MORIC - Chapter 106
Chapter 106: The Truth Session
Wen Xinghuo never expected Chi Yueshan to have such lofty aspirations, to the point where she had even thought about how many children Wen Xinghuo should have.
Perhaps this pureness was too amusing. Wen Xinghuo asked, "Then what about you and Xi Zhoumeng? Are you planning to advocate for O-O marriage?"
Chi Yueshan scoffed. She wasn't drunk. Even if she were, she would know that Xi Zhoumeng wasn't an Omega.
But she didn't know how to explain it to Wen Xinghuo, so she could only grumble, "She's so good at spending money. I have to earn money first before we can talk about that."
Perhaps it was because they both came from a previous world that they were in the same boat, financially speaking.
Wen Xinghuo hadn't expected Chi Yueshan to have this kind of ambition and asked her, "Then how long will you have to work for?"
Chi Yueshan sighed faintly. "Even if I sold myself, I couldn't afford to support Xi Zhoumeng."
Milk from one planet, perfume from another, some gold mine, some diamond workshop.
Xi Zhoumeng was a walking ATM, stirring up Chi Yueshan's competitive spirit so much that she couldn't suppress it.
In terms of wealth, she wasn't even qualified to compete, let alone support the other person.
She could only hope the Xi family would remain standing, lest a plot unfold where a rich young lady ends up on the streets, selling herself for love.
If that really happened, selling myself wouldn't be enough to buy Xi Zhoumeng's freedom, would it?
And I always get the feeling she would even enjoy it.
Chi Yueshan said, "Senior, it would be so great if you were an Alpha. At least as a military officer, the allowance is high, and they even assign you housing."
She stuffed another large mouthful of beef into her mouth. "Hmph, hmph, later I'm going to buy a scratch card and see if I can win a prize."
Her cheeks were puffed up. Perhaps having finally found an outlet to complain, she asked Wen Xinghuo, "Senior, when did you fall for the Princess?"
Thinking of Sheng Yangkui, she wasn't as angry as she had been at first. If only Sheng Yangkui had told her about this when school started.
Chi Yueshan might have gone mad.
Perhaps gains and losses in the world were fixed. Chi Yueshan had lost one destined connection, so she was bound to gain a new one.
Wen Xinghuo said, "I don't know either."
A person like her was shy even when talking about love. The smell of cheap soju was strong. At the next table, people were chugging from bottles, making the two of them seem exceptionally refined in comparison.
"It's just…"
Wen Xinghuo narrowed her eyes, the night wind lifting her long hair and ribbon. In truth, their first meeting was just a trigger.
Many times when Wen Xinghuo thought of Sheng Yangkui, what came to mind was her restrained care and the inextinguishable passion in her eyes during their rare encounters.
"I want to protect her."
Chi Yueshan said, "Oh," and added, "She does seem like the type to stir up one's protective instincts."
Even Chi Yueshan had to admit that while they were both Omegas, she herself was rough beyond measure.
Wen Xinghuo said, "She looks like she needs me."
Her tone softened a little. At school, whenever Chi Yueshan saw Wen Xinghuo, she only felt that the other girl was cold and indifferent no matter what she did.
She was the kind of reliable person who was always a sure thing. It was completely unexpected that she had such a side to her.
Chi Yueshan cupped her own burning face with both hands and thought it was truly wonderful.
Then, considering Sheng Yangkui's terrifying rebirth experience, she muttered, "I also don't get how she could still love you so much after you killed her."
What's wrong with her? Is she really not a masochist?
Although Senior is indeed very charming, damn it, she was killed! How can she still like her?
You people have such heavy tastes when it comes to romance.
I'm the only pure one, wuwuwu, but I've also been corrupted by Xi Zhoumeng.
Wen Xinghuo said, "There are still things she hasn't told me."
Chi Yueshan sighed. "Xi Zhoumeng also has things she hasn't told me."
She exchanged a look with Wen Xinghuo, then silently downed another glass. For a moment, she actually felt a sense of camaraderie in their shared misery.
It wasn't at all the kind of displeasure that came from thinking, 'how dare you keep secrets from me'.
It was just helplessness. They also knew that past must have been so deeply engraved and heart-wrenching that it was difficult for the person to even speak of it.
This time, Wen Xinghuo didn't get drunk. When Xi Zhoumeng came to pick them up, she saw Wen Xinghuo sitting on a low plastic stool, drinking in silence.
Chi Yueshan was sprawled on the white plastic table, showing Xi Zhoumeng the familiar back of her head.
It was already very late. Most of the customers had left, with only a few scattered tables still chatting.
The air still held the aroma of food, mixed with greasy smoke and the smell of cheap alcohol, which made Xi Zhoumeng frown.
She approached gracefully. Even alone, she had the air of a great lady arriving.
Even the young girl clearing leftovers at the side couldn't help but look at her.
Xi Zhoumeng asked, "What's with you two, drinking so much?"
The table was covered in empty bottles. Wen Xinghuo had already paid the bill. Xi Zhoumeng looked at Chi Yueshan's face while asking, "Wen Xinghuo, aren't you saving up for your wife anymore?"
Wen Xinghuo replied, "This little bit won't make a difference."
She also reeked of alcohol, but at least her emotions were stable. She hadn't dared to get drunk, afraid that some tragedy would occur and she'd have to pay for damages, so she forced herself to stay clear-headed.
Xi Zhoumeng handed her a card.
Wen Xinghuo looked up blankly.
The hotel written on it was clearly one of Xi Zhoumeng's properties, with flashy patterns and a gilt English name.
Xi Zhoumeng said, "I went through a lot of trouble to bring your wife out."
She smelled ridiculously fragrant from head to toe, and she was glowing with radiance. She had probably just had a beauty treatment.
Wen Xinghuo didn't react for a moment.
"What?"
Xi Zhoumeng picked up the already drunk Chi Yueshan, wondering why she hadn't gotten drunk before.
The little girl whimpered and tried to push Xi Zhoumeng away, but Xi Zhoumeng pinched her nose.
Then she sniffed the air, seemed to recognize who it was, and fell into her arms with peace of mind.
"Look."
Xi Zhoumeng's hovercar was parked by the roadside. The rear door's window lowered, revealing a face that haunted Wen Xinghuo's dreams.
Sheng Yangkui looked at her, seeming to want to speak but holding back.
Wen Xinghuo shot to her feet, knocking over the stool.
Xi Zhoumeng shook her head helplessly, thinking: What a boor.
Can these two really work out?
Can they be harmonious?
Today, she had timed it perfectly to "coincidentally" meet the Princess at the royal-designated beauty salon. Taking care of people up and down the chain had taken Xi Zhoumeng quite a bit of effort, and now she found she even had to worry about this.
Xi Zhoumeng instantly felt like she was the chief eunuch by the emperor's side, constantly scheming over these romantic trifles.
【System: You are indeed a eunuch.】
【Xi Zhoumeng: Piss off.】
She carried Chi Yueshan to the front passenger seat and, for once, sat in the driver's seat herself. She said to Wen Xinghuo, who had followed, "The four of us are staying out tonight."
She said it ambiguously. Anyone who didn't know better would think this was a damn foursome.
After Wen Xinghuo got in the car, Sheng Yangkui turned her face away again. She was wrapped in a thick shawl, her small face buried in its soft fluff, not letting Wen Xinghuo see any of her emotions.
Wen Xinghuo asked bluntly, "Why didn't you reply to my messages?"
Xi Zhoumeng was happy to watch the drama unfold and was also very grateful to Xi Shuang for providing the address.
It allowed her to witness the site where Wen Xinghuo had uprooted a utility pole, and she exaggerated it tenfold when she sent the news to Sheng Yangkui.
This was what made Sheng Yangkui, who was at the same salon for a beauty treatment, hurry to follow.
Even though the lady-in-waiting was directly under the Queen, in Xi Zhoumeng's view, that Queen with her poor health, who was a permanent resident at the hospital, probably didn't have many days left to live.
Everyone needs to find their next patron, right? Those who get it, get it.
Saying she was going with the Princess to her hotel's new club to try on new clothes was also a good excuse.
Now there were only two candidates for Queen left. Who wouldn't want to be on the winning team?
Sheng Yangkui's habit of getting so nervous she trembled whenever Wen Xinghuo got close hadn't changed at all.
The other day was purely because she was too relaxed. Now that she'd had time to process it, she started wringing her fingers again.
It was hard for Wen Xinghuo not to overthink.
She thought her fear was because of the previous life.
But why did she look at me like that then?
Sheng Yangkui said, "I didn't know… how… how to reply to you."
She didn't even look at Wen Xinghuo anymore, acting as if there was something outside the window worth studying.
Xi Zhoumeng was dying of laughter internally, wishing she could record this and play it back for Chi Yueshan.
She turned her head to look at the little Omega who was fast asleep and couldn't resist pinching Chi Yueshan's cheek again.
So heartless. Did you even consider that I might get jealous of you being with Wen Xinghuo?
I'm not a god.
Sigh, are you really this unconcerned? It makes me feel like there's nothing to be jealous about.
【System: Are you just deliberately finding something for Wen Xinghuo to do?】
【Xi Zhoumeng: Of course not. Isn't this to pry out Sheng Yangkui's secret? If you, you piece of trash, were even a little bit useful, I wouldn't have to go to such lengths…】
【System: I'm sorry, I will work harder.】
It was rare for it to be so honest, which made Xi Zhoumeng not have the heart to scold it, so she could only sigh.
【Xi Zhoumeng: What's your origin anyway? Don't tell me you're a living person, that would scare me to death.】
The system was silent for a long while, even it was suspicious of itself.
【System: If I were a person, how awkward would that be? It would feel like I'm eavesdropping on you. And why would that be?】
【Xi Zhoumeng: Yeah, why would that be?】
Wen Xinghuo said, "I want to talk things through with you properly."
Xi Zhoumeng looked straight ahead, chiming in to stir things up, "Yeah, it'll be fine once you talk it out. Look at Yueshan and me, aren't we getting along great?"
She even kissed Chi Yueshan's cheek, but unfortunately, Chi Yueshan was completely drunk and slapped her.
Xi Zhoumeng: …
The Xi family's businesses were spread across the galaxy and had nothing to do with low-key luxury. Everyone knew their ancestors were rich. In this generation, although the eldest and second brothers were slackers, the third sister was a workaholic.
Xi Zhoumeng had always just invested for fun. Specialized personnel would report to her periodically, and as long as she was aware of the situation, it was fine.
Even though Wen Xinghuo grew up with this person, she never expected this to also be Xi Zhoumeng's territory.
Xi Zhoumeng had arranged everything that needed to be arranged. They took a private passage directly. In the elevator, she said to Sheng Yangkui, "Want a drink?"
The glass borders of the elevator were carved with intricate patterns. Sheng Yangkui stared at the patterns, lost in thought.
Xi Zhoumeng said, "There are no people from the Queen watching you here."
She shrugged. "You should be glad that the permissions for light-brain communications are very high. They can't be monitored without special circumstances."
Sheng Yangkui looked at Xi Zhoumeng, who was supposedly supporting but was actually holding the drunk Chi Yueshan, and asked her, "Can you guarantee she won't find out?"
Even though the Queen's decline in this world followed the same trajectory as in her past life, Sheng Yangkui, the only one who knew how this thing invaded, was still terrified of the feeling of being controlled.
What inheritance? It was nothing more than an invasion of Zerg consciousness.
It completely stripped her of her human senses, yet left a wisp of her consciousness, calling it the "grace of inheritance" for the sake of a good name.
Grace for what?
A lower life form that developed intelligence still couldn't overcome human genes, so it used my jealousy to kill the people I liked and cared about?
What kind of grace is that?
It's made me so miserable now, so anxious, and afraid of repeating the same mistakes.
Sheng Yangkui would bite her lip whenever she was nervous. Wen Xinghuo stood to the side without a word. Seeing that she was about to bite her lip until it bled again, she took Sheng Yangkui's hand.
Xi Zhoumeng watched with a half-smile. "I can guarantee it. After all, she's about to die."
She said this coldly, completely devoid of the obligation her current status had to protect the Queen.
As if she were merely an undertaker standing by a bed in a morgue.
Wen Xinghuo understood, but she didn't say anything.
She had a faint feeling that of the four people present, only she and Chi Yueshan were completely in the dark.
There were big problems with both Xi Zhoumeng's and Sheng Yangkui's identities, and the information they possessed was enough to overturn Wen Xinghuo's understanding of the world.
She didn't think it was treasonous.
At least in the future Sheng Yangkui mentioned, all these people were gone.
Even though Wen Xinghuo was someone who didn't fear loneliness, she still felt that feeling was excessively desolate.
Sheng Yangkui's hand was held by Wen Xinghuo. The elevator doors opened, and the top-floor suite was completely in Xi Zhoumeng's style.
With one arm around Chi Yueshan's waist, she walked forward with light steps and could even make a graceful "please enter" gesture.
Even though the Xi family was noble enough, in Sheng Yangkui's eyes, Xi Zhoumeng's air was far from that of a noble.
It was as if she were the one sitting on the throne.
Or a madman who had walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Why would such a madman fall in love with an ordinary Omega?
Sheng Yangkui only thought for a few seconds before she understood.
Just as she cherished the gentleness beneath Wen Xinghuo's silence, perhaps the other side of Chi Yueshan beneath her flightiness was the reason Xi Zhoumeng would throw caution to the wind.
Xi Zhoumeng had participated in the entire design process of this hotel. Her bored "second youth" was always about doing whatever she thought of on a whim.
Xi Li, this slacker who seemed not to have a proper job, also had his own hobbies. They weren't related to making money, though; his gossip skills were so extreme he could totally be in intelligence.
Xi Zhoumeng's hobby was investing in Xi Yang, making money generate more money, letting interest compound, and then earning money from these people.
The floor-to-ceiling windows offered a view of the city's undying lights, and in the distance, the royal palace was like a jewel embedded high in the sky.
An AI robot opened the most expensive champagne and poured a glass for the reborn queen.
Then it poured another famous wine for the future great hero of the stars.
Xi Zhoumeng still didn't like alcohol. Cold-brewed tea was served in a crackle-glazed porcelain cup. She picked it up and fed a sip to Chi Yueshan.
Then she turned her head and said to Sheng Yangkui, "I won't disturb your wonderful evening. All of this is prepared for you two."
"Princess, I only want to ask you one thing."
"Back then, during the practical training on the dwarf planet, how did Chi Yueshan die?"
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