Chapter 18: Call Me Baby

As the warm sunlight brushed against her face, Su Ling’s long eyelashes fluttered slightly before she slowly opened her eyes.

In her arms, Bai Miao was sleeping soundly.

She seemed to be having a wonderful dream, as she kept giggling and murmuring indistinct syllables like, “Sister… please don’t…”

Su Ling didn’t pay it much mind.

She climbed out of bed quietly, preparing to wash up, only to find a prepared breakfast already sitting on the table.

There was also a small note.

“Ling Ling, if the breakfast is cold, you can heat it up. I’m heading to work now.”

It was from Su Yao.

Looking at Su Yao’s elegant handwriting on the note, Su Ling’s lips thinned slightly.

Last night, when she finally witnessed Su Yao’s change in attitude, she hadn’t been able to hold it in any longer.

She had vented all the grievances she had accumulated during this period.

If Su Yao hadn’t given up on herself, would the Original Owner have been driven mad by life?

Would she herself have been summoned by the Original Owner to forcibly swap lives?

If Su Yao could have fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother, would she have been forced to choose that path to pay off the debts?

She was a normal person with her own emotions.

In the beginning, when she first started down that path, perhaps because she possessed the mindset of a man from Earth, she hadn’t felt much of a breakdown.

But as the rumors spread, the strange looks from those around her, the mocking gazes of strangers, and even the deep-seated contempt in the eyes of some of her former “guests” became crystal clear to her.

On Earth, she had a happy family and a decent social status.

But here, she had become a rat in a sewer—and it was a life she had chosen for herself.

She finally felt like she couldn’t hold on anymore.

Sometimes she wondered if she really was just a split personality hallucinated by the Original Owner.

Could she be a self-defense mechanism created by the Original Owner?

Was it possible the Original Owner, pushed to the brink by life, had imagined a so-called male soul to use a male perspective—which was more accepting of such things—to disguise and protect herself?

Unfortunately, there were no “ifs.”

She really had transmigrated here.

Su Ling put the note away carefully.

She began to eat the breakfast Su Yao had made.

It was just a piece of dry bread and a cup of milk that was nearing its expiration date.

It couldn’t be called delicious, but Su Ling ate it with great relish.

After all, this was a breakfast made by Su Yao.

To be honest, her feelings toward Su Yao were very complicated.

Strictly speaking, she wasn’t Su Yao’s daughter at all.

However, she couldn’t bring herself to truly loathe Su Yao.

The feeling was complex, more like the frustration of seeing someone fail to live up to their potential.

Fortunately, Su Yao had pulled herself together.

Su Ling also knew that Su Yao couldn’t do anything about that massive debt.

In the end, it would still fall on her shoulders.

But this was the attitude Su Ling wanted from Su Yao.

At the very least, it would provide her with some small comfort when she was being mistreated.

*Knock, knock, knock—*

Just as Su Ling was lost in those thoughts, there was a knock at the door.

The sound was very light, as if the person outside knew someone was sleeping inside.

Su Ling’s heart stirred.

She knew who it was.

“Miss Su Ling, my Master made an appointment with you yesterday.”

The visitor was S.

Su Ling opened the door and sighed softly when she saw it was indeed S.

The time had come.

Yesterday, Ji Lingyuan had done her a huge favor, but at the same time, Su Ling now owed her 500,000.

The other woman had said that if Su Ling became her girlfriend, she would pay her 10,000 a day.

It would only take fifty days to pay it all back.

For Su Ling, this was already an incredible bargain.

Ji Lingyuan had mentioned yesterday that she wanted to bring someone to see her “illness.”

However, Su Ling suspected this was just another one of Ji Lingyuan’s new games.

She still remembered the day before yesterday, when that woman had made her wear thick Fairy Makeup and perform extremely shameful poses.

Even for her, just thinking about the scene of being “trained” by Ji Lingyuan that afternoon made her face turn a little red.

‘This woman… she isn’t planning some kind of roleplay, is she?’

“Let me get ready first. It won’t take too long.”

Su Ling looked at her current attire with a bit of embarrassment.

She had just woken up; her hair was a mess, she was wearing a very loose T-shirt, and her long, pale legs were completely exposed.

It wasn’t very modest.

S nodded, not pressuring her.

Su Ling hurried toward the bedroom, but to her surprise, Bai Miao had woken up.

“Sister, where are you going?”

Bai Miao had already guessed what Su Ling was about to do.

Her small hands tightened instinctively.

“Miao Miao, be good. Sister has to go to work now~”

Su Ling crouched down and stroked Bai Miao’s little head, coaxing her gently.

She wasn’t lying, though the “work” involved being Ji Lingyuan’s girlfriend.

Bai Miao’s hands clenched tightly, but they soon fell back weakly.

She lunged into Su Ling’s arms.

The scent on Su Ling right now was like cherry blossoms bathed in the warm morning sun, carrying a hint of the sun’s fragrance.

She memorized Su Ling’s current scent.

“Be a good girl. Mama is going out to work. You must be good at home, okay? If anything happens, just call me~”

Su Ling strapped a Telephone Watch onto Bai Miao’s wrist.

The style of this watch was quite outdated and only had a calling function.

Su Ling had saved up her tips from guests for a long time to buy it for Bai Miao half a month ago, fearing that she wouldn’t be able to contact the girl if an accident happened at home.

“Okay.”

Bai Miao nodded heavily.

Seeing this, Su Ling felt relieved.

She picked out an outfit from the closet that showcased a youthful, girlish vibe before following S out the door.

Bai Miao exhaled a long breath when she heard the front door close.

She fumbled her way to the desk and pulled a notebook out of a small drawer.

The notebook was covered in dense, indented marks.

She had carved them herself, and Su Ling had no idea what they meant.

“She is the ninety-eighth one,” Bai Miao murmured.

Her fingers traced the indentations one by one, and a morbid smile slowly appeared on her cute little face.

“Hehe. Sister, you can only be mine.”

“But Miao Miao is too weak right now. I can’t snatch you away from those bad women at all~”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. When Miao Miao grows up and gets stronger, I’ll find every one of those bad women who left marks on your body, and one by one… I’ll eat them up~”

In the quiet room, a rustling sound like the fluttering of insect wings suddenly flickered.

But Bai Miao didn’t seem to notice at all.

Below her dull, scarlet pupils, two tiny fissures slowly appeared, though they vanished in a flash as if they were nothing more than a hallucination.

“Hehe. Her name is Ji Lingyuan, right?”

“How dare she? How dare she try to keep Sister all to herself?”

“Sister… you are mine!”

“You will always belong to Miao Miao!”

—

“Achoo!”

Ji Lingyuan, who was waiting for Su Ling, suddenly sneezed.

She rubbed her nose but didn’t pay it any mind.

“Master.”

At that moment, a flash of white light appeared, and S stood before her with Su Ling.

“You’re not too late…”

Ji Lingyuan started to greet her casually, but when her gaze landed on Su Ling, her eyes immediately went wide.

Today, Su Ling was wearing a loose blue checkered shirt.

The style was a bit old-fashioned, but she had cleverly tied the hem of the shirt up slightly, revealing a section of her slender, pale waist.

Her flat, toned belly and enticing abdominal lines were inadvertently exposed, causing Ji Lingyuan’s gaze to linger for a long time.

On her lower half was a light-colored miniskirt that barely reached her knees.

Below the hem were straight legs wrapped in white silk stockings, which swayed slightly with a gentle curve as she walked.

“Hello, Boss,” Su Ling said with a soft smile.

Ji Lingyuan hurriedly averted her eyes.

When Su Ling smiled, her eyes would curve, and shallow dimples would form at the corners of her mouth, filled with a delicate sweetness.

She looked like a green grape bitten into on a summer day—refreshing and clean.

She was clearly a lewd online model, yet for some reason, the way she was dressed today made her look like a first love, radiating a sense of innocent purity that made one’s heart skip a beat.

Su Ling had been a bit nervous, but when she saw Ji Lingyuan constantly peeking at her—looking very much like one of those inexperienced, clueless guys on Earth looking at a beautiful girl—she couldn’t help but laugh internally.

‘Hehe, looks like it worked~’

How should she put it?

Only a man truly understands a man.

The Witch World was a single-gender society.

After a month here, these Witches gave Su Ling the impression of being “old men” in the skin of beautiful girls—lustful but stubborn.

She used her experience as a “fox spirit” on Earth to bait these Witches, and the results were surprisingly effective.

Since Ji Lingyuan was currently her biggest financial backer, she knew that if Ji Lingyuan lost interest in her, she wouldn’t be able to make any money.

She had thought about it all last night.

In fact, Sister Jing seemed to have dropped hints to her already.

When she had wanted to continue working yesterday afternoon, Sister Jing had stopped her.

Was it because the other woman didn’t want to make money?

Of course not.

The hint was obvious.

She had to change her approach.

If she continued with her outdated methods, how many years would it take to pay off her debt?

The most effective and simplest way was to cling to a wealthy patron.

And she happened to have a ready-made patron right in front of her~

So, she changed her growth strategy.

Previously, she took on all the “mobs,” but now, she would only camp for the one “elite monster” that could constantly drop gold coins.

Although it made her feel a bit like a “Green Tea Bitch,” she had no choice.

For Miao Miao’s sake, she was going all in.

She could only pray that Ji Lingyuan was truly just playing around and hadn’t actually caught feelings.

Otherwise, she really wouldn’t know how to handle it.

“Ahem, you’re quite punctual.”

Ji Lingyuan was truly impressed.

Why had she broken up with Hua Feihua before?

Wasn’t it because Hua Feihua couldn’t give her the “girlfriend” feeling?

At this moment, she actually felt that long-lost sensation of a first love from Su Ling.

Moreover, she could even smell a hint of sweet, romantic air.

“From now on, you are my girlfriend. We are about to meet someone. You must call me ‘Baby’ in front of her, understood?”

Ji Lingyuan’s heart was leaping with joy.

Su Ling had given her too many surprises.

She couldn’t wait to show off in front of that person.

‘Look, a beautiful girlfriend—and she’s mine!’

She was dying to humiliate that “single dog”!

‘Hehe, single dogs were meant to be humiliated!’

“Okay, Baby~”

Su Ling hooked her arm around Ji Lingyuan’s.

Whether intentional or not, she pressed the other woman’s arm into her quite substantial chest.

The heavenly sensation, combined with Su Ling’s sweet voice and her playful wink, caused Ji Lingyuan to get hard instantly.

Her fingers got hard.