The villain's way of taming the protagonist

The girl just lowered her head, and with trembling hands, received the pitch-black snake ring from Anser as if receiving a sacred object.

"I will, Lord Hydera."

Smart, kind, tolerant, and weak, Marina raised her head, with a confident and beautiful smile that she had never seen before:

"However, I have a small request, please...be sure to agree."

Sitana just instinctively felt that her sister was a little strange, but couldn't tell what it was.

But the corner of Anser's mouth raised slightly.

The girl who had been submissive in front of her some time ago finally dared to make a request sincerely, even using the word "must".

"Let's talk." The young Hydera smiled happily, "I will definitely agree."

"It's just a very simple matter. I hope I can work with you as before."

Marina smiled and spoke softly.

In the past few days when Xitana had nothing to do, Xitana, who always came to Anser's study from time to time, or was called to the study by Anser, made Marina choose to back down.

She no longer worked with Anser, but stayed in her room working on paperwork.

"Ah? That's it?" Hitana scratched her cheeks, "I thought it was something, what's the point of asking Hydera so seriously about such a trivial matter, Linna."

She said indifferently, as if trespassing on Anser's study was as simple as eating and drinking.

"At the same time." Marina said softly, without looking at her sister.

"I hope that when I am working with you, you can deny Xitana from entering the study."

"Hmm... so there is still a request... huh?!"

Before Anser could speak, Xitana frowned instantly. She turned her head to stare at Marina, puzzled and slightly annoyed: "Linna, what do you mean?"

"literal meaning."

Marina said to Sitana very gently and kindly: "Xi'er, Your Excellency Hydera is very tired dealing with documents every day, and I am not capable enough, so I may be disturbed by you, just for the sake of the commoners of Chishuang Territory, Can you not bother me?"

This sentence hit Hitana's increasingly inflated "self-righteousness". The girl hesitated for a long time, and finally curled her lips unwillingly: "Okay... just don't bother you in the future."

So Marina turned her hopeful eyes to Anser.

"Of course I don't have any objection." Anser also looked at Marina, with a meaningful look in her eyes that seemed to be different from before, which made the girl's heart beat faster, her body was scorching hot, and her blood was hot.

But it didn't bring any tension to Marina, only a kind of... happiness that she had never experienced before.

"Thank you for your generosity."

Marina lifted the hem of her skirt and bowed to Anser: "I will definitely not disappoint your expectations. This is for Chishuang to lead all the poor people."

And for...you.

Ps:

Yesterday, a reader reminded me that the progress was a bit slow. Originally, I wanted to write about the constant conflict between Xitana and Marina, and finally to the daily life where Marina gradually became numb. But thinking about it, it seems to be the case. Tens of thousands of words, just a brief chapter, anyway, the previous foreshadowing is already sufficient, I hope you don't feel that Marina's changes are sudden.

Chapter 58 Sitana's Suffering

Life is such a wonderful thing.

Sitana, who was racking her brains and thinking about how to expose the footage of the Earl of Stone's meeting, now began to worry about things on another level.

Anser promised her to distribute coal to the poor in Chishuang before the big cold wave came. This is a good thing, a great thing!

The terrifying cold wave in the north is one of the main reasons why this vast land can never be compared with the central part of the empire. Crops, livestock, population, and even infrastructure... are all likely to suffer serious damage in the cold wave.

If it weren't for an emperor 500 years ago who built the Tower of Eternal Flames at the northernmost tip of the Northland, which can reduce the lethality of the Great Cold Wave by [-]% to [-]%, this land would be a dead end where only powerful monsters can survive .

——Of course, the emperor at that time was only interested in the rich mineral resources in the Northland, so he opened up the border of the empire without thinking too much.

In short, Xitana has experienced two major cold waves in her life, which were not as terrifying as she expected, but they still left a deep impression on her. These two cold waves emptied out everything in their house. Not enough to last until the cold snap is over.And every time a big cold wave passes, many people in the village will die.

Old people who don't want to be burdened will even take the initiative to walk into the wind and snow, and end their humble lives in a painless way under the extreme cold.

Anser was willing to listen to her and spend so much money to help the poor in Chishuang to tide over the difficulties, how could she not be happy?

Then I was happy and happy...and then sad.

"I'm so bored... so bored..."

The girl sitting cross-legged in the room was lying on the coffee table, poking the Shadow Reflection Crystal with her hand.

"It's rare for Hydera to do such a good thing directly. No matter how bad his reputation is, it's too bad."

Miss Young Wolf is very troubled by this. On the one hand, she hopes that Anser's policies that benefit the common people of Chishuang Territory can be truly and thoroughly implemented, and on the other hand...she doesn't want Anser to lose him because of this incident. Reputation that matters.

"Why didn't you do things like this earlier, insisting on causing me such a headache, Hydera is so annoying!"

Bai Nenxue kicked the leg of the table, and Xitana could only complain to herself, unable to talk to Anser.

Since Marina made that request, she hasn't seen Anser even once today. The reason is very simple - count the poor families in the entire Scarlet Frost Territory, let the coal distribution be carried out to every nobleman, and ensure that they No pockets, but also procurement, distribution, transportation management and more.

Xitana's sentence "distribute coal to all the poor people in Chishuang Territory" sounds simple, but she doesn't know how cumbersome the link is, how heavy the workload is, and coupled with the approaching cold wave, the difficulty of this task can almost be said It's hell level, that's why Anser gave Marina incredible authority.

Even if the things are done by the people below, neither Anser nor Marina are the kind of people who give orders and don't care about anything.

"never mind."

Seeing Yingying Crystal, Xitana was upset for a while, so she simply threw it into her tool bag and ignored it: "Let's go to exercise.

, if you are not strong enough, you will not be able to help Hydera..."

The girl stood up, stretched herself, and muttered, "Speaking of which, Linna has been helping him for the past few days, and I haven't done much for Hydera...it seems really not good."

Feeling a little guilty, Sitana quickly changed into her workout clothes, took out the collar from the jewelry cabinet under the dresser, and fastened it on herself very skillfully.

In the exercise plan that Anser customized for her, there was the item of exercising the body with a low-voltage electric current - anyway, she didn't know how this thing worked, so she just wanted to tell Anser before exercising.

Sitana, who had fastened her collar, was about to close the jewelry cabinet when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a ring inside.

The ring inlaid with emeralds that she picked up from the Scarlet Frost Manor was very beautiful from the perspective of a normal woman.

"Did Hydera say... you have to be mentally prepared to wear this thing?"

Xitana picked up the ring, tilted her head and looked at it for a while: "What do you mean, is there any negative effect? ​​It is suitable for weight training?"

She actually wanted to wear it for fun a few days ago, but she didn't know where to throw it to herself. It turned out to be in the jewelry box.

In line with the principle of "Hydra will not harm herself", the somewhat curious Miss Wolf Cub directly slapped her index finger without thinking.

It can only be said that Sitana is such a person. After having Anser handle any troubles that may arise in the future, her impoverished and impulsive brain has almost given up work most of the time and stopped completely. The body is driven by instinct.

"hiss!"

A strong pain and tearing sensation devastated Sitana's brain for a few seconds. The girl covered her forehead and frowned, and it took about ten seconds to recover.

"……Gone?"

Except for the labor pain, there was no special reaction, which made Sitana a little strange.

"Um...ha!"

The girl let out a loud shout and swung her fist forward.

Unfortunately, the light waves she expected were not released.

"Hey, boring. Wait and ask Hydera."

Xitana lowered her arms in disappointment, grabbed the fruit that was replenished at any time in the fruit basket, and walked out the door carelessly while gnawing.

Before taking two steps, a maid came to meet her, and saluted her with a gentle smile.

Sitana wanted to nod her head in response, but then she heard—

"The wild wolf is so rude and disrespectful, and has no ladylike manners at all. Why does the master spoil her so much?"

"puff--"

Sitana sprayed the pulp and juice in her mouth all over the floor, and looked at the maid who twitched slightly at the corner of her mouth in disbelief.

"You... what did you say?!"

Rude and rude, not ladylike, I don't care, but what does the wild wolf mean!Don't add honorifics, don't even use your name!

The maid's expression froze: "Say... what? Miss Sitana, I didn't say anything?"

At the same time, Sitana heard words with the same tone but completely different content.

【What is she crazy about?It's really troublesome, she almost spit it on her clothes]

Miss Young Wolf's complexion gradually became gloomy. She stared at the maid for a while, and then quickly looked away, focusing on the ring on her index finger.

"..."

Without saying a word, she ran directly to where Anser's study was located.

She met many maids along the way, without exception, the words that Sitana heard were all——

【Wild wolf is running around without manners again, why doesn't the master punish her?】

【It's so noisy... I hope I didn't disturb the owner】

【She probably didn't go out and run around, she got her shoes dirty】

[Obviously they are sisters, why is there such a big gap between Wild Wolf and Miss Malina]

[If there must be someone favored by the master, I would rather be Miss Marina]

Not only are there various and different tones, but the disgusting words with the same starting point, Sitana can also feel...their emotions.

Boredom, envy, jealousy, numbness, and even more radical hatred... There is no positive emotion at all.

This mansion seemed to have become a terrifying cage lined with blades, leaving no room for Sitana to stay.

She wanted to take off the ring, but found that the ring was firmly stuck on her knuckles and remained motionless.

Infused with such huge emotions and disturbed by so many negative words, Sitana clenched her teeth, even if she wanted to yell and glare at those annoying maids immediately, she could bear it all.

Because Xitana has long been used to bad comments from others, although it seems that she always overreacts, but that is just her instinctive counterattack, which does not mean that she will pay too much attention to everyone's comments on her.

Especially these maids!I just wipe the table and mop the floor every day... Lina does my laundry for me, okay?What does it have to do with you, why are you arguing.

Anyway, Sitana never wanted to have a good relationship with these maids, and it didn't matter at all.

But if this thing can't be taken off all the time, it will be too annoying to have to listen to these crap-mouthed women arguing every day!And I don't have the low-level habit of peeping at other people's thoughts at all, so I have to ask Hydera how to take this thing off.

Our young lady wolf is either reckless every day, or on the way to pay the price for recklessness.

Xitana came to the study very quickly, and the closed door made her unhappy for a while, but she still knocked hard on the door:

"Hey, Hydera! I have something to ask you!"

"...Sitana, have you forgotten what I promised Marina yesterday?" Anser's voice came from the study.

His voice sounded a bit warning, and the seriousness and earnestness in it made the girl even more uncomfortable.

"But it is indeed a very important matter!" Sitana, who had never been rejected by Anser, felt a little aggrieved, "I, I am in some trouble."

After two or three seconds, Sitana heard a helpless sigh from inside.

"Marlena, please open the door."

The girl's tense expression suddenly eased a lot. She folded her arms and happily waited for the door that would never be closed for her to open.

He said it so seriously... In the end, he was not willing to open the door.Well, it's not a super important thing in the future, I'm sure I won't bother——

As the door of the study room opened, wearing a black butterfly hairpin on her head, the unchanging plain braids became smooth and long straight hair, her eyelashes and eyeliner seemed to be thicker, and she looked like a completely new Miss Marina, Zhao Xi Tana smiled:

"Don't worry, Xi'er, come in and talk slowly."

But Hitana's thoughts, together with the smile on her face, froze there.

Because she heard it.

The first time she saw Malina's warm smile, she heard... the words in her sister's heart.

Numb and indifferent.

【It's so troublesome, Hitana】

ps:

This chapter is 3K, there will be more tonight