After Agreeing to Go on a Parenting Show With My Omega Ex-Girlfriend – Chapter 59

Masquerade Ball.

In the long sound of the horn, the cruise ship slowly set sail.

The coastline of D City gradually receded, finally disappearing from view. All around, there was only the boundless deep blue, undulating with shimmering light under the warm sun.

“Teacher Yu, Teacher Qi, you can go select your formal gowns now.”

Regarding the masquerade ball on the cruise ship, the program team had not given any advance notice, so no one was able to bring formal attire ahead of time.

But with the sponsorship of the brand, the program team prepared many exquisite formal gowns for the guests to choose from.

A staff member reminded: “To ensure the fun of the masquerade ball, please enter the dressing room separately to choose your respective gowns and masks. Maintain mystery during the ball and do not let your companions easily recognize you.”

When Qi Song came out of the dressing room, Yu Luo was waiting for her at the door.

The woman raised an eyebrow at her lightly, asking with a smile: “What clothes did you choose?”

Qi Song blinked, saying innocently and righteously: “I cannot tell Jiejie.”

Yu Luo was not surprised, and hummed lightly, “No matter what you wear, I will be able to tell with one glance.”

“Then what clothes and mask did Jiejie choose?” Qi Song deliberately teased her, “If you don’t tell me, I might not be able to recognize you.”

“Is that so?”

Yu Luo slowly raised her hand to stroke her head, the smile on the corner of her lips deep and profound: “Then you had better dare not to recognize me.”

Ren Zhi happened to be passing by and inadvertently heard their conversation, leaving with a subtle smile on her face.

The tip of Qi Song’s brow twitched slightly.

She couldn’t help but think: Does she look like a qiguanyan¹ in the eyes of others?

It seemed she was truly done for, because she actually felt very pleased by this.

But on the surface, she still couldn’t help but be stubborn for a moment: “I can’t guarantee it either.”

“Mm.” Yu Luo acted as if she believed it, nodding at her meaningfully, “Alright then.”

The cruise ship had ten floors in total. Although not considered large, it was fully equipped with all kinds of entertainment venues.

While the cub was sleeping soundly² in the room again, Yu Luo led Qi Song to wander around the cruise ship, hoping to find something back.

Arriving at the fifth floor, the corner after exiting the stairs was the cruise ship’s grand theater.

The staff member at the entrance saw the two approaching and enthusiastically introduced: “A classic movie is currently being shown inside, would the two teachers like to go and have a look?”

Having walked all this way, she was just getting a little tired. Yu Luo did not pay much attention to the staff member’s wanting to speak but stopping gaze, and politely nodded in thanks.

She pulled Qi Song in through the back door and sat in the back row of the theater.

However, after just a couple of glances, Yu Luo wanted to pull her away again.

“I feel like there’s nothing good to watch,” she said, feigning naturalness.

Qi Song raised a hand to wrap around her waist, pressing her back down into the seat, and said faintly: “Don’t go, Jiejie, let’s appreciate Teacher Yu’s movie.”

This movie was a certain award-winning work starring Yu Luo.

It was an artistic film, its content subtle and obscure, but in the middle, there was an intimate scene with an emotional outburst.

To this day, Yu Luo still remembered that when that scene was being filmed, it coincided with Qi Song coming to visit the set. Although it was only a borrowed-angle kiss, the visual effect was indeed very passionate, and Qi Song just stood silently to the side and watched it all.

Afterward, Yu Luo was tormented by this to the point of having a sore waist and weak legs for several days.

At this moment, the film was still in its obscure beginning part. As Yu Luo recalled those scenes where she was done to the point of needing to hold the wall to walk, she couldn’t help but feel like she was sitting on a needle-felt mat³.

Qi Song’s hands wrapped around her from behind, resting her head on her shoulder, her gaze fixed on the large screen in front.

Actually, she had already seen this movie. The last time Yu Luo was on a business trip, she missed her too much. So, she watched all the movies Yu Luo had ever acted in.

At that time, she was more focused on carefully appreciating Yu Luo’s every frown and cluster⁴, appreciating her excellence in acting.

But right now, Yu Luo was in her arms, and watching the movie seemed to have a different feeling—it turned out that once one had the status and qualification to be jealous, the sour taste would become unrestrained and intense.

As the first tear fell from the corner of Yu Luo’s eye on the big screen, the background music began to turn ambiguous. Under the hazy, detailed portrayal of the camera lens, it was exceptionally atmospheric and emotional.

Qi Song stared at those images, her breathing gradually becoming unsteady. A sudden heat flared in her mind, and new, fragmented memory clips squeezed in—

In the home theater room, this movie was projected onto the huge white screen. And in front of the white screen, she indulged her jealousy, pressing Yu Luo onto the carpet and tasting her wantonly.

The whimpering sounds had already become so unbearable that they drowned out the sound from the movie. Yu Luo’s eyes were misty as she gently stroked the top of her head, asking tenderly and helplessly: “Are you still wro… wuwu… wronged?”

……

When Qi Song came back to her senses, the scene from just now was no longer on the big screen of the cruise ship theater; it had entered the end of the movie.

Feeling the hands holding her waist tighten a little, Yu Luo’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and she simply closed her eyes.

Qi Song tilted her head and rubbed her ear with the tip of her nose, asking what she already knew: “Is Jiejie asleep?”

Yu Luo nodded her head: “Mhm, asleep.”

“……” Qi Song broke into a laugh.

She lowered her eyes to look at the woman’s face pretending to be asleep. The sourness dissipated, leaving only a soft palpitation of the heart.

The her from a few years ago was somewhat unrestrained. She clearly understood Yu Luo completely, yet she allowed her jealousy to ferment, repeatedly settling accounts with Yu Luo through intimacy.

And Yu Luo had actually indulged her like that time and again. While being done until her eyes were blurry with tears, she still had to squeeze out the strength to comfort her with a choked voice.

“Jiejie……”

Qi Song’s heart’s tide was surging⁵ in her memories, and she tilted her head to place a cherished kiss amidst Yu Luo’s hair.

Memories from the past were occasionally retrieved, and the her of now was merely being repeatedly tamed by Yu Luo within them.

There is no one in the world better than Yu Luo, she thought. This world cannot be without Yu Luo, she thought again.

Thinking to this point, a faint pain and itch seemed to arise somewhere in her heart.

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Night fell quickly.

The moonlight was bright and clear, brushing the boundless sea with light, making it more hazy and profound.

It was almost eight o’clock in the evening, and a crowd was surging at the entrance to the main hall on the first floor of the cruise ship.

Taotao had also chosen her own gown and mask—a beautiful pink puffy skirt⁶ and a cute puppy mask.

Yu Luo and Qi Song helped her put them on.

“Mommy, can you not tell it’s me?”

Taotao asked in a milky, childish voice from behind the puppy mask.

How could a mommy not recognize her own cub. Yu Luo smiled, but still chose to play along: “I can’t tell it’s my cub anymore.”

Taotao’s eyes lit up instantly, eager to go to the ball and see if Youyou-jiejie could recognize her.

The babies were too young, and the program team was worried that people might accidentally injure the children in the dim light of the ball. So, they specially marked off an area for the children.

After Yu Luo confirmed it was safe, she trustingly handed Taotao over to the accompanying PD Xiao Lin, and then turned to go to the changing room herself.

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Qi Song looked at herself in the mirror, deliberately using a black cloak to cover her long formal gown and wearing a vampire mask, somewhat satisfied.

Under the dim lights of the ballroom, Yu Luo would definitely be hard to recognize.

To prevent the guests’ identities from being easily recognized, the accompanying camera crew no longer followed the guests, but instead moved through the ball, capturing interesting details.

Qi Song deliberately waited until almost everyone had entered before she arrived.

At this moment, the ballroom was already filled with shadowy figures. Mysterious and dim light swept past, ambiguous music flowed, and every single person, under their disguise, became somewhat inscrutable.

However, Qi Song saw Yu Luo with a single glance.

By the bar in the corner, the woman wore a dark red cloak over her gown that could completely conceal her figure. Her waterfall-like, jet-black, long curly hair was draped over her back, with only her fair, small ears exposed for the sake of wearing the mask.

Based on this alone, Qi Song was already ten thousand percent certain that she was Yu Luo.

However, the memory of previously 「spouting great words」 and saying she wouldn’t recognize Yu Luo was still in her mind. She wanted to continue teasing the other, and pretend not to recognize her.

Yu Luo seemed to sense something and looked back, a sharp, noble, and beautiful wolf resting on her face.

Qi Song’s heart stirred. A vampire and a werewolf, they happened to be characters from the same world-view.

Her gaze clearly could not bear to move away from the woman, yet at this moment, she brought out the acting skills of a lifetime.

As if completely unaware, she ignored the woman’s gaze that fell straight upon her, her eyes sweeping faintly over the surroundings, not pausing on Yu Luo for a single instant.

After appreciating that person’s heavenly-clothes-without-seams⁷ performance, the corners of Yu Luo’s lips under the mask gently curved into a meaningful smile.

She stayed in the corner, at ease and comfortable, sizing up the attire of the guests in the hall with some curiosity. Occasionally, people would strike up a conversation with her, but all were refused.

Suddenly, a shadow fell before her. Yu Luo subconsciously raised her eyes; it was a woman wearing a rabbit mask.

「Rabbit」 looked at the beautiful and sharp 「Wolf」 before her. Although the woman’s entire figure was hidden by a dark red cloak, when she sat quietly to the side, that kind of noble posture and grace was still hard to ignore, and the little bit of fair skin that was exposed was extremely alluring.

“May I invite you to dance together later?” she asked carefully.

Yu Luo was slightly taken aback. Her peripheral vision glanced at a certain 「Vampire」 who, ever since she was approached, couldn’t help but shift in her direction and was now close by.

Especially now, the way a certain someone clearly cared to death, yet was unable to intervene because she wanted to pretend not to recognize her, was very interesting.

So, Yu Luo said to 「Rabbit」: “Sorry, I have a companion.”

Her timbre was recognizable, so in order not to be found out, she deliberately used a technique to alter her voice.

「Rabbit」 indeed did not recognize it, and said with considerable regret: ”Ah, you have a companion already……”

“Although she can’t even recognize me,” Yu Luo added, “but I am still waiting for her…..”

Her trailing tone was dejected, making her words sound exceptionally infatuated.

「Rabbit」 was slightly stunned. Before she could speak, she saw the mysterious 「Vampire」 sitting to the side, who seemed to be paying no attention to this area, suddenly stand up from her seat.

“Sorry, I am her dance partner.”

After the woman who had approached them left, Qi Song pressed close to Yu Luo’s side somewhat anxiously, saying seriously: “Jiejie, I recognized you! I knew it was you from the first glance, don’t be sad.”

After a pause, she said somewhat pitifully: “You’re not allowed to dance with anyone else……”

Yu Luo concealed her smile, casually raising her eyes to glance at her: “Oh? Is that so.”

“But just now you had the appearance of not knowing me at all, I thought you weren’t planning to dance with me.”

“I just wanted to tease you.” Faced with Yu Luo’s feigned aggrieved tone, Qi Song had no choice but to confess everything, “……Actually, I was secretly watching you the whole time.”

“And so many people were hitting on Jiejie, watching it made my heart feel sour,” she confessed in a small voice.

The jealousy that had been bottled up for over ten minutes was finally able to be released a little. Qi Song was completely unaware of the suitors she had inadvertently snubbed while she was focused on watching Yu Luo with her peripheral vision.

Admitting to these little tricks was inevitably a bit embarrassing. Amidst the teasing smile in Yu Luo’s eyes, she raised her hands to hug her, rubbing against her clingily.

Just as she was about to invite Yu Luo to dance, the chiming of a clock on the hour suddenly rang out in the hall.

Amidst the long humming sound⁸, a certain obscure atmosphere spread through the hall like a fog.

Immediately after, a hazy, dim light suddenly suffused the darkness of the dance floor, and a brilliant dance tune flowed over the slightly fluttering hems of people’s gowns, like the low murmurs between lovers.

The guests, one after another, led their dance partners toward the dance floor.

Just as Yu Luo retracted her gaze from the dance floor, she saw the slender, fair fingertips of the young woman before her slowly untying the cloak’s ribbon.

After the cloak was removed, a pale cyan backless long dress outlined Qi Song’s tall and slender figure beautifully.

Under Yu Luo’s stunned and amazed gaze, a bit of clear sweetness seeped into Qi Song’s heart.

“May I?”

Her hand touched Yu Luo’s ribbon. Under the woman’s gentle gaze, she gently peeled open Yu Luo’s cloak.

Yu Luo was dressed in a jade-green qipao⁹. Beneath her cool and noble temperament, her bearing was graceful and charming, possessing a considerable classical beauty.

Just like a cluster of clear, cold fragrance blooming in the fine snow on a mountain peak, not allowing itself to be plucked.

Qi Song watched without blinking, her gaze lingering and affectionate: “Jiejie is so beautiful……”

“So, are you going to invite me to dance?”

Light and shadow floated, flickering between bright and dark in Yu Luo’s smiling eyes.

The slightly curled ends of the woman’s hair danced as she was led by the waist into the dance floor.

……

In a similar scene, the surroundings were slightly blurry, only the woman in her arms, dressed in a long gown as magnificent and passionate as a red spider lily¹⁰, was clear and vivid.

Those bright eyes, brimming with moisture, were a peerless elegance that even a mask could hardly conceal.

Because of the passionate pleasure at the giant rock in the afternoon, Yu Luo’s waist and legs were weak, and her dance steps were also a bit limp. So she was held by Qi Song the entire time, the two of them slowly swaying their bodies, their ears and temples rubbing together¹¹ in the music.

“Jiejie looks so beautiful in this dress. The moment I entered the hall, I saw you in the corner right away,” Qi Song said in a low voice, “In that instant, I forgot everything and only wanted to run to you.”

Yu Luo paused slightly, then chuckled: “You like me wearing it that much?”

“Then in the future, if I wait for you for a long time and you don’t come, or if I can’t find you, I’ll wear this dress. Will you come running to me immediately?”

“Of course.” Qi Song nodded sincerely, “No matter what, I will always come running to you.”

“Besides, I couldn’t bear to make Jiejie wait for a long time,” she said.

“By the way, Jiejie actually didn’t even recognize me just now.”

Qi Song clearly knew the truth, but she feigned being wronged to coax sweet words from the woman.

“How could I possibly not recognize you.”

Yu Luo saw through her little thoughts, so she raised her hand and gently stroked her face through her mask, “I saw you from the moment you entered the door, I just wanted to tease you.”

Hearing the answer she wanted to hear, Qi Song couldn’t help but curve her lips, rubbing her palm affectionately and casually asking: “No matter what, can Jiejie always recognize me?”

“What if I were disguised so completely that my figure couldn’t be distinguished?”

Her thoughts diverged, and she said: “Or what if there was a person in the world who was very similar to me. Similar in both appearance and personality, would you still be able to recognize me?”

“Even to the point that there is only a tiny, insignificant difference between me and that person,” she made an ethereal hypothesis, “is the me in Jiejie’s eyes still special enough to be easily identified?”

“Of course.”

Yu Luo agreed, saying with certainty: “Even if there was only a tiny bit of difference from you, I would not be able to tolerate that difference…….”

Hearing this, the corners of Qi Song’s lips rose high, but through the mask, Yu Luo could only see her eyes, sparkling like the bright moon over the sea.

“I believe Jiejie.”

Yu Luo also followed by gently hooking her lips.

……

The memory of that ball surfaced clearly in her mind.

At this point, Yu Luo’s favorite day seemed to have once again deeply penetrated Qi Song’s bone marrow, engraved in her mind.

Qi Song’s emotions surged because of it.

She couldn’t tell if it was because she had been frequently recalling the past these two days, or because of Yu Luo’s certainty back then when she said she would absolutely not mistake her for someone else.

Yet she could not directly share this feeling with Yu Luo.

As the lights flickered, the people dancing in embrace were gorgeously dressed. Off the floor, swaying wine glasses collided lightly, and dark red liquid splashed out. It was too hazy and dreamlike, as if it could accommodate all surging emotions.

Qi Song couldn’t help but lower her head slightly.

The fangs belonging to the vampire on the mask touched the grayish-white fur of the werewolf.

“Is Jiejie a werewolf tonight?” she suppressed the fluctuations in her heart and asked softly.

The daze Qi Song was in after just returning from her memories was taken in completely by Yu Luo’s eyes.

She remembered that night?

The speculation surfaced, difficult to suppress. Yu Luo’s heartbeat began to clamor accordingly, finally drowning in the soothing dance music.

In their undercurrent of thoughts, they began to miss each other intensely, yet with a tacit understanding, they implicitly integrated this incomparably pure longing into a bold yet obscure flirtation.

“Not a werewolf.”

Yu Luo answered slowly, her gaze toward her pure yet bewitching: “A fragile human, pretending to be a werewolf for self-protection.”

Qi Song’s chest tightened slightly.

She gently lifted Yu Luo’s chin. The woman’s neck was fair and slender, hiding downwards in the exquisite collar of the qipao, exceptionally alluring in the dim light.

Her throat couldn’t help but move.

“But I am a vampire. By exposing yourself, Jiejie, are you not afraid of becoming prey?” she stared at that spot, speaking unhurriedly.

Yu Luo blinked her eyes innocently, as if naive: “What fate will the prey have?”

Qi Song’s fingertips traced over the fragile blood vessels on the side of her neck, as if there but not there. Amidst the dangerous itchiness, Yu Luo’s breathing instantly became unsteady.

The young woman’s eyes were just like at the ball that year; when deep and obscure thoughts arose within their clarity, there was an exceptionally charming sense of contradiction.

Yu Luo’s chest rose and fell slightly. She raised a hand to hook the back of her neck, her crimson lips parting lightly:

“Come to the room tonight…… let Jiejie see what the fate is.”

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The author has something to say:

Because the 「Giant Rock」 arc is coming soon (most likely the chapter after next), the “fate” here will not be expanded upon for now. If any little cuties really want to see it, it can be released as an extra after the main story is finished-

Also, today while driving halfway I developed a high fever. I estimate it’s a second positive¹², I’m requesting to lie down for a day tomorrow (half-dead.jpg)

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