Transmigrated Before the Scum A Tortured the Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 21
Xu Jinzhao’s expression was very gentle and casual when she spoke, as if she had called “Jiao Jiao” affectionately thousands of times and generously given her things.
But Song Jiao knew that it had never happened.
Even though Xu Jinzhao used to profess her love, the attitude she displayed always revealed contempt.
The Alpha might really like her face and be infatuated with the scent of her pheromones, but this love was both shallow and self-righteous.
Even if Song Jiao was born with emotional deficiencies and didn’t quite know what it was like to love someone, she couldn’t establish a deep emotional connection even with her closest parents.
But Song Jiao undoubtedly had the best example around her, from Song Yikang and Qiao Chu, who deeply loved each other.
So she knew that the manifestation of love should be tolerance, respect, and pity, it should be a father caring for his mother, worrying about the difficulties she encountered, and thinking about her wholeheartedly.
The former Xu Jinzhao “loved” her but chose to plunder, bringing Song Jiao all kinds of suffering that disrupted her normal life.
Every time Song Jiao looked at the Alpha’s beautiful face, she saw a pair of eyes that were almost instinctively driven by a beast looking at a mating partner.
Through this window, she saw the ugly, selfish, and vulgar thoughts lingering in the other person’s heart.
But it seemed that overnight, some things changed.
Song Jiao looked at Xu Jinzhao’s clear and bright pupils, with her own reflection gazing back at her in the light background, the lingering haze of desire had disappeared without a trace.
People’s eyes don’t lie. Xu Jinzhao was sincerely willing to hand over her car to her for use.
The value of this gift was not just a used means of transportation, but also an implication of a priceless treasure:
Freedom.
Song Jiao couldn’t even remember when she last broke free from Xu Jinzhao’s control and went out alone.
She was never allowed to act on her own. If Xu Jinzhao was busy, the Xu family’s driver would pick her up and drop her off. Wherever she went, her neck was bound by invisible chains.
Was Xu Jinzhao promising her freedom?
Song Jiao thought uncertainly.
All these thoughts were just a brief few tenths of a second. She had already nodded and accepted the gift.
Qin Lingyue, who was next to her, also smiled happily: “Let’s put this matter behind us. Shaoqian was reckless and ignorant. Xiao Xu and Xiao Song, don’t take it to heart, or I won’t have the face to see you again.”
Qin Lingyue extended her right hand and lightly shook hands with Xu Jinzhao.
Then the woman turned her palm towards Song Jiao, smiling and stopping in front of the Omega.
This was a rare courtesy. Song Jiao had seen too many superiors who didn’t take her seriously and treated her as an Alpha’s appendage.
They usually only focused on Xu Jinzhao, and even nodding to her was considered great “respect.”
Song Jiao was not overwhelmed by this unexpected favor, only slightly surprised by Qin Lingyue’s unusual behavior.
She still smiled shyly and calmly shook hands with this powerful figure of the Qin family.
After resolving this matter, Qin Lingyue immediately prepared to leave.
It was a bit ridiculous. There were still many guests in the courtyard downstairs, and the party had just started, but the host was leaving.
Qin Lingyue pressed the button on the side of the coffee table, applied lipstick in the vanity mirror as if no one else was around, and quickly put on her suit jacket.
In a moment, her assistant and her young lover came upstairs together.
Qin Lingyue smiled charmingly at Xu and Song:
“Enjoy yourselves. I still have work to do. I’ve booked the entire villa area for the weekend. You can play as long as you want.”
With that, Qin Lingyue turned and left in a hurry.
When her figure disappeared at the spiral staircase and the footsteps faded away, Xu Jinzhao sighed, “She’s really a very clear-headed woman.”
Qin Lingyue didn’t mind her attacking Qin Shaoqian. She didn’t stand up for Qin Shaoqian, who was related to her by bl00d. She handled things calmly and fairly.
Although she was afraid of the Xu family’s background and didn’t want to disrupt the cooperative relationship, she, as a hidden elder equal to Xu Boyang, was able to lower her status and befriend Xu Jinzhao.
She was not arrogant because of the current status gap and was able to adapt to different situations.
Recalling this meeting, Xu Jinzhao was led by Qin Lingyue’s thoughts throughout the whole process. The woman seemed to be the one who was seeking peace and giving gifts, but she actually held the upper hand.
How could such a person lose to Qin Shaoqian?
Xu Jinzhao shook her head. She was standing on the edge of a cliff and didn’t have the extra energy to pay attention to Qin Lingyue.
She was a little thirsty and reached for the teacup on the table, only to see a small, white hand also reaching out for another cup.
They both paused at the same time.
Facing Song Jiao, Xu Jinzhao’s calm expression, which she had maintained throughout, suddenly cracked.
She didn’t forget the two embarrassing moments she had in front of Song Jiao before.
And the “Jiao Jiao” she had called out when acting in front of Qin Lingyue, and the intimate gestures.
Song Jiao saw that the tip of the Alpha’s ears suddenly turned red again.
Song Jiao: “?”
Qin Lingyue went downstairs with her assistant and lover. The assistant said to her, “Second Young Master is in Jinxing Room.”
The woman smiled coldly. The assistant had followed her for many years and immediately understood, turning around and leading the way.
Only Qin Shaoqian was in Jinxing Room, with three or four empty wine bottles lying by the coffee table.
He leaned back on the sofa, drunk, and didn’t get up when he saw Qin Lingyue coming.
The whole room was filled with the malicious signals that Qin Shaoqian released after drinking. Qin Lingyue felt a slight dizziness and nausea.
The Alpha girl held the older lover’s hand and released pheromones to fight against Qin Shaoqian without showing weakness.
Even with someone protecting her, Qin Lingyue still felt very uncomfortable.
She didn’t let her physical discomfort interfere with her performance. Her expression and tone were considered gentle, but her words were extremely contemptuous.
“You’re nothing more than this. You don’t dare to face Xu Jinzhao, but you show off to your own sister.”
Qin Shaoqian gritted his teeth.
“Don’t forget what I said. Everything you have now is given by me. I can take it back whenever I want.”
Qin Lingyue said softly, “If there’s a next time, even if Mom climbs out of her grave, she won’t be able to change my mind.”
She turned and left.
Her makeup covered the uncontrollable physiological abnormalities, and after getting into the car, the woman slowly recovered from the influence of the Alpha’s pheromones.*
She stroked the young girl’s tender cheek with the back of her fingers, and the latter gradually blushed under her touch.
“Yaole, I didn’t let you have fun today, and I kept asking you to help. I’ll make it up to you with anything you want,” she promised.
Yaole replied, “I just want you to call me to keep you company more often when you’re free.”
Qin Lingyue smiled and leaned over to kiss her lips: “Little thing, you want a lot.”
••••
Xu Jinzhao stammered, “I didn’t mean to call you that, and I didn’t mean… mean to take advantage of you. You know that, right?”
The Alpha looked extremely embarrassed.
Her face was flushed, and the color spread to her snow-white neck, turning into a gradient pink.
If she didn’t speak, Song Jiao wouldn’t have known that Xu Jinzhao was nervous about these things.
The Omega didn’t immediately reply that she didn’t mind, even though it was their consensus to act intimate.
Song Jiao just focused on Xu Jinzhao, observing the subtle changes in her eyes and eyebrows.
It wasn’t fake, Song Jiao thought. She was really embarrassed about this.
Before Xu Jinzhao became too embarrassed, Song Jiao said slowly, “Yes, I know.”
The Omega added, “I was the first one to call you Jinzhao.”
Xu Jinzhao, who had just relaxed, became visibly stiff again. She wasn’t used to being called so intimately by Song Jiao.
Although Song Jiao’s voice was sweet and her person was sweet… it wasn’t a sincere way of calling her.
She felt a strange kind of affectation in her heart.
Xu Jinzhao picked up the cup, took a big gulp of water to relieve the dryness and embarrassment, and secretly glanced at Song Jiao, only to meet Song Jiao’s gaze.
The person who was always distracted today didn’t fall on the stairs and finally choked on the water.
Song Jiao pushed the tissue box in front of her.
Xu Jinzhao coughed and coughed, not bothering to thank her, wiping her face and clothes with the tissue.
She suddenly remembered yesterday’s breakfast, when she had soup on her face, and the Omega had silently pushed over the napkin.
Xu Jinzhao thought, “That’s it, she definitely thinks I’m unreliable.”
Her image was probably only a tiny bit better than [Xu Jinzhao]’s.
Song Jiao watched the Alpha clean herself up with a sullen face, her lipstick smudged, and her carefully drawn eyebrows drooping in dejection. She inexplicably found it quite amusing.
Xu Jinzhao finally calmed down and turned to see the slight upward curve of Song Jiao’s lips.
She muttered, accusing, “You’re still laughing at me…”
Song Jiao was stunned.
In this moment of distraction, the little smile that had been on the corner of her lips disappeared. She reached out and touched her mouth, then retorted, “You saw wrong.”
Song Jiao sincerely thought Xu Jinzhao had seen wrong.
Throughout her life, she had rarely smiled.
Her memory could vaguely trace back to her infancy. At that time, although she couldn’t understand her parents’ language, she naturally had an instinctive ability to imitate.
Little Song Jiao learned the expressions that had appeared on her parents’ faces.
It was precisely because of these performed joys and sorrows that Song Yikang and his wife didn’t notice their daughter’s abnormality.
They just thought it was the capriciousness of an infant.
After all, the expressions little Song Jiao displayed didn’t always match their intentions when they teased her. Sometimes they wanted to make her happy, but little Song Jiao showed anger.
When Song Jiao grew a little older, she began to gradually sort and classify these expressions, using them instinctively when corresponding situations arose.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Song Jiao rarely made mistakes.
Later, when Qiao Chu died, Song Jiao, who had never experienced the death of a loved one, saw her father crying like that, and her first reaction was to tell him not to cry anymore.
Because her parents had also told her not to be sad when her little goldfish died, even though she hadn’t actually been sad about the goldfish.
Song Yikang was filled with pain at that time, and only thought that his daughter was too sad to think straight.
Song Jiao also belatedly realized that after the death of a loved one, one should be heartbroken and cry loudly.
But her tears usually only flowed physiologically when she was afraid, and the eternal separation from her mother only made her feel sad and a little dull pain for a short time.
She rarely laughed because she was happy about something. Most of her smiles were performances to respond to others.
Song Jiao didn’t think she had just smiled.
Xu Jinzhao just thought the little liar was lying again, and said listlessly:
“Okay, maybe I saw wrong.”
Author’s Notes:
The little liar didn’t lie to her sister.