Phoenix A has Gone Viral Across the Entire Internet! - Chapter 4

After achieving her goal, Shen Nian stopped worrying about Ji Xicheng. She took a shower, crawled into bed with a sense of security, and fell into a beautiful sleep.

Because she had left the messages on “read” without replying, she had no idea that Ji Xicheng was tossing and turning, unable to sleep a wink.

Ji Xicheng’s mind was filled with a single thought: Why hasn’t Shen Nian replied to me? Is she coming tomorrow or not?

Should she send another message to test the waters?

With that thought, Ji Xicheng fumbled for her phone and began sending obscure hints disguised as casual remarks.

[When I said “come if you want,” it meant that since you want to come, you should definitely come.]

Three minutes passed. Seeing no movement from Shen Nian, Ji Xicheng couldn’t help but sit up and enter full message-bombing mode.

[Purposefully not replying just to act all cold and aloof, right? Are you really using that persona on me, a fellow Alpha?]

[LMAO, I don’t even want you to visit the set that much.]

[You’re really putting on an act, Shen Nian. Who cares? Don’t forget, you came looking for me tonight, not the other way around.]

[I beg you, I actually really want you to visit.]

[Your acting is so bad yet you still get lead roles. I want that too.]

…

[I haven’t slept at all! Shen Nian! Answer me!]

Ji Xicheng struggled all night. When dawn broke, she headed downstairs sporting dark circles under her eyes, giving the family’s hired auntie a fright.

The auntie’s intuition told her that the young lady was absolutely not to be provoked today; her aura of resentment was heavier than a ghost’s.

Wiping her hands with a fresh tissue, the auntie cautiously suggested, “Miss, would you like to wash up first? Breakfast will be ready shortly.”

Ji Xicheng didn’t even look at her, only giving a cold “Mm.”

Heh, that woman surnamed Shen didn’t reply to my messages or answer my calls.

She was just hanging there, suspended in uncertainty, because Shen Nian refused to give her a straight answer.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. This led to Ji Xicheng viciously brushing her teeth while cursing Shen Nian dozens of times in her head.

Shen Nian had no idea what kind of damage “leaving on read” could do to an Alpha waiting for a reply!

Unlike Ji Xicheng’s internal turmoil, Shen Nian slept as well as ever. However, the moment she turned her phone on after waking up, she was greeted by a massive wave of message notifications.

She flipped through them casually, seeing nothing but a scrolling wall of green text filled with “kind greetings” from the other party.

It seemed Ji Xicheng’s mental state was… quite healthy, huh.

Thinking that her failure to reply last night had caused this easily-rattled Alpha to completely break down, Shen Nian felt a bit guilty.

She tentatively sent a message: [I’ll be there, don’t worry.]

The reply was instantaneous: [Good, waiting for you.]

The reply came so fast that Shen Nian found it hard not to be suspicious.

…Did she really stay up all night?

Her fingertips paused on the screen for a moment, but Shen Nian ultimately restrained her curiosity. She chose to put her phone away as if nothing had happened.

As the saying goes, curiosity killed the bird. Once the other party gained the upper hand, there was no telling how they would use the topic to their advantage.

By the time Shen Nian went downstairs, breakfast was already set on the table: toast and milk, nutritious and healthy.

Two portions were prepared: one for Shen Nian and another for the household’s only Omega.

[Protagonist’s Darkening Value +5.] [Protagonist’s Darkening Value +10.] [Protagonist’s Darkening Value -5.]

This series of fluctuating announcements made Shen Nian’s heart skip beats in terror.

As for the reason, she could guess it even without 432’s reminder.

It was nothing more than Jiang Zhiwan waking up to find the bird she had imprisoned had escaped. After searching everywhere and finding nothing, her emotions became unstable.

Looking at it this way, Jiang Zhiwan really did like her quite a bit.

Hearing movement from the stairs, Shen Nian looked over. As she caught sight of the Omega’s cold profile, she corrected her previous thought.

Alright, she doesn’t like me; she likes the pretty bird.

When Jiang Zhiwan woke up this morning, she instinctively glanced toward the night lamp, but she didn’t see the bird that was supposed to be staying there obediently.

The bird had escaped.

That was the only thought in her mind at the time.

Jiang Zhiwan quickly got up, calling out the name she had forced upon the bird before sleeping while searching for any traces the little creature might have left behind.

In the end, she found nothing.

The bird came without warning and left without a trace.

Only the emptiness around the wrist where the bracelet should have been proved that it wasn’t a result of Jiang Zhiwan’s imagination.

Aside from the initial slight irritation at not finding the bird, Jiang Zhiwan eventually calmed down. The bird was not an ordinary bird; it was very human-like and could “speak”…

Therefore, the only reason it left must be that it was unwilling to stay by her side.

This realization sparked a sense of frustration in Jiang Zhiwan’s heart. Consequently, as she walked toward the dining table, she didn’t have a pleasant expression for the Alpha already sitting there.

Shen Nian was the master of this house. If the bird got lost while flying around, it might inevitably fall into her hands.

Considering this, Jiang Zhiwan paused her steps slightly and raised her eyes to ask, “Shen Nian, have you seen my bird?”

At that moment, Shen Nian was unhurriedly spreading jam on her toast. Hearing the Omega’s question, she didn’t even look up, only asking casually, “What bird?”

The Alpha appeared natural on the surface, but in her mind, she was already praising her own effortless acting to 432.

Jiang Zhiwan observed her for a moment. Deciding that the other party had no reason to lie to her, she sat down at the dining table and stopped speaking.

The conversation should have ended there, but Shen Nian, adhering to the principle of acting out the full scene, continued her performance.

She looked at the Omega sitting opposite her and called out to the family’s auntie. “Do you want to keep a bird? I can have Aunt Wu go to the pet market to buy one for you.”

Jiang Zhiwan’s expression remained cold. “No need.”

Shen Nian, as if intentionally trying to annoy her, continued selfishly, “How about a white parrot? It can even learn to speak like a human.”

“I said, no need,” Jiang Zhiwan emphasized, her tone sharpening.

After a pause, she spoke again with an undeniably mocking tone. “Why buy one? So it can lose its freedom just like me?”

Hearing this, Shen Nian couldn’t help but frown. Just as she was about to say something, she was interrupted by Aunt Wu, who had hurried over upon hearing the call.

“Miss Shen, do you need me to do something?”

With her intended words now difficult to say, Shen Nian had to withdraw her gaze. She looked down and took a bite of her toast. The jam was spread a bit too thick, making the taste overly sweet and cloying.

Aunt Wu had been called over but received no instructions. Standing before the two of them, she couldn’t help but wonder if she had misheard.

Fortunately, Jiang Zhiwan spoke up, breaking her anxiety. “Aunt Wu, I’m going to a wrap party tonight, so you don’t need to make my portion of dinner.”

Aunt Wu nodded. “Alright.”

She habitually looked toward the Alpha sitting on the other side, waiting to see if she would give any new instructions.

But the young lady was surprisingly “considerate” this morning, showing no intention of making things difficult for anyone.

Aunt Wu’s mood was complicated. Although she felt it was a bit unusual, she inevitably felt a sense of relief.

When Miss Shen isn’t making trouble, she’s actually quite pleasant.

She had worked in the Shen family for over two years and had a decent understanding of the young lady’s temperament. Shen Nian possessed the common flaws of an Alpha of her rank—strong possessiveness and occasionally erratic behavior—but most of the time, she didn’t feel like a bad child.

Seeing that the two had no further instructions, Aunt Wu turned to leave, sighing inwardly with pity for Jiang Zhiwan.

Jiang Zhiwan was undoubtedly an excellent Omega. If Miss Shen truly liked her, they might have made a good match.

But the mistake lay in the fact that Shen Nian kept her around only because she bore a slight resemblance to her “White Moonlight.” Such a relationship was ultimately unhealthy and would likely have no good result.

Shen Nian naturally had no idea what Aunt Wu was thinking while she focused on her toast.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting food, she finished her breakfast and stood up, preparing to go upstairs to change clothes for her appointment.

Jiang Zhiwan was still eating her toast unhurriedly. She cast a brief glance at the Alpha’s retreating back with a faint gaze.

Given Shen Nian’s personality, she usually would have said at the very least that she would order a driver to pick her up in the evening. But the other party had said nothing.

Jiang Zhiwan couldn’t figure out what she was thinking, so she simply ignored it, her thoughts still lingering on the escaped bird. She felt inexplicably that the bad bird hadn’t flown far and might even come back to find her.

After eating, Jiang Zhiwan quickly applied light makeup. Coincidentally, she received a message from her manager stating that the car to take her to A-University had been arranged.

To avoid being ostentatious and exposing her relationship with Shen Nian, Jiang Zhiwan never took the Shen family’s private cars when going to filming locations.

As she prepared to head out, Shen Nian also finished changing. A sound was heard as she walked down the stairs.

The Omega had always been sensitive to such subtle sounds. She instinctively turned her head and glanced that way.

Shen Nian had changed her dressing style today to simple jeans paired with a black-and-white striped milk shirt. When she looked down from above, there was even a trace of a faint smile on her lips.

The image overlapped with the clean Alpha image that had walked into Jiang Zhiwan’s memory years ago, causing her to fall into a momentary daze.

As a result, while sitting in the private car that came to pick her up, Jiang Zhiwan leaned against the back of the seat and closed her eyes. Her first meeting with Shen Nian surfaced in her mind.

At that time, Youth Loves You had just started filming. While Jiang Zhiwan was trying to familiarize herself with the A-University environment, she encountered Shen Nian, who was there for an event and had gotten lost.

Shen Nian was wearing similar casual clothes then. Her eyes looked clean and warm, and when she smiled at people, she was no different from those clear-eyed college students. This led to Jiang Zhiwan’s misunderstanding, and she out of the kindness of her heart escorted her to the auditorium.

If she hadn’t paid attention to Shen Nian back then, perhaps none of the events of her previous life would have happened.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhiwan slowly opened her eyes. She looked at the changing scenery outside the car window and gave a smile of unidentifiable emotion.

Even after being reborn, and with this life having reached this point, the answer seemed self-evident.

The Alpha named Shen Nian actually possessed a very strong sense of fragmentation in her impression. It was that moment of heart-fluttering during their first meeting that Jiang Zhiwan remembered for a long time, leading her to retreat again and again, only to fall into that long period of struggle and torment afterward.

“Miss Jiang, we have arrived.”

The driver’s simple reminder interrupted Jiang Zhiwan’s memories. The deep ink-like color rising in her eyes dissipated slightly.

After stepping out of the car, she looked at the name of A-University engraved on the stone tablet by the main gate. Her gaze became unfathomable.

Shen Nian, I never said I would let you off easily.

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