When I Lay Flat, the Female Lead Panicked - Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Accepting Fate
Inside the vast, gloomy, and bone-chilling Demon Palace, at a spot in front of a luxuriously decorated, comfortable soft couch.
One tall and one short figure stood respectfully at its side. One honestly held a fruit plate, the other gently fanned with a cattail fan.
With pink veils now covering their faces, Fatty and Monkey looked on helplessly at Luo Xiaoxiao, who was half-reclined on the couch. Her expression was flat, revealing no change in emotion. They were somewhat wanting to speak, but holding back.
From the Master’s departure to their Young Master’s mental breakdown, three days had passed. In these three days, their Young Master hadn’t had a random fit of madness again. It’s just that…
They carefully watched Luo Xiaoxiao’s blank, watery eyes. Her expression was somewhat resigned and lifeless, as if she were quietly waiting for her death.
Fatty and Monkey glanced at each other. Finally, Monkey, who understood Luo Xiaoxiao’s nature better, quietly moved the fruit plate a little closer to her.
He said in a flattering tone, “Young Master, why don’t you have some grapes first. The braised pig trotters I had the kitchen make for you are almost done.”
“Really?!” Her cute, deer-like eyes lit up. Her lifeless small face instantly, visibly, became happy.
Her dying look was completely gone. Luo Xiaoxiao looked at Monkey with an expression full of praise. She grabbed a grape and tossed it into her mouth, happily complimenting him as she chewed.
“Oh, you’re not bad at all, hehe. As expected of my loyal subordinate, you understand me so well.”
“…Uh, yes, yes.” Without the joy of being praised, Monkey’s face under the veil twitched slightly as he forced a smile.
He watched Luo Xiaoxiao, who these past few days had either been eating or sleeping, or just blankly staring after she woke up, like she was doing a moment ago.
He was worried that their Young Master would continue to be so listless and dejected. Monkey was just about to tell her about the current chaotic situation in the leaderless Demon Race to motivate Luo Xiaoxiao to get her act together.
When he saw her cheeks puffing out as she chewed on a grape. She comfortably crossed her legs and wore a docile, cute, and very deceptive face that didn’t look like it belonged to a demon.
Lazily and wildly, she casually asked, “Hmm, since I’m just sitting around anyway, you two can tell me about the situation of the other demons after my father’s death.”
As she spoke, she thought about how she hadn’t been able to sleep her way back in the past few days. The “system” thing simply didn’t exist.
Luo Xiaoxiao had also accepted the reality that she couldn’t go back.
So she figured she might as well learn about the Demon Realm, which was a minor background detail in Prideful that wasn’t mentioned much. She wanted to see if there was any way for her to survive.
Thinking this, she lazily glanced at Fatty and Monkey, her two lackeys. She had just thought that they, who had been in the Demon Palace all these years, would at least say something useful.
Instead, she saw that they, she didn’t know when, were trembling, and inexplicably raised their hands to cover their faces and cry in sorrow.
“…”
Confused about what was wrong with them again, whether they were having a fit or something.
Luo Xiaoxiao looked at them with disdain. Even the veils couldn’t hide their unappealing faces. She said irritably.
“What’s wrong with you again? Spit it out already.”
“Wuwuwu… Young Master!!”
Perhaps they never expected their dejected Young Master to finally remember her responsibility.
Fatty and Monkey’s mouths drooped, and they were instantly moved to tears. They then started wailing like the whistle of a steam train, endlessly crying.
As they wailed, they sobbed, “Wuwuwu… Young Master, have you finally decided to restore the Demon Race to its glory and kill that harlot Wen Nanshu to avenge the Master?”
“…”
Her mouth twitched. Luo Xiaoxiao gave the two a look as if they were idiots and said without words, “Kill, kill, kill your heads.”
Are you kidding me? They wanted her to kill Wen Nanshu?
The two of them were ignorant and fearless, but she wasn’t.
Standing from a god’s perspective, she was too lazy to complain about the foolish statements of these two villain lackeys. Luo Xiaoxiao just quietly went over Wen Nanshu’s character setting in her mind.
As the chief disciple of the number one immortal sect, Heavenly Sword Sect.
Wen Nanshu is a darling of the Heavens, not only with extraordinary talent but also diligent and hardworking. She is even hailed as the first of her kind, and there will be no one after, the foremost genius sword cultivator of the younger generation today, the well-deserved true senior sister of the Heavenly Sword Sect, a terrifying existence who will become an immortal in the future!
How could she possibly kill her? What dream were they living? She hadn’t reached the point of thinking her life was too long.
Thinking this, perhaps because she found the noise annoying, Luo Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and threatened them wordlessly.
“Shut up! All you do is cry, cry, cry. You two are going to cry the whole family apart. Cry again! If you cry again, I’ll throw you into the Demon Pit to feed the Nine-Headed Serpent!”
“Wuwu…”
The crying stopped immediately. Looking at Luo Xiaoxiao, who spoke such callous words from her apathetic mouth. Fatty and Monkey shuddered in fear.
But soon, a look of fervent admiration appeared in their eyes. They looked up at Luo Xiaoxiao’s small figure, which now seemed incredibly mighty to them. They were ecstatic.
Ah… that’s it! This is the right vibe!! This is perfect!!!
She needs to be this cruel! This bloodthirsty! This cold! This ruthless!
This is how our Young Master should be!
Just like the legendary Ancient Dark Goddess of the Demon Realm!
“…”
Seeing that the noise had stopped, she felt a little awkward from the inexplicable, worshipful looks Fatty and Monkey were giving her.
Not knowing what strange things they were imagining now, she was too lazy to care. Luo Xiaoxiao continued to maintain her cold and cruel persona and ordered them to tell her about the situation.
…
Listening to the two of them tell her the current situation of the Demon Race like a comedic double act.
Luo Xiaoxiao’s brows furrowed. Her expression became grave, and she felt that things were a little tricky.
Based on the information she got from these two idiots and her knowledge from reading Prideful.
Her father, the Demon Lord, was seriously injured and died early in the story not just because of Wen Nanshu, who wasn’t that strong yet.
It was mainly because his position as the Demon Lord was threatened within the Demon Realm.
A large tree catches the wind. In recent years, new powers had been sweeping through the Demon Realm. Because each of them was powerful in their own way, and the Demon Realm had always followed the principle of “the strong are respected.”
On top of that, they had long been tired of her father’s position as the long-reigning Demon Lord.
So, these powerful demons gathered and prepared to revolt. They wanted to overthrow the current Demon Lord first, and then they would fight among themselves for the position.
And it was during this uprising that her father, in an attempt to defend his position, was seriously injured and forced into hiding. He just so happened to run into Wen Nanshu, who had just come out of a secret training realm.
Because the rebellious demons were hot on his tail, the Demon Lord was about to use a secret demonic art to forcefully absorb the pure essence from Wen Nanshu’s body to quickly recover his strength.
But he failed to steal a chicken and lost the rice used to lure it. He ran into a tough opponent and was counter-attacked by Wen Nanshu, suffering even more severe injuries.
Even though he luckily escaped back to the Demon Realm, he couldn’t survive the serious injuries from Wen Nanshu and the backlash from his demonic art. He passed away right in front of her eyes…
And with the Demon Lord’s death, according to the succession order he had set, the position of Demon Lord should have belonged to the original Luo Xiaoxiao in the book.
But she was young and not powerful enough. Even with the power passed down to her after her father’s death, no demon took her seriously.
So, not long after the Demon Lord’s death, as the second one to be attacked by the mob, the palace where the original Luo Xiaoxiao lived would soon be breached by other, more powerful demons. And she would only end up with a miserable escape.
“No wonder Luo Xiaoxiao in the book was so desperate to kill Wen Nanshu.”
She rubbed her soft chin. After understanding the general cause and effect, Luo Xiaoxiao could at least understand the original character’s motivation.
A pampered little demon princess, whose father was harmed, and who was then shamefully driven from her home with nowhere to go.
The grief and humiliation intensified, causing her to deeply hate Wen Nanshu, who had given her father the fatal blow and was indirectly responsible for her tragic outcome.
So much so that she was temporarily blinded by hatred and lost her reason. She sought revenge against the female lead recklessly and ended up being a casualty.
Hmm… The course of action was logical. But the setting says “she” walked a path to death. But she wasn’t the original Luo Xiaoxiao, so why should she go to her death? She wasn’t crazy…
Besides, she had finally transmigrated into a book, and it was her favorite, Prideful. As a fan of the book, it wouldn’t be too much to make a tiny, little change to the story, right?
Besides, since she was already here, she couldn’t leave without even seeing Wen Nanshu! That was her beloved main character, Wen Nanshu!
And there’s one more point. Who says she doesn’t have a golden finger!
Prideful is not finished yet, but she read to the end, so she knows most of the plot!!!
Thinking this, she concluded that staying in the Demon Palace to lay low and do nothing would lead to death. Actively provoking Wen Nanshu would also lead to death.
Since she was going to die either way, she might as well take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle! She would follow the plot, but on her own terms!
Of course, the premise was that she had to change her final outcome.
If she could, she also wanted to eliminate the female lead’s murderous intent towards her. She didn’t ask to live for a long time, only to not die a violent death and be pierced by ten thousand swords.
After all, only by living could she continue to pursue her lifelong dream—to be a lazy, unproductive person who just eats and waits to die.
So she had to formulate a survival plan! And the goal, of course, was to live until she died of old age!
Thinking this, her life suddenly had hope. In the middle of dying from an illness, she suddenly sat up in surprise. With a carp flip, she excitedly jumped down from the bed.
Like a crazy villain, full of confidence, she looked up to the sky and let out a dramatic, “Hehehe… Wen Nanshu, you wait! Hehe~ Your nemesis, this time, has truly come!!”
“…”
They quietly swallowed their saliva, and once again, fearfully hugged each other, looking at Luo Xiaoxiao’s sudden, not-so-normal, manic appearance.
Their legs trembled, and they inexplicably added a special dark filter to Luo Xiaoxiao in their minds, as if she were a great villain.
Ah… our Young Master.
She has finally! Finally! Realized she’s going to conquer the world and become the Great Demon Lord!