What to Do if You Mess With an Omega? - Chapter 36.2

Ning Hanzhu realized she actually wanted to tear off the other’s blocking patch.

!!!

She was such a pervert.

Smack.

She slapped the back of her own hand hard.

Back then, she must have truly blinded her titanium alloy dog eyes. With such a fair, tender, and vibrant Omega standing before her, she had actually taken her for a Beta.

“What are you doing?”

“Haha, I was swatting a mosquito. There was an annoying one that just flew by.”

“?”

There were mosquitoes in her hover car?

Xu Yuqing eyed her suspiciously for two seconds, then turned sideways. “Give it a try. Driving a hover car is very straightforward and easy to pick up. In the future, when you need to pick up Qianqian, you will not have to rush so much.”

While Xu Yuqing explained the essentials of driving the hover car, Ning Hanzhu had been lost in thought. Now she could only steel herself and proceed. The control panel had a row of buttons in red, green, and blue, scattered about.

Ning Hanzhu had held a license before, and a small hover car was no problem at all. She casually pressed the green button.

The hover car shot forward with a whoosh.

Xu Yuqing nearly tumbled backward from the inertia, but she timely grabbed the person beside her. Ning Hanzhu, caught off guard by the pull, collided right into her.

“Slow down.”

“Which is the slow-down button?”

“The red one.”

Ning Hanzhu slapped the red button. The hover car’s speed finally eased forward. It worked better than emergency braking. She felt lingering fear and could not help flashing Xu Yuqing a silly grin.

Clang—

The hover car jolted violently. Ning Hanzhu’s foot slipped, and her head buried straight into Xu Yuqing’s chest. Xu Yuqing, knocked by her, pressed against the control panel.

“Mm.”

Ning Hanzhu’s nose tip bumped into a soft mass, like a cloud, fragrant and yielding. By the time she realized what it was, she flushed beet red.

Even the red fruit paled in comparison to her face.

Xu Yuqing’s icy voice, devoid of any warmth, rang in her ear. “Com—for—table?”

Of course it was comfortable.

If she had bumped anywhere else, her nose would have suffered.

But Ning Hanzhu dared not say it. The other’s voice was like fifty degrees below zero, transforming into icy blades slicing toward her neck.

Ning Hanzhu did not even dare breathe. She closed her eyes. “Can you hit lightly?”

The hover car, having suffered the accident, slowly came to a stop.

“I told you to drive slower, but you insisted on going so fast. Well, now you have crashed.”

Knock knock knock.

Xu Yuqing sensed someone looking their way. She urged, “Ning Hanzhu, get off me.”

Ning Hanzhu tried to bargain. “Can you avoid hitting the face?”

The next second, her ear was viciously twisted. Xu Yuqing knew how to punish people. After twisting, she even turned it in the opposite direction.

“Ow ow, light—lighter, my ear is going to break.”

Better if it broke.

This naughty thing.

“I will settle the score with you later.”

Xu Yuqing pushed her head away a bit. Her breathing was all messed up now. She took a deep breath, her smile not even on her face yet. The hover car window rolled down, meeting a familiar face.

Hua Ge Lan was also surprised to see Xu Yuqing. Her peripheral vision caught something, and she immediately noticed Ning Hanzhu in the corner of the control panel, pitifully clutching her ear.

A wild Alpha in Xu Yuqing’s hover car.

This was big news.

Her gossiping heart had just flared up.

When Hua Ge Lan’s head was pushed aside by Wen Yuan Shuang behind her. Wen Yuan Shuang looked delighted. “Xu Yuqing, so this is your car. Sorry about that; my wife and I are in a rush to pick up our son, so we drove a bit fast.”

In truth, they had originally followed slowly behind Xu Yuqing’s car. They had not expected Xu Yuqing’s car to suddenly accelerate and shoot ahead midway.

An inexplicable competitive spirit surged in the Alpha.

Hua Ge Lan sped up too. Just as she was determined to overtake Xu Yuqing’s hover car, that speed suddenly dropped.

And then—they collided.

“Are you all right?”

“I am fine.”

Xu Yuqing’s face looked flushed now, her eyes slightly moist, her breathing a bit unsteady. Though she tried hard to conceal it, Wen Yuan Shuang still spotted something amiss upon arrival.

Yo ho!

Her eyes darted, and she soon discovered the pitiful Ning Hanzhu in the corner of the control panel. Wow, a wild Alpha—there was something there.

Xu Yuqing smiled. “It is nothing.”

She blocked the curious gazes of this gossiping couple. “I will have someone list all the damages and send you the bill later. We will be off first.”

With that, the window rolled back up.

Wen Yuan Shuang regretfully patted Hua Ge Lan. “Ah, so petty. What is wrong with letting me see? It would not cost you a piece of flesh.”

Hua Ge Lan’s face darkened. “You want to look at another Alpha right in front of me? Do you think I am dead?”

Wen Yuan Shuang’s expression turned awkward. “Was not that because I did not see anything?”

Hua Ge Lan felt a heart attack coming on; he nearly died of anger from his own wife. “Give up on it. Those two were clearly doing that in the car just now, and we interrupted them. Guess if Xu Yuqing will hold a grudge.”

Wen Yuan Shuang, “…”

Fine, fine; no looking then.

The hover car started again, heading toward the school.

Ning Hanzhu sensed the atmosphere inside the car as deathly silent. She shrank her head, trying to minimize her presence as much as possible—best if Xu Yuqing forgot what had just happened.

Xu Yuqing had calmed down by now. She glanced lightly at the big mushroom playing dead in the corner. Thinking of that person’s hot breath spraying on her chest earlier made her heart burn. The heat had not subsided even now.

“You—”

“I am sorry; it was not on purpose. If you are still angry, you can hit me to vent.”

Ning Hanzhu turned her face slightly, eyes tightly shut. Her trembling lashes betrayed her current anxiety.

Xu Yuqing saw her movements were so practiced it was both laughable and heartbreaking. Her raised hand finally stopped one centimeter from Ning Hanzhu’s face. She patted it.

The warm palm brushed lightly over her cheek, like a dragonfly skimming the water surface, dew sliding off a grass tip— so light it seemed an illusion.

Hm?

Ning Hanzhu secretly opened one eye, then the other.

Xu Yuqing had her back turned, so Ning Hanzhu could not tell if she was angry or not anymore.

“Ning Hanzhu, do you still remember what you promised me when you came to the capital star?”

“I remember.”

The exchange condition for dealing with Ning Ye.

She had promised Xu Yuqing one thing, as long as it did not violate her moral底线 or conscience. But along the way, she had owed Xu Yuqing several favors.

Forget one; even two or three, she would do.

Xu Yuqing turned back and looked at her deeply. “The thing I want you to do: enter the military academy, build your own network of connections, and help me.”

Ning Hanzhu, “!?”

What thing?

She might as well retract her promise.

She would just renege; so what.

By the time the hover car stopped at Ning Qianqian’s school gate, Ning Hanzhu was still contemplating becoming a person who broke her word. Right; it had been a verbal agreement anyway.

“Ah, what a coincidence—we meet again.”

“… Not a coincidence; we are here to pick up our child too.”

While Wen Yuan Shuang spoke to Xu Yuqing, an entire class of little friends marched in formation, stepping in neat unison toward them.

Ning Hanzhu spotted Ning Qianqian from afar. As a transfer student, Ning Qianqian was a bit shorter than her peers and stood in the second row.

Wen Yuan Shuang also saw her own child. Her son was tall and stood out like a crane among the chicks in the group of little friends, though he did not like to smile. “Son.”

Once the students reached the gate, their respective parents led them away one by one. Ning Hanzhu had always arrived last before, when all the other children had already left, so she had no idea there was a dismissal ceremony.

“Qianqian.”

“Sister, pretty sister.”

She came rushing with her backpack bouncing, hugged Ning Hanzhu first, then rubbed against Xu Yuqing, and finally took one of their hands in each of hers.

On the other side, Hua Rui Bo coolly waved to others. But when he saw Ning Qianqian, he could not help calling out to her. “Ning Qianqian, come to my house this Saturday to play. I will have my mom prepare lots of delicious snacks.”

Xu Yuqing raised an eyebrow.

Ning Qianqian tilted her head to look at Ning Hanzhu, then at Xu Yuqing.

Wen Yuan Shuang, on the side, knew her son’s intentions. She had already learned from Hua Rui Bo which little friend had brought a bag of octopus balls and shared one with him.

One had to know that across the entire capital star, only one person could make octopus balls.

Wen Yuan Shuang’s gaze swept over Ning Qianqian and Ning Hanzhu’s faces. Well, well; this big one and little one actually looked quite alike. Plus that “sister” just now, and their relationship became obvious.

“You must be Qianqian. What a pretty little girl.”

“Hello, Auntie.”

Wen Yuan Shuang adored girls; they were simply little caring angels. It was a pity she had given birth to a stinky boy who was particularly cocky, just like Hua Ge Lan.

She squatted down, smiling warmly. “Qianqian is such a good girl. Would you like to come play at Auntie’s house this Saturday? Auntie will make you a bunch of delicious snacks, and other little friends will be there too.”

Xu Yuqing looked at her as if she were a wicked woman abducting children.

“Wen Yuan Shuang, since when do you cook?”

“…”

“Then I will reluctantly taste your cooking too. You do not mind two more people, do you?”

“…”

She minded very much, but what could she do?

Wen Yuan Shuang was so angry she wanted to point at Xu Yuqing’s nose and say absolutely not.

But she had issued the invitation herself. There was no reason to invite the child but not the adults.

Sigh sigh, wait a minute.

What was the relationship between Xu Yuqing and this child?

Wen Yuan Shuang’s gaze could not help shifting between Xu Yuqing and Ning Qianqian, then snapping to Ning Hanzhu. Right.

Indeed, they had a thing.

Well, well, Xu Yuqing, so you have such a day too.

Xu Yuqing nailed it down: they would all visit the Wen family together on Saturday. Ning Hanzhu, as Ning Qianqian’s guardian, had not even gotten a word in edgewise before these two women settled the matter in a few sentences.

When had she agreed to go along?

It made them seem like a family of three.

The two little friends, upon receiving the adults’ approval, were overjoyed.

They could eat and play; it was simply paradise.

Wen Yuan Shuang looked at her own disappointing son. Unable to deal with him, she viciously pinched Hua Rui Bo’s arm. “Look at your fine son.”

Hua Ge Lan said helplessly, “It is just a gathering. Look how worried you are.”

Wen Yuan Shuang, “…”

Xu Yuqing’s gathering.

Was that a simple gathering?