Love from the Male Protagonist’s Harem - Chapter 40-1

Xia Ge was incredibly angry.

Though she couldn’t articulate to herself what she was angry about.

After all, she was the one who’d gone onto the back mountain when she wasn’t supposed to, she was the one who’d trespassed the ancestor’s tomb……no matter what trouble she met in this tomb, even if she died here, she had no right to make a complaint.

——But she was still very, very angry.

Maybe it was the helplessness, the suffocation of being powerless that made her so angry.

Never mind, now was clearly not the time to be wallowing in her feelings.

Roar——

One C Rank puppet running towards Xia Ge practically unhinged its jaw to shoot a stream of fire at her.  Then the other puppets followed its example, and innumerable fireballs and icy arrows flew straight at Xia Ge’s face!

Glancing at the B Rank puppet guarding the central table, its runestone still visible in its gut, Xia Ge used {ghost and shadow} to flit like a shadow through the heavy storm of fire and ice projectiles.  Sickle in her hand, she skillfully severed two lines of the formation before full-on attacking the horde of demon puppets.  The black sickle blade danced wildly while the flute music faintly played on in the back ground, its notes apparently urging the puppets on.

Xia Ge tried to keep a clear head: “Little puppet, can you detect what the runestone in that B Rank puppet is?”

System: [I Can……The Runestone Within The B Rank Puppet Is A Teleportation Runestone.  Apparently The First Ancestor Left An Escape Route For Mistakenly Trapped Disciples——]

An escape route?

……well, she was going to need it.

“How long until the competition?

A swing of the sickle, and a demon puppet’s head was chopped off, “……do I still have time?”

It took the system a moment to understand what ‘competition’ Xia Ge was referring to.

Danfeng’s entrance examination!

[Host!  You Have Been In This Tomb For One Day, Meaning You Still Have Two Days Left!]

Two!  Xia Ge had two days left!

The dan she’d just eaten would last for three days, but on the other hand, ways out of the mess she was in were in short supply.

Regardless, the current situation was what it was.  She would just have to do her best, no matter the circumstances.

Cutting a puppet down, Xia Ge belatedly put the piece of red silk torn from Ah Tang’s sleeve into her own sleeve, saying to the system: “This piece belongs to someone’s wedding dress.  If her dress is ripped, how can the poor beauty get married into a new house?”

System: [Fancy That, You Think You Have The Idle Time To Concern Yourself Over Such Matters?  And Aren’t You The One Who Ripped It Off In The First Place?]

Xia Ge: “I’ll keep it safe until I can give it back to her.  That way she can sew it back on.”

System: [……Do You Really Believe She’s Going To Be Able To Get Married?  No, I Mean Do You Actually Believe Her Story About Being Married Off In Mojia?  You Don’t Have Any Doubts About Her Story?  What’s Wrong With Your Brain?]

Exasperated, Xia Ge replied: “I do have doubts, but I don’t have any way to prove otherwise.”

System: [……]

Xia Ge added in complete truthfulness: “Even if she’s a villain who’ll eventually backstab me, I still have to try and save her.  My conscience won’t let me do otherwise.”

The system was incredulous: [……You Actually Do Have A Conscience.]

Xia Ge: “……”  How could little puppet think she didn’t have a conscience?!

So what if Xia Ge didn’t have the ‘five stresses and four points of beauty’ and she wasn’t a ‘3 good student’?  She still possessed basic social morality!

Ah Tang, imprisoned in the air by thorny vines, slowly opened her eyes and gazed at the skinny boy desperately battling demon puppets below.

Then the beauty gave a sidelong glance at her torn sleeve.

Her red clothes were like raging flames, with subtle lines of gold running through the fabric, each thread containing terrifying and immense power.

Oppressive and formidable.

{blood-stained spring and autumn}.

Are you moved by that boy?

Of course, the Yimei couldn’t answer, the torn corner simply fluttering in the wind.

Ah Tang didn’t mind, sinking in her own thoughts, until eventually smiling to herself.

Only true sincerity and righteous ardor for its master could move the Yimei.  And only then could the master of the Yimei be moved as well.

If that boy could move {blood-stained spring and autumn} enough that it let itself be torn……

It meant that——in that moment, the boy truly, truly wanted to save Ah Tang.

Even if the boy harbored misgivings, he wanted to save her—-even not knowing if she were of good or evil character, even though she was a stranger he’d barely met……

The boy chose to be recklessly committed to her rescue.

Ah Tang quietly watched the boy fighting the puppets for a long time.

Then the beauty in the red wedding dress chuckled to herself: “Apparently, your disciple……isn’t all that annoying.”

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Xia Wuyin had gone missing, and Ye Ze only belatedly realized it just two days before the Danfeng entrance examination.

Although, in Ye Ze’s defense, Xia Wuyin had been studying behind closed doors.

Except for coming out every morning to buy some breakfast, Xia Wuyin had been locking himself inside his hut.  But for two days in a row Ye Ze hadn’t seen Xia Wuyin emerge even for food.

……surely Xia Wuyin hadn’t studied too hard and fallen into a coma?

Ye Ze felt there was no way that the stinky brat, who could probably lose the world yet retain his sense of self, would change overnight into a bookworm who forget to eat and sleep.  All the same, Ye Ze decided to go offer some sympathy and have a look-see at Xia Wuyin’s progress.

五讲四美 [wǔ jiǎng sì měi]

“five stresses and four points of beauty”– requirements for revolutionary culture (The five stresses are: stress on decorum, manners, hygiene, discipline and morals. The four points of beauty are: beauty of the mind, language, behavior and the environment)

Three good students are an honorary title given to outstanding students by Chinese schools. Three good students refer to good morals, good study and good health . The selection of “three good students” has been carried out in all large, middle and primary schools in China since 1954, with a fixed selection ratio and basically the same measurement standard . “Three good” has become the goal and honor pursued by students, and has also become synonymous with “good child and good student”. In March 2012, in response to a proposal jointly initiated by several members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference to stop the selection of “three good students”, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education stated that the Ministry of Education did not make uniform regulations on the selection of “three good students” and would not interfere with the school’s decision.