Scum A with a Sweet Black Lotus O – Chapter 125
by Little PandaDew-Kissed Rose.
Leaving the private room.
“Would you say I’ve struck it rich overnight?” Pei Xuezhi suddenly asked.
“Hmm—”
Fu Chaoyun paused for a moment, feigning contemplation. “How… could it not be considered so?”
She was clearly doing it on purpose, her tone quite affected, all to tease the person opposite her. Pei Xuezhi played along with a light laugh.
More of it was also from the heart.
She turned sideways.
The two were already very close in height, and now with Pei Xuezhi suddenly drawing near, that ambiguous sense of pressure bore down on one’s heart.
What met the eyes were the Omega’s dark, bright eyes, which, like the corners of her crimson lips, were slightly upturned, suffused with a natural, light smile, yet also a cat-like slyness.
This was accompanied by Pei Xuezhi’s hand suddenly resting on her shoulder.
“So, can I keep Jiejie now… hmm?”
The end of her voice tilted up slightly.
As she spoke, her nimble fingertips twitched, caressing Fu Chaoyun’s shoulder, then moving down bit by bit, landing on the hollow of her collarbone.
The person who was originally cool and aloof, now with every glance and gesture, seemed to be teasing.
It made one’s heart tremble.
How could one resist this? And how was one to resist?
Fu Chaoyun immediately surrendered. “You can.”
—The cat had stolen the cream, or perhaps, the “heart.”1
Once this was clear, Pei Xuezhi’s hand dropped, everything retracting quickly. The change in her expression just now seemed like an illusion. After returning to their original state, the two continued walking forward.
A moment later.
“If it was for my sake…”
Fu Chaoyun spoke, her voice tinged with a slight hoarseness. “If it was for my sake, Zhizhi didn’t need to go this far.”
When she turned her head to look, Pei Xuezhi was also looking at her.
Although it was a bit late to say these things now, and a little melodramatic, after all, the documents had already been signed.
Fu Chaoyun had been watching from the side at the time and hadn’t stopped her in time.
The series of subsequent effects brought about by the “kinship acknowledgment”, apart from the biggest beneficiary, Pei Xuezhi herself, the next would be her, Fu Chaoyun.
Even though this was accompanied by certain risks, the visible benefits were always better than empty promises2.
Not just Pei Xuezhi, but even Fu Chaoyun felt that this kinship acknowledgment was far too coincidental.
It just so happened that she was facing successive problems on her end, and it just so happened that she was about to take over the entire operation and planning of the Fu family’s industries.
Although she had Pei Xuezhi’s help previously, and the two had already weathered the most difficult times, the arrival of this Ms. Feng and the various things she brought could also be described as a “timely rain.”3
Connecting all of this together, it seemed far too coincidental.
So coincidental it was as if someone was deliberately plotting, just waiting for them to step into a pit filled with gold, silver, and traps.
The potential threat Pei Xuezhi thought of, Fu Chaoyun had also thought of—the “Scum A” who had once used her body.
But since that entity had detached from Mi Shan’s body, the biggest problem now was that they were in the open, while that one was in the shadows4.
The best way was to lure the other party onto the stage5 as well.
And previous experiences had shown that the other party would only appear in person when matters related to Pei Xuezhi arose.
This was the other party’s obsession.
From today’s meeting, Ms. Feng herself seemed to have no issues, but what if the Scum A was pulling the strings behind all this?
This would undoubtedly put the two of them, and most importantly “Pei Xuezhi,” who was being targeted by that individual, into an extremely dangerous situation.
Fu Chaoyun was very clear-headed, and a hint of underlying worry was faintly visible in her eyes as she looked at Pei Xuezhi.
The next second.
Pei Xuezhi’s back of her hand touched the Alpha’s forehead, her whole body also leaning forward, clearly exposing her own expression to the other person.
“Jiejie,” Pei Xuezhi called. When she spoke seriously, her usually cool voice was always tinged with a slight hoarseness. “I’m not that kind of completely devoted6, love-struck7 Omega.”
Fu Chaoyun: ?
How did the topic veer off in this direction??
“Accepting…” She paused. Although she had accepted that person’s gift, she still couldn’t directly utter the title “Mother” at this stage, so she used the term provided by the assistant.
“My accepting Ms. Feng’s assets is, on one hand, indeed because Jiejie needs it at this stage, and if we cooperate, Jiejie will have a much easier time. On the other hand, it’s also because I need it.”
“But Zhizhi clearly isn’t—”
“I don’t look like someone who fawns over vanity, right?” Pei Xuezhi interrupted her.
Fu Chaoyun nodded, then shook her head. “I mean, Zhizhi doesn’t look like someone who is in great need of money.”
Fawning over vanity was hardly a good term.
The cautious Alpha had to remain sharp even at such moments, lest it be dug up someday in the future to rake over old coals8!
“Indeed.” Pei Xuezhi didn’t deny it.
The hand resting on Fu Chaoyun’s forehead moved down slightly. The Alpha’s skin was smooth and delicate, without any obstruction. The first thing it touched was the other’s long eyelashes.
The sensation on the back of the hand was always a bit less distinct than that of the palm or fingertips, not very obvious, only feeling the curved arc brush lightly.
This alone was enough.
Because of countless more intimate contacts in the past, it made it so that even if it wasn’t a more careful touch, just the moment of impact allowed her to imagine the most extreme sensation, to imagine what her eyes, currently covered, looked like, and even more so—
Pei Xuezhi stopped her thoughts from straying. “I indeed didn’t need money much in the past, but undeniably, it is a good thing, isn’t it? It can easily solve most troubles.”
As she spoke, she flipped her hand over, using her palm to cover Fu Chaoyun’s eyes.
Everything she touched was just as she had imagined.
And in the dark night, that person’s vision was clearly obstructed, yet it seemed as if she could still “see” her through the layer in between—
Every movement fell into Pei Xuezhi’s eyes.
The night traced the Alpha’s silhouette, making it appear even more profound. After her eyes were covered, her red lips seemed all the more vibrant and alluring, like a dew-kissed rose.
Tempting one to go forward and taste its fragrance.
However.
Cannot.
Although this place was sparsely populated, people would still occasionally pass by. Pei Xuezhi maintained her rationality.
The only anomaly was that her voice grew hoarser, her eyes deeper.
“I also want to be more worthy of Jiejie, so that I won’t suddenly be discarded someday.”
“You won’t be~”
Fu Chaoyun’s last syllable trembled slightly, not because she was acting cute or distracted, but because of Pei Xuezhi.
Because just as the Alpha was speaking, Pei Xuezhi, while maintaining the posture of covering her eyes, suddenly and recklessly kissed the other’s red lips.
Why did this happen? Clearly, her rationality was still present a second ago… One could only blame the Alpha before her for being too alluring, and too easy to bully!
Pei Xuezhi thought, as if shifting the blame9.
Thus, the movements between their lips and teeth became even more wanton and audacious, completely reckless…
This kiss finally ended.
Pei Xuezhi’s covering hand finally loosened, revealing the Alpha’s eyes, like amber and colored glaze, now thoroughly teased, brimming with affection.
That hand then moved downwards, fingertips rubbing the lips that had been kissed rather intensely, pressing firmly, and even, from time to time, inadvertently probing those fingertips a little inside.
Swallowing and taking in.
“Jiejie isn’t being good, oh,” Pei Xuezhi chose to be the villain who complains first. “Shh—”
The Omega lowered her voice, coaxing like a siren’s song.
“Can you let me finish speaking first, and not interrupt?”
Footnotes
- The original phrase is 猫儿偷到腥了 (māo’er tōu dào xīng le), literally “the kitten has stolen something fishy/savory.” The text then plays on the sound similarity between 腥 (xīng – fishy/savory) and 心 (xīn – heart), implying she has captured Fu Chaoyun’s heart.
- Original: 开空头支票 | kāi kōngtóu zhīpiào | Lit. “to write a blank check”; an idiom meaning to make an empty promise.
- Original: 及时雨 | jíshíyǔ | Lit. “timely rain”; an idiom meaning timely help or assistance when it’s most needed.
- Original: 在明…在暗 | zài míng… zài àn | Lit. “in the light…in the dark”; an idiom meaning one party is exposed while the other is hidden.
- Original: 引到台前 | yǐn dào tái qián | Lit. “to lead to the front of the stage”; meaning to bring someone or something out into the open or public view.
- Original: 倒贴 | dàotiē | A colloquial term often used to describe someone, typically a woman, who makes all the effort or sacrifices in a relationship, sometimes to the point of demeaning themselves, often implying they are ‘paying’ to be with someone.
- Original: 恋爱脑 | liàn’ài nǎo | Lit. “love brain”; a slang term for someone whose thinking is completely dominated by romantic love, often to the detriment of other aspects of their life or judgment.
- Original: 翻旧账 | fān jiùzhàng | Lit. “to turn over old account books”; an idiom meaning to bring up old scores, rake up the past, or rehash old grievances.
- Original: 甩锅 | shuǎiguō | Lit. “to throw the pot”; a slang term meaning to shift blame or pass the buck.
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