After Falling in Love with the Scum Alpha’s Beautiful Original Wife at First Sight - Chapter 8

Compared with the crowded student cafeteria, the faculty cafeteria at Huai Kang City No. 1 High School had an environment that was better by far.

Moreover, the faculty cafeteria not only allowed people to take food for themselves, but also let them order dishes.

With a grand wave of his hand, the vice principal ordered several dishes, such as chestnut black-bone chicken and small glutinous rice balls in fermented rice wine.

Qi Hengxing found it very satisfying.

Naturally, what she usually ate was better than this, but what she enjoyed was not the dishes themselves. It was the difference brought about by this change in status.

Back then, the faculty cafeteria had not allowed students to enter and eat. But today, Qi Hengxing had been invited in by the vice principal.

Qi Hengxing, the vice principal, and Chengcheng sat at a table in the corner of the faculty cafeteria. Several half-person-tall potted green plants were placed beside them, naturally enclosing the area.

However, just after they sat down, several people also sat down one after another at the table next to theirs.

Qi Hengxing looked up casually without much interest. Through the cover of the green plants, she discovered that they were merely a few teachers eating together.

“I should have realized something was wrong ages ago! When we went out on a date before, the two of us went to eat noodles together. While ordering, she casually said, ‘One serving without scallions and cilantro.’ At the time, I thought she couldn’t eat scallions or cilantro. But after the server brought the noodles over, she placed that bowl of noodles in front of me. My heart gave a thump right then, but I didn’t say anything. I even comforted myself inwardly, telling myself not to overthink it and that I could just tell her later that I could actually accept scallions and cilantro.”

As soon as one young female teacher sat down, she spoke a long string of words, her emotions unusually intense. Even though Qi Hengxing had not been interested, she could not help glancing over again.

In order to discuss the donation as smoothly as possible, the vice principal had deliberately chosen a quieter corner. But man proposes, heaven disposes. He had not expected that even sitting here, he would still be able to hear a young teacher from the school sharing her personal relationship problems.

He inwardly thought this was bad and prayed that the meal would end smoothly.

“And another time, I was working overtime at school at night to grade papers. I wanted to ask her to pick me up and take me home. But when I messaged her, she didn’t reply. When I called her, she didn’t pick up either. When I finally managed to contact her, she told me she was stuck working overtime at the company and couldn’t get away. Fine, I thought. If work is busy, then there’s nothing that can be done. But in the end, she got home even earlier than I did! I was so angry that day I nearly exploded. If she didn’t want to pick me up, she could have just said it. Why make up an excuse about being busy with work? I touched the computer tower and it was still warm. I was so angry that I had a huge fight with her that night!”

As the young teacher spoke, she began to choke up. The other two teachers eating with her hurriedly comforted her.

Qi Hengxing had not meant to eavesdrop, but the two tables were only separated by several potted plants, and their conversation was perfectly clear.

A slightly hoarse female voice rang out, sounding as if its owner had most likely caught a cold. “Don’t cry first. Getting too emotional is very harmful to the body.”

Although the voice was a little rough, the way she spoke was gentle, soft, and unhurried. For no reason, Qi Hengxing thought of the little kitten that the company employees had adopted and kept in the office. All day long, it meowed weakly and softly, and no matter whose feet it walked to, it would lie down and roll over to expose its belly for affection.

The young teacher calmed down a little. “Last night, last night, I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. I couldn’t fall back asleep, so I went to look through her phone. I had never done something like that before, because she had told me before that she didn’t like other people looking through her phone. I respected her wishes, so I never looked. But last night, I really couldn’t hold back. And the moment I opened WeChat—”

“The moment I opened WeChat, I saw her chat history with her ex-girlfriend.” As the young teacher spoke, she still broke down. “She said she still liked her ex-girlfriend more, and as long as her ex-girlfriend agreed to get back together with her, she would immediately break up with me. I also saw that on the day I asked her to pick me up after work, she hadn’t been working at all. Her ex-girlfriend’s family member was sick, and she spent the whole day running around the hospital for them!”

Oh, so this was the so-called white moonlight?

Tsk, tsk. What a scummy Alpha. If she was still thinking about her ex-girlfriend, why did she look for an innocent person she did not even like to date?

Qi Hengxing had not expected that she could sit here and hear someone else’s gossip. Even though she had not been interested at first, she could not help perking up her ears and listening.

Another teacher, who sounded slightly older, sighed. “Then what are you thinking now? Hurry up and break up with that Alpha of yours.”

The young teacher sobbed. “B-but I’ve been dating her for so long. We were originally planning to get married during summer break…”

“What marriage is there still to get?” the older teacher said, disappointed that she was not seeing sense. “If you get married, there’ll be plenty of chances for you to cry afterward. Right now, you’re still clinging to that little bit of affection between you two. After marriage, what does that affection even count for? For the next few decades, you can go ahead and regret it as much as you like! Cut your losses in time. Do you understand what it means to cut your losses in time?”

The young teacher shifted awkwardly, as if she still wanted to say something.

The hoarse voice sounded again, still gentle and unhurried. “You can’t bear to let go? You can’t harden your heart?”

“So what if you two are getting married during summer break? Perhaps at your wedding, her ex-girlfriend will call and say she wants to be with your Alpha, and your Alpha will immediately let go of your hand, lightly say, ‘I’m sorry, I still can’t let her go,’ then leave in front of everyone, leaving you alone to face all the guests’ undisguised strange and sympathetic gazes.”

“Even if you successfully get married, perhaps at the critical moment when you’re pregnant and about to give birth, the ex-girlfriend’s family member will also be in critical condition. Your Alpha will not hesitate to tell you that taking a taxi to the hospital by yourself isn’t that difficult, then turn around and go to the ex-girlfriend’s family member’s hospital bed to serve tea, pour water, and show concern, leaving you alone to struggle with preparing your own care bag, taking a taxi, waiting at the hospital to give birth, and watching helplessly as all the other pregnant women in the hospital have family members accompanying them.”

“Even if your Alpha accompanies you smoothly through childbirth, perhaps when you are at your most exhausted while taking care of the child, you’ll ask her to watch the child for a while in your place, only to turn around and discover that she did not even notice the child almost rolling off the bed. You’ll have a huge argument with her, but she’ll be indifferent and won’t take it to heart at all.”

“Why? Because she doesn’t care. In her heart, there will always be someone more important than you. Even that person’s family will rank ahead of you. She won’t take your preferences to heart, nor will she consider your safety. As for the child you gave birth to together, that will matter even less to her. For ten months of pregnancy, she never anticipated it, never hurt, never vomited, and never tossed and turned sleeplessly. She won’t understand what you endured, and she won’t understand what you love.”