I Topped the Aloof Omega in a Scummy Alpha Novel - Chapter 29

“I don’t look down on you,” Bian Yunchen said without hesitation.

She pushed away Xuan Yuchi’s embrace and motioned for her to get out of the car, asking her not to keep the car parked in the emergency lane.

Xuan Yuchi moved to the passenger seat and said again, “You do look down on me. You’ve looked down on me since we were little.”

Bian Yunchen drove the car back to the normal lane. After more than ten seconds, she finally asked, “Since we were little?”

Xuan Yuchi seemed to slump against the car door, then adjusted the seat back until she was almost lying flat on the seat, and slowly said, “Yeah, since we were little.”

“I remember when I was a kid, I was playing next to you with Wu Yue and the others, and you didn’t even look at me.”

When Xuan Yuchi was about four years old, the Wu and Bian families were in close contact due to business relations and marriage ties.

Wu Yue’s mother often organized various gatherings, inviting affluent women with children around the same age to have afternoon tea, play golf…

The Wu family liked to socialize, and the Xuan family was close with the Wu family, so Xuan Yuchi often played with the group of children that included Wu Yue. Only one person never joined them.

Now, as Xuan Yuchi thought about it, she suddenly understood that attitude was called looking down on someone.

Bian Yunchen was silent for a long while, then remembered.

“At that time… I was doing my homework,” she said slowly.

Xiang Huaien initially didn’t want to bring Bian Yunchen along, but seeing that other families brought their children, she would inevitably feel awkward going alone, so she told her daughter to bring her homework.

Bian Yunchen’s homework was scheduled according to time. For instance, if two to five in the afternoon was homework time, her workload during this period was definitely overloaded. If Bian Yunchen finished early, the next assignment would be increased.

If Bian Yunchen didn’t finish, the next assignment would also be increased as a form of punishment.

She could only complete the required amount of homework neither too early nor too late, but exactly within the prescribed time.

This was a rule set by the Bian family ancestors, said to be very effective in training a child’s ability to manage and plan time.

In any case, this was how generations of Bian family heads were trained.

“I just started attending the same elementary school as you, and you transferred away,” Xuan Yuchi said, supporting the back of her head with both hands and crossing her legs.

Although she appeared relaxed, she actually flashed back to herself crying and questioning her mother about why she lied to her that Bian Yunchen was at this school, when Bian Yunchen wasn’t there at all.

Originally, she was going to attend the same school as Wu Yue, a school with many of her playmates, but her mother said Yunchen was at Qiao’an Private Primary School, and only then did Xuan Yuchi agree to go.

Bian Yunchen sped up and overtook the car next to them, patiently saying, “My family made me skip a grade.”

The third grade onwards at Qiao’an was at a different campus. When Xuan Yuchi started primary school, Bian Yunchen should have been in third grade, but that year, Xiang Huaien had a sudden idea and had Bian Yunchen skip a grade.

However, speaking of it, she did return to the main campus to give a speech as an outstanding student.

“I returned to the main campus to give a speech when you were in second grade, have you forgotten?”

Xuan Yuchi covered her face, remembering it now.

Bian Yunchen came back to give a speech, and she even visited her and tutored her in math for a whole noon.

As for why this memory was forgotten…

Xuan Yuchi didn’t like studying in primary school. She definitely didn’t want to remember such a painful memory.

Ugh, why did Yunchen have a legitimate reason for all the explanations?

Xuan Yuchi pondered hard, selecting one specific item from the old accounts.

“That time in my second year of high school, I confessed to you…”

“Stop,” Bian Yunchen interrupted her.

“No need to talk about it again.”

Xuan Yuchi revealed a proud smile, then “lamented”: “You look down on me…”

“Look down on me.”

“Look down on me, sigh…”

This time, Bian Yunchen didn’t argue back, letting Xuan Yuchi talk, treating it as if there was a sheep constantly bleating next to her.

“You have to compensate me,” Xuan Yuchi bleated for a while and got tired.

Bian Yunchen: “…”

Although Bian Yunchen didn’t respond, Xuan Yuchi wouldn’t let her off the hook so easily. After all, she was a supportive type of lover, wasn’t she?

“Okay, how should I compensate you?” Xuan Yuchi mimicked Bian Yunchen’s usual composed tone and said to herself.

“Ha… no matter what I say next, you have to say yes,” Xuan Yuchi snapped her fingers, her tone very affected.

“Alright, as long as you’re happy…” Xuan Yuchi drew out the lazy ending, imitating her quite well.

Bian Yunchen’s raven-like eyelashes fluttered, and she contained the slight smile in her eyes. Without a word, she quietly listened to Xuan Yuchi’s dramatic performance.

“Is Xuan Yuchi the bravest and most resourceful person in the world?” The person habitually boasting looked to the person beside her with anticipation.

There was no obligation to answer…

Xuan Yuchi reached out and gently tugged on Bian Yunchen’s sleeve.

System: [Host, please maintain your dignity, don’t embarrass yourself.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Mind your own business! You A-grade system, you simply don’t understand, okay?]

She often did things like this before; she had experience.

Sure enough, she heard a satisfying answer.

“Mhm,” Bian Yunchen said before the atmosphere dropped to freezing point.

Xuan Yuchi smiled: “Then am I the person you like the most in this world?”

Bian Yunchen glanced at her, her eyes seeming to say, “You?”

“You?”

There was not a hint of affection, indeed carrying a bit of a condescending tone.

But Xuan Yuchi had been confident about this since she was little.

Because Yunchen didn’t have anything she particularly liked!

For over twenty years, the only constant companion by her side, besides herself, was nothing else.

“Am I the one you like the most in this world?” Bian Yunchen repeated.

Xuan Yuchi: “Why are you imitating me?”

“I’m asking you.”

Bian Yunchen’s peripheral vision was fixed on Xuan Yuchi. At that moment, she seemed to be in a painful silence, unconsciously biting her lip.

“Yes,” Xuan Yuchi told her firmly, sensing her change in mood.

At the service area ahead, Bian Yunchen pulled the car to a stop.

“I’ll go buy water.”

She put on a mask, and her movement to get out of the car was somewhat rushed; she couldn’t open the door on the first try.

Xuan Yuchi was confused in the car. Was her affection not obvious enough?

She had always liked Yunchen very much.

The beautiful older sister, the exceptionally outstanding older sister, the older sister who always favored her.

Xuan Yuchi got out of the car to use the restroom, the question echoing in her mind. As she exited the restroom, she saw Yunchen standing by the convenience store entrance from afar.

She had undone her hair tie at some point, letting her dark hair fall loose. She was holding a bag of mineral water. The weather was a bit cold. From a distance, she looked like a cold beauty, but also standing alone, as if a gust of wind could knock her over.

Only after the cars on the road drove past did Bian Yunchen walk towards the car. Even her steps looked detached.

Xuan Yuchi stood in place until Bian Yunchen got into the car. She suddenly wondered, was Big Sister Bian too lonely?

She quickly dismissed the thought. Even if Yunchen was naturally averse to socializing, she was a huge star!

How could a huge star be lonely?

Xuan Yuchi slept for a while in the car and woke up at another service area.

The sky was already pitch black, and the sound of cicadas was constant. A layer of chill wrapped around her body.

Xuan Yuchi rubbed her arms and saw that it was already 8:30 PM on her phone.

She had only intended to sleep for a bit. How could Yunchen manage driving for so long alone?

She turned her head to look, and Yunchen was not in the car.

Xuan Yuchi got out and then saw an RV parked near the driver’s side, with its door open.

There was another RV parked behind the first one, also with its door open.

In the RV, people were setting up cameras and adjusting equipment, and others were organizing piles of documents.

She saw Yunchen in the adjacent RV, with someone beside her fitting a microphone.

A young woman got out, holding a sticker, and smiled at Xuan Yuchi when she saw her.

Another young woman got out of the car.

“You must be Ms. Xuan.”

Xuan Yuchi exchanged a look with Yunchen in the car and nodded.

“Are you the show crew?”

She noticed the words “Go Forth Bravely” pasted on the car by the young woman.

Morandi: “Yes! I am the on-site PD for this shoot and the person in charge here. My name is Morandi.”

Xuan Yuchi raised an eyebrow, shook hands with her, and cheekily said, “PD Morandi, you’re wearing a lot of dopamine colors.”

Morandi laughed: “We’re going into the mountains, it’s safer to wear bright colors.”

Xuan Yuchi didn’t think too much of it and, at Morandi’s invitation, went into the RV to be mic’d up.

Ten minutes later, in the nine-seater RV, besides the driver, only Xuan, Bian, and Mo remained.

The driver sat in the first row, Xuan Yuchi and Morandi in the second row, and Bian Yunchen sat in the spacious fourth row.

Yunchen was resting in the back, while Xuan Yuchi and Morandi chatted quietly.

They were in Huicheng. The crew was originally waiting for them at the Pingyan City airport. After seeing the news online and confirming with Shuihe Entertainment that Bian Yunchen was driving to Pingyan herself, they called Bian Yunchen and agreed to meet at this service area.

The crew apologized for the incident, saying that if they had arranged a chartered flight to pick them up, such a thing wouldn’t have happened. They offered to increase the originally promised payment by fifteen percent.

Xuan Yuchi was not concerned about the money. She kept asking Morandi for spoilers about where they were going this time.

She heard it was a mountainous region in Pingyan City. Xuan Yuchi had never been to a big mountain range in her life.

Her impression of remote mountain areas came from art-house films, either portraying them as vicious, uncivilized places.

Or as secluded, simple, and honest paradises.

Of course, most of what she watched belonged to the first category.

And she suspected that, given the show’s style, the possibility of them going to the first kind of place was greater.

Morandi said, “Don’t worry, the conditions will be tough at most. We, the crew, will handle everything else.”

The car drove until 3:00 AM the next morning, arriving at the Pingyan City center. The crew arranged a hotel for them, allowing the two to rest in the hotel for the morning.

They were given a twin room. Xuan Yuchi had chatted with Morandi for too long in the car and fell asleep as soon as she touched the bed.

Bian Yunchen, however, did not sleep. She seemed not tired and sat on the balcony listening to the report from Jessica’s cousin, Bian Fang.

There had been rumors for a while that the head of the Special Affairs Department was retiring due to injury, and it was highly likely that the next head would be Bai Yi.

Last night, the new head was supposed to be announced, and the Bai family had prepared their celebratory banquet. However, a new head was parachuted in, still a conservative party member, who previously managed sanitation.

Bai Yi’s painstaking efforts over many years ultimately crossed the top figures, and his efforts were in vain. After leaving the Special Affairs Department, he was furious and slapped his subordinate.

The subordinate was also wronged. She was conveying Ms. Bai Fu’s message, saying that Ms. Bai Fu would not be returning to the capital soon, and she still got slapped, with blood appearing on her face instantly.

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