I'm competing with the male lead for a woman (GL) - Chapter 1
Morning, Shili Street.
The rain marks on the capital’s main avenue had not yet dried, still carrying a slight dampness. In an instant, snow began to fall, covering everything with a layer of broken white.
Black shoes stepped through the snow, frost splashing.
Eunuchs carried the dragon and phoenix bridal sedan chair, moving steadily forward, the tassels hanging from the edges swaying in the sound of drums.
Today, at mao hour (5-7 a.m.), it was the time for the fourth prince’s wedding.
The bridegroom rode a white horse, and the wedding procession stretched from one end of the street to the other.
Eight eunuchs worked together to carry the bridal sedan chair, followed by more than forty guards, a truly grand display. The gongs and drums along the way awakened the residents of the long street.
The people rubbed their sleepy eyes, propped open the windows of the upper floors, and leaned out to look down.
However, they were not drawn to the fourth prince’s procession, but instead focused all their attention on another team of cold and stern guards below.
Because at the very front of the procession, a wheelchair was conspicuously placed.
And someone was sitting in the wheelchair.
Someone who shouldn’t have been there at all.
In fact, Xiao Jin knew what the onlookers were thinking.
Indeed, her proper entrance shouldn’t have been in a wheelchair, but rather in a coffin.
Of course, if the bride snatching failed today, a place in the royal mausoleum would probably still be reserved for her.
“Host, please note that the bridal sedan chair is only 500 meters away from you.”
“A reminder! Your lifespan is only 1 hour remaining. Please control the time of the bride snatching and complete the task as soon as possible to extend your lifespan.”
The mechanical voice sounded in her mind.
Hearing the system’s words, Xiao Jin was somewhat moved.
Even though she had transmigrated into such an old-fashioned, dog-bl00d, abusive novel, the system that came with her was still relatively humane. At least it gave her nearly two days of buffer time, instead of forcibly issuing a mission right from the start.
Well, essentially, it wasn’t much better.
Yes, the person sitting in the wheelchair at this moment was not the Third Prince of Qi, Xiao Jin, but an innocent transmigrator.
Xiao Jin’s transmigrating process was very simple.
Two days ago, she finished reading “The Great Yao Empress,” a web novel that disguised itself as a female lead story but was actually a dog-bl00d romance revival.
After reading it, Xiao Jin didn’t curse or greet the author’s family.
She just gave it a negative score and commented nonchalantly:
“It’s quite dog-bl00d, and I happen to have the same name as a cannon fodder who doesn’t survive past chapter three. Tsk, I’m really afraid of transmigrating.”
Someone agreed below and left a message:
“Hahahaha, I suggest the sister memorize the entire text,” “Sister, hurry up and read the extra chapters, it seems modern society can’t keep you.”
Then Xiao Jin transmigrated.
The system told her that she had transmigrated into the 18th-tier female supporting character in the novel.
A peculiar woman who was disabled, cross-dressing, and infatuated with the male lead.
The original owner had made great military achievements and held a high position, but she was blindly obedient to the male lead, never going west when he told her to go east.
What a forcedly lowered IQ setting.
The system explained: “Host, you’ve transmigrated into an old-fashioned, dog-bl00d, fictional novel, anything is possible.”
“Due to the settings, you won’t survive past chapter three. So your current lifespan is only 48 hours remaining. Please complete the first mission as soon as possible to extend your lifespan.”
Xiao Jin was an experienced bookworm, she knew all the tropes.
She nodded, indicating understanding: “What’s the mission?”
“Mission 1: Bride snatching—forcibly marry the female lead who is about to marry the second male lead.”
“Friendly reminder, host, only after you complete all missions and have the female lead kill you will the life countdown stop, and you can return to your original world.”
Xiao Jin: “…”
Not to mention that the Yao Country was destroyed by the original owner, the female lead already had an irreconcilable hatred for the original owner.
Just imagining a terminally ill lung cancer patient, unable to walk upright, coughing bl00d while wheeling herself to snatch the bride on the female lead’s wedding day, made her toes curl.
After careful consideration, Xiao Jin proposed a feasible plan: “Can I just choose death and then have a happy ending?”
“No, host.”
••••
After two days of mental preparation, Xiao Jin had been reborn and was now able to bravely lead the royal guard to the female lead’s wedding to snatch the bride.
The bridal sedan chair was right in front of her, but Xiao Jin showed no intention of yielding, instead taking the handkerchief offered by the servant, covering her lips, and coughing up a few mouthfuls of bl00d.
After coughing, she even had the leisure to fold the bl00d-stained handkerchief neatly and hand it to the servant.
It wasn’t until the sedan chair got closer and Xiao Jin saw the fourth prince riding on horseback that she finally had a reaction.
However, her reaction was unexpected.
Xiao Jin lowered her eyes and pulled an arrow from the quiver worn by a guard.
Yesterday, the system told her that she had not only inherited the original owner’s short lifespan, but also her skills.
Since the original owner had been on the battlefield and could be appointed as the General, she must have had some skills.
Even if her legs were crippled, muscle memory would still be there.
Xiao Jin was curious how good the original owner’s martial arts skills were, and coincidentally, a moving target came to her door.
The fourth prince rode a fine horse, holding the reins, wearing auspicious black and crimson clothes, looking very spirited, his eyebrows almost flying to the sky.
However, Xiao Jin looked at him as if he were a uniformly moving white mouse.
Her fingers brushed the feathers of the arrow, and her eyes even revealed a hint of pity.
As if to say, you’re just unlucky.
Xiao Jin only felt pity for a moment, then nocked an arrow and precisely aimed the arrowhead at the fourth prince’s location.
It had to be said that Xiao Jin’s series of actions really confused the system.
What was the host doing?
The core of this mission was just to snatch the bride, not to assassinate someone.
The system said with a sweat: “Host, although you have the original owner’s skills and muscle memory, you can’t just kill the second male lead right from the start…”
The onlookers were also dumbfounded.
If they weren’t mistaken, the person Lord Yan was aiming at with the bow and arrow seemed to be the fourth prince?
The system wanted to persuade her further.
However, Xiao Jin didn’t listen to advice at all, her fingers pinched the end of the arrow, pulled it back, and shot the arrow out neatly.
“Whoosh—”
The child upstairs, watching this scene, would have cried out if his mother hadn’t covered his mouth.
However, the next moment.
When he saw the arrow graze the bridegroom’s crown and hit the sedan chair curtain, the expression on his face gradually became happy.
After a moment, he giggled.
Of course, not everyone could laugh like the child.
Because of the cold arrow that shot through the air, the scene under the building had already gotten out of control.
The spirited horse neighed, and the guards all drew their swords, shouting: “Assassin—protect His Highness!”
The morning sun rose.
The capital’s morning thus began.
••••
By the time the guards had finished shouting and surrounded the rebellious assassin, they were instantly silent.
Looking at Lord Yan sitting in the wheelchair, the guards felt like they were living in a dream. It was also the first time they felt that drawing their swords to protect their lord was actually a self-destructive act.
At this moment, they held their swords high, unable to either strike or withdraw, truly in a dilemma.
The fourth prince finally calmed his frightened horse, and when he rode to the front of the culprit with a murderous aura, he was stunned.
Because he had encountered someone with an even stronger murderous aura.
The person in the wheelchair had clear black pupils and extremely white skin, looking like they were ill. Even wearing a thick fur coat, they couldn’t hide their listless state.
However, their appearance was extremely good, with cold eyebrows and delicate features, looking like a woman.
However, given this person’s temper, no one dared to say this out loud, at most they only dared to mutter it in their hearts.
In fact, Xiao Jin also felt that the original owner’s face didn’t look like a man’s at all.
Anyone with a retina could tell that the original owner was cross-dressing, but the original owner had been dressing up for more than twenty years, and no one had ever exposed her.
It was truly an old-fashioned, dog-bl00d web novel, you lost if you used your brain to look at it.
The system was still in shock.
Because it had just fast-forwarded the scene to the fourth prince being shot in the center of his eyebrows, bl00d splattering everywhere.
But it didn’t expect the host to just want to… shoot the sedan chair curtain?
During the Qing Dynasty, there was indeed a custom for the bridegroom to shoot the bridal sedan chair with a bow and arrow. But this was a fictional web novel, and the host was here to snatch the bride.
She didn’t really think she was the bridegroom, did she?
Just as the system was frantically speculating about Xiao Jin’s intentions, the scene became silent.
Or rather, it was dead silent.
The fourth prince stared at Xiao Jin from horseback, while the wedding guards and Xiao Jin’s guards drew their swords, forming a standoff.
This strange atmosphere was finally broken by Xiao Jin’s cough.
Xiao Jin frowned and took the handkerchief offered by the servant.
In front of the fourth prince, and in front of the crowd of people on the upper floors, she put away her bow and arrow and began to cough violently.
The coughing was heart-wrenching, and the eunuchs carrying the bridal sedan chair trembled at the sound, their legs shaking.
After coughing up all the bl00d in her throat, Xiao Jin wiped the red from the corners of her lips with the handkerchief and looked up at the fourth prince: “Today is the fourth brother’s joyous occasion. Although I am inconvenient due to my legs, I should still come to congratulate him.”
Congratulate?
Everyone was silent. Did you really think congratulating someone meant shooting an arrow at the top of the bridegroom’s head?
After hearing Xiao Jin’s words, the fourth prince was silent for a long time.
After controlling his facial expressions, he finally spoke, his words very direct: “Third brother, what exactly do you want?”
It seemed the original owner’s younger brother was very dissatisfied with her.
Xiao Jin coughed a few more times, thinking that she still had to win people over with virtue, otherwise it wouldn’t be easy to complete the mission.
So she began to win people over with virtue.
Xiao Jin displayed the original owner’s inherently unruly demeanor and replied calmly: “I’m here to snatch the bride.”
System: “…”
The fourth prince tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and asked expressionlessly: “Why?”
Xiao Jin was slightly incredulous.
Did snatching the bride need a reason?
But Xiao Jin still decided to reason with him, asking the fourth prince in return: “I conquered the Yao Country, are you asking why?”
Hearing this, the guards’ eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
The eunuchs carried the big red bridal sedan chair, even though their legs were trembling, they still held on, daring not to drop it.
The long street fell silent again.
Although Xiao Jin’s words seemed unreasonable, no one could find a reason to refute them for a moment. Because the Yao Country was indeed conquered by this person.
The fourth prince was the son of Concubine Mu, spoiled since childhood, and had never suffered such humiliation.
He had a bad temper, and now that he couldn’t bear it anymore, he naturally became murderous, staring down at Xiao Jin’s legs and asking with a smile: “Even if third brother gets the beauty, I wonder if you have the fortune to enjoy her?”
Noticing the contemptuous look in the fourth prince’s eyes as he glanced at her legs.
Xiao Jin’s eyebrows twitched, this was a personal attack, wasn’t it?
If others don’t offend me, I won’t offend them.
So she decided to fight back.
Xiao Jin looked up at the fourth prince and said unhurriedly: “Whether I have the fortune to enjoy her or not is another matter, let’s talk about the fourth brother first.”
“Fourth brother, you’re just a prince. Without official position, without title, and without fief, yet you dare to be arrogant in front of me, you have quite some courage.”
“Everyone in the country knows that I am the lord of Yan, and also the General personally appointed by the Emperor. Even the monarchs of other countries, who dislike me, still have to call me Lord Yan out of courtesy, and you…”
Xiao Jin’s voice paused here.
Then she asked slowly: “What are you?”