Chapter 44

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<h5 class="has-text-align-center wp-block-heading" id="arc-3-story-line">ARC 3 STORY LINE</h5>\n\nDisclaimer: This is an MTL translation that has been edited to make the story flow smoothly which may cause the translation to not be 100% accurate. The Chinese novel: Abused Female Lead And Beautiful Villainess is not owned by me. This is only a fan translation by Idiot Goggle Translations.\n

Chapter 14\n

“Right.”\n

He Qingning felt the warmth from Shen Wan’s body and her erratic beating heart slowly calmed down back to normal. She patted Shen Wan’s hand on her waist. “Let’s go and have a look.” If it weren’t for this type of scenario, she would have wanted more time to hold Shen Wan. Thinking of this made He Qingning’s cheeks tinted red. It wasn’t the time for it, but she was still thinking about this.\n

She took Shen Wan’s hand and held it tightly. She pulled Shen Wan to hide beside the window and carefully looked down.\n

She saw a group of people in black, rushing towards the inn. They rode on horses with swords on their hands. Although it was obscured from their view by the downpour, she could still feel the cold steel of the knife faintly numbing her scalp. Shen Wan dropped her chin on He Qingning’s shoulders and the two were almost fully attached through their bodies. “Your Highness, there are about thirty people. I don’t know if there are any more hiding in secret, but you don’t need to be afraid. I can protect you.”\n

“Yes.” He Qingning took out the sword from her side. Although she was not as powerful as Shen Wan, she still had some skill with it and will be able to manage somewhat. She did not want to put down many assassins and as long as she’s ensured her own survival, she won’t be much of a burden for Shen Wan.\n

“All of you come in.”\n

Shen Wan held on to He Qingning’s hand as she called out to the door. He Qingning disguised herself not to stand out, so more than half of her manpower were sent to other locations to investigate the case. There were fewer than ten people who are with her. Facing these assassins with only this many people would have worried her, but Shen Wan was very powerful. She has seen her strength before, so she was more at ease.\n

The guards came in, all of them with serious expressions. In fact, they had encountered several assassinations along the way. There were assassins that passed by the small teahouse and tried to poison He Qingning. There were also ones who pretended to be elderly women, widowed women, injured women, and even people pretending they lost their children. All of them came to take He Qingning’s life. They admired the woman who looked very fierce since she was the first one who had spotted the assassins and ensured the royal princess’ safety.\n

But those assassins didn’t come in numbers. They only came by a dozen at most, so they were very easy to deal with. This time it was different. The other side specifically chose to advance under heavy rain, so they wouldn’t hear the sound of horse hooves. The skills of these assassins were very good. This made them very worried. When they heard Shen Wan telling them to come inside, their hearts dropped at once.\n

“You are all here to protect Her Highness, do you understand?”\n

“Yes.”\n

Shen Wan has gained a reputation in the eyes of this group of people. Right now, they all believe that only Shen Wan can lead them to safety and protect He Qingning. If she tells them to protect Her Highness, the princess, then they won’t refute this. They have less than ten people. If they go down there and deal with these people, one of them will definitely take the opportunity to hurt Her Highness.\n

Shen Wan’s power and martial arts skills may be able to scare these people off. They were very anxious, but this is ultimately the best way.\n

“You’re going alone?”\n

Shen Wan suddenly snatched the sword from He Qingning’s hand. Now she held a knife in one hand and a sword in the other. By the time He Qingning asked her question, Shen Wan had already climbed to the window. She looked back and almost smiled, but remembered that she was supposed to be indifferent and ruthless. She hurriedly changed her expression, “Your Highness, you own this sword. I’m holding this sword in my left hand while I have a knife in my right hand. If an assassin gets stabbed to death by this sword, it’s as if it’s Your Highness that kills them. Isn’t it perfect?”\n

He Qingning was very angry, but at the same time, so very amused. Seeing Shen Wan’s stern face closer, it looks as if she wanted to laugh as well. She resisted her amusement hard in order to not break out of her expression. She walked to the window, “Will it work out?”\n

“Yes, Your Highness. Don’t ask me if I can do this. I’m sure I can. You’ll understand once you see what happens.”\n

“Okay, I’ll wait for you to come back. If there’s a moment that you think you’ll fail, come back immediately and we will escape.” He Qingning said seriously, “It is not important to stay in Qingshan when you’re worrying for your life. Life is more important. I don’t want you to lose your life over these people, understood?”\n

“Yes, Your Highness. I’ll do what you say.”\n

Shen Wan took her sword and jumped down. Her body was covered up by the rain immediately. He Qingning kept her eyes open vigilantly as she wanted to follow the hazy figure as much as she can. When she saw her sprinting into the crowd with sword in hand, her heart thundered uncontrollably.\n

“Your Highness, please help me calm the little hen! If it’s frightened, it won’t be able to lay eggs tomorrow morning. If she doesn’t lay eggs, then we won’t have anything to eat tomorrow.”\n

He Qingning didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but when she heard Shen Wan’s voice, she felt calmer. She replied, “Alright.” But then, she still did not look away from the small figure obscured by the heavy rain. She told the guards around her, “Go and bring the hen here.”\n

The little hen was very frightened. He Qingning held it in her arms while stroking its back once in a while. The fluttering little hen settled down after a while, as if she knew something they did not. It stretched its head and looked out of the window.\n

All the guards in the room are alert over the surrounding area. Fortunately, this remote inn is surrounded by mountains. Their enemy¹ seems to be very sure of themselves, coming head on and thinking they could kill He Qingning quickly. They didn’t expect to be held up by Shen Wan, so they would be able to take care of He Qingning for a while.\n

In a quarter of an hour, half of their people died under Shen Wan’s hands. The assassins became frantic and divided themselves into two groups. One ran to the inn and the other intending to distract Shen Wan. The guards in the house saw what was happening and quickly moved to protect He Qingning between them.\n

He Qingning had to turn away despite being worried about Shen Wan. Once she saw assassins coming towards her, she must defend herself first. Otherwise, Shen Wan will be distracted and will be in much more danger.\n

“Pitiful assassins, I wanted to let you all to die honorably, but you dared to lay a hand on my little princess. It looks like I don’t need to be as polite as I intended.”\n

When her words fell, Shen Wan abandoned her sword and knife, then used her fists instead. She felt that dancing with swords looked more beautiful and smashing people with her small fists were too gruesome. It affected her quaint womanly image, but these assassins really deserve it.\n

Several assassins rushed into the inn, stabbed their swords to the ground and jumped on it. When they were high up in the air and were about to jump into the window, Shen Wan appeared. A fist hit the nose of an assassin and a leg did a sweeping kick. The five assassins who jumped screamed and fell to the ground with a grunt.\n

Shen Wan glanced into the room with a stern face, but the corners of her lips were raised. He Qingning was relieved to see that she was that powerful, “Finish this quickly and leave one for interrogation.”\n

“Yes.”\n

Shen Wan dropped down again, waving her small fist. Her small and vigorous figure quickly, flying through the crowd of assassins. Any assassins hit by her fell immediately to the ground, vomiting blood, with their noses shattered. They lay under the rain, convulsing for a few times before dying.\n

He Qingning went back to the window again to observe. She was surprised as she watched Shen Wan’s movements. She thought that she already knew how strong Shen Wan was, but she didn’t expect her to be even better. The guards were also astounded. With so much strength, she was able to flatten people’s noses and killed them with one punch.\n

Despite Shen Wan’s aggressiveness, the assassins did not stop their attempt to kill He Qingning. From time to time, they would do sneak attacks to reach her. Noticing this, He Qingning frowned slightly. Si Shi?² Only they would risk their lives to complete a mission. They would never leave until their mission is complete or they die.\n

The next time Shen Wan punched someone, she came back with the guy who was black and blue in the face. She threw him on the floor and stepped on his back with a foot. Her leg was long and clean even after she fought which made it much more of an insult. But the scene, in the eyes of the guards, looked very dashing.\n

“Who sent you?”\n

The assassin’s mask had been pulled down by Shen Wan. By the looks on his face, he may still be feeling dazed when he heard He Qingning’s question. Even though he was beaten by Shen Wan without the strength to fight back, there was no fear shown on his face.\n

“Your Highness, let me just kill the Si Shi. It doesn’t look like he can be questioned.”\n

Bodyguards: How cruel.\n

He Qingning: “Alright. Deal with him. Try to search for any tokens. Although the probability is very low, there may still be one, yes?”\n

In the end, it was not a surprise that no useful information were found. He Qingning had no choice but to let it be. The guards went out to clean up the corpses. After all, since the rain is still pouring, the princess will keep staying here. They have to deal with the corpses now before they begin rotting. If it weren’t raining, they wouldn’t collect any corpses at all and leave it as a warning to people.\n

“Have you been injured?” He Qingning placed the little hen in her cage. She then hastily moved in front of Shen Wan and touched her face and clothes. “Hurry up and change into clean clothes, so you won’t be cold.” After this, she turned around and opened the door in the room. She instructed servants to boil hot water for Shen Wan to bathe in and bring clean clothes.\n

When the hot water came, He Qingning closed the windows and told Shen Wan, “Hurry and wash up.”\n

Shen Wan: “188, the little princess is being so open and honest about wanting to see my body. Do you think I should show her or should I pretend to be shy and ask her to go out? I should just show her directly. It would be too tame of me to ask her to go out. Everyone’s a girl here, so this should be nothing. Or is it too pretentious?”\n

[188’s life has no meaning anymore, “Don’t ask me about the interests of two people. Wan Wan, I’m just a system with no desire, no hope, no definition of beauty, and no emotion. It’s useless to ask me this. Go through with it. In fact, even if you do, it wouldn’t matter in any way. After all, I’m still going to be blocked out of the scene.”\n

“Wan Wan, take off your wet clothes and take a bath first. Just because you’re fine doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about this.” He Qingning realized Shen Wan was still not moving and went to her to strip her clothes, “Are you uncomfortable anywhere? Did you get hurt by accident? Let me check on it for you.”\n

Shen Wan: “188, *bang bang bang*, the little princess is actually taking advantage of me. She must want to see my body and made this excuse to check on me. You see how she’s still touching me? As a princess, she’s really not reserved at all, but I like how promiscuous she’s being.”\n

[188 speechless: “Then you’re just going to do as she says.”]\n

What kind of host is he bound to?\n

He looks at the most impetuous person ever, Shen Wan, saying such tawdry words with no shame. She had skin thicker than a wall when she acts like a beast in heat!\n

If he had a hand, he’d want to punch this lecherous beast.\n

“188, I know what’s going to happen now. I’ll pretend to be indifferent about this and be honest with the princess.” Shen Wan smiled, feeling giddy. “I will take on my cold and heartless persona, take off my clothes, and take a bath. The little princess will look at my body and as soon as she sees it, she’ll assume that she hadn’t seen anything. This is euphoria.³”\n

188 feels a little light in the head. Before he could faint, his whole system was blocked. There was no sound outside nor were there any pictures. Was he supposed to just furiously wring his data together while his host puts on her indifferent face, happily soaking in the wooden bath tub, as the little princess checks her body?\n

“There are no injuries on your back.” He Qingning didn’t really think much about it. She was worried that there would be dark bruises on Shen Wan’s body which is why she stayed.\n

Shen Wan’s eyes narrowed slightly as she sat in the wooden tub, “I did say I was amazing.”\n

“Other places need to be checked.” After He Qingning finished speaking, she felt that what she was doing was wrong as if what she said was something out of line. If she didn’t think about this, then there would be no problem as they were both women. But, her heart has a different thing in mind about Shen Wan. After saying this, her ears were all red. “Check into it yourself. There could be a problem.”\n

Shen Wan, whose face was flushed by the heat, found He Qingning shifting uncomfortably, so she put her arms on the edge of the wooden tub, “Your Highness, I am fine. I have checked and there is no wound on my body.”\n

“Are you sure? Check it again.”\n

“Why don’t you, Your Highness, come here and check.”\n

He Qingning’s heart jumped and she had a hard time controlling her steps as she walked to Shen Wan. “You have good eyes. There should be no problems with the places you’ve already checked.”\n

Shen Wan: The little princess is a bit timid. Ah. She must be shy.\n

“Your Highness, I checked it again. There really is a wound, as if it was accidentally cut by a knife.”\n

“Where is it?” He Qingning’s heart turned anxious as she squatted in front of Shen Wan with a medicine bottle in hand. Shen Wan only showed her arms and shoulders, so she was not able to see other parts of her.\n

After hearing Shen Wan say that she was injured, He Qingning was not able to care about anything else, filled to the brim with worry. “Stand up. I’ll apply the medicine for you.”\n

“Your Highness, I am taking a bath right now. Let’s apply it afterwards.” The corner of Shen Wan’s lips rose and curved, “If you apply it now, it will be washed away by the water and it will be ineffective.”\n

So, He Qingning waited anxiously by the sidelines for quarter of an hour before Shen Wan slowly stood. He Qingning immediately walked over and met Shen Wan’s eyes. What shouldn’t have been seen was shown. She hurriedly handed a clean bath towel to Shen Wan as she pursed her lips. She tried hard to control her racing heart and force her voice from trembling. “Wipe yourself clean and put your clothes on, so you don’t catch a cold.”\n

“Okay.”\n

Once Shen Wan put on her clothes, He Qingning asked seriously, “Where is the wound?”\n

Shen Wan extended her arm out to He Qingning. She turned the back of her hand and there, on the back of her index finger, was a small cut with skin removed; the kind that didn’t even bleed out. She looked at He Qingning eagerly, “Your Highness, here it is. The wound is not big. It’s fine.”\n

He Qingning: “…”\n

188 who has been unblocked: Does not want to comment.\n

Apply medicine quickly. If you don’t, then the wound will heal anyway.\n

To be continued…\n

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¹T/N: The literal translation here on the MTL is “the other side”, but I wanted to make it more clearer somewhat or simple, so I just used “enemy”.\n

²T/N: Si Shi are warriors who are not afraid of death. These people are usually specially trained and used to carry out suicide attacks. Some are used to desperately protect important people. Regardless of the success or failure of the final mission, there is little chance of survival.\n

³T/N: The phrase here from the MTL is “Legendary state of calmness” and it turns out that this means the feeling after an orgasm or afterglow. I didn’t think that would’ve fit the paragraph, so I changed it to “euphoria” instead.\n

TN: Yes, I have been AWOL for MONTHS. \n

TN2: Yes, I am a monster.\n

TN3: Yes, I have no excuse. Please have mercy on me.\n

TN4: Also, ihavenotmuchtimetodothisanymorebecauseimbusywithmyselfloathinganddepressionsoimaytakelongerthanusualtoupdatethenextchapterbuti’llbesuretofinishthisimsosorrymymaster\n\n

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