As a Scummy Omega, I Ran Away with the Baby - Chapter 13
Ring, ring, ring—
The shrill ringtone shattered the silence of the room. Gu Yining’s eyes snapped open, and she pushed herself upright in bed, glancing toward the nightstand.
Her phone.
Almost instinctively, Gu Yining turned to look at Bai Qingqiu, who was sleeping beside her.
As expected, she was awake too.
The woman lay there with a blank expression, displeasure clouding her brows. The sudden movement had tugged the quilt askew, baring most of her smooth, pale shoulder from the loose neckline of her nightdress.
It was never easy for Bai Qingqiu to fall asleep, and now that Gu Yining had disturbed her, of course she was in a foul mood.
This time, Gu Yining was at fault. She deserved the cold look.
With a sheepish smile, Gu Yining whispered an apology, then leaned over to pull the nightdress back up over her shoulder and tuck the quilt snugly around her. Only after that did she grab her phone and slip out of the room to answer the call in the hallway.
“Hello?”
Her voice echoed faintly in the empty corridor.
“Gu Yining! You really know how to stir up trouble. Why didn’t you tell me about your thing with Yin Youyi?” Her agent, Sister Hong, was practically roaring into the phone. “Are you out of your mind?”
Still sluggish from her susceptibility period, Gu Yining’s brain lagged for several seconds.
“Sister Hong… what are you talking about?”
“Open Weibo and check the trending list yourself!” With that, Sister Hong hung up without mercy.
Beep—
Gu Yining stared at the blank screen, stunned by the cold mechanical tone.
Trending list?
Yin Youyi?
Could it be… that kiss from Yin Youyi had been caught by reporters?
Fumbling with her phone, she closed her contacts and tapped into Weibo’s trending page.
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- #GuYining
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- #GuYining YinYouyi
@GossipGirl: 【Breaking scoop! A certain G-surnamed starlet caught passionately kissing a Y-surnamed actress in a back alley! Romance exposed?】#GuYining #YinYouyi
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The photo, snapped from Yin Youyi’s angle, made it look exactly like the two were kissing face to face.
The timing, the angle—it was all too precise to be coincidence. Besides, the side path outside the TV station was usually only accessible to artists. It was late at night—what paparazzi would bother sneaking in just to catch someone clocking out?
【Whoa, huge scandal.】
【Front row, selling melon seeds and soda.】
【Let’s stay rational, wait for clarification.】
【Make way, make way—the Gu-Yin wedding car is here——】
【Ahhh, no way! Yining!】
【So when she said on that livestream recently that she was in love, she meant Yin Youyi???】
【Sorry, who even are these two? Someone give me a summary.】
Fans were giddy, passersby amused to gossip.
But as the one at the center of it all, Gu Yining only felt as if she’d been slapped hard across the face.
So in everyone’s eyes, was she really this easy to toy with? It wasn’t just Bai Qingqiu—even a stranger could use her as a stepping stone? And she hadn’t noticed a thing?
Pathetic. She really was useless.
She shut off her phone and started back toward the room. The central air-conditioning overhead hummed steadily, sending down a constant flow of cool air. Even on a summer night, the temperature indoors wasn’t high.
Goosebumps prickled across her bare arm beneath the thin nightdress.
At the end of the corridor, the door creaked open, and a slender figure draped in a robe stepped out.
“What happened? I thought I heard someone yelling at you?” As soon as Bai Qingqiu spoke, the voice-activated lights along the walls blinked on, flooding the dim corridor with warm yellow light.
The sudden brightness stung Gu Yining’s eyes, so accustomed to the dark, and she blinked.
Backlit, Bai Qingqiu’s features weren’t entirely clear, but the glow framed her in a soft halo. Dreamlike. Gentle. Tangible, yet impossibly out of reach.
A sting pricked Gu Yining’s nose.
Catching her gaze, Bai Qingqiu curved her brows and smiled.
“Why are you standing here? Come back to bed.”
The golden cage, woven from tenderness and lies, opened once more. And like a small bird, wings trembling, Gu Yining knowingly flew back inside.