The Canary Omega I Kept Turned Out to Be My Fiancée - Chapter 5

Do Not Touch Me!

When Pei Song was being led outside, a doctor carefully cleaned her wound. Without the sticky feeling, Pei Song finally opened her eyes, her gaze falling on the doctor’s name tag.

Surgeon: Gu Silu.

She was Pei Yan’s clinical instructor.

Gu Silu applied iodine to her wound. “How did you get this wound?”

Pei Song could not possibly say that her grandfather had smashed her with an object, so she had to say, “I bumped into a utility pole.”

Gu Silu glanced at her, and her indifferent gaze made Pei Song feel very unnatural. “If you bumped into a utility pole, the wound would not look like this. This was caused by a sharp metal sheet. Please tell the truth, Miss Pei.”

“I was smashed by my grandfather for doing something wrong,” Pei Song answered very honestly. She did not think this kind of matter was shameful; what big scenes had the doctors in the hospital not seen? Pei Yan often told her how many eccentric patients there were in the hospital, and that one must remember never to empathize with patients.

“Miss Pei, what is your relationship with Pei Yan?” Gu Silu suddenly asked. Both of them had the surname Pei, and their given names even shared the same radical. Moreover, they looked somewhat similar.

“I am her older sister,” Pei Song said, feeling inexplicably guilty. “Did she do something wrong?”

“Well, sort of. She accessed my employee ID and used her mother’s medical insurance card to obtain medication for herself. This kind of behavior is illegal; you had better remind her.” Gu Silu scanned her face with her eyes. “She prescribed imported ophthalmology drugs, and not all imported drugs are good. In the future, once she has her own employee ID, prescribing drugs that do not belong to her department will require a formal report.”

“This time, my mother just wanted convenience and asked her for a favor,” Pei Song immediately said seriously. “I will definitely go back and lecture her properly. Considering she is still a minor, Doctor Gu, please…”

The cotton ball that Gu Silu was holding dropped to the ground. Her pupils dilated in shock, Pei Yan was still a minor? A minor?!

Pei Yan was the person who stood before her complaining of hardship and fatigue, wanting milk tea, fried chicken, and late-night snacks; who, in order to collect blind boxes and merchandise collaborations, bought several KFC meal sets at once, or purchased over a dozen cups of a certain brand of tea; and who always looked forward to getting off work early.

Gu Silu finally understood why the director had asked her to assign Pei Yan light tasks: running errands to deliver ordinary documents, getting familiar with each department, reviewing lesson plans in the morning, and acting as a hospital volunteer in the afternoon to teach patients how to use the printing machines.

“Miss Pei, go back and discipline her properly.” Gu Silu regained her composure, her technique in treating the wound both professional and swift. “It is best to get a CT scan. Do not take a bath for the next few days, and eat a light diet. If you experience pain in the wound, you must come back to the hospital for treatment.”

Three days passed. After being injured by her grandfather, Pei Song simply refused to return home.

She lived in the large flat she had purchased herself, working from home. After all, which CEO would walk around with a head full of injuries? That would surely lower a CEO’s status, and who knew how the company would gossip behind her back about this wound.

After dealing with company affairs, Pei Song checked the time; it was already four o’clock in the afternoon.

A torrential downpour had started outside, the curtain of rain plunging the entire city into a dreamlike state. The mottled water streaks on the glass twisted the city into bizarre distortions. As the sound of the rain grew louder and louder, she somehow found herself thinking of Sang Ningzhi.

Was she working today?

What was she doing? Would she encounter any unreasonable customers today?

“Ping.”

A news notification popped up on Pei Song’s phone, causing her brow to furrow slightly.

Yuncheng Issues Emergency Red Alert for Heavy Rainfall: Heavy rain is shrouding Yuncheng and the Jiangcheng area, with rainfall in many places exceeding historical averages for the same period by more than double. Local 24-hour rainfall in Yuncheng has even reached a staggering 600 millimeters or more! Today and tomorrow remain the peak period of rainfall, and rainstorms and torrential rainstorms will hit these areas, leading to widespread water and power outages. Citizens are requested to take protective measures, especially those in low-lying areas.

600 millimeters, rainstorms, water and power outages, low-lying areas. Pei Song recited these important keywords.

Lightning occasionally flashed across the sky, adding a hint of gloom to the dark, cloud-covered sky. Pei Song put down her work and asked Lu Qiyue about the coffee shop, where she was informed that Sang Ningzhi had not come to work today. She then obtained Sang Ningzhi’s home address and mobile phone number.

She dialed Sang Ningzhi’s number. After a few ringing tones, the call connected.

In the midst of waiting, the call finally went through. A pleasant voice came from the other end, cutting through the storm and instantly smoothing Pei Song’s restless heart: “Hello, who is this?”

Pei Song said, “Sang Ningzhi, it’s Pei Song.”

The other end paused, probably not expecting her to call. After a long moment: “President Pei, what do you need me for…”

“Hello, hello, hello, Sang Ningzhi, Sang Ningzhi…”

A series of harsh dial tones came through, accompanied by a few rumbling bolts of thunder. She could not help but frown. Looking at the thick clouds on the horizon, she decided to go find Sang Ningzhi anyway. She called her driver and put on a cap to hide the bandage on her head.

The driver arrived quickly, but heading toward Sang Ningzhi’s residential area was compounded by the evening rush hour. They entered the massive, slow-moving procession of cars returning home. Facing the ceaselessly working windshield wipers, she looked at her phone where the call could no longer get through, her heart anxious and unsettled.

Finally, before nightfall, they arrived at that urban village.

The security in the urban village was truly poor; unfamiliar vehicles entering were completely ignored. Seeing the rusted anti-theft door, she resolved that she must take Sang Ningzhi away from this place. If Sang Ningzhi did not want to live with her, she would find her a decent living environment.

“You can go back first. I’ll call you if anything happens.”

Holding an umbrella and stepping through puddles, Pei Song entered the security door. The surveillance camera on the door was crooked, obviously just for show. She looked at the corridor leading to the third floor, dark and sheltered, the air mixed with unpleasant pheromones of alcohol and tobacco.

A trace of disdain flashed across her eyes, while the old-fashioned light bulbs on each floor flickered on and off, swaying precariously in the violent storm.

How could Sang Ningzhi live in a place like this?

Well! Who asked her to be a poor student who had just returned to the country? In this world, wasn’t money what solved most problems?

She decided to give her a job, Contemporary Overseas Returned College Graduate Advanced Employment Guide.

Finally reaching her floor, Pei Song pressed the doorbell and waited patiently for a few minutes. Receiving no response, she knocked on the door and called out, “Sang Ningzhi, Sang Ningzhi, it’s Pei Song. Are you there?”

Inside the apartment: .

Following a flash of lightning that lit up the corridor, low-pressure sobbing came from inside the room. Anxious, Pei Song directly hammered on the door, only to find a key exposed on the welcome mat beneath her feet. Pei Song quickly used the key to open the door.

Sang Ningzhi’s home could be seen entirely at a glance; the power seemed to have been cut off, and the entire room was shrouded in a dead silence and an eerie atmosphere. Pei Song looked around and soon discovered Sang Ningzhi in the corner by the sofa.

Pei Song walked over cautiously, crouched down halfway to get close to her, and gently touched her with her hand. Sang Ningzhi’s pretty face looked weak and terrified. Seeing Pei Song, she heard Pei Song ask gently, “Sang Ningzhi, Sang Ningzhi.”

Pei Song pulled her up from the floor. Sang Ningzhi was wearing a set of pajamas; as she was pulled up gently, the shoulder strap of her pajamas slipped, exposing her fair collarbone and un-faded hickey marks, giving off the frail aura of a sleeping beauty.

Pei Song felt slightly embarrassed, the medicine she had given her hadn’t even been applied. She carefully supported her to sit on the sofa and poured her a little warm water, placing the cup right into her palms.

Suddenly, a purple flash of lightning cut across the entire room, scaring Sang Ningzhi so much that she dropped the water cup in her hands.

As the thunder crashed, Sang Ningzhi knocked over the cup.

“Don’t touch me!” Sang Ningzhi shrank back.

The sound of the shattering cup overlapped with the scoldings of her drunken father from her childhood: “Useless parasite! Cry again and I’ll throw you out! Damn you, crying, crying, crying, you only know how to cry, all my good fortune has been cried away by you guys!”

Sang Ningzhi had not yet told her family about being permanently marked, fearing that the Lu family would pressure Pei Song and cause unnecessary trouble.

This bastard Pei Song had left almost no good patch of skin on her body! She had thought about coming back to this apartment first. Being permanently marked was exhausting, and returning to China also required adjusting to jet lag. With two buffs stacked together, she was purely catching up on sleep today.

By afternoon, she had just woken up when Pei Song’s call came. Then the weather suddenly worsened, but she had already prepared three days’ worth of food and drinking water here, so she didn’t need to worry about water or power outages.

However, this thunder and lightning…

The sudden power outage caught her off guard, leaving her with a sense of deep terror, reminiscent of the miserable days she had endured in the Sang household.

Pei Song placed both hands over Sang Ningzhi’s ears, looking into her tear-misted eyes, and comforted her: “We’re not afraid, we’re not afraid. Evil spirits, begone quickly, evil spirits, quickly disappear.”

Sang Ningzhi wrapped her arms around Pei Song’s neck. Listening to the young Alpha’s voice, her lemon pheromones slightly decreased her restlessness, diluting the nightmares of the past.

She tentatively took another step forward, eventually hanging her entire body on Pei Song. Pei Song smiled helplessly, gently picked her up, and pressed her against her chest like a precious pearl. The eyelashes of the Omega in her arms were beaded with pearls, making her feel a twinge of heartache just looking at her.

Pei Song muttered a self-deprecating remark: “Earlier she was like a cunning fox who was also afraid of thunder, but now she is as docile as a Persian cat.”

Sang Ningzhi hugged Pei Song even tighter.

Listening to the wind and rain beating against the glass and the sea-and-sky blending clouds in the distance, Sang Ningzhi greedily inhaled the lemon-scented pheromones as her memories drifted far, far away with the lemon scent…