After Transmigrating into a Scumbag Alpha, the Female Lead Can Read My Mind (GL) - Chapter 20
Someone pushed her shoulder with a lot of force, and Yu Dong couldn’t stop herself from staggering back a few steps.
The narrow alley didn’t offer much space to maneuver. Her hand scraped against the rough, mottled wall, quickly leaving a red mark.
The red mark was mixed with wall dust and dirt accumulated from prolonged exposure to wind and sun.
In short, it didn’t look good.
Yu Dong wasn’t very interested in fighting; she rarely got into fights when she was little.
After dodging an attack by turning her head, she quickly assessed the situation and used her slender build to slip through the gaps between a few people.
After breaking free from the group, Yu Dong casually kicked the person closest to her.
Her movements were fluid, clean, and without any hesitation.
Moreover, the spot she kicked was precise, and she used almost all her strength. Such a kick would require at least ten to fifteen days of recovery.
Before the person could even react, their leg buckled, and the next moment, they were already sprawled on the ground.
Yu Dong indeed disliked fighting, but that didn’t mean she was easily bullied.
Xia Ningjia hadn’t specifically chosen the people she brought this time; most were some of the Xia family’s maids and drivers temporarily brought along to fill out the numbers.
Meeting Yu Dong on the road was a coincidence, and she thought these people would be enough.
She never expected this.
She had underestimated Yu Dong.
“Stop,” Xia Ningjia suddenly spoke.
At her command, the few people exchanged glances, but in the end, they didn’t make any further moves.
“It wouldn’t sound good if word got out that we ganged up on you,” Xia Ningjia stopped in front of Yu Dong. “How about we make a bet?”
Yu Dong glanced to the side.
After being told to stop, the few people had already instinctively helped the person on the ground up.
Indeed, dealing with so many people at once felt troublesome to her.
“What’s the bet?”
“I’ll release news to the Jiang family. The bet is whether Jiang Beiwang will worry about you.”
Yu Dong didn’t even think. “No.”
“Are you scared?” Xia Ningjia said.
Yu Dong brushed past her. “That’s boring.”
Now Xia Ningjia was even more convinced that Yu Dong was scared. She had long believed that even if Yu Dong was living with the Jiang family now, her life wouldn’t be good.
Yu Dong’s attitude further solidified this belief for her.
After all, Jiang Beiwang’s personality was well-known. Few people in this area could provoke her and walk away unscathed.
“But I’ve already released the news,” Xia Ningjia turned, looking at Yu Dong with a hint of triumph.
Yu Dong paused.
Jiang Beiwang probably wouldn’t come, right?
She had only mentioned it to one maid when she left. No matter what, leaving without consulting Jiang Beiwang was wrong, wasn’t it?
Maybe she’d think.
She brought it upon herself.
Yu Dong didn’t want to cause trouble for the Jiang family.
“I said no bet. Take back the message.”
“Too late, the Jiang family’s servants have already received it,” Xia Ningjia smiled, looking at her. “Are you also looking forward to it? Isn’t it good for me to show you clearly what your place is?”
Yu Dong lowered her gaze.
If that happened, even that maid would be implicated.
“Jiang Beiwang, Jiang Beiwang!”
The person in front of her didn’t know what she was thinking; she called several times but got no response.
He Li sat next to Jiang Beiwang and waved her hand in front of Jiang Beiwang’s face.
“Snap out of it. What are you so lost in thought about? You can’t even hear me calling you.”
Jiang Beiwang glanced at her. “Speak if you have something to say.”
“Well, I wanted to ask how that person is doing?” He Li leaned in and asked.
“Who?”
“You know, that person.”
Jiang Beiwang looked at He Li. “Would it kill you to say the name?”
“No,” He Li lowered her voice even further. “Yu Dong.”
“Why did you bring Jian Feng out but not Yu Dong?” He Li glanced at Jian Feng, who was sitting primly. They couldn’t even chat happily with her here.
“Didn’t want to,” Jiang Beiwang replied coldly.
“Did you and Yu Dong fight?” He Li asked.
“No.”
“Did Yu Dong make you angry?” He Li asked again.
“No.”
“Then your relationship with Yu Dong…” He Li probed.
“No relationship.”
Speaking of Yu Dong.
Jiang Beiwang was clearly somewhat distracted.
Yu Dong had left the Jiang family alone. When she left, Jiang Beiwang was still in the car on the way to the bar. The driver wasn’t driving fast, but smoothly, and the buildings outside the window weren’t changing quickly.
She had received a message from a maid:
Miss, Miss Yu has left.
Jiang Beiwang didn’t have anyone follow her. In the original plot, Yu Dong also went alone. For matters of inheritance, the fewer people who knew, the better.
But she was still a bit worried.
He Li asked several questions in a row, all of which Jiang Beiwang brushed off with a few perfunctory words.
Just as she didn’t know what awkward small talk to make next.
The screen on the table suddenly lit up.
He Li’s gaze unconsciously drifted over and she sharply noticed it was a message from a Jiang family maid.
“You have a message,” He Li said.
Jiang Beiwang wasn’t in the mood to check messages now. “Ignore it.”
“It seems to be about Yu…”
Jiang Beiwang reached out.
The message read:
Miss, Miss Yu is in danger.
••••
“He Li, where did she go?” The scumbag friend who had just returned from the restroom noticed someone was missing and asked in confusion.
“She went to find someone,” He Li knew she was referring to Jiang Beiwang.
Jiang Beiwang left without Jian Feng. Faced with a group of strangers, and the only person she vaguely knew had left, Jian Feng was on pins and needles.
She wiped imaginary cold sweat from her forehead and could only ask the seemingly more friendly He Li.
“When will she be back?”
“Maybe, she won’t be back?” He Li said indifferently.
After all, Jiang Beiwang always acted on impulse. Sometimes, if she left midway, the chances of her returning were almost zero.
After speaking, she looked Jian Feng up and down, as if just realizing, then added as a remedy, “She probably went to bully someone somewhere. Don’t overthink it, she’s actually not bad, if you don’t look too closely.”
What a contradictory statement.
He Li recalled the chaotic things she had just said. The difference between looking closely and not looking closely at Jiang Beiwang was actually not that big.
No, where did she get the illusion that Jiang Beiwang was actually okay?
How could she just leave Jian Feng here and walk off alone?!
“Don’t overcomplicate things. Jiang Beiwang will go back by herself later. No, I mean you can just go back by yourself later,” He Li said.
Jian Feng nodded.
“Mm…” He Li then felt that this wasn’t right. How could you bring someone somewhere and then tell them to go back by themselves?
“I’ll take you later.”
Jiang Beiwang received the approximate location from the maid; it wasn’t far from here.
A ten-minute journey was cut down to five minutes by the driver, who usually drove slowly, now speeding. Jiang Beiwang got out of the car and asked the system for specific directions.
[Host, there’s no need to rush. When the female lead is in life-threatening danger, this system will issue an emergency alert.]
With the system guiding her, Jiang Beiwang took far fewer detours in the alley.
By the time she arrived, Yu Dong was standing very straight, surrounded by only three or four people, with two more lying on the ground.
[See, Host? This system said the female lead wasn’t in life-threatening danger.]
As expected…
The blackened female lead.
It was only then that Jiang Beiwang truly understood why the phrase “the female lead has blackened” was used back then.
Earlier, at the Jiang family residence, she hadn’t felt that this phrase was evident anywhere.
[Blackening is not only reflected in intelligence but also in physical strength.]
Speaking of which, the system was also a bit puzzled.
In the original plot, the female lead was a thoroughly good person in the early stages, the kind who wouldn’t fight back no matter how she was abused and would self-comfort and self-hypnotize.
But by the time Jiang Beiwang transmigrated, the female lead had already deviated from her previous kindness. Logically, the period of endurance should have significantly shortened, and her revenge would have come earlier.
Yet, there was still no sign of it.
Jiang Beiwang also sensed an unusual atmosphere.
Could it be, from now on.
Yu Dong is going to start resisting?
Counting the time, starting to resist now might be a bit earlier than in the original plot, but given Yu Dong’s various actions.
No big deal.
Jiang Beiwang decided to add fuel to the fire at this moment.
“Do you still remember me?” Xia Ningjia’s voice suddenly rang out.
Only then did Jiang Beiwang notice another person nearby. She looked, but had no impression. “Who are you?”
Xia Ningjia’s smile cracked for a few seconds. “My birthday party last time…?”
She remembered.
It was this person who spilled wine on the dress she had specifically chosen for Yu Dong.
At the time, she was so focused on Yu Dong that she completely ignored the person next to her, which was why she felt so unfamiliar.
Even after remembering, Jiang Beiwang still chose to ignore this Xia family member.
She had a more important task now.
As a scumbag Alpha, no matter what the female lead did, she just had to mock her indiscriminately.
If this succeeded, Yu Dong’s resentment towards her would deepen, and she might even start to disobey and resist her.
The plot would calmly proceed on the correct path.
And she, the scumbag Alpha, could also exit early.
When Yu Dong saw her arrive, she instinctively covered the injury on the side of her hand.
This action was fully observed by Jiang Beiwang. She decided to go back to the bar to get some medicine to apply later, but for now, she had her current mission.
She looked into Yu Dong’s eyes, her voice controlled to a very cold degree.
“Someone like you, are you always so dishevelled wherever you go?”
Between feeling sorry and ignoring, Jiang Beiwang unhesitatingly chose mockery.
Xia Ningjia looked at Yu Dong with a triumphant air. Even though Yu Dong hadn’t agreed to this bet, Xia Ningjia implicitly considered the bet valid in her heart.
This time, she had won.
But what Yu Dong heard was.
A faint sense of guilt.
[She’s hurt but still covering it up. I wonder what she’s thinking.]
[I really should have sent someone to follow her. It’s truly not safe to go out alone.]
[If only I had come earlier.]
••••
[She’s hurt and still has to listen to me say these hateful things. She must be very sad.]
Yu Dong thought.
It seems she didn’t lose.