A Scumbag Alpha Reforms: Pampering Her Wife Without Limits - Chapter 6

“I know you don’t believe me.”

If Ning Lingzhou were in her place, she wouldn’t believe someone who had tried to hurt her yesterday suddenly claiming today that she would never let anyone hurt her again either.

But she was no longer the Ning Lingzhou from before. She was different from that scumbag Alpha.

Even if it weren’t for the sake of staying alive, she still wouldn’t want Xu Fangqing to suffer any more harm.

“It’s okay.” Ning Lingzhou looked into her eyes and said seriously, “I’ll prove it to you with my actions.”

A mouth could lie, but the eyes couldn’t deceive people.

People who were lying usually didn’t dare look others in the eye.

Xu Fangqing met her gaze. Ning Lingzhou’s large, striking eyes were filled with sincerity. She didn’t avert her gaze in the slightest, openly and calmly accepting Xu Fangqing’s scrutiny, as if she truly were making a serious promise.

For one brief moment, even Xu Fangqing wavered.

But then she thought about it again. Ning Lingzhou did whatever she wanted. She could make a promise today and go back on it tomorrow.

She had just witnessed firsthand how effortlessly Ning Lingzhou could act without a trace of guilt. She wouldn’t believe anything she said anymore.

“There’s no need.”

Xu Fangqing looked away and turned her face aside. “Find some time. Let’s get divorced.”

It wasn’t as though she had never considered living a proper married life with Ning Lingzhou. She had even imagined that one day their relationship might become physical.

After all, they were married. Having needs was perfectly normal.

She simply hadn’t expected Ning Lingzhou to treat her like that last night.

The brief happiness they had shared in the past was like a shattered mirror. No matter how carefully the pieces were put back together, it could never return to how it had been before.

Watching her leave, Ning Lingzhou let out a soft sigh.

It seemed the scumbag Alpha had hurt her far too deeply. If Ning Lingzhou wanted to earn her trust, it would probably take some time.

But right now, Ning Lingzhou didn’t want to do anything at all. She only wanted to go back and sleep.

She had been awake since last night and her head was splitting. If she didn’t rest soon, she might actually drop dead from exhaustion.

Ning Lingzhou told her assistant to keep an eye on Xu Fangqing’s movements so she could be notified immediately if anything happened. Afterward, she had the driver take her home.

After the scumbag Alpha and Xu Fangqing got married, they lived in a villa in the eastern district. To keep their families from finding out that they still hadn’t slept together, the scumbag Alpha hadn’t hired any live-in housekeepers. She hired a cleaning service whenever the place needed tidying, and they usually ate at hotels or restaurants.

The scumbag Alpha was ordinarily busy with work, while Xu Fangqing was still in university. Most of the time, they lived separately—one staying at a hotel, the other in the apartment complex she rented in.

It was just that every few days, the scumbag Alpha would ask Xu Fangqing out for a meal, give her gifts, take her to meet friends, and bring her along to gatherings.

It was almost as if she were genuinely dating her.

After returning to the villa, Ning Lingzhou unlocked the door with her fingerprint, went straight upstairs to the second floor, and entered the scumbag Alpha’s bedroom.

Ning Lingzhou did approve of the scumbag Alpha’s taste. The room had everything one could need, and its slightly warm color palette made it feel less cold and even gave it a bit of a lived-in atmosphere.

Ning Lingzhou didn’t like sleeping in someone else’s bed. Even though it was technically the same body, psychologically she still couldn’t accept it.

Forcing herself to stay awake, she changed the bedding, then collapsed onto the bed. The moment she sank into the soft blankets, Ning Lingzhou finally felt how wonderful it was to be alive.

During those years when she had been in a vegetative state, she had constantly fantasized about someday recovering and being able to move freely again.

Now that she had been given another chance to live, Ning Lingzhou wanted nothing more than to get a proper night’s sleep.

Ning Lingzhou had a dream about the first half of her life.

In her original world, she had been beautiful and academically gifted, always the kind of child other parents held up as an example for their own children.

She had dreamed of saving lives and helping the injured and wanted to study medicine.

But one unexpected opportunity changed the course of her entire life.

Because she was beautiful, her family took her to enter a beauty pageant. Unexpectedly, she won first place, signed with a talent agency, landed several endorsement deals, and made a large amount of money.

Tempted by the money, her parents made her apply to a film academy, sending her down the path of acting.

Because she was beautiful, the company poured its resources into her. She quickly gained popularity and accumulated quite a number of fans.

Her career should have been dazzlingly bright, but unfortunately, she encountered a scumbag director who wanted to force her into a casting-couch arrangement.

Ning Lingzhou refused. Humiliated by the rejection, the scumbag director did everything he could to destroy her.

It wasn’t until she was lying motionless in a hospital bed as a vegetative patient that Ning Lingzhou realized just how little that life had been worth.

If she were ever given another chance, she would definitely do what she truly wanted and leave herself no regrets.

[Host, Host, wake up!]

[Detected decrease in Host’s vital signs. Electrical stimulation will now be administered to wake you.]

Ning Lingzhou was jolted awake from her deep sleep by Irene’s electric shock.

She opened her eyes groggily, only then remembering that she had transmigrated into a book and had been given another chance to live.

Her entire body felt weak, so Ning Lingzhou could only collapse back onto the bed. “Irene, how long did I sleep?”

[One day and one night.]

Irene reminded her somewhat speechlessly, [Host, if you don’t get up and eat soon, you’re going to become the first person ever to transmigrate into a book and starve to death.]

Only then did Ning Lingzhou realize that she was absolutely starving.

The night before last, Xu Fangqing had drenched her in cold water, and on top of that, she hadn’t rested the entire night.

Even though she had slept for a full day and night, her head still felt foggy. She raised a hand to touch her forehead and, sure enough, she had a fever.

No wonder she had slept so deeply.

Ning Lingzhou struggled out of bed and went into the bathroom to wash up.

After getting herself cleaned up, she found her phone and saw that Zhou Xin had called many times and sent a flood of messages apologizing and begging for forgiveness, asking Ning Lingzhou not to ignore her.

Liu Junru had also called and sent messages asking why she hadn’t gone to see Grandpa and why she hadn’t gone to work, demanding to know whether she had run off to fool around with Xu Fangqing again.

Ning Lingzhou ignored both of them. The only thing she cared about was Xu Fangqing’s situation.

She scrolled to a message her assistant had sent half an hour earlier, saying that Xu Fangqing had gone to a game company.

What was she doing at a game company?

Ning Lingzhou remembered the call Zhao Hui had made to Xu Fangqing the night before last.

In the book, Xu Dong’an’s company had expanded too aggressively, causing its capital chain to break, and he had gone everywhere looking for investors.

Xu Fangqing had originally planned to divorce the scumbag Alpha, but the scumbag Alpha had approached her on her own initiative and offered to invest in Xu Dong’an’s company, which was why Xu Fangqing had endured the marriage.

This also led to the scumbag Alpha continuously using her father’s weakness to control her.

Ning Lingzhou rubbed between her brows and replied to her assistant, “Keep watching her. Report to me immediately if anything happens.”

Her head was so dizzy she could barely think, and there wasn’t any fever medicine at home.

Ning Lingzhou had no choice but to call Lin Zhi and ask her to come over, telling her to bring some food along while she was at it.

“Bring food?”

Lin Zhi suspected she had misheard.

Ning Lingzhou was a company president.

Whatever she wanted to eat, she could simply have her assistant buy it.

Or she could call a hotel and have it delivered straight to her home.

Why would she ask Lin Zhi to bring her food?

Although Lin Zhi had plenty of questions, she kept them to herself and merely asked, “What do you want to eat?”

Ning Lingzhou said tiredly, “Anything. As long as it fills my stomach.”

After hanging up, she lay back down on the bed to rest.

Thinking about Xu Fangqing, she suddenly remembered that in the book, it had been the scumbag Alpha who took the initiative to find Xu Fangqing and offer an investment to Xu Dong’an, resolving the situation.

But because Ning Lingzhou had overslept, Xu Fangqing was now trying to figure things out on her own. Had she gone to the game company to seek investment?

That seemed unlikely. Her family sold jewelry. They had nothing whatsoever to do with gaming.

Just as she was wondering about it, she received a call from her assistant. “President Ning, Miss Xu is on the rooftop. It looks like she’s going to jump.”