The Amnesiac Omega Who Reels Me In Every Day – Chapter 60

You Can’t~

Dependence

Jiang Jinyi reached the entrance of the meeting room. Through the glass, she could see a room full of people. Jiang Youwan sat at the head of the table, leaning back lazily in her chair, her expression cold and authoritative—a god enthroned upon that dais.

            

The atmosphere was intensely grave. This didn’t look like the kind of occasion where you could just walk in and deliver lunch.

In the past, whether it was her jiejie or Jiang Youwan’s meeting—no matter how important—Jinyi had always been able to come and go as she pleased, doing whatever she wanted. No one could stop her. Everyone had to indulge her.

It was her own company, after all.

            

Walking right in to feed Jiang Youwan in front of everyone wasn’t something she hadn’t done before, either.

The last time had also been because she was upset that Youwan hadn’t eaten and it was getting late. She remembered… Youwan’s expression at the time had been very pleased. Very content.

If she went in now…

            

Would Youwan be happy too? But her expression right now looked so stern and serious. Would interrupting her cause a problem?

Compared to the old Jinyi, she had at least grown a little—learned to consider other people.

But the hesitation born of that consideration didn’t last long. Her gaze swept the audience and landed on a familiar face in one of the lower seats.

            

That person was wearing a black suit identical in style to Jiang Youwan’s, staring at Youwan without blinking.

Those deep eyes seemed to hide a smile, brimming with love…

Jinyi’s hackles rose instantly. By alpha instinct, she felt hostility toward anyone coveting her omega. If a romantic rival shared the same room as her omega, her possessiveness would go off the charts.

            

Jinyi had never been the magnanimous type. The last time, when Lu Jing confessed to Jiang Youwan, she’d had her heart thoroughly broken and swallowed a heaping dose of jealousy. How could she just let that go?

At the very least… she needed to make Lu Jing squirm once.

With that thought, the corner of Jinyi’s mouth curved up. She asked the assistant to open the meeting room door and swaggered in with her little cat bento.

            

“Jiejie.” She called it deliberately—impossibly soft and sweet. The voice rang out in the meeting room, jarringly out of place yet extraordinarily lovely.

Every pair of eyes in the room locked onto her at once, brimming with surprise.

When Jiang Youwan saw her, the frost and severity on her face dissolved into delight, melting into a tender smile.

            

“Xiao Jin?”

Youwan’s delight bolstered Jinyi’s confidence. The corners of her mouth lifted higher as she strode through the crowd straight to Youwan’s side and set the bento box on the table in front of her.

Youwan glanced at the bento, then looked back at Jinyi, unable to wait. She made no effort to hide her affection in front of her subordinates. “Hmm? Why is Xiao Jin here? Have you been waiting in the office for a long time?”

            

“Why didn’t you have the assistant tell jiejie?”

“I thought you’d be back soon.” A note of reproach crept into Jinyi’s voice. “I didn’t expect to find out you haven’t even eaten breakfast.”

“Ah, the meeting was too urgent, I didn’t have time. Sorry, not taking good care of my body.” Youwan said in a voice only the two of them could hear: “So, is Xiao Jin here because she’s worried about her jiejie?”

            

Jinyi’s heart skipped. “Mhm.”

Youwan chuckled softly. “So sweet. Xiao Jin has really grown up—knows how to care for her girlfriend.”

The word “girlfriend” was spoken at normal volume. Everyone in the room could hear it—not to mention a certain someone who was paying far too much attention to the two of them.

            

So cloying. Even the illustrious President Jiang got this mushy during the honeymoon phase?

A few female colleagues in the audience wore fond, indulgent smiles, whispering among themselves that President Jiang was truly impressive—the Second Miss used to be so wild and disobedient, yet she’d been molded into someone so considerate.

Considerate was good. Everyone had witnessed the Second Miss throw the entire company into chaos. They all knew that as long as the Second Miss and President Jiang weren’t at odds, they’d be fine. The whole company would be fine.

            

So no one in the room had any objection to the two of them taking up meeting time for their sweet display.

Except…

Lu Jing stared fixedly at the pair up front, jealousy flooding her head. Her fists clenched under the table, veins popping along her knuckles.

            

It was as if she could feel the jealousy in someone’s gaze boring a hole through her back. Jinyi opened the bento box, and the aroma of food filled the solemn, dignified meeting room. She said in a low voice, “Let me feed jiejie.”

“Mm.” Youwan accepted a mouthful from Jinyi, swallowed composedly, then addressed the room in a cool voice: “The meeting continues.”

The meeting proceeded. Youwan worked while accepting Jinyi’s feeding, not the least bit awkward, not the least bit distracted.

            

The employees in the back row who had also skipped breakfast for this meeting: “…”

Who would have thought—the usually meticulous and decisive President Jiang had this side to her as well.

Doting on her girlfriend to this degree.

            

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The meal finished, but the meeting had to continue. Jinyi found it too boring, so she returned to Youwan’s office to play on her phone. She played and played until she fell asleep. When she woke again half an hour later, she cracked her eyes open and saw Youwan standing beside her, taking off her suit jacket to drape it over her.

Jinyi gave a small murmur and opened her eyes fully, starting to sit up.

“Did jiejie wake you up?”

            

Jinyi shook her head. “No…”

“Are you done?”

“Mhm.” Youwan looked down at her from above, smiled, then sat directly on her lap, arms looping around her neck. “I’m so tired…”

            

Jinyi tilted her head up to look at her. “Jiejie works so hard.”

“So Xiao Jin needs to recharge me.” Youwan nuzzled the top of Jinyi’s head with her chin, stroking her cheek the way one might pet a small animal, with extraordinary tenderness. “I was very happy today. It feels so good to be kept in Xiao Jin’s heart.”

“I always keep you in my heart.” Jinyi pointed at the bag next to the desk. “There’s dessert too. Does jiejie want some?”

            

Youwan’s eyes curved in a smile, but the look she gave was the kind that seemed ready to devour a person whole. “Later,” she said.

…

The desk was too cluttered. Jinyi went to wash her hands, then was summoned by Youwan into the rest room. Over ten minutes passed before the two of them emerged.

            

Youwan had changed into a fresh set of clothes. The partially eaten dessert sat quietly on the desk. Jinyi looked at it and flushed red. Youwan took several bites in a row before noticing that Jinyi hadn’t had any. Hmm… she must have already eaten earlier and gotten tired of it, right?

Oh, and there was the fact that her hands were shaking too much to hold a fork, which was mortifying.

Caught, Jinyi wanted to sink into the floor. In a cloying voice, she hurried to explain: “You’re not allowed to say anything about me! I’ll recover soon, I’m not—I’m not incapable…!”

            

“Ah, our Xiao Jin isn’t incapable.” Youwan played along, then scooped up a spoonful of cake and held it to her lips, murmuring, “Our Xiao Jin just needs jiejie to feed her when she’s bullying jiejie, and still needs jiejie to feed her after she’s finished bullying jiejie. That’s all.”

Jinyi: “…”

Needing her girlfriend to coax her, needing her girlfriend to feed her, needing to sleep with her girlfriend, and when her hands were too sore—still needing her girlfriend to feed her dessert.

            

The fact that Jiang Youwan doted on Jiang Jinyi without limit had been common knowledge among everyone in her orbit for years.

Five years ago, a Maybach could often be seen parked at the gate of Luo City No. 1 High School. The license plate number was Jiang Jinyi’s birthday.

The person who came to pick her up wasn’t a driver or a nanny. It was her jiejie.

            

Back then, many of her classmates found Jiang Youwan beautiful but also found her a little frightening.

Even though Youwan was gentle to everyone, she gave off an aura that kept people at a distance of a thousand miles.

The only person who didn’t feel that distance was Jiang Jinyi.

            

Only with Jinyi was she genuinely, truly gentle.

Because Jinyi had a jiejie like that, fewer and fewer people dared to set their sights on her or pursue an early romance.

Of course, there were always the bold ones. Jinyi usually had a standard line ready: “My family doesn’t allow me to date. If you really want to, go ask my jiejie. If she agrees, then I agree too.”

            

“Great! When can you bring your jiejie? I’ll talk to her—I’m sure she’ll agree!”

Jinyi was unfazed. “Oh, you’re very confident, huh…”

“Of course! No matter how many obstacles there are, I won’t be afraid!”

            

Jinyi nodded and told the person to follow her after school. When they reached the school gate, she spotted Youwan’s car parked on the road beside it and quickened her pace with a happy spring in her step.

The two of them stood by the car. Youwan stepped out, smiling warmly at Jinyi, and asked, “Is this classmate a new friend of yours?”

The person greeted her politely: “Hi, jiejie!”

            

Youwan smiled as well. “Hello.”

Jinyi shook her head. “No, she wants to date me and wants to ask if you agree.”

In the next second, that classmate watched Youwan’s gaze shift toward her. The smile vanished from Youwan’s face. Her brow furrowed, her expression turning deadly serious.

            

She went rigid all over. Steeling herself, she recited the lines she’d rehearsed: “Hi, jiejie. I like your meimei. I want to date her. I promise I won’t let it affect her studies—I’ll study hard alongside her and get into the same university!”

“After that, I’ll take good care of her. I won’t let her hands get hurt, won’t let her suffer. I’ll take good care of her and our children. I’ll protect her for the rest of her life!”

Jinyi couldn’t bear to listen to any more of this cloying speech and stepped off to the side.

            

“You want to be with her?” Youwan asked.

It was an ordinary question, but coming from Youwan’s mouth it carried overwhelming pressure, enough to make anyone break into a cold sweat. “Yeah…”

“You’ve fantasized about having children with her?” Youwan’s tone hardened by more than a few degrees.

            

The person gave an awkward laugh. “Right, right, haha. Even though I’m only an A-class alpha, Xiao Jin is an SS-class omega, so our kid would be at least S-class, which is good enough. Ideally a boy, but a girl would be fine too—or one of each, haha…”

After asking, Youwan narrowed her eyes, seemingly weighing the sincerity of the answer. The atmosphere between the two of them grew strange and suffocating. The person’s skin crawled. Only Jinyi—the one being confessed to—stood off to the side like nothing was happening, occasionally waving at friends passing by.

“Jiejie, do you agree?” After a long moment, the person asked.

            

Youwan drew a deep breath. Her tone was absolute, brooking no argument: “I’m sorry. I don’t agree.”

“W-why?” Though frightened, the person couldn’t help asking.

“First, Xiao Jin is too young to date. Second, you should know our Jiang family—Xiao Jin has everything she could ever want. Can you provide that? No, you cannot. If Xiao Jin married you, she’d only be suffering. Third, Xiao Jin’s health is poor. She cannot have children. Don’t even think about it.”

            

“If you dare bother her again, if you harbor any delusions about her, I will use every means at my disposal to drive you out of Jiang City. Do you understand?”

Youwan stared at her, her tone growing more savage with every word, as if one more syllable from the girl would make Youwan flay her alive on the spot.

The person stood frozen, lips trembling. “I-I’m sorry. I won’t dare again…”

            

With that, she turned and bolted, vanishing without a trace.

Youwan gave a cold snort, then turned with an entirely different expression. “Xiao Jin, let’s go home.”

“Ah, you’re done? What a hassle. Let’s go home—home to play with Xiao Yu!”

            

Like most kids with pets, the first thing Jinyi wanted to do after school every day was go home. The itch in her heart could only be cured by scooping up Xiao Yu and giving her a thorough petting.

Watching her act as if nothing had happened, completely unbothered, Youwan asked, “Was I too fierce just now?”

“How else would you make her scared?”

            

Youwan smiled. “Was Xiao Jin frightened?”

“No. It’s not like you were being fierce to me.”

That was good. She’d almost lost control just now—Youwan had genuinely been afraid of frightening Xiao Jin as well.

            

The car doors had just shut when someone suddenly came running up to the front of the car. She knocked on the door, and Jinyi opened it. Huo Qi slid in as naturally as if she belonged there. Jinyi asked, “What are you doing?”

“Just wanted to tell you something.” Huo Qi was carrying two cups of milk tea. She handed one to Jinyi offhandedly—already with a straw poked through. Jinyi took it but didn’t drink. “What is it?”

“In a few days we’re going on that school outing, right? I found out they’re arranging double rooms. How about you and me share one?”

            

Huo Qi complained, “I’m not close with anyone in my class. They’re always gossiping behind my back about how I dress too revealingly, how I’m always seducing men. I don’t want to room with them. You’re the only one who understands me.”

Jinyi frowned. Huo Qi, seeing her reaction, thought she was resisting, and asked what was wrong. Jinyi said with distaste: “This crappy school. My mom has donated so much money—how can they be stingy enough not to even spring for single rooms for an outing? Seriously cheap.”

Huo Qi: “…Just tell me yes or no. We grew up together—I could be naked in front of you and it wouldn’t mean a thing. How free and easy is that?”

            

Jinyi startled and cut her off immediately: “No being naked! I’m not rooming with you!”

“Oh come on, I was joking! No being naked, no being naked—it’s settled, we’re sharing a room.” Huo Qi didn’t give Jinyi a chance to refuse. She pushed the door open and hopped out. “See you tomorrow.”

Watching her retreating figure, Jinyi sighed and raised the milk tea in her hand to take a sip. Before her lips even touched the straw, Youwan suddenly called out to her.

            

“Mm, what is it?”

Youwan took out a drink that had been sitting in the car, poked a straw through the seal for her, and handed it over. “This is strawberry milk jelly. Xiao Jin told jiejie this morning that she wanted to drink this.”

Oh—Jinyi remembered now. She recalled what she’d wanted to drink. She immediately shoved the milk tea Huo Qi had given her into Youwan’s hand, blurted out “You drink that one,” and cradled the strawberry milk jelly, taking a long, deep sip.

            

Youwan set the other milk tea aside. The car started up. She asked suddenly: “The school is organizing an outing. Why didn’t Xiao Jin tell me?”

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The author has something to say:

I heard some people asking me to give an update schedule—I’m really sorry. My backlog of chapters has run out completely now. I post as soon as I finish writing, so I can’t guarantee a fixed update time.

            

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