MORIC - Chapter 134
Chapter 134: Hello, Is That Okay?
When Chi Yueshan woke up the next day, Xi Zhoumeng was already getting dressed.
The dormitory at the base wasn't even a quarter of the size of her own room. Before bed, the two of them had been chattering, and Xi Zhoumeng had complained for quite a while.
She complained about the cracked marble sculpture, the grime on the small skylight overhead, and the squirrel that was peeking at them. She almost stood up several times to open the window and catch the little thing.
In the middle of the night, as Xi Zhoumeng drowsily spoke to her about the past, her voice sounded a bit distant, but it no longer gave Chi Yueshan the feeling that she was unreachable.
She felt as if she were lying in a rocking boat, able to cling only to the single other person on board.
Chi Yueshan asked several times, "Are you happy?"
Xi Zhoumeng's sweat dripped onto her face, mixing with Chi Yueshan's tears. The air itself carried a sticky scent.
This question seemed to hit some funny bone in Xi Zhoumeng. She held Chi Yueshan and managed to roll halfway over, rolling back just as they were about to fall off the bed.
This forced Chi Yueshan's curse back down her throat.
She couldn't say a word, only squinting at Xi Zhoumeng.
Xi Zhoumeng: "I'm happy. Why wouldn't I be?"
Perhaps because that word was usually hard to say, Chi Yueshan felt a little embarrassed.
Chi Yueshan: "Really?"
She reached for Xi Zhoumeng's hand, but the other woman wouldn't interlace their fingers. One of her hands had to hold Chi Yueshan's waist, while the other traced Chi Yueshan's face.
"Really."
Xi Zhoumeng: "Before..."
She paused, her hand moving from Chi Yueshan's eyes and brows to the tip of her nose, finally unable to resist touching Chi Yueshan's lips with her own.
"Before, I didn't do this kind of thing. I thought it was very..."
Outside, a wild, cold wind swirled, kicking up dry grass and morning breezes, scattering the once-tranquil fireflies.
The squirrel on the transparent skylight changed its position, its fluffy tail swaying back and forth. Chi Yueshan blinked, and an absurd thought involuntarily arose.
Xi Zhoumeng seems like she would have a fluffy tail too.
She curved her lips and let out a laugh.
Xi Zhoumeng lowered her eyes, their skin scalding hot as they lay pressed together. "What are you laughing at?"
Chi Yueshan: "I thought someone like you wouldn't lack admirers."
Even though Chi Yueshan had said "I like you" many times and expressed her affection, she still occasionally found herself in a daze when facing Xi Zhoumeng.
Our beginning was so terrible, yet we were still irresistibly drawn to each other.
What about others?
Xi Zhoumeng: "That's a given."
She was completely shameless, grabbing Chi Yueshan's hand and making her touch her face. "The love of beauty is perfectly normal."
She then guided Chi Yueshan's hand downward, placing it over her own heart.
"But this place is different."
Xi Zhoumeng's voice was a little hoarse, with a slight pant from the exertion.
Yet it carried an indescribable charm for Chi Yueshan, easily giving rise to the kind of disdain she once held when looking down on the world.
Only this time, Chi Yueshan was held in her hand, seen in her eyes.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Doing this kind of thing is a lot of trouble."
"You get sweaty and sticky," she huffed. "You have to shower and change your clothes."
She tirelessly rubbed against Chi Yueshan's skin. "It feels so annoying."
Chi Yueshan hugged her head, feeling the tenderness, and asked in a low voice, "Is it annoying now, too?"
Xi Zhoumeng shook her head, the softness of her hair tickling Chi Yueshan. The sensitivity from the bites created a dense chain of electricity in her heart, like a match falling on a pile of dry grass, fanned by the night wind of this remote planet into a raging inferno.
It screamed to sink into depravity with the person before her.
"You're still an Omega now," Chi Yueshan sighed. "But I'm still scared."
She rarely said she was scared. In Xi Zhoumeng's eyes, Chi Yueshan was the epitome of fearlessness.
It was as if her core was a source stone that would never burn out, capable of burning endlessly, burning Xi Zhoumeng until she had nowhere to run, forced to submit to her will.
Xi Zhoumeng chuckled. "How novel. What are you afraid of?"
"Being an Alpha is really annoying," Xi Zhoumeng sighed with genuine feeling. If she could choose, she would of course want to be an Omega, free of responsibility.
She had already been responsible for too much in the past, as if she had digested all of humanity's suffering, unknown and unsung.
"If I were an Omega..."
Chi Yueshan: "That's because you're lazy."
After saying it, she sighed in frustration. "But it feels like you're not particularly lazy either."
Chi Yueshan didn't know how to describe it. In her eyes, Xi Zhoumeng was a puzzle—beautiful, mysterious, like a treasure chest from the bedtime stories Zhou Fengqin occasionally told her in her childhood, exuding endless allure.
Every day, she seemed different.
And like a demon, she clearly makes me unable to resist.
"I don't care if you're an Alpha or an Omega," Chi Yueshan said, squeezing Xi Zhoumeng's hand. She resisted the urge to wrap her legs around Xi Zhoumeng's waist.
"After all, it affects your health. I asked Doctor Hong Sa, and she said there's nothing she can do except give you painkillers."
Xi Zhoumeng was someone who was very afraid of pain.
Whether it was the Xi Zhoumeng described by Butler Li or the one described by Xi Li.
During her time at the Xi residence, Chi Yueshan was very keen on secretly investigating Xi Zhoumeng's past from others' perspectives.
How can liking someone be so enjoyable?
Her finger tapped the back of Xi Zhoumeng's hand, where the needle mark from a previous IV drip still remained.
The young lady of the Xi family had delicate skin. The slightest pain or injury would leave a mark on her body, which was why she had such high standards for sleeping.
The same went for her clothes, not to mention the piles of skincare products.
"Profligate and extravagant" was the perfect description of Xi Zhoumeng.
Chi Yueshan accepted this readily. She couldn't even imagine someone like that living a hard life.
That would be a ruthless destruction of a beautiful flower. Even if others didn't feel sorry for her, she would.
Xi Zhoumeng squeezed her hand and nodded. She seemed a little sleepy, lying on her side next to Chi Yueshan, not having fully pulled away from her body.
This sense of intimacy, no matter how many times they'd experienced it, could still make Chi Yueshan blush.
Ambiguity hung in the air around them. Chi Yueshan reached out to brush aside Xi Zhoumeng's bangs and said softly, "I really don't care that much whether you can mark me or not."
"But you have to let me be unreasonable once in a while, right?"
"I've grown up without having a place to act spoiled."
Xi Zhoumeng lifted her eyelids and naturally snuggled closer, her long leg unexpectedly draping over Chi Yueshan's.
Like a snake coiling around a tree trunk, she wrapped herself around Chi Yueshan so tightly she could barely breathe.
Just as Chi Yueshan's romantic mood dissipated and she was about to curse, Xi Zhoumeng planted two loud kisses on her.
"You won't have to wait long."
Xi Zhoumeng's voice was laced with sleepiness as she stickily divulged a secret, "Maybe, I'm just saying maybe."
"If possible, I still don't want you to get hurt."
Her reluctance surfaced again. "Where I'm from, there's no such thing as a secondary gender. A woman is a woman. What's this marking business? If you don't like someone, you just part ways amicably..."
"Look, even without me marking you, you can still get off like this. Good thing I brought a lot of bedsheets..."
Chi Yueshan exclaimed, "Hey! Make yourself clear, maybe what? What secret are you hiding from me again?!"
Xi Zhoumeng yelped after being kicked.
"It's not that~"
She hugged Chi Yueshan tightly. "It's something uncertain."
Xi Zhoumeng was terrifying when she acted spoiled. She knew her strengths, which angles were most flattering, and what kind of gaze was most captivating in bed.
Chi Yueshan was about to summarize a set of methods for dealing with Xi Zhoumeng, but she couldn't keep up with the other's flexible tactics.
Now this person was whining and grumbling, trying to dawdle her way out of it again.
Chi Yueshan: "Cut it out. Tell me."
Did Doctor Hong Sa find a solution?
Do normal AO pairings get hurt when forming a knot? But Pingping said they don't.
The person beside her was breathing deeply and evenly, as if asleep.
Chi Yueshan fiercely straddled Xi Zhoumeng, grabbing her by the neck. "Don't you play dead with me!"
Only then did Xi Zhoumeng open her eyes. The two of them nearly came to blows on the bed.
Just as Chi Yueshan thought the iron-frame bed was about to collapse, Xi Zhoumeng laughed.
"Not sleepy? Then let's have a rehearsal."
Her lips were touching her own hair. After brushing it aside with her fingers, she grabbed a rope from somewhere and tied Chi Yueshan's hands behind her back to the headboard.
"After all, I don't know what that situation will be like either."
"I've never taken an Alpha's physiology class. Depth and shallowness... it's hard to have a sense of proportion."
Xi Zhoumeng's eyes were naturally amorous. Even though the room was dim at this hour, there was still a scented candle she had lit on the bedside table.
Who knew what Xi Zhoumeng was thinking when she picked it out, but it was a red, carved Western-style candle.
Chi Yueshan couldn't struggle at all. Xi Zhoumeng had many faces.
But in this instant, she felt that the other's beastly nature, the inherent aggressiveness of her unique soul, had been scattered into fragmented tenderness in daily life.
Only at this moment, there was only each other.
The other woman leaned down and bit, as if with fangs.
Chi Yueshan's eyelids fluttered open and shut, and in the end, she couldn't even let out a whimper.
She only remembered Xi Zhoumeng's teasing: "Can't take it already?"
"What happened to '100% match, can accept anything'?"
Chi Yueshan grunted. When she woke up, the sky was bright.
The candle on the bedside table had burned down completely, the wax dripping onto the table and solidifying in a flowing pattern.
Xi Zhoumeng was fastening her belt. The slender-waisted lover saw the person on the bed in the mirror.
Without turning around, she asked, "You can actually get up? Not bad."
Chi Yueshan threw a pillow at her. "You're still far from enough!"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Really?"
She rarely wore pants, but for this practical training, she had finally changed out of her elaborate dresses. But even if they were pants, if they belonged to Xi Zhoumeng, they could still be flashy.
Even the black was a vibrant, multicolored black.
Chi Yueshan: "Aren't we going with Senior Wen and the others to the depths of the dense forest at the mecha training ruins to find vine tree seeds today?"
Xi Zhoumeng nodded.
Chi Yueshan sat up abruptly. "What time is it! We're not going to be late, are we?! I remember the practical training record said we'd lose points for being late."
Xi Zhoumeng put on her jacket while lowering her eyes to choose the jewelry she would wear today.
Even when simplified, the young lady's jewelry wasn't simple at all; it was still dazzling enough to blind someone.
Chi Yueshan: "Fuck!! There are only ten minutes left!! Why didn't you wake me up??"
Xi Zhoumeng put on the bracelet Chi Yueshan had made for her, and on her other hand, she wore an emerald pinky ring.
"You were sleeping so soundly, I felt bad for you."
Chi Yueshan threw another pillow. She angrily got out of bed, but as soon as she tried to jump down, she stumbled.
Xi Zhoumeng caught her in a full embrace. She let out a little cry. "What's the rush? If we're late, the whole group loses points. We can just earn them back."
Chi Yueshan simply had no energy to curse her.
How could such a shameless person exist in the world? Wasn't she afraid of being cursed to death for dragging down the entire team by herself?
"Let go, I need to get dressed!"
Chi Yueshan tried to struggle, but Xi Zhoumeng shook her head. "Let me help you."
Her flamboyant style didn't diminish one bit during practical training, which made Chi Yueshan's teeth itch with anger.
I really want to see her when she doesn't have time to get all dressed up!
Damn it.
I can't feel sorry for her!!!
"Wear this one. Arms out."
"What are you shy about? Haven't I touched you here before?"
"What are you covering? I'm the one who applied the medicine for you."
"So cute. Good morning."
Chi Yueshan's face felt like it was about to explode. In her heart, she apologized hundreds of times to the others.
With teary eyes, she told Xi Zhoumeng to shut up.
Who greets a place they've just sucked on! A psycho!!!
"What's there to be sorry about? Wen Xinghuo just woke up too."
Xi Zhoumeng tied Chi Yueshan's shoelaces while opening the door. The Alphas had to calibrate their mechas in the morning, so she had originally thought Wen Xinghuo would be the first one here.
Unexpectedly, the first one out was Ling Xun, but she clearly looked listless, as if she hadn't woken up properly.
When they arrived at the assembly hall, Chi Yueshan saw a drowsy Xi Shuang, a yawning Wen Xinghuo, and a squinting Sheng Yangkui.
Ling Xun was the one getting the practical training registration form.
The most refreshed person in the entire hall was actually Xi Zhoumeng.
If people had tails when they were smug, hers would probably be wagging excessively.
"Aiyo, isn't this our Xinghuo? Didn't sleep well? What happened?"
Chi Yueshan: You're asking in such a creepy way.
"Xi Shuang, were you jerking off last night? Why are you so sleepy?"
Xi Shuang nearly spat out her coffee and retorted indignantly, "I was playing mahjong..."
She glanced at the training supervisor and said in a low voice, "A little gambling is fun, but a lot is harmful. I finally understand."
Xi Zhoumeng glanced at Sheng Yangkui, who was covering her mouth as she yawned, and then at Wen Xinghuo.
She asked with a grin, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Unexpectedly, Xi Shuang was the one who answered first: "How could she not? That bitch Wen Xinghuo played dumb to get the better of us and won both my and Ling Xun's mattresses for the Princess to sleep on!"
Chi Yueshan: ...
What kind of food chain is this?
She glanced at Xi Zhoumeng beside her and thought: The great demon lord is the most terrifying one.
Chi Yueshan felt a strange soreness and fullness in her body. It was so weird.
My heat isn't coming this soon, is it?
Didn't it just end a while ago?
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