Chapter 1

When her consciousness returned, there seemed to be a sweet, cloying scent drifting through the room—one He Lingxing did not like very much. It firmly occupied her olfactory nerves.

A white uniform, a tight skirt, dim lighting outlining the woman’s tall, graceful figure. The thighs wrapped in black stockings swayed back and forth in front of her eyes, the very picture of temptation. After pausing for two seconds, she roughly identified it as a very strong sea-salt scent—so strong that it even carried a faint briny tang of the sea.

It gave her an intense feeling of rejection.

The owner of the perfume probably had taste as low as her IQ.

The instant those hands were about to touch her, He Lingxing raised her eyes. Without the slightest pity, she grabbed the woman’s wrist and twisted it hard. A scream of pain rang out in the dim room.

With a lift of her long leg, He Lingxing expressionlessly shoved the woman back several staggering steps. The sound of high heels scraping across the floor was somewhat grating. The woman’s sobs had only just started up when He Lingxing’s low, cold word—“Scram.”—completely blocked them back down.

“Don’t try this petty trick on me again. This time, I’ll deduct this month’s bonus. If there’s a next time, you won’t be seen in this company anymore.” He Lingxing paused. “Also, you smell awful.”

“I-I understand…”

The tearful woman scrambled up from the floor. When she heard He Lingxing’s final sentence, she looked even more deeply wounded. Weeping, she stepped out unauthorized copyin her high heels and pushed the door open to leave.

Suddenly, a mechanical voice sounded in He Lingxing’s mind, teasing her: 【Sister is still as swift and decisive as ever.】

He Lingxing gave a soft laugh in response. A moment later, she sat back down in the office chair and adjusted the lighting a little brighter. “You can tell me now. What’s the mission this time?”

【This mission requires you to act as the vicious female supporting character and help bring together the male and female leads in this harem novel before they reach a BE.】

Transmigrating into books was something He Lingxing was already skilled at through long practice.

After working at the Heavenly Secrets Bureau for many years, every abuse novel, tragic romance, and cannon-fodder story she had entered had been forcibly turned onto a feel-good power-fantasy route by her. Whether she was the female supporting character, the female lead, or even some cannon fodder on the street, the final ending would inevitably be that she built a successful career.

She and a few of her other friends had all reached the point where they could retire. This world was her final mission battlefield, commonly known as “retirement living.”

After listening to her exclusive system, 520, give a concise explanation, He Lingxing roughly understood this book’s worldview.

This was a harem novel with a strong Huashi flavor.

The world she was currently in was an ABO world. The woman who had just come to seduce He Lingxing unauthorized copy had not been wearing perfume. Instead, she was one of the original novel’s male lead’s harem members—a “little milk A.”

The male lead of this book was a high-level Alpha. Relying on his powerful and charming pheromones, he had gathered many harem members. As long as they were women, he basically accepted anyone who came along, no matter what they were.

The reason that “little milk A” had come to seduce her was because although the original owner was an Alpha, she pretended to be an Omega in public.

This world was relatively lenient toward Alpha-Omega relationships. It was not like the class-based society described in some books. Same-sex and opposite-sex relationships were both acceptable, and there were no vile customs of mistreating Omegas.

And because the original owner had long had her heart set on the male lead, knowing that AA relationships were still relatively uncommon, she had deliberately pretended to be an Omega in order to increase her chances.

In this book’s ABO worldview, the female lead, as an Omega, would be accidentally marked by the male lead A and then become utterly devoted to him, becoming one of the male lead’s harem members. In the end, she would willingly offer up everything, only to be drained, schemed against, and ruined by the male lead, becoming the pampered prisoner in his black room.

This included, but was not limited to, spending the night with other Alphas for the male lead’s sake, begging everywhere and using her family connections for the male lead’s resources, and even exposing her own scandals to suppress trending searches for him…

The corners of He Lingxing’s mouth twitched as she read.

The female lead’s character setting was indeed ridiculous, but during her previous transmigration missions, she had also encountered even more absurd love-brained characters. There were even some who would cross moral lines and break the law without hesitation. Every single one of them was a rare specimen.

“He Lingxing” was the CEO of an entertainment company. The company was neither particularly [bailiantales.com]big nor particularly small. On the surface, it looked passable, but in reality, it was already on its last breath. Beneath its calm exterior was a rotten, dilapidated core.

Because of loose and improper management, the company was constantly going downhill. In the end, it would become something trampled under the male lead’s feet, go bankrupt, and close down. “She” would also end up in prison.

The female lead, Shu Minglan, was a low-level second-tier artist under this company. Right now, she was still in the pitiful stage of being suppressed by her manager. In truth, playing matchmaker was very simple for He Lingxing, but after reading this script, she really had no desire to bring the male and female leads together.

To devote everything to such a person—this female lead was far too pitiful.

He Lingxing rubbed her temples.

She had transmigrated through many worlds, so she basically had some understanding of every kind of setting. After receiving the memories of the original character from the novel, she roughly understood why this company had gradually reached this point.

The higher-ups did not handle affairs, allowing those managers to bully the artists as they pleased. They did not even care when the company culture became crooked.

For example, incidents of artists being made to accompany people overnight happened one after another. Those who could accept it and were willing to sink into depravity stayed; those who could not accept it all left. As expected, the ones who remained and liked getting something for nothing had no real potential either. Over time, this led to an overall decline.

After that, the male lead smoothly acquired her bankrupt company and took away all the artists under her who could be taken. What happened next was easy to imagine.

It was a very boring book. Basically, it was the same rotten, clichéd drama of the male lead cheating his way through everything and crushing all opposition.

She did not know what had gotten on her body, but it felt a little sticky and uncomfortable. He Lingxing rose from the ergonomic chair, first intending to go to the company’s hot spring for a bath.

**

“I swear, President He is really the coolest Omega I’ve ever seen. If she were an Alpha, she would definitely be way cooler than that Li Yunxia.”

“Li Yunxia is really something too. Does she actually think an Omega will go into heat for any Alpha? If you put it nicely, what she did was seduction. If you put it bluntly, it was a crime! She wanted to rely on marking President He to climb up the ladder, but she didn’t even stop to see whether President He would look at her.”

“Exactly. Seeing her come out crying from over there made me feel so satisfied. It was my first time seeing an Alpha actually crying like that. How embarrassing.”

That previous Alpha had tried to seduce He Lingxing during the evening shift. There were not many people in the company, but some had still seen the scene of her being chased out in such a sorry state. In a short amount of time, it had already become a joke within their little circles.

When Shu Minglan walked in from outside carrying a cup of warm pomelo black tea, this was exactly the quiet discussion she heard.

She had never had much interest in the company’s internal gossip. She would be joining the production crew tomorrow, so today she had come to negotiate with her manager.

In the industry, managers were usually the first to know the production team’s lineup. There was nothing wrong with the script Shu Minglan had received, but only now had she been informed that among the staff was a young assistant director who had long been coveting her.

That person’s character was publicly acknowledged as unspeakably bad, and recently, she had differentiated into an Alpha. Their differentiation age ranged from fifteen to twenty-five, and there was a saying that the later one differentiated, the more powerful their pheromones were. Her manager had learned this information earlier, yet only told her at the last minute!

If she had known earlier, there was no way she would have accepted this script no matter what.

Shu Minglan’s beautiful black eyes darkened completely.

“Minglan!”

The manager who had received the news quickly found Shu Minglan at the entrance. Under everyone’s gazes, she smilingly pulled her into the office.

The manager, Sister Bai, was a female Beta. She had been at Yaoxing Entertainment for so long that she could already be considered an old hand, and she also had quite a few people under her.

Unlike other managers’ harsh oppression, Sister Bai took the route of combining soft and hard tactics. If she could avoid completely tearing off the mask of civility, she absolutely would. She did all the superficial work properly, so her reputation within the industry was still fairly decent.

The small office was not large, but it was clean and tidy. On the rosewood desk sat a bottle of foxtail lilies in full bloom. The petals, tinted pink and crimson, were gorgeous and vivid, filling the entire room with fragrance.

It was clearly a pleasant and fresh scent, but the moment Shu Minglan smelled it, she could not help frowning, ​stolen content​an expression of discomfort appearing on her face. Just as she wanted to retreat, Sister Bai blocked the doorway.

The woman wore high heels and was somewhat taller than her. An Omega, whose body was relatively fragile, was not very good at contending with a Beta. Moreover, before Shu Minglan’s contract expired, she temporarily had no way to leave this company. Having fully grasped this point, Sister Bai acted without fear.

“Minglan, judging from your appearance, you’ve never been marked by an Alpha before. Your heat periods must be pretty difficult, right? A beautiful Omega like you is in danger even walking on the street during heat. Although the world talks about equality now, in reality, it’s still very hard if you don’t find someone to rely on early.

“Look at Director Jia. Her pheromones smell good, and she looks fairly decent too. Women are always a little safer than men, after all. I’ve already contacted her. Director Jia’s rut is coming soon. When the time comes, you just need to have some fun with her.

“Anyway, as a top-tier Omega, your resistance to Alpha pheromones isn’t that bad. It’s not as though playing around a couple of times will make you unable to want anyone but her… Minglan, I’m talking to you. Did you hear me?”

“I know.”

The Omega’s uniquely soft and delicate voice, paired with that incomparably beautiful face, made even Sister Bai unable to help sighing inwardly. Forget Alphas—even she, a Beta, might not necessarily be able to keep control under such an assault.

But after all her persuasion, she had finally gotten Shu Minglan to agree at the last moment. Otherwise, doing something like a forced marking, which could be taken to court, would carry a very high risk.

Sister Bai got what she wanted. Thinking of the generous reward she would receive later, she smiled and patted Shu Minglan’s shoulder, not caring that Shu Minglan dodged away in discomfort.

“Then let’s leave it at that for now. At this hour, there usually isn’t anyone at the hot spring. Go take a flower-petal bath, and remember to get some proper rest.”

Sister Bai smiled with a deeper meaning. In her complacency, she did not notice the flash of hatred that crossed those black eyes, which had always seemed so gentle.

After roughly and simply packing up her clothes, Shu Minglan strode toward the company’s women’s hot spring pool.