A Tsundere Beauty Omega is Stubborn but Sweet - Chapter 27

After several gloomy winter days in a row, the sky had finally cleared today. The warm sunlight shone over the mountainside, making everything dazzlingly bright.

Yu You stood beside the staircase of an attic at the resort. This place was dark and damp, with no sunlight, and only a few old swing chairs with peeling paint had been placed there.

The moment she sat down, the chair immediately let out a creak, creak sound.

When those dozen people had mocked her, Yu You had not reacted much.

She knew human warmth and coldness changed with value. She was not surprised that some people would change faces.

She had only wanted to wait and see.

Was there anyone, even just one person, who had not come because of her value as the Yu family’s heiress, and who had not left because of her identity as the Yu family’s fake heiress?

Aside from those old friends of more than ten years, there truly was not a single one.

But that was still not enough to break her.

When the purple bellflowers fell all over the sky, and Princess Fenxiang’s voice came from the broadcast, Yu You truly could not hold herself together anymore.

The period before she returned to the country had been the happiest stage of Yu You’s life.

Parents who doted on her in every possible way. A soulmate who understood her heart. Again and again, she stood beneath the spotlight at the center of gatherings filled with distinguished guests, receiving countless gazes of envy and admiration.

Whatever wind she wanted, she got wind. Whatever rain she wanted, she got rain. Everyone fought to become her umbrella. All these years, Yu You had never stumbled over anything or anyone.

After returning to the country, everything changed.

She was the fake heiress no one claimed. The news about the real and fake heiresses had spread throughout the city. Her biological parents could not possibly not know, yet they had never appeared. It was obvious they did not want this daughter.

The warm harbor she had sheltered in for more than twenty years was no longer a safe haven that belonged exclusively to her. Just like everyone said, she was only a stray dog kindly taken in by others, temporarily curled up inside the Yu residence.

No matter how Father Yu and Mother Yu proved that Yu You was still their beloved child, Yu You found it hard to feel at ease. She was extremely frightened and helpless, feeling that one day, she would be swept out the door.

Overnight, she lost her parents’ exclusive love. But fortunately, she still had a soulmate who understood her.

Yet very soon, Yu You learned that this so-called soulmate was a sweet-talking liar.

Not only had Princess Fenxiang maintained an ambiguous relationship with her, she had also been entangled with Zhou Muxian.

Even if Yu You were foolish, she was still smart enough to taste something wrong. That so-called soulmate’s every romantic approach had only been to bring up cooperation with Yu’ai Group.

Today, Princess Fenxiang’s actions, which seemed romantic in other people’s eyes, had become thousands of thorns stirring in Yu You’s heart. Every thorn mercilessly punished her for how foolish and laughable she had once been.

This world was huge, huge enough to hold countless vivid, living people.

And yet among them, there was not even one person willing to treat her with sincerity.

Yu You wanted to cry, but she truly could not cry.

What was there to cry about?

This cruel reality had not only happened today. Long before this, it had already been placed clearly before her eyes.

Tap, tap, tap—

Careful footsteps came from the staircase. Yu You lowered her eyes and looked over. It was Zhou Muxian. Those worried eyes were looking at her uneasily.

Yu You’s nose suddenly stung, and tears fell. She instantly felt angry at herself for being so useless and immediately turned her head to the other side.

Zhou Muxian rushed up the stairs in three steps and crouched before her. She said nothing, only softly called, “Sister.”

Yu You tried to hold back her collapsing emotions. The moment her lashes trembled lightly, a hot tear fell. She pressed her lips together hard, but more tears streamed down her cheeks, completely beyond her control.

Just like her current rotten life, which was no longer within her control either.

Yu You suddenly raised her arm to cover her face and began sobbing aloud. She clearly wanted to cry freely, yet her sobs were mixed with deliberate suppression. Soon, she was crying so hard she could barely breathe.

Seeing her cry so painfully and helplessly, Zhou Muxian felt sadness rise in her heart, along with a few traces of bitterness. “Does Sister still like her? She’s always good at sweet talk. Sister must never believe her.”

“Are you worth believing?”

Yu You lowered her arm. Her reddened eyes were completely uncovered as they stared straight at Zhou Muxian.

Zhou Muxian had not expected Yu You to ask this and could not help freezing. “Me? I’m sincere toward Sister. I sincerely want Sister to be happy.”

“Sincere?”

Yu You scoffed, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world. She reached out and lifted Zhou Muxian’s chin. A few traces of grievance burst out from her sorrowful eyes.

“Who was it who smashed my favorite ceramic doll? And who stood over me arrogantly and told me that a stray dog like me would be swept out the door sooner or later? Zhou Muxian, what kind of act are you putting on now?”

Zhou Muxian could not bear Yu You looking at her with eyes like that and hurriedly shifted her gaze elsewhere, trying her best to explain. “Back then… back then, I was bewitched by Princess Fenxiang. She used her beauty to tempt me, and my mind was muddled. That’s why I said the words she told me to say. Later…

“I suddenly sobered up and never did those things again. Sister, after Spring Cherry Café, have I ever done anything bad again? Haven’t I…”

Zhou Muxian’s explanation was reasonable and well-founded.

Yu You slowly loosened her hand, seeming to recall, and also seeming to think deeply. She stood up from the swing chair, and amid the creaking sound, picked up a bottle of liquor and tilted her head back to drink several mouthfuls.

Zhou Muxian stared silently at her back as she drank and sighed quietly. Fine, let her drink a little. She could treat it as releasing her emotions.

But when Zhou Muxian looked more carefully, she realized it was actually high-proof baijiu.

She was so frightened that she jumped up from the ground and rushed in front of Yu You, trying to snatch the bottle without allowing any argument. “Sister, you can’t drink this. You really can’t drink this. Something will happen if you drink it.”

Yu You avoided her attempt to grab it and extended her index finger, gently pressing it against Zhou Muxian’s lips. “Shh. Don’t talk.”

Perhaps because she had cried just now, the alcohol from that glass of red wine had begun working faster. At this moment, Yu You’s cheeks were flushed, as if she were already drunk.

Her eyes were full of tears, shining brightly. She tilted her head slightly and stared at Zhou Muxian with a smile. “If you keep making noise, I’m going to kiss you.”

Zhou Muxian’s heart trembled fiercely from being teased by those words.

It seemed Yu You was not just possibly drunk. She was already drunk.

“Sister~”

As Zhou Muxian pleaded with her, she reached out to take the bottle. The instant the bottle left Yu You’s hand, Yu You’s emotions collapsed. She cried and retreated again and again.

“I just wanted to drink one sip of wine. Are you going to take even that away from me? It was only one bottle of wine. I just wanted one sip. What right do you have to snatch it away?”

Yu You cried as she retreated to the side of the stairs. Her body in thin high heels immediately swayed, nearly falling down the stairs. Yet she did not seem to sense the danger at all. She half-leaned against the railing and smiled in satisfaction.

“I… I’m going to fall…”

The white feather shawl on Yu You’s shoulders slid from her back, slipped through the gap between the stairs, and fell to the floor below. Yet she only laughed dazedly and opened her arms toward the staircase before her.

“If a bird without wings falls, will it die?”

Zhou Muxian quickly jumped down several steps and wrapped her arms around Yu You’s waist. “No. Because I caught you. Sister, I will always catch you.”

Yu You leaned against her shoulder. Thinking of Zhou Muxian’s vicious verbal attacks some time ago, she could not help crying again. She cried until her whole body trembled, cried until hot tears flowed down Zhou Muxian’s neck.

She could no longer tell what was true and what was false.

“You said you’re sincere toward me. Then do you dare swear it?”

Yu You’s resentful voice came beside Zhou Muxian’s ear with a burst of hot breath. Zhou Muxian trembled all over, inhaled, and tried to steady her emotions. She was just about to say she could, but Yu You added the second half—

“Swear that if you’re lying to me, then you will disappear from this world… forever!”

Zhou Muxian’s parted lips slowly closed.

Disappear forever.

She did not dare say such an oath.

She was not originally someone from this world. She had appeared here because of an accident, and she did not know when she might leave because of another accident.

Seeing that she did not speak, Yu You supported herself on Zhou Muxian’s shoulders and stood straight. Using the advantage of standing a few steps higher, she looked down at Zhou Muxian’s face.

“Swear it.”

Zhou Muxian’s heart suddenly panicked for no reason. Her trembling lips spat out a few words, so indistinct that even she herself could barely hear them. “I-I don’t like swearing. I don’t usually have the habit of making oaths either.”

But Yu You heard very clearly.

She heard every single word clearly.

She slowly withdrew the hands resting on Zhou Muxian’s shoulders. Her tone was calmer and more indifferent than ever before.

“I understand.”

After saying this, she passed by Zhou Muxian and walked downstairs. The tap, tap, tap of her high heels on the steps carried an indescribable coldness.

Step after step, as if each one were stomping hard on Zhou Muxian’s heart.

Only when the sound of high heels disappeared at the end of the staircase did the quiet space leave Zhou Muxian hearing nothing but her own drumlike heartbeat.

She suddenly came back to herself, regret overwhelming her.

At this moment, Yu You was experiencing the most painful and unbearable kind of hurt. All she wanted was to hear the only person who had told her she was willing to treat her sincerely make an oath, using it to soften her despair toward sincerity.

But because Zhou Muxian was afraid of an oath that might not necessarily come true, she had not dared to swear.

Even if such a thing truly happened in the future, the present was the present, and the future was the future. How could she heartlessly ignore Yu You’s present emotions because of something that had not yet happened?

At this very moment, Zhou Muxian’s oath held one hundred points of value to Yu You.

After some time passed, once Yu You thought things through and her emotions stabilized, how much value would that oath still have left?

Even if Zhou Muxian repeated that oath a thousand or ten thousand times then, would Yu You still be willing to hear it?

At thirty years old, finally buying the chocolate one had cried and fussed for but could not eat at seven—would that really satisfy someone? Would it really be worth happiness?

At fifty years old, finally wearing the Frozen princess dress one had longed for at thirteen—would that really bring joy?

Needs expired.

So did happiness.

So did value.

The greatest value of something was to be given at the exact moment someone needed it most, when it could be worth full marks.

Zhou Muxian hesitated no longer and hurriedly turned to run down the stairs.

She had to loudly tell Yu You—

She swore.

She was sincere toward Yu You.

She would always treat Yu You well.

And she would always, without hesitation, catch her.