After Agreeing to Go on a Parenting Show With My Omega Ex-Girlfriend – Chapter 44

Hurry up and get in bed to hold me.

Every year on its anniversary, the inn holds a boat-rowing competition in the lake.

Today was the twenty-first anniversary, so the production team naturally assigned the honored guests the task of participating in the rowing competition.

The four families were each a team, and the guest stars formed another team. At this time, five small boats were already neatly moored by the inn’s shore.

Qi Song squatted down to put a life jacket on Taotao, carefully fastening the straps on her body for her.

“You only fasten it for the cub, not for me,” the woman at her side muttered faintly.

Qi Song’s movements paused, and the corners of her lips couldn’t help but curve up a little.

She confirmed that Taotao was properly dressed, then got up and walked in front of Yu Luo. Her hand touched Yu Luo’s straps. “I’ll fasten them for you.”

There was a clear smile in Yu Luo’s eyes, but she let out a soft “hmph.” “I still had to be the one to bring it up.”

The young woman’s fingers were slender and beautiful, and the sight of her fastening the straps was also highly pleasing to the eye.

Yu Luo watched, slightly lost in thought.

…She knew how nimble and powerful this pair of hands was.

After taking care of Yu Luo and Taotao, Qi Song quickly put on her own life jacket and then stepped onto the boat.

Unlike every previous boat ride where there was a boatman, this time they had to do everything themselves.

The boat was small and light, and the slightest movement caused it to rock. Qi Song first carefully carried the cub aboard, had her sit on a small stool in the middle of the boat, and then extended her hand toward Yu Luo.

But she saw the woman’s gaze was drifting, her thoughts wandering somewhere, and the fair skin at the base of her ears was even tinged with a faint pink.

Qi Song paused for a moment and called out, “Wife?”

Yu Luo came back to her senses.

She answered, her eyelashes trembling slightly with a hint of guilt. Then she placed her hand in Qi Song’s palm and steadily boarded the boat.

After a brief demonstration from an experienced boatman, the rowing competition quickly began.

The honored guests didn’t have much experience, and the several small boats on the lake were each in their own sorry state.

One boat was spinning crazily in place, with the family of three crying out that their heads were dizzy and they were seeing golden stars; another, after a flurry of operations as fierce as a tiger¹, rowed for half a day only to find they had returned to their starting point; and yet another almost crashed into another family’s boat.

Suddenly, a huge 「PLOP!」 came from the lake’s surface—it was Ren Zhi’s family’s boat that had capsized.

Two adults and one child, wearing fluorescent orange life jackets, floated dazedly on the lake’s surface and were fished out by the production team’s rescue boat amidst a wave of mocking laughter from those enjoying the show.

The only one that was normal was, unexpectedly, Qi Song’s family.

Yu Luo had never rowed a boat, and in her memory, neither had Qi Song.

But right now, Qi Song explained the most important techniques in just a few words² and led the rhythm of their rowing.

Thus, their small boat advanced steadily with tacit cooperation.

Taotao sat securely in the center of the boat. Seeing Youyou-jiejie floating on the water’s surface like an orange peel, she couldn’t help but blink her big eyes in envy.

She tilted her head and requested, “Mommy, I want to float too.”

This sentence pulled Yu Luo from some kind of thought, and she chuckled helplessly, “The lake water is very cold. See, the lifeguard-ayi³ over there has already gone into the water to fish them out.”

“Oh,” Taotao’s gaze immediately became worried, and she anxiously waited for Youyou-jiejie to be fished out.

The family of three ended up winning first place, without any surprise.

After the production team announced the rankings, Ren Zhi sighed and said, “Teacher Qi, do you all row boats often? How were you so steady?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Luo immediately tilted her head and looked toward Qi Song.

Feeling Yu Luo’s gaze, Qi Song’s heart tightened slightly, but she still answered naturally, “Yes.”

Although the differences between her and the original owner could all be explained by the two years they were broken up, the original owner had been too down and out during those two years and logically wouldn’t have had the leisure or mood to develop hobbies.

She didn’t know how Yu Luo would process these differences in her heart.

However, Yu Luo didn’t seem surprised, nor did she ask any further questions.

She just extended her right arm to her, eyelashes slightly lowered, and said softly, “Rowing is so tiring.”

Qi Song blinked lightly, understanding tacitly.

She probably isn’t tired, just acting coquettishly.

If it were before, she probably would have only thought this was an act of affection for the cameras. Yet at this moment, she clearly felt her heart softening.

So she raised her hand, held Yu Luo’s slender arm, and massaged it with appropriate pressure to relieve her muscle soreness.

However, not long after, Yu Luo somewhat uncomfortably pulled her arm back.

Qi Song was slightly startled and asked, not understanding why, “What’s wrong?”

Yu Luo’s cool and detached expression was as usual, but her fair cheeks were tinged with pink. She gave her a light, reproachful glance. “Don’t ask.”

This sentence clearly answered nothing, yet it seemed to answer everything.

Qi Song’s breath caught for a moment, and the hand that had just been massaging Yu Luo unconsciously curled up.

Her heart quietly began to beat too fast.

In the small space between the two of them, the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat ambiguous, and a bit of heat period emerged.

Ahead, the production team was explaining the afternoon’s schedule. Qi Song tried to focus and listen while calming her breathing.

“I feel… something’s not right.”

Yu Luo suddenly said from the side.

Qi Song tilted her head to look and discovered that the flush that had just appeared on Yu Luo’s cheeks had not only failed to fade, but had instead become even more intense.

She immediately asked, “What’s wrong with you?”

Yu Luo’s brow furrowed slightly. “…I think it’s my heat period.”

After a few seconds, she confirmed again, “It is my heat period.”

Qi Song froze.

Logically speaking, a heat period should have signs a few days in advance, with obvious reactions at least half a day beforehand, but Yu Luo’s heat period seemed to have come on suddenly.

Just a few minutes ago, she had been perfectly fine, without any abnormalities. Even now, her pheromone concentration was still stable.

“No, I have to go back to the room…”

Yu Luo’s usually cool and calm voice was now somewhat urgent, as if she couldn’t wait another second.

The usually polite woman didn’t even bother to say anything to the production team, turning to head back to the inn.

It was too sudden. Qi Song only had time to casually say a word to the production team before picking up Taotao and following after Yu Luo.

“Slow down, don’t fall…” she said worriedly, quickening her pace to follow the woman’s retreating back.

As soon as they entered the room, Yu Luo practically stumbled straight toward the suitcase, took a suppressant from a side pocket with a trembling hand, and then quickly slipped into the bathroom.

Qi Song put Taotao down, gazing in that direction with her lips pressed together slightly.

The ABO physiological characteristics of this world were basically the same as before she transmigrated into the book. Normally, without any external stimulation, an Omega’s heat period wouldn’t come on so unexpectedly; rather, there would be continuous and increasingly intense signs.

And her pheromone concentration—it was impossible for a normal person’s to be so stable all the time, let alone during a heat period.

She heard Yu Luo calling her from the bathroom, “I grabbed your suppressant by mistake. Can you get mine for me?”

Through the bathroom door, the woman’s voice was muffled, but one could still tell she was not in a good state.

Qi Song quickly took a suppressant meant for an Omega from the suitcase’s side pocket.

Remembering how Yu Luo’s hands were trembling when she grabbed the suppressant just now, she opened the suppressant’s packaging as she walked toward the bathroom.

The syringe had the appearance of the standard national suppressant, except it contained a light cyan liquid. Are Omega suppressants light cyan?

Qi Song’s footsteps paused, and her breath suddenly grew heavy.

It was as if some kind of sense of crisis engraved in her very bones had become clamorous at this moment. Looking at the suppressant, an undeniable feeling of resistance and aversion rose in her heart.

It was as if she was extremely unwilling for Yu Luo to inject this suppressant.

But the woman inside seemed unable to bear it and asked uncomfortably, so Qi Song had no choice but to respond.

The bathroom door opened a small crack. Restraining the reluctance in her heart, Qi Song passed the suppressant through.

The door was hastily closed the next second.

The person whose actions were always elegant had even lost control of her strength when closing the bathroom door, causing a rather heavy THUD!.

Qi Song stared blankly at the tightly closed bathroom door.

For some reason, she had a feeling—Yu Luo’s attitude toward her heat period contained a trace of avoidance.

And the object of that avoidance even included her.

“Mama, is Mommy really okay?” Taotao asked, tugging on the corner of her clothes.

Qi Song came back to her senses, held the cub in her arms to comfort her, and asked, “Has this happened to Mommy before?”

Taotao thought for a moment and answered, “Every month, Mommy gets sick in her room for one day and lets Zhang-nainai⁴ take care of me.”

For a moment, Qi Song was speechless.

Outside the window, the sun occasionally hid behind the clouds, and occasionally scattered its brilliant light generously.

A long time passed without her realizing.

The bathroom door remained tightly closed, and Yu Luo still hadn’t come out.

In the anxious wait, Qi Song felt her heart tighten little by little. Finally, she couldn’t help but go to the bathroom door, raise her hand, and knock.

“Yu Luo?”

There was no sound from inside.

Qi Song’s breathing became labored. She waited several seconds, then knocked a few more times.

After a moment, a sound finally came from the bathroom doorknob.

The door was opened from the inside, and Qi Song got a clear look at Yu Luo.

She saw that the Omega’s cheeks and ears were flushed with an unnatural crimson, but her lips were a deathly pale color. Her thick eyelashes were damp with moisture, and her long, curly hair was draped messily over her shoulders.

Her coat had been taken off, leaving only a snow-colored shirt, with two buttons haphazardly undone.

The exposed, lustrous white skin was sheened with moisture, which must have been cold sweat.

As if unable to stand straight, she leaned weakly against the doorframe, her breathing somewhat rapid.

After just injecting one suppressant, her whole body seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

Qi Song looked at her and felt an unbearable pain ache somewhere in her own body. Or perhaps, it was her entire body.

“Qi Song,” Yu Luo’s lips parted slightly, and she called her name in a slightly hoarse voice.

She tried to stand up straight from her position by the doorframe, but her legs gave out and she was about to fall, only to be caught in a swift embrace by the quick-acting Qi Song.

“Are you okay?” Qi Song asked, her voice trembling as she held her tight.

She felt that the soft body in her arms seemed especially frail at this moment, as if holding on a little too tightly would break her.

Yu Luo took the opportunity to nestle into her arms, her hands wrapping around her waist. Her bright eyes, filled with mist, looked up at her, fragile and pitiful.

“Qi Song, go ask the production team for a leave of absence. Stay with me today, okay?”

She said softly, taking a breath before adding, “Stay with me alone.”

Meaning Taotao couldn’t be there either.

Looking into the woman’s mist-filled eyes, Qi Song was unable to think any further.

She comfortingly patted Yu Luo’s back and quickly agreed in a soft voice, “Okay, don’t be afraid. I’ll stay with you.”

Upon receiving the promise, the vulnerability in Yu Luo’s eyes eased a little.

She forced herself to muster some strength, trying to appear less weak. After slowly squatting down, she hugged the cub who was tugging at her shirt and, suppressing the tremble in her voice, said gently:

“Zaizai, don’t worry, Mommy is fine, but… I need Mama’s one-on-one care. How about you go play with Youyou-jiejie for the afternoon, okay?”

Taotao knew it must be that day of the month when Mommy got sick. So she nodded obediently and, hugging Yu Luo’s neck reluctantly, said, “Mommy, you have to get better soon…”

Yu Luo, her whole body weak, lay down on the bed.

Qi Song poured her a glass of water and asked, “Do you want to drink some water now?”

Yu Luo shook her head slightly.

“Then I’ll go ask for leave.” Qi Song placed the cup on the bedside table and leaned over to carefully tuck her into the blanket.

Just as she was about to get up and leave, she felt a faint resistance.

She was slightly startled. Lowering her gaze, she saw jade-white fingers pinching the fabric at the corner of her clothes in an especially dependent manner.

The corners of Yu Luo’s eyes were crimson, and the mist in them still hadn’t dispersed. She asked clingingly, reluctant to let go, “…When will you be back?”

Qi Song looked back at her, and her heart seemed to well up with emotion along with the moisture in the woman’s eyes.

She held the hand that was tugging at her clothes, warming its slight coolness.

Then, she took a restrained breath and said gently, “I’ll be back very soon, in no more than five minutes.”

“…Okay.”

Even though she had received a promise, a thin film of tears began to well up in Yu Luo’s eyes, making her look as pitiful and aggrieved as if she were being abandoned.

Her hand slowly loosened its grip and retreated back under the blanket.

So much so that before Qi Song could even react, she had already leaned down and placed a light kiss on Yu Luo’s forehead. “I’ll be back right away, really.”

With her heart set on returning as quickly as possible, she couldn’t even wait to walk slowly while holding Taotao’s hand. Instead, just as she had when following Yu Luo, she chose to pick up the cub and walk quickly.

First, she explained the situation to the production team and requested that the cameras in their room be turned off. The production team could understand special circumstances; moreover, these were all big shots they couldn’t afford to offend, so they dared not object.

Next, Qi Song handed Taotao over to Ren Zhi’s family.

Ren Zhi raised her eyebrows at her. “How the tables have turned.”

Perhaps it was every family’s fate to become a daycare, it was just a matter of sooner or later.

Qi Song had no time to banter with her. After thanking her, she ran back to the room as if in a hundred-meter dash.

She estimated in her mind that she had only been gone for four minutes.

The room was quiet. On the bed, a lump bulged quietly.

Perhaps feeling cold, the woman was nestled entirely under the blanket, with only a little of her thick, jet-black, curly hair showing.

Hearing a sound, Yu Luo moved a little and peeked out from under the blanket with half her face.

Her eyes were on the verge of tears, as if the wait just now had been utter torment for her.

Yu Luo extended her hand from under the blanket and said softly, in an aggrieved tone, “What took you so long to come back…”

A part of Qi Song’s heart caved in. She enveloped that hand in her own and, without making any excuses for herself, only said, “I’m sorry for making you wait.”

This sentence seemed to strike a hidden chord in Yu Luo’s heart.

The mist in the woman’s eyes immediately condensed into teardrops. Two streams of clear tears flowed down her cheeks as she repeated in a low, choked voice, “What took you so long to come back…”

As if she wasn’t just talking about this one incident.

Qi Song felt a wave of pain pierce her heart, boring several holes through which a harsh wind whistled.

She raised her hand to gently wipe away Yu Luo’s tears, apologizing cautiously.

Even though she herself didn’t know what she was apologizing for.

It was as if she had once, truly beyond her control, made Yu Luo endure a long wait.

People’s personalities tend to change somewhat during special periods; those restrained and suppressed emotions will burst forth.

And Yu Luo, who was usually calm and composed and appeared cool and detached to outsiders, had clearly turned into a crybaby during her heat period.

She didn’t make a sound when she cried.

Only, her beautiful eyes were completely red, and crystal-clear tears flowed down silently and continuously.

However, the quieter it was, the more clamorous her crying seemed.

It reached a point where Qi Song threw everything to the back of her mind—whether she had transmigrated into a book, whether she was the original owner or not.

All her emotions and thoughts arose solely because of the woman’s tears.

“So cold.”

Amidst her blurry tears, Yu Luo said in a soft voice, “Hurry up and get in bed to hold me.”

Qi Song did so without the slightest hesitation.

She took off her outer clothes, slipped under the blanket, and held Yu Luo in her arms, coaxing her in a soft and gentle voice.

She had thought that, being inexperienced, she would be at a loss for words in this kind of situation, but at this moment, she was inexplicably adept at it.

“Before, during my heats, you always used to soothe me like this.”

Enveloped in Qi Song’s patient and tolerant gentleness, Yu Luo finally, gradually stopped crying and said softly while nestled in her arms.

Hearing this, for the first time, Qi Song didn’t feel jealous of the original owner’s past with Yu Luo. She didn’t even feel the urge to differentiate herself from the original owner.

As a result, all the intimacy at this moment felt completely natural.

“You used to kiss me, too…”

As she spoke, the hand Yu Luo had resting on Qi Song’s shoulder reached out weakly and took hold of the hand Qi Song was using to wipe her tears.

Then, she slowly lifted that hand. As if this action alone had used up all her strength, Yu Luo, amidst slightly heavy pants, pressed it with difficulty against the right side of the back of her neck.

It was her gland.

Feeling the scalding heat period and soft pliancy of that spot, Qi Song’s fingertips trembled, and her whole body froze.

She saw the woman’s eyelashes flutter uneasily. Looking at her with eyes brimming with tears, she softly requested:

“Qi Song, can you kiss it?”

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The author has something to say:

A jiejie who becomes a fragile cry-bag⁵ during her heat period is really a perfect match for a puppy who gets intensely emotional and clingy during their rut.

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