The Cannon Fodder Crazy Beauty Has Awakened [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 7

She’ll Make Jiang Mengyu Apologize in Tears!

A gunshot rang out in the darkness, startling the bodyguards in the distance.

“Young Mistress!”

The sound of hurried footsteps followed, growing closer until they reached Chi Jingyan in no time.

When the bodyguard arrived, he saw Chi Jingyan gripping a gun in one hand, her icy gaze fixed on the girl across from her.

He quickly scanned Chi Jingyan from head to toe, relieved to see she didn’t appear injured.

Then, following her line of sight, he noticed Jiang Mengyu slowly lowering her half-raised hands. Ignoring the bodyguard, she kept her eyes locked on Chi Jingyan without blinking.

“Why did you miss on purpose?”

The bullet had grazed past Jiang Mengyu’s ear, embedding itself in the wall behind her. She touched her earlobe, still feeling the heat left in its wake.

“You lunatic!” Chi Jingyan snapped.

She had genuinely wanted to shoot through Jiang Mengyu’s skull, but a shred of reason held her back. That shot had been purely to vent her anger and scare Jiang Mengyu preferably into panicking.

Yet, Jiang Mengyu hadn’t even flinched. She’d heard the gunshot but never once looked away, her dark eyes fixed on Chi Jingyan the entire time.

Was she truly unafraid of death?!

Chi Jingyan could no longer deceive herself. She had once thought Jiang Mengyu was nothing but a brainless fool, but now she realized this woman was far more ruthless than she’d imagined.

And her acting skills weren’t bad either.

Chi Jingyan lowered the pistol, her voice cold. “Why drop the act now?”

Jiang Mengyu chuckled, her breath uneven likely from the pain in her leg.

“You’re kicking me out. What’s the point in pretending anymore?”

The words were an admission that everything before had been an act, deliberately performed for Chi Jingyan’s benefit.

Now, looking at Jiang Mengyu, Chi Jingyan no longer saw her as stupid. In fact, recalling Jiang Mengyu’s past behavior, every move now seemed laden with hidden meaning.

“Jiang Mengyu.” Chi Jingyan tossed the gun to the bodyguard and accepted a handkerchief from him, wiping her hands with stiff movements. “Keep your filthy thoughts to yourself. I have no interest in them, and I won’t let you get your way.”

Learning that Jiang Mengyu’s affections weren’t directed at Chu Muyao but at herself had been unexpected, but Chi Jingyan felt nothing beyond that.

Plenty of people adored her outstanding Alphas, countless Omegas and Betas. Did she have to acknowledge and respond to every single one?

Jiang Mengyu’s feelings did nothing to lessen Chi Jingyan’s disgust. If anything, her madness only deepened Chi Jingyan’s wariness.

Something told her this lunatic wouldn’t give up easily.

Jiang Mengyu remained silent. Chi Jingyan didn’t wait for a response, tossing the used handkerchief to the ground before turning to leave without another word.

Only after Chi Jingyan had gone did Jiang Mengyu let the smile fade from her face.

All the feigned obsession and madness vanished in an instant. After a pause, she stepped forward, bending down to pick up the discarded handkerchief.

The small silk handkerchief felt exceptionally soft in Jiang Mengyu’s palm, and she could still faintly catch the scent of pear lychee wine lingering on it.

She gazed in the direction where the black Cayenne had been, waiting until the vehicle slowly disappeared into the distance. With the only light source gone, Jiang Mengyu was completely enveloped in darkness, as if she had melted seamlessly into the night.

The surroundings were too quiet, even her thoughts were silent. It seemed Jiang Mengyu had remembered something, finally deciding to release System No. 031 from its mute state.

The moment the restriction was lifted, Jiang Mengyu heard a series of frantic screams erupting in her mind.

[Ahhhh, Host!]

System No. 031 was dumbfounded.

[Weren’t you supposed to apologize to Chi Jingyan?] it wailed, [Why did you provoke her again?]

Now, not only had they failed to gain Chi Jingyan’s forgiveness, but they had also managed to anger her even more!

System No. 031 felt a wave of despair. It really shouldn’t have let its guard down with this host too soon!

Jiang Mengyu countered, “Didn’t I apologize?”

System No. 031: [You just needed to apologize and promise not to pester Chu Muyao anymore!]

Why add unnecessary drama and make Chi Jingyan think you actually had feelings for her?!

Jiang Mengyu scoffed. “If I said I wouldn’t bother Chu Muyao anymore, do you think Chi Jingyan would believe me?”

System No. 031 immediately faltered, hesitating for a long moment. [But…]

At least that would have helped Chi Jingyan calm down a little!

Jiang Mengyu lowered her eyes slightly. “Aren’t you capable of simulations?”

System No. 031: [Oh, right!]

It pulled up its interface and ran a projection of the story’s future trajectory. To its surprise, the host’s earlier actions actually increased the probability of success!

System No. 031 was baffled. [How is this possible?]

Chi Jingyan was clearly angrier, why would the success rate go up instead?

Jiang Mengyu didn’t explain. She might not have experience with romance, but she had read enough novels to understand human nature.

According to typical novel tropes, coveting the protagonist would likely result in cold indifference and a 50% chance of retaliation. But if you coveted the protagonist’s destined partner, there was a 99.99% chance of facing revenge.

In other words, as long as she harbored feelings for Chu Muyao, Chi Jingyan would never stop despising her.

But if she suddenly became Chi Jingyan’s suitor instead, then in Chi Jingyan’s eyes, she would no longer pose a threat.

After all, whether she was secretly in love with the female lead (O) or the female lead (A), what difference did it make?

If they were going to play this game, they might as well go all in!

System No. 031 half-understood, but it still felt the need to remind her: [Host, the destined pairing is unbreakable. Chi Jingyan will only ever love Chu Muyao. No matter how hard you try, she won’t shift her affections to you.]

So the host better not get too immersed in this act and end up falling for real!

Jiang Mengyu tucked the handkerchief into her pocket and began walking away. As she moved, she replied, “You’re right about that.”

System No. 031: [Good, you understand.]

It assumed Jiang Mengyu was agreeing with its earlier statement.

But what Jiang Mengyu really meant was something else entirely, she was referring to the system’s explanation earlier that afternoon about her level turning into a question mark.

Jiang Mengyu looked down at her fingers, recalling the disbelief in Chi Jingyan’s eyes moments ago. A thoughtful glint flickered in her gaze.

Her current level seemed to be slightly higher than Chi Jingyan’s.

What came after SS-rank?

SSS-rank?

Or  an even higher level, one that even the system couldn’t display?

Chi Jingyan’s beautiful face was tense as she tilted her head to gaze at the night scene outside the window. The car sped along the overpass, and the night wind rushed in through the half-open window, causing her long hair to dance wildly in the breeze.

The cool night breeze carried a chill, but it couldn’t dispel the anger burning in Chi Jingyan’s heart.

She clenched her teeth, replaying the recent scene over and over in her mind.

Jiang Mengyu’s slightly lowered eyes, her words filled with madness and obsession, and the sensation of her fingertips pressing against her scent gland.

Chi Jingyan closed her eyes briefly, and when she opened them again, a cold glint had appeared in their depths.

Her phone, resting on her lap, buzzed twice. Chi Jingyan looked down to see a reply from Secretary Zhao.

[Secretary Zhao: Understood, Miss. I will send you Jiang Mengyu’s detailed information as soon as possible.]

Chi Jingyan exhaled slowly. She didn’t believe Jiang Mengyu was merely a B-rank Alpha, she must have used some method to evade the medical examination before!

As soon as she got into the car, Chi Jingyan had messaged Secretary Zhao, demanding that he thoroughly investigate Jiang Mengyu’s true rank.

She trusted Secretary Zhao’s capabilities, he would undoubtedly provide her with a satisfactory answer.

Jiang Mengyu walked at a leisurely pace, and by the time she reached the rental building, it was almost ten o’clock. She was starving, the lollipop earlier had done nothing to curb her hunger so she stopped at a roadside stall and ordered a plate of fried noodles.

It was a barbecue stand with no indoor seating, just a few tables set up outside. At this hour, several tables were occupied, mostly by men drinking, all of them Alphas.

The law explicitly prohibited Alphas from releasing their pheromones in public.

But this place was remote, and most of the residents were migrant workers from less privileged backgrounds. The crowd was mixed, and rules were lax here.

The air was thick with the mingled scents of low-rank Alpha pheromones, pungent and overwhelming. Jiang Mengyu couldn’t help but frown.

Her school uniform stood out starkly, and her strikingly beautiful appearance made her seem like a harmless little lamb wandering into a pack of wolves, completely oblivious to the danger around her.

Several men were eyeing her, their gazes lewd and unrestrained, raking over her from head to toe with vulgar intent.

Jiang Mengyu stood in front of the barbecue stall, her eyes slightly lowered as if unaware of their malice.

System 031 couldn’t help but warn her: [Host, those men.]

“I know,” Jiang Mengyu replied calmly.

031 wanted to say more but ultimately swallowed its words.

After a long wait, her fried noodles were finally ready. She opted for takeout and carried the bag toward her rental apartment. The aroma of the noodles wafted into her nose, making her even hungrier.

She quickened her pace, eager to get home and eat.

At some point, the previously quiet surroundings were disrupted by the sound of chaotic footsteps approaching from behind. Jiang Mengyu glanced around, then chose a clean spot to set down her bag of noodles.

No sooner had she placed it down than several figures appeared in front of her, the same men who had been eyeing her earlier with vulgar gazes.

They couldn’t discern Jiang Mengyu’s rank and assumed she was just an ordinary Beta without pheromones. Seeing her stop in her tracks, the men immediately surrounded her.

“Hey there, little sister, do you live around here?”

“How come we’ve never seen you before?”

When did such a pretty Beta move into this neighborhood?

The men’s gazes were lecherous, though they felt a slight regret that the girl before them was just a Beta.

As everyone knew, Betas couldn’t detect pheromones. If this girl was a Beta, they wouldn’t be able to induce her into heat.

But Betas had their advantages, she’d likely last longer than the average Omega.

The men grew restless, already treating Jiang Mengyu as prey within their grasp.

Faced with such people, Jiang Mengyu didn’t even bother wasting words. She swung her fist and sent the nearest man flying with a single punch.

The others hadn’t even processed what happened. Drunk, their reactions were slower than usual, and when they saw their companion go airborne, only one thought surfaced in their muddled minds:

What just happened?

The man who’d been struck, however, was jolted back to sobriety by the pain. Clutching his face, he glared at Jiang Mengyu with a mix of shock and fury, roaring, “What the hell are you all waiting for?!”

Only then did the others snap out of it, turning furious expressions toward Jiang Mengyu, hurling curses as they prepared to teach her a lesson.

It was late at night, and with no one else around, Jiang Mengyu had no interest in dragging this out. Without hesitation, she released her pheromones, the scent of jasmine instantly overpowered all other odors in the air. Before the remaining men could even get close, they clutched their heads in agony and collapsed to the ground.

The suppression from a higher-ranked pheromone was absolute. The pheromones of a high-level Alpha would leave lower-ranked Alphas with splitting headaches, sapping all their strength and rendering them incapable of resistance.

In an instant, Jiang Mengyu was the only one left standing in the alley, the others writhing in pain at her feet.

Under such torment, even the heaviest drunkenness would fade. The men realized they’d messed with the wrong person, wailing and begging through snot and tears for Jiang Mengyu to spare them.

“Sorry, little sis, no, no! Big sis! Big sis! We were wrong!”

“We were just drunk, our minds weren’t clear, we didn’t mean to do anything to you!”

“We’ll never dare again! Please, let us go!”

Drunk?

Jiang Mengyu had always believed that alcohol only amplified a person’s desires, it didn’t conjure wicked thoughts out of thin air.

They had followed her with ill intentions because they’d wanted to, regardless of whether they’d been drinking or not.

If not her, it would’ve been someone else.

Tonight, they’d just happened to cross paths with Jiang Mengyu.

She stared down at them coldly. “Enough nonsense.”

Looming over them, half her face shrouded in darkness, she looked to them like a vengeful spirit risen from hell, sending an involuntary chill down their spines.

Jiang Mengyu: “Hand over all the money you’ve got.”

No. 031: [?]

“Not the host, who exactly is the bad guy here?”

Number 031 was dumbfounded. It watched helplessly as these men eagerly emptied all the cash from their pockets and handed it to Jiang Mengyu. For a moment, it felt a surreal sense of disorientation, why did it suddenly seem that compared to these Alphas, the host was more like the villain?

Jiang Mengyu only took cash, a total of 3,250 yuan. She pocketed 3,000 and left the remaining 250 for these men.

The men lying on the ground watched as she stuffed the money into her pocket, thinking she was finally satisfied. Just as they were about to scramble up and flee, they suddenly heard Jiang Mengyu let out a soft, cold laugh.

“Thinking of running?”

As her words fell, the men immediately felt dizzy and disoriented. Their previously frightened and clear minds once again grew hazy.

The scent of jasmine in the air grew increasingly intense, weaving through every corner of the alley, yet it remained tightly controlled, not leaking the slightest bit beyond.

The sky had darkened completely, the heavy night pressing down overhead. The alley was pitch-black and deep, swallowing all screams and struggles into the shadows.

A short while later, Jiang Mengyu walked out of the alley, carrying her takeout noodles.

Her expression was indifferent, though she felt a slight pang of regret.

So Alphas couldn’t mark other Alphas after all.

Number 031 didn’t dare say a word. Just the thought of what had just happened made its nonexistent scalp tingle, leaving the entire system feeling off.

The host had actually planted psychological suggestions in those Alphas, making them mark each other.

Alphas were inherently exclusionary by nature. Their territorial instincts were extremely strong, harboring an instinctive aversion and wariness toward their own kind.

Only gentle, accommodating Omegas could earn their acceptance. Betas, who couldn’t detect pheromones and posed no threat to Alphas, usually didn’t provoke their vigilance either.

But if an Alpha was marked by another Alpha, if the other party was of a lower rank, it might be manageable. But if they were of equal or higher rank, the marked Alpha would face only one outcome: pheromonal chaos.

With current medical technology, there was no complete cure for pheromonal chaos.

Those Alphas from earlier were effectively ruined.

Number 031 had once again witnessed Jiang Mengyu’s ruthlessness. Still, it didn’t sympathize with those Alphas, who told them to scheme first?

The only thing it felt conflicted about was…

[Host, did you plan from the start to.]

Get some cash out of them?

Jiang Mengyu pulled her keys from her pocket and unlocked the door. “If they hadn’t followed me, nothing would have happened.”

She had simply gone with the flow.

Using them had been a spur-of-the-moment decision, and taking their money was just a side benefit. Jiang Mengyu’s goal hadn’t been about that.

Number 031 supposed that made sense, though it still tactfully added, [That’s not right.]

Even though there was a saying that “nothing beats the convenience of seizing an opportunity,” this was still illegal.

Jiang Mengyu: “I know.”

She had merely solved her financial troubles while dealing with those people. She had no intention of fully committing to a life of crime.

After washing her hands, she pulled up a small stool and sat down at her desk to enjoy her dinner.

Meanwhile,

Jiang Mengyu had barely left the alley when Chi Jingyan was already informed of the incident by her bodyguards.

“Mutual marking?”

Chi Jingyan paused, her voice laced with a chilling coldness.

She wasn’t sympathizing with those Alphas, this matter simply reminded her of the words Jiang Mengyu had once spoken to her.

That mad dog, Jiang Mengyu. She truly wanted to know whether an Alpha could even mark another Alpha!

Chi Jingyan was certain this was Jiang Mengyu’s provocation. After all, given Jiang Mengyu’s cunning, she couldn’t possibly have failed to anticipate that Chi Jingyan would have people tailing her.

“Young Mistress, those men.”

Chi Jingyan replied impatiently, “Take them for thorough examinations. Find out how Jiang Mengyu controlled them.”

Recalling the sensation of being overpowered by Jiang Mengyu that helpless, enervating weakness her anger flared even hotter.

Outside the window, the city lights flickered like scattered stars. Chi Jingyan stood before the floor-to-ceiling glass, her slender silhouette tall and graceful, bathed in the warm amber glow of the room. The delicate porcelain-white curve of her calf beneath her nightgown gleamed with a soft radiance.

She was beautiful, almost unnervingly so.

“Jiang Meng… Yu,” Chi Jingyan murmured under her breath.

The day she unraveled the truth behind all this would be the day Jiang Mengyu met her end.

She would make Jiang Mengyu kneel on the ground, weeping as she begged for forgiveness.

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