After Little Sweet Omega Runs with the Ball - Chapter 32

Because she had won the award, Song Shuangtian was incredibly busy facing various invitations during this period.

“Guanguan, shall we go back home next week?”

Song Shuangtian held the cub she hadn’t seen in a long time. The little girl’s pigtails had gradually grown long enough to be braided into two little twirling plaits tied with sparkly crystal hair ties.

Guanguan buried her head in her mother’s embrace. “I missed Mama. I thought Mama didn’t want Guanguan anymore.”

These words made Song Shuangtian’s heart nearly shatter. “Guanguan is the best cub in the whole world.”

The little girl’s eyes were red. She hadn’t slept with her mother for three whole days. Without her mother’s company, Guanguan couldn’t sleep all night, yet she couldn’t wake He Yanyan, who was comforting her. At such a young age, she was already forced to act with more maturity than she should have to.

After Song Shuangtian bought a small cake and cheered Guanguan up, she sat in a café looking quite distressed. Opposite her sat Yuan Yin, and both saw the exhaustion in each other’s eyes.

“This isn’t the way,” Yuan Yin spoke first. “The child can’t always be without someone to care for her. What kind of widowed parenting is this?”

Song Shuangtian thought to herself: How is it not?

Yuan Yin took a sip of her coffee topped with ice cream, then used two fingers to toss a fry to the seagulls by the fountain. She was physically and mentally exhausted. “Guanguan is sensible enough. She doesn’t cry or make a fuss usually; she just stares longingly at you on the TV screen. Seeing her like that makes my heart ache to death.”

The more sensible Guanguan was, the worse Yuan Yin felt. Having witnessed Guanguan’s birth, Yuan Yin knew better than anyone how difficult it was to bear and raise a child.

In her heart, she blamed Ji Mingxue more and more.

Damn it, Ji Mingxue really is a scoundrel. To get an Omega pregnant with just a temporary marking. She sure is “capable.”

Song Shuangtian’s face looked slightly haggard. Attending various banquets and association meetings lately had kept her busy day and night. Just maintaining a smile had nearly frozen her facial muscles. Of course, Reborn had now thoroughly established its footing in the upper class.

Song Shuangtian’s eyelashes fluttered. “I thought if I kept her by my side, she would feel better.”

Song Shuangtian could never be like her own mother, who left her alone in the country while working in France. Song Shuangtian had rarely spent time with her mother growing up, so she didn’t want Guanguan to spend her childhood without a mother’s love.

Yuan Yin said indignantly, “That ‘Blonde’ should take up the responsibilities an Alpha ought to have.” She glanced toward the fountain where He Yanyan was holding Guanguan and feeding the seagulls, and her gaze suddenly softened.

“I’ll think about it more,” Song Shuangtian said. “Wait, what ‘Blonde’?”

Yuan Yin said lazily, “Madam Qiu calls Ji Mingxue ‘The Blonde’.”

Song Shuangtian: “.”

She had almost forgotten. Her aunt still didn’t know this precious baby was Ji Mingxue’s cub. She had always thought a “Blonde” had seduced away the high-society lady she had carefully raised.

The Capital

As a plane cut through the skyline, Ji Mingxue suddenly looked up as if sensing something.

It was late autumn in the capital. Fallen leaves drifted to the ground, and a cold wind scraped against her cheeks. Unlike the rainy south, the capital was currently experiencing a fine, dense drizzle. The rain tapped against the roadside awnings, making a rhythmic popping sound.

Ji Mingxue stood under an eave to escape the rain. Fine droplets fell onto her black wool coat. At twenty-seven or twenty-eight, Ji Mingxue stood with her hands in her pockets, wearing blue-toned lipstick and a cold expression. No one dared to approach within a meter of her to hide from the rain.

After waiting under the awning for an unknown amount of time, a luxury black car pulled up in front of her, splashing water everywhere. A passing pedestrian cursed under their breath and hurried away.

Lu Xing rolled down the window. “Still haven’t caught her?”

“No.”

Lu Xing checked her wrist. “The flight landed two hours ago. This road is the only way to Reborn. Song Shuangtian will definitely head to the office first after landing. I checked and saw she has a membership here; she’ll inevitably stop for a takeout coffee and a strawberry cake when she passes by.”

“Would you like to wait in the Reborn lounge instead?”

Ji Mingxue’s gaze became uncharacteristically awkward for a second.

Lu Xing: “President Ji?” Ji Mingxue: “I can’t go.” Lu Xing: “?” Ji Mingxue: “I don’t have a Reborn access card.”

Lu Xing’s gaze turned strange. “M Group has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with Reborn. If President Ji goes, it would surely be for a business visit. Reborn has never blocked us before.”

Ji Mingxue: “They’ve started blocking now.”

Drizzle mixed with sleet hit Lu Xing’s gold-rimmed glasses. She was startled, but then felt it was understandable. “It’s cold out. Be careful not to catch a cold.”

Lu Xing opened the car door to let Ji Mingxue inside.

They had been waiting for nearly three hours. People seeking shelter under the eaves came and went. Ji Mingxue could have waited inside the café, but the windows were crowded with people blocking the view.

Ji Mingxue actually wanted to apologize to Song Shuangtian. Her phone number was blocked. Her emails were flagged as spam. The Reborn doors wouldn’t open for her.

After the fruitless wait, Ji Mingxue sat in the passenger seat with a low atmosphere, her body radiating a chill that wouldn’t dissipate.

Lu Xing searched a few times on her phone and said, “I heard a Reborn shareholder has been checking the internal access lists lately. Since you never use formal channels for your visits, well…”

Ji Mingxue’s heart skipped a beat.

Lu Xing continued, “So that shareholder is strictly vetting the entry list and barring all non-formal visitors. I can’t find information on that shareholder yet, but internal rumors at Reborn say something about a ‘blonde swindler’?”

What Lu Xing didn’t say was that Reborn was currently vetting the background of all employees, seemingly trying to filter out any Alphas with low education, shady backgrounds, or “silver tongues.”

“So, by a twist of fate, the Reborn reception doesn’t dare let President Ji in.”

Ji Mingxue: “.” Ji Mingxue: “The reservation application on the interface was rejected. The reason given was that Song Shuangtian is currently not in the country and cannot meet.”

After speaking, Ji Mingxue suddenly remembered something. She opened a transparent umbrella, walked into the café, and ordered the coffee and strawberry cake Song Shuangtian usually got. She wanted to taste the flavor her (unilateral) girlfriend liked.

# No wife, physically and mentally exhausted. #

As the luxury black car drove away, a high-profile pink sports car stopped at the café entrance.

Song Shuangtian sneezed. “When did you buy such a garish pink car?”

Yuan Yin: “He Yanyan said she likes pink. Other pink things are too tacky.”

Song Shuangtian said this car was also tacky. Usually, she wouldn’t even look at ugly things, but this level of “ugly” was rare.

“It’s the Pretty Sister!”

Guanguan, in the child safety seat, was the first to rush out. She pointed at the black car disappearing in the distance. “I saw the Pretty Sister!”

Song Shuangtian immediately looked where Guanguan was pointing. She saw two rows of taillights.

“It’s the Pretty Sister! Mama said we would see her again!” “Guanguan just saw the Pretty Sister holding a transparent umbrella and carrying my favorite strawberry cake! The Pretty Sister likes the same cake as me!” Guanguan’s eyes shone. “The Pretty Sister smells so good.”

A very faint scent of Alpha pheromones lingered in the air. This concentration was so low that even a sensitive Omega wouldn’t normally notice it. Bloodlines, however, could not be ignored.

In the misty rain, the taillights moved further away until they completely vanished from sight. Song Shuangtian opened an umbrella over Guanguan’s head.

“You really want to see the Pretty Sister?” “Yes!”

Song Shuangtian patted Guanguan’s shoulder and turned to the clerk. “Hello, one caramel hazelnut latte and one strawberry cake, please. Thank you.”

There were quite a few people sheltering from the rain inside. Song Shuangtian felt uneasy; she carried the purchased pastries back to the car.

When the car reached the Reborn entrance, Song Shuangtian saw the receptionist suddenly being very strict about attendance and found it strange.

Yuan Yin: “Lately, Madam Qiu has been worried that you’re letting that ‘Blonde’ into the company. She said she’s going to investigate and root the ‘Blonde’ out.”

Yuan Yin had tried to talk her out of it, but Madam Qiu wouldn’t listen. Madam Qiu’s smile was kind, but her eyes revealed a murderous intent: “I’ll dig three feet into the earth to find that bastard. He had the guts to mark my Tiantian but lacks the guts to admit it. Heh.”

Song Shuangtian remembered there were several meeting requests from M Group in the backend that she had rejected.

Song Shuangtian: “…”

It turned out the reason she hadn’t heard from Ji Mingxue lately was that Ji Mingxue simply couldn’t enter her territory.

Song Shuangtian didn’t stop Madam Qiu’s strict vetting. She touched the back of her neck, covered by a gland patch. The pain of Ji Mingxue’s fangs piercing her gland felt as if it were engraved on her soul.

How outrageous. It hurt Tiantian so much.

After returning home, Song Shuangtian’s workload didn’t decrease; she practically lived at the office. Fortunately, Guanguan was fairly well-behaved at kindergarten, but with the winter break approaching, Song Shuangtian had to find time to participate in school activities and bring her Guanguan home.

Autumn in the capital was short, and winter with drifting snow soon arrived. Compared to the freezing capital, the weather in the small southwestern town was still pleasant.

Song Shuangtian had planned to take Guanguan there for the New Year, but she unexpectedly received a call from the nursing home manager while in her office.

“What did you say?”

The office suddenly became deathly silent. Song Shuangtian walked quickly to the window, her nails anxiously digging into the curtain. “Auntie had a sudden heart attack and is in surgery?”

Song Shuangtian’s head suddenly spun. The Omega’s thin body trembled uncontrollably. Her face turned deathly pale as she gripped her phone and asked questions rapidly.

Guanguan, playing with Legos in the lounge, sensed something and ran over on her short legs. “Great-Auntie?”

Song Shuangtian looked at the child with a heavy heart. Her child had the same beautiful peach-blossom eyes as her, and a facial contour strikingly similar to Ji Mingxue’s. The child combined the best features of Ji Mingxue and Song Shuangtian—a beautiful angel baby.

“Ms. Song, please don’t worry yet. Madam Qiu is currently in emergency treatment. There will surely be good news.”

The medical facilities at the nursing home where Madam Qiu stayed were top-tier, so there was no need to worry about the level of the doctors or the equipment.

But how could Song Shuangtian not worry?

After hanging up, Song Shuangtian quickly arranged a few work matters. “Book me the earliest flight.”

“Boss, watch your health.” Yan Ying supported Song Shuangtian’s swaying body worriedly. The Omega felt dizzy; over these four years, Madam Qiu’s health had always seemed fine, causing her to subconsciously ignore the fact that her aunt had a serious heart condition.

Song Shuangtian waved her off to show she was fine. The Omega didn’t realize how terrifying her expression looked right now. “I’m going to take care of Madam Qiu. Work will proceed as usual.”

Song Shuangtian could work online; it wouldn’t affect Reborn’s daily operations.

“Guanguan.”

Song Shuangtian’s gaze fell on the little girl with two cute braids. She knelt on one knee to be at the same height as Guanguan. The Omega mother pressed her forehead against Guanguan’s, suppressing her inner anxiety in front of the child.

Guanguan said cautiously, “Is Great-Auntie… sick?”

Children aren’t completely ignorant; they can sense an adult’s emotional fluctuations very accurately. Guanguan took her mother’s wrist and pressed her hand against her own little face.

Great-Auntie couldn’t have anything happen to her. Guanguan couldn’t become a burden. Guanguan was a very good girl.

# Except when she was doing bad things. #

Everyone else in the office had left, leaving only Song Shuangtian and the cub. Song Shuangtian suppressed her anxiety, knowing that even if she flew there now, it wouldn’t help. The surgery would last until midnight. Aside from worrying, there was nothing she could do.

“Guanguan wants to see the Pretty Sister, doesn’t she?”

“Yes!”

Guanguan didn’t know why Mama mentioned the Pretty Sister. Could Great-Auntie’s health be related to her? Then the Pretty Sister must be a bad person!

 

A child’s world is exceptionally simple: anyone who hurts someone Guanguan loves is a big villain.

 

The primary issue now was that Song Shuangtian had no time to look after Guanguan. She had to work and take care of her aunt. Her Guanguan couldn’t be left without companionship.

 

Song Shuangtian tested the waters in a low voice: “Guanguan, Mama won’t be able to stay with you for a while. Can you go live with the Pretty Sister?”

 

“You’ve always been curious about who your Alpha mother is. That Pretty Sister is your mother.”

 

Guanguan was a bit dazed by the first sentence, but by the second, her little brain completely stopped working.

 

What what what?

 

Guanguan’s eyes widened to their limits; the entire “jar” was petrified.

 

If there were any other way, Song Shuangtian wouldn’t have thought of sending the child back to Ji Mingxue under such emergency circumstances.

 

Song Shuangtian adjusted the little girl’s collar with her fingers. “Guanguan, that Pretty Sister will like you very much, but you cannot tell her where Mama and Great-Auntie are.”

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

Mama was leaving again.

 

Guanguan was still in the “stunned” phase, but she nodded stiffly. As long as it was something Mama said, Guanguan would obey. Of course, climbing trees was an exception.

 

Song Shuangtian gave a gentle smile. “Our Guanguan is a jar who has a throne to inherit; you are a golden jar. What you need to do is make your mother like you as much as possible.”

 

“What if she doesn’t like me?”

 

Song Shuangtian’s gaze darkened. She was no pushover. “If your mother doesn’t like you, you hit her. If you can’t win the fight, you quietly call me, and Mama will fly back to hit her.”

 

“Our Guanguan isn’t a child without a mother. Because of certain things, your mother doesn’t know you exist, but she will definitely like you.”

 

Song Yuqing had always known she was different from other children. Other children grew up protected by two parents, but Song Yuqing only had Mama, so she couldn’t add to Mama’s burden.

 

Song Yuqing knew Mama worked very hard. She had heard Auntie Yuan Yin mention that her Alpha mother was a very wealthy person, in the same industry as Mama, and was once a very good (strikethrough) friend.

 

So Song Yuqing thought… if she could make her mother like her, then her mother could help Mama, so Mama wouldn’t have to work so hard. She really didn’t want Mama flying all over the world every day. Although Mama could stand where the spotlights were brightest with golden rain falling on her head, she knew Mama was always exhausted whenever she returned to the hotel.

 

Auntie had said her Alpha mother would like her. And there was a high probability her Alpha mother would only ever have her as a child. Because her Alpha mother… was incapable of marking.

 

Even at three and a half years old, Song Yuqing knew that being “incapable of marking” was a very embarrassing medical condition.

 

Hmm, it’s quite pitiful, actually.

 

Auntie had also accidentally told Song Yuqing that her Alpha mother had bullied Mama before, so Song Yuqing was determined to help Mama get revenge.

 

Guanguan was super fierce (bares teeth).

 

Song Shuangtian saw that Guanguan had accepted the reality of having a new mother well, and the heart she had held in suspense finally settled.

 

Song Shuangtian had colleagues in M Group she was on good terms with. She led Guanguan to a back entrance of M Group and called Cui Yu. Upon hearing Song Shuangtian’s voice, the latter immediately came downstairs.

 

Cui Yu was incredulous: “Why did you resign back then? Did you offend President Ji? Now everyone is forbidden from even mentioning your name in the company.”

 

Song Shuangtian: “…”

 

Song Shuangtian brushed it off. Cui Yu didn’t know about Song Shuangtian winning awards abroad and assumed she wanted to re-apply for a job, so she took Song Shuangtian up through a small elevator.

 

In the elevator, Cui Yu suddenly received a call. After handling it briefly, she stopped on the 20th floor.

 

“I have something urgent, you go to HR first,” Cui Yu comforted Song Shuangtian. “President Ji valued you so much back then; she definitely won’t stop you from re-joining. The employment situation is so bad right now; we’re all colleagues, we understand.”

 

Song Shuangtian gave a harmless smile. “Thank you, Group Leader.”

 

“Oh, wait.” Cui Yu looked down at the child wearing a little yellow hat that Song Shuangtian was holding. “Who is this kid?”

 

Song Shuangtian’s smile was perfect: “She’s a child I picked up from a green belt downstairs. I’m looking for her mother.”

 

Cui Yu didn’t understand, but she was deeply shocked.

 

Hearing this, Song Yuqing thought: Hmph, Mother really is a bad person. And a super wealthy big villain. Just like the antagonists in cartoons. But this big villain is that Pretty Sister. Song Yuqing immediately thought that although the Pretty Sister was bad, she wasn’t beyond saving. How could a sister with such nice-smelling pheromones be a big villain?

 

Oh, wait. She shouldn’t call her “Sister” now. She should call her “Mother.”

 

Song Shuangtian naturally didn’t go to the HR department to report. She used her hand to wipe the red marks on Guanguan’s face. It had been raining outside lately, and Guanguan had slipped while rushing to get out of the car; her whole face looked pitiful. Her beautiful clothes were also stained with a layer of muddy water.

 

She had become a muddy jar.

 

Song Shuangtian had to catch a flight and didn’t have time to change her clothes. Fortunately, the clothes were waterproof, so only the surface was dirty. Ji Mingxue would just have to see her daughter in this messy state.

 

Song Shuangtian stuffed a note into Guanguan’s pocket, which listed her clothing sizes, dietary preferences, and the details of the situation. Song Shuangtian ruffled Guanguan’s little head, and finally, the elevator stopped at the 52nd floor where Ji Mingxue’s office was located.

 

The Omega led the little cub out of the elevator and carefully opened the door to Ji Mingxue’s office. She placed the cub inside. She knew no one was in the office right now because she had heard someone in the elevator say Ji Mingxue was in a meeting.

 

“Stay here, your mother will be back in a while.”

 

Guanguan nodded vigorously. “I definitely won’t leak Mama’s whereabouts.”

 

Song Shuangtian felt a pang of heartache. “Good girl.”

 

“Mama will call Guanguan every day. Mama loves Guanguan the most.”

 

She removed the strap of the children’s smartwatch and hung the watch face around Guanguan’s neck. Hanging alongside it was a platinum safety collar. That was the gift Song Shuangtian had intended for her daughter’s fourth birthday; she was giving it to her early now.

 

Before leaving, Song Shuangtian took a baby bottle from her bag and pressed it into Guanguan’s hands. “Drink your milk, don’t get hungry.”

 

Guanguan patted the bottle hard, indicating she would be very obedient. “Mama, don’t worry.”

 

Song Shuangtian felt relieved. She looked back every three steps as she quickly left the M Group headquarters to catch her plane.

 

It went without saying that any information about Song Shuangtian was surely listed in the group’s security system. Although she used her fingerprint to open Ji Mingxue’s office, every time the door opened, there would be a backend record.

 

After Song Shuangtian left.

 

Guanguan stood up from the sofa and patted the mud in front of her, getting her clean little hands dirty too. Such a beautiful office. Even bigger than Mama’s office. How outrageous.

 

Guanguan walked around the office on her short legs. Finding nothing, she stood on tiptoe to open the door. She smelled the Pretty Sister’s Alpha pheromones, the pleasant scent of white magnolia.

 

Oh, wait. Not “Pretty Sister.” It should be “Mother.”

 

Guanguan accepted the fact that Ji Mingxue was her mother quite well, likely because she always caught whiffs of her mother’s pheromones in the subtle moments of life.

 

Mother was behind this door.

 

Guanguan gripped the glass door with her dirty little hands, leaving muddy paw prints on the surface. Mother, Mother. Guanguan’s task was to make her mother like her so she could help Mama. So, Guanguan’s primary objective was to see her mother.

 

A passing employee saw a strange child pushing open the doors to the conference room.

 

“!!!!!”

 

Whose dirty mud-cub is this?!!

 

Heaven help us! How did this dirty child get into the Big Boss’s conference room?!

 

Inside the conference room.

 

Ji Mingxue had no idea there was an extra person in the office.

 

“The cost control for the group’s subsidiaries next quarter…” The Alpha sat at the head of the conference table, discussing the group’s strategic goals for the next quarter when suddenly the conference room door creaked open.

 

All the participants had arrived, so Ji Mingxue frowned and looked toward the door. No one walked in. From Ji Mingxue’s angle, she naturally couldn’t see the three-and-a-half-year-old mud-jar.

 

Guanguan smelled the most familiar scent among everyone. Mother. It was Mother’s white magnolia pheromones. It was the Mother who had wiped Guanguan’s face in the disaster area!

 

A participant near the door suddenly looked down and saw a child covered in mud.

 

Participant: “?!!!!”

 

Must be seeing things. Close eyes, open them. Still a muddy little girl!

 

She wore two exquisite little braids with sparkly hair accessories. Although her clothes were covered in mud, they looked like high-end designer children’s wear. But why was she so dirty!

 

“What is it?” Ji Mingxue looked up and saw her subordinate staring down, speechless.

 

The subordinate looked down at the child, then up at the Big Boss. “Uh…”

 

As the subordinate was gathering her words, everyone not just those in her row saw a child walking over. A beautiful little girl with a slightly dirty face and extremely bright eyes stopped in front of Ji Mingxue.

 

Guanguan looked up and carefully studied the Alpha. Ji Mingxue looked down at this familiar child. It was the child she had met in the Southwest disaster area who said her Alpha mother was dead.

 

Ji Mingxue’s first reaction was a pleasant surprise; her second was wonder at why she was here. Who had taken advantage of her kindness? Only a few people knew Ji Mingxue was looking for a child; who on earth had involved such a beautiful child in this?

 

A shadow of suspicion flashed in Ji Mingxue’s eyes, but she couldn’t feel a shred of displeasure toward this beautiful little girl. Still in this messy state. Even the baby bottle was nearly empty. Clearly wearing nice clothes, yet always covered in mud and dirt. Someone wanted to use the child to get close to her.

 

She thought of many things, but only a moment had passed.

 

Guanguan looked up and said clearly: “Are you, my mother?”

 

“I am Guanguan.”

 

In front of her mother, Guanguan revealed the adorable smile of a little angel. A direct hit of beauty.

 

You should know, every time Guanguan caused trouble, as soon as she smiled, Mama would stop being angry. No one could refuse Guanguan’s smile. Guanguan would definitely make her mother like her.

 

Everyone in the conference room: “?!!!”

 

Lu Xing nearly lost her composed expression. She knew the child named Guanguan.

 

Immediately, she looked at Ji Mingxue accusingly. How could President Ji let such a child, one whose mother had “died” and who lived in constant fear suddenly come to a strange place and call President Ji “Mother”?

 

Tsk, what a total scumbag.