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Jiang Yujin was dissatisfied with Jiang Mo's arrangements and was passive when tutoring homework. She got tired of studying and shouted that she wanted to leave several times.

"I'm hungry, I want to eat! I'm not studying anymore! You're not my real sister, so why are you so controlling..." Jiang Yujin couldn't take it anymore and threw down her pen, her voice getting softer and softer as she finished reading.

He added without any apparent reason, "Shouldn't you hate me, Jiang Mo?" The seventeen years of his life that should have belonged to him, and the love from his parents and brothers.

Jiang Mo picked up the pen again. "Now I'm in charge of you. There's still one more question. After you finish, go eat and I'll go to the company to work overtime." It was as if she hadn't heard what he said after that.

When omegas get cheeky, it's hard to know what to do.

"I don't!"

After spending the afternoon doing math problems, Jiang Yujin was already starving. Jiang Mo used to cook a few meals at the Jiang family's house, but now it's all takeout. After finishing this math problem, he would have to wait for the takeout for another ten minutes or so. He had never suffered such humiliation before.

When it's mealtime, you should eat properly.

Jiang Yujin was only allowed to order takeout after Jiang Mo was satisfied with him being forced to sit down.

Jiang Yujin couldn't help but complain, "Jiang Mo, aren't you good at cooking? I don't want to eat takeout anymore, can you cook for me?" He'd been eating takeout for a week already.

Jiang Mo directly rejected his objection, saying, "I can't cook and I don't want to cook."

Eating Jinxiuyuan's takeout again, Jiang Yujin looked at the exquisite dishes on the table and began to miss Liang Dongmo's cooking. But what came out of his mouth was: "Jiang Mo, you can't cook and you order takeout every day. No omega will like you."

Jiang Mo had finished his meal, put on his coat, and was preparing to return to the company. "I don't need anyone's approval."

"Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, let's get up early and make dumplings."

Jiang Yujin stopped her: "I don't know how to make dumplings." After making the dumplings, you still have to cook them yourself, which is too much trouble. He has never actually done anything by himself in his life.

It's getting cold, and he likes to stay in bed and sleep, never getting enough sleep. Jiang Mo goes to the company very early every day, while he slowly gets up to wash up. Jiang Mo comes back at noon to bring him lunch, and in the afternoon, he goes over test papers with him.

"You still have to get up. You can't just eat what's readily available. Watch me pack it. You have to do a worksheet before bed, and we'll go over it tomorrow afternoon."

The woman raised her hand to wipe the rice grains from the corner of his mouth. "You should sit properly and stand properly. At school, teachers teach you, but at home, you must learn to discipline yourself."

Jiang Mo thought he needed to break his bad habit of sleeping in.

If you stay in bed all the time and skip breakfast, you're bound to get stomach problems sooner or later.

I'll wake you up tomorrow morning.

"Tomorrow is Sunday, I'm not getting up. Who gets up so early on a weekend? I won't!"

Jiang Yujin stopped Jiang Mo from going to work, saying, "Since that's the case, you're not allowed to go to work today, Saturday."

He checked the weather forecast; it was going to snow tonight. Jiang Mo had already worked overtime this morning, and if he went to work overtime again tonight and the roads were blocked by snow, he wouldn't be able to get back. Who would cook for him tomorrow?

Jiang Mo said he wanted to make dumplings, and with his encouragement, we won't have to order takeout for lunch and dinner tomorrow.

“Okay, I’ll watch you finish your test paper after you finish eating.” It’s not like Jiang Mo can’t work from home. She can act like a good older sister and watch her “younger brother” finish a test paper before going back to work.

Most of the time, Jiang Yujin couldn't tell anything from Jiang Mo's face.

Without his disguise, Jiang Mo looked just like a creditor.

Commonly known as a good-looking dead face.

Even if someone is good-looking, they still have a dead face.

Jiang Yujin, holding the pen, looked constipated: "...Look at me, I can't write..."

They want to monitor my writing, but it's not like I can't write carefully.

For the first few days after he started doing the test papers, Jiang Mo sat next to him and watched him write, not allowing him to use his phone to search for answers and fill them in.

"Jiang Mo, what are your pheromones?"

"Don't get distracted, write carefully."

"oh."

"Tell me about it, I don't mind the smell."

"Write the test paper."

"oh."

Jiang Yujin spent almost two hours working on a test paper that could be completed in half an hour.

Jiang Mo didn't even bother to turn on her phone out of boredom; she just stared at his face the whole time.

The student taking the test was drowsy, his head almost drooping onto the paper. Jiang Mo quickly caught him and sighed silently.

Upon closer inspection, Jiang Yujin was fast asleep.

Jiang Mo glanced at the last big question and left it blank.

"..."

-

It's rare for a light snowfall, and the air has gotten several degrees colder.

There wasn't even enough snow to build a small snowman, but Jiang Yujin, in his pajamas, excitedly opened the balcony door. Snowflakes landed in his palm, and he shouted, "It's snowing! Jiang Mo, come out and see! Jiang Mo!"

Jiang Yujin said yesterday that he didn't want to get up so early, so Jiang Mo deliberately didn't wake him up and bought dumpling filling by himself to prepare to make dumplings.

"It's cold outside, close the balcony door."

"Jiang Mo, come here quickly! Look at the snow! It's snowing so much, I want to build a snowman!" It's snowing, and Jiang Yujin rarely gets up so early, he's more energetic than anyone else.

"Your pajamas are messy, change your clothes before coming out." After the omega had calmed down, Jiang Mo went over to close the balcony door and pulled his half-open pajamas back up.

Omega was in a good mood and did whatever she was told.

The dumpling filling was shrimp. Jiang Yujin took a bite, and the sweet and fresh shrimp flavor spread across his tongue. "Jiang Mo, the dumplings you made are so delicious."

He never hesitates to praise delicious food.

"Um."

"..." How perfunctory.

Jiang Mo's attitude became perfunctory, and his shameless persistence at the Jiang family disappeared without a trace.

After Jiang Yujin finished eating, she cleaned up the dishes and started washing them. Jiang Mo hadn't bought a dishwasher, and the dishes were slippery from too much dish soap, almost flying out of her hands.

"Jiang Mo, may I call my mother?" Jiang Yujin asked, seeing that Jiang Mo's expression had softened after washing the dishes.

Last year on the winter solstice, it snowed heavily. He and his mother built a beautiful snowman, and they promised to build an identical snowman this year.

The snowfall this year was so light that it didn't pile up.

Jiang Mo wiped the water stains left from washing dishes off the counter. "No, Mom changed her number, and I don't have her contact information anymore. Don't look at me with those pitiful eyes, it won't work." His tone was as cold as the snow falling outside.

"No means no! What kind of eyes do I have? All you do is criticize me every day!" Jiang Yujin finished speaking, lowered his head in silence, went into his room, and locked the door, making sure no one could disturb him.

Emotions are the most unstable factor in a person. One second you can be laughing and joking, and the next second you can be shedding tears very quickly and cheaply.

Jiang Yujin burrowed into the blankets, tears falling silently, seemingly for the unfinished snowman he had built this year.

Undeterred, he tried calling his mother on his phone, but the call wouldn't go through, and he couldn't even get a chance to complain.

Why didn't you answer the phone?

Both his mother and Liang Dongmo suddenly disappeared from his life. His mother, who loved him so dearly, wouldn't even give him her phone number, and Liang Dongmo swindled him out of his money and vanished—what a scumbag!

The house was very soundproof. Jiang Yujin closed the curtains and it was pitch black, perfect for sleeping.

After sleeping all morning, Jiang Mo knocked on his door to wake him up for lunch.

Jiang Yujin said he didn't want to eat, and Jiang Mo didn't try to persuade him at all. He just opened the door with his key and said that if he didn't want to eat, he would just go over the test paper with him.

As soon as Jiang Mo entered the room, he saw the sleeping omega sitting on the bed, his whole body wrapped in a blanket, with only his head showing. His hair was messy, and his face was flushed. "I don't want to eat, and I don't want to go to class."

"You have a fever?" Jiang Mo touched the temperature on his forehead with the back of his hand. Jiang Yujin, who was delirious with fever, had no ability to resist and was too weak to speak.

"Lie down."

The sick omega obediently did as instructed.

"Jiang Mo, I feel so bad. I don't want to eat or go to class." Jiang Yujin lay on the bed, his eyes narrowed to slits, his consciousness blurred.

When I opened my eyes again, the person beside me had become Liang Dongmo.

"Huh?!" Jiang Yujin's eyes widened slightly as she reached for Liang Dongmo's hand and called her a scumbag.

Since it's just an illusion caused by illness, it's fake, so he might as well curse it all he wants, since the illusion won't talk back.