After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Marked the Crazy Hotshot – Chapter 101

You Really Don’t Miss Me

The season was turning to spring.

《Cat and Mint》 officially premiered in theaters. On its first day, its online rating reached a high of 9.8, far surpassing all other films released in the same period.

The teacher and student portrayed by Cheng Jiqing and Li Yunlan received widespread acclaim for their acting.

This was especially true for Cheng Jiqing.

The public’s perception and appreciation of Cheng Jiqing had been limited to her identity as “the Cheng family’s thousand gold¹,” “a Lan Qi shareholder,” and the official relationship announcement on the livestream of 《Let’s Go Together》.

But with the release of the movie, people were only just beginning to realize that, setting aside all her additional identities, Cheng Jiqing was an actress with real skill.

With 《Cat and Mint》, Cheng Jiqing even won the Golden Statue Award² for Best Actress.

In the short span of two months.

Cheng Jiqing went from a relative unknown to an undisputed, top-tier³ Film Queen.

Naturally, Cheng Jiqing’s workload increased in tandem, and the frequency of her business trips grew by the day.

She didn’t care about the number of roles she took, only picking scripts she liked, but even so, she sometimes felt like she couldn’t be in two places at once.

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This was the fourth day of Cheng Jiqing’s business trip.

She arrived at Beicheng Airport just after one in the afternoon. According to the plan, she was supposed to have returned last night, but a last-minute problem with the venue had caused a half-day delay.

Sitting in the nanny van⁴, Cheng Jiqing sent a WeChat message to Bai Xin.

After hanging up on her last night, Bai Xin had been ignoring her.

“President Bai still isn’t replying?”

Cheng Jiqing took the cup of water Ada handed her and touched the tip of her nose. “Mhm…”

But she couldn’t blame Bai Xin for being upset. This was the second time this kind of unexpected situation had occurred on this film shoot. And as luck would have it, both times she had already confirmed her return time with Bai Xin, only to have to change her story at the last minute.

As if she didn’t know what kind of temper her wife had?

Given the current situation, she had to be absolutely furious.

Although this wasn’t her fault, it didn’t change the fact that she had to coax her wife.

Ada asked, “Are we going to the supermarket then?”

She remembered the last time Bai Xin was angry, Cheng Jiqing had gone to the supermarket to buy groceries and coaxed her back into a good mood with a home-cooked meal.

Cheng Jiqing, holding a large 1000ml tumbler with a straw, took a slow sip of water and shook her head. “To the hospital.”

After making up with Bai Xin, she had decided to continue with the blood draws for the medication.

Bai Xin had been against it, only agreeing after a great deal of persuasion.

Her thinking was that if she just stopped, firstly, the blood drawn before would be wasted. Secondly, she had to go on business trips occasionally now. If Bai Xin’s constitution became unstable again and the dual glands caused other trouble, having a palliative medicine on hand would be a safeguard for Bai Xin.

“It’s not your check-up day, is it?” Ada knew she had blood draws for check-ups twice a month.

Cheng Jiqing nodded. “Special circumstances. Moving it up two days for an emergency.”

Ada’s interest was piqued. “How so?”

Cheng Jiqing said with a straight face, “My wife is always easier to talk to on the days I’ve just had my blood drawn.”

And she got chicken soup to drink.

Seeing as she had just given blood, Bai Xin would be a little easier to coax.

Pfft…

It wasn’t just Ada; even the driver chuckled.

Who would have thought the Film Queen was like this in private.

The little assistant teased from the side, “I’ve even thought of the headline: 《To Coax Her Wife, The Film Queen Actually Did This!》”

Cheng Jiqing hugged her water cup, telling them they didn’t understand.

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They arrived at the hospital.

After making up with Bai Xin, her interactions with Tang Jia had naturally resumed.

Though it had taken a period of adjustment.

Hearing that Cheng Jiqing had come for a blood draw, Tang Jia, wearing her white coat, followed her to her office to talk and got the gist of the reason.

Her evaluation: “So, President Cheng has her day too.”

Cheng Jiqing: “…”

Cheng Jiqing sat across from her in the office and shot her a glance, knowing there was more to come.

“So henpecked⁵.”

Cheng Jiqing gave a cold snort. “Jealous? I hear someone’s been running to Director Tong’s film set these past two days, but Director Tong can’t even be bothered to talk to her. Yet that person is still so diligent about going. Sigh, forget a wife, she doesn’t even have a girlfriend.”

Tang Jia: “…”

Tang Jia leaned back in her chair, arms crossed. “President Cheng, do you want me to call Bai Xin right now and tell her you deliberately came for an early blood draw to show off your acting skills?”

“Ouch.”

Dr. Tang’s glass heart⁶ was shattered.

Cheng Jiqing shrugged, not the least bit scared. “Dr. Tang, do you want me to call Director Tong right now and tell her you’ve sold out a friend for the second time, that you’re callous and not worth mentioning?”

Tang Jia: “…”

This woman’s mouth, it was really becoming more and more like Bai Xin’s venomous tongue!

“Aren’t you leaving?”

“Just about to.”

Cheng Jiqing stood up, glanced at Tang Jia’s defeated expression, and tossed her hair. Trying to piss her off? Not a chance.

She picked up her bag and walked out.

Behind her, Tang Jia stared at the closed door, took a deep breath, and patted her chest.

Who hasn’t had a wife before?

What’s the big deal?

Who’s been running to the film set all the time? Hadn’t she only gone five or six times this month? Besides, how was Director Tong not bothered to talk to her? It was just that on those two occasions, Director Tong had been too busy and hadn’t had time to see her.

She made it sound like she was so pitiful, like nobody wanted her.

Tang Jia thought for a moment, then looked down at her phone.

She saw that the WeChat message she’d sent to Director Tong this morning still hadn’t received a reply.

“…”

A lump formed in Tang Jia’s throat. Fine, she was a little pitiful.

From a psychological perspective, she should wait for a response from the other side, or at least wait a bit longer before contacting her again. But remembering what Cheng Jiqing had just said, she felt a sourness in her heart.

She thought for a moment and dialed the familiar number.

She was prepared for the call not to go through, but who knew, the other side picked up almost instantly.

“What is it?”

“…” Tang Jia was silent for a moment. “What are you doing?”

“Getting ready to eat.”

Tang Jia’s first reaction was to frown. “You’re only eating now?”

After asking, her heart relaxed—so she was busy, that’s why she didn’t reply.

Director Tong: “Mhm.”

Tang Jia: “What are you eating?”

Director Tong was clearly unenthusiastic. “Fast food. What are you up to?”

Sometimes, human emotions are strange. There was no real substance to the conversation, but you couldn’t explain why your mood would suddenly lift.

Tang Jia said, “Cheng Jiqing just came to have her blood drawn.”

Director Tong: “So she had it drawn.”

Tang Jia explained the reason for Cheng Jiqing’s early blood draw in a few words, then pushed up her glasses with a slender fingertip. “And she came to mock me.”

“Mock you for what?”

A moment of silence.

Tang Jia said, “Mocked me for being unwanted, said I don’t even have a girlfriend and that I run to the film set every day only to be ignored.”

Director Tong let out a soft scoff. “Who’s ignor—”

Before she could finish, she paused slightly, her tone becoming casual. “Chengcheng used to be such an upright person. Her mouth is really becoming more and more ‘Xin-ified’ these days.” [LP: The original text uses “新化” (Xīn huà), a wordplay on Bai Xin’s (白新) name, meaning to become like her.]

Tang Jia, lamenting the dropped topic, still replied, “Isn’t that the truth.”

“But she probably won’t have such an easy day today.”

“Hm?”

A leaking roof meets a continuous overnight rain⁷.

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As soon as Cheng Jiqing got back in the car, Ada showed her the latest trending topic on Weibo.

#ChengJiqingLiYunlanIntimateSceneMashup#

Just reading that line made Cheng Jiqing’s temples begin to throb.

She clicked on the video. It was one of those rhythm-based edits, where every frame was synced to the beat, and the pauses were all on relatively ambiguous shots.

Cheng Jiqing: “…”

To this day, Cheng Jiqing still remembered the time Bai Xin first watched her film an intimate scene with Li Yunlan on set. The memory of that night back in Beicheng was also fresh in her mind.

Including the few days after the movie’s release, when Bai Xin would still give her a sharp pinch out of the blue…

She had no idea which unlucky soul⁸ had made this edit.

Just beautiful.

Heaven never seals off all exits, but netizens will dig pits for you everywhere.

Bai Xin wasn’t answering her phone. Cheng Jiqing asked Zhou Yushu and confirmed she was at the company, so she had the car drive directly to XM.

Wearing a mask and a baseball cap, she prepared to cross the lobby and take the president’s elevator up.

But in the lobby, she happened to see Zhou Yushu escorting Auntie Liu from the Cheng Corporation down.

There were too many people around, so Cheng Jiqing didn’t go up to greet them.

She was grateful to Auntie Liu.

Although she had once again declined Auntie Liu’s kind offer, her choice had still been respected.

Auntie Liu had said that she never felt Cheng Jing was doing a bad job; it was just that she always wanted to fulfill Cheng Lan’s last wish.

At the time, she had pointed to the shares split in two on the second will, saying that Cheng Lan’s last wish wasn’t necessarily for her to inherit the company; at least in Cheng Lan’s eyes, she also had high expectations for Cheng Jing.

Later, after Fu Rongjun was sent to the Special Management Office and sentenced to a few years, the Cheng Corporation’s internal structure suffered quite a blow. Cheng Jing turned the tide and, in two months’ time, restored the company’s reputation.

After that, whenever Auntie Liu saw her, she never mentioned the matter of taking power again.

Cheng Jiqing’s thoughts suddenly drifted to Cheng Jing.

Her relationship with Cheng Jing had truly changed because of this matter, and the same went for the relationship between Cheng Jing and Bai Xin. The Cheng Corporation’s swift recovery was also thanks in no small part to Bai Xin’s help behind the scenes.

Both companies were progressing in a good direction.

Last weekend, the three of them had even had dinner together—although she had been stuck in the middle, which was quite awkward.

But it was a good start…

Cheng Jiqing snapped back to reality, thinking to herself that she should probably worry about her own situation right now.

She moved past the crowd and headed for the elevator.

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XM’s top floor.

Bai Xin tossed her phone onto the desk. She was about to go mad with anger.

Well done. Cheng Jiqing was really something else.

She never should have agreed to let Cheng Jiqing go into acting in the first place! Why did she have to pretend to be so virtuous, gentle, and magnanimous!

Remembering those frame-by-frame images of Cheng Jiqing pressed close to another woman, she felt a surge of anger about to erupt from her chest. She stood up, kicking the chair behind her, her long skirt swaying.

She stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, her chest heaving with rage.

Cheng Jiqing’s last call was twenty minutes ago. She didn’t pick up, so the woman just stopped calling, is that it?

The more Bai Xin thought, the angrier she got. When she heard a knock on the door, she ignored it.

Then came the sound of the door being pushed open on its own.

She was already in a foul mood, and her tone grew even colder. “Get out.”

But the person was willfully obtuse. The door closed, and the sound of footsteps followed.

Bai Xin’s heart stirred with realization. Without showing it, she watched the reflection in the glass behind her, the corners of her eyes lifting.

She maintained her posture with her back to the room.

Cheng Jiqing slowly approached. Bai Xin was wearing a French-style, waist-cinching dress. Her tightened waist looked as if it could be encircled by a single hand.

Her silhouette was graceful. After several days apart, just one glance made Cheng Jiqing’s heart itch.

She wrapped her arms around that waist from behind, nuzzling her nose into Bai Xin’s neck. “Wife…”

Bai Xin jabbed her elbow back. “Get away.”

Cheng Jiqing’s palm rested on her firm lower abdomen as she said, “It’s the last month. I won’t have any business trips next month. I’ll stay home and keep you good company, okay?”

She really had spent less time with Bai Xin these past two months.

“Don’t touch me.”

Bai Xin was in a foul mood, pushing the hands at her waist away. Cheng Jiqing simply held those hands fast against her waist as well.

She felt the heat on the tip of her ear as Cheng Jiqing’s lips landed there, her voice low and husky. “It’s been a few days. You really don’t miss me?”

Bai Xin said slowly, “I don’t know how happy I am when you’re not here. Who would miss you?”

Though she said that, she couldn’t stop her breathing from quickening.

Cheng Jiqing knew her body all too well.

Cheng Jiqing held Bai Xin’s waist, pulling her back even tighter. One hand moved up, the other down. “You really don’t?”

Sunlight slanted across the two of them, pressing their overlapping shadows onto the floor.

Bai Xin’s neck unconsciously tilted back to meet the kiss on her ear. She bit her lower lip. Having been apart for days, it was like a wildfire, igniting at a single touch.

But then, as if possessed, she remembered the video she had just seen.

The comments below were blindingly harsh, feeling like they were digging her heart out.

‘Are these two really acting? It looks like they’re doing it for real.’

Bai Xin spun around and, with a push of her hands, shoved the person away.

Cheng Jiqing was suddenly pushed back, stumbling two steps. She clutched her arm, lowered her head, and let out a soft cry of pain. “Ouch…”

Hearing that sound, Bai Xin grew tense subconsciously.

“I just had my blood drawn.”

“It’s not time for your blood draw. Why did you go?”

Though she was clearly furious, the question slipped out of Bai Xin’s mouth.

Cheng Jiqing, in turn, was taken aback.

She looked up and met Bai Xin’s gaze. Her ‘little scheme’ of getting her blood drawn a few days early could no longer be acted out.

Every time Bai Xin saw her give blood, she was very unhappy and would always hold her tighter at night. Bai Xin was worried about her; she didn’t want her to give blood.

She shouldn’t have used this to make her worry.

Cheng Jiqing stepped forward again to take Bai Xin’s hand and confessed honestly, “I was originally hoping you wouldn’t be so angry. I was wrong…”

Hearing this, Bai Xin immediately understood.

She slapped Cheng Jiqing’s shoulder, the force neither light nor heavy. “Cheng Jiqing, are you trying to use your acting skills on me now?”

“…” Cheng Jiqing cupped the back of Bai Xin’s neck, pulling her into an embrace again. “I wouldn’t dare. Aren’t I honestly confessing right now?”

Bai Xin was unhappy. New and old grievances piled up, yet she couldn’t bear to push the person away.

The two feelings clashed, and her anger grew. She lifted Cheng Jiqing’s chin and bit down hard on that pale white throat!

A cold sweat immediately broke out on Cheng Jiqing’s brow from the pain.

After several seconds, Bai Xin finally let go.

She stared at Cheng Jiqing with a dark gaze, her red lips parting slightly. “You can go.”

The teeth marks were visible on Cheng Jiqing’s throat. She swallowed. “You really want me to go?”

Bai Xin fell silent, narrowing her eyes at her.

Cheng Jiqing: “Then I’m leaving? Really leaving?”

The lipstick on Bai Xin’s lips had smudged slightly at the corners from her earlier action. Paired with her gritted-teeth silence, it created a kind of messy, forbidden sexiness.

“Alright then.”

Cheng Jiqing said, slowly releasing her hands under Bai Xin’s watchful gaze…

Their eyes were locked.

The instant she let go, Cheng Jiqing’s collar was suddenly yanked tight as Bai Xin pulled her forward fiercely. “You dare.”

Cheng Jiqing’s lips curled. In a flash, she grabbed Bai Xin’s waist, dragged her backward, and pushed her down to sit on the black leather chair.

She braced her hands on the armrests, lowered her head, her breathing heavy. “I wouldn’t dare. President Bai’s eyes look like they’re about to eat me alive…”

The anger in Bai Xin’s heart was so great, she really did feel like eating someone.

Bai Xin frowned and kicked her foot at Cheng Jiqing’s knee, but Cheng Jiqing caught her by the ankle. She bent that leg toward Bai Xin’s body.

The long skirt slid down from her knee. Cheng Jiqing’s fingertips gently caressed that stretch of smooth skin, slowly kneading their way up from her calf.

Suddenly, a knock came from the door—

“President Bai.”

Bai Xin looked at Cheng Jiqing, her lips parting as she exhaled, but she remained silent.

And so, Cheng Jiqing’s kiss landed on Bai Xin’s cheek. She then wiped away the smudged lipstick for her. “You handle your work first? I’ll wait for you in the small room⁹?”

Hearing this, Bai Xin spoke.

“You kneel.”

Cheng Jiqing paused, an almost imperceptible arch to her brow.

She knew Bai Xin was doing this on purpose, that she was just unhappy and wanted to act out a little.

“…Are you sure?”

“What? Film Queen Cheng can’t bend her knees? Can’t suffer this grievance?”

Cheng Jiqing’s gaze was lowered, her thumb still by the Omega’s red lips. She pressed slightly, her voice laced with deep meaning, “I have no problem bending beneath a pomegranate skirt¹⁰, I’m just afraid that if President Bai works like this… you won’t be able to take it.”

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Chengcheng: 《Some of My Wife’s Special Requests》

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