After provoking the holy maiden of Miao territory, she was infected with a love curse.

He didn't care that his clothes were disheveled.

Yin Huaixi quickly retreated.

The back of her head slammed against the wall unexpectedly, causing the indigo bed curtains to tremble, and Yin Huaixi grimaced in pain.

She stared at Sang Che's face, which was shrouded in the hazy darkness, and swallowed hard.

My heart was pounding.

"I'm sorry, I... didn't mean it."

Sang Che raised his hand and slowly withdrew it.

The windows creaked in the wind as Yin Huaixi's eyes adjusted to the darkness.

Sang Che squatted on the ground, looking bewildered as he reached out his hand to her, like a naive child who had never seen the world.

Her cautious demeanor made Yin Huaixi feel that her actions just now were truly unintentional.

But the small red snake that crawled onto Sang Che's shoulder made Yin Huaixi's hard-won feelings of pity vanish.

She thought about it again.

Sang Che's face, almost as white as paper, smiling at her with a sickly expression, flashed into her mind again.

How could a Miao holy maiden who deals with poison and witchcraft every day be such a clever and insightful little girl?

She... will become like the character in the later part of the original story, taking pleasure in killing and bloodshed, and harming one drug user after another.

And she is Yin Huaixi.

He was the first person Sang Che killed, and the first person she had planted the love potion on!

Her rapid breathing gradually calmed down, and Yin Huaixi frantically straightened her clothes, forcing herself to put on an innocent smile.

The voice sounded weak.

"It's alright, you... meant well."

Kindness my foot.

Yin Huaixi was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she said these words completely against her will.

She heard a dense cacophony of soft, intermittent sounds coming from inside the room…

Sang Che is blind, yet she commands all the poisonous insects across the mountains and rivers.

From the moment Yin Huaixi stepped into Sang Che's territory, she lived under the surveillance of countless pairs of Sang Che's "eyes".

There is nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide.

...

Hearing the noise, the maid on night duty rushed in.

"Saintess!"

The maidservant, her face etched with worry, hurried over.

Reaching out to place his hand on Sang Che's slender arm, he gently helped her up.

"The High Priest said you need to rest well, so that you can prepare for the future..."

Realizing that there were other people present, the maid swallowed her words halfway through.

She glanced at Yin Huaixi, utterly bewildered as to why the Holy Maiden didn't simply plant the love potion in the flesh and blood of this outsider.

That would save a lot of trouble.

There's no need to worry about this outsider running away.

To play tricks.

Sang Che turned her head, and the maid's heart ached at the sight of her blank eyes.

"It's alright."

"Please escort me back to my room."

Having been the center of attention in the village since childhood, Sang Che had never experienced such neglect from Yin Huaixi.

She knew it too.

It's not surprising that Yin Huaixi, being an outsider, would be afraid of the Miao people who control Gu worms.

Everything should be done gradually and not rushed.

"Yes, Saintess."

The maid offered her arm for Sang Che to lean on, and the two walked back.

With the crisis averted, Yin Huaixi breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed onto the bed.

She couldn't help but let her imagination run wild as she thought about Sang Che's touch, tossing and turning with the blanket between her legs, unable to fall asleep.

Honestly, it's all the female lead's fault!

What's making people so anxious and frustrated!

The image of fingers flashed through her mind, followed by a small red snake coiling around her body. Yin Huaixi then hallucinated that her arm was covered in dense bite marks.

Then he suddenly opened his eyes.

No, she has to escape from here.

In the original story, she was cannon fodder. She did something to offend the female lead, which is why the female lead dismembered her, fed her with poisonous insects, and reduced her bones to ashes.

So... if she didn't do anything to wrong the female lead, but instead "died" to save her.

That way, without affecting the original plot, she can perfectly avoid her inevitable death.

After her body kicks the bucket, she will be the female lead's white moonlight. The female lead can date as many people as she wants in the future. Even if she loves collecting figurines like the fat orange in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", it has nothing to do with her.

As long as she can escape back home, Yin Huaixi can still be the glamorous third young lady of the Lingshui Yin family.

Why worry about being subservient here, enduring humiliation and suffering?

Feeling smug about this, Yin Huaixi made up her mind that she had to devise a perfect "death escape" plan.

This made the female lead, Sang Che, truly believe that she was dead.

The kind of heartbreak that leaves you utterly devastated.

As someone who had carefully read the original novel's clean-cut storyline, Yin Huaixi was quite aware of what the maid had mentioned earlier.

The Miao people in the surrounding villages desperately hope that Sang Che can recover, because they want him to awaken the "Gu King" left behind by "Chi You," the leader of the Jiuli tribe.

This was to resist the invasion of the imperial court.

This is the perfect opportunity for her to make her move. First, she can gain the favor and trust of the female lead, Sang Che, so that Sang Che will lower her guard.

When the time comes, while the imperial court is attacking Miao territory, we can take advantage of the chaos to fake our death and escape.

...

In the early morning, a ray of sunlight fell on the green tiles of the corridor, and two simply dressed Miao girls pushed open Yin Huaixi's door without any hesitation.

"Wake up!"

Before Yin Huaixi could even peek out from under the covers, her arms were grabbed and pulled forward, leaving her barefoot on the ground.

I almost didn't perform a proper bow.

"Hurry up and get dressed."

As the Miao girl's words echoed in his ears, Yin Huaixi suppressed a laugh upon hearing her awkward accent.

But these two are already considered the best in the village, as most of the Miao people in the village can only speak the Miao language.

Not many people have mastered the official language of the imperial court.

Following them, Yin Huaixi quickly put on her indigo-blue coarse cloth clothes, which added a touch of exoticism to her whole appearance.

Before she could ask the Miao girl a few more questions, Yin Huaixi was taken away again.

The wooden floorboards of the stilted house creaked underfoot, and downstairs a woman was lying on a bamboo rocking chair, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan.

The group spoke a few words in Miao language.

Yin Huaixi couldn't hear clearly, so she could only stand on the stairs with her eyes wide open and slowly walk down.

"You've arrived?"

Hearing the man's accent, which was authentic official Mandarin, Yin Huaixi instantly woke up, all the sleepiness she had felt that morning vanished.

"Are you Han Chinese?"

Yin Huaixi glanced again at the celadon teacup on the woman's table and noticed that there were also several Chinese books on the table.

I am certain in my heart.

"Fifty percent yes, my mother is from here."

The woman casually tossed a blue-covered book over.

"This is what they asked me to teach you."

Reaching out to catch the blue book, Yin Huaixi looked at it, noting that there was no inscription, and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

The woman smiled faintly.

"Why don't you just open it and see for yourself?"

Provoked like this, Yin Huaixi took a deep breath and picked up a page from the book with her fingertips.

Suddenly, a series of exquisitely detailed and beautiful erotic paintings came into view.

Having read and appreciated a great deal of literature from island nations and peninsulas, Yin Huaixi remained calm and did not throw away the books.

But the few lines of small print next to it made her blush.

Turning her head and seeing Yin Huaixi's appearance, the woman became interested and teased, "This kind of thing doesn't need to be taught."

"You've seen it, just use it on A-Che."