Complete! Utterly done!
Lilith felt as if she’d fallen into an icy abyss, her entire body’s blood frozen solid.
Her delicate face instantly drained of all color, gradually turning pale as death.
At this moment, her trembling lips couldn’t utter a single word. She stood rooted to the spot, like a statue on the verge of collapse.
Those once proud golden eyes now only reflected overwhelming terror—utterly exposed and stripped bare…
Alicia withdrew her oppressive gaze without even glancing again at the petrified Lilith.
Her eyes shifted back to Luo Ye, who had just “come back to life” and was still in shock.
Her expression remained icy cold, as if the shocking “husband” that had just echoed through the room had not come from her cherry lips.
Alicia calmly delivered the final verdict in a tone that brooked no argument:
“You, Luo Ye Kardia.”
“Come here.”
“To my office, now!”
The last two words were spoken softly but with absolute finality.
Both an order and a salvation—at least for the moment, pulling Luo Ye out of the pitch-black cauldron that was Lilith’s wrath.
Then, Alicia didn’t spare Lilith, frozen and utterly dumbfounded, a single glance again.
She turned around with grandeur, like a queen taking her leave.
The crisp “tap… tap…” of her high heels echoed once more.
Luo Ye didn’t even look at Lilith, who was still stuck in place, stunned. Straightening his collar, he elegantly followed Alicia’s high-heeled footsteps out of the classroom.
At this moment, watching the figure ahead—the sky-blue hair swaying rhythmically, the presence commanding attention just by standing there—Luo Ye felt a sudden urge to whistle, though he quickly suppressed it. Still, his inner respect for Alicia quietly grew.
“Hey, can you be a little more serious?”
Suddenly, Alicia’s voice came from ahead.
She stopped in place, sighed softly, then turned to look at Luo Ye. When he caught up and stood parallel to her, she turned back around and resumed walking.
Luo Ye raised an eyebrow, unsure what Alicia meant.
“I won’t argue with you this time. I know Lilith’s personality best. I believe things aren’t as she said,” Alicia added when she saw Luo Ye’s confusion.
Luo Ye blinked, instantly understanding her meaning.
So that’s how it was.
“Was what you said to Lilith just an act too?” Luo Ye asked.
Alicia rolled her eyes.
“Just know it yourself.”
Luo Ye nodded and replied, “Alright, Your Highness.”
So you two sisters are both actors.
Should I say you know each other too well, or that you’re such plastic sisters you’d even deceive each other?
“After this lesson, you better watch out for Lilith from now on, understand?”
Alicia slightly frowned, her bird-like lashes fluttering as she admonished Luo Ye.
He nodded.
“Of course.”
Even if Alicia hadn’t said it, Luo Ye would remain wary of every girl around her.
They’re all supernatural beings.
…
Meanwhile, inside the classroom.
Lilith watched as Luo Ye and Alicia’s figures vanished from her sight before she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
What a joke, not fun at all.
Better pack up and leave.
Just as Lilith was about to gather her things, a sudden chill shot down her spine!
Years of instinct honed on stage told her danger was near; her whole body’s hair stood on end!
Her body reacted faster than her mind—before the other could act, Lilith raised both hands high in a perfectly standard surrender pose!
“Surrender meow, surrender meow~”
As she spoke, the window’s reflection in front of her revealed the figure behind raising a sword—
Anna?!
Lilith instantly dropped ninety percent of her worry, and her inner drama queen stirred back to life:
“Isn’t this our knight lady? What’s wrong? Here to scold this ‘brazen’ woman who dared to seduce your Highness’s fiancé?”
“Miss Lilith,” Anna’s voice was as cold as the blade she held, “I am not ‘joking’ with you. Please watch your words.”
Lilith kept her hands raised, tilting her head slightly. Using the window’s reflection, she curiously studied Anna’s jawline and those eyes.
Then a spark of insight flashed quickly through her eyes.
“Huh? Upset with me?”
Lilith blinked innocently, her voice laced with a hint of plaintive tremor, “Heaven knows, I never meant to ‘provoke’ Your Highness! If anything… you could say I was just kindly accompanying the betrothed couple with a little harmless playful teasing? Isn’t that right?”
Her voice dropped soft and sweet, coaxing like a gentle tutor:
“See, Your Highness didn’t really get mad, and that ‘office’ thing at the end… teehee, don’t you think it sounds more like a kind of… fun?”
“I’m just a poor little prop, cooperating with the performance and pushing the plot along! You agree, right?”
Anna’s grip on the sword didn’t waver, but Lilith’s words fell like stones tossed into a deep lake, stirring imperceptible ripples within her.
Anna certainly knew much of what Lilith said was theatrical. People like this were precisely the ones Anna found hardest to deal with.
Protecting the princess’s honor was her duty beyond question.
But deep inside, Anna was painfully aware that the sword she pointed at Lilith right now was driven by more than just “guard duty.”
Just moments ago, seeing Lilith snort and kick at Luo Ye, then pounce on him—the flame of inexplicable fury ignited inside her.
Anna didn’t understand where these feelings came from, or why they outweighed her role as protector.
But now that she’d drawn her sword, those unspoken feelings must not be revealed to this master of acting.
Anna’s gaze suddenly sharpened, and her sword’s tip tilted forward slightly, the cold blade’s breath nearly touching the fine hairs at Lilith’s neck:
“Is that so? Fun? I hope you’re right.”
“Otherwise, next time, it won’t just be a verbal warning.”
Anna sheathed her sword.
“Understood, understood!” Lilith smiled sweetly, nodding rapidly.
Just as Anna’s tense nerves eased and she prepared to fully sheathe her sword—
Lilith’s eyes suddenly shone with a keen glint, having closely studied every subtle expression Anna made reflected in the window—
Seizing the moment of Anna’s sword withdrawal and slight loss of momentum, Lilith’s body moved with the grace of a nimble cat, spinning swiftly without warning!
Those brilliant eyes, filled with theatrical talent, seeming to pierce the heart and perceive subtle emotions, locked unflinchingly—with a subtle, knowing smile—onto Anna’s eyes, which instinctively looked away!
Anna: !!!