I Heard I Was the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Celebrity (GL) - Chapter 1

When Gu Xin woke up, her head felt like it was about to explode from the pain. Her eyelids were glued shut and she couldn’t open them at all. Explosive music roared in her ears, each beat pounding against her overwhelmed heart and eardrums, shaking her to the point of almost bleeding from her orifices.

More importantly, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t shake off the intense, top-down sensation of dizziness.

The smell of alcohol permeated her entire nasal cavity.

… She wanted to vomit.

Her brain and stomach felt like they had been bundled up and thrown into a washing machine for ten days and ten nights. Being awake for even one second longer felt disrespectful to the washing machine’s hard work.

Gu Xin raised her hand, trying to prop herself up, but found she couldn’t move a single finger.

She was stuck like a piece of mud in a swamp, muted and blinded, unable to call for help.

Her thoughts scattered, and chaotic, bizarre images flashed through her mind with a rumbling roar, ultimately leaving only a void.

She thought, it’s quite nice lying here; there’s a sense of morbid beauty.

But fate was not on her side. Just as she was enjoying the “morbid beauty,” a force suddenly yanked her up by her collar. A clear female voice, through the noisy music, fiercely bit into her eardrums.

“Gu Xin! Do you want to live or not?!”

Yes, of course, she did.

Wasn’t she trying?

Gu Xin, who had actually given up and completely resigned herself to lying there, was jolted awake by the voice. Instinctively, she managed to open her eyes a tiny bit, curious to see who this almighty person was.

What recovered before her vision was her sense of smell.

A faint scent of lime came from the fair, white wrist of the person. It wasn’t heavy, but it overpowered the overwhelming smell of alcohol, drilling forcefully into her nasal cavity—it was green, domineering, and carried an undeniable sense of… despair.

Gu Xin couldn’t help but take another sniff.

It was somewhat familiar.

So familiar that it made her mouth water and her cheeks flush.

Before Gu Xin could open her eyes to get a look at this fragrant lime, her barely maintained consciousness abruptly overrode her will and blacked out—she completely fainted.

Before passing out, a single, solitary thought flashed through Gu Xin’s mind:

That lime-scented thing is surprisingly delicious.

*

3:45 AM, Emergency Department, X City Third People’s Hospital.

A young woman, completely covered by a hat and mask, laboriously helped another person through the main entrance.

Seeing her struggle, a nurse immediately stepped forward to assist.

As the nurse approached, she was hit by a tidal wave of alcohol smell.

“Patient’s name?”

“Gu Xin.”

“Gender?”

There was a moment of silence, and the young woman’s voice was a bit hoarse: “Alpha. She’s been drinking for almost the whole night, and she was already unconscious when I got to her.”

The nurse scribbled quickly on the medical record, then immediately motioned for a colleague to help lift the patient for examination and to prepare medication.

The nurse asked again, “What is your relationship with the patient?”

The young woman answered quickly, “Friend.”

The nurse nodded. “Then please notify the patient’s family. If the situation is serious, she may need to be admitted. Hospitalization requires a family signature.”

“I…” She opened her mouth, her fingertips involuntarily rubbing her hat brim again and again, showing her inner struggle. Finally, she dropped her hand in defeat. “I am her family.”

The nurse was quite surprised. From her perspective, this tall young woman was clearly an Alpha.

In this day and age, AA romance was extremely rare—so much so that discovering a pair was front-page news. After all, not all Alphas could tolerate the pheromonal intrusion from a peer; a slight misstep could lead to a fight, let alone two Alphas being legally married.

Out of professional ethics, the nurse quickly registered the thought in her mind and then, with an unchanged expression, continued to ask, “Then you are the patient’s…?”

“… Spouse.”

A spouse with whom she faced life and death.

The nurse asked her to wait outside. Less than two minutes later, she brought a surgery notice and admission form for the young woman to sign and pay. The patient had drunk too much and needed a stomach pump, followed by a day of observation in the hospital.

The young woman gripped the pen and carefully wrote three characters on the signature line.

Yan Shuangshuang.

“I’ll go pay now, thank you for your trouble.”

The nurse, holding the forms, felt the name was very familiar.

It wasn’t until she returned to the consultation room to inform the doctor to prepare for the stomach pump that the nurse suddenly remembered—Yan Shuangshuang, wasn’t that the top-tier celebrity who recently had the scandalous revelation that she was an Omega pretending to be an Alpha?!

She was married?

*

When Gu Xin woke up again, she felt like she was about to ascend to heaven. The side effects of the stomach pump were enough to send her to meet God at any moment.

The nurse who came in to check on her was startled by her pale and desperate expression.

“Bed 14? Are you awake?”

Gu Xin weakly opened her eyes.

Yao Si (Number 14 – also sounds like “want to die”)? That was quite auspicious, fitting her summary of her current state.

The nurse eyed the IV bag suspiciously. “There’s still a little bit left. No air got into the line, right?”

Gu Xin’s face was weak. “No, I was watching. Nurse, you came in just in time.”

The nurse expertly changed her IV bag. “You drank too much. Luckily, you have a good constitution, or with this kind of drinking, you’d either get liver cirrhosis or alcohol poisoning first.”

Gu Xin’s head was still very dizzy, even dizzier than yesterday—a ridiculous sensation like throwing her brain out as a weapon and letting it smash around seven or eight times. She tried to shake the burden on her neck. “Nurse, is it normal for me to feel dizzy now?”

The nurse, while recording her vitals, casually replied, “It would be weird if you weren’t dizzy.”

Gu Xin stopped all movement, pondering it closely. She realized her mind was terrifyingly blank, and she felt a little panicked. “But I’m not only dizzy, I also completely can’t remember who I am. Is that normal, too?”

The nurse’s movements froze. She turned sharply to look at her.

Gu Xin’s expression was startled and bewildered, like a fawn that had wandered into the city. “Medically, is this called amnesia?”

Forty minutes later.

The doctor held the film and clucked his tongue repeatedly.

Gu Xin was a little worried. “Doctor, can my condition be cured?”

The doctor adjusted his glasses, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. “Based on the film, we’ve essentially ruled out the possibility of a brain lesion in your case.”

Gu Xin said, “Does that mean it’s due to psychological reasons?”

The doctor said, “Not necessarily. We’ll wait for your family to arrive and then notify her to see if further checks are needed.”

With that, the doctor pulled out his phone and opened a picture. “Do you recognize this person?”

Gu Xin had no idea she even had family. She was quickly drawn to the face in the picture.

The screensaver was a profile shot of a tall beauty.

She was wearing a black trench coat, holding a gun in one hand, pointed at a woman seated in a chair whose face couldn’t be clearly seen. Her eyes held cold killing intent.

But contrary to the danger in her eyes, her lower body told a different story. One of her long-booted feet was placed intimately and casually between the other woman’s legs. Combined with her half-smile, she seemed to be toying with the person opposite her, and the scent of a top-tier predator wafted off her.

Almost instantly, a current shot up Gu Xin’s spine. Her hands, hidden under the sheets, instinctively clenched, as if grasping a peeled lime that instantly burst with juice. The air was filled with a rich lime aroma that made her mouth water.

So hungry. She wanted to eat it.

Gu Xin used a tremendous amount of willpower to tear her eyes away from the picture and then quickly shook her head: “I don’t recognize her.”

The doctor, observing Gu Xin’s reaction, looked increasingly inscrutable.

He turned and asked, “Has her family arrived?”

The nurse said, “I heard they’re stuck in traffic. It’ll be a little while.”

The doctor elegantly clipped his ballpoint pen back onto his white coat, dusted off non-existent dirt, and stood up. “Then we’ll wait until the family arrives. You get some good rest for now. Press the nurse call button if you need anything.”

Gu Xin subconsciously replied politely, “Thank you, Doctor.”

The doctor smiled slightly. “And give her an extra dose of inhibitor.”

“Thank you, Doct—huh?”

The doctor stepped out of the room, waving his hand in distaste. “Tsk, that smell is strong.”

Gu Xin was stunned.

The nurse, however, was quite calm. “Dr. Yang is an Alpha, too, so the reaction is unavoidable.”

As if a piece of the memory puzzle had been illuminated, scattered fragments instantly flashed through Gu Xin’s mind.

She was an Alpha. Since her differentiation, she had her rut every year, but rarely did she lose control and wildly blast her pheromones. After all, she was a restrained, reserved, and very polite Alpha, except for…

Except for what?

Gu Xin tried to rein in her pheromones, but a thick floral scent filled the entire hospital room, seemingly mocking her: Hey, try to take me back? Dream on.

If another Alpha were to come in right now, they would definitely pick a fight with her, because it was too impolite and too aggressive.

Gu Xin could only apologize to the nurse, “I’m so sorry, I can’t suppress it for a while.”

The nurse shrugged. “It’s fine, I’m a Beta anyway. But your pheromones are a little too intense; even I, with a dull sense of smell, can smell it.”

Gu Xin gave an embarrassed smile, feeling mortified.

Alphas who couldn’t control themselves were considered inferior. They were generally irritable, prone to anger, and often scattered their pheromones everywhere like animals—uncivilized and immoral. Few people could tolerate such Alphas. Gu Xin never expected that one day she herself would become a symbol of “poor etiquette”—all because she glanced at a female celebrity.

Gu Xin quietly slid down to lie flat, pretending she didn’t exist.

To her surprise, as she lay there, she fell asleep. It seemed she had a very long dream, and she didn’t even notice when the nurse injected the inhibitor.

When she woke up, the sun was setting outside. The brilliant, fading sunlight spilled onto her bedsheets, leaving Gu Xin in the warm light, staring blankly, trying desperately to grasp the emotion from her dream.

She seemed to have forgotten someone very important, and no matter how anxiously she called out, she couldn’t summon them back.

Gu Xin touched her chest. It felt a little heavy, and a little painful.

With a creak, the hospital room door was pushed open.

Gu Xin’s thoughts quickly returned, and she looked up.

The person who entered clearly knew Gu Xin was the only one in the room. Her goal was clear. As her high heels made tap-tap-tap sounds, she took off her hat.

First, her long hair fell gracefully, and then her mask was removed, revealing that beautiful, ice-cold face.

Gu Xin shivered from the coldness.