MORIC - Chapter 165

Chapter 165: What Great Plan

Xi Zhoumeng waited for the day the ZR main star would open.

Actually, after logging into her old account in this world, she already had special access privileges.

But she suddenly felt there was no need to rush.

After all, Chi Yueshan was also here.

The pregnant little Omega seemed to have never been so relaxed; at the very least, Chi Yueshan had gained more weight.

It was evening, and she was strolling by the lake with Chi Yueshan.

In the distance, the lights on the long embankment lit up one by one. The streets were filled with rush-hour traffic. A bus passed by, its side plastered with the latest promotional photos for the GG brand—pictures of a currently popular girl group idol.

Chi Yueshan hadn't even noticed the promotional photos on the bus at first. She was watching a small dog being walked by a couple ahead of them.

It looked like a puppy, but that didn't change the fact that it was very chubby.

Chi Yueshan even used her phone's image search to find out what famous breed of dog it was.

When it grows up… oh, that's way too big.

Just as she was about to ask Xi Zhoumeng if the dog looked a bit like Wen Xinghuo, she noticed Xi Zhoumeng's gaze was fixed on several identical GG buses slowly driving by.

In the few months Chi Yueshan had spent here, she had come to completely understand what "world peace" meant.

No Zerg, no mechas, and no war.

Humanity had entered an era of completely high-speed development. Procreation no longer seemed like a duty; you could have children or not, as you pleased.

The old, outdated concepts had all been shattered. Even though love was an eternal topic, it still had its share of melodramatic developments.

For example, those idol dramas on TV and the internet that were so cringeworthy they felt like a lightning strike.

Things like "I Woke Up and I'm a Mother of Six."

Netizens found it very dramatic because the one giving birth was a man.

Chi Yueshan, on the other hand, found it understandable. It was just that six was still too many.

A man… well, Omegas can give birth anyway. What a fuss over nothing.

It was Xi Zhoumeng who watched with great relish. Even though she had a conference call coming up soon, she could still lounge on the sofa with Chi Yueshan, watching this kind of cringey drama that Chi Yueshan scorned, and even ate all the orange segments Chi Yueshan had peeled.

Moreover, Chi Yueshan discovered that this person's aesthetic taste had a huge range.

When it came to design, her taste was completely high-class. But the novels and TV shows she watched were very… lowbrow.

And she especially, especially loved looking at beautiful women. Even with me around, she still loves looking at beautiful women!

Alright, I can understand. I like looking too!

But was it necessary to stare unblinkingly at the beautiful girls from the girl group on the bus as it passed by?

That's too, too much!

Chi Yueshan suddenly yanked on Xi Zhoumeng's dangling silk scarf. Xi Zhoumeng was nearly choked and finally lowered her eyes.

Her wife was baring her teeth, clearly angry.

Xi Zhoumeng quickly loosened her scarf, afraid she'd be strangled to death on the street.

"What's wrong? Are you cold?"

Xi Zhoumeng asked earnestly.

Autumn had already passed. The cold wind blew the withered leaves on the ground. At a glance, Chi Yueshan looked a bit bulky.

Even if they guessed that the flow of time was different in the two worlds, a day in this world still passed like any other day.

The last time they discussed this topic, Xi Zhoumeng was in the mood to joke, "Then in our past life, why were we separated for so long? What were you doing in hiding?"

That memory was like a movie in their minds, as if they were watching the story of someone else who just happened to have their face.

Chi Yueshan thought to herself: Nonsense. I accidentally slept with my secret crush's rival and even produced evidence of it. How was I supposed to face that?

But didn't we get married first, hmph. And you even said you couldn't go back without me.

Bullshit. Would you have married me if you weren't interested in me?

It's because I'm very significant to you.

You never would have guessed, right? The novel you read was written by me.

But Chi Yueshan couldn't explain why Xi Zhoumeng was able to accurately pick out her name.

It seemed as if they were fated to be entangled with each other.

At this moment, the evening breeze blew gently. Xi Zhoumeng's hand gripped Chi Yueshan's. She asked so gently that Chi Yueshan immediately felt she was being petty.

"N-nothing."

Xi Zhoumeng was a little puzzled, said "Oh," and was about to turn her head to look at the bus that had passed.

Chi Yueshan cried out, "What's so good to look at?? Can't you just look at me?"

"Y-you clearly praised me before, saying I was pretty enough to be a star."

Such words would sound perfectly natural coming from Xi Zhoumeng. Living with her every day, Chi Yueshan had inevitably been influenced.

But saying it out loud now still felt a bit awkward. She immediately let go of Xi Zhoumeng's hand and strode forward.

The weather had already turned cold, and pedestrians were dressed in slightly thicker clothes. Chi Yueshan was naturally resistant to the cold, like a little furnace when hugged. Even when going out, she refused to wear an extra layer. The maternity clothes Xi Zhoumeng had personally designed were also handmade by Xi Zhoumeng herself.

The sewing machine was delivered to their door by Xuan Rujia, who never expected that the money tree she'd picked up would have such skills.

But Xi Zhoumeng had mercilessly refused her request to make other clothes.

After all, the reason was obvious.

She was only Chi Yueshan's tailor.

Even while pregnant, Chi Yueshan loved to skip and jump around. From behind, she didn't look like a mother-to-be at all.

The wind rippled the lake's surface, rustled the withered lotuses, and lifted the hem of Chi Yueshan's skirt. She was like a vibrant cluster of flowers and grass swept up by the wind, full of vigorous life even in winter.

Xi Zhoumeng strode after her, wrapped an arm around Chi Yueshan's waist, and murmured "Hey" with her head lowered.

Chi Yueshan couldn't move at all. After all, this person was quite tall in the eyes of ordinary people.

If Senior Wen and Xi Shuang were here, they would definitely have to enter the world of sports. But being 1.9 meters tall is still quite short for volleyball.

Thinking about it this way, Alphas aren't that superior after all.

Xi Zhoumeng: "What are you thinking about?"

Chi Yueshan subconsciously uttered the names she had just been thinking of.

Luckily, she followed it up with Xi Shuang's name, otherwise Xi Zhoumeng really would have wanted to scratch her to death on the spot.

"What's so great about Wen Xinghuo anyway? If we can never go back, are you planning to think about her for the rest of your life?"

Xi Zhoumeng was making too big of an accusation. Chi Yueshan hurriedly retorted, "What do you mean, for the rest of my life! You're so prone to jealousy."

Xi Zhoumeng: "How could I compare to you?"

"I just glanced at a female celebrity's photo and you get jealous. I don't even know that celebrity, but you're thinking about the person you were supposed to marry. How could I be happy about that?"

She had always been skilled with words. Chi Yueshan huffed, "You really don't know her? Just now when we were eating at the restaurant, someone even asked if you were a celebrity."

Xi Zhoumeng: "I don't know her. I just thought one of them looked a lot like you."

Her hair was tied back in a seemingly loose and casual manner, but in reality, she had nearly made Chi Yueshan wait to death before they left the house.

She was practically a reincarnated peacock, her flamboyant style a bit overly elaborate.

Now, her long hair, which she had specially straightened with a flat iron before going out, was constantly being blown by the wind across Chi Yueshan's face. Xi Zhoumeng's new perfume had a hint of Zen to it. According to her, since Chi Yueshan was in a special period, she had to exercise restraint.

So, she was perfuming herself.

Chi Yueshan thought she was doing it on purpose. She wasn't an ordinary girl from this world.

As a gifted Omega, there was no taboo against doing that during pregnancy. It was clearly Xi Zhoumeng who had been enjoying herself so much that she missed a deadline, and was now being threatened with a fabric embargo by Xuan Rujia, which was why she was so disgruntled.

Hmph, she's clearly obsessed with me.

Oh? Obsessed with me to the point that she sees my likeness in others?

Chi Yueshan's curiosity was piqued. "Really? I don't believe you. Her figure is definitely not as good as mine."

The next second, she thought of something. "You're not like those scumbags who think that just because I'm pregnant..."

Xi Zhoumeng's hand, which had been around her waist, had unknowingly moved up to the nape of Chi Yueshan's neck. Even though this world prevented them from being affected by pheromones, the gland was still sensitive—so sensitive that Chi Yueshan instinctively went limp.

She was held tightly in Xi Zhoumeng's arms. Just then, a couple walked by, looking in surprise at Xi Zhoumeng, who was holding a person with seemingly no effort.

The streetlights here also lit up one by one. Under the dim yellow light, Xi Zhoumeng's face momentarily resembled a cold jade Guanyin in a shrine. But alas, while Guanyin could save all sentient beings, she herself had been pulled into the mortal world, completely devoid of the loneliness Chi Yueshan had once seen in her.

The passing girl said, "Look at them! She can lift her girlfriend completely off the ground!"

Her boyfriend grunted, noticing that Chi Yueshan was also pregnant.

Chi Yueshan immediately felt awkward, her face turning red.

Xi Zhoumeng, however, wasn't the least bit embarrassed. She walked forward slowly, holding Chi Yueshan. Xi Zhoumeng's clothes and Chi Yueshan's dress were made of the same fabric. Her vest-like overdress had a somewhat Chinese style, with slits up to the waist. The inner lining was as soft as a cloud, not cumbersome to walk in. In fact, her gait was rather pleasing to the eye.

As Xi Zhoumeng passed the couple, she even smiled and said to the girl, "Can't your boyfriend do it?"

Chi Yueshan covered her face, thinking: What's with this competitive spirit!

The boy's competitive spirit might have been provoked. Chi Yueshan didn't look back, but she heard a scream and the sound of someone getting hit.

Chi Yueshan: "We've already turned the corner, can you put me down? You're sweating."

Xi Zhoumeng: "I'm not."

Chi Yueshan: "Why are you so stubborn in bed and still stubborn out of bed?"

Xi Zhoumeng: "What's wrong with being stubborn? It's better than being soft, right?"

There were also tour boats on the lake. Chi Yueshan had never seen such a scene before.

Her life before meeting Xi Zhoumeng had been too bleak; she had relied entirely on her own light to illuminate the path ahead.

She had never seen the sea, never known the warmth of being enveloped by sunlight. She didn't know there were so many kinds of flowers, nor did she know that indulgence could truly make one drown in pleasure.

Xi Zhoumeng sat with her on a bench by the road to rest.

She handed her phone to Chi Yueshan. On the screen was the photo of that girl group from earlier.

"See? She looks like you, right?"

Chi Yueshan also thought there was a resemblance. It was a bit like her styling from her first modeling job.

But she didn't want to admit it. After all, I'm right here, and this person was still staring blankly at someone who just looked like me.

She huffed.

Xi Zhoumeng: "Just a slight resemblance to you is enough to make me look twice."

"But," she suddenly rested her head on Chi Yueshan's shoulder, "I only want to be with you."

This person was a master of sweet nothings, and also a master of dirty talk.

The compliments Chi Yueshan heard most often were in bed. Off the bed, Xi Zhoumeng rarely praised her.

Although Chi Yueshan knew why.

Some things, when said while sober, had too much of a "vows of eternal love" flavor.

Everyone knew that such vows were often followed by falling apart; they were a flag for a turning point in a relationship.

So Xi Zhoumeng didn't say them.

Chi Yueshan: "What is it? Do you have to leave me for something?"

She was completely unaware that she was overthinking things, and was also being very unromantic.

Xi Zhoumeng sighed heavily and hugged Chi Yueshan's waist.

She and Chi Yueshan both knew about that future, and they also knew the baby in her belly was a girl.

Yet, even when you know a certain future, you can still have expectations.

After all, the process of getting to the future is different.

Xi Zhoumeng: "This time, you were the one who insisted on coming with me. I originally came here to take care of something."

Unlike in that other world, where they had no choice. Chi Yueshan fell into the Folded Space, and Xi Zhoumeng was left behind.

Without any warning, she became an Alpha. Without any warning, she marked her love rival. Without any warning…

She had a wife.

Even if Xi Zhoumeng was heartless, she was different towards Chi Yueshan.

No matter the time, space, or lifetime, whether it was marriage before love or suddenly having a child.

Chi Yueshan: "Then can we go now? I've calculated it, and it should be about time. Once we get to the main star, will we definitely be able to find a way back?"

She stroked Xi Zhoumeng's hair and sighed, "I feel like if you're not there, everyone definitely won't know what to do."

"I'm still very worried about the Princess. Even though you said the Queen invaded her consciousness using that obsidian necklace, how can we be sure there aren't other methods besides that?"

"To be pessimistic… it seems like no matter which lifetime, Xiao Kui can't escape the fate of being invaded."

Xi Zhoumeng: "If you can't escape it, then face it head-on."

She said it so decisively that Chi Yueshan let out a small "ah."

"Then why did you make her give that thing to you? You even sprouted a tail and ears yourself. You're not confident either, are you?"

Xi Zhoumeng was lying with her head pillowed on Chi Yueshan's lap when she felt like she was punched by the thing in the belly.

She sat up, annoyed. "I just want to see what tricks the Zerg Monarch has up its sleeve. After all, we don't even know the purpose of its invasion."

"There are so many planets. If all the consciousnesses are connected, then humanity is truly doomed."

"Even if its parasitism has limitations, after so many years, it must have a time to make its move, right?"

"What does it really want?"

Xi Zhoumeng really didn't want to use her brain and sighed again.

"No one has ever investigated the planets wiped out by the Zerg. It's too dangerous, and we don't know what the situation is over there."

"Or rather, what was taken from them."

Chi Yueshan: "Actually, I think it's quite nice here."

She had never experienced this kind of life. "Being with you here, you would be very safe."

"But…"

She was afraid that the Xi Zhoumeng she returned to would face the same fate again.

Here, Xi Zhoumeng protects this galaxy, and over there, it's the same.

It's so hard.

Xi Zhoumeng chuckled, "Feeling sorry for me?"

"Once everything is over, maybe we can even come back here."

Xi Zhoumeng: "This way, when we want to do that, we can do that here, and we won't get pregnant. Isn't that great?"

Chi Yueshan thought she was about to reveal some great plan, but it turned out to be this.

Flustered and exasperated, she pushed Xi Zhoumeng away forcefully.

"Can't you be a little more proper?"

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