The Birth of a Villainess

Accompanied by her maids, Lin Xiaofei entered the front main hall.  She had just come around the corner, and she could already hear the voices coming from the old men. They seemed to be quite cheerful for their age that no one would believe it if they knew that these old men were almost in their eighties.

"Hahaha! Young lad, you're extremely lucky. When I was young, my wife wouldn't even let me enter the bedchamber until after three months." Elder Mo said. It was not a secret in the Qu family and those who belonged to their faction that when Elder Mo was young and got married, his wife hid from him and barred the door to keep him away for three months.

Elder Mo married his wife because their marriage was arranged since their births. However, both did not like each other and wanted to get as far as possible from each other. They even desired to love another person and marry them, however, fate played its magic on them, and now the two were being lovey-dovey despite their old age.

"I remember your wife would always come to my residence and call on my wife. Complaining how scared she was when she saw your ugly face." Elder Gao laughed and earned a glare from the other elder.

Elder Mo Ting bit his lips then, retaliated. "Ha! You're not much better than I!" He smugly raised his chin and continued, "Who in this room doesn't know that you chased after your wife for three years before you finally got married! Your wife stayed in the barracks you commanded, disguising as a man and yet, you're the only one who didn't even find out that she's actually a woman!"

The elders inside the main hall nodded their head in unison, agreeing to what Elder Mo had just said.

Elder Gao's wife was popular in the military world. Coming from a general family, she braved the harshest path laid in front of her as a young lady from a noble family, and disguised herself as a man to enter the barracks. It took her two long and harsh years for her to make a name for herself and be promoted.

But what stole the limelight from her courageous attempt to become a general one day was that the commander handling the unit she was in ended up being her husband. Not only that, Elder Gao never found her lies and treated her like a brother for more than three years, two of them were spent doubting his own gender and preferences, and the following years were spent chasing after her after finding out the truth.

"That's right." Another old man said. "Elder Gao was the only one who didn't even doubt his wife's gender and called him 'little brother'. We even got punched in the face whenever we told him the truth. It was truly entertaining."

Before Elder Gao could explode from his embarrassing past and scold all of them, three figures appeared before the entrance of the main hall. Their background was illuminated with the bright light from the scorching sun and made the people inside the main hall wonder who these people were. They squinted their poor old eyes to look clearly.

"OH! Young girl is here!" An elder man loudly said. He was the nearest to the door and he easily made out the faces of the shaded features of these people. Naturally, he only recognized one of them.

Lin Xiaofei slightly bent her knees and greeted him. "Indeed, I am finally here, Elder He."

Elder He smacked his knee and said disapprovingly, "Little girl, don't call me that! Call me Grandpa He instead."

Lin Xiaofei smiled. "I will, Grandpa He."

Elder He, who was promoted to being Grandpa He, beamed with joy. The edges of his silver-specked mustache rose upward, seemingly dancing along with his mood.

"Tsk! This bastard!"

"Little girl, you can call me Grandpa Feng."

"Old He, you're already striking so soon!"

Elders expressed their displeasure individually. They didn't like that Elder He was the first one who got her to call him 'Grandpa'.

Elder He stuck out his tongue at his rivals who wanted to strangle him at this point. Lin Xiaofei, who witnessed their childish antics almost missed a step as she walked towards the man seated at the last end of the main hall where a chair was situated on top of the slightly raised ground. She never really understood why these old men acted like some town lady arguing with each other.

Qu Xing Xu grinned and felt that her little mistake was adorable. The glare she sent in his way after being found out was also lovable to watch.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Lin Xiaofei whispered to him with anger dripping in her voice as soon as she reached him.

Qu Xing Xu held out his hand which she took and shrugged. "You were sleeping so deeply. I was afraid you'd stab me in the heart if I wake you up." Which was not a lie.

Qu Xing Xu did want to wake her up and tell her to get ready to meet the hysterical mother hens that will visit the Qu residence, however, as soon as he saw her sleeping face, he suddenly didn't want to do that anymore. Just waking her up and seeing her eyes open after a sleepless night was enough to drive a knife to his heart.

"Wasn't it your fault why I slept so deeply?" She whispered to him and then, smiled sweetly at the elders.

"Is that a compliment?" He quirked up his lips. His face that was already incredibly handsome as shining brightly with a halo over his head.

Lin Xiaofei was amazed at how he could easily have her words held against her.

Refusing to give a comment before he could create another chance to tease her, Lin Xiaofei moved her attention towards the elderly men gawking at the two of them like they were a bunch of performers on top of the stage. Seeing the two of them together, and especially witnessing that doting glint in the young duke's eyes almost brought them to tears.

Author's Note:

I would like to announce that I will be setting up the 2nd tier of my privilege chapters. These are the two tiers that I will be releasing next month at the start of April 01:

1st tier is 1 coin = 2 chapters. (PS. I changed it from 10 coins to 1 coin starting next month.)

2nd tier is 200 coins = 5 chapters. 

What is Privilege Chapters? 

--These are the advance chapters that privilege buyers/readers can only read ahead of regular readers.  If you buy one or two of the tiers mentioned above, you will have the ADVANTAGE to read and get an EARLY ACCESS of chapters ahead of everyone else reading the normal premium chapters.

Of course, this is NOT MANDATORY and I'm NOT FORCING you guys to buy it. If anything, it's a way to further support me as an author and make me feel more inspired to write so I'll be really glad and happy if you buy it.

PS. I'll be joining the Win-Win event next month and expect a daily update of 2 chapters per day. Mass release is still being considered but if you guys can help me reach my goal of 500 privilege readers or 1,000 privilege readers, I will give THREE to FIVE mass release chapters.

Yours truly,

Poisonlily (Your very own shameless author begging on her knees.)

NOTICE:

There will be some errors because of a bug on . The chapters were jumbled up and doubled. I fixed some parts of it (the order of the chapters) but there still will be the double chapter mix up and repetitive statement. The CE will fix it as soon as possible and I already notified her about this.