A Heartthrob Transmigrated as the Scumbag Alpha's Ex-Wife - Chapter 16

Watching the five-minute mark draw closer, Duan Qingyi paced back and forth in place, anxiously biting her lip.

She was not very confident about whether she could get Gu Qiyou to come out, but when she thought of everything that had happened today, she still made up her mind. Although Mu Yu appeared polite to her on the surface, whenever Duan Qingyi thought of what that woman had done behind the scenes, the lunch she had just eaten almost came back up. Her sense of justice urged a sudden courage to rise within her.

So what if Mu Yu was the young lady of the Mu family?

Being a young lady was not a reason to cheat!

The winter afternoon sun was bright as gilded gold, but the wind stripped away its original warmth bit by bit, bringing not the slightest comfort to the dry, icy weather. As time passed, Duan Qingyi’s soaring resolve was gradually worn down. When the wind rushed at her head-on, it choked her so badly that she even began to deeply doubt whether she should be standing here at all.

But just as the countdown was about to end, the nearly despairing Duan Qingyi saw Gu Qiyou’s figure appear around the corner. Her eyes instantly lit up.

“Sister Youyou!”

Duan Qingyi’s voice was sweet, the standard soft-girl Omega type. As Gu Qiyou came closer and closer, she had to lift her head to look at the woman. This height difference gave her a great sense of security. For some reason, from the very first moment Duan Qingyi saw Gu Qiyou, she had felt close to her. Even though the other woman was a Beta, Duan Qingyi felt that Gu Qiyou actually had a very Alpha-like aura.

Gu Qiyou was at least 1.7 meters tall, the standard height of a female Alpha. The coldness of her face was actually only because of her indifferent expression.

Duan Qingyi had seen Gu Qiyou act before. She had played a wealthy young lady from the Republican era, and she captured that delicate yet cool demeanor extremely well. Her eyes shifted gracefully, with a cold distance within her charm, yet she was just alluring enough to capture the heart. In Duan Qingyi’s teacher’s words, although Gu Qiyou was not professionally trained, she had great potential. With that face alone appearing onscreen, she was already a complete enchantress without needing many expressions.

Such a beauty had actually been played in the palm of Mu Yu’s hand.

Duan Qingyi felt even more stifled.

The woman had probably been taking a nap just now. At a glance, her clothes had clearly been put on in a hurry, and her hair was slightly messy as it fell over her shoulders. With light makeup, her face looked even smaller and more delicate. After seeing Duan Qingyi, Gu Qiyou politely nodded. She did not want to waste too much time here and gestured for her to speak directly.

In the original book’s design, Duan Qingyi did boldly describe to Mu Yu how the original character “Mu Yu” had privately betrayed Gu Qiyou. Although what she had seen was only speculative rumors online, after seeing the way the two got along, Duan Qingyi could be certain that their relationship was only superficial.

Duan Qingyi had taken psychology as an elective in university. Before acting in her first drama, she had even been invited to be an observer on a romance variety show. She had done her homework on these things, and she also trusted what her own eyes had seen.

From the details of how the two usually behaved, she could clearly determine that Mu Yu did not actually care much about Gu Qiyou.

In the original setting, Gu Qiyou was only indifferent at first, and her attitude toward Duan Qingyi could not be considered good. After all, having this kind of thing discovered by an outsider was not exactly dignified, so she could not help snapping back at Duan Qingyi a few times. But as Duan Qingyi’s analysis became more and more piercing, Gu Qiyou began to think back and realize: had she been PUA’d by Mu Yu?

All In was the last variety show the two of them worked on together. Their final scene was the so-called “farewell scene” that “Mu Yu” insisted on completing with her. The two performed very successfully, both giving it their all. After that, the “Yu-You CP” completely BE’d. Fans could only search for candy in their previous shared scenes and repeatedly rewatch that drama.

Later, after many twists and turns, Gu Qiyou exposed the evidence of “Mu Yu” cheating during their marriage. Public opinion across the internet reversed, and everyone angrily cursed Mu Yu as a giant scumbag. At that time, “Mu Yu” was preparing to take over a good script with a film queen. Even with capital backing her, the director forcibly replaced her. In the end, the Mu family collapsed, and “Mu Yu” completely fell into the abyss…

“Sister Youyou, you’re a Beta, so maybe you don’t understand, but I’ll tell you honestly. Today, I smelled an Omega’s scent on Mu Yu!”

After mentioning several things circulating online and seeing that Gu Qiyou did not react much, Duan Qingyi finally could not hold back and dropped her biggest discovery of the day like a bomb.

At this point, Duan Qingyi’s face flushed slightly. Although that pheromone scent was Omega like hers, she had not felt especially repelled by it.

There were generally two possibilities in such a situation. One was that the other party’s pheromones were especially low-level, and they had only recently differentiated, so Duan Qingyi did not sense any threat and therefore felt no resistance. The other possibility was that the other party’s pheromones far surpassed hers, leaving her unable to develop any resistance at all.

In other words, the person Mu Yu had hooked up with was either a green, newly differentiated Omega who might even be underage, or someone with very high-level pheromones!

No matter which one it was, it was humiliating for Gu Qiyou. The other party was simply relying on the fact that Gu Qiyou was a Beta and could not smell pheromones to act recklessly. Even cheating was done so blatantly. Just thinking about it made Duan Qingyi furious.

“Really?”

Gu Qiyou still seemed half-convinced and half-doubtful, but a barely noticeable trace of urgency and surprise had entered her calm tone. After catching this tiny emotional detail, Duan Qingyi became even more enthusiastic. When she grew excited, she even rolled up her sleeves and stepped closer.

“You’re a Beta, so maybe you don’t know, but even though the law is much stricter now, privately, many Alphas will still secretly—”

Before she could finish, crisp footsteps arrived together with bright laughter. Duan Qingyi quickly stopped speaking. When she saw it was Zou Lili, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zou Lili, refreshed after her nap, looked at the two of them with an expression that said, “Why are you two together?” Especially after seeing that the distance between Duan Qingyi and Gu Qiyou had nearly exceeded normal social boundaries, she suddenly thought of something. Her gaze toward Gu Qiyou carried a hint of provocation.

In any case, it was not livestream time yet. They could say whatever they wanted. Even though Mu Yu was not present, Zou Lili asked bluntly,

“If I remember correctly, your second differentiation period should be sometime in the next couple of days, right? And it just so happens that Mu Yu’s susceptible period is coming soon too. If the two of you overlap, maybe you’ll differentiate into an Omega.”

Because some artists’ special periods required significant arrangements, they had never really counted as secrets to the public. Zou Lili remembered this particularly clearly.

Duan Qingyi, on the other hand, looked at Gu Qiyou in a daze. Her gaze carried a change she herself had not even noticed.

“Sister Youyou, you still haven’t gone through your second differentiation period?”