As a Scummy Omega, I Ran Away with the Baby - Chapter 25

The car had already driven halfway when Bai Qingqiu suddenly remembered that in her rush earlier, she had forgotten to pick up the test results from the clinic.

Frustrated, she tapped her head lightly and pulled out her phone to check the time—already past seven in the evening, the height of rush hour in G City.

If she told the driver to turn back to the clinic now, they wouldn’t make it there until nine.

“Aunt Dong, could you please stop at the nearest pharmacy?” she instructed.

“Alright.” The driver responded promptly and soon pulled over by the roadside.

Bai Qingqiu unfastened her seatbelt, pushed open the door, and headed toward the pharmacy.

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After so long, returning to this house felt strangely surreal. Gu Yining glanced around the space—still spotless and unchanged from when she left—her hand tightening unconsciously around the paper bag she carried.

She had left, and to this house and its owner, it hadn’t mattered in the least.

In the past month, Bai Qingqiu hadn’t once sought her out.

If Bai Qingqiu had cared even the slightest…

But truthfully, even before all this, Bai Qingqiu hadn’t wanted to hear her out. Whatever she thought, whatever she said—none of it had ever been important to Bai Qingqiu.

Her phone chimed with message notifications.

Setting the paper bag on the table, Gu Yining sank back into the sofa and unlocked her phone.

It was Bei Nanyan.

[Bei Nanyan]: Where did you go?

[Ning]: Packing my things.

[Bei Nanyan]: Okay. Hurry back, and remember—if you run into her, don’t go soft, alright?

[Ning]: Got it.

[Bei Nanyan]: Oh, and by the way—I already transferred back the money I used last time when I ordered takeout with your phone. Check your card later.

This Bei Nanyan…

Gu Yining shook her head with a soft laugh. They had already settled on the signing matter. Even if Bei Nanyan wasn’t going to be her manager, did she really think Gu Yining would believe she’d pocket a few thousand yuan?

[Ning]: I know, I trust your character.

After sending the message, she lifted her gaze from the screen, ready to head upstairs to fetch her suitcase. That was when a voice suddenly called out to her.

“Miss Gu?”

It was Aunt Han.

Gu Yining froze for a moment, then nodded politely at the woman in her fifties before quickly hurrying upstairs.

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“…Give Director Qian Big Thress’s contact. From now on, Gu Yining will be working with them…”

Bai Qingqiu was speaking as she pushed open the door.

And was instantly caught off guard—meeting eyes with Gu Yining, who was in the middle of packing her suitcase.

“…That’s all. Email me if anything else comes up,” Bai Qingqiu cut herself off, quickly hanging up the call.

The emotions she had been suppressing these past days seemed to surge up all at once. She steadied her suddenly uneven breath, about to speak—when Gu Yining interrupted first.

“The rose-scented suppressants I bought before… do you know where they are?”

She smiled as she asked, but the smile never reached her eyes. Her tone was as calm and detached as if they were strangers.

The question hit Bai Qingqiu like a douse of cold water.

The suppressants were always kept in the bathroom medicine box. Gu Yining had no need to ask, much less emphasize the “rose scent.”

Bei Nanyan was also a rose-scented Alpha.

Gu Yining’s pheromones carried the scent of Corolla roses. Bei Nanyan’s were Rhodes roses. Both red roses, both symbols of passionate love. The same, yet different.

If it was Bei Nanyan being treated this way, she would’ve confronted her directly. Unlike Gu Yining, who chose to circle around her words in quiet irony.

“In the medicine box.”

Lowering her eyes, Bai Qingqiu pulled away from her gaze. She still had the pregnancy test she’d just bought. Best to confirm the result first—then show it to Gu Yining.

Even if they were to part, there was more than just Bei Nanyan between them. There was also the child.

When Gu Yining stayed to help her “handle” the matter of the child, then it would truly be the end.

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Gu Yining squeezed her eyes shut, letting tears fall unchecked onto the open suitcase. If she hadn’t seen the fresh bedsheets and pillowcases Bai Qingqiu had changed after she entered the room, she might not have remembered so quickly.
Everything was fake. The love was fake. The tenderness was fake. Even the pheromonal attraction between them was fake.

Corolla and Rhodes. Red roses and red roses.

What Bai Qingqiu cared for, what she loved, had always been the other red rose.

All the traits Gu Yining had once been so proud of—her height, her looks, her pheromones—what she thought made her unique, had never been singular in Bai Qingqiu’s eyes. To her, they were merely shadows of another rose.

Just as she had once found Gu Yining, Bai Qingqiu could just as easily find the next rose, whenever she wished.

Replacing her was no different from replacing a set of used sheets.

Gone? Then just change them out. Buy new.

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The test would take some time to show results. Bai Qingqiu sat silently, staring at the blank electronic screen in her hand—yet all that surfaced before her eyes was Gu Yining’s every smile, every frown, every fleeting expression.

Before this, Gu Yining had lived happily and freely.

The questions that had troubled her for some time finally had an answer. The reason she had been so downcast lately… perhaps it was because she had already found out about this matter.

After all, it was she herself who had wronged Gu Yining first. A relationship that began with lies was bound to end in separation.

And hadn’t it been the same before? She had once given her whole heart to Bei Nanyan, only to receive resentment and abandonment in return.

Love had always been fragile, unreliable, like smoke that slipped through her fingers.

But this time was different. Looking at the pregnancy test stick in her hand, the screen clearly showing 9 weeks+, Bai Qingqiu drew in a deep breath, clenched it tightly in her palm, and pushed open the door.

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As expected, the figure she was hoping for wasn’t there. Bai Qingqiu stared at the empty room in a daze. The suitcase Gu Yining had left open on the floor had also disappeared.

She left?

Bai Qingqiu’s heartbeat quickened. She half-ran outside—only to find not a trace of her.

In that instant, it felt as though something had struck her chest with brutal force, the pain almost unbearable. She drew several sharp breaths, but still couldn’t suppress the wave of desolation spreading through her body.

“Excuse me, please move.”

Gu Yining?

Hadn’t she already left?

Bai Qingqiu spun around. There she was—Gu Yining stood behind her, suitcase in hand, her face frosty and expression unreadable. Tied to the handle was a small, drooping teddy bear no bigger than a palm, its stuffing clumped together inside.

It was the same toy Bai Qingqiu had spent hundreds of yuan trying to claw from a mall arcade machine when they had just started dating, before finally winning it for her.

And aside from that—there was nothing else.

Not even the custom diamond necklace she’d given her for her birthday.

“You’re only taking this little?”

“I’m only taking what belongs to me.” Gu Yining turned her head slightly, voice flat. “Step aside. The car I called is already here.”

“Gu Yining, I want to tell you—”

Bai Qingqiu drew a deep breath, ready to hand over the pregnancy test in her hand.

“There’s no need. We won’t be seeing each other again anyway.”

Gu Yining cut her off coldly. Without looking back, she forced her way past, dragging her suitcase down the stairs. Despite its size, she lifted it with one hand effortlessly, without strain.

Yes. No matter how soft, coquettish, or sweet she usually seemed, the truth remained—Gu Yining was a young, healthy Alpha.

Without her, Gu Yining could easily find another girlfriend. At twenty-three, she was still so young, with an entire future ahead of her.

Bai Qingqiu had already kept her tied down for far too long. It was time to let her go free.

Why hold her back, only to trap them both in resentment and weariness?

She watched Gu Yining’s retreating figure as she walked briskly out the front gate. Silent, Bai Qingqiu clenched the pregnancy test in her hand, holding on until the figure vanished completely from sight.

A long while later, she descended the stairs. She had intended to throw the test stick into a trash bin, but her eyes were drawn to the conspicuous yellow paper bag sitting on the small table in the living room.

MeiX Pharmacy.

Setting the test stick aside, Bai Qingqiu reached out and picked up the bag. A receipt was stapled to the seal.

【Miss Gu, 1XXXXXX, XX Hotel, XX Floor, XX Room】

Forgot to take it with her?

That was her first thought.

But no—something so eye-catching, Gu Yining could not have overlooked it. And if she had bought it for herself, why bring it back from the hotel only to leave it here in the living room?

Bai Qingqiu pressed her lips together, the truth slowly dawning.

With little effort, she tore open the seal and poured out the contents onto the table.

Boxes of all shapes and colors spilled out, every one of them marked with an image of a stomach—the unmistakable sign of stomach medicine.

Of course. Back then, when the baby was still too small to confirm, she had told Gu Yining she just had stomach trouble.

Fool.