After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 17

Hearing the sound of glass shattering, Gu Nan, who had only pretended to leave, immediately knocked on the bathroom door.

“Zhibei? What happened? What’s wrong?”

When the bathroom door was knocked on, Shen Zhibei panicked for a brief moment.

She hurriedly crouched down and began picking up the glass shards on the floor, only for one of the fragments to pierce her palm.

“Hiss.”

Shen Zhibei recoiled from the pain, and the few shards she had just picked up fell back to the floor.

The sound of glass falling came again. This time, Gu Nan did not keep knocking and wait for the door to open. Instead, she pushed the door open and rushed straight in.

The rich perfume smell that hit her face nearly knocked Gu Nan unconscious.

Holding her breath, she looked over and saw Shen Zhibei crouching amid a pile of glass shards, with a piece still stuck in her bleeding hand. She looked like she wanted to pull it out but did not dare.

In order to finish things quickly and spare her nose further torture, Gu Nan stepped forward, scooped Shen Zhibei up in a princess carry, and carried her out.

Then she placed her on the bed and went to Shen Zhibei’s suitcase to take out the medical kit she had brought.

Previously, Shen Zhibei had taken soothing injections for seven days. In order to insert and remove the needle each time, the doctor had gone to great lengths.

From that time onward, Gu Nan knew that Shen Zhibei was not simply afraid of injections. She had a mild phobia of sharp objects.

Now that a sharp glass shard had pierced her palm, she was even more unable to touch it, and she would also have a stress reaction if someone else touched it.

Gu Nan’s mind turned, and a terrible idea popped up—one that would make Shen Zhibei focus all her attention on her and forget about her hand.

While taking iodine and bandages from the medical kit, she said, “Picking up a broken perfume bottle with your bare hands? Is your brain broken?”

“What did you say?!”

Although her brain had indeed short-circuited for a moment, Shen Zhibei was still very displeased that Gu Nan had said it so bluntly.

“All right, I’ll put it another way. What exactly is wrong with you tonight? Your brain is acting like it’s missing a string.”

“Can you talk properly?” Shen Zhibei, whose hand already hurt badly, was so angered by Gu Nan that this time, she really was about to shed tears.

Taking advantage of Shen Zhibei’s anger and the fact that all her attention was on her, Gu Nan quickly pulled the shard from Shen Zhibei’s palm.

“Hiss.” Shen Zhibei sucked in a large breath of cold air again.

“It doesn’t hurt that much, right? I moved so quickly.” As Gu Nan spoke, she quickly disinfected the wound with iodine, wrapped it with a bandage, and finally tied the bandage into a pretty bow.

“Done.”

After putting everything away, Gu Nan finally answered the question from earlier. “Of course I know how to talk properly. Tell me, what exactly happened tonight?”

“I…” Shen Zhibei lowered her eyes. Looking at her palm, which had already been wrapped in bandages, she finally decided to tell Gu Nan.

“My heat period is almost here.”

Gu Nan understood immediately and asked gently, “Then do you need me to do anything?”

Shen Zhibei quickly glanced at Gu Nan. She had originally wanted to say something, but suddenly no longer wanted to.

Was this really something she had to say herself? Couldn’t Gu Nan look at her expression and take the initiative?

As Shen Zhibei thought this, she also knew that her thinking made no sense. But making her say out loud that she needed soothing was truly embarrassing.

Especially since just now, she had repeated that sentence again: unless she allowed it, Gu Nan was not allowed to touch her.

Fiddling with the pretty bow on the bandage, Shen Zhibei still did not overcome her sense of shame. “Nothing. Just take the long-acting heat suppressant from my suitcase and spray it for me.”

Gu Nan could tell at a glance that Shen Zhibei was not telling the truth.

An Omega who was about to enter heat needed an Alpha’s soothing. Even if they did not do that kind of thing, a long hug could also greatly ease an Omega’s emotions.

If she relied only on long-acting heat suppressants and never received normal relief, then once she forgot to use a suppressant during heat, the backlash would be very intense.

But thinking of how Shen Zhibei kept emphasizing that, aside from her heat period, Gu Nan could not touch her unless she allowed it, Gu Nan was afraid of offending her and making their relationship, which had finally eased, become dangerous again.

She carefully searched through Shen Zhibei’s suitcase, afraid of seeing something she should not. Finally, in the corner of a small hidden compartment, she found the spray labeled long-acting heat suppressant.

“If you need me, call me. I’ll be right beside you.”

Gu Nan handed the spray to Shen Zhibei and also used words to soothe the Omega who was close to entering heat.

“Mm.” Shen Zhibei took the spray, and her expression softened quite a bit. “Go eat. It isn’t very good for you to smell this kind of Omega-specific heat suppressant spray.”

“I’m not going. It’s already quite late. I’ll go clean up the bathroom. You spray it.”

After Gu Nan finished speaking, she casually took two towels, wetted one of them, and wrapped it around her face.

Looking at Gu Nan’s strange appearance, Shen Zhibei asked in confusion, “What are you doing?”

“The perfume smell is too strong. I can’t really handle this kind of heavy fragrance.”

No wonder she had never seen Gu Nan spray perfume before, and she had not brought any perfume on this trip either.

Shen Zhibei looked thoughtfully at Gu Nan’s back.

It seemed she could add another method for controlling her.

The next time Gu Nan made her angry, she could try threatening to spray an entire bottle of perfume on her and see whether she was afraid.

If it worked, she would not have to say she was going to tell Mother and Mom every time, lest Gu Nan keep saying she had no other methods besides tattling to the parents.

The corners of Shen Zhibei’s lips curved slightly. She shook the heat suppressant, pressed the nozzle, and sprayed some on herself.

Whether it was due to the suppressant, the new method she had discovered, or both—

In short, Shen Zhibei was in a pretty good mood now.

Once her mood improved, she thought she could give her little fans some benefits.

With a click, a rather casual photo was posted on Big-Eye.

…

The moment Gu Nan entered the bathroom, she was still made dizzy by the strong perfume smell.

The wet towel wrapped around her face did not do much at all, so Gu Nan could only take it off and cover her mouth and nose with one hand.

Although she had just said that only someone with a broken brain would pick it up by hand, that had only been something she casually said to provoke Shen Zhibei and hold her attention.

Without a suitable tool, of course she still had to pick it up by hand. Compared to Shen Zhibei, Gu Nan merely used a towel to wrap the broken glass before picking it up.

After throwing all the glass shards into the trash can, she turned on the showerhead and rinsed away all the remaining perfume residue.

Gu Nan estimated that Shen Zhibei had finished spraying the heat suppressant, and that whatever was left in the air had more or less dissipated, before she left the bathroom.

As soon as she came out, she saw Shen Zhibei half-leaning against the bed, hesitantly looking at her phone and moving her fingers on the screen for some unknown reason.

“I cleaned up the bathroom. Aren’t you still not done removing your makeup? Do you want to continue?”

“I’m going.”

Hearing Gu Nan’s voice, Shen Zhibei immediately placed her phone face-down on the bed as if relieved, no longer looking at the Weibo post she could not decide whether to delete or not.

When she walked to the bathroom door and held the doorknob, Shen Zhibei once again looked as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Gu Nan had already sat back on her own bed and was about to play with her phone. Seeing Shen Zhibei like this again, she imitated Shen Zhibei’s tone in a passive-aggressive way and said, “You aren’t going to tell me again that if you don’t allow it, I’m not allowed to touch you, are you?”

Shen Zhibei bit her lip, feeling very embarrassed by Gu Nan imitating her. “I wanted to tell you that because my heat period is almost here, some of my pheromones are leaking, so I’ve been wearing a pheromone-suppressing patch. When I shower later, I’ll have to tear off the patch. If you smell it…”

As soon as Shen Zhibei paused, Gu Nan pointed to the inconspicuous suppressant among the various adult novelty items the hotel had placed beside the television. “If I smell it, I’ll immediately open a bottle of suppressant and spray myself all over.”

“Then I… then I have nothing else to say.” Shen Zhibei’s face turned a little red.

This time, she walked in very gently and closed the door.

“You should’ve said that earlier,” Gu Nan laughed softly.

She took out her phone again. As soon as she unlocked it, she saw a new notification badge on the Big-Eye app icon, indicating that someone she followed had updated.

Gu Nan had already cleaned up her Big-Eye following list, so the people she was still keeping real-time notifications for were all people close to her.

She tapped it open and saw that Shen Zhibei had just posted a new Weibo.

The photo was of her injured hand wrapped in a bandage.

The caption read: “Work starts tomorrow, and today I was stupid enough to break a perfume bottle and cut myself.”

The post had not been up for long, but there were already many comments below.

[Sitting on Sister’s sofa! What work starts tomorrow?]

[It’s been officially announced, A Poetic Life.]

[Sister, protect your body!]

[Kissing Sister’s injured hand. I want Sister to use that hand to do shameful things to me.]

[Am I the only one who noticed that the exposed background shows this room has two beds, and the bed beside Sister’s has clearly had its sheets and duvet cover changed? Obviously, someone is there.]

[Sister’s hand is injured, so who tied that beautiful bow? It can’t be Gu Nan, right?!]

[Who else could it be? The answer to both questions above is obviously Gu Nan, who’s going on the show with Shen Zhibei. (doge)]

[Friends, shouldn’t what you’re focusing on be the fact that these wife-wives are sleeping in separate beds?]

[They’re in the same room and still let Sister get hurt. Unforgivable!]

[They’re sleeping in separate beds. Highlight that. So all that stuff from the past two days, like sending her wife to work, was all acting, right?]

There were many more comments below suspecting that their relationship was bad and that their affection was just poorly acted.

No wonder Shen Zhibei had been so hesitant just now. She had probably wanted to delete it but could not make up her mind. She was afraid that if she deleted this Weibo post, it would be treated as evidence, confirming that the two of them slept in separate beds and were awkwardly acting affectionate.

Seeing these comments, Gu Nan felt no waves in her heart.

In fact, she was a little hungry again.