The Aloof Film Queen Gets Entangled by a Sweet Little Omega - Chapter 26

I Love the Great Azure Dragon!

On the way back to school, the silence between the two was persistent, broken only by fleeting glances exchanged at red lights.

Shi Rui sat in the passenger seat, head bowed and eyes downcast, her thoughts unknown. Slowly, the tips of her ears flushed a deep crimson.

Luo Xiao glanced at her. The girl was so flustered that the fur on her rabbit ears seemed to have been dyed with a layer of pink.

“Don’t look at me,” she whispered. Now that the adrenaline had worn off, regret was settling in. How could she have said those things to her sister?

She even said…

She wanted to have rabbit babies.

And they had kissed for so long.

How embarrassing.

But I want to kiss her again…

Shi Rui shyly covered her eyes with her ears, leaning against the seat and pretending to sleep.

As the car surged forward, they arrived at S University with only ten minutes left before curfew. It was a five-minute drive from the main gate to the dormitory entrance.

Shi Rui stole several glances at Luo Xiao, silently calculating: if the car stopped at the dorm gate, she would have three minutes to kiss Luo Xiao.

The remaining two minutes would be for sprinting back to the dorm.

She was a rabbit; she hopped fast. She should make it.

Luo Xiao looked at her, hearing her mumble something about “ten meters, eight meters, five meters…”

The dormitory gates appeared, and Shi Rui’s heart tightened. But Luo Xiao didn’t stop; she pressed the accelerator and drove right past.

The car came to a steady halt directly under Dormitory Building 03.

The moment the engine cut out, a “click” sounded from the passenger side. Before Luo Xiao was ready, Shi Rui unbuckled her seatbelt and lunged into her arms, cupping Luo Xiao’s face while sitting on her lap.

“You’re so heartless. Don’t you miss me after being apart for so long? You’re sending me back so soon.”

Hearing the little rabbit’s complaints, Luo Xiao couldn’t help but laugh. Placing her hands on Shi Rui’s waist, she tilted her head back and asked playfully, “What else? Should I let you drop out?”

She patted Shi Rui’s waist and said seriously, “Study hard. Whatever happens, we’ll talk after you graduate.”

“Luo Xiao, that’s four years away! I just started university!” Shi Rui grew anxious.

Luo Xiao knew she had just started, and that was exactly why she couldn’t recklessly bind her or mark her using the ties of a past life.

Chu Ye was right. In the mountains, they only had each other. The little rabbit had never seen another of her kind, which was why she was so dependent.

If there were others around her—if there were other rabbits—would she still choose the dragon?

Now that the hypothesis had become reality, Luo Xiao wanted to step back and let Shi Rui choose for herself.

As for yesterday’s kiss…

Luo Xiao would accept being a scoundrel for it. After waiting a thousand years, stealing one kiss was enough to satisfy her.

Shi Rui waited for an answer that never came. Growing frantic, she leaned in to kiss Luo Xiao again, desperate to feel that Luo Xiao’s heart still belonged to her through their touch.

But as Shi Rui lowered her head, Luo Xiao turned her face away coldly. “It’s late. Your curfew is almost here. Go back.”

Hurt flooded Shi Rui’s eyes. Her heart raced in a chaotic rhythm. She stared at Luo Xiao in a daze for a long time before finally giving up. She opened the car door and left without looking back.

Luo Xiao sat in the car, watching that silhouette grow smaller and smaller until it vanished. The heartache felt like she couldn’t breathe.

She wanted to rush out, drag the little rabbit back, pin her against the hood, and kiss her madly—to declare to the world:

Shi Rui belongs to Luo Xiao. The Little Rabbit belongs to the Great Azure Dragon.

But she couldn’t. Her selfishness had harmed the rabbit once before; it must never happen again.

Shi Rui stomped back to her dorm. Ignoring the bewildered looks from Ming Qing and the others, she went straight to the shower. There, amidst the soap suds, she cried.

She cursed Luo Xiao for being a jerk, then whispered that she was a coward.

“I’ll make you come looking for me. I definitely will!” The little rabbit clenched her soapy fists, her gaze determined.

Life in the mountains passed slowly, and the flow of time was hard to perceive.

The little rabbit counted how many wild blossoms had withered. Bit by bit, she carried food back to the nest she shared with the Great Azure Dragon, starting to hoard for winter.

Truthfully, it wasn’t much of a hoard. She didn’t even know the basics of digging a burrow; she would just run out for a wild romp and return with a mouthful of green grass. Most of their food still relied on the dragon.

However, the dragon grew drowsy in winter. When the snow blocked the mountains, the rabbit was too afraid to forage alone, so she anxiously stuffed the cave with extra grass.

One day, as she hopped back with a bunch of fresh grass, she saw the Great Azure Dragon speaking to someone near the entrance.

Because the dragon was so massive, she couldn’t see who the visitor was.

Regardless of who it was, she wasn’t happy. For years, it had only been the two of them. The sudden appearance of a third party made her feel stifled and grumpy.

Fortunately, the conversation ended quickly. As the dragon slowly turned to enter the cave, the rabbit rushed over, circling her and chirping questions:

“Great Azure Dragon, who were you talking to?” “Do you have other friends here besides me?” “Are you going to live with them?” “What about me? What will I do?” “I don’t even know how to dig. You said you’d always dig for me and hoard food for me. If you leave, what will happen to me?”

The dragon, head aching from the constant chirping, leaned down and gently picked the rabbit up in her mouth to carry her inside. Her tail sneakily swept up the grass the rabbit had dropped while talking.

“No other friends. Only you, little rabbit.”

The dragon set her down and nudged her with her nose, asking tentatively, “Little rabbit, if someone came to fetch you and take you away, would you leave me?”

“Never!” the rabbit vowed immediately. “I want to be with the Great Azure Dragon forever. I love the Great Azure Dragon! We’ll never be apart!”

Relieved, the dragon licked the rabbit with her tongue and smiled. “I love you too, little rabbit.”

When the first leaf on the mountain turned yellow, the rabbit sat on the dragon’s back and whispered, “This is when we met. You were flying in the sky, looking so majestic.”

“Mm.”

The dragon gave a steady response and rolled onto her back. The rabbit was tossed into the air, but the dragon caught her safely with her claws. “What are you trying to say?”

The rabbit nudged the dragon’s chin with her head. “I want to give you a birthday present!”

She had unilaterally decided that the day they met was the dragon’s birthday, and the dragon never objected. Since the rabbit had been lost before leaving the nest, she didn’t know what a “birthday” was; she just thought it was the anniversary of their first meeting.

Thus, they shared the same birthday.

“You always give me gifts. This year, it’s my turn. After all, you’re a thousand years old now,” the rabbit said, rolling playfully on the dragon’s soft belly.

The dragon hummed, her sharp claws carefully cradling the small fluff-ball. “What are you giving me?”

The rabbit pointed a paw toward the opposite peak. “See that mountain? I saw flowers blooming all over it from our side. They’re beautiful—kinds we don’t have here. How about I go pick some for you?”

The dragon laughed. “Flowers bloom in the spring.”

“Exactly! So I’ll pick them now and plant them on our mountain. When spring comes and the wind blows, the whole mountain will be the birthday gift I gave you.” The rabbit grew more excited, climbing up to lick the dragon’s mouth. “Please, Great Azure Dragon, can I?”

“Alright, I’ll go with you.”

“No! I’m going alone! You wait here!” the rabbit demanded. Besides the flowers, she had a surprise planned. She added sternly, “Don’t move a single step until I get back. If you leave, I’ll never talk to you again.”

“Mm…” The dragon teased her by hesitating, making the rabbit kiss her face repeatedly until the dragon’s mouth was full of rabbit fur. Finally, she drawled, “Fine then.”

Fine then…

Those two words became the dragon’s lifelong nightmare.

In the silent, dark room, the person on the bed slept fitfully. Sweat beaded on her forehead, her brows knitted in pain as she repeated a single phrase: “No… come back… little rabbit, come back.”

The little rabbit never came back.

To escape a predator, she had fallen off a cliff.

The Great Azure Dragon stayed by the cave, waiting day after day, year after year. She always said she had plenty of time; she could afford to wait. She would wait for the rabbit to return and give her a mountain of flowers.

She waited through springs and autumns, until the snow covered her, yet that warm ball of fluff never returned to her side.

When the ice melted in spring, she would slowly lift her head. Seeing no flowers, she would lower it in disappointment and continue to wait.

When the golden leaves of autumn fell upon her, it was their birthday again. The gift never arrived as promised.

The dragon became sluggish, almost petrified, no longer lifting her head every year. She began to check every fifty years, every hundred, every five hundred. Seeing the mountain still bare, she would slowly settle back down.

The little rabbit said not to move a single step, or she wouldn’t talk to me when she got back.

The Great Azure Dragon tilted her head, watching the opposite mountain bloom with flowers once again. She pleaded with a passing bird to carry a message to the other side, telling her little rabbit to hurry home.

The bird returned, but her little rabbit did not.

The bird carried back a single maple seed, placing it carefully before the Great Azure Dragon. “She must have left this for you,” the bird said.

In truth, the seed had been found beside the little rabbit’s body, but the bird didn’t dare say it, fearing the dragon’s grief.

The Great Azure Dragon stared blankly at the seed, feeling a twinge of grievance. The little rabbit had lied; she promised flowers, but sent a maple seed instead.

Still, she carefully dug a hole with her claw, buried the seed, and continued to lie beside it. She was waiting—waiting for the maple to sprout and bear fruit, and for her little rabbit to be hidden inside that fruit.

She imagined the rabbit hopping joyfully toward her to lick her face, shouting: “Do you like this birthday gift, Great Azure Dragon!”

Shortly after the bird left, a firefly with a faint, weak light began to flutter around her, occasionally brushing against her mouth.

If the Great Azure Dragon had opened her eyes, she would have realized it wasn’t a firefly. It was her little rabbit, come home.

The little rabbit was clumsy; she had wandered at the bottom of the cliff, unable to find her way, until she followed the bird back. Her soul was so thin it was transparent, making her look like a glowing firefly.

The little rabbit had fallen while clutching a maple branch. She thought that tiny branch could support her weight, but she was wrong. A rabbit with no survival experience could not last a single day alone on the mountain.

The transparent little rabbit hovered in the air, watching the dragon. She used to envy the dragon’s ability to fly; now she didn’t envy it, but she was still unhappy. Her dragon could no longer see her or touch her.

The rabbits in the underworld told her she couldn’t reincarnate because the “Book of Fate” showed someone missed her so much it was blocking her path. The little rabbit knew it was the dragon. She flew over and pressed herself against the dragon’s face, wanting to say it was okay—it was better not to reincarnate.

She was afraid of forgetting the Great Azure Dragon. She could stay like this, accompanying her forever.

Another thousand years passed. The sleeping dragon stirred as if waking, but she only turned her head and continued to rest on the ground without opening her eyes. This was her second thousandth birthday. Was the little rabbit still not coming back?

Her eyes tightly shut, her curled body trembling, the Great Azure Dragon finally couldn’t hold back her tears. A single tear fell to the ground, her longing seeping into the soil. Her maple seed sprouted.

The little rabbit frantically tried to fly over to wipe the tears away, but before she could get close, her body became increasingly transparent. The tear that had blocked her reincarnation had finally fallen.

She had to go.

The little rabbit screamed in panic; she hadn’t said goodbye, she didn’t want to forget, and she didn’t want the dragon to have other friends.

Perhaps it was a connection of the heart, a soul-bond, or perhaps even the heavens couldn’t bear it and wanted them to meet one last time—the Great Azure Dragon lifted her head. She caught the faint scent of the little rabbit.

Without hesitation, she soared into the sky, chasing after her rabbit, only to fall instantly as her strength vanished when the rabbit completely disappeared.

The sensation of falling made Luo Xiao bolt upright in bed. She leaned against the headboard to steady her breathing, her eyes hollow. It had been a long time since she had such a vivid dream.

Regaining her composure, she checked her phone and found a message from the little rabbit sent the previous evening:

“Happy 1,000th birthday. I’m going to pick a gift for you.”

Attached was a photo of the little rabbit, dressed warmly at the entrance of the mountain, making a peace sign at the camera.

In an instant, Luo Xiao felt the blood drain from her face. Her already cold body turned icy. Without a second thought, she called Shi Rui, but the phone was powered off.

Terrifying thoughts flashed through her mind. She threw off the covers, changed quickly, grabbed her keys, and rushed out the door.

The streets were empty in the early hours. By the time Luo Xiao reached the outskirts, the sky was just beginning to turn gray. To her, that dawn light felt like a thousand-pound weight crushing her.

The car couldn’t go up the mountain, and it was too early for the scenic area to open for hikers. But Luo Xiao couldn’t wait. She didn’t know if her rabbit was safe; she couldn’t climb up step by step.

In the early morning, a park staff member waking up for work saw a streak of azure light flash across the sky.

“Whoa, a meteor!” she whispered, quickly closing her eyes to make a wish.

“I hope sister and I will never be separated again.”

Shi Rui sat at the mountain peak with her hands clasped in prayer. When she opened her eyes, she saw an azure dragon flying straight toward her.

She instinctively tried to run, but the dragon didn’t give her the chance. In an instant, it coiled around her, pinning her in place.

“Why did you come here?”

Luo Xiao had lost her usual cool. Her voice trembled as she interrogated the girl.

Shi Rui smiled and patted the dragon coiled around her. “Come down first. You’re heavy.”

The dragon hesitated, staring into her eyes for a long moment as if confirming she wouldn’t disappear. Then, she slowly uncoiled and transformed back into her human form.

“What exactly are you trying to do?” Luo Xiao demanded.

Shi Rui tucked her hands into her pockets and replied lazily, “Hiking. Night hiking is very popular now, didn’t you know?”

“Shi Rui!” Luo Xiao’s tone sharpened, using her full name.

The little rabbit pouted. “You made an agreement with my mom, didn’t you?”

Luo Xiao’s expression shifted, but she remained stubborn. “You don’t need to know about that.”

Years ago, when Luo Xiao finally found the reincarnated rabbit, she was blocked by Chu Ye. Chu Ye wasn’t moved by the story of their past life; she only cared about her daughter’s safety and happiness. She demanded that Luo Xiao stay away until Shi Rui was an adult.

Luo Xiao had agreed, but the burn of longing made her sleepless. She was terrified the rabbit would forget her, so she made a “despicable” decision: She became an actress. She worked constantly, thinking that eventually, the little rabbit would see her on a screen. If the rabbit saw her, maybe she wouldn’t forget?

When she filmed her first movie, it was near the rabbit’s home. The rabbit’s Omega mother was kind to her, praising her and bringing her food. But Chu Ye remained dissatisfied, fearing Luo Xiao would bring harm to her daughter again.

Luo Xiao listened. So that day, in the backyard of the Shi family’s milk tea shop, when the little toddler-rabbit nuzzled her feet, Luo Xiao didn’t even dare to bend down and pick her up. She only dared to watch from a distance.

After that movie, Luo Xiao left completely. She didn’t appear before Shi Rui again until the day Qi Ran showed her a photo of the adult Shi Rui. Her longing grew like that maple seed, wild and uncontrollable. She couldn’t suppress it anymore, so she began to follow her secretly. One look—just one look—was enough to sustain her for years.

Seeing Luo Xiao’s attitude, Shi Rui huffed. “Then I won’t tell you my secrets either!”

Despite her words, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a ring made of a tiny flower. Because it had been hidden for so long, it was slightly wilted.

“Here. Your birthday gift,” Shi Rui said, turning her head away, her ears glowing red.

Luo Xiao reached out to take it. “This?”

“The gift that wasn’t delivered a thousand years ago,” Shi Rui said shyly. “I wanted to give you a whole mountain of flowers like the original plan, but the park doesn’t allow picking plants now—you get fined. So I ‘stole’ just one for you.”

Tears welled in Luo Xiao’s eyes, but she smiled happily. She turned the flower ring in her hand. “Only a thousand years, and your gift has been discounted this much?”

Shi Rui put her hands behind her back and tilted her chin up proudly. “Luo Xiao, times have changed. I’m not that helpless little rabbit anymore. I’m very capable now; I can sit on this mountain all night by myself and be perfectly safe. So stop brooding over what happened. It wasn’t your fault.”

“Great Azure Dragon, if you stop hiding from me, stop resisting me, and stop overthinking everything alone… I’ll give you more than just one flower.”

With that, Shi Rui stepped forward into her arms, nuzzling her chin just as she had a thousand years ago. “Promise me, okay?”

Luo Xiao’s heart ached. She held her tightly, resting her chin on Shi Rui’s shoulder. After a long silence, she finally spoke those heavy, solemn words:

“Fine then.”

Luo Xiao was going to break her promise to Chu Ye again. But it wasn’t the first time; she was becoming quite experienced at it.

“Will you come home with me to see my mom?” Shi Rui asked against her chest.

Luo Xiao thought for a moment. “If she hits me, will you help me?”

Shi Rui said without hesitation, “You’re trying to kidnap her precious daughter. If she hits you a couple of times, just take it.”

The little rabbit giggled in her arms, and the Great Azure Dragon held her tight, thinking:

How noisy.

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