The Cannon Fodder Supporting Female Character is Still Alive Today - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Going Together

Bai Yao reached out and stabilized the twitching muscles in her face, saying vaguely and urgently: “N-no home!”

Luo Qi: “Huh?”

Xia Qian scratched his head in confusion: “Miss Bai, you just said your home was very close to here.”

Bai Yao: “…”

Bai Yao: “Yes. I was joking. Actually, my home is just a few hundred or a few thousand li (Chinese miles) west of Jiang Qi. As long as you see a place with many elephants and cute people wearing veils, that means you’re almost home.”

Xia Qian was dumbfounded: “Ah?”

Luo Qi looked at Bai Yao’s sudden panting appearance and smiled again.

Bai Yao quickly closed her eyes to shield herself from the overly enchanting Female Lead Aura, while hearing Luo Qi say: “Alright, I will escort Miss Bai home.”

Fine then.

Come on.

Let’s go retrieve the sacred scriptures together.

Hearing Bai Yao say her home was in the west, Luo Qi took her directly by boat to bypass Jiang Qi and enter Lin Dan.

After disembarking, Bai Yao followed behind Luo Qi, carefully contemplating her future as she walked.

The bundle she had carried when she left the General’s manor was thrown directly onto the ground by the black-clad brothers during the kidnapping. Fortunately, she had a few tricks up her sleeve.

Bai Yao reached out and rubbed the front of her jacket, feeling the satisfying thickness of a wad of cash.

She lifted her foot and gave a shake, feeling a pile of jade and jewelry still hidden in the secret pocket of her skirt hem.

When roaming the jianghu (martial world), one must never neglect a fallback plan.

However, the most important question now was how to successfully escape from the Female Lead’s sight.

Bai Yao was lost in deep thought, focused on her life’s grand plan, inevitably causing her steps to become erratic, swaying left and right as she stumbled along the crowd.

After walking a long distance in this dazed state, the two entered a bustling market. As the crowd grew, the number of times Bai Yao bumped into people gradually increased.

Just as she was about to collide with the fourth innocent bystander, the person walking ahead suddenly stopped, turned back, pulled Bai Yao’s arm, and moved her half a step to the side.

Bai Yao bumped against Luo Qi’s side as a carriage sped past, brushing close to the two of them.

Bai Yao quickly offered her thanks. As she looked up, she noticed that Luo Qi didn’t have a strong scent of perfume but rather a light, subtle fragrance.

The smell was very pleasant. Bai Yao couldn’t resist taking a careful sniff. It was like a secluded valley orchid—clear and not overly seductive.

While Bai Yao was carefully distinguishing the scent, Luo Qi, sensing her strange action, stiffened momentarily, then subtly pushed the person in her arms away.

“Miss Bai, you must be careful when walking.”

Bai Yao reluctantly stepped out of the ambiance of the top-grade incense: “Oh, oh.”

Sigh.

I just transmigrated into this book. I wonder how the Black Cat Lady at home is doing.

However.

Petting a cat is certainly enjoyable, but getting a sniff of a person doesn’t seem too bad either.

The two continued westward, but the distance between them had shortened considerably.

Luo Qi walked beside Bai Yao, silently accompanying her.

After walking through the long street, the two entered a busier area.

Luo Qi looked down at Bai Yao, whose head was lowered, “Miss Bai, there are many people here, it’s easy to get separated…”

Before she could finish, a small hand had already reached out from below and grasped her pinky finger.

Bai Yao looked up and smiled: “It’s alright, I’m holding onto you, we won’t get separated.”

She had just tried it. Luo Qi’s fingers were slender and long, and her small hand fit perfectly around the pinky.

Lowering her head again, Bai Yao’s eyes sparkled with the light of longing for freedom.

The experience of our predecessors tells us that the rhythm must be controlled by ourselves.

A crowded place, is it? Easy to get separated, is it?

Heaven helps me!

Getting directly separated is too difficult to manage, but finding an excuse to escape will be much easier to execute.

Bai Yao tightened her grip on Luo Qi’s pinky, held her head high, and stepped forward, searching for the most crowded place to make her getaway.

It was mid-afternoon, in the late spring.

After the fierce intensity of noon, the warming sunlight fell, coating the street scene and the people with a golden sheen.

Luo Qi was held tightly by her pinky finger, walking forward amidst the bustling crowd in this scenery.

After a short while, the young woman walking in front of her would look back and offer her a smile, one that was also tinged with golden light.

A foot of brightness fell onto a mirror at a small stall, and then perfectly reflected into her eyes. Luo Qi blinked. The spots of light faded, but a comfortable warmth remained on her face.

The sounds of people were all around, yet she was being led forward, as if toward a clear and determined direction.

In this moment, this corner of the jianghu seemed to have shed its violent past of flashing blades and dangerous living, leaving only tender affection and warm, melting sunshine.

Without Bai Yao realizing it, Luo Qi curved her finger back, taking the girl’s small fist into her palm.

The two walked through the crowd for a little longer, and Bai Yao suddenly stopped.

Luo Qi stopped with her and asked, “Why aren’t you walking?”

Bai Yao pulled Luo Qi a few steps to the side, then turned back and smiled, uttering that famous quote: “You stay here and don’t move. I’m going to buy some oranges and I’ll be right back.”

Luo Qi looked at her radiant appearance and nodded with a smile, “Go ahead.”

Bai Yao walked up to the orange stall and absentmindedly selected a few oranges.

She had originally been focused on escaping the path of death and heading toward a comfortable life, but instead, she ran straight into the arms of the **oss.

And she actually found it quite comfortable.

Stop.

Before suggesting to buy oranges, Bai Yao had clearly noticed that among this row of small stalls, the one opposite the orange stall attracted the most buyers.

So, she had intentionally led Luo Qi to the side of that stall.

When the crowd is messy and the foot traffic is chaotic, that will be the moment for me, Bai Yao, to escape.

Sayonara, my brief, fleeting crush on beauty.

Standing in front of the orange stall, Bai Yao smiled at the old woman selling oranges. Then, she grabbed a few oranges at random, secretly turned her head to see if Luo Qi was obscured by the crowd.

As long as the crowd flow was sufficient, she would turn around and slip away…

Bullshit.

The instant Bai Yao turned and peeked, the old woman, who was frail-looking the second before, suddenly leaped up, reached across the orange stall over a meter away, and grabbed the nape of Bai Yao’s jacket.

Mistakenly believing Bai Yao was trying to eat for free, the old woman roared: “Pay! Before you leave!”

Bai Yao pleaded: “I, I, I’ll pay right now!”

The pulled neckline painfully tugged at her neck. Bai Yao was yanked back toward the orange stall and anxiously reached for her silver, but after fumbling a few times, the color instantly drained from her face.

Because under her jacket.

There was only her chest.

Oh my god, I didn’t mean to pull you into the car, okay!

I mean, why is all my money gone!

Scenes from historical dramas where characters lose their money after being bumped by passersby flashed quickly through her mind. Bai Yao clutched her head, swept into a torrent of despair.

As a cannon fodder side character with no aura, it was bad enough that she couldn’t escape the main plotline. Now she didn’t even have money.

Bai Yao stamped her foot in panic, finding that the jewels hidden in her skirt hem were still there. But she, a non-expert, had no idea how much those things were actually worth.

Help.

It was supposed to be a jianghu adventure, but how did it slowly turn into a struggle for survival?

Bai Yao looked at the old woman, despairingly: “I’m sorry, Grandma, I don’t have money.”

“If you don’t have money, you still try to take my oranges!”

The old woman’s toes were tired from standing on tiptoe, and she slowly stepped down as she spoke. This was agony for Bai Yao, whose neck was being pulled across the stall.

Misfortunes never come singly.

The drawback of the poor-quality fabric also became apparent at this moment.

A rough thread knot was stuck in the delicate flesh of Bai Yao’s neck, making her feel like she was about to cry.

Bai Yao quickly put the oranges still in her other hand back onto the stall, wanting to beg the old woman to let go first.

But before Bai Yao could speak, a gentle breeze swept up behind her. The next second, a silver ingot was thrown onto the stall.

Simultaneously, a hand shot out and chopped the wrist of the hand that was gripping Bai Yao’s collar. The familiar hand then quickly performed a hook-back, very naturally pulling Bai Yao into the arms of the person behind her.

Bai Yao lowered her head and coughed a few times, hearing the person behind her say with a hint of anger: “Apologize to her.”

A few minutes later, Bai Yao and Luo Qi sat side-by-side on a stone bench, Bai Yao’s arms filled with the oranges Luo Qi had bought for her.

Remembering what had just happened, Bai Yao couldn’t help but touch her cheek with the back of her cool hand.

Damn.

Why is it still so hot?

A few minutes ago, Luo Qi had shielded her and righteously demanded an apology from the old woman selling oranges on her behalf.

The faint anger on her face, coupled with her jade-like features, added a hint of coldness, making her even more captivating.

As the Female Lead, even her angry expression was simply too, too, too beautiful!

Especially since she was in that heart-stopping male attire.

As a fan of beauty, even I, a straight woman, completely cannot resist!

Afraid that Luo Qi would notice her strangeness and trigger a death flag, Bai Yao lowered her head, silently staring at the oranges in her lap.

First escape plan, perfectly declared a failure.

The two sat quietly for a while, when Luo Qi suddenly said, “Miss Bai.”

“Ah? Ah?”

Luo Qi smiled: “Did I startle you by speaking suddenly?”

Bai Yao shook her head: “No, no. What is it?”

Luo Qi paused, then asked: “Miss Bai, have you heard about me before?”

Bai Yao admitted: “I have heard of you.”

After all, she had such a big reaction after listening to Xia Qian’s words.

Luo Qi smiled: “Then what kind of person did Miss Bai hear that I am?”

What kind of sudden turn is this?

With this question in her heart, Bai Yao looked up, meeting Luo Qi’s clear eyes.

Vast azure skies and ten thousand li of starlight were contained within those eyes, fluttering along with their owner’s every smile and frown.

And at this moment, those eyes held a look of careful expectation, making Bai Yao’s heart tremble.

As if by an unforeseen impulse, Bai Yao became serious.

After thinking for a moment, she said: “You are a wonderful person. You are the best person in this world.”

This was the truth.

While reading The Young Master Becomes the Phoenix, Bai Yao had often lamented the Female Lead’s difficulties and often remarked that the Female Lead was a rare person, one who should only exist in books and never be seen in the mortal world.

In the world of this book, the Female Lead was indeed the best person.

Having received this extremely high evaluation, Luo Qi stared at Bai Yao, momentarily speechless.

After a few seconds, she suddenly smiled broadly and said, “Then, would you be willing to be my friend?”

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