After the Scumbag Alpha Heard her Inner Thoughts (GL) - Chapter 22
The two of them had been forcibly bound together through an arranged marriage. Now that the Chu family was facing such a massive crisis, it was perfectly reasonable for Chu Muqing to ignore her.
But still, hadn’t she helped Chu Muqing before? Couldn’t she at least say a proper goodbye?
Chu Muqing, you are truly the worst among all the scumbag Alphas!
Chu Muqing noticed Su Wanqing’s hesitation, as if she wanted to say something but didn’t know how to put it into words.
Sure enough, in the next moment, she heard the sharp, piercing words she had expected: [Divorce. We must get divorced!]
There was no way she could live even one more day with this scumbag Alpha.
But wasn’t bringing up divorce now a little like kicking someone when they were down? Su Wanqing thought this wasn’t right. She should at least wait until the Chu family’s situation settled down.
“You want a divorce?” Chu Muqing raised an eyebrow, her tone casual. “I don’t object.”
“When do you want to process it?”
Things hadn’t fully unfolded yet, and Gu Heng likely didn’t know Su Wanqing’s value to her. After the shareholders’ meeting, he might target Su Wanqing. Now was the best time to sever ties and make it seem to outsiders that their divorce was solely because of the Chu family’s troubles.
Su Wanqing stared at Chu Muqing, and the longer she looked, the more her tears started to fall.
She had only been complaining inwardly before—but Chu Muqing actually said it out loud, so easily, so heartlessly.
Even if there was no love between them, what about the days they had spent together? Couldn’t they at least be considered friends?
What about the recent marks left between them, the kisses they had shared—spurred on uncontrollably by the instability of the pheromone bonds?
Did none of it leave even the slightest mark in Chu Muqing’s heart?
Was she really just like any random passerby to Chu Muqing—an irrelevant stranger who meant nothing at all?
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. Tears streamed down her face, falling relentlessly. Su Wanqing stubbornly refused to look at Chu Muqing.
This marriage had always been a union of conflicting interests; she had never believed it would last. It was just that—
Things were different now.
Chu Muqing, watching the situation, suddenly sensed something was wrong.
Wasn’t the idea of divorce Su Wanqing’s in the first place? Why did it now seem like she was unwilling?
Looking at Su Wanqing crying so pitifully, her tears falling like petals from a pear blossom, and even her pheromones leaking uncontrollably, Chu Muqing felt a rare wave of panic.
She lifted her hand, hesitated, then let it fall again—lifted it once more, and again let it fall, utterly at a loss.
She had never been good at comforting people—how was she supposed to handle this?
“You could… maybe…”
Maybe stop crying first?
Before she could finish her sentence, Xu Chengke knocked hurriedly at the private room door. After getting permission, he walked in.
Hearing the knock, Su Wanqing immediately stopped crying and quickly wiped away her tears.
Xu Chengke glanced at Su Wanqing’s red-rimmed eyes, then at his awkward-looking boss.
Something about the atmosphere between the two of them didn’t feel quite right.
“What is it?” Chu Muqing asked.
“……”
Su Wanqing was still nearby. Xu Chengke hesitated, wondering if the topic he came to report was really appropriate for her to hear.
[Now they even guard their words around me.]
[Aren’t you about to replace me, about to leave the country? What is there that I can’t hear?]
This time, the voice in Chu Muqing’s mind sounded different—soft, aggrieved, almost unbearably delicate.
It tugged at the heartstrings in a way that made people instinctively want to comfort her.
Chu Muqing gave her assistant a cold glance. “Why are you dithering? Speak.
Now you remember to be cautious around the lady? A moment ago, you were pretty quick to ‘betray’ me.”
When Chu Muqing roasted people, she didn’t even need to try—her words alone could suffocate you.
Xu Chengke, feeling the pressure, quickly reported the latest information he had received. His voice was low, but clear enough for the two people in the room to hear every word.
“The Sun family’s girl somehow caught wind of the situation. She thinks the Chu family is about to change hands. She’s setting up a trap—she wants to swallow up Madam’s company.”
“My company?” Su Wanqing asked, surprised.
“Ah… didn’t Boss tell you?” Xu Chengke said awkwardly. “That fashion brand you’ve been working on—it’s yours. The company too.”
Chu Muqing: “……”
Su Wanqing: “……”