After Transmigrating into a Scumbag Alpha, the Female Lead Can Read My Mind (GL) - Chapter 18
Jiang Beiwang didn’t sleep a wink all night.
She had been extremely sleepy. The moment she lay down, drowsiness subtly crept in, her eyelids heavy. She was the type to fall asleep the second her head hit the pillow.
However, the moment the system’s mechanical voice appeared, Jiang Beiwang instantly sobered up.
After exchanging pleasantries with the system, she was still very tired, but despite staring at the ceiling for half the night, there was no sign of her falling asleep.
Their exchange included, but was not limited to:
“You can make such a basic mistake; you should be formatted, system.”
[Wasn’t the Host wildly probing the boundaries of character deviation?]
“I think even formatting can’t save a system like you. After all, you won’t get smarter if we do it again.”
[Why didn’t the Host say that when provoking this system, or when testing the boundaries? Saying it now is useless.]
“…”
After a rather restless night, Jiang Beiwang appeared in the Jiang family’s living room early in the morning.
She sat slumped on the central sofa in the living room. Probably due to lack of sleep, there were faint dark circles under her eyes, and she exuded an unusually gloomy aura.
The servants, who were preparing food early, couldn’t help but lighten their movements, fearing they might displease their young miss.
Even though Jiang Beiwang’s gaze wasn’t on them.
Strictly speaking, the young miss was just sitting there, showing no intention of supervising their work.
But the maids still felt a chill down their spines; they didn’t even dare to engage in their usual morning gossip that helped lift their spirits.
Jiang Beiwang sat for about half an hour before she saw Yu Dong come down the stairs.
Yu Dong was clearly a bit sleepy, her eyes still heavy.
After quickly “greeting” the system again, Jiang Beiwang, with her sharp eyes, noticed Jian Feng was also about to come downstairs.
She glanced at the items on the table.
There was only a fruit basket full of fruit.
A plump orange lightly landed on Yu Dong’s shoulder.
The orange was light, and the person throwing it controlled their strength, so it didn’t hurt much when it hit her shoulder.
Yu Dong stood still and watched for a while. When she looked up again, she seemed a bit more awake than before.
She saw Jiang Beiwang take a sip of the orange juice on the table, then put it aside with a hint of distaste.
It seemed it wasn’t to her liking.
Yu Dong rubbed her fingers. She picked up the orange that had fallen at her feet, stopped a few meters from Jiang Beiwang, and softly asked, “Is there anything I can do?”
She seemed to not at all think that Jiang Beiwang throwing an orange at her was a bad thing.
Instead, she meekly approached.
Jiang Beiwang first reprimanded herself, but to appear as though she truly disliked Yu Dong in front of Jian Feng, this was the only way.
“Come closer to me,” Jiang Beaiwang said.
Yu Dong obediently took a step forward.
“This is too sweet,” Jiang Beiwang gestured towards the orange juice on the table, then looked into Yu Dong’s eyes. “Pour me a glass of water.”
This posture was exactly like treating Yu Dong as a maid.
A maid preparing in the kitchen nearby heard this and promptly brought a glass of water at the perfect temperature. “Miss, it’s ready.”
So fast.
Jiang Beiwang’s expression cracked for a moment, then quickly reverted to her scumbag Alpha look, unreasonably stating, “Let Yu Dong do it.”
The maid’s standard smile vanished, replaced by an instantly hurt and forlorn expression, silently conveying a message to Jiang Beiwang with her eyes.
Is Miss refusing to drink the water I poured?
When Jiang Beiwang saw this, she thought there was something wrong with her eyes.
To avoid affecting the visual impact of this humiliation, she could only reply with her eyes first.
I’ll drink the water you poured later.
Only then did the maid return to her usual expression, stepping back and leaving with the water.
Yu Dong, who had witnessed everything, pursed her lips.
Although she still didn’t understand Jiang Beiwang’s intentions in doing this, it seemed that as long as she followed what Jiang Beiwang said, she would be fine, right?
The water should be nearby.
“Okay, please wait for me,” Yu Dong said.
Jian Feng stood on the staircase for a while, and because she was a bit far, she couldn’t see the eye contact between Jiang Beiwang and the maid.
Combining this with other rumors about Jiang Beiwang and Yu Dong’s obedient compliance, Jian Feng inexplicably had a strange thought.
If she walked over, would she also get hit?
What strange… house rules?
In reality, Jian Feng didn’t know much about the Jiang family, only that Jiang Beiwang’s parents and other family members were rarely home, and the vast Jiang residence usually only had Jiang Beiwang and a group of servants.
Was Jiang Beiwang’s main purpose for inviting her to the Jiang family this time simply due to extreme boredom?
Jian Feng saw Miss Yu calmly pick up the orange, so this situation probably wasn’t uncommon.
At least, not in the Jiang family.
Here, Jian Feng haphazardly analyzed the situation and managed to convince herself.
After all, she was currently at the Jiang family residence, so following the Jiang family’s house rules was… only natural.
Gathering a few maids in the vast hall to stand in a line and practice their aim, one by one, while she didn’t quite understand it, it was unexpectedly… acceptable when it came to Jiang Beiwang.
If Jiang Beiwang could sense Jian Feng’s thoughts at this moment, she would probably stand up and look at the sky in exasperation.
What on earth are you thinking?!
Jiang Beiwang glanced at Jian Feng’s figure.
Excellent. Now Jian Feng must think she’s unreasonable and incorrigible, that she acts purely on her own whims without considering others.
In short, Jian Feng must now think she’s utterly rotten.
And then, she’d immediately start pitying Yu Dong, who had endured so much in the Jiang family.
Jiang Beiwang saw that Jian Feng was slow to come downstairs and felt that things were progressing quite smoothly.
See? A scene she specifically orchestrated.
Now she definitely wouldn’t get a “personally upright” evaluation, would she?
Jian Feng descended the stairs step by step and stood by the wall a distance from Jiang Beiwang.
The two remained silent.
However, their inner thoughts were not as calm as their outward appearances suggested.
Jiang Beiwang: What is she doing standing there?
Jian Feng: Why isn’t she throwing it yet?
Jiang Beiwang frowned: Did she turn into a statue?
Jian Feng’s lips tightened: If she doesn’t throw it soon, I’m leaving.
It wasn’t until Yu Dong came over with a cup of warm water that the silent atmosphere finally broke.
Yu Dong placed the water on the table in front of Jiang Beiwang.
Jiang Beiwang suspected that what she had done earlier wasn’t quite enough; otherwise, why was Jian Feng standing there as if she were being punished?
She picked up the cup and took a sip.
The temperature was just right.
It wasn’t until she picked up an orange from the fruit basket that she suddenly saw Jian Feng straighten up.
What on earth is she doing?
Jiang Beiwang was utterly confused.
[Host, Jian Feng thinks you’re going to throw the orange in your hand at her.]
Jiang Beiwang: “???”
No, why on earth would she throw an orange at someone for no reason?
[You throwing an orange at Yu Dong was seen by Jian Feng earlier.]
Jiang Beiwang glanced at the orange in her hand. She had deliberately thrown the orange at Yu Dong earlier so Jian Feng would see it, to make Jian Feng pity Yu Dong and think that she, the scumbag Alpha, was very bad.
Could Jian Feng think… that she was going to hit everyone without discrimination?
Could she really be… that… bad?