Be Quiet, This Scumbag Alpha Has The Gaokao - Chapter 7

The teachers were still in a state of continuous shock.

From Monday to Friday, they mainly focused on consolidating knowledge and raising her level. At night, they assigned papers targeting her weaker knowledge points. On the two days of the weekend, she did mock exam papers. In one month, Xu Ancheng had written two boxes of gel pens empty. The teachers said that after consolidating her knowledge points for one more month, they would focus intensively on grinding through exam papers. At that point, she would be able to use up a box of pens in two days.

The teachers had also been influenced by Xu Ancheng. Whenever they mentioned her grades, their eyes shone, and they looked at her as if they had discovered some kind of treasure. To Auntie Zhou, however, they only gave a look.

All the teaching activities happening in this apartment were carried out in this stimulating atmosphere where everyone was silently holding back a huge ultimate move together. Xu Ancheng filled one page of scratch paper after another, and just like that, time arrived at the end of November.

The circle of rich second-generation heirs had always been lively. They had been harassing Xu Ancheng the entire time. They wanted so badly to see her. Whether it was her wanting to take the gaokao or her wedding being postponed, every single thing had stirred up no small amount of commotion.

But Xu Ancheng had disappeared far too thoroughly. In the past, she had spent every night in revelry. Now, it was as though she were dead. They could not see her in any setting at all. Yet their desire to tell her the news and hear new amusement from her was, just like Xu Ancheng’s academic performance, something that two different groups of people simply could not hold back.

So even though Xu Ancheng turned off her phone during the day and only received their messages at night before bed, when she played with her phone for a while, she still received a lot of messages.

Recently, quite a few things had happened in Huncheng’s business world. In the end, it all came down to one sentence: this time, the Zhou family’s Dasheng Group had taken a hard fall.

“Everything started with that brat Zhou Guangyao’s scandal. He really is too stupid. How could he get played like that by a sixty-year-old Omega director?” The person who sent the voice message was taking pleasure in the misfortune.

Their circle was like this. When there was a joke to watch, they ran faster than anyone.

“Maybe Zhou Guangyao offended someone,” Xu Ancheng sent back in a voice message. “For example, by having a filthy mouth or something.”

She did not want to go into detail. It was too obvious. A director, and Zhou Guangyao did not even do business in the entertainment industry. The only thing he had to do with the entertainment industry was that he had often used unspoken rules on minor celebrities. How could he have any connection to a fairly well-known major director?

Su Jiu’s name flickered in and out of the entire matter, making it truly difficult to ignore. It was just that, at present, these people did not take Su Jiu seriously at all.

“The Zhou family tried to think of ways to fish him out, but then the quality control of their own goods had problems. Together with Zhou Guangyao’s matter, it caused a pretty big storm of public opinion online. Things get interesting here. At a glance, it looks like someone set them up, doesn’t it?”

Xu Ancheng thought, You’re not so stupid after all.

“In Huncheng, we have three major groups standing like a tripod: your Xu family’s Kunpeng, the Zhou family’s Dasheng, and the Rong family’s Tianxiang. The Zhou family got into trouble, and the other two families immediately rushed up to divide the resources. The smaller companies want to get a mouthful of soup too. What I wanted to ask you today is this: why did I hear that your dad, instead, formed an alliance with the Zhou family and started dealing with the Rong family?”

Xu Ancheng became alert.

Again, this was a plotline that had not existed in the book.

“I don’t know. I’m studying. How would I have time to care about those things?”

“I thought your family would swallow the Zhou family. Didn’t your family and the Zhou family always compete over projects before? I didn’t expect your family, as Huncheng’s leading power, to actually help the Zhou family at a time like this.”

He wanted to eat from both sides, Xu Ancheng thought.

Helping the Zhou family at a time like this was sending charcoal in the snow. He had probably swallowed quite a few things from the Zhou family. Now the Zhou family had hit the bottom and was rebounding with all its strength. Xu Wei was adding fuel to the fire, then turning around to attack the Rong family. If it succeeded, Huncheng would be reshuffled. Kunpeng would become the single dominant power, Dasheng would preserve a slim chance of survival, and Tianxiang would be weakened.

This was also a risky move Xu Wei had made for Kunpeng, but it was quite feasible. Tianxiang’s foundation was not as strong as Kunpeng and Dasheng to begin with. If those two joined forces, they really might be able to take a large bite out of Tianxiang.

“You really don’t know?”

“I don’t. The exam papers are too hard. My brain isn’t very good anyway.”

They were indeed quite hard. In order to raise her upper limit, her math teacher had made her do an Olympiad math paper today, and she had nearly collapsed.

But her improvement was also advancing by leaps and bounds. In the real world, she had not had money to attend any tutoring classes. She had relied entirely on attending class and doing homework to get into a Project 985 university. Now, a group of special-grade teachers surrounded her and tutored her one-on-one, explaining the most fundamental knowledge logic and filling in every gap. It would be hard for her not to improve.

“…Don’t make things too hard for yourself either. You’re not even managing your own bar anymore. Recently, quite a few new people have come in, and several Omegas are very good-looking. None of us dare touch them. We’re all waiting for you.”

Xu Ancheng had just wanted to say there was no need to wait for her, then wanted to say they should not mess around either, then felt that no matter how she said it, it would be wrong. She scratched her face.

“The bar is mine?”

“Yeah. Did studying break your brain? You even forgot that?”

She had not forgotten. She had just not paid attention.

She called the bar manager. “Starting tomorrow, the bar will restrict entry by date. On odd-numbered days, Alphas are not allowed in. On even-numbered days, Omegas are not allowed in. Put two security guards at the door specifically to use detectors to check gender and prevent people from barging in. Don’t make my place reek with that mess.”

The manager: “…Huh?”

After hanging up, Xu Ancheng still could not fall asleep for a long time.

She kept feeling that behind this sudden business war in Huncheng, Su Jiu’s hand was also involved.

Was she going to start cooperating with Rong Cuo from now?

Although Xu Ancheng would rather give Kunpeng to Su Jiu in exchange for a safe life, Su Jiu’s personality was one that repaid even the smallest grievance. Xu Ancheng was a little afraid that Su Jiu would remember this grudge to the death and swallow Kunpeng without leaving even a crumb. She had not been a rich wastrel for many days yet, and then she would be forced to go work again.

If things truly reached that point, she planned to negotiate with Su Jiu.

To negotiate, she needed bargaining chips.

And before reaching that point, Kunpeng Group could not just collapse directly. Eating from both sides was a good strategy. She only hoped Xu Wei had not fallen into Su Jiu’s trap.

She could not sleep.

Might as well get up and do a paper.

“Congratulations to Teacher Su Jiu on wrapping!”

Su Jiu stood up from the ground and wiped the blood from the corner of her lips. A stagehand brought over flowers. She accepted them and saw that everyone in front of her wore sincere smiles as they applauded.

“Your acting was amazing, Teacher Su.”

“Teacher Su, please sign something for me in advance. You’re definitely going to become hugely popular!”

There were also entertainment reporters who had come to grab news footage, carrying cameras aimed at her. “This teacher is a new face. Whoa, so much blood. May I ask which character you’re playing?”

“Me?” Su Jiu gave a light laugh toward the camera. “I’m playing a bad woman.”

After three seconds of changing expressions, the person holding the camera shivered.

“You really played the villain so badly! But when someone that bad died, everyone was crying!”

The one who said this was a young girl who had been bustling around helping with everything. After Su Jiu finished signing, she hooked a blood-smeared finger lightly under the young girl’s chin. “Don’t cry. Smile for me.”

Because she had just finished filming a crying scene, her voice was still hoarse, and her tone was also commanding and seductive. The young girl’s face immediately flushed completely red. “You’re teasing me again.”

Su Jiu smiled and greeted everyone. Her attitude was so amiable that she did not even leave out the sound technician holding the microphone. Li Zhan, who was acting as her assistant, bought milk tea for the wrap. Su Jiu personally delivered it to each staff member and thanked them one by one.

Now that her filming was finished, it was no longer necessary to build good relations with these staff members. Perhaps they might never even work together again in the future. Because of that, this sincerity that required no return moved everyone.

Director Li came over, applauding, and took a photo with her. It just so happened that the investor was also present today. He personally introduced her to the investor, and his words were quite artful. “I won’t praise how well she acted. If you’re willing to watch the playback, you can watch it here. If you’re not willing, then wait for the finished cut. Before she acted, I had great confidence in our project. After she acted, all I can say is, your luck is truly good.”

Hearing this, the investor burst out laughing. “It can make money?”

“Guaranteed. If it makes money, you must remember our Actress Su.”

At this moment, Su Jiu had not the slightest intention of teasing. With an upright air, she bent forward and extended her hand. “Please take good care of us.”

The investor laughed again and shook her hand. “I look forward to your performance. I’ve always been very interested in matters that make money.”

When the song ended and the people dispersed, Director Li was still excited. “I truly wish this show could air tomorrow. But it’ll be soon. This time, our investor is wealthy and powerful, and they’re planning to compete for the winter break slot. After you finish here, are you going straight into Yanshen’s crew?”

“I’ll go back to Huncheng to handle some matters, and then it’ll be about time.”

“I know a little about your family’s situation. Your pay can arrive today. It isn’t much, but your opportunities are still in the future. I really didn’t expect that at your age, when you act, you can scrape the bones and suck out the marrow.”

Su Jiu liked that phrase very much. Her two eyes curved into crescents as she smiled.

In her previous life, she had already won Best Actress. She had experienced partings of life and death, hated many people, and had regrets and remorse. In terms of acting skill, there was no reason she could not slaughter the beginner village. She had also taken advantage of this opportunity to focus on improving herself—for example, by finding a teacher who was extremely important to her ahead of time.

She removed her makeup, cleaned herself up, put on a baseball cap, and wore casual clothes. Like this, no one would look at her a second time.

Rong Cuo’s call came in.

“Kunpeng got that project. Tianxiang lost another several tens of millions,” Rong Cuo said.

“That’s good. Let’s do the accounting. Has it reached one hundred million?”

“It’s passed that, my big star. It’s already almost three hundred million.”

“Heh. Their appetite is quite big. It’s only been how long?”

“Do I decide when to pull in the net?”

“You decide. Just call me after you’ve made the decision.”

After the call ended, Su Jiu’s phone received an incoming payment notification. This acting fee totaled three hundred thousand. She sent one hundred thousand to Chen Feng. The rest was all the savings she had.

She let out a long breath.

Because she had laid out the board too big in advance, there was no helping the fact that her life was tight now. For example, she still had to spend a few thousand yuan to buy some basic meeting gifts to go see her teacher. Her teacher still had not accepted her as a disciple, and she could more or less guess why.

This time, she was too eager for quick success, too result-oriented, and put profit first. In order to achieve her goal, everything could be used by her. Good people would be used by her. Bad people would be stepped underfoot.

Her teacher said she had lost her heart.

But a heart was nothing more than another name for weakness and helplessness, always placing hope on people who would scatter with a single breath.

She did not want one.

“Sister, that male Alpha actor is here again,” Li Zhan said.

Su Jiu exhaled a turbid breath.

Having just finished playing a villain until everyone both hated and feared her, when she opened her eyes and looked at that Alpha, it was as if she were looking at a pile of rotten flesh.