The White Moonlight Omega Has Amnesia and Always Tries to Seduce Me - Chapter 76

The storage room wasn’t very big, crammed with iron shelves and cardboard boxes. Qin Huai sat on a cardboard box, her hands clasped over her knees, breathing in the faint scent of dust in the air, and slowly blinked her eyes.

She remembered the night before she left her grandparents’ house. Her grandmother, for once, slept next to her, holding her and telling her stories about her mother. Qin Huai had vaguely fallen asleep like this. When she woke up in the middle of the night, her grandmother was leaning against the headboard, using the dim light of the bedside lamp to mend the green stuffed doll.

Little Qin Huai rubbed her tired eyes and softly asked, “Grandma, why are you sewing this?”

Her grandmother stopped what she was doing, turned her head, and curved her eyes. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes piled up, making her look especially kind, “I saw that your doll was torn, so I wanted to mend it for you. You’ll be alone in a strange place, and this can keep you company.”

Little Qin Huai narrowed her eyes, leaned closer to her grandmother, and hugged the old woman’s body with her slender arms, “Thank you, Grandma.”

“Go to sleep now, you have to wake up early tomorrow.” The old woman gently stroked Qin Huai’s head with her calloused hands.

The next day, when Qin Huai woke up, Qin Zhijing was already waiting at the house. Qin Huai ran out of the bedroom in her nightgown. When she saw the unfamiliar man’s face in the living room, she gripped the doll tighter, her expression looking both helpless and wronged.

“Huai Huai, come here.” Her grandfather waved to her, “Say hello to your dad.”

Qin Huai walked over with small, quick steps. Her voice trembled when she said that title for the first time, “Dad.”

After saying hello, Qin Huai lowered her head, staring at her toes. The man in front of her was tall and strong. Although his face looked approachable, the sense of distance made the little child inevitably afraid.

Qin Huai still remembers the first time she met Qin Zhijing after she gained memories.

That feeling was very strange. She was too young to describe it then, but if she had to find a suitable adjective now, it would be like entering an unfamiliar group, surrounded by students she didn’t know. She wanted to speak up but didn’t know where to lead the topic.

Qin Zhijing stayed at the house for less than half an hour before getting ready to leave with Qin Huai. Little Qin Huai, wearing simple clothes and carrying a school bag that contained nothing but the doll her grandmother had mended all night, followed lonely behind Qin Zhijing.

Her grandparents only walked her to the door before going back inside.

Qin Huai heard the sound of the lock clicking, and then helplessly watched as the door that had always been open to her tightly closed. She lowered her eyes, her vision blurred by tears.

When they reached the ground floor, Qin Huai couldn’t hold back anymore. She pulled at her steps, wanting to run back, but before she could run a few steps, her school bag was yanked back by Qin Zhijing.

“Get back in the car.” The alpha’s voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.

Qin Huai immediately burst into tears, her voice louder than before, “No, I want Grandma.”

“This is not your home,” Qin Zhijing said, “Your grandparents don’t want you anymore.”

“You’re lying.” Although her grandparents often punished her, they never said they didn’t want her. Qin Huai didn’t believe it and turned instinctively to bite Qin Zhijing’s hand.

Qin Zhijing looked at the little girl in front of him, whose eyes were red. Although her face was covered in tears and snot, her contours still bore some resemblance to Gu Qing. Especially when Qin Huai resisted, she looked exactly like Gu Qing desperately trying to suppress her heat.

She really doesn’t know her place.

Qin Zhijing pinched the little girl’s jaw, half-crouching to look her in the eyes, applying a little force with his fingers, “If you don’t behave, I’ll lock you up alone when we get back and won’t give you food.”

If this threat were said to the current Qin Huai, she would only find it ridiculous, but at such a young age, she could only comply.

After little Qin Huai was put in the car, Qin Zhijing sat in the driver’s seat. Just as the car was about to drive away, a hurried figure rushed out of the stairwell.

It was her grandmother.

Qin Huai hammered on the window, shouting, “Stop the car, I want to talk to Grandma.”

Qin Zhijing found it troublesome and didn’t want to stop the car, but the two elderly people had already grabbed the door handle, so he could only slow down and roll down the window, “Mom and Dad, do you have anything else to say?”

“Don’t call me that.”

Qin Huai only heard her grandmother say this, her eyes fierce, as if she wished to skin the alpha alive. Only when she turned to look at Qin Huai did she restrain that severity, “Huai Huai, can Grandma have the little bear I sewed for you last night first?”

Qin Huai didn’t hesitate, opened her bag, and handed it over, “Grandma, I don’t want to leave.”

The old woman had lost her usual composure, and her entire appearance looked as if she had aged ten years, “Huai Huai, be good. You’ll have a better life with your dad.”

The old woman took the doll from Qin Huai’s hand. Her other hand reached into the window and very gently stroked Qin Huai’s face, “Huai Huai, it’s Grandma’s fault all these years.”

Qin Huai cried and shook her head.

“Grandma hopes your future life will be happy and fulfilled.”

The car window closed. Qin Huai looked back through the rear window glass. The two elderly people stood downstairs, thin and bony, like an old tree that had weathered many years of storms, quietly waiting for the final catastrophe of their lives.

That was the second-to-last time Qin Huai saw the two elderly people. If she had known the last time would be on a hospital bed, she would never have left with Qin Zhijing.

As she pulled away from the emotions of the past, Qin Huai’s chest felt as if it was being kneaded by an invisible pair of hands. She was so uncomfortable she could barely breathe.

Just as she was so distressed that she tried to regulate her breathing, the alpha in front of her suddenly turned around, holding the green doll, “Huai Huai, is this it?”

Upon seeing the alpha clutching her chest and her face contorted, Shen Zhi quickly walked over and held Qin Huai’s arm, “What’s wrong?”

Qin Huai waved her hand, her voice sounding weak, “I’m fine. Did you find the thing?”

Shen Zhi knew this item was very important to Qin Huai and didn’t hide it, taking it out and handing it over directly, “Is this it?”

It had been nearly ten years since she had held this little object. Qin Huai frowned, running her palm over the doll’s face, trying to wipe away the marks.

Qin Huai nodded, “It is.”

Then she flipped the doll over, looked at the obvious stitches where it had been sewn, and large tears dropped down.

“This doll actually had two,” Qin Huai choked up, her eyes red, “A few days after I left, Grandma mailed me an identical one.”

“It wasn’t until right before she passed away that she gave me this one, telling me to keep it safe. If I ever missed her or Mom, I should sleep with the doll.”

As Qin Huai spoke, she reached out and pulled the bottom thread, which easily came undone. She reached in and took out the cotton stuffing, spreading it on the floor.

The light in the storage room was dim, magnifying the fine dust motes, making them especially clear in the air.

Qin Huai used her long fingers to push the cotton away, like a car window covered in mist on a rainy day being wiped clean by a wiper.

She pushed aside the white cotton stuffing and saw a storage card the size of a fingernail.