After Transmigrating into a Scumbag Alpha, I Became the Female Lead's White Moonlight (GL) - Chapter 2

St. Ann Hospital, top-floor VIP ward.

Zhao Shu politely escorted the doctor out of the ward and turned back to the bedside.

“President Chi, everything has been arranged. Are you…” she hesitated, “are you really going to stay here?”

She offered her opinion: “No matter how proper the hospital is, it’s not as convenient as home. The Hanshan Zhuancui villa has been prepared, and your bedroom has been moved to the first floor, which won’t impede your movement. With a nanny to look after you, the Madam will also feel more at ease.”

“I’m quite comfortable staying here.”

She definitely didn’t want to go home. If she returned home, with all the combination locks in place, how would Lu You sneak in? If Lu You couldn’t sneak in, how could her plot continue?

To prevent Zhao Shu from continuing to persuade her to go home, she quickly changed the subject: “Hand me my phone.”

Zhao Shu hesitated but handed her the phone. Chi Huan’s two hands were bandaged like trotters. She laboriously tapped open an app with her one remaining functional finger.

“This one. Help me with this.”

Zhao Shu took the phone and looked down. The phone’s front camera immediately captured her face.

A chin as sharp as a triangular cone, eyes so large they bulged out of their sockets, and the strange blush that came with the filter…

Zhao Shu: “…”

Chi Huan gestured awkwardly with her bandaged hands and feet, striking an incredibly desolate pose: “Take a picture of me, make it look a little miserable.”

Zhao Shu understood immediately: “For the Madam, right? You don’t need to worry about that. We have already explained your situation to the Madam, and she has agreed to let you recuperate at home this month.”

“No,” Chi Huan said, “for Mu Yi.”

Zhao Shu’s face twitched for a moment: “For Miss Mu? But… didn’t you say you never wanted to have anything to do with Miss Mu again?”

What she really wanted to say was: Will sending this kind of photo to your crush really… not be counterproductive?

Chi Huan glanced at the strip of white skirt that briefly flashed by the ward door and raised her voice volume again: “Those were angry words! Can’t you tell they were angry words?”

Zhao Shu said, “Then what about Miss Lu…?”

Chi Huan gave a cold humph: “She’s just a stand-in, don’t worry about her. That kind of clumsy woman can’t even compare to a single finger of Mu Yi’s. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have been sent to the hospital. All my work has been delayed because of her!”

Zhao Shu: “Your work…”

Chi Huan said with displeasure: “I’m injured like this; can’t you stop talking about such depressing things? Even a contract worth hundreds of billions will have to wait until I’ve recovered before I go back and sign it!”

Zhao Shu: “But…”

Chi Huan: “But what? I’m only resting for a few days, just a few days. Is the company about to go bankrupt? Is the country about to face a financial crisis? Is the Earth going to explode because of this?”

Zhao Shu: “No…”

Chi Huan took a philosophical drag on an imaginary cigarette: “I know I’m important, but you can’t rely on me for everything. You have to learn to be independent and give your general manager—that’s me—some private space to mourn my lost love!”

Zhao Shu slowly said, “I was just trying to remind you that your hospitalization won’t delay any work, because… you don’t have any work in the first place.”

Chi Huan: “?”

“If I had to say, your job was just to stay in the office until closing time every day. Because of your accidental injury, your clock-in requirement for the next half month has also been canceled.”

“Therefore, you now have no work!”

Chi Huan: “????”

Isn’t this my private secretary? How is she talking to me?

Chi Huan tried hard to maintain her dignity: “I don’t just sleep in the office every day; I do other things too!”

Zhao Shu chuckled softly: “Of course. President Chi is an outstanding talent and is sure to achieve greatness in the future. The Madams are all looking forward to that day.”

What is open mockery? What is passive aggression?

This was it.

Chi Huan: “…”

Forget it. Anyway, it’s “Chi Huan’s” face being lost, what does it have to do with me, Chi Huan?

She decided to get back to the plot: “Even if I’m a bit useless, Mu Yi is amazing!”

“My Mu Yi is the smartest, gentlest, and most thoughtful person in the world. As for Lu You, she’s merely a substitute! If it weren’t for her slight resemblance to Mu Yi, I wouldn’t even give her a second look!”

【Plot completion reached 80%. Congratulations, Host, on completing the first stage of the mission.】

Chi Huan proudly lifted her head.

Who can still say that her ability is lacking? So what if she doesn’t work? Is working as satisfying as running the plot? No!

Running the plot can save her life; can work? It cannot!

And, most crucially? The plot that the original host took half a month to complete, she easily carried in just half a day!

Applause!

The System was quite cooperative: 【Initiating the second stage of the mission for the Host…】

Zhao Shu’s expression was strange: “President Chi, Miss Mu… gentle? If I recall correctly, when you went to see her off before she went abroad, some kind of conflict happened, and she slapped you so hard your tooth was loose.”

“The doctor diagnosed a slight concussion. If I’m not mistaken, you used this same ward back then. Have you forgotten?”

Chi Huan: “…”

Lu You outside the door: “…”

The System’s broadcast abruptly stopped.

Chi Huan urgently called the System: “Don’t stop! Keep updating!”

System: 【Detected a retreat in mission progress. Current mission progress is 66%. Did not reach expected progression. Update failed.】

Chi Huan nearly burst into tears.

Is this woman specifically sent to thwart me? Her timing is always so perfect, and she always aims at my beautiful face!

The System ignored her and said coldly: 【Mission failed. Please, Host, rerun the plot. Time limit of ten minutes. Annihilation if overdue.】

Chi Huan: “???” Again?

It was like a bucket of cold water was thrown over her head, chilling her to the core.

Chi Huan tried to negotiate with the System: “No, what does this have to do with me? That’s what the novel wrote! I copied the text exactly; I couldn’t have made a mistake! Check this Mu Yi, her personality is definitely problematic!”

System: 【Re-scanning… Scan complete. Protagonist Mu Yi’s personality analysis complete. The character’s exhibited personality has not deviated from the original text.】

Chi Huan was skeptical: “Impossible! Your detection function must be broken. Does your brand of System have a factory recall feature?”

The System continued: 【The character setting for the protagonist Alpha, Mu Yi, is ‘double standard.’ In other words, she is gentle to the main receiver (Shou), cold to others, and deeply loathes a Scumbag Alpha like you.】

【The ‘Chi Huan’ you are playing has been entangled with her for many years, harassing her while also being ambiguously involved with other Omegas. Her not slapping you would be a deviation from the character setting.】

Chi Huan: “…”

I’m amused.

So, me being slapped is perfectly reasonable, huh?

Angry as she was, the plot had to go on. If she didn’t follow the plot, she couldn’t save her life. Chi Huan gritted her teeth and spoke: “I don’t care! Mu Yi is the gentlest person in my heart! No one can compare!”

She worked hard to put on a look of unchanging devotion, perfectly embodying the image of a little fool who, in her “lover’s eyes, beauty is born,” and who, despite being almost slapped into a concussion, still staunchly defended her crush.

But the words were truly too idiotic, so she quickly added: “And, even if the personality isn’t similar, their faces still are! If I can’t have Mu Yi, having Lu You as a substitute is good enough.”

“It is her fortune that she can substitute for Mu Yi and stay by my side!”

Are those words strong enough? If not… she couldn’t possibly say anything more foolish.

Chi Huan stole a glance at the door.

Lu You slowly slid down the wall, her hands wrapped around her knees. Her small face, buried in her knees, was already stained with tears.

Her slender, defined fingers subconsciously dug into her own flesh, leaving bloody marks on her pale, lotus root-like arms.

【Plot completion reached 88%. Congratulations, Host, on completing the first stage of the mission.】

【Second stage mission activated: The White Moonlight returns to the country. Mission duration: two months.】

Chi Huan cheered quietly in her heart.

Her life had once again been snatched back from the dog-of-a-System!

【Updating Host’s luck value.】

【Luck value: 30. System Tip: Although this luck value will not cause you to step into a sewer when walking, you are only one manhole cover away from the sewer.】

Chi Huan: “???”

Is this a serious complaint?

Chi Huan suspected this was the System’s revenge for her initial passive strike, but she had no evidence.

Zhao Shu: “…Understood.”

Her eyes were filled with pity, looking at Chi Huan as one would look at a small fool gone mad with love, with a distinct “fine, whatever you say” vibe.

She raised her phone and snapped two photos of Chi Huan’s “trotters”: “The photos are taken. Should I send them now?”

“Send them!” Chi Huan forced herself to endure the cheesy sentimentality. “Say that I dreamed of her during my nap today, and when I woke up, I was so distracted that I broke our old photo of love. These…” she raised her tightly wrapped trotters, “are love injuries I suffered for her!”

The strip of white skirt at the door was gone. It looked like Lu You had finally had enough and left.

Chi Huan thought: Sorry, Sis. I just want to survive; I really didn’t mean to demean you this way!

Besides, look how poor your judgment is. You could like anyone, but you like this Scumbag Alpha. If I make it clear, it’ll be easier for you to give up early and go to your true destined Alpha, right?

Suppressing the small amount of guilt in her heart, Chi Huan took the phone. After just a few taps, Mu Yi’s message came back.

Mu Yi: [Don’t disgust me.]

Chi Huan quickly poked and tapped the screen with the one remaining finger outside the gauze: [How can you say that, Mu Yi? My heart for you is witnessed by the sun and moon. Mountains can be moved, seas can be leveled. My love for you is eternal!]

Two seconds after the message was sent, the small flower icon turned into a bright red exclamation mark.

She had been blocked by Mu Yi.

With the side quest of chasing the White Moonlight completed, Chi Huan contentedly put away her phone, but she had to turn around and put on a look of unbearable heartache, tears welling up as she said, “She actually blocked me!”

Zhao Shu, who had just helped her type that message, was still feeling a pang of discomfort and thought, I’d block you too.

But she couldn’t say that out loud; she had to comfort her lovesick boss.

“Don’t worry, President Chi. You and Miss Mu have so many years of affection. You often had your little spats; how could she truly be angry with you? It will be fine after a while.”

The kind of affection where you cling shamelessly and refuse to let go, huh? Truly worthy of being a private secretary; her rhetoric was impeccable when speaking tactfully.

Chi Huan covered her face, just about to be coy for a bit longer to maintain the ‘unchanging devotion’ persona, when the System suddenly spoke.

【Detected that the Protagonist’s Mood Value is below 60, with a tendency to continue decreasing. If it drops below 30, the Protagonist will be judged to have entered the Despair Phase.】

Chi Huan: “?”

【Please, Host, take action to maintain the Protagonist’s Mood Value within a safe range. If it drops below 20, the Protagonist’s mission will be judged a failure, and the System will execute annihilation.】

Chi Huan: “???”

【Calculating Host’s current luck value. Calculation complete. Current luck value is 30.】

【The current luck value is low. Please, Host, remain indoors and do not venture out, as the System cannot guarantee that a flowerpot will not fall from the sky and strike your head when you are outside.】

Author’s Note:

Good morning! Kisses! (‘▽’)