I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 49

“Am I not very likable?” Yin Beiqing said after occupying Ruan Yuemin’s seat yet again.

It sounded like a question, but in truth, she already had the answer in her heart.

Ruan Yuemin, who was sharpening a blade, turned her head and looked her up and down. “Since when did you have something like self-awareness?”

Yin Beiqing frowned, and the fan in her hand was about to fly out, but Ruan Yuemin’s next words stopped it.

“I’d guess what the little goddess hates most is people like you, who start using your hands and feet at the slightest disagreement.” She lifted the blade and pointed it in Yin Beiqing’s direction. “Too violent.”

What was rare was that after hearing this, Yin Beiqing actually stopped and withdrew the bone fan.

That made Ruan Yuemin even more certain of her guess.

Sure enough, every time this person acted up, eight or nine times out of ten, it had something to do with the little goddess.

“If you keep coming here to bother me because the little goddess is ignoring you, then you’ve found the wrong person.” She was not the type who was good at comforting others.

“Then what? Should I go fight Teng Jingjie for a few rounds?”

Hearing this, Ruan Yuemin shut her mouth and looked at her from the corner of her eye. “Can you stop making trouble for me? Do you know how long I have to stitch her up every time you cut her?”

Yin Beiqing turned her head and fixed her gaze on her. “You were the one who suggested it.”

“…” Completely speechless, Ruan Yuemin turned her head and shouted, “Zhongpu.”

The large figure crouching in the corner growing grass was called by name and slowly straightened. “What is it?”

“Go fight your boss for a few rounds. Help burn off that vigorous energy of hers that has nowhere to go.”

“Why does Little Pu have to go?” Xueji, who was sitting on Zhongpu’s shoulder, spoke up in dissatisfaction. “You’re always bullying her. She’s clearly someone only I can bully!”

Their voices mixed together in a noisy chatter, making Yin Beiqing’s head hurt. With a cold face, she stood, smoothed her sleeves, and strode outside.

After taking two steps, she discovered that Zhongpu was actually following closely behind her. She raised her eyes and asked, “Something wrong?”

Zhongpu looked honest as she pointed at herself. “Wasn’t that asking me to come out and fight?”

One major feature of Langdie Valley was that valley members often sparred with one another for practice. Aside from not harming each other’s lives, both sides struck as ruthlessly as they could.

Because of this, many people also called Langdie Valley a devil training camp. More than ninety percent of the people who entered would improve rapidly in a short period of time. The speed and efficiency were so high that even the two golden academies that had nurtured countless high-ranking Beast Arts Masters could not compare.

Yin Beiqing withdrew her gaze. “I’m not in the mood today.”

“I think you probably won’t be in that mood for a while.” Zhongpu was still the type to say whatever she thought without reading the atmosphere. “You haven’t been smiling much lately.”

Yin Beiqing looked at her expressionlessly for a few moments. “I was never someone who liked smiling in the first place.”

“Is that so?” Zhongpu murmured softly. “But ever since the goddess came, you seemed to smile a lot more.”

…

Soon, it was the beginning of the month. Lin Hegui specially sent a message reminding Yan Yu not to forget to prepare the enrollment procedures.

Yan Yu was not very worried about the procedures. Lin Baizhu had always been reliable when handling matters. What she was more worried about was the entrance exam.

But since she was about to go into battle, being nervous was useless.

Because they were traveling as a group, the maidservants in the valley became busy, helping this person prepare and that person pack. Yan Yu’s side, on the other hand, was quiet.

The journey to the capital city took less than two days in total. Yan Yu took the initiative to propose sharing a carriage with Lin Baizhu, Zhongpu, and the others. Before anyone could say anything in opposition, she swiftly slipped inside, cutting off any possibility of being refused.

“Who’s in the same carriage as Boss?” Ying Fan lifted her luggage and looked left and right. “Damn, how did all of you secretly find positions without me?”

Ruan Yuemin poked her head out from behind the carriage curtain. “First come, first served. Our valley has never had that friendly atmosphere of mutually yielding to each other. Is this your first day knowing that?”

“…Speechless.” Ying Fan looked bitterly at the carriage in front that was practically emitting black death aura. Just looking from outside, she could already imagine how ugly the face of the person sitting inside must be. So she gritted her teeth. “Forget it. Actually, I think lying on the carriage roof is pretty comfortable too.”

There was some distance between Langdie Valley and the Jin Kingdom’s capital city, but this time, the towns they passed through along the way were all relatively economically developed. The lodging and food were worlds apart from their last trip to Yaochi.

But Yan Yu’s mood was far more tense than last time.

After transmigrating here, she had spent most of her time in Langdie Valley. Her contact with information from the outside world had been limited. It was difficult for her to imagine what the world outside Langdie Valley actually looked like.

The carriage passed over a gravel-paved path and slowly entered the city gates. Through the curtain lifted by the wind, she saw a group of people in crisp uniforms brush past them.

The curtain soon fell, and she did not manage to see their faces clearly. She only had time to catch the red hair tips of the leader fluttering up, and the golden ear cuff on her earlobe.

That ear cuff was wider than ordinary styles, roughly the width of a thumb. A phoenix emblem with intricate lines was carved on it, and at the phoenix eye was a red gemstone.

The phoenix was the Beast Soul of the first empress, a creature where strength and beauty coexisted. It was the faith buried deepest in the hearts of every person of the Jin Kingdom.

It was also to commemorate her that the first spirit-hunting team established by the Jin Kingdom borrowed the image of her Beast Soul as their token. The token evolved from a belt at first, to a bracelet, and then to today’s lightweight ear cuff. Its form had always changed, but the emblem had been used to this day.

The red Eye Stone embedded in the phoenix eye was indestructible, a very expensive and rare type of gemstone.

The color of the Eye Stone also symbolized the status of an exorcist.

For example, the red Eye Stone Yan Yu had just seen was the token only equipped by the highest-level leader exorcists.

She lowered her eyes, hiding her doubts.

For ordinary patrols in the capital city, was there a need to dispatch an exorcist of this level?

“Want to eat, little goddess?” Ying Fan had somehow poked her head down from the carriage roof, stretching a hand through the window to stuff something to Yan Yu.

Yan Yu happened to be a little hungry, so she reached out and accepted the little meat pie from her hand. “Thank you.”

This meat pie was the same as the one Zhongpu had brought her last time. The difference was that Yan Yu could now use spiritual arts herself to control and heat it.

After eating half the pie, she felt she was more or less full and put the rest away. Coincidentally, their destination had also arrived. Zhongpu, who sat in the driver’s seat, lifted the curtain. “We’re here. Get down.”

Yan Yu was the first to squeeze out of the carriage that had become overly crowded from too many people. The instant her nose touched fresh air, she immediately felt her entire person healed.

“Wow… this lodging is pretty luxurious, huh.” Ying Fan jumped down from the carriage roof and exclaimed loudly. “If I could get this standard when I go out on missions, I’d be willing to ‘die’ outside every day.”

Ruan Yuemin, who got out later, slapped her on the shoulder. “Stop raising your own price.”

Ying Fan wrinkled her nose, but admitted defeat very quickly. “Half as good as this would be fine too.”

At this moment, a sudden commotion came from the street behind them. The sound of horse hooves and shouts rang out together, along with a kind of… fluctuation that Yan Yu felt was very familiar.

“Move aside, move aside! Everyone hurry and move aside!” Along with the mounted team leader’s loud shout, the pedestrians who had originally been strolling leisurely along the street pushed toward both sides one after another.

Yan Yu stood on the steps, just high enough to look over the layers of people and see the “thing” being escorted behind the mounted team.

—An A-rank evil spirit.

From its appearance, it looked like a leopard, except its body was much larger. Its whole body was covered in fur so black it reflected light. Two pairs of sharp fangs curved toward the sky, and its red eyes symbolized that it was currently still in a rampaging state.

There was no miasma surrounding it, which was all thanks to the collar around its neck. But also because it was forcibly suppressed, its emotions were extremely out of control. It bared its teeth and claws inside the cage, crashing and struggling, occasionally letting out a few deafening roars.

As expected of capital city residents who had seen the world, perhaps. Seeing a live A-rank evil spirit at such close range, every one of them still looked calm, as though this was already a very common occurrence.

Yan Yu paid a little attention. The Eye Stone on the leader’s ear cuff was purple, only one level below a red Eye Stone.

In other words, something more terrifying than an A-rank evil spirit invasion was about to happen, or was already happening, in this city. That was why the person from earlier had to be dispatched.

While she was lowering her head and thinking, someone suddenly tugged her arm from behind.

Yan Yu did not think too much and followed that force back two steps. Raising her head, she saw the prison carriage pass right in front of her. That A-rank evil spirit seemed to have suddenly taken a stimulant. It continuously roared at her, the sound forced out fiercely from its abdomen, even causing the ground to tremble in waves.

Yin Beiqing’s face darkened unhappily, and she glared at the evil spirit with an icy gaze.

Although she had not fallen into demonic corruption, she was even more dangerous than those who had. Out of animal instinct, the leopard gave a low whimper and lowered its head, as if showing weakness.

Seeing the evil spirit’s strange reaction, Yan Yu then remembered to turn and look at the person who had pulled her arm. Meeting Yin Beiqing’s face, she pressed her lips together and still said softly, “Thank you.”

“Stop looking. What’s so interesting about evil spirits?” Ying Fan pulled Yan Yu’s arm. “Little goddess, hurry, hurry, hurry. Let’s go find something good to eat.”

Yan Yu nodded, ignoring Yin Beiqing’s extremely noticeable gaze on the top of her head, and walked inside side by side with Ying Fan.

The footsteps behind them soon followed as well. But the calm street was replaced by waves of terrified shouts.

“Ah! Fire! Fire!”

“Everyone stay calm! Put out the fire first!”

Hearing this movement, Yan Yu stopped again and looked back. Only then did she discover that the prison carriage had somehow caught fire. The flames shot up at least three or four meters high. Even from this distance, her skin seemed to be able to feel the heat burning.

The prison carriage itself was made of fireproof material and was not greatly affected, but the evil spirit trapped inside did not have such an easy time. Its fur was burned black, and it was rolling into a ball in pain. Its earlier fierce and majestic appearance had vanished completely.

However… the soul power fluctuation that caused this fire seemed familiar to Yan Yu. Following the answer, she raised her head and glanced at the expressionless Yin Beiqing. Although she could only see her cold, hard side profile, the tightened line of her jaw made it clear that she was in a poor mood right now.

Yan Yu sighed inwardly, suddenly a little worried. With Yin Beiqing’s lawless way of doing things, could they still properly keep a low profile and study peacefully at the academy?

Sigh. Forget it.

It seemed the probability of the words “low profile” and “peaceful” appearing on this person was almost zero.