I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 10

Gu Xin took a weekend evening flight back to X City. When she appeared at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau on time the next morning, just as promised, Yan Shuangshuang unknowingly let out a breath of relief.

“Did you bring everything?” Yan Shuangshuang asked.

Gu Xin had bought a new canvas bag. Perhaps because she was here for a divorce, she had dressed a little more formally today. But she had gotten up in a hurry that morning, and one disobedient strand of bangs was sticking up. With the two things combined, Gu Xin looked like a careless student about to give a presentation.

Gu Xin lowered her head and checked through the canvas bag again. “I brought everything.”

The two of them looked at each other in silence, then walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau together.

When they handed all the materials to the staff member, Gu Xin said, “You’ve worked hard all these years.”

Yan Shuangshuang was signing her name. Hearing this, she pressed her lips together, the lines of her face drawn tight. “There’s no need for polite words.”

Gu Xin did not mind the thorn in Yan Shuangshuang’s words. She turned her head and looked at her lover, separated from her by a short distance, knowing that after today, she would no longer be able to see her so easily.

The sea of people was so vast. The connection between them was like two drops of water flowing into the tide. If the God of Marriage had not once tied them together with a red thread, they would only become two unfamiliar little droplets, flowing into their own rivers, then soaking into their own soil.

“Shuangshuang, I’m sorry.” Gu Xin apologized from the bottom of her heart.

Yan Shuangshuang capped the pen and did not look at her, only speaking toward the glass in front of them. “If you know you’re sorry to me, then remember me a little longer. When you go looking for your next spring, take it slow.”

“Okay.”

Yan Shuangshuang thought for a moment, then said, “Before I find a new lover, you’d better not date anyone. And if you remarry, it has to be later than me.”

“Okay.”

“I’ll block you from my Moments, and I’ll block your number too. Don’t contact me again unless there’s something important.”

“Mm.”

“If we meet again in the future, I hope both of us will have successful careers and happy families. If your life doesn’t go well, I’ll allow you to forget me early.” Yan Shuangshuang finally turned her face toward her. Today, she wore a beret and light makeup. She looked exquisite and beautiful. As she spoke, the silver earring on her ear swayed along, glittering brightly, making her eyes look bright too, like the stars Gu Xin had wanted to see but never did.

“Mm.”

The staff member reviewed their documents very quickly and handed out the deep red divorce certificates. Yan Shuangshuang and Gu Xin each took their own certificate and walked out.

At the entrance, the two of them stopped without meaning to.

Yan Shuangshuang was the first to break the silence. She lifted her divorce certificate toward Gu Xin and said, “All right. Then here’s to hoping we never meet again, ex-wife.”

Gu Xin watched Yan Shuangshuang’s back as she left.

Yan Shuangshuang was dressed beautifully today too. She wore a deep blue long dress. As she walked, her long hair was lifted by the wind, swaying into romantic waves along with the hem of her dress, like a divine maiden high above the world. But until she turned past the corner and disappeared completely, she did not look back even once.

“Mm. Goodbye, Shuangshuang.”

Gu Xin tightened her grip on the divorce certificate in her hand and slowly exhaled. Then she followed the steps down and hailed a car. “To Qinglu Mountain Cemetery.”

The days after the divorce were very busy for Gu Xin.

She was busy moving, looking for work, repaying money, and studying.

Thanks to her senior brother, Gu Xin got back in touch with the professor. Now, while working part-time jobs, she also studied under the professor. No matter how familiar the knowledge she had lost looked, she still had to learn it again from the beginning.

It was not that she had never thought about finding a proper job, but whenever she sent out her résumé, the moment companies saw that her last job had been five years ago, they would immediately filter her out, no matter what university she had graduated from.

Gu Xin had no choice but to seize even the gaps between part-time shifts. She was so busy that day and night blurred together.

But in the dead of night, Gu Xin still could not help thinking of Yan Shuangshuang.

Her new Weibo account followed only Yan Shuangshuang. But ever since posting her retirement statement, Yan Shuangshuang had never gone online again, letting the bloody storms on Weibo rage until the heat passed and everyone gradually forgot her.

Now Yan Shuangshuang’s Weibo had become a check-in spot. Many old fans went under her Weibo every day to leave messages asking whether she would come back, or to talk about what they had seen that day as if speaking to a friend. But at the end, every signature was the same: they missed her.

Gu Xin lay on her side in bed, one hand pillowed beneath her head as she scrolled down, line by line. The fans’ happiness, sadness, and coquettish complaints all eventually turned into longing.

The screen’s light was very bright, shining over Gu Xin’s tired face.

She thought, I miss her very much too.

This longing was a galaxy. When one lowered their head, they paid it no mind. Only when they lifted their head did they realize how vast and beautiful it was, making it impossible to look away and impossible to pretend it did not exist.

Ding-dong.

The new Weibo account posted its first original post.

【Miss you.】

After posting on Weibo, Gu Xin fell into a deep sleep. Tomorrow would be a brand-new day. She still had to work, and she still had to gradually pick up her life again.

Before she figured everything out, she had to live properly beneath the galaxy’s light.

In the blink of an eye, May arrived. The weather gradually turned hot, and Gu Xin finally sold the apartment and that entire cabinet of luxury goods. With that, not only did she repay the money, she could also renew her lease directly.

The place she rented now was a small apartment in an old residential compound. It could not compare to the apartment in Jiwang Estate at all, but its advantage was that it felt familiar and close.

Gu Xin felt that she had probably endured hardship in the past, but her junior sister said that from the very first moment she saw her, she had thought Gu Xin was very arrogant, like the kind of nouveau riche who would walk into a factory and say, “Wrap up every instrument here for me.” Suffering hardship probably did not exist.

Gu Xin directly replied to her junior sister with one word: Scram.

Her senior brother then sent over a pile of PDFs at just the right time. They were all papers on cutting-edge scientific research achievements, and looking at them made Gu Xin’s temples throb.

The greatest gain from the trip to the capital was probably reconnecting with the professor, her senior brother, and her junior sister.

Her senior brother was named An Shizhi. He was the professor’s son and had gotten married the year before last. His life was happy and fulfilled. Now he only wanted to be a steady teacher, get his professional title evaluated, and stop exhausting himself.

Her junior sister was called her junior sister, but in reality, she was two years older than Gu Xin. Her name was Shao Xiaosheng, and she was also an Alpha. In the past, she and Gu Xin had never gotten along and often wrangled over projects. Now that Gu Xin had lost her memory, the two of them could occasionally joke with each other instead.

The professor said that three years ago, Gu Xin had made a terrible scene with the research institute. If she still wanted to continue doing scientific research, then her only option might be to leave the capital and go to another research institute. Moreover, her previous project was confidential and belonged to the state. Gu Xin could not even look at her own results.

Gu Xin thought about it for a long time and still could not figure out what she could do besides scientific research.

She had never worked a proper job. Back then, everyone in the research institute had spoiled the young and hot-blooded her, and she truly had had limitless prospects. But she was not the only genius in the field of communications. In the years she had lost, the scientific world had already changed dramatically. Science would always keep advancing, while she was still standing in place.

After thinking it over, Gu Xin decided to accept the professor’s suggestion. She decided to try her luck at the research institutes in X City. Surely one of them would be short of people.

But before that, Gu Xin still had to keep going to work.

Gu Xin picked up her personal belongings and opened the door to leave. Outside, neon lights flickered. The night was lively with music and dancing. X City was young and vibrant, and at this moment, its nightlife had only just begun.

She walked into a quiet bar and went to the staff room to change into her uniform and prepare for work.

Outside, a beautiful woman as cold as frost quietly pushed open the door and entered.

Ding-ling.

The doorbell rang, like fate letting out a teasing little laugh.