After Transmigrating as the Abandoned Rich Wife O, I Turned the Scum A's Life into a Crematorium [Transmigration] - Chapter 22

Shen Siying had been out of sorts all morning.

It was because she had received a message from Gu Bei—

[President Shen, I’m moving out.]

She didn’t understand the significance of Gu Bei’s words. Had she been too rough yesterday? Or had she failed to make Gu Bei comfortable?

Her hand trembled slightly as she signed documents.

In the past, she had imagined the joy of divorcing Gu Bei countless times, but now that the day had finally come, every cell in her body seemed to be screaming “No!”

The determined tone, the distant form of address—Shen Siying felt that if she didn’t ask for clarification in person, she might actually have a myocardial infarction.

Xiao Ye noticed her boss’s displeasure. Her movements while serving tea and water were much lighter than usual, as she tried to prevent the cup from clinking against the saucer or the water from splashing against the glass. Her boss had a bad temper; it was entirely possible she could get fired if she wasn’t careful.

After the official debut, Magna became the external manager for the girl group, while Gu Bei moved behind the scenes as the internal boss. With Magna taking over all external activities, Gu Bei could finally take a proper rest.

Of course, this was also Shen Siying’s doing. She had directly bought up all the group’s trending topics for the coming year, becoming the ultimate boss behind the scenes. You can cross anyone, but don’t cross Shen Siying when it comes to money.

Shen Siying slammed her pen onto the desk; the last document she signed now had a deep, jagged black line across it. Xiao Ye flinched, splashing a few drops of water onto the table.

“Boss, I’m sorry!” she said.

Shen Siying pressed her fingers to her temples. “Go home for the day.”

“Boss, it’s only morning!” Xiao Ye said in a panic.

Shen Siying glanced at her watch. “I thought it was afternoon.”

“Is something on your mind? What about the afternoon meeting?” Xiao Ye tested the waters cautiously. It wasn’t actually a very important meeting—just a proposal session that a department manager could finalize.

“I won’t be participating,” Shen Siying said, standing up to leave the office.

On the way home, Shen Siying’s brow remained tightly knit.

“Where is Gu Bei?” was the first thing she said upon seeing the butler.

“The Madam is… upstairs.” The butler looked nervous. “President Shen, the Madam, she…”

The butler didn’t dare continue.

Shen Siying didn’t even change her shoes before heading up to Gu Bei’s room. The girl was crouching on the floor, stuffing folded clothes into a suitcase.

“What are you doing?” Shen Siying asked, a hint of anger in her voice.

“Ah, I’m packing.” Gu Bei’s back was to Shen Siying. She didn’t stand up, and her tone was calm.

“Where are you going?”

Gu Bei stopped her movements but remained crouching. “I’m moving out.”

“Say that again!” Red streaks filled Shen Siying’s eyes, her expression as ferocious as a predatory beast.

Shen Siying saw Gu Bei’s shoulders tremble slightly, just as they had last night when she was pinned against the wall. She felt like she could smell that sweet milky candy scent again, and she immediately softened.

Under the butler’s terrified gaze, she crouched down beside Gu Bei. Gu Bei’s eyes were red, as if she had just finished crying.

Shen Siying grabbed her slender wrist—it was so thin it felt like skin and bone. She could see the blue veins beneath the thin, fair skin. It felt as though if she applied just a bit of force, those veins would snap.

“Bei Bei, what’s wrong?”

Shen Siying’s voice was gentle—unprecedentedly gentle.

Gu Bei remained silent. She hadn’t intended to fall for this arrogant “scum Alpha” who looked down on her and doted solely on a White Moonlight. She just wanted to take the money and leave to focus on her career.

But just as the girl group debuted, she had “given herself away” last night. Although she still didn’t quite understand what happened last night, her self-esteem, which had been ground into the dust, felt like a whip lashing her nerves.

Gu Bei had woken up this morning and repeatedly touched the gland Shen Siying had bitten, feeling deeply hurt inside. What hurt her most wasn’t being temporarily marked, but the divorce agreement she found sitting prominently on the computer in Shen Siying’s study.

She had heard from Xiao Ba that once an Omega is marked, they become the Alpha’s property. Even with just a temporary mark, the scent of a top-tier Alpha’s pheromones remains in the gland for a long time. If a marked Omega is divorced, they are taken by the fertility agency and locked in a concentrated breeding camp for the rest of their lives.

Gu Bei wanted to change her fate, but she had accidentally fallen back into the plot. She refused to accept that. she had to leave this place immediately—far away, where the fertility agency couldn’t find her.

“Gu Bei!” Shen Siying barked, still gripping her hand, pulling her back from her thoughts.

Gu Bei’s clear eyes looked at Shen Siying as if trying to see through her.

“Didn’t we agree? Give me a sum of mental alimony, and I’ll be free, and you can go pursue your White Moonlight,” she said.

That’s right. They had an agreement. Gu Bei had been following it to the letter.

“I’ve accepted the first installment. Since I took the money, I must keep the agreement,” Gu Bei said sincerely, while Shen Siying remained silent. “A while ago, I received another five million transfer from you. I used that money for the group’s preparations. Without it, the work couldn’t have continued. So, once I start making a profit, I will pay you back.”

Shen Siying realized she didn’t know Gu Bei at all. At this moment, “stranger” wasn’t even enough to describe her.

Is she still Gu Bei?

Is she really leaving?

Is she abandoning me?

Shen Siying looked calm on the surface, but her heart was about to explode. Seeing that Shen Siying wasn’t speaking, Gu Bei took it as silent consent.

Watching Gu Bei go back to packing, Shen Siying didn’t have time for sadness; she had to make her stay.

“These things aren’t yours! I bought all of them!”

It was unclear how Shen Siying’s brain was wired; perhaps all her brain cells had been sacrificed to her work.

“Oh, right.” Gu Bei stopped. These things indeed didn’t belong to her; they belonged to the original host. She didn’t want them anyway. The group had debuted, and she believed there would be revenue in the near future.

Gu Bei stood up. Her legs were numb from crouching so long. She paused for a few seconds, and when Shen Siying reached out to support her, she dodged sharply.

Gu Bei suffered from severe postural hypotension; her vision went black, and she almost fell. Shen Siying quickly stood up and grabbed her.

Gu Bei frowned and swung her hand with force, shaking off Shen Siying’s tentative grip. She didn’t even take her phone; she just turned and walked toward the door. “If I don’t wear clothes, I might freeze to death, and then I couldn’t make money to pay you back. So, I can at least wear these out, right?”

Shen Siying nodded, dumbfounded. Gu Bei was truly angry—the kind that couldn’t be smoothed over easily.

As Shen Siying chased after Gu Bei’s thin, frail silhouette, she didn’t notice a beautiful hand resting on the frame of the guest bedroom door nearby, a half-smiling face turning into a grimace.

“Aren’t you going to eat Madeleines anymore?”

“Glazed Canelés are okay too!”

“Is the money enough? Do you need me to transfer more?”

Gu Bei didn’t look back at Shen Siying’s “soul-piercing three questions.”

The warm afternoon sun spilled across Gu Bei’s flawless face, making her look like a delicate flower or an ethereal fairy. Shen Siying watched her walk away into the light and asked softly, like an idiot, “Can you call me ‘Darling’ just one more time?”

Xiao Ba: “Hey, are you really leaving? If you turn back now, Shen Siying would be overjoyed. You could have anything you want!”

Gu Bei sneered. “What I want is to leave! I just didn’t expect last night to… ugh, it’s just a mess!”

Xiao Ba: “Without an Alpha’s protection, you can’t do anything!”

Gu Bei: “You’re overthinking. I can have as many Alphas as I want!”

Xiao Ba: “Try and get one of them to mark you then. Otherwise, with your gland full of Shen Siying’s pheromones, you’re just an abandoned wife—no, an abandoned O!”

In the time it took for a few words, Gu Bei had reached the driver. The driver looked at her, then at Shen Siying by the door, and didn’t open the car door for Gu Bei.

“Thank you, driver. From today on, you don’t need to follow us anymore.”

Magna had recently taken over as the group’s driver, using her own van. Gu Bei bypassed the driver and prepared to walk back to the office building.

Behind her, Shen Siying gritted her teeth in rage. “If you leave, don’t you dare think about coming back!” She tried to use her intimidation to force Gu Bei to turn around. Afraid she hadn’t heard, she yelled, “Did you hear me?!”

Gu Bei stretched out a long, languid yawn and let out a loud shout toward the sky: “I’m finally free!”

Having achieved her goal, Gu Bei felt incredibly light. She began to skip, and the walk didn’t seem so far anymore; even the increasing workload didn’t seem so annoying.

After walking for a while, she suddenly felt a sense of desolation. Thinking of Shen Siying’s face, she couldn’t help but feel pained. “Am I really that beneath her?” She was just talking to herself; she didn’t need an answer.

Gu Bei felt her pocket to call Magna, who had said she would pick her up for a shoot. The theme for this issue was “Me and My Manager,” and both Gu Bei and Magna were to be featured.

Then she realized she had left her phone at Shen Siying’s house. Gu Bei would truly rather buy a new phone than return to that home. But that phone contained many important contacts and schedules, and it all happened so suddenly she hadn’t backed anything up.

Should I go back?

Her brain posed the question, but her legs refused to cooperate. If the old Gu Bei was only focused on her career, the current her, after the “commotion” of last night, had developed strange feelings for Shen Siying. She was the type to develop feelings after a night together.

However, after seeing the divorce agreement that had been modified just this morning, her worldview had collapsed. How “unworthy” was she to be discarded like trash after a night of intimacy? And why, after so much effort, was she still unable to escape the fate of being abandoned?

Back at the Shen estate, Shen Siying stared blankly at the empty yard for a moment. Suddenly remembering something, she rushed to the second-floor study she had prepared for Gu Bei.

Opening the computer, she saw the “Divorce Agreement” on the desktop was indeed open. The “Date Modified” was set to this morning.