How To Survive as a Villain

Chapter 103: This Red Fruit Is Really Unusual.

Xiao YuAn suddenly brought back a girl. At first, Yang LiuAn and Xiao Fengyue were surprised, but they gradually accepted it. After all, even if Xiao YuAn decided to bring back another ten girls and have a harem, they would still not say anything against it.

Third Aunt had been thinking about it for a few days. However, since the relationships in this residence were inherently odd, there’s nothing wrong with having another woman living together with them.

Lin Shenling, in regards to everyone’s acceptance of her, wholeheartedly worked to repay their kindness. And ever since she came, there hasn’t been a single dirty place in the mansion. The courtyard is clean, the wing rooms are bright and tidy, the bedding will be turned out to dry as long as there is sun outside. All the meals were delicious, and only in a few days, she was able to understand everyone’s food preferences, so their favorite fruits could often be seen in their wing rooms.

Xiao YuAn knew that being considerate to people was the biggest characteristic of Lin Shenling. But, this was way too much consideration! No wonder, in the original book whenever Yan HeQing was feeling lonely and frustrated, the first person he would think of would be Lin Shenling.

After realizing that the day of Lin Shenling rescuing Yan HeQing was approaching, Xiao YuAn was worrying over it, while also telling Lin Shenling to go up the mountain more often.

After all, if Lin Shenling, after rescuing Yan HeQing, brought him back to the residence, how would Xiao YuAn face him? What would Yan HeQing think of him?

Xiao YuAn nervously clutched his fingers while thinking that now Yan HeQing must have blackened¹, and once he starts to recruit his harem, he will never come back to the way he used to be. Since Xiao YuAn is a male character, who also happens to be a cannon fodder, it’ll be better for him to not stand close to the Male Lead.

So Xiao YuAn went to Lin Shenling again to tell her that if she helped someone on the mountain, she should never bring them back to the mansion.

Lin Shenling, though puzzled, nodded obediently. As a result, the next day when she met an injured man on the mountain, she remembered Xiao YuAn’s words and didn’t bring him back to the mansion. Instead, Lin Shenling took him to the medical shop.

It also happened to be the day in which Xiao YuAn was helping out at the medical shop.

The life in this village was comfortable, and most of the people who came to the medical shop came because of a headache or a minor illness with a fever. Everything will be resolved by taking some medicine and that’s it. Today, since it was a bright spring day, Zhang Changson and Zhang Baizhu had gone to the mountain to collect medicinal herbs; leaving Xiao YuAn to rub the pills until he became extremely bored and drowsy. Suddenly, Zhang Baizhu howled and ran in from the outside: “Dad!”

Xiao YuAn yawned and replied: “Shifu hasn’t returned yet.”

Zhang Baizhu rushed to Xiao YuAn and threw the half rubbed pills back into the medicine jar. He was winking at him in a mysterious way: “Xiao YuAn, let your Gege show you something interesting!”

Xiao YuAn wasn’t interested in whatever he wanted to show him. He only saw Zhang Baizhu take out a branch from a bag behind him, and put it into his hand. The branch was broken off, the leaves were bright and vibrant green. The broken part was still very new, and on the branch were several small fruits the size of copper coins, their color was blood red and they were round in shape.

Zhang Baizhu picked one small fruit and made a gesture to stuff it into Xiao YuAn’s mouth.

“Wait, what’s this?” Xiao YuAn was busy stretching out his hand to block it, but he failed to do so. Zhang Baizhu, who was quick at seeing his moves and had quick hands, forced the small red fruit into Xiao YuAn’s mouth.

“Don’t throw up! It’s not poisonous! Your Gege wouldn’t hurt you, this is good stuff!” Zhang Baizhu happily covered Xiao YuAn’s mouth to prevent him from spitting out the fruit.

Xiao YuAn had no choice but to swallow it. There wasn’t any strange taste inside his mouth, it was actually slightly sweet and astringent, but it wasn’t delicious either: “So, what’s this?”

“I don’t know what it is.” Zhang Baizhu stretched his hands, acting innocent.

Xiao YuAn gave him a kind smile. Then he quickly picked another small red fruit from the branch, forced open Zhang Baizhu’s mouth, and threw it in.

Zhang Baizhu almost choked to death, he covered his throat and coughed for a long time.

“If it’s poisonous, then we’ll die together.” Xiao YuAn said with a strong sense of righteousness.

“I’ll choke to death because of you! Not from poisoning!” Zhang Baizhu cursed at him: “I said that it wasn’t poisonous. I happened to see it on the mountain before, but I couldn’t find the name of the fruit after searching through some ancient books. Then I picked a few of them and fed them to the pheasants. When I saw that they were fine, I tasted them myself, and then….”

“And then?” As he spoke, Xiao YuAn felt that something was wrong. His throat was vaguely itchy, and coughed a few times to stop the itching. As a result, he scared himself when he spoke again.

“Isn’t it amazing?!” Zhang Baizhu shouted excitedly.

Both of their voices turned completely into feminine voices.

Xiao YuAn covered his throat and said two more words to himself, his amazement was overflowing.

“Don’t worry, our normal voices will be back in an hour. When my dad comes back, I must ask him what’s this about!” Zhang Baizhu, as if it was a precious treasure, took the small fruits into the back hall.

Xiao YuAn tried to sing Qinghai Tibet Plateau², but his voice was so out of tune and it was so loud that even Han Hong³-laoshi⁴ would want to hit him if she could hear him sing. In the end, he had to sit back and continue rubbing pills. After rubbing for a while, a familiar woman’s voice came from outside: “It’s anyone here? Anybody? Someone here is hurt, someone help!”

It was the voice of Lin Shenling.

Seeing Lin Shenling working so hard to be liked by everyone, to not get kicked out makes me so sad, with how hard her life was (?´???`?)!

And Zhang Baizhu always playing with Xiao YuAn xD and what’s with that fruit that changes their voices to a feminine one??? I wonder if a woman eats it, if it would change her voice to a manly one lol

Footnotes

1. ?? h?i huà; Blackening is a dramatic change in a character’s personality or mental state, generally close to breaking down and getting worse, but to a much lesser degree. It refers to the mental deterioration, in which they switch to a much darker personality. When there’s a heated discussion on the relationship between the characters and their power, the meaning of Blackening is used to represent when a character goes from being a righteous hero to a criminal of evil. It also refers to the loss of their human nature and sanity, becoming an insane and brutal beast.
2. ???? q?ng zàng g?o yuán; Is a song written and composed by (??? zh?ng qi?n y?) Zhang Qianyi and sung by (?? l? nà) Li Na. It’s the opening song of the 1994 TV series ????(ti?n lù), “The Heavenly Road”.
3. ?? hán hóng; Is a Tibetan female singer, songwriter, music producer, director, host and national-level actress.
4. ?? l?o sh?; Teacher.