After Transmigrating into a Scumbag Alpha, the Female Lead Can Read My Mind (GL) - Chapter 21
Yu Dong was lost in thought, her gaze lowered, not on Jiang Beiwang, but somewhat absentmindedly at the ground.
Her mouth also showed a faint bruise, her eyebrows were downcast, long eyelashes unmoving, and fine strands of hair slightly obscured her eyes.
She was still covering the scratch on her hand from the wall.
She looked so pitiful.
As this thought emerged, Jiang Beiwang was instantly speechless.
What was she supposed to say? Yu Dong was already suffering from being surrounded, and now she was adding salt to the wound with such hateful words.
She was truly a terrible person.
Jiang Beiwang had initially prepared a host of unpleasant lines, intending to seize this opportunity to provoke Yu Dong thoroughly, aiming for her to move out of the Jiang family and find peace on her own by tomorrow.
But now.
Her mind was blank. She had completely forgotten all those lines, and she didn’t even know how to offer basic comfort. All she could do was tighten her lips and grab Yu Dong’s uninjured hand.
Jiang Beiwang frowned. When her face was devoid of expression, she seemed very unapproachable.
The alley was very narrow. She paused as she pulled Yu Dong past Xia Ningjia.
“Didn’t I say not to touch anyone from the Jiang family?”
Yu Dong was still looking at their clasped hands. She was pulled off balance, and then Jiang Beiwang suddenly stopped.
She almost couldn’t control her body and nearly bumped into the back of the person in front of her.
After regaining her balance, Yu Dong looked up, the sounds in her ears slightly distorted.
About a few years ago, the original body had indeed said something similar.
At that time, a maid dismissed by the original body was targeted by other families after leaving the Jiang family, threatened to reveal internal affairs of the Jiang family. The original body dealt with them ruthlessly, and within a few days, those families collapsed.
Because of this, almost no one dared to provoke anyone connected to the Jiang family.
Xia Ningjia’s face changed. “Beiwang, the Yu family collapsed long ago. She can’t bring any benefits to the Jiang family.”
“But our family can. The Xia family has…”
Jiang Beiwang had no patience to listen to her. “Don’t call me that.”
“If you want to help the Jiang family, you can.”
“I will arrange for people to take over the industries the Xia family owns. From today onwards, they will be managed by the Jiang family.”
••••
Actually, the Xia family itself was not far from bankruptcy.
Jiang Beiwang remembered the plot mentioning it. She was just accelerating the process now.
Dragging Yu Dong into the car, Jiang Beiwang told the driver, “Go back to where we were before,” then finally released Yu Dong’s hand.
Neither of them spoke.
Yu Dong was still thinking about how to explain her unauthorized departure from the Jiang family. She touched her pocket; the paper with the phone number was clearly lost somewhere.
It might have fallen out during the dodging.
Yu Dong withdrew her hand.
Her memory was decent; she had memorized it after reading it a few times at the Jiang family’s house. Losing the paper wouldn’t affect anything.
But she hadn’t forgotten the agreed time. Being delayed just now meant she probably couldn’t be on time, but fortunately, she had left early, so the other party likely hadn’t departed yet.
Yu Dong sent a message simply explaining the situation.
After sending it, she turned her head and glanced to the side.
Jiang Beiwang was propping her chin, looking out the car window. From Yu Dong’s perspective, she could only see a part of her profile.
Yu Dong retracted her gaze.
She raised her hand and looked at the side.
“That’s a pretty bad injury.”
A leisurely voice drifted over from beside her.
Jiang Beiwang had looked over at some point, her gaze directly on Yu Dong’s exposed wound.
Seeing Yu Dong look over, she casually raised her eyelids.
Yu Dong met her gaze.
After a few seconds of eye contact, Jiang Beiwang let out a soft “tsk.”
“What are you looking at? Are you going to hit me?”
Yu Dong: “…No.”
After a while, she suddenly explained, “I left when they didn’t know. It has nothing to do with them.”
Jiang Beiwang took a moment to realize who Yu Dong meant by “them” before understanding she was referring to the Jiang family maids.
“When you say that, it sounds like I’m holding you captive in the Jiang family,” Jiang Beiwang said.
But she hadn’t restricted Yu Dong from going out at all, had she?
On the contrary, she wished Yu Dong would go out more and do her own things.
“Also,” Jiang Beiwang stated a time, the period when Yu Dong left the Jiang family, “no matter when you leave, they can see you.”
“The moment you take your first step out of the Jiang family, the news will reach me.”
[So, you can leave whenever you want.]
[I know everything.]
••••
Yu Dong thought about it. The meaning of these words was probably that her ability to leave the Jiang family was tacitly approved by Jiang Beiwang.
The maids wouldn’t be punished either.
Only she had thought that she was leaving without asking Jiang Beiwang’s permission, and that no one would find out as long as she returned to her original position before Jiang Beiwang came back.
The journey wasn’t long. Soon, Jiang Beiwang saw the familiar ambient lights through the car window.
He Li was quite surprised when she saw her, and her voice wasn’t suppressed at all. “I thought you weren’t coming back! I was already getting ready to clean up and send Jian Feng home.”
Jiang Beiwang settled Yu Dong on an empty sofa, specifically keeping her away from the original body’s scumbag friends.
“No more drinks, no more. Wait, let me see what Beiwang’s doing,” He Li put down her glass, deftly extricated herself from the group of scumbag friends, and approached Jiang Beiwang.
“A glass of plain water, and an antiseptic ointment for scrapes,” Jiang Beiwang ordered indifferently.
This was a Jiang family establishment, so of course, the people here recognized Jiang Beiwang.
However, the original body usually ordered drinks, and the person was habitually preparing to get what the original body usually ordered. They clearly paused after hearing “plain water.”
He Li tapped the solid wood high table.
“Beiwang, where did you get the idea that there would be plain water here?”
She remembered almost choking to death from thirst here last year, asking Jiang Beiwang for a glass of cold water, and the person coolly told her, “We don’t have that here.”
He Li didn’t believe they would have it now.
“I bought two bottles of mineral water when I bought the orange juice earlier,” the person took out two unopened bottled waters from a cabinet below. “We don’t usually have them.”
He Li: “…?”
They actually do?
“And antiseptic ointment,” Jiang Beiwang said.
He Li felt confident again this time. She tapped the solid wood tabletop again. “Forget the water, this is a bar, not a pharmacy. Where are you going to get antiseptic ointment? Beiwang, I told you not to make things difficult for people.”
Who knew the person would skillfully open another cabinet?
He Li was a bit dumbfounded.
“Don’t tell me you actually have it.”
“We keep some medicine on hand in case someone gets into a fight, to make it easier for guests to treat their injuries.”
There were indeed quite a few ointments and pills in the cabinet. Jiang Beiwang glanced at them. There were even band-aids and bandages.
After taking the mineral water and antiseptic ointment, Jiang Beiwang was about to leave when she was suddenly stopped by He Li. “You came all this way, aren’t you going to get a drink? I feel like you’ve completely changed.”
The “drinks” He Li referred to were various colored alcoholic beverages.
Jiang Beiwang turned back. “Almost forgot.”
“I knew you wouldn’t just leave like that. You really are the same familiar…”
“Get a bottle of rubbing alcohol.”
The person preparing to get drinks: “…”
He Li, speechless once again: “…”
The alley wall was uneven; rubbing against it could transfer a lot of dust, dirt, and wall grime. Mixed with the bl00d oozing from the wound, it looked both painful and pitiful.
She hadn’t even left yet when He Li stopped her with a completely bewildered expression.
That expression, how to describe it, seemed to carry a hint of excitement, yet also a worried upturn of the lips, as if preparing for a fight.
He Li frowned nervously, looking Jiang Beiwang up and down.
“I’ve been meaning to ask, are you hurt? Who dares to hit our Jiang family’s only daughter, the famous scumbag Alpha? Do they have a death wish? I’ll mobilize all my forces right now to hunt her down for you.”
“Yu Dong,” Jiang Beiwang said. “She was cornered by Xia Ningjia and got a little hurt.”
He Li circled Jiang Beiwang again, making sure there were no injuries before letting her go.
“I thought someone finally dared to hit you.”
She was clearly a little disappointed, but on second thought, it was normal. Given Jiang Beiwang’s status and power, who would dare to rush to their death?
“Remember to give Xiao Yu some comfort for me.”
••••
Jiang Beiwang gave Yu Dong the alcohol and ointment, telling her to treat it herself.
Actually, she wanted to treat it for her, but due to her character persona, and with so many scumbag friends watching, her intuition told her it wouldn’t be appropriate.
If she were to treat Yu Dong now, these people would exaggerate the story and spread it around the next second.
Who knows what they’d say.