I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 35

Although Lin Hegui was a Healing Master, she had never done anything like cutting open a chest and abdomen. Even when killing someone, she would very “considerately” leave the corpse intact.

If she had to skin Guo Lu right now, given her anger in this moment, she could bring herself to do it. But whether it would leave her with trauma afterward, whether the bloody scene would keep replaying in her mind—she herself could not say.

When Yan Yu had first gone to observe during her internship, she had once been in this same state too. Her heart knew what she should do, and her mind could recite every word written in the textbooks, but her physiological reaction needed time to adapt and digest.

In the strangely silent atmosphere, Yan Yu began making preparations in an orderly manner.

First, she used rope to secure Guo Lu’s limbs. Then she used a sturdy leather belt to buckle down his neck. Because the sounds of his struggling were too noisy, she coldly stuffed a piece of cloth directly into his mouth to gag him.

“Wu, wu, wu! Wu—”

Lin Hegui still seemed to have reservations. She felt that this sort of thing should be done by her, the actual younger sister, but before she could even step forward, Yin Beiqing stopped her.

“Her skills are very good.”

“What skills?”

Yin Beiqing lifted her chin toward Yan Yu, signaling for Lin Hegui to watch her.

Yan Yu had already begun moving. She lowered her head, her fingers habitually pressing around the “surgical site” as she searched for the place to make the incision.

“Wu! Wu, wu, wu!” When the blade touched his skin, Guo Lu’s entire body shook. He desperately used his eyes to signal to her.

“You’re begging me to let you go?” Yan Yu saw the plea in his eyes.

Guo Lu, covered in snot and tears, nodded frantically.

He no longer had luck points or enough lifespan to exchange for escape skill cards. The only thing he could do was beg for mercy.

No matter what, he could not understand why Yan Yu, who had once obeyed him in everything, had become like this and was now treating him so ruthlessly.

Yan Yu took in his collapse and fear, then nodded lightly. Just as Guo Lu’s eyes brightened in surprise, showing hope, she said,

“Mm. I refuse.”

Let you go?

She practically wished she could cut this man into a thousand pieces on the spot.

The dagger in her hand, sharp enough to cut through iron as if it were mud, stabbed into his skin without hesitation. She steadily cut open a cross. Forget trembling—her breathing rhythm did not even miss a beat.

She simply treated it as if she were taking something out of a leather bucket, opening the fastenings and exposing the view. The entire process took only a few minutes. But just as she was about to retrieve it, Lin Hegui called out to stop her.

“Thank you, but I’ll take out the Beast Origin Pearl myself.”

She still did not trust these people. Although Yan Yu had just used some method unknown to her to preserve her brother’s physical vitality, what if this was only a move to make her lower her guard? What if Yan Yu used the excuse of helping to steal the Beast Origin Pearl? Then her brother still would not come back to life.

Moreover, something like a Beast Origin Pearl originally could not be casually handled by another person.

“All right.” Yan Yu understood her concerns. “Please come over.”

“Sorry.”

“I understand.” Yan Yu did not mind. Instead, she urged her, “Please act quickly.”

Lin Hegui nodded. With a grave expression, she removed the Beast Origin Pearl. Then, moving quickly and full of hope, she placed it back into Lin Zhuxun’s chest and pressed her hands together in prayer.

“Ah! Ah!” The vulture beside them suddenly let out a sharp cry. It flapped its wings and circled continuously above Lin Zhuxun’s body. “I can sense Master! I can sense Master!”

The effect of the Amber-Guilin Decoction was indeed extraordinary. At this moment, Lin Zhuxun’s complexion gradually regained a rosy color, and his breathing also sounded noticeably stronger than before. Lin Hegui impatiently reached out and placed her fingers on his wrist. In the next moment, joy immediately appeared on her face.

“He has a pulse!”

Only now did Yan Yu completely relax. “That’s good.”

Lin Hegui carried Lin Zhuxun to the bed and laid him flat. His wound had already been treated by Yan Yu, and his soul power was gradually recovering. What he needed now was only proper rest.

She quickly walked toward Yan Yu. “Young lady, thank you so much. If not for you…”

“Please don’t get too emotional first. It’s good that he could be saved.” Yan Yu instinctively said the words she often used to comfort patients’ families.

But they seemed to be useful.

Lin Hegui immediately raised her reddened eyes. “I suspected you just now. You won’t take it to heart, will you? I have always had a very guarded personality. I wasn’t deliberately targeting you.”

Yan Yu naturally knew that and hurriedly shook her head. “Actually, we were the ones who suddenly barged into your home. That was too abrupt.”

Lin Hegui had not expected Yan Yu to be this understanding, as if she did not even need to say anything for Yan Yu to understand everything.

But Yan Yu was right. The reason she had been impolite to them earlier was indeed this.

Since Lin Hegui had chosen to live in seclusion, what she wanted was peace and quiet. She deeply hated worldly people using all kinds of reasons to disturb her.

Even if someone came with gifts and spoke pleasantly, she would still chase them away with a cold face, because she knew people did not visit without a reason. If they had no request to make of her, who would walk such a long mountain road for nothing and tire themselves out?

Although she knew Yan Yu and the others had most likely come with similar motives in the beginning, first impressions mattered. Right now, Lin Hegui felt more gratitude toward Yan Yu. Compared with the life-saving grace, what did that little principle count for?

“Young lady, is there anything I can help you with? As long as it is within my power, I will agree to it.”

Yan Yu actually did not want this matter to look too much like a transaction made with life. Just now, saving Lin Zhuxun had been purely because, as a doctor, she could not tolerate watching an innocent person die before her eyes while doing nothing.

But they had indeed come here with a purpose. If she refused Lin Hegui out of temporary pride, how could she face Yin Beiqing, to whom she had once made a promise?

“Saving your brother came from my conscience.” Yan Yu pressed her lips together, but still said the second half. “But I do indeed have something I want to ask of you.”

“Say it, young lady. Since I said I would agree to you, no matter what it is, I will not go back on my word.”

Lin Hegui had seen too many people encounter obstacles on the path of cultivating spiritual arts and climb Yaochi Mountain to seek shortcuts from her. Some directly asked her for secret manuals of spiritual arts. Some asked her for methods to strengthen the physique without long-term training. There were even daydreamers who directly asked her for pills of immortality.

She had originally thought Yan Yu would make a request similar to these, but instead, the other party suddenly pulled over Yin Beiqing, who stood at the side, and pointed at her.

“Could I ask you to save my friend?”

Save someone?

This was actually the best kind of request she could have guessed.

She looked over Yin Beiqing, whose expression was unfriendly, then crooked a finger at Yan Yu. “Come inside with me and speak alone.”

“Ah, all right.” Yan Yu knew this meant there was hope. She hurriedly washed the bloodstains from her hands, lifted her skirt, and followed Lin Hegui into the inner room.

“Sit.” Lin Hegui poured her a cup of tea. “I want to first ask you, young lady, what medicine did you use on my brother just now?”

She had studied pharmacology very deeply, yet she had never seen a medicine capable of bringing someone back from the dead like this.

Yan Yu took out the porcelain bottle that had contained the decoction from her robes. “This.”

“May I open it and smell it?”

“Please.”

Lin Hegui removed the sealing stopper, gently fanned the air with her palm, and smelled the scent.

“Amber… Guilin.” Although there were some other supporting medicinal herbs added inside, she would absolutely not mistake the smell of these two herbs.

Her expression turned serious as she confirmed with Yan Yu, “You made this yourself?”

Yan Yu nodded.

Lin Hegui hurriedly lifted the bottle and looked at the few drops of medicinal juice still remaining at the bottom through the light shining in.

Clear and transparent, without the slightest rotten stench.

“You really made this!” Her tone was close to excited. “There is actually someone who can combine Amber Grass and Guilin Grass so clearly. What method did you use?”

“I…” Yan Yu hesitated a little.

If she said it was with her own blood, would Lin Hegui believe her?

“Sorry. It was truly impolite of me to ask this question.” Lin Hegui quickly noticed her own loss of composure. “It is only that I have also researched this medicine for a long time, yet I have never made progress.”

To an alchemist, a prescription was as precious as life itself. Just imagine, who would be willing to casually tell another person a formula they had painstakingly tested through thousands of failures?

“You don’t have to say that.” Yan Yu waved her hand. “Actually, it isn’t that I’m unwilling to say it. I’m afraid you won’t believe me.”

“How could I not believe you?”

“Actually, it was my… blood.”

She said the last word very softly, but Lin Hegui still heard it.

“Blood?”

Her expression changed, as if she had suddenly remembered something important.

She stared at Yan Yu’s face and suddenly asked several strange questions. “Are both your parents Healing Masters? Do you have an older sister at home?”

Although Yan Yu found it strange, she still answered honestly, “Yes. How did you know?”

Her mother and father were both doctors, so they could also be counted as Healing Masters. She did indeed have an older sister.

“Did this elder sister have a rough romantic path?”

Being deceived into marriage by a scumbag man—of course it was rough.

“Yes.” She nodded again.

“Are there many women in your family, and are most of them accomplished?”

Her mother was a famous professor. Her sister had become an attending physician before forty. Her little niece was intelligent and had skipped grades to enter middle school at ten.

It seemed… that also matched?

“You could say that.”

“It’s you!” Lin Hegui’s tone was ten thousand times more excited than before. She reached out and gripped Yan Yu’s hand, her voice trembling. “Goddess, you are the goddess who descended from the heavens.”

Yan Yu was startled by her reaction.

“You’re too emotional. I’m not some goddess.” It was only because Yin Beiqing was not here that she dared say this.

“No, you are.” Lin Hegui was extremely certain.

Yan Yu had not expected that no one would believe her when she told the truth.

What did it mean to be unable to defend oneself even with a hundred mouths? This was it!

“All the things I asked you just now were things I saw in a prophetic dream,” Lin Hegui continued. “The dream said that before long, you would come to find me of your own accord. I actually waited until you came.”

“…”

“The goddess is proficient in Healing Arts. Her level is beyond everyone’s reach. If you are the goddess, then it is not strange that you could bring my brother back from death.” Lin Hegui immediately said, “You said you wanted to save your friend, but what difficult illness does she have that even you, as the goddess, cannot cure?”

Mainly, when she looked at Yin Beiqing, her soul power was abundant and her limbs were powerful. She did not look sick at all.

“Perhaps you know of dual-Beast-Soul Beast Arts Masters?” Yan Yu asked tentatively.

In the original book, Lin Hegui was Guo Lu’s tool-like mentor in the first half of the plot. She had a very important role, but not much description. Every time, she would show up to throw out some mental cultivation method or spiritual arts manual, then quickly vanish offline. Until Guo Lu finished studying and graduated from Yuling Academy, she never appeared again.

But Yan Yu remembered that in the initial description introducing Lin Hegui, it had mentioned that she occasionally had prophetic dreams unconsciously and showed great interest in the legend of the goddess.

It was probably because of this that just now, she had been too excited and mistaken Yan Yu.

However, what Yan Yu worried about was that if Lin Hegui understood so much about the goddess, then she had very likely also heard the prophecy about the dual-Beast-Soul calamity. Yan Yu was somewhat worried she would not be willing to save Yin Beiqing.

Lin Hegui’s hand stopped moving. “You have dual Beast Souls?”

As she spoke, she was about to go get a testing ball.

Yan Yu hurriedly said, “Not me. My friend.”

“She is?” Lin Hegui sat back down, but her expression looked much more complicated than before. “The sword she carries with her is the Demon-Slaying Blade, isn’t it?”

Yan Yu nodded. It was not strange that Lin Hegui knew about the Demon-Slaying Blade. Guo Lu’s swordsmanship had been personally taught by her.

“It’s not that I have any opinion about her identity as a dual-Beast-Soul Beast Arts Master.”

The calamity in the legend did indeed have the symbol of dual Beast Souls, but her prophetic dream had also shown that this calamity was an evil spirit.

Since Yin Beiqing could use the Demon-Slaying Blade, then she definitely was not the calamity in the prophecy.

“It is only that using the Demon-Slaying Blade will wear down a Beast Arts Master’s will, making the person continuously approach the edge of demonic corruption.” Unease appeared on Lin Hegui’s face. “Every previous master of the Demon-Slaying Blade died young for this reason.”

“Yes. That is why right now, I first want to resolve her urgent crisis. Otherwise, she may not even last until the Demon-Slaying Blade’s curse takes effect.” Yan Yu spoke very quickly. “Her two Beast Souls’ attributes counter each other, and both are extremely powerful Special-rank Beast Souls. Years of torment have already made her body unable to endure.”

“One of the Beast Souls is especially domineering. Every seven days when it sheds, it has already pushed her close to the edge of demonic corruption.” Yan Yu held Lin Hegui’s hand in return. “Teacher Lin, please, you must save her.”

A road had to be walked step by step. Right now, Yan Yu only wanted to solve Jiwu’s problem first.

“I haven’t finished speaking.” Lin Hegui patted the back of her hand to comfort her. “It is not that I intend to stand by and do nothing. First give me your hand.”

Yan Yu instinctively gave her hand over palm-up, thinking she was going to check her pulse.

Lin Hegui smiled and shook her head. She raised Yan Yu’s palm and pressed it against her own, gently closed her eyes, then transmitted her spiritual awareness through the skin into Yan Yu’s mind. Very soon, she personally sensed Yan Yu’s current physical condition.

It was indeed a rare Healing Master constitution, and the soul power inside her body was extremely powerful. It was only because it was hindered by her weak physique that this soul power could not exert its effect.

Lin Hegui had once been fortunate enough to see the original copy of the ancient prophecy book. One page recorded that when the goddess was first born, she would be ignorant of many things. Although she possessed powerful energy, she would suffer from being unable to use it. At that time, a guide would take the initiative to reach out and lead her into the gate of Healing Masters.

Now, this “guide” had finally waited for “her.”

“I will do everything in my power to save your friend, but what I want to do is not limited to that.” Lin Hegui steadied herself and looked into Yan Yu’s eyes. “I want to teach you everything I have learned in my life, until you grow into a goddess who can stand on her own.”

This sentence was very easy to understand, but Yan Yu still kept interpreting it from every angle many times, afraid she had misunderstood.

But the final result was only one.

Lin Hegui wanted to take her as a disciple.

Author’s Note:

There should still be people who remember that Lin is a teacher at Yuling Academy, right? Teacher Lin has been on paid leave for so long and finally has a student to teach. She herself says she is very happy. (doge)

P.S. In the academy arc, Sister Yin and Yan-mei will have more chances to be alone together. I’ll work hard to pull the romance line along, quq.