Transmigration: The Fate of the Villainess

158 Extra Xu Luanle’s red string of fate (2) Part I

How wonderful a life with ailaine!

Other than sewing, ailaine was another challenge that required high levels of expertise! But how could a single-lid person like him give up? The future of having big round eyes was not too far away.

“Le-er?”

“Yes, mother?”

“Your eyes today look...”

“Everything is normal, mother.”

“Pei-er.”

“Yes, mother?”

“You should follow your brother’s example.”

.....

“I won’t!” This was the first objection Xu Peipei had in regards to Xu Luanle’s beauty trick. “...That black around the eyes looks like a bruise. I’m never going to copy him!”

“What did you say?!” Xu Luanle was greatly angered by this little sis. He carefully drew thick lines of eyeliner on the lower rims of his eyes, yet his sister saw them as bruises from being punched.

“Brother is just wasting good stuff,” Xu Peipei mumbled.

Xu Luanle grimaced at his sister, ignoring her reaction.

“You don’t want to use what your brother uses?” Xu Furen asked her daughter. Every time Xu Luanle used cosmetics, both Xu Furen and Master Xu had the feeling of having two daughters, which was so immense that it was unbearable.

That was why they tried to gently wrestle those cosmetics away from Xu Luanle and give them to Xu Peipei. They had hoped that their eldest son would one day get tired of cosmetics and eventually stop fussing about beauty altogether... It seemed to be ineffective, though. Ever since their return from Donghai, Xu Luanle’s eyes looked as if he lacked sleep.

“I have it as well, mother.” Using eyeliner was not easy. After coming back from Donghai, she tried eyeliner in front of the mirror. But no matter how many times she tried, it frustratingly ended up looking like a stain. She could not do it, so where did her brother get the confidence that he could?!

“Then let’s resume the meal.” Chancellor Xu interrupted his wife’s plan and changed the topic instead of telling the older sibling to give his cosmetics to his younger sister like usual.

Xu Luanle internally laughed.

This time, he would not do as his parents said! Ailaine was his red string of fate, after all. How could he easily give it up to his sister? The plan to intentionally smudge his eyeliner worked better than expected!

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“Hey, sis! Give me your ailaine.”

Xu Luanle intruded on the Yue mansion early in the morning, carrying both frustration and bitterness that were caused by his own sister, Xu Peipei!

“Where’s yours?”

“I just started my practice last night when that girl ran in to tell me that there was no point for a man like me to be beautiful, then she took my ailaine!” It was so tragic that he had to use his sleeve to wipe away the tear.

His sister, Xu Peipei, was a foolish girl! He had fooled her, making her no longer want his ailaine in front of their parents already. Who would have thought that his stupid sister would be a good actor like him?! She, too, had fooled him into letting his guard down before coming to his room and saying the same words. Xu Luanle was stunned by the tiny glint of cleverness he saw in her, and by the time he came to his senses, he had lost one stick of ailaine.

His darn sister must have used up her ailaine after practicing so much. That was why she came to steal his!

“And how does that involve me?” His story was this tragic, yet the woman in front of him showed no care for his predicament.

“If I use mine, then it’ll run out before I can get good at it! Stop asking questions and give me yours.” Xu Luanle stopped acting and sat down. He crossed his legs, fanning himself with a newly bought fan as he nonchalantly waited for the owner of this building to bring him a new ailaine.

In the end, Bai Yu caved. Ohohoho.

“I’m going to draw on one side, then you follow my example with your other eye. Sounds good?”

“Deal!” Until he could do it on his own with ease.

“Come closer. Give me your face.” The eldest son of the Xu family was instantly obedient when it came to beauty. He happily put out his oval face without a word of objection.

He must learn how to use ailaine before his sister!

As his eyelid was carefully drawn, his happy mood was suddenly interrupted by a sense of immense magical energy heading toward them. It was so immense that he could not measure its level. The person who possessed it was surely coming here, to Meihua Residence. There were not many whose magic was higher than his black level.

Either that was the Emperor or the commander-general whom he had met back in Xu Mansion while he was talking to Bai Yu in his building.

“Mmmmm. Yu-er.” As soon as his brain finished assessing the situation, he moved his body according to the plan he had just freshly thought up. Xu Luanle suppressed a smile as he called his friend’s name, his arm snaking around her slim waist. He wanted to prove his suspicion.

It was as he thought.

“Ohohohoho.”

Xu Luanle amusedly fanned himself at the sight of his friend running after that man. The martial arts skills he had learned were used to follow her. The scene of a man and a woman that Xu Luanle spied from afar almost fully confirmed that he had successfully tied his friend’s red string of fate.

Though he wanted to watch them a little closer, he did not want to risk being detected by Ouyang Feilong. And so he turned around and went back to the Meihua building, waiting to see his handiwork after his friend returned.

That night at the banquet, Xu Luanle ‘accidentally’ came across Bai Yu and Ouyang Mingxian talking near his building. With both magic and martial arts, he could hear them despite the distance and discovered that Miss Bai finally decided to let go of Qin Wang.

This was good news for his sister, Xu Peipei!

After talking to Miss Bai Yu, who he had heard so much about from Xu Peipei, his sister’s ‘best friend’ then became his own. Xu Luanle had intended to find a new red string of fate for Bai Yu from the start. That person might be a master from one major family or another, but he never expected Bai Yu to go out and find her own fate. And that fate was powerful enough to pull the Xu family from grace if he did nothing to fix it!

All in Da Yang knew that whoever the first miss of the Bai family married, he would already have inherited a half-share of the throne. These days, the second miss appeared to have a good relationship with the last emperor’s youngest son, who was born directly from Wei Furen. He was currently the commander-general of the land, having achieved numerous military feats and commanding eight divisions of Da Yang’s army…

If Bai Yu wedded Ouyang Feilong, then Ouyang Mingxian would become nothing! Even if Xu Peipei could become Qin Wang Fei, Ouyang Feilong would surely end up as an emperor, and the Xu family’s power would be suppressed, together with Ouyang Mingxian.

This was bad! He had to change all his plans!

Xu Luanle would never let Xu Peipei get involved in Ouyang Mingxian’s uncertain future because that would also be the Xu family’s future.

At first, he was the one who tried to tie his sister’s red string with Ouyang Mingxian’s, with their parents’ approval. Both he and the Xu family had raised her to be a perfect fit for the role of Qin Wang Fei. Xu Luanle knew that, in the end, she could be no more than a second consort since she could not compete with Miss Bai’s power and influence. Still, the Xu family had to accept that. The only man with a standing comparable to Taizi’s was Ouyang Mingxian alone, and it also seemed that the support for the throne that Qin Wang had was more than Taizi, who was from the opponent to the Xu family, the Wang family.

Xu Luanle might be known by all as the dandy young master of Da Yang, but other than the anonymous master’s shop that he continued for his family, this was the only other thing he had in mind under the ignorant surface. He had decided that Xu Peipei could not marry Ouyang Mingxian, though his father and mother did not agree. It was understandable since almost no one knew about the relationship between Bai Yu and Ouyang Feilong. Every time Xu Luanle was going to bring Xu Peipei to meet a man other than Ouyang Mingxian, he would always be stopped by his parents.

Apart from cosmetics, this was another thing his parents did not let him do freely!