“I want to sleep with Sister!”
“No! Your sister is sleeping with Wen Yang. Are you going to make Wen Yang sleep on the sofa?”
Her mother, holding a bundle of bedding, walked out of the second bedroom, Black Bean following closely behind, looking anxious and pleading.
“The bed’s so big! The three of us could sleep together, it wouldn’t be crowded~”
It wouldn’t be an issue for three people to sleep on the double bed, two adults and one child. But the problem was, one of them was a succubus who had tasted the pleasures of a man, and the other was an energetic young person.
Even a fool could guess what would happen if they slept together at night.
Her mother glanced back at Black Bean, “No.”
“Why~?”
“What’s going through your head that you think I don’t know? Playing on your phone until midnight without sleeping, and wanting your sister to get takeout for you?” Her mother sighed helplessly. “Look at your little belly, how fat you’ve gotten.”
Black Bean drooped her cat ears, looking down and lifting her shirt to peek at her slightly bulging stomach, mumbling, “It’s not that bad...”
“You still have class tomorrow, so you need to sleep before 10 PM.”
“Sis is only back for a short time! I want to hang out with her tonight!”
“No!”
Watching the noisy mother-daughter pair head into the master bedroom, Ning Chu couldn’t help but laugh, “Black Bean is going to drive Mom crazy at this rate.”
Thankfully, she didn’t plan on having kids, or else once Black Bean grew a little older, her mother would have to start over with raising a child. The house would probably be in chaos, and there would be no peaceful days.
It wasn’t that she was afraid, it was just to lessen her mother’s burden~
Wen Yang, standing by, completed the phone activation and handed it to Ning Chu. “Here, it’s done.”
“Be careful when playing with it. If you drop it, it could take thousands to fix.”
“It won’t happen, it won’t! Besides, how could I drop it so easily~” Ning Chu took the phone eagerly, liking it more the more she adjusted it, and without hesitation tossed her old phone aside. “I’ll keep the old one as a backup. If your phone breaks, you can use mine.”
“Not annoyed anymore?”
“I’m annoyed at my dad, not the phone.” She said confidently, “How could I blame the phone? It’s not like it did anything wrong.”
Wen Yang suspected that if he just offered more money, maybe Ning Chu would actually accept her father.
He hesitated, then quietly suggested, “I kind of feel like, at dinner, didn’t Auntie purposely badmouth your uncle?”
“Really?” Ning Chu shook her head dismissively. “Let her talk, what does it have to do with me?”
She somewhat understood her mother’s feelings, “Besides, that guy hasn’t contacted us in so long. What’s wrong with Mom complaining a bit?”
“True.”
Her mother came out of the master bedroom and glanced at the two of them whispering on the sofa. “Are you leaving tomorrow? What time’s your ticket?”
“Tomorrow evening.”
“Not coming back earlier, had to take a leave, not worried about falling behind in school?” Her mother gave Ning Chu an annoyed look before walking back into the second bedroom, mumbling as she went, “Still have to change your sheets and bedding. Can’t you two just sleep somewhere else tonight?”
At the mention of that, Ning Chu’s eyes brightened. She eagerly got up and quickly jogged to the bedroom door, poking her head in, “Mom? So we really sleep somewhere else? Can I use your card...?”
“Are you looking for a beating?!” Her mother grabbed a pillow and threw it at Ning Chu’s face. “Stay home obediently!”
“But you said we should sleep elsewhere...”
It would be nice to sleep elsewhere~ With her mother’s membership card, she could get discounts, enjoy some freedom at night, and not worry about making too much noise and disturbing anyone.
She clutched the pillow, looking helplessly at her mother as she continued to change the bedding. “Mom, is it really necessary to change the sheets?”
“If you two mess them up, Ning Xin will smell it.”
“Not like that...” Ning Chu felt a wave of heat rush up her neck and blush deeply as she hurriedly protested, “How could I mess around at home?!”
Her mother gave her a skeptical look, then continued changing the bed linens.
It wasn’t that she didn’t trust her daughter, it was just that she had no faith in succubi.
Especially young succubi who had already tasted the pleasures of the flesh—she had been through that age herself and knew exactly what to expect.
“Keep it down, Ning Xin’s ears are pretty sharp too.”
“......”
Once the bedding was changed, her mother sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at Ning Chu, asking, “After the divorce, who do you plan to stay with?”
“???”
Ning Chu was momentarily stunned.
Her mother sighed sadly, “Maybe you should stay with me, and let your brother stay with him? He’ll need money when he gets married, and I can’t afford it unless I sell the house.”
“After raising you all these years, now he comes back to reap the rewards...”
Seeing her mother’s resigned sigh, Ning Chu’s lips twitched, and she reminded her, “Mom... me and my brother are both adults. You don’t need to worry about who we stay with if you get divorced.”
“......”
Her mother froze for a moment, then suddenly became flustered and angry, “To me, you’re both still kids!”
Ning Chu awkwardly sat next to her mother, not daring to argue. Instead, she changed the subject, “Mom, the past few days I went to the hot springs with my friends, and last night we camped by the beach and had a barbecue...”
“I was planning to come back earlier, but I had already made plans with my friends.”
“I’m so tired these days, my back’s sore~”
Her mother’s eyes lit up, “Wen Yang’s pretty good, huh? But you should still take it easy~”
“No! I’m just tired!” Ning Chu weakly defended herself, but hesitated, her face turning bright red as she muttered, “He is pretty good, but stop worrying about that... every time you call, you always say this...”
“I’m just worried you’re going too crazy.”
“I... I can barely handle him...”
Her mother gently tapped her head, shaking her head in frustration, “You’re a succubus!”
How did I end up with such a useless succubus?
Ning Chu blushed deeply and awkwardly lowered her head, feeling indignant.
What’s wrong with being °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° a succubus?!
She’s the male lead in a romantic novel! And with Wen Yang’s nearly 1.9-meter height, and their size difference of almost thirty centimeters, plus the overwhelming size of him, she was lucky she was a succubus! She had the stomach for it all.
If not for her impressive physical condition and incredible recovery ability, she’d probably be bedridden every day.
She dared not say such bold things to her mother.
Her mother eyed her suspiciously, struggling to imagine that any man could leave a succubus so exhausted.
“Well, now I can feel a little more at ease.” Her mother mumbled. “But after a few years, you still need to be careful. Don’t scare him off. Your father was fine at first...”
“......”
She sighed lightly, “He’s been abroad all these years, I heard he’s doing well, opened a restaurant, and now he’s come back to show off.”
“Hmm... so did he get married and have kids while he was away?”
“Apparently not.” Her mother gently rubbed Ning Chu’s head, saying earnestly, “If he gets married in the future, don’t be too strict with Wen Yang. Don’t always criticize him. You need to be understanding and support each other to make it work.”
“You two are good now, making promises to stay together forever, but in a few years, when the passion fades, that’s when the real test comes~”
Ning Chu nodded thoughtfully, “So his running away wasn’t just because of his health?”
Probably, by that time, her parents had already argued endlessly about all sorts of issues, with their relationship on the brink of collapse. Otherwise, her mother wouldn’t have said things like this with such experience.
“......”
Her stubbornness came from her mother, and though her mother didn’t admit it, she turned to notice a shadow outside the door.
Following her mother’s gaze, Ning Chu saw the clue. At the open door, two upright black cat ears were clearly visible in the air.
Did Black Bean overhear them?!
She froze for a moment, then walked briskly toward the door, grabbing the cat ears and pulling the little cat from behind the wall. “You didn’t even hide your ears while eavesdropping!”
“Ow~”
“Wen Yang! Take Black Bean downstairs to play.”
“Okay!”
Black Bean cheered and broke free from Ning Chu’s grasp, happily running toward Wen Yang.
“What a silly cat...”
