My Ex’s White Moonlight Omega Has a Crush on Me - Chapter 13

Chao Wan had braced herself for all sorts of awkward scenarios, but she never expected to hear those words from Ji Tanyue.

She looked up in a daze, the corners of her eyes slightly reddened, meeting the woman’s half-smiling gaze. Her eyelashes fluttered briefly before she hurriedly averted her eyes.

Just exchanging contacts?

Such a simple request, voiced in Ji Tanyue’s soft tone, inexplicably carried a vague sense of ambiguity.

Chao Wan glanced up at the woman standing quietly against the light, biting her lip lightly.

It felt as though giving out her contact information meant agreeing to that absurd arrangement they had made before, a game of patron and songbird.

In the end, unable to find a reason to refuse, she took out her phone.

Silence settled between them, neither speaking, until a new message popped up on the screen.

[You have added y. You can now start chatting.]

Ji Tanyue’s account was just as pristine as the impression she left on the outside world, clean, untouched.

Or rather, it was completely blank, as if it were a newly created alternate account.

Chao Wan glanced at it a few times before silently turning off the screen.

Important people wouldn’t be brushed off with a secondary account. On the surface, the woman seemed to care for her, but perhaps she only saw Chao Wan as a momentarily pleasing plaything.

And rightly so, what made her think she was anyone important?

A sense of disappointment quietly spread in her heart, not intense but enough to sink her mood to its lowest point.

“It’s late. How will you get home?” Ji Tanyue’s voice was gentle.

Chao Wan’s heart raced anxiously. Keeping her head down, she replied softly, “A friend will take me. There’s no need for Teacher Ji to worry.”

She didn’t want to repeat the past, to be locked away again in that cold villa.

“Alright, take care.” Surprisingly, Ji Tanyue didn’t press her, her tone remaining as calm as ever.

Chao Wan’s heart thumped nervously as she murmured an acknowledgment.

When she looked up again, all she could see was the woman’s slender, graceful back.

Ji Tanyue lowered her lashes, slipping off her hair tie. Her naturally wavy chestnut hair cascaded over her shoulders.

Though a mask covered her face, her striking presence still captivated those around her.

Chao Wan even overheard someone whispering, “So beautiful.”

The woman paid no attention, tilting her hat downward as she joined a figure in a tailored dress. After exchanging a few quiet words, she left directly.

Chao Wan stood in place for a while, watching until the figure disappeared around the corner, before lowering her gaze and slowly walking away.

At the exit, Fu Xi was leaning against the counter, waiting for her.

Spotting Chao Wan, she smiled and approached. “Finally out. How did it go?”

Chao Wan didn’t feel like responding. Pressing her lips together, she walked ahead.

After being frightened all evening and running into Ji Tanyue, she doubted she’d sleep well tonight.

Fu Xi sighed, handed the shop over to her assistant, and stubbornly caught up with her. On the drive home, she apologized profusely.

Chao Wan, easily flustered by such earnest words, soon let go of her anger.

As the car neared her uncle’s house, she turned to quietly gaze at the night scenery outside the window.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated in her bag.

A chill ran through her as she looked closely.

The message was from Ji Tanyue.

The blank account had abruptly sent her several messages.

Chao Wan swallowed silently and opened them.

There were no words, only videos displayed in the chat window.

The footage was blurry, but without exception, they were surveillance recordings from the villa.

The videos clearly documented Chao Wan sneaking into Ji Tanyue’s bedroom, taking the key, and leaving the villa.

All her earlier clever little maneuvers had been laid bare before Ji Tanyue.

Though only Chao Wan could see the messages, her heart raced with panic, as if her misdeeds had been publicly exposed.

Why was Ji Tanyue sending her these?

Was it a threat?

Perhaps Ji Tanyue hadn’t been careless at all when she placed the key in such an obvious spot.

Letting her escape might have been a deliberate move to secure leverage over her, just like now.

Any favorable impressions she’d built toward the woman during their time in the escape room vanished entirely.

Chao Wan stared blankly at the screen. In the dim interior of the car, the cold light accentuated the undisguisable fear on her pale face.

Fu Xi, focused on driving, caught a glimpse of Chao Wan’s troubled expression out of the corner of her eye. “What’s wrong?” she asked with concern.

Chao Wan shook her head slightly, turned off the screen, and curled into herself slowly and silently.

For a moment, she felt a deep aversion toward the woman behind that white avatar.

Especially when she recalled that cold, empty villa, seemingly built only to imprison her. Chao Wan wanted nothing more than to escape, to sever all ties with Ji Tanyue.

Having been given a second chance at life, she had broken free from Qin Siyu, only to fall into Ji Tanyue’s trap.

Chao Wan realized that the woman who had always stood at the pinnacle of the film industry, someone who’d had no connection to her in the past, was now inexplicably bound to her in this life, and was beginning to reveal many hidden secrets.

Including a polished exterior masking a morally corrupt core.

As she pondered this, her phone vibrated again.

Another message from Ji Tanyue’s alternate account, this time just two short words.

[y: So cute]

Chao Wan: “……?”

Her cheeks warmed silently, mingled with a touch of irritation.

She could almost picture the woman’s slightly upturned lips and ambiguous expression as she typed those words.

Her eyes reddened with grievance. Biting her lip, she quickly navigated to the settings, tempted by impulse to block Ji Tanyue.

She didn’t want to be laughed at, especially by this former rival who had witnessed her embarrassing moments time and again.

So annoying.

But her finger hovered over the block option for a long time, hesitation setting in.

“You’re such a scaredy-cat. Go home and get some good sleep, alright… Hm?” Fu Xi, assuming Chao Wan was still shaken from the escape room, rambled on until she caught sight of her phone screen. “No way, my dear! Still mad? Don’t delete me…” she wailed.

Chao Wan smiled faintly. “It’s not you.”

It was someone… she couldn’t quite figure out.

Leaning back in the passenger seat, she turned off the screen.

In the end, she didn’t delete Ji Tanyue.

…

Ji Tanyue watched the edited surveillance footage for a long time, her gaze fixed tenderly on the flustered figure in the video.

After much thought, she couldn’t resist the three words welling up inside her and tapped them out on the screen.

But in a careless moment, she actually sent them.

Her long lashes fluttered slightly. She didn’t retract the message, instead imagining the adorable expression the recipient would make upon reading it.

After applying a face mask, Ji Tanyue pondered for a moment before padding over in her house slippers and settling quietly into the soft chair by the desk.

Her fingers traced the handle of the nearby drawer, inch by inch.

Though several days had passed, it felt as though she could still sense the warmth Chao Wan had left behind when she pulled it open.

This bedroom was too cold, from its tone, to the owner’s state of mind, to the unlabeled white pill bottle deliberately placed on the desk. It was like ice under an overcast sky, impossible to warm.

Ji Tanyue removed the bracelet from her wrist, turned off the night light, and closed her eyes.

The source of warmth had vanished without a trace. Even the diary and photos locked inside the drawer had lost their meaning. How could anything feel warm again?

But today, the girl’s warm wrist, her bewildered expression, the soft way she called her “Teacher Ji”, all of it replayed vividly in her mind.

A small flame quietly ignited, gently warming Ji Tanyue’s heart.