Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

Deciphering the chess manual was a tedious task that demanded intense focus.

Ever since Yino had lain in her embrace and started studying the chess manual, he hadn’t exchanged a single word with Yuyan. His expression was serious.

On the bed, only their breathing and the occasional sound of turning pages broke the silence.

Yuyan had never been good at sitting still since childhood, and now she couldn’t make head or tail of the complex chess manual either. With nothing else to do, she focused on fulfilling her duties as a good wife, holding her husband close to provide softness and warmth.

As she warmed him, Yuyan grew drowsy and let out a comfortable yawn.

She gazed at the back of the young man’s head resting against her chest, and her beautiful eyes gradually closed. When she woke the next day, she found Yino had also slept soundly.

She had to admit, this pervert knew how to enjoy himself.

He had turned over and was sleeping face-down in Yuyan’s embrace.

Yino’s entire face was nestled between her soft breasts, while the worn chess manual he’d held above his head last night lay upside down on his head.

Yuyan didn’t have the heart to wake him. But out of respect for her father’s relic, she carefully removed the worn chess manual from the young man’s head.

She pulled a pair of silver hairpins from behind her head and used them as bookmarks to mark the chess manual, preserving Yino’s research progress from the night before.

After that, Yuyan simply leaned against the headboard and admired the sleeping face of the young man pillowed between her breasts.

For a moment… Yuyan felt that the grudge of her clan’s annihilation, which had haunted her for over a decade, didn’t seem so important anymore. It would be wonderful to hold her beloved like this forever.

“Is this what they mean by forgetting home in happiness?”

Yuyan sighed toward the heavens, feeling utterly lost in her heart.

But just then, the young man sleeping in her embrace began breathing more rapidly.

Yuyan didn’t dare make a sound. She simply stared at his sleeping face, wondering if he was having a nightmare.

Yino had been breathing heavily between her breasts for a long time, and finally he couldn’t hold it anymore. He suddenly lifted his head…

“!!!”

He gasped for air, his face slightly flushed from holding his breath.

Only then did Yuyan notice that saliva hung from the corner of Yino’s lips, and the glistening threads still connected to the valley between her breasts.

“Would you like to change positions and sleep some more?”

Yuyan raised her brows slightly. She wasn’t disgusted at all, she just found it rather endearing that he had woken himself up by holding his breath.

Yino stared blankly for a moment. After recovering from the dizziness of oxygen deprivation, he swallowed and came back to his senses from the dream.

He straddled the beauty and sat up straight in the bed covers, then turned to look at the bright light outside the window.

“Is it already morning?”

“Mm… you worked hard last night, husband.”

Yuyan spoke softly, casually grabbing some tissues from beside the bed to wipe away the lingering warmth and moisture on her chest.

Yino noticed this too, and the corner of his lips twitched involuntarily.

“Last night… that chess manual was too complex. It made me a bit dizzy… and then I grew more and more tired, and before I knew it, I had fallen asleep…”

Thinking about the contents of the chess manual from last night, Yino’s expression grew serious again.

Since it concerned her father’s last will, Yuyan naturally listened carefully.

“So, did you discover anything on the chess manual?”

“Yes!”

This time, Yino answered without hesitation.

But he quickly remembered he couldn’t let Yuyan know the truth yet. So he pretended to think, propping his chin on his hand, and spoke meaningfully:

“According to my deciphering, this chess manual isn’t actually about chess at all. The black and white pieces correspond to different star array formations…”

“This page of the chess manual might correspond to a star chart, and different star charts might imply certain meanings.”

“But…”

“I have no expertise in astrology, and there wasn’t enough time to study it, so I can only make a rough guess along those lines.”

Yino spoke casually, but he was only telling half the truth.

There were indeed similar star chart chess formations in this manual, but that was only one part. Another part of the chess diagrams looked more like lines of encrypted spirit speech, which Lily and Wangxue, who possessed natural resonance energy, could decipher using their spiritual energy.

So last night, Yino had them go all-out deciphering the spirit speech portion first.

He truly didn’t understand the star charts. He could ask the National Advisor who knew Heavenly Divination at the Dragon Palace later.

As for the spirit speech portion, Lily and Wangxue had already deciphered the first few chapters in just a few hours last night.

But because deciphering such encrypted spirit speech consumed massive amounts of spiritual energy, Yino, who served as their power source couldn’t sustain it in the latter half of the night and had passed out asleep in Yuyan’s embrace.

Thinking about it now…

Yino could roughly guess some of the meanings of this chess manual.

First, it was a diary left by Mo Yiqing before his death!

Second, the diary didn’t record daily trivialities, but rather Mo Yiqing’s years of investigation and summary from observing the stars at night. And those star charts were the key results Mo Yiqing had recorded…

As for more of the diary’s contents, Yino hadn’t deciphered them yet.

But even with just this much, as long as it involved keywords like “observing stars at night,” Yino could basically guess the subsequent script.

Heaven-Defying Pavilion, Celestial Master, Heavenly Divination, Destiny, Yuyan, deducing the future…

This series of keywords, combined with Yuebai and Jinyue’s previous accounts, and even the plot involving Jing Chen and Dia in the Liuli Illusion Realm, when Yino made these analogies, he felt the subsequent plot in Mo Yiqing’s diary wouldn’t be hard to guess at all.

It was nothing more than violating heavenly laws for some reason, then being silenced by order of a certain Celestial Master.

But…

Yino naturally wouldn’t tell Yuyan all these details.