MORIC - Chapter 120
Chapter 120: Who Ran Off Pregnant?
The System never expected that Xi Zhoumeng's first question after learning the truth would be this.
Even though it was just a mass of consciousness, it still felt a little shy.
【System: What's this about a child...】
Xi Zhoumeng was groggy, but not to the point of losing her mind.
"I heard you."
"So last time, it also happened during the practical training? I marked Chi Yueshan?"
【System: Mmm...】
【System: After the practical training, there was no turning back...】
It didn't know how to explain, so after the data was restored, it just let Xi Zhoumeng see for herself.
Meanwhile, Chi Yueshan waited by Xi Zhoumeng's bedside until late at night. Xi Li couldn't even be bothered to persuade her to leave anymore.
Chi Yueshan herself rarely got sick. A small cold or something similar would pass if she just endured it.
More than these minor ailments, she was afraid of her heat cycles. The accompanying feeling of being out of control made her complain to the heavens every time she showered.
Why was she born with such a body?
If I could choose, I wouldn't want this.
It's too weird.
But after getting together with Xi Zhoumeng, she didn't reject it as much anymore.
After all, Xi Zhoumeng seemed to have some kind of deficiency syndrome. Perhaps because she wasn't cared for by her mother as a child, she was very attached to that feeling.
Chi Yueshan thought again: Oh, well.
I like her anyway, so isn't it better that she likes it?
She had imagined many futures with Xi Zhoumeng.
For example, if Xi Zhoumeng still couldn't become an Alpha, it would be fine for them to stay together like this. When they got older, they could both take medicine, and that would be fine, right?
If she did become an Alpha, that girl would probably be the type to enjoy pleasure and detest work, just like Big Brother Xi Li, finding a job, slacking off, and then clocking out.
As long as she didn't go out and mess around, it would be fine.
As for me, I'll continue researching mechas. After getting my mecha master's certification, I could even open a studio or something.
Making money by relying on the Xi family's connections would be fine too.
How unambitious of me. But Xi Zhoumeng is even more unambitious, so it's fine, right?
But Chi Yueshan had never considered that Xi Zhoumeng would have an accident.
After all, this girl ate and drank well, went for a spa treatment three times a week, and even took care of that place.
In terms of wellness, she was far superior to Chi Yueshan.
She didn't drink excessively or smoke, just liked to drink milk, but she didn't get acne.
Although she was lazy, she wasn't that unwilling to move in bed.
She's great.
So, how could this happen?
Chi Yueshan had seen Xi Zhoumeng's pained expressions before, and she had asked about Xi Zhoumeng's feelings afterward.
At those times, the other girl seemed so much older than Chi Yueshan, her eyes filled with tolerance.
But it would vanish in an instant, and she would maliciously pinch Chi Yueshan's butt, sliding her hand back and forth, using the slickness on her hand to mock Chi Yueshan's wetness.
Hmph, as if she wasn't the same.
Now, the clock's hands had passed twelve. Hong Sa had also gone to rest. Occasionally, a maid would walk past the door, but her steps were light.
Xi Zhoumeng lay on the bed, her long hair spread over the green silk pillowcase. Only then did Chi Yueshan suddenly notice that a bit of blonde hair had grown out at the roots.
Why does this person dye her hair?
And she dyes it every day. Anyone who didn't know better would think the extra blonde hair in the room belonged to some lover.
Psycho.
And even someone like Senior Wen, who grew up with her, didn't know her real hair color.
Blonde hair isn't ugly.
Big Brother Xi Li's blonde hair was a bit flamboyant, but Xi Zhoumeng's blonde hair?
After showering, Chi Yueshan lay down on the bed. She desperately wanted Xi Zhoumeng to wake up. She slipped under the other girl's covers and just stared at her.
What was she like before?
Was she as pretty as she is now?
She always sounded so sad.
One could tell her family didn't treat her well, but her demeanor showed she wasn't short on money.
There were almost no people who were both proud and arrogant yet unattractive. Xi Zhoumeng was definitely the beautiful type.
Besides, deep down, she was actually quite gentle.
How could no one like a person like that?
Chi Yueshan scooted forward again to smell Xi Zhoumeng's scent.
Only the two of them were left in the bedroom. The wall sconces were new, cast in bronze to form layers of ripples, as if furnace fire had fallen into them, hot enough to brand a pattern even on the bronze.
The quieter it was, the faster Chi Yueshan's heart beat.
She even cursed herself.
"So pathetic."
Why do I like Xi Zhoumeng so much?
There were quiet times when they were together, but the noisy times were more frequent. Sometimes, they even felt it was too quiet and would start a quarrel.
They would argue so loudly that Xi Mingguang, who was still at home, would pass by, think something was wrong, and come in to mediate, only to be driven out by Xi Zhoumeng.
I like that Xi Zhoumeng is beautiful, I like the sound of her voice, I like her effortless confidence no matter the situation.
And the way Xi Zhoumeng looks at me is always different from how she looks at others.
Others.
Me.
Xi Zhoumeng clearly loves me too, it's just that she doesn't seem to understand what love is.
Her apparent effortlessness turned into clumsiness at times like this. It's just that she was older than Chi Yueshan and put on a perfect act, something Chi Yueshan had only recently sensed.
Xi Zhoumeng is very insecure.
She could give Chi Yueshan the greatest tolerance, never interfering with any of her decisions.
Like Chi Yueshan's tattoo. Xuan Ping had previously asked in a low voice, "Now that you're with Senior Xi, aren't you going to get your tattoo removed?"
After saying that, Xuan Ping felt a bit awkward and added an explanation: "I know it's your freedom, but in a relationship, there's possessiveness and stuff, so it must be a little hard to get used to, right?"
Would Xi Zhoumeng?
Chi Yueshan had asked, and Xi Zhoumeng said it would make her more excited.
It seemed to be true.
But she did indeed space out sometimes, and would bite down hard.
This feigned indifference, was it something she couldn't control either?
Chi Yueshan thought, Then I'll just go get it removed.
She didn't see Xi Zhoumeng get particularly happy about it.
But only Chi Yueshan in the whole world knew.
Xi Zhoumeng's silent clinginess and possessiveness.
She would pretend to be magnanimous while getting angry by herself. If Chi Yueshan wasn't observant, she would never notice.
Outside, it started to rain again, pattering against the window.
Chi Yueshan couldn't resist stroking Xi Zhoumeng's hair, couldn't resist kissing her face.
If only people could really enter dreams.
I really want to see what Xi Zhoumeng dreams about.
"Am I in your dreams?"
Chi Yueshan snuggled close to Xi Zhoumeng, her finger tapping the hemostatic patch, stroking it unconsciously as the drowsiness of the night crept over her.
I have class tomorrow, I can't take a day off.
But what if Xi Zhoumeng still isn't awake tomorrow?
Xi Zhoumeng really did wake up the next day.
But it was after Chi Yueshan had left for school.
Xi Li had overslept that morning. Figuring there was no difference between being five minutes late and being a whole morning late, he decided not to go in at all.
His sister got up and was already dolled up. Xi Zhoumeng even had the leisure to have an AI robot do her nails. While drinking the medicine Hong Sa gave her, she answered the Alpha military doctor's questions.
Hong Sa: "Are you feeling uncomfortable in any other way?"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Dizzy."
Xi Li watched as the robot painted a streak of bright red on her hand.
Three. Two. One. Bang.
The robot fell to the ground, sounding an alarm.
Xi Li: ...
I think it's her heart that's uncomfortable.
So angry this early in the morning?
Hong Sa was also speechless.
"What's wrong? Besides being dizzy, is there any other discomfort?"
Xi Zhoumeng wiped off the red streak. The mirror reflected her overly exquisite face and her faded hair, and she frowned.
"I need to touch up my color again."
Hong Sa: "Do you have any uncontrollable impulses?"
She was completely unaffected by Xi Zhoumeng's unreasonable antics.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Yes."
Hong Sa: "Be specific."
Xi Zhoumeng shook her head again. "Just give me an suppressant shot."
Hong Sa sighed. "Zhoumeng, I'm a doctor. You need to be honest with me."
Xi Zhoumeng: "I don't want to become an Alpha. Is there any way to completely eliminate this possibility?"
Xi Li let out a loud "Ah!" "What's wrong with you? Are you really planning an O-O relationship?"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Are you going to kick me out of the house then?"
Xi Li waved his hand. "How would I dare? Am I worthy? I'm not even the biological child."
If Chi Yueshan were there, she would definitely think that the Xi family's passive-aggressiveness was a family trait, unrelated to blood ties.
Xi Zhoumeng: "As an Alpha, do you have to have children with an Omega?"
She clasped her hands, not quite making a fist, but it allowed Hong Sa and Xi Li to feel her rarely exposed helplessness.
Xi Li found this novel and said with a smile, "That depends on the compatibility. The higher the compatibility, the more outstanding the child will be."
As expected of someone from the civil affairs department, he was very knowledgeable about this.
"It's possible to not have children with a low compatibility rate, but it's impossible to not have children with a high compatibility rate."
Xi Li picked up his coffee cup, sighed again, and gave a sly, teasing wink. "Don't tell me you're thinking this way because you're afraid of having a child."
Hong Sa: "You're different from others. I have no basis for judgment."
"Even though your grandmother's pheromones changed to an Omega's back then, Mingguang had already been born."
"Mingguang was healthy, so she was relieved."
"It's just that her own Zerg Radiation was too severe, and she passed away not long after."
Hong Sa was even older than the grandmother, and she always felt a bit wistful when mentioning old matters.
Xi Zhoumeng asked again, "So if I remain an Omega and haven't experienced Zerg Radiation, will I still not live long?"
After asking, she sighed again. "That's an A-O union. Can't they just not have children?"
Xi Li: "Then just don't permanently mark anyone."
Big Brother shook his head. "That's too cruel to the Omega. That's scumbag behavior."
Xi Zhoumeng: ...
Xi Li also understood why Xi Zhoumeng was asking this. "You don't want to have a child with Yueshan, do you?"
He, on the other hand, was quite looking forward to it. "I wonder who a child between you two would take after. Preferably not you. I can't handle one of you as it is."
Xi Zhoumeng's mind still wasn't clear.
Because it was filled with too much information. The segment the System had transmitted to her wasn't drastically different from the current timeline, but it was different nonetheless.
【One of the biggest differences is that I, this System, didn't exist back then.】
【You didn't know Sheng Yangkui was reborn, nor did you have any intention of setting her up with Wen Xinghuo.】
The System's AI voice was tinged with a human-like quality, as if trying to hide something.
【You were so wicked, just wanting to watch the drama unfold, but in the end, you still fell for Chi Yueshan.】
【But the reborn Sheng Yangkui still couldn't stop the consciousness invasion. During the practical training, your pheromones went berserk, and you... completed the marking with Chi Yueshan...】
【At that time, the Zerg Tide came early, and another anomaly occurred. You were separated in the aftermath.】
【When you met again, Chi Yueshan had already given birth. You still spent a long time together, it was sort of... a marriage before love, hmm, not really.】
【Anyway, the Zerg were rampant, countless planets were destroyed, and Sheng Yangkui used her last bit of consciousness to send a message, telling Wen Xinghuo to kill her.】
【But it was all too late.】
【In the final battle, you stood at the very front...】
Xi Zhoumeng thought: How could I die for someone else?
But that person was Chi Yueshan, so she wasn't just "someone else."
What kind of "marked and ran off pregnant" plot is this? It's too dramatic.
The normal progression should have been a smooth HE, how did it end up with almost everyone wiped out?
To Xi Zhoumeng, that memory was like a branch of this world; she had foreseen one of the endings in advance.
The System, which had gone through great pains to send her back and had accompanied her for so many years, hoped she could completely reverse the outcome.
【After all, only you can unleash the power of the Magnetic Star Meteorite.】
【The legendary God's Arbiter.】
Xi Zhoumeng hadn't remembered this title for so many years that it even felt a little unfamiliar.
So much so that on this morning, the deepest impression in her daze wasn't how to rewrite the ending, nor was it lamenting that terrible ending where the whole world fell asleep.
Nor was it the shock that this world was neither a transmigration into a book nor a rewrite.
It was a rewind from the long slumber in the dreams of millions. If Xi Zhoumeng succeeded, all these regrets could be resolved.
"My child, of course, must have my beauty."
Xi Zhoumeng said it as if it were a matter of course. Even though Xi Li was long accustomed to her vanity, he was still choked up by it.
But Xi Zhoumeng remembered the face of that three-year-old child.
It was still a great regret.
Why did the child look so much like me? A child born by Chi Yueshan should look like her.
Where on earth did that girl disappear to during that time in the memory, and how did she give birth? None of this was made clear.
This mass of consciousness, the System, which carried a bit of its master's personality, was completely unapologetic.
【This is all she wanted to show you.】
Meaning, the other party didn't want her to see it.
Xi Zhoumeng asked many questions.
For example, if the rewrite is successful, what happens to the two worlds?
【It's just a side quest in a game. Haven't you heard of the multiverse? You're pretty old-fashioned, huh.】
Xi Zhoumeng: ...
Xi Zhoumeng: What about the child?
【What's meant to be will be.】
The System was still a little embarrassed, and finally cursed at her indignantly—
【Can you please do something productive?】
Xi Zhoumeng propped up her face, smiled at Xi Li, and called out, "Big Brother."
The hair on Xi Li's whole body stood on end. He said warily, "What do you want?"
Xi Zhoumeng: "That precious heirloom gem your Omega father left you, can I see it?"
...
In the afternoon, Chi Yueshan, having just finished her general education class, was having a meal with Xuan Ping.
Suddenly, a message popped up.
"I was thinking about the practical training... eh? Xi Zhoumeng is alive?"
Xuan Ping leaned over to look. "Has Senior recovered?"
As it turned out, Chi Yueshan's light screen prominently displayed a sentence from Xi Zhoumeng—
"Have you ever thought about whether a child you give birth to would look more like me or more like you?"
Xuan Ping was silent for a long time before asking haltingly, "Yue-Yueshan, can rich people have O-O babies now?"
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