After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Marked the Crazy Hotshot – Chapter 114
by Little Panda2024 Happy New Year [Welfare Extra Chapter]
The snow had already been falling for two days, and by this day, it was a vast expanse of white everywhere. Wherever one looked, there was no end in sight.
Cheng Jiqing and Cheng Jing had already arranged several months ago for the four of them to cross the year together today.
The location was, as usual, set at Xiao Nanzhou.
The appointed time was six o’clock in the evening, and seeing that there was only half an hour to go, it was almost time.
When she received Cheng Jiqing’s message, Cheng Jing was in the car. Because she had just come from the company, she was still wearing her consistent-for-a-decade Western-style suit trousers. Her brown hair was long, extending to her collarbone, her long legs crossed.
Little Sister: 【President Cheng, I’m sorry, we can’t make the appointment today.】
Cheng Jing replied: 【What’s wrong?】
Little Sister: 【It’s nothing, it’s nothing.】
Cheng Jing curved her perpetually cool red lips and replied slowly and methodically: 【Oh, making such a big fuss?】
Little Sister: 【……why are you still exposing people’s shortcomings?】
Cheng Jing laughed: 【Go on.】
She had also only seen it yesterday. A long time ago, Cheng Jiqing had rescued a little girl from a fire at a department store. Now, this little girl had been accepted into a music conservatory and had also participated in a music variety show with very good ratings, becoming a viral sensation across the internet with an original song called 《My Angel》.
Not only because this song was well-written, but even more so because the protagonist of this song was the person who had rescued her back then, Cheng Jiqing. The young lady publicly confessed her feelings for Cheng Jiqing on the show and on Weibo, and for a time, many people who followed the trend online began to frantically ship their CP.
To Cheng Jiqing, this really didn’t count for much. After all, Bai Xin was also present during the situation at that time, and she also understood that it was because of the relationship from breaking through that fire disaster.
What was speechless-making was that when Cheng Jiqing was browsing the hot search2, she accidentally slipped her hand and liked a Weibo post that said ‘the two of them are a good match’……
Thus, this ‘like’ from Cheng Jiqing once again rushed to the top of the hot search this afternoon.
Cheng Jiqing expressed that she was very innocent. Even though she posted a clarification on Weibo, the popularity just wouldn’t go down.
Besides this, her esteemed backyard also caught fire3——Bai Xin was completely out of contact.
Thus, she could only break her appointment today and go coax her wife.
In the car, Cheng Jing’s phone vibrated again.
Seeing the message Cheng Jiqing sent again: 【See you again next year, you tell Xiuxiu-jiejie for me.】
Cheng Jing pursed her lips, thinking of her own little matter, and the smile in her eyes retracted.
【It’s fine, I have something going on here too.】
Little Sister: 【?】
After a few seconds: 【Ah, your place caught fire too?】
Cheng Jing: 【……】
Without saying more, Cheng Jing glanced at the time, then raised her eyes to the street scene of flowing light and overflowing colors4.
She instructed in a faint voice: “A little faster.”
“Alright, President Cheng.”
On Kuanianye, Beicheng Xiu Yuan was also bustling with people coming and going, exceptionally lively. The tunes from the stage had not stopped since the afternoon.
A black car stopped at the entrance. The valet at the courtyard entrance saw the license plate and hurried forward to attend to it. After Cheng Jing got out of the car, the person respectfully called out: “President Cheng.”
Just as she entered the courtyard, the manager had already heard the news and came over.
Cheng Jing paid no mind to that round of pleasantries and asked: “Where is Xiuxiu?”
The manager said: “Miss Tu is getting ready backstage.”
“No need to follow.”
Saying so, she went directly towards the back.
Cheng Jing walked to Tu Xiuxiu’s private dressing room and knocked on the door while standing at the entrance. No one answered. She could only hear a faint sound.
After a few seconds, a soft voice came from inside: “Who is it?”
“I.”
“If you don’t say your name, how would I know who you are?” The tone was not quite pleasant.
“Cheng Jing.”
Tu Xiuxiu was inside. The corners of her eyes glanced towards the door, then she retracted her gaze: “Oh, so it’s President Cheng, is something the matter?”
As her voice fell, the vermilion wooden door was pushed open directly from the outside. The sound made her heart tremble slightly. She had known long ago that this person didn’t have that much patience.
Back when she went to Copenhagen to coax her, she spent so much time just to meet her once. Over a year has passed, and now, after just this little while longer, she wouldn’t wait.
Adding to yesterday’s matter, she was even angrier in her heart.
She took a breath, held up her eyebrow pencil, and meticulously drew her eyebrows while facing the mirror, not even giving half a glance to the person behind her.
Until the woman’s graceful figure appeared in the mirror.
Cheng Jing walked from the side to behind Tu Xiuxiu, gazing at the person drawing her eyebrows in the mirror. The makeup for the green-clothed role was nearly complete. This face alone was enough to make one’s imagination run wild.
She bent at the waist and gently stroked the black hair at the back of Tu Xiuxiu’s waist.
“I heard from the manager that you have to be on the same stage as your Shijie? So you’re angry with me?”
Tu Xiuxiu’s red lips parted slightly: “Yes, I am. Can’t I be?”
“Without my instructions, who would dare to have you sing opera?”
Tu Xiuxiu’s eyelids lifted: “You’re so capable. Why not make it simpler, you could seal this garden, lock me up too, then wouldn’t I not have to sing?”
“It’s not that it can’t be done,” Cheng Jing said in a faint voice.
Tu Xiuxiu: “……”
She got angry, slammed the eyebrow pencil onto the table, and stood up directly. Cheng Jing reached out her hand and hugged her from behind: “If you weren’t going to be angry, I wouldn’t do this kind of thing either.”
Tu Xiuxiu avoided her breath and didn’t make a sound.
Cheng Jing lowered her head slightly, her chin resting on the opera costume on Tu Xiuxiu’s shoulder, and coaxed in a low voice: “That employee has already been fired and will never return to Beicheng again. You can ask me about this kind of thing, why must you be angry with me over an irrelevant person?”
It was the special assistant’s assistant. The special assistant had something on at the last minute, so this assistant followed her to inspect a shopping mall. In the mall, the assistant helped her tidy her collar, and as a result, someone with intentions took a picture and posted it online.
Cheng Jing remembered and added an explanation: “I fired her at the time.”
She hadn’t taken it to heart. This kind of matter was not considered rare; it was handled and that was that.
However, she had indeed overlooked Xiuxiu’s feelings. She was too busy with work, and it was inevitable that Tu Xiuxiu would feel upset. In the future, she would have to pay attention and also give a reminder to the people under her.
Tu Xiuxiu actually knew it had nothing to do with Cheng Jing, it was just that she felt uncomfortable in her heart. She raised her hand to block Cheng Jing’s kiss and fragrance: “You also said it was an employee. I have to eat vinegar5 over a mere employee. You have so many Yingyings and Yanyans around you, there will be even more vinegar to eat in the future that I won’t be able to finish.”
She looked at Cheng Jing’s exquisite face in the mirror. A person like Cheng Jing was destined to not have peace around her. She said: “With you being like this, my thoughts can’t help but follow your news. How am I supposed to sing opera? It would be better to simply not think about it.”
Hearing this, Cheng Jing lightly pinched her face: “Say that again?”
Tu Xiuxiu looked at her: “I said, it would be better not to…… mmm.”
Cheng Jing held her chin, tilting it up slightly, and kissed her lightly and deeply, not giving her any space to breathe. The hurried breath was like a tempting fuse. In the room full of opera costumes, there was a strange, forbidden color.
After a long while, Cheng Jing’s lips retreated, trailing a thread of silver, which she wiped away with her thumb.
Her eyes were deep and heavy: “Then who do you want to think about?”
Tu Xiuxiu was suddenly stunned. She lowered her head, her reddened eyes looking at the diamond ring on her ring finger, and heard Cheng Jing’s earnest voice come from above her head: “Originally, I had arranged a pretty good marriage proposal ceremony. With Chengcheng and Bai Xin both there, it would count as a witness. Who knew you would get angry with me and not come, but this matter was my fault for not handling it well. It’s okay…… proposing in a place you like is not bad either.”
Tu Xiuxiu was still in a daze when Cheng Jing suddenly let her go and knelt on one knee in front of Tu Xiuxiu.
She raised her eyes, her face full of sincerity and seriousness. She said, word by word: “Miss Tu Xiuxiu, are you willing to marry a woman who once did not cherish you, but now loves you very much, and vows to be loyal to you for a lifetime, to dote on you and spoil you for a lifetime?”
Tu Xiuxiu pursed her lips: “Cheng……”
Cheng Jing: “Tu Xiuxiu, I love you, I want to marry you, are you willing to give me a chance to be your wife?”
The tears gathering in Tu Xiuxiu’s eyes were about to make it impossible to see Cheng Jing clearly. Her eyelashes trembled, and teardrops fell, but she deliberately did not answer.
She and Cheng Jing had ground against each other for so many years, and to suddenly reach this step today, it felt like a dream, yet so real. The stirring, the joy, and also a thread of complex emotions that seemed like bewilderment were intertwined.
Cheng Jing stood up, pulled the person into her arms, and patted her back gently.
Tu Xiuxiu leaned back slightly, the opera costume had already slipped to her shoulders, her skin flushed pink. She suppressed a sob, pulled her wits together, and asked: “We didn’t go today, will Chengcheng and the others be unhappy?”
Cheng Jing: “They won’t. She didn’t go either.”
Tu Xiuxiu leaned against Cheng Jing’s shoulder and asked, suppressing her breath: “Why?”
Cheng Jing’s movements were inconvenient. She pulled the person’s clothes together, picked her up in one go, and as she was about to walk towards the room in the back of the courtyard, she casually mumbled a reply: “Also coaxing her wife……”
The author has something to say:
Long time no see, I was wondering if I should change the title of the novel to 《Addicted to Her》?
First, I’ll release a welfare extra chapter for Jing and Xiu.
Next time will be an eating vinegar extra chapter for Chengcheng and Bai-jie. In the future, when I have time and am in a good mood, I might write other extra chapters. Hehe, since there’s free welfare, I’ll write a little more for everyone~
Babies who have finished reading can also go see the new linked article, mwah~
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, good health, and may everything go smoothly
Footnotes
- 跨年夜 | kuà nián yè | Literally “cross-year night,” the standard term for New Year’s Eve in Chinese, referring to the night of December 31st when one “crosses over” into the new year.
- 热搜 | rè sōu | Literally “hot search,” this refers to the list of trending topics on social media platforms like Weibo. Making it onto the “hot search” list means a topic has gained massive public attention and discussion.
- 后院也起了火 | hòu yuàn yě qǐ le huǒ | A common Chinese idiom meaning that trouble has arisen in one’s own home base, personal life, or within one’s own organization. It signifies an internal crisis or problem that requires immediate attention, distracting from external affairs.
- 流光溢彩 | liú guāng yì cǎi | A four-character idiom (chengyu) used to describe a scene that is brilliantly illuminated and colorful. It evokes an image of dazzling, shimmering lights, often used for city nightscapes, festive lanterns, or splendid decorations.
- 吃醋 | chī cù | The standard Chinese idiom for feeling jealous, particularly in a romantic context. The origin story involves Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty testing a minister’s wife by offering her a choice between accepting a concubine for her husband or drinking a cup of “poison,” which was actually vinegar. She chose the vinegar, and the term has since been used to describe romantic jealousy.
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