A Tsundere Beauty Omega is Stubborn but Sweet - Chapter 29

“I heard you. I’m not deaf.”

Yu You deliberately looked around casually and spoke in a low voice, stopping Zhou Muxian from continuing to shout with the loudspeaker.

Seeing that her expression was calm, the corners of her mouth not lifted at all, and her eyes busy looking everywhere else, Zhou Muxian could not help feeling uneasy. She carefully moved closer and lightly tugged at the sleeve of the black suit jacket draped over Yu You.

“Then Sister, are you a tiny bit happier now?”

Hearing this, Yu You instinctively raised one eyebrow and answered with a question instead. “Why should I be happy?”

“Wasn’t Sister the one who wanted to hear me swear? I swore.”

As Zhou Muxian spoke, she lowered her eyes and analyzed bitterly, “Or did I say it too late, so Sister doesn’t need my oath anymore?”

“I was joking with you. Who wants to hear some oath? I’m not a child. Isn’t that childish?” Yu You crossed her arms over her chest, looking as if she did not care at all, but the corners of her mouth lifted slightly.

Zhou Muxian keenly noticed the upward curve of her lips. That cold, gorgeous face instantly turned bright and beautiful, making one’s heart tremble.

“Sister is a tiny bit happy, right? This much, is there?” As Zhou Muxian spoke, she lifted her hand and gestured toward Yu You, wanting to show her exactly how much she meant by “a tiny bit.”

Just as Yu You looked over curiously, Zhou Muxian’s hand gesture suddenly changed. She made a huge heart with both hands, and behind that heart was her smiling face, bright as flowers.

Yu You’s expression loosened. She could not hold back and lowered her head to laugh, then very quickly straightened her face again, forcefully suppressing her smile as she turned her head away.

“Is there, is there, is there?” Zhou Muxian held the heart shape and shuffled in front of Yu You, chattering nonstop as she asked.

The corners of Yu You’s mouth could not stop lifting again. She clicked her tongue in annoyance and turned her head to the other side, refusing to look at Zhou Muxian.

Zhou Muxian hopped twice and once again rushed in front of Yu You. This time, instead of making a heart, she stuck out her tongue and made a funny face.

Pfft—

This time, Yu You completely failed to control her joyful mood. She turned her back, the corners of her mouth wildly rising while she tried hard to hold back her smile. Her expression became twisted for a moment.

“Sister, Sister, are you even happier now?”

Zhou Muxian did not give Yu You the chance to secretly laugh by herself. She leaned her head over again. Yu You did not know whether to laugh or cry and forced herself to scold, “You’re so annoying. Go away.”

“Wuwuwu…”

Zhou Muxian whimpered a few times, crouched on the ground, and buried her head in her knees, looking like a poor abandoned puppy.

She had clearly seen Yu You’s smile just now and knew Yu You was in a very good mood, so she dared to act weak and ask Yu You for a little care.

Sure enough, a pair of soft, warm hands appeared above her head and gently patted her. “Stop pretending. I know you won’t be sad.”

Zhou Muxian looked up at Yu You in surprise. “Why?”

“Because I’ve never seen you cry, and I’ve never seen even a little sadness in your eyes.” Yu You said this with absolute certainty, her tone leaving no room for argument.

Zhou Muxian pouted. How was there no sadness in her eyes? When she had seen Yu You like that in the attic just now, she had been sad.

A flash of white light passed through her mind, and Zhou Muxian suddenly remembered some past events. She hurriedly asked Yu You excitedly for confirmation. “Then why did Sister always pity me when I pretended to be pitiful before?”

The moment these words left her mouth, Yu You was left unable to explain herself. She paused again and again before answering as if she did not care. “When did I ever pity you? Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Last time, when the Yu residence door was locked and I was at the gate, Sister…”

Before Zhou Muxian could pull out each incident one by one and talk about them, Yu You had already interrupted her through gritted teeth. “I said I didn’t! You’re not allowed to overthink it! They were all coincidences. Do you understand or not?”

“All right…”

Zhou Muxian responded somewhat dejectedly and took the opportunity to stand up. The instant her eyes lifted, she smiled and made another heart at Yu You.

“Sister, I swear, I will always treat you with sincerity.”

The curve of Yu You’s mouth could no longer be controlled and completely collapsed. She clicked her tongue again and turned her face away with a smile. “You don’t need to say it so many times. I’m not deaf.”

Seeing her smile again, Zhou Muxian felt a burst of excitement in her heart. She looked Yu You up and down, studying the black suit jacket on her.

Yu You caught her examining gaze and lowered her head in confusion. Very quickly, she reacted. “This isn’t some unknown piece of clothing. I bought it from the shop just now.”

“No, no. I think I lost my key just now. It might have slipped into this suit pocket.”

As Zhou Muxian spoke, she reached toward the pocket of the black suit jacket, her expression serious as she felt around inside it. Through the pocket, Yu You could clearly feel the strength and range of her searching.

Did looking for a key require such a big movement?

Realizing that her face was heating up, Yu You immediately turned her head and glared at Zhou Muxian, full of warning.

Zhou Muxian’s searching movements immediately stopped. Then her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said to Yu You as if relieved, “Found it, found it. I finally found it.”

Yu You thought the key really had slipped into the suit pocket, and that she had wrongly assumed Zhou Muxian had bad intentions. She inevitably felt a little embarrassed and was just about to turn her head away when—

“Hey!”

Zhou Muxian pulled her hand out of the suit pocket and made a tiny heart with her thumb and index finger at Yu You. Pretending to be excited, she cried, “Found it, found it! So it was my heart!”

The corners of Yu You’s mouth could no longer be suppressed, so she simply let them keep spreading all the way to her ears. Yet when she opened her mouth, she still struggled stubbornly. “So humorous. Did some ex teach you that?”

At the mention of the word “ex,” the two of them fell silent at the same time.

Not until a person carrying a video camera ran over, followed by a reporter in a white shirt who clearly intended to interview them, did the two hurriedly slip into a small path.

This was a corner at the northernmost side of the art district. Because the space was narrow, few people usually came here.

The two stood in this corner, almost face to face, less than a fist’s distance apart. They could smell each other’s scent clearly, and almost the instant their eyes met, both of their breathing unconsciously quickened.

Under clear daylight, in broad public view, this was not a good sign.

Zhou Muxian gritted her teeth and hurriedly threw out a topic to ease the ambiguous atmosphere. “Sister, that time at Spring Cherry Café, did you hate me?”

“Hate? Why would I hate you?” Yu You found the question extremely baffling. “I didn’t like you at that time. Why would I hate you because of your ambiguity with Princess Fenxiang?”

The meanings between the two of them were miles apart. After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Muxian simply chose to speak directly.

“Because of my appearance, Sister was already very sad and disappointed with this family. Under those circumstances, Sister would definitely treat Princess Fenxiang as a life-saving straw. But I heartlessly pierced Sister’s illusion, forcing Sister to face the cruel reality and suffer a double blow at the same time.”

Yu You had not expected Zhou Muxian to mean this. She had never thought about this question before. After carefully considering it, when she raised her eyes again, her expression was rarely serious.

“I actually think it was a good thing. At least I stopped my losses in time. If you had waited until I loved her so deeply I couldn’t pull myself out, until I treated her as the only light in my life, and then jumped out to expose everything, that would have hurt the most. I might even never have recovered from it.”

Zhou Muxian had not expected Yu You to praise her. Her eyes could not help brightening, and she asked for confirmation, “Is Sister praising me?”

“Who praised you? I mean, you didn’t do it deliberately, so what is there to blame you for?”

Yu You tried to make up for her own words, but after saying them, she realized there was no real connection between the two statements. For a moment, she felt somewhat awkward, afraid Zhou Muxian would seize on the small details and keep digging.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Muxian did not overthink it at all. Instead, she lowered her eyes, avoided Yu You’s gaze, and spoke in a voice as quiet as a mosquito. “What if I said I did it on purpose?”

“You deliberately wanted to make me suffer?” Yu You repeated in disbelief. In her mind, the vicious voice from before, the one that had said it wanted to drive her out of the house, involuntarily surfaced again.

Seeing that Yu You had misunderstood her meaning again, Zhou Muxian waved her hands repeatedly in panic. “How could I want to deliberately make Sister suffer?! I couldn’t stand seeing Sister’s feelings deceived by a bad woman, and I was afraid Sister would get hurt. That’s why I couldn’t resist exposing it. My purpose was to make Sister see clearly what kind of person Princess Fenxiang really was, so Sister could wake up.

“But now I also feel that Sister was too sad then. I shouldn’t have destroyed the support in Sister’s heart. I was really too reckless. At the very least, at the very least, I should have thought of some other gentler and more useful method.”

Zhou Muxian truly blamed herself. Back then, she had been immersed in the plot event and had completely ignored Yu You’s emotions. She had even felt that a paper character’s emotions did not matter.

As for when those emotions had become important, Zhou Muxian could not tell.

She only knew that now, and in the future, she wanted Yu You to be happy.

Seeing that Zhou Muxian’s face was truly written with self-reproach, Yu You reached out and rubbed Zhou Muxian’s head. When Zhou Muxian lifted her surprised eyes, Yu You pouted and withdrew her hand. “There are quite a few fallen leaves in winter. I was helping brush them off.”

Judging from the technique used to rub her head, this excuse was truly clumsy.

Zhou Muxian smiled and leaned her head over. “Yes, yes. How are there so many fallen leaves in winter? There are still a lot. Sister, help me.”

Seeing that her lie had been exposed, Yu You instinctively clenched her back teeth. Irritably, she pushed away Zhou Muxian’s approaching head and smiled as she complained, “Don’t you have hands yourself? I don’t help for free.”

“Then what does Sister want? Will this do?” As Zhou Muxian spoke, she straightened up and made a big heart toward Yu You.

Yu You was amused by her again. While waving away the heart that had been pushed in front of her, she turned away with a smile. “So annoying.”

Zhou Muxian followed her with a grin, all the way to the car, constantly telling clumsy, cheesy jokes that made Yu You laugh again and again.

At that moment, neither of them knew that the internet had already exploded, and Father Yu and Mother Yu were sitting in the living room, heavy-hearted, waiting for them to appear.