Chapter 66 p2: Online Dating a Bad Beta 19
Tan Yicheng’s mother had been sick for many years. Few people could be healthy living in this kind of environment for a long time. She had always gotten sicker and sicker because she had no money. In the end, it had crushed her. Dying of a serious illness was actually a relief for her, as she no longer had to suffer from the pain.
But when she was terminally ill, the mother lying on the bed always liked to reach out and touch Tan Yicheng’s face. She was so sick that she couldn’t see clearly and could only touch with her hands.
The girl by the bed was silent, bent her thin back, and placed her face in her mother’s bony palm, listening to her apologize again, “I shouldn’t have given birth to you. I’ve implicated you. I’m sorry.”
Tan Yicheng did not know what to answer and could only continue to be silent, wiping her body, changing her clothes, and then continuing to study at the table not far from the hospital bed.
For a child in her early teens, it was already not easy to take care of herself, let alone a bedridden adult.
Her mother was very sick. Most of the savings she had saved up over the years had been invested in her treatment. Long before she realized that her savings were running out, she had insisted on being discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home.
The doctor had not stopped her. The doctor, who smelled of disinfectant, had patted Tan Yicheng’s shoulder and said, “Let her do what she likes more.”
The precocious Tan Yicheng had understood the doctor’s unspoken words.
One night, Tan Yicheng was woken up by a fallen cup. She turned her head in a hurry, called for an ambulance on one side, and asked her where she was uncomfortable on the other.
She didn’t know that the woman on the hospital bed’s life was already at its end, nor did she know how a person who was about to die could have so much strength, grabbing her wrist so hard that it hurt.
Tan Yicheng, who was in pain, comforted her mother on the bed on one side and clearly told the hospital the address on the other. When she turned her head, she saw a pair of wide-open, tearful eyes.
Even though the other party was disfigured by illness, you could still see her former shadow.
She was a beauty, and a gentle beauty. Because she liked children, she had given birth to Tan Yicheng, but she still felt that she had implicated her child.
Tan Yicheng’s voice trembled as she asked, “Mom, what do you want to say?”
“You have to leave, go far away, and never come back.” This was what her mother had said with a trembling hand, using all her life force.
Tan Yicheng did not react for a moment and was asked again with her wrist held, “Did you hear me?”
“I heard you. I heard you.” Tan Yicheng quickly nodded. Before she could say another word, the person on the bed had already closed her eyes and could not look at her child a second time.
Her mother had passed away before the ambulance arrived and had even left a deep scratch on Tan Yicheng’s wrist that had not disappeared for several days.
That year, Tan Yicheng was twelve years old.
The deceased had passed away, and the living had to continue to live.
After a long time, the depressed Tan Yicheng, with the help of the neighbor’s mother, sorted out her mother’s belongings.
Before, she had been busy with her studies and taking care of her mother. The unconscious moans of a seriously ill patient could fill the entire house. It was only now that she felt that the house was so empty, with so many things she had never cared about.
In the process of sorting things out, she had found a well-preserved business card of her mother’s. It was very inconspicuous, and the name was also very ordinary. The company on the business card had already gone bankrupt, but it had been preserved so well.
The puzzled Tan Yicheng had taken the business card to the neighbor’s mother. The other party had gotten angry as soon as she saw the business card and had quickly told her to throw this unlucky thing away.
After being angry for a long while, the neighbor’s mother had finally told Tan Yicheng the truth.
The neighbor’s mother had said that that was her alpha father’s name.
The story of her parents was not complicated. In fact, her biological father was a rich second-generation alpha. Because of some things, he had been sent by his family to inspect a branch company. The other party had hidden his identity, changed his name, and had dated Tan Yicheng’s mother as a transferred employee.
He had claimed that his parents were dead and had pretended to be a poor person to find true love. The similar family situation had moved Tan Yicheng’s mother, and she had thought that they were two people who were in the same boat and were helping each other.
Tan Yicheng’s mother had lost her parents when she was young. She had always longed for a family and did not care about the other party’s poverty. She was willing to build a small family together and work hard together.
But the other party had taken a transfer letter and gone home after Tan Yicheng’s mother was pregnant, saying with a worried expression that the company wanted him to go back.
But he had told Tan Yicheng’s mother not to worry. He would handle things and bring her over, and then they would get married. From then on, he had never returned.
The so-called feelings and love were just a game of deception from beginning to end.
Tan Yicheng’s mother, who could not contact her lover, had decided to give birth to the child. She did not want to lose her only family member again. The child in her belly was her eternal family member and could make her no longer live alone.
Until now, Tan Yicheng did not know where she had gotten the courage and determination to find the alpha who had disappeared for many years and was three galaxies away with the little information she had, and to confirm the other party’s current address.
The twelve-year-old girl had carried a broken backpack, bought a round-trip ticket, and had filled her backpack with extremely unpalatable nutrient solution and had set off.
But the result had been very disappointing for Tan Yicheng.
That person had died three days before she arrived. She couldn’t even punch that alpha in the face.
His legal wife had held a funeral for him. It was obvious that her life was not much better than Tan Yicheng’s. She was dressed plainly but kept apologizing to the people who were causing trouble at her husband’s funeral.
The teenage Tan Yicheng had stood at the door, her hands holding her backpack strap, silently watching the sad woman hugging a child who was a few years younger than Tan Yicheng, lamenting what her future life would be like.
From the surrounding conversation, Tan Yicheng had pieced together what had happened to the alpha who had left a lie and had disappeared without a trace.
This alpha was indeed a rich second generation, but that was a long time ago. His family had already fallen, and there were not many people left in the family.
The bankrupt alpha was unwilling. It was hard to go from extravagance to frugality. He had the idea of investing once to get his money back. If the investment failed, he would borrow again.
He was a former rich second generation after all. It was not difficult to borrow money. As soon as he got the money, the alpha would invest. The repeated losses could not stop his dream of making a comeback. What awaited him was only a growing pile of debt.
Until he couldn’t hold on anymore, he had bought a bottle of good wine with the borrowed money, wrote a suicide note while drunk, and apologized to his wife and child with tears streaming down his face, then jumped off a building.
He had jumped nimbly and had died cleanly, leaving his weak omega wife and child to cry over a hopeless future.
“Alphas are all like this, arrogant and heartless, sigh.”
“How are they going to pay off these debts? A widow and an orphan.”
“Why don’t we just let it go today? The deceased is the most important…”
Forget it.
This was also Tan Yicheng’s first reaction.
So she had returned to the narrow house again, studied desperately, and on her seventeenth birthday, had received an admission notice from the First Academy.
She had managed to go far away and would not go back again, taking her mother’s ashes and going further and further.
But her heart seemed to have been left behind forever, locked in the dilapidated house with the scratched desk. She had also gradually coincided with her mother and had actually become eager for someone’s company.
With the lesson from the past, she should be disgusted, should be vigilant, and should not fall.
“So you’re here. I’ve been looking for you for a long time. I almost couldn’t find you.”
A familiar voice made Tan Yicheng’s wandering thoughts instantly land. She did not want to meet anyone at this time. She lowered her head and looked around.
Across the flowerbed, Xi Congshuang was standing on the other side of the low flower bushes, meeting her gaze.
“…”
After a long while of looking at each other, Tan Yicheng, who realized that this posture was not very elegant, sat up straight, as if nothing had happened just now, and cleared her throat with a low cough. “What are you looking for me for?”
Xi Congshuang answered a different question. “The banquet is very boring.”
Tan Yicheng was still immersed in the past, her attitude a little cold. “I’m also very bored.”
The tables had turned. There was also a day when Tan Yicheng would try her best to persuade someone to leave.
Remembering the small account she had created before, it was really ridiculous.
If the instructor knew that her innate tracking talent was used to beat her father from a thousand miles away and to hunt down her enemy, he would definitely be angry to death.
But there was also a place that would make the instructor feel gratified. She had not done either of the above two points. Her father was lying in an urn, and she would only get a face full of ashes with one punch. Her enemy was also still alive, and she had even changed her suppression patch a few days ago.
Xi Congshuang’s eyes lit up, and she sat down beside her. “Then it’s just right. Two bored people staying together can just eliminate the boredom.”
What kind of twisted logic is this?
Tan Yicheng’s eyebrows raised, and she wanted to say that she had never heard of such a thing.
She leaned back and looked at the person in front of her. A thought appeared in her mind: The Xi Congshuang with the drastic change in personality, is she still an enemy in her heart?
Not anymore. She had said long ago that they were even.
“You hate me?” Xi Congshuang asked at this time.
Tan Yicheng shook her head. “No.”
She was not lying. Ignoring her personality of rejecting people from a thousand miles away, just based on her face, no one could hate Xi Congshuang.
To be honest, this face was indeed on Tan Yicheng’s aesthetic point.
After living for twenty years, she had only just discovered that she was also a pathetic face-con.
Then what does it matter?
How many glands do you have? How many A’s are there in your grade? To dare to have a crush on Xi Congshuang.
Xi Congshuang sat properly, her hands habitually placed on her legs, always gentle and elegant.
When she spoke in a low voice, there was a strong contrast, which always made people feel that she was pitiful and couldn’t help but agree to any of her requests.
Xi Congshuang: “I thought I was always appearing in front of you and causing you trouble. Just now, many people were always pulling me to talk. I wanted you to help me get away, but I saw that you were gone, so I wanted to come and talk to you.”
Tan Yicheng: “…”
If Xi Congshuang were an alpha or an omega, then her pheromone should be the smell of Longjing tea.
Full of tea flavor.
Tan Yicheng suddenly asked, “What were you like when you were young?”
“You want to know me?” Xi Congshuang was often like this, lacking interstellar common sense but sharp.
Tan Yicheng wanted to persuade herself to leave, to clear her head, and to warn herself, who was from a slum, that she couldn’t play with a rich second generation. She was also afraid that she would become a scumbag A like her bone-ash father.
She nodded. “It’s okay to talk about it. To pass the time.”
Tan Yicheng had already checked everything she could about Xi Congshuang. She had both parents, was rich, and had a happy childhood.
She was a world of difference from herself…
Suddenly, the person sitting beside her reached out and wrapped her arms around Tan Yicheng’s shoulders and back, pulling her into an embrace.
The person who was being held was caught off guard and did not think of resisting for a long time. By the time she finally thought of it and moved her body slightly, she was held by the back of her neck and was pressed deeper into Xi Congshuang’s embrace.
The champagne scent, which had been faint, became stronger, mixed with her usual perfume smell. It was not unpleasant, but rather addictive.
Tan Yicheng: “Xi…”
“Shh—”
Tan Yicheng quieted down. She caught the sound of conversation not far away.
Someone was coming.
“I didn’t expect CEO Xi to be at the banquet tonight. It’s a pity I couldn’t meet her.”
“I’m also wondering why she came over and was even talking to a student.”
“What student?”
“I didn’t see clearly. It seems to be…”
The conversation of the few people grew more and more distant, and the end of the words gradually became blurry.
Tan Yicheng could no longer hear clearly. Her ears were full of Xi Congshuang’s heartbeat by her ear. She gradually realized what posture she was being held in.
Noticing the struggle of the person in her arms, Xi Congshuang adjusted her posture, letting the flushed face look up, her gaze like water.
Xi Congshuang’s voice said in her ear, “When I was young, I liked it when the nanny held me in this posture. She would read me storybooks. This would give me a sense of security.”
There was clearly no one around. She could speak freely, but she had to speak in this posture.
“And then…”
Xi Congshuang’s breath was like an orchid. She continued to whisper in her ear.
Tan Yicheng was attracted by her words and couldn’t help but ask, “And then?”
Author’s Note:
And then I want to tell you that this posture is very comfortable for hugging.