Chapter 97:
A pink envelope was taken from Yan Qinghe’s pocket. She was still nervous. In the envelope, she had written her deep feelings and the secret of her awakened memories after meeting Zhaoyan.
In her right pocket, a box with a delicate engagement ring was hidden deep inside. She wanted to propose to Mu Sixue.
If Mu Sixue was still moved after reading the letter, she would propose to her.
The moment the envelope was taken out, Mu Sixue covered her hand and said with a lingering tenderness, “Summer, let’s just stop the birthday gifts at 27, okay?”
—Why?
The envelope in Yan Qinghe’s hand, in the wind-blown air, was filled with a bone-deep loneliness that no one cared for. Inside, page after page, were her heartfelt and uneasy past, and her sincere love for Mu Sixue. At this moment, she couldn’t tell if she was relieved or disappointed.
Wasn’t Mu Sixue curious about what was inside?
The woman lowered her eyes, the system’s words echoing in her ears—
[Host, trust Little Tong this once. You’ll regret it if you open it,] the system repeated for the second time.
[Host, we still have a hidden mission to complete.]
[And your sister, host. Don’t you care about her health?]
Sentence after sentence, like a drumbeat in Mu Sixue’s ear, each one shaking her heart. Her face turned pale for a moment, but she acted as if she hadn’t heard and turned to Yan Qinghe’s face, her voice a little softer than usual—
“Summer, you are my best gift for my twenty-eighth birthday.”
Hearing her say this, Yan Qinghe’s heart calmed down. She composed herself and, shaking her hand, asked, “Then does Sixue like these gifts?”
“I like them. As long as they’re from Summer, I like them all.”
The opportunity for an honest secret had been interrupted like this. This might become a fuse buried in their hearts, or nothing might happen. But when Yan Qinghe thought that her and Mu Sixue’s passionate period was still filled with deep affection, an unexpected guest had interrupted their rhythm.
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Since that day, the system had disappeared, as if it had never appeared. No matter how Mu Sixue tried to wake it, no matter how many times she caressed the ring, even if she took off the ring and soaked it in water, and put it in the fire for a long time, the system did not respond.
Mu Sixue immediately realized that this was a bit childish. The system was not hidden inside. After leaving such a sentence that made her uneasy, she had tossed and turned all night.
The thing hidden in Summer’s envelope, she vaguely guessed was a ring.
Since it was a ring, why couldn’t she open it? The thought that her relationship with Summer could change at any time in the future made Mu Sixue rub her arms. The room was clearly very warm, but she felt a cold wind blowing into her sleeves.
A storm was brewing. A faint unease swept over her. At this time, she received a text from Ji Qianqian, inviting her to meet at the Four Seasons Restaurant.
She said it was something very important to tell her.
She didn’t want the same thing to happen as last time at the KTV. She took the initiative to tell Yan Qinghe about this.
“She’s asking you out this time. What is she trying to do?” Yan Qinghe served the fragrant dishes, one by one, according to Mu Sixue’s preferences, and placed them in front of her.
Mu Sixue stood up and gently untied her apron. The two of them were like a young married couple.
There was no one else in the Mu residence at this time, only the two of them. After Mu Sichen had recovered, she was like a bird released from its cage and had begged Mu Sixue to let her travel for a few days.
When she had left, Yan Qinghe was happy. This third wheel had finally left. So she had stayed at Mu Sixue’s for a few nights. But on the first night, she had taken the initiative to sleep in the guest room.
Mu Sixue’s heart: ?
A big question mark and an incredible feeling lingered in her heart. Had this person changed her personality?
But Yan Qinghe thought, I want Mu Sixue to agree to my proposal. I want to be with Mu Sixue in a proper way, not secretly like now.
But at night, the fragrance of the snow mountain and white lotus, and her longing for Mu Sixue, boiled over. Even holding the other in her arms could not extinguish her desire.
Mu Sixue, who had just fallen into a light sleep, the familiar calamansi fragrance, with a warm embrace, enveloped her from behind. The alpha mumbled her lingering dependence—
“I miss you so much, Sixue. Just let me hold you like this for a night, okay?”
They held each other quietly. She heard Yan Qinghe’s heart, when she got close to her, thumping from the depths of her heart, transmitting to her back, and stirring her unbelievably soft heartstrings.
To be able to come to this world and meet Summer was a really good thing. Mu Sixue turned around and tidied Yan Qinghe’s handsome features, touching her slightly pouting lips as she slept, pink and tender.
And her high nose bridge. The only regret was that she couldn’t see her eyes.
The sleeping Yan Qinghe was even more innocent and sincere, with a beautiful imagination of the world. She had once said with deep affection, “Sixue, you make me feel that this world is more beautiful.”
At that time, she had wanted to reply, “You make me feel that this world is real. She is no longer a person from another world. Because of Summer’s existence, she has once again felt a cherished sense of belonging.”
But, the more real it was, the more easily the illusion was broken. The system, which had disappeared for a while, had suddenly returned on the night she was about to fall asleep—
Like a mischievous devil, whispering in her ear what the sleeping Yan Qinghe, who was holding her from behind, could not hear.
[Host, have you forgotten that there is still a hidden mission?]
Mu Sixue frowned. “You finally appeared?”
“The main mission is not yet complete, and you want to start the previous hidden mission?” she asked.
The main mission was naturally to fulfill the world’s child’s wish.
[Congratulations, host. The world’s child’s wish has been 100% fulfilled. Your main mission is also complete.]
Mu Sixue: ?
[Host, you are pregnant with the world’s child’s baby.]
Mu Sixue: What?
The sleeping Yan Qinghe felt herself being pushed away coldly. She mumbled something unintelligible and held Mu Sixue tightly again.
Mu Sixue felt this person holding her like an octopus and pursed her lips, her expression cold and a little serious. “When did I get pregnant?”
The system mechanically checked for less than half a moment: [Report, host. It should have been the time you went to the world’s child’s house on xx day.]
It really was that time… Was the medicine useless later?
Counting, it had been less than a month. Mu Sixue felt her flat lower abdomen with her palm, her expression a little complicated. She had never thought that she and Yan Qinghe would have a child together.
This baby should be very important. She wasn’t sure if Sichen’s illness would… if the baby were gone.
But even if it had nothing to do with Sichen’s illness, she had Summer’s child. Summer was the person she liked, and this person liked children so much.
The feeling of being a mother for the first time made Mu Sixue, who had been indifferent since she was a child, feel both the light joy of welcoming the early spring and waiting for all things to revive, and a hazy uncertainty.
It was as if happiness were right in front of her, so close that it felt a little unreal.
That night, she and Yan Qinghe were at peace. The next night… Yan Qinghe had skillfully slipped into her room again.
“Didn’t you say you were going to sleep in the guest room?” Mu Sixue asked her seriously. Before she could turn around, the alpha’s hand had moved from her front to her back and had gradually moved down.
“Doesn’t Sixue miss me at all?”
This kind of thing was really addictive. She thought she had been able to endure it enough. Did her senior not have any needs? She had rarely even taken inhibitors, and she had almost never seen her in heat.
She didn’t know that the first time she had entered Mu Sixue’s house, the time she had mistaken her for having a cold was Mu Sixue’s heat, which was why Mu Sixue had taken the initiative to kiss her that night.
She also didn’t know that it wasn’t that Mu Sixue was cold to her, but that there was a life in her womb. To avoid a miscarriage or the possibility of infection…
Mu Sixue didn’t want to give Yan Qinghe false hope. She thought that perhaps it wouldn’t be too late to tell the child’s mother after the fetus had stabilized.
Sometimes, many things in the world are strange. She had hidden her pregnancy but had been honest about her meeting with Ji Qianqian.
But why was Summer so nervous when she found out that she was going to meet Ji Qianqian? Mu Sixue thought.
After refusing to be intimate again, she heard her take a deep breath and slowly exhale by her neck. “Sixue, promise me, no matter what Qianqian says to you, don’t get too excited.”
And don’t believe her too much.