I Was Just a Scumbag Extra, But She Loved Me Anyway [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 22
The press conference continued smoothly.
Although there had been a minor disruption earlier, the overall rhythm remained intact, progressing in an orderly manner.
As the scheduled start time arrived, Leng Xin—having regained her composure—walked up to the center of the stage and began her presentation as the spokesperson, calmly introducing Yu Jian Technology’s new product design concept. Her voice was steady, showing no sign of the person who’d been on the verge of tears just moments ago.
However, Su Chenli clearly noticed that even as Leng Xin spoke, her eyes roamed the venue, cold and sharp, as if she’d resolved to go head-to-head with someone.
…So, she still hasn’t given up on finding Sang Jianyu?
In the dimly lit venue, Su Chenli lowered her head and quickly sent a message to the Marketing Director:
[No matter what, do not leave Sang Jianyu’s side. If anyone tries to make things difficult for her—no matter who it is—block them immediately!]
Before she got a response, Xie Xunyu’s calm voice suddenly sounded beside her.
“What are you doing?”
“Uh,” Su Chenli instantly put her phone away. “Nothing, just checking a message.”
Xie Xunyu frowned slightly. “Pay attention to the report.”
“…Okay.” Su Chenli nodded obediently.
According to the plot, after discovering that Sang Jianyu was being harassed backstage, Leng Xin would show up in time to drive the troublemakers away—marking her official reunion with Sang Jianyu. Although the specific trigger wasn’t described, it was clear from the story that some kind of unexpected incident had to happen. Otherwise, why would Leng Xin leave the stage and appear backstage so suddenly?
Who knows what chaos Leng Xin might stir up?
Su Chenli remained on high alert, tracking the Alpha’s movements, completely unaware that Xie Xunyu’s expression had grown darker by the minute—especially when Leng Xin began listing future product plans.
During a break in the conference, Leng Xin stepped down from the stage, and models took over to present the new product line. As Su Chenli watched her walk off, her attention sharpened again.
Could this be the moment where Leng Xin and Sang Jianyu reunite? She should probably send a follow-up reminder to the Marketing Director…
Before she could pull out her phone, Xie Xunyu suddenly turned to her and asked, “Did you catch what Leng Xin said about their upcoming product lineup for the second half of the year?”
Caught off guard, Su Chenli blinked in confusion.
Was she supposed to have picked up on something?
This was bad—she’d been too focused on monitoring Leng Xin and hadn’t really paid attention to the product details.
Seeing her reaction, Xie Xunyu sighed softly, pressing her fingers to her temple like she had a headache. Then she stood up and instructed her secretary behind her, “Prepare the equipment. Are Li Yang and Luo Xin here too? Tell them to come by for a quick meeting.”
After giving her orders, she looked back at Su Chenli and added, “You’re coming too.”
Su Chenli reflexively wanted to decline, but then glanced toward the stage—only to realize that Leng Xin had already disappeared from the sidelines.
Given the timing, she was probably off to find Sang Jianyu. And now Xie Xunyu was also leaving…
So the key plot event had officially begun?
“Alright.” Su Chenli nodded and followed Xie Xunyu out of the hall toward the lounge area prepared for partners by Yu Jian.
Walking through the slightly dim hallway behind Xie Xunyu, Su Chenli’s gaze involuntarily landed on the woman ahead of her.
The fitted black suit outlined Xie Xunyu’s slender waist.
It wasn’t until now that Su Chenli realized just how thin she was—almost excessively so.
In fact, the more she looked, the more she noticed how delicate Xie Xunyu seemed. Even her features were soft, not at all what you’d expect from a typical Alpha…
Was she just overworked?
“What are you staring at?”
Su Chenli snapped out of her daze as Xie Xunyu suddenly turned back, casting her a cool glance.
“Uh,” caught red-handed, Su Chenli panicked and quickly looked away, trying to change the subject. “Nothing, really. Just wondering—this sudden meeting, is something wrong?”
Xie Xunyu looked at her steadily for a moment, then stepped slightly to the side, widening the distance between them. “Did you go through the reports I gave you earlier?”
Su Chenli hesitated. “Uh… I think I did.”
Xie Xunyu’s brow twitched slightly, clearly frustrated with Su Chenli’s lack of diligence. “If you’d actually read them, you would’ve known that several of Yu Jian’s upcoming product names overlap with ours. They’re also targeting the lower-tier market segment. If they launch ahead of us, the new strategy Su Tech has spent nearly two years preparing could suffer setbacks right from step one.”
Su Chenli: “…”
So… she’d just been backstabbed by Leng Xin?
What kind of cursed luck is this?
Fortunately, Xie Xunyu continued: “It’s not the kind of long-term strategy that could’ve been planned overnight. It’s highly likely that some of Su Tech’s business intel has already leaked—and our internal team has no clue. We need to deal with this immediately.”
…Well, at least it wasn’t a betrayal by a friend.
As Su Chenli and Xie Xunyu continued walking toward the lounge, they passed a display board when suddenly, voices could be heard from behind it.
“…Director Yuan, do you really think it’s necessary to stop me from speaking to an old acquaintance?”
The speaker was a woman, her voice smooth and low with a slight husk to it. She wasn’t speaking loudly, and her tone remained calm, yet there was something vaguely threatening in the way she spoke.
Then came the voice of Su Chenli’s hand-picked Marketing Director, though his tone sounded weak and uncertain.
“Ahahaha, well, President Leng, if you just wanted to catch up with Miss Sang, I wouldn’t normally interfere. It’s just that… today really isn’t a good time. We’re swamped in the marketing department. How about this—let’s arrange another day? I’ll host, and you and Miss Sang can have dinner together.”
Hearing the conversation, both Su Chenli and Xie Xunyu stopped in their tracks.
Su Chenli glanced toward the narrow gap between the display boards, surprised.
So this was how the key plot point got triggered?
If she hadn’t intervened, Leng Xin would probably be standing there right now, bitterly mocking Sang Jiangyue.
And Xie Xunyu—who was only passing through on her way to the emergency meeting—would overhear everything, step in out of anger, confront Leng Xin, and take Sang Jiangyue away with her. That would lead to Sang Jiangyue encountering Xie Xunyu’s pheromone flare-up…
That moment would create an emotional deadlock: two people pulling from opposite ends of a tangled bond, neither willing to let go. From there, the triangle would only spiral deeper into pain and drama.
Su Chenli let out a small breath of relief. Thankfully, she’d disrupted the scene early.
Xie Xunyu seemed to sense something was wrong too. She stepped forward and pushed the display board aside. The scrape of it dragging across the floor startled the people behind it.
Both Sang Jiangyue and Leng Xin turned to look.
Sang Jiangyue’s face visibly relaxed the moment she saw Xie Xunyu. “…President Xie.”
Leng Xin, who had been watching Sang Jiangyue the entire time, caught the shift in her expression. She quickly followed her line of sight and saw Xie Xunyu. Her brows furrowed and she opened her mouth to speak.
But Su Chenli, already guessing that whatever was about to come out of her mouth wouldn’t be good, quickly reached out and slapped a hand over the lower half of Leng Xin’s face.
Leng Xin: “???”
Her wide, incredulous eyes practically screamed What are you doing?!—as if the sheer intensity of her disbelief might burn a hole through Su Chenli’s forehead.
Su Chenli met her stunned gaze with quiet determination: Don’t blame me. I’m just speeding up your chances of winning back your pretty little ex.
She turned to wave off Xie Xunyu, then pulled Leng Xin aside, dragging her a short distance away.
“Let go of me!” As soon as they were out of sight, Leng Xin jerked herself free, clearly angry. She gritted her teeth and demanded, “Do you even know who that Omega is—the one flirting with your dad’s subordinate? And you’re stopping me?!”
“I know.” Su Chenli let out a sigh and cut her off.
Leng Xin blinked. “Wait… what?”
“You heard me.” Su Chenli nodded. “It’s just a little gossip, that’s all. Back when you were in school, you and that Omega were together, right? You fought your family tooth and nail for her. But in the end, she left you for money. Isn’t that what happened?”
She looked directly at Leng Xin, recounting the very misunderstanding that had been haunting her for years—even though Su Chenli knew it wasn’t the truth.
Leng Xin’s expression stiffened. She looked away awkwardly. “It wasn’t some big fight. Just… dumb youth, that’s all. Anyway, judging by how she’s doing now, it’s not like she ran off with our money and had a great life. She dared to lie to me—of course I’ll make her pay.”
“You really believe that?” Su Chenli asked quietly.
Leng Xin turned her head stubbornly and gave a firm, emotionless “Mm.”
Su Chenli: “…”
That’s some serious denial.
Leng Xin kept her gaze fixed off to the side, clearly uneasy. This whole situation was just too embarrassing.
She’d once loved Sang Jiangyue with everything she had. But in the end, Sang Jiangyue had treated her like a cash machine, disappeared after one big score, and left her behind without a word. It was humiliating.
What made it worse was that even now, even after realizing she’d been used… she still couldn’t forget her. Couldn’t stop thinking about her. Every time she saw her again, it hurt. She wanted to scream, to demand an explanation: Why? Why did you betray me?
It was pathetic.
Maybe… maybe it wasn’t even love anymore.
Maybe it was just obsession. The obsession of someone who had been wronged and couldn’t let go.
“…If you really want revenge,” Su Chenli said suddenly, placing a hand on Leng Xin’s shoulder and snapping her out of her spiraling thoughts, “I’ve got an idea.”
“What?” Leng Xin blinked, caught off guard. She looked at Su Chenli in disbelief, unsure she’d heard right.
“Make her fall in love with you,” Su Chenli said firmly.
“She broke your heart for money, didn’t she? Then get her back—make her fall for you so hard she can’t live without you. And when she’s finally all in, when she loves you more than anything… leave her. That’s how you get real revenge. That’s how you make her feel what you felt.”
Leng Xin stared at her, stunned. Her lips parted slightly, but no words came out.
Su Chenli just looked back at her, calm, her eyes soft with sympathy.
Because from her god’s-eye view, she understood these characters better than they understood themselves.
Leng Xin, using power to corner Sang Jiangyue, forcing her to say “I love you” when she didn’t mean it—wasn’t that just a way of punishing herself?
She couldn’t let go. She couldn’t believe Sang Jiangyue had ever truly loved her. She saw her as a heartless liar, someone she could never truly have, someone who would never choose her on her own.
And so, she tried to own her instead.
But what kind of love was that?
A desperate, painful kind—one that left nothing behind but bruises.
In truth, all of this came down to nothing more than a misunderstanding—a flawed perception twisted over time.
Now, Su Chenli had given Leng Xin a reason to let go of her resentment, a chance to pursue Sang Jiangyue again. And honestly, once they got back together, Su Chenli seriously doubted Leng Xin would be able to let her go a second time.
And if they did reconcile but still couldn’t clear up such a trivial misunderstanding, then honestly, they might as well donate their mouths to science—clearly, they weren’t being used anyway.
As expected, after a moment of dazed silence, Leng Xin frowned and hesitantly asked, “How… do I make her fall in love with me?”
Finally, Su Chenli thought. Right to the point.
“Play the victim,” she said confidently.
Leng Xin stared. “…What?”
“Act pitiful. Just like when you two were in love—get close to her again, slowly and gently. Be thoughtful, soft, sincere—she’ll be moved. I promise.”
“…Would that even work?” Leng Xin sounded unsure. “Didn’t she leave me for money? Shouldn’t I be throwing cash around instead?”
“Try this first. If it doesn’t work, you can always change tactics later.” Su Chenli gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze. You have no idea how well this strategy works, she thought. This world’s female lead Omega only responds to tenderness, not pressure.
Leng Xin frowned. “But there’s someone else around her… that Xie-something…”
“Oh, you mean Xie Xunyu?” Su Chenli replied casually. “Leave her to me. Even if she’s the CEO, she doesn’t have any say in her employee’s private relationships, does she?”
Leng Xin stayed silent for a moment, then finally relented. “I guess it’s worth a shot…”
Done! Su Chenli smiled to herself.
With Leng Xin now willing to change course, she had essentially completed the most difficult part of the mission: shifting the worldline’s trajectory. Only one unstable element remained—Xie Xunyu’s upcoming pheromone flare.
If she could sever the budding emotional thread between Xie Xunyu and Sang Jiangyue, she’d finally be able to untangle this messy knot of a world.
The system, which had been quietly observing, suddenly popped online and whispered nervously:
[Host… are you sure this is going to work?]
Su Chenli answered calmly, “The worldline hasn’t collapsed, has it? As long as the key plot events happen, the characters’ emotions don’t matter. So… why not?”
[That’s… actually kind of logical?] The system replied, slightly stunned. [I mean, if you’re not changing the core plot, this is technically allowed. Just…]
[Host, you’re incredibly bold…]
Su Chenli smiled faintly, saying nothing.
When they returned to where they had first run into Sang Jiangyue and Leng Xin, the meeting had already been arranged. As expected, Sang Jiangyue—who technically had no right to attend—was also present.
Su Chenli walked over. “Leng Xin’s already left. When are we starting?”
Xie Xunyu glanced past her shoulder and replied coolly, “Now.”
Inside the partner lounge prepared by Yu Jian, Xie Xunyu, Su Chenli, and Sang Jiangyue each took a seat.
The secretary had gone to connect the laptop to the company’s system. The other two executives hadn’t arrived yet, leaving just the three of them in the room.
Xie Xunyu lowered her gaze, flipping through the new product documentation. Her fingers moved smoothly over the pages with quiet grace.
Su Chenli didn’t pay much attention to Sang Jiangyue—she was more focused on watching Xie Xunyu’s expression.
Before long, Xie Xunyu suddenly frowned and stood up, looking slightly unwell. “I need to use the restroom.”
Here we go, Su Chenli thought. The pheromone riot begins.
Sang Jiangyue, visibly worried, stood to follow, but Su Chenli quickly stepped in to block her.
Seeing the concern on Sang Jiangyue’s face, Su Chenli smiled gently. “Miss Sang, it’s better if you don’t go in. Alphas and Omegas have different biology—you understand. I’ll take care of it. Actually, I just remembered I left a very important document in the car. Could you grab it for me?”
She placed the car keys in Sang Jiangyue’s hand.
Sang Jiangyue hesitated, glancing toward the restroom. “But President Xie…”
“Don’t worry.” Su Chenli gently closed her fingers around the keys. “President Xie is the pillar of Su Tech—I want her safe more than anyone.”
Sang Jiangyue fell silent, then gave a small nod. Apparently convinced, she turned and headed downstairs.
Su Chenli exhaled slowly in relief.
With the last unpredictable variable removed, there’s only one thing left to do.
She reached into her handbag and pulled out a syringe of Alpha-grade suppressant.
Pheromone riots were similar to heat cycles—both triggered by intense emotion or chemical imbalance. But while the latter was a natural biological phase, the former was a medical condition.
Su Chenli didn’t know how severe Xie Xunyu’s symptoms were. If it was mild, the suppressant would be enough to calm her. If it was serious… it would still hold her over until emergency help arrived.
Suddenly, the sound of something crashing echoed from the restroom.
Startled, Su Chenli rushed over instinctively.
Please don’t be seriously hurt…
She grabbed the door handle and burst inside without a second thought.
The faucet was still running, the rush of water echoing loudly in the room. Xie Xunyu was slumped on the ground, her hand trembling as it supported her weight on the wet tiles. Her pristine black suit was soaked, patches of moisture darkening the fabric’s hidden patterns. Her perfectly styled hair had come loose, and for once, the ever-composed Xie Xunyu looked… fragile.
“You—” Su Chenli stopped, stunned. She opened her mouth, but no words came out.
Xie Xunyu looked up at the sound of her voice, eyes blank and dazed. A few strands of her damp hair clung to her pale cheeks, her gaze unfocused as if she couldn’t see anything at all.
Su Chenli’s mind buzzed.
The faces didn’t match, not really—but for a moment, she felt like she was back on that cold, rainy night, trapped in a car with her beautiful sister.
And then it hit her.
The scent in the air had changed. Somewhere in the background, a subtle but unmistakable trail of Omega pheromones had taken over. Her own glands reacted with a delayed shock.
Su Chenli stared in disbelief.
“You—You’re not an Alpha?!”