After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Jin Chaoyan had a confused dream.

In her dream, she became a little squirrel, but she tucked her fluffy tail between her legs, trembled, and pretended to be a little hamster. Her cave was located in the center of a big beast’s territory.

But this fierce beast seemed to be very interested in her. The first time it patrolled its territory, it saw her foraging for food and suddenly reached out a claw and pinned her down. “You seem a little different from how you were before. Are you a little animal that snuck in from somewhere?”

She saw the cold light from the beast’s sharp claws and, shivering, she hid her tail even more tightly against her belly. She tried her best to imitate a hamster’s voice. “No, I didn’t sneak in! I’m a hamster!”

The little squirrel recalled a hamster’s past behavior. She spat out the food she had hidden in her cheek pouches. One, two. The nuts she had saved for winter were now used to bribe her enemy and distract it.

Seeing her as timid as ever, the big beast released its claw. Jin Chaoyan quickly scurried back near her cave, glancing longingly at the tree-top villa she had built on the opposite mountain peak. She resignedly went back into her damp, dark cave, pulled out her winter food supply, counted each one, and finally lay on top of her stockpile, sleeping contentedly.

Then she found that she seemed to be targeted by that beast.

The big fierce beast, who patrolled its territory, now liked to rest near her cave. It always appeared on her path. Sometimes it would push a piece of vegetable to her, other times a few fresh fruits. It wouldn’t say or do anything, it would just quietly watch her with an apathetic gaze.

The little squirrel could only stiffly walk over, pretend to really like it, and bury her head in the vegetables and fruits, gnawing away. After the beast left, she would go to a corner to spit them out, and then curse it under her breath.

One day, she was particularly disgusted with the vegetable leaf. The action of her puffy cheeks was very slow. She suddenly heard the beast say with a slow sigh, “Didn’t you used to like this kind of vegetable very much?”

She paused, and the speed of her chewing suddenly increased.

A laugh came from the side, and then the other party reminded her faintly, “Your big tail is showing.”

“It’s not!”

The little squirrel didn’t care about eating anymore. She was so scared that her fur stood on end. While covering her tail with her little paws, she mumbled an explanation, “I, I don’t have a big tail. I have a little tail.”

“Oh?”

Hearing the big fierce beast’s voice, which seemed to not believe her, the little squirrel ate the vegetable leaf in two or three bites, ran out of its line of sight, and let out a huge sigh of relief.

She decided to finish gathering her winter food as soon as possible and leave this territory of a strange-tempered beast. But plans can change. One time, she accidentally ate an over-fermented fruit. Feeling dizzy, she was spinning under a tree when a familiar voice called out to her:

“What’s wrong with you?”

“I… I…” The little squirrel spun in a circle. She turned back and saw the familiar beast. She suddenly put her paws on her hips, puffed up her umbrella-like tail, and shouted in a loud voice, “I’m not pretending anymore! I’m giving up! I’m a squirrel! Hmph! Surprised now, aren’t you!”

The dream scared Jin Chaoyan awake.

She opened her eyes and looked at the glowing light strips. Recalling the fierce beast’s final gaze in the dream, she still felt a chill in her heart. She was so engrossed in the dream that she subconsciously reached back and touched her lower back, trying to hide the squirrel’s big tail.

“You’re awake.”

A very magnetic voice came from not far away. The chill in it was like a winter mountain spring, causing her to shiver unconsciously.

The person lying on the sofa slowly raised her head and saw the man sitting in the luxurious single seat opposite her, dressed in a black suit and looking at documents on a tablet. Under the soft black bangs on his forehead, his beautiful almond-shaped eyes were looking at her. His calm expression was still gentle, handsome, and without any killing intent, but somehow his gaze made Jin Chaoyan’s heart tremble.

She silently pulled the thin blanket around her, turned over, and told herself that this must be the second layer of the dream.

—Strange, I’m already back in Tokyo, so why can I still see this man?

She reached out and pinched her thigh. Hiss, it hurt.

The woman on the sofa immediately sat up. The thin blanket slid down her shoulders. She looked around the cabin, then peeked out the window to see the sparkling cities on the dark continent below. She asked in a bewildered and confused voice:

“Where is this? Why am I here? Why are you here?”

“Heh.”

Kyoya Hibari scoffed coldly. He didn’t answer her questions and once again lowered his head to handle the latest work documents from the Disciplinary Committee Foundation.

Hibird, who had been resting on the tissue box on the table, opened its eyes and happily flew to her blanket, calling out, “Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

“Hibird! Come let Mom… let me kiss you!” Her expression softened. She reached out her hand to the little yellow bird. When Hibird hopped into her palm, she leaned over and kissed its head, then asked it, “Are you hungry? Do you want me to find you something to eat?”

Hibird responded very enthusiastically, “Eat~ eat~”

Only after asking did Jin Chaoyan realize she was completely unfamiliar with the place. She looked around but didn’t see the food cabinet for Hibird. She sat on the sofa for a while. The scene of her getting along with Kazuko Kin in the apartment earlier popped into her mind at an inappropriate time.

The coded safe, the red wine, the BOOK.

She subconsciously raised her hand and slapped her forehead, letting out a sharp, frustrated sound. She then comforted Hibird, who was almost startled into flying away. She then leaned over and whispered next to its head, “Baby, can you take me to where the food is?”

The little yellow bird tilted its head and looked at her for a while. Then, under her encouraging and trusting gaze, it opened its little wings and flew to the head of the man opposite her, who was looking at documents.

It began to command its owner with its voice. “Kyoya~”

The man, who was being ordered around by his pet, didn’t even look up. He picked up a remote control from beside his seat and pressed it towards a decorative wall in the cabin. A hidden cabinet door on the wall opened, revealing a series of storage compartments inside.

When the woman on the sofa got up, she noticed that she was wearing a light silk nightgown. Although the air conditioning in the cabin wasn’t particularly cold, she still wrapped the blanket around her and walked over. While taking out Hibird’s food, she asked in a casual tone:

“Um… I’ve never drunk alcohol before, so I’m not sure about my tolerance. I just tried a little today, and I don’t know how I ended up here. I didn’t cause you any trouble, did I?”

I didn’t go crazy and do anything crazy, did I?

Jin Chaoyan subconsciously raised her hand and touched her jaw, inch by inch. When she didn’t feel any pain, she quietly let out a sigh of relief. She felt that she probably hadn’t done anything to provoke this man.

Kyoya Hibari put down the tablet. His gray-blue eyes fixed on her. But the question he asked made the woman’s heart tremble. “Which kind of trouble are you referring to?”

Did I corrupt his pet into cursing him as a dog-man?

Or did I cry and then say I was cold, and insist that he take off his jacket for me?

Gulp.

The woman tried her best to swallow. The smile she had just put on her face completely stiffened. After a long time, she replied in a shaky voice, “…Are there many kinds?”

What on earth did I do?!

Compared to the strange atmosphere flowing between the two adults, Hibird, who was only focused on eating, was particularly happy. It landed on Jin Chaoyan’s hand, touching the sealed food bag in her palm with its beak, and softly urged,

“Eat~ eat~”

She instinctively tore open the bag and flipped the edge. Hibird contentedly buried its head in it and started eating.

At the same time, the man not far away turned off the tablet and placed it on the side. He adjusted the angle of his seat and, before closing his eyes, he glanced in her direction and informed her in a cold voice:

“I am going to rest now. During this time, do not make any noise.”

Jin Chaoyan looked at the roaring engine outside the window during the flight. She looked at the man who had already closed his eyes with a complicated expression. Thinking of his previous statement that “even a single petal could wake him,” she could only stand still.

Whether Kyoya Hibari was telling the truth or not, in any case, she didn’t want to be the one to tear off a petal.

Thinking this, Jin Chaoyan met the gaze of Hibird, who looked up at her. She smiled and raised her other index finger to her lips, silently making a “shhh” gesture to it.

Fifteen minutes later.

Jin Chaoyan felt that she had made up for all the military training she had skipped. She shifted her weight from left to right, counted the fake whiskers on her cat slippers, counted the number of hidden cabinets, and was so bored that she started counting the patterns on the rug.

Then she felt that this wasn’t going to work.

The woman’s gaze lifted and fell openly on the man not far away who was resting with his eyes closed. She stared at Kyoya Hibari’s sleeping face intently.

Her gaze moved from his soft hair to the contours of his face. With her good eyesight, Jin Chaoyan found that his facial features were overall soft and delicate, and when broken down, each was exquisite. When his eyes were closed, his eyelashes were thick and long, casting a shallow shadow under his eyes.

His nose bridge was high, and his lips were thin—

She hadn’t finished observing when she found that the person being watched suddenly opened his eyes.

Their gray-blue phoenix-like eyes met. She was stunned for a moment but naturally greeted him, “You woke up so fast? Then I’ll go sit on the sofa for a while.”

Kyoya Hibari seemed to be in an even worse mood.

But he couldn’t find a reason to get angry.

Because no one had ever dared to look at him from such a close distance with such an intense gaze before. He was just tired, not dead. His senses were already sharp. How could he possibly fall asleep when being stared at so intently?

Having experienced the chaotic scene this woman created when she was awake, and thinking that he would most likely not get a chance to rest, the air pressure around Kyoya Hibari dropped again and again. Even Hibird, who had helped Jin Chaoyan find food, didn’t dare to make a sound.

Jin Chaoyan, who had just found a bag of potato chips and a can of cola, hesitated after opening it. Her movements in holding the chips slowed down. She asked hesitantly, “Are you… still sleeping? If you are, can you wait for me to eat a couple of bites before you sleep? I’m hungry.”

Kyoya Hibari looked at the bag in her hand. A moment later, he curled his lips. “Will potato chips fill you up? Don’t you want a luxurious meal?”

“Is that possible?” Jin Chaoyan couldn’t immediately decipher his tone. She pulled the tab of the cola, making a crisp sound.

“Of course,” the man nodded slightly and said to her with a half-smile, “However you came here, you’d better figure out how to get back—then you can eat whatever you want.”

Jin Chaoyan, who finally understood his irritability: “…”

She slowly put the cola on the table. Her gaze drifted to the side. She couldn’t help but wonder if this dog-man would open the cabin door and throw her out from ten thousand meters in the air?

But she really couldn’t go back.

Because she hadn’t brought her phone, although the dog-mall had re-entered her consciousness, after organizing her purchased items, she knew that she had been able to fly to Hibari with G-380 Go Together because she had marked him as a green ally earlier when she was at his mansion. She was tired of Customer Service 001 marking him in red and sending her daily warnings about him.

Currently, on her map, there were only two green dots: her and Hibari.

In other words, she couldn’t use Go Together to fly to any other unmarked people right now.

When you’re under someone’s roof, how can you not lower your head? Although Jin Chaoyan had no idea how she had provoked him, she didn’t dare to drink the cola or eat the chips. She put them all on the table and sat quietly like a chicken on the edge of the sofa.

Just then—

The plane, which had been flying steadily, suddenly encountered a gust of wind and bounced up and down. Jin Chaoyan, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt at all, swayed to the side, startling Hibird, which had been resting next to her.

Hibird flapped its wings and flew towards Kyoya. Because it was a little frightened, it accidentally knocked over the can of cola on the table. The can tilted with a “dong,” rolled from the table onto Jin Chaoyan’s skirt, and the fizzy liquid gushed from the opening, soaking her nightgown and the blanket on her body.

The can slid from her skirt to the floor.

Leaving a dark liquid streak running down her pale legs.

Jin Chaoyan looked down blankly at her nightgown, which was soaked to her waist. She gave up her last struggle and entered a state of despair.

Hibird, which had finally found a sense of security on top of Hibari’s head, trembled uneasily. After the plane became steady again, it called out:

“Jin Chaoyan~”

Chaoyan didn’t want to talk. Chaoyan wanted to be alone.

Hibird seemed to realize that it had made a mistake. It called out in a low voice, “Kyoya.” But its owner only glanced at the situation opposite him without surprise. He gently picked it down from his head, checked its wings, and then said to it with a smile:

“Hibird, you clean up the mess you made.”

Hibird looked at him, then hopped on his palm, and turned to look at Jin Chaoyan in the distance.

A moment later, the little yellow bird flew to the sofa and said carefully, “Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

“Hmm?” Chaoyan Kin let out a breath, comforting herself that she just had bad luck. She folded the soiled blanket and placed it on the table. She reached out her hand to Hibird and said with a comforting smile, “It’s okay, Hibird. I’m going to the bathroom for a bit. Don’t be scared, baby.”

She also gently touched the side of the little bird’s wing that had touched the cola can. She didn’t care that her nightgown was still wet and clinging to her legs. Just as she was about to get up after Hibird had regained its composure, the little bird suddenly called out to her again:

“Chaoyan~”

“Hmm?”

The woman turned her head and saw Hibird, which had hopped onto the back of the sofa. The little bird pecked a touch switch next to it. As she looked on in confusion, another hidden cabinet door opened in the cabin behind the sofa, revealing a stack of neatly folded purple shirts of different materials.

“?”

Jin Chaoyan had a bad feeling. She saw the little yellow bird happily fly to the collar of one of the shirts, burrow into it, and flop around for a while. The shirt finally fell out of the cabinet and landed next to her.

Hibird flew out of the shirt. It stomped on the collar with its little claws. Its beady eyes twinkled with a happy glow, and it called out to her hopefully, “Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

“Wow, Hibird, do you know what you’re doing?”

The man, who had been watching their interaction from the opposite seat, suddenly spoke.

The little bird tilted its head and looked at him. A moment later, it pretended not to hear him. It turned its head back, grabbed the collar of the shirt with its claws, and tried to pull the clothes towards Chaoyan. “Chaoyan~ Chaoyan~”

Of course, it didn’t pull the shirt. It tumbled in the air. Luckily, Jin Chaoyan was quick. She cupped her hands and caught it squarely.

Hibird actually knew very few words.

But Jin Chaoyan now completely understood what it meant—

This incredibly bold little bird, which routinely dared to bounce on Kyoya Hibari’s head, now seemed to want her to put on this shirt?

She looked at the clean shirt in front of her, which was already slightly wrinkled from the little bird’s claws. Then she slowly shifted her gaze and met the man’s eyes in the single seat not far away. For some reason, she blurted out her current thoughts:

“…Is this what they call the sins of the father being paid for by the son?”

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