After Transmigrating Into A Scum Alpha, I Fell In Love With Her Wife - Chapter 2

This was not the first time Sheng Xing had said those words.

Something that concerned her happiness for the rest of her life, and yet to Sheng Xing, it had become like the joke of the boy who cried wolf.

Every time, what she received in return was an explanation, an excuse, a promise, or the other person turning around to blame her instead.

The only thing Shen Li never did was actually keep her word.

Sheng Xing lowered her crossed legs and leaned her lower back against the sofa, settling into a more comfortable position as she waited for Shen Li’s clumsy acting.

Shen Li looked into Sheng Xing’s eyes, blinked, and took another two steps forward.

Sheng Xing let out a cold laugh, but Shen Li’s knee had already pressed against her calf.

A tingling chill spread from her lower leg, and Sheng Xing instinctively pulled her leg back.

This time, it seemed Shen Li needed quite a large space to perform.

And also…

In a daze, Sheng Xing seemed to see a strange unfamiliarity in Shen Li’s eyes for the first time.

“What did you say?” Shen Li asked again.

Sheng Xing lifted her face, her gaze crashing straight into Shen Li’s eyes. Every word was bitten out clearly and decisively.

“We. Should. Get. Divorced.”

Shen Li moved another half step closer, the tip of her shoe pressing against the edge of the sofa.

She simply lifted one leg, her knee gently pressing down beside Sheng Xing, while her other leg remained planted firmly on the floor. It was like a half-closed cage, trapping Sheng Xing in front of her.

She leaned down closer, the scent of mint in the air impossible to hide.

The natural suppression an Alpha held over an Omega silently enveloped her.

Sheng Xing’s back trembled, and she instinctively shrank backward. Her leg was still brushing against Shen Li’s through the fabric of their pants.

“What… are you trying to do?”

Her palm quietly reached out, as if she wanted to grab the phone beside her.

Shen Li noticed her small movement, but she still slowly leaned closer, bending lower and lower, until that strand of crimson hair lightly brushed across Sheng Xing’s chest—

She reached out, her fingertips pinching the silver canoe-shaped brooch.

Probably because Sheng Xing had thrown the photos too hard earlier, the clasp had somehow come loose.

The tail of the silver pin was hanging just a fraction away from the skin at Sheng Xing’s chest.

One more centimeter, and it would have pierced Sheng Xing’s soft, fair skin.

Shen Li picked up the brooch, her slender fingers flicking it with ease.

Sheng Xing sucked in a cold breath. The tip of the pin passed through the fabric again and fastened securely back into the clasp.

Shen Li lifted her eyes and met Sheng Xing’s stunned gaze.

“Okay.”

Okay.

It seemed Shen Li’s answer was far too unexpected.

Even though it was the answer she had wanted, Sheng Xing still froze for a full thirty seconds.

No crying confession of guilt. No “it won’t happen again.” No turning around to blame her. No sweet-talking.

She had simply answered, firmly, “Okay.”

The unfamiliarity in Shen Li’s eyes grew even stronger.

And that strange firmness also severed the last trace of affection Sheng Xing had left.

Shen Li saw the veins at Sheng Xing’s neck move slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she only drew in a quiet breath and withdrew her gaze.

“Mm.”

Shen Li put her leg down and retreated to a polite distance.

“It’s snowing outside. I’m afraid I’ll have to borrow a place to stay for one more night. I’ll move out first thing tomorrow morning.”

“Don’t worry. I won’t do anything out of line to you.”

After saying that, Shen Li went straight upstairs.

This duplex villa had two and a half floors, and the bedrooms were all on the second floor.

Shen Li was not certain which room was hers, so she casually opened one.

The furniture, decorations, and arrangements inside the room were all in black, white, and gray—a cold, minimalist style.

It was exactly the same as the decorative style of the entire villa.

Even thinking with her toes, she knew whose room it was.

Shen Li closed the door and went to the room at the other end of the corridor. This one was much more normal.

Warm-toned decorations, touches of wooden furniture, and a standing glass display cabinet showcasing colorful bags.

Shen Li came in, shut the door properly, and walked straight to the balcony. She could not wait to stick her head out the window and take big breaths of fresh air.

Even though Sheng Xing was not in a heat, the scent of her pheromones was still very strong.

From the first moment Shen Li smelled that scent, there had been a restless heat and pull throughout her entire body that she could not suppress.

It drew her in, as if urging her to get endlessly closer to that rich, pure white gardenia.

Of course Shen Li knew what that feeling meant between an Alpha and an Omega.

Not to mention a 98% match rate.

Shen Li had never experienced such a feeling in her previous life.

In her previous life, the scent of Shen Li’s pheromones had been widely recognized as one of the most alluring scents—red wine.

Just a small amount released by accident could make someone feel as if they were being slowly intoxicated, their senses stimulated and magnified without limit until they willingly sank into it.

Mint, however, was the complete opposite. It was too clean, too cold, too hard.

No matter how ambiguous the atmosphere, once the scent of mint spread, it was like an ice blade slicing through the air, the coldness in the cracks shattering all the warmth and intimacy.

Highly suspicious of the author sneaking in personal bias.

Shen Li did not mind the change in her pheromone scent much.

She did not rely on it, so she did not care.

After a simple shower and skincare routine, Shen Li found a brand-new set of pajamas and changed into them.

The soundproofing in the villa was excellent. Once the bedroom door was shut, she could not hear anything outside.

Nor was she sure whether Sheng Xing had already left.

Shen Li opened her phone and began checking the original owner’s social relationships and assets.

The moment she opened WeChat, she inexplicably laughed.

One hundred and seventeen pinned chats.

Below the pinned chats were endless groups she could never finish scrolling through.

Shen Li opened the folded section and quickly browsed through, guessing each person’s identity.

Her manager, Xia Ran, was first. The relationship between manager and artist was already deeply bound together, so whether professionally or privately, Xia Ran should have been the person the original owner trusted most.

Shen Li remembered that besides being her manager, Xia Ran had also been Shen Li’s classmate from the same year at university.

Shen Li had been in the acting department, while Xia Ran had been in the directing and screenwriting department.

Sheng Xing was their junior, in the photography department.

The two of them could be said to have been Xia Ran’s best friends during university.

Later, Sheng Xing went abroad, and Xia Ran did not enter the directing and screenwriting field either. Instead, she stayed by Shen Li’s side and became her manager.

Shen Li scrolled some more. There were quite a few flirtatious messages with different women.

ID: A Peach

A Peach: [Look at my new ID. Does it sound nice?]

Shen Li: [It sounds nice. Just hearing it makes me want to take a bite.]

A Peach: [Shy/shy/ah… th-then you’re not allowed to bite too big a mouthful, okay~]

…

Shen Li looked at her own profile picture labeled “A Pear” and silently changed her avatar to a pure black background.

Then, with a backhanded move, she deleted A Peach from her contacts.

ID: Anne

Anne: [Sister, if we do this, will it make your wife angry?]

Shen Li: [What, are you scared now?]

Anne: [Wu… Sister’s wife looks so fierce. Not like me. I only know how to cry, wu wu wu.]

Shen Li: [Don’t be scared. She can’t control me.]

With one move of her finger, Shen Li deleted the contact.

ID: Goose Circles

Goose Circles: [Pear, in another six months, we’ll finally meet in real life. Ever since I met you, I’ve had even more motivation to lose weight.]

Goose Circles: [You have to study hard at university, okay? Don’t secretly save money. I have enough here to cover the costs of our dates.]

Even online dating scams?

Delete contact.

Shen Li deleted the contact with a smooth motion, then thought for a moment and sent a new friend request:

[Account was hacked. Not me. I don’t do online dating. If there are unresolved financial disputes, contact 189XXXX for compensation.]

Only after dealing with all this did Shen Li finally scroll to a family group.

There were only three people in the group.

One man, with no changed note name, and another cartoon anime avatar labeled “Younger Sister.”

The last message in the group had been from two months ago, when her younger sister asked when she was coming home.

Shen Li had only replied with one word: [Busy.]

Shen Li exited, then went through those more than one hundred pinned chats again before finally finding Sheng Xing.

Note name: [President Sheng]

.

Sheng Xing’s avatar was a messy cartoon line drawing.

When Shen Li opened the chat, the contents were pitifully sparse.

The messages basically revolved around one core theme: what Shen Li had taken a liking to and how there was not enough money in her card again; or that she had gone to visit Grandma and brought Grandma some kind of gift.

On Sheng Xing’s side, there were basically only two words:

[Transferred.]

Shen Li was too lazy to check when the original owner had stopped calling her “wife.” In the chats from the past year, there was only one form of address:

Xing.

The last exchange was Sheng Xing saying that she had received a harassing phone call. Without any beginning or end, the caller had told her to let Shen Li go earlier, because the one who was not loved in a relationship was always the clown.

Shen Li’s reply had been:

[Were you dreaming, Xing? confused/confused/]

Sheng Xing directly sent her an audio recording.

Shen Li: [Just because of this call from who knows what kind of person or ghost, you’re coming to question me? I’m a celebrity. There are black rumors and sexual rumors about me every day. You believe even this?]

Sheng Xing: [Only my family and Secretary Song know this number.]

Shen Li did not reply.

When she ran into a difficult question, she went silent again.

Two days later, she finally replied with one more sentence:

[Xing, if you insist on thinking that way, there’s nothing I can do.]

Shen Li gave a cold laugh and exited the chat box.

She was too lazy to criticize a fictional character. All she could say was that the scum Alpha characterization was very stable.

After closing WeChat, Shen Li began taking inventory of her own assets.

In the original book, the worst thing about Shen Li was not her flirtatious cheating, but how she sucked blood and scammed money.

During the marriage, she used every possible method to frantically transfer assets, and her eventual imprisonment seemed to have been inseparable from this.

But the book had never explained what “every possible method” was.

Shen Li’s temples throbbed.

This was the biggest landmine the original book had left for her.

Shen Li raised her head and looked around the room. She seemed to have already guessed one of those methods.

That entire wall of expensive handbags.

The top three full rows were all limited-edition pieces from the top luxury brands.

Shen Li knew the prices of those bags.

With the financial power she had in her previous life, she could just about afford them. But for the original owner’s level of fame, she would not even have the purchasing qualification for many of them.

She did not even need to think to know whose card had been swiped.

Jewelry and handbags, things that clearly possessed the nature of personal-use items, were relatively safe in property division.

As long as Shen Li was willing, she could turn them back into money at any time.

Shen Li got out of bed and walked around the enormous room. The bedside table was ridiculously large. She pulled it open and found a safe inside.

Fingerprint unlock. The safe door opened, and lying inside were more than a dozen expensive pieces of jewelry and watches.

That thirteen-million watch had made Shen Li frown even in her previous life when she paid for it.

A knock suddenly sounded at the door. Shen Li did not have time to close the safe door. When she opened the door, what appeared before her was Sheng Xing’s delicate, fair face.

Sheng Xing had not removed her makeup or changed her clothes. Her complexion and lip color were even paler than before.

“Where is the medicine kit in this house?” Sheng Xing’s tone was still icy.

“Are you feeling unwell?”

Shen Li did not open the door all the way. One hand pressed against the doorframe, while the other held the doorknob.

She was three centimeters taller than Sheng Xing. Standing face to face like this, there was faintly a sense of her looking down from above.

“I. Only. Want. The. Medicine. Kit.”

Sheng Xing repeated it word by word.

The meaning behind her words was for Shen Li to stop talking nonsense. She had no other intention.

After Sheng Xing finished speaking, she felt as though Shen Li’s gaze had lingered over her even more deliberately.

She could only turn her face a little lower, revealing a section of her ear that was tinged faint pink.

They remained in a stalemate like this.

Sheng Xing’s long eyelashes trembled again and again, and the faint fragrance of gardenia lingered around her body.

Shen Li suddenly felt that this little fictional person looked quite adorable right now.

If Sheng Xing had not truly been unable to find it outside, she probably would not have been willing to knock on Shen Li’s door.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier. Shen Li thought for a moment, said “wait here,” then turned back into her bedroom to search.

Very quickly, she found a small medicine kit on a storage shelf. The lid had not been closed yet, so the original owner had probably used it and failed to put it back in its place.

Shen Li handed the medicine kit over. Sheng Xing took it, and the instant their fingertips touched, Shen Li felt as if she had been shocked by electricity.

Sheng Xing’s fingers were cold and soft, with a faint tremor that seemed desperately suppressed.

After closing the bedroom door again, Shen Li’s gaze landed on the set of jade jewelry inside the safe.

This was an angst point in the original book.

Back then, while Shen Li was filming, she had been bullied by an actor from the same cast and mocked for not even being able to rent a decent piece of red-carpet jewelry.

Sheng Xing directly bought an eight-figure collector’s jade jewelry set at auction, then flew back to the country overnight and delivered it to Shen Li on the set in high-profile fashion.

Later, when they argued, Shen Li said that this Chinese-style jade set did not match her gown at all. She said she had looked like a doll dressed up by someone else and lost all face on the red carpet.

Shen Li looked at that sky-high jade set, her fingertips rubbing against the edge of the safe, while Sheng Xing’s stunning, coolly beautiful face flashed through her mind.

A strange sourness rose in her heart.

She closed the safe door, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed, preparing to sleep.

Outside the window, the snow grew heavier and heavier. It was as if she could hear the sound of snow striking the branches even through the glass.

Shen Li closed her eyes, her mind somewhat chaotic.

At this moment, less than twelve hours had passed since she transmigrated into the book.

Shen Li pushed away those scattered thoughts. Sleepiness soon washed over her, but in the haze, a scent of gardenia seemed to linger at the tip of her nose.

Gardenia.

Sheng Xing.

How could she be dreaming of her scent?

Shen Li lightly furrowed her brows and turned over, instinctively sniffing.

An even richer gardenia fragrance flowed out like melting cream.

Shen Li abruptly sat up.

Heat.