novelzi Chapter 106
Chapter 106
Um, can I surrender?
The answer is no, you can’t surrender before fifteen minutes, dear~
Besides, it wasn’t that Adele didn’t want to run away.
The key was that the moment she saw Edith, all the previous memories flooded back to her mind.
And then... her legs went weak, so weak that she couldn’t even take a step!
From now on, Li Lige surpassed Dorothy, ranking first on Adele’s “hateful bad women” list!
Just be a good experience pack, damn it!
Why create all this trouble!
Was she a psychopath...
Throwing her in here like watching a beast fight, to have a one-sided虐.杀 match with Edith?
“E-Edith, I think we can sit down and have a good talk, I-I mean...”
Faced with the absolute power gap, Adele decisively chose to surrender.
Better to live to fight another day!
However, Edith seemed to be in a trance and didn’t respond to her words.
But she did hear Adele’s voice.
This seemed contradictory, but judging from Edith’s actions and expressions, it was indeed the reality.
Adele’s voice caught Edith’s attention, but she seemed to have no idea what Adele was saying.
The girl in the veil just walked out of the dark corner, following the direction of the voice.
Along with the sound of “clanking, clanking,” as if chains were being dragged.
It wasn’t until Edith walked from the pitch-black corner into the cold and lonely moonlight that Adele saw her clearly and gasped.
It was Edith...
But it wasn’t her either.
At least it wasn’t the confident, even arrogant, Edith she knew from the academy.
There was something different about her.
Edith’s figure was reflected in Adele’s pupils.
She was still wearing her signature black veil, her face hidden. Her purple eyes were shimmering with tears.
Just looking at her eyes, Adele felt a pang of pity!
No, it was an illusion, it must be an illusion!
At the same time, the dark red dress she usually wore was replaced by a hooded robe that almost covered her entire body, revealing only her bare ankles.
The hood hid Edith’s hair and the slight curls at the ends, the robe concealed the curves of her alluring body.
The color was simple and low-key, like dust-covered black.
A very conservative style, reminiscent of a girl serving God in a monastery.
She stepped on an old, faded carpet that should have been bright red but was now dark brown.
The girl’s jade-like feet, bare for some reason, were inevitably stained with dirt.
A kind of blasphemous beauty.
And a black anklet was chained around her ankles, restricting her movements, as conspicuous as stones in the snow.
The sound just now came from this chain.
Adele wasn’t a foot fetishist, but even she couldn’t help but gulp at this moment.
Playing... playing it this big?
But what Adele couldn’t imagine was that it would get even bigger.
Edith didn’t stop walking towards Adele.
The survival instinct told Adele to back away, to run away.
But a crazy thought made her stop and quietly wait for Edith to approach.
To see what she wanted to do.
Because a sharp intuition told Adele that the Edith in front of her might be different from the Edith she knew.
She might have lost some of her memories and sanity, trapped in some unknown past memory.
This could be evidenced by her dazed and absent-minded eyes.
Fortunately, luck always favored greedy girls.
Adele gambled correctly.
Edith didn’t recognize her.
In fact, she completely mistook Adele for another person, another character.
Perhaps this was because Edith was influenced by the Vengeance Witch’s power.
Adele spoke to her, but Edith mistook it for that person calling her.
So she obediently and submissively came to Adele.
Then she slowly untied her robe.
Revealing her jade-white body, without any cover or concealment.
Adele’s pupils trembled violently, this was a development she had never imagined!
Adele considered herself not a prude, but even she couldn’t help but blush at this moment.
S-seduction??
What kind of character was she in Edith’s eyes right now!?
Before Adele could recover from her shock, Edith’s fragile voice came,
She lowered her head, her gaze fixed on her toes, which were pitifully curled inward, showing extreme self-abasement.
She apologized to “Adele” in a low, hoarse, and trembling voice.
Full of guilt and deep fear and anxiety.
“I’m sorry...”
“I’ve disappointed you... I’m sorry.”
Her shoulders were trembling, tears streaming down her face.
“I’m sorry... Mother.”
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Few people knew Edith’s past.
Her childhood and adolescence, raised solely by her mother.
Edith’s mother was a reclusive, low-key, and gloomy vampire.
The only time she smiled was when she visited Edith’s grandmother.
The True Ancestor known for her “virtue” – [Lady Chen Xi].
The representative of kindness and friendliness among the Twelve True Ancestors.
As her title suggested, she preferred to be called “Lady” by vampires and other foreign races, rather than those noble titles.
She was known as the “conscience of the vampires.”
Some also said that she was the most hypocritical vampire, wearing a mask her whole life.
But there was a saying among humans – “A hypocrite who pretends for a lifetime becomes a gentleman.”
A gentleman is judged by his actions, not his heart.
Therefore, it didn’t matter what Lady Chen Xi thought in her heart, what mattered was what she did.
Thousands of years passed, and the world changed, but Lady Chen Xi always practiced her kindness.
Countless vampires and foreign races who had doubted her before regretted it and were completely convinced by her charisma.
In terms of strength, she wasn’t the strongest among the Twelve True Ancestors.
But in terms of influence, it could be said that if Lady Chen Xi wanted to, she could recreate the glory of the Black Emperor era and unite the entire vampire race.
It was also because of her support and persuasion that the second cooperation between humans and vampires was finally achieved.
The first cooperation between humans and vampires was in the Middle Ages, over a thousand years ago, to resist the invasion of the Otherworld mist.
It could be said that without Lady Chen Xi, there wouldn’t be the current situation of peaceful coexistence between vampires and humans. The conflict between humans and foreign races would only have intensified.
But if Lady Chen Xi knew her fate...
That she would be attacked and assassinated by the humans she had high hopes for, the humans she expected to create a peaceful and prosperous world, using any means necessary, in an attempt to kill her at the ceremony for signing the “peace and cooperation agreement,” would she still make the same choice?
Would she still be willing to trust humans?
You all know what happened next.
The vampire hunter families joined forces, attempting to launch an attack and destroy this “false peace agreement” in their eyes.
The Tang family, where Tang Linlang belonged, was among them, and they suffered the most casualties in that “attack.”
They almost succeeded.
Lady Chen Xi was on the verge of death, and someone helped her escape.
This extremely vicious attack had extremely serious consequences. The cooperation between vampires and humans was also on the verge of collapse, in imminent danger.
Countless schemers moved in the shadows, fanning the flames and inciting hatred.
They came from within the vampire race, from other foreign races, from many mysterious forces.
It seemed that the cooperation between vampires and humans was about to turn into a “war.”
Lady Chen Xi’s timely awakening resolved all of this.
Deeply betrayed and hurt, she personally gave the answer.
She didn’t regret her choice.
She was still willing to trust humans.
She didn’t know that her arm was broken, forcefully torn off by her mother.
She didn’t know that the flowers blooming on her body were actually wounds.
Pinch marks, finger marks, squeeze marks, scratches...
Her fair skin was covered with hideous fingerprints, and blood was oozing from the places where her sharp fingertips had cut her.
It was said that people would hallucinate to protect themselves in desperate situations.
Edith would rather believe that this was a nightmare.
When she woke up, her mother would still be that gentle mother.
But illusions would disappear, pain wouldn’t.
It hurt... it really hurt...
Mommy... I’m in so much pain...
Mommy...
Edith’s dry tear ducts became warm, showing signs of revival.
She suddenly felt so sad, the suppressed grief surging forth in an instant.
She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to call out the warmest name in the world.
Wanting to call out...
Slash!
A coldness suddenly appeared on the corner of Edith’s lips.
Her mother’s hand held a shard of porcelain, the sharp edge like a knife tip.
The shard also cut her mother’s hand, blood dripping down her fingers.
Edith couldn’t make a sound, blood gurgling out of her mouth...
Her mouth was cut open by her mother with a shard of porcelain, from bottom to top.
Forming a “smile.”
“Smile... smile~”
“Mother likes to see her daughter smile... haha.”
“My lovely daughter, your smile is so cute~”
“I love you, my daughter.”
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From then on, Edith was no longer allowed to go out.
No longer allowed to wear human clothes.
Not even allowed to wear clothes.
She was chained to her mother’s side with shackles.
Only in this way, would she not lose Edith.
And Edith wouldn’t lose her mother.
Mother and daughter should always be together.
And kill all humans, kill all humans!
She began to teach Edith magic, to teach her how to discover and develop her abilities.
What she couldn’t do herself, maybe her daughter could do!
To avenge her “mother.”
Yes, Edith’s mother, because she was raised by Lady Chen Xi, her feelings for her grandmother were actually more like “a daughter’s love for her mother.”
“Why are you so useless, why!”
“...I’m sorry.”
“It’s not enough, why can’t you even do this!”
“I’m sorry!”
“Why are you worse than everyone else, Hermione, Lillian...”
“I’m sorry...”
“You’ve disappointed me... I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry... Mother.”
Edith grew up day by day, from a girl to a young woman.
On her birthday, Edith was called to her mother’s room –
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“Ahhh! No more, I don’t want to see anymore, what the hell is wrong with these perverts!”
Two twisted “mother-complex” characters!
What a misfortune for Lady Chen Xi’s family!
“Li Lige, let me out!”
Adele’s mind was in turmoil, making Li Lige stop restoring Edith’s past.
To be precise, restoring the past that Edith resented and wanted to take revenge on.
As for other emotions, Li Lige was powerless.
Li Lige’s voice then rang in Adele’s mind,
“Leaving like this, giving up on revenge?”
“Don’t waste the opportunity I’ve given you, I won’t be able to protect you in the future.”
“Who needs your protection, I have plenty of women to protect me!”
Adele said angrily.
“Tsk, not even pretending anymore, your true nature as a scumbag is exposed.”
When they first met, Li Lige thought Adele was a pure and innocent girl.
“Shut up, experience pack!” Adele said, embarrassed and angry.
“Experience pack?”
“Ahem, it’s nothing.”
Adele quickly changed the subject.
After calming down a bit, Adele no longer mentioned leaving.
Li Lige clearly wouldn’t kill Edith.
She could kill her. After Edith entered the core of the witch’s domain, she was quickly deprived of her mind and even mistook Adele for her mother.
This meant that although she resented and wanted to take revenge on her mother, she couldn’t do it.
Those without any fighting spirit for revenge would be lost in the past.
It would be as easy as crushing an ant for Li Lige to kill them.
And a vengeful character like Adele, after entering the core of the Vengeance Witch’s domain, was like nothing had happened...
No wonder Li Lige said, “You’re even more suitable to be the Vengeance Witch than I am.”
She would really take revenge if she had a grudge...
But the reason Li Lige chose not to kill was because the trouble of killing Edith was too great.
The president of the Black Feather Society would die just from meeting Adele, and Adele’s situation would be unimaginable, the Black Feather Society would never let her go.
But if she didn’t kill Edith, after Edith left the Vengeance Witch’s domain, Adele would only face even more brutal revenge.
And by that time, Li Lige wasn’t even sure if she would still be in this world.
So in the end, Adele had to solve this big problem herself.
That’s why Li Lige pushed Adele into the core of the domain.
She believed that Adele would have a way to solve it.
Although it was unbelievable, Li Lige inexplicably trusted Adele.
She was just a weak and delicate little girl, her magic power pathetically low.
It could only be explained by “woman’s intuition.”
“By the way, after seeing Edith’s past, do you pity her, forgive her?”
Li Lige suddenly became gossipy.
Adele was originally pondering how to solve the problem of Edith in front of her.
Now that she was suddenly interrupted, she immediately showed an annoyed expression.
In Edith’s eyes, it was probably like “Mother is angry,” right?
So Edith timidly shrank her shoulders, tears welling up in her eyes, no longer looking like the composed president of the Black Feather Society.
Adele’s lips twitched.
It would have been fine if Edith was still her usual annoying self.
But seeing her like this really made Adele’s mood a bit complicated.
She silently replied to the gossipy Li Lige in her heart,
“It’s human nature to pity Edith back then.”
“But even pitiful people have hateful sides, not to mention the current Edith is super hateful!”
What Edith did couldn’t be changed by traveling back in time.
Just like a piece of white paper stained with ink, it was no longer pure and flawless.
She and her minions had already hurt many innocent girls.
Even if Edith might have been influenced by her mother, traumatized by her childhood, it didn’t mean that she could beg for forgiveness based on this.
“As for whether I would forgive her? What a ridiculous question.”
“I’m not qualified to forgive her on behalf of the girls who were hurt by Edith.”