I'm Competing With The Male Lead For A Woman - Chapter 30

The Fourth Prince’s voice echoed in the center of the hall.

Because the hall was completely silent, his words were very penetrating. Even the guests sitting on the third and fourth floors could hear him.

The guests stopped enjoying the music. They pushed open the screens to look. They saw dozens of guards with swords at their waists, entering one by one and rushing to the various floors of the Yanyu Pavilion.

The Prince’s Estate guards were arrogant and unruly. Like hyenas, they rushed into the private rooms, causing a stir among the guests on the soft couches.

Bai Zheng, on the ninth floor, couldn’t sit still anymore. She quickly sent people to stop them. But there were not enough thugs hired by the Yanyu Pavilion to fight against the guards brought by Xiao Yi.

Bai Zheng knew that the person who had come was not friendly. She took the cloud ladder down to the ground floor, intending to take charge of the situation.

But as she sat on the cloud ladder, she was surprised to find that a section of the wooden frame at the entrance of the cloud ladder was broken. But when the three people took the cloud ladder down just now, the ladder was not damaged.

Bai Zheng was a little confused. She looked around but didn’t see the three people.

She shifted her gaze to the chaotic central hall. The Fourth Prince, Xiao Yi, was sitting at a square table, drinking tea. Seeing this, she immediately got angry and quickly walked to Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi was sipping his tea. He had a very relaxed and comfortable look on his face, as if he really considered the Yanyu Pavilion to be his Prince’s Estate.

Bai Zheng looked at Xiao Yi and took a deep breath, trying her best to stay calm.

But no matter how much she restrained herself, she was not a person with a good temper.

She flung her sleeve and pointed at the girls who were huddled in fear on the floors above. She asked in a cold voice, “Fourth Prince, you barged into the Yanyu Pavilion without a word and disrupted the order of the imperial city. Do you have any respect for the laws of Great Qi?”

The Fourth Prince sat in his chair. His expression was calm, but he kept an eye on the every move of the people in the hall.

When he came in just now, he was looking for the blind woman the steward had mentioned. However, he had searched the Yanyu Pavilion and hadn’t found the person with her eyes covered by a white silk scarf and sitting in a wheelchair.

Listening to the noisy sounds around him, the Fourth Prince’s brows furrowed slightly. He looked up at Bai Zheng, who was standing in front of him.

He looked at Bai Zheng for a long time in a thoughtful manner. A moment later, he smiled and asked, “Miss Bai, if we must talk about the laws of Great Qi, may I ask what the crime is for conspiring to assassinate a prince?”

The Fourth Prince would not have thought that the reason he couldn’t find the person he was looking for was that the person had already hidden herself the moment he entered the Yanyu Pavilion.

Thanks to the Fourth Prince’s very recognizable voice and the way he spoke before entering the door.

If he had entered the door and then started talking, the Fourth Prince might have seen Xiao Jin, who was in the cloud ladder, at first glance.

After all, Xiao Jin was wearing a snow-white robe and was accompanied by the eye-catching Chu Shao. It was difficult for her to not attract attention.

At the last moment, because of the Fourth Prince’s sudden appearance, the servant who was pulling the rope was startled. He was careless with his hands and accidentally let go of the rope.

The cloud ladder just happened to go up a large section with this force, and it happened to stop at the entrance of the third floor.

It was a good thing that these factors were all together. Xiao Jin was able to grab Chu Shao’s sleeve and whisper to her, “Let’s go,” before the Fourth Prince walked into the Yanyu Pavilion.

Chu Shao held a folding fan in her hand. She looked down at Xiao Jin, and her smile was very gentle.

Although she didn’t have many reasons to help Xiao Jin, she thought that she and Xiao Jin were currently in a partnership. She let out a light laugh, opened her folding fan, and swung it at the wooden bar at the edge of the cloud ladder.

“Crack—”

Under Su Tan’s shocked gaze, that ivory folding fan threw a beautiful arc. Like a blade carving through a mountain, it broke the tightly closed wooden frame at the entrance.

Seeing Chu Shao’s action of breaking the door with her fan, it wasn’t just Su Tan. Even Xiao Jin, who was sitting in the wheelchair,’s eyelids twitched non-stop.

Was this really something a gentle female lead would do? With this fan-swinging skill, Chu Shao was probably possessed by someone from the Tang Sect, right?

Chu Shao’s pose when she swung her fan was extremely cool. It stunned Xiao Jin and Su Tan. But the coolest part wasn’t using a fan to break the cloud ladder. It was that Chu Shao herself was completely unfazed, and her heart was not beating.

While the two of them were stunned, Chu Shao held the wheelchair’s handle. The gentle smile was still on her lips, but her actions were not gentle at all.

Her hands were beautiful, and her nails were neatly trimmed. Even the way she grabbed the wheelchair handle and pushed it forward was elegant.

This push made Xiao Jin experience what it felt like to have a funeral car drifting.

It had to be said that Chu Shao’s emergency measures were indeed very good. They were so fast that not only the Fourth Prince couldn’t see her, but Xiao Jin herself couldn’t react.

At first, Xiao Jin’s idea was very beautiful. She thought that Chu Shao would gently push the wheelchair and calmly take her away from the crowd.

She had even thought about which room she would enter and then rely on Chu Shao’s cheat-like martial arts skills to jump out of the window to escape.

But reality was cruel.

In reality, Chu Shao smiled, raised her hand, and pushed her toward the straight corridor.

Xiao Jin was in ancient times, but she was able to experience what it felt like to ride a roller coaster. And as a disabled person, it was bad enough that no one cared. Now, she had a good teammate who was adding insult to injury.

The ancient world was really not worth it.

With these thoughts in her mind, Xiao Jin didn’t have time to say anything.

She could only watch as the wall was getting closer and closer and accept the reality that she was about to have an intimate encounter with the wall.

Then, the wheelchair suddenly stopped two inches away from the wall.

Xiao Jin was silent.

She took off the silk scarf from her eyes. She looked back and saw the burning beauty mark at the corner of her eye and the smile on Chu Shao’s lips.

After experiencing the thrill of speeding, Xiao Jin sobered up. She realized that Chu Shao probably didn’t even consider the consequences of hitting the wall when she pushed her just now.

So Chu Shao was a real psychopath. She didn’t plan on being a human at all.

Xiao Jin looked at Chu Shao. She knew that she couldn’t judge her with human nature, but she still asked coldly, “Princess Consort, is it fun to make a fool of me?”

“Your Highness, that’s not the case.” Chu Shao looked at Xiao Jin’s eyes, and her expression was very gentle.

She squatted down, gently raised her hand, and pushed the hair away from Xiao Jin’s lips. She answered honestly, “I don’t think it’s fun to make a fool of you. Because the only person who makes me tireless has always been you.”

“…”

What kind of audacious words are these? Do all yanderes talk like this?

Xiao Jin looked at Chu Shao with a poker face. The sounds of the guards searching came from the corridor.

But Chu Shao’s expression was very calm. She even had the interest to tuck Xiao Jin’s hair behind her ear. The smile on the corner of her mouth was very strong. The words she said were almost drowned out by the footsteps outside.

“Your Highness I don’t want to make a fool of you. It’s just that you often make me happy, so I…”

Before Chu Shao could finish, Xiao Jin covered her mouth.

The noise was coming from the floor below, which meant that the search party was about to reach the third floor. So she decisively cut off Chu Shao’s words and said to her in a low voice, “So we should leave here first.”

After reading so many web novels, Xiao Jin knew the rule that villains die from talking too much.

If she waited for Chu Shao to finish expressing her feelings, the Fourth Prince’s guards would probably have surrounded them and taken them away as suspicious people.

Furthermore, Xiao Jin wasn’t sure what the Fourth Prince was trying to do with all this. After all, doing something like this would only make his already foolish second male lead character even more foolish.

However, if the Fourth Prince was searching the Yanyu Pavilion because he had gotten some secret information, then his actions were very intriguing.

Xiao Jin had a hunch that although the Fourth Prince seemed to be just bored, he was probably deliberately looking for her.

Time was of the essence. Xiao Jin didn’t have time to think about the details. The top priority was to solve the current problem.

Because of the original owner’s legs, she couldn’t go anywhere with a wheelchair. So she still had to rely on Chu Shao to avoid public embarrassment.

Xiao Jin thought this, and she did this.

After she covered Chu Shao’s mouth, she found that although the other person was stunned for a moment, her eyes were still normal. She then seriously discussed with Chu Shao, “I don’t want to die from public embarrassment.”

If she were just wearing this white peony female outfit, Xiao Jin could quickly change her clothes and go down to pretend to be cool and counter the Fourth Prince.

But with the cutesy, high-pitched voice that the system had given her, everything became suffocating.

She absolutely could not lose face like this.

What’s more, Bai Zheng had just seen her. At this moment, Xiao Jin didn’t have a better option than to run away quickly.

However, after she said the words “I don’t want to die from public embarrassment,” Xiao Jin realized a very serious problem.

Chu Shao didn’t know what “dying from public embarrassment” meant.

Facing this dimensional barrier, Xiao Jin could only give up on hinting. She pointed at the innermost room and directly told Chu Shao, “Give the wheelchair to Su Tan and take me inside.”

Su Tan had finally caught up, and she heard this sentence.

This suggestion was too strange. It made her stunned. “Why should you give the wheelchair to me?”

“The wheelchair is too big to hide.”

Xiao Jin didn’t even look at Su Tan. On one hand, it was because time was limited. On the other hand, it was because she was about to use the second female lead as a tool. She felt a little bad about it.

She didn’t have time to explain much. She could only say to Su Tan concisely, “And if the Fourth Prince heard something and came to the Yanyu Pavilion to find someone, it would be perfect for you to sit on it.”

The footsteps outside the building were getting more and more hurried. Along with the guests’ curses and the girls’ sharp screams, Su Tan almost thought she had misheard Xiao Jin.

Otherwise, why could she understand the words Xiao Jin was saying, but after putting all the words together, she couldn’t understand what the other person meant?

Su Tan was confused, and her eyes were full of doubt.

Just as she was about to ask Xiao Jin how she was going to walk without a wheelchair, she saw Xiao Jin suddenly let go of Chu Shao’s mouth.

In the next moment, Xiao Jin reached out to Chu Shao and said calmly, “Take me inside.”

Her tone was very calm. However, because the system was being a menace, even though she deliberately lowered her voice, her voice was still full of an affected tone.

She didn’t know if she had been listening to this voice too much, which led to a serious hallucination. At this moment, she always felt… that Xiao Jin’s voice had a hint of a mysterious coquettishness.

Although this word was too out of place on Xiao Jin’s cold-as-ice face.

But this arrogant and proud voice, coupled with the white peony on her snow-white robe, somehow created a strange kind of beauty.

At this moment, the only person who could understand Su Tan was probably Chu Shao.

Just now, when Xiao Jin’s fingers were on her lips, the touch was slightly cool. But listening to Xiao Jin’s slightly hoarse voice and the deliberately lowered tone, it felt like her lips were being burned.

From her fingertips to her thumb, Chu Shao felt that Xiao Jin’s existence was completely for the purpose of attracting trouble and then self-immolating in the flames.

She was wickedly using the temperature of her skin to get close to her. She reached out her finger and put it on her trembling lips.

There was no pretense in her expression. It was so pure that it didn’t even look like temptation.

Chu Shao stood up and looked down at Xiao Jin, who was sitting in the wheelchair and reaching out to her. She felt that this kind of charming temptation made it difficult for her to choose.

As she savored the feeling of the tip of her finger rubbing against her lips, she knew that she never made choices. Because many times, choices were not completely honest.

So Chu Shao threw the problem back to Xiao Jin. She smiled and asked, “Then, how should I take you inside, Your Highness?”

The footsteps of the guards were getting more and more hurried. They were so loud that it sounded like they were stepping on cracking ice.

Xiao Jin’s cold expression was as usual.

There was no cracking ice and no skin-burning flames. She just looked at her legs, which were hanging on the wheelchair, and said calmly to Chu Shao, “Whatever.”

“Carry me on your back, or hold me. As long as you can get me in, it doesn’t matter.”