Villainess Series 1: Bullying The Male Lead

5: Fading

"Bai Suxin, why are you so cruel?" He whispered.

"Li Han!"

In the next second, Li Han was thrown into the ground with my white umbrella. Confused, the weak Li Han gritted his teeth and glared at Li Rui. His pale lips tainted with blood as a result of Li Rui's punch.

"How dare you look at my woman?!"

Li Rui was seething. The guards and eunuchs didn't dare to stopped the crown prince.

But then Jin'er stepped forward, her voice came out loud, "My lady, you're shivering!"

With that, Li Rui halted his approach and stopped caring about Li Han. He quickly went near me. Li Rui shouted to his servants, panicking as he covered me with his thick black cloak and providing me a new umbrella above my head.

"The fourth prince.." My voice laced with concern. It was a big contrast, so different at the way I talked to Li Han earlier. The mocking tone was gone.

"Li Rui, please don't punish the fourth prince."

This only made Li Rui angrier. "Lady Bai, you.."

"Please, your highness the crown prince. He's still your brother. Don't punish him." On cue, my body swayed.

Li Rui panicked. He hurriedly took me in his arms and carried me, bridal style.

"Don't worry, Lady Bai." Then Li Rui turned his head to Li Han, "Get up. You're lucky that Lady Bai is here. Don't let me see your face again."

Before we left the garden, I took a glance to Li Han. He was still on the wet ground, looking at us with his deep dark eyes.

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An hour later, I was sitting in the chair with worried Li Cha beside me. The servants provided me a new white dress to wear and a thick white cloak to blocked my fragile body from the cold. The servants already helped me to dry my hair and fixed them with butterfly pins.

A cup of  hot jasmine tea on my hand, I smiled: "Thank you."

"Lady Bai, you're too nice. You don't know the dark side of people. You're too innocent and don't have any idea that some people might approach you with motives. Not all people deserves your attention and kindness." Li Rui was sitting in front of us,  his forehead creased, showing his high favorabilty to this body.

Unlike the female lead, Bai Suxin don't possessed a heavenly beauty. But she's not ugly either. Her looks was plain, not even worth a second glance. She has that kind of face that easily forgotten, too common. That face that it'd takes couple of glances before people will realize her not-so apparent beauty.

Eyes on the ground, I croaked: "But.. the fourth prince is too pitiful." I made my voice smaller, my tone humble and helpless.

In the novel, Bai Suxin conquered few noblemen and scholars's hearts because of her angelically innocent and harmless image.

Bai Suxin likes wearing beautiful white dresses to associate her clean and sophisticated reputation. This green tea villainess pretends to be kind and innocent but in fact she was manipulative and calculating underneath.

Despite having an ordinary face, Bai Suxin has a pale white skin, cute and soft facial features and her short height giving people an illusion of a cute pampered rabbit.

She was small and has a slim body. This young girl know how use her big bright eyes to seduce men, in addition of her seemingly calm, quite and charming personality and her fragile and innocent image, everything about her arouses the protective instinct of the male population.

And unfortunately, I am now her, that cunning and black-hearted girl, Bai Suxin.

"Lady Bai, that bastard, he.."

Suddenly, Li Rui's handsome face crumpled, "I don't like the way that bastard looked at you earlier."

I looked up, purposely made my expression appear more innocent. I blinked my big bright eyes for few times before I asked him: "What look, your highness?"

In the novel, before Li Han met Chu Wanwan, he loathed everyone; Li Rui, all of his half-siblings, the bystander eunuchs, his useless servants, the imperial guards, the grand palace and even his father, the emperor.

For short, Li Han cursed the entire empire.

But Bai Suxin was a special case. The novel stated that Li Han wanted to chew Bai Suxin to to the bone, till nothing was left of her. He just hated her so much.

Because Bai Suxin has a unique ability in bullying Li Han. She uses Li Han in every cruel possible way. She'd act hurt every time Li Han was unappreciative of her kindness. Her wronged-pitiful expression garnered a lot of sympathy from people and in her stead, others criticized and bullied the male lead more.

Actually, at the start, people only ignored the existence of the fourth prince and treated him like a wind. Before Li Han became the 'Dog Prince', he was the 'Invisible Prince'.

But then, when Bai Suxin entered the picture, the bullying of the male lead started and it intensifies every time Bai Suxin showed her kindness and attention to Li Han.

Li Han was disgusted of this two-faced girl. He wished to kill this scheming girl. Every night, using his sword, he dreamed to cut her into halves.

And I, in two years, I felt like I became the real Bai Suxin. For me to return to my world, I studied Bai Suxin's character well. Every expression of Bai Suxin that the novel stated, I learned them well. Her every schemes, I tried to remember them. Her unique bullying of Li Han, I also applied them well.

Sometimes, I'll get scared that I'll forget who truly I am. That I'll forget my boring life outside of this novel. This scary novel world.

I'm scared. I don't know what to do.

I'm scared that everyday, Mom's face was getting blurred from my memories.

And as if, my true self was also fading.

Me, the 8-5 office worker, Liu Shishi.