A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A - Chapter 47

“Grandma, what did you do when you were young?”

Fu Man asked downstairs.

After Li Yingxue hung up the phone, she heard this and looked down at the living room, only to see Fu Man sitting on the sofa, crossing her legs and starting to chat again.

Why is she so free today?

Li Yingxue glanced at the time; it was only around two or three in the afternoon. At this time, she usually practiced in the hot spring underground palace.

“You ask me?” Grandma elegantly picked up the teacup from the table, took a sip, and said, “Guess?”

Fu Man: “I might not be able to guess.”

She is very unfamiliar with all the professions in this world, almost completely unaware of them.

Grandma put down her teacup and said mysteriously, “Research on how to become a great beauty.”

Fu Man noticed she was deliberately using her own phrasing to respond, smiled, and said, “Does Grandma still need to study how to become a great beauty?”

Grandma sensed that she was vaguely complimenting her and became interested: “What do you mean by that?”

Fu Man looked up at the person on the second floor, then looked back: “Your granddaughter is so beautiful, her grandma must be a great beauty too.”

“That’s right.” Grandma said somewhat proudly, “But that’s not what I meant. I used to be a makeup artist.”

“Makeup artist?”

“Yes.” Grandma sighed, “This job is quite a hassle, but what can I do? I’m a Beta.”

She accepted it and just worked a regular job to support herself. Little did she know, her son grew up twisted. Especially when he learned at a young age that their ancestors had once been glorious, producing a so-called SSS-level Alpha. He went crazy, determined to squeeze into high society and become a person of importance.

Until the birth of his granddaughter Li Yingxue, he had shifted his focus to her, hoping she would evolve into an SSS-level Alpha, or at the very least, an Alpha.

But he was also worried that the Li family couldn’t escape the curse of only being able to give birth to Betas, so he took a liking to Yingxue’s beauty and early on pushed her into taking child model advertisements, and later forced her into acting to earn money.

This way, even if she eventually does differentiate into a Beta, she can still maximize her value.

No one expected Li Yingxue to actually differentiate into an SSS-level Omega. Although Li Huarong was disappointed that he didn’t differentiate into an Alpha, he reignited hope for Li Yingxue’s attributes. So, he kept her being an SSS-level Omega a secret and carefully selected a marriage alliance with the Fu family for her.

Grandma looked at Fu Man in front of her and said, “By the way, what do your elders do?”

Fu Man: “Are you talking about Lord Fu?”

Grandma shook her head: “No.”

Fu Man saw Li Yingxue coming down the stairs leisurely, “There was a great-grandma, but she passed away.”

Grandma was shocked: “There are actually great-grandma.”

This is already seven generations apart.

“What did your great-grandma do? How did she live so long?”

Fu Man pondered, “She, like me, is studying how to become an immortal.”

Grandma: “……”

Grandma leaned back in her chair, hands tucked in, and shot her a glance: “You young miss are not being honest.”

Fu Man laughed, “How am I not being honest?”

It’s just that she didn’t succeed.

When Li Yingxue came over, she happened to hear her speaking, “You still have great-grandma?”

Fu Man glanced at her and said, “Is it really that unusual?”

Li Yingxue hummed in response, looked at her grandma, and said, “Grandma, I’m going out tomorrow. If you need anything, you can ask A Ci. She will tell you.”

Grandma asked in confusion, “What are you going out to do tomorrow?”

Li Yingxue’s body stiffened for a moment, “It’s nothing, just going out for a bit of fresh air.”

Fu Man added, “Travel with me.”

Grandma looked enviously and said, “Being young is great, you can go out and see so much. Unfortunately, I can only sit in a wheelchair and can’t go anywhere.”

Li Yingxue looked at her grandma’s leg ailment with a heavy heart.

Suddenly, at this moment, A Ci rushed in from outside.

“Your Highness, Miss Li’s parents have come to see you!”

Li Yingxue’s expression slightly changed; they must have discovered that Grandma was here. She turned to look at Fu Man, who gave her a reassuring look.

Before long, Li Huarong and Zhuo Meijun came in through the door. Seeing Grandma in the living room, their eyes, sharp as blades, pierced towards Li Yingxue.

“Sure enough, it was you who brought Grandma here!” Zhuo Meijun said angrily, “Do you know that Grandma has a leg condition and can’t run around everywhere?”

“Yingxue, listen to your parents and let us take Grandma back.”

Saying this, Zhuo Meijun was about to step forward to take the person away, but as soon as she touched the wheelchair’s armrest, someone else pressed down on it first.

Zhuo Meijun frowned at the person in front of her and said, “Fu Man, what do you mean by this?”

Fu Man took Zhuo Meijun’s hand off the armrest, and spoke slowly, “Auntie, since Li Yingxue and I are engaged and will marry sooner or later, we will be one family. Her grandma will be my grandma too. If she has a leg ailment, I will naturally ask a doctor to treat it.”

“You…” Zhuo Meijun was at a loss for words.

Li Huarong said solemnly, “There’s no such reason. In any case, I must take Grandma back today!”

Li Yingxue coldly looked at her parents in front of her: “Impossible.”

Returning it will only allow them to blackmail me again.

Li Huarong, furious, said, “Whether you like it or not, it doesn’t matter! Hand it over to me!”

However, just as he was about to make a move, he was grabbed by a few burly men, one on each side, and thrown out to the doorway.

Fu Man stood on the steps, looking down at them from above: “Uncle and Aunt, you know what you did to Li Yingxue. I advise you to think carefully about your actions.”

“You two!” Li Huarong looked at the two people, realizing that they had colluded. Enough is enough. He felt a lump in his throat and left angrily.

Fu Man glanced at Li Yingxue beside her and said, “Don’t worry, they won’t be able to come in anymore.”

Li Yingxue glanced at the few men; she remembered that Fu Man hadn’t hired any bodyguards.

Could it be…

“Thank you,” Li Yingxue thanked her, then suddenly asked, “Can that black python not come in either?”

“……” Fu Man fell silent, “She can’t come in as long as I’m here.”

Li Yingxue looked into her eyes and asked, “What if you weren’t here?”

Fu Man: “……”

Li Yingxue asked again, “Tomorrow when we go out for a trip, will she—”

Li Yingxue looked at her in silence, shifted her gaze slightly, and said coldly, “Cancel it.”

“No way.” Fu Man denied it. Seeing Li Yingxue looking over, she heavily proposed a bold suggestion: “Take Grandma with us.”

“……?”

Inside the house, Grandma had been feeling upset ever since she heard them arguing. She didn’t want to see her son and granddaughter fighting, but she was even less willing to see her granddaughter being bullied and exploited by her parents, so she simply kept her mouth shut.

Just as she was about to head back to her room, Fu Man suddenly suggested to her, asking if she would like to go on a trip together.

Grandma’s attention was immediately drawn to her, but after a moment’s thought, she sighed and said, “Forget it, forget it, I won’t interrupt your honeymoon.”

As soon as Li Yingxue walked over, she heard these words, and she rubbed her forehead in annoyance, saying, “Grandma, it’s not a honeymoon.”

Grandma: “Even if it’s not a honeymoon, I still can’t go. Just look at my leg; it would only hold you back.”

“Who said that?” Fu Man glanced at Li Yingxue, half-squatting down. “Grandma, as long as you want to go, nothing is impossible.”

“Really?” Grandma asked hopefully.

Fu Man: “Hmm.”

Just like that, the originally two-person trip turned into a three-person trip.

On the very day they left, Xu Anji and Min Tian rushed to the Fu family, planning to kidnap Grandma, but to their surprise, they found nothing.

Xu Anji said resentfully, “Where did they go?”

Min Tian relayed the information her subordinate had gathered to her: “They went on a trip, and they won’t be back for a while.”

Xu Anji closed her eyes deeply and said, “Go back first.”

Min Tian: “Okay.”

The car is driving on the highway.

Li Yingxue marked a few artificial attractions on the map that might be rare for snakes.

Suddenly, Li Yingxue remembered that during the filming of the desert island survival variety show, Fu Man had once said that the underwater world was actually very beautiful.

Has she never seen the ocean?

Li Yingxue glanced at the woman driving and marked the aquarium.

The first stop is the aquarium, where the vast aquarium showcases a colorful underwater world to them, like a dream.

“Grandma, how is it? Beautiful, right?” Fu Man pushed her grandma forward along the corridor, looking up at the surrounding aquatic plants and animals.

“Beautiful,” Grandma exclaimed.

Fu Man smiled, turned to look at the taciturn Li Yingxue, and asked, “What do you think?”

Li Yingxue: “Beautiful.”

Fu Man saw her holding something in her hand: “What is this?”

Li Yingxue: “A camera can capture images on film and turn them into an album.”

Fu Man raised an eyebrow: “Is this specially taken for grandma?”

Li Yingxue rarely glanced at her: “…… Yes.”

“Your grandma rarely gets out, so we should definitely take some photos to remember the occasion,” Fu Man said with a sigh. “Please take some for me too, and I’ll bring them back.”

Li Yingxue paused her action of raising the camera, “……Okay.”

Fu Man pushed her grandma in front of a glass with a whale as the background. “Grandma, let’s have Li Yingxue take a picture of us.”

Grandma smiled kindly and said, “Sure.”

Li Yingxue walked a bit further away, took several pictures of the two of them, and then moved to a few different spots to take more pictures.

After finishing the visit to the aquarium, it was already noon. Li Yingxue planned to quickly check all the photos, but while flipping through them, she accidentally came across the photo she took of the black python.

These two people gave her completely different feelings; one was lazy and elegant, while the other, despite smiling, always gave her an uncomfortable sense of malice.

Li Yingxue frowned and deleted all the photos of the black python woman, leaving only the photos of Fu Man and her grandma.

Looking at Grandma’s radiant smile, and with Fu Man standing behind her, leaning lazily on the armrest with one hand, a barely noticeable smile at the corner of her mouth, she really knows how to pose for the camera.

Continuing to flip through, she came across a solo photo of Fu Man, and another one where her shadow was captured unintentionally. The aquarium corridor wasn’t very bright, even quite dim. In this shadowy photo, the woman’s features blended into the darkness, leaving only a thin layer of light from the underwater world passing through the glass, casting a soft glow on her hair. It was that long hair and the outline of her body that sparked endless imagination.

“What are you looking at?” Fu Man’s voice came over. Li Yingxue put down the camera, looked up at her, and replied in a calm tone, “Looking at the photos I just took.”

“Let me see.” Fu Man reached out to take the camera from her hands. Li Yingxue was initially reluctant, but for some reason, she gave up her refusal and handed the camera over to her. “You just need to press the buttons on both sides to flip through it.”

“Okay.”

Fu Man looked through the photos one by one, and when she came across Li Yingxue’s photo, her speed noticeably slowed down.

Li Yingxue didn’t notice, but out of the corner of her eye, she seemed to catch a glimpse of her photo on that small screen. She pressed her red lips together.

Taking a small step back, pretending to look at other underwater scenes, after a moment, her gaze followed a fish’s movement and turned back to Fu Man.

The five fingers hanging by the side of the leg moved slightly, silently drawing a talisman.

But she can’t read anything at all.

Her expression returned to its indifferent state, and with a reluctant sigh, she turned around to find her grandma.