A Disguised Scum Alpha Marked Her Aloof Ex-Wife - Chapter 6

Zhu Yu sat outside the door for a long while, tilting her head back to count the stars.

She left Bai Shuzhou enough space to hide her tears away. Then, from inside, came the intermittent sound of eating.

The iron door had terrible soundproofing, but the woman ate very quietly. There was almost no sound of bowl or chopsticks touching. Her upbringing was engraved into her bones. When the wind blew, mixing with the faint rustle of the door, it sounded like some small animal slowly chewing its food.

Zhu Yu swallowed, feeling that it must taste very good.

For dinner, Helan had made braised pork. Since debts were already piling up, Zhu Yu simply bought a bowl of it, along with a big plate of vegetables, to help Bai Shuzhou recover and calm her nerves.

As soon as He Ming heard that it was for the elf sister, she picked out the best pieces of meat without another word. Only after her mother knocked her on the head did she stop trying to stuff the entire basin into that tiny bowl.

Helan worked very efficiently. She had already agreed to take Zhu Yu out to look for work tomorrow.

Although the young woman was thin and looked like she had no strength, probably unable to do heavy labor, she was quick and capable. After dinner, she had even taken the initiative to clear the table and wash the dishes.

Originally, that was He Ming’s job, so He Ming was very happy. When she heard Zhu Yu say she studied aerospace engineering, she became even more excited and chased after her with endless questions.

The little girl planted her hands on her hips, very much like her mother, and declared with impressive authority, “My dream is to become a pilot! If I’m even more amazing and differentiate into an Alpha, I want to become a mecha pilot!”

“Pilots are top-tier soldiers, and mecha pilots are the ace of aces. If I’m going to be something, I’m going to be the best!”

Zhu Yu thought: Aerospace engineering doesn’t mean becoming a pilot. There are lots of jobs. We’re mainly responsible for launching you up there.

But in order not to dampen the child’s enthusiasm, she still put on a profound expression and patted He Ming’s head.

“Sure. Work hard. I believe you can definitely do it.”

Her tone was very serious when she spoke. For the first time, He Ming felt that her dream had been respected by an adult. She was grinning widely when she heard Zhu Yu lift her head and ask, “Sister Helan, does she need tutoring?”

“My grades are pretty good. Full GPA, top one percent of my major, full scholarship coverage. I can tutor every subject!”

At those words, Helan’s eyes lit up instantly. At the same time, He Ming’s imposing manner deflated on the spot. She tried to flee, but Zhu Yu was quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbing her at once.

“Summer break is the perfect time to overtake everyone on the curve. We can’t let the child lose at the starting line!”

Helan had Zhu Yu try explaining a few problems. After discovering that she really could teach, her attitude made a complete one-eighty. Very generously, she advanced Zhu Yu some more daily necessities.

She was so generous that Zhu Yu felt a little embarrassed. When she carried the things home, she felt as though she had come here to scam people.

She had taken so many things all at once and had no identity document to leave as collateral. Although Helan did not mention it, Zhu Yu still handed over the only medal in her pocket. Once they paid the rent, she would redeem the medal.

This medal seemed to have been earned through some military merit. The original Zhu Yu treasured it very much. Every night before bed, she would take it out and carefully wipe it clean. Whenever there was a banquet, she would even pin the medal in the most conspicuous place.

Zhu Yu thought very viciously: That’s what you get for bullying your wife. Your precious treasure is being pawned!

But the medal was innocent.

And Bai Shuzhou was innocent too.

She had to work hard, earn money, redeem the medal as soon as possible, and send Bai Shuzhou home.

After Zhu Yu finished counting the flickering stars, she deliberately waited until the room had quieted down before pushing the door open and going in.

The woman lay quietly on the bed, sleeping properly, her hands folded in front of her. Silver hair was scattered along the side of her neck.

The first phrase that popped into Zhu Yu’s head was “Sleeping Beauty.” Then, worried that it sounded unlucky, she quickly shook her head and flung the thought away.

She did not want Bai Shuzhou to be Sleeping Beauty.

In the future, she would be Healthy Beauty!

The beauty’s brows were filled with exhaustion, and her eyes were slightly red. But after eating and drinking, her complexion looked a little better. Once asleep, her icy aura also softened slightly, becoming gentle like moonlight.

Zhu Yu felt that perhaps their relationship had also been washed a little gentler by those tears…

Just a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny bit.

The bowl Bai Shuzhou had used was very clean, without a single extra grain of rice left behind. Zhu Yu was very gratified. She had originally been worried that the princess would not be used to this coarse food, or that she would feel disgusted because it came from Zhu Yu and refuse to eat.

Eating properly was the foundation of a happy life!

Bai Shuzhou was too thin. When Zhu Yu carried her, she was almost weightless. When they hugged, Zhu Yu could clearly feel the rise and fall of her bones. She did not know if dancers simply held themselves to very strict standards.

The fact that Bai Shuzhou had managed to eat such a full bowl already made Zhu Yu very satisfied.

Happily making herself a bed on the floor, Zhu Yu had completely forgotten that Bai Shuzhou was a dragon.

A carnivore.

When she dined in the palace, her meals were practically grand banquets, with top-tier ingredients served one after another. A bowl like that was, at most, enough to line her stomach.

And much of that bowl had been vegetables.

Zhu Yu was worried Bai Shuzhou’s stomach would be irritated and that she might get indigestion, so she had specially chosen green food. Bai Shuzhou looked like the sort of fairy who fed on wind and moonlight. Even for that plate of braised pork, Zhu Yu had deliberately picked out the fattier pieces.

He Ming had complained furiously, “Braised pork without pork belly has no soul!”

Zhu Yu spouted nonsense. “Having a soul is scary. It’ll kick your stomach in the middle of the night and make your belly hurt. I’d better eat it instead.”

He Ming looked at her as though she were a fool.

Zhu Yu took the opportunity to eat two pieces of meat. Fatty but not greasy, it was incredibly delicious. Helan’s cooking really was good. It made Zhu Yu want to cry as she ate.

After experiencing so many messy, chaotic things, Zhu Yu was also very tired. Sister Helan had given them one extra quilt, but probably had not expected her to sleep on the floor. Since Zhu Yu used it as padding beneath her, there was naturally nothing left to cover herself with.

Although she and Bai Shuzhou were both women, considering the sea of hatred and tangled love between them, Zhu Yu was very worried that sleeping together would accidentally offend Bai Shuzhou.

Or that Bai Shuzhou might secretly strangle her to death in the middle of the night.

Zhu Yu checked the doors and windows twice more, confirming that they were all locked.

In an unfamiliar environment, she did not dare sleep with the lights off. If anything unexpected happened, it would be hard to respond.

After thinking about it, she hung a rope in front of the bed and drew a curtain for Bai Shuzhou. The light-colored fabric blocked most of the light, but it would not be too dark inside.

Before lying down, Zhu Yu stopped by Bai Shuzhou’s bedside and tucked the quilt around her. Then she pressed her palms together and spoke devoutly, like she was praying.

“Don’t kill me. Don’t kill me. Don’t kill me.”

“I’ll be useful to you.”

Her voice was very soft. Her shadow, swayed by the light, stretched thin and long. She bowed with a great sense of ritual.

Finally, Zhu Yu lowered the curtain and said softly, “Good night. I hope you have a good dream.”

The ritual completed, Zhu Yu lay down.

A pillow made of stacked books. A coat serving just right as a blanket over her stomach.

Zhu Yu imagined herself as a knight carrying out a mission in the wild, guarding the princess. She could faintly hear the chirping of insects outside.

It was actually kind of cool.

She would stay alert at all times.

As long as she was here, nothing would be able to hurt the princess!

Zhu Yu clenched her fist.

The next second, she fell into a dead sleep.

Curled up, she circled in her dream into the shape of an evil dragon that had stolen away the princess.

When the young woman’s breathing became steady, Bai Shuzhou opened her eyes on the bed. The small knife she had been gripping tightly in her arms had already been warmed by her body temperature.

For an instant, her pale blue eyes turned into the vertical pupils unique to dragons, but soon narrowed again.

The knife hilt lifted the curtain aside. Bai Shuzhou looked at Zhu Yu lying on the floor, utterly defenseless, and remained silent for a long time.

The young woman seemed to have predicted her motive.

Right now, Bai Shuzhou only needed to flick her wrist lightly, aim the blade at Zhu Yu’s neck, and she could kill her with ease.

But why could Zhu Yu still sleep so deeply?

Was she really so certain Bai Shuzhou would not do anything to her?

Bai Shuzhou bent down. Her pale knuckles silently came to rest against Zhu Yu’s neck.

Her body was warm, her pulse steady. Sensing something cold drawing near, she exhaled a small puff of warm air through her nose and unconsciously rubbed against it, then called out softly, “Sister.”

Bai Shuzhou’s wrist stiffened.

This was the first time Zhu Yu had called her sister.

Zhu Yu was an orphan who had grown up in the evil, chaotic slums. That was how she had developed such a sly, shrewd personality. Although she had a clean, fair face, her thoughts were deep. Like a venomous snake lying silently in wait, she would coil around someone’s arm and flatter them sweetly, all for the sake of delivering a better fatal strike.

She could call anyone Sister.

Only Bai Shuzhou was the one she refused to call that.

For some unknown reason, she had always been stubborn about it. She could say endless sweet words and romantic lines, yet had never called Bai Shuzhou Sister, not even as a joke.

Or had she mistaken Bai Shuzhou for someone else?

Bai Shuzhou’s gaze darkened. Uncertainly, she rubbed once along the edge of Zhu Yu’s soft cheek, then pinched it.

The next day, when Zhu Yu woke up, she inexplicably felt that her face hurt a little.

She got up very alertly and looked around. Then she gently pulled open the curtain to confirm Bai Shuzhou’s safety.

The woman still looked the same as before going to sleep, dignified and beautiful. Seeing her, even Zhu Yu’s stiff muscles could not help relaxing. A smile appeared at the corner of her lips.

“Good morning,” she said very quietly.

She had to go to work today, and she was a little nervous. First, she went to wash up and change clothes.

While washing her face, she was pleasantly surprised to discover that the injuries on her arms had mostly healed. As long as she did not press hard, they did not hurt.

An Alpha’s physique was actually this powerful.

Great!

Another medical bill saved.

No wonder Alphas received preferential treatment in this world, and why most soldiers were Alphas. They had a natural advantage in combat.

She had heard this was the result of the earliest genetic engineering. Back then, in a time of crisis, scientists had urgently wanted to modify humans into “perfect human beings.”

However, a series of problems later arose, and the project was hastily stopped. The related documents had not been made public to this day.

Zhu Yu was not interested in any of that.

She only cared about how much money today’s part-time job would pay.

One day at a time. She would just live however she could. The subject of humanity was too grand. It was not something a little cannon fodder like her needed to think about.

Bai Shuzhou was still sleeping, so Zhu Yu simply did not avoid anything and openly changed in front of the curtain.

Their new clothes had all been given by Sister Helan. He Ming was around fifteen or sixteen, growing fast, and liked buying clothes a few sizes too big. They fit Zhu Yu just right.

Although this “just right” was truly, exactly just right.

The shirt clung to her skin, outlining clean, sharp lines. Zhu Yu felt as if she were wearing a skintight outfit. Her whole person seemed to become more spirited.

#Little Fireball requesting deployment!

She did not dare laugh, afraid she might burst the shirt open.

Zhu Yu was used to buttoning her clothes meticulously. But now, she had no choice but to raise her hand and undo two buttons before she could breathe.

There was no comb, and Zhu Yu was too embarrassed to ask Helan to borrow one. Helan had already helped them so much. Zhu Yu understood clearly that life was not easy for an orphaned widow and her child.

She used her hands to comb through her hair, pressing down the stray locks that had stuck up overnight as much as possible, then tied it into a high ponytail.

Bai Shuzhou’s hair was very long.

Zhu Yu quietly glanced back at her. When she got off work, she would ask the boss if she could be paid for the day first.

After setting aside money for Sister Helan and tomorrow’s food, there should still be enough left for a comb, right?

She did not understand the prices and wages in this world, so she was not very confident.

When she glanced back, through the gap in the gauze curtain she had just forgotten to pull shut, their eyes met.

Cold, pale blue eyes flickered in the dim light, like sapphires soaked in a clear spring, quietly watching her.

Zhu Yu jumped in fright.

Then hadn’t Bai Shuzhou seen her changing just now?

Would she think Zhu Yu was harassing her?

She had even admired this body’s abs and waistline for a while, touching them a little. They were quite springy… It looked as though the original body had trained a lot. Even the scar on her lower abdomen had a certain charm.

All of it had been seen!

Would Bai Shuzhou think she was crazy? Waking up early in the morning and admiring herself first thing?

Worse, if Bai Shuzhou discovered she was not the original Zhu Yu, would she send her to the Royal Academy of Sciences to be dissected?

Bai Shuzhou hated her so much.

The mother’s debts repaid by the child—no, bah, she and the original Zhu Yu did not have that kind of relationship. But she had inherited this body, so naturally, the emotional debts had been passed down too.

Just as her pupils trembled and she racked her brain for an explanation, a very clear rumbling sound suddenly rang out in the quiet room.

Hungry?

Zhu Yu lowered her head and embarrassedly covered her stomach.

However, she quickly realized that the sound did not seem to have come from her own stomach. Although she was not yet familiar with this body, she would not be so unaware of it.

Zhu Yu lifted her eyes and watched helplessly as the woman on the bed, as cold as a frosty moon, bit her lip and silently slid down under the quilt. Like a clam closing its shell, she covered her face, revealing only the reddened tips of her ears.

Ah.

Too cute!!

Zhu Yu slapped her own forehead and loudly said, “I’m hungry! It’s only right that I’m hungry. I’ll go buy breakfast right now!”