Accidentally Marking The Vicious Female Lead After Transmigrating Into A Period Novel - Chapter 22.1

Everyone was stunned, including Li Yan.

The pig rolled off the table, still trying to escape, and the others snapped out of it, rushing to pin it down again.

Li Yan was pulled up by someone nearby. She was about to say thank you when she realized it was Lin Yishu, who had approached at some point.

Lin Yishu looked at her with concern. “Are you alright?”

Only one word filled Li Yan’s mind: Humiliated.

Ahhh! I’ve completely humiliated myself! And in front of Lin Yishu!

Li Yan decided she had to reclaim her dignity. When it came to the actual slaughter, her movements were swift and precise. But when she saw Lin Yishu turn her head away as if unable to watch, her heart sank again.

Damn it, I forgot this isn’t exactly something worth showing off.

She was holding a knife, and her expression must have been fierce and grim.

On the walk back, she spent the whole time nervously checking Lin Yishu’s expression out of the corner of her eye.

Lin Yishu remained silent the entire way, and Li Yan’s heart sank to the bottom.

It wasn’t until they entered the house that she finally couldn’t help but ask, “Lin Yishu, are you…”

Before she could finish, the person in front of her suddenly looked up and said, “Go wash your hands immediately.”

Following her gaze, Li Yan saw her hands, which were covered in bloodstains.

It felt as though a tiny thorn had pricked her heart, it didn’t hurt much, but it was uncomfortable.

Li Yan’s chest felt tight. She silently poured water to wash her hands.

Lin Yishu, perhaps unable to bear the sight of the bloody water, had already turned and gone into the room.

Once she finished washing and was about to head out to dump the water, a voice from behind called out to her.

“Wait a moment.”

Li Yan froze in place but didn’t turn around. She asked sullenly, “What is it?”

Lin Yishu sensed a fluctuation in her pheromones and found it strange.

This was the second time today.

Li Yan’s pheromones had always been stable before, even for Lin Yishu, she could only clearly sense them during close contact. But today, her pheromones seemed out of control, bursting out sporadically.

And they all carried a very clear sense of negativity.

“Turn around first.”

Reluctantly, Li Yan turned, but her eyes remained fixed on her toes, refusing to look at the person in front of her.

Lin Yishu opened the lid of a small container, circled her finger in the cream, took a small dab, and walked up to her. “Hand.”

Li Yan was stunned and finally looked up.

When she saw what was in the other woman’s hand, she finally understood.

“You…”

“From now on, wash your hands thoroughly after work and make sure to apply oil. You need to take good care of these hands, okay?” Lin Yishu lowered her gaze and gently rubbed the dab of clam oil onto the thick calluses on Li Yan’s knuckles.

Unlike her own, Lin Yishu’s fingers were fair and delicate, her fingertips tinged with a faint pink. Wherever that pink touched her palm, a wave of numbness surged, bringing a strange yet familiar sensation.

The scent of roses grew stronger. She saw that wild rose again, standing alone in the snow.

It seemed more vibrant than the last time she had seen it.

Li Yan couldn’t help but step forward.

She saw the pink bud hidden amidst the layers of petals, a beauty that seemed to steal one’s soul.

A voice in her heart was screaming for her to pluck it.

Li Yan took two more steps forward.

A sudden pain came from her fingertip.

Coming back to her senses, the wild rose was gone. There was only Lin Yishu, looking at her with confusion. “Li Yan, is something on your mind? You’re acting very strange today.”

She didn’t even ask why Li Yan had suddenly pinched her wrist; her first reaction was to ask what was wrong.

Li Yan shook her head, feeling a bit dazed herself.

Realizing she was still gripping the other woman’s wrist tightly, Li Yan hurriedly let go. “Are you okay? I… I don’t know what happened. I just spaced out for a second. Maybe I haven’t slept well lately.”

Seeing the red marks on the other woman’s wrist, she felt guilty. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”

Lin Yishu pulled her hand back and shook her head to indicate she was fine. She handed the clam oil to Li Yan. “Apply it yourself. Go dump the water after you’re done.”

Li Yan nodded obediently.

Since Lin Yishu is giving me oil, it means she probably doesn’t mind the way I looked while slaughtering the pig, right?

Li Yan comforted herself.

Looking back, she did feel she had been acting quite strangely today.

First, she had gotten into a fight with someone like Liu Gang over a piece of chocolate, and then she had become overly sensitive, worrying about Lin Yishu’s opinion of her.

Am I really just tired?

So, when night fell, she washed up early and lay down on the kang.

On New Year’s Eve, every household was busy.

Having finally received their pig meat and grain rations, everyone could finally eat meat at the end of the year. From early morning, the smoke rising over the village carried the scent of cooking meat.

The Li family was no exception.

Li Chunmei got up early and started stewing meat and vegetables. The aroma drifted from the kitchen all the way into the room, smelling so good that neither Li Can nor Lin Yishu could sleep.

The two of them unusually woke up earlier than Li Yan. Li Can put on her new cotton shoes, ran to the kitchen to take a sniff of the meat, and seeing that her sister still hadn’t moved, she found it strange and called out to her.

“Sis, you’re up late today! Sister Yishu and I are already up. You can’t be lazier than us! Mom’s telling us to go put up the New Year couplets. If you don’t get up, she’s going to be really angry.”

Even after she said this, the person under the blankets didn’t move an inch.

Li Can then climbed onto the kang, intending to pull back the covers and continue her shouting.

But when she pulled them back, she was terrified. Li Yan’s eyes were tightly shut, her face was flushed, and her entire body was burning hot.

Li Can reached out to touch her and immediately pulled her hand back from the heat.

“Mom! Sis has a fever! Come quick! She’s so hot she’s losing consciousness! Mom, come quick!”

She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Lin Yishu, who had just gone to the outer room to wash her face, heard her and rushed back into the room.

Upon seeing the state of the person on the bed, her heart skipped a beat.

Li Yan didn’t look like she had a fever. It looked more like she was entering her Susceptibility Period.