I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 56

“What are you looking at?”

Yan Yu’s attention was immediately pulled back. She worked hard to hide the panic in her heart. “Evil spirits. They seem to have already been dealt with.”

Unhurried footsteps gradually approached. An arm passed over her shoulder and braced itself against the window ledge.

Yin Beiqing looked down and discovered that it was indeed as Yan Yu had said. Only the burning corpses of evil spirits remained in the alley.

The stench climbed upward along with the smoke, making one feel unwell. She frowned and shut the window tightly. “What’s so interesting about that?”

“I was a little worried.” Yan Yu turned to leave, only to discover that because Yin Beiqing had been standing behind her to close the window, she was now locked between her and the wall.

“You…” She lightly pushed the person who only had an inner shirt left on. “Are you all right?”

“What?” Yin Beiqing asked with her eyes.

“The blue moon.”

“You’re afraid?”

Yan Yu shook her head and lowered it to hide the unnaturalness on her face.

Yin Beiqing always invaded other people’s intimate social distance without the slightest awareness, which made Yan Yu feel somewhat headache-inducing. Just like now, this position, as if she were being caged in, felt far too oppressive.

“You should bathe first. You must feel awful after fighting.” Yan Yu reminded Yin Beiqing. Then, while she loosened her hand to get her clothes, Yan Yu nimbly turned sideways and slipped out of her “control.”

Sitting by the table, Yan Yu first poured herself a cup of tea. After drinking it down, she reminded Yin Beiqing again, “Be careful not to touch the wound.”

Yin Beiqing tossed her clothes onto the clothes rack and stepped into the bathtub. Her calm voice came through the bath curtain. “No need to be so delicate.”

Fine. Yan Yu took a sip of tea. She had spoken too much.

Because she knew that every time Yin Beiqing finished fighting, she would take a very long bath, Yan Yu did not stay idle. She took out the herb jar from her bundle and removed the Amber Grass.

It was nighttime now, so there was no need to fear that its leaves would curl up. Yan Yu used tweezers to place them one by one into warm water to soak. After they turned transparent, she gently took them out and placed them on oilproof paper.

By the time she had processed about half a bottle’s worth, there was finally movement behind her.

“Done.” The person covered in water vapor sat down across from her without restraint. Her belt was not even properly tied, merely hanging casually on both sides.

Yan Yu did not raise her head, focusing on those beautiful amber leaves. “Expose your back. Let me see how the wound is.”

Yin Beiqing did not answer. She only spread both hands open toward her. “Look yourself.”

“…”

Yan Yu closed her eyes, put down the tweezers in her hand, and stood with a face full of restraint. “Then don’t move.”

A certain person lifted her lips without much sincerity. “Then be gentler.”

Calm down!

Yan Yu took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to grab Yin Beiqing’s ear and properly lecture her. Then she untied her collar. After sliding the clothes down, she moved behind her, her gaze patrolling over her back.

The wounds varied in severity. Because of their owner’s perfunctory handling, there were even broken crow feathers still lodged halfway in the flesh, not yet removed.

“Sit straight.” Yan Yu pressed one hand against the back of her neck and picked up the tweezers beside her. “Tell me if it hurts. I’ll try to be gentle.”

“I already said I’m not that delicate.”

Even though Yin Beiqing repeatedly emphasized this point, Yan Yu still paid close attention to her strength. After gripping the base of the feather with the tweezers, she pulled it out quickly to shorten the torment of pain.

After dealing with all the remaining crow feathers, she began pressing out the clotted blood from the wounds by hand.

Once the black clotted blood blocking the wounds was squeezed out, she cleaned the surrounding areas. Only then did she pick up the soaked amber leaves and apply them one by one.

Amber leaves had very strong adsorption ability. Not only could they absorb miasma, they had the same effect on poison gas and curse-type spiritual arts. The “dirty things” absorbed out would be locked inside the sealed layer of the leaves. As long as they were not deliberately destroyed by someone, they could remain sealed and preserved for up to ten thousand years.

She counted silently and waited for a while. Only after all the leaves turned from transparent to black did she remove them.

After repeating this step three more times, the wound could be considered more or less treated.

Yan Yu pressed those wounds again. Seeing that the blood flowing out had returned to a bright red color, she finally felt at ease. Lastly, she applied wound medicine to Yin Beiqing and bandaged her properly. Only then was the injury handled.

“All right. Go back to your room and rest.”

After saying this, Yan Yu did not bother with what Yin Beiqing did next. She focused on picking up the removed crow feathers to study them.

Bit by bit, she scraped out the black liquid inside the feather shafts, placed it separately into a transparent glass bottle, then carefully stored it away.

“Is that thing more important than me?” Yin Beiqing propped her face with one hand.

“Mm?” Yan Yu turned and discovered that she had not left. “I’m just curious about the principle behind this spiritual art.”

She was greatly interested in pills and medicine, so she wanted to try and see whether it was possible to create an antidote formula based solely on Yang Pei’s crow feathers.

“Right, this wound will heal more slowly. When you go back tonight, don’t sleep lying on your back. Sleep on your side or stomach.”

“I’m not going back tonight.”

“Right, tonight… What did you say?”

By the time Yan Yu raised her eyes again, Yin Beiqing had already lazily walked to her bed and lain down. Receiving her puzzled gaze, she returned it confidently. “I’m injured. I can’t walk.”

Who was the one who just said she was not “delicate” at all?!

At that moment, the inn staff happened to knock on the door to deliver food. Perhaps because Yin Beiqing had paid quite a lot for the room, the dishes brought up filled an entire table, the kind that three or four people together might not even finish.

This inn’s specialty was that they had a chef from Tianlai Kingdom. Tianlai was not like the Jin Kingdom. The people there lived at a slow pace and were especially willing to enjoy life, so in every aspect of clothing, food, housing, and travel, they pursued refinement and perfection. The nobles of the Jin Kingdom all took pride in being able to wear the latest styles from Tianlai.

“Panpan, Lujia.”

“Here!”

The two little gluttons, who had long been restless after smelling the food, immediately appeared. Very consciously, they washed their paws and obediently sat down at the table.

“So much meat.” The little fatty’s eyes shone, but the first thing it grabbed was a sesame ball.

That sesame ball was as large as a fist. The outer skin was crispy, while the filling was soft, glutinous, and bouncy. The innermost layer of red bean paste was smooth and not cloyingly sweet. Every bite could pull out long strings. The little fatty ate with great delight.

Lujia, on the other hand, was especially fond of the unfamiliar fruit corn beside it. After munching through half a cob, it quietly gave its evaluation. “The food here is better than…”

Perhaps because Yan Yu had been influenced by Chinese cuisine since childhood, she was already used to these things. At most, she only felt they were not unpleasant to eat, without much surprise.

She could only sigh over the Tianlai chef’s plating aesthetics. Something worth a hundred yuan had been arranged by her into the feeling of several thousand.

“Do you want to eat some?” Yan Yu turned and asked Yin Beiqing.

“Not eating. What’s good about Tianlai people’s food?”

“Mm, all right.” Yan Yu nodded and did not keep asking.

Thinking about it, that made sense. Langdie Valley’s food had such strong flavors. After getting used to that, naturally, one would look down on normal-tasting food like this.

Moreover, Yin Beiqing seemed to have rather strong opinions about Tianlai people, feeling that they were all a group of hypocrites who thought too highly of themselves and disliking contact with them.

However, Yan Yu still called over the inn staff and asked her to choose a larger plate of crisp dates, then had it delivered to the person by the bed.

Last time on the way to Yaochi, she had seen Yin Beiqing casually take out dates to eat. She should like them.

“Honored guest, your dates.”

Yin Beiqing glanced sideways at the plate of dates. She had originally wanted to dismiss the person, but she changed her mind after seeing the little cloth bag placed beside it.

“Put them down.”

“Yes.”

Only after the person left did Yin Beiqing reach out to take the cloth bag and open its mouth. Inside was a full bag of red Lotus Bead Fruit candy.

“All for me?” she asked with a smile.

“Cough.” Yan Yu gave her a look. “If you’re going to eat them, eat quickly.”

If the two beside them found out, they would definitely fight to have some too.

“All right.” This time, a certain person did not trip her up. She quietly stuffed one into her mouth and hid the bag under the pillow like treasure.

Yan Yu stopped using her chopsticks once she was about eighty percent full. She sat and waited as the two little ones vigorously finished off the rest. Only then did she simply tidy up and call someone to take away the plates.

After everything was handled, she clapped her hands and stood beside the bed. “Go back. I’m going to sleep.”

“I said I’m staying tonight.”

“This is a single bed. You’re injured, and it’ll be uncomfortable to squeeze together.” Yan Yu tugged at her arm and softened her tone. “Be good.”

A certain person still did not move. Instead, she suddenly revealed a somewhat dejected expression. “The goddess said she wanted to be on good terms with me, but she isn’t even willing to share a pillow with me.”

“…” Here she goes again, right?

“My back hurts so much. What if I accidentally turn over in the night and press on the wound?” Another weight was placed on the scale. “Tonight is also the blue moon.”

Yan Yu could not stand her pitiful appearance. Even knowing it was deliberate, she still could not help softening.

“Move in a little.”

After understanding the meaning of this sentence, the corners of Yin Beiqing’s mouth rose uncontrollably. This time, she moved very quickly and made space, leaving half the bed empty.

Yan Yu took out the physical arts book Lin Baizhu had marked and got into bed. She leaned the pillow behind her waist and reread every key move.

When she read, she did not only use her eyes. She also simulated the movements in her mind. Occasionally, her hands would follow and swing a few times, looking as though she attached great importance to the entrance exam the next day.

Yin Beiqing did not make noise and disturb her. She quietly lay on her side, staying in the same posture without moving for an hour.

When Yan Yu prepared to close the book, lie down, and sleep, Yin Beiqing was still awake, so she asked, “Turn off the light?”

“Turn it off.” As she spoke, Yin Beiqing raised her own hand and sent out an ice needle to extinguish the lamp.

Light fled the room. Yan Yu, however, completely failed to notice that Yin Beiqing had quietly moved half a body closer to her again, almost pressed against her. If she moved her arm, she could touch the other person.

“My reward. You still haven’t given it to me.” In the darkness, Yin Beiqing’s eyes could still find Yan Yu’s face with perfect accuracy. “When are you giving it?”

“What do you want?” Without realizing it, Yan Yu had somehow also accepted this “reward mode.”

A hug, a kiss—perhaps to Yin Beiqing, these were only the emotional pieces she had lacked during childhood.

She did not know how to build relationships with people. She only simply believed that after doing these intimate things, the two of them belonged to each other.

This desire of hers to possess someone was not much different from possessiveness toward an object.

Yan Yu had never exposed this point about her. She always cooperated, and constantly reminded herself not to think too much.

“Something better than before,” Yin Beiqing said. “Yang Pei was much harder to deal with than that evil spirit last time.”

It had looked like she fought Yang Pei rather easily, but that was because Lin Hegui had helped her merge the two Beast Souls, allowing her to use spiritual arts without obstruction.

Judging purely by difficulty, Yang Pei’s combat strength was greater than that of a Special-rank evil spirit. This was an undeniable fact.

“Where’s your hand?”

“Here.” Yin Beiqing brought her hand in front of Yan Yu’s eyes and waved it. “Your night vision is no good. You’ll suffer in fights in the future.”

“If we’re talking about fighting, my night vision is hardly the only thing that’s no good.”

However, at such close distance, she could still more or less catch a shadow.

Yan Yu reached out and grabbed the restless hand, then silently stuffed something into her palm.

Yin Beiqing tightened her fingers, feeling the object’s texture.

Slightly cool, smooth surface, about one finger long. But from that alone, she still could not tell what it was.

She snapped her fingers, and a pale blue flame lit on them. It was neither too big nor too small, just enough to illuminate that small area.

The object was completely transparent. Its material was somewhat like glass, but when tapped, it did not make that clear, crisp sound. Sealed in the middle of the cylindrical body was a Golden Vine Flower in full bloom. The angle at which each petal blossomed seemed to have been fixed by human hands, all at just the right degree.

“After Amber Grass juice is filtered and mixed with water at a certain ratio, it solidifies like this after sitting for a while,” Yan Yu explained aloud. “I thought it looked quite pretty, so I casually made one while you were bathing earlier.”

She said it very casually, but there was only one person around her who liked Golden Vine Flowers.

“Casually?”

“You don’t like it? Then give it back to me.”

“Why?” Yin Beiqing swiftly closed her palm and pulled it back. “It’s already mine now.”

“Since you accept it, then consider it as the reward being offset.” Yan Yu said softly, “I know you’re unhappy that I didn’t let you kill Yang Pei today.”

Yin Beiqing lowered her eyes and hid the complicated look in them. But in the next second, slightly cool fingers rested on her chin and gently lifted it.

A soft kiss landed between her brows. The person embraced her and said in a quiet voice, “But you did very well today. I should praise you.”

Yin Beiqing suddenly had the illusion that time itself had slowed. Yan Yu’s voice replayed in her mind again and again.

To be honest, ever since returning from the palace, she had indeed been holding in a breath of frustration. Every moment, she had been thinking about that final blow she had not delivered, her hands itching unbearably. But…

Now she suddenly felt that whether Yang Pei died or not did not seem quite so important to her anymore.

Author’s Note:

It was precisely because of this Amber Grass idea that I suddenly became interested in resin. It’s just that other people use it to seal pretty things, while I use it… quq.