Blame the Villain – Chapter 134

Villainous Fake Eunuch (11)

Song Xuyi once again lived the days of having her face pinched daily by the Great Demon King Gu Ruyu.

Perhaps it was because she had resigned herself to fate in her heart, or maybe she had already grown accustomed to Gu Ruyu’s closeness, or perhaps it was because Gu Ruyu had not made any other inappropriate moves besides pinching her face, Song Xuyi found herself gradually adapting to Gu Ruyu’s proximity.

“Let him pinch my face if he wants!” Even when the system angrily cursed Gu Ruyu, Song Xuyi still had the mood to comfort the system: “In the last world, I saw a kind of stress-relief toy—it was an adorable doll made of silicone. People under great pressure or in a bad mood could pinch these dolls. Maybe Gu Ruyu just likes the tactile sensation of pinching my face…”

Song Xuyi understood in her heart: Her current strength was completely unequal to Gu Ruyu’s. Gu Ruyu had immense power, and almost the entire convoy was filled with Gu Ruyu’s people. She had no way to resist Gu Ruyu and could only try to accept things as they were.

However, despite Song Xuyi thinking she was already sufficiently resigned to her fate, Gu Ruyu inexplicably seemed to grow more irritable with each passing day.

In fact, Gu Ruyu also didn’t know what was causing his irritability. He both wanted to stay with Song Xuyi every day, yet when he was with her, he always felt unsatisfied, as if something was missing, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn’t figure out what exactly was lacking. His heart just felt incredibly frustrated.

Because Gu Ruyu spent long periods in Song Xuyi’s carriage, Song Xuyi inevitably came into contact with Gu Ruyu’s subordinates who came to report on business. It seemed that Gu Ruyu had determined that Song Xuyi wouldn’t betray him, so there were many things Gu Ruyu did not hide from Song Xuyi. During this process, Song Xuyi also discovered some other things: for instance—Gu Ruyu’s subordinates were not all people from the imperial court!

Gu Ruyu had a group of special subordinates who came and went without a trace, each possessing unique skills, and they followed a strict management system. They were nearly utterly devoted to Gu Ruyu…

This explained the origin of Gu Ruyu’s skills.

Due to the existence of this group, Song Xuyi also developed some curiosity about Gu Ruyu: What exactly was Gu Ruyu’s background?

However, in the plot summary for Gu Ruyu, it only mentioned Gu Ruyu’s treasonous acts of wreaking havoc beyond his authority and allowing enemy forces to penetrate the national borders. It did not clarify Gu Ruyu’s background or origins.

Thinking that Gu Ruyu’s background might be related to his later acts of treason, Song Xuyi instinctively paid more attention when Gu Ruyu was interacting with his subordinates.

However, the body Song Xuyi inhabited was extremely weak in combat. Whenever these people came, they would sense Song Xuyi’s approach as soon as she got close, and they had their own special jargon. Even though Song Xuyi had the system to cheat, she couldn’t obtain any useful information.

Song Xuyi did not get discouraged and continued to use the system to gather intelligence. She did not uncover Gu Ruyu’s background but discovered the brutality of the management system within the organization led by Gu Ruyu. Corporal punishment was considered light; losing limbs was even more common within this organization.

On this day, Song Xuyi once again saw several blood-soaked individuals coming to seek out Gu Ruyu.

These individuals were dressed in black from head to toe, clearly resembling death warriors. Gu Ruyu and these people disembarked from the carriage and went into a nearby forest. The dense foliage completely obscured Song Xuyi’s view. Sitting in the carriage, Song Xuyi appeared indifferent as she read a storybook, but in her mind, she skillfully called up the system…

The system dutifully reported on the situation on Gu Ruyu’s side:

“That guy with the surname Gu is so arrogant!” the system said angrily. “He’s all cold and silent, and those people clattered to their knees in front of him…”

“Those people are apologizing to the guy named Gu, saying that they failed in assassinating someone and are asking for punishment!”

“Eh, they seem to be calling the guy with the surname Gu ‘Your Highness’…”

“What ‘Your Highness,’ the King of Hell?” the system complained angrily.

“That guy with the surname Gu is secretly engaging in this kind of assassination; he really isn’t a good person!” the system concluded and cursed Gu Ruyu again, then continued: “Wow! The guy with the surname Gu is angry and not saying anything, and his expression looks so terrifying. I don’t know how he commands his subordinates; so many people are scared of him, and it seems like he’s about to take out a knife to actively sever his own arm…”

“With so many people wanting to sever their arms, that black-hearted guy Gu actually doesn’t stop them!!”

Song Xuyi had originally been pondering whom Gu Ruyu wanted to assassinate and why these people were calling him “Your Highness.” However, upon hearing the system’s words, she widened her eyes. Without having time to think, Song Xuyi had already poked her head out of the carriage and shouted, “Gu Ruyu!”

In her urgency, Song Xuyi didn’t even have time to call Gu Ruyu “Chief Eunuch Gu” politely.

As expected by Song Xuyi, Gu Ruyu heard her call and furrowed his brows as he walked out of the forest—

“What do you want, Xuyi?” The system, hearing Song Xuyi’s voice, immediately knew what she wanted to do and could not help but retract its angry tone, speaking with concern: “Don’t get involved in this muddy waters; Gu Ruyu’s matters are not something you can handle…”

However, it was already too late! Gu Ruyu had already reached the front of the carriage.

Song Xuyi, feeling anxious, realized after a moment that she was also a bit uneasy. As she watched Gu Ruyu gradually approach, her eyes darted, and in a moment of desperation, she pretended to cover her stomach, looking at Gu Ruyu with a pitiful expression—

“I think I ate something bad; my… my stomach hurts.”

The atmosphere froze for a moment.

Gu Ruyu did not speak, his eyes fixed on Song Xuyi, his expression still bearing the lingering cold anger. The surrounding servants and subordinates, seeing him like this, all lowered their heads in fear, not daring to make a sound…

Song Xuyi knew her acting skills were not good and that Gu Ruyu had likely seen through her ruse. However, thinking of those people in the forest who were about to sever their arms, Song Xuyi gritted her teeth and stubbornly continued with her clumsy lie—

“Chief Eunuch Gu, my stomach really hurts,” Song Xuyi half-leaned out of the carriage, looking at Gu Ruyu pitifully, imitating the appearance of the little girl she had taken in when she was being cute, blinking her eyes eagerly as she spoke: “Could you call someone to find a doctor to take a look at me?”

“I saw that the few black-clad people who just arrived ran away very quickly. Could you let them go find a doctor for me?” Facing Gu Ruyu’s gradually deepening gaze, Song Xuyi felt guilty and panicked, her voice getting lower and lower until she couldn’t help but retreat back into the carriage…

What Song Xuyi didn’t expect was that Gu Ruyu lifted the carriage curtain and also got into the carriage.

“I’ve never seen someone with a stomachache who still has the energy to care about unrelated people!”

Gu Ruyu removed the cold, murderous aura surrounding him, speaking in a mocking tone, exposing Song Xuyi’s clumsy disguise, yet his hands reached towards Song Xuyi’s abdomen—

?!

“You shameless wolf!” the system screamed in Song Xuyi’s mind!

Song Xuyi’s face instantly flushed red, and she instinctively wanted to avoid him. However, her attempts to escape were no match for Gu Ruyu. She didn’t know where Gu Ruyu touched, but she felt completely weak and powerless to resist, only able to watch with a red face as Gu Ruyu pressed on her abdomen…

“I’ve offended the Princess; I am just a eunuch, so the Princess need not take offense!”

While saying he had offended her, Gu Ruyu’s actions did not stop—

“The sunflower water has not arrived, and the intestines are also unobstructed.” Gu Ruyu leisurely pressed on Song Xuyi’s stomach, then reached out to check her pulse, finally calmly making a judgment: “Princess… perhaps it is a matter of the heart.”

Song Xuyi no longer wanted to speak—she had never imagined Gu Ruyu would take such actions! However, she had actively handed over the handle to Gu Ruyu, and now she had not only failed to save those people but had also brought herself into this predicament. Song Xuyi felt an immense regret, wanting nothing more than to find a crack in the ground and completely burrow into it…

Meanwhile, Gu Ruyu’s mood visibly improved.

A light laugh came from above her head, and Gu Ruyu began to play with her hair again. Since his hands had already touched her abdomen, Song Xuyi did not want to pay attention to Gu Ruyu playing with her hair; she continued to tightly close her eyes and pretend to be dead. However, she heard Gu Ruyu softly say, “Ruyu—”

?!

“Don’t you want to save those few people?” Gu Ruyu lazily sat beside Song Xuyi, playing with her hair, speaking in a seemingly indifferent tone: “If you call me Ruyu from now on, it would not be impossible to spare those few people—”

“Xuyi, don’t listen to him!” the system screamed: “After all, it’s his subordinates’ arms that are being chopped off; what does it have to do with you!” However, despite saying this, the system knew that Song Xuyi would not stand by and do nothing—

Sure enough, not long after, Song Xuyi, with her eyes tightly closed and her face flushed, stammered out, “R- Ruyu…”

The system clenched its teeth in indignation—at that moment, it desperately wanted to become a physical entity, so it could rush out and bite this scoundrel Gu who was deserving of death!

However, that scoundrel Gu smiled. His face, which was already androgynous, appeared even more enchanting. He leaned closer to Song Xuyi’s face, his eyes shining with an unprecedented brightness. His voice was hoarse as he lowered it, his ears somehow turning slightly red, and his tone clearly mixed with delight: “Since the Princess values this servant so much, this servant dares to be presumptuous; from now on, I shall call the Princess Xuyi…”

Even though it came at a ‘painful’ price that Song Xuyi never imagined, the result was still as she hoped—Gu Ruyu spared those few people.

In the following days, as the carriage passed through a certain state, Song Xuyi heard news that the local state official had been stabbed and was seriously injured in bed, while efforts were being made to capture the assassin.

This state official was known for bullying the common people and was notoriously greedy. However, because the official’s sister was a favored concubine of the Emperor, even though everyone knew about his moral corruption, no one dared to petition the Emperor to deal with him.

Song Xuyi couldn’t help but think of those black-clad individuals who had almost had their arms severed by Gu Ruyu: was this really just a coincidence?

Knowing about this incident, when a few days later another group of black-clad men knelt before Song Xuyi, pleading for her to save their squad leader who was about to be dealt with by Gu Ruyu, despite the system constantly reminding her “not to pay them any mind,” Song Xuyi couldn’t help but agree to plead for them when she thought that these people might be chivalrous individuals acting on behalf of heaven.

This time, Song Xuyi agreed to help Gu Ruyu comb his hair for a month in exchange for the squad leader’s chance at life.

Once there was one, there was bound to be another. Seeing that Song Xuyi could truly influence Gu Ruyu’s decisions, people began to come to her every few days…

Seeing the appearances of these individuals made Song Xuyi feel pity in her heart. Time after time, she helped plead for them, offering a variety of compensation to Gu Ruyu for a series of nonsensical requests: such as singing songs for Gu Ruyu, accompanying him while riding, and reading stories to him… Her relationship with Gu Ruyu gradually grew closer through this kind of interaction.

Time passed like this for more than a month. In just a few days, they would arrive in Jiangnan. The journey was smooth, and Song Xuyi didn’t expect to encounter an ambush when passing a cliff.

The ambush was aimed at Gu Ruyu.

The organization under Gu Ruyu was not entirely united. Gu Ruyu had previously maintained strict control, causing dissatisfaction among some members within the organization. Some had secretly gathered a group of people who disliked Gu Ruyu, planning to kill him and seize the leader position. Originally, this group had not intended to act so soon, but they did not expect that over the past month, Gu Ruyu’s style had changed and was no longer as harsh and murderous as before. The internal complaints against Gu Ruyu had decreased significantly, and fearing that if they delayed any longer, there would be fewer people opposing Gu Ruyu, this group decided to take the risk and assassinate him.

These people were clearly no match for Gu Ruyu, and they quickly showed signs of defeat.

This was the first time Song Xuyi witnessed Gu Ruyu’s strength: Gu Ruyu’s moves were ruthless and decisive, taking on ten opponents alone, like a Shura emerging from hell, leaving behind a trail of wails…

Seeing the chaotic situation about to come to an end, Song Xuyi felt a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to pull up the curtain of the carriage, she heard a ‘hissing’ sound of something burning—

Song Xuyi did not expect that these people had planted explosives under her carriage!

By the time Song Xuyi heard the sound of the fuse burning, it was already too late!

With a huge rumbling sound, Song Xuyi fell into a familiar, hard embrace—

The feeling of weightlessness swept over her. She heard a muffled grunt above her, followed by the ‘plop’ sound of falling into water, and Song Xuyi completely lost consciousness…

The author has something to say:

Hehe, today’s flag hasn’t fallen. I’ll be bold and set another one: tomorrow, I will also update on the sixth.

LP: Re-translated on August 20, 2024