After Setting Me Up With My Ex, The Aloof Alpha Regrets It - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: She Had Looked Back at Zhu Yunqi’s Back Countless Times.

Wen Yue said, “That’s fine. But you have to video call me every day and reply to my messages on time. You can’t talk to just anyone, especially an Alpha.”

Shi Li sneered, “You’re more controlling than my mom.”

Wen Yue gave a bitter smile.

“Baby, I just love you too much and I’m too scared of losing you. Even if you’re cold to me, even if you hate me, I still love you.”

Shi Li no longer wanted to listen to her nonsense.

After Wen Yue dropped her off at her apartment complex, Shi Li slammed the car door shut, once again expressing her dissatisfaction.

Wen Yue watched her go upstairs from the car.

Her eyes were dark.

…

“Xiao Shi, did you not submit a piece for this design competition?”

As soon as she got to the office, Lin Xiaonan came over in her chair to ask Shi Li.

Shi Li smiled faintly. “I did.”

“I didn’t see yours in the preliminary collection. Your design should have been very noticeable. I looked around and didn’t see it. Did you submit it to the wrong place?”

“I submitted a different one.”

“Huh?” Lin Xiaonan was confused. “The one you originally designed was so good, and the functionality was innovative. Why did you switch it just like that?”

Shi Li made up an excuse. “I found a flaw during the final check, and I couldn’t fix it, so I just switched to a different one.”

Lin Xiaonan felt sorry for her. “I was thinking that if you had submitted that one, you would have basically secured the gold medal.”

“One gold medal trophy at home is enough. It doesn’t even come with prize money,” Shi Li said with a laugh, looking completely nonchalant.

Lin Xiaonan shook her head regretfully and went back to her own desk to work.

Shi Li sprayed herself with some refreshing mist to wake herself up and continued to work.

Not long ago, the head of the design department came to her and told her that the exchange program between the private company and the military was a success. Based on the final learning reports and observations from the several exchange meetings, and combining the resumes of the participants, the military had selected a few people to be included in the mech talent pool, hoping to absorb more creative optimizations and take mech design to the next level.

Shi Li was one of them.

Aside from the Lower Star Domain and the Black Star Belt, the only large-scale mech testing base in the Federation was on Planet T9007 in the Mid-Star Domain. If Shi Li agreed to enter the military’s mech talent pool, she could go to T9007 for public-funded training and officially get in contact with military mechs.

The Star Style Group was actually not very willing to let her go. Although Shi Li would still be an employee in their design department in name, she would inevitably have to put in a lot of effort to complete her work for the military. Shi Li was only twenty-six and had already won a gold medal in design. She was a well-rounded fighter who was proficient in everything from programming to exterior design. Household robots were also a very important source of income for the Star Style Group. Shi Li’s abilities had already far exceeded her current job level.

They offered Shi Li a raise. However, Shi Li still chose to enter the military talent pool as a candidate.

Since the mech design center no longer accepted resumes from Omegas, this might be her only chance to get a step closer to her dream.

She had to seize it.

She had seen the military’s schedule. After she finished her training, she would have about two or three days of free time, which would be just enough to go visit Shi Yu.

…

The military once again issued an order that the defense line between the Lower Star Domain and the Mid-Star Domain must be strengthened again. The Silver Serpent Legion was ordered to send two squads to participate in the inspection and deployment of the defense line.

Colonel Cheng Yin chose the Sea Serpent Squad and the Black Mamba Squad. Both of these squads had nine members, which corresponded to the eighteen sectors of the defense line.

After receiving the order, Zhu Yunqi was not very keen on going.

“Colonel, my teammates and I just came back to the Black Star Belt not long ago. And…”

Inspecting the defense line was the most boring thing. It was just driving a mech along the defense line all day and testing if the various weapons on the defense line could be used normally. If they couldn’t, they would be reported for repair.

Cheng Yin reminded Zhu Yunqi, “Silver Ring, you’re only one A-level field mission away from being promoted to Captain. Besides, this is an order.”

Although the task of inspecting and strengthening the defense line was not difficult, the mission rating was never low, making it one of the most sought-after missions. Cheng Yin assigned this mission to her. Zhu Yunqi felt that she shouldn’t be ungrateful.

She agreed. The members of the Sea Serpent Squad were almost all very happy. The scenery in the Mid-Star Domain was beautiful, and they could feast their eyes on it from their mechs. Except for Shroud. The captain of the Black Mamba Squad was her ex-girlfriend. They had a very unpleasant breakup, and now they had to go on a mission together. She was even more annoyed.

Zhu Yunqi assigned the area that Shroud was responsible for to the location farthest from the captain of the Black Mamba Squad.

When they arrived at the defense line, Hai Yao suddenly told Zhu Yunqi that Shi Li was also in the Mid-Star Domain. Tang Yingchi had revealed it to her by chance when they were chatting.

Zhu Yunqi’s heart tightened when she heard this.

“Where is she in the Mid-Star Domain?”

“I don’t know,” Hai Yao shrugged. “It seems like she came for some kind of training. Can’t you ask her yourself?”

Zhu Yunqi pretended not to hear the second half of the sentence.

Ever since she talked to Shi Li on the video call through Hai Yao and Tang Yingchi’s optical computers, she hadn’t really been in touch with Shi Li much after that. Shi Li hadn’t taken the initiative to contact her, and she found that her life in the Black Star Belt was too monotonous. She couldn’t even find a suitable topic to start a conversation with Shi Li.

She was also trying to forget Shi Li, so she just didn’t take the initiative to contact her.

Zhu Yunqi felt that it was shameless to still go find Shi Li when she knew that Shi Li and Wen Yue were living a happy life. It was something a homewrecker would do.

Her attempts to forget Shi Li had not shown any significant results yet. As soon as she heard Shi Li’s name, her heart couldn’t help but beat faster.

Her rationality told Zhu Yunqi that she should avoid Shi Li now. The Mid-Star Domain was so big. As long as she didn’t deliberately go looking, the chances of them running into each other were close to zero.

But they had already come to the Mid-Star Domain from two ends of the Federation at the same time… Looking at her from a distance wouldn’t hurt, right?

Yeah, it wouldn’t hurt.

She would just treat it as a desensitization exercise for herself. She would see Shi Li more often. When she could see her and not have any reaction at all, then she would have successfully forgotten her.

“It’s not convenient. Can you help me ask Tang Yingchi?”

Hai Yao: “No way. I’m a beauty, not a messenger.”

Zhu Yunqi had to guess on her own.

Shi Li coming to the Mid-Star Domain for training should be related to the exchange program with the military she mentioned before. She remembered it was related to mechs. She had even gone to be a speaker back then.

Maybe it was at the mech testing and simulation base in the Mid-Star Domain?

Zhu Yunqi once again browsed Shi Li’s optical computer account, trying to find clues that could show Shi Li’s location.

But there was only a single post on Shi Li’s optical computer community about the growth of a little plant.

The location could be displayed in real time on the optical computer’s personal information. Shi Li’s personal card said: Federation-Mid-Star Domain-Seventh Star System.

Shi Li had set her location to the star system level and hadn’t revealed the specific planetary number. However, the mech testing and simulation base was indeed located in the Seventh Star System of the Mid-Star Domain.

Zhu Yunqi decided to try her luck there. If she didn’t run into her, then so be it.

She and the Black Mamba Squad’s captain reported to the defense line’s command center. The person in charge of the command center warmly welcomed them. The Silver Serpent Legion’s combat capabilities were far ahead of all other legions in the Federation, and all squads named after snakes were the best of the best in the Silver Serpent Legion. The person in charge of the center was very excited to see two of them at the same time.

The command center gave them a deadline. They only needed to complete the inspection and assist in the deployment within a week. How they allocated the specific time was up to them. If they could complete the mission in one day, they could go wherever they wanted for the remaining six days, giving them enough flexibility.

The command center equipped each person with the most advanced mechs to make it easier for them to travel along the defense line.

Zhu Yunqi completed one-third of the mission on the first day and readjusted the guidance system of a high-altitude cannon turret. She sent the mech back to the command center, took the space elevator down to the Mid-Star System, and then took an intergalactic train to Planet T9007 in the Seventh Star System.

She arrived at the mech testing and simulation base at 6 p.m. Mid-Star Domain time.

She had access to all mech bases and mech research institutes. Before she even entered the base, she saw a middle-aged male Beta in a combat uniform with the rank of colonel leading a few people out of the exhibition hall.

As they walked, they exchanged a few words with each other.

Following closely behind the colonel, wearing a pearl-white knee-length suit dress, was Shi Li.

She was listening intently, her eyes burning with a fiery light, and she would exchange a few words with the colonel from time to time.

Zhu Yunqi felt that her luck was too good. Even God was favoring her. She not only accurately found Shi Li’s location in the vast sea of stars but also saw her the moment she landed.

She stared intently, not even noticing the car coming from behind her.

The car, annoyed that she was blocking the entrance, honked twice. The headlights were bright, and they stung Zhu Yunqi’s eyes, causing her to raise her hand to cover her face.

The headlights also hit the crowd behind her. Shi Li was momentarily distracted from her heated conversation and looked over.

She saw a car stopped at the entrance. A tall, well-proportioned woman was standing directly in front of the headlights. Because the headlights were too bright, they created a halo of light around the woman. At first glance, the woman looked like a saint who had descended from the heavens.

The woman had an excellent figure. Her legs were long and straight, and a belt seemed to be tied around her waist, outlining her soft yet powerful waistline.

Shi Li immediately thought of Zhu Yunqi.

This woman’s back looked a lot like Zhu Yunqi’s.

She had looked back at Zhu Yunqi’s back countless times—

When Zhu Yunqi appeared downstairs at her apartment, when they left the concert together, when Zhu Yunqi left the amusement park with the twins… Every time, Zhu Yunqi would ask her to go first, and she would indeed obediently walk ahead.

But when Zhu Yunqi thought she had safely arrived home, she would look down from the window the moment Zhu Yunqi turned around.

Shi Li subconsciously took a few steps forward and suddenly rushed in front of the colonel.

A companion walking behind her coughed softly twice. Shi Li shivered, pulled herself out of her fantasy of Zhu Yunqi, and realized that she had been rude.

She quickly retreated behind the colonel. “Sorry, I just… I think I saw someone I know…”

Luckily, the colonel didn’t mind these details. He smiled gently. “You know someone at the mech testing base? What’s her name? Maybe I know her.”

Shi Li shook her head with a look of disappointment. “No. I was mistaken.”

Zhu Yunqi should be in the Black Star Belt now. How could she possibly be in the Mid-Star System, let alone descend from the heavens and appear in front of her?

She rubbed her eyes and looked forward again. The woman had disappeared, and a military pickup truck was slowly driving into the entrance.

Sure enough, it was her imagination.

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