That’s right, the young girl who was dancing briskly at that moment, was the protagonist’s fiancee Gu Bai had seen while he strolled through the woods earlier. To him, her existence was like a death curse. Gu Bai clearly remembered, back then, when he was writing about that death curse-like woman, he only briefly described the charming butterfly on her chest, how beautiful she was and what she meant to Zi Chi Shu Bai while Zi Che shu Bai was recalling his past. But he never wrote about what kind of woman she was in detail.
The truth was, besides within Zi Che Shu Bai’s memories, that woman’s name always only appeared within the protagonist’s internal, vengeful screams. The only time she appeared in person, was during the wedding scene with the bridal veil on her head.
But then, after having seen that woman multiple times, Gu Bai began to feel something strange was going on. He thought that maybe the things he hadn’t written clearly back then, had been auto-filled by this world, which produced some sort of subtle possibilities.
When his thoughts reached this point, Gu Bai’s expression became even darker. The current situation clearly indicated that even if Zi Che Shu Bai didn’t fall in love with the protagonist’s fiancee at first sight, that woman would come looking for him herself. Maybe the conspiracies of the protagonist’s fiancee and her father were hidden in the things that he kinda skipped through while writing the novel before!
But what kind of bullshit was this! Sudden appearances of conspiracies the author himself didn’t even know about? Or could it have been a possibility that the world’s will was secretly correcting the storyline… Gu Bai made a fist and he almost clenched his teeth to pieces.
I’m the author of this novel, how I modified the storyline was none of your fucking business! I definitely won’t be devoured by the protagonist, okay! Gu Bai’s emotionless face appeared even more emotionless, once he had acknowledged how miserable his life was, again. Below him, the protagonist’s fiancee’s father was also feeling uneasy.
Although our family had already arranged a marriage with Qi Quan Family’s son, but that was when the two families were equally positioned and that Qi Quan Rui boy possessed high potentials. But now, Qi Quan Rui had become a totally useless man, was his daughter going to be married to a useless man? Then, wouldn’t all of the hard work and resources he’d put into raising her go to waste?! This was definitely not going to happen!
So, when he knew Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor was going to hold a birthday banquet, a bell rang in Luo Heng’s brain and an idea flashed into his mind. So he began gathering information about this young City Governor and thoroughly studied it inside out.
According to him, wushu nerd youngsters were the easiest to get fooled. They’d never touched a woman before, if they coincidentally bumped into a soft, alluring girl suddenly, their heart would definitely trembled like running horses. With their heart shaken, wouldn’t things become really convenient? If his daughter could get married to Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor, then why would he even need to care about that Qi Quan Rui from a Wu Zhen!
Luo Heng’s daughter, Luo Su Su, was also a girl with great ambition. Of course, she had some feelings towards Qi Quan Rui, but her feelings had a prerequisite, only when Qi Quan Rui was strong and powerful. Now, Qi Quan Rui had lost his powers, how could she be willing to be the wife of a useless and powerless man? Even before he’d lost all his powers, he still couldn’t be compared with Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor.
Because of that, she willingly allured him with her body. After she discovered that this young City Governor ran away like the wind after seeing her naked body, she’d only thought he was being shy. So, she decided to come to the birthday banquet and perform. After finding out that the beautiful girl, whom he had met coincidentally, was actually attracted to him, couldn’t this kind of situation easily turn into a pure love relationship?
One must say that Luo Su Su really understood men’s mindset, especially those virgins that had never ever been in a relationship before. To them, she was like a goddess. Just like what happened in the original story, didn’t her plan succeeded?
And so, after they finished dancing, Luo Su Su shyly covered her face with water sleeves[1], and looked at Gu Bai with an admiration filled expression. Then, she elegantly bowed, and spoke with a voice that sounded like an Oriole, “Su Su greets the City Governor…” Gu Bai ignored her. Until the two sons from the Luo Family, who had played the background music for Luo Su Su, also stood up and bowed to him, he finally nodded his head with an emotionless face. However, he didn’t speak any words of encouragement or compliment.
This caused all the guests to feel puzzled. You see, was this Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor really that cold and antisocial, or had he really just not liked the performance? If the person being the birthday star didn’t clearly suggest his feelings, then how could they, the guests, cooperate with him? Are we supposed to give a lot of praise to them and clap our hands, or should we just remain silent, and make the ones that hosted this performance feel awkward for a moment? He was so hard to deal with!
Luo Su Su’s expression froze for a second, but she had a strong mindset. She immediately returned to Luo Heng’s side, then she spoke with a soft tone, in a very shy and naive manner, “Father, the City Governor he, I…I saw him before…” although her voice was very low, who in the venue was not a powerful wushu practitioner? All of them heard her words, and they all showed an ambiguous expression. There were even people who had the same thoughts, they were feeling unhappy because they thought they had acted too late and were going to be taken advantage of!
Speaking of which, Luo Su Su was indeed, a very beautiful woman, and her identity as the sole daughter of her family’s main bloodline was quite a good one. In other Families of the same status, it was either the daughters weren’t that beautiful, or there were plenty of pretty women, with low-profile identities. And those who had both of those qualities, maybe they were already married to someone else.
With that play, Luo Su Su immediately became the center of attention. Luo Heng had already heard his daughter’s reports earlier, he thought the timing was in his favor, and so he showed a kind-hearted smile, “Where did Su Su see the City Governor?”
Luo Su Su spoke with a soft, shy voice, “when I was taking a ba… bath in a spring before…” she was so shy, that her voice was as low as a mosquitoe!
Oh… a single man, a single lady, bath. Men who heard Luo Su Su’s words immediately imagined a seductive scene where the City Governor accidentally bumped into a beautiful woman taking a bath. In that instant, their smiles became even more ambiguous.
Gu Bai, he… he really hated that he couldn’t block this woman’s mouth!
Fuck you, I’m an Otaku who only loves second-dimension and despises the third-dimension, okay! Who wants to see you taking a bath?! Who the fuck knew you were taking a bath there?! If you think your lifespan is too long, don’t drag me into it, okay! When I saw that god damn, death curse butterfly, that birthday suit of yours, I immediately fled, okay!
Gu Bai felt he was already tired and wouldn’t be able to love anymore. But in times like this, he needed to do something. So, he gave a look to his personal female servants.
The one who held the flute immediately took a step forward, with a much softer, gentler voice, a more lady-like smile, and a much more alluring, shy expression, “The City Governor never went outside today, my sisters and I have been serving the City Governor until the banquet started…” while she spoke, she paused and looked at Gu Bai with lingering eyes, then continued her speech, “I wonder when this lady saw the City Governor?”
Gu Bai gave her a round of applause in his mind: well done, Lu Xiao! If you can PK[2] the protagonist’s fiancee, when we are done with the banquet, I will immediately raise your pay!
As if the other three female servants were validating Lu Xiao’s words, their cheeks turned red. Gu Bai, again, gave them a thumbs up. He thought their acting skills were amazing, almost like an actress queen. All of them must be given a pay raise.
In order to be able to have a ground-shaking debut, Gu Bai had actually started training a group of ladies immediately after he became the City Governor. He hadn’t only carried out brain-washing style; loyalty training programs, but also requested of them to be able to serve guests in main halls, be able to cook, be able to beat mistresses, and be able to fight gangsters. All-directional and all-rounded developments, that was so they could accomplish the basic requirements of an all-purpose, female servant.
In the end, he had finally chosen those four female servants. As for the remaining twenty-three candidates, without any hesitation, Gu Bai had married them off to his fellow subordinates. In this way, he won his subordinates’ hearts, but it was also a small precaution he’d made for himself. The four female servants he had chosen, were way more appealing than any of the superstars he had seen in his previous life. Those servants were each given a name, they were; Xue Jian, Lu Xiao, Hong Qin, and Mo Yu. They weren’t only quite skillful in all kinds of art and craftsmanship, their wushu skill level was also quite high, and their temperament didn’t show any weak points at all. You see, hadn’t they caught everyone’s attention when they debuted?
As for the instruments they held in their hands… it didn’t mean the servants were good at the instrument they were holding, the instruments were just used to act cool, and for heating up the atmosphere in the venue.
A week ago, before the birthday banquet, the four, unworldly beautiful ladies officially started their duties. This was so they could deal with all sorts of invitations and requests from the people he encountered for him. They also made it easier for Gu Bai to establish his image. It didn’t take them long to cooperate smoothly with each other. It was only after they had encountered Luo Su Su, Gu Bai felt the resources he’d spent on training the female servants in the past few years, were totally worth the costs and time!
Gu Bai, The Otaku that had deeply sunk into the second-dimensional world, immediately calculated the following statistics in his mind:
Let’s pretend that the levels of beauty are combat power levels and divided into ten divisions. Then Luo Su Su’s combat power would be in the 6th division, the level that barely passed the okay line, but would be able to suppress the majority of normal beauties. However, she doesn’t have a brazen personality, her physical appearance, temperament, and all other traits are only above average. So it won’t be surprising that when she encounters those four, unworldly beautiful servants, whose abilities are almost max leveled, her combat power will, immediately, become negative five. Of course, it’s not that the enemy is weak, it’s just that our allies’ power is way too powerful. In short, she’s definitely going to lose the battle.
Unsurprisingly, after the four beautiful servants’ words, the charm brought the beauties x4, and immediately destroyed the ambiguous atmosphere Luo Su Su had created with great effort. The Family Masters and Town Chiefs with beauties in their families stood aside and enjoyed the scene. Being a beauty who has standard, Luo Su Su couldn’t just say words like “your City Governor saw me taking a bath” in front of everyone. So, her and her ambitious father had no other choice, but to cease their plans and remain silent.
Gu Bai wanted to say he was really satisfied with the outcome. It was not that he didn’t give the beauty a favor, but if he gave her a favour, then he was going to die. Now, since the beauty couldn’t get married to Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor anymore, they needed to start thinking about the fact they could no longer easily cancel the marriage agreement with the protagonist anymore, right? Because, even though the protagonist became a powerless and useless man temporarily, but, the Qi Quan Family’s power wasn’t weaker than the Luo Family. In fact, the Qi Quan Family possessed more power than them!
However, Gu Bai was still way too naive.
He couldn’t have possibly noticed that, even if there was a small butterfly like him, the storyline still progressed at a really fast pace, and still followed a preset path. Outside of a small forest, at the rear of a town, a few furious looking youngsters were hitting someone as they hurled curses absurdly.
“Aren’t you being difficult and acting arrogant? Fuck you! A son of a bitch will always be a son of a bitch! Who the fuck gave you the right to act arrogantly?!”
“Da Shao Ye [3] is the real heir of the bloodline, you, the son of a bitch, who the hell do you think you are?”
“I guess you don’t know yet, your marriage agreement with the Luo Family has already been canceled. Do you really think that Luo Dao Xiao Jie [4] is really interested in a useless shit like you? She already went to Tian Du Cheng with the Family Master, I heard she is going to marry the Tian Du Cheng’s new City Governor. You should stop dreaming about marrying her!”
The person being kicked around like a ball, suddenly spoke, “Who… did you say?” The rare response attracted even more merciless hits and curses.
“Who? Of course, it’s Tian Du Cheng’s City Governor, Zi Che Shu Bai! The superior genius who became a Wu Jun at the age of fourteen!”
“You, the son of a bitch, only deserves to be here, eating mud.”
After hearing the youngster’s words, the person on the ground no longer heard the curses coming from the youngsters. His eyes were very deep, they buried an extremely dark and gloomy flare, like dark fire. This man mumbled, “Zi Che… Shu Bai? It’s him…he…”
Fake… everything is fake… even he is going to betray me as well!