I Topped the Aloof Omega in a Scummy Alpha Novel - Chapter 1

The Omega of Omegas, the Master of Masters.

At twenty-seven, Bian Yunchen received the Golden Bear award for Best Actress. Under the scrutiny of all eyes, the simple silver ring on her ring finger, reserved and subtle like its owner, silently drew the director’s attention.

At the press conference following the award, everyone looked forward to this young film queen revealing some private romantic details. She was too mysterious, rarely participating in movie promotions, and outside of filming, she virtually disappeared from the public eye.

Yet, whenever she appeared, she was always wearing that ring on her ring finger.

She was currently turning it idly. A keen-eyed reporter asked if the ring held any important significance.

Bian Yunchen seemed lost in thought, pausing for a long moment. Just as the reporters were feeling disheartened, believing Bian Yunchen would, as always, be uncooperative, she suddenly smiled and said, “It’s a family heirloom. I once gave it to my fiancée, and she returned it.”

The statement caused an uproar.

The questioning reporter was incomparably excited: “Then, are you… are you comfortable discussing your current relationship status?”

Bian Yunchen looked straight into the camera. This beautiful face had garnered countless admiring gasps in her films, yet she had never displayed this particular expression before.

“We will be getting married,” she said.

“Pfft!”

Xuan Yuchi sat up in the water, her nasal cavity filled with discomfort. Before she could open her eyes, she heard a deep, resonant woman’s voice say, “Still not dead?!”

“My turn!”

A pair of rough hands pressed down on her neck, and Xuan Yuchi was submerged again. The person was using deadly force, pressing her nose painfully against the bottom of the tub.

She struggled fiercely but to no avail.

Gurgle, gurgle. Memories flooded into her mind like water, flashing past.

Half an hour ago, she had apparently hit on an Omega in this bar. Xuan Yuchi was sweet-talker, beautiful, and after chatting for a while, the Omega suggested Xuan Yuchi become her lover.

It was at this point that Xuan Yuchi’s true self returned, fiercely defending her fidelity as a fiancée, and she rejected the Omega.

She was then dragged upstairs by the Omega’s subordinates, thrown into a bathtub, and brutally tortured—pulled up for air, then shoved back down, again and again.

Seeing that she was on the verge of death, the Omega offered her one more chance.

The handsome young woman lightly slapped herself. The Omega thought she was about to surrender, but she declared it was an apology to her fiancée.

She would die before becoming any woman’s lover; her fiancée was a thousand times better than her.

She had no idea what came over her to hit on someone else.

The Omega would, at most, only mess with her. If she killed her, her mother, elder aunt, younger aunt, other aunt, and fiancée—any one of them could make this person’s life a living hell.

However, as more and more memories flashed through her mind, Xuan Yuchi, who was not a strong swimmer, was so terrified that she opened her eyes underwater.

Oh my god, seriously?!

Those things couldn’t possibly be true!

She must be dreaming. She simply gave up resisting, letting mouthful after mouthful of water choke her.

Three minutes passed, and the hands released her neck. Xuan Yuchi… floated to the surface.

A mechanical female voice abruptly sounded inside her skull.

[Hello, Host. I am System No. 666. For our first meeting, I gift you a novice package: Skill: Elite Diver. The skill can be used once. It has been used up.]

[Do you wish to sign a contract with me?]

What is this?

Xuan Yuchi quickly opened her eyes and scanned the room.

The subordinate who had just walked toward the Omega, ready to report, heard the commotion behind him and turned to look at Xuan Yuchi: “Big lungs, aren’t you?”

The woman standing next to the Omega threw a dagger over. The subordinate caught it. Xuan Yuchi’s eyes widened.

This wasn’t a dream. The Omega intended to kill her, and she had lost her bargaining chip years ago.

Life only comes once. A big girl must know when to yield.

“I was wrong!” She clasped her hands together, her large eyes filled with the will to survive.

“I really didn’t mean to hit on you. While it sounds ridiculous, it’s obvious the one flirting with you just now wasn’t me! I truly made a mistake!”

She kept making gestures of surrender: “Miss, I’m sorry. You’re great, but we’re not a good fit. I already have a Master. She’s the Omega of Omegas, an S of Ss! If we got together, she would kill both of us.”

Two insincere tears rolled down her face. Even the Omega’s subordinates were slightly moved. Xuan Yuchi offered her most perfect acting performance to date.

Haha, it wasn’t for nothing that she skipped university classes to accompany Yunchen in acting lessons.

For her own safety, she would temporarily sacrifice the image of Sister Bian.

The seductive Omega sneered: “You… if you had held out just a little longer, I might have respected you three parts. I didn’t expect you to be so spineless. What a pity, I liked your untamed look.”

“Aman, do it.”

Aman twirled the dagger, a wicked smile on her face. Her pace was unhurried. People who frequently kill often enjoy the sight of their prey in fear before death.

System: [Host, you are in danger.]

System: [Do you wish to sign a contract with me?]

Xuan Yuchi’s brain was racing. She had read countless novels while slacking off in junior high school…

[I’ll sign!]

Aman touched the back of the blade, her face ferocious, and suddenly sped up toward Xuan Yuchi.

The voice in Xuan Yuchi’s head also switched to triple speed.

System: [Congratulations, you have received one chance to draw a prize. Drawing prize for you now. Please complete the action command…]

This action is so strange, and mostly so cheesy, but to live, she, a privileged, well-bred young lady who grew up listening to Beethoven, was going all out.

Her mouth quickly twisted a few times: “Heart-ripping-out is love like a wild fire~” (Note: This line is from a very popular, slightly “tacky” Chinese pop song, fitting the “cheesy” description.)

After singing the line, Xuan Yuchi’s oval face felt flushed.

Aman: “Are you crazy? Singing when you’re about to die.”

“Is that a no?” She stuck out her neck and glared provocatively at the person.

It was her final struggle. Even if she died, she would die with attitude.

System: [Congratulations, you have received the blessing of the Russian God of Song. Skill will soon take effect.]

Just as Aman’s dagger was about to slice Xuan Yuchi’s throat, an explosion suddenly rang out, and white smoke filled the air.

“Cough, cough, cough.”

Xuan Yuchi opened her eyes. A long line of people stood behind her. She had been teleported to a street.

“Hey, are you going to return the ticket?”

Xuan Yuchi looked back. The auntie at the ticket booth asked her impatiently.

Xuan Yuchi shook her head. She confirmed that this place was far from the bar and walked aimlessly down the street, trying hard to organize the scattered memories in her mind.

A few years ago, she was a pampered young lady from a wealthy family. On her birthday, her family experienced a sudden upheaval, and they lost everything overnight. Worse yet, she was severely shaken, and her personality abruptly changed. She inexplicably declared, “The world is so big, I want to go see it,” dumped her childhood fiancée, and ran off to suffer here.

As for what happened after she arrived, she honestly couldn’t remember much, only that she spent money like water, borrowed money everywhere when she ran out, and was now saddled with massive debt.

The disgraced rich young lady concluded that her current situation was called the low point of her life.

So what? What could she do?

When she got back, she would explain to Yunchen that those idiotic things were not done by her. As for who did them, she would just say she was possessed by a ghost. Then they would reconcile and move toward a happy future.

Xuan Yuchi: [System, System.]

System: [Please call me 666.]

Xuan Yuchi: [666, can you lend me some money?]

System: [Your daily draw quota has been used up. Upgrading the system can increase the daily draw quota.]

Xuan Yuchi: [How do I upgrade?]

System: [Complete the main mission to upgrade the system.]

Xuan Yuchi: [What is the main mission?]

System: [The main mission is currently not activated. I detected that you were close to death, so 666 arrived early. I will notify you when the main mission is activated.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Oh, so the price for signing a contract with you is completing the main mission? What happens if I don’t complete it?]

The mechanical female voice took on a trace of warmth: [Then you’re dead.]

Xuan Yuchi sneezed and got goosebumps, thinking this system was like a bandit.

But it was just a mission. She didn’t believe she couldn’t handle it.

If she really couldn’t handle it, she still had Yunchen; she would definitely be able to help her.

Back in her rented semi-basement apartment, Xuan Yuchi searched everywhere but couldn’t scrape together the money for a plane ticket. She wanted to call her family, but her phone didn’t have international roaming activated.

The money she had was only enough to buy a bottle of water.

She couldn’t help but laugh. If a reporter interviewed her later: “President Xuan, as an excellent and successful person, have you ever had a particularly dark time in your life?”

Xuan Yuchi could honestly say: “Yes, people might think that those like us are born with a silver spoon and have a smooth journey, but actually, there was a time when I was particularly miserable…”

Compared to the average successful person, she was the more legendary kind.

After indulging in a moment of reverie, Xuan Yuchi immediately went out to earn quick cash. She asked several places, but they all rejected her because she was a foreigner, and the wages at the others were too low.

Finally, a foreman hired her to dig in a mine.

Xuan Yuchi loved cleanliness, but she couldn’t bother with it now. She had strength and just wanted to earn money quickly to return home and reunite with her family.

She dug from evening until noon the next day without stopping for a moment. When she was getting paid, the foreman even wanted to keep her contact information; there weren’t many hardworking young people like Xuan Yuchi.

Xuan Yuchi politely refused, used her wages to buy a plane ticket and a bag of snacks, found a public bathhouse to clean up, made sure she smelled nice, and left without looking back.

The moment her feet touched her homeland, she jumped for joy. The air on the cheap flight was foul, and the snacks were finished while waiting at the airport. Her stomach was rumbling; otherwise, she would have thrown up on the plane.

Breathing the fresh air, Xuan Yuchi’s steps were light. She hadn’t even brought luggage. Passing a convenience store in the airport, she swallowed, looking at the hotdogs in the advertisement.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, what’s in the prize pool?]

System: [Opening the prize draw panel for you now.]

A pale purple electronic screen unfolded before Xuan Yuchi’s eyes. It was a circular prize wheel, with prizes including Skill Borrow, Physical Reward, God’s Blessing, and Thank You for Playing.

Thank You for Playing and Physical Reward accounted for the largest proportion, and God’s Blessing the smallest.

Xuan Yuchi was ecstatic. With such a game-breaking cheat code, what couldn’t she achieve?

Restoring her family’s prestige was within reach. After she completed the main mission and married Yunchen, they would live a life of wife, kids, and a warm hearth.

How wonderful, how wonderful.

Xuan Yuchi: [I want to draw a prize.]

System: [Drawing prize for you now. Please complete the action command…]

Xuan Yuchi turned and walked backward, stopping next to a woman wearing sunglasses: “Hello, are you looking for your wife?”

The woman nodded awkwardly.

Xuan Yuchi: “She’s over there. I’ll take you.”

Xuan Yuchi followed the system’s command and led the woman behind the convenience store.

The woman suddenly stopped, her body trembling, and two lines of tears flowed out from under her sunglasses.

What was going on?

Xuan Yuchi looked up and saw two women passionately kissing, oblivious to their surroundings. She couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. The system had made her bring someone to catch a cheating spouse.

Good. Good.

She hated people who were disloyal in relationships the most.

Xuan Yuchi rolled up her non-existent sleeves, flexing her neck and wrists, and said to the woman: “I’ll go and knock them apart. You take advantage of the chaos and slap them both.”

Just as she was about to rush over, her wrist was gripped.

“Don’t…” the woman choked out.

Xuan Yuchi: “Don’t be afraid. I’ve practiced Sanda.”

The woman sighed and wiped away her tears: “Forget it. As long as she’s happy.”

Xuan Yuchi: “…”

Alright then.

Xuan Yuchi: [Stupid system, the person herself doesn’t care, why did you make me stick my nose in where it doesn’t belong?]

A current of electricity suddenly shot from Xuan Yuchi’s fingertips to her arm, making her whole body twitch.

System: [Mind your language. The action command is random. The system is innocent, the system is innocent.]

Her hand was numb. Xuan Yuchi frantically shook her hand while cursing silently in her mind.

Stupid system, stupid system!

Unbeknownst to her, a black plastic bag appeared at her feet.

System: [Congratulations, you have received a Physical Reward: Money.]

Xuan Yuchi opened the plastic bag. She roughly estimated that there was at least a hundred thousand yuan inside.

Before her family went bankrupt, she never valued money. This small amount wasn’t even enough to buy her a single piece of clothing. She wouldn’t even look at it. Give a slap and then a sweet date? Did they think she was that easy to placate?

However, she furrowed her brow, her hand involuntarily reaching for her chest. Her heart was beating faster and faster, and she felt an itch inside. She looked at the bag of money again and laughed out loud.

Money, so much money!

It had been so long since she had possessed so much money. She practically wanted to cry; her eyes were actually wet. She hugged it to her chest, looking at it with adoration.

Money, hehe… you’re mine.

No, no!

Oh my goodness, what exactly had she experienced abroad? How could she have developed a biological instinct for money, like a cat seeing dried fish?

It was too embarrassing. Xuan Yuchi took a deep breath, spending two minutes suppressing the turmoil inside.

She casually pulled out a banknote, fanned herself with it, and walked nonchalantly toward the convenience store.

What was this temptation? Back when she was trying to get into the same university as Yunchen, she had rejected so many temptations! She lost a whole 0.5 kilograms in three months, which had the maids at home terribly worried.

“Three hotdogs, one chicken leg, two rice balls, one skewer of tenderloin, one iced Americano,” Xuan Yuchi handed the banknote to the cashier.

She had been stuck with a bizarre system, wandered destitute abroad, and tried to be a hero only to have the intended recipient reject her help.

She needed to comfort herself properly.

The cashier was slow to react: “Are you eating all this alone?”

Xuan Yuchi: “Yes.”

Cashier: “Our rice balls are quite large, you know.”

Xuan Yuchi: “How big?”

The cashier gestured in the air: “Looking at your good figure, you probably can’t eat this much. Maybe…”

“No need, just these.” Xuan Yuchi wagged her finger. “You don’t understand…”

The cashier raised her eyebrows and put on a polite smile: “Alright, please wait a moment.”

A little while later, Xuan Yuchi grabbed a large pile of food and found a secluded spot to enjoy it leisurely. Her body seemed to have been starved for a long time. After the last sip of iced Americano, her skin felt plumped out.

She stretched out comfortably and dialed Yunchen’s number.

A few seconds later, the call connected.

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