I'm competing with the male lead for a woman (GL) - Chapter 4

A few drops of bl00d stained the shoes.

Chu Shao stared at the crimson drops on the ice lotus flowers, lowered her eyes, and her face showed no expression.

If it were the original owner, she probably wouldn’t have cared about such a trivial matter.

But looking at the bl00d stains on the snow-white shoes, Xiao Jin, who always thought she was right in everything she did, felt that this was indeed her fault.

How could she have dirtied someone else’s white shoes?

Even in modern times, stepping on white shoes would probably get the shoe owner to scold you for three days and three nights.

Xiao Jin realized her mistake.

But she had a fatal flaw: admitting a mistake was one thing, changing was another.

Xiao Jin wanted to apologize now, but she didn’t know how to phrase it to express “I was wrong.”

In the end, Chu Shao spoke first.

Chu Shao looked at the ice lotus flowers on her shoes and slightly widened her eyes.

The flowers embroidered on them were originally inanimate.

But after being splattered with bl00d, they looked like plum blossoms falling on snow, and the silver-blue patterns became lifelike.

Chu Shao seemed to have seen such a scene many years ago, when she reached out and touched the bl00d that had dripped on the silver-blue petals.

The touch was wet and sticky, and children’s songs came from afar.

She shed tears unconsciously.

Many years later, Chu Shao was able to control her tears very well. Stroking the bl00d stains on her shoes, she said softly, “Very beautiful.”

The memories of her youth gradually faded, Chu Shao turned to Xiao Jin and leaned closer.

Then, ignoring Xiao Jin’s frozen expression, she gently raised her hand and wiped the bl00d from her lips.

“Thank you, Your Highness. I haven’t been this happy in a long time.”

If it weren’t for Xiao Jin, she probably would never have known that she would still feel pleasure in such destruction.

Xiao Jin understood that Chu Shao was happy at this moment, but she didn’t know why she was happy.

Just feeling the trembling finger stroking her lips, and meeting Chu Shao’s gentle and clear eyes, she felt extremely horrified.

Although her expression didn’t change much, goosebumps had covered her body under her clothes.

Xiao Jin had a feeling that all the goosebumps in her life would be accounted for today.

The female lead was so yandere and so terrifying, it was really difficult to deal with.

Xiao Jin was about to push away Chu Shao’s finger on her lips, but just as she raised her hand, she was intercepted by the other person.

Looking at Chu Shao’s posture of holding her fingers back, Xiao Jin felt that something was wrong.

After a long while, Xiao Jin realized: wasn’t this a ten-finger interlock?

She could only tell herself: calm down, calm down.

The old-fashioned female lead didn’t understand what the ten-finger interlock meant.

“Let go, I’ll do it myself.”

As soon as she said it, Xiao Jin regretted it.

Because she had just finished coughing, coupled with a hint of mysterious nervousness, her voice was light and hoarse, not enough to deter Chu Shao.

Instead, it seemed a bit…

It was really weird.

Fortunately, Chu Shao was immersed in her own world and didn’t notice anything wrong with Xiao Jin’s voice.

Chu Shao came back to her senses and looked at her and Xiao Jin’s interlocking fingers in confusion.

Only then did she realize that she had just lost her composure.

Chu Shao suddenly realized, the confusion in her eyes gradually disappearing.

“It’s all because I was too happy just now, and I lost my manners without realizing it. I hope Your Highness will forgive me. But thanks to your bl00d, I understand myself better.”

“…”

Xiao Jin didn’t understand Chu Shao’s brain circuit at all.

Just looking at the expression on Chu Shao’s face, she felt particularly creepy.

Chu Shao smiled: “So, what fun things are next?”

If ordinary people had encountered what had just happened, they would have run away long ago.

But Xiao Jin was different.

She knew the female lead was a yandere, and her scalp was numb, but in order to complete the mission, she had to keep the other person by her side for a year.

For Chu Shao, Xiao Jin knew she couldn’t avoid it.

To ensure her safety for this year, she could only try to make the other person less ill.

Looking at Chu Shao in an excited state, Xiao Jin decided to implement some measures.

Through the previous interaction, Xiao Jin could vaguely feel that Chu Shao’s logic was very strong, and ordinary people couldn’t negotiate with her at all, let alone defeat her logic.

So Xiao Jin could only psychologically suggest to Chu Shao that she knew many interesting things.

Only if she was alive could she keep telling the other person many interesting things.

Hehe, with ten years of reading experience, she had a good set of tricks to deal with yanderes.

Xiao Jin had already come up with a preliminary idea, so she slowly said to Chu Shao: “There are many fun things, but the premise is… the princess has to cooperate with me first.”

Cooperate?

From the moment Xiao Jin snatched the bride, Chu Shao knew that things seemed to be getting interesting.

Chu Shao nodded: “I will fully cooperate with you.”

After all, if she didn’t cooperate with Xiao Jin, she wouldn’t know how to pass so much boring time.

Xiao Jin picked up the empty gourd and said to Chu Shao: “Since we each drank half of this wine just now, then from now on, we are allies.”

Hearing the word “allies,” Chu Shao frowned slightly: “I’ve seen in storybooks that two people who have drunk wedding wine shouldn’t be husband and wife?”

Although she didn’t think there was any special meaning in getting married, she still wanted to correct Xiao Jin’s mistake.

Xiao Jin was silent.

She never expected that someone who didn’t even know wedding wine would have read storybooks.

And she could also associate wedding wine with wedding wine based on experience.

It seemed the opponent was not to be underestimated.

But Xiao Jin also had a fatal advantage, as long as she believed she was right, she could turn white into black.

So Xiao Jin began to lie through her teeth.

“Oh, is that so? Speaking of storybooks, I’ve also read some stories in storybooks, one of which is called ‘The Oath of the Peach Garden.'”

Xiao Jin wanted to wait for Chu Shao to ask questions, so she could buy herself some time to recall how Liu, Guan, and Zhang became sworn brothers.

But Chu Shao just looked at her with a smile, without saying a word.

Xiao Jin could only bite the bullet and continue: “The protagonists of the story are three men of virtue and talent. They hit it off, so they chose a time when peach blossoms were in full bloom, and took an oath in the peach garden, becoming sworn brothers by drinking wine.”

Chu Shao thought the story was quite pleasant, and always kept a smile on her face.

However, the next moment, Chu Shao seemed to remember something, her smile faded, and she shook her head: “That’s not right.”

Xiao Jin was still thinking about how to explain the noble friendship of Liu, Guan, and Zhang to the female lead, so as to express the deep meaning of “we are good brothers after drinking wine, so you can’t kill me.”

It seemed she had failed.

Chu Shao’s smile remained, but her expression revealed an almost innocent confusion: “But I didn’t take an oath with Your Highness, and we didn’t drink wine in the peach garden, how can we be considered sworn brothers?”

“…”

Xiao Jin was once again shocked by Chu Shao’s strange focus.

She could only put on a calm face and talk nonsense: “It doesn’t matter, as long as the intention is there, heaven and earth can witness it.”

Intention?

Chu Shao’s lips curled into a smile, and she said softly to Xiao Jin: “Speaking of this, I really want to know what Your Highness’s intention is for me?”

The tone was calm, and the expression was flawless.

The red gauze reflected the candlelight, and Xiao Jin even saw the smile in Chu Shao’s eyes.

At this moment, Xiao Jin had to admit that this sentence was infinitely provocative from anyone’s mouth.

But looking at the bl00d that had not been wiped clean on Chu Shao’s fingers, and the smile on her lips, Xiao Jin could swear to heaven that she really didn’t have that kind of worldly desire.

Unless she was crazy, she would think that a yandere who could stab her in the back at any time was just trying to provoke her.

Xiao Jin tried not to look at the smile on Chu Shao’s face.

“My intention is very simple. Since we have drunk the wine, then from now on, we are allies who share life and death, and our fates are connected.”

Of course, Xiao Jin’s focus was on sharing life and death, suggesting that Chu Shao should pay attention to controlling her illness.

“Fates are connected?”

Chu Shao’s face showed an indescribable expression, as if she felt it was a bit novel, but also contained a hint of disgust.

After a moment, Chu Shao raised her eyebrows and asked softly, “Your Highness really wants to be connected to me by fate?”

Indeed, this sentence was simply shameless coming from the mouth of a destroyer of a country.

But Xiao Jin wasn’t someone who cared about face anyway. She was just a modern person who yearned to go home, a person with a hard life.

Even though the mission was arduous, Xiao Jin decided to give it her best shot: “Yes, I mean what I say.”

Chu Shao was silent for a long time, seeming to ponder the credibility of this sentence.

Then, as if she had figured it out, Chu Shao smiled: “Then I’ll believe Your Highness this once, but I hope you mean what you say, and… don’t regret it.”

“Yes, no regrets.”

Xiao Jin didn’t realize the seriousness of the matter.

She just wanted to seek a moment of peace in her life.

After receiving the promise, Chu Shao closed her eyes and took a deep breath, so that she could remain calm in her excited state.

This was the first time she had received a promise from someone, and the first time she had become someone’s ally, rather than establishing a boring marital relationship.

This novel experience made Chu Shao feel very satisfied.

It seemed that Xiao Jin was indeed a good new pastime.

Xiao Jin had no idea that she had been taken as a pastime to pass the time by Chu Shao.

Instead, she breathed a sigh of relief and began to discuss the alliance: “After drinking this cup of wedding wine, from now on, we will still be husband and wife in front of others, but allies in private.”

“Okay.”

Chu Shao smiled and agreed very readily.

Because she didn’t care what kind of relationship she had with Xiao Jin, only whether things were interesting enough to make her willing to pass the time.

Looking at Chu Shao’s gentle and harmless smile, although Xiao Jin knew that it was probably nine out of ten times a pretense.

But she had to admit that the female lead was indeed very beautiful when she wasn’t smiling so perversely.

Xiao Jin was about to continue establishing the alliance when a fishy sweetness surged into her throat.

She frowned, covered her lips, and coughed violently several times.

When she spread her palm again, her five fingers were full of sticky bl00d.

Xiao Jin felt a little sad. As a disabled person who had married a yandere with no empathy, even getting a handkerchief had become a luxury.

Too miserable.

She had only transmigrated into a prince, but she was experiencing the loneliness of an emperor.

This illusion didn’t last long before a slender white hand appeared in Xiao Jin’s field of vision.

In the palm of the hand, there was a plain handkerchief.

“Please wipe it off.”

Meeting Chu Shao’s eyes, Xiao Jin didn’t feel any goodwill from them, but instead felt that Chu Shao seemed extremely happy to see her coughing up bl00d.

In fact, Xiao Jin’s feeling was completely correct.

Chu Shao felt an instinctive joy when she saw Xiao Jin’s pale, bloodless face and the bl00d on her lips.

This pleasure came suddenly, spreading from her heart, but she didn’t know why.

But Chu Shao enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

Xiao Jin forcibly ignored Chu Shao’s not-so-friendly gaze and took the handkerchief handed over by the other person.

After wiping away the bl00d, she continued to dangle Chu Shao’s appetite: “We will be fake husband and wife for a year. I will only keep you for a year, and after a year, I will send you back to the Yao Country.”

After all, in the original story, a year later was the day Emperor Qi died, and by then, Xiao Jin wouldn’t have to pretend to be husband and wife with Chu Shao anymore.

To be honest, Xiao Jin had already started to fantasize about time fast-forwarding to a year later.

“Back to the Yao Country? Why should I go back to the Yao Country?”

Xiao Jin looked at the gradually disappearing smile on Chu Shao’s face, thinking, just pretend.

Although the original story was written like an old-fashioned web novel, with the main theme of entangled abusive love, the female lead still had some brains.

Even in the later stages, when the male lead and the second male lead pursued her relentlessly, the female lead didn’t indulge in love in the end, but chose to restore her homeland and ascend the throne.

This was also the biggest reason why Xiao Jin had the patience to read on.

“Princess, dare you make a bet with me?”

Xiao Jin’s tone was full of certainty.

After all, she knew the plot well and was sure that the female lead would eventually become an empress.

Chu Shao became interested: “What to bet on?”

“Bet that you will rebuild the Yao Country and ascend the throne in the future.”

Xiao Jin wasn’t worried about spoiling the plot at all.

Because she had a feeling that the more information she knew, the happier the female lead would be.

However, Xiao Jin’s feeling was wrong this time.

Chu Shao seemed to feel a little disappointed, and the smile on her lips was a bit more hypocritical: “Your Highness, this bet is boring, because I know you will definitely lose.”

She didn’t plan to restore the country, and she wasn’t interested in ascending the throne.

The only thing that could pique Chu Shao’s interest was the Xiao Jin in front of her.

Too strange, this person’s changes were too great.

Chu Shao tried hard to recall the scene when she first saw Xiao Jin, but found that her impression of Xiao Jin wasn’t deep, and she couldn’t remember it very well.

By the time Chu Shao came back to her senses, Xiao Jin seemed to have said a lot of words, but she didn’t hear a single word clearly.

But Chu Shao pretended to know everything, and a smile appeared on her lips: “Although I think this bet is boring, if the stakes are interesting, I can reluctantly participate.”

Well, it seemed she would only bet if it was interesting.

Given Chu Shao’s current mental state, even ascending the throne couldn’t attract her, so what interesting stakes could there be?

Xiao Jin thought that if she lost the bet, she would just have to give her life here.

She might as well break the pot and say casually, “Then bet on my life.”

Chu Shao didn’t want Xiao Jin’s life, because it was useless.

But because Chu Shao knew that Xiao Jin probably wouldn’t survive tomorrow, she always felt that this person might have a way to survive.

So she smiled and continued to ask, “Does the life Your Highness is talking about include all parts of the body?”

“…”

Even Xiao Jin, who had read countless web novels, got goosebumps all over her body when she heard this tiger-wolf word.

Was there no normal person in this dog-bl00d novel?

Xiao Jin looked at the original owner’s broken body and felt that the female lead’s taste shouldn’t be so heavy, not to the point of thinking of necrophilia.

So she selectively ignored Chu Shao’s way of expressing herself and nodded in response: “Yes.”

This time Xiao Jin guessed correctly, Chu Shao’s taste wasn’t that heavy.

Chu Shao didn’t want to commit necrophilia, she just planned to take Xiao Jin’s hands after she died.

Thinking of this, Chu Shao agreed to the alliance Xiao Jin said: “This bet is good. In exchange, I will also help you hide the crime of treason.”

Treason???

Xiao Jin was so shocked that she didn’t know what to say. What was Chu Shao thinking? How did she suddenly commit treason?

Chu Shao still smiled and felt that her thinking was very clear.

Since Xiao Jin wanted her to restore the country, there was only one reason: Xiao Jin herself planned to commit treason. Attacking the Yao Country was just an expedient measure, and the real purpose was to destroy the Qi Country.

Thinking like this, everything became reasonable.

Xiao Jin had no idea where Chu Shao’s logic was reasonable. She could only comfort herself that it was enough to complete the mission, and she didn’t have to care about these details.

So she could say to Chu Shao: “Okay, from now on, we are allies.”

Who knew that Chu Shao would smile lightly and deny her statement.

“No, Your Highness. You are a traitor, and I am a prisoner.”

“So, we are accomplices.”