MORIC - Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Who Burns the Hottest

Ling Xun never expected that just by attending a meeting on someone else's behalf, she would end up with another job.

At this moment, she suddenly understood the catchphrase Xi Shuang used to say all the time: 【I've never been so speechless in my life.】

Is being a secretary a job a human can do?

Can I really be Senior Xi's secretary?

Won't I be tortured to death?

Why did a job that even an AI would feel unqualified for fall to me?

But Ling Xun had no room to refuse. All the attendees at the meeting were high-ranking military officers.

If Xi Zhoumeng hadn't risen to power at such a time, she logically should have been promoted slowly from an ordinary officer, just like Xi Mingguang back in the day.

However, everyone knew that if she really had to go step by step, Xi Zhoumeng would never have chosen this profession in the first place.

She seemed like the type who, even as an Alpha, could justifiably squander her family's fortune and laze around like a salted fish.

This must be what it means to be a chosen one, right?

Ling Xun had no idea how she got back, only that her future seemed bleak.

Because the Commander wouldn't answer her communications, a group of subordinates didn't dare break down the door. Fortunately, Xi Zhoumeng always planned the next patrol during the previous meeting.

After leaving Planet Liduo Wente'er, the warship needed to pass through the wormhole between star systems to get to M-Galaxy.

Before that, the technical department needed to contact M-Galaxy again.

Even to land on M-Galaxy's capital planet, it would take at least fifteen hours.

Fifteen hours. Senior Xi should have woken up from her coma by then, right?

Even if she didn't, Yueshan should be able to come out...

Ling Xun was complaining to Xi Shuang in her rest cabin when she suddenly stopped.

On the other end, Xi Shuang chuckled. "I don't think it's a coma at all."

Even with the time difference with Ling Xun, Xi Shuang didn't mind much. She chatted with her cousin while munching on supplements. "Don't you find this scene familiar?"

Ling Xun hadn't thought of it at first, but with Xi Shuang's reminder, she recalled the time during their practical training when Xi Zhoumeng took Chi Yueshan away and they disappeared for a full five days.

No way!!

It can't be! As expected, your happiness is always built on the suffering of people like us.

Perhaps because Ling Xun rarely showed such an expression, Xi Shuang stopped her playful teasing and comforted her quite seriously, "Anyway, you like excitement, and following Xi Zhoumeng is definitely exciting. Just a little dangerous."

Ling Xun had followed Xi Shuang since she was little. In front of their elders, this person was the type to be very likable, as if she never had a gloomy moment.

If you were to talk about who had more of a "big sister" vibe, Ling Xun was probably the more stable one. After all, Xi Shuang loved to sling her arm over people's shoulders, and she walked with a swagger. Unless reminded, she wouldn't act properly.

Yet this person, a perfect model of a profligate heir, didn't want to inherit the family business and instead thought of protecting her home and country.

To this day, Ling Xun felt that most of her own persistence came from Xi Shuang's influence. Now, in the dead of night, a bit of Xi Shuang's unique sisterly stability actually peeked through.

"But you still have to take care of yourself. Zhoumeng is indeed reliable, but she's only human, and she's already under enough pressure."

Her voice remained clear even through the communication device. Ling Xun rolled over on her bed in the rest cabin and grunted in acknowledgment.

But Xi Shuang was still a bit indignant. "Why should you be her secretary? That deserves double the salary, no, ten times!"

"For being Xi Zhoumeng's secretary, even a breakup should count as a work-related injury."

Ling Xun laughed out loud. "Forget the breakup, I don't like anyone."

Xi Shuang: "Then why did you like Yueshan so much back then?"

Ling Xun: "I just liked her courage."

Daring to love and hate, completely unafraid of setbacks. She would declare her likes loudly, and her dislikes too.

Her rejections were also crystal clear.

Chi Yueshan was the black-and-white type, as if her life had no gray areas at all.

Yet she found an Alpha who was nothing but gray areas.

Such a love was truly novel.

But Ling Xun never yearned for it.

Xi Shuang: "True, she's like a little pepper. I definitely couldn't handle that."

She hissed, and upon learning that the warship's next stop was to land in M-Galaxy, she sighed with worry again. "There's no news from any other galaxies right now. They might have all been... you still have to be careful."

She started nagging again, and Ling Xun mercilessly hung up the call.

On the other end, Xi Shuang's words were cut off by a heartless beep. She cursed under her breath, then smiled helplessly.

Ling Xun exited the interface and saw a message Chi Yueshan had sent her a few minutes ago.

A simple "Sorry."

The next was a voice message, but it was Xi Zhoumeng's voice that came out.

"Busy. Figure it out yourselves."

Her voice sounded very suggestive, and Ling Xun thought to herself: My cousin was right.

But last time, these two went at it for five days. If it's five days again this time??

Then what about the Expeditionary Force?

Ling Xun had never been so anxious in her life. She sent this question to Chi Yueshan, though she phrased it more tactfully.

-Yueshan, we're landing on the capital planet of M-Galaxy in fifteen hours. Remember to remind Senior Xi.

There was no reply to this message.

The warship traveled through the stars, and Chi Yueshan felt like she was also being traveled through, back and forth.

She couldn't live and couldn't die. Begging for mercy would get her mouth blocked, and whimpering would be muffled by a hand. The sweet torture returned with a vengeance, and this time, the person who was much more lucid than before even reminded Chi Yueshan, "You said you liked my tail before."

Was it this kind of like, or that kind of like?

Xi Zhoumeng's maliciousness usually surfaced quite often, but she was generally subtly sarcastic, letting people realize the sting only after a while.

Now, her malice was a coordinated attack of hands, mouth, and tail, thoroughly plundering Chi Yueshan inside and out. Curses turned into a wet tangle, pouts into a tight, ten-fingered clasp, and anger was kissed away from her eyes. Even her tears were caught, and it felt as if her heart had been made to bloom like a flower.

Was she unhappy?

How could she be unhappy?

During a rare chat with Xuan Ping before, Chi Yueshan had been very interested in her and Mu Lai's story.

After all, she didn't know much about their past life. At that time, Xuan Ping had already become the accomplished Dr. Xuan Ping. A single Omega, whose achievements were so high that even a past divorce seemed to become a stain on her record.

This time, Xuan Ping had started over and was still with Mu Lai.

Chi Yueshan had asked her, "Don't you have many more options this time? It feels like there are plenty of people better than Senior Mu."

They wouldn't mess around, wouldn't be easily swayed, wouldn't be mama's boys, and so on.

Xuan Ping smiled faintly. She had cut her hair short, tucking it behind her ear to reveal a pomegranate flower earring.

She had nothing to do with being flashy, as if her "about to bloom" state came from within. No one knew, not even Mu Lai who had marked her, was worthy of truly entering the depths of her heart.

But why?

Xuan Ping: "Because you only fall passionately in love once, and I don't think I'll ever love someone with that kind of scorching heat again."

Chi Yueshan let out a "wow." Even though she had a child at such a young age, her eyes were still incomparably clear.

So this little green-eyed Omega had no idea how likable her wildness was, so vibrant that it could ignite infinite hope for the future.

She might be hope itself.

"I don't think I've ever been passionately in love."

Chi Yueshan muttered, then felt embarrassed and tried to change the subject to Xi Zhoumeng's plan to split her consciousness.

But unexpectedly, Xuan Ping pulled the topic back. "You haven't been passionately in love? You look like you're still passionately in love right now."

Xuan Ping looked at Chi Yueshan with a gentle smile. "Senior Xi is different from Mu Lai. She was resolute from the very beginning. She doesn't need to be painstakingly trained, nor does she make people feel like she's tasteless to keep but a pity to discard."

She looked at Chi Yueshan and said with a sincere smile, "Senior Xi is a self-polished pearl, and the final step of the process was to fall into your arms."

"As for Mu Lai, she's too foolish, too stupid, but the occasional sincerity she shows is the only thing that attracts me to her."

"The cost of training someone with a three-minute passion into a lifelong commitment is very high. Even with all my effort, I'm still cheating this time around."

Xuan Ping sighed and said to Chi Yueshan, "You should look in a mirror next time, Yueshan. Or record a video. Do you have any idea how scorching hot your gaze is when you look at Senior Xi?"

Do I?

But I really am easy to coax.

This rest cabin was different from their room at the Xi residence, and different from the house they had rented—no, that Xi Zhoumeng had bought—in the ZR-Galaxy.

But a soft mattress was Xi Zhoumeng's unchanging requirement. Now, Chi Yueshan was sinking into it, being kneaded into a puddle of water by the other person.

And yet, Xi Zhoumeng still called her fish meat.

Chi Yueshan: "You're calling me smelly."

Xi Zhoumeng laughed out loud.

Her spiritual power was indeed much stronger than before. Perhaps her relationship with the magnetic meteorite had reversed, so even after splitting her consciousness, she recovered much faster than before.

Seeing Chi Yueshan almost pass out, she considerately rolled over and started playing with her own tail.

"I'm praising you for being tender."

She still had one earring on, which had brushed against Chi Yueshan's body countless times, leaving fleeting red marks that were then erased by gentle lips and tongue.

Now she pointed at her face, contentedly playing with her tail, scratching from her chin to her neck and collarbone, then moving to scratch Chi Yueshan's body.

Chi Yueshan: "You can praise me?"

Chi Yueshan was ticklish as hell. It seemed that now that Xi Zhoumeng was better, she was starting up again.

But as soon as a shred or two of Xi Zhoumeng's rationality returned, she started putting on airs again. She rolled over, wanting to quickly take a shower. What kind of situation was this, after all!

Ling Xun had already urged her so many times!!!

Unfortunately, before she could get up, she was hooked back.

An AI robot on the side announced their real-time coordinates. Xi Zhoumeng held Chi Yueshan as she checked the information on her light-brain.

There was a long string of encrypted messages from Shen Yu.

Her breath was still hot, and her fingers were hot too. Chi Yueshan felt this person was a bit like the best-selling temperature-controlled humanoid dolls from before.

Cool in the summer, hot in the winter.

But the appearance of those things was truly uncomplimentary. After all, bionic technology was constantly improving, the price was not something ordinary people could afford, and there were regulations.

The more lifelike it was, the more certain it was not a bionic person, but likely for other purposes.

Xi Zhoumeng: "What are you muttering about, humanoid dolls?"

She casually replied to a few messages, raised an eyebrow when she saw the one saying Ling Xun would be her secretary from now on, then lowered her head to ask Chi Yueshan, "You're not satisfied with me?"

"You still want to buy a humanoid doll?"

She was a natural at putting on a tearful expression, completely at the level of a lead performer from the royal theater.

Chi Yueshan's brow twitched. She had a premonition that she was about to act up again and immediately got up to flee. But her waist was sore and her legs were weak. Even an Omega from M-Galaxy needed time to recover when facing this kind of beast.

Xi Zhoumeng got off the bed barefoot and scooped Chi Yueshan up. "It's fine, we still have six hours before we land. We have plenty of time."

The blonde Alpha pecked Chi Yueshan's lips, her words carrying a gentle chiding. "Don't you want to go back to the Capital Star? Always muttering about the Mecha Guild having a ton of things to do, and that you're just my pampered favorite with nothing to do here."

Xi Zhoumeng slowly carried her into the bathroom, disliked the cracked bathtub, moved the showerhead to the other side, and cupped Chi Yueshan's face under the falling water. "I'll have Ling Xun send you back first. Since you find me so annoying anyway."

Chi Yueshan was stunned for a moment. "What kind of scheme are you plotting now?"

"I'm warning you, Xi Zhoumeng, don't hide things from me. If our child ends up with a single parent, I will not hesitate to re—"

She never had the chance to finish her sentence before her lips were sealed.

Xi Zhoumeng's voice, mixed with the sound of water, was muffled, deep, and carried absolute confidence—

"What are you thinking about."

"How could my child possibly end up with a single parent."

"She'll just be the most pampered Omega."

Chi Yueshan: "Why an Omega!"

Xi Zhoumeng: "What's so good about being an Alpha? It's a thankless job. Look how much you despise me now?"

Chi Yueshan: "I don't."

Xi Zhoumeng: "Then hold me tighter."

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