Chapter 38

Chi Huan was worriedly spooning her rice, her face full of bright sadness. It was obvious she had something on her mind.

Rong Qing put down her utensils, pulled out a tissue to wipe her mouth, and adopted a conversational posture: “Spit it out. Why are you home today?”

Chi Huan hadn’t organized her talking points yet, and the question immediately made her tongue-tied.

“Did you run out of pocket money?”

Chi Huan: “?”

“Should I transfer you some more?”

“I ran out!” Chi Huan grabbed a tissue, hastily wiped her mouth, and ran over, rubbing her head against Rong Qing’s side like a sycophant. “Thank you, Mommy! Mommy is the best! There is only a mother’s love in this world~”

Rong Qing contemptuously pushed her away with one finger.

Chi Huan squatted next to her, hesitating before opening her mouth: “Mom, how did you and Zhao Lei… meet?”

Rong Qing thought she was agitated by the events of the day and had come here to gather intelligence.

“None of your business.”

“Aiya, just tell me a little bit~”

Rong Qing didn’t want to talk about it. Annoyed by her persistence, she snapped her finger against Chi Huan’s forehead: “Go to bed.”

Chi Huan covered her reddened forehead. She gave up. She had thought of dozens of reasons, none of which would fool Rong Qing. She decided to just tell the truth.

“It’s like this…” Chi Huan carefully watched her expression. “I have a friend who saw him in Country A a while ago.”

Rong Qing looked puzzled: “A while ago? I often go to Country A for business. He always goes with me. Is there a problem?”

Chi Huan said anxiously: “No, Mom, it’s like this: someone saw him hanging out with that Wu Chen, and Wu Chen’s subordinate handed him a bottle of white powder!”

The shame on Rong Qing’s face from being questioned about white powder by her daughter froze. She repeated to confirm: “Zhao Lei and Wu Chen?”

“Yes!” Chi Huan relayed Mu Wan’s original words as best as she could: “I don’t know if that person was telling the truth…”

Some things are better safe than sorry. Whether it was true or not, she should tell Rong Qing.

Only Rong Qing had the capacity to investigate the truth.

Rong Qing’s expression grew serious: “Which friend told you this?”

“Mu Wan.” Seeing Rong Qing didn’t recognize the name, she quickly added, “That’s Mu Yi’s little Omega. She was studying abroad.”

“I see.” Rong Qing lowered her eyes, masking the coldness beneath. After a moment, she patted Chi Huan’s hand and said in a gentler tone: “Go to sleep first. I’ll handle these things.”

Chi Huan sat still, blinking her eyes, and tentatively leaned in: “If… if you’re upset…”

Rong Qing looked up at her.

“…I can lend you my shoulder?” Chi Huan glanced at her own frail shoulder, secretly regretting not working out. She couldn’t help much now…

Rong Qing chuckled. Her slender finger poked her on the forehead: “Your mother is not that fragile. Go to sleep.”

Chi Huan covered her red spot and whined: “Oh.”

“I’ll transfer your pocket money tomorrow.”

Chi Huan immediately brightened up: “Okay! Chairwoman Rong is mighty!”

“Get lost!”

After dinner, Chi Huan washed up and rolled into bed. Just as she ​Read on BaiLianTales​was about to read a novel before sleeping, an unfamiliar WeChat account sent her a friend request.

Note: Mu Wan.

Chi Huan accepted and sent her a question mark.

[Barbecue Stall Boss Liu]: What’s up in the middle of the night? I don’t chat with Omegas who already have an Alpha late at night.

[Ultimate Beauty Huan]: I have something I want to tell you. Can we talk on the phone?

Convenient. What’s not convenient?

Chi Huan initiated a call request. It rang twice, and the call was picked up.

The background was quiet. It seemed Mu Yi wasn’t in the ward.

Chi Huan was curious about what Mu Wan wanted to tell her secretly.

Mu Wan’s voice was furtive, like a thief: “About Auntie Rong’s matter, I apologize for not telling you sooner.”

“What’s there to apologize for?” It was good enough that the person kindly came to inform them. Since nothing had happened yet, Chi Huan didn’t hold a grudge. “I haven’t even thanked you yet.”

“It’s not that…” Mu Wan began to stammer again.

Chi Huan didn’t hear clearly: “Hmm? What did you say?”

“Before… my brain suffered a trauma, and many memories became blurred. Not even I knew who I had met. I’ve been trying to piece together my memory, but it wasn’t working.”

So that’s it. Chi Huan sympathized: “It’s fine. Take your time. Mental illness isn’t a big deal, as long as it’s not fatal.”

Mu Wan was thoroughly numbed by her comforting but rude words, but there were some things she had kept bottled up for too long and was eager to vent.

“I used to think that too,” she sighed deeply, saying mournfully: “Later, I was struck by lightning… I originally thought it was just bad luck, but… after being struck by lightning, my memories actually started becoming clearer.”

That’s when she remembered the Zhao Lei incident and hurriedly came to tell Chi Huan.

Chi Huan mocked her mercilessly: “Well, well, well. Others heal by scraping out the poison, and you heal by being struck by lightning. Brother, you must have some bad karma hanging around you.”

“That’s not… that’s not the point,” Mu Wan hesitated for a long time before whispering, “After the original memories became clear, I realized that the memories in my head… increased…”

“What do you mean, increased?” Chi Huan took an apple from the fruit plate and bit into it, her words muffled by the chewing: “Could it be that you were so scatterbrained before that you forgot things you experienced?”

“…” Mu Wan was numb. “Say that again and I’m hanging up.”

“Don’t, I’m just joking. Go on.”

“Let me give you an example. I’m 21 this year, but I have memories of being 22… I remember things I’ve never experienced. Can you understand that?”

Chi Huan slowed her apple chewing: “What are you talking about?”

Isn’t this a perfect prophet?

“I don’t even dare to tell Mu Yi this. I’m truly afraid…”

“Afraid of what? Isn’t precognition a good thing?” Chi Huan said carelessly.

“Precognition my butt! That’s not my life anymore. What good is precognition to me?”

Banking on Chi Huan not understanding, Mu Wan poured out her bitterness.

“Now I’m afraid that the key to triggering these memories is being struck by lightning! If I have to be struck by lightning every time I remember something, who knows if I’ll always be this lucky? What if I’m turned into charcoal?!”

“That’s true,” Chi Huan consoled her. “Look on the bright side. Just carry a lightning rod with you from now on.”

Is that how you use a lightning rod? Mu Wan looked exasperated: “You’re trying to make sure I do get killed by lightning!”

Chi Huan clicked her tongue: “Tsk, if only this lightning had bailiantales.comeyes. I would definitely have a heart-to-heart with it and ask it to strike a specific person.”

“Who do you have a grudge against?” Mu Wan was puzzled. Chi Huan seemed carefree, yet she hated someone enough to resort to hoping for the metaphysical.

“It’s not a grudge,” Chi Huan threw the apple core in a parabola that landed accurately in the distant trash can. “Just a very annoying person. I wish she would be the one struck by lightning.”

“Who is it?”

“Chi Huan.”

“?????? Do you have a grudge against yourself?”

“Not me,” Chi Huan shuffled slowly into the bathroom to wash her hands. “The original Chi Huan. She was crazy, playing the stand-in trope, making me suffer the consequences.”

Mu Wan: “…………”

The more Chi Huan thought about it, the angrier she got: “That damn thing!”

The original person played games and dragged her here to take the blame. What is wrong with her?

Was university life too difficult? Was the dorm not comfortable enough? Why did she have to come here and suffer this aggravation?

A wave of resentment surged up. Chi Huan raved for five straight minutes, then realized her little friend hadn’t spoken for a long time.

Remembering that the other person was a fragile Omega, she was afraid she had scared her with her intensity and softened her voice.

“It’s nothing, nothing. I’m not cursing you. I’m just venting. Don’t worry about it.”

“…………”

Mu Wan asked in a strange voice, “What if the original Chi Huan is still alive?”

Chi Huan said without hesitation: “I’d run her over with a large bulldozer!”

Mu Wan: “…………”

Suddenly, going to work didn’t sound so bad anymore.

“No,” Mu Wan tried to justify herself. “How did ‘Chi Huan’ offend you? She did give you a place to stay…”

“I need her place to stay?” Chi Huan sneered. “I was living perfectly well in my original world. Because she was causing chaos here, making the world almost die with her, I was inexplicably dragged here.”

“Huh?”

“You know what’s more infuriating? The person who grabbed me told me they chose me because I was just as foolish as her!”

Mu Wan, who was indirectly insulted: “…”

“If she hadn’t been so stupid, I wouldn’t have been the one grabbed, would I?”

Mu Wan looked like she wanted to say something, but Chi Huan’s machine-gun fire of words cut her off.

“I’m furious! Who wants to be like that scumbag? I never play with people’s feelings, okay?” Chi Huan cursed vehemently. “If she liked Mu Yi, she should have just liked her properly. Why treat others like dirt? She deserved it…”

She was about to say she deserved to have her protagonist status revoked but remembered the other person was also from the book and stopped herself.

“If she’s still alive, I hope something bad happens to her.”

“…………”

Mu Wan instantly forgot what she wanted to say and raged: “It’s because you like Lu You, isn’t it!”

Chi Huan spat: “Pah! I do not! Can’t I just be a righteous person who speaks up when I see injustice?”

Mu Wan asked suspiciously: “Is that so?”

“Of course!” Chi Huan stood tall. “Would I [bailiantales.com]like an Omega who is blind? I look down on her for not seeing through a scumbag like ‘Chi Huan’!”

“Oh…” Mu Wan was half-convinced. “By the way, I also have…”

Ding-dong—

A new message arrived.

Chi Huan took down her phone and looked. It was a new message from Lu You.

[Lu]: Are you busy?

Chi Huan quickly used voice recognition: “Not busy, not busy!”

Mu Wan’s conversation was interrupted. She asked suspiciously: “Who are you talking to?”

“Huh?”

Chi Huan realized she was still on the phone. The phone was occupying the microphone, so voice recognition hadn’t worked. Her words hadn’t been recorded.

While manually retyping, she opened the call screen—

Hang up.

[Ultimate Beauty Huan]: ?

[Barbecue Stall Boss Liu]: I have something to do. Can’t chat right now.

[Ultimate Beauty Huan]: ???

[Ultimate Beauty Huan]: Do you seriously think I didn’t hear that? It’s Lu You, isn’t it? It must be her! You just want to talk to Lu You, that’s why you hung up on me!!

[Ultimate Beauty Huan]: Our friendship is over!!!