After Transmigrating as the Abandoned Rich Wife O, I Turned the Scum A's Life into a Crematorium [Transmigration] - Chapter 24

Gu Bei was a little taken aback. She shifted her face away slightly and looked at Su Xiaotang, who had just finished reviewing the advertisement script. “Xiaotang, Xiaotang, I have something to tell you.”

She bypassed Jian Peiyun and walked toward Su Xiaotang.

Jian Peiyun wasn’t upset; she simply watched Gu Bei’s back and grinned foolishly.

“Xiaotang, didn’t you say your current roommate moved out?” Gu Bei looked at Su Xiaotang with sparkling eyes.

“Yeah, why?” Su Xiaotang was wearing a khaki Lolita princess dress with a golden bell tied at her chest. Every time she walked, the bell let out a pleasant “ting-ling” sound that was extremely crisp and sweet.

Since the group had debuted, they frequently had scheduled itineraries. To make travel more convenient, following Magna’s suggestion, Gu Bei had arranged a dormitory for the members. However, the dorm was still under renovation and wouldn’t be finished for at least another week. Consequently, the members were still living in their original residences for the time being.

After graduation, Su Xiaotang had co-rented a place with a Beta classmate she did cosplay with. Recently, that Beta classmate had moved out for personal reasons, leaving one room empty in the two-bedroom apartment.

The two walked side-by-side to the balcony outside the studio. Gu Bei found it a bit hard to speak: “Um, from today on, I’m moving out to live on my own.”

“What?” Su Xiaotang looked at her in disbelief. “Why?”

In Su Xiaotang’s eyes, Gu Bei was a “Rich Wife” radiating golden wealth. It was one thing for her to come out and start a business, but why was she moving out of her mansion?

Gu Bei originally didn’t want to say anything, but she couldn’t withstand Su Xiaotang’s persistent prying. She gave a heavily edited summary of the situation.

Su Xiaotang was fuming with rage. Although Shen Siying was currently the group’s biggest sponsor, Gu Bei was the one running around and putting in the most effort.

“Scum A!” Su Xiaotang cursed at least ten times.

Gu Bei sincerely felt that hearing someone else curse Shen Siying was much more cathartic than doing it herself.

Su Xiaotang went back into the studio and returned a moment later, handing a small key to Gu Bei. “Here, I won’t charge you rent.”

At this moment, Gu Bei wanted to thank Su Xiaotang’s ancestors for eight generations.

Since Su Xiaotang was an Alpha, Gu Bei knew the “propriety between A and O.” She bought a lot of suppressant patches and sprays to ensure her pheromones wouldn’t affect the other girl.

Gu Bei had no suitcases, not even any bags. Su Xiaotang asked in surprise, “So when you said ‘you moved out,’ you really just moved out?”

Gu Bei gave a helpless, bitter smile. It seemed there wasn’t a single thing in that house that truly belonged to her.

Su Xiaotang took Gu Bei to tour her rental. Although it wasn’t as large or luxurious as Shen Siying’s villa, it was clearly filled with the “scent of human life” (homely vibes).

Gu Bei began to wonder if Su Xiaotang was actually an Omega at heart—the hand soap, shampoo, shower gel, and body lotion were all the “Omega-only” versions.

Su Xiaotang’s response to this: “Don’t mind my personal XPs (kinks).”

Gu Bei could only think: The world is big, and it takes all kinds.

Seeing Gu Bei’s lack of reaction, Su Xiaotang added: “This way, you can use them too!”

Gu Bei’s face darkened. “I thank you. You really are forward-thinking.”

Everything in Su Xiaotang’s rental was fine, except for one thing: it was too messy! Before transmigrating, Gu Bei wasn’t one for tidying up, but after living at Shen Siying’s where the maids kept everything spotless every day, she had gotten used to a clean environment.

As the saying goes: It’s easy to go from rags to riches, but hard to go back.

Gu Bei couldn’t stand the clothes scattered everywhere—she couldn’t even tell which were clean and which were dirty. When she asked Su Xiaotang, the girl just gave her a clueless look.

Gu Bei was speechless.

She took off her coat, rolled up her sleeves, and began the miscellaneous work of tidying up the room for the starlet. After working for half the day, the rental looked brand new. Su Xiaotang exclaimed that she had picked up a beautiful and kind “Snail Maiden” (a helpful household spirit).

After a simple lunch, Magna arrived in the company van to pick up Su Xiaotang for a shoot. Gu Bei sat alone in the empty room, looking at the busy street outside, feeling a bit melancholy.

Since the debut, this was the first time she had time to quietly enjoy some solitude, but she didn’t feel relaxed. Instead, it was a hollow, sensationless void. Without a phone, time seemed to stop; she felt disconnected from the world outside that window. No one was looking for her—or if they were, she wouldn’t know.

This is fine, she thought.

She collapsed into the soft sofa and fell into a comfortable sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, a series of urgent knocks sounded at the door.

Before leaving, Su Xiaotang had reminded her that the peephole was broken. To avoid any “bad guys,” she should ask who it was before opening the door.

Gu Bei assumed it was Su Xiaotang and jogged to the door. “Is it Xiaotang?”

The knocking stopped abruptly after her question. Gu Bei didn’t think much of it; after all, no one else besides Su Xiaotang should know she was staying here. She unlocked the door and pulled the handle. The winter chill leaked through the gap, biting into her thin sweater, and she let out an involuntary shiver.

The moment the door opened, the person was revealed in her sight.

It wasn’t Su Xiaotang. It was Shen Siying.

Before Gu Bei could ask how she found the place, Shen Siying took the lead: “What kind of dump is this? Come home with me.”

With that, the Alpha’s strong hand seized the Omega’s slender wrist.

Gu Bei was pinched painfully and let out a “Hiss” of a cry. Shen Siying remained unmoved, her eyebrow only twitching slightly.

“What are you doing?” Gu Bei tried to use her other hand to pry away the fingers that were pressing into her skin. She knew Shen Siying wouldn’t answer her. “I’ve already moved out of that house; I’m not going back!”

Shen Siying stopped her pace and turned to look at the wide-eyed Gu Bei trailing behind. “Did I give you permission to move out?”

Gu Bei looked incredulous. “You are truly a strange person. Didn’t you say if I left, I should never come back?”

Shen Siying ignored the comment. “I’m hungry.”

Gu Bei was even more confused: “What does your hunger have to do with whether I come home?”

Shen Siying repeated patiently: “I. Am. Hungry.”

Gu Bei tried to swing her hand away, but it was useless. “Psh, are you kidding me? If you’re hungry, go eat! I’m not cooking for you, and I’m definitely not ordering takeout for you!”

“Bei Bei!” Shen Siying called her name, lowering her eyes.

Gu Bei: “I feel awkward hearing that. Go ask Xin Mengyao to cook for you. She’s so good at it; she was so eager to show off while I lived there. Now, she should be trying even harder!”

Shen Siying went silent and let go of her hand. She said: “Fine. Then you really are free.”

After having her say, Gu Bei felt much more relieved.

But when she snapped out of it, she found she hadn’t even gotten up from the sofa yet.

Wait, I was imagining things?

She rubbed her temples, got up briskly, and went to open the door.

The lock was being a little brat; she fumbled with it for a long time before it finally turned.

The knocking grew heavier, as if it were pounding against Gu Bei’s face. She stepped back a few paces in fright.

“Is it Shen Siying?” This time she changed the question, almost as if she wanted to confirm the person at the door.

The person knocking didn’t speak, but the sound grew a bit softer. Gu Bei finally turned the lock. She pulled the door open, just as she had in her daydream, waiting for a certain face to fill her vision.

But before the door was fully open, a strange voice spoke: “Excuse me, is this Su the Great Beauty?”

Huh? What kind of name is that?

“No!”

Gu Bei instinctively tried to slam the door shut.

“I’m a delivery driver. The address is correct, Room 507, phone ending in 3377. Order for a ‘Coco-Koko’ fresh cream cake,” the person continued.

The moment Gu Bei heard “fresh cream cake,” her legs refused to move. Realizing 3377 was Su Xiaotang’s phone tail, she pulled the door back open and accepted the beautifully packaged cake box.

Just as she was about to close the door, the panel was shoved open from the outside with much greater force. When Gu Bei saw Shen Siying’s furious eyes, all the dialogue she had just rehearsed vanished into thin air.

“Wha… What are you doing?” She started to stutter, like a child who had been caught doing something wrong.

Shen Siying didn’t say a word, which was quite awkward. Gu Bei truly couldn’t remember the plot—which was already a mess—and couldn’t think of what to say. In her mind, the image of Shen Siying tenderly calling her “Bei Bei” during their intimacy last night flickered, followed by the memory of Shen Siying saying, “Once you leave, don’t come back.”

She could only place the cake on the foyer cabinet by the door and try to shut the door with both hands. Out of sight, out of mind.

But how could an Omega’s strength compete with an Alpha? In Gu Bei’s eyes, the door was burst open with lightning speed. Air colder than she imagined wrapped around her; she felt like she was going to freeze.

Shen Siying noticed how thinly the little Omega was dressed, so she quickly entered and shut the door behind her. Gu Bei stared with her beautiful, cute, round almond eyes. “You… you… why did you come in?”

As the other woman approached, Gu Bei finally realized: Shen Siying was drunk.

The air around her was thick with a smell of alcohol that didn’t belong to her—it was sharp and strong, stimulating Gu Bei’s senses. As a top-tier Alpha, Shen Siying’s tolerance was excellent. If she didn’t want to, no one could make her drunk. But by the same token, if she chose to get drunk, no one could easily wake her.

Shen Siying’s high heel got caught in a crack in the floorboard—a result of years without maintenance. She toppled straight toward Gu Bei. The petite Omega couldn’t handle the weight and fell to the floor with her.

Fortunately, Shen Siying’s hand reached out to cradle the back of Gu Bei’s head; otherwise, she would have hit the floor hard. In those few seconds, the room was filled with the scent of wine-soaked roses.

Gu Bei pulled a hand free to cover her nose and mouth, trying to resist the invasion of the powerful Alpha pheromones.

But what was the use?

Shen Siying provocatively used the fingers cradling Gu Bei’s head to gently stroke her slightly swollen, plump scent gland. The smooth sensation made Shen Siying reluctant to let go, and her sharp fangs were already eager to pierce that thin layer of skin.

As the Alpha’s pheromone-laden fingertip touched her gland, Gu Bei’s heart rate accelerated, her whole body felt tingly and numb, and her vision grew blurry. Having been temporarily marked once, an Omega can respond to an Alpha’s pheromones almost instantly.

Shen Siying caught a familiar scent—the “nauseatingly sweet” milky candy pheromones that her Omega only released when she was moved.