I Topped the Aloof Omega in a Scummy Alpha Novel - Chapter 16

Shuihe Entertainment has gone bankrupt!

Huo Xiaoli moved the knife away from Xuan Yuchi’s face and sat down on a camping chair, twirling the knife leisurely.

“From now on, you are my subordinate.”

“Huh?” Xuan Yuchi looked confused.

Although she was physically fit, did she look like a thug or a robber with this face?

“What do I have to do?”

Huo Xiaoli: “You have to do whatever I tell you to do.”

Xuan Yuchi: “Such as?”

Huo Xiaoli smiled wickedly: “Such as telling you to go kill someone.”

Xuan Yuchi said awkwardly: “I’m utterly helpless, how can I kill someone…”

Huo Xiaoli: “What if I asked you to kill Bai Fu?”

Xuan Yuchi: “A killer must pay with their life. It would be too much of a loss to become your subordinate and throw my life away.”

Huo Xiaoli flicked her hand, and the knife flew towards Xuan Yuchi, plunging into the tree stump with a clang, causing a few leaves to fall.

Xuan Yuchi tightly shut her eyes, tilted her head to the right, and her whole body was stiff.

Phew, thank goodness, this woman was only trying to scare her.

Xuan Yuchi’s heart was pounding. She opened her eyes, her soul nearly scattered. Her survival instinct compelled her to say, “I’ll kill him, okay?”

The gap in strength between them was too vast; survival came first. But running into this crazy woman was truly the worst luck she’d had in half a lifetime.

Xuan Yuchi carefully drew a breath, deciding that she absolutely must hire a bodyguard tomorrow, even if she had to take out a loan!

Huo Xiaoli walked towards her, quickly pulled out the knife, and with a flash, cut the ropes binding Xuan Yuchi.

Xuan Yuchi was still holding her arms tightly against her ribs. Only when she realized the knife was not aimed at her did she relax a little: “Oh, you are such a person. You really like trying to look cool, you scared me to death.”

She patted her racing heart, then suddenly remembered what she had to fear—she had 666, her golden finger.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, draw me an ultimate weapon!]

System: [Currently drawing for you, please complete the designated action…]

Huo Xiaoli looked at her with disdain: “Let’s go, little waste.”

Xuan Yuchi raised her hand to remove Huo Xiaoli’s sunglasses.

System: [Congratulations on obtaining “Skill Borrowing”: Ultimate Soldier King. The skill can be used: 1 time.]

“Do you want to die?” Huo Xiaoli’s angry voice sounded at the same time. She took a step back and adjusted her sunglasses.

Xuan Yuchi grabbed her wrist, reversed the grip to take the knife from her hand, spun quickly behind her, and kicked her several meters away.

Xuan Yuchi looked at the knife with its mysterious letter markings and said to the fallen Huo Xiaoli, “I’ll be happy to take your knife.”

With that, she ran quickly in the direction of the houses.

“Xiaoli, are you okay?” A concerned voice came through the Bluetooth headset.

Huo Xiaoli wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her expression cold: “I won’t let her go.”

“Xiaoli, something is off about her. Continue monitoring her for a while,” the voice on the other end said.

The drone followed Xuan Yuchi and stopped when it saw the light from the road.

Bian Yunchen got out of the car and called Xuan Yuchi’s phone again.

“Sister Bian!” Xuan Yuchi ran over desperately.

Immediately after, several patrol cars drove up from behind.

Special agent old K was the first to approach Bian Yunchen, checking the photo on his phone to confirm Xuan Yuchi’s identity: “Please come with us.”

Xuan Yuchi was a little tired. She resignedly replied, “Okay.”

Bian Yunchen blocked her path: “She has been through a shock today. She will cooperate with your investigation once she is in better condition.”

“Miss Bian, this…” old K scratched his head.

Xuan Yuchi yawned: “I’m so sleepy…”

old K: “Alright then. After all, no one was killed.”

Smoke rose from the flipped car. The driver, who climbed out, immediately called Bian Yunchen to inform her that Xuan Yuchi was gone.

old K’s wife was a member of the Bian family and did not belong to any faction in the Special Operations Department, so Bian Yunchen immediately contacted her.

The two got into the car. Bian Yunchen drove very slowly. Xuan Yuchi hesitated for a moment but decided to tell the truth: “A woman tied me up just now. Blonde hair, wearing sunglasses.”

Bian Yunchen: “And?”

Xuan Yuchi: “She wanted me to work for her and told me to kill Bai Fu.”

Bian Yunchen’s nerves tightened, and her temple pulsed. If the kidnapper told Xuan Yuchi to kill Bai Fu, she was probably not from the Bai family. She had managed to resolve most of the old grudges the Xuan family had made over the years.

Now, only one possibility remained: people from the Conservative Party did it.

This kind of danger, once it happened, would happen a second time…

Bian Yunchen pulled over and looked at Xuan Yuchi: “So, how did you escape?”

Xuan Yuchi froze. Her eyes darted around, she blinked, and began to make things up: “I took advantage of her making a phone call, picked up a stone on the ground, and sneak-attacked the back of her head.”

Bian Yunchen stared intensely at her: “Tell me the truth.”

“That’s the truth,” Xuan Yuchi felt helpless. She couldn’t possibly tell Yunchen she had a system. She had hinted before that the one who ran abroad was not her, but it was clear Yunchen didn’t believe that explanation.

“Xuan Yuchi, if you tell me the truth, all your debts to me will be wiped clean.” Her finger rested on the small satchel on her left side, her deep eyes full of temptation.

It was an enticing offer, making Xuan Yuchi’s heart beat faster.

How could it just be a simple debt wipe?

Xuan Yuchi decided to just go for it; the night was already chaotic enough: “Actually, I really was ‘blanked’ before. I have a lottery ‘blank,’ and as long as I complete its ‘blank,’ I can draw prizes. This is the golden ‘blank’ it gave me.”

Bian Yunchen frowned as she listened. When did Xuan Yuchi become like this?

Speaking incoherently, rambling.

From the chaotic words, she could vaguely identify one keyword—lottery draw.

Connecting this to the debt Xuan Yuchi incurred abroad, it was hard for her not to suspect that “lottery draw” was a softened way of describing something else.

Bian Yunchen looked up. The streetlight shone through her alabaster-like jaw onto Xuan Yuchi’s face. Xuan Yuchi’s eyes were bright, seemingly looking forward to Bian Yunchen’s reaction.

A cloud of worry lingered between Bian Yunchen’s eyebrows, but it vanished the moment she looked at Xuan Yuchi.

Forget it.

Let it go. After all, she was a little liar.

Xuan Ling was anxiously waiting at home. The moment she opened the door, she saw Bian Yunchen’s car and rushed out.

“Yuchi!” She knocked on the car window.

“Mother!” Xuan Yuchi opened the door and slipped out.

Xuan Ling gripped her shoulder, concerned: “Are you alright? Are you hurt? Let Mother see.”

She turned Xuan Yuchi around. Xuan Yuchi said, “Mother, I’m perfectly fine, nothing’s wrong.”

Xuan Ling hugged her: “It’s good that you’re alright. You going out worried Mother sick.”

Bian Yunchen watched the rare mother and daughter moment with a hint of envy in her eyes.

If it were in the past, she would be the one holding Xuan Yuchi in a moment like this.

She used to get into so much trouble, causing her a lot of worry.

“Yunchen, thank you so much. Please come in and have a seat,” Xuan Ling said gratefully.

“No need, I have things to attend to. I’ll leave now.” Bian Yunchen drove away.

Xuan Yuchi felt somewhat unaccustomed to Xuan Ling’s embrace, as her memory of her mother hugging her was from over a decade ago.

Even when her biological mother passed away, Xuan Ling didn’t hug her.

She slowly stepped out of her mother’s embrace, her gaze following the car driving away.

It was Yunchen who held her tightly in front of the mourning hall and promised to protect her for life.

A strange feeling suddenly welled up in Xuan Yuchi’s heart. She seemed to have had this feeling many times before, but there was a safe in her mind that had locked it away.

“Mother, I have something I need to talk to you about, regarding the Xuan family,” Xuan Yuchi said.

Xuan Ling looked at her daughter’s tired face and said kindly, “What is it? No rush. You should rest first.”

Xuan Yuchi insisted: “It’s important.”

Xuan Ling sensed her daughter had grown up and nodded: “Alright.”

After the last traffic light, Bian Yunchen parked her car in the underground garage, took the elevator to the first floor, still covering her face with a mask and hat, walked around a large building, and headed alone to the “Skywen Psychological Clinic.”

Bian Yunchen was Jin Ni’s first and only patient today.

As a top psychologist in the country, Jin Ni’s appointments were booked until next year.

However, she would set aside one day each month for Bian Yunchen, regardless of whether she came or not.

Because even if Bian Yunchen didn’t show up, she would still receive a generous fee.

Moreover, she was also a fan of Bian Yunchen.

Naturally, this posed some difficulty for Jin Ni’s treatment of Bian Yunchen, but it didn’t stump her.

Before Bian Yunchen arrived, Jin Ni always reminded herself not to have a fan filter; Bian Yunchen was not a perfect person.

She only made one film a year after her debut, which was extremely low-output, leaving her fans starving.

Jin Ni made Bian Yunchen a hot latte and placed it on the table. Bian Yunchen took a small sip.

Jin Ni: “Has your condition improved recently?”

Bian Yunchen leaned back on the sofa, rubbing her temples: “It’s gotten worse. It seems like…”

She looked a little afraid.

“One more has appeared.”

Jin Ni raised an eyebrow: “Do you mean a third personality has emerged?”

Bian Yunchen: “The things she says and does even contradict my own thoughts.”

A hint of viciousness flashed in her eyes.

Jin Ni: “Can you tell me exactly what happened?”

Two hours later, Bian Yunchen left the clinic. As she reached the horizon, the sun rose, painting half the sky in golden-orange light.

It was a new day.

Since Xuan Yuchi’s return, she occasionally felt a fear of the passage of time.

Paparazzi hiding behind the building seized the opportunity to take countless photos. They swarmed forward, hoping to get a headline.

Xuan Yuchi woke up at 7 a.m. as usual, had an iced Americano to refresh her mind, and took a taxi to Shuihe Entertainment, catching up on sleep during the ride.

She had a strange habit: sleeping briefly after drinking coffee made her feel more energized upon waking.

When Xuan Yuchi arrived at the company, the ground floor was packed with people, a dense crowd that looked like a demonstration.

People were holding up banners. She walked to the front to read the messages carefully.

“Shuihe Entertainment, please prioritize Ms. Bian Yunchen’s mental health!”

“Shuihe Entertainment, please respond to Ms. Bian Yunchen’s health issues!”

“Shuihe Entertainment, be a decent human being!”

Xuan Yuchi asked the nearest fan: “What happened to Yunchen?”

The fan was furious: “Photos were taken of Yunchen leaving a psychological clinic! You don’t know how haggard she looked in those photos!”

The fan angrily showed the photo to Xuan Yuchi.

Xuan Yuchi: “Was this taken today?”

Fan: “Even if it was taken today, Yunchen’s condition doesn’t look like it’s her first visit. This rotten company is too despicable.”

Xuan Yuchi forced a smile.

The boss of this rotten company is your star-actress sister.

She quickly walked towards the company.

Only when the fan saw Xuan Yuchi pass through the security gate did they realize Xuan Yuchi was a Shuihe Entertainment employee and angrily shouted, “Shuihe Entertainment is going bankrupt!”

One call led to a thousand responses.

The ground echoed with the sound of “Shuihe Entertainment is going bankrupt.”

The elevator door closed, isolating all the noise. Xuan Yuchi arrived on the fourth floor.

There was no one at the workstations. She walked outside the conference rooms. Sure enough, four conference rooms were crowded with people.

It seemed not only the people from the fourth floor but also those from other floors had come.

Amy watched with a headache as her subordinates proposed one solution after another for dealing with the public opinion crisis, none of which she found perfect.

Damn paparazzi! There were even people from the fashion industry. They broke the news that Bian Yunchen had stood up a major figure in the fashion world, adding fuel to the fire by claiming it was because Bian Yunchen’s illness was serious.

Coupled with the time Bian Yunchen suddenly fell to the ground after leaving a fashion show, the bored marketing accounts and self-media suddenly became energized.

This was Bian Yunchen, an absolute superstar whose mere change of styling could be a hot topic for days.

The combined rumors and speculations from all channels could fill a whole dark legend.

Amy exchanged a glance with Xuan Yuchi through the glass wall, signaled her subordinate not to stop, and then walked out of the conference room.

“Come here.” She walked ahead of Xuan Yuchi, leading her into the pantry.

“I have a task for you.”

Xuan Yuchi: “No problem.”

“How is Yunchen now?”

Amy sighed: “We can’t reach her. Since you don’t have anything to do, go find her.”

Amy wasn’t sure why Yunchen would appear outside a psychological clinic.

She had been with Yunchen since her debut. Most of the time, Yunchen was like a cold work of art, only exuding a human quality through her characters on screen.

Amy forwarded a file to Xuan Yuchi, listing Yunchen’s properties across the country and even abroad.

“Start with the ones in the city. Since she’s not feeling well, she should have gone home.”

“Don’t bother calling her; you won’t get through.”

Xuan Yuchi: “Hello, Sister Bian, are you home?”

Amy was stunned.

She had just called Yunchen a few minutes ago, and she had instructed people to call Yunchen dozens of times and send hundreds of messages.

Xuan Yuchi: “Sister Bian? Are you okay?”

Xuan Yuchi hung up and said to Amy: “She didn’t say anything.”

Amy: “Go find her.”

Following the list Amy gave her, Xuan Yuchi started with the nearest property and headed to the large apartment in the city center.

“Sister Bian!”

She knocked on the door for a while, but there was no answer.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, draw me something that can pick locks.]

System: [Currently drawing for you, please complete the action command…]

Xuan Yuchi pinched herself hard, and tears instantly welled up. At the same time, a universal key card appeared on the floor.

System: [Congratulations on receiving a physical reward, Universal Key Card, effective for 24 hours.]

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