After Agreeing to Go on a Parenting Show With My Omega Ex-Girlfriend – Chapter 34

It would be great if she could pat my head now.

After being suddenly bitten, Qi Song stood on the spot, somewhat disheveled.

She thought Yu Luo would offer some explanation, but she saw the other party not say a single word, turning and walking away without any hesitation¹ after biting her.

“……”

Looking at Yu Luo’s back, an inexplicable thought arose in Qi Song’s mind——

She seems to be angry. Should I coax her?

This thought was very unreasonable, but it also domineeringly occupied her mind.

It got to the point where Qi Song herself hadn’t even figured out why she should coax her, or what to coax her about, before she had already quickly reached out to turn off the guest room light and followed Yu Luo towards the master bedroom.

Like a tail trailing behind Yu Luo.

Once inside the bedroom, Yu Luo suddenly stopped, turned to look at her, and said softly in a leisurely manner, “Why are you following me?”

Qi Song gazed at Yu Luo’s jade-like face under the faint glow of the night light and discovered that Yu Luo was not angry at all.

Her face even wore a relaxed expression that contained a hint of teasing.

Though her heart relaxed along with it, Qi Song still couldn’t help but ask:

“What’s wrong with you?”

This sentence unexpectedly came out before the question of 「Why did you bite me」.

She then saw Yu Luo slowly blink, a cunning smile rippling on her lips:

“Nothing’s wrong. It’s just that my teeth were suddenly a bit itchy, and when I was passing by, I happened to see that the texture of your cheek looked like it would be nice……”

“……” Qi Song stared at Yu Luo without speaking.

“Alright, then.”

Yu Luo smiled sweetly, and said to her gently and softly, “Did the bite hurt?”

As she spoke, she took a step toward Qi Song, closing the distance between them until it was almost non-existent.

Then, she stood on her tiptoes and placed a kiss on the faint teeth marks on Qi Song’s cheek.

As her soft lips pressed against her skin, the lingering traces of pain seemed to vanish in an instant.

——“You love her.”

——“You, a sexually frigid person, even have ** for her, if this isn’t love, what is?”

The earnest words of that netizen named “Soft Peach Gnawed Whole” surfaced in her mind.

Qi Song spontaneously filled in the system-censored 「**」 with 「desire/lust」, and was then startled by her own thought.

She abruptly pulled her gaze away from Yu Luo’s lips.

It was probably because she was in such a hurry that she even forgot to hold Yu Luo accountable for both biting and kissing her.

“I feel like you have something on your mind.”

Yu Luo tucked her stray hair behind her ear and said softly, “Don’t be anxious. If there’s anything you can’t figure out right away, you can take it slow. Things will always get better.”

“The most important thing right now is that your body is weak, and you really need to rest well and recuperate.”

Yu Luo stopped teasing her and said with genuine concern, “Go to sleep early.”

Qi Song slowly blinked.

She gazed at Yu Luo’s gentle silhouette, feeling a place in her heart silently and softly collapse, melting into one piece.

Just like that, her mood strangely calmed down in the woman’s clear and cool voice.

The aftertaste upon waking, the jumbled thoughts, the feeling toward Yu Luo that was as if there is, as if there isn’t.

After injecting an overdose of suppressant, her body had been constantly uncomfortable, and these thoughts still enveloped and pushed at her, making it difficult for her heart to find peace.

As an outsider who had transmigrated into a book, she should remain clear-headed about her own nature of being a dove occupying the magpie’s nest². How could she possibly develop feelings for Yu Luo?

Or could it be that this was just a lingering effect of the susceptible period?

She couldn’t figure these things out, and in her weakened state, she felt somewhat physically and mentally exhausted.

But Yu Luo said she could take it slow, that all she needed to do now was rest well.

As if what Yu Luo said was definitely right, she subconsciously repeated it, hoping Yu Luo’s affirmation could bring her a greater sense of security: “Is that so?”

It was clear that both of them had different things on their minds, and neither had explicitly stated the content of their words, yet they subtly reached an agreement through the vagueness——

“En, believe me,” Yu Luo said, her eyes curving into a smile as she spoke slowly and firmly.

This woman seemed to be born with a kind of convincing power³ when she spoke.

Qi Song stared at her without blinking for an instant.

…It would be great if she could pat my head now.

This thought suddenly arose and then burst forth in an instant. It even left her no time to ponder how absurd this idea was for her current self——

“Alright, patting your head.”

As if she knew her thoughts, the woman chuckled lightly in the next second and raised her hand to rub the top of her head, her tone the utmost gentleness. “Go to sleep now.”

The longing in the bottom of her heart was thus thoroughly satisfied.

“……En.” Qi Song heard her own obedient reply, and also heard the clamorous beating of her own heart.

She suspected Yu Luo heard it too.

——“So cute, my little dog.”

The woman’s murmur in the ice cream shop that evening seemed to ring in her ears.

Is it… Qi Song thought, feeling hot in body and mind, dizzy and seeing stars, do I now really look like a little dog that is easily tamed?

“Mommy, Mama……”

Taotao, on the bed to the side, called out in a soft, sticky⁴ voice, which held a bit of the grogginess of waking up in the middle of the night.

It perfectly rescued Qi Song, who, in her weakened state, was on the verge of being overdrawn⁵ by her chaotic thoughts.

Yu Luo turned her head and answered, then got on the bed and lay down, holding the cub to lie prone in her arms, and patted her back.

She said softly, “Go on sleeping, good cub, Mommy will hold you to sleep.”

Taotao, with sleepy eyes, grabbed the pajama fabric in front of Yu Luo and said pitifully, “Today Mommy and Mama were both not here.”

“En.” Yu Luo knew that Auntie Zhang had already explained to Taotao, and the cub was just acting spoiled now, so she gently kissed her. “Tomorrow we will both be at home to accompany you.”

After speaking, she tilted her head and glanced at Qi Song, who had just gotten into bed.

Clearly, not a word was said, but in a kind of hard-to-explain tacit understanding, Qi Song instantly understood her meaning.

So Qi Song shifted her body, moving so close she was almost pressing against Yu Luo’s body.

Then she moved closer and gave Taotao’s little cheek a kiss.

Taotao squinted her eyes in satisfaction.

Outside the window, the night was deep and dark, and the autumn wind was bitingly cold, whistling with a wuwu sound.

Inside, the warm light from the bedside lamp sprinkled harmoniously on the three of them, creating an exceptionally peaceful and warm scene.

One of the aftereffects of overdosing on the suppressant was lethargy.

Under the weight of sleepiness, before she involuntarily fell into a dream, Qi Song gazed at the woman’s side profile as she lightly patted her daughter’s back, coaxing the cub to sleep. The thought in her drowsy mind was——

I still want to look one more time.

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The day Zhou Zhou went to have an abortion, Yu Luo accompanied her.

“Are you going with me?” Yu Luo asked Qi Song before they left.

Qi Song had recovered very quickly; at least, you could no longer see any weakness on her face. But at this moment, her complexion seemed a bit pale.

“I’m not going.”

She refused very decisively.

Yu Luo was slightly stunned and subconsciously asked, “Why?”

“I don’t like hospitals,” Qi Song said directly.

She paused. She had actually always wanted to ask if Yu Luo frequently went to that hospital, and why.

But she took the words back.

What if that was something the original owner knew? Wouldn’t she be exposed?

Yu Luo looked at her for a moment, but ultimately didn’t say more. “Okay, then you rest at home and play with the cub.”

Zhou Zhou’s surgery went very smoothly. Afterward, she needed to be hospitalized for three to five days.

Yu Luo asked Auntie Zhang to make nourishing food for her, which was delivered to the hospital three times a day by the driver. She also hired a caregiver.

As for herself, she went on a business trip for work that she couldn’t turn down.

With Yu Luo not at home for these few days, it gave Qi Song the chance to both recuperate and have the spare energy to properly think about her feelings for Yu Luo.

That dream still lingered like a real memory⁶, but it no longer influenced⁷ Qi Song’s mood as powerfully as it had on the day she first woke up.

She quickly analyzed her current situation clearly, though in fact, it hardly needed analysis——

No matter what, she could not and should not fall in love with Yu Luo. Yu Luo’s current closeness was only because she saw her as the original owner; she absolutely should not fall for Yu Luo.

But, what if.

In a certain moment, she accidentally made a hypothesis: casting aside all background, if it were just Yu Luo appearing in her life, would she fall in love with her?

It seemed there was no way to immediately deny this possibility.

Qi Song couldn’t even think of a single one of Yu Luo’s flaws right now.

Her concealing the fact that the original owner had Taotao, and throwing money to get the original owner on a kid variety show without a word of explanation—perhaps it was all due to some major, unspeakable hidden reason.

Qi Song discovered that she had already started to find excuses for Yu Luo——even if, for the moment, she couldn’t think of any tenable⁸ reasons.

This was obviously a bit blind.

When she had just transmigrated, under the urgent circumstances, she had quickly combined all the information at hand and come to a fair and reasonable⁹, even natural, conclusion——that Yu Luo was a cheating scum woman, and she had accepted and believed this without a second thought.

Part of the reason was that the facts laid out before her all pointed straight to that conclusion; another part of the reason was that, as a book transmigrator, upon her initial arrival, she inevitably held a somewhat indifferent, “it’s not my business” attitude toward this world.

——This is just a book, and everyone around is either a main or supporting character from the book.

What kind of past Yu Luo and the original owner had, what Yu Luo had experienced—none of it was very important to her.

The most important thing was that she could survive this difficult situation.

Therefore, although she was curious, her curiosity wasn’t strong enough to make her risk exposing that she wasn’t the original owner to go exploring.

But now, she clearly hadn’t explored in detail at all, yet in the process of spending her days and nights together, she had unknowingly changed her internal conclusion.

She even felt regret and self-blame for her previous misunderstanding——how could I have thought of Yu Luo that way?

But in reality, she had only been transmigrated for a little over ten days.

To so quickly overturn her previous speculations, and even start to seriously ponder questions like 「Do I have feelings for her」, actually showed that the situation was very dangerous.

She was now on that fatal borderline; once she stepped over, it would probably be eternal damnation¹⁰.

Fortunately, she came to her senses in time. She could not take another step forward.

After sorting things out, Qi Song felt a sense of physical and mental relaxation.

Today was Saturday. Yu Luo would be home at three in the afternoon.

At five in the afternoon, they would set off for the airport together for the second recording of 《Happy Moments》.

They hadn’t seen each other for five days, and Taotao had been muttering about missing Mommy every day.

Yu Luo would video call every night to talk with Taotao. Qi Song always accompanied Taotao, so she would naturally be watching from the side.

But she didn’t appear on camera.

“Cub, where is your Mama?” Yu Luo, clearly knowing the answer, would occasionally ask Taotao on purpose.

Taotao blinked her big eyes, glanced at Qi Song at her side, and exposed her Mama completely:

“Mama is seriously watching you from the side, she’s reluctant to even blink her eyes!”

“Pfft.” Yu Luo laughed out loud on the other end of the video.

Just as she was about to continue speaking, she thought about it and still found it very funny, so she couldn’t help but laugh for a while longer.

“……” Qi Song listened to the woman’s pleasant laughter from the side, feeling her ears grow hot.

Children’s words carry no harm¹¹, but how could this woman take it so seriously.

She used the excuse of needing to go to the bathroom to leave, just before Yu Luo could say something like 「Taotao, let me see Mama」.

The next evening, she anticipated this scene in advance. So while accompanying Taotao, she forced herself not to glance at the video screen at all.

As expected, Yu Luo asked a similar question again.

Little friend Taotao tilted her head and carefully looked at her a few times, then turned her head back and sincerely replied to Yu Luo in a soft, sticky voice: “Wu, Mommy is using her peripheral vision to look at you!”

Qi Song: “……”

Amidst these memories, Qi Song glanced at the time again.

Two forty-five.

Yu Luo would be back in fifteen minutes.

Thinking of this, the anxiety and elation that had been brewing in her heart for a long time seemed about to jump out.

“It’s almost three o’clock, Mommy is coming back!”

Taotao said happily while her hands were waving and her feet were dancing on the living room carpet, the joy in her heart evident.

Qi Song wanted to divert her attention, and just then, a staff member from “Yi Wen Quan Zhi Dao”, who was in charge of her endorsement, sent a message.

She clicked on it to read seriously, but felt as if she was gradually becoming unable to process the words.

Every character was familiar-looking, but when combined, they all read as 「three o’clock」.

The electronic clock on the desk ticked away. Amid someone’s not-so-steady heartbeat, time passed, minute by minute, second by second.

The closer it got to three o’clock, the more time seemed to become viscous and stagnant, impossible to push forward.

With a 「di」 sound, the minutes and seconds on the clock screen finally returned to zero.

Three o’clock sharp.

……Yu Luo still hadn’t returned.

Auntie Zhang put the groceries she bought into the refrigerator. When she walked out of the kitchen, she saw the big one and the small one sitting on the sofa in silence.

One was more wilted than the other, not even half as fresh as the vegetables she had just bought.

Just as Auntie Zhang was about to ask what was wrong, she looked up at the clock and had a sudden realization: “It’s already ten past three. Why hasn’t Miss Yu returned yet?”

As soon as her voice fell, she felt that the two on the sofa seemed to have wilted even more.

Like the leaves of unsold vegetables at the market before closing time.

Taotao lay limply on the sofa, as if she had no bones, and with her soul not in its house¹², she unknowingly slid onto the carpet.

She didn’t get up either, just stayed still in the posture she had slid into, solidifying into a milk bun¹³ that had lost its dreams.

The one on the sofa had a vacant gaze, her spirit wandering beyond the heavens¹⁴, and didn’t remember to reach out and help the cub up.

Auntie Zhang stared blankly in their direction.

After Miss Yu found out her granddaughter liked sculptures, she had given her two tickets to the B City Sculpture Museum one day, and she had taken her granddaughter to see it.

At this very moment, she felt as if she had returned to that day, as if she had mistakenly wandered into a themed sculpture exhibition.

“Dididi.”

Just then, the sound of the fingerprint lock being successfully unlocked came from the entryway.

This sound suddenly cut through the frozen air of the living room, shattering the barrier between illusion and reality.

The sculptures on the sofa and carpet all moved.

The milk bun on the floor propped itself up and ran stumbling straight toward the entryway.

The adult on the sofa, perhaps worried this milk bun would fall, got up and followed closely behind.

So when Yu Luo pushed the door and came in, she saw a big and a small, two similar faces, simultaneously staring at her without blinking.

Yu Luo was slightly stunned, and then the corners of her lips slowly curved up.

The fatigue from working away for the past few days seemed to suddenly dissipate completely.

The happiness of having two little dogs at home is just this, she thought.

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The author has something to say:

Little dogs are the best at waiting, and also the worst at it.

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