After Transmigrating into a Ridiculous Alpha, I Saved My Aloof Omega Wife (GL, ABO) - Chapter 6

Just as Jiang Muyan was excitedly punching the air, the door to her house suddenly swung open. She turned to see a familiar figure walking in behind the butler.

Slightly lowered lashes, soft and fine black hair, those beautiful eyes lifting slightly, Jiang Muyan froze in an instant.

She hadn’t realized the butler and Cheng Jianli had been watching her battle wits with the air for quite some time outside. Instinctively, she blurted out, “Wife? What are you doing here?”

Cheng Jianli’s eyelids twitched at those two words: “…”

Butler: “…Young Miss, this is Teacher Cheng, here to tutor you.”

Tutoring?

Cheng Jianli was going to tutor her?

Butler: “Madam instructed you to—”

Jiang Muyan, already overwhelmed with excitement, didn’t hear the butler and jumped off the sofa instead. “My mom hired you? We met yesterday in the equipment room, do you remember me?”

Cheng Jianli replied, “Vaguely.”

Though hearing “wife” had certainly jogged her memory.

Jiang Muyan brightened instantly. “How did you know where I live? Did you want to contact me after seeing me yesterday? I should’ve gone to Class 2 to find you today…”

Cheng Jianli’s reaction was far more subdued. Their brief encounter yesterday didn’t seem to have left much of an impression. She only frowned slightly. “I’m here to tutor you.”

At this, a blush immediately spread across Jiang Muyan’s cheeks.

Cheng Jianli hadn’t forgotten her! Her ultra-cool actions yesterday must have left a good impression on her wife!

“Come in and sit first. We can talk slowly.” Jiang Muyan pulled Cheng Jianli toward the sofa.

Cheng Jianli shifted uncomfortably. “Aren’t there any adults at home?”

“You want to see my parents?” Jiang Muyan’s train of thought took an odd turn as she answered shyly, “Isn’t that a bit too soon?”

Cheng Jianli: “…”

The butler finally interjected, “Madam and the chairman have gone to the company. They likely won’t be back for a few hours.”

“Then let’s start with the tutoring,” Cheng Jianli said bluntly, disliking wasted time. She glanced up at Jiang Muyan. “Your room or the living room?”

Jiang Muyan’s face flushed instantly. “M-my room…”

She truly hadn’t expected her tutor to be Cheng Jianli. Racking her not-so-spacious brain, she realized that the absurd list of demands she’d made no male teachers, no older tutors, and mastery of all subjects could only be met by Cheng Jianli.

In this ABO novel, Cheng Jianli was the only one who fit.

Upstairs was Jiang Muyan’s room. Cheng Jianli paused before the expensive white carpet. “Should I take off my slippers?”

“No need. Treat this place like your own home, no need to be too formal.” Jiang Muyan couldn’t contain her excitement.

Her wife was personally tutoring her, what kind of dream was this?!

Jiang Muyan was practically floating in a sea of pink bubbles.

“Oh, did you forget my name?” Jiang Muyan added. “Today on the field, someone brought you water that was actually me.”

Cheng Jianli thought for a few seconds before replying, “She didn’t look like you.”

“No, that was my friend. I asked her to bring you water. My name is Jiang Muyan.”

Cheng Jianli had no choice but to introduce herself as well. “Mm. I’m Cheng Jianli.”

“Cheng Jianli is such a nice name, I really, really like it. Please sit down, what would you like to drink? I can have the housekeeper prepare something for you,” Jiang Muyan began bustling about again. “There’s freshly squeezed juice downstairs, I’ll go get you some…”

Cheng Jianli found Jiang Muyan’s enthusiasm rather uncomfortable. She had no choice but to grab Jiang Muyan’s sleeve: “No need, let’s start with the tutoring first. We’ve already wasted too much time downstairs.” Cheng Jianli pulled out a science exam paper from her bag. “Finish this in 150 minutes, then I’ll check it.”

Jiang Muyan: “???”

Seeing her frozen in place, Cheng Jianli said, “Is the time too long? Then make it 120 minutes.”

Before Jiang Muyan could prepare herself, Cheng Jianli had already pressed her down in front of the desk. Looking up at the wall clock, Cheng Jianli said, “It’s 7:30 now. Give me the paper by 9:30.”

Jiang Muyan hadn’t expected Cheng Jianli to take tutoring so seriously. She cautiously called out, “Wife…”

The corner of Cheng Jianli’s mouth twitched: “Have you presented yet?”

“Presented?” In the ABO world, this term did exist. Jiang Muyan felt a little shy hearing it, why was her wife asking such a personal question? She wasn’t prepared at all.

“No, but the medical report says I’ll present as an alpha in the future. Are you happy about that? Hehe…”

Cheng Jianli: “…”

What was wrong with this person? They’d only met once, yet she acted as if they were already close.

“If you call me that without having presented yet, I’ll consider it harassment,” Cheng Jianli said expressionlessly. “Don’t call me that.”

Most people would feel at least somewhat ashamed upon hearing such words, but Jiang Muyan not only didn’t she even asked worriedly, “Then what should I call you?”

“Do you have to call me something?” Cheng Jianli frowned.

Jiang Muyan nodded: “Yeah, if I don’t call you something, I feel really uncomfortable.”

Cheng Jianli: “…Do the problems.”

This was truly Cheng Jianli’s first time meeting someone as overly familiar as Jiang Muyan. In just a few minutes, Jiang Muyan had already laid out her entire family background.

“You can call me Jiang Muyan, or just Muyan. I also have a nickname, do you want to know?” Jiang Muyan said cheerfully. “My nickname is—”

“Stop talking. The time you spend talking could be used to solve at least three problems.” Although Cheng Jianli generally disliked people with no sense of boundaries, for some reason, Jiang Muyan’s blunt personality didn’t particularly bother her.

Most of the middle schoolers she’d tutored before had been afraid of her, and Cheng Jianli had always maintained a cool demeanor after all, her only task was to improve their grades.

But someone as talkative as Jiang Muyan was a first.

Maybe it was because Jiang Muyan had helped her yesterday, or perhaps it was because Jiang Muyan seemed kind and pure-hearted, but Cheng Jianli didn’t dislike her, she just found the chatter a bit loud.

“Focus on the problems,” Cheng Jianli reminded her again.

“But I don’t know how to do them.”

“If you don’t know, skip them.”

Jiang Muyan nodded, quietly looked at the paper for a while, then flipped past the first page. Then she flipped past the second page. After some thought, she finally flipped past the last page too…

Cheng Jianli: “…”

“Do you really not know how to do a single problem?” Cheng Jianli’s brows furrowed tightly. “I can’t teach a student like you.”

After speaking, Cheng Jianli tried to take the test paper from Jiang Muyan’s hands. Jiang Muyan was terrified, thinking her wife was abandoning her.

She quickly shielded the paper: “I—I can do it! I just can’t solve the problems without checking the book.”

Cheng Jianli paused, choosing her words carefully: “You’re in your final year of high school. If you still need to constantly refer to the textbook while solving problems, it’ll be hard to improve.”

Jiang Muyan looked up at Cheng Jianli’s face, her expression was serious and stern, as if she genuinely cared.

She had seen this look before. Back when she was sick, Cheng Jianli had dropped everything at her company and research institute to return home, frowning slightly just like this, staying up all night to take care of her.

Jiang Muyan swallowed hard and tugged at Cheng Jianli’s sleeve, looking up pitifully: “Then… can you teach me, wifey…”

“Stop calling me that,” Cheng Jianli interrupted, exasperated. “We. Are. Classmates.”

Did this girl even understand what that word meant?!

“I don’t know what else to call you.”

Cheng Jianli: “Do you have to call me anything?”

Jiang Muyan was devastated: “I just wanted to say your name…”

Cheng Jianli: “…”

“The middle schoolers I tutored used to call me ‘Teacher Cheng’,” Cheng Jianli said. “You can call me that too, if you want. Just not… that other word.”

Teacher… Cheng?

The title was a bit too stimulating. It might be fun to use in certain… happy moments, but calling her that in real life gave Jiang Muyan the illusion of being disciplined by Cheng Jianli.

Jiang Muyan straightened up: “Okay, Teacher Cheng.”

Her body reacted faster than her brain, the words were already out.

Cheng Jianli studied her for a moment before sitting beside her. “Which part don’t you understand? I’ll explain.”

Jiang Muyan quickly pointed to a problem about variable-speed circular motion: “This one.”

Cheng Jianli lowered her head to examine the question while Jiang Muyan stared blankly at her. Cheng Jianli’s skin was pale, so pale it seemed to glow faintly under the desk lamp. Her eyelashes were thick and long, and her collarbones were strikingly beautiful.

Today, she had tied her hair into a high ponytail, accidentally revealing a patch of skin at the nape of her neck. Jiang Muyan noticed something that looked like a band-aid stuck there.

Without thinking, Jiang Muyan touched her own neck, clean with nothing there.

“Teacher Cheng, can I ask you something?” Jiang Muyan said.

“If it’s related to studying, go ahead.”

Jiang Muyan: “…”

Cheng Jianli solved the problem, explaining it in the simplest terms. Once she finished, Jiang Muyan continued staring at the pale skin on the back of her neck.

Cheng Jianli: “Did you understand?”

Jiang Muyan: “Yes.”

Cheng Jianli: “Are you sure?”

Jiang Muyan: “I’m sure.”

“Then explain it back to me.” It was a habit from her middle school tutoring days. Cheng Jianli watched her calmly.

Jiang Muyan blushed under her gaze. Taking the pen, she stammered: “At the highest point, the ball has no applied force, so gravity equals centripetal force… then you calculate the critical velocity…”

She rambled through the explanation, expecting Cheng Jianli to be displeased. Instead, after a long silence, Cheng Jianli nodded. “Mm. Not bad.”

Jiang Muyan: “?”

She hurriedly added: “But I think I messed up some parts…”

“There are correct parts too,” Cheng Jianli handed the test paper back to her. “Correct answers deserve praise. You’re very smart—you learn things quickly.”

Jiang Muyan’s face flushed completely red. She rarely heard people call her smart. Back when she hung out with friends, they’d always say she was the type to get scammed and still help count the money.

Embarrassed, she mumbled, “Hehe, thanks, wifey—I mean, thanks, Teacher Cheng.”

“Do you really want me to tutor you?” Cheng Jianli studied her. “I called your mom today, and I get the feeling you don’t actually want extra lessons. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have made those demands.”

Jiang Muyan: “? What did my mom tell you?”

“For example…” Cheng Jianli recalled the phone call and smiled. “‘The flower of the motherland’?”

“That was just nonsense!” Jiang Muyan thought, why does my mom blab about everything?! “…But now that you’re tutoring me, I think it’s, haha, actually pretty nice.”

That was the truth.

“Pretty nice?”

“Yeah, you were so gentle just now when explaining the problems.”

Cheng Jianli had never imagined the word “gentle” being used to describe her. She lowered her gaze and, after a long pause, said, “I have a question for you too.”

“Go ahead,” Jiang Muyan perked up. “Ask me anything, I’ll hold nothing back.”

Cheng Jianli: “Yesterday in the equipment room was that really the first time we met?”

Jiang Muyan was too familiar with her, so much so that it felt unnatural.

Jiang Muyan froze.

What was she supposed to say? Actually, you were my wife in another life, and I came to this world to save you?

No way, Cheng Jianli had already told her not to call her “wifey.”

“…O-Of course,” Jiang Muyan said. “And I’m transferring to your class in a few days.”

Cheng Jianli replied calmly, “Mhm. And then?”

“And then…” Jiang Muyan didn’t know how to continue. Suddenly, her eyes caught the “band-aid” on the back of Cheng Jianli’s neck again, and her thoughts immediately derailed. “And then I wanted to ask, what’s this thing on your neck? It smells nice, like mangoes.”