The True Record of a Flirty Omega's Failed Balancing Act - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

◎Why don’t we sit together?◎

After she finished packing her luggage, Ning Chanyue went back to the bedroom.

But as soon as she entered the bedroom, Ning Chanyue saw You Zhuoqing still sleeping soundly on her bed. She pursed her lips, approached You Zhuoqing, and reached out her hand towards her.

But judging by the movement of her hand, she probably intended to wake You Zhuoqing up with a slap, but before her hand fully landed, she seemed to have thought of something. Her hand paused, then changed course and touched You Zhuoqing’s forehead.

Although her forehead wasn’t as scary as it was in the afternoon, it was still terribly hot.

After just a simple touch, Ning Chanyue put her hand down.

But perhaps feeling the touch on her forehead, You Zhuoqing groaned groggily and woke up slowly. She seemed to be a little feverishly confused, thinking that Ning Chanyue was still touching her forehead. Her hand reached for her forehead, probably wanting to touch Ning Chanyue’s hand, but it was in vain.

Then she heard her mumble, “Ningning…”

Seeing that she was awake, Ning Chanyue simply said to her directly, “Get down and sleep on another bed.”

Hearing this, You Zhuoqing opened her eyes slightly, paused for a few seconds, and then said, “Can’t I stay?”

How could she still argue with her when she had a fever?

So Ning Chanyue’s lips twitched. She said, “Then go to another bedroom or sleep on the floor.”

As soon as she finished speaking, You Zhuoqing slowly closed her eyes. Ning Chanyue thought You Zhuoqing had passed out again, but unexpectedly, she slightly nodded and said, “Okay.”

…She didn’t argue with her?

This You Zhuoqing seemed unfamiliar to Ning Chanyue. Ning Chanyue stared at her with some caution. But You Zhuoqing didn’t lie to her, because right after, she slowly crawled off the bed and squatted back in the corner of the bed from yesterday.

The moonlight filtered through the gauze window and fell on the corner where You Zhuoqing was squatting, falling on her skin that was still feverish.

“Cough, cough… cough, cough.”

Not long after getting out of bed, You Zhuoqing coughed like this again.

After the first cough, a few seconds later, perhaps on purpose, or perhaps she was really uncomfortable, she coughed two more times. Then she looked up at Ning Chanyue and said with a barely audible voice, “I’m coughing, Ningning.”

But Ning Chanyue paused and still said, “If you’re coughing, go take some medicine.”

After all, telling her was useless.

“But I took all the medicine I was supposed to take an hour ago. It’s not good to take too much medicine, right? Cough, cough.”

“Then go to the hospital,” but after Ning Chanyue said this, she paused and added, “However, our flight is early tomorrow morning. Going back and forth to the hospital will take up most of the night. If you don’t rest well, you might get even sicker.”

Ning Chanyue gave You Zhuoqing the choice. But these words didn’t seem to please You Zhuoqing. She didn’t say anything for a long time, only coughing occasionally. Seeing that You Zhuoqing didn’t respond, Ning Chanyue turned over and closed her eyes, trying to fall asleep.

But the coughing beside her was still incessant. You Zhuoqing seemed to be trying hard to suppress it, but the sound was like a mosquito on a summer night, small but still very annoying.

So after more than half an hour, when she heard You Zhuoqing’s increasingly intense coughing, Ning Chanyue finally couldn’t hold back. She grabbed the back of You Zhuoqing’s shirt and said to her, “Get up here.”

She couldn’t be driven away, and it was inconvenient to go to the doctor. So what could she do? She couldn’t really let a sick person sleep under the bed for another night, could she?

“Really?” You Zhuoqing’s eyes, which had been tightly closed just moments ago, suddenly opened. Although she was still verbally asking Ning Chanyue, her body had already stood up, ready to get on the bed.

“…If I wasn’t afraid that you would get a worse fever and hold us up for the flight tomorrow, I wouldn’t bother with you,” It was obvious that she didn’t want to be close to You Zhuoqing. The moment You Zhuoqing got on the bed, Ning Chanyue squeezed herself toward the wall, “There’s a blanket in the closet. Go get it yourself.”

“…Can I hug you?”

After You Zhuoqing got the blanket and lay back down on the bed, she said this softly after a while, just as Ning Chanyue was about to fall asleep.

“…No. Don’t make me kick you off again.” Hearing this, Ning Chanyue struggled to open her eyes, turned around, and glanced at You Zhuoqing, saying this.

A few seconds later, after making sure You Zhuoqing had no intention of reaching out, Ning Chanyue closed her eyes cautiously again. But perhaps she was confused by sleepiness, or for some other reason, she only heard herself mumble, “I don’t want to be on guard against you all the time. I wish you could be more like Xu Guiyi…”

“Why should I be like her?” You Zhuoqing, who had a headache from the fever just moments ago, instantly raised her voice a little and said this as she looked at Ning Chanyue.

“Because I hate you being like this.” Ning Chanyue was woken up by You Zhuoqing several times when she was about to fall asleep. She was really impatient and replied like this.

But this time, it was You Zhuoqing who fell silent.

Perhaps because she was sick, and it was a time when she was being more emotional, You Zhuoqing seemed to have frozen after hearing this. She looked at Ning Chanyue’s back as she lay on the bed, not blinking at all.

That’s right, Ning Chanyue seemed to have her impatience written all over her face now.

But… in fact, Ning Chanyue wasn’t like this towards her at first.

At that time, the two of them were getting along quite well. Although they weren’t very close, they were like ordinary friends. Ning Chanyue would sometimes tell her about her worries.

But when she gradually fell in love with Ning Chanyue and decided to pursue her, Ning Chanyue’s attitude towards her also gradually worsened.

Although Ning Chanyue had never said the specific reason.

But You Zhuoqing herself couldn’t seem to figure it out no matter how hard she tried.

Just like that, as You Zhuoqing thought about it, her gaze towards Ning Chanyue gradually became dark.

What did she mean by being like Xu Guiyi?

But even though You Zhuoqing’s thoughts were swirling at this moment, the only thing that answered her was Ning Chanyue’s quiet and steady breathing.

…

The next day, You Zhuoqing’s fever had subsided a lot. The two of them left the house keys with her mother and then took a plane to the set. The show they were going to film was a costume drama. Ning Chanyue was one of the main characters, while You Zhuoqing’s role wasn’t very heavy; it was just a guest appearance. But her few scenes were scheduled for the first few days of filming, so she came with Ning Chanyue.

For the next few days, Ning Chanyue basically spent all her time on set, leaving early and coming back late. Even when she occasionally ran into You Zhuoqing, she didn’t have much time to talk to her. Without You Zhuoqing’s annoyance, and being busy with filming all day, she was fulfilled and busy, so busy that she didn’t even have time to think about the random thoughts she had before.

However, even though she was busy, everything was going according to plan.

But the problem was that the food on set was extremely greasy. After eating it a few times, her chronic stomach pain acted up again. There was even one time when the pain was so unbearable that she asked the crew for time off to go to the hospital, which delayed the crew’s progress a little.

But the crew was so small that the news reached You Zhuoqing’s ears in less than a day.

That night, when Ning Chanyue returned from the hospital, she saw a few boxes of stomach medicine hanging on the doorknob of her hotel room, with a very light meal and some congee underneath.

The set was in a very remote area, and there wasn’t even a delivery service nearby. She didn’t know where You Zhuoqing found them.

Although she had eaten on the way back and had gotten medicine from the hospital, Ning Chanyue hesitated for a moment and still brought the things You Zhuoqing had left at her door into the hotel room.

The congee was also something Ning Chanyue liked. At that time, while drinking the congee, Ning Chanyue was thinking about thanking You Zhuoqing the next time she saw her.

But in less than a day, Ning Chanyue ran into her.

Which was right now.

Ning Chanyue finished work early tonight. She was on the phone downstairs at the hotel when someone patted her shoulder from behind.

As soon as she turned around, You Zhuoqing, who was standing behind her, said, “Ningning, when I came back at dawn yesterday, I saw you took the things I left at your door.”

But before she could even say anything, You Zhuoqing’s gaze was fixed on her phone, and she pressed, “Are you on the phone with someone? Who is it?”

But at this moment, a voice from the other end of Ning Chanyue’s phone rang out. Her mother called out in Ning Chanyue’s ear, “Xiao You, is that you? How have you been lately?”

Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, You Zhuoqing moved closer to Ning Chanyue and said into the phone, “Hello, Auntie. Ningning and I are both doing very well. Please don’t worry.”

Her mother talked to both of them for a few minutes. The atmosphere was relaxed, but suddenly, the sound of a door closing on the other end of the phone interrupted what her mother was saying.

“Ah, the things I just bought might have been delivered. Chunxi—help me open the door.”

Her mother called out, summoning Yan Chunxi, who was living with her in Ning Chanyue’s house.

That’s right. Ever since Ning Chanyue left, her younger sister Yan Chunxi would go to Ning Chanyue’s house to accompany their mother whenever she didn’t have class.

But there was a reason for this. A week after Ning Chanyue left, her adoptive mother called and said that she knew where their mother was, which made her mother worry for a long time. So Ning Chanyue came up with this plan. After all, with another person to take care of her mother, she could feel more at ease.

But her mother on the other end of the phone called out to Yan Chunxi several times, but she still didn’t get a response.

Her mother had no choice but to move closer to the phone and say to Ning Chanyue, “Sigh, Chunxi is probably playing games again and didn’t hear me. I’ll go open the door. I’ll hang up now and call you back later.”

After Ning Chanyue said goodbye, her mother hung up the phone. But when Ning Chanyue put her phone in her pocket and looked up again, she saw You Zhuoqing in front of her.

She was still there.

You Zhuoqing held up the congee she was holding and said, “I saw that an actor has an RV. I borrowed her RV and made this inside. I was about to bring it up to you, in case your stomach hurts again. The congee is still hot.”

You Zhuoqing had been borrowing other actors’ RVs to cook for her for the past two days?

Ning Chanyue’s eyelashes trembled slightly.

But in the next second, You Zhuoqing said again, “But I haven’t seen you for a long time. Why don’t we go to my room and sit for a while? We can eat together and go over the script since we have scenes together tomorrow.”

As You Zhuoqing’s words fell, Ning Chanyue’s heart, which had been a little moved, sank.

As expected, she hadn’t changed at all.

So Ning Chanyue stared at the congee. She paused for a few seconds and then said with a roundabout way, “The hotel’s rooftop balcony has tables and chairs, and there are very few people there. Why don’t we go there?”