled for the past three years had finally made a breakthrough today—
The system’s source code that had been extracted from her body, regarding the ultimate mission, although they couldn’t decipher its content or add anything to it, they could shorten it. The laboratory had borrowed two quantum computers from the Federation’s central laboratory and had simulated countless scenarios after shortening the content.
The result was very satisfying to Su Mingxiu.
Because as long as they deleted everything after the first part of the mission, leaving only the line [Set a love trap for Chu Ruan, make her willingly fall in love with you], it would be enough.
To be safe, they could delete everything, but a blank ultimate mission might trigger the system’s judgment. So she had instructed the laboratory to delete as much as possible. After all, she had already completed the first part.
Thinking of this, Su Mingxiu felt that today was indeed a good day.
The sun was shining brightly.
Not a single cloud in the sky.
Refusing in front of her niece would make it seem like she didn’t want to be part of their family. Unable to tell if Su Mingxiu was teasing her again, Chu Ruan simply went along with it. “Okay.”
“Did you bring your ID?”
Su Mingxiu smiled meaningfully. “I did.”
***
Inside a heavily secured room in Future Biology…
The system, placed in an observation device, unable to escape or communicate with the outside world, flashed its lights, its code running slowly. It was pondering how it had ended up in this situation again.
When Su Mingxiu had retained her memories in the last world, she would rather be struck by lightning, endure the torment of the celestial tribulation, than obey the mission.
Now that she had lost her memories, even though she didn’t remember anything from before, she still harbored a strange hostility towards the system. In this world, she was even willing to undergo craniotomy just to extract it—
What went wrong?
Was it the memories?
The system, in its core space, took a drag from a simulated cigarette and pondered several plans, simulating whether restoring Su Mingxiu’s memories or letting her remain amnesiac would be more beneficial for the next world’s mission.
Lines of code lit up.
After looking at the 50/50 simulation results, the system tossed the cigarette aside and muttered dejectedly: “She’s so hostile, could it be because of my name?”
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away…
Su Mingxiu, after finishing lunch with her two “family members,” drove straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Seeing their destination, Chu Ruan hadn’t expected her to be so serious about it. She hesitated as she got out of the car. Seeing the long queue outside the marriage registration hall, everyone with joyful expressions, she instinctively leaned closer to Su Mingxiu and whispered: “Are you sure you want to get married today?”
“It does lack a bit of ceremony,” Su Mingxiu continued seriously. “Do you prefer diamonds or gemstones? We’ll go order them later.”
Seeing Chu Ruan’s flushed face, she asked again: “Do you still want to meet my parents? Or do you want to discuss the wedding date? Don’t worry about these things, Xinyan is practically a member of the Su family, you’ve already met her. As for the wedding, Xinyan even wants to be the flower girl and the maid of honor.”
“Uh…” Chu Ruan, from her series of seemingly playful remarks, finally understood her seriousness.
So she put aside her hesitation and uncertainty, took Su Mingxiu’s hand, and intertwined their fingers, her thumb tracing the patterns on Su Mingxiu’s glove. Somehow, she suddenly remembered a certain night.
Because she wasn’t in heat back then, she didn’t want to let Su Mingxiu enter her reproductive cavity, but this person had teased her with those gloves…
The Omega’s ears turned red again.
But this time, she didn’t back down because of her embarrassment. Instead, she pulled Su Mingxiu towards the queue.
“Okay.”
“We’ll get married today. From now on, you’re mine, and you can’t change your mind.”
Seeing her rare decisiveness, a flash of surprise appeared in Su Mingxiu’s eyes. But it was a pleasant surprise, so she let Chu Ruan lead her to the end of the queue, joining the joyful atmosphere.
***
Getting their marriage certificate, ordering engagement rings, meeting the parents, planning the wedding—
Chu Ruan spent all her free time during the semester preparing for these things. As the winter break approached, Su Xinyan finished her exams and, ignoring her own parents at the parent-teacher conference, ran to the infirmary. “Auntie!”
Before she could finish speaking, she pushed open the half-closed door of the infirmary and heard a soft, coquettish voice from inside: “It hurts… be gentler…”
“If I’m gentler, it’ll fall out.”
“Nonsense… Sob… it really hurts…”
“You were the one who wanted this, and now you’re complaining. Ruanruan, when did you become so delicate?”
Su Xinyan, who had just stepped into the infirmary, froze on the spot.
Her instincts told her to cover her ears and quickly retreat, pretending she hadn’t heard anything. But the little girl, who only had theoretical knowledge and had never encountered such a scene in real life, was too shocked to even move.
Su Mingxiu, who had already heard her footsteps, emerged from behind the curtain of one of the nursing beds, looking at her calmly. “What’s wrong?”
Su Xinyan met her gaze and couldn’t help but think:
So fast?
Distracted by this thought, she struggled for a while, then blurted out: “Should I… not be disturbing you two right now?”
Hearing her voice, an arm with a few silver needles inserted into it reached out from behind the curtain, and a confused voice came: “Is that Xinyan?”
“Yes,” Su Mingxiu responded, then turned to warn Su Xinyan: “Don’t move, I learned acupuncture myself. If you move and the needles get misplaced, I’m not responsible for any consequences.”
“Uh…” Chu Ruan wanted to pull out the needles and jump off the bed.
Su Xinyan, however, couldn’t help but let out an “Eh?”
Su Mingxiu came out holding a tray with a few packets of unused needles. Hearing her niece’s sound, she guessed the little girl’s thoughts and looked at her with a playful smile. “What, are you feeling unwell too? Want me to give you a few needles?”
Su Xinyan quickly retreated.
She knew her aunt’s expression all too well. If she agreed now, she would definitely be tormented beyond recognition later.
So she immediately changed the subject: “Auntie, can I stay at your place tonight? I made plans with my friends to go to a concert tomorrow, and your apartment in the city center is the closest.”
“The one in Shanglinfang? I’ll have the housekeeper leave the keys for you later.”
“Eh? You two aren’t living in Shanglinfang? Are you at Mingyue Manor or Pingye Villa?”
The aunt and niece chatted casually.
After Su Xinyan left, Chu Ruan, lying behind the curtain, felt something was wrong. She asked: “Shanglinfang? You have an apartment in Shanglinfang too?”
Su Mingxiu returned to check if Chu Ruan had accidentally knocked off any needles with her movements.
Entering the small space behind the curtain, she saw the beautiful Omega’s back. Other Omegas, with their fair and delicate skin, would look cute and chubby. But Chu Ruan, because of her work, was either staying up late or working overtime. Now, she was so thin that her spine was visible.
But now, from her nape downwards, were rows of thin needles.
Taking advantage of Chu Ruan’s immobility, Su Mingxiu propped herself up beside her, leaned close to her ear, and replied with a smile: “Yes.”
“The kind you would want to stay in too.”
Chu Ruan only needed a moment of thought to realize why she had been able to rent an apartment in the city center at such a low price. She turned her head, facing Su Mingxiu, and said with a chuckle: “Why didn’t you tell me back then?”
“Didn’t you hate me back then?”
Chu Ruan was speechless.
After a moment, she mumbled softly: “I still hate you now.”
“Hmm?”
Su Mingxiu lowered her head and kissed her lips. “What?”
“I said I still hate—”
Her words were cut off by another kiss.
Chu Ruan couldn’t move. She could only watch helplessly as Su Mingxiu took advantage of her again and again. By the end, her lips were red and swollen, and she finally confessed her true feelings in a low voice: “I like… I like you, okay?”
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