Chapter: Chapter 133
“What do you think of Senior Zi?” Xi Mengyao thought for a moment before reluctantly answering, “She’s just a rather ordinary senior. I don’t usually interact with her. Even if we meet, we just say hello.”
“Oh, is that so? Did she do anything unusual?” Leticia pressed.
The diva claimed to like Xi Mengyao a lot. Although she said she concealed it well, Leticia believed that one couldn’t hide true affection for someone.
If the diva truly liked Xi Mengyao as she claimed, then Miss Xi, who was currently lying on the bed, should have felt something.
“No, Senior Zi always seems very busy. We juniors don’t dare to disturb her,” Xi Mengyao shook her head.
“Ah, I see. I understand now,” Leticia nodded thoughtfully. “You mentioned earlier that your agent called you here, right?”
“Yes, I remember very clearly. I received his call that morning, telling me to come here to scout the location,” Xi Mengyao nodded, her expression showing no sign of lying.
Leticia could sense the maiden’s sincerity, without any guilt.
Bai Ling and the Diva had not told Xi Mengyao about their findings, so this young lady still firmly believed her own account.
What Leticia needed to do now was to make her realize the discrepancy between memory and reality. If she were lucky, Xi Mengyao might recall some things.
“However, your agent did not call you. He said he was at the agency all that morning, and others corroborated his statement,” Leticia paused, observing Xi Mengyao’s reaction.
Seeing the disbelief on the maiden’s face, she continued, “There are no call records on your phone or his. According to Bai Ling’s investigation, you didn’t make any calls that morning.”
The maiden’s eyes widened. She quickly took out her phone and scrolled through her call history, “Impossible, I clearly remember being called here.”
But no matter how much she searched, the call history for that day was clean, with no trace of the call she mentioned.
“How could this be?” Xi Mengyao pressed her forehead, wanting to know why her memory was flawed.
But no matter how hard she thought, her brain told her that she had been called there by her agent that day.
Was her brain deceiving her?
“Your memory has been tampered with,” Leticia told Xi Mengyao, her lips pursed. “Perhaps that morning, an idea was implanted in you to come here. This is a conspiracy.”
But why would someone do this?
Was there anything special about Xi Mengyao? No.
Was she just an ordinary, slightly prettier little actress?
Perhaps it was for… hmm, she couldn’t think of a reason.
Could it be that they wanted them to vent their anger on Lin Qingyu?
It was possible, but if that was the goal, they could have chosen anyone. Why Xi Mengyao specifically?
The Diva had just mentioned Xi Mengyao at noon that day, and immediately something happened to Xi Mengyao. It was too coincidental.
Leticia was thinking, and Xi Mengyao was also thinking. The room fell into an eerie silence.
After a long while, Bai Ling cautiously poked her small head out from the door. She wanted to see what the situation was.
Why couldn’t she hear any conversation?
“Are you a thief, lurking around so sneakily?” Leticia turned and shot Bai Ling a glare, then beckoned her over. “Never mind, we’ve asked everything we needed to. You can come in now.”
Bai Ling chuckled and was the first to enter from outside.
Then came Xueer and the Diva. As for the elf physician, she felt there was nothing for her to do here and didn’t intend to enter.
“What’s the result?” The first person to speak was the Diva.
“Little Xi wasn’t lying. At least in her memory, that’s how things happened,” Leticia briefly explained her guess. “I can only say that her memory has been tampered with.”
“Was all of this premeditated?” Bai Ling asked.
Leticia nodded. “You’re not completely uninspired.”
“But what it was premeditated for, we don’t know yet.”
After the previous sentence, Leticia paused again and then whispered, ” I have a way to restore the part of Xi’s memory that was tampered with, but this method seems rather evil.”
“Ah, how evil?”
“It’s not overly evil, actually. It’s just that Xi needs to enter a state of complete physical and mental relaxation, and then I can enter her spiritual world to find that altered memory.” Leticia explained, “That memory is currently covered by false memories, but it does exist. As long as we find it, we can figure out who’s behind all of this.”
“The only problem is that such openness is rather unrestrained,” Leticia winked at Xueer.
Xueer was taken aback, then looked enlightened. “Miss Su is talking about that method, right?”
“Yes, that’s the method. Xueer, you’ve also seen me use it. You can explain it to them, ah no, describe it.”
Xueer nodded repeatedly. She took out a small bottle of crimson potion from her pocket and said to Bai Ling and the Diva, “Miss Su’s method has had successful precedents. It was during that incident that I met Miss Su.”
Bai Ling frowned upon hearing this. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found Leticia frantically signaling her.
The signal seemed to convey, ‘Just quietly watch Xueer perform?’
Hmm?
Is this an act? For whom?
Bai Ling considered all possibilities and found that there was only one likely audience: Miss Diva.
“This potion can induce a state of trance. In that state, Miss Su can enter Miss Xi’s spiritual world to explore the truth,” Xueer talked nonsense with a serious face, but in reality, she was holding a bottle of perfume.
“However, this potion is quite addictive. I can’t guarantee whether Miss Xi will become dependent after using it once…”
“Absolutely not!” The Diva immediately interrupted Xueer. “If the price is like this, I’d rather not know the answer.”
“It’s only theoretically possible to become addicted. Wasn’t that person fine last time?” Leticia began to persuade.
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“No! I can’t risk Little Xi!”
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“Tch, it feels like the Diva is also quite normal, not like someone with issues,” Leticia sighed at the end of the day, feeling like she hadn’t accomplished anything.
She had initially wanted to see if the Diva’s reaction would be flustered, but whether it was because the Diva had strong stress resistance or because she was truly uninvolved in this matter, neither Leticia nor Xueer thought the Diva had any problems.
Her reaction was too normal, so normal that there wasn’t a hint of abnormality.
“Are you suspecting Senior Diva?”
“Otherwise?” Leticia stretched. “You believe her because she’s your senior, and you assume she’s not suspicious. But to me, she was once my enemy, and I never trust my enemies.”
Yes, absolutely no trust.
Take it as the truth.
“Then what about me? Don’t you trust me either?” Bai Ling immediately seized the opportunity to ask.
Leticia’s trust in Bai Ling seemed to have become a public consensus.
Otherwise, would Leticia have come to the human world without any combat capability? Would she have gone to the Hero Association with Bai Ling? Would she have gone to a place with even stricter security than the Council?
That she dared to go could only mean one thing: Leticia believed that Bai Ling would not harm her. She trusted this maiden who had almost killed her before.
“I trust you the least!” Leticia certainly wouldn’t admit it. She patted the armrest of the sofa and vehemently retorted, “How could you have such an illusion? I’m telling you, I, Leticia, have never trusted you, you scoundrel.”
She’s being indirect again. Bai Ling felt that the expression on her face might be developing in a strange direction, the kind where you want to laugh but have to hold it back.
This expression did not escape Leticia’s eyes, and this young lady understood the meaning of this expression very well.
“You’re laughing at me!”
“No, absolutely not,” Bai Ling immediately began to quibble. She wasn’t laughing at all.
Oh, or rather, she hadn’t let out a laugh.
“You are! Absolutely you are!”
“Really, I’m not.”
Seeing the Queen and Bai Ling wrestling on the sofa, Xueer, who was wearing an apron and preparing dinner, covered her face with her hands and shook her head helplessly. She felt that the Queen’s personality tended to develop in a rather strange direction when she was with Miss Bai.
That is, she becomes more unreasonable.
She always bickered with Bai Ling over trivial matters. It used to be just talk, but now it had escalated to physical actions, and then what, would it escalate to kicking?
Oh, wait, it had already escalated to kicking.
Seeing Leticia swing a leg towards Bai Ling, only to have the maiden grab her ankle and immobilize her, Xueer felt she should intervene to stop this farce.
She took a step forward, but the sound from the pot behind her told her that if she left now, dinner for the day would likely turn from delicacies into dark cuisine. As a maid, Xueer could not tolerate such a thing.
So, Your Majesty, you have to rely on yourself!
“Let go of me!” Leticia said, her face flushed, maintaining her raised leg posture. She felt her current posture was extremely embarrassing, and holding it made her feel like her energy was rapidly depleting.
Her legs were starting to tremble.
As for Bai Ling, she looked at Leticia’s black silk-stockinged feet in her hand and felt internally that Leticia’s feet were really beautiful.
This was her first time observing Leticia’s feet from such a close distance. Before, at most she had seen Leticia’s thighs, but her feet, this was the first time.
After all, Leticia wouldn’t just fly a kick at her before.
Hearing Leticia’s words, Bai Ling quickly let go of her hand. She also felt that this posture seemed a bit off.
While Leticia was still trying to pull her foot out, Bai Ling let go, and directly lost her balance.
However, Leticia now had magic and couldn’t fall anymore.
But she had confidence in herself, while someone else didn’t have confidence in her.
Seeing Leticia waving her arms and falling backward, Bai Ling reacted almost instantly, rushing behind Leticia at top speed and embracing the girl with open arms.
From Leticia’s perspective, it was familiar starlight that made her want to vomit, and then she was hugged by something warm.
Moreover, due to the position, she felt her back of the head sinking into two soft things.
After a brief thought, she figured out what was at the back of her head. It must be Bai Ling’s “things.” She was the only one who would do something like this.
Qila’s speed wasn’t that fast, and Xueer’s wasn’t that small, so it could only be Bai Ling.
“Let go,” Leticia said, her face red.
“Oh,” Bai Ling released her hands.
The girl took a few steps forward and turned back to Bai Ling, saying, “I have magic now…”
“Sister! You’re indeed here!” Before Leticia could finish her sentence, Bai Ya, who had just returned from school, ran in excitedly.
The young girl seemed to have completely forgotten to knock when she entered.
“Sister Qianqian is here too.” The young girl cheerfully greeted Leticia and then asked about Qila’s whereabouts, “Where is Little Qi? I want to invite her to play outside tomorrow.”
Ah, speaking of which, it seems like it’s the weekend again.
With most of the people around being unemployed or working year-round, Leticia didn’t feel anything about the arrival of the weekend.
However, this time, she couldn’t let Little Ya take Qila away.
“Little Qi is working. Little Ya, you shouldn’t disturb her,” Leticia said with a smile.
But her sister clearly had no intention of giving her face. As soon as her sister finished speaking, Qila walked out of the study, yawning.
Seeing the girls in the living room, she naturally greeted them, “Good afternoon, Sister, Sister Bai, Little Ya.”
“Little Qi, Little Qi, let’s go out and play tomorrow!” Seeing Qila appear, Bai Ya immediately rushed over.
“No, I’m a bit busy lately.” Qila shook her head and then looked at her two sisters watching the show, signaling them to quickly help her send Bai Ya away.
“Sister is busy, Sister Qianqian is busy, and now you, Little Qi, are busy too. What exactly are you all busy with!”
Bai Ya felt like everyone was hiding something from her. A few days ago, her sister said she was sending Lin Qingyu to another place for recuperation. Bai Ya wanted to ask where she was sending her, but her sister hesitated and refused to answer.
Now, even Sister Qianqian and Little Qi had started hiding things from her and siding with her sister, intending to keep her in the dark forever.
Bai Ya was unhappy, very unhappy.
“Little Ya, we don’t tell you these things to protect you.” Leticia looked around, realizing that she was the most suitable person to counsel Bai Ya.
As for Bai Ling, her emotional intelligence could be rated as minus one. Expecting this clumsy older sister to comfort her sister was like expecting a tiger to become a vegetarian one day.
And Qila, even more so, she was just not good at dealing with Bai Ya, but if Bai Ya was unhappy? What did it matter to her?
If she’s unhappy, she’s unhappy. As a princess of the demon race, would she have to comfort Bai Ya while her sister was still around?
She wasn’t that bored, nor was she benevolent.
So in the end, it was still Leticia, the big scapegoat, who had to make Bai Ya less sad.
“I’ve grown up. Sister used to hide things from me, and now she still does. I can know everything!” Bai Ya shouted angrily, feeling like she was just a girl who didn’t understand anything, living in stories woven by others since childhood.
When she was little, her parents disappeared, and then her sister disappeared. Who knows how Bai Ya lived alone until now.
And now? Her sister was back, but had she brought any changes to Bai Ya?
No!
In the end, Bai Ya was still a little girl. What she wanted was her sister’s care, not to see her sister who had returned still running out all day long.
Sometimes, Bai Ya really doubted if her sister had really returned. No, she had returned, but it made Bai Ya feel that such a sister was worse than not returning.
Before her sister returned, Bai Ya could still fantasize about how her sister would take care of her when she returned. But now, the cold reality told her that her sister actually needed her care.
“Why don’t you tell me? I think I should know!”
Leticia frantically signaled Bai Ling and Xueer, who was peeking from the side, with her eyes. She was at her wit’s end.
Comforting an angry sister had never been something she considered.
Because after she did something to make her sister angry, she was too afraid to see her sister.
As for Qila, due to her upbringing, the princess appeared to be more reasonable. Most of the time, she could understand her sister’s decisions and choices.
This meant that Leticia didn’t need to counsel Qila; Qila would have already counseled herself before Leticia did.
What is a good sister? This is a good sister!
“If it really doesn’t work, just tell Little Ya. It’s not that big of a deal, right?” Leticia winked at Bai Ling.
That is, tell Little Ya that your sister is actually the human guardian who often appears in the news, the invincible Star River Sword Saint.
Your Sister Qianqian is also not an ordinary person. Although her status is not as outrageous as your sister’s, she is just the boss of the demon race who has been fighting with humans for decades until their brains are about to explode.
Your good friend Su Qi is the Demon King’s sister, in common terms, the princess of the demon race.
In this family, you are the only cute one who is a normal person. Aren’t you happy? Surprised?
Finished. Thinking about it this way, Bai Ya would probably be scared by these things.
“That…” Bai Ling opened her mouth, then looked at Leticia. “Why don’t you tell her?”
“She’s your sister, not my sister. I’ve never comforted a sister before!” Leticia shamelessly said something that made Bai Ya, who was standing nearby, momentarily freeze.
Qila, with a dark expression, pinched Leticia’s waist, causing Leticia to yelp in pain.
“I’ll tell her,” After punishing her sister, Qila coughed a few times, drawing everyone’s attention. “Actually, we’ve been busy with the same thing these past few days.”
“And the Lin Qingyu that Little Ya picked up is the key to this matter.”
“To protect her safety, and yours too, we’ve sent her to a very, very safe place.”
“Then can I know where she is now?” Bai Ya raised her hand and asked.
“I think it’s okay to tell Little Ya,” Leticia nudged Bai Ling’s waist. “From such a distance, you can have your people keep an eye on Little Ya and not let her run away.”
Under the surveillance of so many eyes, how could Bai Ya run from here to the manor on the other side of the central city?
She wasn’t a superpower user.
“Hmm, she’s here.” Bai Ling took out her phone, opened the map, and told her sister Lin Qingyu’s current location.
Bai Ya looked at the map and realized she didn’t recognize the place, and the location seemed too remote?
“This place is almost the suburbs, isn’t it?” she asked.
“Bai Ya, you need to know one thing: this world is not as safe as you imagine,” Qila said faintly. “Placing her there can prevent innocent people from getting involved.”
“Is it very dangerous?”
“To be precise, it’s very dangerous,” Leticia took over from Qila. “There’s something you need to know: Lin Qingyu is not purely human.”
“Ah?”
“Little Ya should have heard of elves, right? Those little green-haired people who live in the forest. I remember elves are quite well-known among humans due to their good looks.” Leticia asked.
Bai Ya did know this. Their textbooks had photos of elven warriors, and the description of elves was that beneath their beautiful appearance lay demonic hearts.
They were not graceful and noble races from fairy tales and novels, but creatures driven by greed and desire, just like other races.
“Xiao Yu is an elf? But her hair isn’t green, and her ears aren’t pointed.”
In the eyes of ordinary people, the most distinguishing features of elves should be green hair and pointed ears.
But Lin Qingyu had black hair and round ears, completely unlike an elf.
“Because she’s a half-elf. Cross-racial love ultimately gives birth to such tragic children. They are not accepted by this world, and no matter which side they are on, they are at the very bottom rung of society.” Leticia continued.
“Half… elf?” Bai Ya’s eyes widened. Could humans and elves actually have offspring?
“Yes, half-elf,” Leticia nodded.
