MORIC - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Going with the Flow

Xi Li's time for returning home each day was never fixed.

As a nine-to-five office worker, that job was a boring routine for someone like him.

There was little risk, and no need to make any special contributions to the Empire.

As an Alpha with B-level spiritual power, he wasn't required to go into combat.

At least in the eyes of Alphas his age, Xi Li had nothing to worry about.

If the sky were to fall, his mother in the Expeditionary Force would hold it up. He didn't have to worry about his younger siblings, and there were even people who liked the Xi family's children and tried to curry favor with him.

For instance, quite a few people were fond of his younger sister, Xi Zhoumeng.

After work, the blond Alpha would usually go to a tavern for a few drinks. His colleagues were mostly from prominent families, so their social circles had common ground, and they would exchange some harmless jokes.

And so, another day would pass.

Today, he had no special plans aside from his side business, but Xi Li hadn't expected to see the little Omega being led out by Li Rong the moment he walked through the door.

Coincidentally, it was the same one he had met before.

Chi Yueshan wasn't tall, but she didn't give off the impression of a paper-thin figure that would be blown over by the wind. On the contrary, she was rather lively. She seemed flighty at first glance, but she was actually quite polite.

The moment Xi Li looked over, Chi Yueshan greeted him.

Chi Yueshan had exchanged a few words with Xi Li last time during the re-matching, and she only felt that Xi Zhoumeng's eldest brother was a bit too slick.

But not to the point of being annoying.

Perhaps it was because everyone in this family was exceptionally good-looking, and they didn't have that annoying, disdainful gaze.

Chi Yueshan was very sensitive to such gazes. Even in the Lower World, people had to establish a pecking order.

Those with stable jobs mocked those without, shop owners mocked street sweepers, and street sweepers mocked trash collectors.

During her years of wandering, Chi Yueshan had long grown accustomed to these looks. Even after being with Zhou Fengqin, she would still subconsciously try to judge people's gazes.

Xi Li looked at her curiously. "Why are you here?"

He remembered that this little Omega wasn't on good terms with his sister yet. Even with their high compatibility rate, she still liked that big lug, Wen Xinghuo.

Li Rong answered first. "Miss Zhoumeng is going to teach Miss Chi flower arranging."

Xi Li tugged at his tie, his jacket hanging from his arm. His suit vest outlined his superior figure. Chi Yueshan was completely unimpressed and added defensively, "She offered to teach me."

Chi Yueshan's voice was crisp and actually made her sound quite young. Xi Li found it hard to imagine that Chi Yueshan and Xi Zhoumeng were only a year apart.

His youngest sister was indeed a bit too mature for her age.

Xi Li chuckled. "She knows how to teach people?"

The teasing in his words was obvious, and Li Rong didn't know how to respond. Xi Li asked, "So where are you going now? And where is she?"

Li Rong replied, "The young miss went to change her clothes."

Chi Yueshan sighed. She was a little anxious, very afraid that she wouldn't be able to get back.

Xi Li sighed as well. "She can take two hours to change."

The man knew the women in his family well. Even his mother, whom he remembered as very stern, still pursued a perfect appearance. Her time in the Expeditionary Force might have honed her into a decisive person, but she would still fret over a dress for a ball.

Not to mention someone like Xi Zhoumeng, who took pleasure in making people wait.

Xi Li said, "Don't wait. Just go to her room."

He pointed. "Go up now. Sister Li, you can bring the tools over later."

In a family like this, even the Alphas knew a thing or two about flower arranging, to say nothing of the fact that his ex-girlfriend had been an expert in the field.

Xi Li's tone was light and completely without airs. "Then, Xiao Yueshan, come upstairs with me."

Xi Li didn't look much like Xi Zhoumeng, and Chi Yueshan had only met him twice, but that didn't stop her from feeling that the two were similar in certain ways.

It was that lazy, bossy attitude—it was just too similar.

But Chi Yueshan was really in a hurry, so she went along.

It was Li Rong who was in a difficult position. "Miss Zhoumeng told me to take Miss Chi to the Flower House to wait first."

Xi Li waved his hand dismissively. "Just listen to me. It's not like you don't know how she loves to dawdle. Besides, the pipe in the Flower House hasn't been repaired yet, right?"

He was a bit taller than Xi Zhoumeng, about average for an Alpha. Li Rong was also a tall Beta. Among the three of them, Chi Yueshan was the shortest, so she completely missed the meaningful look Xi Li gave Li Rong.

Xi Li didn't know everything, but he knew that the compatibility rate between his sister with her problematic constitution and the Omega beside him was no lie.

Even though he had destroyed the real report, Xi Li was still certain of Xi Zhoumeng and Chi Yueshan's compatibility.

Even if Zhoumeng doesn't become an Alpha, having a 100% compatible Omega friend wouldn't be too boring, would it?

Xi Li's personality wasn't really that of a family's eldest son, but the three siblings below him were even more of a handful.

His third sister was a firecracker who loved to argue with Xi Li in the group chat for no reason. His second brother, though a married homebody, loved to gang up on Xi Li with their third sister at times like that.

Xi Zhoumeng was relatively quiet, but when she was being a handful, it was even more frightening. Xi Li would rather she find some amusement.

Did Chi Yueshan count as amusement?

She was a gift from fate.

Xi Li was happy to see it happen. He said to Chi Yueshan, "It's fine. You can just knock and go in."

After all, they were a one-hundred-percent match. Maybe his little sister really would turn into an Alpha. In that case, fate had already chosen a wife for her.

There were no worries at all.

Xi Li cheerfully sent her on her way, watching as Chi Yueshan pushed the door open before humming a tune as he went downstairs.

The Xi family's late-night snack was also lavish. A massive floating screen displayed a popular racing game. Xi Li played with abandon, completely forgetting the time.

The snack grew cold. The maid who had brought the flowers upstairs told Li Rong with some difficulty, "The young miss won't open the door."

Xi Li, who was maneuvering the steering wheel, heard her. "Then just leave it at the door. She'll get it when she needs it."

Once home, the blond Alpha had little of his aristocratic air left. Xi Li glanced upstairs and said with a smile, "Just let her be."

The maid had long known that while the young master was nominally in charge of this house, it was Xi Zhoumeng who really called the shots, so she waited obediently.

Late at night, it began to rain outside. Xi Li went back to his room to sleep.

On the second floor, Xi Zhoumeng's room was still filled with a thick tide of passion, as if two scents were mixed. The corrosive smell of rust churned as Chi Yueshan lay sprawled on the soft, velvet bed, sweat drenching her hair, painfully yet blissfully rejecting Xi Zhoumeng.

"Get away from me. Don't touch me anymore."

Xi Zhoumeng knelt beside her, her lips pecking intermittently at Chi Yueshan's heated gland. The stimulation was almost destructive; Chi Yueshan had no control over her body at all.

She struggled for a long time before finally grabbing Xi Zhoumeng's hand. "I'm saying... hey... isn't this bad?"

This person's bed was infinitely softer than the one at the academy, giving Chi Yueshan the feeling that she was sleeping on a cloud.

But the clouds were heavy, and an invisible force seemed to want to crush her. Every movement was like death by a thousand cuts, yet it also stimulated her through some kind of barrier.

Chi Yueshan was a mess of tears, the pillow soaked with her tears and saliva, but that was nothing compared to how terrifyingly wet the sheets were.

She could barely think straight.

Why?

How did this happen?

I clearly came to learn flower arranging, so how did I get 'flower-arranged' by Xi Zhoumeng?

She couldn't tell what kind of flower it was, only that she was being tormented by Xi Zhoumeng until she was flowing with pain, wetting someone's lips in the process.

"I... I still have to go back to the academy..."

Chi Yueshan was too ashamed to turn her head, burying her face in the pillow and shouting, her voice muffled.

Xi Zhoumeng sat beside her. If Chi Yueshan had turned her head just slightly, she would have realized something was wrong.

For example, why was this person holding a pillow just now, and why had she been the one serving her this entire time?

Aren't we both in heat?

This room should have been filled with Xi Zhoumeng's pheromones, but it was gradually being replaced by Chi Yueshan's.

The system had long since put itself into hibernation. Even if this wasn't real guns and live ammunition, the scene was enough to make it blush.

In the final second before hibernating, it gave itself a command.

To calculate Xi Zhoumeng's charm value.

This was the most useless of useless features in the remaining database. The usual transmigration setup involved protagonists, supporting characters, male leads, second male leads, female leads, second female leads, and villains.

Compared to charm value, favorability was more useful.

And charm value was useless in a plot-driven book, mostly used in some adult-oriented scripts.

The release of such stories often carried the author's personal preferences. What might be a moral issue in reality could be realized in the world of paper.

For example, body conquest.

Xi Zhoumeng didn't seem like this type of person at all. The system even felt that she seemed to have no sense of chastity.

She was excessively unrestrained, the "I do whatever I want" type.

【Host Charm Value: 87%】

The system groggily thought: So high. I seem to remember the average is eighty, and I'm not a universally charming system.

And where did this concept of 'average' come from...

Ah, forget it.

There are many components to charm, but soul charm carries the most weight.

It signifies the attractiveness of the very color of a person's soul.

Just like the manifestation of pheromones in this world, Xi Zhoumeng was morning mist, was air, extremely close to having no scent at all.

It was like the comment she had left before transmigrating: "Then what is real, after all?"

Like a fated pursuit, it had guided her here.

To encounter the person she had personally named.

"Then go back tomorrow."

Her hand touched Chi Yueshan's neck. The gland was red and swollen, a clear reaction to being in heat.

Generally, there are only two reasons for suppressants to fail: one, the medicine has expired; two, the Alpha has also entered their susceptible period.

"Tomorrow? I have an exam the day after tomorrow!"

Chi Yueshan had always gotten through her heat periods by taking drugs.

Drinking them, applying patches every day. Besides a bit of swelling down there, nothing could stop her from moving forward.

So she looked down on people who spent a week fooling around with their partners because of their heat.

But there were exceptions. At this moment, her shame pricked at her, constantly reminding her.

You did it with your love rival.

Not the marking kind of A-O behavior, but that... that... comforting... um.

But doesn't the internet say that even if O-Os do this, it can't suppress the heat reaction?

It's all about drinking a little, leaving a little, and then using it for fun.

And how can an Omega inject pheromones into another Omega? Even if, even if Xi Zhoumeng bit my gland, she can't mark me.

So strange.

Chi Yueshan turned her head, looking sideways at Xi Zhoumeng beside her.

The dream-O who always wore buttoned-up, belted outfits at school was now in a loose-fitting tank top. Because her skin was so fair, the red marks from being pinched were particularly glaring.

The wall lamp was pink, and the ambiguity seemed to become tangible. Accompanied by the sound of the rain outside and Xi Zhoumeng's gaze, it crashed into Chi Yueshan's heart.

It was as if the rain was falling inside her heart, pattering down and washing out a sense of loss.

I feel like I've lost something.

For a moment, she couldn't describe it.

Finally, she burst out crying with a wail.

Xi Zhoumeng grabbed her hand, took out some medicine from somewhere and applied it to her, gripping her rather un-gently. "What are you crying for?!"

"I told you I'll let you pass the exam. I've already been slept with by you, and you still don't know how to be nice to me."

When she lowered her eyes, her messy hair seemed to become tender, along with the red mole on her cheekbone, which looked like the tear of a red candle.

Under the glow of the wall lamp, it took on a distant flavor.

Here it comes again.

Chi Yueshan thought, Why do I always feel like I can't figure this person out?

Just like now. We've already done all this, yet she still seems so calm.

There was even a bite mark on Xi Zhoumeng's chest, one that Chi Yueshan had made.

At that time, Chi Yueshan had been bitten so uncomfortably that she couldn't help but fight back. And the young miss still felt the pain now, putting on a sour face as she finished applying medicine to Chi Yueshan before touching her own wound.

Chi Yueshan's tears simply wouldn't stop, and Xi Zhoumeng's irritation, whether from her heat or a susceptible period, continued to simmer.

She cursed, "Stop crying."

Chi Yueshan retorted, "You think I want to cry? I fucking can't stop!"

Xi Zhoumeng didn't even lift her eyelids. "So you spray my face?"

Chi Yueshan, having nothing left to lose, angrily shot back, "You think just anyone is lucky enough to be sprayed by me?"

Xi Zhoumeng's perfect facade from school seemed to crack, irritation creeping over it. Chi Yueshan wanted to tear it further, to see what this person was really like underneath.

This is bad. Why am I so curious about her?

Xi Zhoumeng: "Lucky?"

She might have really been in pain from the bite, and it was also ingrained in her soul to dislike being hurt. "I'm truly lucky to have met you."

This sentence was said through gritted teeth, her eyes staring at Chi Yueshan. Chi Yueshan felt as if she were about to be killed. The blanket was suddenly thrown off, and Xi Zhoumeng leaned over. She seemed genuinely angry, the frustration of not being satisfied making her expression both alluring and frantic. "Don't sleep. Finish your business, then we'll talk. I see you're alive again."

Chi Yueshan: "Fuck... bas-bastard Xi Zhoumeng, don't bite me... It hurts!!!"

The person kneeling beside her licked the blood from her lips. "Returned."

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