After an Alluring Alpha Provokes an Unhinged Omega 35p1

Chapter 35: Together p1

The downpour weakened to a fine, drizzling end twenty minutes later. The air, like a water-saturated sponge, seeped a cool dampness into every pore.

Tan Zhaoxin lowered the car window. Silver beads dripped from the leaves of the plane trees. The streetlights turned the puddles into countless shattered mirrors.

She didn’t like to park her car underground, finding it stuffy. The driver steered the car into the residential complex, splashing through the water, and finally came to a steady stop.

Tan Zhaoxin’s knuckles tapped on the leather armrest for a few seconds. As she prepared to get out, the driver took a black umbrella from the car door, circled around, and opened the door for her. The long-handled black umbrella was blown back by the night wind, and the driver had to quickly circle to the right, staying close to the edge of the puddle.

“I’ll do it myself. You can go back first.”

Tan Zhaoxin took the umbrella. She cut off the other’s unspoken advice, her high heels stepping into a shallow puddle. Her black suit pants were soaked, and a cold dampness crept up her calves.

Walking towards the building, her gaze unintentionally swept over, and she saw someone holding a goose-yellow umbrella by the flower bed. She didn’t pay much attention. After getting on the elevator, she heard footsteps behind her. She subconsciously slowed down the closing of the elevator doors.

When their eyes met, both of them paused slightly. The elevator doors slowly closed. In the silhouette reflected on the mirrored surface, a woman’s falling hair was dripping with crystal-clear water droplets.

Tan Zhaoxin was the first to look away. She suddenly remembered why she found this woman familiar. She lowered her eyes and pressed the button for the thirteenth floor, not looking any further.

Jiang Yuying’s brow was furrowed. Her arm reached past the person beside her and also pressed her own floor—the fifteenth. The air was filled with a faint smell of alcohol, as well as the scent of a mature woman’s perfume. It was different from the smell she was used to.

Of course, Jiang Yuying also remembered being helped by this person downstairs last time, but she had been in such a mess then, so it was a bit awkward to meet again now.

Fortunately, the other person didn’t seem to recognize her.

The elevator stopped. Tan Zhaoxin walked out, took out her phone from her bag, and the call was quickly connected.

“What’s the name of the spokesperson you chose for the R1 project last time?”

“Her name is apple, Jiang Yuying.”

Tan Zhaoxin opened the door to her room. “Oh, send me a copy of her file.”

“Okay.”

Tan Zhaoxin entered the room and tossed her jacket onto the sofa. She was damp from the rain, and her legs were crossed at the ankles, a very uncomfortable feeling.

The rising steam quickly filled the bathroom.

Ten minutes later, Tan Zhaoxin came out wrapped in a bathrobe, opened the file on her phone, and first glanced at the photo.

The spokesperson for R1 that the project team had sent over two days ago. She had glanced at it briefly. No wonder she had found that woman familiar last time.

Tan Zhaoxin scanned the two short pages of information, slowly walked to the water kettle, poured a glass of warm water, and then opened her phone and sent a message.

[Change to a new spokesperson.]

A few seconds later, the secretary replied: [President Tan, may I ask the reason? The other side needs a reason to communicate.]

Tan Zhaoxin took a sip of water: [No reason.]

It was just that the person she had seen last time was in a very bad state. If there was a possibility of risk, the most labor-saving way was to avoid it in advance.

Tan Zhaoxin put down the glass and prepared to rest.

The phone on the sofa blanket buzzed. Seeing the caller ID, she was silent for a second, then answered.

“Baby, can you come and pick me up?”

The other end of the line was mixed with the sound of a DJ and various other noises. Tan Zhaoxin frowned. “You’ve been drinking again?”

“Don’t be angry. I didn’t drink much. They insisted on making me drink… Baby, I miss you,” the woman said coquettishly.

Tan Zhaoxin endured it.

“I thought we were parting on good terms.”

“You were the one who broke up. I didn’t agree. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been fierce with you. Can you come and see me?”

“I’m hanging up.”

“Tan Zhaoxin! You used to always come and pick me up. Why did you say you don’t love me anymore? I want to see you, do you hear me? I want to see you!”

Tan Zhaoxin was silent for a moment, then said, “Okay, we’ll meet when you’re a little more sober.”

“I am drunk. Tan Zhaoxin, were you really on a business trip two days ago? Weren’t you going to see that Omega star? Weren’t the enamel earrings you bought at Sotheby’s last month a gift for her?! If you don’t come and pick me up today, I’ll make sure everyone knows!”

Tan Zhaoxin narrowed her eyes. “Do you know what you’re saying?”

The voice on the other end seemed to quiet down for a moment, and then the woman cried, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to say that. I just want to see you. Can you come and see me? We’ve been together for two months. Don’t we even have the affection for one meeting?”

“Send me the address.”

After Tan Zhaoxin finished speaking, she directly ended the call.

At first, Tan Zhaoxin had really liked Maddy. She was cute, charming, energetic, and caring. But after a month of dating, she had found that this woman would start to secretly go through her phone.

Last week, when she was on a business trip, Maddy had followed her to the hotel.

Breaking up was inevitable.

In fact, two months was already much longer than she had expected for a relationship.

It wasn’t that Tan Zhaoxin didn’t have feelings. As long as you had invested, there would be emotions. She was just a little tired. Talking about feelings was really meaningless.

Tan Zhaoxin changed her clothes, opened the door, and walked out. She pressed the elevator button, and the floors slowly descended. The elevator doors soon opened, and her first reaction upon looking in was—pale.

She was beautiful, but the woman’s face was an unhealthy pale, so frail that it looked as if she could be blown away by the north wind at any moment. There was no vitality at all.

Her second reaction was familiarity.

How could she not be familiar? She had just seen her half an hour ago. Tan Zhaoxin raised an eyebrow slightly.

This time, Jiang Yuying also showed surprise. She had also changed her clothes and was wearing a hat. After seeing the person, she took out the mask she hadn’t had time to put on.

Only the two of them were left in the air. Tan Zhaoxin took a breath and faintly smelled a hint of a private fragrance.

Like the smell of shower gel.

Peach.

Tan Zhaoxin touched the tip of her nose. She was also helpless about her inexplicably sensitive sense of smell. Soon the elevator doors opened, and she strode out.

CTA Bar.

Jiang Yuying stood at the door, wearing a mask. There were many people around. She called Chen Qiao for the second time before the other end picked up.

She looked around nervously. “I’m here.”

Chen Qiao said, “Come in… forget it, I’ll come and get you.”

Before long, Chen Qiao came out of the bar and stood not far away, waving at Jiang Yuying. When she came closer, she put her arm around Jiang Yuying’s shoulder and said in a low voice, “In a bit, you just go in and have a few drinks with President Chen, and we’ll have work for the second half of the year.”

Jiang Yuying’s shoulders were hunched. The moment she walked into the bar and heard the deafening music, she had the thought that she didn’t exist.

She didn’t seem to be her.

She just stood in the middle of the crowd, unable to even see the people around her clearly.

She seemed to hear someone calling her.

By the time she was a little more sober, she was already holding a wine glass. She turned her head. It was her lover’s low coaxing, “Our apple is a good drinker. President Chen, you have to keep your word. We’re waiting for that business from your company.”

Jiang Yuying tasted an unusual spiciness.

But she couldn’t control her own hands. She took the wine that Chen Qiao handed her, glass after glass, and poured it down her throat.

She was going to die.

It was better to be dead.

Tan Zhaoxin dragged Maddy out of the private room. The woman was dead drunk and tried to hug her, muttering about Tan Zhaoxin’s “evil deeds.”

“Tan Zhaoxin, you were the one who cheated first. I was just following you, with… I was wrong, I shouldn’t have doubted you… I…”

“I love you, don’t break up with me…”

“Tan…”

Tan Zhaoxin had no more patience. She directly threw the person to the driver behind her.

“Take her to a hotel.”

She lit a cigarette in the corridor. The advice she had given Yan Wei today was of no use to herself. She now felt that physical compatibility was far more pleasant and convenient than spiritual.

The DJ’s music came in waves. She walked out with a displeased expression. Passing by the VIP room next door, she was annoyed by the noise inside and frowned.

She glanced inside and her footsteps paused.

That woman named Jiang Yuying was being pushed onto someone else by another short-haired woman.

Nothing was surprising in this circle.

She withdrew her gaze, but her mind was filled with the tear tracks on the woman’s face under the colored spotlights.

How meaningless.

Tan Zhaoxin took a deep drag of her cigarette, was silent for two seconds, then took out her phone and found a number to dial. The other end picked up after a moment.

Tan Zhaoxin walked to the front of the private room, unbuttoned her mother-of-pearl cufflinks with one hand, and before opening the door, her voice became slightly more serious, “Yan Wei, do you want a favor?”

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