Accidentally Marking The Vicious Female Lead After Transmigrating Into A Period Novel - Chapter 18

In the end, Li Yan didn’t get to pinch her.

Li Can squeezed in between them, plunking down with a package of pastries wrapped in oil paper. “Sister, Sister Yishu, look! I managed to snag the very last bag of jujube paste cakes!”

Looking at the girl’s “please praise me” expression, Lin Yishu suppressed her internal unease. When she turned around, she seemed like a completely different person, smiling as she rubbed Li Can’s head. “Xiao Can is so impressive, getting the very last bag.”

Li Yan closed her eyes at her tactless younger sister, turning her head away in a “what the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over” fashion.

Having finished their shopping, the three prepared to head back.

As they were leaving Dongli Village and passing by the local youth settlement, someone suddenly called out to them.

It was a girl with delicate features, judging by her clothes, she was likely an educated youth (Zhiqing) stationed there.

The girl looked hesitant as she approached. “Are you going back to Xili Village? Could you do me a favor?”

Before the three could even come to a halt, she had already jogged over and placed something, after a moment’s hesitation, she chose the tall, gentle looking Li Yan into her hands.

“Please help me hand this book to Yang Xueying, the Yang Zhiqing at your village’s settlement. Sorry to trouble you, thank you!” Having said her piece, she immediately ran off.

Li Yan and the others didn’t even have time to get a word in.

“Sister, do you know her?” After a long silence, Li Can was the first to speak.

Li Yan looked down at the book shoved into her hand and replied, “Of course not. Your sister can’t even recognize all the Zhiqing in our own village.”

Standing beside her, Lin Yishu glanced at her and interjected timely, “You might not know her, but maybe she knows you.”

Li Yan felt there was a subtext to those words, but by the time she looked over, the other woman had already turned her head away.

“But she….”

If her nose wasn’t mistaken, Li Yan had smelled it again: the scent of an Omega’s pheromones.

She hadn’t realized there were so many “hidden dragons and crouching tigers” around her; she simply hadn’t been able to smell them before.

Lin Yishu had smelled it too.

The moment that fragrance drifted over with the wind, Lin Yishu’s nose had wrinkled slightly. The scent of this Omega’s pheromones clashed violently with her own.

[Lulu! I finally see Lulu again!] In her mind, the System suddenly “corpsified” back to life.

Lin Yishu arched an eyebrow. “She’s a key character too?”

The System nodded happily: [Strictly speaking, Lulu is the Second Female Lead. She has a great relationship with XueXue!]

“Second Female Lead” another new term.

However, based on the concepts of “Male Lead” and “Female Lead,” she could infer that the Second Female Lead was likely the most important female character after the protagonist.

Lin Yishu caught a flaw in its logic and countered: “If she’s the Second Female Lead, shouldn’t she have a good relationship with me? Why is it with this ‘XueXue’ you keep mentioning?”

The System hadn’t expected such a sharp question and froze for a moment.

After a lot of huffing and puffing, it managed to squeeze out: [They are both Zhiqing, so they get along. You and them… are different.]

Lin Yishu seemed determined to get to the bottom of it. “How are we different?” she asked patiently.

The System ran out of moves and played dead, refusing to speak.

“Fine, if you don’t want to say it, don’t.”

Just as the System thought it had escaped and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she followed up with an even more lethal question.

“Since you say they have a good relationship but didn’t mention me, it means my relationship with them was originally mediocre or rather, we actually have a bad relationship, and I am standing in the opposing camp, right?”

The System didn’t dare breathe.

“Your silence is a confession,” Lin Yishu said decisively.

System: […]

No, what is wrong with her?! With this level of intuition, she should be sent to the FBI! Walking a plot line here is a waste of talent! AHHHHH… I will not admit that I’m having a mental breakdown AHHHHH…

[If I said ‘no,’ would you believe me?]

Lin Yishu’s voice turned cold. “Naturally not.”

System: […]

Just let the world end! This is destined to be another round that needs a total reset!

Lin Yishu was so obviously distracted that Li Yan kept looking back at her throughout the walk, yet she didn’t notice.

It wasn’t until they walked back to Xili Village and reached the youth settlement that she nearly tripped over a stone. Li Yan grabbed her arm, accidentally pulling her into her embrace and then let out a low, angry growl: “Lin Yishu, can’t you look where you’re going?”

Only then was her attention snapped back.

Her body staggered before she found her footing, and Lin Yishu instinctively grabbed onto the person in front of her.

Palm pressed against palm.

Despite being a warm hearted person, Li Yan’s fingers were icy cold. How strange.

Driven by curiosity, she couldn’t help but lightly pinch the other’s fingertips twice.

Li Yan steadied her and sucked in a breath. “You…”

But seeing Li Can standing nearby, staring at them with pure, curious eyes, she forced the rest of her words back down.

“Xiao Can, go home first.”

Li Can didn’t understand why the topic had suddenly shifted to her. She just felt the atmosphere between her sister and Sister Yishu was suddenly very peculiar, so she nodded obediently.

“Then don’t you two fight, okay?” she urged before leaving.

“Lin Yishu, I told you clearly not to hold hands outside, it creates a bad impression.” Once the girl was out of earshot, Li Yan lowered her voice and spoke with a hint of ashamed indignation. “And you even… you even pinched…”

Lin Yishu didn’t know why she was so obsessed with this point, so she replied nonchalantly, “Then next time when I’m about to fall, don’t catch me.”

Li Yan was shocked. “Then what kind of person would that make me?”

Lin Yishu gave her a sidelong glance. “That way, you can keep your distance from me in public, can’t you?”

Li Yan was momentarily dazed.

Was that what she meant?! She just felt that being all touchy-feely in public without an official status was…

Unaware of her inner thoughts, Lin Yishu had already taken the lead and stepped through the gates of the youth settlement.

The environment of the settlement was dilapidated. Once inside, she had no intention of going further. She stood to the side with her arms crossed, coldly waiting for the person behind her to make the next move.

Li Yan followed her over the threshold and called out loudly, “Yang Zhiqing? Is Yang Xueying Zhiqing here?”

And she said she didn’t know everyone.

Look at that, Lin Yishu thought irritably, she remembers the name and surname perfectly. How is that “not recognizing everyone”?

Lin Yishu stood there being “unreasonably” annoyed. She completely ignored the fact that someone had literally just told them the name.

Someone heard the voice and came out of the house.

Li Yan stepped forward and handed over the book. “Yang Zhiqing, this was sent to you by a Zhiqing from Dongli Village when we were over there. See if it’s yours, Yang Zhiqing.”

Lin Yishu huffed coldly.

With me, she needs to ‘keep her distance,’ but with others, it’s ‘Yang Zhiqing’ this and ‘Yang Zhiqing’ that, how affectionate.

Calling her once wasn’t enough; she had to say it twice, echoing it from beginning to end.