"What did I misunderstand?" Qiu Zimin said angrily. "You can get a divorce even if you're married. Besides, didn't you ask me to help you arrange this? You said you didn't like your current partner and wanted to find someone new."
Liang Shi: "..."
God, save her.
Chapter 14
Liang Shi was still in a daze even after hanging up the phone.
She didn't even remember how she finally managed to brush off Mrs. Liang and hang up the phone.
However, she changed the ringtone after hanging up the phone.
It's too chaotic.
If someone calls while you're asleep, you might be so scared you die suddenly.
After changing the ringtone, Liang Shi went through the original owner's phone again, turning the notes, cloud storage, shopping apps, WeChat contacts, and Weibo upside down.
The original owner's memo contained only three entries.
[Run away, run far away.]
[Sacrifice. Ah.]
Who will be a good child? Death.
These three sentences are completely nonsensical and don't connect at all.
The date on each entry is the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, but the year is different.
The first one is 2019.
The second one is 2020.
The third one is 2021.
And now it is 2023.
This phone has been with its original owner for quite some time.
The date July 15th is strange, because everyone knows it's the Ghost Festival, the day when the gates of hell are said to open wide.
Liang Shi wasn't superstitious before, but now that she's transmigrated into a book and encountered a system, her life is already so bizarre. Adding something even more bizarre doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Most importantly, it mentions sacrifices.
Whom are we worshipping? What are the offerings?
She doesn't understand.
The original owner had a particularly bad habit: she almost never saved anyone's contact information. Her contacts included only her family, but her text message list was full of messages from unknown numbers, such as the one she had seen before about wanting to swap wives.
She was completely confused and had no idea who it was.
The original owner's notes for family members were very brief, basically just one character each.
Xu Qingzhu's is a bit special; her nickname is "Bamboo".
It was followed by a tree icon that comes with the phone.
Judging from these details, it seems that the original owner really liked Xu Qingzhu?
This kind of behavior seems to be something only young girls in the throes of new love would do.
But since he likes Xu Qingzhu and has already married her, why can't he be open and honest about it?
This is very puzzling.
Maybe it's because Xu Qingzhu won't let her touch it?
However, Liang Shi recalled that the book mentioned this part: because Xu Qingzhu suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after being kidnapped, she was very afraid of having intimate contact with people. On her wedding night, the Alpha, who had drunk too much, tried to assault her, which led to Xu Qingzhu being hospitalized on her wedding night.
That night, the Alpha, intoxicated, had sex with a Beta.
They were all cannon fodder, and their names weren't even mentioned in the book.
But after Xu Qingzhu regained consciousness and learned about this, he never let her touch him again.
My relationship with her is also strained.
The original owner tried many methods to trick Xu Qingzhu into bed, but all of them failed. Finally, on the advice of his friends, he chose to suppress his pheromones.
My friend said, "Omega, you'll behave after you're marked."
Once you've done it the first time, you'll be begging to be touched afterward.
The original owner was a dissolute person with many bad friends and hundreds of WeChat groups, where he flirted and harassed others.
Some groups only have Alphas, so the conversations are all about Omegas: who went to which club today, what kind of girls they met, how they felt in bed, what new tricks they played in bed, and some even post erotic pictures.
Liang Shi clicked in and browsed through the chat history for a while before clearing the chat history and leaving the group chat.
More than a dozen people withdrew in a row.
Other groups are for Omega and Beta members, where everyone chats aimlessly, mostly skirting the line of what's acceptable.
Some Omega profile pictures are swimsuit photos or maid outfits.
Liang Shi wondered, "Hasn't the national crackdown on pornography and illegal publications reached here?"
Even in an ABO world, there is still a complete social system.
The novel's author basically based the setting on the real world, so in many ways it is similar to the world Liang Shi originally lived in, except for the gender and privileges unique to the ABO world.
It also added a new rule that in this world, civilization is developing rapidly, the birth rate is declining, and abortion is not allowed during pregnancy.
Liang Shi frowned and repeated the previous operation.
She left more than eighty groups in a row, and her WeChat contact list exploded again.
A bunch of people came to ask her what happened and why she suddenly left the group. She looked at the people without any nicknames and fell into deep thought.
Should we... delete them too?
After thinking about it, Liang Shi decided to give up.
However, she deleted all the Omega and Beta characters that seemed like they were just for flirting/flirting.
This is her account, and she doesn't want to see that messy and chaotic stuff.
Even when you open your WeChat Moments, it's full of photos that look almost like nude photos.
It's... quite an eyesore.
Liang Shi scrolled through Weibo again and found that the original owner had never posted on Weibo, and the browsing history was quite clean, so it seemed that he did not use this software often.
The situation with cloud storage is not so good.
She has a cloud storage membership with 1TB of storage, which is basically full of short videos.
Liang Shi had seen similar videos before out of curiosity, but they were all very normal and beautiful clips.
But when she clicked on a video that the original owner had saved, she almost threw up after watching just the beginning. It was extremely graphic, full of blood and violence.
Liang Shi immediately shut it down, and in doing so, deleted everything in the cloud drive.
For a moment, she felt like she was smearing accounts.
Erase all traces of that person's life, and then replace everything with your own.
But she still has to live her life from now on.
It was already 1 a.m. when he finished all this. Exhausted, Liang Shi lay there but couldn't fall asleep.
Life is full of uncertainties, and the completely unfamiliar environment keeps her on edge, causing her to suffer from insomnia.
She lay there lost in thought for a long time, and eventually fell asleep without knowing how.
When I woke up the next morning, the ward was empty.
She went downstairs to check on Xu Qingzhu, but he was still unconscious, so she went outside the hospital to have breakfast.
After eating, he went back to his ward to sleep.
Nurses came and went in the ward without Liang Shi noticing.
She was exhausted and desperately needed rest.
//
Liang Shi slept for a day and a half and finally recovered his energy.
He went to the hospital to get discharged himself, and then drove his car to the 4S store to exchange it for a white Porsche.
It was already afternoon when I returned to the hospital.
She went up to the tenth floor to Xu Qingzhu's ward, and heard cheerful laughter as she stood at the door.
She hesitated whether to go in or not, but then she heard Zhao Xuning say behind her, "If you're going in, then go in; if not, don't block the way."
Liang Shi: "..."
She pushed open the door and went in, and the laughter in the ward came to an abrupt halt.
Bai Weiwei rolled her eyes when she saw her and said sarcastically, "Oh, Miss Liang is here. Aren't you afraid of getting your shoes dirty?"
Liang Shi didn't answer, but looked at Xu Qingzhu and asked gently, "Are you feeling better?"
Xu Qingzhu nodded and responded with a curt "Mm".
"There's no time like the present," Bai Weiwei said. "Why don't you two go and get your divorce certificates now, the Civil Affairs Bureau is still open."
Liang Shi immediately retorted, "Who said we wanted a divorce?"
“Miss Liang, if you don’t want a divorce, then see you in court.” Bai Weiwei stood up and confronted her. “Our Zhu Zi isn’t someone to be trifled with. I’ve consulted a lawyer, and even within a marriage, forcing an Omega to have sex or forcibly marking an Omega is illegal.”
Liang Shi: "..."
She didn't do it.
But who told the original owner to commit such a terrible sin?
“I had no such intention,” Liang Shi explained.