I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 15

This person had gone crazy again.

That was the only thought in Yan Yu’s mind.

And what should one do when encountering a madwoman?

Run, of course!

“The medicine has already been pounded. Apply it yourself. I’ll go check… whether there’s anything left in my room that hasn’t been moved over yet.”

The way she fled in panic made it seem as if countless floods and fierce beasts were chasing her from behind.

Yin Beiqing watched that thin figure disappear around the corner with a smile at the corner of her lips. In a rare burst of kindness, she did not force Yan Yu to stay. Her gaze fell on the handkerchief left behind on the table.

She walked over and picked it up. The soft handkerchief carried the medicinal fragrance that Yan Yu always had on her, as well as the bloody smell she hated most. Yet today, she felt that this scent was not so unpleasant.

At some unknown point, Guilian had emerged on her own. Her body coiled around a pillar as she hissed and flicked her tongue toward Yin Beiqing.

“Come down.” Yin Beiqing glanced sideways at her.

The white python nodded and slid down obediently, curling up into a ball by her feet. Amid blue light, she slowly transformed into human form: a little girl who only reached Yin Beiqing’s waist, with her hair tied in twin buns like Nezha.

Beast Souls were also divided into four ranks. At C-rank, they possessed spiritual awareness, could speak and walk, and could cooperate with their master to use uncomplicated beginner spiritual arts. At B-rank, they could perform more complex combined spiritual arts. A-rank Beast Souls could use spiritual arts independently without their master’s cooperation.

Finally, those that evolved to Special-rank like Guilian would possess human form.

“Master, why did you take that arrow?” Guilian’s eyes were the same as when she was in beast form: clear emerald green. But now, set in that round little doll-like face, they only seemed delicate and cute. She wrinkled her nose and looked rather unhappy. “I could clearly have blocked spiritual arts of that level.”

At that time, she had wanted to block it for Yin Beiqing. But Yin Beiqing had done the opposite and controlled the arrow herself, letting it pierce her shoulder.

“You’re still young. You don’t need to understand these things.”

Counting from the age when she became Special-rank, Guilian’s body was only ten years old. But her consciousness had coexisted with Yin Beiqing’s, so in truth, she was nearly a hundred this year too.

Being called young when one was almost a hundred years old was really not something to be happy about, even if the person saying it was her master.

The little girl gave a painless “oh,” then with a bang, changed back into beast form. She flicked her snake tail, which was thicker than Yin Beiqing’s waist, and climbed up her arm.

“Can you tell me now?”

…

Yan Yu rushed forward with her head down and ran all the way back to the small, shabby room that had already been emptied. With no image to speak of, she sat at the doorway, panting and trying to recover.

She wiped her face and got a headache when she saw the red smeared across the back of her hand.

With the frequency of Yin Beiqing’s madness, she was truly afraid she would not live to the grand finale.

Forget the grand finale. Right now, even the first main storyline had not passed.

“Master.” Guipan’s voice sounded by her ear. “Come back quickly and take a look.”

By “come back,” it meant return to the Soul Domain. This little meatball liked to stay in the Soul Domain whenever it had nothing to do, gnawing grass and eating. In less than a week, the whole beast seemed to have grown a size fatter.

“What happened?”

“You… you should come quickly.” Its voice sounded a little afraid.

Yan Yu thought something had happened, so she quickly formed a hand seal and pushed her spiritual awareness into the Soul Domain.

In the empty land before the Soul Domain, the remaining Soul-Gathering Grass and Lotus Bead Grass had been scattered before, and now they were already growing very lushly. Yan Yu had to laboriously push aside a patch of plants before she could see the path ahead.

“Master.” The moment Guipan saw her, it ran over with happy little steps, bumping its big head into her arms. “Look at her…”

Yan Yu followed the direction of its paw and saw a barefoot woman in red standing not far away, glaring at her furiously.

“Idiot!” In the blink of an eye, that woman flashed in front of Yan Yu and pointed at her nose, cursing loudly.

Yan Yu looked confused.

“She’s that little butterfly,” Guipan whispered into Yan Yu’s ear in what it believed was a quiet voice. “She’s been coming to pick my fruits these past few days. I ignored her. Today she suddenly turned into a person and looked really fierce.”

The little panda felt extremely wronged.

“You’re Jiwu?”

Jiwu did not answer her question and continued interrogating her. “Why didn’t you dare kill her?”

“‘Her’? Are you talking about Yin Beiqing?”

Yan Yu remembered how, when she was shooting the arrow earlier, her movements had suddenly gone out of control. Looking at it now, Jiwu before her must have been the one behind it.

She asked back calmly, “Then why do you want to kill her?”

“She won’t die from such a small injury.” Jiwu lifted her chin at Yan Yu. “What matters is that I enjoy the process very much.”

Should she say, as expected of Yin Beiqing’s Beast Soul? With this level of madness, Yin Beiqing herself would probably call her an expert upon seeing it.

“Since you enjoy it so much, please do it yourself next time. If you borrow this rusty blade of mine, you’ll never have a satisfying time.”

As Yan Yu spoke, she patted the little fatty in her arms, who kept moving around and making faces, to prevent it from truly angering Jiwu and starting a fight. “And you too. Settle down.”

“Pan!” I’m super obedient!

“You think I don’t want to?” Jiwu became angry at the mention of this. “It’s all because you trapped me in this godforsaken place. Otherwise, I would have gotten out long ago.”

“I trapped you?” Yan Yu thought, so she actually had this ability—to trap a Special-rank Beast Soul.

“Isn’t that your Beast Soul?” Jiwu pointed at Guipan, who was making faces at her. “Ask it what good deed it did.”

“Hm?”

The little fatty immediately shrank into a ball in Yan Yu’s arms. “I only did it to protect Master. If I didn’t lock her inside the Soul Domain, your body wouldn’t be able to bear it.”

Jiwu’s soul power was extremely overbearing. Even Yin Beiqing could not withstand it, let alone Yan Yu’s body, which leaked wind worse than a broken jar. That was why Guipan had cast a defensive barrier in the Soul Domain and trapped Jiwu here.

Although constructing such a barrier consumed a great deal of soul power, this was Yan Yu’s Soul Domain. As her subordinate Beast Soul, Guipan had the same privileges as her. As long as it was within this Soul Domain, aside from Yan Yu herself, Guipan was the absolute controller, with endless soul power to use.

“See! It admitted it!” Jiwu was so angry her teeth itched. But she had already suffered a loss before. In this place, she could not defeat this fatty at all.

Guipan shrank into an even smaller ball and acted pitiful. “Master, look. She’s so fierce.”

“What are you pretending for?”

“It only just had its spiritual awareness opened. It’s normal for it to be a little timid. Don’t scare it.” Yan Yu patted Guipan’s back and smoothed its fur. “How about this? As long as you promise me that every time you come back, you’ll consciously return to the Soul Domain, I’ll have it let you out.”

The original book had said that Jiwu was a rather special Beast Soul. She was far more aggressive than ordinary Beast Souls, like a walking soul-absorbing device. She would subconsciously absorb the soul power around her to make herself stronger, selfish to the point that even if the other party was her own master, she would not show mercy.

However, this was not something she could control herself. It was also precisely this trait that created such powerful attack power. If one did not factor in combat technique and defensive ability, Jiwu’s combat power might currently be the strongest in the Jin Kingdom.

“It’s not like I can’t…”

“What? Your voice is so quiet. We can’t hear you.” Guipan stuck its head out and placed one paw by its ear. No matter how one looked at its little expression, it was rather asking to be beaten.

When under someone else’s roof, one had no choice but to lower one’s head. Jiwu was so angry she clenched her fists. “I said! I agree!”

…

“She’s out.” Inside the room, Yin Beiqing held a cup of tea and said something without context.

Guilian, who was hanging from a pillar to enjoy the cool air, swayed her tail. “What’s out?”

Yin Beiqing pointed forward. “That stinky brat.”

As soon as she finished speaking, in the direction her finger pointed, a red-clad figure suddenly flew over at high speed. Without hesitation, she smashed through the artificial mountain Yin Beiqing had spent a large sum hiring people to design, charging toward her in the shortest straight line.

Yin Beiqing looked at the mess on the ground and frowned deeply. “Guilian, bite her.”

As soon as the order was given, Guilian’s entire python body lunged out. Before Jiwu could crash into Yin Beiqing, Guilian bit her arm to stop her movement. Jiwu struck Guilian’s head with her palm in return, and the two beasts quickly tangled together in the air.

Yan Yu arrived one step late, panting. She raised her head, but the two Beast Souls in the air were moving so fast in battle that she could not even see their shadows clearly.

Although both were Special-rank, Jiwu was clearly superior. Seeing that Guilian was about to lose, an icicle as thick as an arm suddenly flew out of the room and pierced Jiwu’s back with a swish. Then her entire body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, until her slender frame was pressed flat against the wall.

Guilian did not fight battles won unfairly. Seeing Yin Beiqing act, she stopped her own attack and retreated to the side.

Yin Beiqing did not have that many scruples. She raised her hand and sent several more icicles flying over. Although they all avoided vital points, the force of it looked terrifying.

Yan Yu had not expected someone to be so ruthless even toward her own Beast Soul.

“Scared?” Yin Beiqing patted the nonexistent dust from her hands and walked with her hands behind her back to stand before the stunned Yan Yu. Looking at the miserable Jiwu, she let out a soft sneer. “This brat has a bad temper. I’m educating her.”

Although one should not casually interfere in other people’s private grudges…

“Are you sure she won’t die like this?”

“Her skin is thick.” Yin Beiqing replied without concern, lowering her head and patiently wiping her fingers one by one with a wet cloth. “I’m doing this for her own good. With this temper of hers, she’ll suffer when she goes out in the future.”

“…”

You still have the nerve to talk about someone else?

Author’s Note:

Yan Yu: Let me make this clear. I don’t approve of beating children.

Yin Beiqing: Become my wife and I’ll listen to you.