Extra ¡ The Past (3)
Song Zhiyuan never imagined that he would reunite with his “accomplice,” whose secret had been sealed away for years, under such circumstances.
She looked completely different from back then.
Her dense, curly black hair draped over her shoulders like algaeâno longer that flamboyant, reckless red. Her brow, eyes, and bone structure bore no resemblance to the past. Her cyan pupils had also turned deep brown.
But that innate sense of ease and sharpness branded onto herâSong Zhiyuan would absolutely never mistake it.
Counting the watermelon pillow she had hastily stashed away as evidence, plus how she entered someone else’s house as naturally as her ownâthese traces of temperament made it almost a certainty.
Should he acknowledge her, now that she was unrecognizable? And did she… recognize him?
People who had met by chance years ago… if he recognized her disguised face in the middle of the night, would it expose his intentions?
Song Zhiyuan’s gaze swept over the backpack in her hand and the sweat on her forehead. He thought for a moment, then questioned sternly.
“Who are you?”
Hearing his interrogation, Lu Wei breathed a sigh of relief. It seems he didn’t see that embarrassing pillow.
She opened her palm, revealing the key. “This is my house. I need to stay here temporarily for a few days… I thought there were no tenants. My apologies.”
Si Huai was already in danger; she absolutely couldn’t mention him.
Song Zhiyuan was slightly stunned. He hadn’t expected this to be her house. He crossed the courtyard, walking step by step until he was in front of her.
“No need to apologize.” He looked at the blood-stained key and averted his gaze. “My contract expired yesterday, but something came up, so I didn’t move out on time. Come in first.”
He had processed the lease termination through an agency; perhaps she hadn’t received the agency’s notification yet.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. I came suddenly.” Lu Wei slung her bag over her shoulder and followed him two steps.
She wanted to ask what had happened to him, but then thought, she was in trouble herselfâwhere would she find the energy to care about him? So she silently shut her mouth.
Walking to the entryway, she watched him close the door, defenselessly exposing his elegant back and the lines of his waist and hips to her. He squatted down to get her a pair of slippers. The corners of Lu Wei’s mouth dipped slightly again.
“You, an Omega, are you this trusting of all Alphas?”
Song Zhiyuan’s footsteps paused, and he straightened up.
There was no embarrassment or shyness. He said openly, “You’re very good-looking, and your figure is nice. Being marked by you wouldn’t be a loss for me.”
“?” Lu Wei frowned, suspecting she was being sexually harassed by an Omega.
Was this the same sharp-tongued O who, years ago, had shyly grabbed her arm and asked her to take him home? When did this child become so loose?
“…You weren’t like this before.”
Song Zhiyuan’s eyebrows raised slightly. He leaned in close, staring straight at her. “What was I like before?”
The day after she left, he saw the news of a car crashing off a cliff and exploding. His father, whose fierce spirit hadn’t been broken, had perished together with the man in the suit on the mountain road.
A few days later, he was notified to identify the body, and thus he became completely alone.
He had always had many ideas since childhood, but due to his father’s discipline, he had played the role of a traditional Omega. With his father gone, he found the courage of one with nothing left to lose. He would dare to do anything.
He took that little bit of orphan subsidy, rolled it into some capital, bribed the best school in District 3, and finished all the curriculum in half a year. Then, disguised as a Beta, he went to the Central District to take the unified social exam.
His disguise as a Beta didn’t last long. He studied desperately, skipping grades to smoothly pass through his academy days.
Later, he was discovered by a councilor’s aide who cherished talent. They made a pact, hoping he could display his talents under their command, ghostwriting various documents.
He wanted to climb up. He wanted to climb over the heads of those Alphas who mocked him. He also wanted to see her again, to thank her for opening his unstoppable yearning for the vast world.
But he had completely broken with his former self, full of schemes and ambition, wandering in the most dangerous zones.
He had actually looked forward to whether she would recognize him. And her sentence, “You weren’t like this before,” made Song Zhiyuan’s heart beat like a war drum.
She remembered him, and she recognized him.
Lu Wei looked at the Omega pressing step by step in front of her. She saw the light flickering in his eyes and finally heard his words, instantly understanding.
“How did you recognize me? I’ve had plastic surgery to look like this.”
The corners of Lu Wei’s mouth pulled lightly, her shoulders relaxing. She restrained herself from looking at his beautiful face, only to find that he wore even a simple white shirt alluringly.
“Intuition,” Song Zhiyuan said.
Lu Wei raised her hand, gently lifting his chin. “Those words just now… did you say them to me on purpose?”
“Except for my father, I have only ever trusted one Alphaâyou.”
Song Zhiyuan grabbed her fingertips backhand. Lowering his head, his lips boldly pressed against her fingertips, licking away the bloodstains there.
“Wanting to be marked by you is also the truth.”
As his voice fell, violent Alpha pheromones erupted, wrapping around the hands that bound him.
“Do you know what you are saying?”
Lu Wei was dazed for a moment, quickly realizing that the person in front of her was boldly releasing pheromones at her. Her eyes widened.
“I know.” Song Zhiyuan opened his arms, ripples appearing in his eyes.
“I missed you very much.”
Lu Wei woke up lying in bed, questioning her life.
She didn’t know if the other party was too good at flirting or if her self-control was too poor. As someone fleeing for her life, she had inexplicably rolled into bed with someone in the middle of the night.
When she opened her eyes, Song Zhiyuan was gone.
Right, she only learned his name last night. Only the room full of pheromones proved everything that had happened.
When He Lian arrived, smelling the scent, he was greatly shocked, glaring as he scolded her: “At a time like this, your nature is still so unsettled?! I can only manage you; I can’t manage your dependents!”
She rolled her eyes, not denying the term “dependent.” As she buttoned her shirt, she said, “He’s already gone. Don’t worry.”
“…” He Lian gave her a complicated look, imagining god knows what, and finally said, “Get ready. We depart for District 7 within two weeks. Be careful on your own recently.”
“Thanks.”
Lu Wei sent He Lian off and found a way to send a message to Shu Changze, asking him to keep an eye out for an Omega named Song Zhiyuan and look after him for her.
Then she found a hat, disguised herself, and slipped out.
Those high and mighty people thought they controlled every checkpoint in the Central District, unaware that the entire city wasn’t as impregnable as they thought.
In a place like Juqing Road, which seemed to be a suburban wilderness surrounding the city, it was even easier for people from all walks of life to blend in like fish in the sea, hard to track.
She ran through the entire block but found no trace of Song Zhiyuan’s aura.
“… is he sick or something?”
Lu Wei muttered to herself. Turning a street corner, she suddenly saw a scrawny kid being beaten by a group of children.
He lay on the ground, reminding Lu Wei of the person who, many years ago, had raised a baseball bat high against an adult Alpha in front of a patch of reeds.
Forget it, I won’t save him. What if I end up with another ill-fated connection who wants me to mark them?
But the ‘nth’ time she encountered them bullying this child, Lu Wei finally couldn’t bear it anymore.
She chased the group of kids away and dragged Lu Wanqing into her own house. Snapping off a thin peach branch, she tapped and struck him, frustrated that iron wouldn’t turn into steel.
Lu Wei, who loved to be a mentor, taught Lu Wanqing everything she had learned during her time in the army.
On the day before she left, her tracks were discovered. After completely shaking off the pursuers, she returned to Juqing Road, changed the defense system’s authorized user to Lu Wanqing, and then rushed straight to find He Lian.
She couldn’t leave the danger to this innocent child.
When Shu Changze found Song Zhiyuan, he was shockingly discovered to be pregnant!?
Others might not have noticed yet, but as the origin of the World Consciousness, he knew of the birth of every child in this world.
And it was precisely at the moment he met Song Zhiyuan that a part of the World Consciousness, sealed from the future back to the past, briefly awakened.
It vaguely remembered one of its missions. To save a child who will save the world in the future… could it be this one?
Shu Changze was preparing to report the situation to Lu Wei far away in District 7 when suddenly, Song Zhiyuan held his hand down.
“What are you to her?” Song Zhiyuan scrutinized this beautiful, gentle Omega, his gaze falling on the ruby on Shu Changze’s finger.
That ruby and the pattern on it were identical to the decoration on her key to the house on Juqing Road.
“I’m a researcher… kept by her money.”
Before Shu Changze could finish, he saw Song Zhiyuan’s expression darken, becoming cold and scary.
“Did she ask you to come find me?” Song Zhiyuan clenched his fists and asked.
Shu Changze nodded, pointing to his lower abdomen. “And I have to help you take care of the child.”
“?!”
regarding the birth of Song Shiyu, Shu Changze used a little power to allow Song Zhiyuan to give birth on his base, Dragon Spine Island, under the public eye without his married-with-children status being discovered.
Of course, it also helped that Song Zhiyuan didn’t show much during the pregnancy.
Combined with the transfer order he received as the District Speaker for District 2, the trip to sea became logical.
What Shu Changze couldn’t understand was why Song Zhiyuan kept asking him to keep the child’s existence a secret from Lu Wei.
“I used her.” Song Zhiyuan teased Song Shiyu’s little chubby hand, looking at her cyan eyes, rejoicing that she hadn’t inherited her mother’s red hair.
“During that time, I was working for a councilor’s aide. I was targeted by a mid-level official from City Hall while dealing with him. I hid for a few days preparing to move, and that night I met her.”
Her pheromones possessed a powerful suppressive force. As long as he was marked by her, those Alphas would have to weigh whether they dared to touch him.
He pretended to have a mysterious Alpha partner, borrowing her wind. From then on, even his official career became smooth.
He wandered through crowds of sycophants with lies.
Only that night was completely real to him.
“If you told her directly, she might not have disagreed.” Shu Changze pursed his lips, thinking. “Unless she was happy to indulge it, no Omega would dare approach her like you did.”
“I know. But I refuse. I’m very bad, and very inferior.”
Song Zhiyuan looked at Shu Changze with a smile. He probably wouldn’t be worthy of wearing that ring in his entire life.
At least, aside from the motive and reason that even she couldn’t figure out, everything he told her that night came from the bottom of his heart.
“She has seen me at my most destitute, but once is enough. I only want her to remember me in my prime forever.”
He didn’t want to be her accomplice for a lifetime. Since he was keeping a secret anyway, he preferred to keep the secret of a different kind of relationship.
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