Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder - Chapter 406 - 406: Ch 406 - This Boy, I Will Protect Him!

Changli only learned about Yino’s exploits yesterday when she spanked Nina’s bottom.

Of course, she remembered who Yino was.

But… In the countless millions of future projections she had run, Yino was nothing more than a useless chess piece who would die at any moment, completely dispensable to Changli.

Only out of guilt toward Yino’s mother did Changli, sixteen years ago, help the spirit crane girl who had traveled all the way from the Western Region carrying an infant to seek her aid.

Even so, Changli had only glanced at him briefly before waving her hand to direct Xinyao to find the He mansion. As for the He mansion’s side, Changli would secretly order them to adopt the child.

Back then, it was indeed Changli who personally arranged for that infant from the Demon Abyss to be placed with the He mansion.

But after that, she never gave the matter another thought.

After all, she had no blood relation to that infant.

And even Yino’s mother actually had no emotional attachment to this demon spawn she had unexpectedly birthed.

If even his own mother did not care about him, then Changli, as an outsider, had already done her duty by arranging his adoption. Why should she invest so much attention in a useless person?

According to Changli’s prophetic projections, Yino should have died long ago at this point in time.

But now, what Changli found strange was that according to Nina’s description, not only was Yino not dead, but he had awakened his mother’s ancient phoenix bloodline, possessed Nascent Soul stage cultivation, and achieved remarkable military exploits on the Demon Abyss battlefield that even amazed Nina.

Clearly, the real Yino was completely different from the millions of cycles Changli had projected through fate calculations!

This seemed to be the first time in Changli’s life that her prophecy had failed.

So, with her extreme sensitivity to fate, Changli instantly caught this suspicious clue.

She thought: better to believe ten thousand false alarms than miss one real opportunity.

Perhaps Yino was the key solution point she had been unable to calculate for the past century?

“This boy, several months ago, killed the Wuji Sect’s Child of Destiny, stole the Innate Sword Dao Holy Physique, and took the guardian spirits of Snow Village and Azure Forest… Even so, this boy remained unsatisfied with greed, repeatedly disrupting Western Region plans, and even the Demon Abyss core that should have been obtained by the chosen one was refined and devoured by him!”

In Heaven-Defying Pavilion, the crane-haired woman sitting at one side of the round table closed her eyes and recounted.

At the end, she paused, and the third divine eye at her brow suddenly opened, its pale golden patterns clearly displaying the pressure of a true Celestial God realm cultivator.

“So he was secretly doing all these major things?”

Sitting beside the crane-haired woman, the red beauty propped her hand against her cheek, listening with obvious surprise to the former’s complaints.

Compared to Iris, who was constantly suppressing her anger, Changli was not angry at all. After all, the Wuji Sect’s chosen one plan was mainly Iris’s responsibility. She was simply genuinely amazed, since these inside details were secrets, Nina had no way of knowing that night.

At this point, Iris also opened her eyes and lowered her voice: “Changli, you should know that if this boy is not eliminated today, he will become a great threat in the future, with endless consequences… If we let him continue causing chaos like this, sooner or later he will disrupt the entire destiny order!”

“Mm, that makes sense.”

“Now, this boy has already escaped back to the Central Plains. I no longer have the leisure to control him, so from here on I can only leave it to you…”

The crane-haired woman continued speaking with furrowed brows.

But this time, before she could finish her words, the beauty with her hand propped against her cheek curved her red lips meaningfully: “Do not worry, I know what I am doing.”

“Is that so.”

Hearing Changli agree, Iris was briefly stunned before nodding.

“After he dies, the Innate Sword Dao Holy Physique goes to you, but please make sure I see the corpse.”

She gave Changli one last glance with her instructions, then relaxed and returned to observing the destiny chart.

But just then, the smiling and charming red woman spoke coldly: “Iris, you really seem to think that sitting here gives you the right to comment on my private affairs?”

“No intention to comment, just for our mutual benefit.” Iris raised her brows slightly in confusion but still spoke expressionlessly.

“To bad~…”

Changli smiled and crossed her fingers in front of her large chest: “This boy, I will protect him.”

“Hah?!”

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Forbidden City, Dragon Palace.

Three days had passed since her master had severely spanked her bottom.

Now it was winter solstice. The White Dragon girl sat alone wrapped in a cotton coat, leaning against the snow pine in the back palace while loudly reciting the imperial classics in her hands.

Ever since that day when Nina had confessed everything she witnessed in Western Province City while crying her heart out under her master’s ruler, her master said she needed to go out for a while and had not appeared until today.

And these past few days, without her master assisting with government affairs, Nina’s daily life as empress could be described as busy and boring.

Every morning upon waking, Nina had to first recite the Four Books and Five Classics, then hastily drink a few sips of medicinal porridge before being led by serving girls to attend morning court and handle state affairs.

But her master’s ruler had been too vicious. Nina’s bottom was still red and swollen to this day.

Just sitting on that dragon throne made Nina’s bottom ache and throb unbearably, but even so, she could not neglect the morning court sessions that lasted several hours.

When morning court ended, Nina’s day of imprisonment had only just begun.

Because she was not as experienced as her master, the memorials submitted by ministers piled up like small mountains on her desk. Nina spent four to five hours every day just reviewing these memorials.

When Nina finally finished handling daily government affairs, it was already afternoon. After eating a few sweet treats and resting briefly, she had to follow the curriculum her master had set and go to the back courtyard to cultivate for three hours.

These past three days, with her master away from the Dragon Palace, these three hours of cultivation had become Nina sitting alone in her room, bored and cross-legged in meditation.

When self-study ended, it was already dark.

Nina dragged her exhausted body back to her bedroom, where several serving girls had already prepared the medicinal ointment according to her master’s prescription.

Due to the empress’s privacy, Nina could only accept the medicine for now. After the serving girls withdrew, she still had to lie on her stomach on the bed and apply it herself…

Every time she applied the medicine, Nina felt burning pain. She sincerely suspected her master’s prescription contained chili peppers. Her master was deliberately trying to make her suffer for a few more days to engrave the lesson deep in her bones.

However…

Nina could only mutter these suspicions to herself and never dared to say them to her master’s face.

After applying the medicine, Nina’s bottom burned terribly.

No choice.

She did not dare lie on her back. At night she could only sleep on her stomach.

The day of imprisonment finally ended here.

Until the next morning, when Nina was wrapped in her cotton coat reciting in the back courtyard as usual, she heard hurried footsteps behind her.

“Sister Yune?”

Nina looked back. Seeing that heroic woman with the emerald-green high ponytail, her previously dull face from reciting immediately lit up with some warm enthusiasm.

But the girl’s warmth did not last long. She was soon frightened into straightening her back by the visitor’s sharp dragon eyes, fierce as an eagle’s:

“Nina, your spoiled and willful behavior in the imperial city has nothing to do with me.”

“But this time you traveled all the way to my Western Province City to steal someone. Is that not pushing things a bit too far?!”

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