Villainous Fake Eunuch (19)
Song Xuyi, after washing the dishes, returned to find Zhao Qin no longer in the living room.
Gu Ruyu was standing by the window.
The mountain wind was cold and strong, blowing Gu Ruyu’s clothes. She slightly lowered her head as if in thought. Her side profile was exquisite and flawless, her garments fluttering, and her black hair scattering, looking as if she was about to transcend and drift away with the wind…
Song Xuyi didn’t know what Gu Ruyu was thinking, but instinctively felt a tightness in her heart and took off her coat to drape it over Gu Ruyu.
“It’s cold at night, and you still have injuries. We should go back to the room first!”
Gu Ruyu turned around to ‘look’ at Song Xuyi. This time, she did not obediently say ‘okay’ as before, nor did she smile kindly at Song Xuyi. She just nodded lightly, then lowered her head, slightly pursed her lips, placed her hand on Song Xuyi’s arm, and slowly followed Song Xuyi into the room.
Song Xuyi had already grown accustomed to Gu Ruyu’s unpredictable temper. Seeing Gu Ruyu sitting silently on the chair after returning to the room, Song Xuyi did not think much of it and even felt that Gu Ruyu might have come out of the pain of blindness. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have behaved this way, and Song Xuyi quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Knowing that Gu Ruyu was sensitive about others touching her, Song Xuyi was very careful to avoid suspicion. She prepared water for Gu Ruyu, tested the temperature, and went to the outer room to wash up. Only after receiving Gu Ruyu’s permission did she return to the room to pour the water.
By the time Song Xuyi finished pouring the water and returned to the room, Gu Ruyu was already sitting on the bed.
Gu Ruyu had let down her hair, her cheeks fair and clean, and she ‘looked’ in Song Xuyi’s direction while wrapped in a quilt…
“You should sleep early!”
Without Gu Ruyu needing to explain, Song Xuyi felt she understood the meaning in Gu Ruyu’s eyes and proactively spoke to reassure her: “I know I don’t sleep well, so to avoid touching your wound, I’ve been sleeping on the floor these past few days—”
“Then thank you, Xuyi.” Gu Ruyu pursed her lips, her voice slightly cold.
Song Xuyi was momentarily stunned, feeling that Gu Ruyu’s expression seemed somewhat strange at this moment, but she couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was strange. Just as she was about to take a closer look, Gu Ruyu raised her hand, and the light went out, plunging the whole room into darkness.
From the day’s reaction, Song Xuyi roughly understood her own sexual orientation. Thinking about a great beauty sleeping next to her did cause some emotional fluctuations, so she called on the system to play a lullaby. Even though sleeping on the floor was a bit cold, after a day’s work and relieved of her worries about Gu Ruyu, Song Xuyi soon fell asleep…
However, in the middle of the night, Song Xuyi once again started to dream.
In the dream, someone was gnashing their teeth while pinching her face, and Song Xuyi even felt a bit breathless. Just as she was about to struggle, it seemed as though she fell into a warm cloud. In a daze, someone beside her sighed softly, “What should I do with you…” The usually cold tone was mixed with obvious wistfulness and helplessness, as if it suddenly carried warmth.
When Song Xuyi woke up the next day, she found herself still sleeping on the floor. She did not notice anything unusual, but the system, wanting to make her wary of the villain, spoke in her mind through gritted teeth: “Yesterday, the villain took advantage of you!”
Song Xuyi’s eyes widened, just about to ask more, when she heard the system continue: “In the middle of the night, the villain carried you to the bed, and you two slept under the same blanket for the whole night. Probably feeling guilty, she moved you back to the floor in the morning…”
Song Xuyi thought it was something serious, but hearing the system say this, she relaxed. She couldn’t help but glance at Gu Ruyu, who was still sleeping under the quilt.
—She had never thought that Gu Ruyu would care about her so much.
Gu Ruyu was focused on revenge and certainly wasn’t thinking about anything else; she just cared about Song Xuyi and considered her a friend. But what the system said made the simple friendship between them somewhat strange…
“Don’t talk nonsense.” Song Xuyi got up from the floor and started tidying up the bedding: “She probably just sees me as a friend, and two girls sleeping together isn’t anything special…”
The system chuckled coldly: “But she definitely doesn’t think that way!”
The system’s intention was to express disdain for Gu Ruyu, but upon hearing it, Song Xuyi couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty: because the one with impure thoughts seemed to be herself…
The previous day, Song Xuyi, in order to sneak a peek at a storybook, had embarrassedly put the system to sleep, thinking that the system did not know everything that happened yesterday, which is why it spoke like that.
Thinking this way, Song Xuyi felt a bit guilty the whole day.
Her daytime schedule was the same as the previous day: helping Zhao Qin with cooking and housework, applying eye compresses for Gu Ruyu, and accompanying Gu Ruyu for a walk. The weather that day was somewhat overcast and not suitable for sunbathing, so Song Xuyi did not dare to read storybooks to Gu Ruyu as she did the day before. Instead, she came up with an idea: picking some wildflowers and wild grass from the surroundings to weave flower crowns with Gu Ruyu.
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Originally, she thought that since Gu Ruyu had injured her eyes, her flower crown weaving wouldn’t be very good. However, Gu Ruyu’s fingers were slender, and her movements were extremely nimble, weaving faster than Song Xuyi. In no time, a beautiful flower crown took shape in Gu Ruyu’s hands…
At the moment the flower crown was completed, Gu Ruyu’s tightly pressed lips slightly curved, and a hint of a smile appeared in her eyes. She held Song Xuyi’s shoulder carefully and placed the flower crown on Song Xuyi’s head—
From Song Xuyi’s perspective, she could see Gu Ruyu’s delicate and beautiful jawline. Gu Ruyu’s usually pale lips looked a bit redder, curving into a pleasant arc…
At that moment, Song Xuyi’s heart uncontrollably started beating faster, and she couldn’t help but look away.
This can’t go on!
That day, Song Xuyi once again deeply reflected on herself, despising her habit of being swayed by beauty, and resolved to avoid contact with Gu Ruyu as much as possible to prevent herself from doing anything inappropriate to Gu Ruyu.
That night, Song Xuyi didn’t dare to lay out her bedding on the floor again. After Gu Ruyu fell asleep, she left the room and slept on a bench in the living room for the night. The living room was close to the male lead Zheng Lian’s room, and Zheng Lian seemed to have martial skills. To avoid disturbing Zheng Lian, it seemed that Gu Ruyu wouldn’t come looking for her at night…
Song Xuyi calculated everything very well but did not expect it to rain in the mountain forest that night, causing the already low temperature to drop even further.
Song Xuyi wrapped herself in a quilt, shivering on the chair, and after falling asleep, she was awakened by the sound of rain. She couldn’t fall back asleep for the rest of the night, only able to endure listening to the rain with open eyes. Finally, at dawn, she quietly returned to the room and soon started to sneeze…
The system did not expect Song Xuyi to react this way, continuously advising her to return to the room to sleep. However, once Song Xuyi made up her mind, it was hard to change it, and she insisted on staying in the living room.
The system was almost in despair: it should have never pointed out the villain’s actions, never expected to fail to trap that damn villain, and instead, it was Xuyi who suffered!
It rained outside the whole day, and Song Xuyi knew she had caught a cold, feeling unwell and dizzy all day. In this state, Song Xuyi naturally no longer entertained those romantic thoughts, groggily taking care of Gu Ruyu. Song Xuyi didn’t know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Gu Ruyu’s unfocused eyes seemed to have grown a bit colder, and when speaking to her, seemed to be suppressing anger.
Was it my avoidance last night that caused her to feel uneasy?
Song Xuyi sighed inwardly, unable to explain her embarrassing thoughts to Gu Ruyu. She could only continue with her plan to avoid Gu Ruyu, spending most of her time with Zhao Qin, except when applying medicine to Gu Ruyu.
Zhao Qin, looking at the heavy rain outside, had a few more traces of worry in her originally carefree eyes—
“This rain is too heavy! If it continues, the warehouse where I store tea leaves might get flooded. I only hope the mountain god blesses us so the rain stops soon…”
For the common people, the harvest is everything.
But the mountain god did not hear Zhao Qin’s prayers, and the heavy rain continued into the night.
Zhao Qin’s house was just an ordinary wooden hut, and on rainy days, it was extremely damp, especially in the outer living room, which became even chillier after a whole day of rain.
Song Xuyi brought extra clothes and drank the medicine Zhao Qin gave her. Initially, she planned to sneak into the living room to sleep at midnight, but before she could reach the door, Gu Ruyu suddenly spoke behind her—
“Does the princess despise me?” Gu Ruyu’s voice carried a hint of obvious sarcasm: “Afraid of catching the bad luck of this eunuch, so you refuse to sleep in the same room with me?”
“No,” Song Xuyi instinctively shrank back upon hearing the coldness in Gu Ruyu’s words. However, she remembered that Gu Ruyu was pretending to be a eunuch, so she braced herself and was about to explain, “After all, men and women should not be too close,” but just as she uttered “no,” her arm went numb, and the clothes and quilt she was holding fell to the ground. Suddenly, her body became unable to move…
The familiar cold fragrance gradually approached, and Gu Ruyu unhurriedly picked up Song Xuyi and placed her on the bed, softening her voice: “Since the Princess does not despise this servant, then this servant will boldly overstep—”
Song Xuyi felt entirely unwell!
Surrounded by the familiar scent from Gu Ruyu’s body, Song Xuyi felt like a shrimp being roasted in a steamer, so hot she could hardly breathe and couldn’t fall asleep…
Seemingly sensing Song Xuyi’s emotions, in the darkness, Gu Ruyu turned over to face Song Xuyi and, with the uninjured hand, awkwardly encircled Song Xuyi’s shoulder, gently patting her back as if to soothe…
Song Xuyi originally wanted to hold on a bit longer and then tell Gu Ruyu that she couldn’t sleep and wanted to continue sleeping on the floor, but at some point, Song Xuyi fell asleep under Gu Ruyu’s clumsy soothing.
The next morning, Song Xuyi was awakened by Zhao Qin’s knocking.
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Zhao Qin’s voice sounded extremely anxious: “Miss Song, can you help me move the tea leaves from the storage room? There’s already a lot of water accumulating at the storage room’s entrance, and it will soon flood the tea jars…”
Song Xuyi’s drowsiness vanished instantly, and without worrying about the embarrassing way she had been sleeping with her limbs entwined around Gu Ruyu, she quickly got out of bed.
Zhao Qin and Zheng Lian were both soaking wet, and several tea jars had already been placed in the living room. Having been sheltered by Zhao Qin for so long, Song Xuyi naturally couldn’t stand by and do nothing when Zhao Qin was in trouble. Even though she still felt a bit dizzy, Song Xuyi joined in moving the tea jars.
Gu Ruyu couldn’t see, and initially, no one intended to ask for her help, but she stood in the living room, receiving the tea jars everyone brought back and stacking them without any mistakes.
Such ability is not something an ordinary songstress can possess. Zheng Lian looked at Gu Ruyu’s appearance, with a bit more depth in her eyes, and some vague images appeared in her mind…
The three quickly moved the tea jars, with cold rainwater continuously flowing down. Song Xuyi only felt her body getting colder and colder, with her hands and feet almost losing sensation. Unfortunately, the rain seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, with muddy water on the hillside constantly sliding down, and a single misstep could cause a slip.
“Xuyi, quickly step back!” the system suddenly shouted in her mind for some unknown reason!
Song Xuyi didn’t have time to react and instinctively grabbed Zhao Qin’s arm beside her, disregarding the tea jar, and quickly retreated a few steps. Immediately, a roaring mudslide rushed down, its tremendous force seemingly shaking heaven and earth…
The mudslide surged down in front of them, splattering mud and water all over Song Xuyi and Zhao Qin, making them look like clay figurines.
Song Xuyi, still in shock, glanced at Zhao Qin, cold sweat trickling down her forehead. If they had been a step slower, they would have been submerged in the icy mountain flood!
Beside her, Zhao Qin also looked a bit stunned. After regaining her senses, she anxiously looked toward the warehouse, which by now had been washed away by the muddy water, with the remaining tea jars all buried beneath it.
Originally, with the tea leaves bountiful this year, Zhao Qin had been thinking of saving up more silver to please the handsome young man she had taken in. But unexpectedly, not only did she fail to save money, but even the warehouse was completely lost…
Thinking of that handsome young man’s cold face, Zhao Qin suddenly felt like crying but had no tears.
However, in the next moment, that handsome young man, drenched like a drowned rat, appeared right in front of Zhao Qin—
The handsome young man was always calm and composed. Even when Zhao Qin first found him, he quickly accepted the reality of his amnesia and never lost his composure. Zhao Qin never imagined he would show such an anxious and helpless look. Seeing Zhao Qin, who was drenched and looked like a clay figurine, the handsome young man visibly sighed in relief, and for the first time, a smile appeared on his usually indifferent face.
Looking at the young man’s expression, Zhao Qin’s eyes gradually brightened as she suddenly understood something, and she couldn’t help but laugh happily.
Song Xuyi, watching the scene of the two of them gazing at each other affectionately, couldn’t help but smile: the male and female leads must have understood each other’s feelings…
At that moment, the system in her mind once again emitted a cheerful sound: “Xuyi, the people from the court you contacted have arrived, right in front!”
Song Xuyi felt a sense of relief, knowing that Zheng Lian’s life was likely saved. She instinctively looked forward. Before seeing the approaching rescue, what Song Xuyi saw first was Gu Ruyu kneeling in the mud, silently and frantically digging through the mud and stones—
Gu Ruyu was originally indifferent and cold, yet now she looked as if she had lost all vitality, like a tireless machine continuously digging at the sedimented mud and stones on the ground. Someone who once had a cleanliness obsession was now covered in filth, with slender fingers full of bloody marks…
“Hahaha, she looks so silly!” the system mocked aloud in Song Xuyi’s mind.
But Song Xuyi couldn’t laugh.
Watching the silently digging Gu Ruyu, Song Xuyi felt as if something clutched her heart, causing a dense and continuous pain.
Gu Ruyu couldn’t see and didn’t know that she was already out of danger.
“Ruyu, I’m okay!”
Song Xuyi couldn’t help but shout out, stepping unevenly closer to Gu Ruyu.
Amidst the continuous sound of rain, Song Xuyi was sure that Gu Ruyu heard her voice, as her movements clearly paused. Yet immediately, Gu Ruyu’s pale lips pressed tightly together, and she began to dig at the ground with even more force…
“Ruyu, it’s Xuyi, I’m really okay!” Song Xuyi could only move in front of Gu Ruyu, hold her arm, and lean close to her ear to speak: “Sorry, I forgot to reassure you…”
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Before Song Xuyi finished her words, she fell into a cold embrace.
Gu Ruyu hugged tightly, as if wanting to merge Song Xuyi into her body, and the arms holding Song Xuyi couldn’t stop trembling—
“Ruyu, it’s me, I’m really okay,” Song Xuyi never thought this accident would bring such a shock to Gu Ruyu and could only repeat herself. Surprised, she looked at Gu Ruyu’s shoulder wound that had split open and couldn’t help but feel heartache, softening her voice: “You still have injuries, let’s go back to the room first…”
Gu Ruyu, however, did not move.
Her face was pale, her expression somewhat haggard, and she turned her face towards Song Xuyi as if she had made some decision. For a moment, Song Xuyi even felt that Gu Ruyu had regained her sight—deep in Gu Ruyu’s eyes seemed to burn a wild fire, the fire’s dark flames surged, spreading to Song Xuyi, making her heart race and her back tingle…
“Song Xuyi,” Gu Ruyu curved her pale lips, her lips seemingly unintentionally brushing Song Xuyi’s cheek, close to Song Xuyi’s ear, as if wanting to say something, but the joyful voices of the envoys sent by the court interrupted—
“Eunuch Gu, you and the Princess indeed found the Third Prince!”
The author has something to say:
“Xiaogu, do you still dare to say you are not worthy of Xuyi?”
Xiaogu (with a cold laugh), coldly draws her sword.
LP: Re-translated on August 31, 2024
Why did she keep digging??
She still can’t see that well and so she deeply panicked.
Song Xu Yi : “Knowing that Gu Ruyu dislikes being touched by others, Song Xu Yi was very careful to avoid touching her.”
GU Ruyu: i want her to hold me more.
Why did she keep digging??
She still can’t see that well and so she deeply panicked.
Song Xu Yi : “Knowing that Gu Ruyu dislikes being touched by others, Song Xu Yi was very careful to avoid touching her.”
GU Ruyu: i want her to hold me more.