After Agreeing to Go on a Parenting Show With My Omega Ex-Girlfriend – Chapter 23

If you don’t want to hug, then don’t.

It was the middle of the night, and no cameras were recording.

This meant that everything happening now was outside the scope of the agreement.

Qi Song temporarily avoided these thoughts, steadily carrying the foot-injured Yu Luo princess-style towards the room. A little cub was also grabbing the corner of her clothes, following beside them.

“Did Mommy have a nightmare?” Taotao asked with concern.

Yu Luo, with her arms around Qi Song’s neck, let out a 「Mm」 and said to the cub: “Don’t worry, I’m much better.”

Her forehead was beaded with sweat, and her stray hairs were damp, sticking to her skin.

Her whole being exuded the exhaustion that follows a huge emotional fluctuation.

A flying insect buzzed and circled near them. Yu Luo shrank towards Qi Song’s neck.

Qi Song lowered her eyes to look at the person in her arms, “Now you remember to be afraid of bugs?”

Yu Luo raised her eyes to meet hers, and only after a moment did she say softly:

“Only when I see you, can I be free to be afraid.”

Qi Song’s brow twitched slightly.

At first listen, this sentence was nonsensical. However, combining it with Yu Luo’s earlier actions, as well as that phrase 「because there was something I was more afraid of」, it seemed it could be understood as—

When you weren’t here, I was only afraid of not seeing you, and had no time to think about anything else.

And now that I am in your arms, I can afford to have other fears.

In that instant, Qi Song’s heart felt a fine, sour, and swelling sensation.

A little scorching, a little painful.

She felt that she was faintly touching upon the past of the original owner and Yu Luo. Their relationship was perhaps far deeper than she had imagined.

And the two years of their breakup, Taotao’s existence, could it be that these also had reasons beyond her speculation?

She was just a book transmigrator, only possessing the original owner’s memories of the past two years; the amount of information she had on hand was far too little.

Should she explore it? Ought she to explore it?

As an outsider, for such a thought to arise was indeed somewhat dangerous. She should conscientiously complete her three-month task according to the agreement, then take the money to live her own life, making a clean break with the original owner’s past.

With complex emotions in her heart, Qi Song arrived in front of the mosquito net before she knew it.

She saw that the zipper on one side of the mosquito net had been torn.

Through that tear, she could almost see the image of Yu Luo waking up with red-rimmed eyes, frantically pulling open the zipper to get out of bed and look for her.

At this moment, Qi Song was already a little unable to distinguish whether it was the original owner’s instinct that made her heart ache, or if her own emotions were also fluctuating.

Placing Yu Luo on the bed, she said softly: “Wait for me a moment.”

Then she turned and went to the bathroom to wet a towel with warm water before returning to the room.

Yu Luo sat on the edge of the bed, looking up at her. Her two dust-covered feet dangled in the air, one of them still stained with blood.

Like a stray cat picked up from the roadside, its beautiful fur stained with dust and injured.

Qi Song subconsciously wanted to help her wipe them, but then felt it would be crossing a line.

She passed the towel to Yu Luo.

Yu Luo stared at the towel in silence for two seconds, then slowly lowered her gaze, her tone light and pitiful: “I have no strength left.”

As she spoke, her two hands 「weakly」 shrank behind her back.

“……”

Qi Song looked at the woman’s still tear-stained eyelashes and her exceptionally frail expression.

……Forget it.

Qi Song convinced herself: it wasn’t that her heart had softened, it was that Taotao was watching from the side. She couldn’t give the cub the impression that 「Mama isn’t good to Mommy」.

So, Qi Song knelt down in front of Yu Luo, supported one of her feet with one hand, and used the soft towel in her other hand to wipe it.

The dust was wiped away, revealing snow-white, delicate skin.

Perhaps it was a little itchy; Yu Luo trembled and let out a low 「Mm」: “Slow down……”

“……”

Qi Song was thankful that Taotao was blinking her innocent, big eyes while watching from the side, otherwise this scene would be truly hard to explain.

She grabbed Yu Luo’s foot that was instinctively retracting and held the slender ankle firmly in her palm.

Just as she was about to say 「Just bear with it」, her words caught in her throat.

In an instant, the scene triggered a memory, and an image flashed through her mind.

On the messy bedsheets, a woman was whimpering unbearably, shrinking back from the overwhelming sensation, but a hand caught her ankle and wouldn’t let go, “Don’t run, jiejie……”

Yu Luo looked at the person who had suddenly fallen into a trance. The foot that had already been wiped clean reached out, its fair toes tapping lightly on Qi Song’s shoulder, “Hello? Anyone there?”

Qi Song’s heart jolted, and she snapped back to her senses.

The image from just now was like a wild goose passing without a trace¹; she could no longer remember its content.

All that remained was a somewhat frantic heartbeat and the physiological sensation of a dry mouth and tongue.

Her gaze subconsciously fell on Yu Luo’s retracting foot, and the sensation of her shoulder being lightly touched by the tip of that foot replayed in her mind.

—Qi Song’s ears accidentally caught fire.

She no longer cared if Yu Luo was itchy or not. In a flurry of three down five divided by two², she finished wiping the woman’s feet, disinfected them with iodine from the first-aid kit, and then fled back to the bathroom as if escaping.

Taotao leaned against her Mama, her little head resting on Yu Luo’s shoulder, yawning repeatedly from sleepiness.

She mumbled 「Why is Mama so red again」, and then tumbled confusedly into a dream.

The corners of Yu Luo’s lips slowly curved up. She hugged the sleeping cub, gently patting her back to soothe her.

Her tone held a smile as she said in a low voice: “Your Mama is really……”

She sighed lightly, the smile in her eyes growing wider.

Qi Song was gone for a long time, and Yu Luo had a faint idea of what that person was doing.

She waited leisurely, gently closing her eyes and leaning her head against the cub’s, feeling the soft warmth of the small bundle in her arms.

“So happy.”

She said in a low voice, “You two, never leave me, okay?”

Taotao, in her sleep, did not hear what her Mama was saying.

A few garbled, sleepy words escaped her mouth, and she snuggled her head against Yu Luo’s chest.

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The late nights of early autumn were already a bit cold.

Qi Song gave up on taking a cold shower and only used a towel dipped in cold water to wipe herself down.

The burning heat finally dissipated.

Shivering and radiating cold air, she returned to the room, turned off the light, and climbed into bed with light footsteps.

Just as she lay down in the quilt, a soft, warm bundle burrowed into her embrace.

Qi Song’s heart trembled, and she subconsciously tried to push her away.

Her first reaction was that her own body was too cold and would chill Yu Luo.

“Don’t move.” Yu Luo’s voice was weary as she lazily snuggled in her arms, “I’ll warm you up.”

“Don’t use cold water next time, you’ll catch a cold.”

The woman instructed in a small voice, her body radiating warmth. She quickly warmed up her cold body, and it seemed her heart as well.

Qi Song uncomfortably gave her a light push on the shoulder, “It’s okay now……”

Yu Luo said mournfully: “Use me and then toss me aside?”

“……”

Qi Song blinked stiffly.

Although it sounded like that was the case, surely, they weren’t going to sleep while hugging like this!

“Alright then.”

Yu Luo conceded, but her concession was very cunning.

As she was detaching herself from Qi Song, she had to aggrievedly say things like 「a forcefully twisted melon isn’t sweet³」 and 「if you don’t want to hug, then don’t」, hammering at Qi Song’s conscience.

Qi Song didn’t dare to refute a single word, afraid that Yu Luo still had more tricks up her sleeve.

She felt as if she had been grabbed by the scruff of the neck by fate.

She really wanted to let Yu Luo’s fans see—

Your cold and detached Movie Queen, who is like a bright moon in your eyes, is actually black-bellied⁴ and a tsundere⁵ woman in private, who toys with people’s hearts as she pleases.

This person was currently nestled beside her, one hand clutching a small corner of her clothes, sleeping peacefully with her eyes closed, like a content and well-behaved cat.

It couldn’t be more deceptive.

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The author has something to say:

A few more details from the scene before bed—

Yu Luo: A forcefully twisted melon isn’t sweet, if you don’t want to hug, then don’t. It’s fine if I sleep by myself, in the future even if you want to hug me, I won’t hug you (muttering aggrievedly as she climbs off Qi Song) (very “accidentally” pinches Qi Song’s waist)

Qi Song: (Doesn’t dare to make a sound)

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