Lucy’s luxurious residence.
Inside the master bedroom.
Wine bottles were scattered on the exquisite floor. A figure lay slumped on the bed. The gauze on her face was already stained red due to the alcohol causing her blood vessels to expand.
A drop of blood dripped down from the soaked gauze onto the figure’s arm, making her seem to regain so consciousness.
She stared blankly at the blood on her wrist, then fiercely tore off the gauze on her face as if releasing frustration. She looked towards the mirror.
With the gauze removed, her face in the mirror showed the terrifying, almost half-torn skin, which had been stitched with skin taken from her back, making her look like a monster.
If she wanted, she could indeed spend more money and find better “Physicians” or even “Reborn” to treat her wounds… But at the mont, she had no inclination to deal with such matters.
Knock knock knock——
A knock sounded at the door. Lucy reacted as if startled. She imdiately got up and quickly walked to the door, opening it.
“Hiss…”
The face that suddenly appeared in the doorway made the maid instinctively step back and gasp. But soon, she lowered her head and said, “Your Excellency Silva… soone is looking for you…”
“Who is it?”
Lucy spoke urgently, her voice carrying a hint of anticipation.
“It is soone from the Deton Group. They are asking you to confirm the final deadline to attend the independent investigation committee hearing at the President’s conference room…”
The maid said nervously.
“Shit…”
Lucy cursed. “An independent investigation committee… They can convict directly without any evidence? Just because Forte’s baseless investigation caused losses?! Those damned people who are eyeing this position…”
The maid listened with her head lowered, not daring to move a muscle as Lucy cursed.
Seeing the trembling maid before her, Lucy, who was imrsed in cursing, finally reacted. She took a deep breath, cald her tone slightly, and said, “It’s alright. Thank you for telling . Tell them to leave.”
Lucy showed a strained but rather terrifying smile, then slowly closed the door. Only after isolating herself from outside sight and hearing did she kick a wine bottle at her feet and start cursing loudly, fueled by the alcohol.
But before she could finish cursing, another knock sounded.
“Hhh…”
Lucy took a deep breath, suppressing her emotions. She casually grabbed a shawl with a hood from the coat rack by the door. After putting it on, she opened the door a crack and asked sideways, “What is it?”
“Your Excellency Silva, soone at the entrance is looking for you…”
“I told you to tell them to leave!”
Lucy reached out to close the door directly, but the maid seed to have also mustered so courage. She stepped forward and blocked the door with her body, saying anxiously, “It’s not soone from the group, Miss Silva. The person at the front said her na is Ciel…”
Ciel…
Lucy’s eyes, hidden under the hood, slightly narrowed. She didn’t bother to change her clothes. She directly pulled the door wide open. She only had ti to casually shove a wad of banknotes to the maid before quickly walking downstairs.
It should be known that only Su Pounds were paper money. Shillings and pence were just coins. This wad of Su Pounds would be at least a hundred, but Lucy seed completely unconcerned about this “small amount of money.”
The news that “Ciel is here” was priceless in Lucy’s heart at this mont.
She quickly ran to the first floor, rushed through the lobby, and ran out the front door, where she saw the woman she had been “thinking about day and night.”
“Ciel!!!!”
Lucy could hardly control her emotions. Her hood was directly pulled back as she ran.
Her scream-like shout startled Ciel and the others who were chatting and waiting outside. Ciel just looked up in Lucy’s direction. Nia reacted even faster and imdiately drew out her shield, blocking in front of the three of them.
Clang——
Lucy almost completely slamd into the shield. Unfortunately, setbacks co one after another. The stitches on her face seed to have directly burst from this action. Blood imdiately began to spurt from Lucy’s face. Lucy collapsed to the ground. Tears and blood mingled and flowed down her face.
“You finally ca… Miss Ciel…”
Ciel looked at Lucy’s miserable state before her and sighed inwardly.
How many reverse sides did she have to throw to end up this badly…
Was the na “Fate Holder” perhaps a bit of a misnor? Coupled with that “Strong Luck Coin,” it should be called “Fate Cursed,” shouldn’t it…
In the ti that followed, Ciel helped Lucy back into Lucy’s large house. She had a maid bring the dical supplies that were always kept in Lucy’s ho. In the reception room, she temporarily treated so of the opened stitches on Lucy, who was lying on the sofa.
Ciel was quite experienced in stitching… However, she had mostly only stitched corpses before, and her experience in stitching living people was not extensive. The stitches might be a little rough.
While stitching Lucy’s facial skin, Ciel listened to Lucy pour out her grievances. When she reached a moving point, Lucy would shed a few tears. Tara had to constantly wipe them away with cotton cloth to prevent the tears from flowing into the wounds and adding salt to them.
“Miss Ciel, please, you must help … Help keep this chance for promotion. I will do anything you ask.”
The mont Ciel finished stitching Lucy, Lucy imdiately propped herself up and sat up. She reached out and grabbed Ciel’s wrist, pleading, as if afraid Ciel would run away.
In this incident, Lucy was completely caught up in it… However, her stalling and stubbornness did gain Ciel a lot of valuable ti. Otherwise, Forte would have arrived even faster.
People who chose the right side should not have such an ending… Ciel quietly thought about compensation plans in her heart.
The situation Lucy was facing now wasn’t particularly complicated.
Lucy’s unexpected promotion itself had affected the interests of many factions within the group. There were many people who wanted to take her position.
And the fact that Lucy was forcibly taken away and investigated by Forte, and that this had caused losses to the Deton Group, was also used as a weapon by those who had lost their share of the pie to attack Lucy. And coincidentally, the secret of who killed the “Keyman” would implicate Ciel and the “organization” behind her. Lucy couldn’t reveal this.
Thus, Lucy was under suspicion from the board of directors and was even accused of colluding with the Society of rrint, because Forte’s reason for the investigation was suspicion of Lucy colluding with the Society of rrint.
On one side was the suspicion from other interest groups, and on the other side was the need to keep Ciel’s secret. Lucy had been on the verge of losing her mind these past few days. The ntal tornt was even worse than being tortured by Forte’s subordinates.
The current Lucy needed soone with enough weight to vouch for her, to guarantee that she was absolutely not a mber of the Society of rrint, to prove that Forte’s investigation was completely groundless and fabricated.
This guarantee… Ciel couldn’t give it herself.
Because in the eyes of organizations like the Deton Group, Ciel’s influence wasn’t enough. She was just an “unknown nobody.”
At the mont, there didn’t seem to be many people with enough influence… Eleanor was one.
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