Blurb: [Character practice, short story]
Song Chuqing has a goddess she adores: Bai Yunxiu.
Just like her name, she is as cool as frost and pure as jade, an Omega whose pheromones carry the faint fragrance of lightly brewed tea.
No one can resist her charms, and Song Chuqing is no exception.
At a single glance, Song Chuqing fell deeply in love and began pursuing her passionately.
At school, she was always running around and bringing Bai Yunxiu delicious treats. When she heard that Bai Yunxiu wanted to start a business of her own, Song Chuqing poured every resource she had into helping her.
But fate had other plans. The Song family eventually went bankrupt, and Song Chuqing died in a car accident.
The goddess didn't even attend her funeral. She merely sent someone to deliver a bouquet as her final farewell.
Every year during Qingming, only the little mute, Jiang Ningyue, came quietly to tend her grave.
Jiang Ningyue was an Omega, a distant relative of a distant relative of the Song family. Because of her frail health, Song Chuqing had often treated her with gentle care and consideration.
Jiang Ningyue treasured those seemingly insignificant acts of kindness. Meanwhile, the person Song Chuqing had gone to such lengths to please treated her like dirt.
In her final moment of consciousness, Song Chuqing thought: If I could start over, I'd choose the green apple, Jiang Ningyue.
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Bai Yunxiu had always hated Alphas more than anything, but to gain access to their resources, she had no choice but to humor them and play along.
When she heard that Song Chuqing had died, Bai Yunxiu was busy with a contract. She furrowed her brow indifferently and casually sent her assistant to deliver a bouquet of mourning flowers.
But in her heart, she secretly rejoiced: At last, I'm rid of that burden.
From now on, she would be the esteemed Boss Bai. How could Song Chuqing's name possibly belong beside hers?
Only after betrayal left her homeless and adrift did Bai Yunxiu think of Song Chuqing, who had once indulged her in everything.
When she woke up, she had somehow returned to the past.
Bai Yunxiu resolved to cherish Song Chuqing from then on, but she discovered it was already too late.
Song Chuqing had cut ties with her. The tenderness that had once belonged to her alone had already been given to someone else.
Watching Song Chuqing treat another Omega with such loving tenderness, Bai Yunxiu felt the pain of heartbreak for the first time.
[Note: Qing in Chuqing means a kind of small bamboo. Bai Yunxiu comes from "Clouds emerge from the mountain peaks without a thought." Jiang Ningyue comes from "The shimmering waves stretch for thousands of miles; where on the spring river is there no moonlight?]
Theme: Self-love is the foundation of love
