Daily Life Of A Socially Anxious Scumbag Alpha Raising Flowers - Chapter 3

Wen Xin, who was in the kitchen, knew nothing about what was about to happen. She liked cooking, and right now she was happily tossing the wok in the kitchen.

Although the ingredients were limited, she could still make do.

Technology in this world seemed to have developed quite quickly. Humanity’s staple food had long since become high-energy concentrated nutrient fluid that contained all the nutrients the human body needed. But because unprocessed vegetables and grains were far cheaper than nutrient fluid, some poor people who could not afford nutrient fluid still cooked at home.

For example, the original owner’s home had a kitchen…

When it came to food, Wen Xin was absolutely unwilling to settle.

Yesterday, when she had just transmigrated over and was familiarizing herself with the living room, she had already discovered rows of unknown liquid in the refrigerator. After looking it up online, she found out that the stuff was called concentrated nutrient fluid—and it was not cheap!

She had taken a tentative sip. The taste was all right, but it was only all right. The liquid was so sweet it was a little cloying, no different from drinking a beverage. It was not even as tasty as milk tea.

The moment she thought of having to drink this every day from now on, Wen Xin felt that this life was over.

So on the way back from the hospital, she had specially gone to a nearby fresh-food supermarket to buy ingredients and seasonings.

What should she make?

Tomato scrambled eggs, smooth mushroom chicken, and finally, a simple stir-fried choy sum.

After happily deciding on the menu, Wen Xin did not forget to turn her head every now and then while washing the vegetables to check whether Dong Xun was obediently sitting there.

The first few glances, everything was normal.

But just as she was about to let down her guard—

Wen Xin turned her head again.

Because of her shock, the basin in her hands, along with the vegetables she had just washed, fell to the floor with a loud clang.

“What are you doing?”

She ran out, looking at Dong Xun, her voice unconsciously trembling.

Dong Xun was taking off her clothes, one piece at a time. She was kneeling on the living room floor, and in front of her were all kinds of tools that made Wen Xin tremble with rage just from one glance.

Candles, shackles, whips…

Dong Xun lowered her head, as if she had turned a deaf ear to the outside world, mechanically continuing her actions.

Her outer clothes had already been fully removed.

On her upper body, so thin that her bones protruded, only a single bra remained.

Her exposed arms, waist, and abdomen were covered in bruises and wounds. There were also several marks that were obviously burns…

Wen Xin’s face turned red.

From anger.

She did not dare imagine how all these injuries had come about.

When she saw this scene with her own eyes, she only felt that the original owner truly deserved to die.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have decided to die on my own and caused trouble… I wasted the family’s money. I’m sorry…” Dong Xun lowered her head and apologized while her bony hands did not stop moving, reaching back to undo the clasp of her bra.

“Stop.”

Wen Xin closed her eyes, unable to endure any more, and grabbed her hands to stop her movements.

Dong Xun froze slightly. Then, seeming to think of something, she suddenly understood why Wen Xin had come out of the kitchen but still had not started hitting her. She abruptly lifted her head, her slightly trembling lips letting out a tiny voice. “I’m sorry. I forgot the lighter at home is broken… I’ll go out and buy one right away…”

She moved in a panic, wanting to stand, but because her legs had no strength, she fell into a warm embrace.

Wen Xin hugged her tightly and did not let go.

Dong Xun felt a warm liquid fall silently onto her shoulder and neck.

“Don’t be like this…”

Wen Xin’s voice carried a sob.

As a girl who had only just come of age not long ago, who had been pampered and raised like the pearl of her family’s palm since childhood, who would secretly cry until her blanket was wet just from watching cat meme videos, and who had normal empathy—how could she possibly remain unmoved after seeing such a scene?

She was helpless too.

She had suddenly arrived in a strange world, been swept into such a troublesome relationship, and nearly become the murderer in an abuse-and-homicide case.

Countless times, Wen Xin wanted to say to Dong Xun in her heart, I’m no longer that bastard who hurt you before. Don’t be afraid anymore. Don’t hurt yourself anymore.

And yet reality was that she could only find an excuse that did not sound too ridiculous to make Dong Xun stop being so afraid of her.

“After I woke up that day, I couldn’t remember anything. I only knew my name was Wen Xin. Even the fact that you’re my partner—I found that out from the information on my phone. I know I was a very bad person before, but from now on, I won’t hit you again. Really. I promise…”

Wen Xin could only apologize again and again, making pale, powerless promises over and over.

“So could you please believe me one more time? Don’t commit suicide anymore, and don’t torment yourself anymore…”

When the girl cried, she sounded like a cub, whimpering.

Utterly aggrieved.

Amnesia?

The moment Dong Xun heard that word, the first thing she felt was that it was absurd. She did not know whether Wen Xin had changed her tricks again.

No matter whether the amnesia was real or fake, she could only cooperate and treat it as true. Because an Omega would never have the right to say no to their partner. At least, she did not.

So she mumbled an agreement.

But her eyes were filled with a grayness without a single ripple.

She had heard promises like this countless times before, but every time, what greeted her afterward was still punches and kicks. Dong Xun’s heart had long since died. She would never hold even the slightest expectation toward her partner again.

But this time…

Something really seemed different.

Over the next two days, Wen Xin truly did not hit her again.

To Dong Xun, all of it was so unreal it felt like a dream.

The Alpha who always wore a fierce expression suddenly became gentle in tone. A small smile always seemed to rest unconsciously at the corner of her lips. Her gaze was no longer cold either. Instead, whenever their eyes met, she would be the first to look away quickly, as if she had been stung.

She even began taking the initiative to do household chores and had suddenly learned how to cook.

On the dining table were dishes Dong Xun had never seen before, all delicious.

Someone who, after coming home, only knew how to collapse onto the sofa, whose food was always nutrient fluid, and who had never even stepped into the kitchen, had suddenly mastered cooking and even made the food taste so good.

Was the person before her still Wen Xin?

In the darkness, Dong Xun turned her head to look at the person beside her.

Wen Xin’s breathing was even and long. She had already fallen asleep.

Even though she could not see anything clearly, Dong Xun’s gaze still did not move away. Because only under the cover of darkness did she dare look directly at Wen Xin like this.

Even if Wen Xin had lost her memory, how could someone’s personality change so drastically overnight?

Dong Xun could not understand it.

Thoughts drifted calmly through her mind. Dong Xun withdrew her gaze and silently closed her eyes, forcing herself to enter a state of sleep.

For someone who had long relied on sleeping pills to fall asleep, this was undoubtedly painful. But there was nothing she could do. Wen Xin had already confiscated all her sleeping pills.

Even though she felt no drowsiness at all, Dong Xun could only close her eyes helplessly.

…As for the current situation, everything had to be explained from the beginning.

Because Wen Xin was worried that Dong Xun would suddenly lose hope and commit suicide again when she was out of sight, she insisted that the two of them sleep in the same room at night.

It was Wen Xin’s first time sharing a bed with someone, and her heart was full of discomfort.

But at a time like this, she could not care that much. First, she had to ensure Dong Xun’s safety.

And because she was worried, she had made up her mind to wait until Dong Xun fell asleep before sleeping herself.

On top of that, she was more or less sensitive to unfamiliar beds. At first, Wen Xin thought it would probably be very difficult for her to fall asleep tonight.

However, the truth was that because her nerves had been stretched tight, because she had been constantly dealing with all kinds of situations since arriving in this world, because she had run around the hospital all day, and because her body had long since grown exhausted, after taking a hot shower, even when she lay down on a hard bed, the moment she suddenly relaxed and smelled the scent of Dong Xun’s white fir pheromones at the tip of her nose, she fell asleep in less than three minutes after closing her eyes.

“Xiao Mian…”

Her consciousness scattered. In that dizzy, hazy state, Wen Xin still thought she was at home, in her own bed. She instinctively stretched out her arm, pulled her sleeping buddy bear into her arms, and rubbed against it.

Because its body was very soft and fluffy, like cotton candy, the oversized stuffed bear named Xiong Xiao Mian had been a gift from Wen Xin’s mother during childhood. A habit built up over years was difficult to change. Even though she had already grown into an eighteen-year-old young lady, Wen Xin still childishly needed to hug her little bear before she could sleep peacefully.

Only, for Dong Xun, having a hand suddenly climb onto her waist in the darkness—and that hand belonging to Wen Xin—was simply no different from a cold, damp snake crawling onto her body. It was horrifying.

Dong Xun’s whole body stiffened, and she did not dare move.

The girl beside her, however, seemed to become even more insatiable as she moved closer, burying her fluffy head against Dong Xun’s shoulder and cheek and rubbing against her.

It tickled…

That strange warmth covering her skin was uncomfortable. Especially as the strength of that arm showed signs of tightening more and more…

But Dong Xun did not dare move. She was afraid of waking Wen Xin, so she forcibly endured that discomfort.

The body Wen Xin had locked in her arms was as rigid as a straight wooden plank.

Yet Dong Xun’s uncontrollable thoughts flew to the name Wen Xin had murmured in her sleep.

Xiao Mian…

Cheng Mian…

That was the name Wen Xin always shouted whenever she went mad after getting drunk.

The Omega who had grown up with her as a childhood sweetheart, the white moonlight Wen Xin held at the tip of her heart.

Wen Xin and that Omega named Cheng Mian had grown up together as childhood friends. They had once been lovers. If nothing unexpected had happened, they would have smoothly entered marriage.

Unfortunately, fate toyed with people. During her secondary differentiation, Cheng Mian went from a D-rank to a high-ranking B-rank Omega. Because of her excellent gene sequence, she leaped into the upper class of wealthy society, and the two of them had no choice but to separate.

Wen Xin, deeply aware that she was no longer worthy of the other woman, could not obtain what she wanted. She brooded over it, sinking into the mire of memories and pain, unable to free herself.

Sometimes…

When Wen Xin was at her most emotionally stirred—

Dong Xun had also once received a trace of pitiful tenderness from her. At those times, the murmurs by her ear had also been accompanied by the name Xiao Mian.

So Dong Xun had long known why Wen Xin had been willing to empty her savings and take out two hundred thousand to marry her.

She thought that she probably looked somewhat similar to that Omega named Cheng Mian.

That would explain why Wen Xin did not like her wearing dresses of any color other than white. It would explain why Wen Xin’s gaze always seemed to pass through her, looking at someone else. It would explain why Wen Xin never injured her face when she hit her…

Wen Xin truly liked Cheng Mian. She liked her so much that even after losing her memory and forgetting everything, she still remembered her name.

Dong Xun actually did not mind that her partner had someone else in her heart, because she had never hoped for love. When she first married Wen Xin, all she had wanted was mutual respect as spouses. As long as she had a place to shelter in, enough for her to live a stable life, that would have been enough.

And yet even that had become an extravagant hope.

After marriage, Wen Xin had already treated her Omega wife as one of her possessions. At the slightest displeasure, she would punch and kick her. Wen Xin felt that since she had paid two hundred thousand in betrothal money, whatever she did was only natural.

A line of clear tears fell from the corner of Dong Xun’s eye, dripping into the pillow and spreading into a damp patch.

Dong Xun used her other hand to press tightly over the position of her heart. Because she pressed so hard, pain also rose in her sternum.

Doing this seemed as if it really could offset the deeper pain in her flesh and blood.

Her heart seemed to no longer hurt so badly.

But why…

Did she still want to die so much?