Transmigrated as the Heroine’s Perfect Alpha - Chapter 17

Little Anti: “Listen, we have been together for so long that we have established a bit of a revolutionary friendship, so let me give you a friendly reminder.”

Xie Ling: “?”

Little Anti: “The judgment of a violation is based on your actions. What other people do or say does not actually affect how the system judges you.”

“?”

This point did not need a reminder for Xie Ling to know it.

However, if she had not stopped Ji Xue from thanking her, what would she have done if she had instinctively said, “You are welcome”? Even if she had restrained herself and avoided saying that, how would she be able to lose her temper? It was too difficult to deal with people.

Little Anti read her inner monologue and mocked: “I do not believe you. Ji Xue apologized to you for half a day, and it did not stop you from losing your temper and looking for trouble. As expected, the personality of the character Xie Ling was designed based on yourself.”

Xie Ling: “Personal attacks are prohibited.”

Little Anti: “You do not understand. This is what I call P-U-A.”

Xie Ling: “?”

Ji Xue lowered her head and apologized repeatedly. When she looked up again, she realized that the woman wearing the white mask in front of her looked familiar. Did she recognize those eyes and brows? Thinking about it, the voice also sounded familiar.

Xie Ling noticed Ji Xue staring at her. She raised her left eyebrow slightly, coughed, and cleared her throat: “What are you looking at? Have you seen enough?”

Ji Xue apologized again and looked away. Her clear eyes finally noticed the sapphire blue sports car at the entrance.

It really was her.

“Are you Xie Ling?” Ji Xue was a little surprised. Her large eyes were moist because she had just been crying, and her thick, curly eyelashes were stuck together. Combined with her slightly flushed cheeks, she looked even more innocent and pure.

“Do you know me?” Xie Ling, who was looking down at Ji Xue with an absolute height difference, shifted her gaze to the shelf on the side to make her expression match her cold tone. She then extended her long index finger and pointed: “I want that one, that one, and that one.”

Ji Xue calling out Xie Ling’s name was purely out of shock. After she reacted, she regretted it. For some reason, she had never cared about her part-time status before, but upon discovering that Xie Ling was standing in front of her, she felt a trace of inferiority. Seeing that Xie Ling did not dwell on who she was, she hurriedly lowered her head and replied: “Okay, please wait a moment.”

Xie Ling said “Mm” and turned to look at the glass cabinet filled with various pastries. In her past and present life, this was the first time she had walked into a bakery decorated so luxuriously. Just as she was about to take a closer look, a Maybach with shiny black paint appeared outside the glass door.

Was the rear of the car she saw just now this one?

Was it Lin Man?

Xie Ling frowned and glanced at the woman in black who got out of the driver’s seat. She narrowed her eyes, turned back to look at Ji Xue, who was packing the pastries, and asked: “Do we know each other?”

“N-no, I do not think so.” Ji Xue’s movements paused. Her voice was trembling, and she lowered her head even further.

Lin Man was climbing the steps. Xie Ling decisively gave up on the delicious food in the cabinet and stood back in front of the cash register. It was as if she had not heard Ji Xue’s answer at all. She said in a low voice: “You are Ji Xue. Was the important thing you dropped at my house last time a USB drive containing your graduation thesis? I helped you find it. So, these pastries can be your thank-you gift.”

Ji Xue kept her head down. Her nose was barely two centimeters away from Xie Ling’s fair neck as she leaned down to talk to her. Under the extremely faint perfume, there was a trace of coffee aroma.

Before Ji Xue could react, the induction glass door of the bakery opened automatically again. Xie Ling was quick. She picked up the packed paper bag, stood up, and the red lips hidden under her mask curled slightly. She took the small black cloth bag out of her pocket, placed it gently on the counter, and then turned to walk deeper into the store. She circled around the glass cabinet to avoid Lin Man, who was entering the door.

By the time Ji Xue reacted, Xie Ling had already brushed past Lin Man with the cake in her hand and hurried out to get into her car.

Ji Xue: “?”

Ji Xue, who realized what had happened later, gripped the small cloth bag she had regained. When she looked up, she met Lin Man’s haggard eyes. The dark circles under her eyes were comparable to a panda.

“Hello.” Ji Xue nodded and smiled mechanically.

Lin Man was in a very bad state. She ignored Ji Xue, who had initiated the greeting, but instead turned to look behind her and then back outside. After confirming that the blue car was no longer in its original spot, she shook her head slowly. When she looked at Ji Xue, her eyes were sorrowful: “Do you like her? Did I not tell you that she does not like Omegas?”

“Sorry, I do not understand what you are talking about.” Ji Xue put the things in her hand into the pocket of her work uniform, but the expression on her face was indescribably distant and polite.

Lin Man looked at Ji Xue’s pocket and frowned: “What did she give you? What is your relationship now?”

“Ma’am, this has nothing to do with you. Please respect yourself.” As Ji Xue spoke, she took a step back. She tilted her head to look to her right, where the sound of a door opening came from; her colleague, who had gone to the restroom, had finally come out.

In the workroom behind the transparent glass, the pastry chefs who were busy making desserts had not yet discovered the abnormality at the cash register.

Since being clearly rejected, Lin Man had lost her appetite and had been squatting at the corner of this street for two days. If she had not just seen Xie Ling’s car, she would not have broken in so rashly, but she was just too unwilling. This was the first time she had liked a girl like this, and it was also the first time she had been rejected so heartlessly.

She would not accept such an ending. Never.

Ending before it even started was not the style of the Lin family.

Her colleague, Xiaomei, came out from behind the door, noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly put on new disposable gloves and rushed over, her face full of smiles: “Hello, what would you like?”

Lin Man’s eyes were slightly red. She looked at Ji Xue, who was backing away, glared fiercely at the woman standing between them, and roared: “Get lost.”

Ji Xue: “?”

Colleague Xiaomei: “?”

The other staff members who heard the sound were finally attracted, put down their work, and gathered around.

Xie Ling, who had just left, was eating a delicious cake while lowering the passenger side window of the car.

After driving out of the parking space, the blue car circled around and stopped on the main road directly in front of where she had been.

Xie Ling wiped her mouth and fingers with a wet tissue. Through the open car window and the glass door, she stared at the emotionally unstable Lin Man, and her face instantly turned ugly.

Writing such an official couple was indeed a very embarrassing thing.

Little Anti: “Data shows that you were proud for a long time for pairing Ji Xue with such a bossy CEO.”

“Who has not been a fool? Can you stop picking at my scars?” Xie Ling held her forehead, wondering how she could have thought that way back then; her head must have been injured.

Little Anti: “Data shows it was not.”

“?”

Forget it. Ji Xue’s emotional problems had nothing to do with her right now. She had already done everything she should and should not have done. Driving to the company now was the right thing to do.

Xie Ling looked down at the paper bag on her thigh, reached out and lifted it to the passenger seat, and raised the lowered window. As she stepped on the accelerator, she could not help but admire that the cake really tasted good; she could buy it often in the future.

As carefree as she was, she did not notice the price of the cake from beginning to end.

Until Ji Xue swiped her phone to fill out the order, and Little Anti reported: “Congratulations, Frustration Index +2.”

“Hm? Why is that?” Xie Ling glanced at the navigation map, stepped on the brake, selected the route, and obediently waited for the red light.

Little Anti: “Check it yourself.”

Xie Ling looked at the red light that was counting down and asked casually: “Check what?”

“The price of the cake.”

“?”

Taking advantage of the twenty seconds left in the countdown, Xie Ling summoned the phone’s voice assistant, and then she heard a number that shocked her.

“Two thousand yuan.”

Xie Ling was shocked. She thought it was at most two hundred. How does the Price Bureau not care? In the world she came to, had the currency depreciated too much?

Little Anti sent another warm reminder: “Please look to the left.”

Xie Ling turned her head in cooperation, and a huge advertisement board for “out-of-season clearance, down jackets for 199 each” was pasted on the glass wall of the clothing store at the corner.

Okay, no. She thought too much.

So, what to do now? This resentment must have been drawn a lot.

The green light turned on. Xie Ling, who had realized she had caused a big disaster, rushed to the downstairs of the company, sat in the parking lot, held her phone, and began to seek help from outside.

When Ren Xuan received Xie Ling’s WeChat message, she was in the study discussing with her father whether they could kick the Lin family out of the company’s latest cooperation.

In the room filled with bookcases and books, in front of a huge office desk, the father and daughter were raising their voices, and it looked like they were about to fight. Xie Ling’s exclusive message notification rang out, and Ren Xuan, who was clearly at a disadvantage, left the study with her phone as if nothing had happened.

Xuan, do you know the contact information of the boss of Haiyao Cake House?

After reading the message, Ren Xuan started searching in her list. When she saw the relevant contact remarks at the very bottom, her fingers picked it, and she pushed the business card to Xie Ling.

Xie Ling looked at the message that was returned almost in seconds. Before she could click on the content of the business card, the phone screen flashed, and the contact labeled “Dad” occupied the entire screen.