Transmigrated as the Cannon Fodder Spouse of the Disabled Beauty - Chapter 27

Playing games on Song Yunran’s phone didn’t provide any luck boost. Xu Luo lost two games in a row and returned home with a dark expression.

Xiao Huang, having been alone for the entire evening, acted subservient even toward Xu Luo, whom it usually didn’t get along with. It circled her ankles, meowing daintily and coquettishly. Xu Luo was greatly pleased by this display of affection and rewarded the cat with a can of food on the spot.

She vigorously rubbed the cat’s head.

While Xu Luo was busy petting the cat, Song Yunran was playing a game. This was Song Yunran’s first time playing, and her goal was to help Xu Luo pass the level after her two-game losing streak.

Xu Luo trusted Song Yunran; she believed Song Yunran was great at everything she did, so she must be good at games as well.

But this time, she had misjudged.

Song Yunran lost even faster than she did.

After maneuvering the game character into another “suicide,” Song Yunran fell into a subtle silence. At that moment, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Xu Luo, who looked like a total “simp” while petting the cat.

She put down the phone and stared intently at Xu Luo.

Xu Luo really likes cats, she concluded.

What other species besides humans like cats?

She began to speculate about what species Xu Luo might actually be.

After thinking for a while without finding an answer, Song Yunran continued her campaign in the game.

Song Yunran’s gaming time ended with the arrival of her secretary. Something had happened at the company, and she had to go there with the secretary. When Song Yunran left, Xu Luo instinctively followed her for a bit. It wasn’t until they reached the garage that she suddenly remembered Song Yunran was going to the office for serious business while she was clearly an obstacle. She slapped her forehead hard, feeling like her brain had gone a bit haywire.

She had been staying so close to Song Yunran lately that she had almost developed the habit of following her everywhere at all times!

Waking up from her daze, her “following” turned into a “send-off.” Xu Luo waved her hand as she watched the car carrying Song Yunran leave the villa.

Once Song Yunran was gone, Xu Luo was the only one left in the villa. She fell into a void of idleness. Fortunately, a message from Zhou Miao arrived just in time to rescue her from boredom.

Zhou Miao: Babes, you won’t believe what I’ve been through. I’ve been hounded by a “Pu-Xin-Nan” (an ordinary but overconfident man)!

I was just minding my business drinking at the bar, and this guy I don’t know what he was thinking.

decided that because I was drinking alone, I must be empty, lonely, and thirsty. He insisted on chatting with me. He just started blabbing on his own, and then he decided we were having a great conversation and wanted to invite me to a hotel.

I told him I wasn’t interested, but he insisted I was just playing hard to get.

I @#￥

What is wrong with the men in this world? Do they have no self-awareness at all?

Can his family not afford a mirror? Doesn’t he understand that even if I were empty, lonely, and thirsty, I wouldn’t look for a male creature as weird-looking as him?

Zhou Miao’s rant was clearly not sent specifically to Xu Luo but was a group message. Xu Luo didn’t care whether it was private or a group blast; she expressed her schadenfreude with zero sympathy: Hahahahaha!

Xu Luo felt like she hadn’t seen Zhou Miao in a long time. For some reason, the latter had suddenly stopped coming to the villa to play in the pool.

However, it seemed that after the young Miss Zhou stopped coming to the villa, her life outside was still quite “flavorful.”

Xu Luo felt her mockery wasn’t thorough enough, so she happily added a few more laughing emojis.

Perhaps provoked by the emojis, it didn’t take long for Zhou Miao’s reply to come back: Laugh all you want, Xu Luo. Do you think you’ll never encounter a Pu-Xin-Nan?

It was a curse.

But the curse was too weak, and it didn’t bother Xu Luo at all: Of course. Do you think I’m as unlucky as you?

Zhou Miao: Heh.

Xu Luo sent her a smiling emoji.

Xu Luo gathered happiness from Miss Zhou Miao’s misfortune and hummed a song, shaking off her boredom.

At noon, Auntie Li came over to cook. Halfway through, the doorbell rang.

When Xu Luo heard the bell, she thought it was Zhou Miao coming for her. But when she opened the villa’s iron gate, she realized it wasn’t. The person at the door was a young man driving a van.

The man was wearing a short-sleeved staff uniform from a moving company, revealing two muscular arms. He had dyed yellow hair and his face looked decent thick eyebrows and big eyes, very clean-shaven, and he even seemed to have groomed his eyebrows.

The man gave Xu Luo a bright, sunny smile, clean and refreshing: “97 North Street? Yitian Moving!”

Xu Luo was stunned for a moment. In the next second, she received a call from her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law said on the phone that the TV in her room was broken, so she had called Yitian Moving Company to bring the TV from her suburban residence. This TV was supposed to arrive yesterday, but the company made a mistake and sent it to the wrong place, so they rescheduled the delivery for today. As compensation, the moving company promised to help with the installation for free.

Because of this small mix-up, the mother-in-law wasn’t home yet, so she called to ask Xu Luo to help sign for it.

Understanding the situation, Xu Luo opened the door to let the man in.

The Yitian Moving employee carried the TV into Granny Fu’s room. It was the hottest part of the day, and no matter how much someone could endure, they couldn’t stand the high temperature. Seeing the young man sweating, Auntie Li in the kitchen took a bottle of mineral water from the fridge and asked Xu Luo to bring it to him.

Xu Luo took the water into Granny Fu’s room and handed it to the young man who was installing the TV: “It’s hot, have some water.”

The man took it and laughed heartily: “Thanks.”

Xu Luo had no interest in TV installation, so she went back to her own room and curled up on the bed to play with her phone.

She didn’t know when the employee left, but during lunch, she heard Auntie Li mention that the employee had asked about her before leaving.

“Asked about me?” Xu Luo was puzzled.

Auntie Li said, “He just wanted to thank you for giving him the water.”

Xu Luo gave an “oh” and said, “Then you should have told him clearly, Auntie. You gave him the water, not me.”

Auntie Li smiled, and neither of them argued about it.

When Song Yunran returned from work, Xu Luo mentioned the Yitian employee coming to deliver the TV, but the focus wasn’t on the employee; it was on Granny Fu.

“The TV in Grandma’s room broke, so they moved her old one from her house. I saw that moved TV; it looks so old it’s practically ready for retirement. It would be better to just buy a new one.”

Song Yunran said, “She is a very frugal elder.”

“She lives alone and her expenses aren’t high, why be so thrifty?” Xu Luo glared at Song Yunran. “Have you been withholding her wages?”

Song Yunran flicked her forehead: “Am I that kind of person?”

She had just returned from the office, but Song Yunran’s work wasn’t finished. She still had a pile of documents to process. As she handled the papers, she was distracted by talking to Xu Luo, which made her seem a bit nonchalant. She said, “Who said Grandma’s expenses are small?”

“Eh?” Xu Luo was surprised, then quickly realized, “Is it because she needs long-term medication for her illness?”

Long-term medication would indeed be a significant expense.

But it wasn’t that.

Song Yunran said, “I have always been paying for her medical expenses.”

Xu Luo was confused: “Then where else could she be spending it?”

Song Yunran said, “On hiring private investigators.”

Xu Luo: “…”

What?

Song Yunran said calmly, “Grandma has been looking for someone. All her money has been spent on finding that person.”

Granny Fu left her hometown and traveled through many cities specifically to find someone. Even after she settled in City A later on, she never gave up the search.

Song Yunran knew about this. On her eighteenth birthday, she had invited Granny Fu, but Granny Fu had declined. The reason was that Granny Fu had received an important lead from a detective regarding the person she was looking for and had to leave City A urgently.

The reason Song Yunran knew this was because she had investigated Granny Fu afterward. It was also that investigation that made her realize she would never be the most important person to Granny Fu.

Since she wasn’t the most important, she might as well not want it at all.

From then on, Song Yunran adjusted the relationship between herself and Granny Fu.

Xu Luo’s mind began to race: “Is Grandma looking for that friend of hers?”

Song Yunran said, “Mhm.”

She thought for a moment and said, “Grandma’s friend found her own family and went home. Before she left, she left Grandma her family’s address and made a promise with her: once Grandma’s illness got better, Grandma should go find her.”

“Later, Grandma went.”

“It was a fake address.”

“Since then, Grandma has never seen that friend again.”

Xu Luo: “…”

“Why leave a fake address?” Xu Luo was truly baffled.

Song Yunran had no interest and said, “Who knows?”

Xu Luo became gloomy. Her cheek pressed against the desk where Song Yunran was working, her hands sliding back and forth on the surface.

Song Yunran glanced at her and patted her head.

Xu Luo couldn’t cheer up: “Is this all what Grandma told you?”

Song Yunran: “…Mhm.”

Of course not; she had found out through her own investigation.

Xu Luo sighed: “I don’t get it. What’s the point of leaving a fake address for Grandma?”

She continued, “If it were me, if I were parting with my friend, I definitely wouldn’t trick my friend like that, so there must be something…”

Before she could finish, Song Yunran, who was processing documents, almost snapped the fountain pen in her hand. In that instant, her heart felt as if it were being squeezed. A burst of gloominess erupted. She suddenly turned her head, her eyes bloodshot: “Where are you going?!”

Meeting those eyes, Xu Luo was startled.

In the silent standoff, Song Yunran’s fingers holding the pen twitched. The redness slowly receded from her eyes, leaving a trace of confusion.

She herself didn’t understand why she had suddenly lost control like that, why she felt such… anger and sadness.

These emotions were simply bizarre.

“Luo Luo, I…”

“Ah.” Xu Luo suddenly let out a soft cry. She scrambled up from the desk and grabbed Song Yunran’s finger. “You’re bleeding!”

Just now, in her unconscious exertion, Song Yunran had actually crushed the pen in her hand. The hard casing of the pen had sliced her finger…

Xu Luo was quick. She grabbed the other woman’s hand and, without thinking, popped the injured finger into her mouth.

Song Yunran: “…”

Ah.

The atmosphere shifted from one kind of weirdness to another.

Hot, moist sensation attached to the fingertip, infecting her naturally cool body temperature. For once, Song Yunran was completely stunned.

Beyond being stunned, she felt a strange sense of peace. She was always worried that her true nature would come out and scare the girl away, but the other party seemed… sufficiently slow-witted.

If Xu Luo knew Song Yunran thought of her that way, she would certainly be unhappy. She wasn’t being slow-witted; she had known this young mistress’s true nature for a long time, so she just didn’t find it strange!

The two of them froze in this extraordinary pose of intimacy, with only their gazes intertwining.

After a long while, Xu Luo felt the finger in her mouth hook against her tongue. Her eyes widened, asking with her gaze: What are you doing?

Song Yunran laughed silently. Her eyes curved into crescents: “What is Luo Luo doing?”

Xu Luo spat out the finger. Her gaze flicked downward, catching sight of the slender, long finger stained with some glistening liquid. Her eyelids twitched violently.

She explained uprightly: “I was just… trying to stop the bleeding with a folk remedy.”

Song Yunran looked at her finger. Under her gaze, a bead of blood emerged again from the spot that hadn’t seemed to be bleeding. She evaluated truthfully: “Your folk remedy doesn’t seem to work.”

Xu Luo: “…”

She was a mermaid. A mermaid’s saliva had a natural hemostatic effect, and it worked quite well. That was why her reflexes had kicked in the moment she saw Song Yunran bleeding.

But she forgot. She forgot she didn’t have a mermaid’s constitution right now. The saliva effect… er, had no effect.

Xu Luo reached out her finger and snap, pressed down on the bleeding point. She said, “Now it has an effect.”

Song Yunran: “…”

“Mhm, Luo Luo is right.” Song Yunran said with a beaming smile. “But is Luo Luo going to keep pressing on me like this forever?”

Xu Luo: “…”

She retracted her hand and stood up. “I’ll go find you a band-aid!”

Song Yunran pulled her back: “No need.”

Saying that, she lifted her hand. Her lips lightly touched the finger that Xu Luo had just held in her mouth. She smiled. “I’ll try Luo Luo’s folk remedy as well.”

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