After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Marked the Crazy Hotshot – Chapter 7

Concern

Cheng Jiqing twisted off the bottle cap and, standing in the elevator, drank most of the water.

This world’s original host was only 23 years old. At first, Cheng Jiqing thought Bai Xin was mocking her young age. Later, from Bai Xin’s eyes, she realized it was an insinuation about her size.

She’s small? She’s small?

Cheng Jiqing touched her chest. This is small? Is she kidding? Had Bai Xin even tried it to say that?

…Bai Xin had tried it.

Strictly speaking, at least last night, they both had.

Cheng Jiqing scoffed. It must be that the woman’s hands were too small; it had nothing to do with her.

Unconvinced, Cheng Jiqing thought of something, pulled out her phone, and flipped to the recently deleted video in the recycle bin.

She clicked play.

Due to lighting issues, the footage inside the taxi was dark, but their faces were clear enough.

“Miss Bai, look, you were the one who pounced—”

Cheng Jiqing quickly muted the sound.

After this sentence, Bai Xin knocked the phone away and fell into her arms. Although it had already passed, she instantly recalled the Omega’s marshmallow-like softness.

You’re something else, she grumbled inwardly.

The image flipped as the phone fell. Cheng Jiqing thought nothing more would be recorded, but after shaking a few times, the video surprisingly stopped at a strange angle.

From this angle, the person in her arms, leaning against her, was quite restless.

She then noticed that at that moment, Bai Xin’s jaw moved several times, as if wanting to—bite her.

Cheng Jiqing’s glands heated up.

She thought, so Omega’s in heat, like Alpha’s in their rutting period, also want to bite.

The soft, vulnerable feeling of teeth against skin could stimulate one’s possessive instincts.

As the elevator neared its destination, Cheng Jiqing pressed pause, her finger hovering between “restore” and “delete.” She was considering keeping this trump card.

While she pondered, the elevator doors slowly opened.

Cheng Jiqing stepped out and suddenly noticed a familiar figure in the hallway.

The woman was on the phone. She was tall, with shoulder-length straight black hair, wearing a dark red dress, a half-smoked cigarette between her fingertips, wreathed in smoke.

Cheng Jiqing, without much thought, continued walking out. Just then, the smoker turned around.

“Miss Cheng.”

“Doctor Tang?”

Cheng Jiqing hadn’t expected it to be Tang Jia, and this Tang Jia was completely different from the one at the hospital.

Tang Jia didn’t seem surprised to see Cheng Jiqing.

Bai Xin had called her an hour ago from the driver’s phone for emergency help, which was why she was here. Bai Xin had just texted her from the car, saying Cheng Jiqing was upstairs, so it wasn’t unexpected.

Tang Jia stubbed out her cigarette in the ashtray by the trash can: “I came to deliver some medicine.”

Cheng Jiqing: “Oh, then hurry up.”

She added: “She’s not feeling well…”

She hadn’t refuted Bai Xin’s comment about her size earlier, not because she agreed, but because Bai Xin, flushed, had rushed her out.

“Are you really okay?”

“You should go.”

This was their last exchange before she left.

She felt she had been quite righteous, safely delivering the person upstairs. Since they said they didn’t need her, she wouldn’t impose.

Tang Jia gave a faint smile, taking out a disinfectant wipe from her bag: “She’ll be fine in a couple of days.”

Cheng Jiqing nodded, then hesitated, watching Tang Jia wipe her hands. She thoughtfully asked: “I heard that Omega heat periods aren’t usually this severe. Was she like this before?”

Tang Jia said: “Not before.”

Before being marked, Bai Xin had never called her for emergency help.

“Is it related to the drug?”

Cheng Jiqing suspected this was the reason. She remembered Tang Jia mentioning at the hospital that some people absorb the drug quickly, while others retain it in their system for a long time.

Tang Jia looked at Cheng Jiqing’s inquiring eyes: “It’s also related to that.”

This answer wasn’t a lie.

“Is there no way to alleviate it?”

In the underground parking garage earlier, Bai Xin’s reaction had been too intense.

What if she hadn’t come? How would Bai Xin have handled it alone? What if she encountered an Alpha or an enemy?

Hearing this, Tang Jia paused, her glasses obscuring her inquisitive gaze: “There is a way to alleviate it. You already did it once, Miss Cheng.”

Cheng Jiqing: “…”

Why did Bai Xin tell her everything?

“Don’t misunderstand. I guessed,” Tang Jia said. Bai Xin had just messaged her saying she didn’t need to come, and then mentioned Cheng Jiqing. It was easy to guess.

Since Tang Jia already knew about her one-night stand with Bai Xin, Cheng Jiqing didn’t bother with embarrassment and asked: “And the other way?”

“Medication to balance it, but it’s still under development.” Tang Jia looked at Bai Xin thoughtfully, a probing look in her eyes: “If there’s a need in the future, I wonder if Miss Cheng would be willing to help?”

Cheng Jiqing would only later understand the subtext of this sentence—if there’s a need in the future, I wonder if Miss Cheng would be willing to be a guinea pig?

But now, Cheng Jiqing answered readily: “Of course, I’m willing.”

Almost without hesitation.

This person is quite interesting, indeed different from the rumors. Tang Jia thought.

“This might be presumptuous, but I recall Miss Cheng’s deep affection for Miss Qin?” Deep enough to ruin Bai Xin and Qin Yufu’s marriage, even at the cost of her own reputation.

Cheng Jiqing: “…”

How could she hear the gossip in her tone?

Before she could answer, Tang Jia continued—

“Perhaps your initial target was Bai Xin?”

“Hmm, could it be you truly like Alphas?”

Cheng Jiqing: “?”

“By the way, Bai Xingxing posted a WeChat Moment. Miss Cheng might want to take a look.”

12th Floor.

When she received Tang Jia’s message, Bai Xin was leaning against the sink, having just taken suppressants. The restrictive dress she’d been wearing was now discarded on the tiles at her feet.

The glass door was open, and the air conditioning, set to 25 degrees, streamed in, evaporating the heat, causing her to shiver.

Closing the door, she sat on the edge of the bathtub and checked her phone.

There were messages from her family, the company, and Bai Xingxing asking where she was.

She ignored them all.

【Medicine at the door.】

【Image】

【Very exciting.】

The image was a screenshot of a WeChat Moment.

Bai Xingxing’s WeChat Moment:

‘Recently, a certain famous scumbag A is actually in an AA relationship. I’m not the first to know, right? I feel terrible… Almost fooled by their persona of being crazy for Os!’

Comments below—

‘Wow, what’s this tea? Private message me!’

‘Is it the love-sick one I’m thinking of?’

‘CEO Cheng Jr.: Just give out my ID number already.’

Cheng Jiqing had told her later what she’d said to Bai Xingxing.

“Sorry, I was thinking of a quick solution and didn’t ask for your opinion,” Cheng Jiqing had said. “After all, this matter involves you too. Now everyone knows we two ‘AAs’ slept together…”

At the time, she was astonished to hear this apology.

She didn’t know why, but she wasn’t angry at all. Instead, she thought that, at least for a while, no one would doubt her Alpha identity because of Cheng Jiqing’s words.

But what about Cheng Jiqing?

Was admitting to liking Alphas just to help her get rid of the threat posed by Bai Xingxing?

Why would Cheng Jiqing label herself like that for her?

Could guilt drive someone to this extent?

Lost in thought, Bai Xin straightened up, turned on the faucet, and began filling the tub. The bathroom temperature rose slightly.

She stared at the glass door, the image of Cheng Jiqing’s figure behind her last night flashing through her mind.

The balcony also had glass windows.

She unexpectedly felt a pang of regret for sending Cheng Jiqing away…

Bai Xin’s chest felt warm as she contemplated this feeling—indeed, once someone tastes sweetness, knows how sweet it is, they easily succumb to temptation.

She thought for a moment, then clicked on Bai Xingxing’s WeChat Moments. She found the latest post had been changed to ‘Just kidding earlier, don’t take it seriously.’ Bai Xingxing hadn’t bothered to block her, she must have simply deleted the original post.

Bai Xin saved the screenshot Tang Jia sent her. Then, she found a contact in her address book and forwarded the screenshot.

Even if Cheng Jiqing didn’t care about the AA label, that CEO Cheng probably wouldn’t be pleased.

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Cheng’s CEO Office.

“Your younger sister going to the hospital with Bai Xin probably wasn’t to deal with the aftermath of the drugging, but to protect Bai Xin in front of you…” The woman on the sofa crossed her legs, her voice like an oriole’s.

Cheng Jing frowned: “Impossible. There was an Omega’s scent in the villa last night, and it wasn’t Bai Xin’s.”

“It wasn’t Bai Xin’s, but Bai Xin was also there, wasn’t she? Which of the people CEO Cheng Jr. plays with these days doesn’t have a few tricks up their sleeve?”

Cheng Jing: “Shut up! Chengcheng wouldn’t do that!”

The Omega woman smiled, twirling a strand of hair: “I’m just analyzing. If my analysis is correct, CEO Cheng Jr.’s feelings for this Bai Xin are not ordinary.”

Cheng Jing stood by the desk, her neatly manicured nails almost digging into the wood.

“Do you think in the reports your subordinates give you, your younger sister’s attitude towards Bai Xin resembles that of a rival in love?”

The Omega woman on the sofa picked up her teacup and took a slow sip: “Would you intimately embrace your love rival? Go home with your love rival? Admit to sleeping with your love rival in front of others?”

Cheng Jing narrowed her eyes, glancing coldly at the speaker, as if the words had struck a nerve.

“Cheng-zong, you’re pushing her too hard. Would she have become like this if she had gotten Qin Yufu? She’s rebelling against you.” The woman was unafraid, even deliberately provoking her.

Cheng Jing: “…”

“If you love her, you should let her go. Doing this will only push her further away.”

The Omega woman stood up, walked over to Cheng Jing, her figure swaying in her cheongsam, and gently put her arms around Cheng Jing’s waist.

“When she gets tired of playing, and brings home an Alpha, you won’t regret it?”

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Not long after Cheng Jiqing got into the car, she received a text message from Bai Xin.

She hadn’t been able to find Bai Xingxing as a friend, so after Tang Jia told her about the post, she was still wondering how to find it. Then, someone in the “One Big Happy Family” group chat tagged her.

It was the same screenshot as Bai Xin’s.

As if someone had taken a screenshot online and circulated it widely.

Cheng Jiqing didn’t have a deep understanding of the concept of AA, so when she said she liked Alphas, she hadn’t really felt much. She simply wanted to dispel Bai Xingxing’s suspicions about Bai Xin, and she had said as much to Bai Xin.

She hadn’t expected such a huge reaction.

Bai Xin only sent her the screenshot, nothing else.

Cheng Jiqing pondered briefly. Since things had already come to this, it would be a pity not to take advantage of it.

Cheng Jiqing: 【Bai-jiejie, I don’t have any other requests. Just think of my kindness in the future.】

Don’t just think of ways to “kill” me.

Bai Xin: 【……】

Oh, she replies.

Cheng Jiqing found the string of ellipses amusing. She yawned, and just then, her phone vibrated.

It was a call from Cheng Jing.

Even Tang Jia, who wasn’t really in their circle, had seen the screenshot. Cheng Jing, who cared about the original Cheng Jiqing, must have seen it too.

She answered the call. The voice on the other end was concise: “Come home immediately. If you don’t come back today, I’ll freeze all your cards. Chengcheng, I’m not joking.”

Cheng Jiqing had experienced poverty, so her first concern after arriving in this world was being penniless. A person could truly be suffocated by lack of money.

She had just arrived, hadn’t established herself yet, and apart from Cheng Jing as her backer, she was practically destitute.

Even though the original Cheng Jiqing had resentment towards Cheng Jing, she didn’t intend to completely sever their relationship.

Moreover, she needed to address the matter with Bai Xin… It wasn’t good for either of them to be constantly scrutinized.

She “reluctantly” agreed to return.

As one of the top three enterprises in Beicheng, the Cheng family home was extravagant to an astonishing degree. Even Cheng Jiqing, who had been in the entertainment industry for years and had seen a lot, was impressed.

Amidst the respectful greetings of the servants, she entered this beautiful palace.

Cheng Jing was sitting on a large sofa. Cheng Jiqing, with her sharp eyes, noticed that Cheng Jing’s feet were resting on a Ziegler Mahal carpet. The price was probably around 1.2 million yuan.

Everything around her was antique-grade.

Outrageously wealthy.

Seeing her, Cheng Jing’s voice wasn’t as stern as it had been on the phone, but her expression remained stiff.

“When did you and Bai Xin start this?”

“…” Cheng Jiqing sat down on the sofa beside her, her expression unchanged. The bodyguards had followed her all day, so her previous excuse wouldn’t work.

“Nothing, just playing around,” she said casually.

Hearing this, Cheng Jing sat up straight, her eyes blazing with fury that threatened to incinerate Cheng Jiqing.

“She’s an Alpha! Can you cherish yourself a little?!”

The last people to talk to her like this were her manager and fans. She hadn’t figured out how to respond yet.

Seeing her silence, Cheng Jing recalled the Omega woman’s earlier words and swallowed her next sentence.

“Break it off with her immediately. I don’t care how you played around before, I can pretend it never happened.” Cheng Jing said: “I’ve already spoken to the Qin family… As long as you promise to behave yourself from now on, and stop this nonsense, the thing you mentioned before… I agree to it.”

Cheng Jiqing was bewildered. What thing?

As if having made a momentous decision, Cheng Jing looked at Cheng Jiqing and took a deep breath: “I agree for you to marry Qin Yufu.”

Cheng Jiqing: “?”

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The author has something to say:

Bai-jiejie: I’ll lose if you can actually get married.

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