Chapter 24
Ji Congyan was not distracted by the sudden sound.
She continued staring at Bo Shuang, her gaze dangerous and cold.
Bo Shuang’s lashes trembled.
“Speak. What did you do to wrong me? Where did I, Ji Congyan, fail to treat you well, for you to be so heartless and do something that wrongs me?”
Bo Shuang said gently, “You treat me very well…”
She did not know how to explain. She pressed her lips together. “But it isn’t what you’re thinking.”
As she spoke, she bent down to pick up the medicine kit on the floor.
However, the moment her body crouched down, Ji Congyan pinched her chin and forcibly lifted her upright.
If Bo Shuang resisted that force, she might be hurt.
“If it isn’t what I’m thinking, then why don’t you dare answer? Hm?”
The Alpha’s tone grew increasingly impatient. Bo Shuang bit her lip and closed her eyes. “I wanted to help you apply medicine…”
While waiting for Bo Shuang’s answer, Ji Congyan had already made many preparations in her heart.
She had thought about how she would punish this Omega who had wronged her: restrict her personal freedom, or simply confiscate her communication devices…
Yet the beauty’s trembling sentence froze all her thoughts in her mind.
She stood stunned in place.
“What… what…?”
The air was quiet for a long time before she dryly asked that question.
Bo Shuang softly repeated, “I wanted to help you apply medicine. I’m sorry… These past few days, I secretly slipped into your room, secretly lifted your clothes, and privately touched your body. I was wrong. I know you don’t like other people touching you, but Congyan, without applying medicine, your body would recover more slowly and suffer more torment…”
The Omega’s tone was so gentle, but Ji Congyan’s mind felt as if a muffled bell had struck it, leaving her temporarily unable to function normally.
Leaning against the wall and half-caged in Ji Congyan’s arms, Bo Shuang waited for Ji Congyan’s judgment.
She knew very clearly how much Ji Congyan hated being touched by others.
She did not want to be disliked by Ji Congyan.
Her heart lifted high.
The Alpha stood fixed in front of her. Warm light illuminated half her face. Her features were bright, grand, and beautiful. Her eyes remained lowered for a long time.
Finally, when Bo Shuang was almost unable to bear her coldness, and the corners of her eyes faintly reddened, Ji Congyan slowly lowered her noble head and bent her precious waist and legs.
Her gaze swept toward the medicine kit.
She bent down and picked it up.
Opening it, she saw only one bottle of quick hemostatic medicine, one bottle of swelling-reduction medicine, one bottle of scar-removal ointment, and a box of medical gloves.
All the packaging had already been opened.
Judging from the traces of use, it had only been used a few times.
Judging from the amount used, it matched what the wounds on her back had needed these past few days.
So it was not because she was young and recovered quickly, but because Bo Shuang had set an alarm in the middle of the night and acted like a thief…
Ji Congyan fell silent.
She tightly gripped the bottle in her hand until her fingertips turned white.
Even her breathing seemed a little uneven. Her chest felt as if it had been covered by plastic, unable to breathe through, dull and stifling.
The hand pressed against the wall and the fingers pinching the beauty’s chin had long since slowly withdrawn. The aggressive pressure from earlier was gone.
Her tone was stiff. “I’m sorry… I know now.”
For a moment, she did not even remember how much she hated physical contact with others. The uncomfortable feeling in her chest left her only able to apologize stiffly and dryly.
“Congyan, let me apply medicine for you one more time. Just this last time. It’s almost healed. After that, I won’t touch your body again.”
Bo Shuang put on the medical gloves and skillfully unscrewed the medicine bottle, but when it came to the next step, she found herself troubled.
She bit her lip. “Could I trouble you to lie on the bed and lift… lift your clothes?”
The words sounded as if she had some intention toward the Alpha.
Ji Congyan had yet to recover from the sour, aching impact in her chest.
For a moment, her words did not pass through her mind. “You took off my clothes for so many days. Now you don’t know how to take them off?”
The Alpha’s blunt words were extremely impactful.
They made Bo Shuang think of something, and a pink blush gradually spread across her soft, fair cheek.
“I do…”
The beauty’s breathing became disordered. She turned her eyes aside and gently untied the sash of Ji Congyan’s bathrobe.
Without the sash binding it, the loose robe opened slightly to both sides, brushing against her skin. Wisps of sharp, domineering Alpha fragrance drifted out.
Feeling the coolness, Ji Congyan lowered her eyes, her face full of shock.
She hurriedly covered her robe and spoke in a flustered, unfriendly tone. “You truly have been coveting my body for a long time. But Miss Bo, although we are wives, I have never done such an overstepping thing to you, have I?”
She turned around, messily pulled open the bathrobe herself, and silently, stiffly lay face-down on the bed.
She swept her scattered long hair to one side to make it easier for the Omega to apply medicine.
However, this exposed the fact that the roots of her ears were bright red.
The wounds had already healed quite a lot. From the red swelling and scabbing of several days ago, some scabs had now naturally fallen off, revealing pale pink marks.
Bo Shuang sat beside her and carefully applied scar-removal ointment to the newly grown skin.
A cool sensation moved across her back.
Ji Congyan’s fingertips tightened around the bedsheet. Smelling the quiet orchid-and-sandalwood scent in the blanket, the pheromones in her gland actually began to faintly stir.
She tried hard to suppress this strange, tingling, cool sensation.
Gritting her teeth, she endured the torment and waited for the other woman to finish applying the medicine.
When that gentle voice finally sounded, Ji Congyan slowly and unhurriedly stood up, patting non-existent dust from her body with the back of her hand.
She had lain on someone else’s bed. Later, when she returned, she would have to change her sleepwear again.
Then she looked with disgust at the fingers that had pinched Bo Shuang earlier and softly clicked her tongue.
“Congyan, where are you going?”
“Isn’t Miss Bo minding too much?” Ji Congyan paused. “To wash my hands.”
Bo Shuang subconsciously took two steps forward. “I bathed. I didn’t bring outside bacteria back.”
Ji Congyan glanced at her. “Who knows whether you drool in your sleep.”
Ji Congyan passed around the corner and entered the bathroom. Before turning on the faucet, as if possessed by a ghost, she lowered her head and sniffed the two fingertips.
The orchid-and-sandalwood scent was not as rich as it had been inside the blanket.
Expressionless, she turned on the faucet, pressed out hand soap, and carefully washed her hands inside and out until they were clean.
·
When she sat back down on the chair by the bed, Ji Congyan no longer felt sleepy. She stared at Bo Shuang, signaling for her to hurry up and sleep.
The aggressiveness from the beginning was completely gone from her eyes.
Bo Shuang lay on the bed, revealing a gentle, shallow smile.
Ji Congyan turned her head away.
Smiling so beautifully in the middle of the night—she was trying to seduce her again. This Omega was simply full of bad intentions.
Ji Congyan said faintly, “Hurry up and sleep.”
After saying that, she stopped looking at her and lowered her head to look at a work document on her phone.
At three-thirty in the morning, a message popped up at the top.
It was from the bodyguard captain assigned to Bo Shuang.
[Miss, there are results for Xiao Yi, whom you asked us to investigate. There’s abnormal cash flow in her financial account.]
Ji Congyan’s brows furrowed slightly, and she quietly walked out onto the terrace.
Looking in from the terrace, the small nightlight by the bed was on. Bo Shuang still had not slept. She lay on her side with her eyes open, looking at Ji Congyan.
Ji Congyan gave her a threatening look.
Bo Shuang responded with a gentle smile.
Ji Congyan: “…”
She turned her back and stopped looking at Bo Shuang. The bodyguard’s voice came through the receiver.
“We found that Xiao Yi’s parents are currently in the ICU of City Fifth Hospital. Yesterday evening, one million suddenly appeared in her father’s medical account. At the same time, another two hundred thousand was transferred into her personal account.”
“The source of both transfers came from the same overseas account. Our technical staff finally traced it just now. After going around in circles, this account ultimately belongs to Yue Hong of Yueyu Entertainment.”
“We don’t know why Chairwoman Yue transferred one million two hundred thousand to Xiao Yi. We also checked the account flows of Madam’s other assistants and found that they were relatively normal. There were no such large transfers in or out.”
Ji Congyan’s fingertips lightly tapped the railing. “Tell me again, in detail, what happened before Bo Shuang fainted yesterday.”
The bodyguard captain recounted everything in full detail.
From the period after Bo Shuang finished filming and returned to her seat, to Xiao Yi suddenly acting attentive and accidentally bumping into her, to when Xiao Yi followed her to the RV and Bo Shuang even gave her emergency medical expenses, reminding the captain to support this child from a small county who had come north to make a living. Not long after that, Bo Shuang fainted.
Ji Congyan listened quietly.
Even after the captain finished, she did not hear any sound from the other end of the phone.
In the Song-style courtyard on the eastern mountaintop of the city, Ji Congyan gazed at the moon, thoughtfulness in her eyes.
Suddenly, she turned to face the terrace glass.
Her gaze collided directly with a pair of gentle peach-blossom eyes that showed not the slightest sleepiness.
She asked, “You mean Bo Shuang was bumped by this Xiao Yi, then helped pay her parents’ medical expenses, and asked you to support her more?”
The captain said, “Yes. Madam is kind-hearted.”
Ji Congyan did not echo that sentence. The thoughtfulness in her expression gradually turned into understanding.
Suddenly, she gave a soft laugh.
The captain said, “There’s one more thing. We found a copy of Madam’s household register information saved in Xiao Yi’s private cloud drive.”
As she spoke, Ji Congyan also opened the images the other party had sent her.
The head of household page belonged to a male Beta named Bo Mingliang.
The top half of the next image was Bo Shuang, whose relationship to the head of household was father and daughter.
The bottom half of the image was a female Beta named Gao Yali, whose relationship to the head of household was spouse.
However, on Gao Yali’s page, a bright red [Cancelled] seal had been stamped.
The note displayed was: [Deceased]
The seal date was twenty-one years ago.
Ji Congyan tightened her grip on the phone.
Bo Shuang came from a single-parent family.
Her mother had died when she was eight years old, and after the age of eight, she had been raised solely by her father.
But ever since they registered their marriage, Bo Shuang had never mentioned her family or her past to Ji Congyan.
Yue Hong had also protected Bo Shuang’s family situation very well. There was almost no relevant information online.
Ji Congyan closed the image, expressionless.
It was only an agreement marriage. What right did she have to expect Bo Shuang to tell her?
The Alpha leaned against the railing, her voice cool and faint. “Delete this information from her cloud drive.”
“Yes.” The captain asked again, “Do I still need to support Xiao Yi?”
Ji Congyan asked, “What do you think?”
“President Ji, I don’t really understand. That Xiao Yi basically never works on set. She’s just a dog Yue Hong sent to watch Madam. She doesn’t take Madam seriously at all. Aside from Liu Fan, the other assistants are the same.”
“Dismiss them. Issue an industry ban forbidding these people from working in film and entertainment.”
The captain was stunned. “But Madam asked me to support—”
Ji Congyan said, “Who pays your salary?”
The captain said, “Yes.”
After hanging up, Ji Congyan returned to the bedroom.
Bo Shuang still had not slept and watched her come in from the terrace.
“Does Congyan also have to work overtime at night?”
Ji Congyan did not answer her question. Instead, she sat down and said in a very calm tone, “I told the bodyguards to dismiss Xiao Yi and all your assistants except Liu Fan.”
Bo Shuang’s lashes trembled.
Ji Congyan watched her expression without blinking and smiled faintly. “You don’t have any objections, right?”
Bo Shuang lowered her eyes. “No. Congyan, I’m hungry.”
Ji Congyan raised a brow. “What do you want to eat?”
“Meat.”
Ji Congyan went downstairs to stew meat for her. The sauce in the pot bubbled and gurgled, white steam rising, the fragrance rushing into the nose.
Without changing expression or swallowing saliva, she carried out a large bowl of sauced beef.
The moment the Omega saw the bowl placed down, her eyes lit slightly.
Ji Congyan handed over chopsticks, and the Omega accepted them, about to pick up some food and eat directly.
“Eating alone?” Ji Congyan asked. “Not planning to share some with me?”
Bo Shuang pushed the bowl to the middle of the diagonal between them. Ji Congyan curved her lips and took out two empty bowls and a pair of chopsticks.
Beside them, the clock hand slid past the number four.
The two lowered their heads and ate with great relish.
After eating, Bo Shuang wiped her mouth clean. “Congyan’s cooking is very good.”
“Spare me the sweet words.” Ji Congyan shoved the bowls and chopsticks into the dishwasher, removed her medical gloves, turned around, and leaned against the counter, staring steadily at Bo Shuang.
“But next time, you really don’t need to use this kind of method.”
Bo Shuang’s heart tightened.
Ji Congyan approached step by step. Bo Shuang stood still.
She did not know whether it was because she had smelled the Alpha’s unique clear-wine-atop-a-snowy-peak scent, or because of that sentence, but her heartbeat sped up loudly.
When only one arm’s length remained between her and Bo Shuang, Ji Congyan stopped. “You deliberately told the bodyguard to support Xiao Yi more because you actually wanted me to investigate the whole matter, right? Your suspicion was correct. It was Yue Hong who told her to bump into you. Yue Hong gave her a large sum of money.”
Shock first flashed through Bo Shuang’s eyes, followed by understanding.
Because she was more than half a head shorter than Ji Congyan and still had her eyes lowered, her long lashes completely concealed her expression.
Her fingertips pinched the hem of her skirt.
“Bo Shuang, you and I both know that this marriage was based on mutual use from the very beginning. You want my protection, and I want the child.
“So this is nothing to be embarrassed about. Yue Hong has many ways of restraining you. Using me to get rid of those assistants was very smart. But Miss Bo, next time you can directly state what you need.”
Ji Congyan smiled. “However, this time, you did successfully catch my attention.”
·
Early morning before dawn, on the other side of the city.
In a cramped rental room, a knock sounded at the door.
It was rhythmic and regular.
The woman jolted awake from sleep.
This was an urban village, a place full of mixed chaos.
She had heard of gangs knocking on the doors of single women’s homes and harming women.
Terrified, she gripped a fruit knife and moved in small steps toward the door. At the same time, she had already dialed the emergency police number.
“Hello, this is the emergency center…”
She turned the volume to the lowest setting and pressed the receiver to her ear. Before she could look through the peephole, a voice came from outside.
“Hello, Ms. Huang Xiaoyi. I am an administrative assistant from Anji Entertainment. I came here to inform you that starting today, you no longer need to work beside Madam.”
Huang Xiaoyi opened the door, stunned. “The person who hired me was Chairwoman Yue, not President Ji from Anji Entertainment. Even if President Ji can cover the sky with one hand, she can’t control my job.”
Outside the door, the middle-aged woman nodded slightly.
“Yes. Therefore, we trouble you to personally inform Chairwoman Yue Hong that… her overseas account ending in 7716 is currently involved in a large amount of illegal funds and suspected money laundering. It has already been frozen by the relevant authorities.
“Chairwoman Yue Hong should currently not have enough extra funds to support the expenses of multiple assistants for Madam. We suggest that Chairwoman Yue prioritize dismissing redundant personnel.”
After the woman nodded calmly, she left.
She had not said a single harsh word. Her tone was calm throughout, and she wore a professional smile the entire time.
Yet precisely because of this, Huang Xiaoyi felt chills run down her spine.
Ending in 7716. That was exactly the account that had transferred a large sum of money into her and her father’s accounts last night. How did President Ji know…
“Hello, hello, madam, can you hear me? Are you encountering an extreme danger? Please hold on. We have already arranged personnel to go to your—”
“No, no, it’s fine now. No need…”
After closing the door, Huang Xiaoyi’s entire body went limp, and she slid to the floor.
The voice on the other end of the phone pulled her thoughts back. She hurriedly hung up and searched through her contacts, found Chairwoman Yue’s contact information, and dialed with trembling hands.
It took a long while before someone answered.
“What is it?” Yue Hong’s lazy voice had not even finished speaking when Huang Xiaoyi’s trembling voice sounded.
“Chairwoman Yue…”
She repeated everything about the visitor at her home and the words spoken by the administrative assistant from Anji Entertainment to Yue Hong, not missing a single word.
The more Yue Hong listened, the heavier her expression became.
“Are you certain the account number they mentioned ended in 7716?”
“Absolutely certain. How would I dare lie to you…”
Yue Hong was highly vigilant. “Is there surveillance at your door? Make a copy and send it to me.”
In less than two minutes, she received the video Huang Xiaoyi sent. The footage had audio. When the administrative assistant saw the camera, she even nodded slightly and smiled, silently mouthing a sentence.
“Chairwoman Yue, President Ji sends her regards.”
Yue Hong’s phone clattered to the floor. She no longer cared about her image and knelt on the ground, connecting to the overseas bank’s online page in an attempt to transfer the money out.
But the moment she pressed the button, an error window popped up on the page.
[Your account has been frozen.]
·
The phone screen lit up.
Liu Fan held the phone and waited until Sister Bo had gone through this scene again before stepping forward to hand it over.
Bo Shuang lightly wiped the thin sweat on her forehead with a tissue.
Her fingertip slid across the screen.
It was a bank text message.
**[Your account ending in 8818 received a transfer of 500,000 yuan at 8:31. The remitting account is *7716, from an overseas anonymous source.]
Bo Shuang was puzzled for a moment.
The commercial payments she had recently accepted had all already been settled.
Her pay for Dawn was also not this low.
Who transferred this five hundred thousand?
This number made her have no choice but to recall the five hundred thousand she had transferred to Huang Xiaoyi yesterday.
But the other party was short of money and would definitely not return it to her.
Very quickly, she thought of what Ji Congyan had said to her last night.
Her breathing slowed, and she tried sending the other woman a message: [Thank you, Congyan.]
[Focus on filming your scene.]
The reply came instantly.
An indescribable feeling rose in Bo Shuang’s chest.
At this moment, she was inside Anji Entertainment’s building.
This building was right next to Ji Group’s headquarters. There was even a sky bridge connecting the two buildings, making it very convenient to come and go.
She subconsciously raised her head and looked through the enormous glass window toward the top floor of Ji Group’s headquarters next door.
Was Congyan working there?
The Alpha knew she was filming. Would she come over?
Bo Shuang had come for her next film.
The film was called A Thousand Temptations. It was the one Yue Hong had brought her to the club to discuss last time, when she had been forced to drink and connect with the Anji Entertainment team, who wanted her to accept the role.
A few days ago, the staff of Anji Entertainment had contacted her again, saying that the people in charge of the project had been replaced. No one would force Bo Shuang to do things she did not want to do anymore, and there would be no need for social drinking or entertaining clients.
Originally, this film’s release schedule had been planned for next summer.
But according to the latest news, A Thousand Temptations had been moved to next year’s Spring Festival slot.
In this way, after finishing Dawn, she could peacefully focus on nourishing her pregnancy and give birth to the fetus in her womb.
Once her body had recovered enough, it would be just in time to continue with the filming schedule for A Thousand Temptations.
If someone said that A Thousand Temptations had coincidentally changed its release schedule so perfectly, Bo Shuang would not believe it.
A certain Alpha must have said something in the middle.
Bo Shuang held the script and immersed herself back into the scene, once again feeling the emotional and behavioral changes of the character.
She could not disappoint Ji Congyan’s kindness.
Yu Chen had also come.
Although the character design of this script was basically tailor-made for a gentle-looking type like Bo Shuang, and the team had initially contacted Bo Shuang first, Yu Chen was Anji’s top actress. If she wanted to audition for her own company’s project, no one could stop her.
Seeing that her rival had already fully immersed herself in the scene, she put down her bag and, unwilling to be outdone, began acting out the opposite role.
The two, immersed in the scene, acted with rich voice and emotion, the atmosphere rising inch by inch.
Suddenly, a burst of frantic footsteps sounded, accompanied by several noisy voices.
“Sister Bo, Sister Bo…”
After being called several times in a row, even Bo Shuang and Yu Chen, no matter how immersed they were, were pulled out of it.
Yu Chen stared unhappily at the visitors.
“Which department are you from? Have your department head teach you properly not to interrupt artists while they’re acting opposite each other.”
“Film Queen Yu, we’re not from Anji. I’m Sister Bo’s assistant.”
The group was panting.
Among them, only Xiao Yi was not present.
The moment Liu Fan and the bodyguards saw them, they stopped them, but they could not stop these people from shouting so loudly.
Liu Fan bristled. “What are you here for? You were all fired by Chairwoman Yue. Who allowed you to come find Sister Bo!?”
Bo Shuang walked over from behind and gently patted Liu Fan, signaling that she did not need to be nervous.
Liu Fan stood beside Sister Bo, glaring angrily and backing her up.
Bo Shuang asked, “What is it?”
One assistant said, “Sister, we were following you perfectly well. Why did Chairwoman Yue suddenly dismiss us? We can work for you. Can you sign new employment contracts with us? From now on, just like Fanfan, we’ll be directly under your management.”
“Peh. Our Sister Bo won’t accept people who betrayed their master,” Liu Fan snorted coldly.
The assistant said, “Fanfan, back then, didn’t you also switch from a company contract to an individual contract with Sister Bo?”
Bo Shuang said, “I already have enough people around me to take care of me. I don’t need to sign more people. If you go look for work now and write the experience of being Bo Shuang’s assistant on your resume, it will be a plus. Many studios will be willing to recruit you.”
The assistants would not give up. “Sister Bo~ We’re already used to following you. Whatever work you arrange for us in the future, we’ll do it.”
Bo Shuang’s voice remained gentle, but it carried a little more distance.
“If you continue pestering me, don’t blame me for not considering our past ties and asking the bodyguard sisters to invite you away.”
Courtesy before force worked on most people.
But Bo Shuang’s overly gentle image was deeply rooted in people’s hearts. They still wanted to try a little harder. One assistant quickly stepped forward, wanting to imitate how Xiao Yi had handed Bo Shuang water that day.
The captain blocked them with extreme speed.
At the same time, a cold voice came from the distance.
“Let me see who dares disobey my Omega!”
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