Becoming the Yandere Omega's Fluffy Pet - Chapter 43 

Chapter 43

Liu Ran was anxious beyond measure. She growled in a low voice, “I came to see if you were dead or not, alright? Can you walk?”

Ming Siyu sniffed. “Left ankle is sprained. I can hop on one foot.”

“Wait a second.” Liu Ran ripped open the seal of a barrel of water with one hand. She looked around and found a pile of clothes stuffed in the door crack; it looked like Ming Siyu’s coat. She guessed Ming Siyu had wanted to use it to plug the door gap to prevent smoke from entering. She walked over, picked it up, layered it with the fabric she was using to cover her own nose and mouth, and tipped the barrel to soak them before handing a piece to Ming Siyu.

“Cover up. Don’t walk, I’ll carry you.” Liu Ran turned around on the spot and crouched down, her back facing Ming Siyu. Her hands were behind her waist, palms fanning to urge Ming Siyu to hurry. Ming Siyu looked down and saw several blisters from fire burns on those long, beautiful hands. The fur on one side of Liu Ran’s ear was also singed and scorched. Yet, Liu Ran seemed as if she couldn’t feel the pain.

The room door—which Ming Siyu couldn’t open after ducking in from the bathroom and closing it—was smashed open by Liu Ran in one hit.

The barrel of water that Ming Siyu couldn’t twist open, having been so angry she took off her high heels to smash it, was also ripped open instantly by Liu Ran.

When she sent the message to He Qiange, she never expected to see Liu Ran here. She knew she had to endure, to hold out until the terrorist attack ended. If she couldn’t hold out, she could only die in a foreign land. Actually, for Ming Siyu, it didn’t matter where she died; she never cared about things after death. It was just that dying in a small cubicle of a hospital in Country B due to a gunman’s arson was a bit too fantastical and absurd; it didn’t fit any of the endings she had envisioned for herself.

Truly unlucky, that such a low-probability event could be encountered by her. If those who hated her knew she was this pathetic, they would likely laugh until their teeth fell out.

But Liu Ran came like an accident. When she appeared at the door, Ming Siyu once thought she was dreaming, or perhaps it was a hallucination caused by inhaling toxic gases.

The Liu Ran in her impression always raised her quills against her; it was just that sometimes they were hard quills that hurt to poke, and sometimes they were soft quills that hung limp at a touch. Liu Ran’s defensiveness and resistance against her were things that wouldn’t disappear in a short time. Asking herself, if their situations were reversed and it was Liu Ran who was trapped, Ming Siyu would at most spend money to hire someone to help with the rescue; she would never risk herself.

Ming Siyu leaned onto Liu Ran’s back. Her physical fitness had plummeted ever since she was diagnosed as ill; by now, she was already incredibly dizzy.

Her face pressed against Liu Ran’s neck. “Can you carry me?”

“Of course. Stop talking, keep breathing.”

Not only could Liu Ran carry her, but she also supported Ming Siyu with just one hand, freeing the other hand to cover her nose and mouth with the towel. The fire in the corridor was even larger than when she arrived. The sound of furniture collapsing and cursing came from upstairs, followed by another gunshot. Liu Ran nervously lightened her footsteps, worried about being discovered and having both herself and Ming Siyu end up here.

Reaching the window, she set Ming Siyu down, gesturing with her hands while speaking: “The second floor isn’t high. I’ll jump down first and catch you from below. You jump down.”

Seeing Ming Siyu nod, Liu Ran leaped out, rolling forward half a turn on the grass to buffer the impact. She immediately looked back, reaching her hand out toward Ming Siyu and mouthing the words: “Come down!”

Ming Siyu leaned half her body out of the window but did not leap. Liu Ran was first anxious about why Ming Siyu was dropping the ball at the critical moment could she be afraid Liu Ran wouldn’t catch her? Even if she didn’t catch her, falling from the second floor wouldn’t kill a person; at most, it would break a few bones, which was still better than being inside the hospital.

Seeing Ming Siyu gasping for air in a daze, she realized it wasn’t that Ming Siyu didn’t want to jump, but that she couldn’t jump out. There was nothing under the window to use as a foothold for leverage. Ming Siyu had no strength; she couldn’t use her hands to prop herself up and jump out like Liu Ran did. Like a turtle trying to climb out of a jar, no matter how hard she tried, she could only stick out the part above her neck.

Liu Ran wondered if she should climb back up, throw Ming Siyu down first, and then jump herself. Just as she was about to gesture for Ming Siyu to move back a bit, she saw Ming Siyu close her eyes, lean her body out of the window to the maximum extent, and then fall headfirst like a “planted onion.” The fright caused a layer of cold sweat to break out on Liu Ran instantly.

She had just said jumping from the second floor wouldn’t kill you, and Ming Siyu immediately gave her a live demonstration of a jump with an extremely high mortality rate. Head down, a crack would snap the neck.

The moment she caught Ming Siyu, Liu Ran felt her arms take an impact almost equivalent to a dislocation. After helping Ming Siyu stand steady and upright, just as she was about to rejoice in this survival, her peripheral vision suddenly caught a flash of something dark and hollow in the upstairs window.

For the first time, Liu Ran was grateful for the sharpness and extreme reaction speed brought by her Icefield Wolf genes. Without thinking, she tackled Ming Siyu and rolled behind the wall. A bullet grazed her face and vanished into the grass beneath them. Simultaneously, another gunshot rang out, and the person who had just fired at them sprayed blood across the window.

Ming Siyu, pressed beneath her, lost her strength and fainted.

Waking up again, looking at the white quilt on her body and smelling the faint scent of alcohol in the air, Liu Ran knew she was in the hospital.

Recalling the experience of breaking into the hospital to find Ming Siyu, Liu Ran felt a delayed shiver of fear.

Only now did she truly realize she had been facing mafia with live ammunition. She was just an ordinary Alpha, not a protagonist in a movie who never gets hit by bullets or can be resurrected infinitely. If hit, she really would die. Giving up her own life to save someone else was simply not worth it.

In the future, she must remain calm when making decisions; she absolutely could not be impulsive.

By the way, where was Ming Siyu?

She was alone in the ward. Liu Ran pressed the call button at the head of the bed, and a pleasant-looking nurse entered. She asked in the foreign language where Ming Siyu was. The nurse smiled and said, “That Omega? She is in another ward. We thought you were a couple and wanted to arrange a double room, but the companion who came with you said you aren’t and insisted on single rooms, so you were separated.”

From the nurse’s mouth, Liu Ran learned that the most severely injured among the three of them was actually He Qiange. She had mild burns, Ming Siyu had a sprained ankle plus a brief coma from mental tension, but He Qiange’s arm was truly broken. The child in her belly, however, was perfectly fine.

“Do you want to go see your companion?”

Liu Ran shook her head. Better not. she didn’t quite know how to face Ming Siyu.

Well, not exactly. Rather than saying she didn’t know how to face Ming Siyu, it was more like she didn’t know how Ming Siyu would treat her after this incident.

At least they were okay. If she had died right there while looking for Ming Siyu, it would have been a huge loss. Only one person would be left in her family, and that person was in a long-term coma.

Liu Ran wandered through aimless thoughts and fell back asleep after a while.

Ming Siyu’s ward.

He Qiange, with a cast on her arm, spoke to Ming Siyu on the bed: “Is it necessary? To start an argument with me over a little pet the moment you open your eyes? Do you know that they failed to reach an agreement in the end? That coal miner would rather take a whole hospital of people down with him than yield. In the end, when the special forces came, they only saved a portion of people. Half the building was blown up. If I hadn’t forced Liu Ran to go in and get you out, you would have brushed past the God of Death. It was so dangerous. I even broke my arm for you; I still don’t know how to explain it to my sister when I get home.”

“She is only nineteen!” Ming Siyu suppressed the anger in her voice. “When you told her to find me, did you ever think about what would happen if she died!”

He Qiange shook her head, unable to understand. “Then you don’t need to be this agitated. Didn’t you say before that you wanted to train the little pet until she was willing to die for you?”

Ming Siyu paused. She indeed had said similar things and had similar thoughts, and very firmly at that. But she didn’t have that idea anymore.

“It’s different.”

“Don’t tell me your heart aches for a little pet.”

Ming Siyu frowned. “She is the best-feeling fluffy thing I’ve ever touched, one of a kind. Her ear fur was scorched; is it wrong for my heart to ache?”

The throb of emotion from the moment Liu Ran smashed the door open was jumping up and down in Ming Siyu’s heart. She said irritably, “I didn’t have much time left to live anyway. There isn’t much difference between living a year or half a year more or less. If I died, I died. Liu Ran is too young; there are many things she doesn’t understand yet, and she is strong and healthy. It would be such a pity if something happened to her.”

“The meaning of her existence is for you. Sisi, if she dies for you, she should feel proud,” He Qiange said nonchalantly yet solemnly.

“Are you spreading a cult here?” Ming Siyu felt stifled. An unprecedented emotion shrouded her, yet she didn’t know how to vent it. Thinking it over, she felt it was because He Qiange kept fluttering before her eyes, making them ache. “If you say Liu Ran should die for me one more time, I’ll call your sister and tell her you’re sleeping with her wife and even have a child.”

He Qiange said angrily, “You—you return kindness with enmity! I even broke an arm for you. My heart is broken.”

Ming Siyu was in a bad mood. “I won’t tell your sister. I want to be alone for a bit. You go rest too.”

After He Qiange left, Ming Siyu was the only one in the ward. She had heard the entire process of the incident, which could be summarized in one sentence: being able to come out alive with only minor injuries was entirely due to her and Liu Ran’s great luck. Having lived in a gun-banned environment since childhood, her understanding of firearms mostly came from movies and TV, so she hadn’t recognized their terror. That was why she could calmly hide in a toilet stall and evade a round of searches by the mafia.

The scene was chaotic; the mafia’s attention was all on the police, and they didn’t expect an ordinary person would be brave enough to risk their life and rush in, so they didn’t notice Liu Ran. The crowd was mainly concentrated on the sixth floor; because the fire on the first and second floors was relatively larger than the floors above, there were only a few people guarding them, so they were lucky enough not to be discovered.

It could be considered having experienced a real-life gunfight. Ming Siyu blacklisted Country B in her heart.

Ming Siyu went to find Liu Ran using crutches. Liu Ran was sleeping, lying on her side in a posture like the “dog” radical in Chinese characters, half her face buried in the pillow, looking as if she were sleeping soundly. Ming Siyu suddenly thought of a pet-raising post she had scrolled through: even if hurt by humans a hundred times, as long as there is love once, a dog will still re-fall in love with humans without hesitation.

Her heart was filled with countless indescribable and complex emotions. Ming Siyu supported herself on the crutch with one hand, while the fingertips of her other hand brushed over Liu Ran’s brow, the bridge of her nose, and her lips. Her lip pearl was full, and she lightly pursed her lips while sleeping, like a sweet cherry hanging there. She had tasted the sweetness of this cherry, but not once had it been with treasure and care, only with crude ravaging.

She knew all too well that what she had given Liu Ran was not enough to make Liu Ran rush into a hospital for her.

Liu Ran was a light sleeper. She wrinkled her nose and opened her eyes to see Ming Siyu standing at her bedside, her face so white there was almost no color.

Liu Ran scrambled to sit up. “President Ming…”

“Want some water?” Ming Siyu took the water cup from the nightstand and handed it to Liu Ran. “Your lips are a bit dry.”

Liu Ran took it and gulped it down. Previously, it was always her pouring water for Ming Siyu; it was the first time she drank water handed to her by Ming Siyu, which felt quite fresh.

The room fell into silence.

After a moment, Ming Siyu spoke: “I have trouble with strange beds; my insomnia is quite serious. I came to the hospital to check on this.”

Liu Ran held the cup. “Oh.”

The atmosphere was a bit awkward for a moment. Liu Ran licked her lips, staring at the quilt pushed up by her feet. “Then, have you been sleeping well lately?”

“It’s alright.” Ming Siyu’s tone was calm. She habitually went to push her glasses but hit empty air. Her glasses were lost in the hospital, and she hadn’t had time to buy new ones. She added, “Because I was holding your tail, I’ve been sleeping quite well.”

Liu Ran intuitively felt there was a deeper meaning to this sentence. But she was afraid she was overthinking it, and since she didn’t grasp what the deeper meaning specifically was, she treated it as if there were none.

Ming Siyu gestured toward her wolf ears. “Does it hurt?”

“Not really.” Liu Ran shook her head. “My sense of pain is much weaker than the average person’s. So it doesn’t hurt much.”

“Because you’re not afraid of pain, you’re not afraid of death either?” Ming Siyu’s voice became involuntarily stern. “Did I not tell you that you are not allowed to go save others?”

“Does this ‘others’ include you as well?” Liu Ran didn’t expect that even after all this, Ming Siyu would still scold her. She felt a bit aggrieved and that it wasn’t worth it. “You didn’t say it included you.”

She saved Ming Siyu not because Ming Siyu was so important to her, but because she found it hard to accept facing a person’s death. Since her mother passed away in the big fire, death seemed to have become a lifelong incomprehensible subject for her. She feared death; facing death, she could never achieve a calm confrontation.

She truly could not stand idly by and watch a life fade away before her without having exerted every effort. Even if the one she faced was someone she didn’t particularly like.

“It includes me. Liu Ran, look at me.”

Liu Ran reluctantly looked up to meet Ming Siyu’s eyes.

“The power over your death is in my hands. If I don’t allow you to die, you cannot die, understand? Therefore, anything that might bring life-threatening danger, you are not allowed to do. You are especially not allowed to listen to He Qiange; her threats are just empty talk, she wouldn’t dare kill anyone. Forget it this time, it cannot happen again, understand?”

Liu Ran was filled with a bellyful of anger from being lectured. She thought irritably: what kind of nonsense is Ming Siyu talking about? Forget about not thanking her, but she runs over here to lecture her as soon as she wakes up.

She didn’t answer, turning her head away to silently express her refusal.

“I know you understand.” Ming Siyu ignored her and went on by herself. “Since you understand, I’ll test you now. If I were in a car accident, the vehicle caught fire, the door was deformed, I was trapped inside, you were outside, and the vehicle could explode at any time. Faced with the above situation, what should you do? First option: hide in a safe area and request professional rescue. Second option: forcibly break open the door. Which do you choose?”

Liu Ran thought to herself: she had been reckless this time. If there were a next time, she wouldn’t save Ming Siyu even if she were beaten to death. Ming Siyu really took herself seriously, truly thinking she would risk her life to save her again and again.

She snorted, “I choose the first option.”

“Very good.” Ming Siyu touched her hair. One of the wolf ears was wrapped in gauze, looking pitiably miserable. Thinking back to when she first brought the little wolf home, the bald patch on the tail fur had taken a while to grow back. She wondered how long the burn wound on the wolf ear would take to heal and how long the fur would take to grow back this time.

While thinking, she softly spoke her thoughts aloud.

Every word was heard by Liu Ran. Her heart turned completely cold. What Ming Siyu cared about most was still her “fluffy” parts. All that “you aren’t allowed to die without my permission”—such chuunibyou words actually had the core meaning of being afraid she would have no fluffy thing to play with if she died.

After all, people like her—who have wolf ears and a tail, get kicked hard by others, and yet impulsively risk their lives just because they were treated a tiny bit gently—are rare. Liu Ran cursed her own “cheapness” in her heart for the Nth time. She was simply cheap beyond measure.

The nurse came to change Liu Ran’s dressing. Liu Ran’s injuries were mainly on her ears and hands. The nurse started with the ears. The ears had undergone debridement; the rotted flesh had been cut away, so the wound didn’t look as terrifying anymore. It was also the first time the nurse had changed a dressing on wolf ears, so she was careful throughout. Ming Siyu supervised from the side without blinking. “Is this the best medicine? Is there a better one? The faster it heals, the better.”

“There are ones that make wounds heal faster, but the side effects are relatively larger,” the nurse said.

Ming Siyu tapped the floor with her crutch. “Then let’s stick with the current one.”

After the dressing was changed, Ming Siyu still didn’t leave, sitting by Liu Ran’s bed replying to messages and making calls. The news of the hospital bombing had reached home. Friends, relatives, and partners who knew she had come to Country B called one after another to express concern. Ming Siyu picked a few that she had to reply to, and the rest were treated as unreceived. Her phone was newly bought; the old one was broken, and the new one was identical to the old one.

Liu Ran was quite bored, scrolling through the news on her bed. She found that the news of Ming Siyu being innocently caught in the mafia’s retaliation abroad had trended on the hot searches at home. Although it was only up for a short while before being pushed down by Xiao Yuenong’s unedited airport photos, some on-site photos still leaked. Liu Ran was worried about seeing herself in the photos; she hadn’t been wearing a hat then.

Seeing through her thoughts, Ming Siyu took a moment to tell her not to worry. “Rest assured, not a single photo of you leaked out. I’ve spoken with those media outlets.”

Liu Ran was still uneasy. She browsed through the photos in the related topics one by one. Forget about seeing her wolf ears, even a single strand of her hair hadn’t appeared. Her heart finally slowly settled back into her stomach.

Ming Siyu said leisurely, “Actually, there’s no need to feel inferior about growing wolf ears and a tail. Abroad, there are streamers who specifically use parts of themselves that are different from ordinary people as a gimmick to live stream, and they make a lot of money. You’re so cute; if you went to live stream, you wouldn’t have to do anything every day just move your ears and wag your tail, and you could easily make over ten thousand a day.”

“That’s just a curiosity show.” Liu Ran refused. She couldn’t imagine a scene where she live-streamed and displayed her wolf ears and tail to the whole world. That would be harder to accept than being stuffed under a desk by Ming Siyu and having her tail stepped on ten thousand times.

She wanted to be a normal person again. Before she could define her newly grown ears and tail, the laboratory staff, and the two people who bought her before, had told her countless times that she was an anomaly. An anomaly wanting to survive could only tuck its tail, hide in the shadows, and live a wretched life; once exposed to light, she would be killed by the public’s gaze.

Subsequent events one after another proved those people were right.

“I wouldn’t agree to you live-streaming either. Wolf ears and tails are not tools for you to please others.” Ming Siyu paused and added, “This ‘others’ does not include me.”

Liu Ran: “…Boring.”

She downloaded a mobile game to play, and while playing, she fell back asleep. When she opened her eyes again, it was dark. Ming Siyu was still in her room, holding her phone. Seeing her wake up, Ming Siyu placed the phone on her lap. “I’ve played up to over seventy levels for you. Have something to eat in a bit.”

A short while later, the nurse brought the meal. The food tasted average, but Liu Ran finished it all based on the principle of not wasting. Previously, she wasn’t a picky eater at all; she ate everything and didn’t mind any flavors, as long as it wasn’t hairy, moldy, or something that would cause diarrhea. After living with Ming Siyu for over two months, she had unknowingly learned to be critical of the taste of food.

After finishing the meal and performing a simple wash-up, Liu Ran returned to bed to cultivate sleepiness. Ming Siyu didn’t leave. She opened the nightstand and took out a kraft paper bag similar to a file envelope from the drawer. “For you.”

Liu Ran opened it. Inside were the property transfer documents for a house. It was exactly one in Ming Siyu’s newly opened real estate project in Country B. Liu Ran knew a bit about this project; this house given to her was basically the one with the best location.

The timing of these transfer documents was very clever. Was this her reward? To thank her for the risky rescue?

Her gaze fell on the signature date at the end of the document. The date, however, was several days ago the afternoon they had just arrived in Country B.

“The procedures here are a bit different from back home. It was delayed for a few days. I originally wanted to give it to you earlier, but it was only finished today.”

“Why give me this suddenly?” Liu Ran murmured. This house must be worth at least tens of millions; it was enough for her to earn for a lifetime. No, she might not even be able to earn this much in a lifetime. Ming Siyu just gave it?

Ming Siyu’s tone was flat. “You’re about the same age as Jian Huaici, aren’t you? What she has, you can have too. So there’s no need to envy the life of the Jian family too much.”

Having said that, before Liu Ran could recover her senses, Ming Siyu supported herself with her crutch and sat onto the bed, laboriously moving both legs up as well. Liu Ran reflexively moved to the side, asking warily, “What do you want to do?”

“Sleep,” Ming Siyu answered exceptionally calmly.

“No, this bed is only a bit over a meter wide. It can’t fit two people…”

The beds in premium wards are wider, but visually they don’t exceed 1.2 meters. It’s just right for one person; for two people, they have to sleep on their sides.

Ming Siyu was particularly righteous. “Squeeze in. Did you forget why I came to the hospital? I want to hold your tail.”

As she spoke, Ming Siyu lifted the quilt and lay down, blatantly occupying half the space of the bed. The scent of “Blizzard” perfume on her had faded a lot. With their bodies touching, Liu Ran felt awkward all over, as if the person lying beside her weren’t Ming Siyu, but a piece of red-hot branding iron.

It wasn’t that they hadn’t slept in the same bed before.

But the hotel’s king bed was over two meters wide; she could do her best to pretend there was no one behind her. Now, on such a small bed, that was impossible. No matter how much she tried to lean her body toward the edge of the bed, there was always a part of her body touching Ming Siyu.

Liu Ran turned her side to face away from Ming Siyu. Before long, a warm body pressed against her back. Ming Siyu stroked her arm, her warm breath making her neck feel itchy.

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