Stunningly beautiful yet wicked, she begins by conquering eight beast husbands.

Chapter 37 Stop being happy, your good days are over.

Dawn is breaking.

As dawn approached, the night grew darker, a somber blackness filling the entire sky, so thick that not a single ray of light could be seen.

Riley and Zheko had a tense talk all night, and at the end, their eyes met with venom, their sharp edges exposed.

Riley admitted that he had provoked Sylvia, but he never intended to kill Scarlett.

Zheko also admitted that he knew Riley was testing him, so he gave Scarlett a push when she was in danger.

They have the same goal.

Everyone is using their own methods to see if Scarlett is worth giving a chance.

The only variable was that Sevia suffered a mental breakdown.

To them, it was utterly absurd that a male of rank A would suffer a mental breakdown in a lower-level area.

Even if the Lost Continent has a unique environment, with toxins in the air that taint the mind, he shouldn't be so fragile.

Zheko suspects Riley wants to kill him to cover it up.

Whether it's Sevier's recent change in attitude towards Scarlett, or Scarlett's resentful words when she left Sevier's territory.

All of this was enough to make Riley consider this idea and take drastic measures.

Riley was the first of the eight to suggest killing Scarlett, and he was also the one who orchestrated the StarNet propaganda campaign.

He hated Scarlett more than anyone else.

Riley understood Zheko's gaze. His smiling face, which had been beaming all night, was now a little stiff. He suppressed his smile, stared at Zheko for a few seconds, and then, as if remembering something, suddenly said, "By the way, have you heard the legends of the merfolk?"

"The legend of the merfolk?" Zheko was taken aback, wondering how the conversation had turned to this.

Riley hummed in agreement, gazing at the night outside the window, and said calmly, "Mermaids, also known as merfolk, are beings with two souls in one body, one weak and one strong. When faced with danger, they change, becoming fierce and brutal."

Zheko pondered those words for a moment, then sneered, "That's just a legend. You wouldn't be trying to use that as an excuse to fob Scarlett off the hook, would you?"

"Don't worry, Scarlett won't pursue this matter."

Riley's eyes crinkled into a half-smile, her gaze unusually gentle. "Hasn't her act of setting aside past grievances to save Sevier already shaken your and Chi Ye's opinion of her? Scarlett is smart now; she knows this is in her best interest, and she won't pursue it further."

Zheko narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint in his eyes. "Who said I wavered?"

Riley looked back at him gently. "A month ago, you acquired an SS-class flying vehicle in the Lost Continent. Using the flying vehicle to cross that gravel road is much safer than carrying it across. Don't you agree, Major Zheko?"

Dzeko remained silent.

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Scarlett enjoyed two days of good food and drink at the Herda Palace.

Day three.

She organized the beastmen to go to the Lost Continent again.

As Riley said, Scarlett didn't hold a grudge about what had happened before.

The reason was the same as what he said.

Scarlett had read about the beasts and understood the plot, so she knew who hated her the most and who was the most ruthless.

She kept a close eye on the changes that had occurred in the Lost Continent.

I suspected it was related to Riley from the very beginning.

Riley's superpower is to bewitch people, and he is also skilled at manipulating power.

It was hard for Scarlett not to have doubts.

So when Sevier has a mental breakdown, she will go to save her without hesitation.

Regardless of whether she can save him or not.

Attitude is most important.

She risked her life to save someone who wanted her dead.

It was undoubtedly announcing to everyone that the wicked Scarlett had truly changed for the better.

Riley and his group were plotting to frame the princess for a capital offense, which was like walking a tightrope; a slight misstep could result in their deaths and bring ruin upon their entire families.

They wanted to kill the princess because she was wicked, and if they didn't resist, they would be tortured to death.

The princess is no longer wicked.

Then they don't need to take any risks.

The fact that Levi used Sevier to kill herself is enough to prove that they wanted to know how she would react to someone who wanted to kill her. Would she kill, save, or intensify the torture as before?

Furthermore.

Scarlett didn't believe that her E-level mental strength was enough to truly save Sevier.

So this is a complete and utter scheme.

Judging from the current results, Scarlett was right.

During this trip to the Lost Continent, everyone got along very well, and we're starting to feel like a family. Everyone did their part and focused on fighting monsters, quickly clearing the leveling area in two days.

Thanks to the self-help guru.

The final reward was a bit underwhelming.

All five people drew level one spirit cypress, with a maximum of ten and a minimum of two.

Heartbroken.

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Scarlett was obsessed with leveling up, and she would go to the Lost Continent every day she rested.

The rewards were as lame as ever, but she could still rack them up.

After going three times.

Scarlett's mental strength has reached level D, so she can now train in the intermediate area.

Good news also came from the ancient singing grass she planted: it split into two plants from one bud with two leaves, and there was only one day left before it was successfully cultivated.

It means...

A day later, she will be able to harvest two Ancient Singing Grasses, which are long extinct in the interstellar world.

What a double blessing.

this day.

Scarlett has just returned from the Lost Continent.

He was still catching his breath.

Lilia rushed over and said urgently, "Your Highness, something terrible has happened! Captain Holster was attacked by the Zerg at the training ground and suffered severe damage to his mental sea. He urgently needs to be comforted and is on his way back."

When people are happy, there's always a resounding slap that wakes them up, telling them, "Stop being happy, your good days are over."

This is Scarlett's current situation.

If Riley's rescue by Sophia foreshadowed the original owner's fate of being exiled.

Holster's injury was a powerful blow that sealed her fate.

Holts was injured and his mental state was severely damaged; he urgently needed comforting.

This news was insignificant to the original owner, who paid no attention to it and watched helplessly as the original owner reverted to his beast form and went out of control, injuring people.

She couldn't soothe her own beastly husband, nor would she allow anyone else to soothe him. She didn't even give him any comforting medicine, leaving him to self-harm in his breakdown.

If Sofia hadn't appeared in time...

Holts' life was over.

Holts was wounded for the empire, but the empire's princess didn't care whether he lived or died.

The public was outraged upon hearing the news, leading to protests and impeachment proceedings.

Scarlett was a little flustered.

She remembered that this part of the story didn't happen this early on.

It should be that Holst returned from the training grounds, led the Starfleet on an interstellar patrol, and encountered the Zerg attack.

Why did the plot start ahead of schedule?!
Could it be related to her?
Has the butterfly effect occurred?
During this time, she kept thinking about this part of the story and tried to contact Holster.

But Holst was at the training ground, where messages were blocked, so he couldn't send them at all.

She was thinking that there was no rush, and she would wait for Holster to come back and remind him to be careful.

Now that it's happening ahead of schedule, she wasn't prepared at all.

There was no other way but to bite the bullet and go for it.

Scarlett suppressed her panic, calmly looked at Lilia, and instructed, "Holts was injured for the Empire, which is truly heroic. It's a pity that my mental power cannot soothe him. He doesn't need to come back. Let him go directly to the Royal Medical Institute. I will cover all the expenses."

(End of this chapter)