Transmigrated Into The Arms Of The Heroine Of A Sadistic Novel - Chapter 21

This outcome stunned not only Lin Yanyu and Tan Changxin, but also the spectators who frequently watched Yang Hengyu’s matches.

Everyone who bet on Yang Hengyu to win lost their money, cursing under their breath as they paid up. Yet, after all the cursing, they couldn’t figure out: why did the proud and image-conscious Miss Tan suddenly ditch the fight?

Lin Yanyu, however, vaguely sensed something was wrong. She put away her Fluttering Axe and, as soon as Tan Changxin finished registering the match result, immediately pulled her and rushed towards the Tan family’s residence.

“What is it?” Tan Changxin asked.

“The hour of Hai (9-11 PM) has passed, but the aura of Ye Yaozhi is not here,” Lin Yanyu said. “I told her to come see me at Hai Shi, but she didn’t. Something must have happened to her!”

“But there are demon-slayers gathered here. It’s understandable that she wouldn’t come to protect herself,” Tan Changxin said, surprised. “Why do you think something happened to her?”

Lin Yanyu couldn’t tell her the truth, she only said, “It’s a demon’s intuition. We must go to the Hengyu Tower!”

Tan Changxin was startled and blurted out, “Why go there?”

Before Lin Yanyu could answer, she saw Feng Xianchen, dressed in white, approaching. She quickly grabbed her. “You’re here just in time, come with us!”

“What’s going on?” Feng Xianchen followed them, utterly bewildered. “Did you finish the fight so quickly? Who won?”

“Yang Hengyu ditched the fight,” Lin Yanyu said. “I suspect she and my maid made a Master-Servant Blood Pact, and she missed the match time because of resting.”

“Why would your maid make a blood pact with her?!” Feng Xianchen was even more astonished. “Where are we going now? To the Hengyu Tower to catch your maid? And to ask that woman why she ditched the fight?”

Lin Yanyu acknowledged this and said no more.

The three arrived outside the Hengyu Tower. Lin Yanyu used the “Spirit Control Technique” to sense the surroundings, and indeed, the auras of both Yang Hengyu and Ye Yaozhi were inside the building.

“You two stay here, I’ll go in and check.” Lin Yanyu finished speaking and transformed into a shadow, teleporting inside.

Tan Changxin and Feng Xianchen were left looking at each other.

“That spell just now, I think only our master knows it, right?” Feng Xianchen said in amazement. “How many high-level spells does Sister Lin know?”

The moment Lin Yanyu infiltrated the Hengyu Tower, Ye Yaozhi, who was guarding Yang Hengyu’s bed, sensed it. But before she could react, her mouth was covered, and she was pinned to the ground.

Lin Yanyu’s demon-catching methods in her previous life were more ruthless than those of her fellow demon-slayers. Seeing Ye Yaozhi still struggling, she flipped her hand and summoned the Spirit Binding Rope, quickly tying Ye Yaozhi up. Then, she performed a “Restoration Spell,” carrying the hog-tied gray wolf and silently returning to Tan Changxin and Feng Xianchen.

The entire process of catching the demon took less than two minutes. Tan Changxin and Feng Xianchen only snapped out of their daze when she carried the gray wolf into the Chuan Yun Tower.

“She was caught so quickly?!” Feng Xianchen could hardly believe her eyes.

Lin Yanyu released her hand covering the wolf’s mouth, hearing the gray wolf whimper in pain. She then confined the Spirit Binding Rope only to its four limbs. After that, she turned over its wolf fur and felt it; it was full of newly scabbed wounds.

She then examined Ye Yaozhi’s internal demon power and found that all of it was bound by spiritual power, with only a small portion available for her to control. This was a sign that the Master-Servant Blood Pact had been successfully formed.

“I warned you repeatedly not to go near the Hengyu Tower, and yet you rushed to seek abuse?” Lin Yanyu said crossly. “The moment you arrive in the human world, you hug the enemy’s thigh and betray your former master. You truly have nerve!”

The gray wolf said nothing but did not admit to any wrongdoing either.

Tan Changxin walked closer and asked, perplexed, “Why did you betray Yanyu? She trusted you so much, only bringing you alone to the human world, you…”

“Madam Hengyu’s mother saved my life,” Ye Yaozhi interrupted, saying decisively, “No matter the cost, I must repay Madam Hengyu!”

“What life-saving grace?” Lin Yanyu frowned. She had not read the reason for Ye Yaozhi’s defection to Yang Hengyu in the main text. “When did this happen?”

After asking, she suddenly remembered that this abusive novel had side stories. The original author had also mentioned in the author’s notes that she would dedicate a separate volume after the main text was finished to supplement several prequel side stories.

But she encountered a demon attack right after finishing the main text and then transmigrated, so she knew nothing about the side story content.

Ye Yaozhi did not answer and began to twist her body to struggle. The newly scabbed wounds immediately tore open, and blood flowed out.

“Don’t move!” Tan Changxin quickly held the gray wolf down, summoned a bottle of ointment, and gently comforted it, “I have medicine to treat whip wounds. Be quiet; I’ll apply the medicine now.”

“Get away! Don’t touch me!” Ye Yaozhi struggled even harder. The flowing blood suddenly flew towards Tan Changxin by itself, thin as needles.

The blood needles were blocked by a sheet of ice energy just before they hit Tan Changxin, instantly freezing and scattering onto the floor.

“Sister Changxin, Sister Lin, I think we should just let it go,” Feng Xianchen dispersed the ice energy from her fingers, pointing at the gray wolf lying on the ground. “She seems quite loyal to Yang Hengyu. Master and Uncle both said we shouldn’t interfere with any pair of demon-slayer master and servant who have a good relationship. Even if Yang Hengyu is truly bad to her, it’s a case of one willing to strike and the other willing to suffer.”

“You want to let the tiger return to the mountain?” Tan Changxin frowned. “She is Yanyu’s personal maid and knows too many of Yanyu’s secrets. Since Yang Hengyu is targeting me, she will naturally target Yanyu as well!”

“But there’s nothing we can do about her. We can’t bring her back to the academy and forcibly break the Master-Servant Blood Pact,” Feng Xianchen said helplessly. “If we keep her here, Yang Hengyu might get angry and kill her using the Master-Servant Blood Pact… By the way, has she ever killed anyone?”

Lin Yanyu recalled the original owner’s memories and shook her head.

In the original text, Ye Yaozhi only started learning to kill after assassinating the Demon Realm’s Young Master and defecting to Yang Hengyu in the human world. Before that, Ye Yaozhi’s hands were completely clean. The Demon Realm Lord dared to keep her serving in the Young Master’s sleeping chambers precisely for this reason.

“Then let’s send her back. A demon servant who hasn’t killed anyone shouldn’t die by our side.” Feng Xianchen spread her hands.

And so, Ye Yaozhi left. Before leaving, she did not forget to thank Tan Changxin and Feng Xianchen, but she did not even look at her former master.

“Is there… some kind of feud between you?” Tan Changxin subconsciously asked Lin Yanyu, watching Ye Yaozhi disappear from view. After asking, she quickly added, “If it’s difficult to speak about, you don’t have to.”

“If I had to say, it’s just a difference in our ‘Three Views’,” Lin Yanyu replied without hesitation. “She probably wanted to leave me for a long time; coming to the human world was just an opportunity.”

“What do you mean by ‘Three Views’?” Tan Changxin asked curiously.

“Worldview, values, and outlook on life,” Lin Yanyu explained earnestly. “Whether it’s a superior and subordinate, or lovers and friends, an incompatibility in the Three Views will lead to separation sooner or later.”

Although she said this, Lin Yanyu was more concerned about Ye Yaozhi’s words just now.

Yang Hengyu’s mother, Yang Huaisheng, died eighteen years ago. The original owner was just born then, while Ye Yaozhi was six and old enough to understand things. Could something have happened then that caused her to hate the Demon Realm Lord from then on, and consequently resent the original owner as well?

“That makes sense. Then let’s not go looking for Yang Hengyu either,” Feng Xianchen nodded. “Anyway, the match is over. It’s her own fault for not keeping her word and not showing up.”

Tan Changxin had been observing Lin Yanyu but didn’t see any trace of annoyance in her expression, as if she were watching a play. However, she was not yet familiar with Lin Yanyu and did not know if she was genuinely emotionally detached or had anticipated this and was thus so composed.

She did not know that Lin Yanyu was also slightly surprised by their reaction. Although she knew that these two demon-slayers were good children who had just graduated and entered society, and hadn’t seen much of the wickedness of the human heart, Lin Yanyu truly hadn’t expected them to so easily let Ye Yaozhi go.

But it was better that they did. She fundamentally did not want innocent people to stain their hands with blood too soon.

It was getting late. Tan Changxin had been traveling for most of the day, and she had to go greet her father, who was returning with the tribute offerings, the next morning. Seeing no activity at the Hengyu Tower, the three said their goodbyes, planning to wash up and rest.

After Feng Xianchen left, Tan Changxin and Lin Yanyu tidied up the bedroom together again.

Lin Yanyu was used to living alone, and with Ye Yaozhi, the only person who might have monitored her, no longer around, she efficiently tidied up according to her habits. When she turned around, she was met with Tan Changxin’s surprised gaze.

The two were silent for a moment, and Tan Changxin couldn’t help but ask, “Did you also tidy up by yourself in the Demon Realm?”

“Yes, the secluded life was too boring, so I always tidied things up to pass the time,” Lin Yanyu casually made up an excuse. Since the young girl hadn’t stayed long in the Demon Realm, she probably would believe whatever she said.

Tan Changxin looked at her suspiciously, but she really couldn’t ask anything more. Seeing that Lin Yanyu had already spread out the bedding on her small sleeping couch, she hurried over to help her make the bed.

While helping, she said, “You don’t need to leave room for me. You are the guest…”

“Is it appropriate for the dignified Second Miss of the Tan family to sleep on the floor on her first night home?” Lin Yanyu snatched the bedding that Tan Changxin was preparing to throw on the floor, deliberately teasing her, “What, are you worried this Young Master will take advantage of the opportunity to take you?”

“N-No! What are you saying!” Tan Changxin’s face flushed instantly, and she half-heartedly allowed her to place the two sets of bedding together.

“I’ll be direct with you. Whether it’s two girls or a man and a woman, lying next to each other but in separate blankets, absolutely nothing will happen,” Lin Yanyu spread the blanket, then added, “If you want to know what leads to that kind of thing, just take out the picture book I gave you and flip through it.”

“I…”

“If you’re still worried, I’ll turn into a cat and let you hold me to sleep for the night, how about that?” Lin Yanyu suggested seriously. “A little kitten couldn’t possibly have any bad intentions, right?”

Tan Changxin stood by the sleeping couch, lightly pinching her plain white nightgown. After hesitating for a moment, she actually summoned the picture book Lin Yanyu had given her and sat down to silently flip through it.

Lin Yanyu had just smoothed the blanket and arranged the pillows when she turned around and saw the young girl seriously staring at a pair of women in the picture book. A strange feeling of guilt welled up inside her, feeling that her casual suggestion had corrupted the pure young girl.

However, she also felt that a girl of this age truly needed to know about such things, as it was physiological common sense. It just shouldn’t be learned through a picture book.

“Forget it, forget it! If you want to know, I can tell you directly. You won’t understand just by looking at these anyway!” Thinking this, Lin Yanyu quickly snatched the picture book, stuffed it under the pillow, then slipped into the blanket. She pulled back a corner of the blanket for Tan Changxin, and after she covered herself and lay down, Lin Yanyu asked in a low voice, “What do you want to know?”

For some reason, Lin Yanyu felt her own face growing hot.