After A Secret Marriage Agreement With A Rival Omega - Chapter 47

Chapter 47

◎ Sheng Ruxi’s eyelashes were also wet, brushing against her fingertips, causing an inexplicable flutter. ◎

Sheng Ruxi didn’t say a word, but Jian Jixing got up and slowly approached the bed.

She seemed to be completely defenseless, probably because she knew Sheng Ruxi wouldn’t do anything to her. The moment Jian Jixing’s palm pressed on the edge of the bed, Sheng Ruxi, who hadn’t been sleeping at all, suddenly flipped over and hooked Jian Jixing’s neck.

Jian Jixing fell back onto the bed to get away. Sheng Ruxi’s attention was completely on Jian Jixing’s pants. She didn’t correctly assess her own situation. All she felt was anger.

She was too easy to provoke and too easy to get the short end of the stick.

So, she didn’t understand the hidden meaning in Jian Jixing’s words.

Jian Jixing leaned lazily on the side of the bed, supporting her head with her uninjured right hand, allowing her to clearly see what Sheng Ruxi was doing.

What was the dignified young lady doing now? She was trying to pull off her pants.

Jian Jixing didn’t resist, so Sheng Ruxi didn’t have to put in much effort to take off Jian Jixing’s outer pants. She threw them to the side and stared at the person on the bed with a fierce expression.

“Now you’re in my hands!”

Jian Jixing smiled: “Then what are you going to do to a sick person like me?”

Sheng Ruxi froze. She hadn’t thought about this question. How could she take advantage of someone who was injured? Sheng Ruxi belatedly realized that Jian Jixing seemed especially easy to pin down at this moment.

Her heart fluttered, but she forced herself to erase the thought: “Let’s go to sleep.”

Sheng Ruxi suddenly deflated. She took off her thick clothes and burrowed into the blanket, wrapping Jian Jixing in it as well. She said discontentedly, “You’re already lying on the bed. Don’t you know how to cover yourself with a blanket?”

Jian Jixing said, “Indeed. I’m so stunned because I’ve never been taken care of by the young lady of the Sheng family before.”

Sheng Ruxi said, “I can take care of people. When I was a kid, I raised little turtles and spiders.”

“And then?”

Sheng Ruxi said, “They went to heaven.”

“I don’t want to go there just yet.” Jian Jixing found it funny but also wrapped herself in the blanket. “Seriously, you haven’t answered my question. Are you still angry?”

Sheng Ruxi said softly, “I’m angry about something else now.” This meant that the anger from the live stream had subsided.

Jian Jixing asked, “What were you angry about during the live stream?”

Sheng Ruxi didn’t answer immediately.

Jian Jixing felt her hand slowly move over. It was a little cold. It first rested on her waist, then her stomach, and quickly moved up, finally stopping on her beating heart.

It didn’t move anymore.

She and Sheng Ruxi had never been in a relationship. They had even liked Chu Wu together. They had directly jumped into a partnership and had never been this close.

Jian Jixing was a little unaccustomed to it, but she didn’t feel any resistance. She only felt that her heart was beating faster.

“I was angry that you said it was nothing, just a small thing, and completely dismissed your contribution. I saw your mom was there, and I said it on purpose,” Sheng Ruxi said, turning over to face Jian Jixing. Her voice was focused and serious. “You can blame me, but I don’t care. I’ll do what I want to do. I’ll let the whole world know you’re injured.”

Jian Jixing was lying on her back. She didn’t look at Sheng Ruxi. She just asked softly, “Why is that?”

Sheng Ruxi looked at Jian Jixing quietly. The soft light enveloped both of them.

The light wasn’t off, so she could see Jian Jixing’s every expression and change clearly. Sheng Ruxi had never looked at Jian Jixing so seriously before. Only now did she realize that Jian Jixing’s eyes were truly beautiful.

Many people were shocked by Jian Jixing’s unconventional and passionate nature, saying that she had a pair of eyes that could make anyone fall for her.

They were like the night, enveloping people and never letting go.

But looking closely, Sheng Ruxi saw not passion, but a kind of longing. What was this? Why would Jian Jixing be so longing?

The more she observed, the more she discovered a different side of Jian Jixing.

Sheng Ruxi said, “You don’t seem to know it yourself, but you’ve always needed someone to care about you.”

Jian Jixing was silent for two seconds, a bitter curve forming at the corner of her lips. “That’s human nature, but if you show too much, it becomes a weakness.”

“Who told you that?”

Seeing that Jian Jixing was no longer speaking, Sheng Ruxi went to pinch Jian Jixing’s lips and cheeks. Since Jian Jixing’s hands and feet were injured, she couldn’t touch them. The face, neck, and collarbone became the safest places to touch.

Jian Jixing was annoyed by her actions: “My mother.”

“Your mother? Your mother… ah, is it the Jian family?” Sheng Ruxi’s hand stopped. She suddenly understood.

Jian Jixing was not only Jian Yanchuan’s first child but also the first grandchild of the Jian family. She had always been highly valued, and Sheng Ruxi had heard about this.

Sheng Ruxi knew that parents were very strict in raising their heirs, but she only knew vaguely because she was the youngest and never felt it at home.

“It was fine before they divorced. After they did, my mother became very strict with me. The heir training… I’ve mostly forgotten now.”

But her body and mind still remembered those calm lessons.

You couldn’t show emotions. You had to be calm, composed, strong, and never weak. For example, when accepting arrangements, you had to be humble, but not too gentle or indecisive. When Jian Jixing was still young, she struggled with these fixed conditions for a long time, not knowing what the right balance was.

Later, breaking through everything became an inevitable choice. Jian Jixing had always felt that she did nothing wrong and that it was her way of regaining freedom. But when Sheng Ruxi mentioned it, she vaguely realized that she had never truly escaped from that kind of confinement.

Sheng Ruxi said, “Jian Jixing, they want you to be responsible to the family, not a robot without any feelings. Didn’t you ever get to be a child?”

Jian Jixing’s thoughts drifted away a bit. The smile on her face remained unchanged. She said, “I did, but I wasn’t a good one.”

It was okay at first, but later, her two closest relatives found new partners and had their own children.

Night was not just for her to have heart-to-heart conversations, and Jian Jixing didn’t want to tell Sheng Ruxi about these uncomfortable things.

She lowered her gaze and gently took Sheng Ruxi’s wrist. “Since you’re not angry anymore, shouldn’t we go to sleep?”

Sheng Ruxi said, “There’s no such thing as a good or bad child. If a child is not good, it’s the parents’ problem.”

Jian Jixing turned her head, looking at her in surprise.

“I’m not sure why you think you weren’t good, but I’m telling you, you’re wrong,” Sheng Ruxi said with certainty. “I used to bully my older brother all the time when I was little. I was the younger sister, so it was only natural, right? But that’s not it. Even though my brother let me bully him, it was based on the fact that my parents loved us equally, so no matter what I did, my brother was happy.”

Sheng Ruxi had never been hit or scolded, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t disciplined. Otherwise, she would be completely lawless. Her parents even thought it was a good thing that Sheng Ruxi was a little spoiled and willful. After all, she had the family to back her up, so no one would dare to bully her.

Sheng Ruxi asked, “Do you know what you should do?”

“Do what?”

Sheng Ruxi said, “Go back to being a child and start over. Treat yourself with the same indulgence you show to others.”

Jian Jixing never thought she would be lectured by Sheng Ruxi one day, but she couldn’t help but correct a mistake in Sheng Ruxi’s words. “I don’t indulge others.”

If anyone, the only person she indulged was the one in front of her. No one else.

The surroundings became very quiet. Jian Jixing also had a question she wanted to ask. She reached out and turned off the light. At the same time, she turned her head to face Sheng Ruxi, whose expression was unclear in the dark. “Is this feeling the same as your feelings for Chu Wu?”

Why was she being brought into this again? Sheng Ruxi was a little awkward, but she still said, “It’s not exactly the same, but I need to observe.” She was telling the truth. Although she knew in her heart that this was completely different from her feelings for Wu Wu.

When she was with Chu Wu, the only thing she projected onto Chu Wu was a kind of competitive desire toward Jian Jixing.

Jian Jixing asked, “Observe? Verify?”

“Maybe all I need is your cooperation?” Sheng Ruxi’s voice was a little muffled. She still felt a sense of defeat because she had already shown her hand to Jian Jixing.

But she was a very proud person and quickly adjusted. She used to tell Yan Fuzheng that the right to hate Jian Jixing had to be in her hands. Now that there was no “hate,” she still had to keep the right to control the relationship in her hands.

Wasn’t the verification method simple?

Jian Jixing heard the heavy blanket rustle. A second later, her lips were covered with the same softness. Sheng Ruxi seemed to have used the previous conversation to gather her courage. Her breathing was a little rushed, and her movements were hurried.

Jian Jixing’s rhythm was interrupted by the sudden kiss. She didn’t respond to Sheng Ruxi. She didn’t even know if Sheng Ruxi had her eyes closed. She reached out and placed Sheng Ruxi’s hands, which didn’t know where to go, on her chest.

Faint human voices came from outside. Someone had suddenly arrived at the village. Jian Jixing patted Sheng Ruxi’s back, signaling her, but Sheng Ruxi was unmoved. She freed one hand to touch the back of Jian Jixing’s neck.

Before touching the gland, it wasn’t that hard to stop. After touching it, it was difficult.

Jian Jixing had been holding back, and now she was being deliberately provoked by Sheng Ruxi. It was clumsy, but it worked. She felt Sheng Ruxi’s eyelashes, fluttering over her face again and again.

The moment her gland was touched, Jian Jixing slightly parted her lips. Sheng Ruxi’s tongue slipped in, softly intertwining with hers, sucking on Jian Jixing. Jian Jixing’s scalp tightened, and then a tingling sensation spread. Her hand turned and gripped Sheng Ruxi’s slender waist.

The next second, Jian Jixing also bit Sheng Ruxi’s lip, but didn’t break the skin.

This was the first time Jian Jixing had learned to bite Sheng Ruxi like Sheng Ruxi used to bite her. Sheng Ruxi’s movements paused. She instinctively moved away a little: “Ugh…”

Her voice sounded in pain, even though Jian Jixing hadn’t used any force. She was a delicate little thing.

Jian Jixing’s hand gently soothed her.

“Are you a dog? Biting people.”

Sheng Ruxi sniffed. She couldn’t help but marvel at Jian Jixing’s pheromones… they smelled so good. This warm, woody fragrance, with a hint of citrus acidity, perfectly matched the cold environment here, like a warm fire in the snow.

It made people want to get closer.

She heard familiar voices outside. Was this place really not soundproof enough? It turned out that Aiyetala had arrived with Yan Fuzheng. Sheng Ruxi even heard Yan Fuzheng asking where she was.

Jian Jixing’s breathing sank. Her gaze lingered on Sheng Ruxi: “Aren’t you going out to see her?”

“I can see Zhezheng anytime.”

Jian Jixing reached out, her fingertips gently pressing on Sheng Ruxi’s lower lip where she had just bitten it. The tiny bite mark was now negligible. “Did it hurt that much?”

Pat.

A hot tear fell onto the back of Jian Jixing’s hand. Jian Jixing was stunned. Sheng Ruxi didn’t move. She said, “It hurt so much.”

For a moment, Jian Jixing was reflecting on whether she had gone too far.

The room was not only dark, but the windows were also covered. The faint light wasn’t enough for Jian Jixing to see Sheng Ruxi clearly. Only through physical contact could she better feel Sheng Ruxi.

Jian Jixing sighed softly: “I’m sorry. I won’t tease you anymore.”

She leaned over and kissed Sheng Ruxi’s lips, without any hint of a joke. This time, she was very proactive.

Sheng Ruxi closed her eyes, her mind racing. She really wanted to sit on Jian Jixing right now, but she couldn’t. She thought about what she had said and done with Jian Jixing tonight. Her heart was both sour and felt like it was soaking in warm water.

Her hands slowly cupped Jian Jixing’s cheeks. She kissed Jian Jixing very seriously.

When she tasted Sheng Ruxi’s tears again, Jian Jixing let go of her.

She was more accustomed to the light now. She could see that Sheng Ruxi’s eyes were wet. Jian Jixing reached out to wipe them away. The tips of Sheng Ruxi’s eyelashes were also wet, brushing against her fingertips and causing an inexplicable flutter.

“Have you verified it?”

Sheng Ruxi’s voice had a little nasal sound: “No, one time isn’t enough to verify.”

Jian Jixing asked, “Then why are you still crying?”

Sheng Ruxi’s pheromones were sour today, and she couldn’t hide it. She choked up and said, “It’s none of your business. I’m crying for a little kid.”

Jian Jixing didn’t know what it meant to fall in love. When she saw Sheng Ruxi at many glamorous events, she always felt attracted to her. Wasn’t that normal?

For so many years, she and Sheng Ruxi had been playfully competing. Although Sheng Ruxi used to mock her, Chu Wu had been abroad for many years, and Sheng Ruxi never made a move, did she? She was also a crybaby and loved to be dramatic. Jian Jixing used to think Sheng Ruxi was a timid person.

Only now did she realize that Sheng Ruxi was the bravest one. Jian Jixing couldn’t say for sure that she would fall for Sheng Ruxi, but she was touched by Sheng Ruxi many times.

Like right now.

She said softly, “Thank you for being so sad for that little kid, Sheng Ruxi.”

**

Yan Fuzheng arrived at her room. She was staying with Aiyetala, but Aiyetala wasn’t there at the moment. Gu Shengci brought her altitude sickness medication and looked at her in surprise: “You went up to this altitude and had no reaction at all?”

“No, I’ve been to higher places for my sketches before. You should keep the medicine for yourself. I think you need it more than I do.”

Gu Shengci’s face was very pale. On the way here, Yan Fuzheng had already heard a rough summary from Aiyetala.

A producer who could faint from lack of oxygen at any time, a director with two previous injury records, and two actors who didn’t get along—what a broken but excellent crew.

“There’s an empty bed in your room. Why didn’t you let me move in?”

Gu Shengci said, “That’s not an empty bed. That’s Jian Jixing’s bed.”

“Jian Jixing has already gone into Ruxi’s arms. I was at the door just now and didn’t hear a sound.”

Gu Shengci smiled: “You don’t understand. With their mouths, how long can they last? Maybe in a day or two, Jian Jixing will be kicked out.”

Yan Fuzheng: “…” She didn’t know how Jian Jixing was living these days.

When Aiyetala came back, Gu Shengci gave her a few instructions and left, telling them to rest early.

But Yan Fuzheng was too excited to sleep. After turning off the lights, she wanted to know more and asked Aiyetala, “Are there many people pursuing Jian Jixing here?”

She felt that Sheng Ruxi was too oblivious to her own feelings and that if there was competition, she would realize how special her feelings for Jian Jixing were in a minute.

Aiyetala said, “Miss Yan, you talk too much.”

Yan Fuzheng: “…” What was wrong with the people here? Had their tempers gone up with the altitude?

The next day, when Jian Jixing woke up, Sheng Ruxi was gone again. When she asked around, she found out that Sheng Ruxi had followed the production crew to film early in the morning.

There was a message from Sheng Ruxi on her phone: [I’ll be done early today. Don’t come! Don’t come! If you’re really bored, just stay there and review the footage. Zhezheng just arrived, so help me entertain her.]

Alright.

The little princess had given her orders, and she had to follow them. Today, Jian Jixing felt much better. The pheromone comfort from last night had worked well.

There were also a few phone calls on her phone. Jian Jixing thought for a while and decided not to call them back.

She couldn’t be willful forever. She would explain everything when she got back.

Her breakfast was lean pork porridge and sweet potatoes and corn, which were plain and seemed to be from a different dimension than Yan Fuzheng’s ravenous meal.

“I can’t believe Ruxi knows how to take care of people,” Yan Fuzheng said, wiping the oil from the corner of her mouth. “Did you know, I also got up early and saw with my own eyes that Ruxi went to talk to Liang and the others to prepare porridge for you.”

Yan Fuzheng’s eyes widened at the time. Had Sheng Ruxi been possessed? Seeing that scene, if the crew hadn’t urged them to leave, Sheng Ruxi probably would have cooked the porridge herself.

Jian Jixing had been eating porridge for a long time. She had also had porridge for three days when she had a high fever. She tasted the flavorless porridge and said, “Stop teasing me, unless you want to talk about work.”

Yan Fuzheng took another bite of meat and looked around. There was no one else there. “What’s going on with you and Ruxi now?”

Jian Jixing didn’t say anything and continued to eat her porridge.

Yan Fuzheng was very curious. This time, she saw that Jian Jixing and Sheng Ruxi were sharing a room among the crew, and she pressed on: “Tell me? Is the chapter with Chu Wu completely closed?”

Jian Jixing looked up: “Who are you asking for?” She smelled like a spy.

“No one. I swear to you, Ruxi didn’t ask me. I’m just gathering information for the family, okay?”

But Jian Jixing had no intention of telling her, because she didn’t know if the chapter with Chu Wu was really closed for Sheng Ruxi.

And for her, she knew that she and Chu Wu had never had anything.

Jian Jixing said, “I don’t know.”

“Hey, that’s strange. I thought you were smart. Can’t you see anything?” Yan Fuzheng took off her plastic gloves. “She likes you.”

Jian Jixing had just finished her last bite. The warm porridge filled her stomach, and she felt satisfied.

“She’s actually… I don’t think she knows anything. She’s actually very good at caring for people. She’s just sometimes anxious, and her way of expressing it is different. She’s not as delicate as you think,” Yan Fuzheng said after a pause. “But Ruxi has never taken care of anyone like this before.”

Jian Jixing said, “I don’t need her to take care of me like this.”

Yan Fuzheng thought Jian Jixing was indirectly refusing and not trusting her and got a little anxious: “That’s not what I mean. Why are you so unyielding? Do you know Zou Xinjie? When she was pursuing Ruxi, she was so crazy. If Ruxi gave her one more look, she would want to tell the whole world and brag about dating Sheng Ruxi. She would walk with her chin up. You don’t have any of that…”

If she didn’t know that Jian Jixing and Sheng Ruxi were really married, Yan Fuzheng would have said that Jian Jixing was really ungrateful.

“I’m not saying that. I’m saying that if Sheng Ruxi really likes me, she won’t just turn into someone who takes care of me,” Jian Jixing said. “And to correct you, they never dated.”

Yan Fuzheng: “Huh?” This “huh” was her reaction to the first part of Jian Jixing’s answer. It was difficult to understand what she meant.

Was that really Jian Jixing’s personality?

“Huh?” This “huh” was Yan Fuzheng’s reaction to the second half of Jian Jixing’s sentence. She was stunned for a moment. “Is that so? I didn’t ask in detail at the time. Did she tell you all of that?”

No wonder Jian Jixing didn’t look jealous at all.

Jian Jixing sat quietly, looking at her straightened right leg. After a while, she said, “Actually, even if they had been together, it wouldn’t be a big deal.”

After all, the person who ended up marrying Sheng Ruxi wasn’t Zou Xinjie, was it? Even if there was a moment of genuine feeling in the play, just as Sheng Ruxi thought, feelings were fluid.

Genuine feelings could be taken back and given to the next person.

As for how long this heart would stay? That was something the next person needed to consider.

Yan Fuzheng blinked her eyes and saw that Jian Jixing seemed to be lost in thought and didn’t say anything else.

They didn’t talk about anything related to feelings anymore. Yan Fuzheng was mainly here for work. After eating, Jian Jixing took a picture of the empty bowl and sent it to Sheng Ruxi. Then she signed the contract with Yan Fuzheng.

She went to review the footage. The original three-and-a-half-minute film was now almost three minutes after all the footage was spliced together. This meant that the post-production work was about to begin.

She was about to enjoy her real vacation, but for some reason, Sheng Ruxi’s schedule popped into Jian Jixing’s mind.

Sheng Ruxi was a top-tier artist, and she had a lot of scheduled events. Jian Jixing had known this before. After getting married and moving to the villa with Sheng Ruxi, she had only been there a few times.

In the afternoon, she took a break from the tiring work of reviewing. She walked around slowly. She looked down at her phone, wondering what she should send to Sheng Ruxi. She had never had this problem before.

After thinking for a while, a voice message from her mother, Jian Yanchuan, came.

“Rongrong, why didn’t you tell the family you were injured? Do you need me to come pick you up?” Jian Yanchuan’s voice was consistently calm. Jian Jixing knew her mother well, so she could hear the genuine concern in her tone.

At the end of the voice message, Jian Yanchuan said, “Your mother is very worried and said you didn’t answer her calls. What’s wrong? Are you angry?”

Jian Jixing wasn’t angry. For no reason at all, she just didn’t want to deal with these things, even now. She didn’t reply and forgot what she was supposed to send to Sheng Ruxi. She turned around and went back to take a nap.

When she woke up, she saw Sheng Ruxi wrapped in a blanket on a chair next to the stove, seemingly asleep. She didn’t know what time it was. The light outside was dim. Jian Jixing didn’t know when Sheng Ruxi had come back. She walked over almost silently.

It wasn’t dark yet, but a few stars had already appeared in the sky, adorning the space behind Sheng Ruxi.

Jian Jixing saw that her head was tilted. She reached out her palm and gently held Sheng Ruxi’s head.

It was probably past dusk. She had seen someone say before that a person waking up in a hazy state at dusk would feel uncomfortable, confused, and lonely.

Today, Jian Jixing didn’t feel that way at all. Looking at Sheng Ruxi napping, she only felt an extreme sense of peace and her heart beating. Sheng Ruxi was like a frozen picture, framed in her heart.

Her heart was beating faster and faster. Jian Jixing slowly leaned in, and she heard Sheng Ruxi’s sleepy murmur.

The name she was mumbling was: “Wu Wu…”