How To Survive as a Villain

As the snow melted, the Northern Kingdom had two major events.

The first one, the birthday of the young Emperor is approaching, which is a great event of universal celebration. Although Xiao YuAn prepared everything to be simple in order to keep filial piety, some feasts for singing and dancing are still under intense preparation.

The second one, Xiao YuAn knowing the plot, had been uneasy about ever since the end of winter. This event was that the Western Shu Kingdom will send envoys to make friends with each other!!! In the original book, the young Monarch was seeking trouble as usual. He was disdainful of making friends with foreign nations, so he rejected the envoys of the Western Shu Kingdom.

This annoyed the Western Shu Kingdom. In the end, when Yan HeQing attacked the Northern Kingdom, he joined forces with the Western Shu Kingdom.

In the original book, this plot passed very quickly; mainly to help the Western Shu Kingdom and Yan HeQing to become allies and join forces.

Naturally, Xiao YuAn wouldn’t look for troubles. At the beginning of spring, during the Spring Festival, the envoys of the Western Shu Kingdom were respectfully greeted into the Imperial City.

According to the protocol, the Northern Kingdom will place the nine guests to sit at the top of the main hall, and then a banquet will be arranged at the Palace Hall to entertain the envoys of the Western Shu Kingdom. All of these ceremonies were extremely respectful, so it could be seen that Xiao YuAn attached great value to them.

In the main Hall, in order to show respect, Xiao YuAn was dressed in a complicated formal attire and arrived in advance. When he sat down, he almost stumbled over his broad sleeve, but Yan HeQing, who was standing right beside him, had quick eyes and hands, so he reached out to help him.

“These formal clothes are too troublesome. If it weren’t for Hong Xiu, I wouldn’t be able to dress myself for three whole days.” Xiao YuAn, in a low voice, whispered to Yan HeQing.

Yan HeQing nodded his head, without saying anything.

Xiao YuAn was sitting properly, he was looking nervous and expecting.

In the original book, the Western Shu Kingdom has an extremely particular existence.

Because it has a particularly powerful backer: Honorable Female Members!

Throughout the Western Shu Kingdom, there were many female Generals and Emperors. Such a sense of setting was naturally enjoyed by the male lead Yan HeQing.

One-third of Yan HeQing’s harem were the women from the Western Shu Kingdom. The Princess, the Prime Minister and the Number one Scholar¹ were all in his hands. Xiao YuAn estimated that the emissary sent by the Western Shu Kingdom should have one of Yan HeQing’s wives, but he didn’t know which wife would it be.

However, it doesn’t matter which little wife is coming, she won’t be able to enter Yan HeQing’s eyes for the time being.

After all, the protagonist halo of Princess Yongning is still here in the Palace!!

Xiao YuAn tuned his head and smiled at Yan HeQing.

If the protagonist dares to be unfaithful to the female lead, he will be still cut into pieces by the readers!

Yan HeQing was bewildered by his smile, and he was wondering if his clothes were perhaps too tight, which caused Xiao YuAn’s head to lack oxygen.

According to the reports from outside, the envoys of the Western Shu Kingdom had arrived, and Xiao YuAn was full of energy, sitting in an upright posture.

A group of people came from the outside of the Hall with gifts packed in boxes. Sure enough, most of the women had graceful slender bodies and their facial features were beautiful.

The envoy was led by a woman dressed in red.

She was dressed in a royal dress with a corset and no wrists, there wasn’t any complicated decoration on her body. The underclothes were embroidered with white clouds and fire patterns, she looked proud and unrestrained, her hair was tied in a high ponytail. Her phoenix eyes were slightly raised, and between the waves of her eyes, was indescribable heroism.

Standing at the center of the hall, she bowed down in front of Xiao YuAn with her fist resting in her hand²; she was acting appropriately to the occasion, natural and relaxed. She said: “Xiao PingYang from the Western Shu Kingdom pays a visit to the Emperor of the Northern Kingdom on behalf of the Western Shu Kingdom, hoping that the two countries can make good friends with each other for generations.”

Xiao YuAn stood up abruptly, his eyes were wide open, and all the people present in the Hall were immediately scared.

“Your Majesty?” Hong Xiu, who was waiting at his side, shouted softly.

“Cough…” He forced down the stormy waves inside his heart, Xiao YuAn sat down and said: “I’m alright, I’m just really happy.”

To hell with happiness aahhh!!!

What the fuck³ aahhh!!!

Before all this, for the envoys of the Western Shu Kingdom, Xiao YuAn had thought about countless possibilities.

But! He! Really! Didn’t! Expected! Her! To! Come!

Xiao PingYang ahhh!

Xiao PingYang was the second female lead in the original book, “The History of the Four Kingdoms.”

Since Princess Yongning was the first woman that Yan HeQing fell in love with, she was worshipped as the first female lead by readers.

However, it wasn’t Xiao PingYang’s fault that she was the second woman that Yan HeQing took a fancy at.

The reason why she’s in this novel with all kinds of girls flying over the world, and that no one dares to shake her position as the second female lead is because…

She’s the last wife of Yan HeQing. She becomes Yan HeQing’s Empress after he finally unified the countries into one nation.

Footnotes:

Footnotes

1. 状元 zhuàng yuán; Top scorer in the Palace Examination, the Highest Rank in the Imperial Examination System.
2. 抱拳 bào quán; To cup one’s fist in the other hand, as a sign of respect.
3. 卧槽 wò cáo; It’s a Chinese internet slang, because it sounds similar to 我操 wǒ cāo (fuck you/fucking). It’s used this way because of the online Chinese censorship for some curse words, these would be seen as ****, so people started to get imaginative and started using other “similar-sounding” words to express these curse words online. It can mean either: “Fuck”, “What the fuck?”, “Shit”. Or in context mean: “Awesome”, or express someone’s feeling of surprise or frustration.