The Blind Alpha Coveted by the Frail Beauty Omega - Chapter 20.3

She very leisurely looked up life skills for blind people. After noting down the main points one by one, she called a courier to buy sponge pads and personally wrapped every sharp corner of the rental house that might cause injury with soft pads.

This way, those scars would no longer appear on Wei Jiangxue’s body.

Not only the rental house, but Mi Ruian also contacted her assistants and gave them a task to find people to do the same protection for her other properties.

This kind of low-rent house definitely couldn’t be a place for Wei Jiangxue to stay for long; Mi Ruian was already planning to transfer her to a place more convenient for living.

In a new and unfamiliar environment, Wei Jiangxue would probably try to rely on her more, right?

Wei Jiangxue had no relatives, and her connections with society were very few—basically only the landlord and the audience in the live-streaming room.

Such a person could be said to have no one to rely on. Even if she disappeared the next day, not too many people would ask questions. And Mi Ruian could think of hundreds of ways to cover up Wei Jiangxue’s whereabouts.

Returning to the bedroom, Mi Ruian quietly watched the still-sleeping Wei Jiangxue, her eyes filled with undisguised obsession.

Of course, if Wei Jiangxue were willing to go with her voluntarily, that would be for the best.

Mi Ruian actually had a preliminary plan in her heart. Last night, when Wei Jiangxue coaxed her to sleep, Mi Ruian had noticed something unusual.

It seemed that when she looked very pitiful, Wei Jiangxue would show a softness that didn’t match her previous attitude.

This made Mi Ruian wonder if she had made a more excessive request at that time, would Wei Jiangxue have agreed to it?

For example, playing pitiful and begging Wei Jiangxue, saying she wanted her to kiss the child’s forehead or cheek like a mother.

“I have to thank you for the song you sang last night. I slept very well, so I also thought about helping you with something, like not having to worry about being bruised by bumping into furniture.”

Mi Ruian’s voice was sweet, and her words expressed her concern for Wei Jiangxue.

This made Wei Jiangxue’s conscience, which was just now planning how to scare her, feel quite uneasy.

“By the way, what did you come to the living room for? If you’re looking for something, I can do it for you.” Mi Ruian immediately asked about Wei Jiangxue’s purpose.

If she just asked the other person to help get a bedsheet and quilt cover, she probably wouldn’t be able to guess the use, right?

Wei Jiangxue smoothed her brows and said briskly: “I want to take out the bedding the landlord prepared before. I don’t know when the tenant upstairs will finish cleaning up for me. I guess I have to use that set of sheets to make do first.”

Mi Ruian gave a soft “um,” helped Wei Jiangxue to the sofa, let her sit down, and went to rummage through the cabinet herself.

“Is it this set? It looks a bit like a curtain or tablecloth to me…” Mi Ruian asked.

Wei Jiangxue thought she must have forgotten about her being blind, so she got up while feeling her way: “I think I put some dust cloths in there last time. I’ll know once I feel them.”

“Be careful.” Mi Ruian held Wei Jiangxue’s hand and guided her over.

She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but Wei Jiangxue felt that when Mi Ruian withdrew her hand, her fingertips seemed to brush past her palm as if by accident.

But soon, a softer and smoother texture came from under her hand; Mi Ruian handed the fabric in the package to Wei Jiangxue.

Wei Jiangxue pretended to feel it a few times. After 233 confirmed that this was the bedsheet she could use, Wei Jiangxue nodded to Mi Ruian and thanked her: “This is what I was looking for.”

Today, the tenant upstairs fixed the water pipe. After cleaning, Wei Jiangxue’s bedroom was habitable again. Therefore, when Wei Jiangxue said she was going back to her room, Mi Ruian didn’t stop her.

She only suggested: “Do you need me to help you put on the sheets?”

Wei Jiangxue shook her head and hugged the things in her arms nervously: “No, I can do it myself!”

Finally, thinking that her tone was too blunt, Wei Jiangxue added a “thank you.”

What a joke! She took the sheet to play a ghost to scare Mi Ruian, not really to use it for sleep.

Wei Jiangxue had long ago thought it out: she could make do with sleeping on the mattress and the padding; it didn’t matter if the quilt insert didn’t have a cover, since its main function was just to keep warm.

Although she could also buy new bedding, Wei Jiangxue was too lazy to spend that money and energy.

Having achieved her goal, Wei Jiangxue quickly returned to her room holding the sheet. She acted like a thief, even locking the door as if she were afraid Mi Ruian would sneak over to watch.

Once Wei Jiangxue came out of her bedroom, it was time to find Mi Ruian for the live-stream makeup and styling.

Her steps were light, and she could be said to be hopping into Mi Ruian’s room.

“Did… something good happen to you?” Mi Ruian asked curiously when she saw her high-spirited look.

“Hmph, I won’t tell you.”

Wei Jiangxue refused to communicate her scaring plan with the soon-to-be-victim.

Thinking that Mi Ruian still knew nothing about it, Wei Jiangxue’s tone took on a hint of pity: “Anyway, knowing it won’t do you any good! You’d better tell me what kind of look you’re going to give me today. I heard people in the live-stream saying that with my popularity, the platform should contact me to sign a contract soon, but how come I haven’t seen any private messages? Maybe I’m not working hard enough. I hope today’s styling will make more people like me!”

Mi Ruian coughed awkwardly a few times. This worry of Wei Jiangxue had something to do with her.

Because the live-streaming industry was too deep and treacherous, Mi Ruian didn’t want Wei Jiangxue to rush in blindly, so she had specifically asked someone she knew to cut off the olive branches offered to Wei Jiangxue by those platforms in advance.

But Mi Ruian didn’t want Wei Jiangxue to be buried in the live-streaming room, just keeping her familiar fans and the top donor “Mi.”

Wei Jiangxue deserved a bigger and better stage, and more people would surely like her.

Mi Ruian wanted to be the first discoverer and guide of this pearl. During this time, she had been commanding her subordinates from home to establish a new entertainment company to test the waters. Once Mi Ruian had a full grasp of the market, Wei Jiangxue would receive her first, and only, signing invitation.

“Today’s design theme is ‘Moonlight Goddess.’ The clothes I prepared for you are a chiton. Your grayish-blue long hair can be braided, with a…”

Mi Ruian’s tone was neither fast nor slow, calming the anxiety in Wei Jiangxue’s heart.

Actually, Wei Jiangxue wasn’t in a hurry to sign with a live-streaming company; she was just purely confused. Many viewers in the live-streaming room had said with certainty that a company would definitely come for her, yet the streamer herself hadn’t received any invitations.

Her intuition told her: could there be some hidden story in between?

With Mi Ruian working hard on the styling and 233 helping with the traffic push, Wei Jiangxue completely calmed down.

Anyway, she could make money even without signing for now. She didn’t have to deal with those companies and agencies, which saved her from getting the short end of the stick.

“I’m ready!”

Wei Jiangxue took a deep breath, her expression resolute.

[System 233: …Then why don’t you push the door and go out!]

No wonder 233 was grumpy. It was really because Wei Jiangxue had been lingering in the bedroom for half an hour since she put on the bedsheet to play the ghost, refusing to act.

“Okay, I’m still a bit nervous!”

Wei Jiangxue instantly became a balloon that had been pricked and deflated.

She scratched the door frantically. After today’s live-stream ended, Wei Jiangxue had launched her plan to scare Mi Ruian, quickly putting on the prepared bedsheet, but now she didn’t even dare to leave her room.

“Can I really scare Mi Ruian? Forget it, that fellow is even afraid of thunder; this will definitely be no problem!”

“She should be asleep already, right? If she’s asleep, do I have to wake her up? No, just scaring her awake will do!”

“233, what should I do? Is this costume really okay…”

Wei Jiangxue kept mulling over these things, making 233’s head grow big from listening.

[System 233: Think about your eyes, think about Grandma, think about your sister…]

Successfully hitting the host’s vital point, 233 watched as Wei Jiangxue finally stepped onto territory outside her own bedroom.

She sneaked to Mi Ruian’s door and carefully pressed down the handle.

Great! Mi Ruian didn’t have the habit of locking her door. Unobstructed!

Wei Jiangxue cheered silently in her heart, then held her breath, concentrated, and tiptoed into the room.

She couldn’t see the scene in the room, and 233 couldn’t watch Mi Ruian’s real-time state due to protagonist privacy restrictions. But 233 could check the protagonist’s physiological monitoring data; currently, Mi Ruian’s data matched the physiological indicators of a person in a sleeping state.

Wei Jiangxue had been to this area several times in recent days and knew the furnishings in the room like the back of her hand.

She walked toward the bed with confidence, suddenly lunged toward it, and at the same time let out a ghost cry she thought was very scary: “Heh—”

But her foot hit something, and she suddenly let out a cry of surprise as her body tilted.

Good news: she fell onto the bed and wouldn’t get hurt.

Bad news: she fell right on top of Mi Ruian.

The overwhelming scent of roses quickly enveloped Wei Jiangxue. Her face hit Mi Ruian. Apart from a faint pain from being squeezed, she felt more that she had come into contact with a softer and more elastic place. Was it the stomach?

No, it probably wasn’t the stomach. Thinking of a certain possibility, Wei Jiangxue’s face turned red instantly.

Following that, time seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand, slipping away second by second very slowly through the fingers.

A clear, powerful heartbeat came from one side of Wei Jiangxue’s face; it was Mi Ruian’s heart beating.

The unsteady breathing and the hand that suddenly touched Wei Jiangxue were both explaining one fact—Wei Jiangxue had woken Mi Ruian up.

It was over. Mi Ruian definitely found out that her face was pressed against…

How to explain? She really wasn’t a pervert!

Wei Jiangxue thought in despair.

[System 233: Beep—Detected Mi Ruian’s accelerated heartbeat and sympathetic nerve excitation… Appraised as being frightened by the host.]

[Congratulations, Host! Mission completed! Great job!]