Transmigrated Into The Arms Of The Heroine Of A Sadistic Novel - Chapter 25

After a moment of shock, Lin Yanyu reminded her with concern: “But you still have a wound on your abdomen.”

Yesterday, as soon as the young woman arrived home, she was ambushed twice by Yang Hengyu. The second blade of wind not only drew blood but was also laced with poison. If Lin Yanyu hadn’t noticed in time and known the method to detoxify it, the young woman would likely have been comatose for three days from the poison, directly missing the family ancestral ceremony.

Qin Changxin fell silent, but only for a moment before recovering, stating firmly: “After a night’s rest, I’m completely fine.”

Lin Yanyu: ???

Was your sleep really rest?!!

Suppressing the urge to complain, Lin Yanyu narrowed her eyes and deliberately said, “I don’t believe it! Unless you show me.”

She thought that with the young woman’s delicate sensibilities, hearing this would surely make her blush instantly, and she might even blurt out calling her a “pervert.”

Upon hearing this, Qin Changxin’s face did indeed flush, but the next second she untied her belt and silently began to take off her outer robe.

Lin Yanyu had a bad feeling, exclaimed “Hey,” and instinctively stepped forward to grip her hand, stopping her from continuing.

“I believe you, I believe you! Don’t make a decision without saying anything!” Lin Yanyu grabbed the dark purple robe that hadn’t been hung on the rack yet, spread it out to put back on Qin Changxin, and returned to her spot, watching the young woman tie her belt. She felt her own face growing hot without knowing when it started.

The atmosphere between the two instantly became a little awkward. After a long while, it was surprisingly Qin Changxin who spoke first: “Then… can we still bathe together?”

Lin Yanyu: “…Fine.”

She actually had a suspicion: the truth behind the young woman’s dark circles might be that she had stayed up all night reading hua ben (illustrated storybooks) and had even used the content of the books to mentally simulate the relevant actions in her Sea of Consciousness. Otherwise, how could she suddenly be so unreserved?

Furthermore, an Exorcist is also a cultivator. It’s strange for a cultivator to stay up all night resulting in dark circles, if they had only used spiritual energy to observe someone’s body all night, doing nothing else during that time.

When she got up this morning, she asked the young woman if she had been observing her all night, and the young woman merely nodded simply, which led to Lin Yanyu scolding her harshly, causing her to take half a step back.

After that, Lin Yanyu softened due to the young woman’s reaction, thanked her helplessly, and didn’t press the matter further; thus, the issue was dropped.

Now, combining this with the young woman’s actions, Lin Yanyu felt that this idea was increasingly plausible.

While preparing the bathing items with Qin Changxin, Lin Yanyu told herself to stop overthinking things, but at the same time, she began to consider the worst case scenario if the young woman really spent the whole night flipping through the hua ben and mentally simulating actions, and intended to take her as the target, should she immediately put on a stern face and warn the young woman not to entertain romantic feelings before she comes of age?

When she agreed to lend the hua ben in the demon world, she didn’t pay attention to how many books the young woman took. Although she snatched the hua ben and pressed them under her pillow before going to sleep last night, the young woman could still quietly take out other hua ben and study them seriously while Lin Yanyu was focused on something else.

The thought of Qin Changxin’s earnest expression while reading the hua ben last night gave Lin Yanyu a headache.

Her brain must have been scrambled back then, how could she agree to lend the original owner’s hua ben to such an innocent young woman…

Lin Yanyu had never experienced romantic love, and when she thought about such matters, her mind became a total mess.

Her distracted expression caught Qin Changxin’s eye. The young woman quickly put down the clean clothes she was half-folding, moved closer, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Lin Yanyu instantly snapped back, shook her head, and lied: “Nothing, just considering the situations that might arise during the ancestral ceremony.”

This statement was fine on its own, but coupled with the faint blush on Lin Yanyu’s cheeks, it puzzled Qin Changxin.

“Are you mad at Ye Yaozhi?” Qin Changxin tentatively asked, mistaking Lin Yanyu’s redness for anger, “Or… are you mad at Feng Xianchen and me?”

Lin Yanyu was mystified: “Why would I be mad at you?”

“Feng Xianchen and I didn’t follow you into the Hengyu Tower to capture Ye Yaozhi.” Qin Changxin recalled, “Although you didn’t say anything at the time, but…”

“Don’t overthink it, I wouldn’t be so blind as to fail to distinguish between friend and foe over a single traitor.” Lin Yanyu cut her off. “Since she had long had someone else in her heart, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t bring her back. As for the subsequent capture, there’s even less need to mention it; that spell was not something you two could handle.”

Apart from experiencing it herself, when Lin Yanyu read the novel, she also felt that Yang Hengyu and Ye Yaozhi were truly a case of “every pot has its lid,” one willing to beat and the other willing to be beaten. Even after their relationship ended tragically (BE), many readers flooded the comment section with “My heart aches,” but Lin Yanyu personally felt that Ye Yaozhi was not worthy of much sympathy.

She made the wrong choice, followed the wrong master, and naturally had to pay the corresponding price.

“Let’s not talk about those upsetting things. Hurry up and bathe, I can’t wait.” Seeing that Qin Changxin was about to ask more, Lin Yanyu seized the opportunity to change the subject. “I don’t know what customs you human folk have. Do we need to wear special bathrobes?”

She remembered protagonists in period dramas and ancient novels she watched in her past life always wore plain white bathrobes when bathing… Even if this was likely set by the production company and author to pass censorship, the Qin family was a major aristocratic clan, so their bathing before the ancestral ceremony must adhere to some rules.

Qin Changxin, however, shook her head resolutely: “If you don’t like wearing it, then you don’t have to.”

“How can that be? I must learn your human customs, right?” Lin Yanyu insisted. “Whatever you say goes, why be so polite with this Young Master!”

Lin Yanyu hated making decisions that embarrassed her companions. For example, back in the demon world, the young woman wanted her to wear a chest binder, but the original owner didn’t have one to wear, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

As for now… while she didn’t know what the young woman was planning, she didn’t think the young woman would enjoy bathing naked with her.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Yanyu successfully put on a plain white thin silk robe and, under Qin Changxin’s gaze, stepped into the bathtub sprinkled with petals.

She had to admit, the young woman’s bathtub was indeed very large; after both of them sat in, there was still plenty of room.

Lin Yanyu first looked at Qin Changxin’s abdomen, only to see that the bandage wrapped yesterday had disappeared, and the wound left by the wind blade was also gone.

“My constitution is special  I have been able to heal wounds very quickly since I was young,” Qin Changxin explained, noticing her gaze. “With the aid of medicine and healing spells, small wounds like this are no obstacle.”

She paused, then suddenly lowered her voice: “If Yanyu doesn’t believe it, you can touch it and see.”

This statement made Lin Yanyu flinch. She did not move, but merely gazed calmly at the young woman until the other’s cheeks flushed and she lowered her dark eyes, before retracting her gaze.

“They all say the demon race is lustful, but I see the human race is no better.” Lin Yanyu smiled faintly. “So young, instead of diligently learning spells, why are you learning bad things from this Young Master?”

She deliberately spoke cryptically without naming names, letting the young woman reflect on her own. She had just considered it and decided that she should temporarily suppress the bud of romance, lest Qin Changxin fill her head with only love before she even came of age, neglecting the main plot.

Regarding the question of “whether the original protagonist not following the main plot will cause a butterfly effect,” Lin Yanyu hadn’t analyzed any clues yet and could only rely on the transmigration novels she had read to consider a solution.

Based on experience, for her and Qin Changxin to safely survive this painful novel until the end, Qin Changxin, as the original protagonist, definitely still needed to follow the plot’s main thread.

However, the Demon Realm Young Master Xuanlin in the original novel died early, and Qin Changxin didn’t find a partner even after becoming an antagonist, remaining solitary until the end. Now that the Demon Realm Young Master who should have died in the early stages has directly reformed and joined the protagonist, the “normal romance subplot” that wasn’t in the original novel will definitely influence the main plot to some extent.

As Qin Changxin’s official romantic partner, Lin Yanyu felt it was very necessary to rein in the romance subplot. It absolutely must not interfere with the young woman’s pursuit of her destiny!

Having been unexpectedly snubbed, Qin Changxin’s eyes darkened. She gently bit her lip, scooped up some water and splashed it on her arm, rubbing and washing it as she whispered, “You are so good, how could I learn bad things?”

Lin Yanyu: ???

She couldn’t tell for a moment if the young woman was genuinely praising her or shifting the blame.

“This is the first time anyone has praised this Young Master as ‘good’,” Lin Yanyu accepted the compliment shamelessly, recalled the original owner’s memories, and added, “However, before I abducted you, I indeed hadn’t done anything bad.”

If fighting to improve cultivation didn’t count as bad.

Qin Changxin pondered for a moment, then asked with interest: “In less than two days, you already feel that abducting me was a ‘bad thing’? If so, why were you so nonchalant about abducting me back then?”

Lin Yanyu: “…”

That’s only because the original owner had just fallen in love at first sight with you right before I took over her body!

Despite the internal complaint, Lin Yanyu cleared her throat and said earnestly, “That, of course, is because ‘Affection is born without knowledge of the cause’…”

“‘A deep affection is born’?” Qin Changxin quickly finished her sentence, and before Lin Yanyu could react, she added, “So, you kidnapped me because you had developed feelings for me?”

Lin Yanyu: “…”

What the hell did those accursed hua ben teach the young woman?!

Wait, why did she inexplicably quote “Affection is born without knowledge of the cause,” which has implications of a declaration of love?!

Lin Yanyu, who was utterly inexperienced in the realm of emotions, was stunned by this blunt, soul-searching question. When she regained her senses, she only saw the young woman with tightly pursed lips and slightly curved eyebrows, wanting to smile but daring not to.

A thick, white mist of steam had formed in the room, enveloping the two people who were both wearing plain white gauze robes.

The atmosphere was truly evocative, but Lin Yanyu only thought about how to quickly muddle through this topic.

She was used to being silent when lost in thought. However, her current silence was interpreted by Qin Changxin as a kind of silent affirmation.

She couldn’t explain the details, but she didn’t immediately refute it, nor was she angry about it.

In the hazy mist, Lin Yanyu was only preoccupied with her thoughts and didn’t notice that the young woman’s eyes had brightened again.

“I was joking,” Qin Changxin didn’t rush or get annoyed when Lin Yanyu didn’t respond for a long time, smiling as she took over the conversation. “That night in the demon world, you seriously explained to me that you just needed a guide from the human world, and it was merely a coincidence that you ran into me.”

Hearing this, Lin Yanyu perked up her ears.

Although this was the excuse she had casually fabricated at the time to stay with the female protagonist and survive, she now desperately wanted to end this topic and immediately nodded “Yes, actually, everything is fate, it’s the will of heaven…”

The warm, soothing water made her mind a little fuzzy. Her thoughts were already muddled by emotional issues, and she didn’t know what nonsense she was spewing. When she looked up and saw Qin Changxin smiling at her, she vaguely felt that something wasn’t right. She trailed off and closed her mouth, silently lowering her head to scrub her body.

The more she said, the more mistakes she would make, especially when her mind was unclear. It was better to speak less.