Dressed as the Scumbag Alpha Mom of the Tragic Female Lead (ABO, GL) - Chapter 13

Chapter 13

It was three in the morning when Gu Lingjun’s parents arrived at her apartment. They rushed over without stopping after hearing about their daughter’s ordeal, their hearts only settling once they saw she was unharmed.

“Sweetie, are you okay?” Gu’s father hugged his daughter, checking her over, his gentle face full of worry. “What a mess. My precious girl’s been wronged.”

“Daddy, I’m fine. Thanks to the shop employee’s quick thinking, I wasn’t hurt at all.”

Gu’s mother sat nearby, her expression serious. She waited until her husband and daughter finished talking before speaking. “Enough crying. Tears won’t solve anything. Tomorrow, I’ll go to the police station myself to check on the investigation.”

Both parents were in their early forties, well-maintained and youthful-looking. They were strikingly attractive, and Gu Lingjun had inherited all their best features.

“I’m going too! I want to see which bastard dared to target my baby. I’ll tear him apart!”

Gu’s mother gave a helpless look. “What are you stirring things up for? The police station is a government office. Do you think they’ll let you make a scene? As long as they handle it fairly and give Lingjun justice, that’s enough.”

“My baby’s been through so much. A few years for attempted crime is justice? Trash like that should be physically castrated!”

Gu’s father was furious, in stark contrast to Gu’s mother’s calm.

“Our country only allows chemical castration, and an attempt doesn’t carry that heavy a sentence.”

“Hmph, you’re always defending Alphas. What’s all that Gu family money for if we can’t even deal with the scum who hurt our baby?”

Gu Lingjun’s mother was an Alpha, while her father, despite looking very much like an Omega, was a Beta. This pairing made conceiving difficult, so when they finally had Gu Lingjun, they treasured her like a fragile jewel.

“No amount of money can override the law… Alright, alright, stop complaining. It’s late, and Lingjun’s tired. Let’s rest and talk tomorrow.”

Gu’s father crossed his arms, sulking. “You’re always smoothing things over. If you hadn’t agreed to let our baby study here, none of this would’ve happened. I don’t care—this time, no matter what, she’s not staying. Once this is settled, Lingjun’s dropping out and coming home with us.”

Gu’s mother neither agreed nor disagreed, just glanced at her daughter and asked softly, “Lingjun, what do you think?”

Her mother always valued her opinions, and while her father’s overprotectiveness came from love, Gu Lingjun understood both. Yet, in the past, she could barely express herself in front of them.

“I want to keep studying here.”

“No way! Sweetie, this time it was just an attempt, but who knows what’ll happen next!” Gu’s father immediately objected, holding her hand with worry. “There are bad people out there. Do you know how dangerous it is for an Omega alone?”

“Daddy, you might be right about bad people, but I don’t want to lock myself in a safe cage because of them. Should Omegas give up their studies, dreams, and freedom just because someone wants to hurt them? That’s not protection—it’s blame. It’s like saying the fault lies with Omegas, with me, not the bad people.”

Gu’s father was stunned, and Gu’s mother looked surprised.

“Sweetie, that’s not what Daddy meant…”

“I know that’s not what you meant, but giving in to that mindset, to gentle protection, creates a vicious cycle.” Gu Lingjun’s fingertips trembled slightly, but she forced herself to speak calmly. “Daddy, I don’t want to stop studying here just because someone tried to hurt me… I shouldn’t be punished for that, right?”

Both her parents loved her. What she needed wasn’t to fear them or obey their arrangements but to voice her own thoughts.

“Well…”

Gu’s father looked at his daughter’s pleading face, unsure how to respond. Gu’s mother spoke up. “Alright, we can discuss this slowly. Let’s rest for now. Lingjun, you did nothing wrong in this, and both Mommy and Daddy will fully support you.”

With her mother’s assurance, Gu Lingjun breathed a little easier. When she’d wanted to attend B University, it took her ages to build up the courage to tell her parents. This time, though still nervous, was a huge step forward.

She’d never thought she could express herself so calmly—was this because of Jiang Chuxie’s influence?

Junior year courses weren’t too demanding, and Jiang Chuxie planned to tackle both her startup and her thesis early. She chose computer science not only to distance herself from the original plot but also because she saw the opportunities in this environment.

The internet was the future, both in reality and in the book. Jiang Chuxie wanted a stable life and, if possible, to be a slacker. After all, she’d died from overwork in her last life—being a workaholic again would be too pathetic.

But after repeatedly encountering those subtle plot points, she realized some things were unavoidable. The thought of the heroine’s six overpowered “husbands” filled her with dread.

She could try to prevent the heroine’s birth, but she had little control over those six lunatics. Based on their ages in the story, they were already born, the oldest likely in elementary school. If she did nothing and somehow crossed them, a slacker like her would have no way to fight back.

To avoid a doomed fate, Jiang Chuxie had to pull herself together and make a solid career plan.

After assessing the current landscape, she eyed the internet’s potential boom in a few years, planning to “borrow” the success stories of tech moguls from her past life to become a mogul in this world.

Of course, step one was writing code.