After Transmigrating into a Scumbag Alpha, the Female Lead Can Read My Mind (GL) - Chapter 13
After finishing lunch, Jiang Beiwang quickly left.
Partly to avoid Yu Dong, but also for another reason.
Today was the day Jian Feng would visit the Jiang family.
Jiang Beiwang stood in front of her wardrobe for a long time, rummaging through a uniform collection of black clothes, finally unearthing a slightly different one in a corner.
This one was also predominantly black, but it had off-white accents, making it simple yet tastefully designed, quite eye-catching.
Laying it flat on the bed, Jiang Beiwang felt something was still missing.
Truthfully, she wasn’t entirely sure why she bothered to dig out a dress that was slightly different from her usual attire.
But the thought of meeting Jian Feng, the “good A” from the original text, made her, a “scumbag A,” fiercely competitive and unwilling to be outdone.
It was the scumbag Alpha’s desire to win.
Although her purpose in inviting Jian Feng to the Jiang family was to comfort Yu Dong.
Jiang Beiwang thought for a moment. Since she was the one who invited Jian Feng to the Jiang family to comfort Yu Dong, shouldn’t she dress more simply, so as not to overshadow Jian Feng?
But then she reconsidered: it was the first meeting between two Alphas.
She still couldn’t be outdone.
After getting dressed, Jiang Beiwang rummaged through her closet again and found a delicate and pretty little flower brooch.
Perfect.
However, this subtle change from her usual attire still sent shivers down the spines of the maids who worked at the Jiang family for years.
After Jiang Beiwang passed by, two maids huddled together, looking at the retreating figure of their young miss.
“I wonder who Miss is meeting. Her clothes are completely different from usual; you can tell she put a lot of effort into preparing.”
“Miss wasn’t even this careful when attending banquets.”
“It must be a very important person then.”
••••
“A very important person.”
Yu Dong repeated this phrase in her mind.
Who could be so important to Jiang Beiwang?
Given the Jiang family’s status.
Currently, no family surpassed the Jiang family, and Jiang Beiwang was notoriously indifferent to everyone.
Yu Dong didn’t follow Jiang Beiwang out.
She turned and went upstairs.
Because she went up rather hastily, her ankle still throbbed faintly.
Yu Dong seemed not to notice, glancing at the corridor window when she reached the second floor.
The corridor window was on the side of the Jiang family’s main gate. From here, she could only see a few maids watering flowers downstairs.
The room where Jiang Beiwang had made her assemble the broken cup, however, offered a view of the Jiang family’s main gate.
Yu Dong didn’t return to her own room. She went to the room where Jiang Beiwang had placed many snacks, fruits, and inhibitors when she was assembling the cup.
The snacks and fruits here had been cleared away by the maids, but the inhibitors and medicine box were still there.
From the window, she could directly see the Jiang family’s main gate.
At this moment, Jiang Beiwang stood at the Jiang family’s gate, watching the person alight from a car outside.
This should be Jiang Beiwang’s second time seeing Jian Feng.
However, last time she only saw a distant silhouette. Her attention at the time was on Yu Dong, and she only recognized Jian Feng well enough to identify him.
Seeing Jian Feng up close this time, Jiang Beiwang realized that protagonists were indeed protagonists.
Jian Feng exuded a gentle, cool aura, yet without appearing weak. A faint smile graced her face, but she didn’t seem like the easily approachable type.
Jiang Beiwang mentally calculated her chances of winning if the two of them were to fight.
The system’s cold voice reminded her.
[Jian Feng is a very skilled fighter. You would have about a 10% survival rate if you fought her.]
What kind of talk was that?
In the system’s eyes, if she fought Jian Feng, winning wasn’t even a consideration; merely surviving would be a stroke of luck.
Jiang Beiwang decided to start learning how to fight from today onwards.
No.
As a scumbag Alpha, she wouldn’t personally engage in a fight.
Jian Feng seemed quite pleased to see her; there was no tense, drawn-out atmosphere. Instead, she extended a friendly hand, “I’ve long heard rumors of Miss Jiang. It’s an honor to meet you.”
The atmosphere was unexpectedly harmonious.
After a brief handshake with Jian Feng, Jiang Beiwang asked the system.
[Jian Feng said she heard rumors about me, so why is she still so friendly?]
In Jiang Beiwang’s impression, not a single rumor about the original owner was positive; every single one was extremely antagonistic to a “good A” like Jian Feng.
One could say that Jian Feng maintaining a friendly smile upon seeing her was already a testament to her good nature.
After all, in the original plot, Jian Feng and the original owner were constantly at odds, clashing every time they met. Later, due to the female lead, Jian Feng disliked the Jiang family even more.
The situation was indeed somewhat different.
The system checked its panel.
[Jian Feng’s favorability towards you is 10%.]
[Your system makes mistakes?] Jiang Beiwang asked.
In the original plot, the two clashed at their first meeting, disliking each other immediately.
There was no way Jian Feng could have a good impression of the original owner.
[Upon verification, the rumors Jian Feng heard were about your ‘quality education’ for the He family.]
Jiang Beiwang: “…”
[Jian Feng believes you are upright and have good ideas, which has even given her a positive filter towards the Jiang family.]
Jiang Beiwang was momentarily unsure if this was a compliment for a scumbag Alpha or an undermining of her scumbag Alpha reputation.
For a scumbag Alpha to receive such a review was truly a rare sight.
Jiang Beiwang twitched the corner of her mouth, forcing a stiff smile at Jian Feng.
“Jian Feng, I’m very happy you could come this time.”
But it would be better if we returned to our mutually disliking state.
Jian Feng looked at her stiff smile and asked, “Miss Jiang, are you unwell?”
“I’m alright,” Jiang Beiwang said. “I just feel quite uncomfortable seeing you.”
A scumbag Alpha’s essential skill.
Verbal provocation.
An indiscriminate attack that leaves no room for rebuttal, often rendering a kind and good-natured person speechless.
Even the maids of her Jiang family could tell their young miss’s tone was off. The people from the Jian family also lowered their heads, only Jian Feng touched her forehead, “I caught a bit of a cold from the wind.”
Her tone was as gentle as ever, like a clear spring.
Truly worthy of being the “good A” who could heal the female lead’s heart.
The distance from the second floor was a bit far; Yu Dong couldn’t clearly hear the conversation between the two, nor did she hear Jiang Beiwang’s inner thoughts.
She looked at the faint smile on Jian Feng’s face and could sense that their discussion should be quite relaxed.
Did Jiang Beiwang go to such lengths to prepare just to meet Jian Feng?
Yu Dong withdrew her gaze. She hadn’t heard of any intention of cooperation between the Jiang and Jian families recently.
Even if there were, Jiang Beiwang would only conduct discussions within the Jiang family’s company.
According to the Jiang family’s maids, only He Li occasionally visited the Jiang family to see Jiang Beiwang. Besides that, no one else had ever come to the Jiang family.
Later, when Grandma Jiang brought her back, she was the second.
Yu Dong slowly walked back to her room.
In the corridor, she unconsciously recalled Jiang Beiwang’s words from before.
Jiang Beiwang said she didn’t even have the right to be hated.
Compared to her, who had nothing, Jiang Beiwang was clearly more compatible with the rising business talent, Jian Feng.
••••
Meanwhile, after Jiang Beiwang led the person into the Jiang family residence, she had a maid arrange an empty room for Jian Feng to temporarily stay in.
To create an opportunity for Jian Feng to be a good person, Jiang Beiwang now needed to go to Yu Dong’s room.
Scumbag Alphas didn’t have a habit of knocking. Jiang Beiwang didn’t even bother to greet anyone. After opening the door, she walked straight towards the table and chairs in the room. Yu Dong was sitting at the table, seemingly looking at something.
Yu Dong clearly didn’t expect her to come over suddenly. She awkwardly put things away and stood up to meet Jiang Beiwang’s gaze.
Jiang Beiwang glanced at the table. The book’s cover was hidden underneath, revealing only the back with many company introductions printed on it.
The female lead was preparing to turn things around.
Jiang Beiwang’s eyes lit up. This trip was worth it.
Yu Dong was still worried that Jiang Beiwang wouldn’t like her reading these, but she didn’t expect Jiang Beiwang’s inner thoughts to be surprisingly direct.
[Good, good, good, read more. I’ll move all the useful books over in a bit.]
[No one can interrupt my little Yu’s all-night studying.]
[Good, good, good, excellent—]
After hearing Jiang Beiwang’s inner thoughts, Yu Dong couldn’t help but be stunned.
The next moment, she saw Jiang Beiwang’s gaze shift elsewhere. “I remember you brought a bag when you came.”
“Take it out and let me see.”
After speaking, Jiang Beiwang swaggered over and sat in a chair, her legs crossed, resting her chin on her hand as she watched Yu Dong.
C
She didn’t want to come here this time either.
Perhaps it was because her last bullying wasn’t harsh enough, or for some other reason, Yu Dong had been slow to rummage through the things she brought from the Yu family, causing the plot to still not return to normal.
The system reminded her three or four times a day.
[The female lead has not successfully obtained the inheritance. Please, Host, assist the female lead in discovering the inheritance.]
The “assist” here didn’t mean for Jiang Beiwang to help search.
It meant for her to bully Yu Dong even more harshly.
Jiang Beiwang could only think of a compromise and specifically waited until Jian Feng arrived to begin.
This way, after she finished bullying the female lead, Jian Feng could immediately come to the rescue.
Jiang Beiwang watched Yu Dong retrieve a black, medium-sized bag from the closet.
“Pour out everything inside,” Jiang Beiwang said.