Daily Life Of A Socially Anxious Scumbag Alpha Raising Flowers - Chapter 13

The TV was currently playing the entertainment channel Wen Xin especially loved watching. The news was not very interesting, but gossip news was extremely interesting.

[Popular young starlet Fu Mingyue is actually into Alphas? Paparazzi drop even more explosive material! Omegas across the nation are heartbroken and crying, causing the Green River’s water level to rise!]

[The strongest time-management master in history! An Omega from Jincheng has committed bigamy three times over the past twenty years, and all three partners failed to notice anything wrong for years! They pulled each other’s hair in the street and each declared that they were the true love! Is this the collapse of morality or the distortion of human nature?]

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The media in this world simply dared to report anything. All kinds of explosive news emerged one after another, and Wen Xin watched with great enjoyment while eating.

One second ago, she had been laughing so hard at the gossip news that she could barely contain herself. The next second, she immediately shut her split-open mouth.

[Top wealthy family, the Shen family, throws a grand birthday party for eldest daughter Shen Ran. Celebrities and elites from all walks of life receive invitations. Shen family head Shen Zhi publicly gifts her daughter 10% of Shen Group’s shares. Second Miss Shen Manjing and Third Miss Shen Youwei’s expressions are thought-provoking.]

The news showed footage from the banquet. It was all glittering gold and luxury, a scene of indulgence and extravagance.

Wen Xin could no longer laugh. She had lived two lives and still had not become rich.

Damn it. Couldn’t this world have just one more rich person, namely her?

“I’m not watching anymore.”

Wen Xin turned off the TV, losing interest, and focused on eating.

She could not help remembering how, when she used to have birthdays, her mother would also throw a party for her.

Although her family was not very rich, her mother would still invite many relatives and friends to their home to celebrate together.

Every time Wen Xin had a birthday, it was always the grandest affair. But when it was her mother’s or father’s own birthday, they would say they were too busy and that there was no need to celebrate.

They were busy, in truth, because they were busy earning money to treat her illness.

A long time ago, her mother had seen a comment online saying that children who received many blessings and praise would be healthier in both body and mind.

Because of that, her mother had taken those words to heart. From then on, every year on Wen Xin’s birthday, she insisted on carefully holding a party, inviting relatives, friends, colleagues… the more people came, the better. All for the sake of letting her daughter truly receive many blessings and break free from illness sooner, living a healthy and happy life.

Her mother was a very bold person. She said there were no ghosts in the world, yet believed there were gods who governed human joy and sorrow. Again and again, she prayed to the gods, willing to sacrifice everything she had in exchange for her daughter having a healthy body.

Unfortunately, in the end, Wen Xin had still left…

But in her short eighteen years of life, Wen Xin truly felt that she had been the happiest child under heaven, because her mother had given her the most presentable, most openly magnificent love in the world.

Wen Xin restrained herself from sinking into memories of the past. She turned her gaze toward Dong Xun and asked curiously, “Dong Xun, how did you celebrate your birthday before?”

“I don’t celebrate birthdays,” Dong Xun answered.

“Never? Not even once?”

“Mm.”

Because celebrating a birthday meant spending extra money, and in her family, where the money was spent was all planned by her mother. She was a product of gene programming, destined from birth to differentiate into a low-rank Omega. Added to that, her personality was silent and withdrawn, so she had never been likable since childhood…

Her mother did not like her.

There was also no investment value in her.

Dong Xun paused, then continued, “When my younger sister celebrated her birthday, the family wouldn’t invite people over and make a big scene like in the news either. Mother and Father would take my sister out to buy something she liked.”

Her original intention was to tell Wen Xin that, for ordinary families, birthdays were not really anything worth celebrating either.

But Wen Xin immediately seized the main point.

“Your family celebrated your sister’s birthday, but not yours?”

Wen Xin was very angry. She felt that Dong Xun’s parents were terribly biased.

Dong Xun’s expression, however, looked very calm. She had long since stopped having any extra expectations toward her parents. Without expectations, naturally, there would be no disappointment.

Wen Xin looked at Dong Xun’s face, yet for some reason, she felt that Dong Xun was sad.

She could not help hugging her.

Then she said softly, “From now on, I’ll celebrate your birthdays for you.”

Dong Xun felt the warmth covering her body. Her expression froze slightly, and her fingers moved uncontrollably.

Only after a long time did they lower again…

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A new video from [Cozy Flower-Raising Daily Life] was posted.

After receiving Wen Xin’s reply last time, KK had always had a vague sense of expectation, hoping the blogger would open sensory-sync permissions the next time she posted a video. So she set Wen Xin as a special follow.

She had thought Wen Xin would post another video, but she had not expected it to be so soon.

Early the next morning, after her smart terminal reminded her that her special follow had posted a video, KK tapped in almost instantly.

The moment she entered, she was assaulted by the domineering aroma of pork bone soup, and saliva began flooding her mouth uncontrollably.

KK had originally thought this soup was the main dish. Only after watching further did she learn that it was only the soup base for noodles.

She did not even dare imagine how delicious those noodles would be!

In truth, she usually made noodles too, but mostly mixed noodles. She would take refined, ready-made noodles and mix them with sauce, never once thinking of making noodles at home herself.

The noodles Wen Xin personally pulled in the video looked completely different from the noodles bought at the supermarket. Each strand was distinct, and after being soaked in pork bone soup, they gave off a pale yellow sheen. They looked very chewy and springy.

There was also that thing called wontons. Thin wrappers enveloping meat filling—just looking at them was enough to know they were delicious.

For the first time, KK felt that watching a video was a form of torture. Several times, she was so tempted that she wanted to skip the video and directly enter the holographic space, but she also could not bear to truly miss a single step.

Because this time, Wen Xin felt that many of the little points she rambled to Dong Xun about while cooking could be placed directly into the video. That way, she would save herself the effort of adding text afterward. So this time, there was no background music. Instead, she slightly blurred and processed the original voices of herself and Dong Xun in post-production.

Because of that, viewers watching the video could accurately hear Wen Xin talk about kneading dough, adding seasonings, how to control the heat, and all kinds of small details that needed attention.

Wen Xin’s originally clear and pleasant voice had been blurred, but even so, the people watching this video could feel the vitality she gave off when she spoke. Because her tone was always rising, lively, with a kind of clever, mischievous feeling. And her pronunciation was clear and standard, making people feel very comfortable listening to her.

What KK was most unwilling to miss were precisely those precious explanations.

She recorded every point Wen Xin mentioned that needed attention on her own smart terminal.

Finally, the video ended, and KK could not wait to enter the holographic space Wen Xin had opened permissions for.

The space was arranged very simply. It was just an empty dining table.

Because Wen Xin had activated privacy protection mode, sitting at the dining table, from KK’s perspective, she could only see two slender outlines. They were Wen Xin and Dong Xun respectively, but as a visitor, KK could not see any of Wen Xin’s or Dong Xun’s facial features.

The projection in the holographic space was a recreation of the scene when they were eating.

KK sat down at the seat specially reserved for visitors. In front of her was also a steaming bowl of wonton noodles.

She carefully picked up her chopsticks.

The noodles were springy and full of flavor. The wontons were fragrant and not greasy. The pork bone soup left a lingering aroma on her lips and teeth.

Simply! Too delicious!

KK had never eaten such food before. Wen Xin’s food was ten thousand times better than she had imagined.

If KK had come in from the start expecting to experience the taste of Wen Xin’s food, then many of the other viewers, who had been attracted by the harmonious AO relationship between Wen Xin and Dong Xun that looked so unreal it seemed acted, were suddenly caught off guard and bewitched by the fragrance.

This video came with the original audio.

The netizens who had already been emotionally broken by the previous video went completely insane while watching this one.

[Ah, does there really exist an Omega who can say this many words in one day?]

[Why does this Omega love smiling so much? In one short video, she laughed nine times! (PPS: 54 51 91 977. This only counts the times she laughed out loud.)]

[The Alpha beside her is completely an unromantic silent gourd. Other than saying okay, she only knows how to nod. How did an Alpha like that manage to find a partner like this?]

[Good heavens, I finally found my dream O. Country, please immediately assign me an identical one!]

[No, am I the only one curious about what the blogger is making? This meat filling smells so fragrant.]

If one were to say that during the earlier preparation work, everyone’s focus as viewers was mostly on the sweet atmosphere when Wen Xin and Dong Xun chatted, as well as the indescribable feeling flowing between the two of them when Wen Xin taught Dong Xun how to wrap wontons—something that inexplicably made people grin so hard their cheekbones flew up to heaven—

then many netizens who had questioned whether the two were acting had originally wanted to find some traces of performance in the way they interacted. Yet somehow, they uncontrollably sensed an aura that was very shippable.

By the time they reacted, they terrifyingly discovered that they were smiling foolishly.

Damn it. It was all because this little O was far too skilled! Without realizing it, they had actually been hooked…

However, the further the video went, the more the pork bone soup simmering slowly over low heat began to leak fragrance outward. The netizens could no longer remain calm.

[What smell is this? Why is it so fragrant?]

[The blogger opened sensory-sync permissions this time!]

[It’s soup boiled with pork bones? Aren’t pork bones supposed to be very fishy and smelly? How did they become so fragrant after being stewed into soup?]

When Wen Xin lifted the lid of the pot stewing the pork bone soup, the fragrance that had originally not been considered strong was suddenly fully released. The netizens could no longer hold it together. Their bodies’ instinctive cravings began clamoring.

The feeling of only being able to smell it but not eat it was truly too unbearable.

After they finally forced themselves to watch until the end, the wonton noodles were placed into bowls and served at the dining table.

At last, they could choose to jump into the holographic space. The netizens rushed over in a swarm, impatient to experience exactly what those wonton noodles that had made them so hungry tasted like.

For the new-century netizens who had long relied on nutrient fluid to maintain their vital signs, almost no one was not captured by this mouthful of explosively delicious wonton noodles.

The first bite stunned them with amazement. Immediately after that came storm-like inhaling. Almost everyone who entered Wen Xin’s holographic space went through this exact process.

But when everything ended, when their consciousness withdrew from the holographic space and that false feeling of fullness satisfied by delicious food scattered, what replaced it was an enormous emptiness.