After Falling in Love with the Scum Alpha’s Beautiful Original Wife at First Sight - Chapter 4

After Shen Baiyi came out of the bathroom, she found that Xu Qingzhi was no longer in the kitchen.

The door to the master bedroom was closed. She knocked lightly and tentatively called Xu Qingzhi’s name twice, but received no response.

She was probably asleep.

Shen Baiyi immediately let out a sigh of relief.

She had deliberately timed her return for after Xu Qingzhi had left home. She had not expected Xu Qingzhi to actually not go to work today.

When she had seen Xu Qingzhi in the kitchen just now, Shen Baiyi had nearly broken out in a cold sweat.

The smell of alcohol on her body was heavy, and she did not dare stand in front of Xu Qingzhi at all.

Fortunately, Xu Qingzhi seemed to have caught a cold and probably could not smell the alcohol on her. Otherwise, Shen Baiyi truly would not have known how to explain it.

Shen Baiyi tiptoed to the balcony, carefully closed the door, and only then took out her phone and dialed a number.

Two words flashed on the screen: Qi Yue.

She waited patiently for a while before the call was finally picked up.

“Hello, Yueyue,” Shen Baiyi deliberately lowered her voice. “Why haven’t you been replying to my messages?”

“Are you angry because I didn’t stay with you last night and left suddenly?”

Shen Baiyi explained, “Honey, I didn’t expect to suddenly be called in to work overtime either. There was no choice. This is just the bad part about working in internet tech. I mentioned it to you before, didn’t I? One of my coworkers was getting married, and on the day of the wedding, when they were on the way to pick up the bride, they were suddenly called in to work overtime. Right, isn’t your sister also—”

Before she could finish speaking, Qi Yue, who had been silent on the other end, suddenly flew into a rage for some unknown reason.

“Shen Baiyi, you’re so annoying. Can you stop talking?”

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What was wrong?

When Shen Baiyi had been drinking with Qi Yue last night, she had still been perfectly normal.

Unable to understand why Qi Yue had suddenly lost her temper so badly, Shen Baiyi froze for a moment, then reacted very quickly. “Honey, don’t be angry. I won’t say anything anymore.”

“Oh, right, honey. Do you still remember that dress you tried on when we went shopping on Valentine’s Day? Back then, you said you didn’t like that dress, but I thought it really suited you. So later, I went back and bought it.”

Dress? Who would want such an ugly dress? Qi Yue was about to lose her temper again, but before she opened her mouth, she suddenly remembered something.

Qi Hengxing had said she would cut off her living expenses.

Because of that, Qi Yue’s mood had been terrible the entire morning. But Shen Baiyi’s phone call suddenly reminded her of something.

If Qi Hengxing refused to give her money, she had plenty of ways to get money from elsewhere.

When Qi Yue spoke again, Shen Baiyi keenly sensed that her inexplicable anger had somehow suddenly faded. “Forget it. I really don’t like that dress very much. How about this? Return that dress and transfer the money to me. I’ll go pick another one myself.”

Shen Baiyi let out a sigh of relief and agreed readily. “Okay. I’ll listen to you.”

Only then was Qi Yue satisfied.

After coaxing Qi Yue into a good mood, Shen Baiyi hung up the phone.

The weather in February was still outrageously cold. Shen Baiyi leaned against the balcony railing and suddenly felt her stomach was empty. From last night until now, she had barely eaten anything and had only drunk some alcohol.

There was meat and vegetables in the kitchen. There should also be wontons, dumplings, and things like that in the fridge that Xu Qingzhi had made before. She only needed to boil them a little.

But Shen Baiyi felt lazy. After rummaging through her pocket for a long time, she found a piece of fruit candy and tossed it into her mouth.

At this rate, when would she be able to fully get close to Qi Yue—and through Qi Yue, to the Qi family?

In truth, Qi Yue had not been the person she had set her eyes on at first. Her older sister, Qi Hengxing, had been.

Before she met Qi Yue, Shen Baiyi had already heard plenty of gossip about the Qi family while socializing for work. For example, the matter of Qi’s mother twice going to an Alpha to have a child had long become an old topic. Later, after the two children she gave birth to gradually grew up, they became new topics of conversation around the drinking table.

The eldest daughter, Qi Hengxing, had been personally raised by the two Qi elders.

Back then, Qi’s mother had an Alpha whom she loved and who loved her in return, and who was also of equal social standing. Both families were very respectable and prominent locally.

But later, because of an accident, Qi’s mother became pregnant before marriage.

Originally, both families approved of the marriage. Getting pregnant before marriage was not a big problem; they could simply move the wedding date forward.

But the Alpha’s family suddenly became foolishly greedy. Thinking that since Qi’s mother was already pregnant, she could no longer run away, they wanted to use this matter to hold the Qi family hostage.

At first, the Qi family and Qi’s mother were also at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Qi’s mother was the only daughter of the two Qi elders, and they cherished her like a pearl in their palms. Just as they were about to compromise for their daughter’s happiness, Qi’s mother was the first to come to her senses.

A fiancée and her family who had revealed their true colors just because she was pregnant—how could they possibly be her happy ending?

So she proposed to the two Qi elders that she keep the child, let the child take the Qi surname, and raise the child on her own.

At first, the two Qi elders strongly opposed it, thinking it was extremely inappropriate. For an Omega without an Alpha’s comfort to go through pregnancy and childbirth alone was no easy matter. Besides, it would not sound good if word got out that Qi’s mother had a child out of wedlock.

But later, they thought about it again. Wasn’t it actually an enormous good thing that Qi’s mother could have a child who took the Qi surname?

Moreover, the Qi family had such a vast family business. It was not as if they could not afford to raise one child.

Besides, they could provide the child with the best education and living environment, and raise the child according to the standards of the Qi family’s heir. So what if this child did not have her biological Alpha parent?

After obtaining the approval of the two Qi elders, Qi’s mother stayed at home to peacefully nurture the pregnancy. Meanwhile, the fiancée’s family, who had not seen the Qi family lower their heads to them, finally began to lose patience.

Seeing that the due date was almost here and the Qi family was still calm and unhurried, the fiancée’s family finally knocked on the Qi family’s door and tentatively asked Qi’s mother when she planned to set the wedding date.

Unexpectedly, Qi’s mother had already given birth to a girl, had named the girl Qi Hengxing, had given her the Qi surname, and had registered her household records.

The fiancée’s family was greatly shocked. They had not expected Qi’s mother to actually dare do such a thing.

But by then, it was already too late to seek reconciliation with the Qi family.

Qi’s mother was determined to make a clean break with her fiancée. Moreover, on the day of Qi Hengxing’s full-month banquet, she very publicly invited everyone she could invite. From then on, the matter of the fiancée’s family betraying their word became known to all, and they could only slink away to another city.

After giving birth to Qi Hengxing, Qi’s mother took over the Qi family, while Qi Hengxing was kept by the two Qi elders’ side and personally taught by them.

Perhaps because her parents’ genes were excellent, Qi Hengxing was also exceptionally intelligent. In her second year of high school, she was recommended for admission to one of the top universities in the country, and later studied abroad. After she returned to the country, Qi’s mother went overseas to develop new business ventures, and everyone tacitly accepted that the Qi family’s industries would be taken over by Qi Hengxing.

With Qi Hengxing as a precedent, Qi’s mother later chose a university student from a poor family who had relied on her own hard work to get into a well-known university, and once again gave birth to Qi Yue.

Perhaps because this university student was far more tactful than her former fiancée, Qi’s mother had even helped promote her before, and she did not reject Qi Yue meeting her either. Later on, this university student became an executive at the company where Shen Baiyi currently worked.

Ever since Shen Baiyi learned that her superior had once had this sort of relationship with Qi’s mother, her mind began to stir.

Since the heir of the Qi family was Qi Hengxing, then in the future, Qi Hengxing might very likely be like her mother and go to an Alpha to have a child.

If she could get close to Qi Hengxing, as long as she was willing to please her, wouldn’t she be able to become like this superior and save herself decades of hard work?

The idea was beautiful, but making it happen was very difficult. With Shen Baiyi’s position, she simply could not attend occasions where she could meet Qi Hengxing.

Later, after asking around from many sources, she learned that Qi Hengxing was actually an Alpha, so she had no choice but to give up on that idea.

But who would have thought that the path would wind and lead somewhere else? Shen Baiyi happened to run into Qi Yue at the company when Qi Yue had come to look for her superior, and she suddenly realized that the spoiled and willful Qi Yue was much easier to manipulate than Qi Hengxing. More importantly, Qi Yue was an Omega, so she shifted her target to Qi Yue.

Shen Baiyi deliberately concealed the fact that she was already married and intentionally approached Qi Yue. After all, she had been mixing in the business world for several years. Dealing with Qi Yue, who was only in her second year of university, was still very easy.

The difficult part was the next step.

How could she completely bind herself to Qi Yue?

Pretending to be single in front of Qi Yue and pretending to be busy with work in front of Xu Qingzhi had already taken up most of her energy.

At the same time, she also had to do her best not to let Qi Hengxing discover that she was in contact with Qi Yue, because Qi Hengxing would easily be able to tell that she had ulterior motives. If the Qi family took revenge on her then, she would be miserable.

Qi Yue was young and fickle, so making Qi Yue wholeheartedly devoted to her was also a problem.

Shen Baiyi’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

So, did she have to find a way to mark Qi Yue…?