A Vicious Female Rival Omega is Sweet and Soft - Chapter 16

After returning home, Ye Yixi could barely keep her eyes open. She forced herself to wash up, then collapsed into bed and fell asleep. Moonlight spilled over the windowsill. The curtains had not been fully drawn, and mottled patches of light flowed through the gaps onto the floor.

That night, she had a very long dream.

In the dream, she returned to her childhood. She was in the backyard of her old home, where wild grass grew everywhere, playing rock-paper-scissors with a few childhood friends and hopping step by step through a hopscotch grid.

In the afternoon, cicadas chirped and cats meowed. It was a leisurely, warm scene. When the sun set, her parents would drag her home by the ear to eat, and her mother would give her the biggest chicken drumstick.

Before long, the scene changed.

Ye Yixi was no longer a child. Instead, she was wearing one-piece work overalls in a remote area. The ground beneath her feet was dry and cracked. Although she wore a simple sun hat, the nearly forty-degree sun was truly scorching. Sweat blurred Ye Yixi’s vision. Her dirt-covered hand held a handful of seeds. Around her were her colleagues, as well as some farmers holding shovels and hoes.

“Technician Ye, have some water.”

An old farmer gave her a simple, honest smile and poured her a cup of cooled boiled water in a ceramic cup. Sweat covered his wrinkled face.

Ye Yixi smiled and accepted it. Looking at the vast yet barren land, she could not help feeling anxious.

Drought-resistant tree species should be planted here, such as pine trees or cypress trees… As long as they persevered, given time, this place would definitely regain life.

She personally buried the tree seeds into the soil, looking forward to the day when the saplings would grow strong and become lush and green.

“Xixi, resign. It’s too tiring for a girl to work in this industry. There’s no future in it!”

“Yixi, why bother? You’re not young anymore. Just find some random work back home. It’s better to settle down and start a family early.”

…

Ye Yixi suddenly woke up at the cold office desk.

Everything around her was pitch-black. Only a dim yellow desk lamp sat in front of her. On the table was the proposal she had yet to finish.

She rubbed her sore neck and climbed up in a daze. When she opened her phone, it was full of missed calls and messages.

This was her fourth year working hard in this city.

From a low-level employee, she had climbed step by step to become the manager of an agricultural enterprise department, spending a great deal of energy and effort along the way.

But she had also gone three consecutive years without going home for New Year. Her parents’ lack of support and constant urging for marriage had always been a thorn in her heart. Only when she worked overtime late into the night would a sense of desolation rise within her.

She yawned and took a sip of coffee that had already gone cold, then opened her WeChat messages. Almost all of them were messages from colleagues or business clients.

Only one person was unfamiliar to her.

Who was Shen Qingran?

Ye Yixi patted her head, unable to remember no matter how hard she tried. There were simply too many people on her contact list. But this person was probably someone sending advertisements.

Curious, she opened the chat box.

There was only one simple sentence inside:

Miss Ye, thank you for taking me out to play today~

Taking her out to play?

Ye Yixi had clearly been working overtime for several days in a row. Where would she have found the time to go out and play? Besides, she did not know this person at all. How did the other party know her surname?

Could it be some new kind of scam?

The more she thought about it, the more her head hurt. She kept feeling that she had forgotten something important.

So she stood up, wanting to make herself more awake. But her neck felt as if it had been filled with lead, heavy and stiff. She rubbed the sore spot hard.

When she looked at her phone again, she discovered that the chat interface had turned completely black. Two blood-red words were displayed clearly on it—

Warning.

Unease rose in Ye Yixi’s heart. Alarm bells immediately rang loudly in her mind. A dangerous aura swept toward her.

She hurriedly picked up her phone.

The small desk lamp instantly went out.

Under this sudden fright, Ye Yixi’s phone fell to the floor with a loud clang.

“Warning, warning! Host has failed to complete the mission and will be erased!”

“Warning, warning! Host has failed to complete the mission and will be erased!”

…

The mechanical electronic voice continuously repeated itself in the empty, silent office. It was like thunder exploding out of nowhere, echoing through the entire office building.

Ye Yixi was so frightened that she collapsed onto the floor. Her heart seemed to be gripped tightly by someone, hurting so much that she could not speak.

The only source of light was gone, and everything around her fell into an eerie darkness. On the ceiling and the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, that sentence kept appearing over and over again, reflected in Ye Yixi’s widened pupils.

Her heart hurt so much she felt as if she were suffocating. All that remained was the sound of her heavy gasping.

…

With a loud bang, Ye Yixi’s head hit the floor.

It hurt.

She grimaced and opened her eyes, still groggy with sleep. Morning sunlight shone over half of her face, and a breeze brushed past.

After a long while, Ye Yixi finally realized that she was lying on the floor, while one of her legs was still hanging on the bed. This was an extremely difficult posture.

What was going on?

How had she ended up sleeping on the floor?

She seemed to have slept for a very long time. Ye Yixi held her dizzy head and supported her waist as she stood up. She felt sore all over. Her waist ached, her back hurt, even her elbows hurt. There was not a single part of her body that did not hurt.

Ye Yixi touched her neck and forehead. Her hand came away covered in cold sweat. Her heart felt uncomfortably squeezed.

Last night, she seemed to have had a very long dream, but she could not remember the specifics. She only knew that it had probably been a nightmare.

She looked at her phone and saw that it was almost ten o’clock.

She had really slept for a long time.

At this moment, her body felt sticky. Ye Yixi could not stand it and ran to the bathroom to take a shower.

After washing up, she finally felt awake. Her whole body felt clean and refreshed. Ye Yixi took a watering can to the balcony and watered the succulents and cactus she was raising.

Although the main mission was the day after tomorrow, she did not plan to stay idle. She wanted to complete all the side missions. Right now, every point she could save counted.

However, the weather was really unpredictable. It had been bright and sunny in the morning, but by the afternoon, a drizzling rain began to fall.

Ye Yixi drove around everywhere, running up and down, completing every side mission the system gave her.

Over the past two days, she had more or less earned back some of the points that had previously been deducted.

At night, Ye Yixi curled up on the sofa and opened her points interface. At present, she had a total of 5.5 points.

She did not know how many points were needed to unlock the so-called mall exchange system. Ye Yixi had asked the system many times, but 007 refused to say. It only said that once the required amount was reached, it would automatically pop up.

Forget it. She should just continue saving points.

…

Two days quickly passed, and it was already the day of the main mission.

But Ye Yixi did not need to deliberately remember it at all. Early in the morning, her phone kept ringing nonstop.

Sure enough, something had happened. It was still related to Gu An’s incident from last time.

It had already ended, so why had it started fermenting again?

Ye Yixi sat at the table, leisurely eating breakfast. But the moment she checked her phone, she was so shocked that she nearly threw it away.

Could it be that she had opened it the wrong way?

Otherwise, why would she be seeing a trending scandal involving Gu An and Shen Qingran?

She endured the discomfort and carefully read through it.

The words Gu An and Shen Qingran in a Relationship were extremely glaring.

The general meaning was that Gu An had gotten together with her superior, trying to guide public opinion toward the idea that her private life was messy. The attached pictures were several photos of Shen Qingran covering her mouth and laughing while talking to Gu An. They did look like they had a good relationship.

But wasn’t this just from the last time the movie started filming, when Shen Qingran and Gu An were talking by the river?

It seemed there was no solid evidence at all. The paparazzi were making things up again.

On top of Gu An’s previous trending topic about acting like a big shot and getting into a fight, this new issue had now appeared. The public opinion that had originally improved was gradually turning into conspiracy theories again…

Some people said that Gu An’s previous incident had been suppressed by her superior, Shen Qingran. S Entertainment supported Gu An so much because she was being kept by Shen Qingran.

Others sighed that the entertainment industry was simply chaotic, and that everyone in the circle had messy private lives. No one was truly clean and innocent.

Of course, what people discussed the most was also what Ye Yixi cared about the most.

Many people remembered that Shen Qingran and Ye Yixi had also had a scandal before. The public opinion on forums had even reached the point of denouncing Gu An as a homewrecker Alpha and scolding Shen Qingran as a cheating scumbag Omega.

Seeing this, Ye Yixi nearly choked to death on the coffee in her mouth.

This was simply moving at eight hundred times speed.

If there were no professional anti-fans deliberately guiding things, she really did not believe it could have developed this far. If this continued, that movie really would not need to keep filming.

But this was not the truth at all, and there was no actual evidence. How could Gu An be brought down so easily?

Even now, Ye Yixi did not take it too seriously. She firmly believed that as long as they released PR statements, they could get through the crisis again.

It was just that these comments were truly ugly.

She herself did not care. After all, her scumbag reputation was already well known. But seeing Shen Qingran being talked about like this made her genuinely uncomfortable.

Before Ye Yixi could send a message to her assistant, Shen Qingran took the initiative to contact her.

On the phone, Shen Qingran did not say much. She only asked Ye Yixi to come over first.

Ye Yixi agreed repeatedly, vaguely feeling that something had happened.

…

Before long, Ye Yixi arrived at Shen Qingran’s office again.

Gu An and the people from her studio team were all there. Everyone had their brows tightly furrowed, not knowing what to do.

Only Ye Yixi looked relaxed, completely unpanicked.

Today, the way Shen Qingran looked at her seemed a little different. It was softer than before, carrying the feeling that she truly treated Ye Yixi as a friend.

Ye Yixi found this quite pleasing.

But the moment Gu An’s manager opened her mouth, Ye Yixi was almost scared to death.

“Sigh, it has already reached an irreversible point. If this continues, our Xiao An will really have to leave the industry!”

?????

A circle of question marks flew over Ye Yixi’s head.

No, how had this reached the point of leaving the industry?

Was it that serious?

She had not broken the law or committed any crime. It was just a scandal. Yet she had to withdraw from the entertainment industry?

What kind of bizarre train of thought was this?

Ye Yixi’s head buzzed.

She had completely forgotten that this was a melodramatic Mary Sue world. Of course she would seem out of place if she kept using the thinking of a normal person.

When the original author wrote this plot, it had been described as a major crisis. Gu An had nearly been unable to continue surviving in the entertainment industry because of this.

As for how it was resolved, Ye Yixi truly did not know.

Fortunately, 007 timely transmitted the plot of this chapter into her mind.

So it turned out that they had taken advantage of the situation to officially announce Gu An’s relationship with Zhen Xiaobai, hyping up the official CP. This directly clarified that Gu An and Shen Qingran were only ordinary superior and subordinate, using that to dispel the negative rumor.

But wouldn’t Gu An’s fans explode if she publicly announced a relationship like that?

She was still a traffic celebrity, after all. Was it really fine to do this while her career was on the rise…?

“Host, don’t worry. The original author didn’t write it in that much detail, but based on the later plot, Gu An’s fans were all very supportive. They even started shipping the official couple!” 007 patiently explained to Ye Yixi.

Uh, alright.

Only fans in a novel world could be this generous.

After all, she had previously read plots where a popular celebrity directly announced their girlfriend at a concert, and the fans below tearfully sent their blessings. If that were placed in the real world, it would already be considered high quality behavior if the fans did not rush up and throw rotten eggs.

“Alright. So what are you all planning to do?”

The moment this question came out, silence fell.

It seemed no one had a solution.

Ye Yixi thought that the following plot was supposed to be Zhen Xiaobai and Gu An officially announcing their relationship. So what did she have to do for this wave to count as completing the main mission?

Provoke Gu An.

Those four large words suddenly appeared in Ye Yixi’s mind.

Could it be that she needed to snatch Gu An’s official announcement?

If she had Zhen Xiaobai cooperate and admit that she was Ye Yixi’s girlfriend, wouldn’t that prove that Gu An was not a homewrecker between her and Shen Qingran?

That would both provoke Gu An and solve the trouble.

But would that affect Zhen Xiaobai?

Ye Yixi’s mind was a mess, and she did not know whether this was right or not. She tried hard to think, hesitating before opening her mouth.

“Then… how about I take advantage of the situation and officially announce a relationship?”

This light sentence instantly enlightened everyone present, as if they had been awakened.

The manager’s tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Only Gu An and Shen Qingran still looked confused.

The manager walked toward Ye Yixi with a delighted smile, her tone even carrying a bit of emotion.

“Miss Ye, I truly didn’t expect that for the sake of our Xiao An, you would be willing to sacrifice yourself like this!”

“Sigh, it’s not to that extent…”

Ye Yixi shook her head awkwardly.

How was this for Gu An?

It was all for the sake of points.

Besides, pursuing the female lead was something she had always been thinking about anyway, right?

“Then I’ll go find Zhen—”

“Then tomorrow, we’ll arrange a trending topic for you and Miss Shen to officially announce your relationship!” the manager said firmly, directly blocking the words Ye Yixi had not finished saying in her throat.

Ah????

No, what????

You misunderstood, hey!!!