After an Alluring Alpha Provokes an Unhinged Omega 23p2

Chapter 23: Top-Tier p2

The next afternoon.

DK magazine’s annual red carpet was a platform where all the movie stars vied to make an appearance. Of course, the big shots who were personally invited by the organizers were not in this category.

Jiang Mi was considered an old newcomer in the industry. Generally, she would appear in the first half of the red carpet, mainly to test the venue’s sound system and warm up the crowd. But this time, probably thanks to the Spring crew, the organizers had actually moved her to a prime-time slot, and even gave her a separate dressing room.

The event was at five o’clock.

It was not even three yet. After confirming her look, the rest of the time was for waiting.

Most people in this industry were best at waiting.

Zhao Jia went to find the dressing room first. Jiang Mi slowly walked down the corridor. When she was almost there, she found that there were two or three heavyweight internet celebrities. One of them was doing a backstage live stream with the coordination of the staff. After seeing Jiang Mi, she greeted her very enthusiastically. She put on a perfect smile and went up to her. The moment the other person lowered the camera, she reached out and steadied the device. “It’s okay. If you don’t mind, can I say hello to your fans too?”

The live chat instantly boiled over. Many people had just remembered, wasn’t this the unknown second female lead who had been flamed on the hot search for acting with Yan Wei?

[??? She’s so gentle?]
[Help, her eyelashes are glowing]
[Ahhhhh so sweet, she’s different from the pictures online?]

Jiang Mi automatically avoided the anti-fans and negative comments, happily read a few, and then said, “Thank you, thank you. A little heart, a little peace sign. After you’ve praised me, you’re not allowed to curse at me anymore, okay?”

Her voice lifted at the end, and she caught sight of Zhao Jia in a standoff with the staff out of the corner of her eye.

Jiang Mi tilted the phone slightly and chatted with the streamer, “Live streaming is quite fun.”

“Yeah, it’s very interesting. You can try it yourself next time.”

The moment she finished speaking, a voice suddenly rose.

“What do you mean, Teacher Qin Yao is doing her makeup inside?” In the corridor not far away, Zhao Jia’s knuckles turned white as she clutched the schedule. “Isn’t Jiang Mi’s name on the sign on this door?”

“It’s our negligence.” The staff member’s expression was very awkward. They had thought she wasn’t a big star and would be easy to deal with, but they hadn’t expected this person to be so stubborn.

“What do you mean, negligence? Please answer my question.”

The light sound of the door hinge turning interrupted the conversation.

Qin Yao leaned against the door, wrapped in a silk gown. The makeup artist behind her was still applying essential oil to the ends of her hair. “Sister Zhao is here? I’m so sorry for taking up your room. I used this room for my last event and got used to it, so…”

“I just don’t understand. You’ve already gotten the role in Sunset. And with your current popularity, why do you have to go against Jiang Mi in everything?”

Hearing this, Qin Yao smiled coldly. She wasn’t stupid. How could she say these things here? “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The moment she finished speaking, she suddenly paused, her gaze sharply landing on Jiang Mi a few steps away, and then on the phone in her hand.

Jiang Mi seemed to have forgotten that she was holding a phone that was live streaming. She held it in her palm and took a few steps forward. “It’s okay. If Teacher Qin likes it, we can switch.”

The live chat instantly exploded.

[Damn, Qin Yao snatched the role in Sunset?]
[Yesterday, there was a press release stepping on Jiang Mi’s poor posture. Isn’t this case solved?]
[Right side of the camera! Ahhhh I want to see the camera!]

Qin Yao looked at Jiang Mi’s hand warily. Habit made her particularly sensitive to the direction of the camera. She suddenly reached out and grabbed Jiang Mi’s wrist. “I’m just kidding. You actually believed it.”

She saw the fleeting live stream screen. Her exquisitely made-up face twitched slightly. She hadn’t expected Jiang Mi to dare to scheme against her like this. Her nails almost dug into the other’s arm. “Little Mi, I was just joking with Zhao Jia. I heard you don’t have a makeup artist, so I specially brought one over to see if you need any help.”

“Of course I know it’s a joke. Teacher Qin wouldn’t possibly fight with me over a dressing room. But this dressing room is indeed a little closer to the stage. Why don’t we switch?”

Qin Yao had been in the industry for many years and was indeed not brainless. It would be too deliberate for her to continue pretending.

At this moment, Jiang Mi seemed to remember that she was holding a phone and live streaming. “Oh, I almost forgot. I was too excited to see Teacher Qin. I saw a young lady live streaming just now and thought it was interesting, so I borrowed it to try it out. Teacher Qin, would you like to say hello to everyone?”

Qin Yao suppressed her anger and smiled at the constantly scrolling live chat. “Hello everyone, I’m Qin Yao.”

Jiang Mi fanned the flames, “Everyone, remember to watch Teacher Qin’s new drama Sunset when it comes out.”

Qin Yao endured and endured. “Thank you. You weren’t here just now, so I sat inside for a while. Maybe the staff thought I had switched rooms? Anyway, don’t misunderstand your big sister.”

“I won’t, Teacher Qin. You always include me in any good things. You always think of me when you want to film something. How could I misunderstand?”

The corners of Qin Yao’s mouth stiffened. She used the excuse that her gown was dusty, turned, and went inside to tidy up. Immediately, a not-so-light ‘clatter’ came from inside the room. It was unclear what had been thrown.

Everyone, including the staff, was a bit embarrassed. Qin Yao was so careful, why didn’t she think about whether the room was soundproof?

Jiang Mi pretended not to hear and waited patiently at the door, looking at the live chat. “There’s no sound? Oh, in Sunset, Teacher Qin plays a fencer. She’s very professional. She was just practicing a couple of moves just now and accidentally bumped into something.”

The live chat went crazy with laughter.

[Hahahahaha why would you bring a sword to the red carpet?]
[Isn’t the door closed? How did you see?]
[She even brought the props to the room, so she did snatch the room.]

Jiang Mi said with a straight face, “Why don’t you believe me? I’m serious. Teacher Qin has always been very professional, doing everything herself. She carries her props with her. You’ll know when the drama airs.”

Inside the room, Qin Yao’s crystal-studded nails were about to crack. Practicing fencing these past two days had been too tiring. She had originally wanted to discuss using a stunt double with the director. Jiang Mi was deliberately digging a big pit for her!

Live streaming to mess with me, huh? Fine.

“I won’t let her get away with this.”

The manager was doing text-based PR on one side and coaxing her in a low voice on the other. “My dear, I told you, we shouldn’t have provoked her since she got such a good spot today. Just endure it and it’ll be over.”

Qin Yao: “Endure? How do you want me to endure? What is she? Her red carpet spot is actually with me? Her room is even closer to the stage than mine? And what is DK doing?”

“To put it bluntly, DK ranks people based on their net worth and status. This kind of change either means that Jiang Mi has a market, or that she has a big shot backing her. Yaoyao, let’s just forget about it this time. We won’t stoop to her level in the future. It’s not worth it.”

“So you think this matter is just over today? Is that it?”

Hearing this, the manager looked at Qin Yao’s excessively cold face and thought to himself, this is not good. “What are you going to do? I’m begging you, don’t cause trouble today.”

**

After Qin Yao left with a dark face, Jiang Mi returned the phone to the stunned streamer. In addition to thanking her, she also added her contact information.

Although Qin Yao had quickly composed herself, her initial two sentences had been frantically recorded by the live chat. On the real-time hot search, #QinYaoSnatchesRole#, #FemaleStar’sCharacterFlipsFaceChanges#, #Sunset#, #JiangMiLiveStream#, several hashtags were continuously climbing.

“Satisfying?” Zhao Jia handed her a cup.

[Sister, my manager told me to remind you that Qin Yao has moved to your dressing room.] Shen Ruoxi’s message was still in Jiang Mi’s mind.

If they hadn’t known in advance that Qin Yao had snatched the room, they would have had to swallow their anger again today. Although a live stream with ten or twenty thousand viewers wouldn’t shake anything, and with a PR team, the matter would quickly blow over, Qin Yao would most likely come out unscathed.

But at least next time Qin Yao wanted to do something, she would have to consider the impact and consequences a little.

Jiang Mi tilted her head back and drank all the lemon water. The coolness in her throat went straight to her heart. “Satisfying, but also quite tiring.”

If she could, she would just want to stay on set and film every day, instead of dealing with these occasions and the scheming.

But Zhao Jia was very pleased. In the past, Jiang Mi probably wouldn’t have bothered. A mere room, she didn’t care at all.

But for some reason, Jiang Mi had changed today.

“Prepare yourself. The call will be coming soon.”

The company should react soon.

Jiang Mi shrugged. It would be nothing more than asking her to cooperate in clearing her name. “It’s okay. If the people from the company are rude to you, you can totally use me as leverage. We won’t talk about the long run, but at least this time, they have to discuss it with you nicely. Just say that I’m in a bad mood now and not easy to coax. If they want me to cooperate, they have to respect you first.”

The tip of Zhao Jia’s nose tingled slightly. She nodded.

She was already very skilled at dealing with those people to get the most benefit for them.

Jiang Mi suddenly asked another question, “Is ‘come and bully me’ still written on my face?”

Zhao Jia laughed. “Why are you so hung up on what Shen Ruoxi said?”

Jiang Mi said, “I’m not. I don’t know.”

“She doesn’t know you, that’s why she thinks that.”

A person who had always been indifferent could, with just one message from Shen Ruoxi, think of a countermeasure in such a short time and successfully use an outsider’s strength to cleverly slap back.

With the event approaching, Zhao Jia joked to liven up the atmosphere, “Besides, you’re an Alpha like this. Who can bully you?”

Jiang Mi was silent for a few seconds.

“I just didn’t want to be stepped on by her today.”

If things had just quietly passed today, everyone would have known that “Jiang Mi” was really easy to bully. She didn’t care before, but now she didn’t want to have that label.

She wasn’t that weak. She had a temper too. She would fight back.

“Zhao Jia, I know you’ve also endured a lot for me these past few years. I’ll be better in the future…” Jiang Mi said with certainty, “We’ll be better.”

Zhao Jia looked away, touched her eyes, and nodded. “But this time, we really have to thank Ruoxi.”

Jiang Mi: “Mmm, of course.”

“You have the suppressor patch, right?” Zhao Jia sniffed and pushed aside the ends of Jiang Mi’s short hair, checking the area of her neck behind her ear. “I forgot the gown’s belt at the hotel. I’ll go back and get it. I can make it back before you go on stage, but you remember to change to a new one in advance, a more secure one. Don’t let any accidents happen.”

“Mmm. Don’t worry. I always handle it like this.”

Before her heat, she usually only needed to apply one suppressor patch that could cover her glands a day, and it would last until the day her heat came. Then, she would get a shot of suppressor, and she could perfectly get through her heat.

There had never been any accidents.

**

“The second female lead in your drama is quite interesting. The event hasn’t even started, and she’s already on the hot search.”

Yan Wei’s gaze lifted slightly from her phone. Surui sat down on the sofa opposite her. “There’s someone named Qin Yao who’s been quite popular recently. It seems she snatched Jiang Mi’s dressing room and it was live streamed. It’s quite a hot topic now.”

Jiang Mi’s voice came from the few-second video.

Yan Wei could almost see that beautiful, harmless face smiling slightly, the end of her words as sweet as honey-soaked milk.

She slowly and leisurely rolled her fingers. She seemed to have never seen what Jiang Mi looked like with a cold face or when she was angry. For some reason, she was a little curious to know if Jiang Mi had an aggressive side.

It seemed she had.

The day Jiang Mi had been drinking and followed her to her room, the Alpha’s aggressiveness was on full display. But it was still too soft, too obedient. She didn’t even have the courage to go through with a fake kissing scene.

But later, she would always think of that day.

When she read the script, she could always perfectly replicate the character’s image in her mind, whether it was their appearance, their expression, or their actions, without exception.

But she couldn’t imagine in her mind what kind of reaction Jiang Mi would have when she discovered that the idol she liked was completely different from her public persona.

Would she feel scared when she remembered following her into her room that day she had been drinking?

And would she show a panicked and terrified expression because of her true face?

The screen in her hand had gone black from being inactive for a long time.

Yan Wei felt anxious, yet full of anticipation.

Bai Qiu chimed in from the side, “I heard last time that Qin Yao always causes trouble for Mimi.”

Surui glanced at Bai Qiu. Yan Wei didn’t really like people being talkative. But she then noticed that Yan Wei didn’t have a displeased reaction. After thinking for a few seconds, she said, “The PR side will help coordinate. After all, that dressing room was arranged by us as a favor. It can’t affect you.”

Yan Wei didn’t answer, nor did she refuse. She just stood up the next second. “Let’s go.”

Surui looked at her watch. It was still early. They could go over from the hotel after the first half of the red carpet was almost over.

Whether it was a star, an actor, or a businessman, when you reached Yan Wei’s level, there was no need to accommodate others.

Her words stopped at her lips.

She looked at her watch again. Was it a coincidence? If they went at this time, they would just be in time for the red carpet of the person on the hot search.

***

Author’s Notes:

Weiwei: I want to see my wife. I can’t wait a single second longer [Red Heart]