I'm competing with the male lead for a woman (GL) - Chapter 13

Thinking of this, Xiao Jin rubbed her eyebrows.

How could she have such absurd thoughts? After all, who would want to form a CP with Chu Shao? Wouldn’t that be thinking their life was too long?

It was late at this time. When Su Tan was wrapping the gauze for Chu Shao, she lit a lamp in the room.

The candlelight was warm yellow, shining on Chu Shao’s clean white robe. Xiao Jin used this light to stare at Chu Shao’s arm.

She didn’t know how the female lead’s arm was so slender, how she could hold a sword and kill so many people in the blink of an eye.

The ointment was applied to the wound, a cool, stinging sensation.

Chu Shao smiled, but felt a little happy in her heart.

Applying medicine when the bl00d had not dried should have been extremely painful, but this pain that stimulated the nerves allowed Chu Shao to briefly remember the feeling at this moment.

This pleasure.

Chu Shao felt very happy, so she raised her head slightly, looked at Xiao Jin, and smiled at her.

Xiao Jin was speechless.

Seeing Chu Shao’s gentle smile, and thinking of the decisiveness when killing, she couldn’t imagine how someone could perfectly combine innocence and cruelty into one person.

Moreover, when these two opposite characteristics appeared on Chu Shao at the same time, it even seemed natural, as if there was nothing strange about it.

It had to be said that Chu Shao did look like someone with many secrets—and some serious illness.

Xiao Jin frowned, trying to recall where something went wrong.

Who knew that after Chu Shao finished applying the medicine, she would walk straight to her.

Xiao Jin sat in the wheelchair, looked up at Chu Shao, didn’t find anything wrong, and then moved her gaze down, and was a little surprised.

Because Chu Shao was holding white gauze and ointment in her hand.

“The wound on Your Highness’s body has not been treated yet, let me apply the medicine for you.”

Looking at the smile on Chu Shao’s face, Xiao Jin inexplicably felt that the other party seemed to be looking forward to it.

But when the man in black cut her with that sword, he didn’t use his full strength, so the wound on her arm wasn’t very deep. If she had to wrap gauze, it was really unnecessary.

Xiao Jin wanted to decline.

Who knew that passing Chu Shao, glancing back, she suddenly met Su Tan’s gaze.

That look was extremely unkind, and seemed to contain a warning.

Xiao Jin was amused at once. Did the female supporting character think she had put a spell on Chu Shao? Sorry, the female lead was born abnormal, she didn’t cause it.

So under Su Tan’s gaze, Xiao Jin nodded and smiled faintly: “Thank you, Princess.”

Of course, most of it was a smile for Su Tan to see.

When Su Tan saw the smile on Xiao Jin’s face, she coldly moved her gaze away and turned to feed the white parrot in the cage, but she was thinking about something in her heart.

Since that incident in the palace, she had resigned from the post of imperial physician.

Over the years, she had traveled to the four countries, and heard that Lord Yan of Qi was cruel, but now it seemed that it was not all like that.

On the other side, Chu Shao gently lifted Xiao Jin’s sleeve, staring at the bl00d-stained wound.

She was a little regretful, because the assassin didn’t cut deep, and it seemed that there was no need to apply much medicine. But if she wanted Xiao Jin to feel the same pleasant pain as her, it was not impossible.

She could apply ointment on her fingertips, and slowly apply medicine to Xiao Jin.

The cold ointment covered the wound, mixed with the bl00d that had not solidified. Her fingertips lightly turned, and she could easily let Xiao Jin experience the continuous pain.

Chu Shao originally thought so, and was ready to do so.

Just as she was about to put it into practice, she suddenly remembered that when she walked towards Xiao Jin with the sword, the other party had asked her a question.

——Does it hurt?

For Chu Shao, pain was the most memorable thing. The more profound the wound, the more it made her reminisce.

After all, she had too much time to kill.

Occasionally, she could only recall the sticky feeling of bl00d splashing on her wrist.

However, this pleasure would soon disappear, so Chu Shao had been trying to find a long, eternal bliss.

But when Xiao Jin asked this question, Chu Shao was a little confused: wasn’t pain something that made everyone happy?

Xiao Jin, why would she ask her if it hurt?

And when Xiao Jin saw that Chu Shao hadn’t moved for a long time, she remembered that the other party had just applied medicine. If she applied medicine to her again, wouldn’t it affect the wound?

Admittedly, Xiao Jin definitely didn’t have such a thing as a conscience.

But she was still a person, not a madwoman like Chu Shao who took pleasure in torturing others.

So she coughed twice and said softly, “You just applied medicine, you shouldn’t move too much, I’ll do it myself.”

Hearing this, Chu Shao finally understood.

So that’s how it was.

Although Xiao Jin was very interesting, some of her ideas were obviously different from her own. Perhaps she didn’t think that feeling pain was an enjoyable thing.

Chu Shao could understand that other people’s ideas were different from her own, because she didn’t care, and would still act according to her own will.

However, Xiao Jin and she were accomplices.

Chu Shao really couldn’t accept that Xiao Jin clearly said that she wanted to be connected to her fate, but didn’t agree with her ideas.

Therefore, Chu Shao decided to punish Xiao Jin—to punish Xiao Jin for not being able to feel more profound pain every moment before the end of the alliance.

Chu Shao thought that such punishment was very cruel, so her movements of applying medicine were very gentle, careful and cautious as if she was treating a rare treasure.

In fact, when Chu Shao said that she wanted to apply medicine to her, Xiao Jin was a little worried.

Was applying medicine just an excuse? Did Chu Shao just want to take the opportunity to torture her?

As a result, when the other party really started applying medicine, except for the ointment being slightly cool, Xiao Jin almost had an illusion.

The medicine was applied, but not completely applied.

There was no feeling at all.

Su Tan reached out and was about to feed the white parrot, but when she glanced at Chu Shao applying medicine to Xiao Jin, the wooden spoon for scooping feed shook.

Even when she learned that Yao Country was destroyed, her emotional fluctuations were not so violent.

Absurd.

How could the daughter of Emperor Yao be with Lord Yan? Who was Xiao Jin? She was the mastermind who destroyed Yao.

The ointment was very cold, Xiao Jin didn’t feel any pain, but felt quite comfortable.

After applying the medicine, Chu Shao also took a clean cotton cloth and wiped away the excess ointment from the edge of Xiao Jin’s wound.

Then, she took gauze to bandage her.

Chu Shao’s sleeve was close for a long time, almost touching her wrist, which made Xiao Jin frown slightly.

Because Chu Shao’s movements were too light, through the gauze, her fingertips lightly touched her skin, which was unexpectedly itchy.

Xiao Jin lowered her eyes and looked at the beauty mark under Chu Shao’s eyes. Even the other party’s unconscious warm breath seemed to be very aggressive.

She felt very uncomfortable, and goosebumps were about to come out.

Fortunately, although Chu Shao’s movements were very light, she wrapped the gauze quite quickly, and didn’t let her suffer for too long.

Chu Shao tied the knot and looked at Xiao Jin with a smile: “Your Highness, did my movements hurt you?”

“…”

Why did this sound a little strange?

However, Xiao Jin still answered truthfully: “No.”

Chu Shao knew that she had successfully punished Xiao Jin, and the other party was still clueless.

She was very happy, because before the end of the bet, Xiao Jin would never know that she had deprived her of the right to perceive pain.

Chu Shao smiled slightly, feeling that she was really cruel.

Xiao Jin looked at the smile on Chu Shao’s face, inexplicably feeling that many things seemed to have happened when she didn’t know.

At this time, the system began to settle.

“Congratulations to the host for completing the sudden mission. In view of your excellent performance this time, the system will add a week to your life.”

A week, what a big deal.

“In addition, through this mission, congratulations on unlocking the new character [Su Tan]. Su Tan’s current favorability towards you is 0. Different favorability will trigger different events, please pay attention to control.”

Xiao Jin was shocked, she didn’t expect Su Tan’s favorability towards her to not be negative.

Then the question came, Chu Shao’s favorability seemed to be the most important, right?

“The host doesn’t have to worry, the female lead Chu Shao doesn’t have this attribute of favorability.”

Xiao Jin almost thought she heard it wrong.

The system said again: “However, if the female lead Chu Shao really had this attribute, the system would not be able to detect whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.”

“In short, please keep up the good work, keep going.”

••••

The next day, Baima Temple.

In the temple’s wing room, a distinguished guest got up early.

The distinguished guest stood by the window, her gaze sweeping over the mountain’s vegetation, listening to the bell ringing between the mountains.

Until the lingering sound of the chime completely dissipated, the distinguished guest reached out and closed the window, turned around, and looked at the shadow that appeared in the room.

Today, she wore a vermilion robe with silver thread embroidered crane patterns, but what she wore didn’t really matter, because her name represented everything.

The distinguished guest sat back in the chair, facing the bronze mirror, and pinned a roughly made wooden hairpin.

After she put it on, the shadow in the room dared to speak, reporting in detail what happened yesterday.

From beginning to end, the distinguished guest’s expression didn’t change, except when she heard the sentence: “Reporting to Her Highness Grand Princess Zhaoyang, the royal mansion guards sent a secret report, saying that Lord Yan also found a token on the assassins and carried one of the bodies back to Lord Yan’s Mansion.”

That distinguished guest, namely Grand Princess Zhaoyang, Xiao Shuang, frowned slightly upon hearing this information.

“How many Shenji Camp people were there?”

“There were a total of one hundred Shenji Camp cavalrymen and twelve Lord Yan’s Mansion guards, three of whom are dead,” the shadow replied.

“A hundred, huh? It seems there are a bit too many, can’t kill them all at once.”

Xiao Shuang’s tone was casual: “Jin’er is still young and doesn’t know how to clean up properly, so let this princess clean up for her.”

Then she smiled faintly, stroking the wooden hairpin on her hair.

“Find an excuse to send all those hundred people to the border, keep an eye on them, and order them never to set foot in the capital in this lifetime.”

“Yes.”