Chapter 2: 1.2

01. Heroine (2)

Yu Qingjia who had an immaculate appearance looked outside the window. She stared carelessly at the bright moon illuminating the sky, and sighed faintly.

She started having these dreams a few days ago, at first she thought it was just nonsense, but as the dream gradually went on, the details that appeared in the dream became even more informative, only then did she realized that something was wrong. It seemed like this is some sort of a precognitive dream, and the precognition is still something that is related to her.

Yu Qingjia spread her hands, and the moonlight leaked through her fingers. Yu Qingjia tried to clench her palms tightly, but in vain. She then said in a low voice:

“So being the heroine was actually an original sin? I don’t think I am the heroine, and I don’t think my fate is determined by a book. What happened to you in your previous life had nothing to do with me, and I don’t care about it. I don’t want to be a stepping stone on your way to reach the top. Nor do I want to die in vain by your hands.”

Yu Qingjia was blown by the wind for a long time the night before, and when she woke up the next day, she felt dizzy. When she thought about it carefully, everything in the dream seemed to be separated by a layer of fog. It was becoming blurry. She can’t remember many things clearly.

Sure enough, predicting the future is forbidden by the heavenly law, and now it is repairing these loopholes. She’s afraid that only her cousin who is possessed by the system can escape the balance of the law of heaven and destroy everything with foresight as her golden finger1.

Yu Qingjia was afraid that in a few days, she would completely forget about this matter. If that happens she will be completely oblivious. Wouldn’t she be plotted to death by the system and her cousin again? How can a mortal body be able to defeat a person who knows the future, and the most advanced technology in the future?

She kept repeating those important names in her heart. Later, the compulsory erasure by the heavenly dao2 became even more serious. Yu Qingjia discarded the names of the hero, the beggar, and even the names of the great generals and prime ministers. She just kept silently reciting the five characters,

Yu Qingya, system. 
System, Yu Qingya.

Yu Qingya, her cousin, a daughter of the main house.

The system comes from an advanced technology, and does not belong to the intelligent body of this realm.

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Three days later, the revision of the heavenly dao was finally over, and Yu Qingjia also heaved a long sigh of relief.

These things cannot be written down, only one’s own brain is a field that the heavens cannot interfere with. Facts proved that she was right. She still remembered that she was the extremely disliked Mary Sue heroine, but now she’s in a female supporting novel, she was poisoned to death by her cousin, and a tyrant ascended the throne and wiped out the Yu family.

In other words, since she doesn’t have the halo of Mary Sue anymore, she just needed to focus on saving her life.

Because it involved her life and death, Yu Qingjia actually remembered the name of that tyrant, Prince Langya, Murong Yan.

However, Prince Langya is clearly a wanted criminal by the royal family.

What happened in the middle? 

It even turned out that he regained power and unified the world in the end?

Yu Qingjia tried hard to think about it, but still couldn’t remember anything. She is like a lazy student with no solid foundation. She only knew the beginning and the end, as for the middle process, it was all empty. As for what the culprit of the the tragic family extermination in the previous life looked like, and why he slaughtered the Yu family’s descendants, she naturally had no clue.

Bai Zhi sat on her knees behind the food table. She saw Yu Qingjia only moved a few chopsticks and then put them down again. She then said worriedly,

“Miss, are you going to eat?”

“I don’t have an appetite, I can’t eat.”

Bai Zhi grew up together with Yu Qingjia. So the degree of intimacy between them is second only to her biological mother, Yu Shi.

Bai Zhi also treated Yu Qingjia as her own sister in her heart. Bai Zhi noticed that her young lady was out of sorts for several days now, and she didn’t even have any appetite, so she was indescribably worried:

“Miss, do you have anything bothering you these days?”

Yu Qingjia was still thinking about Yu Qingya’s matter, after hearing Bai Zhi’s words, she immediately shook her head.

“No, I just miss my father a little bit, so I don’t have an appetite.”

Bai Zhi was greatly relieved. The young Miss’ relationship with her father had always been deep. The Governor had been away from home for more than ten days. Him, being away was longer than usual, the young lady being worried that she couldn’t eat, was reasonable.

Although Yu Qingjia used her father as a cover-up, but in fact she was really worried about her own father’s whereabouts. Yu Qingjia asked:

“Father said he was visiting friends, has he not returned yet?”

Her father Yu Wenjun, the governor of Guangling County, was a famous refined scholar, with a broad and lofty personality. He was not the type to host banquets nor have fun in the brothels. Instead, he would rather enjoy the quiet scenery and play the qin for self-entertainment.

Yu Wenjun’s temperament is naturally incompatible with the conventional world, but it also attracted a wave of like-minded people. Yu Wenjun would often visit friends and hermits. He would also visit famous mountains and rivers, and it is very common for Yu Wenjun not to return for five or six days. But ever since her mother passed away, her father had rarely left home.

Ever since they arrived in Guangling County, her father would not leave his daughter behind and go out by himself. Especially since she was the only woman in the government office.

So it was really unusual for Yu Wenjun to leave the mansion for too long.

Bai Zhi shook her head and said she didn’t know, Yu Qingjia didn’t make things difficult for her, she just sighed. Yu Qingjia had the couch moved to the window, and she knelt on it. She started staring at the late spring scenery outside the window in a daze.

She was wearing a red wide-sleeve cross-collar jacket, and a red and white skirt underneath. She also had a layer of cream-colored gauze over the skirt. Everytime she moves, the flow of light, would add a picturesque beauty in the scenery.

Appearance were highly respected in the current society. Being an official, being famous, and being promoted also depended on someone’s appearance.

The Northern kingdom was slightly better than the Southern kingdom because the people in power were at least good at martial arts, but it was only  a hundred steps laughing at fifty steps3.

Yu Qingjia is a beauty worthy of overthrowing the country. Her sandalwood-hair were like clouds, eyebrows and eyelashes were arched beautifully. The corners of her eyes seemed to be hooked, with a kind of inadvertent weakness and temptation. There was once a son of a noble family who happened to see Yu Qingjia at her ancestral house in Yanzhou, and he couldn’t help turning his head after walking five steps. He was amazed, and said with a smile:

“I heard about the Yu Family’s beauty a long time ago. Now that I can finally take a look at it, the Poppy Flower is the best suited to describe such a beauty.”

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After this incident, Yu Qingjia’s “Poppy Flower” Beauty was spread. Poppies are also a kind of flower, with slender stems and a dense color. It was soft and poignant, as if it was exhausting its life’s essence just to bloom. This title is a bit frivolous, and there is an allusion to the Poppy Beauty, and the story of Xiang Yu4 bidding Farewell to his Concubine Yu5. In short, it sounded very unlucky, so Yu Qingjia doesn’t like others calling her this way.

(T/N: When I was researching about this, I was actually captivated by the story of both Xiang Yu and his concubine. It was sad.)

But now that Bai Zhi is serving behind the incense burner, the more she look at it, the more she feels that her young lady is indeed like a Poppy Beauty. It didn’t feel that way when Yu Qingjia was smiling before, but today when she was leaning against the window with the face full of melancholy, her red and white wide skirt meandering on the couch looking like blooming flowers, making her slender, and beautiful figure appear with a poppy-like Unbearable weakness.

Bai Zhi couldn’t help but think of Yu Qingjia’s title “Poppy Beauty”, and the the poppies on the story of Xiang Yu and His Concubine Yu. She thought that her young lady is so precious, that she is worthy of being worshipped by any first-class hero in the world. But then Bai Zhi hurriedly reprimanded herself in her heart. That story ended with Concubine Yu cutting herself with a sword after hearing about Xiang Yu’s Death. It was a story of despair after defeat…

Her young lady and future lord should not end up like this. Not only Bai Zhi, but the other servants in the prefect’s mansion were also surprised by Yu Qingjia’s unusual silence. In fact, Yu Qingjia is a very cheerful character. Although her mother left early, she loved her only daughter like a treasure when she was a child. Yu Wenjun also cared for her daughter very much. Yu Qingjia’s calligraphy was taught by Yu Wenjun himself. Her mother was gentle and virtuous, and her father is kind and upright.

A daughter who grew up in such a family must be optimistic and confident, and she can shine into people’s hearts even with a pursed smile. Due to the dispute between the first and the second house of the Yu family, Yu Qingjia was not favored by the ancestor of the family, Old Madam Yu, but this did not prevent the servants of the second house from really liking their beautiful and lively young lady. To Bai Zhi, her Young Miss is like the bright moon in the sky and the stars illuminating the world. Which can’t be compared with that mean first daughter of the main house. Bai Zhi couldn’t stop thinking wildly, and suddenly heard Yu Qingjia ask:

“Is there any letter from the Ancestral house?”

Ever since Yu Qingjia learned of the existence of the female heroine, and the system, she had been restless for several days. No one would be unconcerned with the obvious hostility, nor would anyone care about their own image and reputation because of it. Yu Qingya would most likely move and try to kill her.

Yu Qingjia didn’t feel that she owed her anything, and it didn’t make sense for her to avoid Yu Qingya, just because of the inexplicable circumstance of her being a supporting heroine with a System. She doesn’t believe that being reborn means your omnipotent, and she doesn’t believe that there is no justice and righteousness in this world. She also doesn’t believe that anyone can actually run amok by relying on her talent and fame without any effort.

Yu Qingjia was at a loss when she about of this.

In that dream, when did Yu Qingya gave her poison?

She only knew that the poison was colorless and tasteless, and was mixed in the water. However, it is impossible for her to stop drinking water from now on right?

The memory was like a cloud of fog, Yu Qingjia thought hard, until her head hurt just by thinking about it, but she did not come up with anything. Her memories involved things that didn’t happen, which were deliberately obscured by the Heavenly Dao.

But having said that, no matter how many plans Yu Qingjia can come up with, all she can really do was wait for her father to return. This may be another golden-finger that the system opened up for the supporting heroine. At the beginning of the story, Yu Qingjia, the original heroine, was not residing in Yanzhou. She followed her father to work in Qingzhou Guangling County. Which was thousands of miles away, and It was through this gap that the first pot of gold was made in her cousin Yu Qingya’s life. These kind of Things are really exasperating. Yu Qingjia is now in this angry and helpless state.

She knew that the person is not in front of her at the moment, and that it was s useless to actually say or do anything.

And depending on the situation, she probably won’t be leaving Qingzhou and return to her hometown within a year or so. So she can only watch helplessly as the supporting heroine seize the opportunity and take advantage of her not being around.

Yu Qingya’s poisoning of her obviously happened after she returned to Yanzhou, so Yu Qingjia thought that maybe she could get a hint about it from the letters sent from her ancestral house.

However, Yu Qingjia was going to be disappointed, Bai Zhi said:

“There was no recent letter sent from Yanzhou, but the great ancestor sent one, half a month ago. Miss, do you want to read it?”

It was still half a month ago, Yu Qingjia sighed, and said:

“Nevermind.”

She had read that letter a long time ago, and it was nothing more than her great grandmother, the oldest ancestor of the Yu family, scolding her father for being unfilial, and asking him to return to Yanzhou as soon as possible and follow the family’s arrangement to become an official. Ever since Yu Wenjun brought Yu Qingjia to Qingzhou, such letters appeared endlessly, and they received one every few days.

Because of Yu Qingya and the system, she was inexplicably anxious all day long. In the evening, Bai Zhi came in with her head down, her expression solemn, as if she had encountered something unspeakable.

Yu Qingjia felt strange, and asked: “What’s wrong?”

Bai Zhi had her head buried deeply, and said with a barely audible voice:

“Miss, The Governor is back.”

Yu Qingjia stood up with a scuffle. She immediately straightened her sleeves, and was about to go out.

“Isn’t that a good thing? Why do you look so disheartened?”

“He also brought back a beautiful lady.”

Yu Qingjia suddenly froze on the spot. She clearly remembered that when her mother was dying, and seriously ill, after being tortured by the Main house and the Old Ancestor, her father knelt down in front of her bed with a guilt-stricken expression. He even held her mother’s hand, and said sorry for both their mother and daughter. Yu Shi and Yu Wenjun were childhood sweethearts, she knows that he was also helpless.

She doesn’t really blame him, but Yu Shi only worries about her only daughter, Yu Qingjia. Yu Wenjun knew that if it wasn’t for him, his wife would never have withered and died at early she hadn’t even reached thirty.

He held his wife’s hand tightly and solemnly swore: “Azi, I’m sorry, and I’m even more sorry for Jiajia. I want to atone for my sins, I will never remarry from now on. I will not let other women bully Jiajia.”

Although this is very selfish, Yu’s heart was still greatly relieved, she was also a woman, of course she knows that in the future if a stepmother enters the house, who knows how much impact will it have on Yu Qingjia.

She’s a daughter who had not left the boudoir yet. After hearing Yu Wenjun’s promise, Madam Yu was finally relieved and closed her eyes with a smile.

But it’s only been less than four years, and her father is already going to take in a concubine?

Yu Qingjia’s emotions that had been pent up for a day suddenly exploded. She pursed her lips, her beautiful eyes were extremely cold. As a daughter, it is very impolite to meddle in her father’s private affairs, but this is her father’s promise to her mother, and it had always been a sacred and solid symbol of love in Yu Qingjia’s heart.

She would like to see what kind of vixen her father is about to marry into the door.

1

A gold finger is basically a cheat. It’s like an item, or opportunity that gives anyone a headstart or win over the rest.

2

Heavenly dao refers to nature and the cosmos, an implication which can be traced to the earliest classics of ancient China.

3

Fifty steps Laughton at a hundred steps, meaning they’re only ahead by more than half.

4

Xiang Yu[項羽]: Eas the Hegemon-King of Western Chu during the Chu–Han Contention period (206–202 BC) of China.

5

Consort Yu[虞姬]: Also known as “Yu the Beauty” (虞美人; Yú Měirén), was the wife of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed with Liu Bang (Emperor Gao), the founder of the Han dynasty, for supremacy over China in the Chu–Han Contention.

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