The Spoiled Rich Scum Alpha Pretended to Be a Beta and Got Exposed! (Entertainment Industry)

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** Even though Wen Shubai, an award-winning actress who still hadn't presented at age 27, had won every major award, the only thing people said about her was:

What a shame, she's a Beta.

Wen Shubai proved with her talent that even a Beta could become a household name in the entertainment industry. Yet the very day after the awards ceremony, rumors began circulating that she was being kept by someone.

[Ji Wen]

The entertainment world's most notorious rich-kid Beta. A good-for-nothing who spends all her time clubbing and flirting instead of doing her job. But with a famous director for a mother, she's bold enough to tear apart an award-winning actor over a rigged award and publicly clap back at influencers who put others down to boost themselves.

Wen Shubai is Ji Wen's secret lover?!

Who are they trying to insult?

Besides, what could two Betas even do together? These reporters have way too much imagination...

Wen Shubai had already prepared a whole stack of press releases to refute the rumors, but a thick pile of photos left her with no way to deny them. Ji Wen was there at the awards ceremony, with her while she shopped in casual clothes, visiting her on set, and even in a photo of the two returning to a hotel together that looked more than a little intimate!

Wait! She could explain all of those!

But the last photo left her speechless. It clearly showed her lifting her head to kiss Ji Wen's sharply defined jawline. She could almost still smell the refreshing scent of lime on her nose.

** The first time Wen Shubai came to see her, Ji Wen was leaning against the doorway in a loose shirt.

"Sure, I'll help you clear your name," she said.

Under her earnest gaze, Wen Shubai walked inside and didn't come out all night. The next day, a new rumor surfaced: [Award-winning actress Wen Shubai spends a night of passion with her secret lover]

The moment she saw the rumor, Wen Shubai clenched her fists. They were both Betas! They couldn't do anything together!

The second time Wen Shubai came to see her, Ji Wen raised an eyebrow, her eyes betraying a hint of amusement.

"It's fine. I'll clear things up for sure when we go on the show this time," she said.

How could anyone not believe that confident tone? Wen Shubai and Ji Wen went on the show, and when the host asked about the rumors, Ji Wen looked troubled. "Let's not press her. Shubai doesn't really want to talk about this."

In front of the cameras, Wen Shubai gritted her teeth. The more she tried to explain, the worse it got!

The third time Wen Shubai came to see her, Ji Wen brought out a bottle of her finest liquor, and the two of them had a thorough, in-depth discussion of the matter.

When Wen Shubai woke up the next morning with an aching back, she understood. There was no need to clarify anything anymore. She couldn't clear things up. The rumors were true!

They'd done everything!

Thinking of Wen Shubai's murmurs the night before, Ji Wen curled her lips into a seductive smile.

"If I hadn't pretended to be a Beta, would you have come to me on your own?"

"Wen Shubai, you can't run away from me this time."

*

[Shocking! Award-winning actress Wen Shubai presents as an Omega! The perennial singleton has been marked!]

[Breaking news! The Alpha by the award-winning actress's side...]

[Insider reveals the truth about Director Ji and the actress!]

That night, Ji Wen kissed the hair of the person sleeping peacefully in her arms, then posted another update.

"Mission to win my wife back: complete."

The entertainment industry exploded!

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Five-year age gap, younger, scheming puppy-dog Alpha.

A wealthy, powerful, scheming Alpha x a gentle, clever, mature Omega who steps right into the wolf's den and can't get out.

Female Alpha with no reproductive organs, genuinely scummy at first, pretending to be a Beta because of an illness.

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[Also known as The Ideal Wife-Raising Handbook; What Do I Do When the Wife I Raised Runs Away?; After the Great Talisman Cultivator Was Struck Dead by Lightning, Heaven Actually Compensated Her with a Wife!]

Jiang Lian had exceptional natural talent from childhood, and in just twenty years had mastered the art of talismans.

Everyone said that Jiang Lian would reach the Mahayana realm before she turned thirty and ascend to immortality.

But she died.

The lightning-attracting talisman in her hand inexplicably burst into flames. Thunder crashed down from the heavens, striking her with ninety-nine bolts until she was dead.

Tch, heaven really does envy the talented!

When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Lian was a young master dressed in wedding robes, disguised as a man. A so-called System in her mind gleefully spoke its first words:

[Your concubine is pregnant and has called for you. Your wife is waiting for you to consummate the marriage. Which one will you choose?]

Jiang Lian glanced at the pale, trembling neck beneath her new wife's red bridal veil. In her ear, she heard her concubine's coquettish call.

[I'm sleeping in a tree tonight.]

What gentle wife? What attentive concubine? Jiang Lian only wanted to cultivate immortality!

On her wedding night, Jiang Lian, the young master of the mighty General's residence, would rather sleep in a tree than touch his wife, Wen Qiuran.

By the next day, Wen Qiuran had become the laughingstock of the entire residence.

In front of her was a pregnant concubine, and behind her was a mother-in-law who neither cared for nor cherished her.

Wen Qiuran secretly resolved that if she wanted to survive in the General's residence, she had to make sure to please her husband.

But her husband wouldn't drink the soup she made, wouldn't look at the sachet she embroidered, and wouldn't touch her even when she blushed with embarrassment, stripped naked, and offered herself to him in bed.

Wen Qiuran's starry eyes filled with tears.

Was she really that undesirable?

[The heroine came right to you, and you aren't tempted? You are attracted to women, aren't you?]

The System wouldn't shut up. Jiang Lian suppressed the excitement in her heart and silently repeated: Women will only slow down my cultivation.

Later, when Wen Qiuran, who had already changed her fate and escaped the deep confines of the inner household, smiled as she prepared to say goodbye to Jiang Lian,

Jiang Lian felt as if she had lost something. Was her little wife really about to leave?

Wasn't this exactly what she wanted...

All these years, she hadn't been able to bear seeing Wen Qiuran looking so pitiful and aggrieved. She'd helped Wen Qiuran disguise herself as a man to take the imperial examinations at the academy, and taught her to look beyond the tiny, four-sided courtyard of the household.

Wen Qiuran deserved to see a wider sky, and to let her gaze rest on more than just Jiang Lian.

So why was she sad?

Before she turned thirteen, Wen Qiuran understood that a wife must obey her husband, first obeying her father at home and then her husband after marriage.

After she turned thirteen, Wen Qiuran met the "husband" who wouldn't even touch her with a finger. From then on, she saw the green pines and cypresses behind the academy, the cracked bricks inside the examination hall, and the sunlight that fell furtively on the frontier.

Her husband, her Jiang Lian, the one-of-a-kind love of her life, the moon she'd held in her heart ever since she first saw her at sixteen.

With the bright moon overhead, she wished only to be the brightest star.

And so, after Jiang Lian stepped away from worldly affairs, her Daoist heart became: I want both Wen Qiuran and immortality.

As for Wen Qiuran, after she entered the secular world, her heart held only this: I give both this world and myself to Jiang Lian.

Theme: Though life is full of hardships, as long as you carry a love for life in your heart, you can surely find happiness.