After Transmigrating As The Scumbag Alpha In An Ancient Pregnant-And-Run Novel - Chapter 2

After being confined for ten years, she would be starved to death alive. Naturally, Yun Chenghuai could not accept an ending like that.

No. She could not be imprisoned, and she definitely could not die. The chance to receive a second life was rare. She did not want to be trapped for ten years, only to welcome the end of her own life.

She had to change the original owner’s fate. As an imperial daughter, a prince who had been granted two fiefs, even if she simply ate, drank, played around, and spent her whole life lying flat, she would still have endless glory, wealth, and luxury to enjoy. Only if she had gone insane would she choose to be confined.

Ten years of confinement—in an era without phones or the internet, with no form of entertainment whatsoever—would drive a person mad.

Before this, she had been stuck at home for more than half a month because of the flu, and even with a phone and internet, she had still felt bored. Let alone ten years.

Having read the novel, she knew that if she wanted to change the original owner’s ending, the key lay with the female lead, Shen Liunian.

The original owner had tormented the female lead for half a year. How could she possibly change the female lead’s opinion of her in just three days?

The most urgent matter right now was to keep the female lead here. As long as Shen Liunian did not leave, Yun Chenghuai would still have a chance to change the way the female lead felt about her.

After all, once Shen Liunian left, the next time they met would be when she led troops into Southern Qin’s Shangdu. By then, it would be too late.

Shen Liunian had escaped Southern Qin through the Crown Princess of Northern Qi. Yun Chenghuai remembered that in the novel, the Crown Princess of Northern Qi had already made contact with the female lead long ago. If the female lead had not feared implicating her family, she probably would not have stayed in the prince’s manor for as long as half a year.

This time, she made up her mind in order to protect herself. It was also because the Crown Princess of Northern Qi had promised the female lead that she would use Northern Qi’s power to protect the Shen family, and would even give the Shen family three cities.

That way, the Shen family would not only have mining areas, but also cities. They could recruit a large number of private soldiers and gain the ability to protect themselves.

In the end, the female lead used those private soldiers and joined forces with Northern Qi. In one stroke, she destroyed Southern Qin, occupied most of Southern Qin’s cities, and became the first Kunze emperor in history.

Of course, over those ten years, Shen Liunian experienced the destruction of her family, losing one loved one and friend after another. It was only after suffering almost every hardship imaginable that she gradually grew into a “qualified” emperor.

And that time was also when the original owner died.

Yun Chenghuai lay on the bed, thinking of her own tragic ending, and her heart went a little numb.

Modern times were still better. How could they be like ancient times, where human lives were treated as nothing?

She did not know whether she would be able to return to the modern world after dying either. Besides, there had been nothing in her previous life worth clinging to.

If she had to name something, it would be the conveniences brought by modern technology, along with all kinds of electronic entertainment.

She had no family and no friends. She had lived on the compensation money from her parents’ deaths. She had used all her strength and time to get into the law department of a prestigious university, thinking that she would one day become a righteous lawyer who upheld the ideals in her heart.

In the end, she transmigrated into a book overnight and even became a vicious female supporting character.

Yun Chenghuai did not think she was a bad person. She could not do the things the original owner had done.

The blood flowing through the original owner’s body was the noblest and most legitimate bloodline of this era. Her imperial mother had been the late Empress. In ancient times, even the current Empress, as the successor, would have to bow before the late Empress’s memorial tablet.

The children of a second wife could never be as noble as the children of the first legitimate wife.

Precisely because of this, the original owner had always treated her sisters and court officials with the attitude of a future Crown Princess. Sometimes, she had gone even further.

Thinking of the original owner’s behavior, Yun Chenghuai could not help feeling a headache coming on.

She had a constant feeling that even without the female lead’s revenge, the original owner’s ending would not have been all that good.

Who was there to blame? She could only blame the original owner herself.

Now that Yun Chenghuai had become this character, for her own sake, she had to stop the tragedy from happening again.

Since she had transmigrated to before the female lead left the prince’s manor, there was still a chance.

She did not want to end up like the original owner, meeting such a miserable end.

…

After the resident physician finished examining Shen Liunian, she took the maid with her to prepare a prescription.

Only Yun Chenghuai and Shen Liunian were left in the room.

Yun Chenghuai leaned against the side of the bed and carefully observed Shen Liunian, who was lying there.

In her memories, when the original owner had first met Shen Liunian, her complexion had been healthy. How could she have looked like she did now, so weak that a gust of wind might topple her, her face pale, her lips completely devoid of color? She looked every bit like a sickly beauty.

That fragile, broken feeling stirred Yun Chenghuai’s protective instincts.

How had the original owner borne to treat such a shattered beauty like this?

With Shen Liunian’s otherworldly aura, combined with her current fragile appearance, Yun Chenghuai could not help feeling pity and tenderness toward her.

But the moment Yun Chenghuai thought of how ruthless the female lead became after turning dark, she immediately snapped back to her senses.

How could she be bewitched by beauty? Right now, she first had to sort out her own situation.

Yun Chenghuai cleared her throat softly and withdrew her gaze from Shen Liunian’s face.

Only then did she seriously look around her room, sighing for the first time over how well ancient people knew how to enjoy themselves.

The bed in the room was like a room within a room. After stepping onto the wooden platform of the bed, one had to pass through three small doors before reaching the actual sleeping area.

The bed itself was quite large. Judging by sight, both its length and width exceeded two meters, enough to accommodate two people.

Although Yun Chenghuai did not want to be kicked off the bed by Shen Liunian, wood was still wood. In the dead of winter, sleeping on the bed would definitely be more comfortable. She did not have the habit of wronging herself.

So she decided to sleep on the bed.

In such cold weather, and in the middle of the night no less, who could resist the temptation of a warm quilt?

Since Shen Liunian was sleeping on the outer side, Yun Chenghuai could only climb in from the foot of the bed, then lie down on the innermost side.

Because the bed was large enough, there was quite some distance between them. Two more people could have lain down between them.

When the maid came in and saw the two of them lying together, she hurriedly lowered the bed curtains, then withdrew.

Yun Chenghuai heard the movement, but she closed her eyes and ignored it.

There were still three days left before the female lead left the prince’s manor. During these few days, Yun Chenghuai decided that she would eat and live together with Shen Liunian.

In order to prevent the female lead from leaving the manor, she inwardly resolved to become a shameless scoundrel.

She would accompany the female lead for meals and sleep. In any case, she was currently grounded, so she would simply cling to Shen Liunian. Even when sleeping, they had to sleep together. She absolutely could not let Shen Liunian leave the manor.

She did not want to make one careless mistake and let the female lead escape, only to follow in the original owner’s footsteps and be ordered by the Southern Qin Emperor to be confined.

Not only did she have to stick to Shen Liunian, she also had to change Shen Liunian’s impression of her. This was truly a long and difficult road.

Aside from the female lead, she also had to face the dangers of the succession struggle.

Fortunately, she had left the center of the storm. After all, now that she had married the female lead, barring any accidents, she had no connection to the throne anymore. To a certain extent, this could protect her.

A few days ago, the original owner had spoken wildly, and the Emperor had grounded her for one month. For this month, she could obtain temporary peace.

After all, she and the current Crown Princess were full-blooded sisters. Although the Crown Princess was in poor health and could pass away at any moment, there were too many ways her identity could be used. She had also offended quite a number of people before. Presumably, those people would not let her off.

It was precisely because the Crown Princess was in poor health that the succession struggle had grown increasingly fierce. The Emperor had more than a dozen imperial daughters, and more than half of them had gotten involved.

The winner became king, and the loser became a bandit. Those who failed were bound to meet bad ends.

Yun Chenghuai was the first to be eliminated. But she had a biological older sister who was the Crown Princess, which meant she was destined not to stay far from the storm.

This month of confinement happened to give her a chance to catch her breath. It would also let her spend some proper time with the female lead.

Hopefully, she could stop the female lead from leaving and change her own fate as the vicious female supporting character.

Perhaps because it was late at night, or because the room was warm enough, or because her nerves had been tense ever since she transmigrated, it did not take long for Yun Chenghuai to fall asleep.

She did not even think about the possibility that if Shen Liunian woke up in the middle of the night, she might do more than kick her off the bed—she might very well kill her.

After all, Shen Liunian hated Yun Chenghuai to the bone. Faced with someone who had tormented her for so long, it was very difficult to remain rational.

The sleeping Yun Chenghuai could not possibly think of these things.

She was a modern person. When had she ever seen things like murder? Usually, in her dormitory, several girls shared one room too. In her heart, she still had no real concept of ABO.

To her, sleeping with Shen Liunian was no different from sleeping in a dormitory with her roommates.

Therefore, she slept with great peace of mind, just like usual—the kind of sleep that lasted all the way until dawn.

…

In the early morning, a person had already left the state of deep sleep, and Yun Chenghuai had also entered light sleep.

As she slept, she felt a strong gaze fixed on her.

She opened her eyes with a frown and saw an absolutely beautiful woman beside her, staring at her with eyes full of disgust.

A wo… a female ghost?

Yun Chenghuai jolted in fright and suddenly sat up in bed.

Only after a long while did she react and remember where she was. She had transmigrated. The person sleeping beside her was Shen Liunian, the female lead of the novel, not a female ghost.

First, she let out a breath of relief. Then her heart immediately rose again.

Shen Liunian’s eyes just now had been so terrifying. It was as if she wanted to eat her alive.

“You… morning.”

Yun Chenghuai opened her mouth and, with great difficulty, squeezed out that one word.

Shen Liunian looked at her in surprise, as if she had not expected this attitude from her. She had thought Yun Chenghuai had come up with some new way to torment her again.

“Why am I here?” Shen Liunian’s tone could not be considered pleasant.

Back when the two of them had just gotten married, Shen Liunian’s attitude had been neither warm nor cold, but she would not have been as confrontational as she was now, with her tone full of loathing.

In Yun Chenghuai’s mind appeared the way the original owner had treated Shen Liunian during the half year of their marriage. She only felt that if it were her, she probably would have directly chosen to perish together with the original owner.

Since she would not let her have an easy time, then everyone could just die together.

But the original owner, this vicious female supporting character, truly had been vicious to the extreme. She had actually used Shen Liunian’s family and the people who had accompanied her as part of her dowry to threaten her, causing Shen Liunian to endure until now.

Shen Liunian’s endurance was not meek submission. She had merely not let the matter spread outside the prince’s manor.

After all, if it spread beyond the manor, with the Shen family’s status, the Emperor would have to take a stance.

The Shen family were merchants, but they had mines. Eighteen large mines, in fact. Their wealth rivaled a nation. Their family might lack other things, but they certainly did not lack money.

Their wealth rivaled a nation, and they did not belong to any one country. Once Southern Qin won them over, would Southern Qin still lack money?

In other words, Southern Qin coveted the Shen family’s money while also looking down on the Shen family’s status as merchants. They had truly mastered double standards.

For the original owner to marry Shen Liunian was equivalent to marrying several mines. The dowry the Shen family gave Shen Liunian included one jade mine, one silver mine, and one copper mine, along with the mining rights to those three mines for a hundred years.

In other words, for the next hundred years, all the profits from those three mines would belong to Shen Liunian.

Although the original owner, as a prince, had been granted two fiefs, the tax revenue was not entirely given to her. Compared with Shen Liunian, she was like a millionaire beside a billionaire—nothing much at all.

On top of that, the original owner spent money extravagantly and supported a pile of retainers. In the short half year since the two of them had married, who knew how much of Shen Liunian’s dowry she had used?

One had to know that in ancient times, using one’s wife’s dowry was something that would be despised.

So where did the original owner get the nerve? How could she treat her own sponsor like this?

As she thought about everything that had happened between the original owner and Shen Liunian, Yun Chenghuai actually began to space out.

Shen Liunian saw at a glance that the person in front of her had gone absent-minded. Her hand slowly moved toward her lower leg, where a dagger was hidden.

From the moment she had woken in a daze and discovered that this dog Yun Chenghuai was lying beside her until now, less than a quarter of an hour had passed, yet she had reached for the dagger no fewer than ten times.

It was clear just how much Shen Liunian wanted to kill Yun Chenghuai.