Competing with the Male Lead for the Female Lead (Transmigration) - Chapter 19
A black shadow flitted across the night sky like a phantom.
The two figures walking in the darkness concealed their auras, exchanged a glance, and Wen Wuning said, “You go back first.”
With that, she flew up to follow the black shadow.
Landing silently on the rooftop, a figure soundlessly descended beside her. Wen Wuning glanced back. In the darkness, her junior sister’s eyes were particularly bright.
She suddenly remembered how her junior sister had led her to hide alone for two days in the interspatial space. Only a few months had passed, yet she had almost forgotten this junior sister who possessed a decisiveness and maturity that belied her age.
Without saying much, Wen Wuning tacitly agreed to Lan Feier’s presence.
Under the cover of night, they followed the black shadow from a distance.
After leaving the Wen family, the black shadow headed south all the way. They realized the black shadow seemed to be going towards the Lin family.
The abandoned residence of the Lin family was just ahead. Just as they thought the black shadow was about to enter, it suddenly turned and changed direction. The two were startled, thinking they had been discovered. They stopped. Lan Feier wanted to retreat, but Wen Wuning didn’t.
She was also unwilling to give up, so she discussed with Wen Wuning and decided to continue following, but this time they kept a more conservative distance. If anything unexpected happened, they would immediately flee and never engage in direct confrontation.
‘Are you kidding? That’s the protagonist. If there’s a direct confrontation, the female lead might be able to handle it, but a nobody like her would just be cannon fodder.’
Finally, the black shadow entered an ordinary residence.
The two waited outside, intending to go in and see if there was anything special inside after the black shadow left.
However, they waited and waited for nearly half an hour, but the black shadow didn’t come out.
They quietly climbed over the courtyard wall. Only one room in the courtyard had light.
The thin paper window couldn’t block the heavy panting sounds from inside the room. The two who had just reached under the window froze.
Lan Feier clicked her tongue. She and Wen Wuning had already guessed that the black shadow was Sheng Baihe.
In the dead of night, she had guessed that Sheng Baihe might have come out to meet a casual lover, but she hadn’t expected this unreliable guess to actually be true.
They were both innocent young women who had never experienced such things. However, Lan Feier had seen her share of storms, so she could still remain calm, but she didn’t know how Wen Wuning would react.
She turned her head to look at Wen Wuning. Under the light shining through the window, Wen Wuning’s face was indeed red, her expression showing a moment of astonishment before returning to normal, just a bit awkward, with no other reaction, such as the anger of catching someone in the act.
Wen Wuning was already uncomfortable, and her junior sister kept staring at her. She raised her hand and turned her face away, while she herself stood up to examine the scene inside the room as a way to cover up her embarrassment.
This action was subconscious. By the time she reacted, she was already in a difficult position and had no choice but to bite the bullet and lean closer to peek at the scene inside the room.
Her reaction made Lan Feier find it amusing. After all, even elementary school students in her world weren’t as pure as this.
Wen Wuning looked at the room and suddenly showed a surprised expression. Lan Feier didn’t know what she saw and raised her head to look as well.
Seeing the situation inside the room, she couldn’t help but be speechless.
They had misunderstood. Hearing the sounds from inside, they had jumped to the conclusion that the male lead inside was Sheng Baihe.
Looking inside, there were actually five or six naked burly men. They were deeply engaged with a woman on the bed, busy as could be. Sheng Baihe was also in the room, but not among this group.
Sheng Baihe sat far away, appreciating the erotic scene on the bed.
Tsk tsk! Lan Feier hadn’t expected Sheng Baihe to have such a peculiar hobby.
Looking any further would give her a sty. Lan Feier gently tugged at Wen Wuning, signaling her to go back, but Wen Wuning grabbed her hand in return, indicating her to look carefully. Seeing Wen Wuning suddenly become serious, she leaned closer again.
Apart from the woman on the bed being a bit unenthusiastic, she didn’t notice anything.
“Listen.”
Lan Feier’s ears slightly warmed. She turned her head to look at Wen Wuning, only to see her serious face, not at all thinking there was anything wrong with speaking in a breathy voice near someone’s ear.
Under Wen Wuning’s gaze, Lan Feier focused on the sounds this time. The visuals were more impactful than the sounds, but the sounds were more ambiguous and erotic.
Lan Feier touched her somewhat hot ears. If she didn’t understand Wen Wuning’s character, she would have thought this was hinting at something.
The woman inside was Lin Niaoniao.
Wen Wuning suddenly remembered that her junior sister hadn’t met Lin Niaoniao many times and might not remember her voice at all. She took her junior sister’s hand and wrote the character “æž—” (Lin) in her palm.
According to what her father and elder brother had said, all the members of the Lin family had been executed that night. Why was Lin Niaoniao still here? And appearing in such a strange way.
The movements on the bed ended with a final passionate thrust from one of the burly men. The five or six men each picked up their clothes and left the room with satisfied expressions. Lin Niaoniao on the bed was thrown naked in a twisted and undignified posture onto the bed filled with traces of sexual activity.
“Are you full?” Sheng Baihe on the chair finally spoke, asking with a smile.
The person on the bed heard the voice, her breathing ragged, her chest heaving violently.
“Didn’t you want men?” Sheng Baihe stood up and walked over, a gloom in his eyes. “I’ll let you have your fill before you die.”
Lin Niaoniao took a deep breath, forcefully exhaling a mouthful of foul air. She stared at the man standing at the head of the bed and cursed with mad hatred, “Sheng Baihe, I was blind! You’re a beast in human clothing!”
“And what are you, eagerly climbing into the bed of this beast in human clothing? A lowly thing?”
“You! Sheng Baihe, may you die a horrible death!”
“I’m afraid your wish will be in vain.” Sheng Baihe smirked, a small round pot appearing in his hand. He tilted the pot, and a round, plump thing fell onto Lin Niaoniao’s belly. As soon as it landed, its body unfurled, becoming a fat, long creature thick in the middle and thin at both ends.
Feeling a cool, wriggling thing on her belly, Lin Niaoniao screamed in terror, “What is this?!”
“Specially prepared for you. It took me quite a bit of effort to find this thing,” Sheng Baihe casually threw the round pot onto the bed, flicked his fingers, and struck two of Lin Niaoniao’s acupoints from a distance. Lin Niaoniao’s eyes widened in horror, her limbs, whose meridians had long been destroyed, writhing weakly.
“I’ve sealed your seven orifices and the Shenque acupoint. This little darling will find its own entrance to burrow into your body and build a nest and lay eggs inside you. Where do you think it will burrow?” Sheng Baihe smiled sinisterly.
“In less than two hours, hundreds of worms will be born in your body. They will burrow into every corner of your body, eating you until not even bones are left, and you won’t die until the very last moment.” Sheng Baihe laughed heartily at Lin Niaoniao’s terrified appearance.
“This is the consequence of your scheming against me. Enjoy the process.” Seeing the fat worm had already found an entrance and was burrowing in, Sheng Baihe laughed loudly and pushed open the door to leave.
After Sheng Baihe left, Wen Wuning immediately broke through the window and entered, with Lan Feier closely following behind.
Lin Niaoniao on the bed had a ferocious expression, but because her seven orifices were sealed, she couldn’t make any sound at all.
Seeing the two figures suddenly appearing at the head of her bed, her eyes were filled with hatred and madness, but she couldn’t utter a single word.
Her gaze swept over, and Wen Wuning raised her hand, flicking a finger to unseal her seven orifices.
“Wen Wuning, I hate you!!”
Lan Feier turned her head to look at Wen Wuning, noticing that there were no extra emotions on her face, no pity, no schadenfreude, no anger.
“I told you, Sheng Baihe is not the righteous gentleman he appears to be on the surface.”
Wen Wuning’s tone was calm, but it successfully silenced Lin Niaoniao, perhaps reminding her of the slap she had given Wen Wuning back then.
But she immediately thought of something and said hatefully, “So what! He likes you! He would never treat you like this?! Why? Where am I inferior to you? Why do I have to suffer such torment…”
Lin Niaoniao had always been pampered and had never suffered hardships, let alone losses. If she had died with the others in the Lin family back then, it would have been better, at least a dignified death, without having to endure such torture.
A delicate flower in full bloom had been broken off, thrown to the ground and trampled upon.
When a person is about to die, even their most vicious words carry a trace of sadness, making one unwilling to argue with them further.
Seeing that Wen Wuning didn’t react, Lin Niaoniao suddenly started crying as she spoke. The usually arrogant Lin Niaoniao wept uncontrollably, crying like a child in front of two outsiders.
“I was so stupid. I brought a wolf into the house and harmed Grandpa… I don’t want to die, sob sob sob… I’m afraid of pain, sob sob sob. Why me…”
The room was filled only with Lin Niaoniao’s unrestrained crying. This might be the last time she cried so freely.
Lan Feier turned her head to look at Wen Wuning, only to see her eyes slightly lowered, her face expressionless, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.
“Ah—” Lin Niaoniao suddenly let out a scream.
A bulge appeared on her belly, as if something was moving inside.
“Pain, it hurts—”
“Senior Sister, let’s go.” Lan Feier knew that Wen Wuning staying now was definitely not to admire Lin Niaoniao’s painful expression. She had wanted to save Lin Niaoniao, rushing in as soon as Sheng Baihe left, hoping to save her before the worm entered her body, but it was too late. Now, their staying here would be of no help.
At this moment, Lin Niaoniao’s reaction was what one would expect from someone her age facing all this. She was afraid, helpless, and crying loudly, which made her more sympathetic than her previous arrogant and tyrannical demeanor.
“You go out first.”
Wen Wuning finally spoke, but Lan Feier hadn’t expected her to say this. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something to persuade Wen Wuning, but seeing her deep eyes, she knew that even with the best of friendships, there were boundaries. Like the current Wen Wuning, Lan Feier knew she shouldn’t say anything more.
Turning around and going out, she closed the door, leaned against the doorframe with her sword in her arms, and watched the moon in the sky gradually disappear behind the clouds.
“Ah—”
When the moon completely disappeared, a cry a hundred times more painful than before came from the room.
The crying continued for about ten minutes before gradually stopping, but Wen Wuning didn’t come out until half an hour later.
The door opened, and a thick smell of bl00d rushed out. Lan Feier uncomfortably turned her head slightly. Wen Wuning, standing at the door, was covered in half-dried bl00d. Her hands no longer showed their original skin color, and bl00d seemed to still be dripping from them.
Wen Wuning stood at the door blankly for two seconds before turning her head to look at Lan Feier and said to her,
“You don’t need to go to Lingyun Mountain with me. You stay in the Wen family. I’ll ask Father to take care of you. I’ll set off tomorrow. Please help me clean up the room.”
“Senior Sister.” Calling out to Wen Wuning who was walking away with big steps, Lan Feier looked at the bl00d all over her and said, “Go back and clean yourself up properly. Her bl00d might not be clean.”
Wen Wuning nodded and strode away.
Watching her departing figure, Lan Feier turned and entered the room after a long while.
The bed was like a murder scene. The bedding was soaked, and the bl00d on the floor was still spreading. The person on the bed was covered with an outer garment, which was also completely soaked and stuck to the body, revealing the uneven surface underneath.
Why bother?
Knowing she couldn’t be saved, yet still dirtying her own hands.