After Transmigrating, the Female Lead Went Dark (GL) - Chapter 18

“Marry me?!” Tears were still streaming from Zhou Zhuying’s eyes, wetting her eyelashes and sticking them together in clumps. To put it poetically, she looked like a weeping pear blossom; to be blunt, she looked quite a mess.

She completely forgot about crying, her eyes only wide open. Xiao Xinyue’s reflection was mirrored in her clear, dark pupils, where a light began to coalesce.

“You should have said so earlier! You scared me; I thought I was going to be married off to some ugly, stinky man!” Zhou Zhuying released Xiao Xinyue, wiped away her tears, and let out a huge sigh of relief.

“Hmm?” Xiao Xinyue found that she couldn’t interpret the Sect Leader’s reaction at all.

Zhou Zhuying suddenly tilted her head to look at her. “Huh?”

Stunned for a second, her mind felt like it had just experienced a sequence of events, including continental drift, volcanic eruption, tsunamis, asteroid impact, and the Big Bang. Zhou Zhuying’s eyes widened again.

Wait a minute, what does the female lead mean by marrying me?

Are you sure the male lead isn’t the one marrying her? Or the male lead marrying the female lead?

Regardless of whether the male lead is marrying her or the female lead is marrying her, was this part of the original novel?

Why can’t I understand this direction anymore?

“Saintess sister, you—” Zhou Zhuying pointed at Xiao Xinyue, then at herself. “Are going to marry me?”

Xiao Xinyue calmly nodded. “Mmm.”

Zhou Zhuying: “No, let me confirm first: We are both women, right?”

Xiao Xinyue raised an eyebrow, suddenly grabbing her hand and pressing it onto the soft tissue in front of her left chest wall.

Zhou Zhuying instinctively applied a Tui Na massage technique (used for soft tissue injuries in Chinese medicine), then reached out with her other hand and applied the same technique to the soft tissue in front of her right chest wall.

Confirmed. The female lead is female and hasn’t been to Thailand.

The Sect Leader worried: How did the female lead grow? She’s bigger than me!

Xiao Xinyue: “…”

She smiled faintly, then raised her hand and pinched the back of Zhou Zhuying’s hand.

“Ah, ow…” The Sect Leader grimaced, retracting her paws, and grumbled resentfully, “You were the one who initiated it.”

“Do you still have doubts about my gender as a woman?” Xiao Xinyue asked.

Zhou Zhuying instinctively glanced down but was met with Xiao Xinyue’s icy gaze. She immediately shook her head. “No doubts. Saintess sister is indeed a Saintess, not a Saint-man.”

Xiao Xinyue: “…”

Zhou Zhuying rubbed the back of her hand, still puzzled. “Since we are both women, don’t people find it strange for two women to marry?”

Xiao Xinyue said, “What’s strange about it? In this world, there is love between men and women, as well as the ‘Longyang’s passion’ (homosexuality between men) and ‘mirror-grinding’ (homosexuality between women). If a man and a woman can marry, why can’t two women get married?”

Zhou Zhuying was shocked. I thought I’d traveled from the 5G era back to the time before the internet. In reality, did I travel from the era where the internet just started to the 5G era?

Everyone else is already on a big 5G data plan, and I’m still trying to get online with a 2G phone?!

As a country bumpkin in the city, she didn’t know whether to marvel at the original author’s broad-mindedness or lament that the novel’s lack of rigor created such a tolerant environment.

Are you sure this setting isn’t from a Jinjiang (female-focused web novel) text? It’s a miracle this hasn’t been flamed into the author’s retirement in a male-focused novel!

Zhou Zhuying: “… Your environment is quite liberal.” She paused. “Wait, if that’s the case, why did your Master still object?”

Xiao Xinyue sounded slightly helpless. “Master isn’t against me marrying you. She is against the ‘Moshan Sect Saintess’ marrying the ‘Demon Sect Leader.’”

“Oh.” Zhou Zhuying had received too much information at once. She needed to process it.

Xiao Xinyue also fell silent, a struggle flickering in her eyes. After a moment, she said heavily, “You were outside the room for a long time, weren’t you?”

Zhou Zhuying snapped out of her thoughts and replied, “Ah, yes! You want to know how much I heard, right? It wasn’t much, but I know these are all your schemes, and I promised I would cooperate with you.”

Xiao Xinyue lowered her eyes, concealing all her emotions.

Zhou Zhuying suddenly recalled the male lead’s hostile expression when she ran into him that day…

“Could it be that the matter you said was opposed that day was this marriage?”

“You just figured that out?”

Zhou Zhuying: “…”

Holy cow, was the male lead giving me that man-eating look because he thought I was stealing his woman?!

What will be the consequence of going against the male lead?

Being rubbed on the floor or sliced into a watermelon?

If he’s one of those dark, morally bankrupt male leads, he wouldn’t be worthy of the ‘protagonist of a cool revenge novel’ title if he didn’t torment me into insanity.

She asked cautiously, “Saintess sister, if you’re marrying me, then… what about your Elder Zhuo?”

“Hmm?” Xiao Xinyue looked at her in confusion. “He’ll go about his business as usual.” What does this have to do with him?

Zhou Zhuying felt like she was missing something crucial.

After the destruction of the Demon Sect, the relationship between the male and female leads should have been a done deal, right? So they should have reached the stage of discussing marriage.

Also, Meng Xiaoxiao said the male lead destroyed the Demon Sect as a grand gift before proposing to the female lead, to avenge her. This act was supposed to deeply move the female lead. She would happily accept his proposal, and then they would start preparing for the wedding after returning to the Moshan Sect…

But since I was kidnapped as a hostage, I’ve never heard anything about the male and female leads preparing a wedding. And in the battle to destroy the Demon Sect, all I heard about was the female lead’s merit, which is different from the male-led plot in the original novel.

She mused: Am I reading the genuine book?

Why is the direction of the plot so weird?

Are you sure I didn’t read a pirated version that stole an anti-theft chapter, then got edited by a modification group that turned it into fan fiction?

Huh? Could I have transmigrated into fan fiction?!

Hiss! That’s kind of exciting!

But what is the direction of this fan fiction?

Zhou Zhuying worried so much that she lost a strand of hair.

Xiao Xinyue noticed the Sect Leader fell silent after mentioning Zhuo Zidan and frowned.

Recalling how the Sect Leader always focused her attention on Zhuo Zidan whenever he appeared, the level of interest far surpassed that shown toward any other male disciple she had met. Could it be…

Zhou Zhuying couldn’t figure it out for the moment, so she simply stopped trying. She then clung to Xiao Xinyue to complain. “Who is that Senior Sister Hongxue? She was so fierce! She not only rolled her eyes at me but even threatened me with a sword!”

Xiao Xinyue found her unreasonable fussing rather cute. She couldn’t help but gently pinch her cheek. “Senior Sister Hongxue is the second Elder’s head disciple and one of the most outstanding disciples of the Moshan Sect’s current generation. Master has an eye condition, and she has been looking after her for the past ten years. She has always been gentle and meticulous. How could she be fierce to you?”

Zhou Zhuying puffed up her cheeks, not letting Xiao Xinyue pinch her face. “Then she’s just like you—two-faced in front of people.”

Xiao Xinyue’s face darkened, looking as cold as if it were about to frost over. “What did you say? Say it again.”

Zhou, the Foot-in-Mouth Sect Leader, knew she had said the wrong thing. To quell the female lead’s anger, she went limp, like a boneless chicken foot, leaning against Xiao Xinyue. She rubbed her head against the white curve of Xiao Xinyue’s neck, whimpering sweetly:

“I said Saintess sister’s gentleness is like a clear spring, soothing my body and cleansing my soul. Under the Saintess sister’s holy light, my soul has been elevated.”

After saying this, she felt a pang of emotion. She hadn’t struggled this hard even when writing her college entrance exam essay.

But what could she do when the direction of this novel had become so strange?

And by agreeing to cooperate with the female lead, she had already put the green hat on the male lead. If she truly married the female lead, that green hat would likely never come off.

Given how things had developed, and based on the axiom that “the male and female leads are both darlings of the Heavenly Dao,” if she didn’t want to be sliced like a watermelon by the male lead, the only path left seemed to be to cling tightly to the female lead’s thigh.