Volume 3 Chapter 24
by Golden DragonVolume 3 + Chapter 24: The Beginning of The Stage Play
“Really, the stage play is about to start. Where has Qianxue run off to!”
Wang Qian anxiously searched for Qianxue backstage and in the wings. In order to help Qianxue keep his crossdressing secret, Wang Qian had been the one responsible for helping Ouyang Qianxue change clothes and do his makeup during the past two days of rehearsals.
Just then, she noticed a bulge suddenly appear behind the stage curtain. She pulled the curtain aside and saw Ouyang Qianxue curled up there with his arms around his knees.
“You really made me search high and low. The performance is about to start, so how can you still be slacking off here!”
Wang Qian demanded.
“I… I want to die!”
Hearing Wang Qian’s voice, Ouyang Qianxue looked up and said with hollow eyes.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing Qianxue’s expression, Wang Qian asked with some concern.
Ten minutes later.
“What, you scared me. Is that all? Just that your little sister Quanyue found out you’re playing the princess and is bringing her classmates to watch?”
After listening to Qianxue’s account, Wang Qian patted his shoulder and said with a smile.
“You say it so lightly. How can you understand how I feel? My little sister has always admired me the most since she was small. And now, her big brother not only crossdresses every day, but also has to play the princess in front of her and her classmates, wearing that embarrassingly shameful princess dress! What if, when she sees me in that humiliating getup, she finds me disgusting and stops recognizing me as her brother?”
“Well, if she stops recognizing you as her brother, can’t you just become her older sister?”
“You’re still joking!”
Ouyang Qianxue scolded with a reproachful look.
“All right, all right. Little sister Quanyue won’t despise you because of something like this. Because more than anyone, she understands the hardships behind what you do, doesn’t she?”
Wang Qian put away her smile and said to Ouyang Qianxue with a serious expression.
“Really?”
“Why would I lie to you? Hurry up and go change clothes.”
With that, Wang Qian pushed Ouyang Qianxue into the dressing room.
Half an hour later, the audience began arriving one after another.
“Hey, what do you think Senior Ouyang’s princess role will look like?”
One of Quanyue’s classmates asked.
“How could I know? I’ve never seen it before either.”
Quanyue replied.
“But you’ve got your camera ready, right? A princess-like onee-chan is a rare sight. We must take photos as a keepsake.”
Quanyue showed a devilish smile.
Just then, all the lights in the auditorium suddenly went out.
“Hey, it’s starting!”
“Shh, keep it down.”
“Legend has it that in a distant western continent, there was a country called Sebas. Because the king was frugal, loved his people, and diligently sought to govern, the country was prosperous and the people lived very happily. Yet this peaceful country caught the eye of an evil Demon King, who heard that the princess of Sebas was a peerless beauty of a kind not seen in a thousand years.”
As the narrator finished, the curtain slowly opened.
When the spotlight hit the center of the stage, the entire audience was stunned.
Standing in the center of the stage was Ouyang Qianxue, dressed in a pure white gown.
“So this is how the princesses from the fairy tales I read as a child must have looked!”
Seeing Ouyang Qianxue’s ethereal beauty, the audience below sighed in admiration.
“Ugh! So this is how beautiful my brother looks when he dresses as a princess. His beauty is truly beyond my reach, even though we were born from the same mother.”
By now, Quanyue had completely forgotten about taking photos, absorbed instead in jealousy of her brother’s beauty.
“Well, how do you like Qianxue’s princess look? It’s all thanks to me!”
Wang Qian said proudly to Ning Caiwei beside her.
“Gu hehe, this is just too wonderful. Hssss~”
“Hey, you damn pervert, can’t you control yourself a little? Your drool is dripping onto my leg!”
“Your Majesty! All our other towns have fallen. The Demon King’s forces have already reached the walls of our capital city!”
A soldier in armor knelt before the king and said.
“What! What are we going to do!”
The king paced back and forth anxiously.
“Father! It is all because of me that the Demon King has repeatedly attacked our country. Why don’t you just offer me to the Demon King?”
At that moment, Ouyang Qianxue took the king’s arm and said.
At such close contact with Ouyang Qianxue, the male student playing the king momentarily lost his composure and couldn’t help sneaking a couple of glances at Qianxue’s snow-white skin.
“Where are you looking, you old lecher?”
“What wise king? He’s practically a demonic father, looking at his own daughter with such lustful eyes!”
“This king must be the Demon King in disguise!”
“One more look and I’ll gouge your eyes out!”
The behavior of the student playing the king immediately sparked anger among the audience.
“Ahem… um.”
Hearing the audience’s shouts, the male student playing the king finally snapped out of it and quickly averted his gaze from Qianxue.
“Dear daughter, you are my heart and soul. How could I bear to offer you to that cold and cruel Demon King?”
“But if you do not offer me, the Demon King will surely destroy our country. Then our people and you, Father, will…”
“Actually, I have one final option. Our royal family has long possessed a forbidden secret art called ‘Hero Summoning.’ This spell can summon a hero to lead us through the crisis when the country faces danger.”
After speaking, the king began chanting the incantation, then struck the ground with his scepter. At that moment, a spotlight shone on the stage, forming a huge magic circle.
At the same time, the king’s body also began to flicker.
“Father, what is this…?”
Qianxue asked anxiously.
“My child, since it is a forbidden secret art, it requires a sacrifice. Your father is already old. I leave the country to you!”
With that, the stage lights all went out. When they came back on, the previous king had vanished, and in the center of the magic circle stood a handsome young man, the hero played by Duan Haichen.
“Father!”
Ouyang Qianxue cried out in heart-wrenching grief. Yet the audience had a different reaction to this touching scene.
“Good riddance!”
“He’s finally dead. He’d been sneaking peeks at our school beauty the whole time.”
“Yeah, if that guy didn’t die, I’d have gone up and punched him myself.”
“He only glanced at me once.”
Hearing the audience’s reactions, Ouyang Qianxue found it somewhat laughable and frustrating.
“Where is this?”
Duan Haichen looked around in confusion.
“Hero!”
Ouyang Qianxue hurried over to Duan Haichen and took his hand.
“I am deeply sorry for summoning you without your consent. But… our country is now in great peril! I hope you can lead us through this crisis. I know this request is very selfish, but it is for the sake of my country and my people. If you can save my country, I will do anything you ask!”
“The young hero hesitated greatly in the face of the lovely princess’s plea. Yet just then, the Demon King arrived unnoticed!”
“All right, it’s finally my turn to go on… Ugh!”
As the narrator finished, a male student in a black cloak was about to step onto the stage when a hand pressed down fiercely on his head, slamming him to the ground.
“From now on, the script has changed!”
Bai Yuxuan said with a mischievous grin.
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