After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 10

This matter was the pain in her heart. Although she had escaped safely back then and stayed far away from that den of monsters, those few days of being locked up were simply the most unforgettable days of her life.

Principal Zheng’s introduction continued. Li Ran felt very interested in all of this and immediately wanted to go inside to try things out.

She tugged at Li Sheng’s hand, her “little lolita” voice calling out sweetly for mommy as she asked happily: “Mommy, can I go in and play?”

Li Sheng quickly snapped back to her senses and told her: “You have to ask Principal Zheng if you can.”

Before Ranran could even ask, Principal Zheng had already nodded and agreed with a smile: “Of course, Ranran, come on in.”

She had long noticed that the woman wearing sunglasses and a mask was standing still at the door, giving off a faint sense of sadness. Principal Zheng wasn’t sure if she was Li Sheng’s relative or friend, but either way, if she felt dissatisfied and said something, Li Sheng would always have more to consider.

Earlier, Mr. Guan had already briefed her on Li Sheng’s status; if she could keep Li Ran here, her kindergarten would truly be “gilded” with prestige.

Principal Zheng now offered a generous smile: “Both parents, please come in as well. Let’s take a look together.”

Mo Yueshuang hadn’t even adjusted to this new identity of “parent” before Li Sheng tugged at her sleeve. She soon heard Li Sheng whisper to her: “Is there something making you uncomfortable?”

“No, I’m fine.” Mo Yueshuang had completely emerged from her trip down memory lane. She looked at Li Sheng’s face so close at hand, and her heart, which had been steeped in sadness, suddenly gave an uncontrollable tremor.

Li Sheng couldn’t see her expression, but hearing that her tone was fine, she figured it was all right and didn’t pry further. After all, she wasn’t exactly a meddlesome person; she only cared about Mo Yueshuang for Ranran’s sake.

Mo Yueshuang stood outside the door looking at Li Sheng, thankful she was wearing sunglasses so people couldn’t see her reddened eyes.

“Auntie Mo~ Come quickly! I’ll play the piano for you.”

Hearing Ranran call her, Mo Yueshuang quickly dispelled all negative emotions and approached Ranran with a gentle smile.

When Ranran was abroad, her unreliable “unlikely friend” Miranda had taught her a bit.

Ranran was still young and could only play simple little tunes, but if one counted carefully, she knew seven or eight of them.

“Does it sound good?”

Mo Yueshuang nodded and praised: “It sounds beautiful. Ranran is so clever.”

Ranran hopped off the stool, ran to Mo Yueshuang’s side, and pulled her hand: “Auntie Mo, you come play too.”

Mo Yueshuang didn’t know how. Usually, when she encountered something she couldn’t do, she could say so quite frankly. But today, looking down at Ranran and knowing Li Sheng was right beside her, Mo Yueshuang suddenly wished she knew how.

But unfortunately, not knowing was not knowing.

“Ranran, I don’t know how to play the piano.”

Mo Yueshuang spoke the truth. Ranran didn’t find it a disappointment; instead, she pulled her over to sit down and urged: “Auntie Mo can just press some buttons randomly. That’s what Miranda told me when I didn’t know how.”

Mo Yueshuang didn’t know what to do. Would pressing keys randomly create some jarring noise?

Li Sheng was still present, and she didn’t want to lose too much face.

So, she carefully recalled the keys Li Ran had just played in her mind. Though Mo Yueshuang wasn’t practiced, she managed to reproduce the melody.

Li Ran immediately got angry. She hugged her small arms and took two steps back, looking at Li Sheng and then Mo Yueshuang like a little adult.

Mo Yueshuang didn’t understand what was wrong, until Ranran said huffily: “Auntie Mo is a liar just like Mommy. You clearly know how to play but lied to Ranran saying you didn’t.”

Li Sheng felt wronged. In her past life, she lived through wind and rain, blades and shadows, fighting for her life every day. She never had the chance or the mood to touch these refined, elegant arts.

After coming to this world, she didn’t care at first—until one day Ranran learned a new tune from Miranda and came back insisting she buy a piano and play it for her.

She listened and gave a few praises, then Ranran wanted her to play.

Li Sheng spoke the truth and told her daughter she didn’t know how.

Ranran, a little angel, encouraged her mommy to be brave and try even if she didn’t know.

Li Sheng didn’t want to lose face in front of her daughter, so relying on her incredible memory, she reproduced the tune Ranran had played with high accuracy.

From then on, she was labeled a liar.

Seeing her daughter huffily call Mo Yueshuang a liar, Li Sheng felt in high spirits for the first time since meeting Mo Yueshuang. Her mood was so good that the corners of her mouth turned up slightly in a faint smile.

Finally, in her daughter’s eyes, Mo Yueshuang was no longer a high-and-mighty goddess; she had also become a lying cheat.

Happiness!

Mo Yueshuang noticed the change in Li Sheng’s mood. She withdrew her hand from the piano keys and tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear unnaturally, the tip of her exposed ear blushing with shame.

“You’re not allowed to play the songs Ranran already played. You have to play something else!”

Little Li Ran could be very fierce when she was angry, like a tiger—albeit a very tiny one.

Li Sheng knew that Mo Yueshuang likely didn’t know how to play the piano just like her, but she was amazed by Mo Yueshuang’s memory. Back then, the time she had spent pausing to recall was twice as long as Mo Yueshuang’s, and her playing hadn’t been as fluid or coherent.

“Alright, Ranran, let’s go play again elsewhere, okay? We’re here for serious business today.”

Ranran was a good child. Hearing Li Sheng say this, she agreed, but she still walked up to Mo Yueshuang stubbornly, reached out her hand in a fist, then slowly extended her pinky to hook it: “Pinky swear!”

“Okay, pinky swear. We’ll play piano together next time, okay? You little puppy-liar.”

Mo Yueshuang breathed a sigh of relief while making the pinky promise with Li Ran.

Once little Ranran was coaxed, she stopped mentioning the matter. Mo Yueshuang only truly relaxed when she saw that Ranran seemed to have forgotten about it.

Afterward, Principal Zheng wanted to invite them to try the cafeteria, but Li Sheng politely declined.

Once the three of them were in the car, the precocious Li Ran leaned against the back seat, rubbing her little tummy and lamenting: “We didn’t get to eat the kindergarten lunch.”

“Your Auntie Mo is a big star; it’s not convenient for her to eat there. We’ll eat there next time when we come alone,” Li Sheng explained calmly to the child.

Though Ranran was still a bit reluctant, she was a considerate child. After a moment of regret, she tossed it to the back of her mind and continued scooting closer to Mo Yueshuang on the seat cushion.

A warm current flowed through Mo Yueshuang’s heart. So, Li Sheng saying they had urgent business to leave was actually to avoid the lunch.

“Ms. Mo, I’ll drive you back. Is it convenient to give me your home address?”

Li Sheng’s cool voice came again. Mo Yueshuang nodded and gave her address.

Li Ran huddled close to Mo Yueshuang, hugging her forearm and shaking it gently, asking with a smile: “Auntie Mo, can we stay at your house for dinner?”

Mo Yueshuang was suddenly stunned. She was often on the road. In the past, when work was busy, she wouldn’t return home once or twice in half a year. Although someone came to clean and tidy the house regularly, the kitchen was basically a decoration; she rarely cooked at home.

Occasionally when she was hungry, she’d eat some fruit. On the few occasions she was sick with a fever, she’d forced herself to make a bit of porridge.

Fortunately, even if the kitchen hadn’t been used, it was still a place that had to be cleaned.

“Of course you can, but there are no groceries at home. Ms. Li, could you stop somewhere nearby? We’ll buy some groceries to take back.”

Li Sheng hadn’t intended to crash at Mo Yueshuang’s for a meal, but the two in the back were already chatting about what dishes to make and what juice to prepare. Her opinion seemingly no longer mattered.

Li Sheng found a large supermarket to stop at, and soon the three of them entered the vegetable section.

Li Sheng hadn’t known how to do this in her past life. Most of the time when she was hungry, she just drank nutrient solutions—anything to maintain basic physical stamina.

She only learned to cook after coming to this world. To eat proper prenatal meals, she had enrolled in a class to learn.

Later, to raise the child, she learned to cook many home-style dishes and nutritional meals. Now, she moved through the vegetable section with ease, picking out vegetables seriously and carefully.

“Mommy, I want meat.”

The meat section was a bit of a walk away. Mo Yueshuang suggested she go over first to buy it, and they could meet up to check out later.

Unexpectedly, Li Sheng grabbed her wrist. Mo Yueshuang looked back at her. Li Sheng let go unnaturally and said somewhat stiffly: “No need. We’ll go together.”

At first, Mo Yueshuang was puzzled, until she saw Li Sheng carrying bag after bag in her hands while she was only responsible for holding Ranran. Mo Yueshuang understood everything.

Back in the car, Li Sheng sat in the driver’s seat and rolled her wrists. There were quite a few things; they weren’t exactly heavy, but it had been too long since she carried so much at once, and her wrists and arms weren’t quite used to it.

“Did you sprain it?” Mo Yueshuang asked with concern.

Li Sheng shook her hands and started the car, replying: “Don’t worry, I didn’t.”

“That’s good then. Don’t carry so much by yourself next time; you can give some to me.”

Hearing this, Li Sheng froze for a few seconds, then nodded and agreed stiffly: “Mm, I know.”

If it weren’t for Ranran’s sake, why would I go to your house for dinner? This is the first and last time.

Next time? Hah.

Too many tsundere psychological activities were hidden under Li Sheng’s poker face. Fortunately, she had spent years mastering the skill of keeping her face as still as a mountain while a storm raged in her heart, so Mo Yueshuang didn’t discover her internal contradictions.

Upon arriving at Mo Yueshuang’s home, little Ranran was very excited once they entered. However, when it came to changing shoes, because Mo Yueshuang’s home had never hosted a child, she could only wear oversized adult house slippers. This made it very difficult for Ranran to move; she almost tripped several times while running.

Fearing Ranran would truly fall, Mo Yueshuang asked Li Sheng and Ranran to wait for her at home while she went to a nearby mall to buy a pair of children’s slippers.

The shoes fit perfectly and featured Ranran’s favorite Nona cartoon character. Ranran happily ran to Mo Yueshuang’s side, took off the Nona mini-doll pendant hanging around her little neck, stood on her tiptoes, and held her hand high: “Auntie Mo, look, look! Ranran’s Nona guardian angel.”

Mo Yueshuang was very familiar with this. Years ago, when the animation was first imported into the country, she had actually done the dubbing for it. She just didn’t expect that after all these years, Nona was still so popular with children.

Mo Yueshuang specifically used the voice she had used for the dubbing back then to talk to Ranran.

“Hello there, little Li Ran.”

Ranran was stunned. Her small body took two steps back as her spirited eyes fluttered while looking at Mo Yueshuang: “It’s Nona! Mommy, come quickly! Auntie Mo is Ranran’s guardian angel.”

In the kitchen, the knife in Li Sheng’s hand almost slipped as she descaled the fish. According to the original plot of the novel, after her death, the child was sent by Ji Ruodong to be raised by the infertile Mo Yueshuang.

Thinking of this made Li Sheng feel extremely disgusted. she gave a curt reply: “Ranran, play with Ms. Mo for a bit. Mommy needs to focus on cooking the fish.”

“Okay, Mommy! Mommy, be careful not to cut your hand.”