How to Survive As a Villain

102 – I Really Regret Saving Someone This Time.

The carriage galloped for several days, until finally, he was only half a day away from Taoyuan Village. While he passed through a town that was not too small or too big, Xiao YuAn found a teahouse to have a rest.

While a storyteller was telling a story on one side of the teahouse, some people were clapping deafeningly and powerfully; thrashing the wood on the tables, full of momentum.

Xiao YuAn twisted a few peanuts and fed them into his mouth. After listening to a few more rounds of clapping and shouting, it was enough rest for him, so he got ready to continue his journey. The horse was in the stables at the back of the teahouse, eating and drinking water. While stomping his hooves, the horse whinnied from the top of his lungs, and it took some effort and time for Xiao YuAn to successfully pull the horse out of the stables; working out the ropes of the carriage as he applied them onto the horse.

Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps and loud noises coming from behind him. Xiao YuAn turned around and saw a woman running over. She looked back as she ran, as if something was chasing her.

Xiao YuAn subconsciously moved over, giving some space to her to escape; however, in the next second, he saw how the woman sprained her foot and fell to the ground. She looked like she was in huge pain and couldn’t get up, no matter how many times she tried.

Xiao YuAn quickly stepped forward to help her, but as soon as he saw her, he was slightly stunned.

The woman’s clothes were dirty and muddy. She had scratches and cuts on her arms and cheeks. As she was being helped up by Xiao YuAn, she looked up at him with horror. After seeing that it was just a passerby, she subconsciously grasped Xiao YuAn’s arm tightly, like a dying patient grasping a life-saving medicine, absolutely refusing to let go.

The two stared blankly at each other for a second. Just when Xiao YuAn was about to ask her something, he suddenly heard shouting and cursing coming from behind them. The woman was trembling all over and she struggled to get up, but because she sprained her foot, she staggered a few times without being able to get up. Finally, she fell on her knees in front of Xiao YuAn and grabbed his sleeve, refusing to let him go: “Gongzi help me, please save me!”

Xiao YuAn was so frightened that he almost blurted out: ‘Woman, you’re playing with fire’. Fortunately, the horse beside him impatiently shook his tail, getting the script of the Tyrannical President off his mind.

Xiao YuAn assisted the woman, who was still kneeling on the ground, and helped her sit on the plank in front of the carriage, where the coachman sits; just as the pursuers behind them also arrived. The leader was a fat and strong man holding a machete. He looked at Xiao YuAn with vigilance.

“All right.” Xiao YuAn puffed his chest out. “What’s the script? Robbing a woman? A rivalry? Or a debt of gratitude?”

The strong man looked at Xiao YuAn from head to toe with a pair of hanging eyes, then he extended his hand: “Thirty taels of silver, I refuse to bargain. Take her, leave, and never come back. It’s good that you’re acting as her hero, bringing justice for her. Mutual understanding means great harmony.”

Xiao YuAn: “……”

Dage, you’re also a transmigrator?!

Xiao YuAn pulled out thirty taels of silver and handed it to the strong man. The strong man weighed the silver, patted Xiao YuAn’s shoulder to show his appreciation and encouragement. Then he led his fellow Xiao-di1 to turn around, and left.

Just as some onlookers had just sliced a melon to watch the show, the play was already over.

Xiao YuAn turned around, saw her struggling to get off the carriage and kneel down to him: “I can’t repay your kindness! But I’ll be hardworking and diligent, to repay Gongzi!”

“All right, all right. Don’t kneel.” Xiao YuAn quickly reached out to help her get up. “What’s your name?”

The woman, however, insisted on kneeling and then said: “My surname is Lin, and my name is Shenling.”

Xiao YuAn suddenly fell on his knees.

Why did he have to blindly save someone in a world based on a harem story?!!

Why did he have to save a member of the harem?!!!

He must’ve been too comfortable for the past year or so! Since he couldn’t remember how to spell “Be prepared for danger2”!

God damn it! Holy shit! Help!

Lin Shenling was shocked by Xiao YuAn’s suddenly pale face: “Be-benefactor?”

Xiao YuAn waved his hand with difficulty: “Don’t ever call me like that!!”

Lin Shenling: “Why-why not?”

Because you’re Yan HeQing’s wife!!!

Besides Princess Yongning and Xiao PingYang, this girl is also the third favorite female lead by the readers’ collective votes! And besides Princess Yongning, she’s also the wife who has the most emotional drama with Yan HeQing in the whole book, aahhhhhhh!!!!!

Lin Shenling is one of the most well portrayed wives in the original book. She’s also the only wife with a humble background among Yan HeQing’s first and second female lead wives.

According to the author’s description, Lin Shenling is the most ordinary looking one in Yan HeQing’s harem.

However, no matter how common she is, she still has a beautiful and clear face; it was just the wasn’t as beautiful as those stunningly beautiful looking Princesses.

Lin Shenling is also older than Yan HeQing, but she’s easy-going and gentle. She’s also good at cooking and laundry, which made her different from the unruly Princesses and Ladies in Yan HeQing’s harem. If you compare her with the other Ladies, this wife’s attributes really shine3 through! But her character is also related to her miserable life experience.

Lin Shenling’s family has been poor since she was born. This was easy to understand, and ever since she was a child, she has helped her parents with the farm work. Unfortunately, in the year of her first elephant dance4, her father died unexpectedly and her mother remarried another man. Because of this, her engagement had to be broken, and she couldn’t get married in the end.

Lin Shenling’s stepfather was fond of gambling, and his behavior was even worse. After her mother died from an illness, her stepfather sold her into a brothel in exchange for money to gamble with.

Just now, Lin Shenling must have escaped from that brothel.

In the original book, Lin Shenling escaped six times. During the last escape, she almost broke her leg, but in the end she finally managed to escape from the brothel. She was extremely lucky and escaped towards Taoyuan Village, where she was saved by the simple people living there. With this, her miserable life finally ended.

The next day, when she went up to the mountain, she met Yan HeQing, who was injured after a battle and fell in the mountain steam.

This was the reason why Xiao YuAn knew about Taoyuan Village. In the original book, a lot of words were used to describe this comfortable and peaceful village; which was clearly on the border of the Four Kingdoms, and yet, it never suffered from war. It made Xiao YuAn want to remember everything about it.

But now!!! He actually saved Lin Shenling! He saved her!!!

Yan HeQing! Your first wife eloped with your second wife! Your third wife’s plot hasn’t even been triggered yet!

Why are you so miserable?!!!

Lin Shenling observed Xiao YuAn’s expression and bit her lower lip fiercely: “Does Gongzi regret saving me?”

‘I don’t regret saving you!’

‘I was feeling like I was basically cutting off your future! Do you know that you’ll live in the Imperial Palace for a long time? Without having to worry about anything, dressed in silk, and served by tons of servants? You will even eat the most extravagant delicacies of the sea and the mountains!’

Lin Shenling folded her arms, deadly strangled together. It was so obvious that she was extremely down-to-earth, her eyes weren’t humble or arrogant, and as she stood in place, she calmly said: “There’s nothing wrong with Gongzi regretting it. Just send me back and get your thirty taels of silver back. After all, we’re just strangers that met by chance, everything is in the past now. I will still give my thanks to Gongzi for saving me.”

Xiao YuAn looked at her in silence for a long time, until finally, he patted the carriage and said with a gentle smile adorning his face: “Let’s go! Get on the carriage, I was going to Taoyuan Village anyway. The plot is a little earlier this time that’s all.”