I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 2

To be honest, ever since the beautiful woman entered, the entire room had frozen solid.

Gu Xin had not expected the female celebrity from the doctor’s photo to appear in front of her the moment she woke up. She was just a little cold—so cold that Gu Xin could not give rise to even the slightest improper thought.

The room was so quiet one could meditate in it. After the female celebrity calmly revealed her full appearance and chilled Gu Xin to the bone, she sat down on the chair beside her with her arms crossed, expressionless as she stared at Gu Xin’s face. Under the sharpness of the other woman’s gaze, Gu Xin gradually, gradually moved away the stare she had originally held with perfect confidence.

For some reason, she felt a little guilty. Especially after she had just lost control of her pheromones from looking at this face.

But she, Gu Xin, never felt guilty. So she immediately shifted her gaze back and met the other woman’s eyes with firm determination. In any case, she had been injected with an inhibitor; she would not make a fool of herself for the time being.

What should she say?

Was this some kind of variety show where a celebrity came to her house?

Such a beautiful woman was actually her family?

Had she paid the medical bills in advance too?

Messy thoughts sprouted one after another like bamboo shoots after the rain. Even though the activity inside Gu Xin’s mind was like a volcanic eruption, her face remained perfectly calm.

Neither of them was willing to look away first, as if whoever moved first would lose.

“What?” In the end, it was the great beauty who broke the silence first. Her tone was as cold as her face. “Did seeing me make you mute?”

Gu Xin blurted out, “Thank you.” She had thought the photo must have been edited at least a little, but she had not expected the real person to look even better than the picture. So good-looking that she felt a little thirsty.

The memory of the lime scent automatically surfaced. Gu Xin swallowed without changing her expression, thinking that she really should say thank you, but she should not brainlessly thank a female celebrity for her beauty.

The great beauty had no mind-reading ability and did not know the unorthodox nonsense running through Gu Xin’s head. She sneered. “I heard you lost your memory. Very capable of you. You even dare use this kind of excuse to fool me.”

Gu Xin came back to herself and tried to defend herself as objectively as possible. “My memories really do begin from last night. I don’t remember anything before that at all. I heard from the doctor that you’re my family, so what exactly is our relationship? Do you know my past?”

After she finished speaking, the entire room fell silent.

Gu Xin still maintained a calm posture as she looked at the woman opposite her, striving to ensure her sincerity. Then, to her shock, after hearing her words, the ice beauty’s eyes instantly reddened.

Her tears were very quiet, and when they fell, they were very light. But the calmer she was, the deeper and more painful her sorrow became.

Gu Xin knew her own expression must look astonished. She watched as the ice beauty calmly wiped her face with her hand, her eyes full of tears as she said, “Gu Xin, are you relying on the fact that I’ll always soften toward you?”

“…”

“N-no.” Gu Xin spoke with difficulty. Her originally steady heart was suddenly thrown into chaos.

She clearly did not remember the person in front of her at all, yet her own emotions at this moment seemed to be tied to the ice beauty’s body. The woman’s grief was so intense that it nearly filled Gu Xin’s entire heart. Along with it came a suffocating tightness.

So this was what kind of Gu Xin she was?

Was she really this easily empathetic?

Her hand beneath the blanket moved an inch, yet at the exposed edge, it clenched into a fist again and withdrew. She was being timid, carrying a cowardice she herself could not understand, not daring to ask any further.

Comforting her would not work. Bringing up the amnesia again would also be impolite. In her panic, Gu Xin could only pick the sentence closest to her mouth to break the deadlock. “Why do I feel like you’re more sour than yesterday?”

The moment the words fell, the ice beauty froze. Gu Xin froze too.

A tsunami of alarms suddenly blared in her mind. How had her mouth outrun her brain and grabbed a topic like this? Casually commenting on an Omega’s pheromones was sexual harassment! Where had her Alpha virtues of restraint, reserve, and politeness gone?!

The ice beauty took a deep breath. Her tears stopped, and a blush rose over her face. She squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth. “What’s it to you?! You’re not allowed to smell!”

Even much later, Gu Xin still did not dare ask whether that had been from anger or shyness.

Gu Xin swiftly apologized, and the ice beauty left without looking back.

After that, Gu Xin was informed that she would undergo more thorough examinations. Throughout the entire process, the ice beauty did not say another word to Gu Xin.

Facing the faintly gossipy gazes of the doctor and nurses, Gu Xin could only play dead like an ostrich, pretending she understood nothing.

In just half a day, she had not only sprayed pheromones everywhere, she had also casually commented on an Omega’s scent. She had practically done every uncultured thing possible. If this got out, she would be sued in court for sexual harassment.

By the time the series of examinations was complete, it was already dark outside.

The doctor gave his diagnosis. It was indeed amnesia, but her common sense remained. The specific cause of the amnesia was still unclear, so they could only see whether she needed to visit psychiatry.

Gu Xin glanced at the ice beauty, whose expression looked somewhat tired, and took the initiative to say, “It’s a little late today. Let’s forget it.”

At least she did not dare say anything about drawing clear boundaries anymore. She did not want to see the woman cry again.

The ice beauty’s hand, which had been about to turn on navigation, paused. She turned her head to look at Gu Xin. “Do you want to stay in the hospital or go home?”

Gu Xin thought about it. “I’ll go home.”

Staying in the hospital would not help her understand herself or her family member.

The ice beauty showed no reaction. She turned the steering wheel and slowly drove out of the underground parking lot. When she scanned the code, she asked, “Do you know who I am?”

Gu Xin hesitated.

The ice beauty said calmly, “My name is Yan Shuangshuang. I am your legal spouse, but we don’t live together, and you’d better not come looking for me either.”

Not long after Gu Xin got into the car, she fell asleep. When she woke up, they happened to be crossing a bridge. The neon lights on the bridge left mottled silhouettes across her face.

Yan Shuangshuang knew she had woken up and explained in a businesslike tone, “We’re almost there. The security guards know you, so you can go straight in. I don’t know the door password. Use your fingerprint.”

Gu Xin did not answer immediately. She furrowed her brows and shook her head, looking very uncomfortable.

Yan Shuangshuang could not help glancing at her.

Different from the rotten, decadent state she had been in yesterday among that crowd of people, perhaps because she had lost her memory, Gu Xin’s expression looked rather dazed and innocent, as if one could easily lure her home with just a few words.

But Yan Shuangshuang restrained her inappropriate thoughts.

No matter how easy to deceive Gu Xin looked right now, she was no longer the person she had once been.

She had changed long ago.

After finally recovering a little, Gu Xin wiped the cold sweat from her forehead—she had had another nightmare.

The thrilling feeling from the dream had not completely faded. Her heart was still pounding, but overall, she could speak. Gu Xin picked up the thread and said, “Will it take you a long time to get home? If it really won’t work, why don’t you rest at my place for a bit?”

“No need.”

They were legally married wives, yet they treated each other with this much courteous distance.

After being coldly rejected, Gu Xin was not discouraged. Her eyes swept aimlessly over the countless lives outside the window, and her expression carried an almost imperceptible indifference.

Unlike Yan Shuangshuang, Gu Xin had very mild features: an oval face and almond eyes. Aside from being a bit taller, she was the type others would immediately categorize as someone with a good temper and an easygoing personality.

Before they got married, Yan Shuangshuang had indeed never seen Gu Xin get angry at anyone. But to say she was gentle was not quite right either. What Gu Xin was best at was rejection that seemed warm and mild on the surface.

Back then, this favored child of heaven had been pleasant and amiable to everyone, so when Yan Shuangshuang successfully won Gu Xin over, she had found it rather hard to believe.

Each of them carried their own thoughts. In silence, they arrived at the entrance of the residential compound.

Just as Gu Xin was about to get out of the car, Yan Shuangshuang called out to stop her. “Do you still remember how to use the furniture and appliances at home?”

“I probably do.”

“Fine. If anything happens, call this number.”

Yan Shuangshuang tore off a piece of white paper, wrote down a string of numbers, and handed it to her.

Gu Xin glanced at it once, then put it into her pants pocket. Opening the car door, Gu Xin politely said goodbye.

Yan Shuangshuang watched her enter the compound. However, after Gu Xin disappeared from sight and Yan Shuangshuang was just about to start the car, her phone rang.

Caller ID: AAA.

…For some reason, she was not surprised at all.

Yan Shuangshuang propped up her head and finally remembered that Gu Xin could do everything—except recognize directions.

It had been too long since they had been together, so Yan Shuangshuang had momentarily forgotten that Gu Xin had a problem with getting lost.

When she answered, Gu Xin’s bashful voice sounded in her ear. “Um… I seem to have forgotten where my home is. I can’t find the way. Do you know the building number?”

“…Wait there. I’ll take you.”

Even if she gave her the building number, it did not mean Gu Xin would necessarily find it.

No.

As Yan Shuangshuang disguised herself, she silently thought that countless past experiences had proven Gu Xin definitely would not find it.

Once she found a parking spot and parked the car, the two of them walked side by side into the compound.

In the shadows, a pair of eyes keenly fixed on them.

On the way, the two of them remained silent. The awkward atmosphere spread into every cell between them.

Gu Xin actually was not good at facing this kind of situation. Vaguely, she felt that she was not a talkative person.

When facing Yan Shuangshuang, Gu Xin always felt she owed her a great deal. But directly asking Yan Shuangshuang what exactly she had done wrong did not seem very appropriate either.

Gu Xin secretly made up her mind. Once she got home, she would definitely contact her old friends and dig up some of the past between them. She could not keep troubling Yan Shuangshuang, who clearly had a knot in her heart because of her.

…Wait. Did she have friends?

Before she could think it through, Yan Shuangshuang’s phone rang.

Gu Xin did not mean to listen to someone else’s privacy, but the distance between them was simply too close. Gu Xin easily heard the person on the other end speaking.

“Paparazzi photographed you. They brought the photos to me and asked for money. I’m still negotiating.”

Yan Shuangshuang gave a sound of acknowledgment.

“Where are you right now?”

“Jiwang Estate.”

“You! You really won’t repent until you’re dead! Great, now it’s confirmed evidence! You’ll never turn things around! My dear young mistress, I already told you, your wife doesn’t love you at all! Why do you insist on throwing yourself at her?”

“Mm. I know that too.”

The woman on the other end abruptly calmed down. “Your wife is beside you?”

Yan Shuangshuang glanced at Gu Xin. “No. I’m outside.”

“Shuangshuang, I’m not going to force you. After all, we’ve worked together for so many years. You and I both know a lot of things without needing to say them out loud. If you insist on ruining your future for a piece of trash, then the company can only cut its losses in time.”

“The company can make the arrangements. I have no objections.”

The woman let out a long sigh, as if she had aged several years in an instant. “Shuangshuang, some things won’t have results just because you work hard and compromise.”

Yan Shuangshuang finally smiled, her voice carrying tranquility and a thin chill. “No one understands that better than I do. Thank you for taking care of me all these years, Sister Zhang. I hope we still have the chance to continue working together.”

“I hope so.”

The call ended. Yan Shuangshuang then opened several apps and quickly skimmed through them before immediately turning off the screen.

“Let’s go.”

Yan Shuangshuang swiped them through the entrance control for the building, entered the elevator, and pressed the button for the eighteenth floor. Gu Xin followed her in and watched the numbers on the elevator display climb upward with her.

“When this property was built, it was designed as one household per elevator. Once you reach the eighteenth floor, you’ll be home.”

From beginning to end, Yan Shuangshuang carried a calmness that seemed to know everything.

“You… ran into trouble at work?” Gu Xin asked.

Yan Shuangshuang said, “Mm, maybe. But it has nothing to do with you.”

Gu Xin wanted to say something, but it was obvious that Yan Shuangshuang’s words meant she was refusing to let Gu Xin come closer.

With a ding, the elevator arrived.

Yan Shuangshuang pushed Gu Xin out of the elevator and pressed the door-close button. “Bye-bye.”

Gu Xin could only hurriedly wave at the gradually closing elevator doors as a show of politeness.

After a while, when the elevator number changed to the first floor, Gu Xin turned around and felt her way to the fingerprint lock. Behind this door was her world—her lost life, the one she no longer remembered at all.

Carrying an inexplicable sense of anticipation, Gu Xin pulled the door open.

The instant she entered, the lights from the entryway to the living room lit up one after another. Gu Xin saw the large expanse of glittering golden decor and could not help the twitch at the corner of her mouth.

The anticipation she had felt before opening the door turned into an endless desire to complain. Gu Xin had to expend a great deal of effort to hold it back.

She kept hypnotizing herself: this had been her taste before. This was her home. She could curse anyone, but she could not curse herself.

After changing shoes and going inside, she sat on the sofa and looked around. The apartment was very large, and the balcony had floor-to-ceiling windows. At a glance, she could see the quiet lake embedded in the courtyard ground outside, its surface shimmering with light.

Gu Xin walked over and pulled the curtains shut. When she turned around, she saw a document on the balcony tea table.

Curious, she walked over and picked it up—

A divorce agreement.

Gu Xin quickly flipped to the end. In the signature section, there was already one person’s name and fingerprint, only waiting for the blank space beside it to be filled with another person’s name.

Fine. It looked like she did not need to understand her family member after all. Their relationship was on the brink of collapse. She had not expected that the first time she seriously identified the three characters “Yan Shuangshuang,” it would be under these circumstances.

Gu Xin took out her phone and opened Weibo. She tapped into the trending searches.

The first thing she saw was:

#YanShuangshuangRetiresFromTheIndustry EXPLOSIVE#