A Max-Level Film Queen Takes on the Scumbag Alpha Script [Transmigration] - Chapter 1

Midsummer, Sihai Entertainment.

The air conditioner in the conference room was cranked down to eighteen degrees, yet it failed to cool the burning rage of the person sitting inside.

“Rumors! This is nothing but blatant slander!”

Song Jia, Sihai Entertainment’s gold-standard manager, slammed her hand down and stood up abruptly. She glared at her phone screen as if her worst enemy were hiding inside it.

Watching the malicious hashtags rapidly climb into the top five of the Star-Blog trending charts, Song Jia’s eyes burned with fury. Her knuckles cracked as she tightened her grip on her phone. Her short blonde hair seemed to bristle along with her plummeting mood, making her look like an enraged lioness whose territory had been invaded.

“Sister Song, Sister Song!” The assistant, Xiao Xu, glanced at her phone and broke into a cold sweat at the words on the screen. She hurriedly tried to soothe the fuming manager. “Sister Song, calm down! The most important thing right now is to solve the problem!”

Hearing this, Song Jia stopped pacing the room in circles.

She gritted her teeth and tapped furiously on her phone, her fingers making a rapid-fire clicking sound like a mechanical keyboard. Within a single minute, she had fired off dozens of messages to various department heads. “That this hashtag could reach the top five—has the PR department’s collective brain been eaten by zombies!?”

Just look at these headlines:

• [Jiang Baihe Maliciously Splashes Water to Frame Teammate]

• [Jiang Baihe Chat Records]

• [Jiang Baihe Get Out of the Entertainment Industry]

…

To an outsider, these would make Jiang Baihe look like some sort of heinous villain.

But none of this had anything to do with them. The so-called “evidence” online was nothing but hearsay and shadows chased by fans. As for the leaked chat records regarding “hiring a hitman to harm someone” that had hit the trending list? That was a malicious forgery!

Xiao Xu watched the manager frantically contact the PR department and Star-Blog officials, her own heart full of unease. She walked over to the other side of the room. Looking at the young woman lying on the black leather sofa—wearing noise-canceling earbuds and catching up on sleep—she sighed silently.

She leaned down and gently tapped the arm of the sleeping girl. “Sister Baihe, wake up. Something big has happened…”

Her thoughts were a mess. She felt adrift, as if her body were floating in the sky, unaffected by gravity.

The voices in her ears were muffled; she could only vaguely hear someone calling her name.

Gradually, the sound became clearer. A muffled roar came from nearby: “…She clearly fell on her own! What does that have to do with our Baihe?!”

Fell…?

Right! I think I took a tumble on the stage of the Best Actress awards!!

Jiang Baihe snapped awake, bolting upright on the sofa and giving Xiao Xu a fright.

Her post-sleep brain throbbed with a dull ache. Looking at the unfamiliar environment and the strangers before her, Jiang Baihe rubbed her temples, a rare look of confusion flickering in her eyes.

Who am I? Where am I? What is happening…

Hadn’t she been in an accident at an overseas award ceremony? Did a single trip-and-fall send her flying all the way back to her home country? And who were these two strangers in the room?

Seeing that Jiang Baihe was still in a daze, Xiao Xu carefully handed her the phone. “Sister Baihe, take a look at this first. Sister Song is already handling it.”

Jiang Baihe took the phone blankly. Seeing the familiar Star-Blog interface, she assumed she was being mocked on the trending page because her fall at the ceremony was too embarrassing. However, as she scrolled down—

What is all this? Huh??

When did I frame someone? Wasn’t I the one who had the accident on stage!?

Jiang Baihe’s eyes widened. Just as she was about to curse out loud, she refreshed the live feed and saw a newly posted blog. Once she processed the content, she froze.

[I knew that animal was no good! Our Lihua is so unlucky to be grouped with her! When will JBH, who used the “Royal Script” through the back door, get out of Shining 404!!!]

Back door… Royal Script… Shining 404…

Isn’t this the plot of that “Female Lead ABO” novel she stayed up all night to read?!

Jiang Baihe scrolled rapidly. More and more familiar terms triggered her memory until finally, the scattered fragments snapped together, flooding her mind.

Jiang Baihe closed her eyes and flopped straight back onto the sofa.

The images flashing in her mind told her a cruel truth: She had transmigrated into the book as the “Scumbag Alpha” who shared her name—a woman despised by everyone who eventually earned herself a one-way ticket to prison.

This Scumbag Alpha came from the wealthy Jiang family of City A. She was a useless, playgirl socialite. Simply because she was a female Alpha with a beautiful face, she caused trouble everywhere and eventually entered the entertainment industry to stir up chaos.

Meanwhile, the story’s true female lead, Yan Shu, was forced into a loveless political marriage with this Scumbag Alpha due to a pheromone defect.

After the marriage, the Scumbag Alpha used the lead’s wealth and influence to snatch resources in the industry and used “backdoor” connections to act like “royalty” on survival shows. To fix the mess caused by the Alpha, the female lead suffered through many sleepless nights with splitting headaches.

Later, taking advantage of the lead’s critical illness and the fact that the lead couldn’t survive without her pheromones, the Scumbag Alpha became even more reckless. She cheated openly with other Omegas, giving the lead a “collection of green hats.” At home, she abused the lead, ranging from verbal insults to using Alpha pheromones to physically suppress and intimidate her.

The Scumbag Alpha eventually fell into massive debt due to a gambling addiction. To pay it off, she was tricked into stealing the female lead’s corporate secrets, nearly bankrupting the group the lead had built by hand. She even caused the lead to be targeted in a car accident that injured her glands.

Once the lead woke up, she took decisive action. Risking her life, she underwent forced gland removal surgery and divorced the Alpha, finally escaping her control.

After being discharged, the female lead hired people to literally carve out the Scumbag Alpha’s glands, beat her into a paraplegic state, and finally gathered enough evidence to send her to prison for over a decade.

The original book was written from Yan Shu’s perspective—a story of the female lead’s growth—and the Scumbag Alpha was simply the greatest torment the lead had to overcome.

When Jiang Baihe was reading the book, she had been furious at the plot points where the lead endured the Alpha’s abuse. She had even written a hundred-word review cursing this namesake character to high heaven. When she finally reached the part where the Scumbag Alpha got her “boxed lunch” (died/exited), Jiang Baihe had actually clapped her hands in celebration.

She never imagined she would transmigrate into this book, let alone inhabit the body of the scumbag she had trashed so thoroughly.

Thinking of the Alpha’s miserable end, Jiang Baihe touched the glands at the back of her neck and shivered involuntarily.

The revenge plot that had seemed so satisfying to read was now scheduled to happen to her. And she was currently taking the fall for the original character’s mess. Jiang Baihe wanted to cry, but no tears came.

No! I have to change this “dead end” finale!

Biting her lower lip, Jiang Baihe sat up again, filled with fighting spirit. Her long black hair slid down her fair cheeks, and her eyes sparkled.

She couldn’t sit and wait for death. She couldn’t let the plot proceed this way. Since she was already here, she had to steer her life back onto the right track while there was still time to change everything!

Xiao Xu, unaware of the psychological drama unfolding, saw Jiang Baihe performing “frenzied sit-ups” on the sofa. Thinking she was upset by the online comments, she comforted her: “Sister Baihe, don’t be angry. Everything online is fake; don’t care about what they say.”

On the other side, Song Jia stopped her barrage of calls and walked over. “Baihe, don’t panic. I’ve already contacted the company and Star-Blog to suppress those hashtags. The official account has posted a clarification, and we’re gathering evidence.”

“With the company’s power, suing those rumor-mongers is easy. But investigating the mastermind behind this will take some time,” Song Jia narrowed her eyes viciously. “They’d better hide their rat tail well. If I catch them, I’ll skin them alive!”

Normally, malicious rumors with no evidence—or forged evidence—are easy to flip. Once the truth is presented to the fans, the resulting “reversal” traffic can give an artist long-term buzz.

But Jiang Baihe’s reputation was simply too rotten.

It was so bad that even if the situation reversed, passersby would only use it as an opportunity to mock her. The free traffic was impossible to harvest.

In all her years as a manager, Song Jia had rarely seen an artist who started so deep in the gutter. No talent, no effort, bad temper, and questionable character—aside from a beautiful face and a wealthy background, she was useless.

This was why Song Jia was so anxious. She didn’t want her professional career to end because of Jiang Baihe.

Jiang Baihe, who had been immersed in the plot of the novel, finally snapped back to reality. She carefully recalled that this “slander” arc happened shortly after the Scumbag Alpha entered the industry.

In other words, the scumbag hadn’t had time to do anything truly unforgivable yet. Her marriage to the female lead was only a month old. Nothing (too) bad had happened.

Jiang Baihe breathed a secret sigh of relief.

She looked at her manager and assistant. In the original book, Song Jia ruined her own reputation trying to clean up the Alpha’s messes. Eventually, when the Alpha fell, the manager was forced out of the industry she had worked in for years.

The Scumbag Alpha didn’t just ruin herself; she dragged down everyone around her.

With such a good life available, why did she have to stir up so much crap? This scumbag was truly ‘rotten wood that cannot be carved,’ playing a winning hand into a total loss!

The more Jiang Baihe thought about it, the angrier she got. Fortunately, she was the one in control now. She wouldn’t let the original plot happen.

Jiang Baihe narrowed her eyes, her slender fingers tapping rhythmically on the leather sofa as she thought of a counter-strategy. Finally, she let out a soft breath, a light flashing in her eyes.

“Let’s go to Sihai Group,” she said.

Song Jia hesitated. “Do you want to go find President Yan to help solve this?”

“No.” Jiang Baihe tilted her head slightly. “I’m just going to see my… well, my beloved.”

Song Jia & Xiao Xu: “…”