To my dear readers,
First of all, I would like to thank Michelle for becoming my patron. Thank you for choosing to support me. It means a lot.
Secondly, I thank you all for still reading on my site. I’ve lost more than 50% of my readers and I found out novelonlinefree had figured out my method and has been stealing all my translations again.
It makes me so depressed and upset because I work so hard on this. I put so much effort and all these sites just keep stealing my translations no matter what I do. They keep programming around and won’t stop unless I make it super unpredictable. But when I do that, you guys go insane.
I’ve already linked all the chapters so if you go to the table of contents and click on the chapter itself, you’ll be able to find the link at the very bottom of the page.
I’m so sad. Here is the full chapter 245. I posted most of it on theeunuch.com/i but I won’t be using this method anymore since it’s ineffective. Novelonlinefree already took over 680k views from me.
Anyhow, without further ado, here it is:
Yao Yao! You must wait for me! I’m coming!
At this moment, Leng Jun Yu’s subordinate exclaimed nearby. “Prince Rui, we have found the secret passageway that will lead us up Sheng Nu Mountain!”
“Alright, let’s go!”
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The snow on the ground was dyed with the fresh colour of blood. The four chopped limbs were lying in the pool. A white face with huge black eyes was staring straight at Le Yao Yao. Since Nian Sulan had no limbs, she moved like an earthworm as she struggled up.
Nian Sulan crawled towards her. “You’re the one who turned me like this. It’s all your fault. Give me back my life. Give me back my life…” she whispered.
“N-no! That’s not true! I never wanted you to harm you! I didn’t….ahhh!!” Le Yao Yao objected.
Le Yao Yao suddenly woke up from her nightmare. She sat upright and stared outside the window.
It was pitch dark outside. Le Yao Yao couldn’t help but remember what happened earlier this afternoon.
Is Nian Sulan already dead? Is that why she was haunting her in her dreams? She wants to get revenge because she died unjustly?
Thinking of this, Le Yao Yao’s heart felt congested. Si Mu Han kills as if human lives were worthless to him. He knows he has the power to take away a life with a simple sentence. Because of him, people die without an intact corpse!
At first, he seemed so considerate and kind towards her. She actually believed he wasn’t such an evil man. But after the Nian Sulan incident, Le Yao Yao realized Si Mu Han was a monster. So, she had to escape as soon as possible!
Thinking of this, Le Yao Yao stood up and looked around the room. There were actually no one around.
That was great news to her. If she didn’t try to escape now, then when?
Le Yao Yao hastily put on the snow white fox overcoat and the fox fur hat. She made sure to conceal all of her black hair.
After all, the snow white overcoat went all the way down to her toes. She could blend in with the snow. If she remained still, people may not be able to detect her.
When Le Yao Yao was covered top to bottom, she didn’t dare to exit from the main doors. Instead, she opened the window and climbed out.
All she could think about was the house that Si Mu Han showed her earlier today. As long as she found that house, she would be able to go through the secret passageway and escape!
The moment Le Yao Yao imagined being with Yu again, it was like she had been injected with chicken blood. She was no longer scared and hopped out of the window.
She had to go through the wintersweet trees before getting to the house. But suddenly, Le Yao Yao heard a crisp slap in the air. It was especially clear on this silent night.
Le Yao Yao instantly halted her steps and lowered her body to hide in a bush. Her eyes were looking around to locate the source of the sound.
Then, she saw two still figures ahead of her. One of them was in black while the other was in red.
The moonlight was bright enough for her to see the figures clearly. The man in black had a scar across his face. He was Qing Feng. She had seen him before.
As for the lady in red, Le Yao Yao would recognize her even if she had turned into dust. It was the Hong Luo Chang woman. She had seen her once at the brothel. At the time, she was fighting with Leng Jun Yu. Hong Luo Chang only managed to escape because her appearance had distracted Yu.
Then, earlier today, Hong Luo Chang appeared to chop off Nian Sulan’s limbs. Le Yao Yao could still picture her sword dripping with blood. Her smile was evil and stunning at the same time.
Anyhow, Hong Luo Chang had just slapped Qing Feng across the face. Le Yao Yao was confused.
Why are they still outside? It’s the middle of the night. Why did she slap him for?
But Le Yao Yao didn’t really care to know. She only wanted them to disappear so she could continue on her path. This was the safest route to the house.
Very few people would come to see or admire the wintersweet trees at night. So, Le Yao Yao had to be patient and wait until they leave.
Hopefully they will hurry up. Le Yao Yao was worried Si Mu Han will notice she went missing.
At this moment, the two figures began to talk. Originally, Le Yao Yao was going to zone out their conversation, but she heard herself being mentioned. So, Le Yao Yao immediately focused all her attention on them.
“Qing Feng, why did you do that? That woman is clearly not our lady (furen in Mandarin). She only looks like our lady. Why did you bring her here to lie to our leader?” Hong Luo Chang’s voice was filled with fury. She looked enraged.
Qing Feng was silent for a moment. Then, he hissed. “Do you think I want to do this? When our lady passed away, you weren’t present. Our leader almost died from heartbreak. He would’ve killed himself if we hadn’t stopped him. If I didn’t tell him about the pill that could bring a person back to life, our leader wouldn’t have been able to live until now. Hope was the only thing that kept him alive.”
“But that was a lie! There’s no such thing as coming back to life. How could such a pill exist?”
“Yes, you’re right. But to our leader, it was hope. He was like a living corpse!” Qing Feng roared. Then, he paused before he continued.
“But, I knew the lie wouldn’t be able to last for long. Our leader will discover sooner or later that it won’t work. So what happens then? Luo Chang, have you ever thought about what would happen once our leader realizes everything was a lie? He would kill himself. Leader saved our lives when we were little. Our lives belong to him. How could we let him die like this?”
“But how could you bring in a fake!? Leader will eventually figure it out, right?”
“I don’t care if she’s a fake. As long as our leader believes she’s real, that’s good enough. At first when I went to the talent show to scoop the hearts out of those maidens, I never expected to see a woman who looked the same as our lady. At the time, I thought our lady truly came back from the dead. It wasn’t until after I fell off the cliff and miraculously survived that I realized that woman is not our lady. She just happens to look like her. I thought to myself, if I was able to survive and live on, I will definitely kidnap this woman for our leader. At least, our leader will be able to live again. If he has the will to live, our evil cult will grow stronger and more powerful.”
Hong Luo Chang didn’t say a word. But when Le Yao Yao heard all this, she almost yelped out loud.
Le Yao Yao immediately covered her mouth with her little hands.
No wonder she thought Qing Feng looked so familiar at first! She couldn’t remember where…
Based on what he said, he was the one who kidnapped her during the talent show!
He kidnapped her because she looked like their dead lady.
What the f**k!
Le Yao Yao wanted to kick Qing Feng in the balls. If it weren’t for him, she would be on her way to her hometown waiting for get married. But her logical side told her she must calm down. Right now, she was in the enemy’s territory. For a weakling like herself, she had to hide to remain undiscovered. That was the only way she would be able to escape.
Qing Feng and Hong Luo Chang hadn’t discovered Le Yao Yao yet. Hong Luo Chang barked at Qing Feng. “But do you know that your method makes me hate you so much?”
“Haha, of course I know.” Qing Feng bitterly replied. He had a sad smile on his face. “But Luo Chang, you shouldn’t be so foolish. You know that our leader only has our lady in his heart. What’s the point?”
“My life is none of your business!” she snapped.
Qing Feng looked hurt. He stayed silent.
Perhaps Hong Luo Chang felt bad for using such a harsh tone, she softened her speech. “You should tell yourself this.. I…..my heart only has our leader. So don’t be so foolish. I’m not worth it.”
“Luo Chang, I think you’re worth it. No matter how many years you make me wait, I will wait for you. I am not forcing you to like me, but I’ll always be right behind you. As long as you need me, I’m here.”
Hong Luo Chang seemed to feel awkward by Qing Feng’s sincere confession. However, Le Yao Yao was rolling her eyes in the bush.
What the heck?! This is turning into a soap opera!?!
How long are they going to be here for? My legs are turning numb and it’s too cold here!
Suddenly, a cold breeze passed by and Le Yao Yao’s nose tingled. She wanted to sneeze, so she instantly covered her nose to stop it.
But her action caused her to lose her balance. She fell down on her bum.
But that wasn’t the worse part.
Le Yao Yao accidentally sat on a branch and made an obvious sound. Although it wasn’t that loud, Hong Luo Chang and Qing Feng were both martial artists. Their hearing was far better than common people.
“Who’s there?”
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I’m sorry that they keep stealing your work. I don’t understand why some people went to the site to read instead of coming to the original posting site. I mean, why not let both readers and translator be happy? You get to read the story on original site and translator get viewers. Anyways, thank you for your hardwork!
Those websites allows its visitors to read not just Eunuch, but every other novel it poached as well.
So its a lot more convenient for those people who just wants to read novels. Reason why original translation sites get traffic still is because fastest update and the community where people can comment and stuff.
And then we have this site who protests so heavily against it… Loyal people will still frequent this site but for those people who are mainly interested in just reading the novel….
Having to see fake translations, placeholder texts, extra links to click to, different url, the need to navigate to other pages just to get to your content is way more trouble that they wish for… So they just turn to those poaching sites, where they only need to sit through a page of ads in the background and read their new chapters instantly
Why are you trying to justify their going to another site?
In basic money terms, it costs money to run this site. If everyone goes to an aggregator site, then this site will get no views, get no income from ads and then shutdown.
Translators will enjoy sharing a story with us, and might do it for the love, but that doesn’t mean they appreciate someone stealing their hard work and making money off it!
If the readers areignorant, then they need to smarten up. If they know it is an aggregator site, then they are idiots. Don’t try to explain the reasons behind their idiocy.
I know it’s convenient since you can read the other stories as well, but it’s not that hard to go to the original site and everyone will be happy.
I’m sure the translator didn’t enjoy posting fake translation on their site either. But if people stop going to the other site, maybe the translator didn’t have to post those. What if the translator gets fed up and stop doing translation? ??
There just had to be a twig! I was wondering if Hong Luo Chang would help her escape!
Those annoying sites! We will need to think up a new plan of attack! Don’t let them get you down!
Thank you for the chapter and all your hard work!!!
Maybe creating a mailing list and sending the chapter only to people on your list? Hopefully only loyal readers and not snatchers would sign up.
Agreed those poaching sites are despicable….
But even I who only read this novel from this site gets mildly annoyed by all these fake posts, placeholder text, different url, navigate to other place to get the proper link.
Others might just find it way easier to read it normally from some other website.
No. Grace has the right to try and protect her intellectual property. And if you follow her instructions, it is literally 2 or 3 extra clicks.
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You should do what Fuyu Neko and Bcat00 do with their chapters. They put a sentence in the chapter naming the site where the translation comes from and that if someone is reading it somewhere else, it’s been stolen. The sentence is in the same font as the chapter, so unless the chapter’s been read carefully, it can’t be found. Or you could start adding Chinese terms into your chapters, with a glossary page on your site.
Readlightnovel volerai peut être les traductions par http://www.novelupdates.com ?
aiya they are actually reading carefully…honestly don’t mind following the directions to retrieve the chapters in order to protect your works XD
thank you
Cant you find out which address this “bot” is from? like there should be a way to know which ip address and from where that websites are running from, meaning you could block their access to your website, basically blacklist that ip so the bots cant steal, ofc finding the right one is tricky, but if you search for their website ip address/ and where exactly it is located maybe you can find out which one it is and just blacklist them so no more stealing. At least untill someone goes here and manually writes down the entire thing but that takes time and you think they wanna take that time? xD
Not sure if my comment was made but why not find their ip address and blacklist it? like search on the web for their website ip address and where exactly it is located, this way you could check the logs on the website history and black list that specific ip. This way they wont be able to steal since they wont be able to even get to the website? so only way then is if they use another address, and or/maybe a irl person has to manually write the translation down.
you could go super extreme on them and change it to once a month or have prem members that get it 2 months early. this would drastically cut down on who has access to it and combined with watching for the bot’s ip you could then maybe cut them off.
would also give the chance to goto their site with a bot and spam comments that the translation was reduced to once a month/prem service b/c this site and its readers were pirates but that would easily end badly.
these are bad ideas 😀 just something to temp you with and see how it goes
Hi Grace. So I’m one of the lurkers on your blog and I feel your frustration. Anyhow, I don’t know if it will work how about post a hyperlink of the next chapter but for the link to work, your reader has to either put a password or captcha. I know it’s one more hurdle but ??♀️
Dear Grace, thank you so much for all your hard work!
I hope you won’t give up to translate this novel or give in to the thieves! >w<
I used to be new in this so I used to read the novels in those sites as well but now I don't anymore because I always find the original translator sites first before I begin reading a particular novel.
Honestly, I don't mind the maze-kind-of-like-game before tho. It's fun for me and I do understand your hardship so I'm also willing to cooperate with your way. Hopefully if you needed to please both your and the readers' side, I hope you'd be able to figure out another way to trick the sites again.
Once again, thank you so much Grace! Xie xie! Fightinggggg <3
make an audio only chapter xD
thanks for ur hard work
Your troubles with these sites really suck. Maybe you could make a private site? I follow people on fictionpress. Some of them just write chapter teasers with a link that connect to a private site you need a password for in order to read. Maybe that would work?