I Topped the Aloof Omega in a Scummy Alpha Novel - Chapter 9

“Are you taking revenge on me?”

Xiaodong was called in at short notice and rushed to Xuan Yuchi’s room. As soon as she entered, she smelled the aroma of food.

“Are you having a midnight snack?” Xiao Dong noticed the table covered with meat skewers, fruit platters, small cakes…

Xuan Yuchi wiped the cream from the corner of her mouth with her pinky: “Want some?”

Xiaodong: “Yes!”

Half an hour later, Xiao Dong returned to her own room to report back to her boss.

Xiao Dong: “She looks quite happy and has a good appetite.”

Bian Yunchen: “Is there anything unusual about her?”

Xiao Dong: “No, Yunchen are you worried you were too harsh on her this morning?”

“She didn’t even mention you, she probably didn’t take it to heart. I think she has a strong psychological tolerance.”

Bian Yunchen suddenly felt irritated, got up to turn down the air conditioning, mumbled an “Mhm,” and hung up the phone.

After finishing the last egg tart, Xuan Yuchi called room service to clean up. Afterward, she lazily lay on the bed and let out a satisfied burp.

She rubbed her round belly.

She had eaten so much after only one day here; she’d be a circle fatter when she returned home.

No way. Someone as excellent as her shouldn’t only focus on her inner self; she needed to cultivate both inner and outer qualities.

Xuan Yuchi put on her slippers and started doing jumping jacks in the room.

System: [Side quest, “Teaching a Fish to Swim” has been triggered. Mission description: You are a born actress. Pretending to be pitiful in front of your beloved is your ace… ]

Bian Yunchen received a message.

Xuan Yuchi: Sister Bian, I’m injured. Could you come and see me?

Bian Yunchen: Not appropriate.

Xuan Yuchi: But I’m your employee! What’s inappropriate about a superior caring for a subordinate?

Bian Yunchen: Do you think I’m very free?

Xuan Yuchi sent a voice message.

Bian Yunchen clicked on it and heard someone say in a syrupy sweet voice, “If, if you don’t come, then I’ll, I’ll go online and, and complain about how pitiful I am.”

Immediately after, she switched to a gossip reporter’s sensational tone: “Shock! A popular movie star actually refuses to save her assistant. Is this inherent nature or a twisted personality?”

Finally, the person let out a series of sobs: “Wuwuwuwuwu, I’m so scared staying in a hotel alone. I’m just a fragile little girl in her twenties.”

Bian Yunchen rolled her eyes slightly, tossed the phone aside.

Drama queen.

She didn’t reply to Xuan Yuchi’s message, but Xuan Yuchi kept calling.

Bian Yunchen watched her phone ring, automatically hang up, and then ring again.

She was curious how long Xuan Yuchi would keep this up tonight.

When the phone screen finally stopped lighting up, she opened the wardrobe and changed into casual clothes.

Xuan Yuchi had been waiting in the room until the flowers wilted.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, this isn’t working. It looks like I need to take the initiative.]

She picked up the “reward” onion from earlier, hesitated for a moment, but before the fingers that touched the onion reached her eyes, she cried.

She was so caught up in the acting that she muttered to herself: “Yingyingying, I feel so bad for myself. To complete the mission, I have to hurt my charming big eyes.”

“Knock, knock.”

Hearing the knock, Xuan Yuchi jumped in surprise. Her finger rubbed past her eye, stinging her and causing two lines of tears to roll down. She placed the onion on the table and scurried to open the door.

Who knows where the system found the onion, but it had a strong lingering effect. The moment she opened the door, Xuan Yuchi was tear-streaked.

Bian Yunchen’s gaze swept over her red eyes. She softly closed the door, her tone softening: “Why are you crying?”

Just then, lightning flashed outside the window, thunder boomed, and a torrential rain poured down.

System: [Host, look at the environmental special effects I added for you.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Reward!]

Xuan Yuchi hugged her shoulders, making her look like a little white flower.

“I’m scared…”

Bian Yunchen: “You weren’t afraid when you were little.”

Neither staying in a hotel alone nor staying in a hotel alone on a stormy night could faze the playful Xuan Yuchi of the past.

But the fear in the eyes of the person before her didn’t seem faked.

Bian Yunchen went to close the window. Xuan Yuchi said tremblingly, “I wasn’t scared before, but later when I was alone abroad, the window in my apartment was broken. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, drunk people would come to knock on my door, smashing bottles against it. I’d hear those sounds and I became scared.”

This wasn’t entirely untrue.

However, based on Xuan Yuchi’s memory, she didn’t care that the window was broken; when it rained, she’d wear a raincoat to sleep and put an umbrella over her head.

As for the drunk people… one time, she went out with a knife and scared the drunkard into giving her his liquor.

But she still felt so sorry for herself. How could she have lived such a miserable life? Was this the way heaven tempered a genius?

She raised her hand to wipe her tears. This made the sting worse, making it impossible to open her eyes, and she wore a mask of pain.

Ahhhhh! System, I’ll kill you!

System: [Host, hold on! Persistence is victory!]

Xuan Yuchi trembled: “Wuu…”

Bian Yunchen turned to look at her, and a sudden pang of heartache went through her.

Was mentioning that period of time so painful?

Then why did she choose to suffer outside instead of returning to her side?

Why did her rational mind tell her this might be Xuan Yuchi’s trick, a small ploy to gain sympathy, yet she still felt pain!

Xuan Yuchi couldn’t help but sob out loud.

It was too irritating. She felt like her eyes were going to be ruined. Was this dog system trying to get revenge on her?

A tissue was thrust into her hand, and she was barely able to open her eyes.

Yunchen stood in front of her, coldly questioning: “Didn’t you like freedom? Are you scared now?”

There seemed to be an antidote to the onion in her eyes. Xuan Yuchi stared at them unblinkingly, and the pain actually subsided.

“I don’t like it,” she said. Even though she wasn’t in pain anymore, she shed tears while saying this, with a hint of rebellious stubbornness.

“You don’t like it?” Bian Yunchen sneered. “Don’t you like freedom, or don’t you like…”

She slightly lifted her chin, taking a silent, deep breath, suppressing that terrible guess.

All these years, she still couldn’t forget that scene, which often appeared in her dreams.

That was when Xuan Yuchi threw the ring into her arms and said, “I don’t like you anymore.”

This nightmare lasted for five years and didn’t stop even after Xuan Yuchi returned.

Xuan Yuchi blinked: “I regret it. I regret leaving you and letting someone else take advantage.”

When Xuan Yuchi blinks, there’s a high probability she’s lying.

How could she be made to tell the truth?

Lock her up and flog her, or take out her heart and see how ruthless she is?

Bian Yunchen reached out and caught the tear that was dripping down Xuan Yuchi’s chin. Her cold fingertips trailed along her cheek to the corner of her eye.

She rubbed the red patch of skin, trying desperately to suppress the urge to strangle the person in front of her.

The unspeakable affection had turned into extreme hatred.

Xuan Yuchi held her breath. She had never seen Yunchen look like this. It felt unfamiliar and made her a little scared.

Had five years truly changed so much?

Xuan Yuchi: “Sister Bian…”

Bian Yunchen pressed against the corner of her eye, pinning her against the wall: “Now you know how to panic? Why did you leave so carelessly back then?”

Xuan Yuchi lowered her eyes: “Actually, I have a dual personality.”

“Xuan Yuchi!” Bian Yunchen fiercely called her name.

She immediately covered her mouth, her peripheral vision catching sight of the onion on the table.

How has she not seen it yet?

She couldn’t drag this out any longer. Today’s atmosphere was too bizarre.

She reached out to cover Bian Yunchen’s mouth, then retreated very timidly, stumbling and falling onto the bed.

A smell wafted over, making Bian Yunchen feel nauseous.

It was the onion.

She raised her hand and sniffed the hand that had touched Xuan Yuchi’s tear duct, instantly retracting all her emotions: “Your tears were caused by the onion?”

Xuan Yuchi smiled awkwardly and nodded honestly.

“So you were acting with me just now?” Bian Yunchen asked with a straight face.

Xuan Yuchi: “Y-yes.”

Didn’t Sister Bian notice at all?

Bian Yunchen was silent for a moment, her cool voice concealing a faint excitement: “Are you taking revenge on me?”

These little skirmishes evoked those beautiful memories, as if they were still in the past, as if they had never separated.

She stared at Xuan Yuchi’s fearless face and suddenly showed a fleeting, bitter smile.

After Bian Yunchen left, Xuan Yuchi lay in bed, utterly confused.

Why did Sister Bian think she was taking revenge on her?

But she no longer expected the emotionally inept System to provide an answer.

System: [Congratulations on completing the side quest. Please choose between a physical reward and skill borrowing. If you choose a skill this time, it can be used for life.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Can I wait a bit before deciding? I need to think carefully.]

System: [10, 9, 8, 7……]

Xuan Yuchi: [I choose a skill!]

System: [Drawing for you now.]

System: [Congratulations, you have acquired the skill ‘Fast Forward Button’.]

Xuan Yuchi: [What kind of skill is that?]

System: [Happiness and unhappiness will arrive at your side faster.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Can I only have happiness?]

Xuan Yuchi still underestimated the power of the onion, the pain of which was severe enough that hotel staff had to send her to the emergency room.

Although the foreigner who took her to the hospital said the doctor didn’t think it was that serious, Xuan Yuchi insisted on being admitted.

Before drowsiness set in, Xuan Yuchi took a selfie and uploaded it to her Moments, with the caption: Little Yuchi, be strong (crying) (crying).

When she woke up the next day, her social media was exploding.

Friends and family members, curious about where the missing person had been all these years, came to express their concern.

Xuan Yuchi was too lazy to reply one by one, so she posted another message on Moments: Thank you all for your concern. I’m currently traveling the world. I’m abroad and will be back in a few days. Feel free to come and see me when I return.

A minute later, dozens of comments appeared under this post, making her dizzy.

Xuan Ling called: “Why are you in the hospital? Are you injured somewhere? Do you have someone taking care of you?”

Xuan Yuchi: “Mom, don’t worry. It’s just a little cold, nothing serious. I’m with Yunchen in BALI, and I’ll be back in a few days.”

Xuan Ling felt a little relieved: “Good, then be careful.”

The nurse wheeled the breakfast into the ward. Xuan Yuchi took a piece of bread, took a bite, and couldn’t help but complain: “Ugh, this bread is so hard.”

The nurse understood Xuan Yuchi’s words and told her in her language: “The patient in the next room said the same thing. She’s cooking her own food.”

Xuan Yuchi: “Is she also from LEISM country?”

The nurse nodded: “You speak the same language.”

Being far from home and encountering a fellow countrywoman, Xuan Yuchi was curious. She put on her shoes and walked out. Passing the next ward, she slowed down and happened to make eye contact with the middle-aged woman cooking porridge inside.

The woman exclaimed: “It’s you!”

Xuan Yuchi: “The drunk auntie!”

Finding a fellow countrywoman, the woman, Yu Ming, immediately invited her in and served her a bowl of porridge.

Xuan Yuchi sipped the fragrant seafood porridge and complimented: “Auntie, your cooking is great.”

Yu Ming smiled: “I started cooking when I was seven. Simple dishes like this are a piece of cake. What happened to you?”

Yu Ming looked at Xuan Yuchi’s hospital gown.

Xuan Yuchi: “A slight eye infection, minor issue. What about you, Auntie?”

Yu Ming smiled: “A cold.”

Xuan Yuchi nodded meaningfully and didn’t ask any further.

Yu Ming: “What have you decided about that matter last time?”

Xuan Yuchi sighed regretfully: “I was too rebellious when I was young. As you know, someone like me isn’t suitable to be an actress. But my undergraduate major was also in dramatic arts, so if…”

System: [Mission 2, “I was originally a Producer” has been triggered. Mission description: In the original novel, after graduation, you were supposed to become a film producer and co-create a cinematic legend with a movie queen. Completing this mission can effectively promote the world’s operation back to its normal trajectory.]

Xuan Yuchi found it hard to imagine herself, a directing major graduate, choosing to become a producer according to the original plan.

Truly, man proposes, God disposes.

But it didn’t really matter to her. The only reason she applied to the drama academy was to be in the same school as Yunchen, and rumor had it that the directing department was the easiest major to slack off in.

Yu Ming: “You want to be a model?”

This child has good features and a good figure; being a model isn’t out of the question.

Xuan Yuchi: “I want to be a film producer.”

Yu Ming couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

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