Pair A? No Thanks! [Transmigration] - Chapter 6

Su Tianxue played the video on her phone. She had anticipated this day, so after discussing it with her grandmother, she had asked her grandmother to record a will video, witnessed by neutral third parties, the medical staff.

When the video was recorded, her grandmother’s health was already very poor. A breathing tube was in her nose, and her voice sounded weak when she spoke. The old woman’s hair had long since fallen out due to chemotherapy. She wore a colorful wig, looking especially fashionable, and had even put on makeup, perhaps wanting to leave a beautiful impression.

Su Tianxue had never dared to open and watch this video, believing that as long as she didn’t open it, her grandmother would leave a little slower.

At this moment, it was her first time watching the video, and only then did she realize that when her grandmother recorded it, besides the words they had already agreed upon, she had added a few more sentences.

“Tianxue, don’t blame Grandma for being meddlesome. I hope that after I’m gone, you won’t live alone and that someone can take care of you. I’m not worried about Wanxing; she has a good sister like you and never lacks care. But Tianxue, you are too strong-willed, always on your own since childhood. For all these years, only Grandma has loved you. Now that Grandma is gone, I’m afraid no one will love you.”

“This house, I’m leaving it to you, but Grandma has a small request: I hope you can find a suitable partner, get married, and then bring her back to our home.”

Su Tianxue froze.

Seeing this video, the aunt and uncle jabbered and stirred up trouble for a bit, then came up with a new idea. When they spoke, they no longer had their earlier obnoxious energy, feigning politeness instead: “Tianxue, we are sensible and law-abiding, aren’t we? Your grandma said this house is yours, and we wouldn’t snatch it. We’re not that kind of people! Just now? Just now was all an accident.”

“However, your grandma said you need to get married. So, this matter has to wait until you’re married, right? Therefore, in our opinion, your uncle’s and mine, this house should still be left for us to look after for you before you get married. To manage it on your behalf, right? Once you’re married, we’ll give the house back to you according to this ‘will,’ won’t we?”

Hearing these words, Shi Ning scoffed. She understood these people perfectly; if the house truly fell into their hands, Su Tianxue would never get it back in her lifetime.

Shi Ning looked at Su Tianxue, wondering how she would react.

The nurse, who had been watching silently for a long time, too scared to speak, now worried immensely. She leaned closer and whispered to Shi Ning, “Sister, your girlfriend is like this, you… aren’t you going to help her out?”

Shi Ning let out a confused “Hmm?” and pointed at herself: “Me, a girlfriend?”

The nurse looked at her again and said awkwardly, “Sorry, I misunderstood. You’re right, you’re both Alphas, how could you be a couple?”

Shi Ning: “…Why can’t Alphas be a couple?”

The nurse’s mouth formed a perfect little “O” of surprise.

Shi Ning: “Who told you I’m not a lesbian?”

The nurse’s mouth opened into a perfect little O.

Su Tianxue was contemplating how to solve the problem when she heard two people chattering beside her. She glanced over and saw Shi Ning and the nurse talking idly.

Hearing Shi Ning’s words, Su Tianxue had an idea. She walked over, stood in front of Shi Ning, and asked, “Are you a lesbian?”

Shi Ning was speechless: “Haven’t you just experienced that?”

Su Tianxue: “…Cough.”

She was actually a little nervous.

Su Tianxue: “Are you married?”

Shi Ning: “Are you doing a census? No, satisfied?”

Su Tianxue hummed and then said seriously, “Then are you willing to marry me?”

Hearing this, Shi Ning burst out laughing. She stared at Su Tianxue in disbelief: “Are you proposing to me now just for the house?” Was this still the Su Tianxue who hated her just moments ago?

Su Tianxue nodded: “It’s fine, you can refuse me. I can find someone else.”

“Don’t,” Shi Ning casually grabbed Su Tianxue’s hand. “I didn’t say no.”

Shi Ning: “I thought about it for three seconds.”

Su Tianxue: “And then?”

Shi Ning: “Decided to accept your loving proposal.”

Su Tianxue corrected her: “There’s no love.”

Shi Ning raised an eyebrow: “Maybe there will be.”

Their eyes met, silently challenging each other. The two extreme relatives, abandoned behind them, couldn’t bear the silence and furiously shouted, “No, this doesn’t count!”

“Su Tianxue, you can’t just casually marry someone and be a lesbian, this won’t do!”

Shi Ning: “The law doesn’t prohibit Alphas from marrying Alphas. Sorry, your veto is invalid.” Shi Ning remembered this point very clearly; it was mentioned in the original book’s plot.

The aunt tilted her head, her sharp, narrow eyes darting like knives: “I don’t care! I don’t believe it! Unless you prove that you two are really a couple, truly going to get married, otherwise, I’m telling you, Su Tianxue, we have plenty of time, we’ll come to your doorstep every day and make a fuss. That house, you’ll have to give it to us eventually!”

“Who gave you that confidence?” Shi Ning really couldn’t stand it. “Do you know that the behavior you’re describing can be classified as provoking trouble by gathering crowds, and is punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of up to five years, criminal detention, or public surveillance?”

“Besides, you want us to prove we’re a couple, why don’t you prove you’re a human? I think the only difference between you and a dog is that when a dog poops, its owner picks it up, but you don’t have one.”

The aunt’s face flushed with anger, but Su Tianxue just shook her head and said, “Don’t be like that.”

Shi Ning: ? Can’t even curse her.

Su Tianxue: “I think dogs are a bit cuter than them.”

Understood.

Shi Ning smiled: “Yes, they don’t deserve it.”

The aunt, in her agitation, immediately started cursing their ancestors. Shi Ning picked up her phone to record, and after the relatives finished their tirade, she called the police.

“Hello, Officer? Someone’s cursing at me.”

Aunt: Are you a sore loser?

Shi Ning: “Cursing is illegal, didn’t you know?”

Aunt: “You just called me less cute than a dog!”

Shi Ning feigned innocence: “I didn’t. I just said you weren’t as cute as a dog. Do you want to look in the mirror?”

After a while, police actually arrived to handle the matter.

“Name.”

“Shi Ning.”

“Age.”

“27. Unmarried.”

Su Tianxue looked at Shi Ning’s gaze and thought, This person really did lie in bed.

The young police officer frowned intently upon seeing this: “Miss Shi, are you reporting your personal information to me, or to this Ms. Su? Just speak; why are you staring at someone else?”

Shi Ning: “Both.”

She could just spout nonsense: “Officer, she just proposed to me. I’m excited.”

The police officer sighed helplessly. After explaining the details of the police report and related circumstances, he looked at the recording Shi Ning had prepared, glanced at the hospital’s surveillance footage of the commotion, and decided to take Su Tianxue’s chaotic uncle and aunt back to the station for questioning.

The aunt was now indignant, sticking out her neck: “Officer! I’ve been wronged!!”

The officer’s face changed: “How old are you that you’re calling me ‘uncle’?”

Aunt: Is this double standards?

The officer flipped his recording folder shut and adjusted his body camera: “Anything else?”

The aunt quickly pointed at Shi Ning and said, “This person also cursed at me.”

The officer: “What did she curse you about?”

The aunt: “She said I’m not as cute as a dog!”

The officer: …

Shi Ning showed no weakness: “Officer, I was merely stating a fact, good at using metaphors to describe someone’s appearance. This kind of behavior hasn’t reached the point of being called ‘cursing,’ has it? You can’t just categorize it like that.”

Shi Ning tilted her head: “Woof woof.” Her eyes were innocent. “I really love puppies.”

Could the police officer not see that this person was fanning the flames again? He glared at her helplessly and led the people away. Before leaving, the uncle and aunt were still yelling at the top of their lungs: “I’m telling you, Su Tianxue, I’ll be back!!”

“Your house—ouch!”

The officer pressed the man’s head down: “What are you coming back for? If you keep this up, I’ll make sure you never come back!”

Watching them leave, the farce finally came to an end.

Su Tianxue watched their retreating backs, lost in thought. Suddenly, a cold touch came from her ankle. She looked down and saw Shi Ning squatting on the ground, using a cotton swab dipped in iodine to wipe her ankle.

The iodine touching the spot where the crazy aunt had just scratched her felt a little burning and painful, but also cool, a confusing mix that made Su Tianxue uncomfortable.

She pursed her lips and moved her foot back: “Thank you. But you don’t have to do this.”

Shi Ning said “Oh” and didn’t insist. She stood up: “Can’t help it, I’m just a kind person.”

Su Tianxue turned her head away, not looking at her.

Shi Ning tossed the cotton swab into the medical waste bin and asked, “So, Su Tianxue, that proposal you mentioned just now, was it just a joke?”

Su Tianxue shook her head: “No.” She had thought it through clearly. “If possible, I would like to ask you to marry me.”

Shi Ning leaned against the wall, hands in her pockets: “Why me?”

Su Tianxue looked at her, seeing how she didn’t take anything to heart, and replied, “Because you’re suitable.”

Shi Ning had lived for so long, and it was the first time anyone had told her she was suitable for marriage. Since she entered the dating scene, others would only say that she was destined to be a playgirl, incapable of settling down. She had never even considered settling down.

Now Su Tianxue was actually saying she was suitable.

Shi Ning was curious: “Miss Su, why do you think I’m suitable? Am I good-looking, rich? Or do I have a good personality, gentle and considerate? Or, did you fall in love with me at first sight?”

Su Tianxue replied calmly: “Because you’re wild.”

Shi Ning: “?”

Su Tianxue: “All I need is a fake marriage partner. Miss Shi, your personality, not caring about anything, not taking anything seriously, is perfect. And we are both women, and both Alphas. Even spending a long time together, we won’t be affected by estrus or susceptible.”

Su Tianxue looked into Shi Ning’s eyes: “So, will you marry me?”

Shi Ning looked back at her, thinking how outrageous this person was.

Now it seemed, Su Tianxue wasn’t as boring as she had initially presumed, nor as serious. After all, pulling someone off the street to marry them—you needed a bit of madness to do that.

At the moment, she was also bored. Getting close to Su Tianxue might even allow her to join in on the fun of her sister Su Wanxing’s plotline. Anyway, she had transmigrated, so she didn’t have to deal with cases every day, just be a hands-off CEO, with nothing to do. Getting married, that works, it’s quite interesting.

“Alright,” Shi Ning replied easily. “Let’s go, to the civil affairs bureau right now.”

“Oh, right, you just reported your height and weight. I overheard it. As a courtesy, I’ll tell you mine too. My height is 175cm, my middle finger is 12cm, my weight—”

Su Tianxue didn’t understand, so she studiously asked: “What does finger length have to do with anything?”

When she asked that, Shi Ning remembered that this person said she had never been with a woman.

So, Shi Ning smiled slightly: “If you really want to know, I can let you experience the true knowledge in practice.”

Su Tianxue: “…No need, thank you.”

She understood now.

Su Tianxue turned and left, her back looking graceful. She was the type of slender woman whose aloof nature made her walk as if she came from winter. Other women might sway their hips, but she couldn’t learn it, taking each step with serious precision.

Shi Ning watched her, feeling that these departing steps truly walked into her heart. She thought, Fortunately, I didn’t intervene just now and tell Su Tianxue that by simply proving her so-called uncle and aunt had failed to fulfill their filial duties to their grandmother, she could likely win the lawsuit and strip them of their inheritance rights.

Su Tianxue was still wearing her jacket. She pulled it tighter around her and turned back: “Why are you just standing there?”

“Huh?”

“Let’s go.”

An hour later, the two sat before a civil affairs bureau official.

The official repeatedly confirmed: “You two want to get married? Both Alphas?”

Su Tianxue politely nodded, while Shi Ning, suspicious, asked: “Is there a problem?”

The official: “We actually don’t encourage this type of marriage that offers no benefit to reproduction. I’ve seen both of your genetic reports, and they are both excellent. If you have the desire to contribute to the human reproductive cause and pass on these genes, I think it would be a very meaningful thing.”

Shi Ning: “Marriage itself has no meaning, so why search for meaning in something meaningless?”

And passing on genes, my ass.

With her messed-up genes, if they were truly passed on, the world would have already been destroyed by her. Then the whole world would be full of scum, now that would be fun.

Shi Ning: “One question: can we get married or not?”

The civil affairs bureau official was startled by the impatience and belligerence in the woman’s eyes. The pressure from a top Alpha made him shiver.

He quickly lowered his head: “You can, you can. It’s just that marriages now have a three-month probation period. You can only get the certificate after three months. You two know this, right?”

Shi Ning: “Huh?”

Su Tianxue nodded.

Seeing this, the official took out two forms and handed them to Su Tianxue and Shi Ning to fill out: “Once you’ve filled them out, you can give them to me for registration.” As they wrote, Shi Ning was like an elementary school student copying homework, desperately trying to peek at Su Tianxue’s answers. And Su Tianxue was probably the kind of person she hated most in her school days.

She leaned her body, blocking everything; Shi Ning couldn’t see a single word.

Tch.

She didn’t even care to look.

They submitted the forms, took photos, paid 9.9 yuan, and received a marriage probation certificate.

Walking out, Shi Ning took a deep breath of fresh air.

How wonderful.

She and Su Tianxue had no love, so the marriage hadn’t become a tomb. She was still alive.

“Here,” Su Tianxue walked behind her, handing her a piece of paper. Shi Ning took it, confused, and then realized it was Su Tianxue’s information sheet. The “private homework” she had just tried to peek at but failed.

Shi Ning took the paper, a little stunned.

Su Tianxue’s handwriting, like her person, carried the timeless essence of wind and snow.

Unlike hers, which was all scrawls.

That faint scent of snow was brought by the wind again.

Shi Ning heard Su Tianxue say: “I wrote two copies, leaving one for you.”

She handed all her information, without reservation, into Shi Ning’s hands.

Shi Ning lightly coughed, a little shy: “Su Tianxue, are you flirting with me?”

Su Tianxue frowned: “Of course not, you’re overthinking it.” She explained calmly, “In a while, a committee from the Marriage Happiness Supervision Association should come to investigate. To avoid suspicion, and so we can smoothly pass the marriage probation period, please memorize the information you have and write me a copy according to the template. Thank you.”

Shi Ning chuckled: “You’re welcome. I should be thanking you.”