After enduring ultimate torture, Xiao Jin finally established an alliance with Chu Shao. In order to ensure their safety, she suggested they sleep separately in different rooms, which Chu Shao readily agreed to.
However, returning to their respective rooms was not so simple. Although Xiao Jin’s thought process was different from that of an ordinary person, her walking difficulties were clearly visible to the naked eye.
Therefore, Chu Shao smiled pleasantly and understandingly pushed Xiao Jin back to her room. After Chu Shao left, Xiao Jin opened her palm and smoothed out the handkerchief that Chu Shao had given her. The silk handkerchief was soaked with a few bloodstains, and she thought of the fair and slender fingers of the female lead, now stained with blood. In an instant, the handkerchief became frightening to her.
Xiao Jin was about to put the handkerchief away when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a pattern on the back of the handkerchief. She turned it over to see that the other side was embroidered with a silver-blue floral pattern, which was obviously the ice crystal flower from Chu Shao’s shoes.
“Congratulations, host. You have collected the key item [Ice Crystal Flower Handkerchief] x1.”
The sudden mechanical voice startled Xiao Jin. After regaining her composure, she asked expressionlessly, “What is the use of key items?”
“Key items can be used to unlock hidden side plots. Only when the host completes the main and side missions and meets the detachment conditions can they return to the original world.”
Xiao Jin said, “The main tasks are already so crazy, and now we have to do side tasks?”
“Whether it is a main or side task, the host can receive generous rewards for completing them. Moreover, the system will issue rewards of different degrees based on your completion rate.”
If there were rewards, then she could reluctantly accept it. Xiao Jin asked, “How much life span reward can I get this time?”
“Detected that the host has completed Task 1: ‘Stealing a Marriage Proposal’. Due to the host’s low completion rate, the system will only issue a 24-hour life span reward. Host, please try harder!”
Listening to the friendly voice of the system, Xiao Jin felt that she might need to redefine the meaning of the word “generous.”
Finally escaping from the yandere female lead, Xiao Jin should have slept soundly in her own room. However, in the stillness of the night, she thought deeply: How did Chu Shao know that this was her room? Nightmares plagued her all night.
The next day, Xiao Jin remembered the blood-stained ice crystal flower from her nightmares and fell silent for a long time.
After coughing for a while, she asked seriously, “Can’t we fast forward? I feel like life is becoming unbearable.”
The system replied, “Sorry, host, it’s not possible.”
After Xiao Jin got up, the system released the second main task to her.
“Please be prepared, as the palace is about to issue an order summoning you and the female lead. Task location: study room. Difficulty level: moderate.”
“A friendly reminder to the host, you currently have the item ‘Ice Crystal Flower Silk Scarf’, which meets the conditions for completing Side Task 1. So, you can look for clues for the side task while completing the main task.”
Xiao Jin was confused and asked, “What are the clues for the side task?”
“Talking to Princess Zhao Yang three times or more has a 60% chance of obtaining the clue.”
The study room was definitely where the emperor handled political affairs.
As for Princess Zhao Yang, Xiao Shuang, this person seemed to be the older sister of the emperor in the original text.
Xiao Jin now only had one question, “What’s the connection between Chu Shao’s scarf and Princess Zhao Yang?”
“Sorry, host, no information available at the moment. Keep up the good work,” replied the system, which Xiao Jin regretted activating.
Soon, the imperial edict arrived at the palace.
Everyone in the Wang mansion knelt and listened, except for Xiao Jin, who was sitting calmly in a wheelchair due to her leg problems, and didn’t need to kneel to the emperor.
This was probably the only advantage of being in the body of the original owner.
Today, Chu Shao wore a white outfit instead of the usual colorful clothes. A silver-blue floral hairpin was gently attached to her forehead, and it looked like an ice crystal flower in shape.
With a light smile on her lips, if Xiao Jin didn’t know that the female lead was seriously ill, she would probably have thought she was some kind of unparalleled fairy.
But even knowing the true nature of the female lead, Xiao Jin still couldn’t help but feel a bit frightened.
As the original owner’s legs were completely disabled, it was very difficult for her to dress herself.
Therefore, Xiao Jin could only manage to wrap her chest with a white cloth and wear a middle shirt inside. She put on a large cloak and hurriedly went to receive the imperial edict.
After receiving the edict, she needed to go back to her room to change her clothes before meeting the emperor in a proper manner.
Although she had a maid to help her with her shoes and belt, Xiao jin already felt uncomfortable. But then Chu Shao suddenly appeared on the way.
Xiao jin looked at the female lead standing in front of her and then at the maid who immediately put down the wooden comb and knelt on the ground.
The little maid didn’t have time to comb Xiao jin’s hair and quickly knelt down to greet Chu Shao, “Greetings to the princess.”
At that moment, Xiao jin felt like this dog-blood world had become unreal.
In the original work, the female lead was humiliated and oppressed by everyone in the early stages of the story. Even a cannon fodder character without a name could step on her.
Now Xiao jin felt like she was in a Mary Sue novel.
Xiao jin didn’t know that after yesterday’s forced marriage scene and her classic domineering CEO-style confession, the whole city was talking about “Prince Yan’s anger for her beauty.” There were even some shocking speculations: Prince Yan scolded the Fourth Prince for the sake of the female lead, and the conquest of the Yao Kingdom was also for the female lead.
A generation of killing gods finally succumbed to a beauty.
These rumors naturally spread to Prince Yan’s mansion.
Therefore, even though Chu Shao was the person Xiao jin snatched, she had not been officially conferred a title. The entire mansion dared not offend her and could only respectfully address her as “princess.”
Xiao jin still couldn’t fully accept the god-like development of the plot.
But Chu Shao quickly got into character. She just smiled in surprise and then gently said to the maid, “You may rise.”
Her eyebrows and eyes were full of tenderness, and Xiao jin felt that everything was really interesting.
Indeed, Xiaojin could feel Chu Shao’s pleasure, but she didn’t expect her to feel so happy that she would walk over and pick up the wooden comb, smilingly saying, “Your Highness, let this concubine tie your hair for you.”
“…”
Letting Chu Shao tie her hair, Xiao jin felt a bit dangerous. But the most dangerous thing was to refuse the request of a yandere.
Chu Shao held a wooden comb and saw Xiao Jin remain silent for a long time, still smiling on her lips: “It seems that the Her Highness is not willing, it’s because I was too impulsive.”
Actually, she didn’t really want to comb Xiao Jin’s hair, she just thought it was amusing and wanted to have some fun.
Anyway, after Xiao Jin lost the bet, all parts of her body belonged to herself, and she could slowly comb Xiao Jin’s hair later.
Thinking of this, Chu Shao suddenly found a logical loophole and frowned: if Xiao Jin became a corpse, there would be no faint hint of mint fragrance on her body.
Chu Shao widened her eyes and realized that she had been fooled by Xiao Jin.
But she had already drunk the union wine with Xiao Jin, and now they were co-conspirators bound by fate.
She sighed lightly. Next time, she would definitely think carefully before agreeing to someone else’s alliance.
But whether there would be a next time, she didn’t know.
Xiao Jin looked at the changes in Chu Shao’s expression. She didn’t know that the other party’s mental activities had turned a thousand times, and even had the idea of breaking the alliance.
But she had the intuition that Chu Shao definitely wasn’t thinking of anything good.
Yes, Xiao Jin had always been arrogant. Unfortunately, arrogance didn’t work on sickly girls, at most it could only make the male supporting roles lose face.
Facing the sickly girl, she comforted herself: Xiao Jin, you still have to go home, endure it a bit.
Xiao Jin looked at the comb in Chu Shao’s hand, sighed in her heart, but could only nod: “Thank you, princess.”
Hearing this, Chu Shao’s eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she smiled: “Okay.”
Her mood became joyful again, and she took up the wooden comb, gently combing Xiao Jin’s hair, completely forgetting her previous thoughts of Xiao Jin becoming a corpse.
Chu Shao lowered her eyes, ran her fingers over Xiao Jin’s smooth black hair, picked up a strand, and slowly scraped and combed it with the dense teeth of the comb.
The thin mist dissipated, and the sunlight outside the window shone through the redwood window mullions.
Chu Shao stared at Xiao Jin’s hair, which was coated with a layer of warm gold, and after being combed by the wooden comb, it lightly brushed against her fingertips.
Chu Shao smiled as she tied the jade crown on Xiao Jin’s head. “Xiao Jin is really an interesting person,” she thought.
After winning the bet and obtaining Xiao Jin’s body, she planned to study her and figure out what made her so fascinating.
If Xiao Jin could read Chu Shao’s thoughts, she might suggest that Chu Shao learn anatomy. But for now, she found it strange that the female lead seemed well-behaved and gentle while combing her hair, without any sudden outbursts.
After finishing her hair, Chu Shao looked at the jade crown on Xiao Jin’s head and smiled, as if it was her own creation. Xiao Jin, on the other hand, didn’t feel much as she didn’t know what constituted good hair combing in ancient times.
As she cleared her throat and prepared to enter the palace, Chu Shao stood still, smiling at her without any intention of leaving. Xiao Jin guessed that Chu Shao had forgotten that she was paralyzed and needed someone to push her wheelchair.
But it didn’t matter, as there were hundreds of people in the Yan Wang Mansion who could help her. Xiao Jin was about to call someone to push her wheelchair, but Chu Shao still smiled at her, and the ice flower on her forehead looked particularly beautiful in the light.
Chu Shao looked at Xiao Jin, still holding the wooden comb in her hand. After a moment, her smile faded slightly, and she asked in confusion, “Your Highness, isn’t it beautiful?”
Xiao Jin didn’t know what Chu Shao meant, but she found her very beautiful. So she nodded and sincerely praised her, “It’s beautiful.”
With the affirmation, Chu Shao finally put down the wooden comb and smiled with pleasure, “As long as you like it.”
…
It snowed in the capital city.
The snowflakes fell on the yellow tiles of the palace and melted into water, leaving behind scars that looked like wounds.
A wheelchair slowly rolled over the thin layer of snow, leaving shallow tracks on the ground. Two small footprints followed closely behind.
It was freezing cold, so Xiao Jin wrapped herself in the black fur coat that belonged to the original owner.
However, even with the fur collar pulled tightly around her neck, she still couldn’t escape the biting cold wind that occasionally made her cough.
As Emperor Qi specifically requested to see her and the female lead, Xiao Jin couldn’t bring anyone else except Chu Shao.
So it was Chu Shao who was pushing her wheelchair now.
Xiao Jin sat in the wheelchair, allowing Chu Shao to push her along. She realized that she probably wouldn’t have to walk on her own for the rest of the year.
The snowfall became heavier, almost dyeing the umbrella completely white.
Chu Shao pushed the wheelchair with one hand and held the umbrella with the other. She quite enjoyed the new feeling that she had never experienced before.
The eunuchs and palace maids knelt on the ground, waiting for them to leave.
When they were far away and no longer visible, they finally stood up and whispered about the two figures hidden between the white snow and the red walls.
“I didn’t understand why the Yan prince had to destroy the Yao country herself before. But now I understand. If I were the Yan prince, I would lead my army thousands of miles just to catch a glimpse of such a beautiful woman.”
Xiao Jin didn’t know that the original owner’s reputation had been completely ruined by Chu Shao.
At this moment, she was standing expressionlessly outside the imperial study, listening to the sound of pipa and laughter coming from inside, as if listening to the last note of a dying country.
Looking at Chu Shao again, she noticed that there was still a smile on her lips.
But she guessed that she was also wondering why it was the Yao country that fell instead of the Qi country.
In fact, Xiao Jin could understand Emperor Qi’s incompetence. After all, in the original novel, if the emperor had been diligent in his rule, there would have been no need for the male lead to intervene.
But it didn’t mean that she could tolerate being left out in the cold by such an emperor.
Either don’t summon her, or hurry up.
Xiao Jin decided to remind Emperor Qi that his filial son was still outside.
So she cleared her throat and shouted at the top of her lungs, “Son Xiao Jin- Greetings to Father Emperor!”
Author’s note: Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution from 21:00:09 on January 13, 2022, to 20:59:44 on January 14, 2022~
Thank you to the little angels who threw grenades: Hui Mou Yi Xiao, Shan Lu de Xiao Ning Meng, Bei Luo-1;
Thank you to the little angel who threw a landmine: 54594083;
Thank you to the little angels who irrigated me with nutrient solution: Bai Yi, EMJe03-20 bottles; Shan Lu de Xiao Ning Meng, 31695142-10 bottles; 46633458-2 bottles; Shang-1 bottle;
Thank you all very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
TO BE CONTINUE…
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