Transmigrated into a vicious female supporting role, reborn as a hostage to the paranoid male protag

Xia He had been with her in the palace since she was a child, and she had never imagined that her respected Highness would be so "stigmatized" by such a person. She was immediately filled with anger and said coldly, "Where did you come from, you stinking Taoist priest? You are always cheating and deceiving people. The Princess is a royal family, how can a commoner like you be allowed to smear her so freely!"

The sorcerer saw this and felt angry because he didn't sell anything and was scolded by the sharp-tongued little girl.

"Where did this stinky girl come from? She has such a foul mouth!" Seeing this, the sorcerer turned around and walked away with the tray, muttering as he walked, "Where did this foreigner come from? She's so unlucky. She looks so fancy, but she didn't buy anything."

"It's really my bad luck." The sorcerer walked away cursing. Xia He wanted to chase him, but Su Yingxue reached out and grabbed her sleeve, gently admonishing her, "Xia He, it's better to have less trouble than more."

"But, girl, he's going too far!" Xia He couldn't stand seeing those exorcism portraits. Her own master was obviously charming and attractive, so how could she turn into a monster with a green face and fangs?

"Xia He, it's not his problem." Su Yingxue sighed softly, "Look, there were three or four sorcerers just passing by who were just like him, and the things they were selling were pretty much the same."

"That's public opinion. People think Su Yingxue is a notorious villain who can smother evil spirits, so people buy these."

“Those people will sell it loudly only when there are buyers.”

"So, if you buy up a whole street of exorcist portraits, they'll just have a whole bunch of new ones made tomorrow morning."

"Besides, the portrait doesn't look like me at all. Just pretend it's not me."

"Since we are out here to have fun, we should enjoy ourselves. I heard that the opera troupe at Furong Tower today is the most famous in Dasheng Kyoto. Why don't we go watch the show?" Su Yingxue sighed lightly. Her originally high spirits were ruined after seeing those exorcism portraits.

Su Yingxue had known that her original identity might not have a good reputation among the people of Dasheng Kyoto, but she hadn't expected it to be this way. She could only decide not to reveal her identity, fearing that she would be treated like a rat crossing the street, with everyone shouting and beating her. That wouldn't be good.

Furong Tower is located in the center of Shuinan Street. It is an extremely magnificent high-rise building. The exterior walls of the building are hung with various lanterns. They are indeed lanterns specially made by lantern craftsmen. Each one is more exquisite than those sold in street shops.

On this day, the Furong Tower was festooned with lights and colorful decorations, and guests were flowing in like a stream. As Su Yingxue and Taxue Xiahe approached the Furong Tower, servants and maids approached to solicit customers.

Today's troupe is performing on the huge stage inside the building. The private rooms upstairs have already been booked. The only ones left are the slightly more expensive seats on the second floor separated by screens, which are relatively quiet and affordable, and the scattered seats in the hall.

Even so, the casual seats were already mostly occupied, and even the private seats were scarcely vacant.

Su Yingxue immediately decided to book one of the private rooms. Upon hearing this, Xia He immediately paid the waiter to reserve a seat. The waiter took the money with a smile on his face and greeted the three of them to the private room upstairs.

I hadn't expected Furong Tower to be so busy right now. Even before the show even started, the seats were already mostly sold out. The private room Su Yingxue and her friends had reserved, in the middle of the second floor, was already full of people.

The so-called elegant seats were just a square table with two sides separated by a simple screen. The seats on both sides were already full of people, and the voices were noisy. There was no elegance at all, only a strong smell of fireworks.

"Have you heard that at the palace banquet a while ago, the illiterate Princess actually composed a poem?" a middle-aged man said in a hoarse voice.

"That's right. However, although the poem is attributed to her, who knows which talented scholar gave her the pen."

"That makes sense. A palace banquet is just a banquet hosted by the palace itself. As for the poetry competition, who knows what the topic is? They might have known it all along and just put it on stage to fool naive people like you."

"I heard that the eldest princess is quite extraordinary. She was kicked out of school as a child because she was too naughty."

"When she grew up, she became spoiled and willful, obsessed with lust. I heard that she liked to keep lovers before she got married. The palace was full of handsome men she kept. She even refused to let go of the hostage sent by the Great Qi!"

"Isn't it? The people of Da Qi have always been barbaric and ignorant of the etiquette of our Celestial Empire. Only that hostage, with his good looks as a servant, would be interested in that lustful parasite of the nation!"

"I heard that the Princess, relying on His Majesty's favor, lives an extremely extravagant life. A single meal of gourmet food could consume an average family's annual rations. So, how could she not be as fat as a pig? With a green face and fangs?"

"Looking at her green face and fangs, I wonder what those power-seeking concubines are thinking when they serve her, hahahaha."

"I wouldn't do this job. Although I'm not beautiful, I'm docile. If I really had to serve that extremely ugly, green-faced, fang-toothed Princess, I might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill myself."

An endless stream of gossip reached Su Yingxue's ears. When she heard that she could eat a year's worth of food for the people in one meal, Su Yingxue suddenly realized that the people were probably angry and dissatisfied with her because of these rumors.

The common people lived a simple life, still suffering from heavy taxes and levies, making their lives miserable, while she was rumored to be extravagant. The heavy taxes and levies paid by the people with their hard work only fed this notorious person who was of no benefit to the country or her family. How could this not make people hate her to the extreme?

At this moment, Su Yingxue suddenly felt relieved. She didn't know when the rumor spread like this, but when she looked at Xia He who was angry, she suddenly smiled.

Su Yingxue comforted Xia He, "It's okay, the show is about to start, watching it carefully is the happiest thing."

The stage is filled with the roar of gongs and drums, the show is about to begin, and the characters in the play make their debut. They are worthy of being famous actors in Kyoto, their singing, dancing, appearance and makeup are impeccable.

Su Yingxue was in a daze, not even hearing what was being said in the play. Until the crowd started to boil, someone shouted "Fire!"

The entire Furong Building was instantly covered by a huge crowd of panicked people running around. The flames started from the outside. It was not known whether it was the lanterns outside the building that were lit, or for some other reason, but soon the fire on the entire first floor was extremely high. The raging fire burned every part of the first floor, and the flames blocked all the exits, blocking the way for those survivors.

By the time Su Yingxue and Taxue Chunhe reacted, the fire had already spread from the first-floor escalator. The wooden structure was completely defenseless against the blazing flames.