I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 1

When Gu Xin woke up, her head hurt as if it were about to explode. Her eyelids felt glued shut and would not open at all. Explosive music blasted wildly beside her ears, each beat hammering against her overburdened heart and eardrums, shaking her so hard she felt like she was about to bleed from every orifice.

More importantly, no matter how hard she tried, she could not escape the intense wave of dizziness crashing down over her from above.

The smell of alcohol filled her entire nose.

…She wanted to throw up.

Her brain and stomach felt as if they had been bundled up and tossed into a front-loading washing machine to tumble for ten days and ten nights. Staying conscious for even one more second would be disrespectful to the washer’s hard work.

Gu Xin raised her hand, wanting to prop herself up, only to discover that she could not move so much as a finger.

She was like a lump of rotten mud sinking into a swamp, mute and blind, unable to call for help.

Her thoughts scattered everywhere. Chaotic, bizarre images thundered and roared through her mind, until in the end, only emptiness remained.

She thought, Lying here isn’t so bad. There’s a kind of dying beauty to it.

But heaven insisted on going against her wishes. Just as she was enjoying this “dying beauty,” a force suddenly grabbed her by the collar and hauled her up. Amid the deafening music, a clear female voice drilled into her eardrums through gritted teeth.

“Gu Xin! Do you even want to live?!”

Yes, of course she did.

Wasn’t she working hard at it?

In reality, Gu Xin, who had tried for about a second before completely giving up and lying flat, was jolted a little more awake by that voice. Instinctively, she cracked her eyelids open a sliver, wanting to see what divine being had descended.

What returned before her sight was her sense of smell.

A faint scent of lime drifted from the newcomer’s fair wrist. It was not overpowering, yet it suppressed the surging smell of alcohol and forced its way straight into her nose. Fresh, sharp, domineering, and carrying a trace of unmistakable… despair.

Gu Xin could not resist breathing it in a little more.

It felt somewhat familiar.

So familiar that it made saliva gather in her mouth and heat rise in her cheeks.

Before Gu Xin could open her eyes and take a look at this nice-smelling lime, the thoughts she had barely managed to keep running forcibly went against their owner’s will and, without warning, lost power—she passed out completely.

Before fainting, one lonely sentence flashed through Gu Xin’s mind.

Lime-flavored things are pretty tasty.

3:45 a.m., Third People’s Hospital of X City, emergency department.

A young woman, covered up tightly in a hat and mask, struggled with great difficulty to support another person through the main entrance.

Seeing how hard it was for her, a nurse immediately came forward to help.

As soon as she drew close, the nurse smelled an overwhelming wave of alcohol.

“Patient’s name?”

“Gu Xin.”

“Sex?”

After a brief silence, the young woman’s voice came out slightly hoarse. “Alpha. She seems to have been drinking for almost the whole night. When I got there, she was already out of it.”

The nurse swiftly filled out the medical record, then immediately called her colleagues over to carry the patient inside for examination and prepare the necessary medication.

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

The young woman answered very quickly. “Friend.”

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

“I…” She opened her mouth. Her fingertips could not help rubbing again and again at the brim of her hat, making her conflicted feelings plain to see. In the end, she let her hand drop in defeat. “I am her family.”

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

These days, Alpha-Alpha relationships were extremely rare—the kind of thing that could make the news the moment one was discovered. After all, not every Alpha could tolerate the invasive scent of their own kind. The slightest carelessness could lead to a fight, let alone two Alphas becoming a legally married wife-wife pair.

Out of professional ethics, the nurse only let the thought flash through her mind before her expression returned to normal and she continued asking, “Then you are the patient’s…?”

“…Lover.”

The lover bound to her through life and death.

The nurse asked her to sit outside for a while. Less than two minutes later, she brought over a surgical notice and hospitalization papers for the young woman to sign before paying the fees. The patient had drunk far too much and needed her stomach pumped, then would have to stay in the hospital for observation for a day.

The young woman held the pen and wrote three characters, stroke by stroke, in the signature box.

Yan Shuangshuang.

“Then I’ll go pay first. Thank you for the trouble.”

The nurse held the form, feeling that the name on it looked extremely familiar.

Only after returning to the consultation room and informing the doctor to prepare the stomach pump did the nurse suddenly remember—

Yan Shuangshuang. Wasn’t that the top-tier leading actress who had recently been exposed in the scandal about being an Omega pretending to be an Alpha?!

She was married?

When Gu Xin woke up again, she only felt as though she was about to ascend to heaven. The aftereffects of having her stomach pumped were practically seconds away from sending her to meet God.

The nurse came in to check on the ward and was startled by her deathly pale, despairing expression.

“Bed 14? Are you still conscious?”

Gu Xin weakly opened her eyes.

About to die? How auspicious. It matched her current condition perfectly.

The nurse suspiciously glanced at the IV bottle. “There’s still a little left. Air didn’t get infused into you, did it?”

Gu Xin looked frail. “No. I was watching it. Nurse Sister, you came in at just the right time.”

The nurse neatly changed the IV bottle for her. “You drank far too much. Luckily, your constitution is good. Otherwise, with the way you were drinking, you’d either end up with cirrhosis or alcohol poisoning first.”

Gu Xin’s head was still terribly dizzy, even dizzier than yesterday. It felt absurdly like her brain had been taken out and used as a weapon, smashed around seven or eight times. She tried hard to shake the burden sitting on her neck. “Nurse Sister, is it normal for me to be this dizzy right now?”

As the nurse recorded her vitals, she casually said, “It’d be strange if you weren’t dizzy.”

Gu Xin stopped all movement and carefully savored the feeling for a moment, only to realize that her mind was terrifyingly blank. She panicked a little. “But while I’m dizzy, I also can’t remember who I am at all. Is that normal too?”

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

Gu Xin looked frightened and dazed, like a fawn that had accidentally wandered into the city. “Medically speaking, is this called amnesia?”

Forty minutes later.

The doctor holding the scans clicked his tongue again and again.

Gu Xin was somewhat worried. “Doctor, can this illness of mine be cured?”

The doctor pushed up his glasses, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. “Judging from the scans, in your case, we can basically rule out the possibility of a brain lesion.”

Gu Xin said, “So that means my problem is psychological?”

The doctor said, “Not necessarily. Once your family arrives, we’ll ask her whether she wants you to undergo further examinations.”

As he spoke, the doctor took his phone out of his pocket and opened a picture. “Look at this person. Do you recognize her?”

Gu Xin had no idea she even had family, but her gaze was quickly drawn to the face before her.

The lock screen showed a side profile of a tall beauty.

She wore a black trench coat, one hand holding a gun aimed at a woman sitting in a chair whose face could not be seen clearly. Her eyes held cold, murderous intent.

But in contrast to the danger in her eyes was her lower body. One booted foot was planted in an extremely ambiguous, frivolous manner between the woman’s legs. Paired with her half-smiling expression, it made her seem as though she already had the person before her completely in the palm of her hand. The aura of a top predator rushed straight at the viewer.

Almost instantly, an electric current shot up Gu Xin’s spine. Her hand, hidden beneath the bedsheet, instinctively clenched, as though she had squeezed a peeled lime. Juice burst out at once, and the air seemed to fill with a rich lime fragrance that made her mouth water.

So hungry. She wanted to eat.

Gu Xin had to use tremendous willpower to tear her eyes away from the picture. Then she quickly shook her head. “I don’t know her.”

Looking at Gu Xin’s reaction, the doctor’s expression turned inscrutable.

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

The nurse said, “I heard she got stuck in traffic. It’ll take a while.”

The doctor gracefully clipped his ballpoint pen back onto his white coat, dusted off nonexistent dirt, and stood up. “Then we’ll wait until her family arrives. For now, rest well on your own. If anything happens, press the nurse call button.”

Out of instinctive politeness, Gu Xin said, “Thank you, Doctor.”

The doctor smiled. “Also, prescribe her an inhibitor.”

“Thank you, Doct—huh?”

The doctor stepped out of the room and waved a hand in front of his face in distaste. “Tsk. That scent is strong.”

Gu Xin froze.

The nurse, however, was very calm. “Dr. Yang is an Alpha too, so it’s inevitable that his reaction would be a bit strong.”

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

She was an Alpha. Ever since she had differentiated, she had an annual susceptible period, but she rarely lost control and let her pheromones run wild. After all, she was a restrained, reserved, and extremely polite Alpha. Except…

Except what?

Gu Xin tried to rein in her pheromones, but the rich floral scent filled the entire ward, as if mocking her: Hey, trying to take me back? Dream on.

If another Alpha came in at this moment, there was no guarantee they would not start fighting her, because this was far too impolite and far too aggressive.

Gu Xin could only turn to the nurse and apologize. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I can’t seem to suppress it for the time being.”

The nurse shrugged. “It’s fine. I’m a Beta anyway. But your pheromones really are too intense. Even someone as insensitive as me can smell them.”

Gu Xin smiled awkwardly and even felt a little socially dead.

An Alpha who could not restrain herself was considered extremely inferior. Such Alphas were generally irritable and prone to anger. They often spread their pheromones everywhere like animals—uncivilized, immoral, and the kind of Alpha very few people could tolerate. Gu Xin had never expected that one day, she herself would become a representative example of “having no manners”—and the reason was merely that she had glanced at a female celebrity.

Gu Xin quietly slid down and lay flat, pretending she did not exist.

Who would have thought that as she lay there, she actually fell asleep? She seemed to have had a very, very long dream, so deep that she did not even notice when the nurse injected her with the inhibitor.

When she woke again, the sun was already setting outside. Brilliant yet decadent sunlight spilled over her blanket, leaving Gu Xin alone in the warm colors, staring blankly as she tried to grasp a trace of the emotions from her dream.

She seemed to have forgotten someone very important. No matter how anxiously she called out, she could not summon that person back.

Gu Xin pressed a hand over her chest. It felt a little stifled there, and a little painful too.

With a creak, the ward door was pushed open.

Gu Xin’s thoughts quickly returned. She lifted her eyes to look.

The person who came in clearly knew that Gu Xin was the only one in the room. Her goal was precise. As her high heels clicked across the floor, she took off her hat.

First, long hair fell gracefully down. Then she removed her mask as well, revealing a face so beautiful it was as cold as an iceberg.

So cold that Gu Xin gave a shiver.