After Being Transmigrated into a Cannon Fodder Scum Alpha - Chapter 38

“Wants to see me?” Yun Qi looked at Lin Xi with some surprise.

After returning from school, Lin Xi told Yun Qi that the school teachers wanted to see her and hoped she could make a trip to the campus.

But how could she go looking the way she did now?

“Go find your Mama. Let her go instead.”

Yun Qi treated this as something akin to a parent-teacher conference. On Earth, didn’t teachers also invite specific parents to discuss a student’s situation? Perhaps Lin Xi was too isolated at school; during the last activity, she had been very lively while playing with Huang Siting, but Yun Qi had rarely seen her take the initiative to talk to other children. It was always Huang Siting leading her to integrate into the group.

Lin Chen would likely understand the child better and be more adept at communicating with Xi’er.

“But the teachers… they said they specifically wanted Mother to go.”

It felt strange. Yun Qi originally wanted to refuse, but looking at the pendant around Lin Xi’s neck and thinking back to that inexplicable sense of familiarity during the school activity—and the diviner she saw at the last moment—she felt she might as well take the opportunity to visit the principal and ask about the pendant’s origin.

Being an Alpha or an Omega didn’t actually affect her much personally; her original world had no ABO distinctions to begin with, so going out with this appearance wasn’t something she found unacceptable.

“Then I suppose I’ll go, with great reluctance.” The Grand Duke also felt she had stayed home for too long and needed some fresh air.

However, going out with her actual current face was out of the question; the simulator would be a good choice.

“Then I’ll go too,” Lin Chen chimed in from the side.

Ever since the Alpha started staying home, she had been quietly staying by her side, accompanying her. As long as Yun Qi didn’t explicitly ask her to leave, she would remain right there.

The teacher had said they hoped Yun Qi would go, but they hadn’t said she had to go alone. So, following along shouldn’t contradict the teacher’s request.

Perhaps it was an Omega’s sixth sense, but she felt there was something odd about the teacher calling for Yun Qi. She didn’t want a repeat of the Yi Fei incident.

“Coo, coo.” The little snowy owl indicated that it was coming along as well.

In the past, when Yun Qi and Lin Chen went out, Lin Xi was home to accompany it. Now that all three of them were going out to play, it didn’t want to stay home as a lonely birdy.

“That’s fine too,” Lin Chen thought for a moment. She hadn’t wanted to take Xiao Xue out before because they had encountered the owl using forged identities; taking it out with their true appearances would have been a giveaway. Since they were using appearance simulators to go to the school this time, bringing Xiao Xue along wouldn’t matter.

Hearing it could go out to play, the feathers on the little snowy owl instantly fluffed up. It happily nuzzled the Omega’s soft hair.

‘A raptor, after all, will always long for the sky and wider spaces,’ Yun Qi remarked to the system.

Seeing this scene, she felt a pang of guilt. Xiao Xue had actually always wanted to go out and play, but because of her, it had been confined to this small house.

[If you’re truly feeling guilty, you could exchange a few more Snowball Fruits for it.]

‘Never mind then. My friendship with Xiao Xue cannot be tarnished by such worldly goods.’ Yun Qi righteously rejected the system’s suggestion.

Emotion is such a pure concept; how could it be defiled by a Snowball Fruit?

The little snowy owl, currently nuzzling Lin Chen, paused for a moment. It felt as if it had just lost something. It turned its head around, but seeing no change in its surroundings, it ignored that strange sense of loss and continued playing with Lin Chen.

The next day after school started, Lin Xi told the teacher that her Mother had time and would come to the school at the appointed hour.

“And you are?” Professor Lu Nian looked at the newcomers with some doubt.

The person in front was very tall and bore a strong resemblance to the Alpha from last time, but the pheromones were unmistakable—this was an Omega. The Omega beside her was familiar; she was the partner of that Alpha from before.

If she remembered correctly, she had made an appointment with that Alpha. Now, not only had two people shown up, but neither was the person she had invited.

She was somewhat dissatisfied with the Alpha’s breach of promise, but she didn’t show it openly. Instead, she phrased her dissatisfaction subtly as a question.

“Apologies, Mu Qi had a sudden business matter today. Her sister accompanied me instead. Has Xi’er had some poor performance at school?” Lin Chen explained the reason to Professor Lu Nian with a sincere attitude.

Seeing Lu Nian, she felt she had made the right choice in coming. In her memory, Lu Nian was not a teacher at this school, yet she had invited the Alpha over; it clearly wasn’t for anything good. She still remembered the way the Alpha had dazed out while looking at Lu Nian in the Ross Forest.

Feeling a bit of pique, she reached behind where Lu Nian couldn’t see and pinched Yun Qi. Because it was on her back and not her waist, Yun Qi didn’t find it very painful; she just stole a glance at Lin Chen out of the corner of her eye.

The Omega was looking at Lu Nian with an apologetic smile, seemingly expressing regret for the broken appointment, not sparing a single glance for her.

Then why pinch me all of a sudden? Yun Qi comforted herself inwardly. Pregnant Omegas were temperamental; many of their actions lacked a clear reason. Like the cat she raised in her past life—it would often be playing when it would suddenly unsheathe its claws and give her an unexpected scratch, only to act as if nothing had happened a moment later, returning to being affectionate and clingy.

“I see. I’ve heard from the other teachers that you all seem to be very busy.” Professor Lu Nian returned Lin Chen’s smile, indicating her understanding.

“It’s like this: after the creature you found last time, I went back and looked through some records and saw something similar. I thought I’d chat with Miss Mu Qi to see if I could borrow that creature for a few days at my home.”

“Xiao Xue? A business guest came to the house a few days ago and took a great liking to her. She asked if we could part with her. Thinking she could have a better life with that person, we gave Xiao Xue to her.” Speaking of this, Lin Chen sounded somewhat regretful.

This is a good opportunity, the Omega realized.

She could use this chance to spread the news that Xiao Xue no longer belonged to them. Later, when they took Xiao Xue out to play, they could just say one of Yun Qi’s friends saw the creature was rare and sent it over. That way, they wouldn’t always have to keep Xiao Xue hidden at home.

Hearing its name, the little snowy owl in the bag stirred, but then it felt a hand rest on the bag. It remembered Lin Chen saying before they left that it couldn’t come out until she said so, otherwise she wouldn’t take it out to play anymore. So, it quickly quieted down. It didn’t want to make Lin Chen angry and be locked in a room, only able to watch piteously as Yun Qi and Lin Chen went out to play.

“So soon?” Professor Lu Nian was quite surprised, her voice rising a bit.

‘As expected of a merchant,’ she thought with some disdain. Spending every day busy acquiring more profit, no time to participate in their child’s school activities; they get lucky and find a rare creature but can’t recognize its value, treating it like an ordinary pet. Seeing a business partner interested, they quickly gave it away to gain favor, even thinking they’d made a profit.

‘Penny wise and pound foolish.’ She felt an increasing dislike for the people in front of her. If she had known they were like this, she should have endured the disgust and talked to that Alpha back then.

The way that Alpha had looked at her last time—she had seen it countless times on different people. Every time her mentor took her out, those disgusting Alphas always thought her achievements were based on her face, or felt her external success looked good enough to bring home as a mascot or a trophy to show off.

Of course, she couldn’t deny that this face had indeed brought her practical benefits at times, and she wouldn’t refuse to use it when necessary. Everything was for the ideal, wasn’t it?

It was just that sometimes those Alphas, after helping her, would presumptuously pester her like disgusting slugs. They would even call their partners in front of her, saying they loved only her and offering to divorce to prove their resolve. Even after her repeated refusals, they would still divorce the Omega at home and act out a scene of deep affection, saying they would wait for her forever.

Disgusting.

She didn’t think there was anything wrong with her utilizing those people blinded by lust. Even when meeting the Omegas who were indirectly harmed by her actions, she still felt she was in the right. They chose to degrade themselves as foils to those greasy Alphas; if they weren’t outstanding and couldn’t control their Alphas, what did that have to do with her?

In her heart, only an Alpha like her mentor was a true match. Thinking of that gentle and steady woman, Lu Nian felt a soft spot in her heart. Her mentor loved these rare creatures most. In a few weeks, it would be her mentor’s birthday; she had intended to use something to trade with that Alpha for the snow-white creature to give as a birthday gift.

“Could you tell me who the guest was that took the creature away? I very much want to study it; it might be a species never discovered by humans.” When the cold-looking Omega made a request with downcast eyes, it was truly hard to refuse.

‘Not as good-looking as Lin Chen, and not as natural as Lin Chen,’ Yun Qi, acting as a background character, critiqued. The expression of a request with downcast eyes was still best performed by Lin Chen. Every time Lin Chen made a soft request, she found it impossible to refuse; her mouth moved faster than her brain, agreeing before she’d even fully processed what was being asked.

She had originally thought this was about Lin Xi, but it turned out to be about the owl. When they first arrived, she had asked the teachers about the principal, only to get the information that the principal almost never stayed at the school. She had then come to the meeting point with some disappointment.

She was a bit displeased with Lu Nian’s actions. If she had a request, why didn’t she ask for Lin Xi’s home address first and then come to the house to ask? Though that would have been a bit troublesome for their disguised identities. It was her own business, yet she insisted they come to the school; she had the cart before the horse.

And after being there so long, she hadn’t even offered a chair. It was fine for her to stand, but Lin Chen was pregnant. Standing for so long would affect the baby; could Lu Nian bear that responsibility?

“Business secret. No comment,” Yun Qi replied, her first words since arriving.

“Since there’s nothing else, we happen to have an urgent matter, so we’ll be going now.” Seeing that Lu Nian seemed to want to say more, she quickly cut her off.

She then pulled Lin Chen away, ignoring the attempts to call them back.

She went to Lin Xi’s classroom, told her daughter they were heading back first, and then left the school with Lin Chen.