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

“Marry you?!” Tears were still streaming from Zhou Zhuying’s eyes, and her eyelashes were wet, sticking together in little clumps. To put it nicely, she looked like pear blossoms in the rain. To put it bluntly, she looked rather disheveled.

She completely forgot about crying. Her eyes only widened, Xiao Xinyue’s figure reflected in her dark, clear pupils, and then light gathered there.

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

“Mm?” Xiao Xinyue discovered that she actually could not tell what the Cult Leader’s reaction meant at this moment.

Zhou Zhuying suddenly tilted her head and looked at her. “Huh?”

After freezing for one second, her inner world seemed to have already gone through crustal movement, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, meteorites striking Earth, the Big Bang, and a whole series of other events. Zhou Zhuying widened her eyes once again.

Wait a minute. What did the female lead mean by wanting to marry her?

Was she sure it was not the male lead who wanted to marry her? Or the male lead who wanted to marry the female lead?

Whether it was the male lead marrying her or the female lead marrying her, had this part existed in the original novel?

Why could she no longer understand where this plot was going?

“Sister Saintess, you—” Zhou Zhuying pointed at Xiao Xinyue, then at herself. “You want to marry me?”

Xiao Xinyue nodded calmly. “Mm.”

Zhou Zhuying said, “No, wait. Let me confirm first. We’re both women, right?”

Xiao Xinyue raised an eyebrow. Suddenly, she grabbed Zhou Zhuying’s hand and pressed it against the [soft tissue in front of the chest wall] on her left side.

Zhou Zhuying instinctively kneaded it with [a traditional Chinese medical technique used to treat soft-tissue injuries], then stretched out her other hand and applied the same technique to the [soft tissue in front of the chest wall] on her right side.

Confirmed. The female lead was a woman and had never been to Thailand.

The Cult Leader was worried: How did the female lead grow these? They were even bigger than hers!

Xiao Xinyue: “…”

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

“Ah, that hurts…” The Cult Leader bared her teeth and withdrew her claws, muttering indignantly, “You were the one who started it.”

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

Zhou Zhuying subconsciously glanced downward, only to receive Xiao Xinyue’s gaze, cold as an ice blade. She immediately shook her head. “No doubts anymore. Sister Saintess is indeed a Saintess, not a Saint.”

Xiao Xinyue: “…”

Rubbing the back of her hand, Zhou Zhuying still did not understand. “Since we’re both women, wouldn’t no one find it strange for two women to get married?”

Xiao Xinyue said, “What is strange about it? In this world, there is love between men and women, and there are also men who love men and women who love women. Since men and women can marry, why can’t two women marry?”

Zhou Zhuying was shocked. She had thought she had gone from the 5G era back to an era without internet. In reality, had she gone from an era that had only just gotten internet into the 5G era?

Everyone else was already using a full 5G package, while she was still using a 2G phone to go online?!

Like a country bumpkin entering the city, for a moment, she did not know whether she should marvel at the original author’s open-mindedness or sigh over how the original novel’s lack of rigor had created such a tolerant environment.

Was this setting really not from Jinjiang? For this to be in a male-oriented novel and not get flamed until the author quit writing was truly a miracle!

Zhou Zhuying said, “…Your environment is actually quite tolerant.” She paused. “No, wait. If that’s the case, why does your master still oppose it?”

Xiao Xinyue seemed a little helpless. “Master is not opposed to me marrying you. She is opposed to the ‘Saintess of Moshan Sect’ marrying the ‘Demon Sect Leader.’”

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

Xiao Xinyue also fell silent. A trace of struggle flashed in her eyes. A moment later, she said heavily, “You arrived outside the room very early, didn’t you?”

Zhou Zhuying came back to herself and replied, “Ah, yes! You want to ask how much I heard, right? Actually, not much. But I know these are all part of your strategy. I promised you I would cooperate.”

Xiao Xinyue lowered her eyes, hiding all her emotions beneath them.

Zhou Zhuying suddenly remembered the expression of hatred the male lead had shown when they ran into him that day…

“Could it be that the thing you said you wanted to do that was opposed by everyone was this?”

“You only just figured it out?”

Zhou Zhuying: “…”

Holy crap. So the male lead had looked at her with those man-eating eyes because he thought she had stolen his woman?!

What happened to people who went against the male lead?

Would they be rubbed against the floor, or sliced like a watermelon?

If it were one of those dark male leads with no moral bottom line, he would not deserve to call himself the powerful male protagonist of a feel-good novel if he did not torture her until she had a mental breakdown.

She asked cautiously, “Sister Saintess, if you marry me, then… what about your Elder Zhuo?”

“Mm?” Xiao Xinyue looked at her in confusion. “Whatever he should do, he will do.” What did this have to do with him?

Zhou Zhuying felt as if she had missed something.

After the Demon Sect’s destruction, the male and female leads’ feelings should already have naturally reached fruition, so they should have been at the point of discussing marriage, right?

Also, Meng Xiaoxiao had said that the male lead destroyed the Demon Sect because he wanted to prepare a generous gift for the female lead before proposing to her: avenging her great hatred. This action indeed moved the female lead deeply. The female lead happily accepted his proposal, and after returning to Moshan Sect, they began preparing for the wedding…

But ever since Zhou Zhuying had been captured and brought here as a hostage, she had never heard anything about the male and female leads preparing a wedding. Moreover, in the battle to destroy the Demon Sect, what she heard most about was the female lead’s contributions. This was different from the original novel’s male-lead-centered plot.

She pondered: Did I transmigrate into the official version of the book?

Why had the direction of development become so strange?

Could it be that a piracy site stole anti-piracy chapters, then ran into a rewriting group, and the story got changed into fanfiction?

Mm? Could I have transmigrated into fanfiction instead?!

Hiss. A little exciting?!

But what direction was this fanfiction going in?

Zhou Zhuying worried so much that one strand of hair fell out.

Seeing that after mentioning Zhuo Zidan, the Cult Leader fell silent, Xiao Xinyue could not help frowning.

She recalled that every time Zhuo Zidan appeared, the Cult Leader would always place her gaze on him. The degree of attention far exceeded that she gave to any other male disciple she had come into contact with before. Could it be…

Unable to figure it out for the moment, Zhou Zhuying simply stopped thinking. She clung to Xiao Xinyue again and complained, “Who is that Senior Sister Hongxue? She was so fierce. Not only did she roll her eyes at me, she even threatened me with a saber!”

Xiao Xinyue found her unreasonable pestering rather cute and could not help raising her hand to lightly pinch her cheek. “Senior Sister Hongxue is the Second Elder’s eldest disciple, and also one of the most outstanding disciples of this generation in Moshan Sect. Master has an eye condition, and for the past ten years, Senior Sister Hongxue has been the one taking care of her. She has always been gentle and careful. How could she be fierce to you?”

Zhou Zhuying puffed out her cheeks, not letting Xiao Xinyue pinch her face. “Then she must be like you, with one face in public and another in private.”

Xiao Xinyue’s face darkened, becoming so cold it seemed about to frost over. “What did you say? Say that again.”

Zhou “Loose-Mouthed” Cult Leader knew she had said the wrong thing. In order to calm the female lead’s anger, she leaned limply against Xiao Xinyue like a boneless chicken foot, resting her head in that snowy-white hollow of her neck and rubbing against it while acting spoiled.

“I said Sister Saintess’s gentleness is like a clear spring, soothing my body and cleansing my soul. Bathed beneath Sister Saintess’s holy light, even my spirit has been sublimated.”

After saying this, she even sighed with emotion. Even when she wrote essays for the college entrance exam back then, she had not had to rack her brains this much.

But who had made the direction of this novel become so strange?

And when she agreed to cooperate with the female lead, she had probably already put a green hat on the male lead. If she really married the female lead, then this green hat probably could never be taken off.

Since the situation had already developed like this, according to the principle that “both the male and female leads are favored children of the Heavenly Dao,” if she did not want to be sliced like a watermelon by the male lead, it seemed the only path she had left was to cling tightly to the female lead’s thigh.