I'm competing with the male lead for a woman (GL) - Chapter 2
“What are you?”
Upon hearing these words, the fourth prince’s face instantly turned ashen. He was filled with rage and wanted to order the guards to chase Xiao Jin away.
But upon second thought, who would dare to expel Xiao Jin?
Even if Xiao Jin became a cripple, she was still the Third Prince of Qi. Ordinary people who dared to lay a hand on her would be tired of living.
The chief eunuch accompanying them knew that both of these individuals were not to be trifled with.
He could only mediate cautiously: “Your Highness, please forgive us. You know that the marriage between the fourth prince and the princess of Yao was bestowed by the Emperor, and the auspicious day was chosen by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. This…”
He didn’t finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.
Snatching the bride was against the rules, and it was also going against the Emperor. Please consider it carefully.
Others who didn’t know the inside story wouldn’t know, but Xiao Jin had read the original story.
In fact, Emperor Qi initially wanted to bestow the marriage to the Crown Prince. If the male lead hadn’t refused, there wouldn’t have been a role for the second male lead, the fourth prince.
Moreover, what was the point of the second male lead?
Even if the female lead married him, it would be a limit of tugging and entangling abusive love, what are they struggling for?
However, since the chief eunuch brought up the Emperor, Xiao Jin couldn’t say anything for the time being.
After all, disobeying an imperial decree was a capital offense.
System: “Warning! Warning! Host, your remaining lifespan is only 30 minutes.”
“Detecting that the host is in a predicament, the system will temporarily provide you with two rhetoric options, one of which has a 50% success rate.”
Xiao Jin felt relieved.
As expected, the system was still useful at critical moments.
Then the system provided the options.
“Rhetoric Option 1: Heh, there is nothing in this world that this prince cannot obtain. I conquered the Yao Country, so Chu Shao should naturally be this prince’s woman!”
“…”
As expected of an old-fashioned web novel, even the system has a dog-bl00d flavor.
Xiao Jin felt her eardrums were damaged.
Before the system could explain option two, she decisively said to the system: “I choose the second one.”
System: “Okay, generating rhetoric aura for you.”
The next moment, Xiao Jin felt her body was out of her control.
With the aura’s blessing, Xiao Jin smiled slightly and said loudly: “The people of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau only know how to calculate celestial phenomena and calendars; they don’t understand the true feelings of the human world. I fell in love with the princess of Yao at first sight, and I will marry no one but her in this life.”
As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell silent again.
Not only were the others silent, but after regaining control of her body, Xiao Jin, with a black line on her face, couldn’t help but feel embarrassed for herself.
True feelings of the human world? Love at first sight?
The kind that destroys a country?
How could she say such a thing? The system was truly shameless.
Just when everyone was silent, a soft laugh came from the bridal sedan chair.
The laughter was faint, like a thin mist on the spring river, elusive yet carrying a crisp smile.
But Xiao Jin felt something was wrong.
With the female lead’s gentle persona, how could she laugh so happily after just losing her country?
Unfortunately, the fourth prince didn’t notice the abnormality, and even gave Xiao Jin a mocking smile.
“Third brother, ‘love at first sight’ is your wishful thinking. Before intercepting my bridal sedan chair, you should ask the princess herself if she is willing…”
Before he finished speaking, before Xiao Jin could answer, a gentle voice came from the bridal sedan chair.
“I am willing.”
The mocking smile on the fourth prince’s lips froze.
Xiao Jin had a feeling that something was fishy, but her life had entered a countdown, so she could only go down this path.
So she looked up at the royal guards: “What are you still standing there for?”
The guards looked at each other.
Xiao Jin pointed to the dragon and phoenix bridal sedan chair and said concisely: “Snatch it.”
••••
Lord Yan’s Mansion.
Yesterday, Xiao Jin instructed the mansion’s servant to buy the most expensive coffin. Although the servant’s back was sweating profusely, he dared not disobey.
Today, the servant found a few strong men and watched them carry the coffin made of golden nanmu wood into the threshold, finally letting out a sigh of relief.
He had finally fulfilled his mission.
Just as the strong men put down the gold-painted coffin, they saw gongs and drums in front of them, and a wedding procession passed by the mansion joyfully.
The servant wiped his sweat and knew that today was the fourth prince’s wedding day. So he tiptoed and wanted to take a look, hoping to get some good luck.
This glance almost made the servant fall off the steps.
Because in front of him, eight guards from the mansion were swaying as they carried the bridal sedan chair.
Although their faces were bruised, they looked quite proud.
What made the servant even more suspicious of life was that the eunuchs who were supposed to be escorting the bride were actually lined up on both sides of the procession, beating their bronze gongs with ashen faces.
And at the very front of the procession, a servant was pushing a wheelchair, and Xiao Jin, who didn’t show much expression, was sitting in the wheelchair.
Yes, Xiao Jin not only snatched the bride, but also snatched the second male lead’s procession.
The procession soon reached the entrance of the mansion.
Xiao Jin saw the coffin placed in the courtyard and greatly admired the servants of Lord Yan’s Mansion.
What virtue and ability did the original owner have to have such efficient employees?
Xiao Jin turned to look at the servant and was about to praise him when he suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud, trembling: “This old servant will take the coffin away!”
“…”
Xiao Jin swallowed the words of praise and said thoughtfully: “No hurry, keep it for now, you may need it in the future.”
The servant kowtowed and thanked him, repeatedly saying yes.
Xiao Jin looked at the servant with a complex expression, feeling that this person seemed to have some misunderstanding of her.
Facts proved that the servant of Lord Yan’s Mansion was indeed very efficient.
In just a few hours, he changed the mourning banners and funeral clothes he had bought into auspicious clothes. Lanterns were hung on the eaves, and dragon and phoenix wedding candles were placed on the table, looking quite festive.
The system sent a congratulatory message: “Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. Your lifespan has been extended to 24 hours. Please wait patiently for the next mission.”
“Friendly reminder, host, you only need to get along with the female lead for a year. When the female lead ascends the throne, let her kill you, and you can return to your original world.”
Xiao Jin sneered: “It’s easy for you to say.”
Then she asked the servant to push her to the bridal chamber.
Although the bridal chamber was temporarily arranged by the servants, it had to be said that it looked quite decent.
As soon as the door was pushed open, Xiao Jin was dazzled by the red color, and among the fiery red, the shoes under the female lead’s feet were particularly eye-catching.
When the servant saw the white shoes under the bride’s feet, her face turned pale, and the hand pushing the wheelchair couldn’t help shaking.
The wheelchair moved to the front of the bed. Xiao Jin looked at the woman sitting by the curtain, lowered her eyes, and focused on the slender white fingers.
The bridal chamber was lit with candles, and the room was filled with brilliance.
The bride’s hand shape was beautiful and slender, like warm white jade, her hands folded, placed quietly on the wedding robe.
Xiao Jin noticed that the bride was wearing white shoes and stared at them for a while, finding that they were embroidered with a few silver-blue patterns.
Seeing this, she didn’t make things difficult, just asked indifferently: “What is embroidered on the shoes?”
The bride replied: “It’s the ice lotus flower of Yao.”
Xiao Jin frowned slightly.
In the original story, the female lead Chu Shao didn’t dare to wear white shoes on her wedding day.
After all, she was a princess of a fallen country, knowing that the original owner and the fourth prince were not good people. If she dared to wear white on her wedding day, wouldn’t she be asking for death?
Through the veil, the bride’s voice was also veiled, crisp and pleasant, but a little hazy.
“The ice lotus flower is the most beautiful flower in Yao, blooming in the heavy snow of December, gorgeous as silver, and can only bloom for an hour.”
Xiao Jin reasonably questioned: “The epiphyllum blooms once a year, and can bloom for two hours. Can this flower wither faster than the epiphyllum?”
The bride replied: “Because the national master said that the ice lotus flower symbolizes auspiciousness, it will be picked as soon as it blooms and stored in a glass cover.”
Xiao Jin always skimmed through novels, so she naturally wouldn’t remember the meaning of a flower.
But listening to the female lead’s gentle and soft voice, she felt inexplicably strange, and it was hard to imagine what kind of expression and appearance was under the veil.
Xiao Jin coughed a few times and looked at Chu Shao.
Her voice was indifferent, but with a hint of pressure: “Princess, tonight is your wedding night with me. How dare you wear white shoes? Aren’t you afraid I’ll kill you?”
Xiao Jin’s intention was to test the female lead, but what she didn’t expect was that the female lead was completely unmoved.
Chu Shao’s tone was light, seemingly with a hint of doubt: “Your Highness, why should I be afraid?”
“The ice lotus flower is an auspicious object of Yao. In Yao, women wear shoes embroidered with ice lotus flowers when they get married.”
One set after another, it sounded like it was true.
Xiao Jin’s face didn’t show any expression, and she only had one thought in her heart.
Nonsense.
If Yao really had this custom, how could she, as a reader, not remember such a crucial plot point?
Xiao Jin didn’t take Chu Shao’s words seriously.
She reached out, grasped the wedding scale placed on the table, and decided to see the female lead’s true face.
So she picked up the wedding scale and lifted the red cloth.
She didn’t use much force, and the veil was lifted by the wedding scale, gently falling to the side of the bed.
Although Xiao Jin knew that the female lead Chu Shao was set as the most beautiful woman in Yao in the original story, she was still stunned the moment she saw that face.
Under the candlelight, the beauty slightly raised her eyes and looked at her with a smile.
All kinds of beauty, only in one glance.
By the time Xiao Jin came back to her senses, she saw more than just those soul-stirring eyes.
She found that there was also a small, bright red mole under the beauty’s eyes.
A deep but not seductive, extremely eye-catching tear mole.
Chu Shao’s eyebrows and eyes were too beautiful, like the sun breaking through the mist, cold but bright.
It made people admire and almost dare not look directly at her.
Of course, Xiao Jin didn’t feel this way.
Because she had been single for more than twenty years.
Even the most beautiful paper person couldn’t shake Xiao Jin’s calm and lonely heart.
She, the queen of loneliness, only felt that emotions would affect her speed in completing missions.
Anyway, at least now, Xiao Jin was conscious and not shaken at all.
Then, Xiao Jin saw the beautiful paper person smile at her and start talking: “It’s a pity that the material of this veil was very good, but it got dirty when it fell on the ground, so it can’t be used anymore.”
Xiao Jin looked at the smile on Chu Shao’s lips, feeling a little numb.
After staring for a long time, she realized why she had this strange feeling.
Because the female lead’s focus was too wrong.
Chu Shao’s fingers were still placed on her knees, and her beautiful eyebrows and eyes were still gentle.
The next moment, she seemed to think of something.
The corners of her lips slightly curved, and a hint of expectation was vaguely revealed on her face: “This is also my first marriage, so I’m really curious. Let me think…”
“What should we do next?”