Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

Chapter 80-Killing Three Birds With One Stone Part 2

Translated by Snowfall77

Paying no mind to Chu Yi’s arrival, Xia Ge let the system control her paper doll form, floating down to the ground like a salted fish.

System: [You Are Such A Moron.]

Xia Ge: {give me a moment of peace, please.}

Not far off, loud voices sounded, and Xia Ge guessed the situation had changed: {is that the guard finally coming?}

System: [It Looks Like It……?]

Before Xia Ge could react, two huge boots trod over her: “Senior Chu!!!”

“We’re sorry for being late!!”

Following the first boots, even more dirty boots relentlessly stepped on Xia Ge’s paper body.  “Ah, ah, ah, Senior Chu, we’re sorry!  You’re not injured, are you?!!”

“……”

After trying and failing multiple times to discreetly move her body out of the way, Xia Ge gave up and accepted her fate of being stomped into the mud: “……”

System: [Can You Manage Yet?]

Xia Ge, a small piece of paper laying in the dirt, answered with a hollow gaze and resigned tone: {ah, life is like this.}

System: [……]  Take your time.

“Senior Chu!”

“……”

Chu Yi quirked an eyebrow: “This is my sister’s guard?  Why do each and every one of them look like trash?”

Chu Yao: “Mind your own business.”

Having said that, Chu Yao then completely ignored Chu Yi and began leisurely examining the scene for clues.

The first thing she noticed was none other than the goopy paste of a persimmon.

Staring down at the persimmon mush, Chu Yi contemplated.

Short and liked to eat.  Someone had come to Jianfeng to steal persimmons.

……why was that person like this?

Of the guard team, Li Liu had arrived first, and was now anxiously asking: “Senior Chu, you didn’t……”

Surveying the demolished bamboo house and demon puppet fragments on the ground, his shocked voice faded into silence.

Ye Ze, at the rear end of the guard, abruptly felt something hard under his foot.  Startled to have stepped on something, he looked down, his pupils contracting once he saw what it was.

A very familiar dragon-shaped piece of jade, one corner missing, laying quietly on the ground.

……Xia Wuyin’s jade pendant?!

Xia Wuyin?!  Why would Xia Wuyin’s jade pendant be here?

Ye Ze immediately stooped down to pick the jade up.  Rubbing the dirt off of it, he was even more sure.

This was Xia Wuyin’s jade pendant!

Realizing what it meant, Ye Ze’s body stiffened, his mind going blank.

Chang Nian, observing that Ye Ze was standing motionless, asked: “What are you doing?  Ai……what’s that in your hand?”

Snapping back to his senses, Ye Ze promptly answered: “Something that’s mine.”

“I didn’t ask who it belonged to!  You say it’s yours?”  Chang Nian scoffed, “Your attitude is awfully suspicious!  Who’s to say you didn’t pick it up just now?”

Raising his eyebrows, Chang Nian added maliciously: “Maybe it belonged to the spy!  Are you deliberately covering for the spy?  Ye Ze, show what it is!”

“It is mine,” Ye Ze declared with a heavy face and deep voice.

No one noticed the small, muddy paper doll, wrapped in red ribbon, hiding behind a clump of weeds not far off, covertly observing them.

System: [……Do You Think This Will Work?]

Xia Ge: {success or failure is hinging on it.}

System: [What If Ye Ze Suspects You As A Spy?]

Xia Ge: {i’m not a spy.}

The system suddenly called attention to an unfortunate fact: [A Moment Ago You Were Stepped On By Over Ten People.]

Xia Ge: {shut the fuck up.}

System: [Honestly?  I Let It Happen On Purpose.]

Xia Ge: {……}

The quarrel between Ye Ze and Chang Nian had attracted the attentions of others.  Although Chu Yao was still busy pondering smushed persimmon, Chu Yi approached, eyes squinting under long, delicate eyelashes as she toyed with her dagger: “What are you two arguing about?”

Emboldened by Chu Yi’s presence, Chang Nian sneeringly pointed at Ye Ze: “I suspect him of picking up something the spy dropped!”

Chang Nian paused, then added even more viciously: “No, I suspect that he’s in collusion with the spy!”

Raising her eyes, Chu Yi saw a tall young man with straight posture.  His eyes shone like two aligned stars, and he held a dragon-shaped jade missing one corner that glimmered in the moonlight in one hand.

“This.  Is.  Mine.”

Under the pale moon, Chu Yi stared at the dragon-shaped jade with the missing corner that’d haunted her in countless dreams.

Her Yunxing blade in its jade sheath unexpectedly fell to the ground.

Crash——

The sound of the jade sheath shattering to pieces cut through the night air sharp and clear.

In an instant, innumerable dreams shifted to reality.  But all those many numerous and complicated images couldn’t compare to the beauty of that jade and the young man holding it.

Her voice trembling, Chu Yi murmured: “Are you……Aze……?”

Ye Ze, still clutching Guilongyu, was stunned by Chu Yi’s words.

The clamor of the Yunxing dagger dropping and its sheath breaking had caught most everyone’s attention.  The rest of the guard was curiously watching, and Chang Nian, worried about Chu Yi’s sensitive state, furrowed his brow: “……Yiyi?”

Why would……Chu Yi call Ye Ze……Aze?

Regaining her composure, Chu Yi quickly calmed herself: “……It’s nothing, it’s nothing.”

Saying that, she bent down and picked up the Yunxing dagger off the ground.  But even though her expression was placid, underneath her wide sleeve, her hand holding the dagger was shaking and she ended up dropped the dagger once more.  Picking it up the second time, she dropped it again.  And then, in full view of everyone, picked it up and dropped it for the third time.  While her face was scarily burning, Chu Yi’s mind was in chaos.

One moment she’d been staring at the young man in the moonlight, a cool breeze blowing.  The next moment the jade sheath for her dagger had broken into pieces.  Yet the piece of jade in that young man’s hand kept drawing all of Chu Yi’s attention.  She’d caressed a small, broken-off corner of a jade pendant countless times and now the person who held the rest of the pendant was standing in front of her.

She didn’t understand.

Then a darkness shrouded Chu Yi’s vision, turning jade pendants, daggers, and young men into nothingness.