Vivian.
Wade's mother, the maid who gave birth to Dalton Cecil's illegitimate child, left the manor with the child who was supposed to be dead, and raised him alone.
Wade got out of the car. When he looked back, he saw Lucian still sitting in the car.
Lucian was wearing a black dress and crystal-studded boots today. Wade frowned and asked, "Why?"
"Do you need to buy a bouquet of flowers?" Lucian asked.
Wade looked at him in confusion, and after a while, he returned to the carriage.
The carriage continued to move. The cemetery where Vivian was was on the outskirts of the royal city. Fortunately, they soon found a nearby civilian street and discovered a flower shop there.
There was no clerk on duty in the flower shop. Lucian pressed the bell for a long time before the boss hurried out. Lucian bought a bunch of lilies and asked the boss to decorate them with wrapping paper and ribbons, then held them in his hands.
He came out of the flower shop holding the bunch of white lilies and saw Wade playing with his cane attentively. Seeing him come out, Wade turned around and saw the young man in a black suit standing in the sun. The sun wet the bunch of white lilies, and his rosy face, long silver hair and bright red lips were behind the bunch of flowers.
He paused unconsciously.
Lucian:
The two walked towards the carriage. Before leaving, Lucian saw something glittering in the bushes at the corner of the street, so he stopped the driver and said, "Wait."
He subconsciously handed the bouquet in his hand to Wade - to his shock, Wade actually accepted it.
Lucian pushed aside the grass and found a sea-blue gem ring lying quietly in the grass.
He picked up the ring. The huge sapphire was expensive, but it looked familiar. It was not until he wiped the ring with a handkerchief that he saw the owner's name on the silver ring.
Wade walked towards him, and Lucian held the ring and said to him, "This is Elizabeth's ring."
Wade raised his eyebrows, and Lucian actually saw some inexplicable joy in his expression: "So?"
"Nothing, sir. Do you want to add the money to the national treasury or return it to the Green family?" Lucian said with a fake smile.
"After we return from the cemetery this afternoon, I will take you to return it to the Green family." Wade's voice was cold, "Now, get in the car."
Wade held out his hand to him, and Lucian obediently placed the ring in Wade's palm. The devil, who had been calm all morning, suddenly became moody again. Wade still had a gloomy face until the carriage started moving.
Lucian wisely chose not to offend him, but lowered his head to fiddle with the bouquet of flowers, wondering why Elizabeth dropped the ring in this place - just now he looked at it through the sunlight and found that the ring was indeed real, worth at least 10,000 gold pounds.
There were also strange bloodstains and friction marks on it.
But he didn't expect that his honesty would make Wade even more cold. Until he got off the car, Lucian didn't understand how he had offended Wade.
Vivian's grave was deep in the cemetery. After arriving at the simple and desolate grave, Lucian bent down and placed the bunch of lilies in front of the other's grave.
"Keep holding it."
Wade said.
Lucian: ?
Then he watched as Wade ordered two guards to come forward and start digging the soil under the tombstone.
Lucian: Are you bringing me here to see your mother... No, to visit her grave? !
He knew that Wade was a lunatic, but he didn't expect that Wade would go crazy and even dig up his own mother's grave. Not only that, he brought him to watch him dig the grave. Lucian looked at Wade and hesitated to speak: "You..."
Wade smiled softly and sat on the stone beside him, with one of his long legs hanging down and touching the ground.
"I have always been curious about one thing." He looked up at the blood-stained maple leaves, "That is the source of the blood and curse on me. Since it is not from the Cecil family but from Dalton, then it can only come from Vivian."
Lucian: …
"But how could a woman with the blood of a fallen god allow herself to fall into such a situation?" Wade said coldly, "Besides this, there are some other things... So today I brought people to open her coffin and examine her bones, so as to..."
Find out the mystery of your own life experience.
He began to doubt his own background.
Lucian: …
Vader is indeed a pervert.
"Then why did you stop me from buying flowers? I thought you were here to visit the graves." Lucian complained, "You made me carry you all the way..."
Wade was surprised and asked, "I thought you liked flowers?"
Lucian: … …
Lucian: “Haha.”
Lucian continued to hold the flowers until the dark coffin appeared under the soil. He understood Wade's intention, but at this moment he was really confused - Wade brought him here, let him watch him dig his biological mother's grave, and let him stay here with him
What kind of yandere and crazy thinking is this... Never mind, he gave up trying to understand the other person.
The moment the coffin appeared, the two guards had already retreated to the back. Wade walked towards the coffin step by step, his scarlet eyes were emotionless, he just stretched out his hand and made a gesture of raising it.
The coffin lid was slowly lifted.
Wade had seen his biological mother's burial - it was strange to say that he had no soft feelings since he was born. He knew that Vivian was afraid of him and had told others that he was a monster countless times when she thought he was asleep. When he heard that Vivian had died and her body had been put into a coffin and buried, he never felt sad and did not shed a tear.
It has lived up to its name as a monster.
Therefore, when he saw the empty interior of the coffin, he did not show any expression of being deceived.
The two guards were very scared. They immediately knelt on the ground, thinking that they had accidentally discovered the emperor's shocking secret.
With a loud bang, Wade loosened his fingers, and the coffin lid fell on the dug soil, raising a cloud of dust.
"Let's go," he said to Lucian.
Lucian blinked. He saw the two guards still trembling on the ground, so he wanted to take the opportunity to throw the bouquet to reduce the weight. Just as he was about to throw the flowers to the ground, he heard Wade's voice.
"Give me the flowers."
Wei De had his back to him, so God knows how he noticed Lucian's little move.
The bouquet of flowers fell into Wade's hands. The two got on the carriage again, and Wade said to the driver, "Let's go to the Green family mansion."
The carriage was driving on the road. Lucian sat opposite to Wade. He saw the black-haired young man looking out the window with a calm expression. He couldn't help but ask, "Why is your mother's grave empty?"
He mentioned this sentence not because he wanted to get an answer from Wade, but because he was surprised by Wade's calm expression.
Wade glanced at him, and after a long moment he said calmly, "I had expected this."
"What do you expect?"
"How could an ordinary maid give birth to a child with Fallen Angel blood that even she herself was terrified of?" Vader smiled sarcastically, "And now - the mystery has been solved. She is not my mother, and she is not dead. She did not hesitate to fake her own death to escape from this child who frightened her."
Lucian: …
"The Cecil family is such an interesting family." Wade looked at the palm of his hand and said casually, "What secrets are hidden under that ancient and glorious family emblem? This is really exciting."
"Isn't it, Lucian? You were once a member of this family, too."
The carriage finally stopped in front of the vast and luxurious mansion of the Green family. Lucian knew that Wade was waiting for his answer.
"Is there any similarity?" He yawned and said, "There is no difference between a monster born by a maid and a monster born by someone unknown. Uh...!"
He heard Weed chuckle twice and pull away his wrist that was covering his mouth. He bit Lucian's wrist and laughed when the other showed a stunned look.
Even his shoulders were shaking.
When he entered the Green family's mansion, Lucian found an ordinary mask and put it on. Although the ordinary mask could cover his appearance, the horns and tail of the succubus were exposed.
—Without a surprise, all the nobles will know tomorrow that the emperor is visiting the Green family with his succubus canary.
Wade did not explain his purpose of coming here at the beginning. After all, a girl's ring, appearing in another man's hand, would really lead to unnecessary gossip. But the old Duke of Green received him very warmly. He thanked Wade for helping the Church seal the magic circle that allowed monsters to enter and exit during the disaster, and thanked Lucian who was beside Wade for protecting his daughter. Lucian did not speak, and Wade cleverly shifted the topic to Elizabeth.
"Thanks to Oscar and Mrs. Hayley, they sent her back intact that day... I'll let her out to thank you." Old Duke Green was indeed a very versatile person. He laughed and ordered the butler to call Elizabeth down. "My daughter has been in good spirits since the accident. Please bear with me."
"I understand. It's really too much to let a young lady go through such a bloody scene." Wade said politely.
Lucian couldn't help but glance at the other person, secretly complaining that it turned out that Wade could behave so normally and elegantly when necessary.
"She has been hiding in her room since she came back. She has even stopped attending her favorite tea parties." Old Duke Green said. He seemed to be really worried about his daughter. "I hope time can make all this go away."
"May the God of Light bless you." Vader said seriously. Lucian could hardly hold back his laughter when the blood of the fallen god gave him this blessing.
Just then, Elizabeth came down the stairs.
"Father?" Her voice was a little hoarse. "Is there a guest... who wants to see me?"
Lucian looked up. He saw Elizabeth in a light blue dress. The blonde girl with blue eyes was pale, and her bangs covered her drooping eyes. She held the railing with her hands, her fingers slender.
On that finger, there was a sea-blue gemstone ring.
Wade glanced at her casually, then smiled at old Duke Green: "Thank you for your courtesy."
He did not mention the ring, did not take out the ring.
The two walked out of the mansion. On the marble road, Lucian recalled the scene he had just seen and said, "Just now..."
He stopped talking and turned his head slowly.
He saw the blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth standing by the second-floor window, staring at them with a pale face!
"Go outside and talk," Vader said in a breathy voice.
They drove for a while in the carriage before Lucian said, "The woman just now was Elizabeth."
"Are you sure?"
"The ring she's wearing is a fake." Lucian snorted, "How dare you question my judgment?"
He swung his calves, thinking about the fake Elizabeth.
Since the Elizabeth who now appears in Green House and was returned there by Oscar Dalton and Mrs. Haley is a fake, where is the real Elizabeth
He remembered that it was Mrs. Haley who bought Elizabeth's paintings that day and specified that she wanted to trade with her in person... Was Elizabeth's disappearance really a coincidence
"I left a tracking spell on Elizabeth. But it has a limited duration..."
As soon as Lucian finished saying this, he felt that Wade's aura became a little scary.
"… It was to find the location of the secret passage. I originally wanted to leave traces and escape from there." Lucian smiled and told the story of how Duke Houston sent people to pick up Oscar and others to leave Houston's house through the secret passage. "Don't you know that I have always wanted to escape?"
As he said that, he stretched out his calf and rubbed it against Wade's leg. At that moment of rubbing, he realized that he had returned to the previous stage of pretending to be stupid to show intimacy.
Lucian: ...pills.
Wei De raised his eyebrows and said, "Stop."
Lucian pulled his legs back and made an expression that said "I'll be honest."
"Don't forget, you wanted to kill me before." Wade said coldly.
"Oh..." Lucian said.
He originally wanted to add, "I haven't forgotten that you saved me by accident," but when he saw Wade's expression, he tactfully took back the words.
It was really hard to be forced to act good in front of the owner to survive. Lucian felt a little happy.
The kitten in his heart twitched its tail unhappily.
They followed the guidance of the tracking spell and arrived at the exit of the secret passage of Houston Manor. The secret passage of Houston Manor actually led to a forest in the north of the city, and that forest was surprisingly close to the cemetery.
Then there was no trace of the spell.
"The clue is broken." Lucian rubbed the ground with his toes, and said boredly, "In this case, let's go back - it's getting dark, Master Wade. What are you looking at me for?"
"Nothing." Wade said.
After a while, he said, "We can go back, but before we go back, we can go to a place to have a look."
"Where?"
"That flower shop." Wade said.
Lucian frowned, and finally said unhappily: "Then I'll follow the master's orders."
The two changed their clothes before returning to the flower shop. Lucian hid his tail in his cloak and his horns in his hat. They changed to a low-key carriage that could be seen everywhere.
The flower shop was indeed a bit strange. After the two came in the morning, a sign saying "Closed" was hung on the door. Lucian sat next to Wade and said, "I don't remember you being such a nosy person."
"I have received news before. A month ago, the activities of the Fallen God believers in the Royal City became more frequent. They traded some materials in the black market. Someone saw a figure who looked like Oscar Houston among them and reported it anonymously to the Holy See. However, the Holy See regarded it as a ridiculous statement and did not pay attention to it."
"Fallen Angel... Believers?"
"The group of Fallen God believers who conducted the transaction are the most extreme among all the Fallen God believers. However, they have been silent for more than ten years. This is the first time they have reappeared." Wade said, "They call themselves the Fallen Cross. You may have heard of their notoriety."
"The Fallen Cross..." Lucian thought for a moment and blinked, "I seem to have heard of this name before."
He suddenly remembered this organization.
What he remembered was not the original plot, but his childhood memories as "Lucian".
"I remember now. It seems to be a year after you returned to Cecil Manor. An organization called the Fallen Cross kidnapped more than a dozen children and teenagers, including one or two nobles and more civilians, and used them as sacrifices for black rituals." Lucian put his finger on his forehead and said, "But the Church was not completely bad at that time. They went there in time and saved a noble child..."
"The child's name is Oscar Huston."