After I Picked Up the Movie Queen Who Was Pretending to Be an Alpha - Chapter 20

Climbing a mountain was extremely physically exhausting, so Pei Suyuan slept very well that night and was full of energy.

She also exercised regularly, so her body was not sore or aching at all. She even ate a little more breakfast than usual.

The original plan for today was games, culprit deduction, and filming the original drama scenes. In the evening, there would be a dinner and casual chat segment.

But because too many fans had gathered at the scenic area where they were filming, the production team made a temporary adjustment and changed the morning game segment into a small fan interaction event.

Pei Suyuan did not care at all. In any case, she was so unpopular that she did not have many fans.

Sure enough, Qiao Yaning had the most fans at the venue, and they were mostly young and lively. Wei Jinzhi also had quite a few fans. After that came Jiang Zhan, who had a bit more than the others. As for everyone else, their fans could practically be counted one by one.

The evidence-gathering game used numbered tags to draw fans for interactive games with the guests.

Sure enough, among the seven fans drawn, three were Qiao Yaning’s fans, two were Wei Jinzhi’s fans, and one was Jiang Zhan’s fan.

The last was a particularly shy female beta fan who stood in front of Pei Suyuan and said she was her fan.

Pei Suyuan was surprised and delighted. With that fan, she achieved a fairly good result: second place.

After the event ended, the fan wanted to give her a gift. Of course, Pei Suyuan did not dare accept it.

Although she cherished the bond between herself and her fans, she could not accept gifts. Moreover, she had previously experienced being stalked by anti-fans, so she had a fear of people giving her things.

Before, a fan had said they wanted to give her a gift, but when she opened the box, it had been full of rotten eggs. They had smashed all over her.

So now, naturally, she refused.

The female fan looked aggrieved for a while, then took out a bottle of water and handed it to Pei Suyuan.

She said she was worried Pei Suyuan would be too tired from climbing the mountain and told her to drink more water.

It was only a bottle of water. Although Pei Suyuan was cautious, she could not very well refuse it, so she accepted the bottle.

The cold water felt a little damp in her hand. Pei Suyuan did not think much of it. After holding it for a while, she still handed it over to Mu Xinyi to deal with.

After all, it was something meant to enter the mouth, so of course they had to be even more careful.

……

When the final piece of evidence came into her hands, Pei Suyuan finally discovered what was wrong.

It turned out the murderer was not An Chu, but Qi Yuan.

After Qi Yuan was reborn, her attitude became forceful. She had constantly struggled against her father, and during another argument, she accidentally killed him.

This part was not written in the script. It had to be deduced by repeatedly gathering evidence.

Clearly, the evidence could not be limited to the one in her own hands.

Sure enough, when it came time to truly deduce the culprit, Wei Jinzhi’s hidden evidence, or rather An Chu’s hidden evidence, almost all pointed toward Qi Yuan.

The two of them were the most intimate lovers, but according to the timeline in the script, they had only known each other for a very short time. Yet Qi Yuan seemed to know many things about An Chu very clearly, and she had revealed them unintentionally.

The final evidence was—

In the middle of the night, Qi Yuan had a fierce argument with you and parted on bad terms. She did not contact you again until noon the next day.

The time when that argument occurred was roughly the time Father Qi died.

Qi Yuan had no memory of this section. It was when she had just been reborn and argued with Father Qi at home—

In the afternoon, the filming of the culprit deduction officially ended. Immediately afterward, everyone changed clothes again and prepared to film scenes from the original drama.

The role each person played in the murder mystery was actually also the role they would play while filming the original drama scenes. And as the original drama’s lead actress, Wei Jinzhi should logically have acted more easily than anyone else.

But when filming officially began, problems kept appearing one after another.

In the end, there was truly no other way. Wei Jinzhi appeared as the narrator, and the original scenes between Qi Yuan and An Chu were all filmed in the form of a one-person performance.

Moreover, it was performed from An Chu’s perspective. This had also been Wei Jinzhi’s suggestion.

Everyone could tell that Wei Jinzhi truly did not want to act.

Of course Pei Suyuan knew too, but making her perform a one-person scene really was not easy.

Fortunately, it was not a true film shoot. Lin Ling’s requirements were not considered high, and Pei Suyuan could barely be counted as having passed.

……

After filming ended, the group returned to the guesthouse. Pei Suyuan felt terribly hot, so during the break, she took a shower before heading outside to join everyone for the final segment.

The purpose of this segment was to be sentimental.

All kinds of sentimental.

They would talk about their experiences since entering the industry, or amusing childhood stories, or how difficult things had been for their families.

Since it would be edited again in post-production anyway, there was no particular order. Whoever thought of something could say it. What they wanted was that sense of naturalness.

So the ones who spoke the most were Wang Pei, Zhai Lina, and Qiao Yaning. The first two wanted to bring up the atmosphere, while the latter genuinely just talked a lot.

Moreover, all of them were experts at stirring emotions. They built the atmosphere very well. Wang Shiming also sighed along and said a few things about his own era.

Jiang Zhan was a little younger, and the past events Wang Shiming spoke of happened to be similar to stories from his parents’ generation, so from time to time, he also said a few things about his parents.

Even Wei Jinzhi spoke quite a bit, though not about her family. Instead, she talked about a benefactor on her acting path, Elder Hong.

Pei Suyuan hugged her legs. Although she rarely spoke, she listened very seriously. But when Wei Jinzhi reached the later part of her story, Pei Suyuan gradually felt that something was not right.

She stared at Wei Jinzhi’s red lips, watching them open and close as she spoke about the dangers of filming. Yet Pei Suyuan’s mind was full of thoughts about how soft those lips were, like marshmallow.

Pei Suyuan suddenly shivered and felt that her own thoughts were somewhat perverted. But immediately afterward, she felt a wave of heat sweep through her body.

After Wei Jinzhi finished speaking, Pei Suyuan was the only one who had not spoken yet. Everyone looked at her.

Pei Suyuan opened her mouth. She felt very uncomfortable, but she still forced herself to talk about how she had worked outside alone when she was young. Later, she also talked about participating in a talent show.

When she mentioned the talent show, Qiao Yaning joined in as well. After that, basically, she was the one doing all the talking.

In any case, it would be edited later, so anyone could say anything.

Pei Suyuan lowered her head.

She felt the back of her neck burning even more.

By the time she held on until the segment ended, she felt that the glands covered beneath the inhibitor patch were both itchy and hot, and a thin layer of sweat covered her forehead.

She walked to Mu Xinyi’s side, and Mu Xinyi was startled by her.

“Suyuan, what’s wrong with you?” Mu Xinyi placed a hand on her arm. It was scalding hot, and Pei Suyuan’s body was somewhat weak. Without waiting for an answer, Mu Xinyi brought her back to the room herself.

As a fellow alpha, Mu Xinyi could naturally tell that Pei Suyuan had entered her susceptible period.

But when Pei Suyuan had given her all kinds of personal information before, Mu Xinyi had known the timing of Pei Suyuan’s susceptible period. It clearly was not supposed to be now!

She struggled to bring Pei Suyuan back to the room, then searched everywhere for inhibitors. Only after helping Pei Suyuan inject one did she finally let out a breath of relief.

But only a few minutes later, she smelled an irritating sour cheese scent again.

What was going on? Why was this sudden susceptible period so intense?!

Mu Xinyi could not help sighing emotionally, then injected herself with an inhibitor too.

As the discomfort in her body eased, she wanted to call 120. Since the inhibitor was not working, they could only send Pei Suyuan to the hospital.

But at this moment, Pei Suyuan suddenly sat up from the bed and started rushing around the room.

Her cheeks were red, and her eyes were frighteningly red as well.

When an alpha entered their susceptible period, even if they had inhibitors, they would still feel uncomfortable, but it was usually only a feeling of weakness.

But if the inhibitors were ineffective, they would become extremely furious and restless, especially craving an omega’s comfort.

Mu Xinyi was an alpha. Comforting her was impossible. Moreover, her presence made Pei Suyuan even more agitated.

Cheese was originally a gentle type of pheromone, but the cheese scent right now had absolutely nothing to do with gentleness. It was sour, salty, and piercing. Mu Xinyi’s head ached as if it would split open, and the urge to flee rose in her heart.

But Pei Suyuan had clearly already lost much of her reason. Mu Xinyi could not just leave like this.

So she practically crawled and scrambled to the doorway. Before she could completely close the door, she tremblingly took out her phone, wanting to call again, only for the call to fail this time too.

Her phone had been taken from her.

Lifting her head to look at the person who had taken it, Mu Xinyi’s heart tightened. She anxiously tried to explain, “Sister Wei, I…”

Wei Jinzhi pressed her lips together. Her face was anxious, yet she forced herself to remain calm as she asked, “What happened to her?”

When filming had almost ended just now, Wei Jinzhi had already noticed that something was wrong with Pei Suyuan. When she came upstairs, she had smelled a faint trace of cheese too, mixed with grassy pheromones.

Because she was an omega, her inhibitor patches were specially made, so she was not worried about causing a disturbance. Just now, she had also sprayed an inhibitor freshener, which was why she dared to gather the courage to come over.

Mu Xinyi before her was weak and covered in sweat, and her grassy pheromones were absurdly faint.

Wei Jinzhi could hardly believe how violently the alpha pheromones in the room must have surged in order to suppress Mu Xinyi’s pheromones to this degree.

She did not have time to say much to Mu Xinyi. She told Mu Xinyi to hurry back to her room, inform Tong Lin of the situation, and then tell the hotel staff to spray cleaning agent in the hallway.

As for Wei Jinzhi, she would stay behind to call 120 and watch over Pei Suyuan.

At this moment, however, the conversation between the two of them outside the door caught Pei Suyuan’s attention.

She was taking a cold shower, trying to lower the feverish heat in her body, but she smelled the faint, elusive scent of marshmallow.

The reason that should have recovered somewhat became completely muddled again. In a daze, she walked out of the room.

Toward the source of the marshmallow scent.

……

Mu Xinyi staggered back to her room, while Wei Jinzhi stood in the hallway making the call. Who knew that the door behind her would suddenly open?

The alpha was soaked from head to toe, water still dripping from her hair. Her eyes were scarlet as she slowly walked toward Wei Jinzhi.

She was said to be slow because Pei Suyuan’s entire attention was focused on scent. Her gaze could not focus at all. By the time she drew closer and closer to Wei Jinzhi, it was already too late for Wei Jinzhi to say anything.

Pei Suyuan used almost all her strength to drag the omega beside her inside.

Wei Jinzhi only felt a burst of pain. Afterward, she entered the room filled with cheese-scented pheromones.

In that instant, her legs began to go weak. Faced with such violent alpha pheromones, the freshener had only the tiniest effect.

“Xiao Yuan, calm down.”

Her voice was very low and even carried a hint of grievance. She had originally wanted to soothe Pei Suyuan in a trembling voice, but who knew that after Pei Suyuan heard her voice, she would become visibly even more agitated. She randomly grabbed at her own hair, her blood-red eyes staring at Wei Jinzhi.

Wei Jinzhi had originally been leaning against the door, but Pei Suyuan gripped her wrist hard and turned her entire body around.

Wei Jinzhi shrank back.

Pei Suyuan almost greedily inhaled the omega pheromones in the air.

A moment later, Pei Suyuan’s strength gradually lessened. Her entire body was almost leaning against Wei Jinzhi’s back, and she began to sob quietly.

Wei Jinzhi’s heart instantly softened. She stroked Pei Suyuan’s hair again and again, soothing her. Pei Suyuan sniffed even more aggrievedly, her voice thick with tears.

“…It hurts so much.”