After Transmigrating, the Female Lead Went Dark (GL) - Chapter 24

Zhuo Zidan was so angered by Zhou Zhuying’s words that jealousy burned within him, yet his rationality returned.

He could not let others see his true intentions, so he could only withdraw his move and say, “The Saintess has passed.”

“Many thanks to Elder for showing mercy.” Xiao Xinyue smiled faintly, straightened her clothes again, put her large red gauze outer robe back on, then wore the phoenix crown once more and smoothly brought Zhou Zhuying out the door.

When they went out, Zhuo Zidan was no longer there. However, no one paid much attention. After all, although his martial arts were powerful, he had not been part of the sect for long and did not yet have much prestige in the disciples’ hearts. Compared with him, they cared more about the Saintess, with whom they had over ten years of fellow-disciple friendship.

“He didn’t hurt you, did he?” Zhou Zhuying quietly asked Xiao Xinyue beside her.

“He didn’t get serious. I’m fine,” Xiao Xinyue said.

“Oh.”

Zhou Zhuying also felt too embarrassed to ask about Zhuo Zidan and Xiao Xinyue. She thought that if her transmigration had not changed the plot, the male and female leads probably would not have fought like this. After all, Meng Xiaoxiao had said that in the original novel, the male lead was super protective of his wife.

The contrast between the original novel’s wife-protecting male lead and the current jealous male lead who fought the female lead was too great. Once again, Zhou Zhuying suspected that what she had transmigrated into was not the original novel.

However, she did not understand the original novel to begin with, so to her, whether she had transmigrated into the original or fanfiction was all the same.

She put her thoughts on this wedding. Her heart was nervous yet excited, and she also felt that this experience was extremely novel.

She and Xiao Xinyue boarded the sedan chair together. And this sedan chair was exactly as she had expected: a large flower sedan carried by eight people. It was more than spacious enough for two people to sit inside.

The large flower sedan was covered on all sides by red gauze curtains. This prevented people from seeing what the two of them looked like, but also made it convenient for them to observe the scenery outside.

“How is it?” Xiao Xinyue looked at the Cult Leader with a smile at the corners of her lips.

The Cult Leader asked, “With the two of us sitting in the sedan chair, will it be too heavy?”

“I am not heavy. I just do not know whether the Cult Leader is heavy or not.”

“I’m not heavy either.” The Cult Leader pouted.

Xiao Xinyue raised her hand and pinched the Cult Leader’s stomach. The latter sucked in her lower belly, then said proudly, “See? My lower belly has no extra fat.”

After saying this, she stretched out her demonic claws and began openly taking advantage of Xiao Xinyue.

“What is the rush? There will be plenty of time tonight.” Xiao Xinyue grabbed her hand and clasped it tightly, not letting her touch randomly.

The Cult Leader’s face reddened. “…”

The female lead’s words were truly ambiguous, but Zhou Zhuying had not meant it that way. How could the female lead think she was so impatient?!

She tried to pull her hand back, but failed, so she simply let Xiao Xinyue interlock fingers with her. Then she yawned and leaned against Xiao Xinyue. “The street procession hasn’t started yet. Let me sleep for a while. Wake me after we finish parading.”

Xiao Xinyue looked at her in amusement, but did not stop her.

The wedding procession began circling through the small town. Along the way, they distributed wedding candies, threw coins, and so on, causing eighty percent of the townspeople to run out and join the excitement. Both sides of the road were packed with commoners watching the spectacle.

As the place where Moshan Sect had established its mountain gate and founded its sect, this town was usually full of people coming and going. After the news of Moshan Sect’s Saintess’s wedding spread, martial artists invited to attend the wedding also poured in one after another, making the town even livelier.

With today’s grand display, the streets were crowded with people, bustling and extraordinarily lively.

After the Cult Leader fell asleep, not even the gongs, drums, and suona outside could wake her, much less the human voices.

But unlike the Cult Leader, who slept easily and peacefully, once the procession left the street, Xiao Xinyue did not dare relax in the slightest.

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On such a joyous day as the Saintess’s wedding, many martial artists had poured into the town. This also gave the Demon Sect remnants an opportunity. They disguised themselves as disciples of obscure minor sects, then hid among the crowd and waited for a chance to act.

“Are you certain the wedding procession will pass through this street?”

At a tea stall, a feminine-looking man asked in a low voice to the man sitting at the table behind him.

“I am certain. This will be our only chance to act. If we miss this opportunity, rescuing the Cult Leader will become difficult.”

The man still wanted to say something, but then he heard the sound of trumpets and suona approaching from afar. Both of their hearts tightened, and all their attention focused on that direction. “They’re here!”

The wedding procession drew near. Many commoners’ gazes fell on the scattered coins, wedding candies, and preserved fruits. Only a few people pretended to pick things up while their eyes remained fixed on the sedan chair.

Through the layer of gauze curtains, they could vaguely see two figures. One of them seemed to have fainted and was leaning against the other.

They guessed that the unconscious person was their Cult Leader, and their hearts immediately filled with rage. “Sure enough, those hypocrites of the righteous path have taken the Cult Leader hostage and forced her to marry Moshan Sect’s Saintess. When the Cult Leader refused, they drugged her and let them manipulate her!”

A voice in the hearts of the Demon Sect remnants told them, “We must rescue the Cult Leader!”

They seized the timing. One of them drew a blade and injured a righteous sect disciple in the crowd, thereby causing chaos.

The commoners feared death and fled one after another. The wedding procession was quickly scattered, and the sedan chair had no choice but to stop.

At this moment, the Demon Sect remnants hidden in the shadows received the signal and charged forward one after another. The Moshan Sect disciples waiting in formation nearby also stepped forward in a well-trained manner to meet them in battle.

“What happened?” Zhou Zhuying woke in shock and hugged Xiao Xinyue tightly.

“It is nothing. Stay here and do not move. I will be back soon.” Xiao Xinyue soothed her, then leapt out.

Zhou Zhuying was afraid these people would fight their way over. After all, swords and blades had no eyes, and she was very afraid of pain. So she could only clutch the curtain beside her. If she discovered that the situation was not right, she would immediately run.

At this moment, she heard someone loudly rebuke Xiao Xinyue. “Hmph. You call yourselves famous righteous sects, yet your actions are extremely filthy. How do you have the face to call yourselves righteous? Hurry and release our Cult Leader!”

“What filthy thing have we done?” Xiao Xinyue asked calmly.

“You forced the Cult Leader to marry you so she could become your puppet and let you control the Thousand Mechanisms Cult!”

“Your Cult Leader is marrying me voluntarily.”

“Nonsense! You and the Cult Leader were never on the same path to begin with. The Cult Leader has always hated hypocrites like you. How could she possibly fancy you?! You must have used some kind of method to leave the Cult Leader with no choice but to be threatened by you and marry you!”

Another person said, “Stop wasting words with her. Yaoshan Sect is bringing people over. End this quickly!”

After saying this, these people fought even more desperately. Among them, that feminine-looking man found an opening and charged straight toward Zhou Zhuying.

Zhou Zhuying watched as Xiao Xinyue was tangled up by the crowd and could not get away in time, while that man broke through layer after layer of encirclement and had already reached the sedan chair.

Rationally speaking, she knew this person was a Demon Sect disciple and was on her side, so he would not hurt her. But emotionally, she did not want to return to the Demon Sect, live a life of being hunted, or stand on the opposite side of the female lead.

Therefore, after that Demon Sect disciple charged over, before her brain could even turn, she spoke coldly. “Still not stopping?!”

As soon as these words came out, the man froze, then actually stopped before the sedan chair.

Xiao Xinyue had already rushed over. With one lash of her whip, she struck him away, then lifted the gauze curtain to look at Zhou Zhuying. “Are you all right?”

Zhou Zhuying’s gaze was icy. She ignored Xiao Xinyue and walked straight out of the sedan chair.

The moment she appeared, the man widened his eyes. “Cult Leader!”

Zhou Zhuying swept a cold glance over him. “Tell them all to stop!”

The man hurriedly shouted orders at the Demon Sect remnants. “All of you, stop!”

The Demon Sect remnants gathered one after another, guarding against the righteous path ambushing them.

“Cult Leader, you—” The man stared at Zhou Zhuying. Seeing that she was clear-headed and obviously not under anyone’s control, his emotions became extremely complicated.

Xiao Xinyue stood behind Zhou Zhuying and also stared at her without blinking.

She had to admit, that glance just now had made her recall the Cult Leader’s original appearance.

When Yaoshan Sect’s disciples saw that the Demon Sect remnants had stopped resisting, they took the opportunity to strike to kill. Zhou Zhuying noticed and asked in the same cold voice, “Are you not stopping either?”

Xiao Xinyue picked up a sword sheath and threw it, accurately striking the descending blade. Yaoshan Sect’s disciple felt his hand go numb, having been injured by the vibration from the sword sheath.

Only then did Zhou Zhuying say to the feminine-looking man, “If you have come to attend my wedding, then I welcome you. But if you have come to cause trouble and intend to make a disturbance, then do not blame me for turning hostile.”

The man’s expression changed. With a swish, he knelt before her. “This subordinate would not dare!”

After a while, he slightly raised his head and asked in disbelief, “Is the Cult Leader truly marrying the righteous path’s Saintess voluntarily?”

“Naturally.”

The man said grief-stricken, “How can this be?”

“How can it not be? If not for you useless things… Hmph!” Zhou Zhuying looked at them with disgust.

If an ordinary person treated their subordinates this way, those subordinates would probably betray their master. But even after being insulted by Zhou Zhuying like this, these Demon Sect remnants did not think there was any problem at all. After all, their Cult Leader had always never put them in her eyes and often felt that they were all trash.

Seeing that she had suppressed them, Zhou Zhuying inwardly let out a slight breath of relief.

Fortunately, in that critical moment, she had remembered Meng Xiaoxiao’s comments on the Demon Sect.

Roughly speaking, the Demon Sect’s way of doing things was not something ordinary people could understand. These people’s sense of right and wrong had all been twisted. Otherwise, they would not have done so many morally bankrupt things that made both gods and ghosts despise them.

And they had probably been influenced by the Demon Lord from the demonic sect of the cultivation world. The concept of respecting strength above all else was deeply rooted in their hearts.

Likewise, their concept of hierarchy and rank was very strong. Since the Thousand Mechanisms Cult had been personally founded by the Cult Leader, most of these followers had also been subdued and recruited by the Cult Leader. Over all these years, they had grown used to respecting the Cult Leader as supreme and being enslaved and driven by her.

Otherwise, after the Thousand Mechanisms Cult was destroyed, they would not have hurried over so eagerly to rescue her. If it were any other crooked sect or evil path, they would not deserve to be called a “Demon Sect” if they did not seize the chance to replace her position.

So relying on the Demon Sect followers’ absolute obedience to the Cult Leader, she pretended to be lofty and superior in order to fool them.

“This is for our sake?” The man looked at their Cult Leader in astonishment.

Zhou Zhuying was afraid that if she kept speaking, she would expose herself, so she pointed at Xiao Xinyue. “Let my wife explain it to you.”

After saying this, she crawled back into the sedan chair. The moment she sat down, she immediately grabbed the clothes beneath her, her heart pounding wildly. Too close, too close. That was truly terrifying! Being a substitute really was not a job for humans!

On the other side, Xiao Xinyue had already recovered. She pressed down the turbulent emotions in her heart and said, “I have yet to ask Your Excellency’s honorable name.”

The man had knelt to the Cult Leader and respected the Cult Leader. Seeing that the one speaking to him was no longer the Cult Leader, he naturally stood up, his expression arrogant. “Left Guardian of the Thousand Mechanisms Cult, You Ronglin. A name personally bestowed by the Cult Leader!”

Zhou Zhuying: “…”

What kind of naming aesthetic did the original owner have? She picked such obscure characters!

Author’s Note:

Cult Leader: You… You what?

Left Guardian: You Ronglin.

Cult Leader: Oh, Rong what?

Left Guardian: You Ronglin, Cult Leader.

Cult Leader: Oh, oh, what Lin?