A Disguised Scum Alpha Marked Her Aloof Ex-Wife - Chapter 38

Zhu Yu had a rare, beautiful dream.

In the past, her dreams were either of falling or of fleeing in panic, occasionally mixed with some strange grand adventure. If she woke and still remembered fragments of the dream, her whole body would feel exhausted.

Zhu Yu hated dreaming, especially from the perspective of when she was little.

But this time, stepping onto the soft snowfield, she knew very clearly that she was dreaming. In this desolate place, aside from the footprints she left behind, there was nothing.

No.

There was also the faint scent of roses.

The most wonderful thing about pheromones was that once a person became connected to a certain scent, the moment one smelled something similar, one would begin to anticipate.

She was waiting for someone.

Even though the scene just now had still been fixed on her mother’s reprimand and retreating back, the bedroom door closing, the warm bed turning into a barren snowfield.

Dreams never made sense anyway.

As a doctor, her mother had always been extremely strict with Zhu Yu’s upbringing and almost never allowed her to eat candy, because eating candy could easily affect her health.

Although this was a reason Zhu Yu had come up with herself.

Zhu Yu had already forgotten many things from when she was little. She only remembered that her mother was very busy and would occasionally forget to leave food for her. Tiny Zhu Yu would search the whole house and still find nothing to eat, so she could only drink a lot of water.

When her stomach was hungry, her tongue would taste bitter, and she would especially crave something sweet.

But at that time, her knowledge and imagination were too barren. She could not even think of cakes, chocolate, macarons, or other desserts. She only looked at everything and thought it seemed edible.

Soap was sweet and astringent. Its texture was like rice cakes left out for a very long time. If she took a bite and drank water afterward, she would spit bubbles. It did not taste good, and if adults discovered it, she would be beaten.

The sun should taste like oranges. Then what did orange gummies taste like? Were they the same as basking in the sun?

Roses smelled very edible, and when they brushed against her cheek, they were very soft too. But they were too beautiful, so she could not bear to put them in her mouth…

Amid all these wandering thoughts, the scent of roses grew richer.

That fair, slender hand appeared before her, the little red mole on the wrist swaying lightly as it offered her a sugar cube.

Zhu Yu took the little white square and rolled it on the tip of her tongue. Her heart was unspeakably sweet, and even her slow steps instantly became light.

Her brows and eyes curved, as if she had long since guessed Bai Shuzhou would come, and also as if a great stone had finally crashed to the ground.

The woman pinched her face, her cool voice patiently correcting her.

“That isn’t how you eat a sugar cube. It’s too sweet. You’ll get cavities. You’re supposed to put it in coffee and stir it slowly until it melts.”

As she spoke, the pad of her finger brushed over Zhu Yu’s lips, pinched them, and tried to make the child open her mouth and spit out the sugar cube inside.

But that tiny sugar cube had already been bitten tightly between her teeth. The stubborn Zhu Yu did not want to give it up. In the struggle with that finger, she accidentally bit it too.

Cold.

Soft.

Carrying the scent of roses.

The woman frowned slightly, the pressure around her clearly dropping by several degrees. The pride in her bones made her strongly resist overly intimate contact, much less being unexpectedly bitten on the finger, wet and damp, with the child’s sharp little teeth pressing against her fingertip.

Zhu Yu gently bit twice. Slowly, she realized Bai Shuzhou seemed a little angry. She lifted her eyes and guiltily met those pale blue ones. She heard herself say softly:

“Sister, you’re sweeter than sugar…”

Timid, yet very bold.

She saw that finger, carved like white jade, draw out a little silver thread from its tip. There was a small indentation where her teeth had pressed, giving off a faint, moist shine.

The woman curved the corners of her lips and laughed softly, light and clear. In an instant, even the sweetness on Zhu Yu’s tongue seemed to melt. The sugar water dissolved, dripping down little by little.

For some reason, it felt as though a feather had brushed the tip of her heart.

Zhu Yu lowered her face, both hands behind her back, not daring to look at her. She also felt that having this kind of dream was not very good.

Deep in her subconscious, she was still ashamed to speak of her own desires.

But the woman’s fingertip touched her lips again and rubbed lightly.

Then it landed on the tip of her brow, her nose, sliding down bit by bit, pinching her inexperienced breath.

Mm…

Outside the dream, Bai Shuzhou was pinching the young woman’s nose.

When Bai Shuzhou woke, Zhu Yu was far too close. There were clearly two pillows, yet she had burrowed onto Bai Shuzhou’s pillow. The enormous bed had somehow been compressed into a very small space. Her loose black hair rested against the snow-white quilt, and her head was fluffy, very much like a puppy’s.

Bai Shuzhou’s body temperature was on the low side, while Zhu Yu seemed a little warmer than ordinary people. When they stuck together, the temperature difference became very obvious.

A thin layer of sweat had already appeared on the arm the young woman was hugging.

Hot.

Who let her sleep here?

Bai Shuzhou frowned and wanted to push Zhu Yu away. She did not have the habit of accommodating others. But the young woman’s utterly undefended sleeping face was very cute, as if she had opened herself completely to Bai Shuzhou, body and soul.

Bai Shuzhou’s furrowed brows lifted.

She remembered.

Oh. They were already married.

They were bed partners.

It was only sleeping. It seemed quite normal.

Was this how they slept?

Bai Shuzhou lifted her hand, then put it back down again, letting that warm breath scatter evenly across her, stirring Zhu Yu’s trembling lashes. Her indifferent expression softened a little too.

No one would refuse such an obedient doll.

It made one especially want to tease her.

So Bai Shuzhou pinched her face. It was soft, but a little too thin, not as nice to the touch as she had imagined.

Then she touched Zhu Yu’s lips. They were even softer and fuller. When pinched, they made a soft little pop.

Bai Shuzhou half-propped herself up, as if she had discovered some novel toy. Depending on the angle she controlled, the sounds the young woman made were different too, very much like a little fish blowing bubbles.

But after she played for too long, Zhu Yu’s lips were pinched slightly red and moist, looking very kissable.

Only, Bai Shuzhou’s own kisses, though clearly more skillful and domineering, seemed somehow unable to compare to the tingling numbness when Zhu Yu suddenly leaned in. Like a faint current, it traveled from her lips all the way to the tip of her heart.

That was caused by the ability.

But a cruel, cold ability could actually make kissing more tempting. It was truly somewhat…

Unbelievable.

Zhu Yu seemed to possess some kind of magic that could even make time fall quiet.

It was as though they had once held hands and walked through fog. Even if they could not see each other, as long as they sensed the other’s existence, they would feel at ease.

During Bai Shuzhou’s moment of distraction, the sleeping Zhu Yu suddenly opened her mouth and gently bit her fingertip.

“…”

A subtle, strange numbness spread little by little.

Bai Shuzhou focused. She was certain Zhu Yu was truly asleep and had not used her ability.

Then why did she still feel her heart palpitate?

The young woman had two pointed canine teeth, pressing against Bai Shuzhou’s soft fingertip. An Omega’s body was even more sensitive. Just this light pressure made her bite down hard, her arm inexplicably going weak.

The body’s memories were sometimes more accurate than the mind’s. Fragmented images flashed before her eyes.

Those canine teeth had once bitten other places too, lightly rubbing, provoking her into uncontrollable trembling. She had suppressed her gasps and forcefully gripped the young woman’s hair.

The young woman in her arms softly called, “Sister…”

Bai Shuzhou abruptly came back to herself and drew back her damp fingertip, the roots of her ears burning.

Meanwhile, Zhu Yu slept peacefully, a tiny sweet smile still hanging on the corners of her lips.

Damn it…

This hateful person actually dared to bite her!

Bai Shuzhou, who had always been calm and self-controlled, had actually been thrown into disorder just like this, while Zhu Yu was only sleeping obediently.

No.

Not obedient at all.

The woman’s gaze fell like a ruler, measuring the distance between them, so close it could not be any closer. She barely found a trace of comfort for her pride.

Mm. Zhu Yu must have done it on purpose.

Rumors outside said that Zhu Yu was gentle and flirtatious. It would not be strange if she had a few little tricks.

Are you pretending to sleep too?

Bai Shuzhou stretched out a fingertip, touching the young woman’s brow, her nose, then slowly pinching her overly hot and noisy breathing, refusing to let her continue bewitching her.

When someone’s nose was pinched, a person pretending to sleep would open their mouth. But Zhu Yu’s face flushed a little, and she made a muffled “mmph” sound, like a fish suddenly stranded in sleep. Then she opened her eyes blankly.

The mermaid had come ashore.

The first thing she saw was that pair of glittering sapphire-blue eyes.

Bai Shuzhou was biting her lip slightly, the tip of her nose dyed an adorable shy red, yet she still insisted on holding up an indifferent, cold expression, as though she cared about nothing.

Seeing Zhu Yu wake, she was satisfied, yet also a little guilty, because she could not explain what she had been doing.

Too childish.

Pinching the other person’s nose just to wake her?

But why should she explain? She was the Empire’s most noble princess!

Her Highness pretended nothing had happened, closed her eyes, leaned against the pillow, and calmly pretended to sleep.

Zhu Yu looked at her eyelids opening and closing. Likewise, she blinked and instinctively touched the tip of her nose, as if Bai Shuzhou’s cool body temperature still lingered there.

Eh. It wasn’t a dream…?

Where had it stopped being a dream?

It was a little hard to tell.

The sky was already bright. Even Zhu Yu herself had not expected to sleep so deeply. She had originally been thinking that if Feng Jiang’s people carried her out, she would quietly run back in again and guard the unconscious Bai Shuzhou.

In any case, she had already memorized the terrain of this floor.

The fleeting smile Bai Shuzhou had shown just now looked a little wicked, different from her usual cold and distant personality.

For some reason, Zhu Yu felt that this was the truest Bai Shuzhou, stripped of all disguises. She could not help grinning silently.

Zhu Yu swore she had not laughed out loud, but the woman still opened her eyes. On her cheeks, that thin layer of embarrassed annoyance became even more obvious.

“Zhu Yu!”

Her voice was pressed low and hoarse, very magnetic.

Daylight had arrived, and time flew by. Yet they were still here, lowering their voices and whispering.

Everything else seemed not so important anymore.

I’m here.

Their eyes met. Zhu Yu swallowed those two simple words. By the structure of exchange, she should call Bai Shuzhou’s name too.

But “Bai Shuzhou” was a little longer than “Zhu Yu.” It felt as if the distance walked was a little further, and for some reason, not quite as intimate.

Shuzhou did not roll off the tongue very smoothly.

Xiao Zhou—ah, Bai Qianze called her that too. No, no…

She wanted a unique way to call her.

“Zhou.”

Zhu Yu bit out one word, carrying an embarrassed smile.

When she saw Bai Shuzhou’s long lashes blink, as if Bai Shuzhou had not expected her to call her that, it felt like tacit permission, novel and somewhat expectant.

Both of them fell silent.

Zhu Yu, having tested successfully, grew bolder and said it a second time. Like a mermaid swimming to her lover’s side, her soft murmurs would turn into pearls, and thus were especially precious, one by one spilling out.

“Zhou, Zhou—”

It was clearly only a whisper, only a form of address. They looked into each other’s eyes, and the distance between them was farther than that syllable, yet their heartbeats inexplicably sped up. Unable to help it, Zhu Yu pressed her lips together and slowly moved closer.

Zhu Yu had studied many guides before: how to chat with high emotional intelligence, how to hold hands, how to kiss. But when an ambiguous atmosphere truly appeared, she discovered that everything was so natural and beautiful, not even driven by thought.

It was the body naturally being drawn to the other.

Her brain, usually filled with mechanical diagrams and able to remember thousands of complex parts, was completely empty at this moment.

Only one shout wandered through it:

My first love! My first love after marriage—!!

Too slow.

Bai Shuzhou, who had closed her eyes and waited for a long time, frowned slightly. Seeing Zhu Yu frozen in place, smiling foolishly with restraint, she finally could not bear it anymore. She took the initiative to lean forward and bit her.