Transmigrated Before the Scum A Tortured the Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 28
Question: How to remedy a situation where a wrong move has been made or is about to cause adverse consequences?
Song Jiao’s answer is as follows:
Leverage your own strengths and the other party’s weaknesses, adapting to the circumstances to create a bigger problem and shift the focus of the conflict.
She had confidence in her appearance and acting skills, and a clear understanding of Xu Jinzhao’s high moral standards.
As expected, the Alpha readily agreed, “It’s okay, I’ll pick you up and drop you off tomorrow.”
Excellent, Song Jiao thought. This not only covered up her previous unprovoked bad attitude but also increased their time together tomorrow.
However, her “injury” was still a new lie that needed to be properly managed.
Hearing Song Jiao’s request, Xu Jinzhao immediately understood her earlier coldness and even felt a bit of empathy.
Having used paintbrushes for years, she was well aware of the toll it took on her wrists and finger joints, despite careful maintenance. There was a time when it was quite severe.
Physical pain could easily affect one’s mood, which was perfectly normal.
Xu Jinzhao asked with concern, “How did you get hurt? Did you see the school doctor? What did they say?”
Song Jiao shook her head, looking dejected, her dark eyelashes drooping, casting faint, flickering shadows under her eyes.
“I didn’t go to the infirmary. Actually, it wasn’t an external injury, it just suddenly started to hurt…”
Her voice was soft and gentle, with a hint of frustrated helplessness, her fingertips unconsciously touching her left wrist, mostly hidden in her sleeve.
The Omega was wearing an oatmeal-colored turtleneck sweater, loose and long, with sleeves that covered her wrists and most of her hands when her arms were down.
The autumn attire, designed to combat the increasingly cold weather, wrapped the girl’s body tightly, yet paradoxically made her appear petite and fragile, evoking pity.
Xu Jinzhao couldn’t help but move closer, asking softly, “Let me see?”
The Omega rolled up her sweater sleeve, revealing a small section of her wrist, palm facing up, showing it to her.
The girl’s wrist was as white and slender as Xu Jinzhao remembered, with faint blue veins under her snow-white skin, looking easily injured.
Xu Jinzhao tentatively reached out, stopping a few centimeters away from the Omega’s slightly curled fingers, looking into her eyes.
It was a silent question: May I touch you?
If Song Jiao showed any resistance, she would withdraw her hand, pretending nothing had happened, and resort to verbal inquiry.
At the beginning of their acquaintance, Xu Jinzhao had thought the Omega’s irises were pure black, but upon closer inspection, she realized they were actually a very deep dark brown.
Only at close range could one observe the deeper, beautiful patterns within.
This close gaze lasted only a brief moment before the Omega lowered her eyelashes, breaking it off.
However, her hand moved forward on its own, stopping under the Alpha’s fingertips, without any hesitation or coyness.
Xu Jinzhao couldn’t help but smile at this gesture, but quickly restrained herself, feeling it wasn’t appropriate.
She gently held the other’s soft hand, the first time she had touched it with clear permission.
Despite knowing that the Omega’s body temperature was consistently low, except during fevers or estrus, Xu Jinzhao couldn’t help but feel instinctive pity for the slight chill.
She gently moved her fingertips, carefully pressing the areas from the base of the fingers to the wrist that were prone to injury, finding no swelling.
As Song Jiao’s hand was held by the Alpha, her only sensation was warmth.
Although the contact was limited to the Alpha’s fingers, it still brought a warm experience different from her own skin, making Song Jiao unable to resist looking up at her.
The Alpha was looking down, her beautiful, sharp face, inherently aggressive in appearance, now showing the gentle expression Song Jiao had become familiar with.
She was carefully examining Song Jiao’s hand, while the Omega’s attention was entirely on her.
Xu Jinzhao, finding no obvious abnormalities, pressed Song Jiao’s thumb against the side of her palm, asking, “Does it hurt here?”
She had intended to check each area, but as soon as she asked, Song Jiao nodded.
Having experienced hand problems herself, Xu Jinzhao knew some related information and, seeing Song Jiao’s nod, suspected it might be related to tendonitis.
Her brow immediately furrowed, and she pressed the Omega’s thumb into her palm, folding the other fingers over it, making a fist, and motioning for her to push it to the side.
After Song Jiao did so, Xu Jinzhao asked, “Does it hurt?”
Song Jiao replied, “It’s okay.”
This was strange, but Xu Jinzhao wasn’t a doctor. She wasn’t sure what was wrong and said, “I’ll call the on-call doctor.”
Although the apartment in Biwan was small, it was still a high-end villa complex with expensive property fees and 24-hour on-call private doctors.
Song Jiao didn’t expect Xu Jinzhao to take it so seriously, and an alarm bell rang in her head.
After all, she was perfectly fine, and if a doctor came, she wouldn’t be able to explain anything. She just wanted an excuse for Xu Jinzhao to drive her for a few days to deepen their friendship!
Song Jiao tried to stop her, “I don’t think it’s anything? It’ll probably be fine after a few days of rest. It’s not really that painful.”
Xu Jinzhao was quite firm. Having suffered from hand problems herself, she preferred to err on the side of caution and find out what was wrong.
Even if it wasn’t serious, the pain indicated some inflammation, which needed to be addressed and prevented.
She took out her phone to find the number, stating firmly, “Don’t ignore it now. If it swells up with fluid later, it’ll hurt like hell every day, and crying won’t help.”
The Omega asked, “How do you know?”
Xu Jinzhao was stumped. She was now [Xu Jinzhao], and the latter, being pampered, had never suffered like that.
She had a flash of inspiration, “It’s Jiang Chao!”
Xu Jinzhao said, “Jiang Chao… he’s always on his phone, texting people, and ended up with tendonitis.”
Xu Jinzhao said, “His hand swelled up like a pig’s trotter, he couldn’t even hold chopsticks, he was rolling around in pain, crying to me! Like an idiot, it was awful.”
Just then, the clinic’s phone call went through, and Xu Jinzhao took the opportunity to escape.
Watching the Alpha hurriedly turn away to talk on the phone, Song Jiao had good reason to suspect that it was Xu Jinzhao herself who had cried like an idiot, unable to hold chopsticks.
Only someone who had experienced the pain firsthand would be so concerned about a casual lie about “wrist pain.”
And to call a doctor over such a minor possibility of illness, Xu Jinzhao’s kindness was perhaps even more exaggerated than she had imagined.
The doctor who arrived wasn’t the same female doctor from last time, but a chubby male doctor with a receding hairline.
The chubby doctor had a naturally kind face. He asked questions with a smile, palpated, and then said, “It’s not a big deal, it should recover after a few days of rest.”
Xu Jinzhao asked worriedly, “It’s not tendonitis, is it?”
The chubby doctor immediately changed his tune, “We can’t rule out that possibility.”
The perfectly healthy Song Jiao: “…”
She realized that he was clearly playing it safe, agreeing with Xu Jinzhao’s suspicions.
Seeing that Xu Jinzhao’s worries hadn’t lessened, Song Jiao had to take the initiative, “I’ll make an appointment at the provincial hospital this weekend.”
The chubby doctor clapped his hands in agreement, “That would be safer.”
Thus, a situation was formed where the homeowner and the clinic doctor were happy, leaving only the deceitful Song Jiao to spend extra time at the hospital.
After seeing the chubby doctor off, Xu Jinzhao muttered, “That doctor today wasn’t very reliable. I need to ask the property management where they hired him from and if he has a medical license.”
Song Jiao realized she had misjudged. Xu Jinzhao had actually seen through the chubby doctor’s evasive tactics.
She stared at Xu Jinzhao’s face, wondering if the Alpha was deliberately acting so anxious to get her to agree to go to the hospital.
And how much did Xu Jinzhao’s hand hurt back then to leave such a lasting trauma?
While Song Jiao was still pondering the serious question of whether the honest big dog had bad intentions and how much her paws had been injured, Aunt Li had already set the food on the table and was calling them to eat.
Xu Jinzhao comforted Song Jiao, “It’s good it’s not your right hand. Rest more these few days, don’t use your left hand too much. After dinner, I’ll get some hot water for you to soak it in.”
Xu Jinzhao clearly meant what she said and was very proactive.
After dinner, while Aunt Li was busy cleaning up, she ushered the Omega to the sofa and brought her a basin of hot water.
She said confidently, “Jiang Chao soaked his hand in hot water, and it worked wonders.”
Okay, now the Omega knew that Xu Jinzhao had used hot water to relieve her hand pain.
Song Jiao obediently soaked her hand in the warm water, which was indeed very comfortable.
The Alpha even brought over a fabric-covered stool and sat opposite her, keeping watch and ready to add hot water to the basin when it cooled down.
The TV was playing a domestic dispute mediation program, and Xu Jinzhao kept getting distracted, so she used the remote to turn down the volume.
With the middle-aged couple’s arguments inaudible, Xu Jinzhao finally focused and noticed that the Omega had been staring at her.
While Xu Jinzhao was getting the hot water, the Omega had taken down her braids.
Her long hair retained its curls, spreading out lightly, and its natural fluffiness gave it a hard-to-describe nostalgic beauty.
Song Jiao asked Xu Jinzhao softly, “How long was Jiang Chao in pain, and how did he recover? Does he have any lasting effects?”
She wanted to learn more about Xu Jinzhao, about the Alpha’s unknown past that had shaped her personality, a past she hadn’t been a part of.
Xu Jinzhao thought that although Song Jiao stubbornly insisted she’d be fine after a few days of rest, she was still scared by her description of “Jiang Chao” and was now timidly asking questions.
Faced with this well-behaved and beautiful face, Xu Jinzhao couldn’t bear to frighten her anymore.
She chose to downplay the severity, omitting the lingering pain and anxiety she had endured, and told the other person about the positive outcome.
“Oh, it wasn’t that long, actually. He went to a traditional Chinese medicine doctor for a minor needle knife procedure to release the tendon sheath. The doctor was very skilled, and he recovered soon after.”
This was indeed the truth. Xu Jinzhao had been worried about potential problems with her hands, as they were crucial for her painting, and their flexibility made a big difference.
However, after the procedure and diligent rehabilitation exercises, she recovered quickly.
But Xu Jinzhao never dared to use her injured hand as recklessly as before, becoming more restrained and cautious.
Afraid that she might sound too casual and cause the Omega to disregard the issue, she emphasized, “Even the best treatment isn’t as good as healthy hands, you know? Once they’re damaged and repaired, they’ll never be as good as they were originally.”
Xu Jinzhao picked up the hot water kettle, signaling for Song Jiao to lift her hand.
Song Jiao lifted her hand, her slender white fingers dripping wet, resting on the edge of the basin. The Alpha gently poured hot water along the surface, without splashing a drop.
The Omega’s gaze was fixed on the Alpha’s hand holding the kettle, thinking:
Thankfully, [Xu Jinzhao] has healthy hands.
Author’s Note:
[Xu Jinzhao]: Are you being polite?