Villainous Prince (10)

Song Xu Yi woke up the next day with a splitting headache.

She had the impression that she had done something bad, but upon careful consideration, her mind was blank and she couldn’t remember anything.

“System, did I do anything wrong after I got drunk last night?” Fortunately, she still had the system.

“Which aspect are you referring to?” The system’s voice sounded gentler than ever before: “After you got drunk yesterday, you came back without getting lost and then went to sleep…”

The system’s voice was extremely calm, but its heart was far from as calm as it imagined: who could have imagined that Nie Qian Yu was actually a woman! The system spent the night in a state of collapse.

Fortunately, Song Xu Yi’s reaction at this time gave the system hope.

Although the system’s settings dictate that it cannot deceive the host, the conversation between Song Xu Yi and Nie Qian Yu last night was judged by the Lord God as “friendly communication with the antagonist.” Such a thing is not considered a “bad thing” in Song Xu Yi’s eyes, so the system naturally concealed this.

Song Xu Yi also did not suspect, feeling that the feeling in her heart was probably just an illusion after drinking, and felt even more that drinking was a mistake. She silently made up her mind not to drink again.

With a headache splitting, and the weather being cold outside, Song Xu Yi simply stayed at home for the day and did not plan to go out.

But secrets can’t be hidden in a big courtyard like the Wang family’s.

Soon, almost the entire Wang family found out that Song Xu Yi was not feeling well, and they sent various supplements to Song Xu Yi’s residence without visiting.

Song Xu Yi was overwhelmed with gifts in the morning and slept for a while during lunch. After sleeping, she had a strange dream where she became a bully who forcibly took Nie Qian Yu as her husband and then Nie Qian Yu became the Emperor with a knife and coldly said that she would torture Song Xu Yi.

Song Xu Yi was scared awake from the dream.

In front of her eyes was a swaying bead curtain, and Song Xu Yi was relieved to realize that she was dreaming, stroking her beating heart and planning to get up to drink water, when she saw the curtain lift a corner and in came a hand as beautiful as jade, with a cup of water in it——

Song Xu Yi thought it was the servant girl who was looking after her, so she took a sip of the water and finished it, saying thank you in passing and handing the cup back to the person, before raising her eyes to look at them:

When she saw the expressionless Nie Qian Yu standing in front of her bed, and remembered how he had looked in her dream when he was about to cut her to pieces, Song Xu Yi who already had a headache, almost rolled off the bed in shock——

Once again, Song Xu Yi fell into an embrace.

The embrace seemed somewhat familiar, with a faint fragrance, and from Song Xu Yi’s angle, she could see Nie Qian Yu’s beautifully angled jaw…

Song Xu Yi met Nie Qian Yu’s eyes.

The eyes were as cold as ever, but now they seemed to contain a bit of inquiry…

Certain images naturally spring to mind.

The boldness of touching Nie Qian Yu;

She who fell and was saved by Nie Qian Yu and accidentally upsetting him;

The shamelessness, even taking Nie Qian Yu’s hand to touch a certain part of herself…

When she thought of this memory, Song Xu Yi’s face instantly turned red and she no longer dared to meet Nie Qian Yu’s gaze, so she hugged the blanket tightly and rolled to the innermost part of the bed——

“Nie… Nie,” Song Xu Yi stammered, remembering how reckless she had been yesterday when she was drunk, she wanted to find a crack in the floor and stammered for a while, not knowing whether to call Nie Qian Yu brother Nie or sister Nie.

“It seems you remember what happened last night.”

Nie Qian Yu’s eyes deepened slightly as she gave Song Xu Yi a silent look.

She originally spoke in a clear youthful voice, but at this moment her voice changed to a slightly muffled feminine voice, and her demeanour also changed, there was a bit more softness in her expression, no one who heard her voice and saw her appearance at this moment would think she was a boy anymore.

“Hmm.” Song Xu Yi stifled her lips and hung her head, feeling that her sin was incomparably deep and that she no longer had the face to look at Nie Qian Yu at this moment.

Nie Qian Yu had actually prepared a belly full of words to bully Song Xu Yi into keeping her secret, but when she saw Song Xu Yi’s quail-like and pitiful appearance, she suddenly couldn’t say the words that were on her lips, and she wanted to touch the top of Song Xu Yi’s fluffy, messy hair——

Nie Qian Yu thought so and did so.

Nie Qian Yu couldn’t help but rub the top of the little girl’s hair as soft as she had imagined, and when she looked up at her, blinking her eyes at her, not daring to raise her voice in protest, Nie Qian Yu’s mood suddenly brightened.

“I’m Nie Qian Yu, Nie Qian Yu is my brother.”

/// fl’s name: niè qiān yǔ : fl’s brother’s name: niè qiān yù

Nie Qian Yu spoke carelessly, but her eyes were fixed on the little girl’s reaction: watching the little girl’s eyes widen as she had expected, Nie Qian Yu suddenly felt some nervousness in her heart after a while…

Nie Qian Yu didn’t know what she was thinking, she should have been afraid and fled when her biggest secret was discovered by Song Xu Yi, but perhaps because the little princess had been so kind to her, or perhaps because she didn’t want to leave the most enjoyable years she had spent with her since she was born, Nie Qian Yu stayed.

“I fed you poison last night after you fell asleep. The antidote,” this was what Nie Qian Yu thought of all night, even though the little girl treated her well, all the experience of survival throughout was reminding Nie Qian Yu not to trust a person too much: “As long as you don’t reveal my secret, I’ll give you the antidote regularly.”

Nie Qian Yu was not sure if Song Xu Yi’s attitude towards her would change after she found out she was a woman, so she could only bluff and scare Song Xu Yi.

However, Nie Qian Yu didn’t know that Song Xu Yi had an external link, almost as soon as Nie Qian Yu opened her mouth, the system in her head angrily spoke out and told Song Xu Yi: “Xu Yi don’t believe her! She’s a big liar and villain, after you passed out yesterday she carried you back to your room with a red face and didn’t do anything…”

“I’d rather she actually fed me the antidote.”

Song Xu Yi covered her face in remorse as she listened to the system’s explanation: the more the system said, the more guilt Song Xu Yi felt in her heart.

“You don’t feel sorry for her, do you!” The system looked at Song Xu Yi’s expression and alarm bells went off in its heart, “She’s still thinking of lying to you right now, you definitely can’t be confused by her!”

“This just shows that she has no one to rely on,” Song Xu Yi admitted her heartache, “She is a little girl, she left her home to come here, and had to disguise herself as another person, if she is not careful, she will die in another country, shouldn’t I feel sorry for her?”

“That’s not what you said back then when you sent her to the academy!” The system was about to die of anger, but was afraid that if it continued, it would make Song Xu Yi realize her sexual orientation prematurely in this world, so it dropped a sentence, “Anyway, don’t forget that she’s a villain, so make sure you watch out for her!” After that, she grumbled and stopped talking.

Song Xu Yi knew that the system had a point, but now that she was the one who was in the wrong, Song Xu Yi couldn’t be wary of this bluffing victim in front of her.

And Song Xu Yi covered her face to talk to the system, which to Nie Qian Yu was a sign of evasion.

Was she frightened by what she said about poisoning?

Nie Qian Yu’s mind was somewhat bewildered, and as time passed, the confusion and panic in her heart grew a little more intense, and she found herself… not wanting Song Xu Yi to alienate her.

This is an extremely rare emotion for Nie Qian Yu, because her mother had taught her since she was a child: to get used to the changing of people’s hearts.

Few people know that Crown Prince Nie Qian Yu has a twin sister who was born a quarter of an hour younger than him, and even fewer people know that Crown Prince Nie Qian Yu’s birth mother was not the Empress of Wu, but the Empress’ maidservant.

The servant girl was extremely intelligent and grew up with the Empress, whose biggest mistake was that she fell in love with her. Even though the Empress was not favoured in the palace, the servant girl never left her and humbly thought of staying with her for the rest of her life.

But everything changed one day.

The Empress’s mother’s family sent over a monk who originally wanted to help the Empress change her fate and secure her favour, but when he saw the servant girl behind her, his eyes lit up with a strange aura and the monk immediately asserted: “This woman has the face of a saintly ruler”!

The servant girl didn’t know how it all happened, it was the Empress who asked her to drink that night, but when she woke up she was lying next to the Emperor…

The maid’s heart was ashen after that night and she was begging for death, but the Empress was keeping such a tight rein on her that she couldn’t even ask for it.

And that’s when the servant girl found out she was pregnant.

Because of the prophecy of a monk, her brother was adopted by the Empress at birth and named ‘Nie Qian Yu’, in the sense of a thousand rays of light shining on the Wu Empire, while Nie Qian Yu was raised by her mother.

After the birth of her son, her mother completely turned against the Empress and voluntarily took up residence in the most remote part of the palace.

Perhaps it was because she was the Crown Prince’s own mother that the palace staff did not dare to go too far when treating the two of them.

Her mother was already frail, and after she entered the palace, she became even more ill. Nie Qian Yu had been serving her mother since she was a child, and in order to make her eat more, she used every means to recycle the limited ingredients available.

The Empress thought of Nie Qian Yu in the back hall, a 10 year old child whose gender was not obvious, and gave her medicine to disguise her voice and taught her how to pretend to be a man. Even though she knew the medicine would shorten her life, she had to take it——because the Empress had placed her mother under house arrest and was holding her life hostage.

What is even more ridiculous is that the idea of having Nie Qian Yu disguise herself as a prince was the idea of her brother Nie Qian Yu.

Nie Qian Yu had to replace Nie Qian Yu to come to Lishui Empire, however on the way, the animals gave Nie Qian Yu the news——her mother was dead.

Her mother had killed herself.

She didn’t want to be a burden to Nie Qian Yu, and knew that Nie Qian Yu would converse with the animals, so she killed herself in the Empress’ Palace.

——Nie Qianyu did not find a way to escape, as her mother’s last words had instructed her to do.

Why does the Imperial Family of Wu do whatever they want? Why should those with a lust for profit be able to decide their own fate with impunity?

She was tired of this life of servitude.

Wasn’t Nie Qian Yu afraid of losing his throne and wanting to be crowned again as the sickly young son born to the Empress and kept in the deep palace without ever seeing anyone?

Nie Qian Yu wanted him to lose it all!

While playing the role of a hostage in the country of Lishui and relaxing everyone’s vigilance, Nie Qian Yu uses her talent to privately gather evidence of violations by various officials of the Wu Empire…

While everything was going the way she had planned, she felt like she had lost all emotion, with nothing but revenge inside her. She did not dare to get close to anyone, and laid out all her plans with precision, trying to wash away this dark and corrupt world with blood, but she did not expect to meet a Song Xu Yi.

……

Song Xu Yi was the most special person she had ever met, and she didn’t know when, but Nie Qian Yu was incomparably fond of the little girl’s eyes falling on her, and when she thought of the lie that she had fed her poison, that in the future such a little girl would look at herself warily and never smile at her again, Nie Qian Yu felt an inexplicable panic in her heart…

She looked at Song Xu Yi, who was covering her face in front of her, and the emotion of helplessness in her heart grew stronger and stronger, finally reaching out and pulling Song Xu Yi’s wrist——

Song Xu Yi dropped the hand covering her face and opened her eyes to look over.

Meeting the puzzled gaze of Song Xu Yi looking over, Nie Qian Yu suddenly didn’t know what she could say, her hands blotted out some sweat anxiously, and she took a deep breath before Nie Qian Yu heard herself speak softly——

“Don’t you be afraid, the antidote is delicious, sweet and tasty…”

So, don’t distance yourself from me, okay?