The True Record of a Flirty Omega's Failed Balancing Act - Chapter 33

Chapter 33

◎Just stop arguing with me when you have a fever.◎

“Hey, what were you and Auntie talking about just now at home? Why did you stop talking as soon as I got here?” Seeing that they had reached a traffic light, You Zhuoqing asked her again.

At this moment, Ning Chanyue was loosely holding the steering wheel. Hearing You Zhuoqing’s words, she lowered her eyes, opened the car’s built-in music app, and randomly played a song.

The floating song instantly filled the car, covering the end of You Zhuoqing’s words.

What else could she and her mother be talking about? Of course, they were talking about her… and Xu Guiyi.

In short, her mother, who had always been very good to her these past few days, had uncharacteristically… disapproved after hearing her confess about her and Xu Guiyi.

Thinking of this, Ning Chanyue’s grip on the steering wheel tightened involuntarily.

“Hey, what are you thinking about?” As if she saw that she wasn’t responding, You Zhuoqing poked Ning Chanyue’s arm with her fingertip. But in the next second, the feel of the skin made Ning Chanyue’s arm reflexively shrink inward.

It wasn’t because of repulsion, but because… it was just too hot.

So when she looked back, Ning Chanyue’s brows were clearly furrowed. She changed the subject and asked, “Your fingers are so hot. Are you running a fever again?”

“Are you worried about me, Ningning?”

You Zhuoqing didn’t seem to feel her discomfort. Hearing this, she smiled and leaned in a little. A wave of heat came with her. Ning Chanyue seemed to feel the surrounding temperature instantly rise by a few degrees.

Fortunately, the traffic light turned from red to green at this moment. Ning Chanyue used this as an excuse to push You Zhuoqing away, stepped on the gas, and said, “You’re running a fever like this, and you still insisted on coming to her house with me.”

“Of course. I can tell what’s more important,” You Zhuoqing didn’t seem to hear the slight sarcasm in Ning Chanyue’s tone. She nodded candidly and then said in a bewildered tone, “I’m not like some people who give up on you because of a little setback. Back then, my family was so chaotic, but when I found out you were gone, the first thing I did was look for you, wasn’t it?”

When this was mentioned, Ning Chanyue’s expression stiffened. She suddenly spoke and gently interrupted You Zhuoqing, saying, “Stop talking.”

That was the only thing she had ever done to let You Zhuoqing down. You Zhuoqing had never been on guard against her. So back then, to escape You Zhuoqing’s surveillance, she collected evidence of her faking being an alpha. While You Zhuoqing was out, she leaked that information to her sister, who had always had a subtle relationship with You Zhuoqing. You Zhuoqing’s sister then contacted the media and exposed the scandal that caused a national sensation at the time.

In return, when a large number of media outlets swarmed in, her sister had someone help her escape from that big manor amidst the chaos.

Although the people around You Zhuoqing had been telling You Zhuoqing all these years that she was the one who exposed the matter, You Zhuoqing seemed to be completely unwilling to believe it.

Because You Zhuoqing had never complained about her betraying her. This… didn’t quite fit her style of not being able to keep secrets.

“Why won’t you let me talk about it?” You Zhuoqing frowned. But perhaps because she had been alone with Ning Chanyue for the past few days, she was in a good mood, or perhaps because her fever had made her too weak to think. After a while, she smoothed out her brows, gave a soft hum, and then said, “But I still found you in the end, didn’t I?”

Although when she said this, You Zhuoqing’s throat was already hoarse from the fever.

But Ning Chanyue didn’t pay attention to her anymore. Before long, she parked the car at the entrance of the community and said, “We’re here.”

“What’s that smell?”

The stench from the gutter outside the community made the always-pampered You Zhuoqing instantly frown. But after complaining, she still put her hand on the car door, obviously preparing to get out.

“Come back.” Ning Chanyue pursed her lips and forcefully pulled You Zhuoqing back. Normally, You Zhuoqing would have held her ground, but today, she was easily pulled back by Ning Chanyue. When her head hit the backrest, it made a “thud” sound.

“Hiss…”

You Zhuoqing clutched the back of her head in pain. At this moment, she was probably not only dizzy from the fever in her forehead, but also in pain in most of her head.

Ning Chanyue didn’t show much concern for her. She continued, “Didn’t we agree just now? If you don’t follow me upstairs, I’ll agree to let you stay in the room next to mine at the hotel when we go to the set… Are you going back on your word?”

“But what if she’s at home and she marks you again?”

You Zhuoqing’s wild sense of crisis made Ning Chanyue’s temples throb. She glanced at You Zhuoqing and said, “…If I don’t come out in half an hour, you can come up and find me, okay?”

You Zhuoqing wanted to shake her head, but she must have thought of something. She shook her head halfway, then her eyes rolled around, and she smiled cunningly, saying, “Okay.”

So Ning Chanyue got out of the car like this.

But before she could walk to the entrance of the community, she suddenly turned her head. She opened the window halfway, and then… pressed a button, locking the car door.

Interrupting You Zhuoqing’s cunning plan just now.

As expected, You Zhuoqing, who was smiling at her when Ning Chanyue turned back, had her smile freeze when she saw Ning Chanyue’s actions. She lowered her head and tried to pry open the car door handle. A few seconds later, when she looked up again, her expression had changed. She seemed to want to call out to Ning Chanyue, but after looking around, she found that Ning Chanyue was already gone.

…That’s right. At this moment, Ning Chanyue had already entered the old community, the cool stairwell, and after getting the key from Grandma Zhou next door, she once again stepped into the familiar-to-the-point-of-being-unfamiliar room.

It was also a room that was empty except for her.

She entered the hallway and looked down, only to find that her slippers were still neatly placed next to Xu Guiyi’s slippers.

They were exactly the same as when she left two days ago.

But Ning Chanyue only had a backpack and couldn’t take away so many things. Of course, maybe it was because she didn’t want to take them away. After seeing the slippers, she just paused for a moment and then walked deeper into the room.

She stepped into the bedroom and opened the closet door. The clothes of the two of them were still intertwined and stacked together. She remembered that in the first few days of living together, they were still consciously separating their clothes in the closet, but at some point, these clothes became intertwined with each other.

And now, Ning Chanyue was picking and separating her clothes one by one, making them leave this closet.

But as she put the clothes into the bag, Ning Chanyue’s eyes gradually darkened.

Ning Chanyue didn’t have many clothes left here. Within two minutes, she had put all of them into her bag. But the moment she closed the closet, the wind rushed out, carrying the strong scent of pheromones from the closet, and poured it all into Ning Chanyue’s nose.

Ning Chanyue’s movements stiffened. Then, she couldn’t help but take a deep breath, and then another, as if only in this way could she fill her empty body.

If she couldn’t take Xu Guiyi with her, could she take this scent?

At the moment she closed the closet door, Ning Chanyue actually thought this.

Although soon, Ning Chanyue realized how absurd her thoughts were at this moment.

Why did she seem to have emotionally gotten through the gut-wrenching pain from yesterday, but physically, she was becoming more and more attached to Xu Guiyi’s pheromones?

Ning Chanyue pursed her lips. She stiffly left the bedroom and walked to the bathroom, picking up the toothbrush and towel that were a pair with Xu Guiyi’s. After seeing a few more of her clothes in the basin next to the washing machine, she put them into her bag as well.

Just like that, no matter how reluctant she was, and no matter how slow her movements were, when her backpack was so full that she couldn’t fit anything else, she finally realized that she had to leave.

After another ten-odd minutes, Ning Chanyue slowly closed the door, and the only thing that responded to her was the muffled echo in the stairwell.

…

When she opened the car door again, Ning Chanyue subconsciously looked at You Zhuoqing next to her first.

But perhaps it was the fever, or perhaps it was too much fatigue, You Zhuoqing, uncharacteristically, didn’t have her usual tension and had fallen asleep leaning against the car seat.

…But since You Zhuoqing was being quiet for once, Ning Chanyue didn’t want to wake her up. She just got into the driver’s seat by herself.

But perhaps she felt the push back from the car starting. Not long after, You Zhuoqing opened her eyes.

Her eyelids were so hot that they had become triple-layered. Her gaze was a little hazy as she looked at Ning Chanyue next to her.

But after two seconds, after she saw Ning Chanyue clearly, she forced herself to sit up straight and said with her lips, which were even hotter than before, “You came out of Xu Guiyi’s place… you didn’t see her, did you?”

“No.”

“Let me see your bag… You didn’t take any of her things, did you, like that shirt?”

Even though she had a fever, You Zhuoqing was still as annoying as ever. She propped herself up and leaned over to reach for Ning Chanyue’s bag.

But soon, Ning Chanyue, who had heard You Zhuoqing’s words, frowned, let go of the steering wheel with her left hand, and hit You Zhuoqing’s hand, which was holding the bag.

You Zhuoqing hadn’t held it too securely, and after being slapped, the bag fell heavily to the floor again.

But it was at this moment that the car behind them passed by, and Ning Chanyue, not paying attention, almost hit the car in front of them.

“Oh my god.” Ning Chanyue slammed on the brakes, just barely avoiding the car in front of her.

“We almost crashed,” after making sure they were safe, Ning Chanyue glared at You Zhuoqing and said, “I’m still driving. It’s dangerous to argue with you. Why don’t you just go back to sleep?”

But You Zhuoqing obviously still wanted to take the bag. No, maybe she saw what had just happened. She reluctantly pulled her hand back and said, “…Okay, fine. Anyway, I’ll have to check it again when we pack tonight. Don’t take any of her things with you.”

…But when they packed tonight, You Zhuoqing really did get sick and was lying in bed taking medicine. But there were so many beds in this room, she wouldn’t lie in any of them except the one in Ning Chanyue’s small bedroom.

But at this moment, Ning Chanyue didn’t have time to worry about her. She was packing her luggage. Two suitcases were wide open in the living room, surrounded by a lot of clothes that she was about to put in them.

Before long, her mother, who had just been asking You Zhuoqing about her fever, walked out of the kitchen again. She was holding a heavy black plastic bag and handed it to Ning Chanyue, saying, “Ningning, you said you liked spicy diced rabbit a few days ago. I made some for you this afternoon. You can eat it on the plane. I sealed this one well. When you’re tired from filming, you can eat this whenever you want.”

Ning Chanyue took the bag and opened it. It wasn’t “some” at all. It was five heavy bags.

But luckily, there was still some space in Ning Chanyue’s suitcase. She tried her best to stuff them in, and they all fit.

But after giving Ning Chanyue the spicy diced rabbit, her mother seemed to have something else to say. She only saw her squat down and hesitate for a long time, but she still said, “Ningning, I know you like that… Xu Guiyi girl. But you must think it through… do you understand?”

Ning Chanyue lowered her head and folded her clothes one by one, putting them into the suitcase. After a long time, she said, “…I will.”

She remembered that in the morning, after her mother heard her story, she told Ning Chanyue from her own experience that she, too, had eloped with an alpha who was completely different in status from her when she was young, and it ended in a dismal failure.

Afterward, she returned to the village in disgrace and was hastily married off. But a few years later, she became a widow again and raised her sisters by herself.

If this had been two days ago, she would have said to her mother with certainty that she and Xu Guiyi would not be like that.

But now, she couldn’t bring herself to say it for a long time.