I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 25

The Band-Aid was very small, taking up no more than the length of a finger, but its presence surpassed everything else. The spot it covered did not even hurt anymore. Instead, it was tingling with an extreme itch.

Even Alphas did not heal this quickly, right?

“How come there’s one on your face too?” Yan Shuangshuang stood up. She was very close, close enough that Gu Xin could feel her warm breath.

Along with her words came her cool fingers, lightly touching the bruise on Gu Xin’s face.

Gu Xin was like a small animal caught by its natural predator, tense and stiff, not daring to move at all. She could only watch helplessly as Yan Shuangshuang naturally touched her face, then asked, “You fought this badly?”

“It’s fine. I didn’t lose out.” Gu Xin answered by reflex.

Actually, at first, Gu Xin had still been mindful that the other party was an actor, someone who needed to appear on camera and relied on his face to make a living. She could not exactly deny Ying Lu face.

In the end, Zhao Censu mistook her holding back for his own strength and aimed every move at her face. After Gu Xin was accidentally hit by him once, anger flared in her heart. She no longer cared about face or no face and directly knocked him to the ground, having a very satisfying time punching his face.

Gu Xin usually did not use such heavy hands, but once she did, then it was truly heavy.

Zhao Censu’s face was now ten times worse-looking than hers.

Only now did Gu Xin belatedly realize—would Yan Shuangshuang blame her?

They no longer had anything to do with each other. Knowing that she had already left the other woman with many bad impressions in the past, she should not add more trouble for her.

She had even beaten up the other woman’s coworker without rhyme or reason. Now it was simply adding frost to snow.

—If she had known, she should have walked farther away. Then she would not have been caught after the fight.

When Yan Shuangshuang’s hand came up again, Gu Xin closed her eyes.

Yan Shuangshuang: “…Why are you closing your eyes?”

Gu Xin, who had assumed the posture of awaiting execution, opened her eyes again blankly. “S-Sorry?”

If Yan Shuangshuang slapped her, she absolutely would not fight back.

But Yan Shuangshuang had not intended to slap her. After staring at her for a few seconds, she even took hold of Gu Xin’s wrist and forcefully pulled her back to apply medicine.

Gu Xin was pulled into a stagger. Clearly, Yan Shuangshuang was not using much strength. With Gu Xin’s own strength, she could break free with a casual tug. But she did not.

The two of them appeared together, and in this posture no less, shocking the jaws off many people along the way.

When they passed Ying Lu, she calmly raised a hand at them and said, “Yo, you’re back.”

Yan Shuangshuang stopped and politely greeted Ying Lu. “Hello, Director Ying.”

Ying Lu skillfully took a drag of her cigarette to show she had heard, then said to Gu Xin behind Yan Shuangshuang, “The person still breathing?”

“Cough. Yes.” Gu Xin felt that her left wrist, being held under everyone’s eyes, had begun to burn. Her ears, hidden behind her hair, also started turning red. “It’s just that his face might be a tiny bit serious.”

Ying Lu frowned. “Why did you go for the face? What about filming?”

“So—”

“We can make up the fight scene we didn’t shoot before. Just right, no makeup needed.” When Yan Shuangshuang said this, her tone was as natural as if she were about to go to the wet market to buy fish; because she had not gotten to eat it a few days ago, and she just happened to have time today, she could buy some to eat.

But was buying fish the same thing as filming?

Ying Lu: “…666.”

Yan Shuangshuang nodded politely, indicating that she was leaving. Ying Lu stepped aside, her gaze falling on Yan Shuangshuang’s hand tightly clasped around Gu Xin’s wrist.

After several months of training, Yan Shuangshuang’s hand had already become rough, no longer as beautiful as before, but her fingers were still slender, just enough to clasp around Gu Xin’s wrist.

She held on very firmly, as if afraid the person behind her would run away.

“How interesting~” Watching the two of them enter the house, Ying Lu smiled and took a drag of her cigarette, narrowing her eyes as she thought of something unknown.

Only after the mountain wind scattered the scent of smoke did she step out the cigarette butt and send someone to look for Zhao Censu.

After the downpour, the signal in the mountains still had not recovered.

Gu Xin sat on a chair and could not even pretend to play with her phone to get through the awkwardness. She did not know where to put her eyes, so she could only stare at the dressing mirror in front of her, watching the person in the mirror move busily behind her, searching for medicine.

Every sound became clear.

Yan Shuangshuang had long hair, but to fit her character’s image, she usually tied it up.

Her low ponytail hung by her hand, and her fair arm swayed between a few strands of pitch-black hair, especially eye-catching.

But none of that could compare to another view.

From the angle of the mirror, Gu Xin could just happen to see the faintly visible neckline revealed as Yan Shuangshuang moved.

…So white.

Gu Xin’s throat went a little dry. She immediately moved her eyes away and pretended she had not seen anything.

Yan Shuangshuang finally found the medicated safflower oil. She sat down at the side of the bed and signaled for Gu Xin to face her.

Gu Xin lowered her gaze, not daring to look at her. But the instant the safflower oil touched her face, Gu Xin hissed.

Yan Shuangshuang stopped and asked, “Does it hurt a lot?”

Gu Xin paused, then gritted her teeth and said, “It’s fine.”

“Oh. Then endure it even if it hurts.”

Yan Shuangshuang showed no mercy at all. She rubbed until Gu Xin almost could not keep her expression together.

This top-tier torture, both hot and painful, lasted nearly two or three minutes. Only when Gu Xin’s eyes were watery with tears did Yan Shuangshuang finally stop.

Yan Shuangshuang calmly wiped her hands with a tissue, then picked up an ice pack. “Apply it yourself.”

With tears glimmering in the corners of her eyes, Gu Xin obediently accepted the ice pack and pressed it to the side of her face.

Gu Xin’s hair had originally been short, reaching her ears, but these past two months, she had been busy with all kinds of things and had not had time to cut it. Now, it had already reached her shoulders.

A small corner of the ice pack peeked out from her messy, all-over-the-place strands of hair.

Yan Shuangshuang stared at that little pointed corner. After a while, she asked, “Why haven’t you tidied it up?”

Gu Xin kept her head lowered. Because of the pain, her voice was also muffled, her words a little muddled and unclear. “No time…”

“What have you been busy with during this time?”

“Reading papers, writing papers, looking for work, searching online to collect…” Gu Xin suddenly stopped.

The second half of the sentence was: searching online to collect information about Yan Shuangshuang. But if she said that aloud in the current situation, it would be far too strange.

Yan Shuangshuang noticed her abrupt pause. “Collecting what?”

“Collecting materials.”

Gu Xin quickly continued, and in her heart, she shouted a quick nice for her own wit.

Yan Shuangshuang made an oh sound and said, “Collecting my materials, right?”

“…”

Gu Xin opened her mouth with difficulty. “N-No.”

Yan Shuangshuang went on by herself. “Ying Lu told me that someone would help me fight back against smear campaigns, keep an eye on public opinion, and not take any payment, all while helping anonymously. At the time, I was thinking, could it be you? Later, when I saw the email address—ah, it really was you.”

“…”

“You do good deeds without leaving your name, yet you forgot to hide your email address?”

Gu Xin thought: Good question. She also wanted to know how she had been so foolish back then, not changing accounts.

Her thoughts suddenly reversed, and her memory froze.

—Wait. She had clearly sent it to Ying Lu!

Ying Lu had sold her out?!

But Yan Shuangshuang did not give her any space to continue thinking. In an instant, she leaned close to Gu Xin, one hand forcefully lifting Gu Xin’s chin and compelling her to meet her eyes at close range.

Word by word, she said, “We agreed to cut things off cleanly, each walking our own road. But it seems you haven’t been doing that.”

“Xin Xin, do you still like me?”