How To Survive as a Villain

Xiao YuAn rushed to Yan HeQing and wrapped his body tightly with his robe: “Are you alright? Are you okay?”

Yan HeQing struggled with his last strength, looked up at Xiao YuAn, and then fell facedown to the ground.

Xiao YuAn threw him into his back and nearly fell to the snow. He stabilized his body and hugged Yan HeQing, who was already frozen: “Don’t sleep! Brother, wake up and hold on for a while. Your harem of beauties are waiting for you.”

As Yan HeQing wouldn’t wake up even after being called a few times, Xiao YuAn was also feeling a little anxious. In a panicked strike he took off his coat, wrapped Yan HeQing tightly, and ran towards Taiyi¹ Palace.

The old imperial physician that stayed on the night watch in the Taiyi palace, who in over half a year had never encountered a major event, was almost scared to death by Xiao YuAn. He whispered: “Your Majesty!!! What’re you doing??”

Why are you alone!! Why are you wearing so little on such a cold day! Who’s the one you’re carrying?! How can you carry someone with your own body!!

The imperial physician had too many questions, he didn’t know where to start in asking them!!

Xiao YuAn yelled in his heart: The fuck you’re asking²!! You should just save people!!

“Inn-inner room.” The imperial physician was so frightened that he could barely speak.

Xiao YuAn carried Yan HeQing inside the inner room. He picked up his clothes which had become wet by the snow, and put him inside the quilt of the bed, then, he rubbed his hands to get them warmer and covered Yan HeQing’s chest.

The imperial physician quickly boiled a bucket of water before putting Yan HeQing inside. When they saw that Yan HeQing’s breathing and body temperature was gradually returning to normal, Xiao YuAn could finally breathe relieved.

The imperial physician asked anxiously: “Your Majesty, how are you feeling?”

Xiao YuAn felt a cold sweat and panted slightly: “Me? What’s the matter?”

The imperial physician: “But your Majesty, your face is flushed and you’re breathless. How about you let me exam-…”

Xiao YuAn didn’t hear what the imperial physician was saying to him before he suddenly fainted.

When he woke up again, he was in the Imperial bedchamber.

There were a lot of people kneeling down, including the Imperial physician, the maid servants and slaves. When they saw that Xiao YuAn was awake, they all shouted: “His Majesty is awake! He woke up!”

Xiao YuAn’s head was buzzing, there was too much noise, so he simply covered himself with the quilt.

Noticing this, Hong Xiu started to dismiss the crowd.

“Wait, is the imperial physician still here?” Xiao YuAn took a slack and asked while lifting the quilt in a single move.

“Yes, yes I am.” The imperial physician was a ‘yes-man’.

“How is Yan HeQing?” Xiao Yu’an asked.

“Answering to his Majesty, he’s no longer in danger.” The imperial physician replied.

He’s worthy of being the male lead. He wrapped himself with three layers of clothes inside and three layers outside, but still he managed to get a fever. Yan HeQing froze for such a long time, but nothing happened to him.

Xiao YuAn said: “Take good care of him.”

After the imperial physician finished his duty, he withdrew from the Imperial bedchamber.

Hong Xiu covered her mouth and chuckled: “I have never seen his Majesty caring so much about someone.”

If I don’t care about him, he will eviscerate me alive! Unexpectedly, what I did changed the original plot entirely. What should I do next?

Xiao YuAn laughed bitterly and propped up from the bed with one hand, trying to sit up.

Hong Xiu quickly stepped forward and gently supported Xiao YuAn: “Does his Majesty want to drink some water?”

Seeing that Xiao YuAn nodded, Hong Xiu quickly brought the clear water to feed Xiao YuAn. At the same time, Yang LiuAn came to report: “Your Majesty, Princess Yongning is here.”

Xiao YuAn choked wIth a mouthful of saliva and gulped down in the air: “Who? Who’re you talking about? Yong- Princess Yongning?”

Yang LiuAn hadn’t answered yet when a voice that sounded like jade beads falling came from the door of the bedroom: “Imperial Brother.”

Xiao YuAn looked up.

In the original book, a poem was quoted to describe Princess Yongning: There’s a beauty in the Northern Kingdom, whose appearance is unparalleled in the world. Her refined nature is superior to that of common people. If she looks at the soldiers who guard the city, she can make the city wall fall; if she looks at the Monarch, the country will be defeated³.

And now, Xiao YuAn’s head is full of that sentence: independent from the rest of the world.

So this is the beautiful face of the legendary female lead?!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! The danger is huge!!!

Footnotes:

Footnotes

1. 太医 tài yī; Imperial physician/Doctor.
2. 予安表示问个P啊！The P here stands for 屁, which means ‘fart’ or in this case a vulgar way of saying “Nonsense/Rubbish”’.
3. 北方有佳人，一顾倾人城再顾倾人国的那首 běifāng yǒu jiārén, yī gù kēng rén chéng zài gù kēng rén guó dì nà shǒu; from 《汉书·外戚传》(hàn shū·wàiqī chuán), “History of the Former Han Dynasty – a Biography of Waiqi”. Written by (班固 bān gù) Ban Gu [32-92 AC], a historian from the Eastern Han Dynasty [25-220 AC].