After Falling in Love with the Scum Alpha’s Beautiful Original Wife at First Sight - Chapter 17

Cui Can had not expected that when she asked Xu Qingzhi out for dinner over the weekend, Xu Qingzhi had still been telling her about little things like Shen Baiyi buying her strawberries and saying she would give her an identical turquoise knot. Yet not long after, Xu Qingzhi actually called her again.

Shen Baiyi had gone out in the middle of the night and even lied to Xu Qingzhi, saying she was working overtime.

Cui Can immediately flared up and could not help saying, “She drove out in the middle of the night and didn’t come back all night? She repeatedly lied to you about working overtime? I really couldn’t tell. How is her acting so good? She tells lies as if they’re true. With acting skills like that, she could beat those idol celebrities ten times over.”

“I’m really speechless.” The more Cui Can thought about it, the angrier she became. She forcefully held back the urge to curse. “This definitely isn’t Shen Baiyi’s first time doing this, right? She eats dinner with you, waits until you fall asleep, then sneaks out without a sound, who knows where, to fool around? How capable. I truly bow down to her time management!”

“If she dares use overtime to lie to you, then what about all those business trips before? Could those have been lies too? What internet company sends someone on half-month business trips every few days? I knew something was wrong!”

Xu Qingzhi froze. She had not considered this possibility before.

The moment the word “business trip” came out, Cui Can suddenly thought of something else.

She blurted out, “Right, Qingzhi, do you still remember that day when you caught a cold and went to the hospital? I called you that day.”

Xu Qingzhi had always had a good memory. Once Cui Can reminded her, she quickly remembered that on the phone that day, Cui Can had clearly wanted to say something but held back.

“I remember,” Xu Qingzhi replied softly.

“That day, I even asked you if you had found out something, but you didn’t tell me.”

Cui Can could not help feeling a little regretful. If she had told her about that matter back then, Xu Qingzhi might have discovered Shen Baiyi’s true face earlier.

“Actually, actually, the night before I called you, when I was passing by a bar after getting off work, I saw someone outside that bar. At the time, I thought that person looked very familiar, but I couldn’t remember who it was for a moment.”

Cui Can said, “After I got home, I finally remembered that person looked a little like Shen Baiyi. But at the time, I didn’t confirm it in person, and I was afraid I had mistaken someone else for her. The reason I called you was also to confirm whether that person could have been Shen Baiyi. But then you told me she was on a business trip, so I thought it was possible I had mistaken her.”

Then she gritted her teeth and said, “If all those things Shen Baiyi said about business trips were lies too, then the person I saw that night was most likely her.”

Shen Baiyi. A bar.

Xu Qingzhi suddenly remembered that after she returned home from the hospital, she had found Shen Baiyi at home catching up on sleep.

The slightly messy clothes on Shen Baiyi’s body, the surprised yet forcibly calm expression when she saw Xu Qingzhi, and the strange behavior of standing by the door, not daring to come one step closer, only asking Xu Qingzhi to turn on the water heater for her…

The answer was about to come out.

Shen Baiyi knew Xu Qingzhi’s routine like the back of her hand. She knew when Xu Qingzhi woke up and when she left for work, so she had deliberately timed her return home to catch up on sleep.

But what Shen Baiyi had not expected was that because Xu Qingzhi had swapped classes with another teacher, she happened to have no classes that day and had time to go to the hospital. As a result, Xu Qingzhi suddenly came back and nearly exposed her secret.

So that was how it was.

Everything had a reasonable explanation now.

“Cui Can, do you still remember the name of that bar and where it was?”

“Uh, I think it was called RENA PARK. It’s at the intersection of Jinsha Road and Shiliu Street.”

Only half a beat later did Cui Can realize why Xu Qingzhi had suddenly asked this. She became alert. “Wait, you’re not planning to go there and look for her, are you?”

Xu Qingzhi said, “No.”

“I just want to go there and have a look. I’ve grown this old, but I’ve never been to that kind of bar before.”

Cui Can was momentarily speechless. After a long while, she said, “Then wait a few minutes for me. I’m getting off work right now. I’ll go with you in a bit.”

—

Shen Baiyi had driven out to find Qi Yue.

Ever since Qi Yue started school, she had not dared to spend every day soaking in bars and drinking with Shen Baiyi the way she had before. But for some reason, these past few days, she had begun reverting to old habits. Earlier today, she had even taken the initiative to invite Shen Baiyi to accompany her to a bar.

But at that time, Shen Baiyi had been focused on asking Xu Qingzhi about the demolition compensation, so she had brushed Qi Yue off by saying she had something to do.

Shen Baiyi drove very fast, almost testing the edge of the speed limit. She stepped on the accelerator and headed toward RENA PARK, the location Qi Yue had tagged in her Moments. For a moment, her heart was filled with pleasure.

To hell with Xu Qingzhi. She had endured for so long. Tonight, she was going to have fun to her heart’s content.

When she arrived at the bar, Shen Baiyi easily found Qi Yue in the middle of the crowd, drinking excitedly.

Around her was a circle of equally drunk men and women. Wine bottles rolled all over the floor, leaving no place to step.

A normal person would instinctively resist such an extremely chaotic scene, but Shen Baiyi finally felt a little freer. She walked in and pushed aside an Alpha who had an arm draped over Qi Yue’s shoulder.

Qi Yue smelled the familiar pheromones and raised her somewhat dazed eyes to look at Shen Baiyi. Her cheeks were flushed. She hooked an arm around Shen Baiyi’s neck and leaned softly against her. “You came.”

The Alpha who had been pushed away by Shen Baiyi had originally wanted to pick a fight, but seeing that the two clearly knew each other, she could only walk away with a dark expression.

Someone beside them lightly bumped Shen Baiyi’s shoulder and teased, “Sister, are you here to find your girlfriend? Drink with us.”

“Come on, come on, let’s play together!”

Someone stuffed a glass of alcohol into Shen Baiyi’s hand. Shen Baiyi did not hesitate. Under everyone’s gaze, she drank the entire glass in one go.

The people beside her immediately cheered and applauded. Shen Baiyi placed the empty glass on the table and smoothed the hair hanging near her collarbone.

Originally, her appearance leaned toward pure, kind, and harmless. No matter who she looked at, she seemed sincere and easygoing. But now, under the dim lights of the bar, a trace of indifference and arrogance that suited her true nature slowly appeared between her brows and eyes. The intense contrast dazzled an Omega beside her so much that, for a moment, she could not look away.

The alcohol made the already extremely unhappy Shen Baiyi even more excited. People beside her handed over one drink after another, and she accepted almost every one. Qi Yue obediently clung to Shen Baiyi, enjoying the gazes everyone cast at them.

Everyone present was immersed in this carnival.

—

Xu Qingzhi and Cui Can took a taxi to the bar called RENA PARK.

Xu Qingzhi stood at the bar entrance. She could hear the dynamic, ambiguous music and the boiling, noisy voices coming from inside.

Cui Can stood beside her, wanting to speak several times but stopping herself. In the end, she said, “Qingzhi, are you going in? I’ll go with you.”

Xu Qingzhi came back to herself and shook her head. “No. She may not be here right now anyway.”

“I just wanted to come here and have a look. To see what kind of place this is.” Xu Qingzhi looked one last time at the flashing colored lights on the bar sign. “I realized I’ve never understood Shen Baiyi at all. It would’ve been better if I had tried to understand her properly back then.”

Cui Can tried hard to comfort her. “Qingzhi, she’s just too good at pretending. Since she deliberately deceived you, how could she possibly let you discover something was wrong so easily? In my opinion, that aunt of hers probably isn’t a good person either. Your grandmother was already that seriously ill, yet she still racked her brains to introduce Shen Baiyi to you. She probably had bad intentions even then. Who urges someone to date and find a partner when that person’s elder is gravely ill?”

Xu Qingzhi’s gaze darkened, but she did not answer.

Cui Can still wanted to say something, but then she saw Xu Qingzhi’s gaze fall somewhere and could not help asking in confusion, “Qingzhi, what are you looking at?”

Xu Qingzhi stared straight at the row of cars parked along the roadside.

The car at the street corner was Shen Baiyi’s.

She walked over and carefully looked at the car’s license plate number. It was a simple combination of letters and numbers. Xu Qingzhi repeated it in her heart several times, and only one voice echoed chaotically in her mind: So she really is here.

Cui Can did not really recognize Shen Baiyi’s car, but seeing Xu Qingzhi’s reaction beside her, she immediately understood what was going on.

Furious, she grabbed Xu Qingzhi’s wrist and pulled her toward the bar.

“Fine, she really did come to the bar to drink. Qingzhi, let’s go. We’ll catch her red-handed!”

But after only a couple of steps, Cui Can felt Xu Qingzhi resisting with all her strength. She stopped and turned back, confused and shocked.

“Qingzhi?!”

Xu Qingzhi met her eyes and said calmly, “There’s no need to go in, Cui Can.”

“I want to divorce Shen Baiyi.”