I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 10

Little goddess?

In this world, as soul power increased, one’s lifespan also lengthened. So far, the longest-lived female Beast Arts Master had already passed her thousandth birthday.

Yan Yu herself was twenty-eight. The original owner had just turned forty. Yin Beiqing, however, was already ninety-nine years old. By comparison, was Yan Yu not “little”?

Yan Yu could only swallow this little grievance.

“Grrr…”

The two looked at each other in silence.

Yan Yu thickened her skin and broke the awkwardness. “I’m hungry.”

“What, do you want me to feed you too?”

“That wouldn’t be impossible.”

“…”

It was Yin Beiqing’s first time meeting someone with Yan Yu’s kind of personality. It seemed that no matter how sharp-tongued someone was, they could still be rendered speechless by a few calm, breezy replies from her.

Yan Yu knew that Yin Beiqing generally did not keep maidservants in her room, but there were usually people guarding the door. She propped herself up, preparing to go ask for something to eat. But before she could even sit up, she was pressed back down.

“What are you moving around for?”

Pressed down onto the bed by her, Yan Yu’s eyes were full of helplessness. “Am I really supposed to count on you to feed me?”

“…” Yin Beiqing nearly ground her teeth to pieces. “Wait right here.”

If steaming hot food had not been placed on the dining table ten minutes later, Yan Yu would have thought the words that should follow Yin Beiqing’s sentence were, “Wait until I deal with you.”

Two maidservants came over to help Yan Yu up. Yan Yu thanked them and swept her gaze over the dishes on the table. The food was better than she had imagined, though the portions were a little large.

The Jin Kingdom was a gathering place for elite Beast Arts Masters. Beast Arts Masters whose soul power had reached A-rank or above usually did not need to sleep, eat, or drink. Because of this, the entertainment industry here was extremely developed, but the food industry was worrying.

The dishes on the table were perfect proof. The soup was an oily mixed stew, with animal organs, claws, brains, and eyeballs all thrown into it at once. The green vegetables and white meat were simply steamed or boiled until cooked before being served. It was just that the cooks here used very heavy seasoning, and the flavor was excessively salty.

Yan Yu avoided the soup floating with oil and picked up some leafy greens with her rice. At last, there was something she could swallow.

However long Yan Yu ate slowly and carefully, Yin Beiqing propped her face beside her and watched her for that long.

Yan Yu carried a natural calm elegance in every movement. Even though she was extremely hungry, her eating manner was still very pleasant to watch. She chewed slowly and carefully, without leaving the slightest bit of food residue at the corner of her mouth or on the table.

“Is it good?”

“It’s all right.” Yan Yu gave a vague evaluation. Although she was not picky about food, the dishes were indeed so salty that they were a bit hard to eat. However, on the principle of not wasting food, she still persevered and finished the rice in her bowl.

“So goddesses also need to eat?”

“Yes. Three meals a day, not missing a single one.” Yan Yu felt that Yin Beiqing at this moment was deliberately looking for something to say, as if she would only feel comfortable after needling Yan Yu a few times.

Like a little brat.

Mm. A little brat who was almost a hundred years old.

…

Lujia’s two claws rested on the windowsill, its little feet swinging back and forth as its eyes stared at each passerby. When it finally saw the figure it had been longing for, it ran over with a face full of joy.

“Master, you’re back!”

Yesterday, Yan Yu had been carried away by Yin Beiqing with an arm around her waist and had not returned all night. If not for the contract mark still being there, Lujia would almost have thought Yan Yu had already passed away.

Yan Yu crouched down and stretched out her palm toward it. Lujia immediately climbed along her arm and onto her shoulder, its claws holding on while its tail hung down and swayed back and forth.

“Have you eaten?”

“I ate.” Lujia rubbed its head against her. The smooth, hard feeling of its scales made Yan Yu somewhat unaccustomed. “Where’s Guipan?”

“Guipan?” Hearing it mention this, Yan Yu remembered. This seemed to be the name of the original owner’s Beast Soul.

All Beast Soul names were innate. Their surnames were divided among the eight ancient surnames: Ji, Gui, Si, Ying, Ji, Yao, Jiang, and Yun. Beast Souls with the same surname belonged to the same maternal line. Counting it this way, her Guipan and Yin Beiqing’s Guilian came from the same clan line of Beast Souls.

That little meatball kept calling itself “Panpan,” but what it should actually be saying was “Panpan” from Guipan.

Yan Yu formed a hand seal and probed the spiritual awareness inside her body. She discovered that the little meatball was currently lying on its back inside the Soul Domain with all four paws in the air, gnawing on a green plant more than twice its height. Its round head was tilted, and its expression looked slightly ferocious, fully exposing its gluttonous nature.

Yan Yu found it strange. How had the empty Soul Domain from last time suddenly grown such a huge plant out of nowhere? So her spiritual awareness continued probing inward, and only then did she discover that there was far more than just this. The large open space in front of the small house was already covered with green plants taller than a person.

Looking carefully, these plants had short, thick leaves covered in white fuzzy thorns, thick roots, and round red fruits. They looked very similar to the Lotus Bead Grass growing beside Gulao Spring. If there was any difference, it was that their size was simply too large. The Lotus Bead fruits by Gulao Spring were barely the size of a palm, while the fruits here were larger than a human head.

“Master?” Guipan seemed to have discovered her and turned its head over. The white fur on its cheeks had been rubbed with red fruit juice until it became a mixed mess. It looked adorably foolish.

“Master should eat too! It’s very nourishing!” Last night, it had used up quite a bit of soul power opening that Healing Arts shield, so eating this fruit was perfect for replenishing it.

“Where did these fruits come from?” Yan Yu entered the Soul Domain to speak with it.

“I picked them.” Its eyes opened round and wide. “They were right beside that pool. They were super obvious. I grabbed a handful and scattered them here, then these things grew with a shua!”

Grabbed a handful?

Yan Yu looked at the green field that almost stretched beyond sight. This one handful was more than what someone else could fit in an entire sack.

She looked at Guipan, who was grinning foolishly in front of her, waiting to be praised, and let out a long sigh.

“You really know how to find trouble for me.”

Lotus Bead Grass had strict growing conditions. Its requirements for temperature, humidity, and even the water used to irrigate it were all very high, so it was extremely rare. If one or two stalks were missing, perhaps no one would notice. But her Beast Soul had directly swept the place clean.

Yan Yu did not dare imagine how furious Yin Beiqing would be when she found out, or how miserably Yan Yu would die.

A Beast Soul’s consciousness was connected to its master. Guipan sensed that Yan Yu’s mood at this moment did not seem very happy.

It ran over, its claws tugging at Yan Yu’s skirt. “Are you unhappy? Are you afraid of that fierce sister? It’s okay. I’ll protect you.”

“I’m not unhappy.” Yan Yu did not plan to argue with it. “But next time, before taking someone else’s things, you have to ask me first.”

Innocent, straightforward, and following instinct—this was the nature of Beast Souls. They did not think about cause and effect or gains and losses like humans did. Whatever they did depended entirely on their mood at that moment. Yan Yu felt that she did not necessarily have to train them all into obedient household pets.

Walking into that room, she familiarly placed her palm on the smooth, springy wall. Very soon, the familiar water ball floated out and placed a worn little booklet into her palm. On the page it opened to, one spiritual art had been circled.

It was a transformation spiritual art. It could freely change the shape and size of objects and even living things. Most importantly, the soul power threshold it required was not high, making it very suitable for Yan Yu.

“DI WANG NU.”

As soon as the incantation came out, the huge Lotus Bead Grass Yan Yu pointed at began twitching. Its leaves trembled along with its swaying root and stem. After a burst of dazzling white light flashed…

It actually became even bigger.

Guipan and Yan Yu looked at each other. Both wore speechless expressions.

“Master, my skin is thick. I’m not afraid of being hit. It’s okay if fierce sister hits me a couple of times.”

“What are you saying?”

Yan Yu used the basic breathing-adjustment spiritual art again to disperse the soul power in her body, reducing the possibility of spiritual arts going out of control because of uneven soul power. Then she tried once more.

“It worked!”

“Mm.” Yan Yu did not celebrate too early.

This little meatball had ruined a whole large patch of someone’s plants. Planting just one back was far from enough. So Yan Yu, a lighter that kept getting stuck on the edge of going out, began working again.

“DI WANG NU.”

“DI WANG NU…”

About three hours later, the exhausted Yan Yu led Guipan out of the Soul Domain.

“I’m going out for a bit. You two stay here obediently and don’t make trouble, all right?”

“Got it.”

Lujia had always been obedient. What Yan Yu was mainly worried about was the one beside it.

Guipan lowered its head and patted its own belly with its paws. “Then Master, remember to bring food when you come back.”

“All right.” Yan Yu smiled and rubbed its head.

Yan Yu picked up the basket filled with Lotus Bead Grass and, following the route in her memory, found Gulao Spring. She had deliberately avoided the time when the original book mentioned Yin Beiqing usually bathed there. Sure enough, when she arrived, there was no one there.

She walked near that patch of grass to observe it. The originally neat and dense flowerbed was now a complete mess, with several patches of earth left bare.

Resigned to her fate, Yan Yu took out the small shovel in her arms, cleared away the few broken stalks of grass, loosened the soil, and planted the prepared Lotus Bead Grass one by one.

“Yo!” A teasing female voice sounded behind her.

Yan Yu, who had been focused on her work, was startled into a jolt and instinctively turned her head to look.

A woman wearing a light-blue dress was crouching diagonally behind her with a smiling expression. Her face was only about a fist’s distance from Yan Yu’s. This woman’s eyes had golden irises and very small pupils. Being stared at closely by her gave one a chill down the spine.

The woman looked at Yan Yu’s basket full of Lotus Bead Grass, then at her mud-covered hands and the shovel she had used to dig.

It seemed she understood everything at once.

“You came all the way here to steal fruit?” The smile at the corner of her mouth gradually widened. “First time I’ve seen someone even less afraid of death than me.”

Author’s Note:

Yan Yu, who has no way to explain herself no matter how many mouths she has. Happy Friday—little red packets will drop in the comment section of this chapter.

P.S. Thank you to the little angels who helped catch typos. I usually save up many chapters and edit them together. After editing, I’ll send little red packets as thanks. If you’re catching typos, please rate zero points; otherwise, I always miss some. Quq. Mwah mwah, chu chu.