Becoming the Yandere Omega's Fluffy Pet - Chapter 41

Chapter 41

Liu Ran slept until evening. Habitually reporting her itinerary to Ming Siyu, she went to knock on the door of the adjacent room, but there was no answer; Ming Siyu had not yet returned.

He Qiange opened her door with sleepy eyes, reminding Liu Ran through her daze that it was best not to go into the sea in the evening; if she wanted to play, playing on the beach was enough.

The hotel had a large private beach, and quite a few tourists were still playing down there at this hour. The executive suites they booked each came with a forty-meter pool. Liu Ran went out to find something to eat, caught the breeze by the beach for a while, and watched the sunset slowly sink in the west. Sunset clouds by the sea are always exceptionally vivid.

Sitting quietly alone, holding a coconut and drinking slowly, it was quite pleasant. Liu Ran hadn’t been this relaxed in a long time.

Suddenly, Liu Ran noticed something seemed to flash.

She looked toward the source of the flash; a young girl wearing a floral slip dress, a denim hat, and braided pigtails was holding a camera, giving her a bright and shy smile.

The young girl walked toward her and told her she had just snapped a candid photo of her because that moment was too beautiful, so she hadn’t had time to greet her first; if Liu Ran felt it was inappropriate, she could delete it. Having said that, she pulled up the photo she just took to show Liu Ran.

Liu Ran spent a few seconds adjusting her mood before speaking. After overcoming the fear of speaking her first sentence of a foreign language to a strange tourist in a foreign land, she found she wasn’t that nervous anymore.

“It’s okay. Thank you for taking a picture of me,” she said in the foreign language.

The young girl blinked at her, “You are also from Country A?”

She hadn’t expected a compatriot.

The girl said her name was Lis, she was studying in Country B, and she usually traveled around taking pictures of beautiful scenery and people while running a photography account, though it didn’t have many followers. She used a pocket printer to print the photo and gave it to Liu Ran.

“Across the whole beach, I saw you at a single glance. You are very special; I was mesmerized. Sitting there, you looked like you were focused on the sea, yet also like you weren’t looking at anything at all it makes the heart flutter,” Lis said very directly.

Liu Ran smiled shyly.

Lis asked again, “Are you here on vacation? Or are you here for school like me?”

“I’m accompanying my boss on a business trip.”

“You’re already working; forgive me for not realizing,” Lis giggled. She showed Liu Ran other photos she had taken; whether it was scenery or people, there was always an indescribable sense of loneliness.

The sunset completely vanished into the sea, and Lis invited Liu Ran to the beach bar for a drink.

The admiration in Lis’s eyes was undisguised; Liu Ran was a bit at a loss. Worried about mutual awkwardness and also worried she was overthinking, Liu Ran initially pretended not to understand, but Lis brought it up directly she believed in love at first sight and didn’t care how long a relationship lasted; as long as Liu Ran felt something for her too, they could start and end anytime.

Liu Ran was scared. She really wanted to tell Lis directly that they weren’t from the same world, regardless of love at first sight. She gripped the photo Lis gave her tightly. Taking advantage of Lis turning around to organize her backpack, Liu Ran set an alarm for two minutes later, answered the alarm saying the boss had something for her, and fled as if escaping.

Lis watched her retreating figure and shrugged her shoulders dejectedly.

Returning to the floor where her room was, Ming Siyu happened to be back and was opening her door. Ming Siyu pushed her glasses, her voice tinged with exhaustion: “Have you eaten?”

Liu Ran nodded. “I’ve eaten.”

“Went out to play?”

“Mm. Watched the sea for a bit.”

“Qiange said the surfing program at this hotel is quite good; if you want to play, you can hire an instructor.”

Liu Ran shook her head, “I won’t play. You have to wear a swimsuit for those activities.” Her tail and ears wouldn’t be able to stay hidden.

Ming Siyu was about to say they could book a private beach and decline other tourists’ approach, but seeing the photo gripped in her hand, her gaze suddenly became sharp.

“What are you holding in your hand?”

“Oh, a passerby was taking free photos for people on the beach.” Liu Ran took the initiative to hand the photo over.

Ming Siyu took the photo and looked at it, her probing gaze scanning Liu Ran’s face back and forth to verify the truth of these words. Finally, she handed the photo back to Liu Ran, “Since it’s taken, keep it well.”

The two went back to their respective rooms. In the middle of the night, Liu Ran was sleeping soundly when she was startled awake by the sound of a door opening. Ming Siyu had managed to get her room card; she stood by her bedside in a white nightgown with her hair disheveled. Paired with the sound of the night waves, Ming Siyu looked like a ghost that had just crawled out of the sea. Liu Ran almost hiccupped from the fright, truly unable to figure out what kind of illness Ming Siyu was suffering from in the middle of the night.

Ming Siyu climbed onto the bed without ceremony, told Liu Ran to move toward the edge a bit, and reached out to grab the tail exposed under the nightgown.

Liu Ran’s head immediately started to ache. She had played with her on the plane during the day, and now she was playing with her at two in the morning. She wondered if Ming Siyu had a sickness where her hands got itchy if she didn’t play with her, and if she could ever let someone sleep a full night.

Feeling a bit angry: “President Ming, it’s two in the morning now.”

“Don’t talk. I’m only holding your tail, I won’t do anything.”

Liu Ran had a headache, and Ming Siyu had a splitting headache even more. She wanted to come out to relax, but ended up looking for trouble for herself; the problem of being unable to sleep in a strange bed made it so she couldn’t fall asleep no matter what. Sure enough, vacations didn’t suit her; she was suited for staying at home.

Thinking about what the doctor had said before that holding something comforting and familiar could help overcome the problem of a strange bed Ming Siyu thought of the little wolf sleeping next door.

Liu Ran was being made a bit agitated; this wasn’t a question of doing something or not, having an extra hand on one’s tail just makes one feel uncomfortable. Moreover, Ming Siyu wanted to sleep in the same bed as her; just the thought of an extra person beside her made Liu Ran feel uneasy all over.

She hugged her blanket intending to go sleep on the sofa. Ming Siyu grabbed her tail and wouldn’t let go.

Liu Ran collapsed, “Why on earth do you have to grab my tail?”

Ming Siyu looked fierce: “Do I need a reason to grab your tail? Lie back down, it’s the middle of the night, be well-behaved.”

Liu Ran was so angry she almost wanted to throw Ming Siyu out the window into the sea. Ming Siyu dragged her back again, “If you lie back down and sleep now, I’ll only hold your tail. If you don’t lie back down, it’s hard to say what I’ll do to you. Three, two.”

Liu Ran sat back down immediately. She turned her back to Ming Siyu and covered her head with the blanket. She thought Ming Siyu would be handsy with her and waited anxiously. After waiting a while with no movement, she cautiously poked her head out from the blanket, looked back by the faint moonlight, and found Ming Siyu had closed her eyes, her brow slightly furrowed, sleeping seriously.

So she really was just holding the tail and doing nothing else.

Once bitten, twice shy; faced with everything Ming Siyu said, Liu Ran habitually doubted first.

The unusual tactile sensation on her tail was awkward. Liu Ran forced herself not to think about the existence of that hand. Slowly, sleepiness struck again, and she fell asleep. The jet lag was too tiring.

The next day she was woken by the alarm. Ming Siyu was still sleeping, maintaining the same posture she had when she lay down yesterday: lying on her side, one hand holding the wolf tail, one hand tucked under her head as a pillow, not covered by the blanket. The alarm woke her up too; she opened her eyes halfway and brought the wolf tail closer into her embrace, “Sleep a bit longer.”

The wolf tail pressed against her chest, warm. Liu Ran turned off the alarm, her voice involuntarily softening a bit. “Manager Li said he’s coming to pick us up at nine.”

“Five minutes.”

Ming Siyu held the wolf tail and wouldn’t let go; Liu Ran sat on the bed and accompanied her for a while longer. Looking at the time, five minutes later, she called Ming Siyu again.

Ming Siyu, usually vigorous and resolute, started to act shamelessly, “Another five minutes.”

“President Ming, how can you still be staying in bed?”

Ming Siyu answered with her eyes closed: “I’m sleepy. Don’t talk.”

Five minutes and another five minutes. Half an hour passed; if they didn’t get up now, it would really be too late. Liu Ran gave her tail a hard yank—the base of the tail pulled painfully—before Ming Siyu finally got up.

Ming Siyu went to wash up and told Liu Ran to go to her room to get her clothes.

While getting the clothes, Liu Ran noticed a plastic bottle on Ming Siyu’s bedside table with a foreign label; she roughly identified it as sleep-aid medication.

So Ming Siyu ran into her room in the middle of the night because of insomnia?

Combined with the fact that Ming Siyu grabbed her tail and did nothing else, Liu Ran felt that Ming Siyu must have just been suffering from insomnia.

Indeed, not everyone can successfully adjust to jet lag.

Returning to the room and handing the clothes to Ming Siyu, she looked at the curtains being blown by the sea breeze and said: “If you can’t adjust to the jet lag and need to hold the tail to fall asleep, you can just tell me directly.”

She would agree to lend the tail to Ming Siyu to hold. Instead of like last night, having to snap at each other first and falling asleep with fire in their hearts.

Ming Siyu was brushing her teeth. Hearing this, she glanced back at Liu Ran, gave an “oh,” and turned back to continue brushing.

Liu Ran didn’t know if she really understood her meaning.

After eating the breakfast sent up by the hotel, Manager Li arrived just in time to pick them up. Liu Ran had researched the real estate project Ming Siyu was developing; she had systematically organized all documents related to this project before. The location of the project was very good, surrounded by the sea on two sides; one could see the scenery of the sea and sky merging from the window, with the sea view and city landscape in full view.

At noon, under He Qiange’s recommendation, they went together to a seafood-themed hotel for a meal. Next to the restaurant, there was a souvenir shop. Liu Ran remembered that Secretary Wen had brought gifts for everyone when she got married, so she went in for a turn. Returning to the private room, Ming Siyu had just hung up the phone.

He Qiange was holding a cheesy crab leg, “Ming Siwei is begging you again because she wants to come home?”

Ming Siyu carelessly stirred her drink with a straw, “Not coming home. She found out from my grandmother that I’m in Country B and begged me to let her come to Country B, saying she really can’t stay in Country G anymore.”

“Sigh, it really is a case of the drought-stricken dying of thirst and the flooded dying of excess. If only I could swap with her, I’d love to hide abroad and not go home.”

“I just hope the movie being filmed doesn’t run into trouble now,” Ming Siyu said.

“It should be fine, don’t worry.” He Qiange touched her lower abdomen, “But now that you and Jian Huaijin have split, they should be quite happy—at least your aunt is.”

“They aren’t that stupid.” Although Ming Siyu disliked Ming Siwei and her mother, she had to admit they truly understood her. “They know Jian Huaijin and I won’t work out. At my grandmother’s birthday feast, one played the ‘bad cop’ to chime in, putting on a performance in front of my grandmother; the other helped speak for me to please me, not offending either side.”

He Qiange was curious: “Then how did you tell your grandmother about the matter with Jian Huaijin?”

“I didn’t say it; Jian Huaijin went to say it. If I went, my grandmother would certainly be relentless; since Jian Huaijin went, my grandmother hasn’t called me once about this matter until now—it should be quiet for a while.”

Ming Siyu and He Qiange chatted casually. Liu Ran listened silently to the side. So from the very beginning, Ming Siyu hadn’t considered the idea of developing a relationship with Jian Huaijin at all; agreeing to Jian Huaijin’s dates was merely to handle Old Madam Ming. She herself had been like an idiot hoping Ming Siyu would develop feelings while spending time with Jian Huaijin.

In the afternoon, He Qiange got a yacht to enjoy the scenery on the sea. He Qiange even drove a few laps herself in the near-shore waters, bumping so much that water entered the cabin. A school of flying fish glided past the yacht, their semi-transparent fins like wings reflecting a jewel-like luster in the sunlight, flying for dozens of meters before re-entering the water.

Having not rested during the day and being pregnant, He Qiange got tired early and returned to the hotel before the sun set. After dinner, Liu Ran rested in her room for a while, changed into a swimsuit, and went to swim in the suite’s private small pool.

Her ears and tail destined her to be unable to go to public pools; in the suite’s pool, she wouldn’t be seen by others.

Liu Ran swam back and forth for a few laps. After trying several swimming strokes once, she found that the dog paddle was actually the fastest and most comfortable. Her tail helped her maintain balance better in the water, though the posture didn’t look as elegant or beautiful.

Anyway, no one was watching, so Liu Ran happily did the dog paddle in the pool.

After dog paddling for a while, Liu Ran tried practicing holding her breath underwater. Just as she counted to forty-five, she heard light footsteps approaching on the deck in the water. She kicked off the bottom of the pool hard and surfaced, quickly wiping the water off her face. The first thing to enter her view was Ming Siyu’s ankles, which were so slender they looked like they would break with a single snap.

Ming Siyu crouched by the poolside, looking at the soaking wet Liu Ran from head to tail, “Come up.”

Liu Ran propped her arms on the edge of the pool and splashed out of the water, keeping a bit of distance from Ming Siyu, though the water she brought up still wet the instep of Ming Siyu’s foot.

“What is it, President Ming?”

“It’s time to sleep.”

Liu Ran had only started swimming around eight in the evening; she had swam for thirty minutes at most, so it was maximum nine o’clock now. Sleeping at nine was too early. However, seeing that Ming Siyu indeed looked a bit sleepy, she nodded obediently, thinking that early to bed and early to rise makes for a healthy body.

However.

“Tonight, also…”

“Mm.” Ming Siyu directly finished the question she was too embarrassed to ask, “Sleep together.”

“Oh. I’ll go take a shower first.”

Liu Ran’s phone was placed at the other end of the pool. She was too lazy to climb out and walk around, so she re-entered the water to cross the pool to get her phone. Seeing her being obedient, Ming Siyu got up intending to wipe her feet and go to bed first to cultivate sleepiness. Just as she turned, the soles of her shoes caught the water; it was slippery, and she fell backward on her back.

As soon as Liu Ran turned her head, she saw Ming Siyu falling straight down. Without thinking, she instinctively reached out to catch her.

Her shoulder was hit heavily by Ming Siyu’s arm; Ming Siyu fell into the water, kicking up a significant splash. Liu Ran hurriedly closed her eyes and turned her head to dodge, but a few water droplets still splashed into her eyes. Her eyeballs felt like they had been scraped by something, both sore and stinging.

However, she managed to catch Ming Siyu after all, one hand hugging Ming Siyu’s shoulder, one hand hugging her waist. With a little force, she quickly pulled the person upright in the pool.

Ming Siyu had come after showering and drying her hair; now she had become soaked all over again—all for nothing.

She stood in the pool, messily tidying her hair that was stuck to her face while clutching her chest and coughing continuously. Just now, half a scream had been stuck in her throat, and she had accidentally choked on half a mouthful of water.

“Liu Ran!”

Liu Ran took half a step back in the water, blinking hard to blink away the stinging from the water that had splashed in. She thought to herself: oh no, now Ming Siyu is unhappy again. She had originally wanted to carry Ming Siyu to the shore first, but she didn’t dare reach out anymore. One of Ming Siyu’s slippers was by the poolside, and the other had been thrown into the water, floating upside down. Liu Ran reached out and grabbed that slipper.

Ming Siyu coughed until her nose and the corners of her eyes were tinged red before stopping. She was naturally fair; now, soaked in water, she was even more glowingly white, which made the red areas look even redder. Water droplets flowed down her neck and accumulated in two pools in the hollows of her collarbones.

Liu Ran peered at her: “Are you okay?”

Ming Siyu wouldn’t say she was okay, nor would she say she wasn’t. She took off her glasses and glared at Liu Ran: “What are you doing swimming in the middle of the night?!”

Liu Ran held the slipper, “What’s wrong with me swimming…”

“If you weren’t swimming, I wouldn’t have come to the poolside to find you; if I didn’t come to find you, I wouldn’t have fallen in.” Ming Siyu gasped for air, blaming Liu Ran first without explanation. After saying it, she probably also felt that saying so was too unreasonable and softened her tone a bit: “Forget it. Give me the slipper.”

Liu Ran handed her the slipper, muttering under her breath: “Why blame me? Slippery shoes aren’t my fault…”

Ming Siyu heard it.

She changed her tune: “I’m not blaming you, I’m blaming the slippers.”

That was better.

Liu Ran followed behind Ming Siyu, swimming toward the ladder. After swimming less than two meters, Ming Siyu suddenly twitched in the water like a fish. Liu Ran quickly accelerated her paddling to get in front of Ming Siyu, only to see Ming Siyu’s brow furrowed impatiently; she slightly arched her waist, reaching underwater to touch her calf.

Liu Ran paused for a second and asked tentatively: “Cramp?”

“Mm.”

As she spoke, Ming Siyu kicked her leg as if venting her anger. As a result, it hurt even more, her brow locking tightly together.

Her body really was failing. Ming Siyu thought. Usually, it didn’t show because she didn’t exercise much, but it was exposed as soon as she moved. She had only half-walked, half-swum a few meters in the water and her leg cramped. And it was in front of Liu Ran; such an embarrassed state made Ming Siyu feel a bit losing face.

Watching her make a fool of herself, Liu Ran should be quite gloating, right? Ming Siyu was suddenly both angry and annoyed; without the obstruction of her glasses, the emotions in her eyes were leaking out like the water in the pool.

The weight on her waist lightened.

She was supported by the waist and sent out of the water, sitting on the poolside with both calves soaked in the water. Instead of the imagined gloating, Liu Ran didn’t come up but continued to soak in the water, holding her cramped calf.

Liu Ran remembered when she first started learning to swim, she would also cramp because her warm-up wasn’t sufficient. At that time, her mother acted as her swimming coach. She recalled the cramp-handling method her mother taught her, straightening Ming Siyu’s leg.

“Don’t move, it’ll be fine in a moment. It’s okay, President Ming, you swam directly without warming up; cramping is a normal phenomenon.”

At the same time, her hands kept pressing on the leg.

Looking at Liu Ran’s focused appearance while massaging her leg, Ming Siyu’s heart suddenly surged with an indescribable emotion.

Very astringent and heavy, yet light like the dry heat of a summer evening breeze.

After a while, Ming Siyu said: “It’s better.”

Liu Ran also released her leg, dived to the bottom of the pool to find the glasses Ming Siyu had dropped when her hand slipped during the cramp, and then went back to the other end of the pool to get her phone. Returning to find Ming Siyu crouching by the poolside without leaving, she thought she was waiting for the glasses and handed them over first.

To her surprise, Ming Siyu didn’t take them. Liu Ran shook her wrist, reminding: “President Ming, the glasses.”

Ming Siyu was by the poolside, looking down and making eye contact with her. Liu Ran saw doubt in those deep, bright black eyes; Ming Siyu seemed to be searching for a certain answer from her face.

Inexplicable. Liu Ran thought. She waited for Ming Siyu for a few seconds, then wanted to walk to the ladder to climb out.

But she was suddenly grabbed by the wrist by a pair of damp hands. The next second, Ming Siyu jumped down from the poolside.

Liu Ran was left dazed in place by this action. With a phone in one hand and glasses in the other, she had no extra hand to support Ming Siyu; she was pushed backward by Ming Siyu’s downward jump, her back pressing against the tiles on the other side of the pool. The things in her hands also fell into the water.

“What are you?”

The words were blocked in her mouth. Ming Siyu swam close, both hands grasping the edge of the pool, using her body and the pool wall to enclose a small circle, encircling Liu Ran in the middle, turning her head to kiss Liu Ran’s lips.

Both of their lips were cool; touching together, the depths seemed to be burning with fire.

After kissing for a few seconds, Ming Siyu let go, used her hand to flick the shoulder strap of Liu Ran’s swimsuit, released it, and the strap hit Liu Ran’s shoulder with a “snap,” flicking a string of small water droplets. Liu Ran watched Ming Siyu in astonishment, then shifted her gaze toward the bottom of the pool.

“Do you know that you are very likeable?”

“Huh?” Liu Ran looked blank, not understanding why Ming Siyu had to lose her mind and jump down to kiss her, let alone ask such a nonsensical question.

Sensing that Liu Ran was zoning out, the hand Ming Siyu used to pinch her chin applied a bit of force, “What are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking my phone fell down.”

As she spoke, Liu Ran was about to dive into the water to pick it up. Ming Siyu put her arm horizontally around her waist to prevent her from moving, repositioning her back to her original spot with a somewhat crude movement, saying dissatisfiedly: “Don’t pick it up yet.”

“Soaking in water will break it.”

“If it breaks, I’ll buy you a hundred.”

Liu Ran stopped talking. Ming Siyu’s nightgown floated in the water, blocking her view until there was almost only white. All sorts of white—the off-white of the nightgown, the cold white of the skin, the pinkish-white of the cheeks.

“You haven’t answered my first question yet,” Ming Siyu urged.

Liu Ran dazed for a second before recalling what Ming Siyu had just asked. She shook her head honestly: “I don’t know. Knowing this is useless, right?”

“You aren’t allowed to be this likeable anymore in the future.”

Liu Ran was speechless with a head full of bubbles: “What exactly happened to me again?”

She was understanding Ming Siyu less and less.

Ming Siyu snorted: “If someone else’s leg cramps, you aren’t allowed to help massage it.”

“But cramping in the water makes it easy to drown…”

“If I say no massage then no massage, where do all these ‘buts’ come from? If I catch you being disobedient, I won’t like you anymore. Everything you have now is given by me; if you lose my liking, you’ll have nothing, understand?”

So she wanted to emphasize again that she was a possession. Liu Ran was already well-versed in answering this type of question; just going along with Ming Siyu’s meaning would do. After so many times, she felt Ming Siyu was also quite childish.

“I understand.”

She left the pool one after another with Ming Siyu. The phone was exceptionally tenacious; it had braved the rain with her, and after soaking in the pool for a few minutes, it could actually still be used normally after being wiped dry.

It was another night of falling asleep while having her tail held.

Over the next few days, they went to play paragliding, sea fishing, lavender and wine manors… Ming Siyu, wealthy and overbearing, booked a beach on one side of the island; for an entire day, that stretch of beach belonged only to them. Liu Ran thought Ming Siyu booked the beach because she disliked crowds and noise. Thinking it would be a waste not to play, she changed into a swimsuit and played in the water for most of the day, getting a bit tanned.

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