After Redeeming The Beautiful and Tragic Heroine [Transmigration] - Chapter 13

A fine, sharp sting shot across her cheek, and Yu Yuan tumbled backward onto the ground, her heart was pounding with fright.

In front of her, Xue Qingshu had also fully roused herself.

Her eyes met Yu Yuan’s, and after a moment of silence, she raised a hand and pointed behind the Yu Yuan.

Seeing this, Yu Yuan followed the direction of Xue Qingshu’s finger, turned her head, and after a clear look at the thing on the floor, she scrambled closer to Xue Qingshu.

“A Shadow Corpse?”

Yu Yuan hadn’t expected the thing to still be there.

Xue Qingshu nodded, explaining, “It just ambushed you.”

As she spoke, her eyes fell upon the bleeding red mark on Yu Yuan’s cheek, a hint of self-reproach in her tone. “It injured you. I apologize.”

Hearing this, Yu Yuan glanced sideways, wiped her cheek with her sleeve, and forced a stiff smile. “It’s nothing, just a minor scratch. Master need not to worry about it.”

She definitely couldn’t let her villainous Master take her into her heart. Doing so would mean she wouldn’t survive to the end of the story.

“Right, Master, what exactly is going on here?”

Yu Yuan recalled the system’s earlier mention of ‘spatial overlap.’ Not understanding it herself, she tentatively asked Xue Qingshu.

To her surprise, the other woman actually knew.

“It’s the Brahma Illusion,” Xue Qingshu stated concisely, then added, “The Brahma Illusion has two layers: the first is the Nightmare, and the second is the Labyrinth. From the looks of it now, the person who cast the illusion wasn’t skilled enough, causing the second layer, the Labyrinth, to overlap with the City Lord’s Manor.”

Yu Yuan pondered the information. “So the Shadow Corpse?”

Xue Qingshu replied, “The Shadow Corpse followed us into the illusion. Through a fluke of chance, it became the Labyrinth itself.”

The Labyrinth itself? So, the key to breaking the illusion was fighting a zombie?!

Yu Yuan frowned.

She remembered that in the original novel, there was no mention of any Brahma Illusion, and the Shadow Corpse didn’t have such a strong presence.

She even recalled that scoundrel Wei Haoran had merely hidden on a roof beam in the original plot before swiftly escaping the City Lord’s Manor and rushing back to the Miaoyin Sect.

Why was she so unlucky when it came to her turn?!

Not only did she fail to find the female protagonist, but now her life was in danger.

Yu Yuan felt dejected and let out a long sigh.

Next to her, Xue Qingshu sensed her low spirits and, not knowing how to comfort her, shifted the subject. “It’s not safe here. We should leave first.”

Yu Yuan glanced at the not-quite-cold Shadow Corpse at her feet and agreed that it made sense.

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Xue Qingshu led Yu Yuan, winding through the vast white mist for a long time before finally stopping in front of an ancient, unadorned wooden door.

Yu Yuan looked at the familiar wooden door and curiously asked Xue Qingshu, “Master, why did you choose this place?”

Xue Qingshu thought for a moment before answering, “I sent out my spiritual sense to survey the area and found that the aura of the Shadow Corpses was weakest here.”

“I see.”

Yu Yuan didn’t doubt her, and after the system’s safety detection tone signaled the all-clear, she pushed open the door to the small infirmary.

Inside the infirmary, the medicine boy and the elder medicinal cultivator, Old Qin, seemed to be gone.

The empty, dark main room was so quiet that all she could hear was her own breathing.

Yu Yuan pulled a flint-and-steel from her storage pouch, lit it, and used the flame to barely illuminate the small space directly in front of her.

She stepped around scattered herbs and haphazardly placed low stools, walking behind the medicine cabinet. She raised the light to look around but only saw an empty rocking chair.

“It seems like no one is here,” Yu Yuan told Xue Qingshu.

But Xue Qingshu shook her head and said; “There is someone.”

Yu Yuan paused, then leaned out from behind the cabinet and cast the light towards where Xue Qingshu was standing. She noticed a blurred curtain next to her.

Behind the curtain, there must have been another room.

When she had come to the infirmary earlier, it had been pitch-black, and Yu Yuan genuinely hadn’t noticed that spot.

Yu Yuan stepped out from behind the cabinet and stood before the curtain. She nudged the black cat hiding in her sleeve and asked, “System, is there any danger inside?”

She stared at the curtain, a strange unease settling in her heart.

The black cat poked half its head out of her sleeve, sniffed the curtain with its pointy nose, and shook its head.

[Upon detection, the life value of the creature behind the curtain is low. The possibility of causing harm to the host is low. The host may enter safely.]

Yu Yuan listened, yet still felt a little uncertain.

She asked Xue Qingshu, “Master, can we go in here?”

Xue Qingshu was also examining what was behind the curtain. After a moment of silence, she could only tell Yu Yuan, “What’s inside is not a Shadow Corpse; it’s a person.”

A person? Yu Yuan lowered her eyes in thought.

In this infirmary, there shouldn’t be anyone other than the medicine boy and Old Qin.

If there was, the method to confirm was simple.

Yu Yuan took a deep breath and quietly asked the person inside, “Who are you?”

There was no response from behind the curtain.

Yu Yuan then raised her voice slightly and asked again, “Who are you?”

Still, there was no response from behind the curtain.

Yu Yuan pressed her lips into a thin line. She was about to give up on asking and on entering.

But just as she lifted her foot, intending to go sit and rest behind the medicine cabinet, a weak, thread-like voice came from within: “Save me, save me…”

Qin Niang?!

Yu Yuan recalled the person dragged into the infirmary by the old maidservant yesterday. She hadn’t expected the person to still be here.

She stood by the curtain, hesitated for a moment, and finally raised her hand to pull the curtain open.

Her original plan was to take Qin Niang back to the Miaoyin Sect amidst the chaos today. Since they had run into her now, she might as well let her tag along for the time being.

Behind the curtain, clutter was piled high.

Among the junk, a small, old bed was mixed in, almost impossible to spot without a close look.

On the bed, Qin Niang was still wearing that coarse cloth shirt.

A copper basin was placed next to her, filled with blood-soaked white bandages.

Yu Yuan’s breath hitched at the sight, and her heart felt tightly squeezed.

She cautiously stepped forward, wanting to check Qin Niang’s condition.

However, before she could get close to the other girl, Xue Qingshu suddenly grabbed her and said, “Don’t go near her. She’s still trapped in the Nightmare. The Nightmare will pull anyone who gets close—”

Xue Qingshu’s words cut off abruptly.

At the same moment, Yu Yuan felt a wave of dizziness and disorientation. The next second, she was standing in a room draped with red cloth and covered in ‘Double Happiness’ wedding signs.

In front of her was a bed, and on it sat a bride wearing a red veil and wedding robes.

Yu Yuan was startled and blurted out, “What’s going on?”

Then, she realized her voice had become a deep, a rough man’s voice.

Yu Yuan froze for a moment. Then, her gaze involuntarily fell upon the mirror next to her, which was also plastered with a ‘Double Happiness’ sign.

In the mirror, the face of the City Lord was clearly reflected.

Yu Yuan: !

Her pupils trembled. She touched her face—a handful of fat.

She looked back at the mirror, where the astonished City Lord was also pinching the flesh on his face.

Yu Yuan: !!

She had become the City Lord!!!

Yu Yuan was in disbelief.

She lifted her foot in alarm, intending to walk out, but before she took a few steps, someone bumped directly into her.

The impact was strong, sending Yu Yuan tumbling onto the floor. She couldn’t help but cry out in pain, “Ouch!”

She actually still had a sense of pain?!

Yu Yuan was shocked for a moment, then looked at the person who had crashed into her.

It was the City Lord’s Wife?!

The City Lord’s Wife was, as always, adorned with hairpins, but her eyes looked strange.

Yu Yuan stared at her for a long time and then tentatively asked, “Master?”

Xue Qingshu nodded. “It’s me.”

Yu Yuan: …

She and her villainous Master had become husband and wife!

In just a quarter of an hour, Yu Yuan felt like her entire worldview was collapsing.

She sat on the ground, gathering her composure, and tried to ask Xue Qingshu, “What is happening?”

Before she could even get the words out, a detonation talisman suddenly slapped onto her head, feeling intensely hot.

This was—

It was going to explode!

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