After Becoming an Alpha Upon Meeting an Alpha - Chapter 13

Wendy said in surprise, “Really?!”

Su Cha nodded. “Of course.”

Knowledge was the ladder of progress. If she wanted to continue developing the planet, she had to build a solid foundation first.

“For now, go back and wait. Once the flying vehicles arrive in two days, I’ll notify everyone to come practice.”

“Aye, good, good, good.”

After receiving promises and benefits, everyone felt much more at ease than before and left the manor one after another.

Leng Zhuoyan did not leave. She looked at Su Cha and said calmly, “Getting knowledge won’t be an easy thing.”

In the empire, knowledge was very important.

Moreover, Water Blue Planet was too far from the Imperial Capital Planet. It did not even have permission or a network connection to access the star network. That made things even more difficult. Even if she could obtain the materials, these people would have no way to study them.

“Light brains are very expensive. If you want to subsidize them yourself, you won’t have enough money, right? Why not consider selling the planet to me?”

Su Cha rolled her eyes. “Dream on. Even if I blow it up, I won’t sell it to you.”

Leng Zhuoyan pursed her lips and gave a displeased light snort.

Although she said that, Su Cha could not actually do such a thing. So she coughed lightly, her eyes drifting as she began scheming.

“Leng Zhuoyan.”

Leng Zhuoyan glanced sideways at her, signaling for her to speak.

Su Cha said, “Look, you’re my deputy now, right?”

Leng Zhuoyan slightly lifted her chin. “So?”

“So, shouldn’t you make some contribution to our planet?”

Afraid Leng Zhuoyan would not understand what she meant, Su Cha even deliberately stretched out her right hand and rubbed her fingers together in front of her, indicating that she was a little short on money.

Leng Zhuoyan stared at her and suddenly smiled. “Short on money?”

Su Cha shamelessly nodded and admitted, “A little.”

Not a little. Very short. But she could not admit that. After all, this person still wanted to steal her planet.

Leng Zhuoyan sat in her seat, her fair, rounded fingers lightly tapping the tabletop. Her fingertips still carried a faint pink color. She looked meaningfully at Su Cha, who was staring at her, without saying a word.

Su Cha knew she could not lose this confrontation, or the planet would be gone. So she sat upright in her seat with her head held high and chest out, letting Leng Zhuoyan size her up. Even though her scalp felt numb, she still did not relax in the slightest.

The two remained deadlocked for a long time. Leng Zhuoyan withdrew her gaze, sat upright in her seat, and said leisurely, “You want to borrow money? Fine.”

A teasing smile hung at the corner of her mouth. “Beg me.”

Su Cha: “?”

Did she have to do this?

Leng Zhuoyan lifted her chin reservedly. She simply wanted to see whether Su Cha, who had her own pride, would bow her head for money, and whether she would lower herself for the sake of life and—

“Please.”

Leng Zhuoyan choked. “…?”

So shameless?

Su Cha expressed that it was just asking someone for help. As long as she had no shame, there was nothing she could not do.

Besides, it was only one sentence. It was not as if she would lose a piece of flesh.

Su Cha looked at her calmly, without a trace of humiliation on her face. “If you think once isn’t enough, I can say it a hundred times.”

“Please lend me money.”

Leng Zhuoyan fell silent.

She had clearly won, so why did it feel like she had lost?

But since she had already said it, going back on her word now would be slapping herself in the face.

Leng Zhuoyan adjusted her breathing and tried to sound relaxed. “How much?”

“Thirty billion.”

“Pfft—”

No longer caring about her own composure, Leng Zhuoyan said in shock, “How much?!”

Su Cha blinked. “Thirty billion.”

Leng Zhuoyan gritted her teeth and growled, “Do you know what you’re saying?!”

Thirty billion, not three star coins. She really dared to open her mouth.

Thirty billion was enough to buy a small A-rank residential planet.

Su Cha curled her lips and said with a smile, “I know. Weren’t you the one who asked? Of course I had to say a big number. I thought you weren’t short on money.”

“After all, building a planet requires a lot of money. Thirty billion isn’t that much.”

Leng Zhuoyan: “…”

Faced with Su Cha’s sharp tongue, she was defeated. She was wrong. How could she have thought Su Cha was being serious? She was simply toying with her!

Sure enough, she was Su Cha. She had not changed at all!

“Thirty billion is impossible. I don’t have it.”

If she had thirty billion, would she have been bullied into her current state?

Su Cha also knew Leng Zhuoyan could not take out that much money. She had only deliberately said it to annoy her. Who told the other party to be so arrogant? She really was short on money, but not to that extent.

She crossed her hands beneath her chin and asked casually, “Then how much do you have?”

Leng Zhuoyan said unwillingly, “Twenty million.”

“Oh.”

Twenty million was not a small amount for an ordinary family, but for a planet, it was only a drop in the bucket.

Leng Zhuoyan gritted her teeth. She simply wanted to grab Su Cha and shake her hard, making her explain what “oh” meant. Did she think it was too little, or had she never seen anyone poorer than herself?

“Twenty million is of course little to someone like you. Since you have no sincerity, I’ll leave.”

Leng Zhuoyan endured and endured, but in the end, she could not help mocking her.

Hmph. She did not want to lend it anymore!

Su Cha pretended to think and said, “It is indeed a little little, but don’t worry. I’ll use it somewhere useful.”

The corner of Leng Zhuoyan’s mouth twitched. “I don’t think I said…”

That I was lending it to you, right?

Su Cha smiled obediently. “I know, you definitely won’t charge interest. After all, this is all for our shared planet. This bit of sacrifice is still acceptable, right? After all, you’re the second-in-command.”

Leng Zhuoyan: “…”

“As expected of you. You won’t take even the slightest loss.”

“Thank you. Give me the money.”

Su Cha accepted all of her words as praise and stretched out her small hand for money, not polite in the slightest.

Leng Zhuoyan took a deep breath. Although her hands were itching and she very much wanted to beat Su Cha up, she still endured it and aggrievedly transferred twenty million to Su Cha on the spot.

After receiving the money, Su Cha sincerely said, “Thank you.”

Leng Zhuoyan’s hands were trembling from frustration. “You’re welcome.”

“What else do you need me to do?”

Su Cha’s eyes turned, and she said, “I remember your family has a small spaceship that can travel through the universe, right?”

“What do you want to do?”

Leng Zhuoyan became alert again. With the money as a foundation, she was no longer curious about Su Cha. Instead, she felt that Su Cha was an extremely dangerous person. One disagreement, and she might lose money.

Su Cha changed from propping up her chin to rubbing it. Her index finger rubbed against her chin as she voiced the idea in her heart. “You can take it to a planet near the Imperial Capital to connect to the star network, then enter the school network and download courses, right?”

Although Su Cha’s student status had been transferred, Leng Zhuoyan’s had not. Moreover, she was still an outstanding student of Central Academy. Now that she had even surpassed Su Cha as an alpha, perhaps, in consideration of her talent, the school tutors would be willing to let her sit in on classes.

Leng Zhuoyan frowned slightly. “You mean…”

She wanted her to sneakily download courses, then bring them back to feed these citizens?

This did not seem very proper.

Knowing that with Leng Zhuoyan’s personality, she definitely would not be able to accept doing this kind of thing, Su Cha got up and walked to her side. She dragged a chair over and sat next to her. Her hand also disobediently landed on Leng Zhuoyan’s shoulder.

Leng Zhuoyan’s body stiffened. Just as she wanted to dodge, Su Cha had already leaned over.

Su Cha hugged Leng Zhuoyan’s shoulder tightly, putting on an expression as if the two of them were close friends. Mysteriously, she said, “Hey, listen. Right now, all of this is for laying the foundation of our future. So everything you’re doing now is reasonable. Once our planet rises in the future, we’ll recruit some teachers to teach here. At worst, when the time comes, we’ll publicly post online teaching videos for free and treat it as giving back to everyone.”

“How about it?”

Leng Zhuoyan’s cheeks were tense and her expression grave, but her eyes were drifting. Su Cha did not notice and thought Leng Zhuoyan could not get past the hurdle in her heart, so she persuaded her again.

“Don’t have any psychological burden. This is heroic behavior, not stealing.

“Besides, those professors’ public lecture videos are free anyway. We’ll send them some gifts and tell them we’re borrowing them.”

Leng Zhuoyan: “…”

She pursed her lips and said with difficulty, “I understand.”

As soon as she agreed, Su Cha’s face bloomed with a smile. “Aye, that’s right. You’re the backbone of our planet. Sure enough, this planet can lack anyone except you.”

Leng Zhuoyan felt a little dazed by the sudden flattery, but inwardly, she thought: Mm, this seemed not bad.

Her confidence instantly increased, and quite a bit of her shame was thrown aside.

Her gaze swept over Su Cha’s arm, which was still resting on her, and then over Su Cha’s sincere and happy smile. Leng Zhuoyan thought that since even Su Cha did not care about the Marshal’s Residence’s face, then what did she, who originally came from a merchant family, need to care about face for?

Hadn’t the planet lord herself already become shameless?

When the upper beam was crooked, the lower beam would be crooked too. Just like that, Su Cha led her astray.

However, Su Cha did not think there was anything wrong with doing this. For example, right now, she was brainwashing Leng Zhuoyan.

“The courses are a little urgent. What we especially need are training courses related to mechas, spaceships, and flying vehicles. We need everything from basic to advanced. You can get those, right? After all, you’re an alpha. You’ll need to use all these things in the future.”

Leng Zhuoyan felt this made sense and nodded in agreement.

Su Cha continued with a smile, “Aside from these, we also need some basic high school courses and basic university courses. These are all things you can borrow from other classmates’ teaching videos, right? You can do it, can’t you? Our great second-in-command, Student Leng Zhuoyan, the person this planet needs most. I really have to trouble you.”

“It’s… it’s nothing.”

Although borrowing teaching videos from others made Leng Zhuoyan feel somewhat ashamed, she still agreed.

“Besides these, we also need to buy a batch of the latest equipment. The school has nothing at all. We also have to hire a construction team to build a school. As for this money…”

Su Cha looked at her light brain with difficulty and sighed softly, putting on an expression that made her seem so poor she could not even uncover the pot.

Looking at that small expression of hers, Leng Zhuoyan did not know why her mouth suddenly spat out three words.

“…I’ll pay.”

Su Cha “surprisedly” hugged her and patted her back hard, choking out, “Without you, how could I live?”

Not having to spend money was truly great.

Leng Zhuoyan, who kept feeling that something was not quite right, became even stiffer.