I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 38

The bed here was very hard, with only a thin layer of cotton padding. When someone sat on it, it would make a creaking sound. Yan Yu bent down to take off her shoes and set them neatly aside. Just as she was about to lie down, a pair of warm palms suddenly supported her back from behind.

Fingertips touched her spine and climbed upward joint by joint. The pressure was neither light nor heavy, yet it carried a numbing current that rushed straight to her brain. The muscles of her back uncontrollably tightened, accompanied by a tremor so faint it was almost impossible to notice.

Before this, Yan Yu had not known that this body was so sensitive to touch.

As though finding her reaction amusing, a soft laugh with a breathy edge sounded behind her. “Afraid?”

“No.” Yan Yu turned sideways, frowning as she removed her hand. “It’s a little ticklish.”

But Yin Beiqing quickly avoided her in return, placing her palm back on her again. The large area of contact allowed her to feel the temperature of every patch of skin beneath her hand, as well as… the slightly bony feeling.

“This body of yours doesn’t like growing flesh.” She gave a dissatisfied evaluation. “It’s bony to hold.”

It was not as if she wanted to be this thin.

After coming here, in order to keep up with nutrition, Yan Yu had stuffed no small amount of meat into her stomach. But the things she ate seemed to vanish into thin air, not growing onto her body at all. Sometimes, if she ate too much, she would even throw it back up. The loss outweighed the gain. After stumbling a few times, she could only learn to slow down and nourish herself bit by bit.

“From the way you say it, are you disdaining me?” Yan Yu was much bolder now than before, and could occasionally make a few sarcastic remarks.

She bent down to hook her shoes back, intending to put them on again.

“I like it.” Yin Beiqing suddenly hugged her entire body from behind, carrying a strange sense of dependence. “Don’t leave.”

“Are you acting in a tragic love drama?” Yan Yu had not actually intended to leave. She shook her head and put her shoes back.

“Acting? Are you saying I’m pretending?” Yin Beiqing’s voice pressed close to her ear. “But I never pretend, especially not with you.”

Yan Yu turned around, pulled Yin Beiqing’s arms off herself, then pressed her down to lie down. “Yes, you’ve always been quite willful with me.”

It was originally only a half-joking reply, but unexpectedly, it drew a very displeased look from the other party. “I don’t like you speaking to me in that tone.”

“What tone?”

Yin Beiqing raised her hand. Her pale fingertips traced from Yan Yu’s brow bone to her lips, then pressed down heavily, grinding and tormenting them. Compared with the atmosphere just now, the air seemed somewhat frozen. Only when those pale lips gradually took on an艳 red color did she lower her voice and speak in a dangerous tone. “As if I am someone you can treat however you please.”

Yan Yu’s lips moved, but she did not know what to say.

“Why can’t you remember how good I am to you?” Her finger forced open Yan Yu’s teeth and slipped inside, messing around with malicious movements. “Lady Goddess.”

The moment she slowly pronounced those four words, Yan Yu’s scalp immediately went numb.

Every time Yin Beiqing spoke in this tone, nothing good happened.

Perhaps the atmosphere between them over the past few days had been too good, making Yan Yu almost forget that this was a highly dangerous terrorist.

“Mm.” Afraid of hurting her, she did not dare use any force with her teeth, and could only answer unclearly to show that she understood.

Yin Beiqing seemed a little more satisfied. She withdrew her finger, and the two lay down together on the pillow.

“Hug me.” She stared at Yan Yu, who did not dare breathe loudly. “I like it when you hug me.”

Yan Yu blinked and stretched out her somewhat stiff arms toward her.

Yin Beiqing leaned into them, buried her face in Yan Yu’s neck, and lightly sniffed. “The scent of Golden Vine Flowers.”

“It might have been left from grinding Golden Vine Flowers just now,” Yan Yu explained.

“I like it very much.” A smile appeared on Yin Beiqing’s face.

Then Yan Yu felt another soft, damp sensation slide over the side of her neck. Very soon, she heard the person in her arms say hoarsely, “And your scent.”

Now, she felt that her own throat might also be a little dry.

Silently lifting her head to put some distance between them, she softened her voice and asked, “You still can’t sleep?”

“If you sing me another lullaby, maybe I can.” There was more than a little recklessness in someone’s smiling eyes.

She knew Yan Yu would certainly fulfill her requests. It was precisely because she realized this that her behavior became so unscrupulous and rampant.

“You have to promise me first that you’ll definitely sleep after I sing.”

“Then you might have to hold me tighter.” She curved her lips and made an even more excessive request. “It’s so hot. Only your body is cool.”

Yan Yu felt as if one head had become three. Before, she had always thought taking care of children was troublesome, but now she would rather take care of ten little nieces at once than be alone with this ancestor again.

Taking care of a child once aged her three years. Taking care of Yin Beiqing once shortened her lifespan.

Fortunately, after Yan Yu satisfied each condition one by one, Yin Beiqing really did obediently fall asleep.

Her regular breathing brushed against the side of Yan Yu’s neck again and again. Her quiet sleeping face showed an unprecedented lack of defense.

Yan Yu’s gaze followed Yin Beiqing’s lowered brows to her long, drooping lashes, and below that was the area hidden by the mask. But even so, she somehow felt that the sleeping Yin Beiqing looked somewhat gentle.

“Are you asleep?”

No sound rang out in the room again. There was only the scent of Golden Vine Flowers drifting upward with the white smoke of the incense, continuously spreading around them.

Yan Yu was almost soothed to sleep by the scent too. Fortunately, she did not forget the proper matter. After confirming that Yin Beiqing had fallen asleep, she carefully loosened her arm, got up, and opened the door.

The scene after opening the door was truly something else. As soon as she lowered her head, she saw Lin Hegui and two other creatures squatting side by side on the ground, gnawing apples.

The senior she had originally thought calm and steady was now squatting with her legs spread, completely unconcerned with her image. More importantly, she herself seemed quite happy, constantly reaching out to tease them, pinching the big fatty’s face and patting the little pangolin’s back.

Meanwhile, her own Beast Soul was perched on a tree nearby with a disgusted face, refusing to come down no matter how she called.

A black line nearly appeared above Yan Yu’s head. She called out to her, “Teacher Lin, please come in.”

Lin Hegui turned around and seemed a little surprised. “That fast? I thought it would take a long time.”

“She’s already asleep.” Yan Yu stepped aside. “Please come in quickly and examine her.”

“All right.” Lin Hegui casually handed the apple to Panpan, patted her hands, and stood. “It’s good that she’s asleep.”

She took her tools and walked inside again. Probably afraid that Yin Beiqing would wake halfway through, her movements were very quick. In only a few minutes, she had finished and put everything away.

“It’s all right. The situation is better than I imagined.” Lin Hegui rubbed her slightly aching brow.

Although Yin Beiqing was asleep, her spiritual awareness had not completely shut down. Probing through her like this had still taken quite a bit of mental effort.

“Beast Arts Masters with dual Beast Souls are extremely rare, but not unheard of.”

Aside from the Jin Kingdom, where the situation was a bit better because of the high demands placed on male chastity, many families in other countries, in order to create Beast Arts Masters with multiple Beast Souls, would deliberately inject several different strands of soul power into the Beast Soul Pearl during the incubation period to fuse them together.

However, the success rate of doing this was extremely low. Ninety percent of Beast Soul Pearls would explode together with the carrier during the gestation stage. Of the remainder, eight or nine out of ten would not live past eighteen.

“I have also treated a few cases over the years, so I have some experience. I developed a set of methods of my own.” Lin Hegui put on her glasses and took out a small notebook to read to Yan Yu.

“First, Beast Arts Masters with dual Beast Souls must pay attention to their breathing and regulation method. It cannot simply be a basic in-and-out cycle. They must take into account both Beast Souls in the body with a figure-eight breathing method.”

As she spoke, she took out a diagram she had drawn herself and showed it to Yan Yu. “Like this. Inhale through the left leg, turn at the abdomen, and reach the right side of the brain. Then pass through the left side of the brain and exhale from the right leg. Do not do it the usual way, where all the spiritual energy is inhaled and piled up at the heart without concern. If that happens, the two Beast Souls naturally fight over it inside the body, making collisions easy.”

In other words, it had to be distributed equally.

“Mm, I’ve written it down.” Yan Yu seriously took notes.

“One more thing is that this friend of yours may…” Lin Hegui worked hard to find a gentler way to put it. “She usually uses spiritual arts rather wildly, so the pressure her body endures is also quite great. Cracks have appeared in multiple meridians, and the leakage of soul power is rather serious.”

“Moreover, she seems to have recently released a spiritual art that consumed a great deal of power. Her meridians and Beast Soul Pearls have both suffered very severe damage. Logically speaking, with injuries to this extent, she should at least fall into a coma for one or two months before recovering. There is even a very high possibility she would vomit blood and die on the spot. I estimate it is only because her physique is extremely strong that she has endured until now.”

Once Lin Hegui said this, Yan Yu immediately thought of Yin Beiqing’s abnormal state back at the You tribe settlement. At that time, she had sensed that Yin Beiqing’s body temperature was abnormal, but Yin Beiqing had casually muddled through it. Thinking about it now, under circumstances where her soul power had already been out of control, how could forcing herself to combine beast form with Jiwu and fight possibly have no consequences?

She felt lingering fear, and even more self-blame.

“Then is it still easy to treat?”

“It can be treated. It will just take some effort.” Lin Hegui took out another blank piece of paper and wrote several medicinal ingredients on it. “Two of these herbs are comparatively difficult to find, but medicinal herbs grow abundantly on Yaochi Mountain. Supplying her for two courses of treatment should not be difficult.”

“And also…”

“What else?”

“Learning the breathing regulation method and taking medicine internally is not enough. It still needs to be combined with acupuncture.” Lin Hegui’s expression turned difficult. “But judging by your friend’s personality, she probably won’t be very cooperative.”

“She’ll cooperate.” Yan Yu thought, even if Yin Beiqing did not cooperate, they would tie her up and press her down.

“You treat this friend of yours… quite specially.” Lin Hegui suddenly looked at her and said.

“What is special?”

“Especially indulgent.” Lin Hegui smiled and narrowed her eyes. “That little fellow Panpan gets lectured by you several times just for greedily eating some snacks. But I feel that even if the one lying on the bed asked you to pluck a star from the sky, you would coax her nicely.”

Yan Yu instinctively resisted her statement. “No, the two of them are different…”

But how were they different?

Probably because while reading the original book, she had come into contact with too many dark sides of Yin Beiqing and could not help developing empathy for her.

Even if Yin Beiqing in this life had not yet experienced that much tragedy, as someone who knew the truth, Yan Yu still could not help making compensatory gestures.

“All right.” Lin Hegui did not debate with her. “When your friend wakes, call me. If she cooperates, we can do an acupuncture session tonight.”

“Mm. Thank you, Teacher Lin.”

“You’re still using a respectful title?”

“Thank you, Master.”

“Hahaha, that’s more like it.”

…

Two hours later, Yin Beiqing slowly woke. She instinctively raised her hand and reached to the side. When she touched the empty bed, her expression immediately worsened.

“Yan Yu.”

“Mm?” The person sitting on the chair with her back to her, reading the pharmacopoeia, answered. “You’re awake?”

Yin Beiqing sat up, her face full of wake-up temper. “She examined me?”

“She did. It can be treated.” Yan Yu put down the book and came over, using the back of her hand to measure the temperature of Yin Beiqing’s forehead. The temperature was not high, but she still asked, “Why did you hide it from me back at the You tribe settlement? Your condition was clearly very bad, wasn’t it?”

“Was it?” Perhaps because she was being cared about, some of the irritation on Yin Beiqing’s face faded. Even her tone of reply became much better. “I felt there wasn’t much problem. It wasn’t as if I was going to die.”

Yan Yu did not hurry to refute her. She only watched her with a calm gaze. “In the future, if you feel unwell, you have to tell me immediately. You cannot endure it alone.”

“Why? Do you care a lot?” Yin Beiqing’s gaze carried a strange provocation.

Because before she had even asked the question, she already had the answer she wanted to hear in her heart. She wanted it. She wanted very much to personally hear those few words from Yan Yu’s mouth.

“Mm. I care a lot.”

A smile bloomed little by little on Yin Beiqing’s face. Even her reply was filled with the pleasure of having gotten what she wanted. “Since you’ve said that, I’ll reluctantly agree to you.”