“Young Master Lin Nuo is truly the most handsome and dashing member of the ClemenceFamily!”
“If the Duke hadn’t fallen ill, he probably wouldn’t have matched up to the Young Master in his youth, right?”
“Exactly. Otherwise, how could the Duke have arranged a marriage between Princess Amidina of the Capital and the Young Master? Only the Princess’s beauty is worthy of the Young Master.”
In the dressing mirror held by the Maid, a young face appeared.
A head of naturally wavy blonde hair framed nearly perfect features, and his posture radiated the innate refinement of nobility.
His eyebrows and eyes flowed smoothly, as if measured with divine precision by God’s calipers.
He was the only heir of the Clemence Family—Lin Nuo Kleiman’s striking looks could captivate even the most innocent girl at first glance with their natural charm.
Even though the Young Master of the Clemence Family had a notorious reputation, the Maids who helped him with his grooming still couldn’t help but steal glances at his face, their expressions tinged with bashfulness.
Lin Nuo Kleiman admitted that, upon revisiting this Western fantasy-style Feng Aotian power fantasy novel, he felt a faint sense of immersion when he realized the elegantly described villain character shared his name.
But who knew that the very next moment, caught up in the frantic rush to meet month-end sales targets, he would suddenly find himself transported into the book’s otherworldly setting.
Having a baby body that could only whimper helplessly to summon a Maid to hold his tiny “little water pipe” when he needed to pee, plus the lack of any cheats or power-ups, plunged Lin Nuo into bouts of despair.
He’d been transported into a pure Feng Aotian power fantasy, where the protagonist was not only female but also romantically interested in women!
The story followed Feng Aotian and a host of beautiful girls on wild adventures in a different world.
Any random scoundrel who dared to glance at one of Feng Aotian’s women would be dusted to ashes—and the Villain was the lowest of the low in this regard.
Most importantly, Lin Nuo’s villain character suffered terribly!
Just thinking about his fate brought tears to Lin Nuo’s eyes.
As the blond villain who spurred the protagonist’s early development, he repeatedly lost intelligence points, flip-flopped between mocking Feng Aotian and getting slapped down, losing all dignity.
It was routine for him to feed her experience points out of sheer humiliation.
On the night of their engagement, after his wild ramblings, his fiancée—the cold and stunning Princess Amidina of the Capital—grew disillusioned with him.
Meanwhile, half-pushed and half-willing, she was tricked into bed by Feng Aotian.
The two beautiful girls embraced and slept together on his marriage bed, sending parasitic readers who lived for romantic drama into fits of excitement.
Meanwhile, Lin Nuo, the ultimate tool, after countless face-slaps and being squeezed dry of his value as an early villain, ended up a lowly outcast who nearly survived by selling hooks.
When he reappeared, he was dressed in rags and clutching half a moldy fried dough stick.
Even in such misery, the original story gave him a “sickly yandere girl” who had set her sights on him eight years prior, abducting and imprisoning him.
No…
Why did a mere villain role have so many twists?
Yet it was precisely because of that breathtaking, enigmatic yandere girl’s pathological, fanatical love for the worthless villainous Young Master Lin Nuo Kleiman that Princess Amidina—the cold and distant princess—awoke to the truth that love is pure and transcends status, identity, and others’ opinions.
From this, she realized love need not be restricted by gender.
The subplot where the unnamed yandere girl abducted Lin Nuo Kleiman became a catalyst for the normally non-accepting Princess Amidina to tacitly allow Feng Aotian to have more intimate contact with her—and later for Feng Aotian to “bend” the princess, leaving her completely exposed.
At the time, many readers praised Lin Nuo’s exit as perfectly filling in the story’s rationale, and some even envied the villain kidnapped and imprisoned by the yandere.
I faintly recall the original author mentioning that the inspiration for giving Lin Nuo the yandere plot came from reader suggestions.
Hmph, I always said those silent readers knew how to play better than the writers!
Opening the door, an extremely Western noble-style bedroom appeared: a lavish vaulted ceiling with wet frescoes, a quill pen dipped in an ink bottle, and a jewel-encrusted mirror on the dressing table beside the bed.
Also, a white chubby little bird napping on the spider plant.
“Fatty Bird.”
“Chirp?”
“Why have you gotten fat again?”
“Chirp chirp!”
Lin Nuo habitually pulled a favorite book from the bookshelf—an unhealthy little yellow book titled “Book of the Saintess’s Tribulation”.
The illustrations immediately summoned images of that vile girl, earnestly flipping through a book while sitting on his back, twisting her wrist to tighten a belt around him…
Lin Nuo’s expression immediately darkened.
The prophecy blessed by the Time Goddess had never been wrong… so, being tied up to play little games was inevitable?
Crossing into another world only to encounter a yandere girl who loved binding stronger than a monster, and no matter how hard he struggled he couldn’t escape!
Oh, what a tragic life!
“Young Master! These are the lists of female workers at the Duke’s estate who are about to complete eight years of service. Following your orders, I’ve reassigned them elsewhere and given them generous silver coins.”
“The new Maids were also selected exactly as you requested, each with a three-generation clean family background.”
A haggard Maid with dark circles under her eyes and messy hair dashed over breathlessly.
“Please forgive me, Young Master. Since Lady has been busy preparing to receive the Princess, I’ve been given too many tasks lately. You’ve been resting a lot after your injury, so I went ahead with Lady’s orders first. The roster you requested is a bit delayed…”
Her voice trembled with fear and grew softer: “Please don’t fire me or drag me to the room to find the two burly men… ordering them to strip me naked and…”
“……”
“XÄ«, has the estate been very busy lately?”
“Reporting to the Young Master, yes. Lady places great importance on your engagement with Princess Amidina. The Chapel where the Priestesses pray and your marriage chamber both require more Maids to decorate.”
“Forget the marriage chamber.”
After all, in the original story, his marriage bed—no matter how grand or luxurious—was given cheaply to Feng Aotian.
The Maid, clutching her hands tightly in front of her, trembled at Lin Nuo’s words.
She feared the rumors about the peculiar Young Master Lin Nuo were true—he might be displeased with her work and really drag her into the “little dark room,” call in two big men, and force her to juggle impossible tasks…
“Chirp!”
Suddenly, the chubby bird landed in front of her, stepping on her tall, proud arch with its claws.
It turned its head and chirped at Lin Nuo, as if telling him to look here.
The Maid’s face flushed scarlet with embarrassment.
“Fatty Bird is giving you a message. If you’re too tired, go rest first. If the Head Maid asks, just say I asked you to help feed the bird. When you’ve rested, take people and thoroughly check the Duke’s estate again for any suspicious characters, especially striking young girls.”
Since experiencing firsthand the oppressive feeling brought on by that girl in a prophetic dream, and the countless ways she tried to reshape him in her image…
Though the steel wool flower language symbolized endurance and wealth, that woman was not a simple rich lady.
If she was displeased, Lin Nuo might really be torn to pieces.
Lin Nuo felt pessimistic, as if he already saw himself being dismantled bit by bit, piece by piece…
Compared to investigating the yandere girl, the marriage bed was nothing!
After ignoring the Maid’s shocked face as she clung to Fatty Bird, crying tears of joy, Lin Nuo inspected the list of female workers.
The original story gave few details about the yandere girl who imprisoned him—no background, no physical traits, not even a name.
In the visions shown by the Time Goddess’s prophecy, her voice was unclear, and Lin Nuo only vaguely saw a pair of clear eyes.
Aside from remembering her “baby food warehouse” was very large and very white, there was no other information.
He couldn’t very well investigate every young woman in the estate with a large “baby food warehouse,” right?
The only thing known about that yandere was that she had been watching Lin Nuo since he was ten years old and had been lurking nearby for eight years straight!
“By rights, since I’ve meticulously played the role of the arrogant and notorious villainous Young Master since childhood, just like in the original plot, people unfamiliar with me would have a poor impression—like that Maid just now.”
“I’ve never even met Feng Aotian. The main storyline of this world definitely wouldn’t change because of me, a minor villain so devoted to the original plot.”
“Also, I’ve always regularly cleared out the female workers at the Kleiman estate, never taking in girls of unknown background. If that yandere had been lurking nearby, she would have been weeded out before even meeting me… not to mention, the year I was supposed to meet her, I was out adventuring with the Saint Knight Order.”
Lin Nuo murmured to himself.
He’d previously thought that to avoid being targeted by the yandere, he’d begged his father to let him go adventuring with the Saint Knights at the age of ten—an overly cautious, foolish act.
But after witnessing how dangerous that yandere was, Lin Nuo realized how naïve it was to hope for luck.
Even if that year’s expedition had gone badly—a sea battle, magical damage, near death, and eight years spent recovering—it didn’t matter!
As long as the chance of being abducted by the yandere dropped to zero percent, lying in bed for eight years was worth it!
Yes!
Since that yandere was supposed to meet me when I was ten, and I wasn’t even in the estate then, how likely is it that I’ll encounter her again?
Come on, in a world originally with seven billion people, the probability of two random people meeting was only 0.00478.
Some people never see each other again after passing on the street, and the chance of two people falling in love was even lower at 0.000049—though yandere abduction probably didn’t have much to do with love.
The beings of this other world outnumbered even those seven billion many times over.
Therefore, the odds of me encountering that yandere again should be laughably low!
Lin Nuo’s expression gradually brightened with excitement.
Besides that skinny little bird he’d picked up—which was now fed until it was as fat as a ball—there were no female presences lurking around for eight years…
If I’m guarding against that yandere this thoroughly, why would she ever run into me again?
“Young Master, don’t smile so foolishly. Come lie down obediently. It’s time for your prayer.”
Wearing a pristine Priestess’s habit, XÄ« had already tidied the glass mirror on the dressing table.
She pulled her slender white silk-clad leg out of her short boots, then knelt devoutly on the bed and beckoned him over.
“Are you worried about facing an undesirable fate, Young Master?”
“A little just now,” Lin Nuo shrugged, “but now I realize I was overthinking it.”
Although the Time Goddess’s prophecy images were intense, they didn’t prove that the girl in the vision was the yandere from the original story who imprisoned Lin Nuo and drained him day and night!
Perhaps the Time Goddess only wanted to tell me that, after I get rid of Feng Aotian and her harem, and live a happy, peaceful farming life in this world, the truly suitable beautiful girl I marry will simply enjoy playing little games with me?
It must be that!
Just little fun between spouses.
Playing bondage games with a beautiful girl isn’t so terrible—though it’d be nicer if the hemp rope were replaced with white silk and done a bit more gently.
After finishing the distracted prayer, Lin Nuo glanced at XÄ«’s small white-silk-wrapped feet beneath her habit’s hem and felt hopeful once again about life!
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