I'm competing with the male lead for a woman (GL) - Chapter 4.1

There were a few drops of blood on the shoes.

Chu Shao stared at the bright red dripping onto the ice lotus, lowered her gaze, and her face showed no discernible expression.

If it were the original owner, they probably wouldn’t even care about such trivial matters.

Just looking at those snow-white shoes splattered with blood, Xiao Jin, who always felt that everything she did was right, now thought that this matter was indeed her fault.

How could you get someone else’s shoes so dirty?

Stepping on white shoes, even in modern times, would probably get you cursed by the owner for three days and three nights.

Xiao Jin realized her mistake.

But she has a fatal flaw: being wrong is one thing, but changing is another.

Xiao Jin now wants to apologize, but she doesn’t know how to organize her words to convey the meaning of “I was wrong.”

In the end, it was Chu Shao who spoke first.

Chu Shao looked at the ice-patterned flowers on the shoes, her eyes widening slightly.

The flowers embroidered on top are originally lifeless.

After the blood splattered, it looked like plum blossoms falling on the snow, and the silver-blue patterns became even more vivid.

Such a scene, Chu Shao seemed to have seen many years ago. At that time, she reached out her hand and touched the blood that had dripped onto the silver-blue petals.

The texture is damp and sticky, and the distant sound of children’s singing can be heard.

She shed tears unconsciously.

Years later, Chu Shao had already learned to control her tears well. Gently brushing over the bloodstains on her shoes, she softly said, “It’s beautiful.”

As the memories of youth gradually faded, Chu Shao turned sideways and moved closer to Xiao Jin.

Then, ignoring the frozen expression on Xiao Jin’s face, she gently raised her hand and wiped the blood off the other’s 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 could actually feel pleasure from such a broken state.

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

Just feeling that trembling finger brush over her lips, and then meeting the gentle clarity in Chu Shao’s eyes, she felt utterly creeped out.

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

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

The female lead is so yandere, so terrifying, it’s truly hard to deal with.

Xiao Jin was just about to push away the finger that Chu Shao had placed on her lips, but as soon as she raised her hand, it was intercepted by the other party.

Looking at Chu Shao’s gesture of holding her own fingers, Xiao Jin always felt that something was off.

After a while, Xiao Jin realized: Isn’t this her damn father holding hands?

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

The female lead of the cliché story doesn’t understand the meaning of interlocking fingers at all.

“Let go, I can do it myself.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Xiao Jin regretted it.

Because she had just finished coughing, and with a hint of mysterious nervousness, her voice was light and hoarse, completely insufficient to intimidate Chu Shao.

Instead, it seems a bit… you know…

It’s just really off.

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

After Chu Shao came to her senses, she looked at her fingers intertwined with Xiao Jin’s, puzzled.

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

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

“It’s all my fault for being too happy just now, and I lost my manners for a moment. I hope Your Highness will forgive me. But thanks to your blood, I have come to understand myself better.”

“……”

Xiao Jin completely didn’t understand Chu Shao’s way of thinking.

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

Chu Shao smiled, “So, what’s the next fun thing to do?”

If an ordinary person had encountered what just happened, they would have probably fled long ago.

But Xiao Jin is different.

She knew the female lead was a yandere and felt her scalp tingle, but in order to complete the mission, she still had to keep her around for a year.

Regarding Chu Shao, Xiao Jin understood that there was no way to avoid her.

In order to ensure her safety for the year, she could only try to make the other person less sick.

Looking at the excited Chu Shao, Xiao Jin decided to take some measures.

Through their recent interaction, Xiao Jin could vaguely sense that Chu Shao’s logic was extremely formidable; ordinary people could not even negotiate with her, let alone defeat her logic.

So now Xiao Jin can only hint to Chu Shao on a psychological level that she knows a lot of interesting things.

Only by staying alive can one continue to share many interesting things with the other person.

Hehe, with ten years of experience, she has a knack for dealing with yanderes.

Xiao Jin’s mind had already formed a preliminary idea, so she said softly to Chu Shao, “There are many fun things, but the premise is… the Princess must cooperate with me first.”

Cooperate?

From the moment Xiao Jin interrupted the wedding, Chu Shao knew that things seemed to have become 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 all that boring time.

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

Hearing the word “allies,” Chu Shao frowned slightly: “In the stories I’ve read, shouldn’t the two people who have shared wedding wine be considered husband and wife?”

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

Xiao Jin fell silent.

She never expected that someone who didn’t even know what wedding wine was had actually read a script.

Moreover, based on experience, one can associate Heqin wine with celebratory wine.

It seems the opponent shouldn’t be underestimated.

However, Xiao Jin also has a fatal flaw: as long as she believes she is right, she can turn white into black.

So Xiao Jin started lying with her eyes wide open.

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

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

Who would have thought that Chu Shao would just look at her with a smile and not say a word?

Xiao Jin could only grit her teeth and continue, “The protagonists of the story are three righteous men. They were like-minded, so they chose a time when the peach blossoms were in full bloom to swear an oath in the Peach Blossom Garden and pledge their brotherhood with a toast.”

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

However, the next moment, Chu Shao seemed to remember something, stopped smiling, shook her head, and said, “No.”

Xiao Jin was still pondering how to explain to the female lead the noble friendship between Liu, Guan, and Zhang, so as to convey the deeper meaning of “after drinking together, we are good brothers, so you can’t kill me.”

It seems like the result was a failure.

Chu Shao’s smile remained unchanged, but her expression revealed an almost childlike confusion: “But I have never sworn an oath to the heavens with Your Highness, nor have we ever drunk together in the Peach Blossom Garden. How can this be considered brotherhood?”

“……”

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

She could only maintain a calm expression and nonsense, “It’s fine, as long as the intention is there, heaven and earth will bear witness.”

Intentions?

Chu Shao’s lips curled into a smile as she softly said to Xiao Jin, “Speaking of which, I really do want to know, what exactly are your feelings for me, Your Highness?”

The tone is calm, and the expression is flawless.

The red gauze illuminated by the candlelight made Xiao Jin even see the smile appearing in Chu Shao’s eyes.