Title: After the Villainess Awakens
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 10 - They're a couple! (2)
Leng Mushi saw the hesitant look on the painted skin demoness. Seeing that the demoness hadn't exploded in anger and went straight to devouring them, Leng Mushi continued telling lies.
"Even if my appearance isn't ruined, he wouldn't choose me. I confessed my feelings to him several times, but he's only interested in my body. He hasn't promised that he would marry me. What he feels for me is just a momentary bout of lust. He likes my sister's type…"
In a short time, she had gone from slandering him as a man who didn't take responsibility after sleeping with a woman to a lustful bastard that wanted to eat his cake and have it too. Saying that his mood had gone up and down wasn't sufficient. If Leng Mushi hadn't been blinking at him at this entire time, he would have struck her down too.
At this time, Leng Mushi said, "Beautiful sister, if you ask him to choose now, I'm just a chicken rib that's already been gnawed on. It naturally has no appeal. That's why I said it's unfair."
The painted skin demoness blinked and hmmed. Just when everyone thought she was going to explode in anger, she faintly said, "You're right. A man like him doesn't have the qualifications to choose. I'll kill him to avenge you!"
As she said that, she swung her huge arm over, intending to smash Xiao Mian to death.
Leng Mushi quickly screamed, "No!" and protectively stood in front of Xiao Mian.
Xiao Mian: "..."
Leng Tianyin was completely stunned, and the two shixiongs had their swords raised, but they didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
The painted skin demoness stopped her arm right over Leng Mushi's little head and asked, "Why are you still protecting him?!"
Leng Mushi really didn't know how to continue her fake story. She couldn't see a way to delay the situation any longer. Her thoughts spun wildly. Countless passages from novels she had read passed through her mind in instant, and she randomly chose the one that she had the deepest impression of.
"I have something I want to say to you! I don't want them to hear!"
Except for the occasional sudden sharpness of her voice, the painted skin demoness was unexpectedly just like her voice, very gentle and patient. She agreed to Leng Mushi's ridiculous request.
Everyone watched in horror as the painted skin demoness picked Leng Mushi up by her neck, put her on her shoulder, and allowed her to whisper into her ear.
The immortals below didn't know what Leng Mushi was up to, but they knew that every delayed second was a benefit. Even if they were brave and unafraid of death, they knew they weren't a match for the painted skin demoness.
Although they didn't know Leng Mushi's method or purpose, she knew the way to stop the puppets was to cut off their connection to the blood pool. She had also told them to take the defeated puppets out of the blood pool. At the very least, she had a better understanding of the situation than them.
And so, the three immortals looked at each other and silently communicated through voice transmission. For the time being, they would remain still. If the demoness hurt Leng Mushi, they would immediately rush forward and fight to the death.
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They had overestimated Leng Mushi. She didn't know anything. She just had knowledge of how the plot would go, but the plot had gone off course and was unrecognizable. Even though she had a glib tongue from messing around all the time with her scoundrel friends, she was already pushed beyond her ability.
She didn't want to trample on others to survive, so she had hesitated and didn't take the step that would lead to the two immortals dying. This led to the current situation where everyone was at risk of dying. Was it really impossible for the hero and heroine to die? She didn't dare to take that gamble.
She could only try her best to trick the demoness and try to save them too.
She thought of a plot she had seen in a novel. The villainess in that story knew witchcraft.
And so, she whispered to the demoness in a very sinister voice, "Let that heartless man and my sister go. They won't live for long anyways."
The painted skin demoness's background hadn't been mentioned in the novel. However, based on the game that she had wanted them to play and her reaction after hearing that Xiao Mian was a scumbag, Leng Mushi determined that she must hate heartless men.
Perhaps, she was a woman who had been hurt by love. Most novels were similar. The story of a betrayed woman was common, and this world was a novel.
Leng Mushi said, "I've already cursed that heartless man. As long as they have illicit relations, the curse will activate, and they'll both slowly rot. By the time they die, their corpses will stink. A quick death would be letting them off too easily."
The painted skin demoness had an eureka moment. She didn't know witchcraft, but she had inquired about magical ways to keep her lover from leaving her. It was true that people that died from that type of curse would die in extremely ugly ways.
"Let him and my sister go so that they can die more miserably." Leng Mushi admired herself so much. She looked at her reflection in the demoness's large eyes. She looked so ugly and vicious. She didn't look like she was acting at all.
Still, Leng Mushi wasn't sure. After all, the demoness wasn't an idiot. And so, she warily looked at her expression. To be honest, the demoness's face was too big. She couldn't determine the demoness's expression. She only felt horror when she saw the demoness's face.
Unexpectedly, the painted skin demoness, whose brain was probably corroded by blood and didn't seem very smart, actually believed Leng Mushi's words.
A moment later, she put Leng Mushi back with the others, pointed at Xiao Mian and Leng Tianyin, and said to them, "I can let these two out, but the rest…"
She pointed at Xiao Mian's two shixiongs.
"Ah!" Leng Mushi hastily called out to stop her.
The painted skin demoness tilted her head and looked at her. "Are you going to tell me you also like these two and put a curse on them too?"
Leng Mushi quickly shook her head, and her thoughts widely spun again.
"These two…" She couldn't think of anything for a long time, and then she had a flash of inspiration. She clapped her hands and randomly matched them up.
She lied, "They're a couple!"