Yan Qiongyu did not get an answer to his question. What he got was only a complicated look from Wang Luan, as he watched her walk into the bathroom with heavy steps, then walk out again with heavy steps.
By then, he had already consciously leaned back to sit on the bed.
Generally speaking, when a man and a woman are forced to stay in the same room, there is usually a round of polite yielding, a friendly discussion about who sleeps on the bed and who sleeps on the sofa, and then, according to international convention, the man shows his gentlemanly manners and voluntarily goes to the sofa.
But in this world, male and female were not the standard by which gender was measured—AO was.
As the “stronger” side, Wang Luan had not yet adjusted her mindset, and then encountered a non-typical Omega whose inside did not match his exterior, so she was always in a confused state, unable to figure out her own position.
Now, looking at the vivid, alluring great beauty sitting on the bed, she found herself at a loss as to whether to advance or retreat.
Yan Qiongyu saw through her bit of hesitation at a glance and took the initiative to invite her: “Please come over and rest early. I don’t mind, and I ask that you don’t mind either.”
Indeed, after all, the bed was very large. As the saying goes, there was no need to go through the polite process—anyway, the result would be about the same.
After lying down on the left and right, there was still the distance of two people between them. It was already deep into the night. Wang Luan felt tired as well, but no matter what she couldn’t fall asleep, and she didn’t dare turn over freely for fear of disturbing her roommate.
Her unfastidious roommate did not have her troubles and had already fallen asleep very quickly. His breathing was steady, his expression calm and peaceful; under the moonlight outside the window, the half of his face that was illuminated even carried a trace of childishness that he did not have during the day.
He had only just come of age. By the standards of adolescents in her world, he would be about the same as someone who had just graduated from senior year of high school. Wang Luan’s taut nerves slowly relaxed.
The night was incomparably quiet. The person lying not far from her was so good-looking that it was practically like a dream. As Wang Luan kept looking, she finally felt drowsy and drifted off in a daze.
Yan Qiongyu’s sleeping posture was standard, remaining in that same position the entire time, but Wang Luan slept restlessly. In her sleep, she unconsciously turned over, and suddenly, with a swing of her arm, it was about to fall onto Yan Qiongyu’s abdomen.
Yan Qiongyu, who had his eyes closed and looked as if he were sleeping very soundly, suddenly blocked her hand through the quilt and pushed the person who had moved closer back to her original position.
He silently opened his eyes, his clear, probing gaze fixed on Wang Luan’s sleeping face. Only after confirming that she truly was asleep did he turn his head back and close his eyes again.
This Yan Qiongyu, who was accustomed to putting on airs, claimed he didn’t mind sleeping together, and even put on a performance of fake sleeping on the spot, actually had a very severe sleep disorder.
With any living creature beside him, he was unable to relax and fall asleep.
When he was young, he had basically been under surveillance, which made it nearly impossible for him to sleep normally. But instinctively, he knew he couldn’t show anything unusual, so every night he pretended to sleep.
Only when he was exhausted to the extreme would he fall into short periods of sleep, generally ten to twenty minutes. Once the time was up, he would suddenly wake in shock, spending the entire night repeatedly alternating between mentally alert fake sleep and brief deep sleep.
In the past two years, as the intensity of surveillance had eased, his sleep situation had improved quite a bit, but it was still not quite the same as that of normal people. He only needed three to five hours of rest, which was also the result of mental power training.
That night, three times after Wang Luan fell asleep, she nearly touched Yan Qiongyu with her hands or feet, and each time he unceremoniously pressed her back to her original position. As a result, when Wang Luan woke up in the morning and found herself properly staying where she was, she thought the night had gone quite harmoniously.
Little did she know that thanks to her, her roommate truly had not slept all night.
The person who hadn’t slept all night still looked radiant. When Wang Luan, with her hair in a complete mess, shuffled toward the washroom, she happened to glance sideways and saw Yan Qiongyu, with every strand of hair meticulously styled, wearing an outfit that would not be out of place even for an external visit, leisurely sitting on the garden balcony drinking tea. The fragrance of flowers and the aroma of tea mixed together into a special scent.
“Miss Wang Luan is up. Do you need me to match some clothes for you?” Yan Qiongyu, who had also seen her, asked.
Wang Luan shuddered, suddenly feeling a subtle sense of having entered married life. She immediately cried out in her heart that this was absurd. After shaking her head vigorously to refuse, she dragged her slippers all the way into the washroom, then dashed all the way out to eat breakfast, not giving Yan Qiongyu any space to display his “little delicate wife attributes.”
Butler Wang thoroughly understood the principle of relaxation with moderation. Today, he did not require the two of them to do anything, so Wang Luan continued to pass the time in her own workshop.
When Yan Qiongyu came looking for her, Wang Luan was still tinkering with the core of that floating car from yesterday.
“May I ask, Miss Wang Luan—weren’t you previously extremely interested in mecha models? Why is it that now your workshop is full of these everyday devices?” Yan Qiongyu had already been a little curious yesterday about why he hadn’t seen a single mecha model here.
Wang Luan buried her head in searching for parts on the table, not even lifting her head: “I’m more interested in these right now.”
Like floating cars, and the most common daily means of transportation; package capsules that could compress volume; extraction machines that could extract nutrient fluid from various inedible substances for human absorption, and so on—these auxiliary tools related to food, clothing, housing, and transportation were interesting enough to her.
They were not that difficult to understand and learn. Compared to mecha that could engage in violent combat and looked extremely high-end, she preferred these things with a sense of everyday life.
If she really had to pursue something lofty and impressive, perhaps after she finished understanding these daily appliances, she could go on to learn about things like galaxy battleships or space warships. Those might even make it convenient for her to escape.
Mecha would not do. She could not pilot a mecha. She was a pragmatist and prioritized learning knowledge that could actually be used.
No matter what one was doing, people who were serious about it were always more likable. Yan Qiongyu watched for a while. Seeing that what she was doing had come to a pause, he tapped the table with his finger, interrupting Wang Luan’s continued movements.
Wang Luan raised her head in confusion and saw him holding a cup of water and a pill.
“The butler instructed me to give you some medicine,” Yan Qiongyu explained with a smile.
Thinking of what he had said last night, Wang Luan thought, no way, and panicked a little: “What kind of medicine is this?”
“Ah, probably just some medicine that temporarily enhances your pheromones,” Yan Qiongyu said.
Wang Luan did not quite believe it. She felt that in other people’s eyes she looked like someone with impotence, and she also developed deep doubts about the effect of this medicine: “If I take this medicine, will I…”
Yan Qiongyu: “Will you…?”
Wang Luan: “Will I have a beastly outbreak?”
Yan Qiongyu: “Pfft.”
“Sorry, I’m not laughing at you,” Yan Qiongyu covered his face. “It’s just that sometimes the things you say are really unpredictable.”
Wang Luan: “………………” You are clearly laughing at me.
After laughing, Yan Qiongyu put the medicine down. “Go ahead and take it. This is just to reduce your rejection reaction to my mark. There’s no big problem. Most nobles have taken this stuff one way or another.”
More than one noble had wanted to forcibly possess an Omega with a higher rank than their own. Having the desire but lacking the ability, they could only resort to some auxiliary drugs.
But whether Wang Luan took it or not did not really matter. After all, Yan Qiongyu himself knew very well that there had never been any rejection reaction between their pheromones.
“If I don’t take it, what do you think will happen?” Wang Luan asked for his opinion.
“Of course it will be discovered,” Yan Qiongyu said matter-of-factly.
“You know the tools you use every day to clean your body and maintain hygiene? Those things automatically collect your bodily data and upload it to the Wang family’s private doctor. Whether you’ve taken the medicine or not is obvious at a glance in the data. Nobles just love using these things.”
“But don’t worry. It only collects some short-term, simple bodily data. Any abnormalities in your mental power won’t be detected unless special equipment is used, and no one would use special equipment like I did to analyze your glandular fluid.”
This was really the first time Wang Luan had known about this. She had only thought those were relatively high-tech cleaning tools.
“I’m increasingly wanting to leave this place,” she said in a low voice. She took out the power source from the floating car core, wiped her hands clean, picked up the pill, and swallowed it.
After eating it, she opened her smart brain and bought all the expensive tools and materials she had previously looked at and wanted to buy. All expenses were, of course, borne by the Wang family. Only by ruthlessly fleecing the Wang family could she compensate for her psychological trauma.
Yan Qiongyu gave her advice from the side: “Are you angry? If you’re angry and want to spend money, why not buy an interstellar travel flying ship? That thing is very expensive.”
Interstellar travel flying ships were not quite the same as ordinary interstellar spacecraft. Flying ships were luxury goods, and travel flying ships were luxury goods among luxury goods. They moved quickly through interstellar space, had comprehensive equipment, could simulate various realistic scenarios, and could even control the internal weather.
Wang Luan had previously not asked the Wang family for money mainly because, psychologically, she refused to acknowledge herself as a member of the Wang family. But now, she was truly angry. She should not have been polite with them. Since they wanted her to be a tool person, they had to pay a price.
Travel flying ship—buy it, buy the most expensive one.
“Yes, let’s buy this one. The Sky Garden, newly released this year. Twenty-two billion star coins. Currently the most expensive travel flying ship you can buy on the market,” Yan Qiongyu said with a smiling air as he advised from the side.
Wang Luan placed the order without even blinking.
A moment later, the butler sent an inquiry: “Why did Miss Luan suddenly think of buying a travel flying ship? If you like it, there are already ready-to-use ones at home.”
Just as Wang Luan opened her mouth, Yan Qiongyu leaned over, adopting a slightly intimate posture with her, and smoothly blocked the words she was about to say.
“It was just now that Miss Wang Luan and I were looking at flying ships. I quite like that Sky Garden model, so Miss Wang Luan decided to buy it. We also happen to still have two days of vacation. Tomorrow we can take the Sky Garden to Snowfield Star to see the snowy scenery.”
The butler pondered for a moment, quickly understood, and revealed a smile. “In that case, I’ll wish the two of you an enjoyable trip tomorrow in advance. I’ll arrange accompanying personnel today to go with you tomorrow, to avoid any danger.”
The communication ended. Wang Luan turned her head to look at Yan Qiongyu, not knowing why things had developed this way.
Yan Qiongyu released the back of her chair and kept his distance. “Don’t you feel oppressed staying here? Going out to have some fun and clear your head, wouldn’t that be good?”
She couldn’t refute it, but it felt like she had been led into a trap. Why was he so practiced at this?
“It is good,” Wang Luan still had doubts. “And he just agreed like that?”
When she had first arrived, that Butler Wang, acting on behalf of the Wang family head, hadn’t even allowed her to go out.
“Being more intimate now is what the Wang family head wants. After all, the better the relationship, the greater the chance of a successful mark,” Yan Qiongyu knew well that the Wang family head was a smart man. It wasn’t that he couldn’t use conciliatory methods; he just felt there was no need.
Toward Wang Luan, the Wang family head believed that high-pressure control alone would succeed. But if there could be a better outcome, he wouldn’t completely reject making some effort within his bottom line.
“Actually, I was just testing the waters. If he agreed, great; if not, it wouldn’t really matter,” Yan Qiongyu’s smile carried a hint of slyness.
That night, the two of them lay on the same bed again.
Wang Luan once more found it hard to fall asleep.
“That Snowfield Star—what kind of place is it?” Wang Luan asked, staring at the ceiling.
During this period, she had mostly stayed at the Wang family mansion and the academy dormitory. She hadn’t been anywhere else yet.
“Snowfield Star… I’ve heard that from space it looks like a white planet, its surface almost entirely covered in snow, with a huge blue lake that never freezes. Unlike the Imperial Capital Star, which controls its temperature, it’s a natural environment. There are snow cedar forests stretching ten thousand li, snow peaks nine thousand meters high, and boundless white snowfields. They say the scenery is very beautiful, suitable for travel and clearing one’s mind,” Yan Qiongyu said gently.
Tonight the moonlight was dim, and his expression could not be seen clearly. Listening only to his voice, it actually sounded a bit patient and gentle.
But Wang Luan knew that this youth, full of schemes and able to spin lies at will, must have his own purpose for wanting to go there.
