After Transmigrating as an Alpha, the Omega Wife Insists on Cuddling - Chapter 11
As if possessed, Shen Huailü responded, “General Song, did you summon this humble concubine for something?”
She really had been led astray by Bai Manshuang. Recently, whenever they were free, she and Bai Manshuang had been watching a historical drama starring Bai Manshuang’s secret lover.
And last time, at the entrance of the Song residence, Song Zhuqiu had looked like a military officer again.
Shen Huailü was secretly annoyed.
This time, the alcohol had a strong delayed effect on Song Zhuqiu. Her consciousness was indeed clear, but only to the extent that she could recognize people.
Originally, all she had to do was keep her mouth shut, go home, and sleep. But she just had to go looking for conversation.
The light turned green.
After the car started moving, the two fell silent.
Shen Huailü drove quietly.
Song Zhuqiu seemed to have fallen asleep, her eyes closed.
The car drove into the Shen residence, and the two got out.
Song Zhuqiu’s car had already been delivered back by the designated driver.
“Look, don’t those two look like good sisters?”
Song Zhuqiu pointed at Shen Huailü’s white Mercedes and her own black Mercedes of the same model beside it.
Shen Huailü: “…”
Good sisters, huh. Very impressive.
Song Zhuqiu added, “Just like us.”
Shen Huailü shot Song Zhuqiu a coquettish glare.
The two entered the house together.
Song Zhuqiu was hungry.
Seeing her walk into the kitchen as if she knew the place well, Shen Huailü followed her in, lest the family kitchen suffer.
Song Zhuqiu suddenly turned her head. “My wife.”
Shen Huailü: “…”
Another conquest?
Song Zhuqiu immediately followed with, “Do you want noodles?” She pointed at the chicken soup on the stove.
Shen Huailü looked at her suspiciously.
The trip to pick up Song Zhuqiu had been tiring enough, and Song Zhuqiu was also infuriating.
Shen Huailü nodded.
She planned to collect a bit of interest first.
However, the rumored Eldest Miss Song had never lifted a finger for housework. The doubt flashed through Shen Huailü’s mind, but did not linger.
The servant who had followed them into the kitchen left after hearing Song Zhuqiu’s shocking statement—“my wife.”
By tomorrow, Shen Yunsheng and Zhou Yuyi would definitely know about it.
Song Zhuqiu rummaged through the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, then grinned. “The ingredients are complete.”
Song Zhuqiu put on disposable gloves, used a soup ladle to scoop out a piece of chicken breast from the clay pot, and shredded it.
She cut two sections of scallion whites and washed a few vegetables.
She poured some chicken soup into a small saucepan and turned on the stove.
Once it boiled, she added the shredded chicken. After letting it simmer for a while, she put in a handful of noodles.
She took a bowl, ladled in some of the soup base from the saucepan, gently stirred it a few times with a spoon to cool it down, and handed the bowl to Shen Huailü.
“Try it and see if the flavor is enough.”
Shen Huailü: “…”
Do you even know this is already prepared chicken soup?
Still, she did not reject the other woman’s kindness. Shen Huailü said, “It’s hot.”
The implication was obvious.
Song Zhuqiu: “?”
How could that be?
“Look, I can even hold the whole bottom of the bowl.” Song Zhuqiu was puzzled.
Omegas were still too delicate.
Shen Huailü: “…”
Completely unmoved.
She huffed and took Song Zhuqiu’s bowl, giving her face by taking a sip.
“Not bad.”
Her Shen family’s chef had always been skilled.
Hearing this, Song Zhuqiu beamed.
Shen Huailü: “…”
She was actually quite easy to coax.
Song Zhuqiu added the greens and scallion whites. After letting it boil a while longer, she turned off the heat.
She was still worried that the delicate Omega would not have the strength, so she carried one bowl in each hand to the dining table.
The two sat across from each other and slowly ate.
She had not cooked much, so Song Zhuqiu finished hers in a few mouthfuls.
Shen Huailü was still eating. She curled a loop of noodles around her chopsticks and slowly ate it, looking extremely elegant.
Song Zhuqiu stared at Shen Huailü. The other woman’s lips looked as though they had been coated with a layer of lip oil, unusually moist and glossy.
Shen Huailü noticed Song Zhuqiu’s gaze, suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, and continued eating.
After they finished eating, the two returned to the room.
It was already two in the morning. They normally did not work on weekends, but recently, both of them had been taking over their family companies and were thinking of adapting as quickly as possible.
Tomorrow was Monday. Shen Huailü had to inspect the business departments. When a company was too large, that was also troublesome. She had inspected several times already, yet there were still some departments she had not checked.
Song Zhuqiu, meanwhile, was about to begin a difficult business life. According to Song Zhi, she had to stay in this department for at least half a year before she could grasp the basics.
After Shen Huailü finished showering, she was about to blow-dry her hair, but ended up falling asleep curled on the sofa.
When Song Zhuqiu came out of the bathroom, what she saw was a beautiful woman reclining on her side.
She called out to Shen Huailü, but there was no response.
Helpless, Song Zhuqiu held Shen Huailü by the shoulders and let her forehead lean against her abdomen, then blow-dried her hair for her.
Shen Huailü could feel Song Zhuqiu moving her around.
Mm… she was helping her blow-dry her hair.
She did not want to move and allowed Song Zhuqiu to do as she pleased, sinking into sleep.
Song Zhuqiu threaded one hand through Shen Huailü’s hair while moving the hair dryer with the other.
The originally quiet room was filled with the machine’s whirring sound.
The smooth hair slipped through her fingertips, and Song Zhuqiu could not help rubbing it lightly.
A faint white plum fragrance seeped out. Song Zhuqiu tried hard to catch it, and only then did a few wisps of elegant fragrance brush past the tip of her nose.
The warm light in the room was dim, and faint moonlight shone in, falling over half of Shen Huailü’s body. The beauty of that instant was carved into Song Zhuqiu’s heart.
She picked Shen Huailü up. The other woman was far too light. Song Zhuqiu gently placed her on the bed, afraid of breaking this Omega, covered her properly with the quilt, then lay down on the other side of the bed.
Song Zhuqiu fell asleep instantly.
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The two of them were both very busy these days.
As the company president, Shen Huailü’s workload naturally could not be compared to Song Zhuqiu’s. Every day, she woke up more than an hour earlier than Song Zhuqiu.
Aside from the morning after their first night living together, when Song Zhuqiu had made a joke of herself because she had not adapted to another person’s schedule in the room, they never ran into each other awake in the morning again.
When Shen Huailü woke, Song Zhuqiu would still wake as well, then realize it was someone trustworthy and instantly fall back asleep. She did not even open her eyes.
This made Shen Huailü privately sigh that there was now a sleeping god in the house.
In truth, Shen Huailü simply woke up too early.
Recently, Shen Yunsheng and Zhou Yuyi had also been waking early, sometimes even earlier than Shen Huailü. They also returned home late, basically only coming back together around bedtime, and they frequently went on business trips.
Shen Huailü suspected that headquarters had expanded its core business and that the chairman and chairwoman needed to keep attending social engagements.
At Starstone Entertainment, aside from the department managers and the assistants and secretaries in the CEO’s office, no one knew who their company’s new boss was.
This boss wore sunglasses and a mask when inspecting every department, no less fully armed than the several award-winning actors and actresses in the film and television department. At least those few would not cover themselves up inside the company.
Some employees even suspected that one of the company’s actress colleagues had acquired the company, which was why she wrapped herself up so tightly while inspecting.
“Tell me, could it be Xue Wenfeng? Colleagues from other departments secretly took photos of the boss during inspections and posted them in the group. She really looks like her,” Employee A whispered with other colleagues in the pantry.
Employee B and Employee C: “…”
Are you blind? Their figures are so different. Best Actress Xue is extremely thin. They had heard from colleagues in the film and television department that Best Actress Xue had to slim down to a nearly skin-and-bones appearance for her recent new drama.
The company had contracts with two award-winning actresses. If it was not Xue Wenfeng, then it had to be the other one.
Recently, Starstone’s employees had been running wildly through the melon field of gossip.
In the idol department’s practice room.
The dance teacher kept scratching her chin with her finger and frowned. “Little A, you didn’t keep up with the first three eight-counts. Everyone, again.”
Shen Huailü and Assistant Yu quietly entered.
However, the walls of the practice room were all glass, so everyone discovered them as soon as they entered.
The trainees also loved gossip. When they saw the boss herself appear, they quickly stood properly and greeted her. “Good day, Boss.”
No one knew the boss’s surname, so everyone addressed her this way.
Assistant Yu, who was beside Shen Huailü, reminded them, “Continue practicing.”
Shen Huailü and her assistant watched the trainees’ complete preliminary selection dance, then left.
“The boss has such a good aura~ Maybe she could debut if she joined a talent show herself,” a trainee joked.
That day, Starstone’s forum section was still filled with reports about Shen Huailü inspecting each department.
Everyone was full of curiosity about Shen Huailü.
The most popular post was a two-choice poll: “Guess who the new boss is: Xue Wenfeng or Qi Si?”
Xue Wenfeng had over sixty percent of the votes.
There was one reply with zero likes: “Can’t it be someone else…”
Clearly, everyone believed it was an internal promotion and was eagerly waiting for the reveal.
There were also some bait posts: “At noon today, I ran into the boss in the women’s Alpha restroom in the cafeteria. She even took off her mask. It’s definitely Xue Wenfeng!!!”
Nonsense. First of all, Shen Huailü was an Omega. Second, she had yet to even find time to go eat in the cafeteria. Assistant Yu always brought food up for her and plated it properly. She would hurriedly eat a few bites before continuing work.
Her mother had just called to say she would not be home for dinner tonight. Shen Huailü had already gotten used to it these days. There was still Song Zhuqiu at home. Although the other woman had not eaten at home many times, having one more person around at least made it less lonely.
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Song Zhuqiu arrived at the department half an hour before clock-in time. The eight people were already working and seemed to have entered their state.
So strong, Song Zhuqiu sighed inwardly.
“What time did you all get here?” Song Zhuqiu asked Jiang Wu.
Jiang Wu’s fingers flew over the keyboard, and she found time to reply, “Around eight. It’s fine for you to arrive at this time too.”
Jiang Wu was also very busy today. It seemed she had connected with quite a few resources at the banquet, expanded her network, and still had a lot of messages left to handle, most of them private chats.
Sometimes, she would be talking on the phone with one person while chatting with others on WeChat.
When Jiang Wu was busy, no one guided Song Zhuqiu. The other woman had said that if no one had time for her, she could directly look at anyone’s computer. It was equivalent to everyone livestreaming their work to her, only they had no time to explain.
During working hours, no one did personal matters. No matter what business or department they were communicating with, everything could be shown to Song Zhuqiu, down to every chat record.
For the past few days, Song Zhuqiu had followed Jiang Wu, learning how she spoke to others.
There was someone responsible for autonomous driving business coordination whom Song Zhuqiu could not understand. It gave her a headache. There were heaps of professional terms and even program code. Being able to learn it within a year would already be a blessing. Fortunately, she had some foundation in advanced mathematics.
As lunch break approached, Song Zhuqiu’s eyes were tired. She wandered around the office, which was more than a thousand square meters.
In the corner, an astronomical telescope caught her attention. Its view was pointed downward.
She leaned over and looked into it.
Song Zhuqiu: “!”
She blinked and looked again.
She saw more than ten beautiful women lined up in formation, dancing in rather bold outfits.
Previously, Yu Zhixue seemed to have mentioned that the entertainment company she signed with was beside her family’s building. Was it this one? Their business scope was quite broad.
At lunchtime, several colleagues put down their work and went to the meeting room to eat together. Everyone began chattering and introducing that telescope to Song Zhuqiu.
It turned out it belonged to Brother Wang, who handled autonomous driving business coordination. He was under too much pressure at work and had accidentally discovered that the opposite building belonged to the domestic entertainment industry leader. Brother Wang had good eyesight, and from the office facing the neighboring building, a few floors below, he could often see the trainees signed by the company next door dancing.
He submitted a report to Chairman Song, and Assistant Cheng placed an ultra-clear astronomical telescope here for him, fixing it so it looked directly at the young idols’ dance practice room.
It was said that Assistant Cheng had discussed it with the other company’s boss. The other party knew there was no ill intent and did not mind. These trainees would be performing onstage anyway, with thousands or tens of thousands of audience members below.
The boss across the way felt that their company had no malicious intent and had even discussed it with them beforehand, informing them which practice room was being watched, so they agreed.
The boss across the way also told their trainees that there were audience members in the Song Group building. The trainees knew that anyone in a position higher than their practice room floor in the opposite building must have a high status, so they had no objections. They only hoped that when the talent show aired, the wealthy audience across the way would support them with money if they could.
There was actually such a story behind it. Song Zhuqiu silently sighed that it was magical.
After the introduction, the others also finished eating and returned to work one after another.
It was not that Song Zhuqiu could not eat a combat meal, but if she wanted to eat until she was full, she still needed some time.
Her phone rang.
“Qiuqiu! Are you at work? Want to eat together?”
She had just thought of Yu Zhixue when the other woman called.
Song Zhuqiu replied, “I’m at work, but I’m almost full.”
“Ah! Ah Ji came too! Then we’ll have to meet next time.” Yu Zhixue felt it was a pity.
Song Zhuqiu asked, “Which floor do you work on?”
“Thirty-fifth floor. Why? Speaking of which, the core employees’ workstations face the river. Employees like us who haven’t become popular yet have workstations facing your family’s building.
“And the most ridiculous part is that above this batch of new employees our company signed this year, there’s a whole section of practice rooms belonging to the company’s idol department. Sometimes those girls step so loudly that the floor shakes like thunder. My livestream fans even ask if it’s thundering.”
As Yu Zhixue spoke, she also found it funny. “I even gave feedback to my leader. She said that since someone happened to ask, she’d use it to promote the girls in the talent show… evil capitalism.”
What a coincidence?
Song Zhuqiu hurriedly said, “Then stand by the window and don’t move.”
She walked to the telescope, looked through it, and slowly moved it.
Down one more floor, then to the right, scanning the whole thirty-fifth-floor area across the way.
Found her!
“I can see you,” Song Zhuqiu said into the phone.
Yu Zhixue: “!?”
“You mean you can see me from across the street?” Yu Zhixue was at a loss.
Song Zhuqiu briefly explained, “We have an astronomical telescope here. I adjusted it and really saw you by the window. I can see most of your workstation. You all have one little cubicle each, right? The whole row beside you has that kind of layout.”
Yu Zhixue: “!”
She quickly grabbed Tang Ji by the collar and waved by the window.
But the two of them did not know exactly where Song Zhuqiu was.
Song Zhuqiu watched them foolishly greeting an empty spot in another direction.
She pushed open the window and stuck half her head out.
Yu Zhixue / Tang Ji: “!”
The three of them looked at each other and smiled foolishly.