I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 24

That earth-shattering shout made Yan Shuangshuang’s hand tremble, and she almost dropped the script onto the floor.

What did she mean, “The two of them started fighting over you”?

Yan Shuangshuang’s heart instantly began beating wildly. She set down the script, handed He Xin a cup of water, and told her to calm down and explain slowly.

He Xin gulped it all down in one breath, then immediately entered performance mode.

In the end, she was an actress. When Yan Shuangshuang asked He Xin to recount it, He Xin truly gave a vivid dual performance, perfectly recreating the expressions and movements of the two people at the time.

When she heard Zhao Censu’s endless chatter from earlier, Yan Shuangshuang frowned.

Zhao Censu had been acting like a sticky plaster for a long time. The entire crew—even the dog at the village entrance—knew what he meant. Yan Shuangshuang had already politely rejected him many times the moment there had been any signs.

But every time, Zhao Censu pretended not to understand. Not only did he pretend not to understand, he would later become even worse, even using moral coercion.

Yan Shuangshuang was simply annoyed beyond measure.

However, when she next heard about Gu Xin targeting Zhao Censu, Yan Shuangshuang’s brows twitched. When she heard that Gu Xin had actually cursed him so crudely, Yan Shuangshuang could not help interrupting He Xin. “She really said it like that?”

He Xin immediately broke character. “Of course! Not a single word different! She was so fierce, so fierce!”

Yan Shuangshuang was dazed for a moment.

He Xin judged with great interest, “I remember this Gu Xin is an Alpha, right? For an Alpha to say something like that, it isn’t strange.”

Yan Shuangshuang said, “You don’t understand her. She doesn’t curse people that harshly.”

Because usually, she directly beat them up.

“Mm-hm? So you understand her very well, huh?”

He Xin’s one sentence directly silenced Yan Shuangshuang with a big move. The air went quiet for several seconds. He Xin gave Yan Shuangshuang a meaningful look, then kindly let the topic go and continued speaking.

Only after recounting everything to the end did He Xin say, still unsatisfied, “Gu Xin is still better. Ruthless, but doesn’t talk much. There isn’t much scent on her clothes either. I just don’t know whether she can beat Zhao A. He really is so annoying.”

Yan Shuangshuang said, “Why are you paying attention to matters between Alphas? It’s only two Alphas fighting. It’s not like you’ve never seen it before.”

He Xin thought about it and realized that was true. Alphas fighting was as normal as could be. Even getting insurance was a little harder for Alphas.

But she quickly reacted and asked mischievously, “Sister Shuang, when you were in school, did a lot of Alphas fight for you?”

Yan Shuangshuang found it a little funny. She said, “Do I need to remind you? Back then, to outsiders, I was an Alpha.”

He Xin smacked her forehead. “Tsk, I forgot. But luckily, Sister Shuang, you’re an Omega. You don’t have those stinky Alpha habits.”

Infected by Yan Shuangshuang’s calm aura, He Xin gradually felt as if it was not such a big deal either. Yan Shuangshuang also emphasized that in the future, words like who fought over whom should not be shouted out so loudly again, because they could easily be used by others to make an issue.

He Xin immediately made a zipper-pulling motion over her mouth to show that she understood.

Yan Shuangshuang said calmly, “All right. Go out and eat.”

“OK~”

He Xin closed the door, leaving behind Gu Xin’s light-blue denim jacket.

It lay quietly on the chair, scentless and soundless.

Yan Shuangshuang stared at the script for a very, very long time without turning the page. After a while, she tossed the script aside, stood, picked up the blue jacket that belonged to someone else, and went out.

Fights between Alphas were very frequent, and very crude. If pheromones could not solve the problem, then fists and blood would.

Gu Xin shook out her hand, pressed her tongue against her aching cheek, hissed, and walked back with a heavy expression.

Clearly, Gu Xin was not the one who had lost, but her expression was still very ugly.

Complicated emotions crowded densely together, like vines winding inch by inch around her heart. There was always a breath of air circling in her chest, stuck in her throat, impossible to spit out and impossible to swallow.

From the moment she heard Zhao Censu speak, Gu Xin’s emotions had slipped a little out of control.

Even though she had just viciously beaten him up, she was not happy. She was even more irritated. The stuffiness in her chest had nowhere to vent, and Gu Xin even wanted to simply go back and beat up that annoying Alpha again. In any case, she had not hit him too hard just now. He was still quite energetic.

The wild grass by the roadside scraped across Gu Xin’s exposed calf, and a shallow yet long cut immediately appeared and began bleeding.

Gu Xin stopped walking and looked at the bright red spot with an unreadable expression.

Even a ferocious Alpha like Zhao Censu had not made her bleed, yet a tiny blade of wild grass had done it. In a certain sense, human beings truly were fragile and useless creatures.

When Yan Shuangshuang found Gu Xin, what she saw was this person wearing a dangerous expression completely different from usual, staring at her own wound.

…As if she were about to butcher even herself.

Yan Shuangshuang coughed softly, and the sound startled the person opposite her awake.

Gu Xin quickly lifted her head. The brutality in her expression had not yet been withdrawn, but then she saw Yan Shuangshuang standing not far away, holding her jacket in her arms.

Yan Shuangshuang asked calmly, “Why did you get into another fight?”

“…”

In that instant, it seemed to overlap with a certain scene from the distant past. The sound of her heartbeat abruptly magnified. Gu Xin opened her mouth, then closed it again. Her expression still carried traces of her earlier emotions, but at this moment, all of them transformed into an unconscious softness.

It was as if the moment she saw this person, all her negative emotions automatically flew away, and her baseless anger and irritability would be smoothed flat.

—Yan Shuangshuang knows magic, doesn’t she?

Gu Xin stayed dazed for too long, so Yan Shuangshuang simply walked closer and asked, “Are you hurt?”

Gu Xin subconsciously pointed at her own leg. “Here. It’s bleeding.”

Yan Shuangshuang gave the jacket to Gu Xin, signaling for her to hold it. Then she took out a Band-Aid, crouched down, and was about to stick it on for her.

Gu Xin’s dizzy head cleared for one second under Yan Shuangshuang’s movement. She immediately retreated two steps, avoiding Yan Shuangshuang’s hand. “N-No need. It’s just a small injury. You don’t need to go this far for me.”

Yan Shuangshuang paused for two seconds. She looked up at Gu Xin. “What far? Does kindly helping you put on a Band-Aid cross the line?”

“No!”

Gu Xin felt that she was starting to get irritated again, but this feeling was different from the violent irritability that had made her want to hit someone just now. It was as if ants were crawling all over her body, so itchy she could hardly bear it. It was also like soaking in a hot spring, so soft she could hardly stand it. No matter what, it felt wrong.

Having just finished a fight, Gu Xin had inevitably released some pheromones, but she had always restrained them very well.

Only when Yan Shuangshuang came this close did she truly smell that faint floral fragrance.

She said in surprise, “You… got better?”

“What?”

Seeing Gu Xin’s blank expression, Yan Shuangshuang abruptly calmed down. Pretending to be indifferent, she said, “Nothing. Give me your leg.”

“There’s really no need.”

Yan Shuangshuang said, “If you don’t want me to take care of you, then don’t show weakness in front of me next time.”

“I didn’t—”

“Mm?”

Gu Xin did not understand why one simple “Mm?” and Yan Shuangshuang’s sideways glance were enough to make her obediently hand over her leg.

The instant the Band-Aid was stuck on, Gu Xin thought: Yan Shuangshuang really does know magic!