A Straight Wife Fallen from the Sky - Chapter 37

Mu Jiahui’s face flushed instantly. She snatched the notebook back and returned it to Sang Zhancheng.

“I… I’ll erase it, I will… I’ll change it right away, it’ll be done in a second.” Sang Zhancheng picked up the correction fluid, mourning her artwork in her heart.

She counted the number of drawings; this time she had actually persisted for ten minutes without getting distracted. She was making progress!

“There’s no need to erase it…” Mu Jiahui covered her face, recalling those drawings.

They were actually quite good. Mu Jiahui thought to herself, feeling a bit reluctant to let Sang Zhancheng erase them.

Let us go back to three days ago, the date the little succubus looked forward to most.

The weekend was the outing Sang Zhancheng anticipated more than anything.

She woke up very early. Before Mu Jiahui could call her, she had already leaped out of her room and pounced into the kitchen to watch Mu Jiahui cook breakfast for her.

“Mumu, morning~ Add some pepper~” The little succubus wagged her tail while sticking close to Mu Jiahui.

She really was like a puppy.

Mu Jiahui stretched out her hand that wasn’t covered in oil and stroked Sang Zhancheng’s hair.

“You like that?” Mu Jiahui asked thoughtfully.

Speaking of her career, she had received a reply to the resumes she sent out, saying they wanted her to have an online interview on Monday.

She hadn’t expected the achievements from her original world to be recognized here. She just didn’t know how the company would judge their authenticity.

After all, if she wanted to, she could completely boast about herself, and no one would ever find out.

“Yes, yes, it’s sweet, but a different kind of sweet than sugar. Don’t you think so, Mumu?” Sang Zhancheng’s tail wagged even more joyfully.

Her partner sister had really liked stroking her head lately; she was so happy.

This was a good sign! Although they hadn’t reached the final step yet, Mu Jiahui clearly had a good impression of her.

In time, they would surely reach the great harmony of life!

Sweet pepper… Mu Jiahui looked at Sang Zhancheng with a look of astonishment.

Was the difference in their sense of taste really that large?

After breakfast, Mu Jiahui took out her notebook and recorded this discovery.

“Where are we going to play?” Seeing that Mu Jiahui was finished with her work, Sang Zhancheng looked at her with wide, eager eyes.

That gaze was as innocent as a puppy’s.

Mu Jiahui almost “tsk-tsk-tsked” at her.

Fortunately, Mu Jiahui only patted her head. “Be good, Little White. We’re going to exercise.”

Sang Little White’s tail slumped instantly.

She knew Mu Jiahui ran every day, but she didn’t know Mu Jiahui wanted to drag her along for a run.

“I’m not going! I thought you were going to take me shopping!” Sang Zhancheng flopped onto the floor and began to roll around.

“I don’t want to exercise! I want to go shopping!”

“Senior year is high-pressure. You need a good physique to get through it. If you don’t exercise, you’ll collapse from exhaustion.” Mu Jiahui crouched down.

Sang Zhancheng let out a sob.

If Mu Jiahui picked her up, she might reluctantly agree to exercise.

But having been together for so long, Sang Zhancheng was skeptical about Mu Jiahui proactively hugging her.

Lifting her up by the scruff seemed more like something Mu Jiahui would do.

“No… if I collapse, I can just rest… ahem, I mean, I don’t want to exercise!” Sang Zhancheng rolled away a couple of times, moving out of Mu Jiahui’s reach.

Mu Jiahui’s hand grabbed empty air, failing to catch Sang Zhancheng’s collar.

“Then don’t go out today. How about we finish studying Unit 3 instead?” Mu Jiahui didn’t get angry; she just crouched there watching Sang Zhancheng throw her tantrum.

“Ugh…” Sang Zhancheng squeezed out two tears. She wanted to go out. But she didn’t want to exercise.

In the end, her desire to go outside won.

Finally, Mu Jiahui almost dragged the lazy little succubus out of the house.

“Mumu…” The little succubus was still sobbing, looking not like she was about to exercise, but as if she were about to be executed.

“You’re not going to make me do the hurdles, run three kilometers, and then climb two mountains, are you?”

This was something Mu Jiahui hadn’t expected. She fell silent.

“If you want to, you can.” It turned out a succubus’s physical strength was so good they could use a triathlon as exercise.

“No! I don’t want to!” Sang Zhancheng quickly refused.

She struggled repeatedly in Mu Jiahui’s arms, wanting to get down and run herself.

She twisted like an eel held by the throat of destiny, making it a bit difficult for Mu Jiahui to look at her directly.

“No, you do want to. Let’s start with three kilometers.” Mu Jiahui put the “Sang-eel” down.

Sang Zhancheng’s eyes were blurred with tears.

“Then… then you must buy me cake later! Otherwise, I won’t run!”

“Fine, fine, fine, my little ancestor. It’s just a cake. I’ll buy it for you after the run.” Mu Jiahui did a few warm-up exercises.

She had already run once before breakfast.

She had assumed Sang Zhancheng’s stamina was poor, so she thought bringing her along after breakfast wouldn’t be too tiring.

That was until she was left in the dust by Sang Zhancheng, who took off at a lightning pace the moment they started.

This girl… surely, she doesn’t know how to do long-distance running? Otherwise, why would she use a sprinting speed for three kilometers?

Actually, Mu Jiahui had miscalculated.

Being able to shop for twelve hours a day meant Sang Zhancheng’s stamina couldn’t be that bad.

With the high recovery rate of a succubus, they were actually very good at sports. They were very skilled at “exercise” in every sense of the word.

It wasn’t until Sang Zhancheng had been running for half a minute that she realized Mu Jiahui hadn’t kept up.

She turned back and waved at Mu Jiahui. “Mumu—you’re so slow—”

The only response Sang Zhancheng received was a string of ellipses.

Mu Jiahui tried to sprint for a bit and ended up exhausted.

“Mumu-dear~ why are you here again?” Just then, Tang Xinyue appeared.

When Sang Zhancheng saw the cat-eared girl, her eyes widened.

When did Mu Jiahui get a dog behind her back? No, wait, it should be a cat!

“Mumu!!” Sang Zhancheng sprinted again, doubling back.

“Who is she!” Sang Zhancheng demanded.

On closer inspection, this cat-girl sister was actually quite pretty.

Sang Zhancheng sized up Tang Xinyue, then immediately changed her face and grabbed Tang Xinyue’s hand.

“You’re so cute! Can I touch your ears?”

When a “social butterfly” meets another “social butterfly,” the scene becomes uncontrollable.

Within a minute, by the time Mu Jiahui regained her senses, her partner was chatting happily with her community friend. Sang Zhancheng was even touching Tang Xinyue’s ears and tail.

Watching them go from mutual touching to holding hands while discussing the latest cosmetics, Mu Jiahui fell into silence once more.

It was clearly a movie for three people, yet Mu Jiahui’s name was nowhere to be found.

She cleared her throat.

Sang Zhancheng turned her head and grabbed Mu Jiahui’s hand as well.

“Mumu, this is Tang Xinyue~ Yueyue, this is my partner~”

“Hahahaha, meow! I know your Mumu-dear~ She’s a new member of our running hobby club~ So you’re her succubus partner, meow~” Tang Xinyue was amused by Sang Zhancheng.

“Oh, right.” Only then did Sang Zhancheng remember she had come back to “catch a cheater.”

But this sister called Mu Jiahui “your Mumu.”

Sang Zhancheng lost her aggressive edge instantly. Cat-girls were indeed easy to get along with; they were all cute sisters.

“Putting that aside, are you two down here to run, meow?”

“Yes.” This time Mu Jiahui finally managed to speak.

In terms of social skills, she really wasn’t as strong as Sang Zhancheng.

While feeling gratified by Sang Little White’s strengths, like a parent, Mu Jiahui also felt a bit annoyed.

How could this person be so cute to everyone?

Having received a positive response, Tang Xinyue looked at Mu Jiahui with a gaze that held a hint of pity.

“Is something wrong?” Mu Jiahui intuitively felt something was off.

“Nothing, meow, just that Mumu-dear needs to work hard, meow. Succubi have very good stamina. If Mumu-dear ran this morning, you might… not be able to keep up now.” Tang Xinyue glanced at Sang Zhancheng and said this to Mu Jiahui without hiding it.

So it turned out her partner sister just couldn’t keep up.

Sang Zhancheng suddenly understood and decided to run slower later.

Mu Jiahui, realizing that humans were remarkably bad at sports: …

“It’s okay, Sang Zhancheng. You can go ahead and run by yourself.”

Mu Jiahui patted Sang Zhancheng on the shoulder. Her goal was to get the kid to exercise, not to compete with her.

“No~ I want to be with Mumu~” Sang Zhancheng hooked her arm around Mu Jiahui’s.

“I’ll slow down.”

Watching the two interact, Tang Xinyue felt she wasn’t watching a couple, but rather… a teacher and student.

Using that term to describe a couple was strange, but it felt unexpectedly fitting for these two.

Especially Mu Jiahui’s attitude toward Sang Zhancheng—one could say there was almost no tenderness or romance, but rather the demeanor of a strict homeroom teacher.

However, she couldn’t interfere in someone else’s love life.

Tang Xinyue twitched her ears and said goodbye to the two, not wanting to disturb this “teacher-student” training session.

“No, you don’t need to consider my speed. Being too slow won’t provide any exercise effect.” Mu Jiahui squeezed Sang Zhancheng’s shoulder and pushed her onto the green pedestrian path.

“Go run. One lap around this is enough.” Mu Jiahui took out her phone, ready to time her.

“But I wanted to go out together with Mumu?” Sang Zhancheng still clung to Mu Jiahui’s side.

Both were sweating slightly, and they were so clingy that Mu Jiahui wanted to shake her off.

“How is this not going out together?” Mu Jiahui looked at herself and then at Sang Zhancheng.

Her meaning was clear: two people, together, outdoors—that is going out together.

“…” Sang Zhancheng was momentarily unable to refute. “But…”

“Alright, don’t waste time, run fast. One lap is two thousand meters. When you finish, call me—call your own phone.”

Mu Jiahui handed her phone to Sang Zhancheng. Sang Zhancheng’s phone remained with Mu Jiahui.

“Fine… next time can we play ball or go swimming?” That would make it easy to be with Mu Jiahui, and the latter could see her in a swimsuit, hehehe…

“Sure, but not today.” Mu Jiahui clearly didn’t overthink it.

Sang Zhancheng decided to get it over with quickly.

She vanished in a puff of smoke. Once she was out of Mu Jiahui’s sight, she quietly opened Mu Jiahui’s phone.

They were partners now; it shouldn’t be a big deal to take a look, right?

The little succubus was naive.

She looked while she ran, thinking if Mu Jiahui had a password, she’d let it go and ask for it next time.

As it turned out, Mu Jiahui had no password.

Not only was there no password, but aside from one commonly used messaging app, there was nothing on the phone. It was as clean as a brand-new device.

Sang Zhancheng froze in place for two seconds.

She had thought Mu Jiahui was playing on her phone the whole time she was studying! She had clearly seen Mu Jiahui fiddling with the phone every day!

Could it be that she deleted everything for fear that Sang Zhancheng would play with it?

Sang Zhancheng tapped the background apps and saw only the usage history for the “Notes” and “Browser” apps.

Notes? Mu Jiahui was actually using the Notes app!

Was she drawing? Sang Zhancheng knew the Notes app was powerful and that many experts used it to draw.

She squinted and peeked at the background interface, seeing a screen full of formulas.

There were also key knowledge points, analysis tables, and so on…

Sang Zhancheng almost threw the phone away in fright.

She had finally managed to escape studying for an hour; how could she still be seeing this kind of thing!

Sang Zhancheng rolled her eyes, nearly fainting from the “overachiever aura” emanating from the phone.

She resolutely closed Mu Jiahui’s phone to avoid seeing any more study materials.

This person Mu Jiahui… she was truly a devil!

Was it possible that all humans were this diligent? Having a phone and not playing with it, using it only for notes and studying!

It was simply… what was that word again? A complete waste of a good thing!

On the other side, Mu Jiahui was running at a slow pace. She was thinking about Sang Zhancheng’s running speed.

If this world also had something like the Olympics, succubi would surely have a place.

After all, Mu Jiahui ran with those beast-eared girls every day, and she had never seen them fly like that during a long-distance run.

If it were like politics and the succubi didn’t participate, it would be a total waste of talent.

Both of them were thinking of the same phrase. Unfortunately, the little succubus’s memory wasn’t good enough, and she remembered the words wrong.

Before long, Sang Zhancheng had almost finished.

She opened the phone again to contact her partner sister.

“Mumu~ I’m done running~”

Receiving the call, Mu Jiahui’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.

Only a little over two minutes had passed. A succubus’s stamina was indeed far superior to a human’s.

She didn’t know that out of those two minutes, half a minute had been wasted playing with the phone.

If Sang Zhancheng hadn’t curiously opened her phone, she could have been even faster.

“How about you… run another lap?” Mu Jiahui herself hadn’t even finished a quarter.

She was just slightly faster than a walking pace; it was normal to be this slow.

“Eh, I want to be with Mumu… Can I come find Mumu?”

It was a pursuit problem. “Alright, you should see me after running a few steps.”

By the time Sang Zhancheng ran close, Mu Jiahui had already thought of a problem.

“Mumu~” Sang Zhancheng waved her hand, accelerated, and pounced toward Mu Jiahui.

Mu Jiahui reached out and caught the pouncing little succubus.

Before Sang Zhancheng could act clingy for two seconds, Mu Jiahui straightened her up, stepped forward, and signaled for her to run together.

This emotionless devil! Sang Zhancheng grit her teeth and shot Mu Jiahui a glare.

However, an even more devilish thing occurred.

“I’ll test you with a problem. Suppose Little Red’s speed is 800 meters per minute and Little Blue’s speed is 300 meters per minute. They start from the same point and run around a track with a total length of 2,000 meters. When will Little Red see Little Blue again?”

Mu Jiahui’s voice now sounded exactly like an English listening exam—monotonous and extremely serious.

Sang Zhancheng: ?

For a moment, Sang Zhancheng thought she had misheard and rubbed her eyes.

“Mumu…?” The little succubus was dazed.

Although she had been learning about meeting and pursuit problems lately, they were on a date right now!

A running date was still a date—that was how Sang Zhancheng had been convincing herself.

But what was Mu Jiahui doing? Testing her?

Sang Zhancheng suddenly remembered a dream she had had a while ago.

In the dream, she and Mu Jiahui were being intimate, and in the middle of it, Mu Jiahui started testing her on physics.

This time, Sang Zhancheng really was about to faint.

Her partner was too much of a “grindset” person; she couldn’t take it!

“I’ll say it one more time. The problem shouldn’t be hard; it’s the same difficulty level as the unit tests I found for you these past two days.” Mu Jiahui repeated the question.

Tears welled up in Sang Zhancheng’s eyes.

Who were Little Red and Little Blue? They were so annoying! How could they disturb her rare date with Mumu!

She silently cursed the two non-existent people to have ginger-stewed chicken for dinner tonight and began to count on her fingers.

After two minutes, Sang Zhancheng finally spoke.

“Four minutes…?” Sang Zhancheng was very uncertain.

She didn’t have any scratch paper and relied entirely on her mind. Since her memory was poor, it was only natural to miscalculate.

“Correct. Then if they were to run ten laps, how many times would the two of them meet in total?” However, Mu Jiahui refused to stop and added another question.

After hearing this, before Sang Zhancheng could even be happy about getting it right, her eyes rolled back, and she fell straight backward.