After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Marked the Crazy Hotshot – Chapter 29

Are You Going to Manage This or Not?

The rain in Beicheng last night continued until the latter half of the night, and the temperature was only cool for a short while in the early morning.

By nine o’clock, the high temperature weather had resumed.

The scorching sun steamed and baked the entire city, like a giant steamer, with the fire underneath burning hotter and hotter.

“You suddenly came back, and even called Chengcheng back. What exactly are you trying to do?”

In the living room of the Cheng family villa.

Cheng Jing looked at the woman sitting leisurely on the sofa, her voice cold.

Fu Rongjun held a newspaper in her hand, and with the other, placed her special tea cup back on the table: “Xiao Jing¹, is this the attitude you should have when talking to Mom?”

Cheng Jing frowned. She had just gotten off the plane this morning, and upon hearing that Fu Rongjun was back, she knew it wasn’t good: “It wasn’t easy for her to accept me again, why do you have to do this at this time… What exactly do you want to do?”

Fu Rongjun’s wrist, holding the newspaper, was adorned with Small-leaf Sandalwood beads, and around her neck hung a Buddha statue. She was wearing a simple light blue silk shirt.

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After listening to Cheng Jing’s words, she put down the newspaper, and her leisurely aura instantly became sharp.

Fu Rongjun said: “Because of her foolishness, the reputations of the Qin family and the Cheng family are worse than the other. Madam Qin came to see me. Her idea is, we might as well let Qin Yufu and Cheng Jiqing get married, which would be a marriage alliance between the Cheng and Qin families. Of course, all the benefits will be yours. The Qin family doesn’t have many promising young talents. Madam Qin said that in the future, in the business world, the Cheng and Qin families will be like one family. You should understand what this means, right?”

“Since when did the Cheng family need to rely on marriage alliances to consolidate its position in the business world?” Cheng Jing said coldly: “Not to mention using Chengcheng’s marriage to exchange for it.”

“I thought you had come to your senses when you agreed to their marriage before.”

“That was because I thought Chengcheng liked Qin Yufu, but now she said she doesn’t like her.”

“Absurd! She likes someone just because she says so, and dislikes someone just because she says so? Who will be responsible for the ruined reputation of the Cheng family? Do you think the Qin family has no feelings about this at all?” Fu Rongjun said: “Besides, this matter has only benefits and no disadvantages for you and for the Cheng family.”

Cheng Jing: “What feelings does the Qin family have? Is Chengcheng the only one responsible for this matter? Didn’t the Qin family themselves add fuel to the fire behind the scenes?!”

“I didn’t come back to argue with my daughter.”

Fu Rongjun stood up from the sofa, her expression indifferent, seemingly not angered by Cheng Jing’s tone. She walked up to Cheng Jing and looked up slightly: “There’s another reason why I insist on Chengcheng getting married.”

Cheng Jing lowered her eyes.

Fu Rongjun took a shallow breath and said: “What you’ve been thinking about all these years, do you really think I don’t know?”

Upon hearing this, Cheng Jing’s face instantly turned pale.

Fu Rongjun stared at her for a few seconds, then withdrew her gaze: “It’s good that you know your place. There’s one more thing, has Chengcheng been in contact with anyone from the company recently?”

After a moment, Cheng Jing seemed to recover from the shock. She said: “She never gets involved in company matters, so how could she be in contact?”

“That’s good. You should regularly check on the people around her.”

“Why is this again?” Facing Fu Rongjun, Cheng Jing only felt tired.

Fu Rongjun: “Before Cheng Lan² died, she might have left a second will, and it concerns the inheritance. But it’s not in Chengcheng’s hands. I suspect Cheng Lan gave it to one of the old shareholders in the company.”

“It’s been so many years, if there was one, it would have…”

“Not taking it out doesn’t mean the will doesn’t exist. Why do you think I’ve been indulging Cheng Jiqing’s absurd behavior? The more absurd and incapable of taking on responsibility she is, the better. Cheng Shi³ was built by Cheng Lan and those old folks with their lives. They won’t easily let it be destroyed. Who would dare to hand the company over to someone like Cheng Jiqing?”

Cheng Jing felt half the blood in her body turn cold: “I thought before, when you told me not to worry about it and let Chengcheng mess around, it was because you felt guilty, just like me, but were using the wrong method. So that’s how it is.”

She closed her eyes, her expression pained.

After a long time, she opened her eyes: “Everyone in this family has made mistakes, but what mistake has Chengcheng made to be treated like this by you?”

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Cheng Jiqing returned to the Nanjing Apartments to rest for a few hours, timing her arrival at the main Cheng family house for mealtime.

When she entered, Fu Rongjun was looking down at a newspaper, which was vastly different from what she had imagined, and also somewhat different from the person she had dreamed of last night. This was perhaps due to how she was dressed at the moment.

Like someone practicing asceticism.

But when the person raised her head, the suffocating feeling Cheng Jiqing had experienced in her dream last night slowly rose.

Fragments of the dream repeated before her eyes. Affected by her mental state, she seemed to feel a pain in her heart.

Although she had never experienced the love of a birth mother, the head of the orphanage had given her no less love and had raised her very well.

Therefore, she couldn’t understand why a birth mother would treat her own daughter that way?

That sentence, ‘Don’t worry about Cheng Jiqing’s life or death,’ when the original host heard it, the heartache was something she didn’t want to feel a second time.

Unless the original host wasn’t Fu Rongjun’s biological child.

But this was just her guess, because in the book, the information she received was that Fu Rongjun was her and Cheng Jing’s biological omega mother.

Was it just because of favoritism?

At this moment, she suddenly thought of Bai Xin…

When Bai Xin had no mother and lived with her biological father and stepmother, seeing them dote on Bai Xingxing, did she also feel this kind of heartache?

Cheng Jiqing adjusted her emotions, briefly withdrew from her thoughts, and suppressed the low mood and pain from that empathy.

She had a premonition that this meal with ‘Mom’ today would not be peaceful.

“Since you’re here, let’s eat.”

Fu Rongjun stood up and beckoned to the servant standing by the living room waiting. The servant immediately went to the kitchen.

Cheng Jing also came down from upstairs. Seeing Cheng Jiqing, her expression paused.

The atmosphere was very strange.

Cheng Jiqing kept her guard up.

Facts proved that her premonition was correct.

The dishes on the table were abundant, but she couldn’t eat any of the ones in front of her because they were all various kinds of seafood. This wasn’t what made her feel weary; what made her feel weary was hearing Fu Rongjun calmly say the following words—

“I came back this time just to finalize your marriage with Qin Yufu.”

“?”

Cheng Jiqing found it difficult to describe this feeling with words. In her heart, there was only one sentence at this moment—Are you people in this family all sick?

Cheng Jiqing put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth. She already had no appetite, and now she couldn’t eat a single bite.

It was also possible that her mood today hadn’t been very high from the start.

“You’ve discussed it and agreed, haven’t you?” She looked up at Cheng Jing.

Cheng Jing sat opposite her, her face also looking displeased: “If you don’t want to, no one can force you.”

This was said to Fu Rongjun.

Cheng Jiqing felt a slight relief in her heart. With this, she had a better understanding.

From the fragments she saw last night, she could tell that Cheng Jing still had deep feelings for the original host, her younger sister. Her anxiety during the big fire couldn’t have been fake.

Later, she could also hear from the corridor that Cheng Jing did not approve of Fu Rongjun’s actions and even resisted them.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

By the same logic, at least now she and Cheng Jing were in the same camp⁴.

She could see that Fu Rongjun held a lot of weight in this family. She had also checked a little in the morning, for no other reason than that Fu Rongjun held 40% of the shares in Cheng Shi.

“I’m not discussing this with you. Either you get married, or you go abroad. Chengcheng, you can choose for yourself.”

Cheng Jiqing rubbed her temples. She even felt a bit like laughing.

“It’s really quite ridiculous.” Cheng Jiqing pushed her chair back and stood up: “Are you my biological mother?”

Cheng Jiqing didn’t ask this casually. She observed Fu Rongjun’s eyes, a smile still on her face, and said: “Why don’t you just say you’ll kick me out if I don’t get married? Is this even a choice? And I really don’t understand, why are you so interested in controlling me?”

Cheng Jing: “Chengcheng…”

“Jing-jie, don’t say anything. I know you’re a good person now.”

“…”

Fu Rongjun looked at Cheng Jiqing: “I haven’t managed you these past days, and you’ve really become more and more undisciplined.”

Cheng Jiqing: “I haven’t been disciplined for more than a day or two. You didn’t manage me before, so don’t bother now. I’ll just say one thing: whether to get married or go abroad is something only I can choose, and no one else can control it. Feel free to mess around however you want, it’s best if you just kick me out of the household registration.”

After saying this, she walked towards the exit of the living room.

Cheng Jing immediately followed her. Only Fu Rongjun, with a dark face, remained at the table.

“Chengcheng!”

Hearing Cheng Jing catch up, Cheng Jiqing stopped. She thought to herself, Sorry, Jing-jie, I admit I spoke too loudly to you before. You’re not the most annoying one, your mother is.

Cheng Jing stepped forward: “I didn’t know she was coming back.”

“It’s fine. Anyway, I’m not participating in the family’s drama. I just want to live my own life quietly.” Cheng Jiqing said the latter sentence truthfully.

Fu Rongjun’s attitude also showed that in the past, the original host was easily influenced by her, but perhaps at that time, the original host hadn’t heard the truth from the corridor.

After hearing the truth, the original host couldn’t bear the betrayal of her family. She tried to torment the two people she deeply loved by tormenting herself.

Her so-called torment was a form of revenge, and also like a child causing trouble to try and get attention from adults.

Logically speaking, she wasn’t the original host now, and she also had funds. Moreover, she had shares. If she cashed out the 5% shares in Cheng Shi, she could live comfortably for several lifetimes.

Let alone threatening to kick her out, even if they kicked her off Earth, she wouldn’t panic.

But the Cheng family was a large and powerful entity. No matter where she was, especially if she wanted to enter the entertainment industry in the future, she would likely not be able to escape the Cheng family’s influence.

This was reality.

The power of capital was strength.

It wasn’t that she could break free just by relying on a burst of courage, integrity, personality, or that bit of funds.

So, when it came to Fu Rongjun, she needed a teammate.

“Jiejie, I just want to live the life I want. Is that not allowed?”

Cheng Jing was silent for a moment, her voice equally serious, like a guarantee: “I will always stand by your side.”

When Cheng Jing saw Cheng Jiqing to the door, she suddenly called out again.

“Chengcheng, come to the company in a couple of days if you’re free.”

“Why?”

“When Mom was still around, many elders in the company were very fond of you. You should also come and see them, meet with them.” Cheng Jing said.

Cheng Jiqing originally wanted to refuse, but then she heard Cheng Jing say: “Just for one morning, okay?”

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At the dining table, Fu Rongjun took a sip of white wine.

She wiped her hands with a wet wipe, then reached for her phone.

The call was answered quickly. Fu Rongjun showed an elegant smile: “Madam Qin, I’m afraid you’ll need to put in a bit more effort on your end.”

“She used to like your Yufu. Now, with a little bit of effort, her heart will return.”

“I have no objections. Our goals are the same, which is to hope the children are well. When they get married, they will surely have to thank us elders for giving them a push. Yes, just use whatever method you want, and I will cooperate on my end.”

“Okay, you arrange the time and place, and I will make sure Chengcheng is there on time.”

Cheng Jiqing still agreed to Cheng Jing.

It was just a simple meeting, not much trouble. After all, she and Cheng Jing were now in the same trench, and Fu Rongjun was definitely a formidable opponent. Now, having one more friend meant one more path.

Cheng Jiqing didn’t sleep well for one night and rested for another two days at the apartment.

She also caught up on a few movies from this world and flipped through the novel 《On Shore》 in the evening.

The first sentence of 《On Shore》: There are many unexplainable things in this world, such as love.

Another day I woke up, and I was still the only one in the world

So before I jumped into the sea, I was determined to die.

But the moment that woman held me, my heart miraculously came alive. She slowly leaned closer to my lips, kissed me, and breathed air into me… At that time, I didn’t know that a golden fish tail curling up was a sign of being moved, just like my toes were also curling up tightly.

Cheng Jiqing’s body trembled, and she suddenly woke up.

She sat up and rubbed her eyes, looking at the book by the bedside. Perhaps the memory was too clear, she actually dreamed of this scene directly.

Only in the dream, the woman wasn’t some queen of the water, but Bai Xin.

She kicked the quilt, which she had been clamping between her legs, to the side. In the silent night, her cheeks felt a little hot.

She got out of bed and opened the door, passing the guest room next door on her way to the bathroom.

Cheng Jiqing looked inside for no reason. Since she left Bai Xin’s place at five something that day, they hadn’t been in contact.

The door wasn’t closed. Cheng Jiqing walked in. The pink bed sheets and quilt were still on the bed.

There was also a small paper bag on the table. That was the one she had given Bai Xin that day.

She walked over and picked up the paper bag. The disposable underwear inside hadn’t been used.

She suddenly remembered that Bai Xin had gotten up in the middle of the night that night and preferred to blow-dry her own with a hairdryer rather than use the disposable ones.

“Spoiled brat…”⁵

Cheng Jiqing mumbled as she left the room, went to the bathroom, and then returned to her own room.

The time was four in the morning.

She looked at the dim ceiling, and in her mind, she thought of Bai Xin discussing the contract marriage with her again.

The mechanical voice hadn’t stopped for the past two days, as if reminding her over and over again—to save her life, she needed to marry Bai Xin.

But she still couldn’t figure out the connection between Bai Xin blackening and getting married.

Thinking wildly, Cheng Jiqing fell asleep again in a daze.

When she woke up the next morning, she received a WeChat message from Tang Jia.

[Miss Cheng, are you free to come over this afternoon?]

She simply replied with an ok.

Her hazy eyes narrowed slightly. She exited WeChat and saw a text message and a red dot.

It was a text message for a city high temperature warning.

She thought of Bai Xin again.

They still hadn’t added each other on WeChat. Nowadays, very few people contacted each other via text message.

Instead, seeing the conversation box gave her a special feeling.

Bai Xin hadn’t contacted her these past two days. She should be okay, right? Perhaps she could be fine even without her.

Besides, if anything happened, Tang Jia would take care of it…

If she were to proactively send a message to ask, it seemed unnecessary.

After all, she did want to maintain distance.

Therefore, she ultimately didn’t ask Bai Xin.

Since Bai Xingxing’s incident that day, Bai Xin had not met with Bai Zhaoliang or Zhou Ping again.

Because there was no need for that.

Returning to the Bai family today was because several projects with Cheng Shi had fallen to her, and these were previously managed by Zhou Ping and Bai Xingxing. But now Cheng Jing’s side had designated her, requiring her to take over.

Zhou Ping couldn’t accept it.

Zhou Ping said that if she didn’t return today, she would target the people in her project team.

In reality, she didn’t care.

Even if the people in the project team were fired by Zhou Ping, she could find them better places to go.

She just wanted to see what tricks someone at the end of their rope⁶ could still pull.

But Bai Xin made a mistake. She forgot her current physical condition, and even more, she forgot that three days had passed since Cheng Jiqing’s comfort—

Bai Zhaoliang and Zhou Ping sat on the sofa, while Bai Xin sat opposite them.

“Cheng Jing’s secretary said that for the discussion meeting in two days, only you need to go. Tell me, what kind of unsavory things have you been doing behind the scenes to make Cheng Jing look at you with new eyes in just a few days?”

Zhou Ping crossed her arms, her face livid. Bai Zhaoliang beside her didn’t show it as obviously, but he also didn’t stop Zhou Ping’s words.

Bai Xin said indifferently: “It’s not me who made Cheng Jing look at me with new eyes, it’s your daughter who made her hate her to the bone. Given what Bai Xingxing did, you should be burning tall incense⁷ that Cheng Jing hasn’t withdrawn funds yet.”

“You!”

“As for the unsavory things you mentioned… you can very well go and ask Cheng Jiqing.” Bai Xin raised her eyes, responding fearlessly.

Zhou Ping gritted her teeth in hatred: “You’re something now, isn’t your ambition obvious to everyone? Bai Xin, you harmed Xingxing, and now you finally can’t hide your true face, can you?! You used to be so meek and obedient, now you’re not pretending at all! You think you’re very capable, don’t you?! How much effort did I and Xingxing put into the Bai family and Cheng family projects! You used some means and just took them away. Even if you don’t care about me, you should at least care about your father!”

“I said, that wasn’t my decision, it was Cheng Jing. If you can make Cheng Jing withdraw this proposal, that’s your ability. It’s just that now the Cheng family insists that I be responsible…” Bai Xin said half of it, then suddenly felt a sour swelling in her lower abdomen and gland. She frowned.

It was a symptom of the aftereffects.

She could distinguish it.

If she immediately injected two inhibitors now, she could get through this hurdle. When the effect wore off, she could inject two more, and today would be barely managed.

She sat on the sofa, looking at the faces of the two people opposite her. At this moment, Bai Xin didn’t think of inhibitors, but of Cheng Jiqing.

She didn’t know where Cheng Jiqing was at this time.

She still picked up her phone and found Cheng Jiqing’s conversation box…

“Listen to what she’s saying?! Bai Zhaoliang, are you going to manage this or not?! I knew I shouldn’t have let her into the company back then! Now look, she’s turned into an ungrateful wretch⁸!” Zhou Ping couldn’t bear it anymore and slammed her hand on the table: “The most hateful thing is, she ruined my daughter! I’m telling you, Bai Xin, this matter is not over! I will never forgive you for Bai Xingxing’s matter!”

Bai Xin looked at the message that was replied to instantly on her phone, raised her eyes, and held the phone with the black screen in her palm: “I don’t need your forgiveness, and as for Bai Xingxing turning out like this, don’t you bear any responsibility? It’s because you taught her that way that she acts that way.”

“Enough!”

Bai Zhaoliang, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

“Bai Xin, since Cheng Jing has assigned you to handle the matters with the Cheng family, then you should do it well. I believe you can do it well.” Bai Zhaoliang pressed down on the agitated Zhou Ping, then looked at Bai Xin, his tone normal: “But don’t worry about the Y2 project. I see you haven’t been focused on it recently. Do you know that several core personnel have left?”

“You forgot to tell me to rest recently, so I didn’t ask about it either.” Bai Xin took a sip of water, alleviating the slightly rising heat a little.

“This project has always been your responsibility. Prepare to hand it over. I plan to manage it myself.”

After Bai Zhaoliang finished speaking, Zhou Ping beside him immediately became furious.

“Bai Zhaoliang! What do you mean by this?!”

Bai Zhaoliang frowned, a hint of disdain surfacing in his eyes. Although those few projects with the Cheng family were important, what did they count for compared to the Y2 project, which he had heavily invested in?

He couldn’t see it before, but can’t he see this daughter’s ambition now?

If he pushed her too hard and it affected the Y2 project, that would be a loss that outweighs the gain!

If he was going to get angry again, he would wait until the documents were handed over.

“I have my plans. You also shouldn’t go to the company for the next two days. Just stay home properly. If you have nothing to do, go run around at the Special Management Office…”

“Your plans?! Your plans are to just casually throw away the hard work of me and my daughter to her?!” Zhou Ping’s eyes turned red, filled with anger, frustration, and resentment. It was Bai Zhaoliang who insisted on bringing Bai Xin back in the first place, otherwise how would her daughter have ended up in this state?

“Don’t talk as if you care so much about Xingxing! Xingxing has become like that, she’s in the Special Management Office! You’re favoring Bai Xin now and giving Bai Xin what belongs to her. If Xingxing knew, how much pain would she be in?!”

Bai Xin watched with cold eyes.

How could she not know Bai Zhaoliang’s plans? He looked upright and proper, his expression showing nothing, but in his heart, he was calculating gains and losses clearly.

“Enough! I think Xiao Xin is right, Xingxing was spoiled by you!” Bai Zhaoliang also lost patience and pushed Zhou Ping’s flailing movements aside.

It wasn’t actually heavy, but for Zhou Ping, who was in such a state, it was a double blow.

She completely lost her reason: “You bastard!”

Seeing that Bai Zhaoliang ignored her, Zhou Ping’s anger turned towards Bai Xin. She pointed at Bai Xin viciously and said: “It’s all you! It’s all you, you b%tch!”

Bai Xin instinctively sensed danger, but her physical condition at this moment couldn’t keep up with her reaction.

Therefore, when Zhou Ping smashed the glass cup on the table, she lost the best opportunity to dodge because her body was hot and weak.

A tearing pain came from her arm.

Bai Xin felt a warm flow drilling out from her skin. She lowered her eyes to look, and blood kept flowing out from the wound on her forearm…

A few minutes later.

Only Bai Xin and an auntie who was bandaging her remained in the living room.

Bai Zhaoliang had already pulled Zhou Ping upstairs. The door was closed, and faint sounds of arguing and crying could be heard.

“Oh dear, Miss, you should go to the hospital quickly later. So much blood, the wound isn’t shallow.” The auntie simply cleaned the surrounding bloodstains with iodine, but it seeped out too quickly, so she could only quickly wrap it with gauze first.

She sighed while wrapping.

“What if it leaves a scar?”

“You must go to the hospital.”

Bai Xin’s face was slightly flushed because her body temperature had risen a little, giving her a hint of rosiness, but her expression was very calm. She leaned softly on the sofa, like a beautiful porcelain doll.

Making her look even more pitiful.

She quietly looked at the blood in the trash can and thought, it was just in her body, and now it’s in the trash can. It shows that when a person dies, whether that pile of ashes is in the trash can or an urn makes no difference.

Bai Xin closed her eyes. Her gland was in a certain agitation, but her forearm was stinging. For a moment, she didn’t know which was more suffering.

The auntie was still bandaging, wanting to wrap a few more layers… Suddenly, someone came in from outside the door: “Miss, a Miss Cheng is outside, saying she’s looking for you.”

Bai Xin opened her eyes and sat up weakly from the sofa.

She saw the auntie preparing to wrap the last layer and said calmly: “No need.”

“It’s still bleeding, you need to wrap more… Hey, you shouldn’t!”

Bai Xin’s movement of getting up startled the auntie.

Bai Xin stood up, lowered her eyes to look at her arm, and after a moment of silence, she unrolled the wrapped gauze layer by layer. As the pressure lessened, blood seeped out from the wound again.

She only left the innermost two layers that were stained with blood.

Then she slowly walked towards the door.

Cheng Jiqing parked her car at the entrance and followed the Bai family’s people inside. Before she even reached the main entrance, the door opened from the inside.

Because Bai Xin said her aftereffects were acting up, and it was at the Bai family’s house, she had come in a hurry. When she suddenly stopped, her body took a step back.

Composing herself, she first saw Bai Xin’s slightly red cheeks, then her pale and weak lips. The next second, her gaze met Bai Xin’s arm—Cheng Jiqing’s pupils suddenly contracted, and she stepped forward two steps: “How did this happen?! You…”

Before she could finish speaking, Bai Xin softly collapsed onto her shoulder, her voice muffled: “Cheng Jiqing, someone bullied me. Are you going to manage this or not?”

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The author has something to say:

If I add extra chapters in the future, it will also be a bit later. (But I will definitely update daily.)

Bai-jie has learned her lesson. In front of others, she engages in verbal battles and bleeds without crying, but behind closed doors, she is weak and helpless, hugging her wife and feeling wronged.

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LP: This chapter is… interesting. Now I see that Jing-jie has feelings for our Chengcheng but I’m glad she’s not pushing it… And I hope it stays that way.

Also, Bai-jie is now starting her honey trap

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