The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Ye Xiao took the envelope, opened it, and found it was an invitation to a duel, inviting him to a public duel at the academy's arena a week later.

Sure, not counting Ella, this should be the first letter he received from a girl, so it's a good keepsake.

"What brings you to our embassy?" Femihill asked as Ye Xiao put the envelope into his coat.

Ye Xiao nodded in response, "Yes, I'm here to find a girl named 'Xiao Lian'. She should be one of His Highness's personal guards. I have something to entrust to her."

Upon hearing this, Femihill glanced at a fiery red-haired girl among the guards beside him. "Xia Lian, is she your companion?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

Xia Lian nodded and looked at Ye Xiao, "But you are...?"

"My name is Ye Xiao. It's hard to explain the specifics, but I was asked by a friend named Chen Yao to... bring some things."

After the old Tree of Life turned to dust in history, the man named Chen Yao remained forever on Tianqin Peak.

Before leaving that day, although Ye Xiao could not clearly catch every word Chen Yao whispered, Eunice later explained to him that the wooden statue was a work that Chen Yao had carefully carved day after day after staying alone on Tianqin Peak. His original intention was to entrust Eunice to take it out of that valley as a gift to the girl after it was completed.

When the name "Chen Yao" reached her ears, Xia Lian paused slightly, then turned to look at Princess Femihir.

"It's alright, I'll wait patiently inside the carriage," Princess Femihill said with a reassuring smile.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Xia Lian immediately expressed her gratitude, and then waved for Ye Xiao to follow her to the embassy's residence.

Ye Xiao bowed slightly to Femi Hill and his group, then bypassed them and followed Xia Lian into the house.

"How is Chen Yao...?"

In the corridor, Xia Lian asked softly.

Ye Xiao hesitated for a moment, then finally responded with an apologetic tone: "I'm sorry."

“Sigh…” Xia Lian stopped at a doorway. “To be honest, the responsibility for this ultimately lies with me.”

"Don't overthink it, don't pin the blame on yourself for being a villain." Ye Xiao glanced at the door panel. "Is she inside?"

Xia Lian nodded. "However, you've already done more than enough by bringing it here. You can just hand it over to me."

"Thanks, but since it's a friend's request, I'll personally see them off on their final journey," Ye Xiao said with a smile.

"Well... thank you for your help." Xia Lian replied softly, then turned the doorknob for Ye Xiao.

Before you is a girl sitting on the edge of a messy bed, with her back to the door, looking out the window.

Although the room was still basically clean, the scattered items and clothes lying around showed that it hadn't been tidied up for a long time.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and the girl turned around. She was slightly taken aback when she saw the unfamiliar person at the door, then smiled and said, "Hello."

“Hello, my name is Ye Xiao. We met once before, but you may not remember.” Ye Xiao walked to the window and took out a box from her pocket. “I have something… a Mr. Chen Yao asked me to give it to you.”

Ye Xiao saw the girl's body tremble visibly, and then the already forced smile on her face became somewhat stiff.

The girl didn't respond, but tremblingly took the box Ye Xiao handed her and gently opened it.

Upon seeing the wooden carvings inside, his face immediately turned pale.

She tried to control her emotions, but everything in front of her blurred in an instant. Inadvertently, her backward legs touched the edge of the bed, and she stumbled and sat down on the bed.

Finally, she hunched over and cried, like a curled-up shrimp.

Ye Xiao didn't speak, but just sighed silently.

After every tough battle, there's always a scene like this.

He experienced it countless times, yet he could never ignore it.

However, it might be a good thing not to be numb to such things.

Ye Xiao pulled down the brim of his hat and turned to leave the bedroom, but then heard the girl behind him suddenly call out softly, "Please wait a moment!..."

Ye Xiao turned around in slight surprise, only to see that although the other person's eyes were filled with tears, they were still trying to control their voices as they said intermittently, "Your name is... your name is Ye Xiao...?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Ye Xiao asked, puzzled.

"Miss Su...Miss Su mentioned you to me..."

“Miss Su…you mean Su Qianyun?” Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly.

After parting ways at the Samuel Order's underground stronghold, Ye Xiao never saw the sword-wielding girl in the black dress again.

When Ye Xiao first saw the strange centipede with a human head in the palace, he made a point of identifying the faces on its body, but fortunately he didn't see the girl's face.

However, the Samuel Hermitage's stronghold has now been cleared out by Isaac and his men, and the Sword and Rose Guild is said to have a new guild leader. The girl seems to have vanished into thin air, and Ye Xiao has no idea where she went.

"Hmm... Waaah..." Xiao Lian wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief in one hand, while her other hand trembled as she took out a thick stack of parchment from under her pillow and handed it to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao took the book with a puzzled look, but saw some unintelligible lines drawn on the pages. They seemed to be maps and landscape paintings.

At the very bottom of the pile of papers was an envelope, with a few scrawled characters written on the outside:

Respectfully addressed to Mr. Ye Xiao

Chapter Three: The Letter That Couldn't Be Sent

"Mr. Ye Xiao."

"I really hope you have the chance to receive this letter."

"As I write this, I still regret my decision to step into the Samuel’s monastery that day."

"Perhaps this is what I deserve. In search of a distant goal, I have gradually forgotten what I was originally like."

Ye Xiao frowned slightly, feeling that the tone of the letter was a bit strange, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong.

The first half is quite lengthy, and it reads more like a soliloquy than a letter meant for others.

The book mainly describes some of the things that happened in a day after entering the Samuel Order, the people I met, and the daily prayers and gatherings I participated in.

Is this a letter or a diary...?

As Ye Xiao looked at these contents, questions arose in his mind.

His gaze swept across the letter, but he didn't see anything particularly important until near the end.

The letter paper and envelope felt soft and wrinkled to the touch; I don't know if it's because they've been stored for a long time or something else.

Ye Xiao put the letter into his clothes, only to find another similar letter underneath.

The same slightly wrinkled cover, the same elegant but messy handwriting, the same "Respectfully addressed to Mr. Ye Xiao".

As if sensing something, Ye Xiao removed the envelope, and sure enough, another letter that looked exactly the same appeared underneath.

He went through the letters one by one and found that there were actually seven letters with his name on them.

What does this mean? Are we going to send him one letter a day? But that doesn't make sense either, there's no postmark or mailing address on the envelope, which means it was never delivered.

Ye Xiao looked up at Xiao Lian, whose eyes were filled with tears, and asked softly, "Could you ask her when she gave you these letters?"

“I remember… it was two days before the coffin-raising ceremony…”

"Then it must be recently?" Ye Xiao's eyes widened slightly.

"No...no, it was the one from even earlier. After that, something happened at the palace, the rebels attacked the city, and many citizens sought refuge in the streets..."

"I understand, you mean the day of the Fourth Prince Raymond's ascension to the throne." Ye Xiao nodded, in other words, two days before the day of the decisive battle.

"Um... that night, I was resting in my room when I heard knocking on the window."

"Ever since... returning from Greygold Town, I dream about those things every time I have a dream... and Brother Chen... so even the slightest noise will wake me up."

"I got out of bed and went to the window to look. I saw a figure wearing a black cloak standing by the window, which startled me."

"But the other person just held up an index finger to signal me to be quiet, and then asked me in a very low voice... if I was 'Chen Xiaoqin'."

"'Chen Xiaoqin' is my real name... but my nickname on the system is 'Xiaolian,' so people in the team usually call me by the latter name."

Ye Xiao nodded. That made sense. Generally, for convenience, members of the guild would use nicknames to address each other, except for those who were very familiar with each other. This made it easier to quickly match the names with the names in the guild group when commanding battles.

Of course, the Seven Stars Society is an exception. They all have abstract nicknames that are really hard to use. You can't just call them "Dog Number Two" or "Dog Number Two 2023" all the time, otherwise they would be impossible to recognize.

"However, according to what you're saying, this person isn't Su Xiyun?"

“Yes… there was a lot of fog at night during that period. The other person had pulled the brim of their cloak very low, so even though we weren’t very far apart, I couldn’t see their face clearly…” As she spoke, Xiaolian’s emotions seemed to gradually stabilize. “His voice sounded rather androgynous… I couldn’t be sure if it was a man or a woman… but even though I had the window closed at the time, his voice could still be heard very clearly through the window.”

"Hmm." Ye Xiao rubbed his chin, seemingly concealing his identity. His voice was likely transmitted using some kind of magic and might not be the other person's actual voice.

"Then, the other person placed a package on the windowsill... and then turned and disappeared into the fog."

"Got it, that package contained these things?"

"Um... I didn't mean to open it. I just initially thought it was for me, but when I opened it, I found Miss Su's signature on the letter inside." Xiaolian said between sobs, "Of course... that's how I saw your name too... If you hadn't come in and introduced yourself, I probably wouldn't have known it was for you..."

"That's normal, who would have thought?" Ye Xiao shrugged. "The person delivering the package called out their own name, but the recipient wasn't actually them... By the way, does Su Xiyun know your real name?"

“I know,” Xiaolian nodded slightly. “I met Miss Su in a strange place in a settlement outside the city…”

“Oh, I know about that,” Ye Xiao waved his hand. “I was there too, but you were injured when I arrived, and the lighting wasn’t good either, so you probably don’t remember me.”

“Now that you mention it, I seem to remember something… but my consciousness was already very hazy at that time…” Xiaolian recalled, “That night, Miss Su took me to a safe place to rest until dawn, and then we disguised ourselves as attendants of a merchant transporting goods for a certain count and entered the city.”

“We talked a lot during the process, and we became friends… That’s when I told her my name.”

Did you keep in touch after that?

"Yes... Miss Su often chats with me in the community system, sometimes quite a long chat..."

We talked quite a bit...?

Ye Xiao recalled Su Xiyun's appearance. In his memory, that girl looked cold and aloof. Could she be a chatterbox online?

But it's hard to say; it's possible that the two girls just happened to hit it off.

"So you two actually have a pretty good relationship?"

“I guess… I don’t go out often, so I used to chat with Miss Su a lot back then…” Xiaolian gently touched the wooden statue in her hand, “But about a week before I received the package, Miss Su stopped talking to me online.”

That time... Ye Xiao pondered for a moment, it seemed to be the day he and Su Xiyun entered the Samuel Hermitage's underground stronghold, which was also the date on the first letter.

I think I faked my death that day, in order to break the disgusting initiation ritual of the Samuel Order...

Wait, faked my death... Su Xiyun shouldn't have known I faked my death back then, so why would she write me a letter?

With this thought in mind, Ye Xiao took out the first letter from his pocket.

After reading the letter's tone again, Ye Xiao finally realized what was going on.

Damn, he said, why didn't you send the letter? It's like you're treating him like he's dead.

Chapter Four Trial Invitation

Like those kinds of "letters to the prison boss," the recipient never expected to actually receive them when they were written.

Ye Xiao finally understood the strange tone in the letter. Reading it again, he could vaguely sense that it was a letter mourning him.

Well… it seems I probably did something to upset Su Xiyun back then…

Ye Xiao's thoughts became increasingly complicated. After all, the other party had written seven letters in a row, which meant that the emotion was no longer simply "sadness".

At the time, he was only thinking about putting on a show to find a way out of the predicament; his plan was simply to deceive those Samuel's followers and get it over with.

As for Su Xiyun, the two had only met a few times by chance and were not even considered "acquaintances". Afterwards, Ye Xiao had many other things to do, such as the investigation of Shengzhiya and the imperial selection, so he simply did not go to find this girl to explain these things.

But there's no point in thinking about it now, Ye Xiao rubbed the bridge of his nose.

I wonder if we can deduce Su Xiyun's whereabouts from these letters. I just hope she's safe.

"Thank you for telling me all this, Xiaolian. Have you told anyone else about this besides me?"

“I told Sister Xia Lian… but I didn’t tell her about this package. I only mentioned that someone broke into the embassy that night,” Xiao Lian said, looking down. “Because I thought it might be something Miss Su entrusted to me… but I don’t know if it’s worth doing this.”

"That's good, you're very cautious." Ye Xiao examined the remaining pile of papers. "Now, can I take a picture of the rest with the photographic crystal?"

"Well... if you need them, you can take them all... because I don't know exactly what they're for..."

"Is it alright? I thought you were worried because it was our first time meeting."

“No, you’re Miss Su’s friend…and Brother Chen’s friend…” Xiao Lian shook her head, “…I believe you.”

"That's okay, thanks."

“I should be the one thanking you… Thank you for helping Brother Chen pass on this…gift to me…” Xiaolian’s voice began to choke up again when she mentioned Chen Yao, “…I…Brother Chen…”

Ye Xiao looked at the girl who was starting to feel sad again, smiled bitterly, patted her shoulder gently, put the pile of papers on the bed into his spatial ring, and turned to leave.