Transmigrated as the Scumbag Alpha’s Gorgeous Wife Who Keeps Trying to Seduce Me (GL) - Chapter 14

After lunch, Chi Lengzhao prepared to take a nap. She had spent the entire morning touring a lavish mansion and was feeling a bit tired, so she naturally made her way to the guest bedroom. The room was rarely used, but Fangfang always kept it spotless. The bedding and mattress were brand new.

Chi Lengzhao had only just fallen asleep when her phone rang, waking her up. She had long since changed the ringtone from aggressive metal rock to a calm system default tone.

That was also the ringtone she used back in her original world. It felt familiar—perhaps the most familiar thing to her in this strange world.

“Damn it, you got discharged and didn’t even tell us?!”

Still drowsy, Chi Lengzhao was momentarily disoriented. Hearing the familiar ringtone, she thought for a second that she was back in her old world. She picked up the phone and answered in a formal tone, “Hello, who’s this?”

“What do you mean, ‘who’s this’? Don’t give me that! It’s Hanzi!”

“Zhao, are you still not right in the head? You seriously can’t recognize my voice or Hanzi’s?” another voice cut in over the line.

Chi Lengzhao rubbed her forehead and touched the bandages wrapped around her head. Slowly, she came back to her senses.

These two were Hanzi and Xue Pantao—close friends of the body’s original owner, bonded by mutual mischief. They had mentioned coming to visit her in the hospital this afternoon.

“I’ve been discharged. Shi Xin’s still there. Go visit her instead.”

Xue Pantao replied, “We just saw her. That girl was bawling like a banshee. Seems like she’s doing okay—nothing too serious. Haha, I was expecting to see a mummy!”

Hanzi added, “Nah, we’re coming to your place. Don’t move a muscle.”

Chi Lengzhao: “…”

Fine. Today, she’d meet the other two members of the infamous ‘Shameless Quartet.’

Half an hour later, with a screech, a flashy green Lamborghini pulled up in front of Chi Lengzhao’s house.

Housekeeper Zhou welcomed them into the sitting room. When Chi Lengzhao saw them for the first time, she sucked in a sharp breath.

One had long twin ponytails dyed bright red, an extremely “anime” style. Her smoky eye makeup was so thick it was hard to see where her eyes were. She wore designer clothes thrown together with no sense of matching, as if money were no object. Gold and silver jewelry hung all over her; she wore four bracelets on one arm alone. She screamed one word: tacky.

The other girl had messy blonde hair that looked even more like a bird’s nest than Chi Lengzhao’s bandage-covered head. She wasn’t wearing heavy makeup, but her face was especially large and round, with sunken eyes and nose. When she smiled, her teeth gleamed brilliantly. Her outfit was quite revealing—though to be fair, she had the figure for it. This naturally drew attention away from her face.

Chi Lengzhao quickly figured out who was who: the redhead with pigtails was Hanzi, and the blonde mess was Xue Pantao.

Fangfang came in to serve tea. “Miss Jiang, your tea. Miss Xue, please enjoy.”

Hanzi laughed boisterously. “Tea? Who drinks tea? Zhao, get us a couple of beers!”

Xue Pantao blew on her tea and set the cup down. “Damn, this is scalding. Beer’s much easier.”

Chi Lengzhao sat across from them, eyeing these two delinquent-looking friends. Slowly, she said, “I don’t drink alcohol at home. Sorry, there’s no beer.”

Both girls froze for a moment before bursting into loud, braying laughter. The sound drifted up to the second-floor reading room, where Shen Zhixi was quietly reading.

That laugh—it was unmistakable. She’d heard it more times than she cared to count in her previous life.

She turned and asked Huazi, “Do we have guests?”

Huazi returned shortly, “They’re Miss Chi’s friends—Miss Jiang and Miss Xue.”

Shen Zhixi thought, Of course. Jiang Han and Xue Xingyu—Chi Lengzhao’s infamous party pals.

Hanzi cackled, “You, not drink? That’s the best joke I’ve heard! Everyone knows you’re an ice-cold beauty with a killer tolerance—you could drink a whole bar under the table!”

She crossed her legs and propped them up on the coffee table. “No beer? Brandy’ll do.”

Chi Lengzhao frowned and slapped her leg hard.

“What is this behavior? Are you thirteen? Coming over as a guest and acting like this—is this how you were raised? Didn’t anyone teach you manners?”

Xue Pantao, who had been about to do the same, froze and quickly withdrew her leg.

Hanzi looked stung. “So what if no one taught me?”

“Then learn! No one’s born knowing this stuff. You’re twenty-four years old—don’t act like ignorance is a personality trait! It’s pathetic—for you and your family!”

Hanzi finally broke down. After a long pause, she muttered through tears, “You’re so mean!” then covered her face and cried.

Xue Pantao pleaded, “Zhao, stop… We won’t put our feet up again, okay?”

Chi Lengzhao turned to her. “Look at you. Dressed like that—what are you trying to do? You’re a young lady of the Xue family. Going out like this, aren’t you ashamed? You don’t have money for proper clothes? I’ll buy you a decent outfit myself.”

Tears welled up in Xue Pantao’s eyes. “Zhao… that’s too much!” She couldn’t hide her face with her hands, so she buried it in her lap and cried.

“Too much?” Chi Lengzhao had decided—if she was going to offend them, she’d do it thoroughly.

“You’re adults—yet all you do is party, gamble, waste time, and act like fools. You think this is how real ladies behave? If you want people to respect you, then start acting respectable!”

Hanzi sobbed, “Zhao, how could you say that? Are we still even friends?”

Xue Pantao cried harder. “Zhao, you’re really too harsh! I might’ve played mahjong, but I’ve never solicited anyone! I just want a girlfriend, but everyone turns me down…”

In the original story, these two weren’t bad people at heart. They were just neglected at home—like the original Chi Lengzhao. One had divorced parents, the other lost her mother young, and they were always battling siblings over inheritance.

When they needed love the most, no one cared. So they rebelled. They gave up.

Seeing their makeup running as they genuinely cried, Chi Lengzhao realized she’d been too harsh.

She sat between them. “I’m sorry. I went too far just now. But I said those things because I see you as my friends. If a real friend won’t tell you the truth, who will?”

Xue Pantao clutched her leg and sobbed, “Zhao, you’re all I have…”

Chi Lengzhao felt genuinely sorry for her heartbroken friend. She gently patted her back. “Pantao, next time, let’s not get dumped, okay? Open your eyes, find someone reliable—I’ll help vet them for you.”

Xue Pantao wailed even louder.

Hanzi sniffled, “Zhao, you’re the only one who’s ever been this real with me! I don’t want to be a waste of space, but I don’t know how to do anything!”

“Who Says Anyone’s Born Useless?”

“No one’s born a failure,” Chi Lengzhao said firmly. “If we don’t know how, we’ll learn—slowly, together. The three of us will learn together.”

Hanzi let out a loud sob and hugged her tightly. “Zhao, you’re such a true friend! If you were an Omega, I’d be chasing you!”

Xue Pantao chimed in, “I’d chase you too!”

Chi Lengzhao smiled helplessly and wrapped her arms around the two crybabies. “You’re both too late—I’m already married. But whether I’m married or not, we’ll always be good friends.”

“You’ve changed so much, Zhao,” Xue Pantao said tearfully. “You’re even hugging us so gently now.”

“Yeah,” Hanzi added. “You’ve changed so much it’s scary. When was the Ice Queen ever this mild?”

Chi Lengzhao: “…”
Well, that’s because I’ve got a new soul now.

“This time, when I hit my head, it was like I had some kind of revelation. I suddenly saw things clearly. We can’t keep drifting through life like before, wasting it all away like the walking dead. That’s no way to live.”

Up on the second-floor hallway, Shen Zhixi watched the three of them from above, seeing the way they huddled together. In Chi Lengzhao’s deep eyes, she saw a new light—calm, confident, and firm. That warm smile on her lips… this wasn’t the Chi Lengzhao she knew at all.

Once again, Shen Zhixi was caught off guard. Could it be that Chi Lengzhao really had changed after hitting her head—like she said?

The two crybabies continued sobbing, smearing their ruined makeup all over Chi Lengzhao’s clothes.

Suddenly, Hanzi suggested, “Zhao, let’s form a sworn sisterhood. Like Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei in the Peach Garden. Let’s do it too!”

Xue Pantao cried through her tears, “Yes! Let’s do it, right here in your garden!”

Chi Lengzhao asked out of the blue, “Aren’t you bringing Sanjin along?”

Xue Pantao blushed. “Sanjin said you hit her and broke the brotherhood, so we shouldn’t hang out with you. So… we didn’t bring her.”

Hanzi asked, “Why did you hit Sanjin anyway?”

Chi Lengzhao’s face darkened. “She harassed my wife—got handsy with her in the hallway. You tell me: should I have hit her or not? Should someone like that still be my friend?”

Xue Pantao gasped. “What?! She actually did that?!”

“She deserved it!” Hanzi snapped. “You never mess with a friend’s spouse!”

Chi Lengzhao gave her a thumbs-up. “Now that’s the right thing to say.”

Hanzi scratched her head awkwardly. “Yeah, Sanjin crossed the line this time. We joke around, sure, but that stuff is for the streets. You don’t pull that on your friends. I wouldn’t stay friends with someone who does.”

Xue Pantao nodded. “If she’s cutting ties with you, then we’re cutting ties with her.”

The three of them ran to the garden. It was October, so the peach trees weren’t in bloom, so they chose an osmanthus tree instead.

With no wine, they each grabbed a can of cola.

Unsure of the ritual, they looked up the scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms and followed it. The three of them knelt solemnly beneath the osmanthus tree, raised their cola cans, and bowed.

Watching them swear loyalty over cola from the second floor, Shen Zhixi found it ridiculous and hilarious—but also strangely touching.

Xue Pantao whined, “One can of this is going to make me so fat!”

“Then don’t drink and don’t swear!” Hanzi shot back.

“No way! I’m all in today—even if it kills me with sugar!”

They looked over at Chi Lengzhao—she had already finished hers with one long gulp and let out a big, satisfied burp. “Brothers, I’m done.”

From there, it was like the floodgates opened. Hanzi and Xue Pantao clung to Chi Lengzhao and poured out every bit of sorrow and pain from the past decade—nothing held back.

Chi Lengzhao had no choice but to invite them to stay for dinner and even asked Housekeeper Zhou to prepare some beer.

A few pitchers in, and their stories poured out like the alcohol.

Hanzi spoke of how her father struck it rich and started seeing other women. Her parents fought constantly. After her mother died in a car accident, her stepmother and stepsiblings bullied her relentlessly. Every time she told her father, they twisted the story, and she’d be the one punished in the end.

Xue Pantao’s story was even harsher. Both her parents thought she was ugly. Her father suspected her mother had cheated, and even made her take a paternity test. Only after confirming she was truly his did he stop the accusations. Then her parents divorced—neither of them wanted her. Thank goodness her grandparents took her in.

At her elite school, she was constantly mocked for her looks. The first girl she ever liked turned out to be a manipulative flirt, toying with her emotions and humiliating her in front of the whole school.

She ran home in tears, hoping to find comfort in her pet cat—only for the cat to snub her too.

Pantao sniffled through her story. Chi Lengzhao, trying not to laugh, asked, “What kind of cat do you have?”

“A fairy cat! Why?”

Chi Lengzhao replied, “Maybe you should’ve gotten a Garfield cat. It probably wouldn’t mind your face.”

Shen Zhixi, nearby, couldn’t help herself. Thinking of Garfield’s flat face and squashed nose, she burst out laughing.

Xue Pantao asked, “Sis-in-law, what are you laughing at?”

Shen Zhixi: “…”

She poured herself a glass of beer and raised it toward Xue Pantao. “Pantao, you’re a pure soul. One day, you’ll find someone who truly loves you.”

Xue Pantao, touched, clinked glasses with her. “Thanks for the kind words, sis-in-law!” Then downed her drink.

Hanzi staggered up, slurring, “Pantao, let’s toast to big bro and sis-in-law—may they have eternal love and a long, happy life together!”

Chi Lengzhao had no choice but to raise her glass. The four of them clinked their drinks together. Out of the corner of her eye, Chi Lengzhao saw Shen Zhixi drink hers without hesitation—calm and poised, without the slightest trace of disgust.

Chi Lengzhao smiled faintly and lifted her glass, then happily drained it.