I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 13

This ceremony, though called an entrance assessment, was more like a test of trust between both sides. Just think—someone who could receive Yin Beiqing’s arrow without the slightest fear, how could that person not trust her or be loyal to her?

Yan Yu stared at that arrow, forcing herself to stay calm. She began calling Guipan in her consciousness, but it still did not respond.

Sleeping in at a time like this? Do you know your master is about to die?!

She turned her head, and her arms struggled a few times within the iron restraints, but they did not loosen in the slightest. Yin Beiqing had fixed her hands in place precisely so she could not use spiritual arts, and with her rag-like body, there was no chance she could break free.

“Are you ready?” Yin Beiqing whistled, twisting her wrist playfully as she lifted her chin and asked.

“Wait, I—” Yan Yu’s words were cut off in her throat.

She knew it! This person had not asked that question because she wanted an answer. She was merely informing Yan Yu one-sidedly.

Yan Yu watched helplessly as the arrow tore through the air. It passed through everyone’s watching gazes, ripped open the wind, and shot straight toward her forehead.

She tightly closed her eyes, not wanting to personally see herself turned into a bloody mess.

Thud!

The pain she had expected did not arrive. A burst of applause erupted from the crowd. Someone came over, untied the collapsed Yan Yu, and helped her down.

Her legs were a little weak. Only when she stood on the ground did she realize that her back was soaked through, and she looked utterly miserable.

When she raised her head, the culprit behind this prank was enjoying the cheers with a face full of satisfaction.

As if noticing Yan Yu’s gaze, Yin Beiqing walked toward her with the crossbow in hand.

“Stretch out your hand.”

Yan Yu did not move.

“Take it.” Yin Beiqing handed the crossbow to her.

Yan Yu shook her head and made an expression of inquiry.

“It’s your turn.” Yin Beiqing scratched her finger under Yan Yu’s chin, as if teasing a beast pet. “Be gentle. Don’t hurt me.”

Could she say something understandable to humans?

After dropping those words, Yin Beiqing walked toward the wooden wheel with her hands behind her back. She stood in place and spread her arms, allowing the maidservants to tie her to the wheel.

Only then did Yan Yu finally understand what “it’s your turn” meant. She lowered her head and looked at the thing in her hands.

Yin Beiqing wanted her to take this crossbow and shoot back.

“Begin.”

Begin?

“What kind of joke are you making? I don’t know how to shoot arrows at all.”

“That’s why I told you to be careful.”

Listen to that. Were those human words? Was this something that could be done well just by being careful?

“Miss Yan, please begin.” The maidservant walked to Yan Yu’s side and handed her a new arrow. “This is a required step in entering the valley.”

Then she might as well not enter.

“Oh, right. I forgot to tell you,” Yin Beiqing reminded Yan Yu. “Anyone who enters my Langdie Valley can only leave lying down.”

It was already too late to regret it now.

Yan Yu bit her lip in difficulty. But asking her to shoot an arrow at a living person—she could not do it.

The maidservant was like an emotionless progress-rushing machine. Seeing that Yan Yu still had not reacted, she personally reached out, held Yan Yu’s hand, and placed it on the crossbow.

“Hold it, pull it open, and that’s all.”

Yan Yu held that impossibly heavy crossbow, both hands trembling nonstop. Easy to say. She could not even pull it open.

“If you really shoot me dead with one arrow, then consider it you, the goddess, eliminating a scourge for the people.”

Yan Yu let out a long breath and ignored her provocative nonsense. In any case, as long as she shot one arrow, it would be fine, right? Then she could just shoot wide.

She mobilized the soul power in her body and gathered it in her arms. Only then did she draw in a breath and lift that extremely heavy crossbow.

Her arms trembled as she loaded the arrow and aimed at a spot about one chi above Yin Beiqing’s head.

But at that moment, the red lotus Beast Mark on Yan Yu’s forehead flashed with light. A familiar heat source surged from her chest to every part of her body.

A strange gust of wind came from nowhere, blowing up her dress and long hair, blurring her vision.

“Wait?” Yan Yu felt that her hands were becoming somewhat uncontrollable. A force kept pressing down on her, making the arrowhead aim at Yin Beiqing’s heart.

Yan Yu’s face turned deathly pale with fright. She wanted to lower the arrow, but she was one step too slow.

The dark black-iron arrow body was wrapped in intertwined red and blue flames. It left a powerful arc in the air and rushed fiercely toward Yin Beiqing’s vital point.

“Yo!” Ying Fan, sitting in the VIP audience seats nearby, whistled and turned her head to speak with the person beside her. “Sister Ruan, I told you, right? This sickly weakling is even less afraid of death than I am.”

Ruan Yuemin sat upright in her chair, lowering her head to sip hot tea. She did not even give her a glance.

“So amazing, hahahaha! So amazing, yay yay yay! Killing, killing!”

Ying Fan could not stand it and shook her head. She pressed a hand onto the head of the girl beside her who was clapping and cheering. “Xueji, can you stop laughing? Your voice is so sharp it’s giving me goosebumps.”

This bit of restraint was nothing to Yin Beiqing at all. But she lay there in place, watching with her own eyes as that arrow flew toward her chest.

“Yin Beiqing!” Yan Yu shouted anxiously.

Under the mask, the corner of someone’s mouth finally lifted in satisfaction, carrying the meaning of victory.

In midair, the arrow flying at high speed suddenly changed direction. Yan Yu was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but in the next second, she saw that it had not been directly deflected. It had only shifted slightly upward. In the end, it still pierced deeply into Yin Beiqing’s shoulder.

The injured Yin Beiqing acted as if nothing had happened. She shattered the iron rings binding her and jumped down on her own. Then she raised her right hand and, without hesitation, pulled out the arrow.

She seemed unable to see the wound or feel the pain. Step by step, she walked toward Yan Yu, her tone complaining.

“Sickly weakling, you made it hurt so much.”

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to shoot you. I don’t know what happened…”

“Shh.” Yin Beiqing stretched out a finger and pressed it against her lips. “Do you know what I hate hearing the most?”

Explanations.

Yan Yu answered in her heart, then gloomily closed her mouth and frowned as she checked the wound on Yin Beiqing’s shoulder. “It’s pierced quite deep. Hurry and find some medicine to apply.”

Yin Beiqing leaned closer and took her hand. “There is something more important to do right now.”

Yan Yu turned with her and only then discovered that the people who had been gathered together watching from the side were already kneeling in a large crowd below the beast seat.

It was Yan Yu’s first time seeing the back of the head of the ever-proud Ruan Yuemin. Thinking about it, the only person who could make her lower her head in submission was the madwoman standing beside Yan Yu.

The final step of the entrance ceremony was for Yin Beiqing to personally place the token on the new member.

“Miss Yan, please kneel,” the maidservant reminded softly.

“No need. How can the goddess be the same as everyone else?”

Yan Yu inhaled sharply. She had not forgotten the dark crowd of people kneeling behind her. Yin Beiqing’s words were far too good at attracting hatred for her. How was she supposed to get along with these “colleagues” in the future?

A second-class maidservant held a tray and presented it before Yin Beiqing. From who knew where, Yin Beiqing took out a bone fan and lifted the white cloth covering the tray.

Out of the corner of her eye, Yan Yu saw that it was a pair of translucent jade clinking bracelets.

She did not look for long before Yin Beiqing picked up the bracelets and slipped them onto her wrist. The size was just right.

The bracelet bodies were rather thin, making them look very light when worn. When the wrist moved, the two jade bracelets knocked against each other, naturally producing a crisp, pleasant sound. This was also where the name “clinking bracelets” came from.

Yin Beiqing clapped her hands and looked at Yan Yu as though looking at an artwork she had personally completed.

“Welcome to the valley, my dear Lady Goddess.”

She emphasized the last four words. No matter how one listened, there was a chill that made the hairs on one’s whole body stand up.

Entering the valley was a good thing, but Yan Yu could not smile at all.

Yin Beiqing, however, was in high spirits. She took Yan Yu’s hand and walked before everyone.

“From today onward, the goddess officially becomes a member of our Langdie Valley. This is an omen of blessing, and my good fortune. Therefore, her words are my words. None of you may neglect her. Do you all hear me?”

“Yes, Valley Master!” The maidservants answered in unison, their voices so loud that the ground almost seemed to shake three times.

Yan Yu lowered her head and happened to meet the seven gazes in the first row, each containing different emotions.

A sheep entering a tiger’s den.

That was the most instinctive thought that appeared in her mind at that moment.

Author’s Note:

Maybe they’re just shipping the CP. doge

P.S. It’s the end of the month. Does anyone have leftover nutrient solution for me to gulp down? ouo