Rejected Beauty Practices the Villain Play-Chapter 945 - 920: Crossdressing

The sword was almost touching Xie Jue’s face, only an inch away, but Xie Jue remained absolutely still. He was used to the sight of swords and was not frightened. Suddenly, he heard hurried footsteps outside. "Brother Wang, we’ve found their tracks."

The government officials in the woodshed instantly scattered, leaving one after another. The maids outside breathed a sigh of relief and continued with their laundry, and the owner of the house grumbled after the officials left. Once the woodshed door was closed again, Fang Chuning lightly jumped down, landing steadily on the ground. He parted the dry straw and called softly, "Ting Feng..."

As the straw was moved away, the light from the room fell on Xie Jue’s angry, bright eyes, which were both dark and shining. Fang Chuning was momentarily dazzled and stared at him in a daze.

So handsome!

How could someone look even more handsome when they’re angry?

Xie Jue gritted his teeth and said, "What are you standing there for? Pull me out."

"Oh..." Fang Chuning snapped out of it and reached out to pull Xie Jue up. Once he got Xie Jue out, he understood why Xie Jue was angry. Fang Chuning saw that a fat rat was stabbed on the ground with a dagger in the gap where Xie Jue was hiding.

Fang Chuning, "..."

No wonder he was so angry!

"Are you alright?" Fang Chuning asked tentatively. "That dagger was your self-defense, right? Let me take it out and wash it."

"I don’t want it anymore!" Xie Jue had just had a rat crawl over his foot and it smelled weird. The rat even bit his calf, so there’s no way he would take that dagger back. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Alright then!"

They spoke in low voices, and the maids doing laundry outside did not hear them. The two hid in the woodshed until the maids left. Fang Chuning and Xie Jue then quietly climbed over the wall and out of the courtyard again. The officials didn’t know where to search for them anymore. The alley was now empty and silent. Fang Chuning and Xie Jue circled out of the alley and saw their portraits posted at the entrance of the market. They had become wanted fugitives, searched throughout the city.

Xie Jue wasn’t new to being hunted city-wide. He had experienced being searched all over Fox City back then, with nowhere to hide. In the freezing snow, he had to disguise himself as a stone and almost froze to death outside. County Magistrate Zhou led the government offices to search the entire city. The Ningzhou Iron Cavalry hadn’t arrived yet. Xie Jue and Fang Chuning couldn’t show their faces. They definitely needed to find a safe place. The two hid at the alley entrance and looked towards the city gate, guarded by city officers carefully checking people leaving the city.

Fang Chuning propped his head, "We’ll hide outside the city for two days. The Ningzhou Iron Cavalry should have arrived by then. The inspection is so strict. How do we leave?"

The search was slow, so those leaving the city were lined up in a long queue. Xie Jue raised an eyebrow, "Have you noticed that they only check the men?"

Fang Chuning was puzzled, "So?"

"You disguise as a woman, and we pretend to be a couple going outside the city for medical treatment?"

"Me disguise as a woman?" Fang Chuning gasped, "Do I look like a lady to you?"

"It’s not your first time in disguise."

"What?"

"It’s settled then. You’ll play the wife, and I’ll play the husband as we leave the city." Xie Jue concluded, completely ignorant of how stunning Fang Chuning looked when disguised as a woman.

"Why should I? If it’s a male-to-female disguise, then you disguise as the woman, and I’ll be the husband." He definitely wouldn’t take this loss. If he had to dress as a woman, Xie Jue would laugh at him for a lifetime.

His pride wouldn’t allow it!

"I’d rather die than dress as a woman!"

Fang Chuning’s firm protest confused Xie Jue greatly. Back then, when he was in Beiman, Fang Chuning seemed in his element when posing as a woman, never showing the slightest discomfort.

Once, even at a palace banquet, Dugu Jing deliberately made things difficult for Fang Chuning by asking him to dance the Beiman dance. Fang Chuning, without saying a word, danced anyway. Xie Jue had no idea when Fang Chuning had practiced the Beiman dance, with his waist as flexible as a water snake, dancing lightly. Other than his excessively tall figure, you couldn’t tell he was a man at all.

He even impersonated Lan Ningzhen back then and was never recognized. The main reason was that Beiman men were mostly bulky, whereas Fang Chuning, being tall and slender, looked more like a graceful, tall Beiman woman.

"You’ve dressed in red clothes before."

"Nonsense, you’re bullying me because I have amnesia, talking rubbish, aren’t you?"

Xie Jue fell silent. Fang Chuning stood with his arms crossed, "Anyway, either you dress like a woman, or don’t expect me to."

"... Fine!" Xie Jue took a deep breath, "I’ll do it!"

Fang Chuning’s eyes lit up, "...Wow!"