Redeeming that Beautiful, Strong, and Miserable Omega [Transmigrated into a Book] - Chapter 47

Chapter 47: Deception

Wen Yan stared at the fake daughter standing in front of her, with a half-smile. “Since you claim I’m not Wen Yan, what evidence do you have?”

“If you were Wen Yan, how could you treat me like this?!”

A stir went through the onlookers.

A smile was on Wen Yan’s lips, but there was no warmth in her eyes. “Xu Mingxin, aren’t you a bit too narcissistic?”

“Do you think you’re very beautiful, or do you believe you’re the chosen one?”

“How many times do I have to repeat it? I never liked you from the start. The reason I kept pursuing you was only to…”

Wen Yan paused, her gaze resting on Xu Ruozhou. When she spoke again, her voice held a hint of tenderness. “To get her to notice me.”

The guests: ?

Everyone exchanged glances.

Although they had heard rumors of Wen Yan’s secret crush on the Xu family’s real daughter since the hotel incident, hearing it was one thing; hearing it firsthand was another.

A guest who had received favors from the Wen family seized the opportunity to shout.

“CEO Wen, this is no time for public displays of affection! Can’t you see Xu Mingxin is just jealous of your good relationship with CEO Xu? She’s disrupting your wedding now. If you’re a real Alpha, stand up for your Omega! Don’t be a pushover!”

“Exactly! What kind of Omega invites Daoist priests to someone else’s wedding? She has no class, embarrassing us Omegas. No wonder she’s an illegitimate daughter, a low-grade imposter who doesn’t belong.”

Xu Mingxin bit her lower lip and screamed, “You’re talking nonsense! This person isn’t Wen Yan at all. She’s a transmigrator who stole Wen Yan’s body!”

“The person Wen Yan truly loved was me! This transmigrator is the one who took what wasn’t hers!”

The guests burst into laughter. “Then produce some evidence!”

Wen Yan was expressionless, watching coldly as the fake daughter ruined her and Xu Ruozhou’s once-in-a-lifetime wedding.

Xu Mingxin became increasingly angry, yelling out what she was saying to the System in front of everyone. “System, send Wen Yan back now! I want to see Wen Yan die right here at the wedding!”

“Everyone here has to see it, has to know!”

“You may begin.”

With that, Xu Mingxin winked at the Daoists. The leading Daoist priest walked up to Wen Yan.

Wen Yan confronted him expressionlessly. The other Daoists used red dirt in their hands to draw a circle around them, trapping the two.

These Daoists seemed to possess some genuine ability. Once the circle was drawn, the surrounding energy began to concentrate. Xu Ruozhou sensed something was wrong and immediately rushed into the circle, trying to pull Wen Yan out.

However, the moment her foot stepped inside, a rising plume of smoke and a mysterious repulsive force pushed her back out. Xu Ruozhou was stunned. She raised her smoking palm, muttering in disbelief, “How is that possible?”

The leading Daoist priest squinted, looking at Xu Ruozhou who was sitting on the ground. He stroked his gray beard. “Little girl, you have black threads wrapped around you, likely due to an evil spirit near you.”

Xu Ruozhou bit her lower lip. Her gaze was no longer gentle but fiercely fixed on the Daoist in front of her. “Shut up!”

“Evil spirit?” Wen Yan raised an eyebrow, pointing at herself. She found it rather amusing. “Me?”

“Heh—” The Daoist held his whisk, “Still stubborn now? Watch me collect you, you wandering lonely ghost, right now!”

Wen Yan folded her arms across her chest, observing coldly. The Daoist held his whisk, chanting incomprehensible spells, and performed a strange dance around her.

After a long time, nothing seemed to happen. The guests started to murmur, “It doesn’t look like it’s working.”

Someone voiced a doubt. “Could what Xu Mingxin said be false?”

The fake daughter standing nearby bit her lower lip. “System, why aren’t you acting yet? Do something!!!”

“…”

In an instant, lightning flashed, striking directly at the hotel’s glass. The floor-to-ceiling window shattered into countless pieces under the lightning strike. A fierce storm swept in.

The guests who were standing near the window were startled. The strong wind blew in from outside, threatening to sweep people away. Someone screamed, jumping up and calling for help.

The wealthy young masters who were initially watching the drama widened their eyes. “No way, there’s really a ghost?”

The Daoists huddled together also looked terrified. They seemed surprised that their Elder could truly summon lightning. Only the Elder holding the whisk looked ecstatic. He raised his whisk, shouting wildly and incoherently. “It’s the Heavenly Dao!”

“It’s the Heavenly Dao!”

“Heavenly Dao, you finally answered me!”

Countless raindrops smashed onto the floor, only to be swept in by the gale. The lightning in the sky seemed to have heard a summoning, heading directly for Wen Yan.

Wen Yan frowned, her hand subconsciously reaching into her pants pocket. Unexpectedly, Xu Ruozhou saw this and pounced forward without hesitation. Wen Yan’s movement froze. Xu Ruozhou gripped Wen Yan’s shoulder tightly, her voice trembling. “No—”

Xu Mingxin’s eyes were sinister. She put her hands on her hips and laughed loudly. “Xu Ruozhou, the tables have turned. You made me suffer for so long, and today it’s finally your turn to…”

The thunder was deafening, but the lightning stopped just before it touched Xu Ruozhou. Despite the sky being covered in black clouds, the blinding white light made everyone present unable to open their eyes.

Xu Mingxin used her arm to shield her eyes, which couldn’t adjust to the intense light. She asked the System, “What’s going on?”

The reply was silence.

Xu Mingxin suddenly felt panicked. “System, are you there?”

Still silence.

The rain was still falling, but the thunder gradually faded. Xu Mingxin looked in Wen Yan’s direction and found her standing there perfectly fine, holding Xu Ruozhou.

Xu Mingxin finally panicked. She went through all that trouble—stealing the blue diamond, hiring the Daoists—all to help the System send the transmigrator away and collect energy. But now—

Xu Mingxin screamed into the air, “System, talk to me!!!”

A deathly silence. The voice that only Xu Mingxin could hear vanished, as if none of it had ever existed.

The guests’ gazes toward Xu Mingxin gradually became strange. Many deliberately increased the distance between themselves and her. This sudden wedding disturbance finally made these people realize who the real “evil spirit” was, and—

Who the real lunatic was.

Wen Yan held the trembling Xu Ruozhou in her arms, gently rubbing her back, and softly comforted her. “Don’t be afraid.”

“It’s over, Wife. It’s really over. I’m still here, I’m still here—”

The wedding was ruined by the sudden incident. Outside, an epic storm was raging. If they stayed any longer, there was a high risk of flooding near the hotel.

The crowd lost their appetite for the celebration and left by car. Only Xu Mingxin remained, squatting on the ground, covering her head, mumbling and repeating one sentence, “How is that possible?”

“How is that possible?”

Recalling everything that had happened, Xu Mingxin suddenly looked up sharply, glancing in Xu Ruozhou’s direction, but unexpectedly met a pair of reddish-brown eyes filled with unadulterated anger.

Xu Mingxin’s legs went weak, and her body unconsciously began to tremble with fear.

She had never seen this look in Xu Ruozhou’s eyes, yet she found it incredibly familiar, as if she had faced such a gaze countless times before.

It was a fear that stemmed from the bottom of her heart.

In this moment, Xu Mingxin finally understood one thing.

The System had deceived her.

There was only ever one protagonist in this world, and that person was—

Xu Ruozhou, whose life she had stolen.

Xu Ruozhou launched an almost insane vendetta against Xu Mingxin.

Her first target was the Xu family.

Lin Xi collected irrefutable evidence of the orphanage’s organ trafficking. To get a reduced sentence, the headmistress was willing to testify against Xu Tao and Xu Zhongshan.

All the wealthy families who had previously sponsored the orphanage were worried sick, afraid of being implicated. However, the orphanage headmistress suddenly passed away after identifying the Xu family, catching everyone off guard.

The only noteworthy point was that these wealthy families proactively extended olive branches to the Wen Group afterward, hoping for deeper cooperation.

Xu Tao and Xu Zhongshan were sentenced to death with a reprieve. Xu Ruozhou, as their legal daughter, provided materials for a mental illness certification to the association, transferring the two from prison to a psychiatric hospital.

In the back alleys and places where delinquents gathered, a disheveled, distraught Omega appeared.

The young thugs who liked to rob glanced at her, then slowly looked away, uninterested in someone who clearly had no money.

Xu Mingxin was mentally disoriented, unable to distinguish between what was real and what was false.

The collapse of the Xu family and the disappearance of the System left her without any support.

However, the real heavy blow came from her marriage.

Li Yuan, who was vacationing in South America, received the news and immediately had the Group’s lawyer draft a divorce agreement, cleanly separating all assets. She couldn’t take a single extra penny, showing ruthless indifference.

For the first time, she felt a daze, as if she had never truly known Li Yuan. The Alpha who had pursued her for nearly ten years never seemed to genuinely love her.

Everything Xu Mingxin had been proud of for the first twenty years of her life—she received the Xu family’s favoritism, married a rich, powerful, and loving Alpha, living a life of unimaginable wealth.

But fate seemed to have only favored her for the first half of her life.

Why?

Was it because of the transmigrator’s appearance?

Xu Mingxin clenched her teeth. She hated the transmigrator who helped Xu Ruozhou too much. Yet, she couldn’t help but consider another possibility.

Assuming the previous Wen Yan was still around, she wouldn’t be alone now, but…

What if her ending had been like this all along?

“Achoo—”

Wen Yan sneezed. Xu Ruozhou looked over, nervously wiping her nose with a tissue. “What’s wrong? Do you have a cold? Do you have a fever? Are you uncomfortable? I’ll take you to the hospital right now. No, let’s call a doctor to the house. Where’s Lin Xi, Lin Xi!”

Wen Yan looked helpless. “Wife, you don’t need to be so anxious. I just sneezed. I don’t have a cold. Maybe someone’s just cursing me.”

“It’s good that you’re not sick. Many eyes are on us lately. Have you sneaked out without telling me again?”

Wen Yan looked at Xu Ruozhou strangely, pursing her lips. “Wife.”

“Mhm?” Xu Ruozhou raised her eyes, which glittered with innocence.

Wen Yan gestured to their hands, which were cuffed together, feeling speechless. “With this thing on, how could I possibly sneak out without you?”

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