The Little Bookworm Marked Her Ex-aunt - Chapter 10: Like a Dog, Really Annoying

Chapter 10: Like a Dog, Really Annoying

When Ji Shiyi knocked on her own door, Yu Qianyue was curled up on the sofa watching a TV drama.

It was a traditional AO drama where an omega in debt caught the eye of a domineering alpha, starting a life of forceful seizure.

Hearing the doorbell, Yu Qianyue thought it was her food delivery and happily went to open the door to get her cheese fried chicken, but she saw Ji Shiyi’s cold face instead.

Her appetite almost vanished from fright.

Yu Qianyue wondered, “Why did you come back?”

Ji Shiyi naturally took her own pair of slippers from the entrance, walked into the house, and found the suppressant Yu Qianyue always kept stocked in her cabinet.

Yu Qianyue quickly stopped her, “Are you crazy? You injected two vials yesterday!”

Ji Shiyi pulled off her mask, rolled it up, threw it into the trash can, and calmly said, “I have no choice. Look at how high this value has spiked.”

Yu Qianyue opened the monitoring app on her phone.

“Did you go steal a woman?” Yu Qianyue panicked, “Where did you get such a high excitement level?”

Ji Shiyi said, “Didn’t you tell me to find that alpha? I went.”

Yu Qianyue’s eyes lit up, “Problem solved?”

Ji Shiyi shook her head.

She skillfully injected another vial of suppressant, curled up on the sofa, closed her eyes, and endured the familiar pain. After experiencing alpha pheromones, this pain became even harder to bear. Ji Shiyi grabbed the sofa fabric tightly, wrinkling the smooth cotton-linen into long, dense folds.

Yu Qianyue felt heartache watching her and asked, “Didn’t you explain it clearly to that person? They weren’t willing?”

Ji Shiyi frowned, thinking about it made her head throb, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

“Forget it,” she said, “Qianyue, help me scout other alphas in the next few days. Useful ones will do.”

Yu Qianyue handed her a wet wipe, and Ji Shiyi took it, gently wiping the fine sweat on her forehead.

“Ordinary alphas can’t easily solve this problem,” Yu Qianyue analyzed for her, “It’s best to find one with high compatibility, which is hard to come by. You know your situation…”

“Wait, weren’t you abroad yesterday? How did finding an alpha bring you back to the country?” Yu Qianyue sensed something was off.

“I didn’t say that alpha was abroad,” Ji Shiyi threw the wet wipe into the trash can, “You’ve met that person too.”

Yu Qianyue thought for a long time, and a spark flashed in her mind.

“That little girl, Shiyi, from the foster care?”

Ji Shiyi nodded.

Yu Qianyue was amazed, “Her pheromones affected you from so far away?”

Ji Shiyi leaned on the sofa’s cushion and said, “Normally, no. But yesterday she got drunk, her pheromones went out of control, and it made Shiyi a bit frantic, which affected me.”

Yu Qianyue marveled, clicking her tongue twice, “When can you two come to my department for a check-up together? I really want to know what’s going on.”

Ji Shiyi lifted her chin, and Yu Qianyue understood her meaning, got up, and took a bottle of ice water from the fridge. Ji Shiyi twisted the cap, cold air overflowed, and the icy chill slid down her throat but failed to soothe her burning, stinging nerves.

Her voice carried a trace of coldness, “Probably no chance for that.”

Yu Qianyue wondered, “She won’t help you? She seems like a pretty nice person.”

Ji Shiyi thought of Shu Yue’s reason for refusing her, gave a mocking laugh, and said, “Anyway, help me scout other alphas. The recent merger case is important, and Department Six is under restructuring. I don’t want my physical condition to affect the company’s progress.”

Yu Qianyue scolded her, “Workaholic, can you rest for two days? The world won’t stop turning without you, and the Ji family’s business won’t go bankrupt without you either.”

Ji Shiyi held the frosty mineral water bottle, pressed its cold side against her still faintly feverish forehead, looked at Yu Qianyue, and said clearly, “Qianyue, you know me.”

Yu Qianyue faltered under that gaze.

She had seen how Ji Shiyi, as an omega, overcame all opposition to become the head of the Ji family over the years.

Surrounded by wolves, many waited for her to slip up and seize her weaknesses.

If Ji Shiyi’s physical condition became known to the outside world—

“Leave this to me,” Yu Qianyue promised, “I’ll make sure to find you a useful and obedient alpha.”

“But since you went to find Little Shu, didn’t you bring Shiyi back?” Yu Qianyue realized this issue belatedly.

Ji Shiyi felt speechless thinking about her spiritual body.

“She refuses to leave, insists on clinging to someone else. What can I do?”

Yu Qianyue worried, “Wait, Old Ji, you didn’t tell her Shiyi’s real identity, did you?”

Ji Shiyi said, “Hmm, I told her.”

Yu Qianyue felt a headache bigger than two, “What can I say about you? Even if Little Shu looks harmless, she’s still an alpha. Letting her know that’s your spiritual body and leaving it with her—aren’t you afraid of dying too soon?”

“Aren’t you afraid she’ll do something to Shiyi, causing you to—”

“She won’t,” Ji Shiyi placed the empty mineral water bottle on the coffee table, recalled the message she received on the way, with a photo of an old-fashioned back scratcher, a barely noticeable smile flashed in her eyes, and she said firmly, “Qianyue, she won’t.”

“Of course, if she really does something…” A cold cruelty surged in the woman’s usually indifferent eyes.

Yu Qianyue saw her like this and inwardly sighed for that naive little girl, wondering why such a nice girl with special pheromones caught the eye of Ji Shiyi’s spiritual body.

She got swept up in this storm for nothing.

However, for Shu Yue, Ji Shiyi’s sudden appearance was like an unexpected rain outside the weather forecast—it came and went, leaving only a cat named Shiyi (in theory, Shu Yue still wanted to call it that) and nothing else.

She kept waiting for Meng Zhiyu’s call.

Half a month passed, and still no news. She tried to contact Meng Zhiyu to remind her they had unfinished business, but all contact methods were blocked, and she rarely saw Meng Zhiyu at school.

Shu Yue felt like an abruptly shelved project, a half-opened can, unable to do anything but sit in a corner waiting for mold to grow, praying one day the fridge door would open.

Meng Zhiyu could take her out.

She still went to work at Grey Domain, and Chen Mi noticed her distraction, comforting her, “Little Yue, it’s okay. These things pass with time.”

Shu Yue washed the used wine glasses, wiped the inner walls with absorbent paper, nodded, and responded to Chen Mi’s words.

Chen Mi added, “But Meng Zhiyu is really something else. How long has it been since you two broke up, and she’s already announced a new relationship?”

The glass in Shu Yue’s hand nearly slipped.

She looked up, confused.

Chen Mi’s mouth opened slightly, a bit flustered, and said, “You… you didn’t know?”

Shu Yue shook her head, clung to her last bit of reason, placed the glass back on the counter, and asked hoarsely, “Senior, what happened?”

Chen Mi looked at her, sighed, took out her phone, and showed Shu Yue the screen.

#Wen Yiting’s Girlfriend#

#Relationship Exposed#

Shu Yue instantly recognized the person photographed kissing someone on the street—it was indeed Meng Zhiyu.

Wen Yiting was someone even Shu Yue, who rarely followed entertainment gossip, had heard of. Many of the background songs played at Grey Domain were written by her.

Even now, it was the same.

Shu Yue’s mind reeled as if struck, buzzing. She steadied herself on the bar counter and returned the phone to Chen Mi.

“There must be a misunderstanding,” Shu Yue said, “Senior, Zhiyu isn’t that kind of person.”

Chen Mi saw her like this and knew her stubborn streak was acting up again, refusing to turn back until hitting a wall, walking a dead-end road to the end.

As her junior, Chen Mi didn’t want to see her continue like this.

“Here, the address,” after a while, Chen Mi sent Shu Yue the location she had obtained, “Don’t you think it’s a misunderstanding? Then go talk to Meng Zhiyu. She’s filming a variety show with Wen Yiting right now, and this is the guesthouse the crew booked. Don’t tell anyone else, I got this secretly.”

“Senior…” Shu Yue looked at the address on her phone, unsure what to say.

Chen Mi patted her shoulder and said nothing.

That midnight, Shu Yue told Ji Shiyi she had to go out and could only leave Shiyi the cat at home for now. Ji Shiyi replied with an “ok,” and Shu Yue said goodbye to the kitten, buying a midnight train ticket to leave.

She took a high-speed train to the neighboring city, then a bus to the filming location. After a full eight hours, with the bumpy mountain roads nearly shaking her soul apart, Shu Yue finally reached the town where Meng Zhiyu was.

The crew chose this place for a reason.

Shu Yue arrived at dusk, and the entire town was built against the mountains, layered beautifully. A winding river flowed down from the lush peaks, wrapping around the town like a ribbon. The sunset glowed bl00d-red, reflecting in the river and the misty mountains, making everything seem eerie and mysterious.

Guided by Chen Mi’s friend, Shu Yue met Meng Zhiyu.

Meng Zhiyu was in a nanny van getting her makeup done, lazily scrolling her phone. Seeing Shu Yue, she abruptly stopped.

“Everyone, get out,” Meng Zhiyu said.

The van emptied, leaving just the two of them.

Meng Zhiyu spoke first, her expression impatient, “Why are you here?”

Shu Yue had imagined countless reactions from Meng Zhiyu upon meeting, but not this.

Her tone was so matter-of-fact, as if Shu Yue was the one who did something wrong.

Shu Yue struggled to speak, “I never got your call.”

Meng Zhiyu didn’t even look at her, just stared at her phone, seemingly replying to someone, her fingers tapping quickly.

Shu Yue tentatively asked, “Zhiyu, did something happen?”

Meng Zhiyu paused for a moment, put her phone face-down on the vanity, turned to look at her, and smirked mockingly, “Shu Yue, have you forgotten we broke up? Top student, you’ve studied your whole life—don’t you understand what ‘break up’ means?”

The pink eyeshadow at the corners of her eyes was like a sharp knife, stabbing unhesitatingly into Shu Yue’s pupils.

“Shu Yue, can you stop clinging to me? Like a dog, it’s really annoying.”