Transmigrated as the Top-Tier Alpha's Secretly Married Ex-Wife - Chapter 27

Chapter 27

“Tuantuan!”

Right after the live stream, Jiang Zhizhi sprinted over and leaped straight into Su Tuantuan’s arms.

Su Tuantuan nearly fell over and had to steady herself against the wall. Jiang Zhizhi’s eyes were teary. “It’s all thanks to you! If it weren’t for you, I would have been finished this time, wuwuwu…”

She just loved to cry and couldn’t control herself.

Su Tuantuan pressed down on her shoulders, trying to push her out of her embrace, but Jiang Zhizhi was clinging on too tightly, making it impossible to move.

Bai Xue, who had been standing behind Jiang Zhizhi, hesitated, glanced at Su Tuantuan, and finally walked over to her. She whispered, almost like a passing wind, “Thank you,” then turned and walked away. Jiang Zhizhi lifted her head, wondering if she had been hallucinating.

Su Tuantuan pushed her out of her embrace and took a step back. “Your promotion has nothing to do with me.”

A smile spread across Jiang Zhizhi’s face.

Su Tuantuan: “It’s purely good luck on your part.”

Jiang Zhizhi: “…”

Her movements were slightly awkward. She looked down at her shoes. “Then it must be because you taught me so well, Tuantuan. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be this lucky…”

The group that advanced today didn’t feel like going out to celebrate.

The pressure was too much. Last week, they could comfortably relax, but this week, seeing their colleagues leave, they felt only reluctance and fear.

Everyone was afraid that they would be the next to leave.

After all, in a competition like this, there were never pre-arranged spots. The audience would judge the quality of the performance.

Jiang Zhizhi was taking things one step at a time. She felt it was already incredible to have made it this far. When the results came out, her manager had surprisingly sent her a message telling her to keep up the good work.

She knew that her manager had completely neglected her before.

She hadn’t been supervised much at all.

This time, she could be considered halfway out of the gutters.

Su Tuantuan had no plans to leave the training camp. There was a live stream tomorrow, and she wanted to eat something and get some good sleep.

Jiang Zhizhi kept insisting on treating her to takeout. As the two returned to the dorm area, they saw Bai Xue struggling with a middle-aged man.

Many actors were gathered around watching the commotion.

“I’m not going!”

Bai Xue struggled hard, but due to the difference in size, she couldn’t break free from the Male Alpha. Su Tuantuan stepped forward, grabbed the man’s hand, and said sharply, “What are you doing?”

With so many people around, this man actually still—

Su Tuantuan felt the man looked very familiar. Upon closer inspection, she finally recalled that this was Bai Xue’s manager, wasn’t it?

She thought his name was… Wu Ziqi.

In the original owner’s memory, this person had looked at the original owner with an extremely lewd gaze.

Sending Bai Xue to sleep with Mo Xian was probably his idea too, right?

Truly, what kind of person does what kind of thing.

When Wu Ziqi saw Su Tuantuan, his eyes immediately lit up. Seeing this, Bai Xue instinctively shielded Su Tuantuan, rubbing her red wrist, her face defiant. “I won’t go with you! I’m staying to compete! I’ve already advanced! You have no right to take me away!”

“You’re my artist. We have a contract. If I tell you to withdraw from the competition, you have to withdraw! You want to disobey? Fine.”

Wu Ziqi sneered. “The penalty for breach of contract is three million. Can you afford to pay that?”

“You!”

Bai Xue was furious. She looked around helplessly, but no one dared to offer help.

They could barely protect themselves!

How dare they provoke another manager!

Bai Xue’s body trembled uncontrollably. She knew that if she left, she would never be able to come back.

And this time, it was far more serious than just withdrawing from the competition.

Her life…

Bai Xue’s eyes warmed up. She bit her lip, not wanting her tears to fall and make her a laughingstock. The next second, a warm hand grasped her wrist.

She was slightly stunned. She lifted her eyes. Su Tuantuan yanked her behind her. Meeting Wu Ziqi’s openly scrutinizing gaze, she stretched out her hand and shoved Wu Ziqi hard.

“She is still in the competition. The organizer won’t allow her to withdraw, so you have no right to make her leave.”

Su Tuantuan mocked. “Other managers are desperate for their artists to get a good ranking, yet you’re making her quit at this moment. What are your intentions?”

Wu Ziqi was pushed back and his body hit the railing with a clang.

Seeing Su Tuantuan interfere, he looked at Bai Xue. “You better think carefully. Are you really not planning to come with me?!”

His tone was heavily threatening. Judging by his fierce look, he intended to go down fighting.

Bai Xue hesitated.

She knew that if she quit this time, she could forget about any good career development and might even be blacklisted in the industry.

However, she also knew what the outcome would be if she went with him.

It was an abyss with no way back.

Bai Xue took a small step forward. A sharp pain shot through her wrist.

Su Tuantuan had gripped her hand tightly.

Su Tuantuan tilted her head to look at her, her expression clearly asking if she was crazy.

Bai Xue wavered.

Su Tuantuan said firmly, “She has thought it through. She won’t be going with you. If you force her to leave, we can call the police. Since she has some popularity recently, I believe that even if this is reported, many netizens will speak up for her, won’t they?”

Wu Ziqi was frustrated. Knowing Su Tuantuan was not to be trifled with, he laughed in anger and pointed at Bai Xue. “Fine. You have the guts to hide behind her, so hide. Let’s see if you can hide for the rest of your life! When the show ends, we’ll see how long you can hide!”

Wu Ziqi left.

All the onlookers were chased away by Jiang Zhizhi.

Jiang Zhizhi saw the heavy atmosphere between the two and discreetly slipped away, not mentioning the takeout.

The hall returned to quiet. Bai Xue abruptly shook off Su Tuantuan’s hand.

Su Tuantuan snapped out of it and looked at her very calmly.

Bai Xue gritted her teeth, an indescribable mix of emotions stirring in her heart. “Why are you interfering?”

They were no longer friends.

What necessity was there for her to care about her life or death?

Su Tuantuan rolled her eyes. This person, so stubborn. If she hadn’t stepped in to help, Wu Ziqi would have already dragged her away.

“I just saw injustice and stepped in. If it weren’t you today, I would do the same for anyone else. You don’t need to feel so burdened.”

Su Tuantuan couldn’t be bothered with her affairs. “Stop being dramatic all the time.”

Bai Xue: “…”

She stared intently at Su Tuantuan, as if trying to drill a hole through her.

Su Tuantuan thought her eyes held a hint of resentment.

This person is so difficult to deal with. Say one thing, it’s wrong. Say another, it’s also wrong.

She was too lazy to inquire further. “I’m going back to rest.”

“…Wait.”

Bai Xue wasn’t done with her yet.

Seeing Su Tuantuan stop walking, Bai Xue hesitated, her voice weak. “Can you have a drink with me?”

Afraid Su Tuantuan wouldn’t agree, she added, “Just for a little while.”

Su Tuantuan turned back to look at her. Her eyes held a flicker of expectation.

Su Tuantuan thought about it. There was nothing else to do anyway, and having a drink with her wouldn’t hurt. Besides, this was the training camp. What could possibly go wrong?

She let out a long sigh.

“Annoying.”

She was reluctant, but Bai Xue actually smiled for once.

The two sat on the steps in the small garden, a bottle of wine in each of their hands. Bai Xue opened the cap.

The garden lights were all on. No one was around at this time, but there were many mosquitoes. Su Tuantuan took mosquito repellent and sprayed her legs and arms thoroughly.

Bai Xue took several big gulps of wine, finishing half a bottle straight. Meeting Su Tuantuan’s surprised gaze, she wiped the beer foam from the corner of her mouth. “I trained myself for this. I haven’t gotten better at anything else over the years, but my drinking tolerance gets better every year.”

She let out a burp and rubbed her face.

“Do you know how much I used to hate you?”

She chuckled. “I hated that you took away my chance to rise up. We were the best of friends! If I had become famous, I could have brought you along! Just like when we were in school, whenever you failed a test or couldn’t submit an assignment, I was always the one who stepped up.”

Bai Xue lifted her legs, resting her chin on her knees, her eyes blankly watching the moths circling the lights ahead.

“I truly never thought you would deceive me, that you would be so daring. I thought that kind of thing was too risky. I should have been the only one taking the risk.”

Bai Xue didn’t even notice the tears falling.

She quickly wiped them away, but the tears wouldn’t stop.

“I know what he wanted me to do. After that incident failed, he often made me accompany clients. Although it was just being touched up and flirted with, I thought there might be a way out, so I endured it.”

She choked up. “But now I wonder, why should I? He wants me to film adult films. If I actually went and did that, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself anymore…”

She had been humiliated to this extent.

She used to rely on those small tricks to get by in the industry.

But she quickly realized that apart from talent, those small tricks only brought her meager scraps.

They wouldn’t fill her stomach.

After Nova Star Entertainment suffered huge losses, many artists considered leaving. They had assets and other companies wanted them.

But she had no notable works. Her best role was only a supporting actress, the audience didn’t remember her, and her acting wasn’t the best either.

She wasn’t without talent.

She used to get straight A’s in school.

But this world was too cruel.

So cruel that she didn’t know how to face it at all.

Bai Xue rested her head on her knees and cried.

She was shaking with sobs. Su Tuantuan quietly drank the beer she had personally opened.

Bai Xue was indeed very good to the original owner.

She took good care of her and never asked for anything in return.

How could she have known that the original owner’s love for Mo Xian was a different kind of obsession?

She only wanted to use a figure as unreachable as Mo Xian as a lifesaver.

Su Tuantuan hadn’t expected beer to taste so bitter.

It tasted more bitter in her mouth than in her heart.

But she was somewhat addicted to the taste.

She knew that people expose their vulnerability when they are desperate.

Just like the stubborn Bai Xue, if she hadn’t been pushed to her last line of defense, she wouldn’t have cried in front of her like this.

“Adult film, huh?”

Su Tuantuan knew what that meant.

It was the equivalent of R-rated content in her real world.

In this world, such films circulated normally, just with age restrictions.

A person from a professional acting background, who loved performing, was being forced to film that kind of content.

It was utterly messed up.

Su Tuantuan smashed the beer bottle down.

The beer bottle shattered on the steps, glass fragments everywhere, and the beer fizzed on the stone slab with a sizzling sound.

“Screw that!”

Su Tuantuan cursed under her breath. “Just terminate the contract!”

Bai Xue looked up when she heard the noise, her eyes red like a rabbit’s. She looked at Su Tuantuan through teary eyes.

Su Tuantuan gritted her teeth. “Evil never triumphs over good, Bai Xue. Don’t go down the wrong path.”

So, my dear friend, now it’s my turn to protect you.