I Heard I’m the Scumbag Alpha of a Top-Tier Leading Actress? - Chapter 26

“Xin Xin, do you like me?”

A lone Alpha and a lone Omega, alone in a room, asking such an ambiguous question.

If it were any other Alpha, they would not be able to hold themselves steady. They would think this Omega had feelings for them.

It seemed as if all they needed to do was gently nod and say yes, and a perfect marriage fate could be continued.

Gu Xin looked at Yan Shuangshuang, and Yan Shuangshuang looked at Gu Xin too.

Two pairs of eyes similar in color yet different in shape carried completely different emotions.

The silent air spread, but neither side saw the answer they wanted in the other’s eyes.

Gu Xin spoke hoarsely. “I’m sorry.”

She lowered her eyes, avoiding Yan Shuangshuang’s gaze, yet Yan Shuangshuang lightly lifted her face again.

At a time like this, Yan Shuangshuang would absolutely not allow her to escape.

Since she could not understand, then she would look again, until she understood.

Yan Shuangshuang’s hand pressed against the ice pack, inevitably touching Gu Xin’s hand as well. But at this moment, Gu Xin’s heart no longer held any of the throbbing emotions from before. She even felt a little frightened.

Yan Shuangshuang said softly, “When we divorced, didn’t we agree? Bridges return to bridges, roads return to roads. Even if we met, we would treat each other as strangers.”

“I did it, but you didn’t.”

This was the real Yan Shuangshuang.

Using a gentle tone to say words that hit the nail on the head.

Gu Xin’s eyes began to sting. She repeated, “I really am sorry.”

“What are you apologizing for?”

“For… everything I’ve done.”

“So you don’t like me, yet you’ve done so much for me. Was it hard?”

“It wasn’t hard.”

Gu Xin had never been to a church, but at this moment, she seemed to be standing inside a confessional. The person before her was her Lord, her priest, looking at her with compassion, yet digging out her thoughts step by step, so that at the final moment, she could pass judgment on whether Gu Xin was guilty.

Yan Shuangshuang said, “Why did you hit Zhao Censu?”

“He provoked me first.”

“Clearly, it had nothing to do with you, didn’t it?”

“…”

“He clung to me, pursued me, and that made you unhappy?”

“…”

“Speak.” A gentle yet irresistible tone.

A mist rose before Gu Xin’s eyes. Her breathing grew a little hurried. Facing this interrogation that was gentle on the surface, the psychological defenses she had built up quietly began to collapse.

“I… was very unhappy.”

“Why?”

“…Because he was harassing you and making you unhappy.”

An unexpected answer.

Yan Shuangshuang froze. In this one-on-one match, for the first time, things moved in a direction outside her imagination.

“…Were you jealous?”

Gu Xin smiled bitterly. “What right do I have to be jealous?”

This was the truth.

Silence spread.

The kind priest gazed at the person confessing, as if meeting this unfaithful believer for the first time.

Yan Shuangshuang said, “Then you still didn’t need to go this far.”

She looked at the injuries on Gu Xin’s body and added, “You and I both know very well that you aren’t someone who likes meddling in other people’s business.”

Gu Xin took a deep breath. In the end, she still lowered her head heavily and said in a low voice, “I won’t do this again. I’m sorry I didn’t keep our agreement before.”

A war in which no one was wounded, and Gu Xin was the first to withdraw from the battlefield.

Did she have to force things to this point?

Yan Shuangshuang did not know.

She had thought she had grown and improved, that she could see through the tricks of the person before her faster and faster, time after time, and would no longer be deceived by sweet words.

But this time, Gu Xin looked at her with misty eyes, her gaze full of grief and struggle, yet without the slightest resistance, she raised both hands high and surrendered to her.

The priest’s hand hid a gun. She had once fired it and shot dead the person before her, who had been full of lies and knew nothing of repentance. She had also shot dead, again and again, the self who forgave in endless pain.

She scattered flowers over the coffin they shared. On the tombstone, divided into two sections, were carved the eight years they had spent together.

But now, for the first time, the muzzle of her gun wavered.

The merciful priest said in her heart: Then, are you going to soften? Are you going to forgive?

If there was anything in the world that did not change, it was time.

Time would carry everything away, and it would also bury everything. It fairly made every person fade and disappear inside memory, until emotions no longer rose and fell, and the heart no longer beat.

“Mm. As long as you know.”

The Sword of Damocles fell.

Yan Shuangshuang let go of Gu Xin and brushed the hair beside her ear back. One leg crossed over the other, she smiled and said, “So there’s no need for you to do anything for me anymore. It’s for your good, and for mine too.”

“We should both let each other go and live new lives, shouldn’t we?”

After a long while, Gu Xin gave a heavy mm.

“Still, thank you for standing up for me today. He probably won’t come disgust me again for a good while.” The atmosphere became lighter. Yan Shuangshuang shrugged and said, “You’re still as impressive as ever. Looks like your martial skills haven’t fallen behind much. Maybe Director Ying will even hire you as a martial arts director in the future.”

But Gu Xin suddenly stood up, as if she had been pressed down so hard she could no longer endure it. She said, “Thank you for the safflower oil and ice pack. It doesn’t hurt anymore. Team Leader is still waiting for me to go over and discuss work, so I won’t disturb you any longer. Goodbye.”

Yan Shuangshuang did not even have time to reply before Gu Xin set down the ice pack and ran off without a trace.

After two minutes of silence, Yan Shuangshuang finally looked at the empty doorway and said softly, “You applied it for less than five minutes. How could it be that fast?”

In the end, the priest still passed judgment.

She said—

Guilty.

The next morning, a mechanic from town came to repair the cars. On the road, Hua Ran ran into Gu Xin, whose dark circles were extremely heavy. She stopped her and asked, “Did you not sleep last night?”

Gu Xin answered naturally, “I slept.”

Hua Ran said, “Go look properly in a mirror. You call that sleeping?”

“Maybe it’s a leftover from history.”

Hua Ran crossed her arms and said coldly, “We’re going up the mountain today. Please pull yourself together. Our work schedule is very tight.”

“It won’t delay anything.” Gu Xin rubbed her face hard, but her haggard expression only looked even more dazed. “I’ll go wash up first. I’ll trouble you with things here.”

Hua Ran looked at Gu Xin’s retreating back and could not help taking out her phone, wanting to send Professor Ma a message to complain. But the signal spun and spun, then directly became a big fat X.

“Tsk.”

The mechanic was very skilled. In just a few moves, he solved the engine problem. What he had not expected was that none of their car windows remained, but going up the mountain was the priority, so Hua Ran and the others did not care about that. They hurriedly called everyone over and prepared to set off.

When Hua Ran carried the instruments into the car, she discovered that Gu Xin, whom she had searched everywhere for earlier without finding, was already lying across a seat.

“Why are you here? Why didn’t you answer when I called you just now?”

Gu Xin tilted her head, holding some book from who knew where over her face. Only after a long while did she say, “Sleepy.”

“Tsk.” Hua Ran turned her head speechlessly.

The doctoral student, Little Ke, also sat beside Gu Xin. She saw that in the open space outside, Ying Lu, Yan Shuangshuang, and the others had just gotten up and were cleaning the courtyard.

Her heart moved. She quietly leaned close to Gu Xin’s ear and said, “Teacher Gu, aren’t you going to say goodbye?”

But Gu Xin seemed to have fallen dead asleep. Until they were almost at their destination, she gave no response.