My Omega Rival in Love [Interstellar] - Chapter 57

The wine-red long hair was slowly brushed aside, revealing a slightly raised gland on the long, fair nape of her neck. However, the condition there now looked rather poor; a ferocious, four-to-five-centimeter-long scar climbed across it, looking particularly jarring against her exceptionally fair skin.

They gasped. Was it really true?

“You… this…” Gu Jin’s voice was hoarse. Although she did not know what Ji Shaoyan had actually endured, just looking at that scar told her it was far from easy.

“Are you satisfied now?” Ji Shaoyan tossed her head, and her long hair covered the nape of her neck once more. She tilted her head back slightly, her eyelids half-closed to conceal the emotions in her eyes. Her taut jawline revealed that revealing this secret was far too cruel for her.

“This… I can only say I am very sorry for this.” Encountering such a situation for the first time, Gu Jin was shocked and at a loss for what to do. Her expression was conflicted as she chose the words she thought Ji Shaoyan could accept. “Even so, that engagement was just a joke between our parents, not my choice. We haven’t even met in all these years, so… we have no foundation for any relationship. Furthermore, we should be responsible for ourselves. You don’t like me, and I don’t like you; why must we be like this?”

“Because I don’t want to see you living a good life.” Ji Shaoyan answered very bluntly. In this short time, her emotions had completely returned to their previous state, and she was filled with malice toward Gu Jin.

Gu Jin: “…”

Looking at the members of the Madilon Pirate Group who were gradually surrounding them, Gu Jin frowned. “What deep hatred or grudge could we possibly have? If you had said that we were engaged and were betrothed, then if I had failed you, I would be a scoundrel, and your revenge would be justified. But now? There was only a joke made when we were still in our mothers’ wombs. After that, you were dead for over twenty years, and now you suddenly pop up, claiming you are alive, and demanding that I abandon the person I have been childhood sweethearts with for over twenty years—who is also carrying my child—to marry you as revenge? Could you please try to understand my perspective?”

“Understand your perspective?” Ji Shaoyan’s gaze swept over He Yu, who was lost in thought, and her eyes turned red. “Why should I understand your perspective? Twenty years ago, and even now, my becoming like this is entirely due to your royal family! I never saw you try to understand the perspective of a pregnant woman about to give birth, or the child about to be born!”

Gu Jin: “???”

“What the hell is going on here?” Gu Jin could not help but curse, trying to maintain her composure.

“Young Commander, let us get out of here. There seem to be more and more people.” Gu Nuan, who had recovered her composure, was terrified by the scene and tugged weakly at Gu Jin’s sleeve. Although those people were outside the pure white domain and were likely too far away to hear what they were saying, that did not mean they would not stop them when they tried to run! Forget the gossip for now; it is better to run while they have not all gathered yet.

Gu Jin shook off Gu Nuan’s hand and patted her shoulder. “Just stay here honestly. I am not leaving until I get to the bottom of this mess.” She turned back to Ji Shaoyan. “Continue. What is going on?”

Gu Jin’s reaction stunned everyone. Ji Shaoyan leaned directly against the wall. “Heh, still pretending? Could you really not know? True, how could our noble Princess know about such rotten and stinking corners?”

“Stop being so sarcastic. Get to the point first. If you do not mind, I can help you contact the even more noble Emperor to confront him. Why is talking to you so exhausting?” Once they emerged from that room, the light brain in Gu Jin’s mind rebooted, and she could fully communicate with Gu Ting, who was far away on the capital planet. There were things she might not know, but Gu Ting certainly would, and Gu Jin could not trust Ji Shaoyan at all.

“No need. I do not want to see anyone from your royal family. Since you want to know, I will tell you.” Ji Shaoyan refused Gu Jin’s proposal, tossed her long hair, and calmly explained the truth from over twenty years ago.

Over twenty years ago, Gu Jin’s father was the Commander-in-Chief of the frontier, stationed on Rota Star with Gu Jin’s mother. By coincidence, Gu Jin’s mother’s best friend, Auntie Xu, also arrived there.

Auntie Xu had come with her fiancé, the then-eldest son of the Ji family and current head of the Ji family, Ji Chan. During their time on Rota Star, Gu Jin’s mother and Auntie Xu were extremely close, often drinking tea and chatting together.

Later, by an even greater coincidence, two months after Auntie Xu became pregnant, Gu Jin’s mother also became pregnant with Gu Jin. Because they already had Gu Ting, Marshal Gu and his wife wanted a little Omega girl, while Auntie Xu and Ji Chan, bearing the responsibility of the Ji family’s future, preferred a boy. Thus, they discussed that if the little Omega from the Gu family and the little Alpha from the Ji family could become partners when they grew up, it would be perfect. That was how the engagement was verbally decided.

Later, Auntie Xu’s due date was earlier. When Gu Jin was only seven months in the womb, Auntie Xu was already going into labor. Everyone was very nervous on the planet where Ji Chan and Auntie Xu were honeymooning, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new life.

But on that very day, an unexpected change occurred. The Zerg launched an attack without warning. The planet was relatively close to the border, and in order to defend against the Zerg and protect Gu Jin’s mother, Marshal Gu took his wife back to Rota Star first. Since Auntie Xu was in labor and could not be moved, she had to be left on that planet.

No one expected what happened next. According to Ji Shaoyan, it was Gu Jin’s father, Marshal Gu, who had intentionally led her family to their deaths. The supposedly impregnable border defenses played no role, did not resist the Zerg attack, and instead colluded with the Zerg to wipe out that entire planet!

“Wait,” Gu Jin asked, confused. “You just said my mom and your mom were best friends, and now you are saying my dad was willing to abandon the border defenses and sacrifice a whole planet just to kill your family? That makes no logical sense.”

“Does it?” Ji Shaoyan raised an eyebrow at Gu Jin and spread her hands. “What if my mother was not the legitimate wife of the head of the Ji family? Would that make it logical?”

“Huh?” Gu Jin completely failed to follow Ji Shaoyan’s train of thought. Had she not just mentioned a fiancée?

“I only learned this later. My mother was never the legitimate wife of the head of the Ji family. The head of the Ji family had arranged a perfect marriage for Ji Chan, but Ji Chan and my mother were in a free-love relationship. They did not go to Rota Star for a vacation; they were eloping, hiding it from everyone, including your parents.”

“Later, my mother told me that when she was pregnant, Ji Chan cheated on her and grew tired of her. Under pressure from the Ji family, he planned to go home, inherit the family business, and marry that woman. At that moment, Ji Chan told your parents the truth. And so, while my mother was giving birth to me, the three of them conspired in that evil plot!”

After hearing this, Gu Jin had nothing but question marks. She found it hard to believe.

“Setting everything else aside, just to get rid of you and your mother, my father sacrificed a whole planet? Does he have a hole in his brain?” Gu Jin still did not believe it. Although Marshal Gu might not always seem reliable, he was not so broken in the head as to do something like that.

“What if they just needed an excuse to take down a more powerful political enemy? For example, the Yu family, who provided the border shield technology back then. In that battle, the border shield failed, causing a massive Zerg invasion. Fortunately, through Marshal Gu’s bloody struggle, they managed to hold off the Zerg before the second line of defense, losing the people of only one small frontier planet but saving countless human-inhabited worlds.”

“After the battle, Marshal Gu was seriously injured and stepped down as Commander-in-Chief. The Yu family, which was at the height of its power, took the blame for the sudden failure of the border shield. The entire family was exiled from the capital to a frontier star and became social outcasts. Meanwhile, the royal family mourned the unfortunate victims while ruthlessly stripping the Yu family of all its power. Marshal Gu was hailed as the greatest Marshal in the Empire, and the prestige of the royal family soared. See? A very familiar script, is it not?”

With Ji Shaoyan’s mocking laughter, the expressions of Gu Jin and He Yu turned ugly.

“The royal family became the biggest winner. In this political conspiracy, Ji Chan hitched a ride, while my mother became a negligible name on a list of hundreds of millions of victims. Afterward, Marshal Gu returned to Rota Star with the hundred people who survived the disaster, and Ji Chan was among them. You say, is that not a coincidence?”

Gu Jin’s hands were trembling. She could not tell if this was true or false. On one hand, she could not believe that the family who had indulged and pampered her without limit since she was a child could do such a thing; on the other hand, she vaguely felt that this might not be entirely fabricated.

“I don’t know if what you are saying is true, but I believe that my parents and my uncle are not that kind of people, and my mother would absolutely never do such a thing.” At the very least, they would not abandon a whole planet’s worth of people just to take down a Yu family. They might have used some unsavory political tactics, but they would not actively slaughter their own subjects.

Ji Shaoyan laughed. “As expected of our delicate little princess. You can go ask them and see if they tell you the truth. Also, your mother, who died early, was the most vicious culprit who killed my mother!”

“You are not allowed to talk about my mother like that.” Gu Jin’s voice became tense, and her gaze toward Ji Shaoyan grew colder.

“Do you not believe it? Back then, after your mother got together with your father, she kept telling my mother that she should not listen to family arrangements and that pursuing freedom and marrying the one you love is the happiest thing. Later, when my mother got together with Ji Chan, she kept saying how she blessed and supported them, acting like a saint. When my mother was pregnant and nearing labor, and Ji Chan told her they were eloping, your mother put on a saintly face and blamed my mother, eventually leading to her death. Is she not the culprit behind my mother’s misery? She is the most vicious person of all!”

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