madnovel 020. What are you doing?
020. What are you doing?
Seeing Eve run to the bookshelf, Xinlai shook her head helplessly.
It seems that this young lady is not mentally prepared to serve Xinlai, nor has she sought out other maids to learn service skills.
Instead, he spent the entire afternoon reading these seemingly unserious books.
However, Xinlai could understand. After all, he had many ancient books on his bookshelf, and Eve, as a noble lady, had a strong thirst for knowledge. She wanted to find a few to read, hoping to have an "enlightenment" and then turn around and trample Xinlai underfoot...
But instead, I stumbled upon these strange and unusual books.
Xinlai stepped forward and picked up a book, titled "Miss Witch, You Don't Want Others to Know Your Secrets, Do You?" It looked like it had already been read more than halfway through.
The unfolding page tells the story of a witch secretly helping others, which is discovered by the protagonist. The protagonist then uses the pretext of exposing the witch's identity to coerce her into doing strange things...
There's also an illustration of a terrified little girl squatting on the ground, her eyes crossed as she stares at the shadow appearing above her, with a speech bubble next to her:
"Wow, it's so big..."
Xinlai picked up the book, her face serious, and slowly walked to the back of the bookshelf. She saw Eve leaning tightly against the bookshelf, her little watermelon bobbing up and down, her whole body blushing with embarrassment.
"I didn't expect our witch to like watching this kind of thing..." Xinlai said as she walked up to Eve and tried to make eye contact with her.
But Eve, who was so ashamed she wanted to disappear, refused to look Sinley in the eye. Even when Sinley tried to turn her head away by pressing her chin with her fingers, Eve didn't move an inch. She pressed her head and shoulders together tightly, closed her eyes, as if that would make everything that had just happened seem like it never happened.
"Miss Witch..." Seeing Eve's adorable appearance, Xinlai's playful side was instantly aroused. She imitated the character's mannerisms and accent from the book, saying, "You wouldn't want me to spread the word that you enjoy reading such forbidden books, would you?"
"what……"
"You...you're shameless!!"
Eve cursed under her breath, as if she had exhausted all her strength and all the words she could use to insult Xinlai.
But the more fragile Eve appeared, the stronger Sinla's sense of conquest from a male perspective became, as he admired his masterpiece, which he had shaped, with the same satisfaction he derives from admiring an Undine sculpture.
"Okay, I'm not kidding anymore."
Seeing that Eve seemed about to drop her little pearl if she kept teasing her, Xinlai stopped being presumptuous, instantly switched to a fighting expression, seriously placed the book where Eve could reach it, and then solemnly asked:
"You should know when you'll completely transform into a witch, right?"
Eve, feeling dizzy and lightheaded from Xin Lai's outburst, panted a few times. She didn't really want to answer, but the soul contract prevented her from refusing Xin Lai's question, so she nodded in response:
"It'll be soon... probably in the next few days."
"Um……"
Xinlai planned to invest some resources before Eve fully became a witch, to raise the lower limit first, so that the upper limit would be higher after she became a witch.
He first took out a Snowflake with a cold blade from his bag. It was shaped like a lotus flower, but the petals were blue. It was surrounded by a light blue snow glow and was also emitting a white chill.
Although this is an ice-attribute supplementary material, ice and water attributes are interconnected. However, high-quality water-attribute supplementary materials are scarce at Hamilton Magic Academy, so for the time being, Frostblade Snowflake can only be used as a substitute.
Moreover, these frosty snowflakes have another function: the cold air they emit can temporarily and rapidly change the color of the surroundings...
"This is for you." Xinlai tucked a whole flower into Eve's hair above her ear, as tenderly as a first love giving the most beautiful flower in the field.
Eve was stunned, clearly unable to figure out what the man in front of her was thinking...
Logically speaking, Xinlai should know what elemental magic she could use, so shouldn't she have bought a fire-attribute flower to suppress her...?
How come it matches her magical attributes?
"I don't expect you to change your opinion of me," Xinlai said, glancing at the time, "but you should know that I have no ill intentions towards you."
"Tch...who would believe your nonsense..."
Eve listened to Xinlai's nonsense without taking it seriously.
Forget about lovers talking nonsense; they're enemies now. Xin Lai must be plotting something again, trying to lure her into lowering her guard.
Eve noticed Xinlai's serious expression, but neither answered nor moved, as if to say to Xinlai, "Do whatever you want, I've given up, I don't want to do anything anymore, you can do whatever you want with me..."
Watching Eve's purple hair slowly turn ice blue, Xinlai nodded in satisfaction, then reached into her pocket, pulled out a fragrant piece of fabric, and said:
"You're a witch. Put this on; it will conceal your magical fluctuations and, incidentally, your identity..."
Eve looked at the cute triangular bow-tie teddy bear panties in Xinlai's hand, and her face flushed red again. She even involuntarily took two steps back.
"I...I want to put this...on my head?"
Xin Lai didn't notice and nodded, "Otherwise, I won't feel comfortable taking you out in the future..."
"grass."
Xinlai seemed to remember something else in her bag, so she pulled her hand back into the bag and took out another black silk patterned eyeband.
"Ahem," Xin Lai said, feigning seriousness, "I picked up the wrong one. Wear this one."
Eve stared at Xinlai; she knew this man had just gone out for a tryst! He still smelled of a woman…
Sure enough, no man is any good.
At times like these, Eve felt utterly hopeless when she thought about her future...
The way she looked at Xinlai was a mixture of disdain, helplessness, and resignation.
Considering that Xin Lai was trying to help her conceal her identity, she took the blindfold and put it on herself, only to find that her vision was not obstructed.
This was specially purchased by Xinlai for Eve. Although it seems to have a touch of romance, Xinlai is more concerned with its practical use.
Like the golden headband on Sun Wukong, it can restrict Eve's magic power after she is fully transformed into a witch, and also conceal the fluctuations of magic power, so Eve won't have to wrap herself in the magic-blocking cloth every day...
"Bang!!"
The sound of the castle gate being forcibly broken open suddenly rang out, startling Eve so much that she shuddered.
She is still reeling from the huge upheaval, and even the slightest shock is very distressing for her.
"Your Highness, you can't force your way in! That's the Third Prince's private space!"
"Snap"
Hearing the familiar sound of a slap, Xin Lai knew that the maid had been slapped again, followed by the voice of "One-Punch Sorrow Superman" Ding Ke:
"Get out of my way! Don't block my way, or I'll kill you here!"
Ding Ke and the second prince Simien arrived as scheduled. It seemed that even though Shi Xinlai had returned to the castle, the two of them were still so arrogant and unreasonable that they barged in.
Sensing that things weren't going well, Sinlai turned her gaze to Eve.
In her haste, Eve noticed the scrutinizing look in Sinla's eyes, and a sudden, ominous feeling welled up inside her.
"What...what are you going to do...?"
"Good idea."
Eve: "?"
∑(O_O；)
Before Eve could react, she found herself being carried in a princess carry by this man and then violently pushed onto the soft, wide bed.
Eve's mind went completely blank for a moment, but as a noble lady, she instinctively began to resist, "You! You're disgusting! You, you, you, what are you doing?!"
When Eve discovered that Xinlai had taken off her shirt, revealing her muscular upper body, her shyness and panic turned into shame, anger, and helplessness.
Xinlai rolled onto the bed, but did not take the opportunity to grope Eve. Even when she was above Eve, she tried her best to support her body and prevent herself from making any contact with Eve.
To make the act more realistic and to conceal Eve's appearance, Xinlai pulled the blanket over both of them, then used her hands and feet to vigorously shake the bed, making creaking sounds.
Seeing Eve's reluctance, Xinlai didn't say anything and could only keep giving her meaningful glances.
To Xinlai's surprise, Eve, who was right next to him, knew Xinlai's intentions but refused to cooperate at all when disaster struck. Instead, she acted like a "humiliated noblewoman," blushing and glaring fiercely at Xinlai, even trying to push Xinlai away.
"You...you actually managed to resist?" Xin Lai was also stunned. Why did the soul contract suddenly stop working?
Logically speaking, he could actually go to base whenever he wanted, at any time and in any place...
"I... Waaah, why... can't I resist?" Eve turned her head to one side, covered her mouth, her eyes were dull and lifeless, and her body swayed with the bed as she asked as if she were gritting her teeth.
Xinlai thought about it briefly and concluded that she must have just happened to exploit a bug.
Eve cannot disobey Sinley's orders, but reaching base would be considered a minor offense. If she doesn't violate rule 1, she will violate rule 3, and if she doesn't violate rule 1, she will definitely violate rule 3, making it impossible to guarantee her safety...
In this way, the first and third parts of the soul contract actually checked and balanced each other.