After Transmigrating Into a Pirated Novel to Teach Them a Lesson - Chapter 4

Fu Chenxue more or less understood. She encouraged her, “Don’t worry. I’ll cure you.”

After hearing this, Liu Changning froze for a moment, then softly hummed in acknowledgment. “Thank you…”

She was not only thanking her for those words just now, but also for finding her beneath the cliff, treating her wounds, and keeping her company beside the spiritual spring for so long.

Actually, after soaking in the spiritual spring for four hours today, there had been a faint trace of warmth in her calves. Now that she heard Fu Chenxue’s words, Liu Changning felt her whole heart go numb and itchy.

She suddenly wanted to see clearly what the person in front of her looked like.

So she leaned down from the bed and smelled that clear, cold scent like melting first snow.

Fu Chenxue sensed that she was looking at her and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” Liu Changning could not keep her eyes open for too long, let alone see light, because it would hurt.

Fu Chenxue casually conjured a white silk ribbon, stood up, and handed it to her. “Sunlight will shine into the cave residence tomorrow. You can’t be exposed to light, so tie this on.”

Liu Changning took the white silk, not knowing what to do.

Fu Chenxue sighed softly, stood up, and sat at the bedside. She could feel Liu Changning growing nervous because of her movement, but she pretended not to notice and asked, “Do you want me to help you?”

Liu Changning hesitated for a moment, then nodded lightly.

In the next instant, she felt a soft silk ribbon cover her eyes. Then those hands went around to the back of her head and tied the ribbon in place.

“Is it too tight?”

“…No.” Liu Changning answered, touching the white silk over her eyes.

“Your eyes are very beautiful,” Fu Chenxue praised. “They’re very full of spirit.”

Liu Changning felt a little embarrassed. “Really?”

Fu Chenxue thought children really were easy to coax. A single compliment was enough to make her blush. So she raised her hand and pinched Liu Changning’s cheek. “Really. Hurry and sleep.”

Liu Changning surprisingly did not dodge. The feeling of having her face pinched was a little numbing. She quickly lay back down. “Then I’m going to sleep.”

Fu Chenxue hummed in response and also lay back down on the beast-fur blanket, rambling softly, “But when I carried you today, I felt that you were so thin. Have you not passed the fasting stage yet? If you haven’t, then you need to eat more. People are iron, rice is steel…”

Liu Changning did not understand what she was saying. In her drowsiness, she only felt that those hands just now had been very gentle.

The scent on her body also smelled very nice.

That was Liu Changning’s last thought before falling asleep.

The next morning.

Fu Chenxue spent half an hour recalling the plot she had written. The female lead was now fifteen years old. In other words, she had not yet reached Foundation Establishment, and the worldline had only just begun.

A Difficult Immortal Path was a story about the female lead defeating monsters and leveling up. Now, because other pirated works had been mixed into it, the plot had become a complete mess. Fu Chenxue could no longer view it from the perspective of the original story.

As the system had said, she needed to fix the bugs bit by bit.

“Mm…” The person on the bed made a sound. Fu Chenxue lowered her head and saw Liu Changning’s fingers move slightly. She turned sideways to block the sunlight shining in, then pulled the thin robe over Liu Changning again.

Liu Changning turned over with difficulty. The first thing she said was, “Are you there?”

“I’m here.” Fu Chenxue answered her and handed over the water she had prepared long ago. “You’re thirsty, right? Drink some water first.”

The water temperature was just right. After Liu Changning finished drinking, Fu Chenxue reached out and wiped the corner of her mouth. “Go soak in the spiritual spring first. I’ll come in to pick you up after four hours.”

Liu Changning obediently nodded.

After two nights, Fu Chenxue felt that this child no longer had thorns all over her body. She was actually quite easy to talk to. As expected of the “dear daughter” she had created herself.

Just like last night, she carried Liu Changning inside. The spiritual spring was giving off steaming heat. Fu Chenxue let her lean against the stone wall and sit steadily, then said, “I won’t go in.”

Liu Changning’s whole body was soaked in the water. Her eyes were covered with the white silk, but she did not feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, without the irritating sunlight, she felt much better.

Taking advantage of this time, Fu Chenxue roughly tidied up the cave residence. Then she remembered that Liu Changning had not passed the fasting stage yet, so she would definitely get hungry. Thus, she prepared to cook.

She formed a hand seal outside the cave to start a fire. Making some thin porridge should not be a problem.

Fu Chenxue grew more familiar with small spells the more she used them. She thought that once she completely adapted to this body, she would tell Liu Changning that she was her master.

But she could not just make plain porridge. Fu Chenxue decided to go outside and find some other ingredients. There was a river beneath the cliff. Fu Chenxue had seen it when she passed by yesterday.

There should be fish in the river, but how to catch them… was a problem.

Fu Chenxue followed the path to the riverside. She looked at the surface of the water and, incidentally, saw her own appearance clearly.

Although Fu Chenxue in the book was a cannon-fodder supporting character, her appearance was extremely beautiful. Her skin was whiter than frost and snow, her thin lips carried a touch of vivid red, and she wore a pure white silk robe. Her ink-black hair fell loosely to her waist, and she exuded an unmistakable scholarly air.

Fu Chenxue touched her face. It seemed… somewhat similar to her real-world self?

But what mattered right now was catching food for tonight. Fu Chenxue naturally did not plan to catch fish with her bare hands. She could just make a few hand seals and let the fish jump up. But just as she was about to move, a long flute suddenly appeared in her hand.

Fu Chenxue froze. The flute was snow-white all over, emitting a faint, lustrous glow. It was especially dazzling.

[System: Reminder. This flute is called Twilight Sky Cold. It is the original owner’s life-bound magical artifact.]

Life-bound magical artifact?

Fu Chenxue turned the jade flute around for a while, not knowing how to operate it. After thinking for a long time, she chose the simplest method: randomly blowing into it.

However, the moment Fu Chenxue placed the flute against her lips and blew, a powerful wave of spiritual energy immediately surged around her. Countless snow-white sword lights appeared beside Fu Chenxue and stabbed out in every direction!

The rhythm of Fu Chenxue’s flute playing was sometimes fast, sometimes slow. The sword lights seemed to have heard a summons. At their lightest, they stirred up ripples in the water; at their strongest, they could slice apart massive stones. Before Fu Chenxue even had time to stop, layer after layer of waves rose in the middle of the river. A path was forcibly cut open by those streaks of sword energy! It suddenly formed a deep underwater trench!

To a modern person, this scene was incredibly shocking. Fu Chenxue’s scalp tingled. She silently put the jade flute away.

No, wait. The original owner… was she really just a medical cultivator?

After thinking it over, Fu Chenxue decided to practice more in the future. As long as she fully mastered all of the original owner’s abilities, she would be able to smoothly help the female lead beat up the villains.

And then beat up herself.

The system had said that most of the villains in the book were made up of elements from the pirated-novel world. Striking down villains was equivalent to striking down piracy. As for the remaining small portion of villains, some had been created by Fu Chenxue herself, while others had been created by the authors of other pirated works. In short, soldiers would be met with generals, floods with earthworks. She could also follow the system’s prompts. Fu Chenxue was not panicking.

She picked up the dying fish on the ground, took out the Qiankun pouch at her waist, placed the fish inside, then turned around and returned to the cave residence.

When she returned to the cave residence, Fu Chenxue immediately sensed that something was wrong.

From the spiritual spring deep inside the cave residence came low, pained gasps, as if someone were enduring extreme discomfort.

Fu Chenxue’s first thought was that something had happened to Liu Changning. She quickly walked inside, but the scene before her shocked her greatly.

Liu Changning was leaning against the stone wall, her face pale. Large beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, and even the water around her had spread into layer after layer of blood-red color.

Fu Chenxue hurriedly asked the system, “What’s going on?”

[System: There is still residual poisonous gu in the female lead’s body. The spiritual spring is opening her meridians for her. You do not need to worry.]

Opening her meridians?

Fu Chenxue lowered her head and looked over. Liu Changning, who was in the water, clearly could not bear such powerful spiritual energy. She was in so much pain that she wanted to escape the spiritual spring. Her fingers gripped the stone wall tightly, her nails nearly digging into it.

It hurt. It hurt so much…

In a haze, Liu Changning thought that her body seemed to be sliced open inch by inch. Her long bones and short bones shattered one after another. This was ten thousand times more painful than when those people had tortured her at the Ghost Altar.

Her consciousness grew fainter and fainter, and her body also grew softer and softer. She was about to fall into the water when suddenly, someone jumped in fiercely and smoothly pulled her into their arms.

Liu Changning fell into a warm embrace and heard that person comfort her gently, “It’s all right. It’s all right. It’ll be over soon.”

It was that person’s voice.

Fu Chenxue slowly stroked Liu Changning’s back, but Liu Changning’s whole body was trembling. She gripped Fu Chenxue’s collar tightly, and the white silk over her eyes gradually became damp.

Fu Chenxue was afraid Liu Changning would bite her lips until they were ruined, so she gently cupped her cheeks and said softly, “Hold on a little longer. It’s all right.”

Liu Changning lay against her shoulder, gripping her tighter and tighter.

She could not see anything. But this inability to see instead brought her immense panic, as if she had returned to the Demon Realm where there was no sun or sky. Her whole body felt as though it were being madly torn apart and tortured. Liu Changning grew more and more panicked. She urgently needed something to tell her that this moment was real. So she lowered her head and bit hard into Fu Chenxue’s neck!

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When Fu Chenxue was with Liu Changning, she did not deliberately use spiritual energy to protect her body. Liu Changning was only at the early Qi Refining stage at most. If she were accidentally injured by Fu Chenxue’s spiritual energy, she might be flung several meters away.

So Fu Chenxue could only silently endure those sharp little canine teeth rubbing against her neck, then sinking deeply into it.

Liu Changning felt pain. Fu Chenxue felt pain too.

There was an exciting scent of fresh blood at that pale, slender neck. Liu Changning unconsciously licked it, making Fu Chenxue’s whole body tremble instead. She slowly rubbed Liu Changning’s head. “It’s all right. It’s all right…”

No one knew how long it took before the pain finally lessened. Fu Chenxue let out a breath and opened her eyes. She saw that the bloody water around them had faded, and the spiritual spring had also returned to its original appearance. The aura surging inside Liu Changning’s body finally became steady and stable. Liu Changning unclenched her teeth and collapsed weakly into Fu Chenxue’s arms.

Fu Chenxue wiped the sweat from her forehead. Ignoring the wound on her own neck, she lifted Liu Changning out of the spiritual spring.

She placed Liu Changning on the stone bed and tucked her messy hair behind her ear. Liu Changning was sleeping deeply. Seeing that her breathing was steady, Fu Chenxue finally breathed a sigh of relief and began rummaging through her Qiankun pouch.

There were not many things in the Qiankun pouch. She took out the fish and placed it aside, then found a bottle of medicinal powder inside.

Her neck was aching faintly. She still had to treat it. Fu Chenxue poured the powder over the red, swollen skin on her neck. Before long, the bleeding stopped, leaving only two rather obvious rows of teeth marks carrying a faint scent of blood.

After everything was handled, Fu Chenxue sat quietly by the bed and waited for Liu Changning to wake up.