Substitute Alpha Gets Confessed to by Her Ex’s Aunt on a Survival Variety Show – Chapter 180
by Little PandaHongdu Lovers
That was her Alpha protecting her.
She is my girlfriend.
Just a few short words, yet they carried devastating power.
Liu Yinxi’s heart raced wildly as she heard Nan Huaixu declare their relationship in front of her mother.
This counted as meeting the parents, didn’t it? They hadn’t even been in a confirmed relationship for a month, yet Nan Huaixu dared to acknowledge Liu Yinxi as her official girlfriend in front of her mother. Liu Yinxi felt overwhelmed with gratitude—and it gave her face. For an ordinary person, that would be one thing, but Nan Huaixu was a celebrity. Publicly admitting a romantic relationship carried enormous stakes for her. The fact that she dared to do this proved she considered Liu Yinxi profoundly important.
An unexpected surprise within expectations—Nan Huaixu always managed to raise the ceiling of love just when Liu Yinxi thought she’d already reached its limit.
Warmth like a flame burned through Liu Yinxi’s chest. Surging with emotion, she stepped to Nan Huaixu’s side, took her lover’s hand, and laced their fingers together.
Liu Yinxi felt she ought to say something, so she addressed Zeng Mulin, who sat in the executive chair with an imperious, condescending gaze: “Hello, Aunt Zeng. I’m Liu Yinxi. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Zeng Mulin’s eyebrows shot up. She looked at Liu Yinxi the way one might look at a fly, as though she’d flick it away at any second: “I’m talking to Nan Huaixu. What business is it of yours to interrupt? An Alpha passed around by some mistress’s daughter—disgusting. Shameless.”
Liu Yinxi quickly replied: “You’ve misunderstood, Aunt Zeng. I just wanted to let you know you’re sitting in the wrong seat. This is President Nan’s chair—only the president of this company may sit here. Also, you’ve entered a corporate executive’s office uninvited, which gives us reasonable suspicion of corporate espionage. That’s illegal.”
Zeng Mulin’s arrogant expression fell. She hadn’t expected some little Alpha who postured and posed online to dare talk back to her like this.
After a couple of seconds, seeing Nan Huaixu remain silent, Zeng Mulin sneered and challenged Liu Yinxi with haughty contempt: “You’re saying I’m breaking the law? I came to visit my own daughter at her company—is there a problem with that? Didn’t someone want to call the police? Go ahead, call them. Let’s see if the police arrest me—”
“Hello, 110? I need to report a crime. I’m at No. 26 Xinsheng Avenue, Jinghang District. Someone’s barged into my boss’s office under the pretext of being a relative, and we now reasonably suspect her of stealing corporate secrets and maliciously damaging company property.” Liu Yinxi’s phone call had already gone through—she hadn’t needed anyone’s prompting.
Zeng Mulin stared, wide-eyed with disbelief. She’d only been exaggerating to intimidate Liu Yinxi—she never expected this person to play dirty and actually follow through.
Zeng Mulin turned on her daughter furiously: “Nan Huaixu, are you going to control your Alpha or not? You’re just going to let an outsider toy with your mother? You—the grand Second Young Mistress of the Nan Family—carrying on with such a filthy, vulgar little person. Don’t you think that’s ridiculous?!”
Nan Huaixu’s eyelids drooped, her face already etched with exhaustion first thing in the morning. She silently faced her raging mother for a moment, then turned to leave: “Wait for the police.”
Zeng Mulin: “?”
This daughter of hers had always been docile and obedient. Even when she’d thrown a tantrum and started her own company these past two years, it was nothing more than petty fussing. She’d grown somewhat distant, yes, but she’d always been thoroughly respectful—when had she ever been this insolent!
It must have been that cheap wench Liu Yinxi who corrupted her.
Zeng Mulin strode forward and grabbed Nan Huaixu’s wrist: “Manman, what do you mean? Does the education and etiquette you received allow you to speak to Mami with such a brazen attitude? Calling the police—I’m truly disappointed in you—”
Slam!
The moment Nan Huaixu stepped out of the office, Liu Yinxi swiftly shut the door from outside.
Zeng Mulin nearly got her nose smashed by the glass door. She cried out, stumbled two steps back, and pounded furiously on the glass: “Liu Yinxi, are you out of your mind?! Nan Huaixu, open the door for Mami! Nan Huaixu!”
Nan Huaixu registered her fingerprint on the smart lock, entered the management interface, and locked the door from outside.
She turned her head: “Xixi, help me grab a chair from the Administration Department.”
Liu Yinxi brought one over briskly: “Sure thing, President Nan.”
Nan Huaixu sat down in the chair, facing the glass door of the executive office, directly across from Zeng Mulin.
Zeng Mulin pounded on the door for a while, but when she realized Nan Huaixu was dead set on locking her in, she gave up and stomped back to the executive chair in a rage.
The moment she sat down, she remembered Liu Yinxi had called the police. That cheap wench and her disappointing daughter had teamed up to frame her for corporate espionage. If she kept sitting in the president’s chair, it would be even harder to explain when the police arrived.
So Zeng Mulin moved to the sofa against the wall and sat down, glaring resentfully at the two people outside.
Nan Huaixu leaned back in her chair and made her calls without any rush: “Xiao Zhu, where’s the secretarial desk and the Administration Department? Not a single person. If they’re not at their posts within ten minutes, mark them all absent for the day.”
“Feng Rui, pull all surveillance footage from six o’clock this morning to now. Isolate the segment showing Zeng Mulin bringing people and forcing entry into the company—that’s evidence.”
“Sister Du, please bring over the qualification filings our company submitted and the official rejection notices from the relevant authorities. Get the Legal Department and Finance Department to come along—however many can make it, bring them all. Today, we’re going to demand justice, fair and square.”
After finishing her calls, Nan Huaixu smiled faintly at Zeng Mulin through the glass door. Zeng Mulin regarded her with chin lifted: “Nan Huaixu, you’ve really grown some teeth.”
Nan Huaixu put on an expression of mild puzzlement: “Oh? I grew them a long time ago, didn’t I, Mami?”
Zeng Mulin smiled back at her just as faintly, casually pulling out a makeup bag and touching up her lipstick.
But her air of triumph shattered the moment she saw Xiao Zhu arrive with a squad of security guards escorting her own bodyguards off the premises.
Right behind them, Nan Huaixu’s employees arrived—and so did the police.
Zeng Mulin panicked.
Four officers walked through the crowd: “Who called in the report?”
Locked inside the office, Zeng Mulin knocked on the glass door. She pointed at Nan Huaixu outside and smiled with easy familiarity: “Officers, it’s a misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding. I’m her mother. She’s just throwing a little tantrum with me, being stubborn.”
The officer pointed at her sternly: “Step back! Ma’am, I didn’t ask you. Please keep quiet!”
Zeng Mulin lifted an eyelid and sat back down, visibly impatient.
Liu Yinxi raised her arm: “Officers, I’m the one who called.”
The officers came over to get the details from her: “What’s the situation.”
Liu Yinxi turned to Nan Huaixu and said to the officers: “This is our boss, Nan Huaixu. She’ll explain the specifics.”
Nan Huaixu immediately took over: “Hello, officers. Here’s what happened…”
Nan Huaixu recounted in full detail how Zeng Mulin had brought bodyguards and forced entry into the company that morning, disrupting employees’ work. Supported by surveillance footage from the Security Department as physical evidence and testimony from employees across various departments as witness statements, the officers determined on the spot that Zeng Mulin’s actions were illegal.
Zeng Mulin repeatedly insisted she and Nan Huaixu were parent and child, offering to produce a birth certificate and a paternity test, but the officers shut her down.
Liu Yinxi said loudly to Zeng Mulin: “Are you legally illiterate? This isn’t a place where you fight over an inheritance—this is a company. What’s at stake here is the business of every single employee. You could give birth to another one right here and it still wouldn’t wash away the crime. No wonder you couldn’t beat your ex-wife—your brain doesn’t quite work up here.”
With that, Liu Yinxi tapped her temple.
But then she felt genuinely grateful: “Thank goodness Manman inherited all the excellent traits. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t dare believe you’re her Mami.”
“Aunt Zeng, you should be thankful Manman is your daughter.”
That was Liu Yinxi’s honest feeling.
If Zeng Mulin weren’t Nan Huaixu’s biological mother, Liu Yinxi wouldn’t have shown her a shred of mercy.
But precisely because Zeng Mulin was Nan Huaixu’s biological mother, Liu Yinxi felt even more furious about the damage she had inflicted on Nan Huaixu’s entire life.
—Throwing away the family portrait Nan Huaixu drew, forcing her best friends to transfer schools, compelling Nan Huaixu to live against her own will in misery, turning her into a tool for power and profit. Zeng Mulin had tried to control Nan Huaixu’s life through a cycle of punishment and reward—lashing her one moment, tossing her a sweet treat the next—a textbook emotional manipulation routine, constantly belittling her self-worth, destroying her self-identity, leaving Nan Huaixu to spend over thirty years trapped in loneliness and anxiety.
And now, Liu Yinxi was going to shatter this shackle disguised as maternal love.
She wanted Nan Huaixu to be cold for once, ruthless for once, outrageously rebellious1 for once, disowning all kin2 for once.
She wanted Nan Huaixu to stand firm as herself for once, to fight to the bitter end on her own terms.
So the words Nan Huaixu couldn’t bear to say, Liu Yinxi would say for her. The things Nan Huaixu couldn’t bear to do to her mother, Liu Yinxi would do for her.
Liu Yinxi’s gaze toward Zeng Mulin turned feral: “I’m sorry, but you’re not my Mami, so I don’t care about you. Remember this—anyone who dares to hurt Nan Huaixu, I’ll hurt them right back.”
In this world, Liu Yinxi had nothing and no one but Nan Huaixu. The barefoot fear not the shoed3—she was genuinely fearless.
Years of roaming the wilderness had forged in Liu Yinxi a beast’s ferocity. When she bared her teeth, she was like the legendary Biao, a beast said to slay tigers—the overwhelming force of her presence and pheromone pressure cowed everyone except Nan Huaixu.
And this powerful pheromone signal, released so aggressively, made the Omega attuned to her feel profoundly safe.
Because Nan Huaixu was enveloped by pheromones she trusted completely—every fiber of her being knew that was her Alpha protecting her.
Having survived the life-and-death trials of the primeval rainforest, Nan Huaixu had grown accustomed to baring her fangs beneath Liu Yinxi’s protection, fighting fiercely by the law of the jungle to seize what was rightfully hers.
After the officers resolved the trespassing incident, they required Zeng Mulin to apologize and pay compensation once the company assessed its damages.
Zeng Mulin was someone who cared about appearances. A token sum of compensation meant nothing to her, so she agreed readily, calling out to Nan Huaixu from inside the office: “Manman, let Mami out. Mami still has a lot of work to do. I made special time to come see you today.”
Liu Yinxi listened and nearly laughed. They’d escalated to calling the police to settle a dispute, and Zeng Mulin still had the nerve to talk about feelings. Not only did she want face—she had a thick skin to match.
Just then, Nan Huaixu took a sealed bag from the administrative manager. Ignoring her mother’s request entirely, she handed the documents to the officers: “Officers, I’d also like to report a separate case of malicious competition. Zeng Mulin bribed relevant authorities and repeatedly obstructed our company’s qualification reviews, preventing us from conducting normal business operations and seriously undermining our social obligations to generate revenue and pay taxes. This bag contains all the evidence of Zeng Mulin’s economic crimes I’ve gathered over the years. You must investigate thoroughly and deliver justice for my employees and me.”
Zeng Mulin’s gaze was fixed on the sealed bag Nan Huaixu handed to the officers. She slammed violently against the glass door: “Nan Huaixu! You ungrateful white-eyed wolf4 who can never be fed enough! How black does your heart have to be to falsely accuse your own biological mother?!”
Nan Huaixu whirled around and roared, eyes splitting with fury5: “Then don’t be my mother anymore!”
I don’t want to be your daughter anymore, anyway.
You know what?
I have a home now.
Nan Huaixu’s furious roar had drained every ounce of her strength. Only Liu Yinxi, gripping her hand tightly, knew how violently her hand trembled in that moment.
But it didn’t matter—because Liu Yinxi stood behind her, filling the love and support she’d been denied for thirty years.
Footnotes
- 大逆不道 | dà nì bù dào | Literally 'great rebellion against the Way' — a classical legal category in imperial China denoting the supreme crime of violating fundamental moral order, most gravely filial impiety toward parents.
- 六亲不认 | liù qīn bù rèn | Literally 'not recognizing any of the six categories of kin' — a Chinese idiom describing someone who coldly severs all familial ties without sentiment or mercy.
- 光脚的不怕穿鞋的 | guāng jiǎo de bù pà chuān xié de | Literally 'the barefoot fear not those who wear shoes' — a Chinese proverb meaning those with nothing to lose have no fear of retaliation from those who have something to protect.
- 白眼狼 | bái yǎn láng | Literally 'white-eyed wolf' — a Chinese idiom for a vicious ingrate; 'white eyes' symbolize lack of conscience, combined with 'wolf' for predatory ingratitude.
- 目眦尽裂 | mù zì jìn liè | Literally 'the corners of the eyes split wide' — a classical Chinese idiom from Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, describing eyes opened so wide in fury that the corners tear.
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