Deceased Mother's Inheritance - Chapter 23
Chapter 23: Proposing to the “Stepmom”
In the evening, Meng Zhengyue took her for a walk by the river. When Yun Zhixue looked at the night view of the river, her eyes often fell on the couples on the bank. They hugged each other intimately, and some would talk for a bit before their lips met.
They were walking back. Yun Zhixue took two steps, then quickly walked over and held Meng Zhengyue’s hand. Meng Zhengyue turned her head to look at her. Yun Zhixue’s hands were hot from nervousness. She lowered her head to look at their shadows on the ground. Remembering Meng Zhengyue’s words, “Don’t always look down,” she raised her head and smiled at Meng Zhengyue.
Meng Zhengyue didn’t let go of her hand. They were just like any other couple.
As soon as they got home, Yun Zhixue couldn’t wait to take the roses out of the box and put them in a vase.
Instantly, her whole room was filled with a wonderful scent.
Mommy gave me roses.
Roses mean “I love you.”
She definitely never gave any to Yun Jing.
Yun Zhixue leaned close to the roses and took a deep sniff.
She was so happy.
Yun Zhixue came downstairs and cut two more slices of cake. Meng Zhengyue was about to remind her not to eat too much, but the cake was already at her lips.
Meng Zhengyue lowered her head and ate it. She sighed, thinking that it was okay to eat a little. The little girl was already thin, so it was fine to indulge.
Some white cream was on the corner of her lips. Meng Zhengyue stuck out her tongue and licked it off.
Yun Zhixue really wanted to lean in and kiss her. But seeing Meng Zhengyue reach for a napkin, she thought, “If I could put a little cream on Mommy’s finger and put it in my mouth, and bite her finger, that would be so good.”
“Mommy, can you feed me?” Yun Zhixue asked softly.
Meng Zhengyue picked up another spoon and scooped up some cream to feed her. Yun Zhixue wanted to say that this wasn’t what she meant, but the cream in her mouth was indeed sweeter than when she ate it herself. Just as she was about to make another request to Meng Zhengyue, she heard a car sound in the yard. Yun Zhixue’s eyebrows furrowed in alert.
Meng Zhengyue whispered, “Your mom is back.”
Yun Jing came in and first scanned the house. Her eyes finally fell on the table. Meng Zhengyue didn’t look at her. She was looking at the TV that was playing commercials.
Yun Jing had the illusion that she was an outsider. “What, am I not welcome?”
Yun Zhixue said in her heart: “Yes, yes, you’re very self-aware.”
Yun Jing said, “Cut me a slice of cake.”
Yun Zhixue cut a piece for her. “Mom, this is the one Mommy bought for me.” She licked her lips. “You can taste the cake Mommy bought for me.”
“Did she have to add so many adjectives?”
Yun Jing tasted it briefly.
The TV commercial was over. Meng Zhengyue chatted with Yun Jing. “You said before that you’d get her a visa and take her abroad…”
“Don’t!” Yun Zhixue’s voice suddenly rose, startling Meng Zhengyue. Yun Zhixue’s reaction was instinctive. After startling her, she suppressed her voice. “…I don’t want to go abroad.”
Meng Zhengyue wanted to take her to Japan to see the outside world after the college entrance exam. Yun Zhixue said softly, “I don’t really want to go abroad. It’s fine to stay in the country.”
Meng Zhengyue instantly understood why Yun Zhixue had been so nervous and anxious during that time. She softened her tone. “Okay, whatever my darling wants. Where do you want to go?”
Yun Zhixue didn’t have a concept. “I’ll go wherever you go.”
Meng Zhengyue asked Yun Jing, “Do you have time?”
“No.”
“Okay, then it’s just the two of us.”
Yun Jing seemed to have a tendency to stay tonight. After one episode of the idol drama, Meng Zhengyue turned off the TV and prepared to go upstairs. Yun Jing and she were one after another. Meng Zhengyue looked at Yun Zhixue, who was staring at her with burning eyes.
Meng Zhengyue had just done that with Yun Zhixue. Sleeping with Yun Jing now… she couldn’t handle being a sandwich.
She said, “Let’s sleep separately.”
“Huh?” Yun Jing frowned and said, “I finally made time to be with you. You’re not going to cherish this treatment?”
“Are you an emperor? Do you need me to sleep with you?” Meng Zhengyue didn’t like her tone. “Think about your daughter. How anxious she was last time. Be a good mom.”
Yun Jing’s eyes were suspicious. “Meng Zhengyue, you’re acting weird.”
Meng Zhengyue crossed her arms. “I’m weird?” She laughed, her tone cold when she questioned her. “Did I settle the score with you?”
Comparing the two, Yun Jing was more flustered. Meng Zhengyue said, “From the beginning, you said your daughter was a minor, then I saw she was eighteen. Then she called me ‘Mommy.’ Because of the word ‘Mommy,’ I’ve been running around for your daughter. Now you’re blaming me for something. Yun Jing, you’ve gone too far.”
“To be honest, if it weren’t for your daughter leaving me…” She swallowed the word “relics.” Meng Zhengyue said, “If it weren’t for your daughter being so cute, I like her a lot. Yun Jing, we can’t get past this.”
Yun Jing said, “Forget it.”
“You say ‘forget it,'” Meng Zhengyue’s tone was icy.
“Stop fighting, stop fighting.” Yun Zhixue squeezed in between the two. Yun Jing was forced to step back. Her lower back hit the railing. She supported her waist a little. Yun Zhixue said softly, “Mom. Why don’t you let Mommy sleep with me? You’ve finally come back. Get some rest.”
With someone mediating, Yun Jing’s high pressure from being questioned was reduced a lot. She looked deeply at her daughter. She was finally being useful. Meng Zhengyue also squinted and looked at Yun Zhixue. Why did she feel that Yun Zhixue was a little scheming? Yun Jing didn’t know what they had done. If she did…
Yun Zhixue turned her head and looked at Meng Zhengyue. “Mommy, why don’t you sleep here… My bed is very big. I changed the sheets today. They’re very soft.”
Even more scheming.
Yun Zhixue pulled Meng Zhengyue into her room. She walked in step by step, her head held up high.
After closing the door, Yun Zhixue immediately went into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She had eaten cream, so she brushed very carefully. She even blew on her palm to smell it.
Meng Zhengyue was looking at her bookshelf. There was a diary among a row of books. She was about to take it down, but Yun Zhixue was sitting obediently on the bed, waiting for her. Her cheeks were pink, and the way she looked at her was exactly like a puppy.
Meng Zhengyue retracted her hand and deliberately sat on the edge of the bed, a finger teasing her chin. She lowered her voice to scare her. “Honey, your mom is right next door. Aren’t you afraid she’ll find out?”
Yun Zhixue said, “I’ll be very quiet so she doesn’t hear me.”
“Did you lock the door?”
Yun Zhixue got off the bed to close the door.
Actually, she didn’t really want to close the door, because… because it would be good if Yun Jing saw. If her mom knew who Meng Zhengyue liked and who the rightful partner was, she could then be openly affectionate with Meng Zhengyue.
She knelt back on the bed, tilted her head back, and opened her mouth to Meng Zhengyue. Meng Zhengyue’s finger landed on those glistening red lips. Her itchy finger flicked it.
“What am I doing?”
“Be a good girl. Close your eyes.”
Meng Zhengyue put her finger in. She teased Yun Zhixue’s lips and tongue. Yun Zhixue trembled slightly. She supported herself with her hands on the bed. She was indeed following their agreement to not make a sound, but… Meng Zhengyue didn’t want to follow it. She deliberately played a trick, making Yun Zhixue tremble uncontrollably. Yun Zhixue could only hold her wrist, her eyes moist, looking at her pitifully as if begging for mercy.
“Mommy… I can’t hold it in. I want to make a sound…”
So pitiful.
…
Yun Jing was clearly in a bad mood these past few days.
In the morning, when Yun Zhixue was grinding coffee for Meng Zhengyue, Yun Jing asked her to grind one for her too.
In the past, Yun Zhixue would have avoided her without hesitation. Now, she actively went up to her and stared. She could see that Yun Jing was angry because of Meng Zhengyue’s rejection.
She hoped that Yun Jing would be self-aware, realize that she was getting old and was no longer good enough, and break up with Meng Zhengyue on her own.
Yun Zhixue was a little happy.
She tried not to show it. She handed over the coffee and curiously glanced at her computer screen. The screen was showing Meng Zhengyue, but Meng Zhengyue was still asleep upstairs.
Meng Zhengyue was sitting at her desk working, her palm supporting her chin. Then a girl came in and talked to her. Then she lowered her head and looked at her phone. Her red lips curled into a smile as she replied to a message.
Yun Jing’s eyebrows furrowed. She was suspicious of this message. Unfortunately, the camera couldn’t record the screen. The more she couldn’t see, the more frustrated she became.
She noticed Yun Zhixue’s gaze. When she looked at Yun Zhixue, she put her anger on Yun Zhixue.
Yun Zhixue’s heart rate suddenly accelerated, but her tone became calm. “You’re monitoring Meng Zhengyue.”
Yun Jing had bribed someone in Meng Zhengyue’s studio to get the surveillance footage. She didn’t need to explain this to Yun Zhixue. She said, “It’s her duty as my lover.”
Yun Zhixue looked at her in shock.
At the same time, a terrifying thought popped into her head: “Does that mean she can see me… touching Meng Zhengyue?”
“Could she?”
“Are there cameras in the house?”
Yun Jing didn’t pay much attention to her, so she probably wouldn’t have cameras in the villa. But, what if…
Maybe it was because she had done something so out of line, her thoughts were not pure. She was a little worried that her mother would find out. If she were discovered… Meng Zhengyue would also know that she had secretly touched her mouth and secretly tried to kiss her lips…
Yun Zhixue’s heart pounded so hard that her chest hurt.
But, in this anxiety, she also gained a strange sense of happiness.
This way, she could watch Meng Zhengyue all the time. If she missed her, she could just watch her. She would know wherever she went.
“So this is how it works.” Yun Zhixue suddenly understood.
Yun Jing fast-forwarded the video. Her daughter’s face was on the screen. Her daughter was watching even more seriously than she was. She looked like a pervert with a covetous gaze, her eyes dazed.
“Mommy looks so good and so cute and so beautiful when she’s working. I really want to go to her studio and see it. It would be great if I could put my own eyes in her studio.”
“You’ve been spending a lot of time with her recently,” Yun Jing’s fingertips lightly tapped the table.
“Mm.”
“Do you know who she’s close to?”
Yun Zhixue hesitated for a few seconds and then said, “There’s someone named Baomei.”
Yun Jing frowned.
“They talk very intimately. Baomei keeps bothering her,” Yun Zhixue said. She hoped Yun Jing was smart enough to go and get rid of Baomei quickly.
“Anyone else?” Yun Jing asked.
Because Yun Jing’s expression was so shocked, Yun Zhixue couldn’t guess what Yun Jing was thinking. She was silent for a while. Yun Jing’s tone was unfriendly. “Tell me what you know.”
Yun Zhixue continued, “There’s another one…”
“Mm?”
“She calls her ‘darling.’ They’re very close.”
“Darling?” Yun Jing frowned. Her gaze became sharp.
Not sure what her reasoning was, Yun Zhixue actually included herself in the category of her lovers. “The last time she took me to get a haircut… someone said that ‘darling’ was like her little girlfriend.”
Yun Jing’s expression was very ugly.
Yun Zhixue secretly observed Yun Jing. Hostility appeared on Yun Jing’s face. She knew what this meant. Yun Jing had taken “darling” as a formidable opponent. Yun Zhixue was secretly pleased. “Stupid Yun Jing.”
Yun Zhixue continued, “But it also seemed like a joke, Mom. I’ll help you look into it more.”
“Little girlfriend?”
“Yes. She seems to like her a lot.”
“Has she brought her home before?” Yun Jing asked.
This question stumped Yun Zhixue, but she chose to lie. “She probably can’t. Otherwise, she’d be found out.”
“Mom, can you send me this video? I’ll help you look at it.”
In the morning, Meng Zhengyue rubbed her sore neck as she went downstairs—last night, she had been used as a human pillow by Yun Zhixue again. She stretched her stiff shoulders and neck. As soon as she sat down at the table, she looked at the big and small person across from her, and her heart suddenly trembled. She had a strange sense of horror.
But before she could think about it, she was interrupted by Yun Zhixue’s sweet smile.
“Forget it.”
“If I can’t figure it out, I won’t think about it.”
…
Meng Zhengyue was busy with work on weekdays, so she only told Yun Zhixue not to wait for her and to go play with her friends.
Yun Zhixue was very obedient and went out with her friends during the day.
When Meng Zhengyue came back at night, Yun Zhixue was washing her face. Her cheeks were flushed, and her skin was clearly sunburned. There was a fine red rash under the light.
Meng Zhengyue was shocked. “Honey, what did you do? I told you to play with your friends, not to go mining. Your friend’s house isn’t in Africa.”
Yun Zhixue covered her face. She was a little embarrassed and said, “I just went out to have fun.”
Meng Zhengyue felt sorry for her. She thought of having her stay home for a few days, but she was afraid she would be bored. She went upstairs and took out her repair serum. She crooked her finger at her, and Yun Zhixue obediently ran over and knelt on the sofa.
Meng Zhengyue put the serum in her palm and gently applied it to her face. “When you go out to play, remember to find a place without sun.”
“Mm-hm, I know, Mommy.”
She felt Meng Zhengyue’s fingers gently on her face. It felt so comfortable… and she loved it so much. She couldn’t help but close her eyes. She loved this so much.