How To Survive as a Villain

Xiao PingYang hugged Princess Yongning tightly in her arms, blocking her view. Then she coldly pulled the thin sword out of the thin soldier’s chest, splashing blood all over the place. However, not a single drop fell on Princess Yongning.

Princess Yongning opened her eyes in disbelief, tears rolled out from the corner of her eyes. Her body trembled all over, but it wasn’t due to fear; she held onto Xiao PingYang’s sleeve tightly, as if the person in front of her would disappear if her hand loosened even for a bit: “PingYang? Ping… PingYang?”

“I’m sorry I’m late, I’m really sorry.” Xiao PingYang wiped off the blood from her hands before stretching out her hand to touch Princess Yongning’s hair soothingly.

It was clear that she didn’t feel fear when the Country got conquered by the enemy. She didn’t feel fear while she was all alone, waiting. And she didn’t feel panic when that soldier insulted and humiliated her that way. But why after being comforted, did all the grievances suddenly surged into her throat and pressed down inside her heart?

Princess Yongning didn’t know why she, hidden in Xiao PingYang’s arms, began to bawl as if she wanted to cry out all her repressed feelings. When she finally dried her tears, she was once again that innocent girl who danced with her sleeves flying in the air.

When the mood had calmed down a bit, Princess Yongning wiped her reddened eyes and said with a sobbing voice: “Ping-PingYang, you, why are you here?”

“The news of the war between the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Yan Kingdom spread to the Western Shu Kingdom. But since the Western Shu Kingdom is on good terms with both Countries, it wasn’t convenient for me to send troops, so I decided to come here myself.”

“You, you, you came here alone?”

“No, although the Western Shu Kingdom cannot send troops, I have my own team. But I was afraid that leading troops into the Imperial Palace will cause disputes between the two Countries. So that’s why I came alone to look for you. Speaking of which, I was at the post station outside Imperial City and met with two people, I’ll take you out as quickly as possible.” After saying that, Xiao PingYang held Princess Yongning’s hand and they were about to walk out of her Palace, but they suddenly stopped.

Yan HeQing stood at the entrance of the bedchamber. His eyes were moving back and forth between the two of them and the two corpses lying on the ground, until finally, his eyes fell onto Xiao PingYang.

Xiao PingYang took out her thin sword hanging from her waist to protect herself and Princess Yongning. She bit her lower lip as if she was thinking about what to say next.

Yan HeQing calmly turned his gaze to the gold and jade items scattered around one of the corpses lying in the floor, and then looked at the torn clothes of Princess Yongning. With just these few glances, he roughly guessed what happened here.

Xiao PingYang suppressed her panic and calmly said: “Your Country’s soldiers…”

“There are no soldiers in my Southern Yan Kingdom who don’t follow our Military regulations.” Yan HeQing interrupted her indifferently, then he turned with the intention of leaving and said: “If you want to leave the Imperial Palace, there aren’t soldiers guarding the West side.”

Xiao PingYang never thought that Yan HeQing would let them go so easily. After being startled, she withdrew her thin sword: “Thank you.”

“Wait a minute!” Princess Yongning suddenly took a few steps out from behind Xiao Pingyang’s back and called out to Yan HeQing.

Yan HeQing stepped forward and looked at her sideways.

“My Imperial brother, how is he?” Princess Yongning’s chest was heavy with fear, because she was afraid to hear some tragic news; however, she would feel even more distressed if she didn’t ask.

Yan HeQing’s eyes turned completely cold, he froze in place for a few seconds, and then silently walked away.

He didn’t know how to answer her question, because inside his heart, Xiao YuAn and the Emperor of the Northern Kingdom were never the same person; the Imperial brother that Princess Yongning was asking about didn’t refer to Xiao YuAn alone.

Princess Yongning looked at Xiao PingYang feeling extremely uneasy. Xiao PingYang clenched her hand and said in a soft voice: “Don’t worry, we’ll leave the Imperial Palace first.”

…

Xiao YuAn thought that he would be thrown into a cold dungeon, but when he woke up, he found himself inside his bedchamber, sleeping on his own bed. This turn of events made him feel really confused.

After the initial confusion, Xiao YuAn found out that his limbs felt extremely weak, his body felt hot as if it was on fire, and his throat was very dry. He reached out and touched his forehead, as expected, he had a fever.

This year has been very unlucky for him, and in the past few days, unfortunate events kept happening one after another.

If he could have the chance to meet the young Emperor of the Northern Kingdom, Xiao YuAn vowed that he would pull on his collar and violently shake it while screaming in his face: “Exercise your body xiongdi, how can you call yourself a Gong?! A weak Gong has no future! No future at all!”

And by the way, even though he had froze for most of the day, at least he just caught a fever, instead of suffering even worse.

Xiao YuAn braced himself to sit against the bed and a piercing pain came from his arm. When Xiao YuAn raised his arm to look at it, he saw that where he had cut with the dagger, was wrapped in a clean white cloth.

Yan HeQing, did this… quell his anger?

Xiao YuAn raised his eyebrows softly.

Forget it, he couldn’t guess what the male lead was really thinking about after all.

Xiao YuAn, who was suffering from a pounding headache due to the fever and pain, slowly got off the bed and held onto the table to pour himself a porcelain cup of water. He had just filled the small porcelain cup with water when the door of the bedchamber was suddenly kicked open, and a big man with the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear¹ appeared outside.

The big man first showed a fake smile to Xiao YuAn, and then closed the door behind him. He slowly walked towards Xiao YuAn and asked: “What were you doing?”

Considering this man decided to act foolishly, Xiao YuAn was able to act with patience: “Drinking water.”

“Oh, drinking water.” The big man made a long and strange sound, and out of nowhere, punched Xiao YuAn in the stomach.

Xiao PingYang is so cool!!!(๑♡⌓♡๑) Where can I find a wife like that? And everything might be getting sadder and sadder in the story, but at least our wlw queens are doing fine (not like our silly boys… they should learn from them lol)

And who’s that piece of sh*t that believes he can touch even a single hair of my boi XYA?????? DUDE you’re dead meat 凸ಠ益ಠ)凸 !!!

Footnotes

1. 虎背熊腰 hǔ bèi xióng yāo; It’s a Chinese idiom that describes a person’s burly and robust body. From《飞刀对箭》(fēi dāo duì jiàn), “Throwing knives at arrows” from an anonymous author of the Yuan or Mongol Dynasty [1279-1368].