The Omega Who Canceled the Engagement Ended Up Falling for Me - Chapter 12

Fu Shuang offered some instructional advice half-heartedly. While her student played through the piece a second time, she pulled up a map on her phone to check the location of the Bauhinia Intersection… and discovered, to her surprise, that the place was less than a kilometer from the community where she lived.

If she left now, she could be at the scene in a little over ten minutes at the fastest.

But in the event of a car accident, shouldn’t the person’s closest relatives—parents or family members—be contacted?

Who was Fu Shuang to her? They hadn’t even known each other for a week, and Fu Shuang still hadn’t figured out the woman’s actual name.

“Teacher? Teacher?”

The piano music had been stopped for a while, but Fu Shuang was still thinking about that phone call, so much so that she didn’t react when her student called out to her.

“The teacher has a bit of an emergency right now,” Fu Shuang stood up, smiling bitterly as she bowed to her student in apology. “I’m sorry, Jia Yan. You practice on your own today, and I’ll come back to teach you once I’ve handled this.”

Jia Yan smiled brightly. “It’s okay, Teacher! Go ahead and get busy!”

Fu Shuang went to explain to the parent: “I am truly sorry. I wouldn’t leave so abruptly if it weren’t a life-or-death situation, but my girlfriend just got into a car accident. Her family isn’t around, so I must go see her.”

Jia Yan’s Omega mother, a housewife, hurriedly dropped what she was doing upon hearing this and proactively offered, “I’ll drive you there!”

By the time Fu Shuang arrived at the intersection, the traffic police and the ambulance had just arrived. She found the unconscious Xu Qing at the center of the accident and followed her into the ambulance. Holding the Alpha sister’s cool hand, Fu Shuang calculated how to make her compensate for the 1,500 yuan loss from today’s canceled lesson.

Judging by the fact that the car she drove wasn’t cheap at all and that she owned several properties in the city, Fu Shuang figured 1,500 yuan should be pocket change for the Alpha sister.

She held the woman’s hand the entire way. Feeling a response at one point, Fu Shuang simply took her hand in both of hers and whispered soothing words by her side—

“I’m here, Sister. You’re going to be fine.”

“It’s me, Lulu. I’ll stay with you.”

“Don’t worry, I’m right here.”

Before her mother passed away, Fu Shuang had stayed by her side day and night just like this. During that time, her mother could barely respond to her, but Fu Shuang had been persistent.

Because at that time, she had already made the decision to betray her mother.

Making her mother feel a bit better before she died was the only compensation Fu Shuang could offer.

This society was full of discrimination and injustice toward Omegas. Fu Shuang wanted to rely on her own efforts to live independently. She wouldn’t be a burden to anyone because she had no connections with anyone.

Even if it was hard work, it would be worth it.

The ambulance took them to the nearest hospital. After a basic examination, the emergency doctor sent the patient for a CT scan. The final diagnosis: a mild concussion.

When Xu Qing woke up in the hospital, her biggest worry was her parents finding out about the accident. That would inevitably lead to a lecture and cause Mrs. Min to worry. Mrs. Min was already in poor health and hadn’t even been discharged from the hospital herself yet.

Sitting up from the hospital bed, Xu Qing pulled out the IV needle and asked the nurse by the neighboring bed, “Hello, I…”

“Oh, you’re awake?!” The nurse happily called out to a girl chatting with someone not far from the bed. “Lulu, your girlfriend is awake!”

Xu Qing: “…”

Two beds away, Fu Shuang had just been invited over by an elderly woman to eat some fruit. Hearing the call, she turned around and met Xu Qing’s shocked gaze.

The two were so awkward they couldn’t speak. The elderly woman enthusiastically handed Fu Shuang a banana. “Take some for your girlfriend, too. Go on.”

Under the watchful eyes of the concerned crowd, Fu Shuang walked over holding a large bunch of bananas, a slightly youthful smile appearing on her face. she reached up to tuck a stray, slightly curled hair behind her ear and said with a beaming smile, “Honey, you’re awake.”

Hearing the girl’s sweet “Honey,” the nurse and the people watching the excitement from their beds let out a collective “Ooh.”

Xu Qing felt that the medicine that hadn’t worked before was finally starting to kick in now.

She hurriedly retracted her gaze, scanned her immediate surroundings, and took a quiet breath. “Why are you here?”

From two beds over, the enthusiastic elderly woman answered for Fu Shuang: “She’s been by your side since you got off the ambulance, child. Treasure your girlfriend; she’s a truly good girl.”

Xu Qing coughed violently, nearly losing herself amidst the repeated mentions of “girlfriend.”

She didn’t even dare to think about how happy she would be every day if Lulu were actually her girlfriend.

When Xu Qing remained silent, the elderly woman continued incessantly: “Women really know how to take care of women. This girl, Lulu, even peeled an apple for me. My own children haven’t visited much since I was hospitalized. The fruit is almost rotting, and they even ask me why I don’t eat it. If I knew how to peel an apple myself, would I let it go to waste?”

The woman lifted her bandaged hand and told Xu Qing happily, “Child, you are truly blessed. If I hadn’t seen how much Lulu cares for you, I’d have wanted her for my own daughter-in-law.”

Xu Qing glanced at Fu Shuang, who said bashfully, “Auntie, please don’t tease me. It’s not that exaggerated. If you get lonely in the hospital, you can call me later. I’ll find time to visit you.”

The woman waved her hand, using a tone that suggested she wouldn’t dream of bothering her again. “No need, it’s the thought that counts.”

Xu Qing hadn’t said much, so Fu Shuang pressed her hand against Xu Qing’s forehead and asked caringly, “How are you feeling?”

Xu Qing remembered that a pair of cold hands had been holding hers while she was unconscious, and a voice had been whispering to itself.

“I’m fine,” Xu Qing said. “Don’t you have to work today?”

“I took time off,” Fu Shuang smiled. “I got a call saying you were in a car accident, so I took leave to be with you. Oh, here is your diagnosis. Since I couldn’t find your ID, I used my own to register you.”

Xu Qing took the doctor’s diagnosis and saw the name “Bai Lu” written in the name column, with the age listed as 19.

Xu Qing glanced quickly at the diagnosis records and asked Fu Shuang, “Did you pay the fees for me?”

“Yes,” Fu Shuang smiled sheepishly. “The hospital requires payment before treatment. I’ll send you the bill in a bit.”

Xu Qing: “Okay, I’ll transfer the money to you in a moment.”

“No rush.”

Xu Qing tucked the diagnosis away, lowered her eyes, cleared her throat, and said, “I’m really grateful to you this time. Truly. I’m glad the call went to you.”

God knew how much she didn’t want to face her family right now.

The Fu family had set a trap for her, clearly intending to go for broke. They were using Xu Qing’s kindness and sense of responsibility, planning to use an underage female Omega to replace Fu Shuang and complete the marriage with her.

Xu Qing was already disgusted to the point of her worldviews being shattered by their family’s outrageous maneuvers. Frankly, she didn’t think she was valuable enough for the Fu family to go to such lengths, but now that things had developed this way, what counter-measures did she have?

Looking at the Omega woman who had appeared by her side at just the right time, Xu Qing felt very conflicted.

If possible, she wanted to bring Lulu before her family and have a complete showdown. If the “rice was already cooked” (if the deed was done), what reason would her parents have to oppose her freedom to love?

“Sister, it’s a blessing that you’re okay,” Fu Shuang said, sitting on the edge of the hospital bed holding the fruit. She picked up a banana and said, “Want a banana? I’ll peel it for you.”

The people around them cheered and teased. Xu Qing remained expressionless like a block of wood, only saying one word: “Okay.”

Fu Shuang’s method of peeling a banana was to start from the bottom. Doing it this way actually made it easy to get her hands dirty, and the banana was prone to breaking halfway through. However, she didn’t seem to realize her lack of expertise, even pulling the skin all the way to the base.

Just as the banana was about to snap in the middle, Xu Qing moved quickly to support it with her hand. Fu Shuang widened her eyes and said, “That was close!”

Xu Qing: “…”

Xu Qing took the pathetic, broken banana from her hand and glanced at the auntie next door, feeling suspicious: Does she really know how to peel apples?

The auntie was laughing so hard she was slapping her thigh. “Lulu, you have to peel a banana from the stem.”

See? Even the auntie thought so.

Fu Shuang grinned. “Really? I feel like it’s all the same.”

It was clear the auntie had taken a liking to Fu Shuang at first sight. Who wouldn’t like a pure and kind-hearted girl?

Xu Qing felt guilty for her earlier thought about “cooking the rice,” and she felt so bad she could hardly swallow the banana.

The narrow ward held six beds. Except for one or two that had their curtains drawn, unwilling to talk, the other patients were getting along harmoniously, chatting happily.

There was no chair to sit on by the bed, so Fu Shuang had no choice but to sit on Xu Qing’s hospital bed. While standing, her skirt was long enough to cover her knees, but it wasn’t quite enough when she sat down. Her slender, fair legs were exposed, so beautiful that one didn’t dare look twice.

Once Xu Qing finished the poor banana, Fu Shuang got off the bed and gathered the peel to throw in the trash.

Her skirt was wrinkled from being sat on, the hem curling up like a discordant weed in a rose garden. Xu Qing couldn’t help but want to reach out and smooth it for her, but her hand froze just beside the girl’s thigh.

Fu Shuang seemed to have been alert for a long time; she sharply took half a step back, her eyes wide as she said, “What’s wrong?”

Xu Qing hadn’t expected her to be so guarded. Her hand, suspended in mid-air, looked like evidence of misconduct. Before she could speak, the auntie said, “Oh my, the girlfriend wants to touch your leg. Let her touch it! Who told you your legs were so pretty!”

Xu Qing: “!”

Before she could defend herself, Xu Qing looked up at Fu Shuang and watched as the girl’s fair face suddenly flushed red. Xu Qing gritted her teeth and said, “That’s not what I meant…”

The auntie laughed. “How is it not? I can see it. Lulu’s legs are so pretty, even I’d want to touch them.”

Fu Shuang froze like a mannequin.

Xu Qing gave a dry laugh. For a moment, she lost control of her mouth and blurted out a random reply: “I suppose so. I’ll touch them when we get home.”

She probably intended to say, “We’ll talk about it when we get home,” but somehow, led astray by the auntie, it turned into “touch them when we get home.”

Xu Qing didn’t dare look at Fu Shuang’s expression. Without a doubt, it would be the look one gives a pervert.