After an Alluring Alpha Provokes an Unhinged Omega 34

Chapter 34: Like

Under the thin mist, the rain grew heavier. The gloom that had accumulated all day finally poured down at this moment.

A black car sped through the rain and mist on the elevated highway. Raindrops pattered against the car window. Yan Wei looked straight ahead, her ears filled with silence. Only the beautiful, superior, yet cold and gloomy face was reflected on the glass.

Twenty minutes later, the car turned into an apartment’s underground parking garage.

Yan Wei sat in the car and took out a pack of slim cigarettes from the box. She wasn’t addicted to smoking; she had just been smoking more these past few days. She lit the cigarette, her expression cold and suffocating. She sat quietly in her seat, her eyes devoid of any emotion.

Suddenly, a car horn sounded from the right. It was only on the second honk that Yan Wei turned her head. A few meters away, the driver’s side window of a car slowly lowered, revealing a woman’s delicate profile.

Tan Zhaoxin raised an eyebrow at her, then unbuckled her seatbelt, turned off the engine, and got out of the car.

Yan Wei withdrew her gaze, slowly exhaled the smoke, and after a few seconds, extinguished the cigarette and got out of the car.

Tan Zhaoxin discreetly sized her up from head to toe. It was clear that she had dressed up carefully. “You drove back alone?”

“Why are you here?”

Clearly, Yan Wei was very impatient with her arrival.

Tan Zhaoxin waved the documents in her hand at her. “The renewal contract. And to see you, by the way.”

Yan Wei didn’t say anything and turned to go upstairs.

The sound of high heels gradually faded in the basement and disappeared in the elevator.

“Don’t drive alone in this kind of weather in the future.” Tan Zhaoxin stood in the elevator, her arms crossed, looking at Yan Wei. She advised, “What if there’s an accident? Who will be responsible?”

Yan Wei gave her a dangerous look. “Leave after you sign.”

She gestured for Tan Zhaoxin to give her the documents.

A clear dismissal.

Tan Zhaoxin’s lips twitched, and then her face became slightly more serious. “Have a drink?”

This time, Yan Wei withdrew her gaze and didn’t say anything.

When they reached the room on the twelfth floor, the door opened. Tan Zhaoxin looked around. Because Yan Wei didn’t like to go back to that home, to prevent Yan Wei from having “nowhere” to sleep, this room had been rented by the company for Yan Wei after she came to Huai City for filming.

But it seemed that Yan Wei didn’t come here often.

“Are you used to sleeping in the hotel?” Tan Zhaoxin asked.

Yan Wei responded faintly, opened the documents Tan Zhaoxin had placed on the table, quickly signed her name, closed them, and tossed them aside.

Tan Zhaoxin looked at her expression, took off her suit jacket, and walked over to Yan Wei to help get two red wine glasses.

On the white tabletop, the transparent glass was filled with red wine, and their faces were reflected in the left and right reflections. It was Tan Zhaoxin who spoke first. “About the DK incident, I heard that the minor has attempted suicide twice. Did you know?”

Yan Wei frowned and looked up.

Tan Zhaoxin: “It caused too much of a stir at school. The girl couldn’t handle the pressure and cut her wrists at home. You didn’t know. It seems Surui didn’t trouble you…”

“So what if she attempted suicide?”

Yan Wei’s voice was very faint, with a hint of hostility.

“Nothing.” Tan Zhaoxin took a sip of wine. “It’s your style of doing things, and the company can handle it. I just wanted to ask you, that Jiang Mi, is she very special?”

Yan Wei had never been a nosy person.

Her ex had slapped her in front of Yan Wei, and Yan Wei hadn’t even blinked. A little star she had only known for a short time could make Yan Wei go to such lengths.

She was even a little reckless.

“This matter has been temporarily suppressed. The other party’s identity is special. If it blows up, it might affect you too.”

Yan Wei sneered. “What? Should I go apologize to her?”

“…” Tan Zhaoxin also returned a fake smile. “No need to be so polite.”

How ridiculous that the person who did wrong could often become the weaker party because of their age. She didn’t think Yan Wei was in the wrong.

She hadn’t come for this matter today either.

After a few seconds of silence, Tan Zhaoxin asked slowly, “It seems things didn’t go smoothly?”

Yan Wei suppressed a wave of gloom. The wine in her glass was half gone in the blink of an eye. She lowered her eyes and stared at the liquid at the bottom of the glass. It was a very clear wine-red.

She didn’t say a word, and her silence made Tan Zhaoxin’s heart tingle.

She interrupted Yan Wei, “Stop what you’re thinking right now.”

Yan Wei didn’t look at her.

Tan Zhaoxin’s calm voice sounded in the room again, “Not everyone is suited to your way. Have you forgotten that incident?”

Yan Wei’s face changed slightly. She finished the rest of the wine and heard Tan Zhaoxin ask, “Yan Wei, do you like her?”

The emotion on Yan Wei’s face became impatient again. “Is it important?”

At this point, Tan Zhaoxin had a good idea. The current situation might not be a good thing for that Jiang Mi, but it wasn’t a bad thing for Yan Wei.

The four words “living dead” were the most appropriate to describe Yan Wei. This person had no empathy. To have reached this position at this age, she had almost everything. Yan Wei had no sense of belonging to a family, and her feelings for Mo Yun and Mo Xi were no longer normal family feelings.

It could be said that Yan Wei had everything, and yet she had nothing.

In fact, she and Yan Wei rarely met. On the few occasions they did, Yan Wei often made her feel detached from the world.

Yan Wei seemed to be on the verge of abandoning this world at any moment.

But that day, when she went to visit the set, she had discovered a sudden change in Yan Wei. An emotional fluctuation had appeared on that stunning yet cold and dead face.

This was, of course, a good thing.

For Yan Wei, it was a good thing.

To put it bluntly, it was as if Yan Wei had found something that could arouse her interest in this boring and desolate life.

So she had done a background check on Jiang Mi.

An actress who had just gained a little fame. From the data, there was no danger. Her reputation in the industry was also good, especially the evaluations from directors and actors she had worked with.

It was just that she wasn’t doing very well. It wasn’t easy to make a name for herself in a small workshop studio. This made her feel much more at ease, because such a person was easy for them to control.

If anything uncontrollable happened, it would also be easy to handle.

She just hadn’t expected Yan Wei to be so ruthless in the DK incident. This was after Surui had already handled it. If it were completely according to Yan Wei’s personality, that girl might not have had a good end.

Tan Zhaoxin had also inquired about the recent situation. After thinking about it carefully, as a business partner and a barely-there best friend, she had come to find her tonight.

“Yan Wei, it’s not that I can’t understand your feelings. I can only tell you from my experience as someone who has been through it, you have to accept your own feelings first. Resistance won’t do you any good right now.”

Tan Zhaoxin picked up the bottle of red wine. It was an old vintage, carefully selected and sent from her winery. She said, “Caring doesn’t necessarily mean possessing. Even if you want to possess, you have to use an appropriate method.”

Yan Wei finally glanced at her.

“A method that she can accept.”

Tan Zhaoxin said, “Not the method you’re thinking of in your heart right now.”

Yan Wei looked over with a deep gaze. “You know what I’m thinking in my heart?”

“The little black room, once is enough.”

“Clack—” The wine glass landed on the table, the dull sound surprisingly piercing. “What are you afraid I’ll do?”

Her smile was really cold.

Tan Zhaoxin was used to it, but she didn’t continue to provoke her. “She’s just a simple little girl, after all… she can’t fight you. I’m just being kind.”

Tan Zhaoxin had given her a heads-up. Apart from filming, she knew that Yan Wei’s patience for one thing didn’t exceed one minute. But for people, she still didn’t know what Yan Wei’s bottom line was.

But based on Yan Wei’s current state, she felt that the method should be a little more normal.

“You don’t want emotional ties, but in fact, some ties are already formed the moment you want to possess. I’m not trying to reason with you. I’m just suggesting that you don’t have to talk about love first, but you have to give people time to get to know each other, right? If you use strong medicine from the beginning and scare people away, just like now—”

Talking to Yan Wei required the tactics of negotiating a project.

You couldn’t be too hard, nor could you be too accommodating. You had to weigh the pros and cons and make all the advantages and disadvantages clear.

Yan Wei was terrifying when she was rational, but even more terrifying when she lost her reason. It wasn’t that she thought Yan Wei liked that Jiang Mi so much that she had lost her reason, but that Yan Wei had rarely encountered something she was interested in, so her energy would inevitably be more focused.

Yan Wei’s identity was too important to her and the company. Whether as a best friend or from a business perspective, she needed to stabilize Yan Wei in time.

But after she finished speaking, she was very strange. It seemed that Yan Wei was really listening to what she said today. She looked like she was in a bad mood, but upon closer inspection, it was more like she was troubled by something.

Tan Zhaoxin picked up her wine glass and lightly clinked it against Yan Wei’s. Then she drank the rest of the wine in one gulp. She stood up and picked up the signed documents.

“One more thing. Mo Xi called me.” Tan Zhaoxin said, “I’m not trying to persuade you, just letting you know.”

Soon, the sound of the door closing came from the entrance.

Yan Wei’s hand paused. The rim of the cup was close to her lips. She took a small sip of red wine, her gaze on the balcony window. It was another rainy night, and the glass bed was speckled. Only then did she see that the window was open a crack, and so she remembered a similar night not long ago at the hotel.

The wind blew in from the window, and she met Jiang Mi’s clean eyes by the coffee table.

She had asked Jiang Mi if everyone was like this.

She no longer remembered Jiang Mi’s original words. At that time, her thoughts were not so deep.

Yan Wei put down her wine glass. Tan Zhaoxin’s words and Jiang Mi’s voice from the evening almost overlapped. What was her mood now? It didn’t seem so bad, but it also seemed so bad that she was about to go crazy.

The night was dark, and time went back to before the night rain had fallen.

Jiang Mi was standing a few meters away from her, wearing a simple, plain white long dress. The wind blew the hem of her dress, and her fair calves looked so fragile in the dim light—Jiang Mi often gave off this illusion.

The rain outside the glass window suddenly grew heavier, and the raindrops hit the glass like a drum.

Again and again, densely.

Yan Wei took a deep breath.

At that time, she had heard Jiang Mi sigh, heard Jiang Mi’s voice so powerful, so powerful that it reminded her of the frequency of her heartbeat that night.

“I admit that there was an intentional element today. I just wanted to test… I don’t know what you’re thinking. You seem to be resisting me, but you also don’t want me to get close to others. Don’t you think that’s very unfair to me?”

“But I thought about it, and this matter is not entirely your responsibility now, because I don’t think I’ve ever said that sentence.”

What was she nervous about? Yan Wei couldn’t say.

She sensed danger, an uncontrolled emotion, gushing out from her heart, from her internal organs, from her brain.

Like a woven net, it suddenly appeared above her, ready to capture her at any moment.

“Teacher Yan.”

The world was silent at that moment, so she heard it very clearly.

“I like you.”

Jiang Mi said.

“I like you.”