Chapter 11

Xie Wuyan held onto Shen Wanqing tightly.

The group of demons lingered on their last breath, attempting their final struggle by creating a strong gush of wind, hitting at the barrier with a bang.

Yet Xie Wuyan didn’t move at all, there wasn’t even a change in his emotions.

There was not a single wisp of demonic energy that dared to approach him.

Ji Feichen quickly seized this opportunity to spread out several Taoist charms, lighting up sparks.

Roaring, shouting, and growling accompanied the sizzling sound of the flames blazing up, and wisps of light green smoke sweltered at the place where the charms had been attached. In an instant, the demonic energy in the inn gradually dissipated.

Feng Yaoqing, who had recovered from her surprise, said with a bit of shock: “Master Xie, you…”

That demonic energy was formed by dozens of Painted Skin Ghosts, how strong was his cultivation to destroy them all with one hit? Plus, it looked like it had been easy and didn’t require him to expend even half of his efforts.

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This was the first time she had come into contact with such a scene so closely since transmigrating here.

“Master Xie!” Feng Yaoqing took a leap forward and squatted down beside Xie Wuyan.

Upon seeing this, Ji Feichen couldn’t worry about taking care of the aftermath anymore, he hurriedly walked towards them, taking him upstairs to the guest room and putting him down on the bed.

“It’s the Heart Locking Curse.” Feng Yaoqing checked Xie Wuyan’s condition and found that the originally faded red blood stains had climbed up again, spreading like a never-ending spider web, reaching his heart, “This type of curse, as long as the person cursed activates their power, will suffer an equal amount of backlash. Although I temporarily suppressed it before, he still needs to take care of his health. However, his spiritual power fluctuated too much just now, so the curse was re-induced.”

“I’m afraid he didn’t tell us about it so we wouldn’t mess up.” Feng Yaoqing said, her words beginning to fill with guilt, “But I never thought that the backlash would be so serious.”

“It’s my negligence.” Ji Feichen seemed to blame himself too, “If I had discovered the abnormalities earlier, Master Xie wouldn’t have involved himself.”

“Don’t worry, I have used my spiritual power to restrain the spread of the Heart Locking Curse just in time.” Seeing that Ji Feichen looked depressed, Feng Yaoqing quickly reached out to caress the back of his hand, then lifted his face and said softly, “It’s okay, this is not your fault.”

Shen Wanqing glanced at the match-made in heaven couple, then raised her head to look at Xie Wuyan lying on the bed.

Xuanniao stopped quietly on his bedside, for once not making any noise, and kept rubbing his face with its little head.

“Well, you have overworked today. Go and rest first.” Feng Yaoqing patted Ji Feichen on the back, and then said, “I will take care of Master Xie. His current situation has improved and it is estimated that he will wake up soon.”

“Let me do it.” Shen Wanqing said.

Both of them went blank for a second.

“He was injured because of me.” Shen Wanqing looked up at them, “So let me take care of him.”

Feng Yaoqing hesitated for a bit, and then seemed to think of something. She revealed a meaningful smile, stared at Ji Feichen for a while, then shook her head helplessly. Standing up, she said: “Okay, then I will hand him over to you. We are right next door, if there are any accidents, we will come over quickly.”

Shen Wanqing got up and sent them away.

As soon as they left, Xuanniao, who was lying on the bedside began to wail and cry: “Master! My poor master, it is so touching that you would risk your life to save her. You are completely different to certain types of women who are evil-hearted and say that they will hurt and kill others at every opportunity. I will always remember your heroic actions today—”

Shen Wanqing hugged her arms and looked at the owner and pet up and down.

She sharply noticed that Xie Wuyan, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, had a slight and imperceptible tremor in his eyelids.

…It seems that he also can’t listen on anymore.

She didn’t know why, but after confirming that Xie Wuyan was okay, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Wanqing sat down beside him, picked up the bowl of medicine, and wondered at what angle she should feed him the medicine.

She tried to scoop up a spoonful of the medicine first, and then handed it towards his lips.

Xie Wuyan remained motionless.

Fine.

This posture was indeed not stable enough.

So Shen Wanqing stepped forward, helped Xie Wuyan up, letting him lean on her shoulder, and took another spoonful.

Xie Wuyan remained motionless.

After trying countless poses and sweating profusely, Shen Wanqing finally felt fatigued.

Holding the bowl, she stood in front of Xie Wuyan’s bed, staring at him for a long time, and then looked at the medicine in her bowl.

“Excuse me, in that case, I can only use the last method.” Shen Wanqing smiled while warning him beforehand. She then scooped up a spoonful of medicine, looking like she was preparing to take a sip herself.

When Xuanniao saw this, it was so shocked that it flew into the air and stopped her with its body: “What are you doing! Don’t make advances!”

Shen Wanqing completely ignored it and put the medicine in her mouth.

Frown lines appeared in between her eyebrows immediately.

F*ck, so bitter.

However, in the next second, her chin was suddenly pinched by a cold hand that was full of strength.

Almost before she could react, she coughed up all the medicine she had just drank.

“Do you put just anything in your mouth?”

There was no color in Xie Wuyan’s face, his collar was loosely open and his arms and neck were well-defined. His dark black-colored hair was scattered, but it created an inexplicable sense of morbid-like beauty.

He released the hand holding Shen Wanqing’s chin, wiped his fingers impatiently, then straightened his robe and stood up.

In fact, Shen Wanqing had long known that Xie Wuyan was most likely pretending.

In the novel, he had used this trick countless times, deliberately pretending to hurt himself in order to save people so that the heroine would respect and sympathize with him.

That’s why when he abducted Feng Yaoqing and imprisoned her in the Demon Realm for a whole year, Feng Yaoqing still believed that he would turn over a new leaf.

This was enough to prove how well Xie Wuyan could act.

Shen Wanqing did not speak but followed him while carrying the medicine.

Xie Wuyan glanced sideways at her and put on his coat: “No need.”

She clearly knew that he was not injured.

Shen Wanqing still did not speak, stubbornly standing behind him with the medicine bowl in her hand.

If Xie Wuyan walked to the table, she would follow to the table

If he went in front of the window, she would also follow to the window.

If he wanted to go outside, then she would also follow him outside

Like a clingy little tail.

“Boom.”

Xie Wuyan turned around abruptly, buckled Shen Wanqing’s waist, and forced her against the wall: “Do you think I am very patient with you?”

Shen Wanqing looked at his eyes and pursed her lips, but still raised her hand and handed him the medicine: “I’ll leave after you drink it.”

It was an extremely long stare.

She didn’t know how much time had passed when Xie Wuyan let go, grabbed the bowl in Shen Wanqing’s hand, drank it, then turned around and left the room.

The frightened Xuanniao was stunned for a while, and then staggered out to follow him.

Shen Wanqing didn’t know what Xie Wuyan’s sudden outburst was for.

As described in the book, Xie Wuyan had always been said to be unpredictable.

Putting a gentle and pure façade for the hero and heroine, but was extraordinarily cruel towards people who knew his true nature.

So she really didn’t care about it.

Shen Wanqing put the bowl back on the table, cleaned the bed for Xie Wuyan, and then sat on the chair for a while. She only left the room once she saw that he still hadn’t returned after a long time.

Fortunately, he was pretending, Shen Wanqing thought.

If someone died to save her, she would regret it forever.

Regardless of whether Xie Wuyan’s act of saving her was to confuse Feng Yaoqing and them, she should still thank him.

He really did save her.

Shen Wanqing lowered her head and looked at her hands.

The original owner cared a lot about her appearance, so her hands were also very beautifully maintained, her joints were slender, every inch of the skin was so white that it shone, and when she touched it, it was smooth and silky.

But in a daze, she could clearly see the appearance of her hands when they had been splattered with blood

Shen Wanqing held her hands together.

What did she think when she had first come here?

To hurry up and complete the task, and then maybe return to the modern times. If she couldn’t, then she could also sneak to a beautiful place by herself and spend the rest of her life relaxing until her death.

Only now did Shen Wanqing discover how ridiculous her thoughts had been.

She clenched her hands together.

She shouldn’t expect someone to save her every time.

She had to become stronger.

It was getting late.

Shen Wanqing went upstairs and downstairs to look for Xie Wuyan, but couldn’t find him after a while.

Just as she was about to go back to the room to rest, she suddenly heard some noise coming from the corner.

When she walked over, she found that there was a window just around the corner. Looking out from this direction, she could see the back garden of the inn.

She glanced down.

Then, her pupils enlarged!

Xie Wuyan stood side by side with Feng Yaoqing.

The moonlight was just right, cold light shone through the clouds and leaves, hitting upon their figures, but it looked unexpectedly harmonious.

The two seemed to be talking about something.

There was a smile on Xie Wuyan’s face, even his eyes were filled with gentleness, as if all his hostility and sharpness had faded in an instant.

Feng Yaoqing also responded to him with a chuckle from time to time, patting his back when Xie Wuyan would occasionally cough.

Shen Wanqing, who had not been scared by the hideous looks of the Painted Skin Ghosts before, was utterly afraid at this moment.

Wait.

What was this situation?

Although I do thank you very much for saving me, you can’t secretly act chummy with the female lead!

This will make things very difficult for me!

[Villainess System:

It is detected that the villain and the female lead are alone, please host, respond as soon as possible! ]

Shen Wanqing: “…”

Not only does your broken system have no cheats, there is even a delay, she thought.

Only at this moment did she realize a huge problem.

In the original book, Xie Wuyan was moved by Feng Yaoqing’s empathetic, kind and gentle character and by her taking great care of him. Because of this, Ji Feichen was hurt so badly in the latter half of the book.

Although Shen Wanqing could block the side female characters to a certain extent, but Xie Wuyan could not be controlled by her at all.

Because she couldn’t beat him.

So Xie Wuyan’s feelings for Feng Yaoqing would probably appear sooner or later.

Looking at the back garden downstairs, the atmosphere between the two of them was getting better and better. Shen Wanqing gritted her teeth and went downstairs.

If she needed to be fierce then so be it.

If she didn’t take care of it, it would cause a huge problem.

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[Translator’s note: I love seeing our FL start to see the severity and real consequences that occur in this world! Once again, thanks for reading!]