Chapter: Chapter 138
“Oh? You’re saying the relationship between those two is progressing quite well? That’s quite a pleasant surprise.” When Leticia finally had some free time to talk with Lin Qingyu about life, she heard some news from Bai Ling.
Xi Mengyao had been chatting more and more happily with Lin Qingyu these past few days, and they were almost becoming good friends.
The speed of their relationship’s progress could be described as outrageous. Both of these girls were no ordinary people. Lin Qingyu was a half-elf, and her vigilance towards those around her was extremely high.
As for Xi Mengyao, a newly popular celebrity, she clearly wouldn’t easily reveal her true feelings to others.
“At least from their conversations, it’s clear that their relationship has become quite good,” Bai Ling said, sitting next to Leticia, stating it as a fact.
“Eavesdropping on girls’ private conversations, Miss Bai, you’re quite the rogue.”
“These are necessary measures.” Bai Ling didn’t argue, as eavesdropping was indeed a bit embarrassing to admit.
But as long as everyone kept their mouths shut, the matter could be completely treated as if it never happened!
This was entirely for the sake of these two girls. If they didn’t monitor them, and someone attacked them while they were chatting, wouldn’t they be caught off guard?
“It is indeed quite necessary.” Leticia nodded. Bai Ling’s words were not wrong. If it were her, she would arrange things the same way. “Has anything happened these past few days?”
Nothing major had happened, of course. If something significant had occurred, they wouldn’t be sitting in the car so leisurely heading towards the manor.
“Nothing major, the Diva Senior just wanted a closer look at the manor.” Bai Ling said, “After this matter is over, perhaps we’ll see this manor on the big screen.”
Planning to use it as a filming location?
“Have you sent people to watch her?” However, Leticia still didn’t fully trust the Diva. She was certain there was a mole among them, and the Diva’s suspicion was definitely greater than that of Xi Mengyao, an ordinary person.
Since Xi Mengyao was being monitored, there was no doubt that the Diva would also be watched, right?
Bai Ling nodded. Of course, she understood this. “Mm, I’ve sent people to follow her in secret.”
“That’s good.”
After saying this, they had also reached their destination. As soon as they got out of the car, they saw Xi Mengyao and Lin Qingyu sitting in the courtyard, basking in the sun.
Not far from them, the Diva was squatting on the ground, seemingly doing something.
Seeing Leticia and Bai Ling, Xi Mengyao greeted them first, “Good morning, Miss Bai, Miss Su.”
“Good morning, Miss Bai, Miss Qianqian.” Following that was Lin Qingyu, who seemed a bit reserved.
Bai Ling and the others saw them every day, but Leticia didn’t often appear here. So, upon seeing Leticia, Lin Qingyu knew that something might be about to happen.
“Xiao Yu, have you thought about what I told you before?” Leticia asked, leading Lin Qingyu to a more open space.
What she was referring to was naturally letting Lin Qingyu, with her help, give the elves a good lesson.
However, Lin Qingyu seemed uninterested in this proposal. “I still don’t want to have any unnecessary involvement with those people.”
Although making the elves suffer would make her feel good, she still preferred to live a quiet life. She didn’t want to face those things from the past anymore.
“Some things cannot be escaped just because you want to,” Leticia said helplessly. Evangeline was the Empress of the elves. No matter how she denied it, she was that Empress.
It was fine for her to want to escape, but she couldn’t.
Just like Leticia in the past, she wanted to escape her responsibilities, but she quickly realized that she couldn’t.
For her sister, and for herself, she had to become that Empress.
Evangeline was a little better off than Leticia. Her relationship with her sister wasn’t very good, so she had to become Empress for herself.
Otherwise, who knew if someone might one day scream about how a lowly half-elf deserved to have the royal bloodline of the elves and kill Evangeline.
Now that Evangeline held the identity of the Elven Empress, at least those elves who disliked her wouldn’t act openly, as regicide was a difficult crime to bear.
But if Evangeline were no longer Empress one day, would a half-elf who had once been the Elven Empress have any reason to live in this world?
The answer was obvious; she had no reason to live.
Even if she kept hiding in the human world, the elves would find ways to send this “Her Majesty the Empress” to the underworld.
Unless she constantly hid under Bai Ling’s wing, seeking Bai Ling’s protection.
But that was impossible. Bai Ling could only protect her for a while, not her whole life. Besides, Lin Qingyu was not someone important to Bai Ling. Why should she demand Bai Ling’s continuous protection?
Bai Ya was Bai Ling’s biological sister, but Lin Qingyu? She was just a stranger they met by chance.
“The ‘Bai’ family can’t protect you forever. If you want to survive, you can only rely on yourself, understand?”
Leticia’s words silenced Lin Qingyu. She closed her eyes in pain. Everything was so real that she couldn’t offer any rebuttal. ~2!8!@6+)(*^9@5?/9+*3△0?/7+*.
She had been escaping from this problem all along.
Could running away truly solve everything? It couldn’t solve anything.
She could run only because of Flora’s help, but Flora could only help her this much. The help a sealed deity could provide was very limited.
Flora couldn’t help Lin Qingyu kill anyone; she could only give Lin Qingyu a chance to escape. But after that, the deity couldn’t provide any more substantial assistance.
“Furthermore, you’re not the only one they’re interested in. The organization that attacked Xi Mengyao, their true target might be you.” Leticia continued, “You fled from the elven tribe with an artifact, and this news might have been leaked by some people with ulterior motives.”
“Even if the elves give up looking for you, those people won’t let you go for the sake of the artifact.”
“Ah, including me. Maybe one day I’ll kidnap you and threaten you to hand over the artifact.”
“If Miss Qianqian asked me for the artifact, I might actually consider it seriously,” Lin Qingyu said softly, “I believe Miss Qianqian is a trustworthy person.”
“Alright, then give me the necklace, and I’ll guarantee your safety,” Leticia said with a snort.
“This…” Lin Qingyu gave an awkward smile. “If I take off this necklace, I’ll revert to my original appearance.”
“Mm, isn’t its effect permanent?”
“No, I need to wear it constantly to disguise my appearance,” Lin Qingyu, or rather, Evangeline, explained. “Artifacts are not invincible; the help they can provide is limited.”
But being sucked into an artifact was different. Facing a deity, even one restricted by rules, was a very difficult matter.
“Never mind, never mind. Think about it again. I’m not that concerned about your necklace; I’m more concerned about you as a person, and your identity,” Leticia said to Lin Qingyu.
Even if Flora’s necklace ended up in her possession, it wouldn’t be of much use. Just the fact that Lin Qingyu had to wear the necklace to change her appearance made it less useful to Leticia.
There were very few demons who knew Leticia’s true appearance, and she also possessed the best disguise magic, making it impossible for ordinary people to notice anything unusual.
Furthermore, getting Flora to help her would be difficult. Lin Qingyu had gained Flora’s approval, but Leticia didn’t think she could get Flora’s help like Lin Qingyu.
Deities were, after all, not entirely to be trusted.
“Then, before that, can Miss Qianqian tell me who you are?” Lin Qingyu was quite curious about this girl’s identity. She spoke with such authority and acted like a prominent figure. Could she be the heir to a major demon noble family?
However, Leticia hadn’t heard of any such outstanding descendants among the major demon noble families. At least, Lin Qingyu hadn’t.
Although the elf tribe’s intelligence work wasn’t very good, they could still gather information about prominent descendants of major demon noble families.
The Elder Council didn’t mind letting Lin Qingyu know these things, or perhaps they wanted her to know.
This was to prevent this half-elf empress from offending those demon nobles in certain situations.
Although the elves were not afraid of demons, creating unnecessary enemies was a disadvantage.
“Me? You could say I’m your colleague.”
“Eh? My… colleague?!” Lin Qingyu was stunned. What did her colleague mean?
She only had the identity of an Elven Empress, right?
If Miss Qianqian said she was her colleague, then she must be…
“Leticia Infino?!” Lin Qingyu uttered the name softly with extreme shock. This was the person she envied and admired the most.
She ascended to the throne at the same young age as herself, but by her age, she had already unified the entire demon tribe and become the true ruler of the demons.
As for herself, she was manipulated like a puppet by those elders. Every action she took, every word she spoke, was predetermined.
A puppet. She could become empress only because her sister had not yet come of age. As long as her sister was capable of becoming empress, Lin Qingyu had no doubt that she would meet an untimely death one day.
No one cared whether she, the empress, lived or died because her existence was merely to prevent the throne from being vacant.
“It’s really you?”
“What, you don’t believe me?” Leticia scoffed. “My physique is inherited.”
She thought it was her physique that made Lin Qingyu doubt that she was the Demon King.
“No, no, it’s just… who is Miss Bai then?” She was such good friends with the Demon King. Miss Bai is too amazing.
Moreover, when Miss Bai interacted with Leticia, both of them acted so naturally, as if Leticia’s identity as the Demon King was a pretense.
Did Miss Bai not know that Leticia was the Demon King?
Lin Qingyu’s intuition told her that wasn’t the case.
Miss Bai definitely knew Leticia was the Demon King, but the fact that she could still treat Leticia this way suggested her identity was incredibly significant.
“Theoretically speaking, she is the murderer of your mother.” After a moment of silence, Leticia patted Lin Qingyu’s shoulder and said to her.
The murderer of her mother?!
Miss Bai is the Sword Saint?
For a moment, Lin Qingyu truly wished she could go back and grasp Bai Ling’s hand, then thank her profusely for killing her mother.
Although saying this sounded a bit filial, it was indeed Lin Qingyu’s true thought. Her relationship with her mother couldn’t be described as filial affection, but it could be described as an irreconcilable enmity.
If one were to ask who among the elves would be the happiest after the Elven Empress died, Lin Qingyu would be among the top few, if not the first.
After all, her mother had abandoned her after giving birth to Lin Qingyu, and as a half-elf, Lin Qingyu’s childhood was miserable.
Anyone could bully her, and her mother wouldn’t care, because she was a half-elf, merely an impulse of her mother’s.
Her mother was more concerned with having a pure-blooded descendant with her lover (male), and after Lin Qingyu’s sister was born, she received even less attention.
Oh, it wasn’t that she received no attention. She was occasionally ordered around by her sister like a servant.
After her mother was killed, because her sister was too young, the elders of the Elder Council had no choice but to place Lin Qingyu, this lowly half-elf, on the throne.
In fact, at that time, there were still quite a few candidates for the throne. Although the elven royal family had a tendency to be single-child lineages, there were still distant relatives.
However, the elders felt that compared to those young and strong pure-blooded elves, the young and impure-blooded Lin Qingyu was easier to control.
Thus, Lin Qingyu became the empress, a puppet empress.
“What I want to say is, I can help you become a true empress. You can take down anyone you dislike, including those elders, and even your sister,” Leticia said, resting her chin on her hand, speaking to Lin Qingyu.
“Then, what do I need to pay?” Lin Qingyu asked. She knew that free lunches didn’t exist, and Leticia’s offer must have a purpose.
Why would the Demon King help someone for no reason?
Leticia smiled slightly. “Think of it as an investment. An empress who is on good terms with me is much better than your sister, who is as useless as a bear.”
“I want to hear the truth.” If it were just this, Lin Qingyu felt that Leticia wouldn’t be so invested in her affairs.
“Alright, alright. Actually, I just want you to cause some chaos in the elven tribe. As long as they are preoccupied, our demon tribe will have a lot less pressure.”
“Cause some chaos?” Lin Qingyu’s eyes lit up. She also wanted to throw the elven tribe into disarray. If the elven tribe declined under her rule, she would be overjoyed. “Then I think I can do it!”
The thought of getting revenge on the elves with the help of her idol made her feel ecstatic!
“What did you talk about with her? Why does she seem like a different person?” Bai Ling grabbed Leticia’s arm and asked after she returned from her conversation with Lin Qingyu.
Annoyed by Bai Ling’s hand on her arm, the rather pleased Leticia decided not to quibble over such trivial matters.
“Just did some ideological work for her, helped her determine her future path,” Leticia said with a giggle.
After this incident was over and Bai Ling released Lin Qingyu, Leticia would immediately take over this eager half-elf.
She would send her back to the elven tribe, guide her in causing trouble, and incidentally help her eliminate enemies.
This was a bright future for both parties.
Bai Ling narrowed her eyes, suspecting that Leticia was up to some scheme behind her back.
“Then tell me what you did for her ideology work.”
“The will of heaven cannot be revealed. This is a little secret between her and me. You outsiders shouldn’t ask about it.” Leticia shook her head deliberately, making Bai Ling want to hit her head.
“We’re partners, is that how you cooperate with people?” Bai Ling asked indignantly.
Leticia nodded naturally. “Yes, I’ll tell you what I think you should know, but the conversation I just had with Xiao Yu doesn’t fall within that scope.”
Bai Ling began to grind her teeth, feeling the need to let Leticia know that she wasn’t someone to be trifled with either.
“What, you want to hit me? I’m telling you, I’ll fight back,” Leticia quickly hopped away from Bai Ling. “Come if you have the guts, I’m not afraid of you.”
But her behavior pretty much screamed cowardice.
As a result, Bai Ling decisively took out her greatsword and chased after Leticia.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Leticia immediately fled. Neither girl used their extraordinary powers; they chased each other around the large courtyard like ordinary girls.
It was just that the sword in Bai Ling’s hand looked a bit intimidating.
Watching Bai Ling and Leticia interact with each other as if no one else were present, Lin Qingyu and Xi Mengyao exchanged glances and smiled simultaneously.
They hadn’t expected these two ladies to have such childish sides.
Behind their smiles, Lin Qingyu also wondered how the Demon King and the Sword Saint had become acquainted.
On the day her mother was killed, Leticia was also attacked by the Sword Saint. Although Leticia eventually escaped, according to various news reports at the time, Leticia’s condition was described as tragic.
This should have been an irreconcilable enmity, right?
But why were the Sword Saint and the Demon King now able to playfully chase each other like ordinary friends?
“It’s getting late, why don’t we head back?” Xi Mengyao said to Lin Qingyu after they had laughed for a while.
They had been sitting outside for quite some time, so returning now was normal.
Lin Qingyu agreed without questioning it.
“Are you leaving? I’ll accompany you back.” The Diva, who happened to be passing by, heard the two girls’ conversation. She waved her little notebook, indicating that she was almost done.
“Okay, Senior Zi, let’s go together.” Xi Mengyao naturally wouldn’t refuse.
Deliberately ignoring the two powerful figures still running around the courtyard, the Diva led the two young girls back into the house.
A girl with gray hair walked towards them. She had her eyes covered and was drawing something on a drawing board with a pen.
“Hello, Miss Xia.” Xi Mengyao quickly dodged to avoid being bumped into by the blindfolded girl.
This girl had arrived a few days ago. According to her, she was a current hero invited by Miss Bai to be an auxiliary force.
However, Xi Mengyao couldn’t see anything special about this girl. For the past few days, she had been wandering around the house with her eyes covered, occasionally bumping into things.
Including, but not limited to, walls, pillars, and passing Xi Mengyao.
She said this was training herself, but her method of training was extremely difficult to comprehend.
The Diva deliberately kept a distance from the gray-haired girl, as if they were naturally inimical towards each other.
“Ah, I hear it’s Xiao Xi’s voice. Then Xiao Yu must be here too.” The gray-haired girl removed her eye patch and smiled at Xi Mengyao and Lin Qingyu. “Hi, and Senior Diva.”
“Mm,” the Diva responded with little reaction.
“Are you heading back to your rooms? Xiao Xi’s room is still being cleaned, so you might have to wait a while before you can enter.” The Commander said to the three girls in front of her.
“Then, let’s go to my room for a while.” Lin Qingyu offered proactively.
“Do as you please. I still have training, so I’ll be going now.” The Commander didn’t think too much about it. She put on her eye patch and continued to grope her way forward in the darkness.
Then, before the trio’s watchful eyes, she ran headfirst into the wall.
Choosing to ignore this strange girl, the three of them went to Lin Qingyu’s room. It had just been cleaned, making it much tidier than usual.
Lin Qingyu walked to the kettle, intending to pour some water for her guests. But as soon as she grasped the kettle, a crisp snap of fingers came from behind her.
“Oof!” Lin Qingyu clutched her forehead in pain. The sound made her feel a severe headache.
She turned around and saw Xi Mengyao with a vacant stare and the Diva looking at her with curiosity.
The answer to who snapped their fingers seemed to require no guessing.
“You can still maintain your composure; this truly surprises me.” The Diva walked up to Lin Qingyu and examined her closely. “I can’t see anything special about you at all.”
“Who are you?” Lin Qingyu tried to escape but was pressed on the shoulder by the Diva. “You dare to make a move here?”
Isn’t she afraid of death?
“Choosing to act at this moment is naturally because this is the best opportunity.” The Diva smiled. “Don’t expect anyone to save you. Even if they notice something is wrong, they won’t be able to save you.”
Because, by the time she made her move, the magic circle had already been activated.
Her wandering around the manor these past few days wasn’t aimless wandering; she was setting up a formation.
Although she didn’t understand the principle, the credibility of the items given to her by the divine envoy was quite high.
And according to the divine envoy, once the formation was set up, she could choose a small space within the manor and spatially transfer all life forms within it.
Now, the formation had been set up, and her mission was about to be completed.
“It really is you!”
“It’s truly you.”
The only problem was that the actions of the two people the Diva least wanted to see were too fast.
