The next morning, Tang Jianxi awoke from her slumber. Yun Chuji, who was usually an early riser, had been sleeping more soundly lately due to her medication and had been waking up later than her for the past few days.
Tang Jianxi knew this with such certainty because Yun Chuji was lying right beside her.
Oh, don’t misunderstand. Nothing had happened between them—even though Tang Jianxi wouldn’t have minded if something had.
But the extremely high probability of pregnancy resulting from their high compatibility rate had successfully prevented certain things from happening, much to Tang Jianxi’s frustration. Even though she had used this frustration to entice and morally blackmail Yun Chuji into engaging in quite a bit of foreplay with her, it had also led to a new problem: if just fooling around was this pleasurable, what would it be like if they went all the way…
Sigh.
Tang Jianxi let out a sigh.
The key point was that it wasn’t as if they had never gone all the way before. It was just that Yun Chuji had forgotten most of it due to her psychological trauma and the shock of her secondary differentiation.
But she hadn’t forgotten.
Although the two of them couldn’t be said to have had any feelings for each other at the time, and she had been a bit dizzy from her heat, Tang Jianxi still remembered the sensation.
It was a very powerful feeling.
But thinking about her current state of forced celibacy, Tang Jianxi started to feel gloomy again.
She was a bona fide product of the ABO era, yet here she was, lying in the same bed with an alpha whose pheromone and soul compatibility with her both exceeded ninety percent, and they had managed to do absolutely nothing.
It felt, more or less, like a waste of her constitution.
So, when Yun Chuji woke up, the first thing Tang Jianxi said to her was, “I feel like our relationship has a kind of purity that’s out of step with the times.”
“Ah…”
Yun Chuji had just woken up, her brain not quite functioning yet. Hearing this, she recalled the scene of Tang Jianxi teasing her the night before, and her ears instantly turned red.
Her lips also inexplicably started to feel dry.
After all, after teasing her yesterday, Tang Jianxi had imperiously declared it to be the kind of fun couples should have, and then had enthusiastically started teaching her to do all sorts of strange things.
In short, they were all things that made Yun Chuji blush just thinking about them, things too embarrassing to put into words.
But what was even more unspeakable was the experience itself.
It seemed, indeed, apparently, truly, to be very comfortable and very interesting.
She felt very comfortable.
Tang Jianxi’s reactions were very interesting.
Now, faced with Miss Tang Jianxi’s morning reflection, Yun Chuji, after a long daze, finally gave her answer: “Does Jianxi have some other tricks to teach me?”
Tang Jianxi stared straight at her, not expecting Yun Chuji to become so bold after a night’s sleep. Her own face reddened, but Tang Jianxi’s imposing manner was always present. “Hmph, even if I taught you, you wouldn’t dare to learn.”
Yun Chuji grew even bolder in her mental exploration. Using the scientific method of deduction and combining it with her freshly baked experience from last night—she was ultimately frightened by her own thoughts, and couldn’t help but say tremblingly, “Is it… putting your tongue… inside…”
Tang Jianxi covered her mouth.
Then she said fiercely, “You pervert!”
She then rushed to the bathroom, hastily completed her morning routine, and quickly left.
What was extremely vexing was—this person being Tang Jianxi—that her morning reverie had been scared witless by Yun Chuji’s world-shattering words. And last night, too, Yun Chuji had come up with new positions on her own, putting her through quite an ordeal. Since they couldn’t go all the way, it made her wish they could just get it over with.
It turned out that last night wasn’t even the limit of her deductive abilities!
Tang Jianxi gulped down a large mouthful of cold milk, her mood growing even more melancholic.
As someone born and raised in the ABO era, her erotic imagination was actually less expansive than the seemingly innocent Yun Chuji’s.
So—was I the pure one all along?
To lament her own purity, Tang Jianxi drank another large glass of cold milk.
Just then, Tang Jianshen, who had finished his morning workout, stood to the side, silently watching Tang Jianxi chug her milk with a rather strange look in his eyes. After a long while, likely after some internal struggle and out of a thin sense of brotherly responsibility, he cleared his throat and said very professionally, “Drinking milk won’t do much for an omega.”
“If you’re really feeling weak, you could try the Flower God Fruit from Qinglan Star.” At this, Tang Jianshen’s brow furrowed slightly, and he added with a hint of disdain, “Yun Chuji, really. How can she not take it easy even when she’s injured?”
Tang Jianxi looked at her brother quietly for a moment, then said faintly, “What kind of nonsense are you thinking? Can’t you be a little more pure, like me?”
“Huh?” Mr. Tang Jianshen, who once had a regular sex life, asked in confusion, “But aren’t you looking all flushed and weak in the limbs right now because of that?”
“Because of what?”
“That!”
“Tang Jianshen, you’d better make yourself clear!”
“That you and Yun Chuji did it.”
“…”
“Tang Jianshen, you’re shameless! You actually said it out loud!”
At that moment, Ms. Tang Ji, who was coming downstairs, quietly turned her head to look at Yun Chuji behind her.
Yun Chuji’s eyes immediately widened, and she subconsciously denied it, “No, we didn’t.”
But soon, she remembered a certain past event. To avoid lying, she braced herself and explained, “We have before, but definitely not yesterday.”
The corner of Tang Ji’s lip curled up. “Heh, shameless alpha.”
Although I don’t know how to respond, you did just insult yourself, you know.
When Mr. Chu Yuexi, who liked to sleep in, slowly made his way to the living room downstairs, he noticed the distinctly strange atmosphere.
First of all, the four of them were sitting too far apart.
This would normally be understandable, as their family wasn’t a particularly clingy one. But for Xiao Yun and Jianxi to be sitting so far apart was indeed a bit odd. From what he remembered, those two were usually inseparable.
Chu Yuexi took his breakfast from the AI servant, eating thoughtfully while observing.
During breakfast, he noticed Tang Ji glare at Yun Chuji several times.
Jianxi glared at Jianshen several times.
She glared at Xiao Yun once.
And she stole a glance at Tang Ji.
As for Xiao Yun, aside from stealing a glance at Tang Ji, she spent the rest of the time secretly looking at Jianxi. And because this went on for so long, even though her demeanor fit the description of “secretly,” strictly speaking, the word “gazing” might be more accurate.
And Jianshen had looked back at Jianxi once, seemingly with a cold smile.
Chu Yuexi wiped his mouth, breaking the silence. “So what exactly happened?”
Tang Ji said, “Yun Chuji is shameless.”
Tang Jianxi said, “Tang Jianshen is shameless.”
Tang Jianshen said, “Tang Jianxi is shameless.”
Yun Chuji said, “Huh???”
Chu Yuexi felt a little dizzy from this group of riddle-speakers. He repeated, “So what, exactly, happened?”
Tang Ji’s mouth moved, but in the end, she just snorted.
Even though people in their ABO era weren’t shy about such matters, Tang Ji still couldn’t bring herself to discuss her omega daughter’s nightlife with her partner in front of said daughter.
Ah! It was all Yun Chuji’s fault, that tactless little brat!
The other two also remained silent for similar reasons.
Only Yun Chuji spoke up in a small voice, “I said the wrong thing and made them misunderstand Jianxi.”
Tang Ji scoffed at her words.
Tang Jianxi immediately sat down next to Yun Chuji, no longer feeling awkward, and blurted out, “It was clearly Tang Jianshen who started the rumor.”
Tang Jianshen retorted coolly, “You forced me to say it.”
Chu Yuexi frowned, piecing together a conclusion from this tangled mess of words: this was an unnecessary family conflict.
Thus, he decided to resolve the family conflict using the old method Gu Yun had taught him.
He walked over to Tang Ji, gestured for her to stand up, then wrapped his arms around her, his tone still ethereal. “I’m sorry, my dear little bunny baby.”
A faint green tinge appeared on Tang Ji’s deadpan face, not because of the hug she was receiving, but because of the one she would have to give next.
After being urged by Chu Yuexi’s gaze, Tang Ji reluctantly walked over to Yun Chuji, bent down, and gave her a quick hug, her words just as rushed. “I’m sorry, my dear little bunny baby.”
Then she met Chu Yuexi’s disapproving gaze.
Tang Ji let out a breath and reluctantly slowed her speech. “I’m sorry, my dear little bunny baby.”
Yun Chuji was at a loss, mainly because she had no idea what kind of ritual the Tang family was performing.
Why, oh why, did they have to say such embarrassing lines?
Before she could finish her thought, Tang Jianshen and Tang Jianxi over there had also hugged each other, very unwillingly reciting the line about the little bunny baby to one another.
Chu Yuexi nodded in satisfaction. See, the tense atmosphere from just a moment ago was gone. So he said to his student in a gentle and slightly satisfied tone, “Xiao Yun, there are still a few issues in the paper you gave me yesterday. Let’s go to the study and have a good talk.”
Yun Chuji naturally had no reason to refuse. She agreed and got up to follow Chu Yuexi.
But after a few steps, she turned back, gently hugged Tang Jianxi, and said softly, “I’m sorry, my dear little bunny baby.”
After speaking, her ears tinged with red as she trotted away.
Leaving behind a smug Tang Jianxi.
She looked at Tang Ji and spread her hands. “I told you, she’s super in love with me.”
Then she looked at Tang Jianshen. “See? This is love.”
Tang Jianshen didn’t react immediately. Instead, he found an old file on his comm.
Then he projected it into the living room. “I remember, according to our house rules, for every harsh word spoken to a family member, you have to do ten bunny hops, right?”
Tang Jianxi’s eyes widened. “How is that a harsh word!”
Tang Jianshen slowly closed the projection and answered concisely, “I was hurt by you.”
Hearing this, Tang Ji immediately thought of her eldest son’s troublesome ex and instantly reprimanded Tang Jianxi, “You know what your brother has been through, and you still provoke him.”
Tang Jianxi smiled.
Very good, Tang Jianshen. We’ve said so many more genuinely harsh things to each other in private, and you never brought up the house rules. Now that a parent is here, you start playing the victim, is that it!
But facing Tang Ji’s disapproving gaze, she gritted her teeth. “I’ll hop.”
Tang Jianxi began to carry out the house rule in humiliation.
Tang Jianshen discreetly recorded a video.
When the Third Princess arrived for a visit that afternoon with Yun Xuan and her large entourage of bodyguards and attendants, the first thing she saw was a pair of clearly discordant Tang siblings.
The rumors are true after all, she thought. Tang Jianshen was indeed stripped of his heir status by Tang Ji for not finding an alpha for so many years. Now the relationship between Tang Jianshen and Tang Jianxi is so bad they don’t even bother to hide it in front of outsiders.
Lucia, a master of A-Virtue on the surface but a professor of O-Virtue in reality, shook her head inwardly, lamenting, What’s the use of an omega being powerful? Without a family of their own, in the end, nothing is truly theirs.
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