MORIC - Chapter 128
Chapter 128: Flashy Lingerie
When Xi Zhoumeng and Xi Li arrived, Li Rong told her that Xi Yang had already come over.
Xi Zhoumeng wasn't surprised; after all, she was the one who had asked Xi Yang for a favor.
But she hadn't expected her Third Sister's true nature to remain unchanged, wanting to use a model even at a time like this.
And it was for a custom fitting, no less; even a professional team had come.
At three in the morning, the entire lounge was brightly lit. Light reflectors, photographers, stylists, and makeup artists were all in place. The person in the center was clearly the object of her intended proposal.
Chi Yueshan was so sleepy she felt like she was about to drift off.
She knew it.
This wouldn't be so simple.
Her gratitude towards Xi Zhoumeng had turned into resentment after the exhausting posing.
Why do so much for no reason!
Back when you were my sponsor, you already had improper designs on me, and now you've even brought lingerie designers!
Thank goodness Sister Xi Yang isn't in the lingerie business. What's the point of something that feels like you're wearing nothing at all?
So embarrassing!!
The clicking of the camera shutter accompanied Xi Yang's directing voice. Just as Xi Zhoumeng arrived, she heard Xi Yang say, "Okay."
Chi Yueshan instantly went limp as if her bones had been removed, collapsing onto the cream-colored sofa and pulling the hat off her head with one hand.
"Sister, did I give you permission to take pictures?"
Xi Yang was happily looking at the preview photos when Xi Zhoumeng's chilly voice came through in the next second.
The coffee in her hand almost went flying.
Xi Li, with quick eyes and hands, steadied it and pulled away Xi Zhoumeng, whose face was dark, looking as if Xi Yang had used her wife as cheap labor.
"What are you doing, what are you doing? Don't shout so loudly in the middle of the night."
Xi Zhoumeng grunted, "Third Sister is so dedicated, working in the middle of the night."
Xi Yang was like a mouse that had seen a cat, stammering, "I was just... delivering the clothes and happened to..."
Xi Zhoumeng glanced at Chi Yueshan, who was curled up on the sofa. The girl was clearly exhausted and hadn't even noticed her return.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Happened to make Yueshan a model?"
She snorted, "She charges by the second."
Even Li Rong was startled. She didn't understand why the never-angry Xi Zhoumeng was suddenly so fierce.
Xi Yang didn't understand either and looked at Xi Li.
Xi Li whispered, "Sexually frustrated, you know."
Xi Yang: ...
She hasn't even become an Alpha yet and she already has an Alpha's damn attitude.
Plus, when she was an Omega, she was already a drama queen. Truly terrifying.
Xi Yang cleared her throat. "I'll transfer the money to Xiao Yueshan."
Xi Zhoumeng walked straight over and picked up the sleeping Chi Yueshan, not even noticing how unreasonably she was behaving at home. "She's priceless."
Chi Yueshan, in a daze, only felt herself being lifted into the air. She snapped her eyes open and saw Xi Zhoumeng's face.
"You're back?"
She was being held by Xi Zhoumeng, whose handbag was hanging from her wrist. A maid to the side was at a loss, not knowing whether to help.
Xi Zhoumeng hummed in affirmation.
Chi Yueshan was very embarrassed and said in a small voice, "Don't carry me. Why are you arguing with your sister? I was willing."
Xi Zhoumeng found those last three words very grating.
Why couldn't she have said that at a different time.
She said, "I'm willing too."
Chi Yueshan: "What?"
Xi Zhoumeng lowered her eyes. "I just want to carry you."
So childish that Chi Yueshan's mouth twitched.
She was truly sleepy. Inspecting a mecha was already strenuous, and changing clothes for a photoshoot was just as physically draining.
The surprise of "Xi Zhoumeng designed these clothes for me" had been completely worn away.
But Chi Yueshan wasn't angry. After all, the Xi family was very good to her.
There were no clichés like "I'll give you billions to leave our Zhoumeng."
Her brothers and sister were all easy to talk to and didn't put on any airs.
It wasn't like the cold atmosphere of the wealthy families in TV dramas; instead, it was lively and intimate.
So good.
It was the kind of family atmosphere Chi Yueshan had dreamed of, one that seemed to be intrinsically linked to the words "happy family."
And this home was given to her by Xi Zhoumeng.
Xi Zhoumeng's embrace was warm and steady, and that feeling of her being distant was swept away.
Chi Yueshan stopped struggling. She simply wrapped her arms around the other's neck, pressed against her chest, and asked teasingly, "Did you miss me?"
Normally, Xi Zhoumeng would have definitely denied it.
Perhaps because the vision of the future was both dangerous and alluring, she actually admitted it very straightforwardly.
This, in turn, made Chi Yueshan feel awkward.
The photoshoot was in the living room, just a spiral staircase away from Xi Zhoumeng's room one floor up.
A room full of people watched as the beautiful Omega in a gorgeous gown easily picked up the slightly smaller Omega and walked away.
Even though they were both Omegas, their looks and appearances were not at all discordant. It only made people feel they were a perfect match and wish them well.
Xi Li: "It's great to be young. So romantic."
Xi Yang sighed. "I'm going to make my husband carry me like this when I get back. By the way, Big Brother, do you have a wife?"
Xi Li: ...
Am I the big brother? I think I'm the little brother.
Chi Yueshan was so sleepy she was delirious, but she still knew she needed to bathe. "Don't put me on the bed, I still need to take a bath. Aiya, I got all dirty fixing the mecha, and Sister still said it was fine and to just change... One of the dresses got dirty. These outfits probably can't be washed directly, right..."
Her voice was laced with sleepiness. As Xi Zhoumeng walked down the stairs, the corridor lights turned on one by one. The door opened, and the lights in the room turned on in response.
The atmosphere seemed to condense into an intimacy that was oblivious to anyone else.
"Did you have your eyes on my bo|dy from the start, Xi Zhoumeng... I wasn't as good back then as I am now. I was always starving. The only good thing was that I wasn't born flat-chested..."
"My skin is much better now... and... and..."
As she spoke, she would forget what she was about to say. Her voice was like willow catkins, tickling Xi Zhoumeng's heart.
It clawed out the surging love that filled her chest, like a drop of sweetness after extreme suffering.
It was enough to form an ocean, pouring out all the pain that had always overflowed from Xi Zhoumeng in the past.
The sea of bitterness turned into a river of honey, flowing with the earnest words of the young woman hidden beneath Chi Yueshan's current ramblings.
She clearly didn't say "love," didn't say "like."
But it was care.
Confusion crept onto her beautiful face, and the warm breath from Chi Yueshan's mumbled words sprayed onto Xi Zhoumeng's chest.
"If only I were a little prettier... if only I were... a little more outstanding..."
"Originally, I didn't think it was a big deal that I came from the Lower World... People always have to work hard. If you don't have something, you work hard to get it. Before... before, I used to think there was something wrong with people who looked down on those from the Lower World..."
"But... it seems I've... I've also become that kind of person. I even feel terrified... It's so, so annoying..."
She mumbled on, extreme fatigue drawing out her lingering thoughts.
In this embrace, she poured them all out to Xi Zhoumeng without reservation, like scattering beans, filling the lake of Xi Zhoumeng's heart with ripples.
"I'm so good, it's in-inevitable that you l-like me."
Chi Yueshan's hands, wrapped around Xi Zhoumeng's neck, were about to let go, swaying back and forth.
"But you still... still have so much you don't tell me..."
"I know you're doing it for my own good, but... but I want to be closer to you..."
As she spoke, she started to choke up again. When Xi Zhoumeng placed her on the sofa, she refused, saying she hadn't bathed yet.
Xi Zhoumeng: "It doesn't matter if you haven't bathed. The sofa can be replaced, the bed can be replaced, everything here can be replaced."
She unzipped Chi Yueshan's dress.
That one glance in the livestream back then, a direct hit to her orientation, had already ravaged her heart into mush.
How could the Xi Zhoumeng of back then have imagined that a mere fleeting glimpse would lead to her obtaining a flower of love that belonged only to her.
From a casual sketch to a finished product.
She had never thought carefully about what the person on the other side of the screen actually looked like.
Just a passerby.
It didn't matter.
The passerby became a tangible person. They were both a crucial part of the restarted world.
Who cares about this world or that world? A world with Chi Yueshan is my world, the best future.
The sound of the zipper echoed in the quiet room.
Xi Zhoumeng leaned down, as if pulling apart an invisible barrier between worlds.
"Only you are irreplaceable, not for all the gold in the world."
Chi Yueshan leaned against the pillow. She squinted at the leaning Xi Zhoumeng and reached out to tug at the necklace on her neck.
She wouldn't be timid and fearful of leaving a red mark on the young lady's skin. Chi Yueshan only wanted to see the goddess from their first meeting, who was like a figure from a scroll painting, go crazy for her.
She forced Xi Zhoumeng to lower her head again and fiercely kissed her lipstick-covered lips.
That bit of red smudged onto Chi Yueshan's lips as well, like two pieces of sandpaper colliding—rough and primal.
Passion was but the most insignificant factor.
The most important thing was that their hearts were connected.
"It's not that I won't tell you, it's that I..."
Xi Zhoumeng held Chi Yueshan's hand. She had almost never been so shy to speak.
"If some accident happens later..."
Chi Yueshan could almost feel the sweat seeping from the other's palm, accompanied by Xi Zhoumeng's rapid breathing from her lack of composure.
"That me... might be very unsightly to you."
Chi Yueshan's hair was spread out on the pillow. Her face, sculpted by a top-tier makeup artist, was far more dazzling than her usual bare face. Every blink seemed to carry a pure yet bewitching charm.
"How unsightly?"
Chi Yueshan yawned, tracing Xi Zhoumeng's face with one hand, from her forehead downwards. "A wide forehead? Triangular eyes? A flat nose? Thick lips?"
Xi Zhoumeng shook her head. "The not-human kind."
Chi Yueshan: "As long as it's not a rat."
She turned over and almost rolled off. Xi Zhoumeng went to pull her, and they both fell onto the soft carpet.
Chi Yueshan laughed groggily. "The rats in the Lower World are very ram... rampant."
"When Master was still alive, she was the one who dealt with the rats. I... I was just in charge of watching."
"La-later, when I lived by myself, there were so many rats. You open the electricity meter box, and... you can't even imagine how they could breed so many."
"But there was no one to help me anymore."
As Chi Yueshan spoke, tears started falling again. She subconsciously raised a hand to cover her eyes.
"I had to force myself to deal with them, otherwise all my food would be stolen."
"But sometimes... I... I would wonder... am I a rat too?"
Chi Yueshan rarely had such sentimental moments. In the past, there was nowhere and no way to say it.
Even after coming to Guyun Academy and having friends—Xuan Ping was great—this was still hard to talk about.
It seemed there were specific ways of getting along with specific people.
But a lover is different.
They can be my everything.
My pain, my joy, my unbearable past.
Her hand was moved away. Xi Zhoumeng once again picked up Chi Yueshan, whose dress had been taken off.
"It's all in the past. Take a bath and get a good night's sleep."
"You have me from now on."
Chi Yueshan laughed. "You wouldn't live a hard life with me."
As she was lifted, she tugged at her own flashy lingerie.
"What were you thinking when you designed these things?"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Thinking of you."
For a moment, Chi Yueshan didn't know what to say.
Xi Zhoumeng got into the bath with her. Amidst the sound of water, she leaned to one side, her voice so soft Chi Yueshan could barely hear it.
"How do you know I couldn't handle it?"
Chi Yueshan: "Come on. You're pampered. Your food, clothes, housing, and transport all have to be top-tier. I really..."
Xi Zhoumeng shook her head. "If I had a choice, I would also want a life where I wasn't pampered but was loved by someone."
At first, the words sounded a bit punch-worthy, but in that instant, Chi Yueshan understood that this was what Xi Zhoumeng truly felt.
Xi Zhoumeng looked at the flower petals on the surface of the water and revealed an almost contented smile.
"With you, I can live through any kind of life."
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