Giving You Dawn and Dusk (GL) - Chapter 14
Liang Shi didn’t fully recover until she hung up the phone.
She couldn’t even remember how she finally placated Madam Liang and hung up.
However, she did change her ringtone after ending the call.
It was too jarring.
If someone called her while she was asleep, she feared she might be scared to death.
After changing the ringtone, Liang Shi went through the original owner’s phone, flipping through memos, cloud drives, shopping apps, WeChat contacts, and Weibo – she turned everything upside down.
The original owner’s memo only had three entries.
[Run, run far away.]
[Sacrifice. Heh.]
[Who would be a good child? Die.]
These three sentences were very inexplicable and unrelated to each other.
The date of each entry was the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, but the years were different.
The first entry was 2019.
The second was 2020.
The third was 2021.
And it was now 2023.
This phone had been with the original owner for quite some years.
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month was a very strange point in time. Everyone knew it was the Ghost Festival, rumored to be the day when the gates of hell open.
Liang Shi used to not be superstitious about these things, but now that she had transmigrated into a book and encountered a system, her life was already so bizarre. Adding more bizarre things didn’t seem out of the question, right?
Most importantly, it mentioned sacrifice.
Sacrifice for whom? What were the sacrificial items?
She didn’t understand.
The original owner had a particularly bad habit of barely adding notes to people. Her contacts list contained no one besides family, but her SMS inbox had many messages from unknown numbers, such as the one she saw earlier about swapping wives.
She was utterly confused, having no idea who it was.
The original owner’s notes for family members were very brief, mostly just one character.
Only Xu Qingzhu’s was somewhat special; her note was “Zhuzi,” followed by a tree emoji that came with the phone.
From these small details, it seemed the original owner truly liked Xu Qingzhu?
This kind of behavior seemed like something only young girls in a passionate relationship would do.
But if she liked Xu Qingzhu, and was already married to her, why couldn’t it be straightforward?
This was very perplexing.
Maybe because Xu Qingzhu wouldn’t let her touch her?
But Liang Shi remembered that the book explained this part: because Xu Qingzhu suffered from PTSD after being kidnapped, she was very afraid of intimate contact. On their wedding night, the Alpha, who had too much to drink, tried to violate her, leading to Xu Qingzhu being hospitalized on her wedding night.
And that night, the Alpha, fueled by alcohol, had relations with a Beta.
Both were cannon fodder, their names not mentioned in the book.
But the sober Xu Qingzhu found out about it and had never allowed Liang Shi to touch her since.
Their relationship was also very strained.
The original owner tried many methods to trick Xu Qingzhu into bed, but all failed. Finally, on the advice of her troublesome friends, she resorted to pheromone suppression.
At that time, her friend said, an Omega, once marked, would become obedient.
Once they had the first time, they’d beg you for more.
The original owner was promiscuous, with many troublesome friends and hundreds of WeChat groups. Everyone in these groups was flirting.
Some groups consisted only of Alphas, so their conversations were all about Omegas: who went to which club today, what kind of girls they picked up, how they felt, what new tricks they tried in bed, and some even shared lewd pictures.
Liang Shi clicked in and scrolled through many of them, then chose to clear the chat history and exit the groups.
She exited more than a dozen consecutively.
Other groups included Omegas and Betas, where everyone chatted idly, mostly engaging in suggestive banter.
Some Omega avatars were swimwear photos, or maid outfits.
Liang Shi wondered if the national crackdown on pornography and illegal publications hadn’t reached here.
Even in an ABO world, there was still a complete social system in place.
The novel’s author basically set the background based on the real world, so many aspects were similar to Liang Shi’s original world, except for the unique ABO genders and privileges.
And the added rule in this world that civilization was rapidly developing, birth rates were declining, and abortions were prohibited.
Liang Shi frowned and repeated the previous operation.
After exiting more than eighty groups in a row, her WeChat contact list exploded.
A bunch of people came asking what happened, why she suddenly left the groups. She looked at those un-noted contacts and fell into thought.
Should she… delete them too?
Liang Shi thought about it, then decided against it.
However, she did delete those Omegas and Betas that looked like they were just for flirting.
This was her account; she didn’t want to see all that murky stuff.
She even opened her Moments, and it was full of photos almost identical to naked ones.
It was… quite an eyesore.
Liang Shi browsed Weibo again and found that the original owner hadn’t posted anything and her Browse history was quite clean, indicating she didn’t use this app often.
But the situation with the cloud drive was not good.
She had a cloud drive membership, with 1TB of storage, basically filled with short videos.
Liang Shi, out of curiosity, had watched such videos before, but they were all very normal, very aesthetic clips.
But when she clicked on a video saved by the original owner, she almost threw up after seeing just the beginning—it was extremely graphic, full of bl00d and violence.
Liang Shi immediately closed it and, at the same time, cleared everything in the cloud drive.
For a moment, she felt like she was “washing” the account.
Erasing all traces of that person’s life, and then replacing everything with herself.
But she had to continue living her life from now on.
After all this was done, it was already one in the morning. Liang Shi, exhausted to the extreme, lay there but couldn’t fall asleep.
Too many uncertainties in life, and a completely unfamiliar environment kept her highly tense, leading to some insomnia.
She lay there, lost in thought for a long time, and finally, she didn’t know how she fell asleep.
••••
The next morning, she woke up to an empty ward.
She went downstairs to check on Xu Qingzhu, who was still asleep, so Liang Shi went outside the hospital for breakfast.
After eating, she returned to the ward to sleep.
Nurses came and went in the ward, but Liang Shi didn’t notice.
She was too tired and desperately needed rest.
••••
Liang Shi slept for a day and a half, finally regaining her spirits.
She discharged herself and drove the car to the 4S shop to exchange it for a white Porsche.
It was already afternoon when she returned to the hospital.
She went up to the tenth floor, to Xu Qingzhu’s ward. Standing at the door, she heard joyful laughter.
She hesitated whether to go in, but then heard Zhao Xuning behind her say, “If you’re going in, go in. If not, don’t block the way.”
Liang Shi: “…”
She pushed the door open and went in. The laughter in the ward stopped abruptly.
Bai Weiwei rolled her eyes when she saw her, saying sarcastically, “Oh, Miss Liang is here. Aren’t you afraid this place will dirty your shoes?”
Liang Shi didn’t respond, only looked at Xu Qingzhu, asking gently, “Are you feeling better?”
Xu Qingzhu nodded, responding with a cool “Mhm.”
“No time like the present,” Bai Weiwei said. “How about right now? The civil affairs bureau isn’t closed yet. You two should go get your divorce certificate.”
Liang Shi immediately said, “Who said we’re getting a divorce?”
“Miss Liang, if you’re not getting a divorce, then let’s meet in court,” Bai Weiwei stood up and confronted her. “Our Zhuzi isn’t to be trifled with. I’ve asked a lawyer. Even if it’s within the marriage, forcing an Omega into bed and forcibly marking an Omega are illegal.”
Liang Shi: “…”
But that wasn’t done by me.
But who made the original owner commit such sins?
“I had no such intention,” Liang Shi explained.
Bai Weiwei scoffed.
Liang Shi’s phone vibrated slightly. She took it out and saw it was a voice message from Qiu Zimin.
She tapped to convert it to text, but accidentally played it.
Qiu Zimin’s voice filled the ward, “Cangyue Restaurant, 7:30 PM tonight. Don’t be late. Even if you’ve changed your mind, you’ll have to explain it clearly to Zhou Yian yourself. I won’t…”
Liang Shi frantically tried to tap the correct button, finally pressing pause.
But everything that needed to be heard had already been heard.
Everyone in the ward had an unpleasant expression.
Liang Shi immediately said, “Xu Qingzhu, I can explain.”
Unexpectedly, Xu Qingzhu lay down and pulled the covers over herself, her voice very faint, “Please leave. I’m tired.”
Liang Shi: “…”
At this rate, she wouldn’t even get 80 luck points in her next life!