Blame the Villain – Chapter 205
by Little PandaVillainous Emperor (5)
With a “poof” sound, Jiang Ruoyu felt she heard a soft laugh.
However, when she came to her senses and looked around, there was no one around.
Jiang Ruoyu steadied herself, feeling she might have had a hallucination, and followed the nursemaid with her lips pursed, lost in thought.
She wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but after walking for a while, her stomach didn’t feel as bloated anymore. She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, believing this must be the Goddess Sister secretly using her powers again. As she was mentally noting that she must properly repay the Goddess Sister in the future, she once again heard a soft laugh.
Jiang Ruoyu couldn’t help but shake her little head—perhaps she was just too happy today, so happy that she was even having auditory hallucinations.
“Sixteenth Princess,” the nursemaid in front turned around and asked with concern, “Are you feeling better? If you’re better, shall we return to your chambers?”
Jiang Ruoyu actually didn’t want to go home; she even thought about finding an excuse to visit the divine temple. However, over the years, she had grown accustomed to reading people’s expressions. Now that autumn had arrived and the nights were getting colder, the nursemaid’s expression clearly showed she didn’t want to stay outside any longer. After some thought, Jiang Ruoyu softly replied, “Alright.”
Jiang Ruoyu followed the nursemaid back to Jingxin Pavilion.
The nursemaids attended to Jiang Ruoyu’s washing up, teaching her how to use the toiletries. Jiang Ruoyu obediently listened, then blew out the lamp and lay down on the fragrant bed.
By now, the celebratory music outside had quieted down. The palace servants left a dim oil lamp for night watch. In the complete silence, Jiang Ruoyu lay on the soft bed but couldn’t fall asleep.
She feared that if she fell asleep and woke up, everything would turn out to be a dream: that she would still be the neglected girl in the Cold Palace, and her mother wouldn’t have received effective treatment…
Jiang Ruoyu tossed and turned in bed for a long time. Not knowing who to share her feelings with, she thought about talking to the Goddess Sister, but then felt the Goddess Sister must be very busy. She had already helped her so much; it would be presumptuous (literally “gaining an inch and wanting a foot”) to keep bothering her. After wrestling with these thoughts for a long while, she finally let out a grown-up-like sigh in the darkness.
What Jiang Ruoyu didn’t expect was that shortly after her sigh, another soft laugh came from the air, and a gentle hand touched her little belly, softly and slowly rubbing her full tummy. Then, a familiar female voice spoke with amusement in the darkness: “What’s wrong? Is your stomach still too full to bear?”
Looking at the little villain staring at her in the darkness with a completely red face, Song Xuyi’s smile grew even wider, and she couldn’t help teasing again:
“Oh my! What if you get too full? You still need to bear children for me in the future…”
Catching sight of how the little girl’s long eyelashes trembled as she ducked under the covers in embarrassment, yet seemed afraid Song Xuyi would leave and peeked out half her head to look at her, Song Xuyi felt her heart melting. She never thought this little villain could be so beautiful and cute!
“She’s so cute!” Song Xuyi couldn’t help exclaiming to the system, “System, I must raise her well, make her values even more beautiful than her features!”
Although the system couldn’t connect with the Main God, it had managed to contact the main system a few days ago. The main system transmitted a fragmented message, instructing it not to interfere with any of Song Xuyi’s actions in this world, especially regarding personal relationships.
The system also realized that Song Xuyi’s actions across these worlds had probably already been noticed by the Main God. If they wanted to stop her, they would have done so earlier, not waiting until this world. The main system probably saw Xuyi’s excellence and decided to forgive her violation of the “no romance in small worlds” rule…
“Alright, alright!” The system became more accepting and even laughed meaningfully at Song Xuyi: “She’s not only cute but also beautiful. She definitely sincerely wants to bear children for you. You can do anything you want with her…”
“That’s right, I never thought a villain could be so naive,” Song Xuyi missed the deeper meaning in the system’s words and sighed worriedly: “She’s so naive now, I bet in the future if I sold her, she’d probably thank me for finding her a good place…”
“Ah… the imperial palace is a place that devours people, I must teach her to protect herself!”
“Whatever makes you happy!”
The system observed the obvious concern in Song Xuyi’s eyes, saw the little villain’s sparkling gaze when looking at Song Xuyi, and the unstoppable smile on her face. Combined with the developments from previous worlds, the system felt it could already predict how the story would unfold over the next few decades.
Perhaps because it had been stuck on Xuyi’s romance in previous worlds, the system now abandoned its former mindset of trying to stop Song Xuyi. Seeing how Xuyi was once again fatefully entangled with this woman in this life, the system suddenly felt some anticipation: wondering what expression Xuyi would make when the little villain really wanted to bear her children in the future…
Song Xuyi was unaware that her good partner system was already preparing to watch her future predicament. She looked amusedly at the little villain before her, while the little villain’s thoughts rang clearly in her ears—
“It feels so good to have Goddess Sister rubbing my tummy!”
“Goddess Sister is so beautiful!”
“How did Goddess Sister know I wanted to bear children for her? Can she hear my thoughts?”
“Oh no, does Goddess Sister know about the time I wanted to eat her largest offering fruit? Will she take everything back?”
“Wuu, Goddess Sister please don’t blame me! If you want to blame someone, blame me, send me back to the Cold Palace! Let mother stay here. If you like babies, I’ll bear them for you in the future, as many as you want…”
Listening to the little girl’s rambling thoughts and watching her changing expressions, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but pinch her little tummy—
“I can indeed hear your thoughts,” Song Xuyi said with a smile: “Seeing little Ruoyu happy makes me happy. I don’t want to send little Ruoyu back to the Cold Palace for now, so you can rest assured and sleep…”
Noticing how Jiang Ruoyu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief yet still stared at her unblinkingly, Song Xuyi thought for a moment and continued, meeting Jiang Ruoyu’s sparkling eyes: “My kindness to Ruoyu actually has my considerations. It’s because I believe Ruoyu is a good child who will grow up to be a pillar of the state (literally “beam and pillar of the state,” meaning a person of great importance to society) and protect countless common people, that’s why I chose to help Ruoyu.”
“But Ruoyu must understand – if I can favor you, I can naturally favor other children as well. I can help you for a time, but not forever…”
“So if the future Ruoyu wants to permanently escape the fate of returning to the Cold Palace, ultimately, it can only depend on yourself.”
Song Xuyi’s original intention was to make this child less naive and gullible, but unexpectedly, Jiang Ruoyu’s gaze remained bright as she looked at her. She earnestly looked at Song Xuyi once and softly said, “Goddess Sister, it’s different.”
“Father Emperor helps me because you promised him benefits, and the palace people treat me well because they dare not defy Father Emperor’s orders… They treat me well ultimately for their own benefit, they don’t really like me.”
“But you say you’re happy to see me, and every time you see me, you smile at me,” Jiang Ruoyu seemed to shyly close her eyes. “Moreover, you came to me because of my own prayers.”
“I believe in you, and I’m not afraid anymore. I’ll go to sleep obediently in a moment.”
“But could you wait for me? Please don’t look for other children yet. I’ll work very hard, and I’ll definitely become the pillar of state you spoke of.” The little girl’s long eyelashes trembled, her lips curled up as she grabbed Song Xuyi’s hand that was stroking her belly, and gently hooked her pinky finger—
“I promise you.”
Who could resist such a sweet, beautiful, well-spoken, and obedient little dumpling?
Song Xuyi found Jiang Ruoyu more adorable the longer she stayed, and with maternal affection, only returned to the divine temple to continue cultivation after Jiang Ruoyu fell asleep.
The Jiang Dynasty royal family rose to power because of the Goddess, and later generations maintained their reverence for her. Almost the entire nation worshipped the Goddess. The original soul supported the royal family partly because of her mission, and partly because her cultivation grew stronger through the faith of Jiang’s people.
However, despite enjoying the nation’s worship, the original soul wasn’t a good guardian deity. She only cared about her own cultivation and barely managed the suffering of common people.
At first glance, the Jiang nation appeared powerful, having annexed many small countries in recent years. However, looking closer, Jiang was exhausting its military and people (literally “exhausting troops and oppressing with military force”), and the citizens had accumulated much discontent. Moreover, Jiang hadn’t handled relations with conquered peoples well, leading to strong conflicts between different ethnic groups and internal chaos, through which the male protagonist gained his military achievements.
The future Jiang Ruoyu would wreak havoc in the three realms with the Huan Sword and fall into demonhood, likely absorbing these people’s resentment.
Regardless of the future, now that Song Xuyi had replaced the original soul, she naturally had to take on her responsibilities and protect Jiang’s people.
During this time, Song Xuyi’s divine consciousness swept across the entire Jiang nation, discovering the situation was worse than imagined. The worst was in a southern prefecture, where it hadn’t rained for three to four months. The people were miserable, and in some places, they had even begun to exchange children for food.
Thinking that Jiang Ruoyu’s situation had improved, Song Xuyi used all her power to make it rain in that prefecture. She controlled the rainfall to prevent flooding while thoroughly nourishing the entire region…
The rain continued for nearly half a month, and the situation in that prefecture finally improved. When the news reached the capital, the Emperor became even more convinced of the prophecy about Jiang Ruoyu being the “Imperial Companion Star”. Remembering the Goddess’s words in his dream about “nurturing well,” the Emperor rarely showed concern for this child whom he had once again forgotten…
Song Xuyi concentrated intensely on the rainfall, nearly depleting all her spiritual power. She meditated in a state of selflessness for some time before recovering. The time measurement in the divine realm differed from the mortal world, and when Song Xuyi awakened, she heard Jiang Ruoyu’s incredibly dejected voice, even carrying traces of tears—
“Goddess Sister, are you also looking down on me for being stupid? Is that why you haven’t paid attention to me for so long?”
The author has something to say:
Dear wealthy patrons, there will be another chapter today, but it will probably be quite late~
LP: Re-translated on November 27, 2024
Oh no baobei🥺
Oh no baobei🥺