After My Death, The Villain Blackened Again: Chapter 14
ARC 1: THE EMPEROR SCHEMES TO GRAB A MAN’S WIFE (11)
Although she was no belle, her lofty and unyielding character was something difficult for a belle to achieve. Her facial features may not have been gentle, but in Emperor Yuan’s eyes, she was a beauty that was hard to come by.
It might be that he had become accustomed to those cosmetic beauties in the harem for him to have such a mind for the unusual woman.
Emperor Yuan treated this matter transparently. He knew that Yan Ge held an attraction for him she could risk her life for, so he had no intention of letting her out of the palace.
He was an emperor and was therefore accustomed to power. Even if his intentions were not strong, he would never allow himself to let go of the things he wanted.
In the second game, Yan Ge was able to recover her prestige and lost by half a piece.
"Keep going!" As if seeing hope, her voice was a bit excited.
Emperor Yuan knew the hour was growing late. She was injured and had not yet recovered her health due to the aggressive poison. Waving his hand, he let the palace servants clean up the chessboard.
He stood up and ruffled her hair in appeasement: "Tomorrow, Zhen will accompany you to another game tomorrow."
Her jet-black hair was of high quality. As Emperor Yuan kept rubbing it, he felt his sister’s little cat’s fur was inferior compared to her hair.
Yan Ge is a tree charm1. In layman's terms, she is a tree demon2.
What did trees fear the most? The wind completely blowing their foliage away.
Although she had lived for thousands of years and had since broken away from her original tree form, her nature remained.
The moment Emperor Yuan rubbed her head, she felt like he had clutched her leaves and rubbed out all her ’hairs’.
"Hey, hey, Blockhead, what's wrong with you?" Ji Zai promptly spoke up to pull the blackening Yan Ge out of her chaos: "What are losing your mind for? You’re a human right now, not a tree, yet you’re still scared of being rubbed? You won’t go bald even if his hand breaks from rubbing!”
Emperor Yuan interpreted Yan Ge's stiff expression as shyness.
He reluctantly stopped after rubbing her head two more times.
His obsession was growing stronger. He felt that Yan Ge’s matter should be dealt with as soon as possible after his coming of age ceremony: "Go to bed early. Zhen's leaving."
Yan Ge nodded ‘obediently’. If this guy doesn't go, she doesn’t think she’ll be able to bear it anymore.
Dang it, she wants to shave him and let him have a taste of baldness.
Ji Zai fluttered its wings to placate Yan Ge: “Don’t be scared, come to baby’s arms."
The Yan Ge that always had a poisonous tongue in front of Ji Zai was extremely aggrieved at this moment: "I hate people touching my head the most."
She couldn’t stand it at all.
"Baby knows you’ve been wronged." Ji Zai knew the tree’s pet peeve. It stifled the urge to laugh and kept on consoling her like an elder: "Come here, baby will give you a hug of love."
Yan Ge rolled her eyes at this unhinged chicken and allowed the palace servants to help her lie down on the bed.
That night, Yan Ge had a terrible dream. She dreamt that all the leaves on her trees were wiped out and she became a bald tree from then on.
It was horrible. The dream was even worse than a nightmare.
After Yan Ge woke up, the pain from the nightmare lingered. She felt the only way to put an end to it was to cut off the claw Emperor Yuan used to rub her hair.
The next day was the emperor coming of age ceremony.
Before dawn, he was dressed up and worshipped in the ancestral hall, and after dusk, he spoke to envoys from various nations at the banquet. All the arrangements for the day were completed. By the time the music ended and the guests had left, Emperor Yuan was so drunk, he could not find his way back.
The eunuchs asked him where he was going.
As he sat in the carriage, his eyes looked around at a loss.
Where was he going?
- Charm (魅 — mèi)A type of legendary ghost known for attracting people’s affection. I translated this as 'demon' in chapter 3, but I needed to use another word to distinguish it from the '妖 (yāo)' demon discussed in the next footnote↩︎
- Demon (妖—yāo)general term for organisms (living or otherwise) that can develop a spirit after cultivating, but non-living objects can also develop a 'spirit' under the right conditions. In other words, a jewel or a book can become a ‘demon’ if given enough time and energy (qi) to cultivate↩︎
Woahh~~multiple chapters!!! Thanks^^ For the final punch,she must disappear*
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