This Villain's Mother Won't Follow the Script
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doctor
"You're pregnant, I'll prescribe some folic acid, calcium tablets and multivitamins for you. Make sure to get plenty of rest on your own," the doctor calmly handed Taehyung the prescription and sent him on his way.
As he walked out of the room, Taehyung gently touched his still flat belly, sighing softly as he glanced at the pitifully low balance on his phone.
After asking around, Taehyung found the hospital pharmacy to have the best prices.
At the entrance of the maternity hospital, happy couples walked by in pairs while Taehyung couldn't help but feel a bit lonely and pitiful by himself.
Ignoring the strange glances from those around him, Taehyung got on his electric bike and headed home.
On the way, he passed the farmer's market and after some hesitation, thinking of the not yet fully formed baby in his belly, spent over twenty yuan on half a jin of shrimp that weren't very big.
After winding through small paths for a long time, he finally arrived at the small village on the outskirts of the city, passing by gossiping elderly ladies who pointed and stared.
Taehyung returned to his shabby small courtyard that he called his own.
Back home, he immediately went to the kitchen, taking out a wok and some rice and starting a small fire to cook congee before bringing over a little stool to sit by the faucet and remove the shrimp shells.
He heated oil in the wok and stir-fried the cleaned shrimp heads, releasing a tempting red shrimp oil and delicious aroma. Taehyung carefully blew away the rising smoke, stirring the congee with a ladle.
The rice had bloomed beautifully.
He poured in the shrimp oil, then added the marinated fresh shrimp as well.
It felt like something was still missing.
After thinking for a bit, Taehyung wiped his hands on his apron, squatted down and took out an inconspicuous small jar from a pile of pots and containers in the corner, throwing in some salted winter vegetables into the congee.
After simmering for a while longer, he scooped out a bit to taste after blowing on it to cool it down, satisfied with the flavor. He carefully lifted the hot wok with a cloth wrapped around his hands and brought it down from the stove.
This was dinner for today.
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Taehyung sat alone in the somewhat dim and spacious main hall, quietly drinking his congee.
Today was the third day since he transmigrated into this world.
He had already realized that he was unable to make any choices that went against the plotline.
Like getting an abortion.
He didn't even know who the father of the child was.
Because he had transmigrated as the ill-fated mother of the male lead who died during childbirth in a tragic novel.
The original book only briefly mentioned him a few times.
The story mainly revolved around the male lead's difficult life, elaborating on his misfortunes and trials.
And right now, the male lead of that tragic story was still in his belly.
He had no useful information whatsoever.
It seemed for now, the only thing he could do was safely carry the male lead to term and give birth to him.
Then, wait for death.
Thinking this, Taehyung couldn't help but sigh again.
He was poor, had no family, no education, and no job.
All he had was a little brat of a child that he had to feed along with himself.
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Oh right, he also had a pretty face.
Taehyung touched his own face.
His original appearance was only ordinary looking, but having transmigrated into a great beauty, he actually felt a bizarre sense of satisfaction amidst his indignation.
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Knock knock knock...
Someone was at the door.
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"Who is it?" Taehyung didn't get up, just yelling loudly.
Granny Zhang
"It's me, I've come to bring you some things!"
It was the neighbor Zhang Granny.
Taehyung hurried to open the door.
Zhang Granny was kind to him, often bringing over little bits of vegetables grown in her own yard every few days.
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"Granny Zhang," Taehyung opened the door to let her in.
Granny Zhang
"Eating?" As soon as Zhang Granny entered, she smelled the rich and tempting aroma.
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"Cooked up some congee," Taehyung supported the elderly woman with bad legs, "Would you like some?"
Unable to resist, Zhang Granny nodded.
With just a wall separating their homes, whenever it was mealtime, the smells from Taehyung's kitchen left her restless and dissatisfied, no matter what she ate herself.
Taehyung went to the kitchen to grab a set of bowls and chopsticks, serving Zhang Granny a bowl of congee.
The aroma was even thicker now. Zhang Granny eagerly took a sip right away.
Granny Zhang
It was rich and soft on the tongue, the shrimp sweet and fresh.
She quickly finished the entire bowl, praising, "Your cooking skills are really great!"
Granny Zhang
Slapping her own thigh, she said, "I almost forgot my purpose coming here!"
Granny Zhang
"I came today to discuss something with you," Zhang Granny rubbed her hands together. "My brother's daughter-in-law's nephew is holding his wedding banquet in a couple days. Turns out that rascal absentmindedly forgot to book the caterer ahead of time."
Granny Zhang
"Now with the date almost here, they can't find a chef and the whole family is about to be worried to death. So they came asking me for help to see if you might be interested, and we'll pay you wages all the same."
Taehyung instinctively wanted to agree, but swallowed back his words before they left his mouth.
He touched his belly, feeling somewhat troubled.
On one hand he wanted to earn this money, but on the other, he worried about messing up in his condition.
Granny Zhang
Seeing his hesitation, Zhang Granny considerately said, "I won't force you to take this job if you really don't want to. Don't worry about letting this granny down, we won't take offense if you decline."
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Taehyung looked at her gratefully. "It's not that I don't want to take it, it's just..."
He still didn't know if he should tell Zhang Granny about the pregnancy, since his ID showed he had just passed 18 years old a few months ago.
If he said it, it was inevitable he'd be questioned about the father. And if he hid it, he couldn't hide it for long, with his belly going to swell up in a few months.
Thinking this, Taehyung steeled himself.
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"I'm pregnant, afraid I can't handle such a big banquet."
Zhang Granny looked at him in surprise.
This boy still with a child's face was pregnant?!
Considering he had been living alone ever since moving here, Zhang Granny paused, then still asked who the child's father was.
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Taehyung was prepared with his story. "He went to Guangdong to work and will be back after earning money."
As for what would happen later...they'd deal with it then.
Zhang Granny looked at Taehyung with some pity, clearly seeing through the excuse used to trick a young omega. She felt bad for him and hesitated, still worrying the omega would suffer losses.
Granny Zhang
"You're still young, you can slow down and have a child later..." She gently advised.
Without this child, perhaps the omega could have had a better life.
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But Taehyung just shook his head blissfully. "I'll wait for him to come back."
Seeing this, Zhang Granny didn't try to persuade him further. To be honest, she also felt somewhat uncomfortable trying to convince the omega to get an abortion herself.
They could only take extra care of him from now on.
Zhang Granny shook off her thoughts and began instructing Taehyung in detail on points to pay attention to during pregnancy from her own experiences.
What foods were good for the body, what things to avoid, any precautions to take. Zhang Granny was very thorough.
Taehyung listened attentively.
He had always been someone who went with the flow. Now that he had decided to keep this child, he would treat him well.
The first step was taking care of his health. He couldn't let him be born weak and sickly after all.
After Zhang Granny left, Taehyung sank into thought.
The reality was he didn't have an alpha working away in Guangdong earning money. He had to think of ways to make money himself.
Otherwise, not only would having a child be impossible, even just living would be an issue.
Distractedly washing the dishes, Taehyung mulled over ways to earn.
This was a rural area on the outskirts of a city. There weren't many villagers, with most people commuting into the city for work during the day and riding motorbikes back home to sleep.
Taehyung suddenly remembered passing construction sites on the way back from the hospital.
With the continuous urban expansion, roadwork and housing construction was nonstop, and Taehyung recalled hearing complaints from the workers he passed by.
That's it!
He could sell boxed lunches at the construction site entrances!
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Taehyung decided to take action right away.
The next morning, he got up early to go to the wholesale market to buy vegetables and disposable lunch boxes, then came back home.
On his way back, he stopped by the construction site gate to ask the security guard some questions.
After Taehyung got home, he drank some water, took his folic acid, and then dove right into the kitchen.
He had already decided the night before that he was going to make three dishes today.
Sour green beans fried with minced pork, cabbage stir-fried with pork slices, and cold tossed bean thread noodles.
He grabbed a large handful of mouth-watering sour green beans from the sour vegetable crock and cut them into small pieces. As Taehyung was cutting them, he couldn't resist popping a piece into his mouth.
Crunching them noisily, the sour and refreshing taste made him unconsciously start humming a song.
He heated oil in a hot wok, sautéed the scallions, ginger and garlic until fragrant, then added the chili powder and doubanjiang to bring out the red oil and spiciness before adding the fresh, evenly mixed fatty and lean minced pork.
After stir-frying for a bit, he added the sliced sour green beans and fresh fava beans.
When it was nearly cooked, he added a touch of his secret weapon, Sichuan peppercorn water, and gave it a final stir.
The savory, mouth-watering Sour Green Beans Fried with Minced Pork was done.
Next was the Cabbage Stir-Fried with Pork Slices.
He cut the pork belly into uneven slices, not worrying about their size. At the construction site, most of the work was physical labor, so no matter how much rice they ate, it wasn't as good as meat for fighting hunger.
He cut the fresh, juicy napa cabbage on the diagonal and set it aside.
After sautéing the aromatics, he only added a few dried chilies for flavor. Just a bit of salt, sugar and chicken stock powder was enough to make it tasty.
Finally he cut the bean thread noodles into thin shreds and added shredded carrots and cilantro, then poured over a versatile sauce he had blended from dozens of ingredients to complete the cold dish.
Next was packing the lunch boxes.
Taehyung packed a total of 35 boxed lunches, neatly packaging them and placing them in an insulated foam container affixed to his electric bike.
After checking the time and seeing it was about right, he locked up and headed towards the construction site.
Just after 11:10, workers had just started trickling out of the construction site gate. Taehyung found some shade from a tree not too far away and placed his sign with the payment QR code next to the lunchboxes he had prepared.
He was good-looking, so people noticed him here very quickly, but they just gathered in small groups ogling him while murmuring to each other instead of coming over.
Taehyung didn't mind waiting calmly.
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Before long, a sturdy-looking worker with an honest face came over hesitantly.
"Sir, are you selling lunch boxes?"
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"Yes, 15 yuan each," Taehyung immediately put on a smile and nodded, opening the insulated box to show him the neat and tidy lunchboxes inside.
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"Really with two meat and one vegetable dishes?" The worker pointed at his sign doubtingly.
Afraid he wouldn't believe him, Taehyung told him the menu for today.
The worker rubbed his belly. These past few days he had been eating nothing but takeout, he was already sick of all the nearby options.
But the lunches provided at the construction site were just bland boiled veggies and broth, which did nothing for his hunger.
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Hesitating for a moment, the worker felt in his gut that this pretty omega wouldn't cheat him, so he said, "Alright, give me one to try."
After scanning the payment code, the worker looked at the scorching hot ground in the sun outside the shade. He simply squatted beside Taehyung at the roadside and opened up his lunchbox right then and there.
Taehyung glanced at him but didn't say anything, just took out a small folding stool from his bike basket and gave it to him.
The worker plopped down on the curb, placing the lunchbox on the seat as he held the rice in his hands.
Taehyung had packed each box very full, and the worker was quite satisfied with the portion size as he looked it over.
As soon as he opened the lid, the rich aroma of the stir-fried dishes immediately surrounded the worker's nose. He instinctively took a deep breath, and his stomach rumbled loudly almost instantly.
Unable to wait any longer, he picked up a piece of fatty pork and stuffed it into his mouth. After just a couple chews, he felt the complex and layered juices from the meat explode in his mouth. This was the first time he had ever eaten pork belly with this kind of texture.
Not only was it not greasy, but also very tender and smooth.
He scooped up some sour green beans and ate them together with rice. His mouth still had room so he shoved in a huge mouthful of bean thread noodles as well.
The cold dish was tinglingly spicy and refreshing going down. The shredded carrot was crispy and pleasantly crunchy to chew.
He couldn't help but pick up another huge bite and stuff it in.
The worker couldn't help but close his eyes blissfully.
This food was just too delicious!
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Some coworkers were drawn in by the smell. "Bro, how is it? What's it taste like?"
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"Amazing!! So delicious!!"
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As if afraid they wouldn't believe him, he shoveled down a few more mouthfuls of rice and asked Taehyung with his mouth full, "Sir, are you coming back tomorrow?"
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"If business is good I'll come back," Taehyung smiled.
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Seeing his smile, the coworkers stared dumbfoundedly, eyes going blurry. Then looking at the burly guy beside them happily eating away, "Beauty, give me one too!"
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As soon as he got the lunchbox, he also eagerly sat down next to the burly guy, shoving aside space on the little folding stool. "Really that delicious?"
Saying that, he also took a first bite of the fatty pork right away.
After chewing a couple times, a look of astonishment appeared on his face. Mumbling a couple words, he could wait no longer and happily started shoveling down the food.
With two living ads eating away enthusiastically, Taehyung quickly sold out all his lunchboxes.
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The workers who didn't get to buy eyed the lingering aromas in the air somewhat resentfully. "Why didn't you make more?"
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"I'll make more tomorrow," Taehyung gave an apologetic smile.
He tallied up the profits in his head, extremely delighted.
Under the burly guy's reluctant urging, Taehyung rode his electric bike back home.
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