Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

Chapter 17-Puppet Master Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77

Originally rushing in with sleeves rolled up, intent on administering a big, fat beating, Ye Ze now instead stared blankly at the blindfolded boy sitting on the bed: “You……”

“You……your eyes, what’s wrong with them?”

“Blinded by the brilliance of Sister Chu of Jianfeng,” Xia Ge smiled, seemingly without a care in the world, “Ye Ze, do I look handsome like this?”

Ye Ze sneered: “Don’t talk nonsense, I’ve never seen someone as ugly as you.”

“Entering a private home without the owner’s permission. Brother Ye, that’s not right.”

The abrupt kicking open of her door by Ye Ze made Xia Ge fully appreciate what it meant to smile on outside, all while thinking ‘your mama’s a whore’ on the inside.

“……”

Ye Ze’s face darkened: “Xia Wuyin, you have to explain this to me.”

Sighing, Xia Ge motioned to the window with her chin: “I don’t know what little brat poked holes in my window, but the moon is too bright tonight. Can’t hardly sleep.”

Glancing over, Ye Ze saw that the window paper did indeed have several finger-sized holes. And that the moonlight was rather intense, illuming the whole inside of the bare hut clearly.

Xia Ge gave another gloomy sigh: “I’d finally tidied everything and hopped into bed to get some good rest, and now you’ve come for a visit……Even better, you trespass into my house. Brother Ye, I never knew you were such a person. Lucky I’m not a girl, or else who’d take responsibility for my loss of innocence?”

Ye Ze: “……”

“Brother Ye,” Xia Ge’s tone was gently remonstrative, “I, your junior brother, was caught on the back mountain by our Senior Sister the other night. Then yesterday I had to stay awake the whole night copying the Danxun. Now, after many difficulties, I’ve finally closed my eyes—-I’ll be honest, I don’t care if there’s a sickle in my roof, I don’t care if knives rain down from the sky……I will sleep here tonight!”

Ye Ze: “You could sleep even better next door.”

Expression wooden, Xia Ge retorted: “It’s not the same. I can only fall asleep in my own bed.”

Ye Ze: “……” A bed was a bed, wasn’t it?

Besides, wasn’t there an awkward incident of falling asleep on the spot that Ye Ze could remind the other party of? But as soon as the words reached Ye Ze’s throat, he swallowed them back down.

There were embarrassing incidents to recall, some unspeakable past events.

As a man, why bring such things up again?

Xia Ge: “Can you leave already?”

Face dark, Ye Ze easily opened the door and went out.

When the ‘squeak’ of the door being shut behind Ye Ze sounded, Xia Ge let loose a relieved breath, patting her chest.

Finally got rid of that bear child.

But apparently Xia Ge’s sigh of relief had been premature.

“Xia Wuyin.”

From outside, the teenager’s voice was still sounded a little annoyed: “Don’t fall asleep yet, I’ve got something to ask you.”

Xia Ge: “……”

Just be done with it already!

“Then say it quickly! Fart it out!” Xia Ge made no effort to hide her impatience.

But Ye Ze hesitated for a long moment.

“Now you’re gonna go quiet?” Xia Ge’s face twitched. So what it Ye Ze was the male protagonist? He should at least have some sense of time!

At that, Ye Ze finally opened his mouth: “Today……during the liandan lesson, the furnace exploded……”

Xia Ge: “……”

An exploding furnace meant that whatever pill Ye Ze had been trying to refine had been the cause of said explosion.

And therefore, Ye Ze truly had no innate talent for liandan.

“Xia Wuyin.” Leaning against the flimsy wooden door, Ye Ze slowly squatted down, staring up at the bright moon, his voice sounding faintly weary: “What if……I can’t achieve my long-cherished wish in this life?”

Xia Ge: “Mmm, it’s possible.”

Ye Ze: “……”

For a second, Ye Ze wanted to throw the door back open, hold down a stinky little punk and give him a thorough pummeling. Finally teach that bastard what it meant to speak properly.

Instead Ye Ze endured, fuming between clenched teeth: “Xia Wuyin, has anyone ever told you the way you talk is extremely aggravating?”
Xia Ge: “Don’t you tell me that every day?”

Wasn’t that the reason why she wasn’t any good at comforting people?

Ye Ze: “……”

Regardless of his bad mood, Ye Ze didn’t want to argue with the stinky bastard, and he didn’t want to leave either. In the end, all he could do was silently stay.

Sometimes it was like that for downcast people. They wished to be left alone in peace. But then, when left alone for a long time, they became lonely and wanted someone to give them comfort.

Unfortunately Ye Ze hadn’t yet made any decent friends.

So he just remained quietly crouched outside.

Xia Ge felt very frustrated. Having the male protagonist squatting on the other side of her door was not the way it should be.

熊孩子 [xiónɡ hái zi]
名a mean child动scold a child
The bear child is often described as a naughty child, young, ignorant, lawless, and has not received a good family education for the time being . For example, when you see a child doing something unreasonable and destructive, you can sigh: “This bear child”. The bear child has a derogatory meaning. This term comes from the north and refers to those annoying children. It also means nickname, which means a nickname for naughty children. It is defined by netizens as those children who are rummaging, sabotage, unruly and lawless .
He may delete your archives, break your model, scratch your screen , make a mess of your home, or even begging to take away your beloved comics , games, and dolls . Their shouts echoed in every restaurant and every carriage.
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%86%8A%E5%AD%A9%E5%AD%90/3617627

Fart it out
有屁快放yǒupìkuàifàng
Basically–quickly let your fart out
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1698157401798126790

遇人不淑[.yù rén bù shū] Ye Ze hadn’t yet made any decent friends

be married to a bad husband
The Chinese idiom is yù rén bù shū in pinyin, meaning that a woman is married to a husband of poor quality. From “The Book of Songs · Wang Feng·Zhonggu You Li “. Now it generally refers to making friends with people who are not good or decent.