After the rain stopped, the night fell silent.
Xiao Jin leaned her head on the boxwood pillow and began to miss the modern comfortable cotton pillow.
She didn’t understand why ancient people thought that a high pillow could bring peace of mind.
Xiao Jin certainly didn’t feel that way.
She even wanted to throw this thing away.
Just as she was about to put her plan into action, Xiao Jin turned her head and found that Chu Shao had already closed her eyes.
She reached out and gently circled her waist.
Her dense eyelashes were closed together, as if she was sleeping peacefully.
The moonlight penetrated the paper window and shone into the bed curtain.
The brightness was clear, soft and gentle, and Chu Shao’s facial features were covered with a faint halo.
Under that light, Xiao Jin gazed at Chu Shao’s brows and eyes, and her eyes involuntarily softened.
After looking for a while, when Chu Shao withdrew her gaze, Xiao Jin had already given up the idea of throwing the wooden pillow away.
Although the design of this pillow was indeed against human nature, the fact that Chu Shao could sleep peacefully showed that it still had some effect.
Just at this moment, a familiar mechanical sound suddenly came into Xiao Jin’s mind. “Congratulations, host. After experiencing tonight, plus the previously unsettled favorability, the total favorability of the female lead Chu Shao to you is 20.”
“20?” Xiao Jin seriously doubted that she had heard it wrong.
If her emotional management was not in place, she would have shouted out on the spot.
She even suspected in her heart: Could it be because her skills were limited and Chu Shao was dissatisfied, so…
Seeing Xiao Jin’s thoughts heading towards a strange direction, the system explained in time, “It’s not because of that.”
Xiao Jin became even more puzzled, “Then why?”
The system explained, “Actually, at first, the system thought that there was no such thing as favorability on the female lead Chu Shao. It was only after you activated her favorability that the value began to be calculated.”Â
“Then why did it suddenly become 20 now?”
Because the system does not know what the threshold of female protagonist Chu Shao’s favorability is, it only set an interval of 0-100 based on preliminary calculations.
“But just a few hours ago, Chu Shao’s favorability towards the host broke through 100, which means…”
“It means your algorithm crashed, so you swallowed up the favorability?” Xiao Jin reasonably guessed.
And decided that if Chu Shao woke up and reverted to the state from a few months ago, she would not hesitate to self-destruct and perish with the system.
The system seemed to perceive Xiao Jin’s desire to kill, and quickly denied it: “No, the female protagonist Chu Shao’s favorability towards you is still there.”
“It’s just that because the favorability exceeded the threshold, the system converted a part of the value into the host’s life span.”
Xiao Jin’s face remained unchanged, without showing any joy.
Looking at Chu Shao lying beside her, she even asked a question: “After converting it to life span, will the favorability value change?”
The system was stunned for a moment, then answered: “It will not change, only the overflow part is recalculated and converted into life span.”
After thinking for a moment, Xiao Jin reluctantly understood the system’s operation as advancing one digit in base 100.
Therefore, Chu Shao’s favorability towards her should actually be 120.
Realizing this, Xiao Jin couldn’t help but smile.
But she also realized that she was a little too happy, so she suppressed the smile and communicated with the system: “That’s good.”
However, the system was confused.
Why did it feel like the host didn’t care about how long it could live, but was more concerned about whether Chu Shao’s favorability would decrease?
Was the host… blinded by emotions and willing to risk her life?
As it turned out, the system was right.
Before it could even say how much life span was converted this time, and that the temporary protagonist halo had side effects-Xiao Jin had already carefully turned over and covered Chu Shao with the corner of the blanket.
And then she fell asleep.Â
The system: “…”
It had never noticed before that this host had the potential for a love brain.
It wasn’t until the next day that Xiao Jin felt the side effects of the halo.
Chu Shao woke up earlier than Xiao Jin.
So when she pushed the door open, she was already dressed and ready to leave at any time.
She held a plate of breakfast to settle the stomach in her hand, with a smile on her lips, and walked slowly towards Xiao Jin.
Just halfway there, before she could even greet her, she stopped in her tracks.
Because at this moment, Xiao Jin had not tied up her hair, her smooth and shiny black hair was like satin, scattered on the embroidered bedspread.
Her legs couldn’t move, so she had to prop up the bed board with her pale and slender fingers and slightly lift her empty and unfocused eyes.
Looking ahead somewhat dazedly through a thin bed curtain.
Chu Shao didn’t have time to appreciate the picture that should have pleased her, and suddenly stopped smiling, put down the tray in her hand, and opened the bed curtain.
Layers of curtains fluttered in the wind, like scattered white plum petals.
Chu Shao stood by the bed, silently staring into Xiao Jin’s eyes.
After a long while, it was Xiao Jin who broke the silence first: “I can’t see with my eyes.”
Xiao Jin said this very calmly.
After all, just a moment ago, the system kindly reminded her: this is a side effect that occurs when using the protagonist halo after falling off a cliff and surviving. Temporary blindness, lasting for three days.Â
It’s just three days, nothing serious.
Moreover, this side effect is quite reasonable since the protagonist occasionally loses their vision.
Xiao Jin accepted this fact calmly and thought it was reasonable – to wear a halo, one must bear its weight.
The protagonist has to endure too much.
As long as it’s not overnight greying or severed meridians, it is still within her range of acceptance.
However, Xiao Jin completely forgot.
In fact, her current state of being paralyzed in both legs and injured in one arm is not much different from severing her meridians.
The protagonist thought there was nothing wrong, but Chu Shao clearly did not think so.
Unfortunately, Xiao Jin was blind at the moment and could not see Chu Shao’s expression.
She only knew that after a brief silence, The other party calmly called Ye Juege in and then there was chaos and crying.
Of course, the chaos was caused by Ye Suyu.
The crying was from Ye Juege.
Ye Suyu was shocked: “Your Highness, how did you injure your eyes instead of your head when you fell off the cliff…”
Xiao Jin couldn’t be bothered to explain, nor could she explain this unscientific phenomenon. She just extended her hand and let the doctor take her pulse.
The doctor frowned, and his hand trembled like a sieve as he took her pulse.
But he couldn’t explain why.
Under the pressure of the crowd’s watchful eyes, he wiped away some sweat and apologized: “I’m incompetent.”
 All of this was within Xiao Jin’s expectations.
However, Ye Juege couldn’t sit still anymore. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and walked out without looking back.
Ye Suyu was surprised and hurried to stop her, “General Ye, where are you going?”
“I’m going to find the best doctor in Qingzhou to treat the prince,” Ye Juege’s voice was cold, and she seemed ready to fight Ye Suyu if she tried to stop her.
Tang Ling stood by and looked thoughtfully at Xiao Jin lying in bed, but then she smiled and said, “The prince’s illness seems rather strange. The doctors in Qingzhou may not be able to cure her.”
“So, what do you suggest, Commander Tang?” Chu Shao was feeding Xiao Jin medicine, looking down at her.
Hearing Tang Ling’s words, she suddenly turned her head to look at her and asked in a gentle voice.
Looking into Chu Shao’s smiling eyes, Tang Ling pretended not to notice the coldness underneath and smiled, “Naturally, we should hurry and bring the prince to a famous doctor in the capital.”
Although Ye Juege was somewhat wary of Tang Ling, considering Xiao Jin’s condition, she nodded in agreement, “What Commander Tang said is true. I was reckless just now.”
Xiao Jin didn’t care either way.
After all, no matter how much treatment she received, she couldn’t be cured in the end.
Since she couldn’t be cured, she might as well give up struggling – spread her legs and eyes, and enjoy the treatment of being the main character for three days.
At this moment, Xiao Jin only opened her dull and lifeless eyes slightly and let Chu Shao send the medicine into her mouth.
After drinking the medicine to heal her injuries, she calmly said, “According to Commander Tang wishes, please return to the capital quickly.” After all, if she didn’t return, she would miss her original owner’s birthday banquet.
Moreover, she had to hurry back and find out about Su Tan.
Before leaving, Xiao Jin considered the forces behind the Blood Rain Pavilion and reluctantly released Shen Lan.
The Blood Rain Pavilion was also very well-behaved. They claimed that their master, Shen Lang, was missing, and took the opportunity to please Xiao Jin, so as not to arouse Shen Lan’s resentment.
Shangguan Xun completed the mission assigned by her superiors and congratulated Xiao Jin on her early recovery, giving her a silk ribbon made of Jiao silk to cover her eyes, which was the best thing she could use.
In theory, everything was a happy ending.
However, when Xiao Jin sat in a wheelchair and was slowly pushed onto the ship back to the capital by Ye Juege, it was different from usual.
Chu Shao did not immediately board the ship, but stood quietly watching everything from afar.
Looking at the white silk covering Xiao Jin’s eyes and her legs hanging down from the bamboo wheelchair, her smile was warm as a spring breeze and still full of infinite tenderness.
However, in her mind, she saw the empty eyes that met her when she entered the room.
The curtains fluttered, the figure on the bed scattered black hair, curved pale and slender fingertips, tightly grasping the bedding underneath. She looked so lost, so helpless.
Like a bird imprisoned in a cage with broken wings and blood all over its body.
The smile in Chu Shao’s eyes became even more gentle, and her sleeves fluttered along with the river flowing to the east.
After all, a prisoner bird with broken wings and covered eyes could never fly out of the cage.
If it continued like this – if it always remained this way, Xiao Jin would never leave her.
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Translator’s note: A Yandere’s thoughts and thinking are truly abnormal. Yes, Xiao Jin can’t definitely leave if she’s a disabled person, but her soul can still fly away without you knowing.
TO BE CONTINUE…
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