In the hotel near Fergus's house, Liu Yu spent one night on credit in the name of the family, and settled Gaia down.
"Gaia, I should go." She held Gaia's face very naturally, and pressed a kiss on his forehead, "May God bless you."
The fragrance of roses fills the night.
The boy's eyes were bound by a white ribbon, and he sat quietly at the table, with purple lilac flowers outside the window. Liu Yu couldn't help but glance back before opening the door and going out.
Just now, she felt absurdly that it was cruel to leave this young man who knew nothing about the world here alone.
That is a god, a god who can create and destroy the world.
Liu Yu strode out of the hotel.
"Miss Bella."
The coachman drove the carriage over.
Liu Yu nimbly jumped onto the carriage:
"Go back to Fergus' house."
It was almost late at night, and the earth fell into a deep sleep, only the lights on the side of the road were still on.
The Fergus house is located at the end of Temple Street in the east of the city. It is a three-story building with a white wall and a pointed roof. In front of the building is a beautiful garden full of unknown flowers.
The coachman drove the carriage to the stables, Liu Yu lifted the hem of his skirt, and walked through the garden.
She wandered the paths in the garden.
The nerves that had been tense all day were relaxed by the night wind. She stopped and sat down in a hidden place—the tall bushes hid her shadow.
For the time being, Liu Yu didn't want to go into the house and face a roomful of strangers, a strange mother, a strange stepsister, and a strange servant.
She stared blankly at the sky for a while.
Compared to the smoggy northern capital, the sky of Elwynn Continent is exceptionally clean, like a huge sapphire, dotted with diamond-like stars and a silver crescent moon.
"It's not a full moon."
But a full moon and a crescent moon mean nothing to her.
She has no home.
He was adopted at the age of three, abandoned at the age of ten, and returned to the orphanage again.
At that time, she cried and asked the dean's mother:
"... If there are gods in this world, why do the gods never listen to my prayers? Why do my parents still abandon me? I am already very good, very good."
The dean's mother told her:
"God is too busy. He can't take care of everyone. It may take a long, long time before you can be heard and seen by Him."
Since then, she has not waited.
She will no longer pin her illusory hopes on others, she only believes in herself.
What you want, you can only fight for yourself.
Grasshoppers yelled one after another in the grass, and one was not afraid of life and jumped onto the chair next to her, "looked" at her with dark eyes, and then quickly jumped away.
Liu Yu slowly smoothed the wrinkles of the skirt, and stood up again.
Walking through the path and onto the terrace, the house is brightly lit, and the colorful glass windows shine softly under the lights.
The door on the first floor was wide open, and there was no one inside.
The fireplace was beeping, beeping, and it was burning vigorously. As soon as you entered the door, it was like being surrounded by warm heat. There were half-eaten biscuits and bread on the table.
Liu Yu's stomach growled.
The anxious nerves were relaxed before she felt hungry. She picked up the baguette on the table and took a bite. She almost didn't break her teeth—she couldn't eat it.
Regretfully, Liu Yu was thrown aside, and she went around to the stairs. If I remembered correctly, the Fergus family's kitchen should be behind: Nataxi often worked in the kitchen wearing a bib.
Before he reached the door, he heard two low-pitched complaints.
"Damn! Miss Belia went out to fool around and hasn't come back yet."
"Maggie, nobles often dance and feast all night long, it's normal."
"Miss Natasy will never be like this! Poor Miss Natasy, since Mr. Leonard left, she has become a poor little nobody cares about..."
"Shh, I heard... Mr. Leonard was killed jointly by his wife and her lover in order to inherit his inheritance."
"... oh, poor Mr. Leonard, oh my poor Miss Natasie, she is so unfortunate..."
"Meow-"
In the middle of the night, a sharp meow suddenly sounded.
The whispering servant was startled, and when he turned his head, he found a black shadow outside the kitchen:
"Who?! Who's there?!"
When the long hair that was brighter than gold was revealed, the servants obviously breathed a sigh of relief, but soon their faces turned pale with fright, as if they had seen a ghost:
"Bei, Miss Belia?! You, why are you here?"
Liu Yu bent down and picked up the black cat that was screaming at her at her feet, her cherry blossom-like lips curled up:
"My mother killed Uncle Leonard? Oh, I should really ask the envoys of the temple to take a look. There is also a divine person missing here. My mother actually knows magic and can control the wind and waves on the sea."
Cinderella's father died in a storm while doing business at sea.
This passage in the book is always ambiguous and ambiguous, and Liu Yu can't know the truth about it. But there are indeed rumors that Nataxi's stepmother killed her husband for inheritance and joint lovers—
However, since she became Belia, when the truth is not known, she will naturally deny it.
Liu Yu's eyes fell to the stairs, a section of skirt was exposed, and a slender figure was hidden in the dark.
The servants looked embarrassed:
"Yes, yes, what Miss Belia said was true."
"Get some pancakes and toast, I'm hungry."
Liu Yu raised her chin arrogantly, "Besides, don't let me hear you say such words again, otherwise, I, Bellia Fergus, can only invite you to live in Sauron Prison for a while."
"Yes Yes… "
The servants were silent.
Today's Miss Fergus obviously didn't smash anything or lose her temper, but she was a hundred times more terrifying than usual, especially when she said with a smile that she would "penalize half a month's wages", it made people tremble even more.
Liu Yu carried the black cat to the living room.
The skirt behind the stairs disappeared.
She decided to change her clothes first, the petticoat on her body made her uncomfortable, and the cat...
She exchanged a glance with it.
If I remember correctly, I just bit the gray spotted finch raised by Nataxi just this morning
That gray spotted finch was not unusual.
No, or rather, it was unusual in the first place. It is an ordinary gray spotted finch, saved by a kind Cinderella on a cold winter night.
But something went wrong when the incarnation of the God of Light descended.
He was careless when pinching the avatar, and he was also careless when casting the avatar, so that he made a mistake halfway.
The memory turned into a glazed bead, which should have belonged to Gaia's divine power, but came later, arrived in the human world three days ahead of schedule, and attached to this gray spotted finch—
Even if this divine power is less than one billionth of the vast divine power of the God of Light itself, it is enough for the human world.
The gray spotted finch has supernatural powers, as if enlightened.
It appreciates Nataxi's life-saving grace, her kindness and pity, and becomes her "fairy godmother".
It conjured up the most beautiful dress in the world with its divine power, made the most luxurious golden carriage, and nourished her unbeautiful face with its divine power, making everyone fascinated by her.
The prince became her servant.
Compared to Cinderella, the original body is like a king of destruction who pokes things everywhere. What she is facing now is a sieve full of holes: if you don't try your best to fill the holes, just wait for the holes to fill her up. .
"Meow meow meow-"
The black cat didn't know how much trouble he had caused, so he blinked at her innocently.
Liu Yu simply thought about the possibility of snatching "Grey Spotted Finch" over, and the high-heeled shoes "da da da" landed on the spiral staircase, making a crisp sound.
Suddenly, she felt the hairs of the black cat in her arms stand on end, its four plum-blossom hooves stood up, and its throat roared threateningly into the air.
A gray spotted finch appeared out of nowhere and swooped towards her from top to bottom. The hurricane brought by its wings blew past the crystal lamp in the living room, making a "jingling" sound.
"boom-"
The mural on the stairs fell off.
"Jiujiu! Come back!"
Nataxi poked her head out from the third floor in a panic.
Liu Yu hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab the escalator to avoid being blown down by the hurricane.
The black cat jumped out of its embrace without a sound, baring its teeth forward.
"Belia!" At this moment, a high-pitched voice that almost pierced the eardrums came, "Oh, my dear Belia, are you alright?"
"Maggie, Tina, catch this damn bird!"
A fiery red figure rushed over and hugged Liu Yu.
She wasn't dressed very elegantly, the red silk nightgown didn't even have time to tie it up, revealing a large area of snow-white skin, so she just rushed over barefoot and hugged Liu Yu in her arms.
Liu Yu's face was buried hard, and the strong aroma of roses penetrated into her nose—
Very fragrant and very warm.
She is a little confused:
"Mother?"
"Oh, my Belia," she first touched the girl's head tenderly, and then shouted fiercely at the top of her head, "Nataxi! Nataxi! Oh, damn it!"
Nataxi came down in a panic, her little face pale with fright:
"Jiu Jiu, Jiu Jiu didn't do it on purpose! Please spare him!"
She seemed terrified and her legs were shaking.
Liu Yu patted the woman who hugged her tightly:
"Let me go."
Mrs. Fergus has a beautiful face. Although there are fine lines at the corners of her eyes, she still has a charming face. She let go of Belia gently, ran up to Nataxi, and just slapped her—
"Damn it! I told you a long time ago, keep an eye on your bird!"
"This bastard dares to hurt my Belle! You wait, this time I will pluck out its bird feathers and stew it!"
Nataxi covered her face and screamed:
"No! I won't let you hurt it!"
The servants waved bamboo poles and beat the gray spotted finch in mid-air desperately.
The gray spotted finch flapped its wings and hid back and forth.
"No?! You untouchable, this is my Fergus family's house, what right do you have to not allow it?"
Mrs. Fergus walked slowly to Nataxi.
She stretched out her hand and slapped it away, but was stopped halfway—
Mrs. Fergus looked at her sweetheart inexplicably, her voice softened:
"Belia, what's wrong with you?"
Nataxi's eyes widened too, and she looked at her stepsister strangely.
"Nataxi."
Liu Yu opened her mouth slowly, staring at the black bean eyes of the gray speckled freckle, "You don't want to have something to do with Jiujiu, do you?"
In fact, the servants couldn't beat the gray freckle, but the gray freckle seemed to have spotted her, and always wandered around her with flapping wings—as if there was something about her that attracted it.
After Liu Yu thought about it, there was only that memory bead.
Nataxi nodded:
"Yes, Sister Belia, let Jiujiu go, okay? It really wasn't intentional."
Liu Yu's eyes were bent into crescents, falling into people's eyes, those azure eyes were like a gentle sea:
"Okay, of course there's no problem."
The girl bent down, covering people in her shadow, the corners of her mouth curled up in an evil and charming way:
"Nataxi, give me Jiujiu, something I never hurt myself."
Nataxi's smiling face froze:
"Belia... sister?"
"Why, don't you want to? Or do you think that Sister Belia... can speak well?"
"No," Nataxi lowered her eyes, curled up her two tender little feet helplessly, "Jiujiu won't be willing, it only eats what I feed."
"What if it wants to?"
"Just, give it to my sister."
Not long after, Liu Yu returned to the room with the gray freckle.
Nataxi bit her lip and watched, thinking: Why, doesn't Jiujiu like me the most? Sister Belia obviously has so much, why would she want to rob her of what little happiness she has
"Louis."
Natassie walked up to the attic with bare feet, walking in the dark.
A pale man silently enveloped her from behind.
"I only have you."
Nataxi sobbed softly, "Why, mother, father, even Jiujiu, all want to leave Nataxi? Is Nataxi bad?"
The pale hand of the Vampire Duke caressed her cheek:
"No, my noble princess, you deserve all the best in the world. I will take it back for you."
He devoutly left a kiss on the back of her hand.
"Does Louis think... my sister is pretty?"
Nataxi raised her head timidly and inferiorly, then lowered her head again, "I'm sorry, Nataxi shouldn't have asked."
"How can her dirty, smelly, and lustful blood compare to yours?"
The vampire's fangs easily pierced the girl's tender skin, "My dear Nataxi."