After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Was Played by the Black Lotus – Chapter 1

Transmigrated into a Book

Original female lead

A blinding, blood-like crimson haze enveloped her vision.

Soft, dense, and gentle breaths echoed one after another by her ear, so close they seemed to pulse right beside it.

In this extremely tranquil space, they crawled densely over every inch of her skin, eerie and silent.

Lin Xingzhu¹ felt as if her eyelids weighed a thousand jin².

She struggled to lift them a fraction, but before she could see clearly, her ungathered consciousness rapidly dispersed, leaving nothing behind.

Before her eyes closed, a breathtaking flash of white suddenly streaked past.

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“Xingzhu, Xingzhu.”

“Everyone’s here, why aren’t you moving?”

“If you don’t snap out of it, the beauty won’t be able to wait much longer.”

As the words fell, a burst of lewd laughter rustled into her ears.

Lin Xingzhu frowned instinctively.

Who?

That voice is so grating.

She opened her eyes and looked impatiently towards where the voice came from.

The next second, her pupils uncontrollably dilated.

The speaker wore a tight, black, strapless mini-dress, her large waves of hair cascading down her back. She was the type of made-up beauty who would normally turn heads, but her debauched expression completely ruined the hard-won aesthetic, stripping her of any class.

But that wasn’t the most important thing.

What mattered was that she clearly didn’t know this person, yet the other’s gaze was unmistakably familiar, and even her tone of voice was undisguisedly intimate.

She lowered her eyes, her expression unreadable.

Seeing her silence, the woman’s delight became somewhat unconcealed. “If you’re regretting it, you can let me have her.”

After speaking, she flicked her hair and tilted her head to look at the girl slumped on the floor, her eyes flashing with intense desire.

Four years of university, how had she never noticed before that Bai Xiying³ was so much to her taste?

She’s quite the stunner, too.

Strange, so strange.

Lin Xingzhu followed her gaze.

Her breath caught.

A woman in a simple white dress was slumped on the floor, her face flushed. Her exposed skin, with her rapid breathing, took on a light pink hue, like a hazy mist clinging to flawless white jade, exuding a silent allure.

Not to mention her gracefully arched neck, slender and pale, like a fawn offering its throat for the slaughter, radiating an extreme attraction amidst its vulnerability.

Weak, helpless, and so beautiful.

Lin Xingzhu keenly sensed the black-dressed woman’s eagerness to make a move.

But she wasn’t clear on the situation yet, so Lin Xingzhu didn’t dare act rashly.

She watched everything before her with a calm expression, her mind rapidly searching for useful information.

Just as the black-dressed woman leaned closer to the person on the floor, her outstretched hand about to touch the sweat-beaded cheek, Lin Xingzhu finally spoke.

“Wait.”

She stood her ground, calmly looking at the black-dressed woman, her eyes deep and unreadable. “Did I say you could touch her?”

The black-dressed woman’s body stiffened.

She looked at the exquisite beauty so close at hand, gritted her teeth, and straightened up with a displeased expression, though she reluctantly schooled her features as she looked up.

“Who asked you not to say anything just now,” she retorted stubbornly.

But when she noticed Lin Xingzhu’s seemingly angry expression, she reined in her look and, feigning a smile, moved away from the person on the floor.

“Don’t be angry. I was just checking if she’d fainted for you. Otherwise, if she passed out, what fun would there be?”

Lin Xingzhu remained noncommittal.

She walked over to the person on the floor, bent down slightly, and after getting a clear look at her current state, a flicker of worry crossed her eyes.

The black-dressed woman saw her expression and curled her lip.

Putting on an act. Isn’t she even more impatient than me now?

“Here, this is the room key.” She held out a black card.

Lin Xingzhu took it without looking back, thought for a moment, and said, “You can leave first.”

Slipping the card into a close-fitting pocket, Lin Xingzhu bent down even further.

Seeing her seemingly impatient demeanor, the black-dressed woman twitched her lips and left without looking back.

Lin Xingzhu paid no mind to the movements behind her. She reached out and touched the other’s forehead; it was very hot.

It must be an external manifestation of the drug taking effect.

She noticed Bai Xiying struggling to lift her eyelids to glance at her.

Lin Xingzhu didn’t pay it much mind; the urgent task now was to take Bai Xiying to the hospital.

Lin Xingzhu half-knelt, and without a word, scooped up the limp Bai Xiying in a princess carry, kicked open the private room door, and started walking out.

When exiting the elevator, her steps were hurried, and she accidentally bumped into a girl with short black hair.

Lin Xingzhu didn’t have time to say much, only leaving behind a quick “Sorry” as she rushed out with Bai Xiying.

Lin Xingzhu carried Bai Xiying all the way to the underground parking lot. The person in her arms didn’t struggle at all. Lin Xingzhu managed a quick glance and found that the other had fainted, her face deeply flushed.

Only after driving all the way to the hospital using navigation and handing Bai Xiying over to the doctor did Lin Xingzhu finally breathe a sigh of relief.

She slumped onto a chair, feeling the weakness emanating from her body.

After a moment, Lin Xingzhu propped her head up with her bent right arm and slowly exhaled a turbid breath.

What kind of mess is this!

It was only when she was searching her memories in the bar just now that she discovered she had actually transmigrated into a book.

If it were just an ordinary transmigration, it wouldn’t be so bad. The crucial point was that Lin Xingzhu had transmigrated into an erotic novel⁴, one that was eighty percent smut⁵ and twenty percent plot.

And now, it was the starting point of the story in the book, where the cannon fodder⁶ Lin Xingzhu coveted the beauty of the main love interest⁷, Bai Xiying, and drugged her with an aphrodisiac in an attempt to force her into submission.

According to the original owner’s memories she had just searched, Lin Xingzhu learned that this aphrodisiac was extremely potent; it was said that nothing short of an intimate act⁸ could counteract it, making it very domineering.

She rubbed her temples. Setting aside the extremely unscientific existence of such an aphrodisiac in this world, she didn’t know if the doctor would even have a solution.

Just as she was thinking about this, the inner door suddenly opened.

Lin Xingzhu stood up and quickly asked, “How is the situation?”

The doctor glanced at her and said calmly, “We’ve managed to stabilize her for now, but the drug’s effects haven’t completely subsided yet. We still need to observe her.”

Lin Xingzhu nodded in understanding.

However, recalling the novel’s description that it couldn’t be resolved without an “intimate act,” she hesitated, “This drug’s potency…”

“You don’t need to worry. Coincidentally, we’ve recently developed a treatment method for this new type of drug.” The doctor glanced at her, a hint of approval in their eyes. “Fortunately, you brought her in time. If it had been any later, even if we stabilized her, the side effects would have been more severe.”

Speaking of this, the doctor frowned. “I don’t know which unscrupulous person developed such a potent and domineering drug.”

“A small amount of such substances might enhance pleasure, but the effects of such a domineering drug are unheard of. If it circulates in the market and falls into the hands of those with ulterior motives, it’s truly harmful.”

The supposedly unscrupulous but actually scapegoated⁹ Lin Xingzhu chimed in, “It’s truly too unscrupulous!”

“But Doctor, what about the side effects you just mentioned?”

Lin Xingzhu was a little worried that the drug would cause some damage to Bai Xiying’s body.

The doctor coughed. “It will just make her body more sensitive for the next week.”

Lin Xingzhu’s expression stiffened slightly. “And what if she had been brought in later?”

The doctor adjusted their glasses. “The degree of sensitivity would be heightened.” So much so that it would affect daily life.

The doctor didn’t say the last sentence aloud.

Lin Xingzhu understood immediately.

While understanding, she couldn’t help but complain internally about what kind of bizarre¹⁰ world this was.

Not only do unscientific things like aphrodisiacs exist, but it also comes with such ridiculous settings!

After seeing off the doctor and nurse, Lin Xingzhu entered the hospital room to stay by Bai Xiying’s side.

Midway, she went out of the hospital to get some plain congee to go, in case Bai Xiying woke up hungry. Lin Xingzhu had thought Bai Xiying was still unconscious, but when she pushed open the door carrying the food, she found the other person was already awake.

She felt awkward for a moment.

Lin Xingzhu cleared her throat to cover it up, walked to the small table beside the bed with the congee, and took the food out, placing it on the table.

“Are you hungry? I bought some congee you can have.”

It was already late at night. The hospital corridor outside was quiet, and it was quiet inside the room too.

Lin Xingzhu stood sideways by Bai Xiying’s bed, her head lowered as she busied herself opening the congee container, thus missing the dark eyes that were looking at her.

“Is this a hospital?”

The woman’s voice sounded, carrying an undeniable weakness that, however, added a touch of poignant charm.

Lin Xingzhu nodded.

A faint emotion flickered past. Bai Xiying lowered her gaze, looking at the pure white quilt covering her.

Her raven-feather-like eyelashes cast a shadow, hiding all her expressions.

Lin Xingzhu noticed her palm-sized face was devoid of any color. She frowned, her voice apologetic, “Sorry.”

Although she hadn’t caused this incident, now that she was Lin Xingzhu, and Lin Xingzhu was her, things having reached this point, she had to bear responsibility for this mistake one way or another.

Bai Xiying’s pale lips moved slightly. “Why are you here?”

Her question was strange.

Logically, this normal question should have been asked upon their first meeting after waking up, yet the other person only spoke it now.

Lin Xingzhu couldn’t help but cast a probing glance.

Bai Xiying lowered her eyes, letting her scrutinize. Under the quilt, her slender white fingers silently fell upon her right wrist.

It was smooth as jade here, with no trace of any injury.

Unable to find anything from her scrutiny, Lin Xingzhu just assumed she was still affected by the drug.

“I saw you were in a very bad state, so I drove you to the hospital.”

Seeing Bai Xiying looking somewhat dazed, she wasn’t sure if she had become like this due to the shock.

After all, the original book said that Bai Xiying had a resilient, positive, and optimistic personality. Logically, after something as major as being drugged, with her temperament, she should have unleashed her fury upon waking, utterly enraged.

Thinking this, Lin Xingzhu smoothly offered the opened congee container to her and asked patiently, “Are you hungry?”

She remembered the doctor had induced vomiting to reduce the drug’s effects, so she didn’t know if she was hungry now.

The thick, well-cooked plain congee exuded a delicate fragrance, tempting one to eat.

Lin Xingzhu herself felt a bit hungry just smelling it.

Bai Xiying glanced at it devoid of emotion, her tone flat. “Not hungry.”

Lin Xingzhu: “…”

She looked at Bai Xiying suspiciously, unable to tell from her expressionless face whether she was truly not hungry or just pretending.

Seeing that she really didn’t want to eat, Lin Xingzhu put the congee back on the table, sealed it with the lid, then pulled up a chair and sat down, looking like she was ready for a serious talk.

Lin Xingzhu said apologetically, “Sorry, for some reason, I tricked you into coming to the bar and put you in this state.” She glanced at Bai Xiying’s pale face and said sincerely, “It was my fault in the first place, but thankfully, it didn’t lead to a disaster.”

When she said, “didn’t lead to a disaster,” Lin Xingzhu noticed a subtle fluctuation in Bai Xiying’s expression out of the corner of her eye.

She pretended not to see it, lightly tapped her fingers, and continued, “Your friend is fine. And now, because I caused you to be hospitalized and injured, is there anything you need me to do? If possible, I hope to compensate you as best as I can.”

This was the best solution Lin Xingzhu could think of at the moment.

If this had happened in her own world, she would definitely have called the police. But now, she had inexplicably occupied this body and had to take responsibility for the original owner’s mistakes. However, if the other party wanted Lin Xingzhu to face legal punishment, honestly, she would truly feel wronged.

Hearing this, Bai Xiying lifted her eyelids and looked at her without saying a word.

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