After Redeeming The Beautiful and Tragic Heroine [Transmigration] - Chapter 14

Yu Yuan’s eyes were wide as saucers, glued to the detonation talisman on her forehead, and she froze solid.

In front of her, Xue Qingshu reacted instantly. She reached out, swiftly tore the talisman from Yu Yuan’s head, and then shot toward the direction from which the talisman had been thrown.

Immediately after, they heard a loud “Bang!”

Then, a person, completely blackened and with their hair blown into a mushroom cloud, stumbled in from outside.

The blast had blackened the person’s features beyond recognition.

However, their build was identical to the City Lord’s, which allowed Yu Yuan to identify them.

It’s the Young City Lord, Yu Yuan concluded internally. But she quickly rejected her own thought: No, wait, it’s not the Young City Lord.

She looked at the sky-blue jade flute clutched in the person’s hand, her expression was complex. “You’re Wei Haoran?”

Wei Haoran, who had been preparing to strike the “City Lord couple” again, paused. ?

He opened his mouth, and a wisp of black smoke drifted out.

Yu Yuan: …

Wei Haoran: …

The two exchanged an awkward look for a moment, neither speaking.

Finally, Xue Qingshu broke the silence. She pulled Yu Yuan up from the floor and asked Wei Haoran, “How did you get into this Nightmare?”

Wei Haoran snapped back to reality. He glanced at Xue Qingshu, and after discerning who she was from her tone, he quickly cupped his hands and breathed into them several times.

After confirming that he had expelled the black smoke, he bowed respectfully to Xue Qingshu and explained, “The Shadow Corpses were rampant, so this disciple sent out his spiritual sense to scout the area. Eventually, I found an infirmary that had no Shadow Corpse aura, so I hid inside. I didn’t expect to run into a young woman and get pulled into her Nightmare.”

Xue Qingshu asked, “You know about the Shadow Corpses?”

Wei Haoran nodded. “I’ve read some miscellaneous books and have a slight understanding.”

Yu Yuan pressed him. “Then you also know about the Nightmare?”

Wei Haoran wiped the sweat from his brow and replied to Yu Yuan, “I mistakenly wandered into a Brahma Illusion when I was younger.”

Yu Yuan mused, “Oh, I see.”

She was deep in thought, recalling Wei Haoran’s supposed sixty years of age in the original work, and thought to herself: It is certainly an age with a wealth of experience.

As she pondered, she suddenly realized a problem. “You said we were pulled into a Nightmare?!”

Yu Yuan’s voice suddenly spiked in volume.

Wei Haoran flinched at her, trembling as he affirmed with a quiet “Yes.”

Yu Yuan looked at Xue Qingshu. “Then, Master, when you told me not to approach Qin Niang, was it because of this?”

Xue Qingshu looked at the wedding room, which was separated by a barrier, and nodded. “A Nightmare doesn’t just trap the dreamer; it also drags in those nearby.”

Yu Yuan quickly asked, “Then how do we get out?”

Xue Qingshu stated concisely, “Break the Nightmare.”

Yu Yuan’s first thought was: Crush the dream with violence.

But as the thought landed, a broken, mechanical sound rang out in her Sea of Consciousness:

[Sys… System detected that the host, host has fallen into the Nightmare of the original NPC Qin Niang.]

[Nightmare set… setting announced.]

[First: Can… cannot use spiritual power. The Nightmare will collapse.]

[Second: Cannot remind the cre… creator of the Nightmare that she is dreaming. The Nightmare will collapse.]

[Third: Strictly avoid violently destroying the Nightmare.]

[Finally, the System warmly reminds the host: Being attacked within the Nightmare carries a risk of death.]

Yu Yuan: …

So the system telling her earlier that there was no danger behind the curtain was a lie after all!

She stewed in frustration for a moment, then looked at Wei Haoran and asked him, “Were you trying to kill me just now to break the Nightmare?”

Wei Haoran looked at Yu Yuan, admitted to it sheepishly, and recounted the full story.

It turned out that the flow of time inside the Nightmare was different from the outside.

Wei Haoran had been living in this Nightmare for over half a month now, so he had a rough understanding of the affairs of the City Lord’s Manor.

The bride on the bed was indeed Qin Niang.

Yu Yuan already knew that Qin Niang was the daughter of the City Lord and a maid, and was therefore ostracized by the City Lord’s Wife.

The rest was information not even mentioned in the original novel.

Two months ago, the Young City Lord had taken a fancy to a woman.

And that woman was none other than the bride who had run away today.

However, that wasn’t the main point. The main point was that the City Lord’s Wife had prepared a generous dowry to get this wife for her son.

A dowry that was moved from another family to the City Lord’s Manor, and then from the City Lord’s Manor to another family.

It turned out that the City Lord’s Wife was unwilling to spend her own money to get her son a wife, so she set her sights on Qin Niang.

She had arranged with a wealthy merchant in the South City to marry Qin Niang off as a wife to the merchant’s infamous cripple son.

But everyone in Sleepless City knew that the merchant’s son was cursed. Every wife he had taken had died.

And everyone also knew the truth behind that “curse”: the man was vicious by nature, addicted to torturing people to death.

If Qin Niang were married off to him, she would simply be leaping from one hell into another.

As a result, after Qin Niang learned of this, she slowly developed a mental block.

And that’s what created this Nightmare.

By the time Wei Haoran finished his story, things had become much clearer.

He looked toward the bride sitting on the bed and said solemnly,
“So, I figured the best way to break her nightmare was to kill the City Lord and his wife  to solve the problem at its root.”

He paused, then turned his eyes back to Yu Yuan and Xue Qingshu.
“But now that the Young Sect Master and Immortal Lord have taken their place, that method won’t work anymore.”

There was a hint of disappointment in his tone.

Xue Qingshu looked at him blankly.
“Then I could just kill you instead, tell her her brother’s dead, and that she doesn’t need to marry for dowry money. That would also solve it.”

Wei Haoran: …

He froze, staring at her, realizing she wasn’t joking and immediately fell silent, shrinking like a frightened quail.

Beside them, Yu Yuan finally snapped out of her thoughts about Qin Niang’s tragedy.

Her eyes flicked between the two of them. Then she edged closer to Xue Qingshu and cautiously suggested,
“Master, since we’re playing the role of her parents, what if we just tell her we’ve already called off the wedding? Wouldn’t the nightmare dissolve on its own?”

Xue Qingshu opened her mouth to respond….

But before she could, a heavy bang bang bang thundered against the door behind them.

At the same time, the barrier separating them from Qin Niang shattered with a sharp crack.

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