After Transmigrating, the Female Lead Went Dark (GL) - Chapter 31

After sending off that group from the Demon Sect, Moshan Sect seemed to become quiet all at once.

Zhou Zhuying had already begun planning in her heart to have Xiao Xinyue take her out to stroll around town. However, after they left Yan Yu Hall, Xiao Xinyue saw that Cheng Xiyang had not left and was instead waiting outside, so she knew he had something he wanted to discuss with her alone.

She knew that today’s negotiation had gone extremely smoothly because the Demon Lord had not been mentioned. Only a few people knew of the Demon Lord’s existence, and Cheng Xiyang and Liang Kong were two of them. As for Moshan Sect, only she, her master, and Zhuo Zidan knew.

They all believed that the reason the Demon Lord had only been discovered in recent years was because, aside from Xiao Xinyue, few people had ever seen him. Even many Demon Sect disciples did not know of him. If Xiao Xinyue had not crossed hands with him, luckily survived under his hand, and brought the news back, the righteous path would probably still know nothing and be completely unprepared.

Cheng Xiyang, Ling Guqing, and Zhuo Zidan all believed that it was unsuitable to spread word of the Demon Lord’s existence widely. The reason was that aside from Xiao Xinyue, no one had seen him, so it would be difficult to fully convince people.

Even if everyone believed in the Demon Lord’s existence, if they knew that the Demon Sect had such a grandmaster whose power had already reached perfection, they would certainly avoid the Demon Sect as much as possible and not dare to join forces against it.

They were well aware that people naturally sought benefits and avoided harm. In order to twist the various sects together into one rope, they ultimately chose to continue concealing the Demon Lord’s existence while secretly continuing to search for his whereabouts.

This was because they believed the Demon Lord must have hidden his true identity. Perhaps he was traveling through the jianghu as an ordinary person, or perhaps he was lurking among the famous righteous sects. Therefore, they could not beat the grass and startle the snake, and had to investigate quietly.

Xiao Xinyue had Zhou Zhuying go back first to eat lunch, while she and Cheng Xiyang went elsewhere to talk.

Zhou Zhuying sympathized with Xiao Xinyue for being unable to eat lunch on time. Judging by Cheng Xiyang’s posture, they would probably be talking for a long time.

She decided to go to the kitchen and bring them some pastries. She did not care whether Cheng Xiyang lived or died, but she was afraid Xiao Xinyue would starve herself into stomach problems. After all, no matter how high one’s martial arts were, the stomach was still the same stomach. If one’s eating habits were always irregular, even an iron-forged body could be dragged down.

Unexpectedly, just as she reached a corner, someone suddenly sprang out beside her.

“Holy mother!” Zhou Zhuying was startled.

She stopped and looked at the person who had suddenly appeared, still shaken, only to discover that it was Liang Kong. Moreover, he did not feel at all that his actions had frightened her. Instead, he looked at her with a smile.

Zhou Zhuying could not help cursing Liang Kong as a lunatic in her heart.

Was he playing hide-and-seek here? How old was he? Was scaring people fun?

Damn you, immortal-board plain-water zongzi, you actually still dare laugh at me?

“Do you need something?” Zhou Zhuying suppressed her anger and asked expressionlessly.

Liang Kong’s smile faded slightly. He said, “Nothing much. I merely wanted to see what the number one beauty of the Demon Sect looks like. However, do you know who I am?”

“Yo-ho, daring to flirt with me? Pretty arrogant, aren’t you!” Zhou Zhuying cursed inwardly, but aloud, she said with a half-smile, “The famous zongzi of Yaoshan Sect. Who does not know you?”

Whether Liang Kong heard the impropriety in Zhou Zhuying’s form of address was unclear, but he stared at her without blinking, his gaze dark and hard to understand.

Zhou Zhuying felt uncomfortable all over under his stare. She was also quite annoyed by his unrestrained and abrupt gaze, and said, “What, do your eyes have X-rays? Are you giving me a CT scan? You’ve been looking for so long. Did you see anything?”

Liang Kong was stunned by her words and did not understand what she was saying at all, but he could hear the dissatisfaction in her tone. He did not think his behavior was improper and even said, “Do people of the Demon Sect all speak in such an incoherent and incomprehensible way?”

Zhou Zhuying had thought that with his appearance as a modest gentleman, no matter what his true nature was, he would at least know how to put on a good front. Unexpectedly, the moment he opened his mouth, he immediately exposed his true nature and did not even bother pretending.

“Are all righteous path people like you, with human faces and dog hearts?” Zhou Zhuying shot back without mercy.

Liang Kong had been scolded by her, but he was not angry at all. He remained persistent and asked, “Do you think that because the Saintess of Moshan supports you, you can be so arrogant on righteous path territory?”

He paused, then asked again, “But how much do you really know about the Saintess?”

From his question, Zhou Zhuying smelled a trace of something unusual.

This guy couldn’t also be one of the female lead’s supporters or secret admirers, right?

Otherwise, why would his attitude be so strange?

Logically speaking, righteous path people generally had two kinds of thoughts toward her, this Demon Sect Leader: hatred, or respectful distance.

The former was most common. As for the latter, it was because she had married Xiao Xinyue, and there was profit to be gained for the righteous path, so even if they hated her, they had no choice but to tolerate her and keep a respectful distance.

So the righteous path people Zhou Zhuying had encountered were either like Chen Mishan and the other Moshan Sect disciples, who did not conceal their hatred in the slightest, or like the female disciple who delivered her meals, who had reservations and kept her close yet distant.

But someone like Liang Kong, who rushed over to find trouble with her and disgust her with words, seemed to be only like the male lead, Zhuo Zidan. Thinking this, she had no choice but to toss the blame onto Xiao Xinyue.

Zhou Zhuying asked in return, “What, does the zongzi want to discuss the Saintess with me?”

Liang Kong swept her with a mocking gaze. As he turned to leave, he muttered as if to himself, “Nothing more than a substitute. How long can you borrow the tiger’s might?”

Substitute?

Zhou Zhuying caught this word, but after thinking it over from every angle for a long while, she still could not understand what the “plain-water zongzi” meant.

“Neither sweet nor salty. Chewing on a tasteless zongzi really has no flavor,” Zhou Zhuying muttered.

Speaking of zongzi, she wanted to eat meat zongzi.

“Ai, being delayed by zongzi made me forget to eat!” Touching her rumbling stomach, Zhou Zhuying quickly ran toward the kitchen, turning around and forgetting Liang Kong completely.

However, very soon, she got lost. Only then did she remember that she seemed not to know where the kitchen was.

Seeing a young girl hurrying past, she quickly stopped her and asked, “Miss, may I ask where the kitchen is?”

The girl looked only sixteen or seventeen. She was small in build, but a multi-section whip was wrapped around her waist, and her entire body radiated an aura that warned strangers not to approach. Being stopped by someone, she felt displeased and gave Zhou Zhuying a sidelong glance. “Who are you?”

Zhou Zhuying found this novel. So it turned out there were still people in Moshan Sect who did not know her. It had been a long time since she introduced herself!

She said, “My name is Zhou Zhuying. I am—”

Before she could finish speaking, the girl’s expression suddenly changed. Her hand pulled from her waist, and the multi-section whip scattered open. She lashed it against the ground, and the floor immediately cracked open with a huge sound.

“So you are the Demon Sect Leader!” The girl was furious, and the multi-section whip in her hand lashed toward Zhou Zhuying without the slightest hesitation.

“Hey!” Zhou Zhuying realized the danger. Before her mind could react, her body had already retreated several steps, barely dodging the girl’s attack.

The girl’s first strike missed, but she had no intention of stopping there. Her second strike followed closely after. Zhou Zhuying thought that she had probably only dodged the first time because of good luck, and that this time she definitely would not be able to avoid it.

Unexpectedly, just as this thought appeared in her mind, her body leaned backward. The gleaming multi-section whip swept over the top of her body. If she had been even a little slower, that multi-section whip probably would have swept her waist in half.

“So close!” Zhou Zhuying broke out in cold sweat from fear. When she realized she was still maintaining the backward-leaning posture, her legs softened, and the strength in her waist and abdomen was not enough to support this difficult movement any longer. She fell straight to the ground.

“It hurts—” Zhou Zhuying had not only slammed her back into the ground; even the back of her head could not escape.

However, she had no time to wait for the pain to pass before she saw the multi-section whip falling straight down from above again.

Her body almost reflexively rolled to the side. However, she did not roll outward. Instead, she rolled to the girl’s feet, then grabbed her ankle and yanked hard. The girl lost her balance, her body’s center of gravity slipped, and she landed on her backside on the ground.

“Hiss…” The girl’s features twisted together from pain.

Zhou Zhuying’s action successfully enraged her. She kicked Zhou Zhuying hard, and this kick was something Zhou Zhuying failed to dodge.

Zhou Zhuying was sent flying one or two meters. Intense pain spread outward from her chest and abdomen, and sweat immediately began to seep out.

The girl climbed up from the ground, her tender face already red with anger. Her fury surged to the heavens, and she raised the multi-section whip, lashing out with almost all her strength.

Suddenly, an afterimage flashed past. The girl discovered that the multi-section whip seemed to be caught by something and could not be pulled back.

“Stop!” A voice filled with anger rang out. The girl shuddered, and the strength in her hand disappeared.

“Senior Sister Xinyue!” the girl called.

Xiao Xinyue’s brows were deeply furrowed. A cold, chilling light flashed through her eyes. After she saw the girl’s face clearly, she released the multi-section whip she had caught, ignored the blood rising from her hand, and went straight to check on Zhou Zhuying’s condition.

“Cult Leader, let me see your injuries.”

Seeing that Xiao Xinyue had come, Zhou Zhuying felt as if all the grievances in her stomach had found an outlet. Her tears flowed down in streams. Grabbing Xiao Xinyue’s clothes, she sobbed, “Sister Saintess, I was beaten! It hurts so much.”

Xiao Xinyue did not hesitate. She picked her up and headed toward Shu Ji’s residence.

The girl was originally very guilty that she had injured Xiao Xinyue, but seeing that Xiao Xinyue ignored her, her attention instead remaining entirely on the Demon Sect Leader, she was instantly both angry and vexed, and followed them.

“Junior Sister Shu.” Xiao Xinyue found Shu Ji, who was reclining crookedly on a chaise longue while drinking tea and reading. She asked Shu Ji to help examine Zhou Zhuying’s injuries.

Shu Ji raised her brows, wondering whether today was not the day of negotiation between the righteous path and the Demon Sect. Why had they come? And from the look of it, both of them were injured.

She asked, “What, did the negotiations not go smoothly and conflict break out?”

“No.” Xiao Xinyue did not say much, but her expression did not look good.

Shu Ji soon saw the girl sneaking around outside the door. She did not say anything and first took a bottle of golden wound medicine for Xiao Xinyue. “If the injury on your hand is not serious, use this golden wound medicine to stop the bleeding first.”

After saying this, she went to examine Zhou Zhuying’s injury. “The injury is on your chest? Take off your clothes.”

Xiao Xinyue’s movement of taking the golden wound medicine paused. Immediately after, she withdrew her hand and said, “I will do it!”

Shu Ji looked at Xiao Xinyue teasingly. Without another word, she left the room and conveniently closed the door.

She caught the girl who had been hiding and asked, “When did Junior Sister Fu return? You had just returned and already gave the Saintess and the Saintess’s Wife such a great gift. How impressive.”

“What Saintess’s Wife? I don’t acknowledge her!” The girl stomped her feet in anger.

“What use is it if you do not acknowledge her? All the various sects have acknowledged her,” Shu Ji said sarcastically.

The girl probably also recognized this reality and said angrily, “If Master hadn’t stopped me, I definitely would have rushed back before they got married!”

“What could you have done even if you had rushed back? This was the Saintess’s decision. The Sect Master and the others tacitly agreed to it. They would not cancel this decision just because you came out to make trouble.”

“Why?” the girl asked indignantly. “Why did Senior Sister Xinyue have to marry the Demon Sect Leader? That is the Demon Sect Leader! Back then, the Xiao family massacre was done by the Demon Sect. How can she marry the Demon Sect Leader who has the blood feud of destroying her family?!”

“How could the Saintess’s thoughts be so easy for others to guess?” Shu Ji said faintly.

The door opened. Xiao Xinyue invited Shu Ji in, but still had no intention of paying attention to the girl. She told Shu Ji about Zhou Zhuying’s condition, and Shu Ji took Zhou Zhuying’s pulse. In the end, she said, “They are all external injuries. Fortunately, your lungs and organs were not hurt.”

“But my chest hurts a lot,” Zhou Zhuying said pitifully.

Shu Ji looked at her sideways and said with a half-smile, “If the Saintess were not here, it would not hurt.”

Zhou Zhuying: “…”

What did she mean? Was she implying that Zhou Zhuying was taking the chance to act spoiled with Xiao Xinyue?

Was she that kind of pretentious person?

Yes. Yes, she was!

After being kicked, she had indeed felt intense pain, but on the way here, that pain had slowly faded. Although it still hurt, it was no longer as painful as at the beginning.

When Xiao Xinyue examined her just now, she had also seen that Zhou Zhuying had no internal injuries, yet she still coaxed her. As Zhou Zhuying’s mood improved, and because Xiao Xinyue’s hand injury distracted her attention, she could no longer focus on herself.

She hummed and whined, “External injuries are still injuries.”

Shu Ji said, “Later, I will give you a bottle of medicinal wine for bruises and injuries. Rub it on four times a day. As for whether you rub it yourself or have someone else help you rub it, that will not affect the medicine’s efficacy.”

Shu Ji then helped Xiao Xinyue examine the injury on her hand and said, “As for the Saintess’s hand, I fear it will not heal without ten days to half a month. Of course, if you use your hand less, perhaps it can heal faster. It all depends on whether the two of you can use your hands correctly. If you really must use your hands, switching to the left hand is also fine. After all, using the left hand will not affect the right hand’s injury. If you use it for long enough and often enough, by the time the right hand heals, perhaps you will even be able to use both hands equally well.”

Zhou Zhuying: “…”

Xiao Xinyue: “…”

Thank you. We feel very implicated.

The Cult Leader could not help sighing with emotion. “Junior Sister Shu Ji, have you ever considered selling ‘Dirty Ji White Phoenix Pills’? This name was practically created for you.”

Author’s Note:

The Cult Leader counts on her fingers: The male lead, zongzi, and X Junior Sister. Three love rivals have already appeared?!

The Saintess holds her hand: They do not exist.

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Dirty Ji: Injured your right hand? No problem. There is still the left hand. Even if the left hand is injured too, that is also no problem. One can rely on a silver tongue—

Fangbianmian: Shut up. This is Green River’s children’s channel! Please cherish your chance to appear.