A Cannon-Fodder Omega’s Self-Saving Guide - Chapter 18

The reason she made this request was because, when she opened the next part of the plot, she suddenly saw a modification: her house would lose power tonight.

Ever since learning that the consciousness of the author who created this world was still influencing it, Xia Weichen would open the information she shared with the system whenever she had time. The information updated very quickly. Almost every time she opened it, she would see various traces of changes, large and small.

After the car accident, Xia Weichen had always been very afraid of staying alone in the dark. Even when she slept by herself at night, she had to leave a small nightlight on in the room. However, this only applied when she was alone. If someone was with her, it could greatly ease her fear.

In the revised plot, the power outage was most likely arranged by the original author guiding this world to create an opportunity for the female lead, Lin Langruo, to rebuild her relationship with Xia Weichen. Excessive fear could always make people do things even they themselves could not imagine. If things followed the original plot, on the night of the power outage, Lin Langruo would, under the author’s painstaking guidance, directly break into the villa and comfort Xia Weichen, who had fallen into fear. This would make the Xia Weichen in the plot once again develop dependence on Lin Langruo.

That kind of thing was absolutely impossible!

“Miss Xia, won’t you be worried about staying in the same room as an Alpha?” Yin Yin did not catch any unnecessary emotion in Xia Weichen’s eyes, and she once again avoided Xia Weichen’s expectant gaze.

“I’m not worried, not worried. In any case, once we go to Yichuan, we’ll still have to sleep in the same room.” Xia Weichen waved her hands repeatedly, her tone very relaxed. “Just treat it as practice in advance.”

…Did this kind of thing need practice in advance?

When they returned home, the entire villa had already fallen into darkness. This did not exceed Xia Weichen’s expectations. After all, this was how the plot had been arranged.

“Host, that outside author really went too far. They didn’t even leave you a generator.” Even the system could not bear to watch and could not help whispering by Xia Weichen’s ear. “Host, do your best. Don’t let that outside author succeed.”

Looking at the pitch-black villa, Xia Weichen let out a heavy sigh and held Yin Yin’s hand.

“Sister, I’m afraid of the dark.” Xia Weichen’s voice trembled slightly. “Can Sister take me inside?”

The car accident that day had happened at night. Her car had been rear-ended by a truck and overturned into a dark ditch beside a suburban main road. The truck driver had fled after causing the accident, and very few other vehicles passed along that road. She did not know how long she had stayed there in pain and darkness. When she woke up, she was already lying in the hospital.

That car accident had left marks on her that could never be erased, both physically and psychologically. Although the driver responsible had quickly been arrested and sentenced, and the whole matter seemed to have settled, Xia Weichen always felt that something was wrong somewhere. But she could not say what it was.

“Was it because of that car accident?” Yin Yin heard that Xia Weichen’s voice had changed and could not help asking.

Xia Weichen nodded and gripped Yin Yin’s hand tightly.

Hearing the sound of the car engine, Auntie Lu quickly came out with a flashlight, her face full of concern.

“Miss, why did you only come back now? The house has lost power. Miss, how…”

“It’s fine. Sister Yin will stay with me.” Xia Weichen pressed her lips together. “Auntie Lu, can you help me bring a set of daily necessities to Sister Yin’s room? I’ll sleep with Sister Yin tonight.”

Hearing this, Auntie Lu was startled. “Miss and Miss Yin together?”

Although she knew about Xia Weichen and Yin Yin’s relationship, she did not approve of an Alpha and Omega living together before they were formally married. However, because her young miss’s previous chosen partner, Lin Langruo, had cheated, she thought her young miss was probably not in a good emotional state. Because of that, she had not stopped her young miss from bringing back an Alpha of unknown origin.

“Sister Yin will stay with me, Auntie Lu. I don’t want to be alone. I’m scared.”

Xia Weichen’s voice carried a hint of pleading. Auntie Lu met her gaze and immediately softened. She knew her young miss understood propriety and probably would not do anything too excessive.

Auntie Lu escorted her young miss and Yin Yin upstairs with the flashlight. After watching her young miss and Yin Yin enter the room, she turned and had the kitchen prepare another dinner, then sent it up to Xia Weichen and Yin Yin.

“Sister, I’m scared…”

A trembling voice came from inside the room, like a frightened little animal. It sounded as if it could easily stir someone’s protective instincts.

“Miss, I brought dinner.” Auntie Lu knocked on the door.

In the darkness, Yin Yin appeared at the doorway. “Thank you, Auntie Lu.”

Yin Yin carried the tray inside. Although she could feel that she had turned every light source in her room to its brightest setting, Xia Weichen’s fear still had not faded. She was curled up in one corner of the bed, as if wanting to roll herself into a ball.

“Miss Xia, eat something first.” Yin Yin walked toward Xia Weichen. “You can’t take the medicine later on an empty stomach.”

Xia Weichen nodded.

Her hands were twisted together. The nightmare of that night flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern. Her body trembled uncontrollably, and her heart was badly panicked. Even though the system tried its best to comfort her by her side, it had no effect.

“Si-Sister.” Xia Weichen felt as if her teeth were chattering. “Can you… hold my hand?”

Yin Yin understood Xia Weichen’s fear at this moment. She sat beside the bed and held Xia Weichen’s hand.

Xia Weichen’s hand was as cold as ice.

“I will stay by Miss Xia’s side.” Yin Yin knew that what Xia Weichen needed most right now was companionship. Companionship could dispel the fear lingering in Xia Weichen’s heart.

Under her contact, Xia Weichen’s breathing gradually returned to calm, and her curled-up body slowly relaxed.

The warm light from the desk lamp fell on Xia Weichen’s face. A few faint glimmers reflected in her eyes. Because of her fright, watery ripples filled the depths of her gaze.

Xia Weichen held Yin Yin’s hand in return and slowly sat up, taking a deep breath. “Sister, thank you.”

“This is what I should do, Miss Xia. Have you always been like this? Before, how did you…”

“Does Sister want to know how I got through it before?” Xia Weichen guessed Yin Yin’s question. “This is the first time I’ve encountered a power outage. If Sister wants to laugh at me, then laugh. I’m definitely going to cling to Sister and won’t be able to leave.”

Even she found it laughable when she said it out loud. But right now, she truly could not laugh. It was like how many people could talk about the things they feared in a self-mocking tone, but when the thing they feared was truly placed before them, no matter how easily they had joked about it before, they would be unable to remain calm.

“No.” Yin Yin slowly shook her head. “I don’t mean to laugh at you. Everyone has something they fear.”

Xia Weichen squeezed Yin Yin’s fingers and took the chance to ask, “Then does Sister have anything you’re afraid of?”

“I probably haven’t found anything for now.”

Yin Yin’s voice returned to its distant coolness. Her gaze glanced toward the direction of Drooping Willows in Cold Mist, but she quickly withdrew it. She brought over the snow pear congee Auntie Lu had cooked. Since it had been covered with a lid, the congee was still warm.

“Come, open your mouth.”

This was an angle Xia Weichen truly had not expected.

Perhaps because she was too shocked, she instinctively opened her mouth and allowed Yin Yin to feed the semi-thick congee into her mouth. The snow pear congee was still Auntie Lu’s usual cooking, but eating it herself and being fed by someone else were different.

Xia Weichen felt as if she were being treated like a baby. She had just been about to say she could eat by herself, but the sound of points being added by her ear dispelled that thought.

This power outage had given her quite a lot of bonus points. It had instead become a blessing in disguise.

Just as Yin Yin fed her the last bite of congee, Xia Weichen suddenly sensed something. Not far away, a burst of noise sounded, clearly out of place in the current silence.

So it was finally coming?

The golden ball clearly sensed the abnormality too. It bounced on Xia Weichen’s shoulder and gave a reminder: “Host, Lin Langruo is coming.”

The sound of that engine belonged to the Maserati Lin Langruo liked driving. It was also the birthday gift Xia Weichen’s mother had given Lin Langruo on her eighteenth birthday.

Sensing Xia Weichen’s abnormality, Yin Yin set the bowl and utensils aside. At that moment, she heard urgent knocking from downstairs.

“Open the door! Let me in! Don’t you know Chenchen is afraid of the dark?”

Lin Langruo’s voice almost pierced through the entire villa. At the same time, Xia Weichen’s face turned deathly pale.

Although the creator remotely manipulating this world had opened a convenient path for Lin Langruo so she could appear here, this world still had its own closed-loop logic. That meant one of the servants in this villa had been mixed in by Lin Langruo. That person had let Lin Langruo in.

It seemed she needed to thoroughly investigate the backgrounds of the servants here.

“Oh, isn’t this Miss Lin?” Lin Langruo’s knocking was so loud that it naturally startled Auntie Lu. Auntie Lu went out to greet her. Knowing of Lin Langruo’s betrayal of Xia Weichen, she sneered. “One doesn’t visit a temple without a reason. What brings you here today?”

Lin Langruo recognized Auntie Lu, the personal servant who had raised Xia Weichen and the confidante of Xia family head Xia Qiuling. Although she had been choked full of anger the moment the door opened, she could only endure it. “Auntie Lu, I came to find Chenchen. Chenchen is afraid of the dark. When the power goes out, it’s better for someone to stay with her.”

“Don’t even mention that. Even if someone is staying with her, it doesn’t need to be an honored guest like you. You should go back and accompany that new Omega you found. Our young miss can’t afford you!”

Auntie Lu had a bold personality, and each retort left Lin Langruo speechless. Hearing it, Xia Weichen could not help laughing in her heart, but on her face, she still maintained the panic and unease she should be showing.

“Auntie Lu, it isn’t right for you to say that.” For the sake of keeping up appearances, Lin Langruo could only swallow her anger and force a smile. “I never did anything to wrong Chenchen at all. After Chenchen’s car accident, she was left with aftereffects and often has hallucinations. When she says I cheated and such, that’s completely groundless. I’ve been with the Xia family for so many years. Don’t you know what kind of person I am?”

Hearing Lin Langruo’s shameless lies and her twisting black into white sentence by sentence, Xia Weichen was thoroughly angered into laughter this time. She held Yin Yin’s hand and wanted to go downstairs to confront Lin Langruo face to face, but Yin Yin stopped her.

Yin Yin pointed at her head.

“Miss Xia, don’t forget the doctor’s instructions. You can’t get too worked up.” Yin Yin’s fingertips gently brushed across Xia Weichen’s forehead, and she sighed. “If Miss Xia wants to take revenge on Lin Langruo, you first need to ensure your own safety.”

There was a hint of warning in Yin Yin’s words. Xia Weichen did not dare move and could only sit obediently.

“It’s fine. Let her stay a little longer. Someone will take her away.” Seeing that Xia Weichen had calmed down, Yin Yin placed both hands on Xia Weichen’s shoulders and met her gaze. At this moment, Yin Yin gave her an extremely dangerous feeling. But that danger was not aimed at her. Instead, it seemed to turn into a shell, protecting her tightly within it. “Miss Xia dislikes her. I won’t let her stay in front of Miss Xia for long.”