After an Alluring Alpha Provokes an Unhinged Omega 77p2

Chapter 77: Stay p2

The two of them didn’t go to the table, but just leaned against the counter, quietly drinking the chicken soup.

The afternoon sun slowly moved, and the only sound in the air was the faint clinking of spoons and bowls and each other’s breathing. This ordinary silence was a new experience for them.

Yan Wei drank very slowly, as if she were savoring every sip. She would occasionally look up and glance at Jiang Mi beside her.

Jiang Mi was just focused on drinking the chicken soup, her profile looking particularly soft in the light.

At this moment, there were no fierce questions, no uneasy probing, no heavy promises. The happiness was so much that it almost made one forget everything outside.

Yan Wei’s fingers unconsciously rubbed the glaze on the rim of the bowl, as if she had something to say.

She looked up, her gaze meeting Jiang Mi’s. There was no longer the usual sharpness, only a kind of expression that was rarely seen on Yan Wei’s face.

“What’s wrong?”

Jiang Mi reached out and gently covered the hand that was holding the bowl. The coolness of the back of Yan Wei’s hand came from her fingertips.

Yan Wei looked at Jiang Mi for a moment, then shook her head and said, “It’s nothing.”

After tidying up, Jiang Mi washed the fruit and brought it over to the coffee table.

The two of them were curled up in a corner of the living room sofa, a thin fleece blanket over their knees. Yan Wei’s gaze was a little empty as she looked out the window.

A sweet fragrance suddenly entered her nostrils. Yan Wei came back to her senses. She subconsciously turned her head towards Jiang Mi, like a plant that was used to the shade, instinctively turning towards the light source.

Jiang Mi was holding an orange in her hand and was slowly peeling it.

The clear fragrance of the orange peel splashed out, as if it had enveloped Jiang Mi’s whole person.

The phone on the coffee table lit up several times. She only glanced at it, then returned her gaze to her hand.

Yan Wei’s gaze followed Jiang Mi’s peeling hand until Jiang Mi handed her half of the peeled orange. She took it, held the half-orange in her hand, and unconsciously squeezed it, her fingertips stained with a little moisture.

The heat inside seemed to be soaked in this damp coldness.

After a while, she looked up and looked at Jiang Mi. The usual sharpness and defensiveness in the depths of her eyes were now replaced by a complex emotion that Jiang Mi couldn’t understand.

“Are you leaving today?”

Yan Wei suddenly spoke.

Jiang Mi was dazzled by the sunlight that was suddenly refracted in from the window. In that instant of glare, she vaguely felt that a certain hard-won peace had been cracked.

Yan Wei was sometimes so paranoid it was startling, and sometimes so rational it was terrifying. Jiang Mi had thought that they would quietly stay for a few hours—at least they wouldn’t pick up those troubles so quickly.

She nodded, her voice as steady as possible, “Mmm, I have a brand event in the evening.” In fact, this schedule should have started earlier. It was her who had specially asked Zhao Jia to help coordinate and postpone it by two hours.

“Mmm.” Yan Wei’s response showed no emotion.

A brief silence spread in the air.

Jiang Mi sighed in her heart. What had to be faced had to be faced.

The matter of Mo Yun must have been a big blow to Yan Wei. From the moment they had met, she had wanted to ask about the progress of the matter, but she had never found the right opportunity. She hadn’t expected that it would be Yan Wei who would break this deliberately maintained peace first.

“The company’s side… is there a specific response plan? What does President Tan plan to do?” The moment she spoke, a hint of an imperceptible urgency was revealed in her tone.

Yan Wei didn’t answer immediately, but just quietly looked at Jiang Mi, her gaze so deep it was inscrutable.

Just as Jiang Mi was about to speak again, she looked away. “Mimi, this matter will be over soon.”

“How will it end?” Jiang Mi pressed on, trying to find the answer in the other’s expression. “At least tell me a rough idea so I have something to go on.”

She keenly sensed the subtle change in Yan Wei’s emotions. She paused, and her tone softened, “If… it’s not convenient to say, then forget it.”

Although she didn’t know what was inconvenient about telling her this.

Yan Wei said, “There’s nothing inconvenient for you.”

“For you, there’s nothing inconvenient,” Yan Wei said softly.

This sentence was like a warm breeze, gently brushing against Jiang Mi’s heart, and her tense nerves relaxed a little.

At this moment, the phone screen on the table lit up again, and the notification sound came one after another. Jiang Mi was a little surprised. The messages today seemed to be particularly dense.

She leaned over, about to reach for it.

Before her fingertips had touched it, Yan Wei’s cool voice sounded in her ear, stopping her action.

“I planned the matter of Mo Yun.”

Jiang Mi’s body froze. She slowly straightened up, trying to suppress the heavy feeling that was suddenly welling up in her heart. “What?” She even suspected that she had misheard and repeated, “What do you mean, ‘planned’?”

The air seemed to freeze.

“From the first time she appeared in front of the media, to the re-mention of the car accident, the video of the car accident, all the negative information, and all the media that interviewed Mo Yun.” Yan Wei no longer looked directly at Jiang Mi’s eyes. She paused, her voice carrying an almost-extreme calmness, “I arranged it all.”

In fact, even Tan Zhaoxin didn’t fully know the whole story. Therefore, the first interview with Mo Yun was also arranged by her. In other words, the reason Mo Yun had jumped out was, in fact, she was the real mastermind.

Jiang Mi’s mind went blank, and she couldn’t say a word for a long time.

After a long while, she finally found her voice and asked, incomprehensibly, “Why?”

She didn’t understand.

Why?

Yan Wei looked up. “To completely cut off all ties between me and the Mo family, to make her disappear forever from my world and yours. And also to…” her gaze finally met Jiang Mi’s, and the emotions that were churning in them were hard to distinguish.

And also to get you to my side. And even more so, so that when you come, my world is clean.

The latter, more paranoid, more extreme words, were forcefully swallowed back when she touched the clear disapproval in Jiang Mi’s eyes.

She was all too familiar with that kind of gaze, as if she were looking at an incomprehensible lunatic.

A sharp panic unexpectedly pierced her.

She was actually still afraid, so afraid that her fingertips were cold. She uncontrollably reached out and held Jiang Mi’s wrist tightly, as if if she let go, Jiang Mi would get up and leave.

Jiang Mi’s hand began to tremble uncontrollably, and then, the anger from the depths of her body spread without warning. She asked, “Have you thought about the consequences?”

Yan Wei said, “I have.”

“You have?” Jiang Mi laughed in anger. “Being banned and cursed by the whole internet, having all your endorsements withdrawn by advertisers and investors, having your reputation and hard work that you’ve earned over the past ten years wiped out by everyone! You’ve thought about it?!”

Jiang Mi’s voice suddenly rose.

She thought of that violently torn down billboard. No one knew how she had felt in that moment. It was more painful than her own loss and all the torment she had endured!

“Have you thought about all the people who like you?”

After Jiang Mi finished speaking, a mist gathered in her eyes. “Have you thought about how they would feel watching you fall from a high building?!”

Yan Wei’s heart trembled violently for a moment.

She looked at the tears on Jiang Mi’s face, and her heart panicked even more. “Jiang Mi…”

Jiang Mi wiped away her tears and turned her head. “You’ve made yourself covered in bruises, and you’ve also hurt those who love you. Yan Wei, you’ve really done wrong.”

As she spoke, she remembered the images she had seen these days and nights, all the scolding she had heard about Yan Wei, the fans who had cried with red and swollen eyes in front of the collapsed human-sized standee, and the countless photos in the trash can. She couldn’t help but sob.

She had really held it in for a long time.

Every time she saw these things, she had to hold back the urge to cry from heartache.

But she felt that it didn’t matter. She could walk through it with Yan Wei. She could comfort Yan Wei.

The truth of the matter was not what Mo Yun had said. The innocent are innocent. She believed in Yan Wei, and those who loved Yan Wei would definitely believe.

But now, Yan Wei was telling her that she had directed and acted in all of this.

Those terrifying and horrible cyberbullying! Those extreme and crazy anti-fans! The rumors that were everywhere—

Jiang Mi broke down and said, “She’s not worth it at all. What is there about her that’s worth you hurting yourself like this?”

Jiang Mi looked up and shouted at Yan Wei, crying, “What is there about her that’s worth you hurting yourself like this! Why did you have to turn yourself into this?! Why?!”

Yan Wei went to hug Jiang Mi.

“Jiang Mi, Mimi…” she held onto Jiang Mi, kneeling on the sofa and holding Jiang Mi tightly. She heard Jiang Mi’s uncontrollable crying, and her eyes ached with redness. When the tears rolled down, she only felt that her whole person was sinking infinitely.

So she held Jiang Mi even tighter.

Jiang Mi’s tears soaked Yan Wei’s shoulder. She cried until her voice was completely hoarse, as if she had encountered the saddest thing in the world. “Yan Wei, can you not be like this? You, can you be a little better to yourself? There are so many, so many people in this world who love you. Don’t look at those who make you sad anymore… let yourself go, okay?”

Yan Wei wanted to raise her hand to wipe her tears, but she found that her arm was trembling violently.

She promised in a hoarse voice, “Okay.”

“Okay.”

She promised many times.

She kept repeating it, as if by doing so, she could make up for something.

Jiang Mi cried for a long, long time.

For the first time, Yan Wei found that the three words “I’m sorry” were so easy to say, and yet so heavy.

“But Mimi, can you not leave me?”

Yan Wei closed her eyes and buried her face in her neck, her voice as low as a whisper, “I don’t know what else to do to keep you.”