Roaming the universe, all thanks to your many dark skills!

When Rosen and Diana walked into the Smithsonian, Barbara Minerva was sitting at a table chatting with a group of staff members.

Compared with her previous timid self, she is now sexy, charming and radiant. She easily becomes the focus of everyone's attention and is naturally sought after by a group of men.

Then she saw Diana and Rosen walking with her.

"Hi, good morning." Diana greeted everyone and then pointed at Rosen and said, "This is Rosen, he is my husband."

"Oh, husband?!"

Everyone nodded nonchalantly at first, and then they were all stunned.

Even though they had noticed the wedding ring on Diana's finger and she had said more than once that she was a married woman.

But since no one had ever seen her husband, they naturally assumed that this was just a lie she made up to drive away her suitors.

No one thought this was actually true.

And today, Diana's legendary husband appeared in front of everyone without any warning.

"I'm Barbara, Diana's new friend." Barbara shook hands with Rosen and then asked with interest, "So, what do you do?"

"Wandering around." Rosen smiled and said, "I'll shovel the uneven roads wherever I see them, and I'll go and take care of any troubles that arise."

"Wow." Barbara exclaimed, "Isn't this what the Chinese often call a hero?"

She even pronounced the last two words "hero" in Mandarin with a correct intonation. It seems that the title of academic master is not exaggerated.

"Barbara, I have something to tell you." Diana pulled her and motioned for her to talk to her side.

Then the three of them came to an empty house next door.

"I want to talk to you about that stone." Diana said straight to the point: "Citrine."

"Uh..." Barbara panicked. "You may not believe this, but after the last party, the stone disappeared..."

"I believe it." Diana looked at her and said with concern: "I just want to ask you, what wish have you ever made to that stone?"

When Barbara heard this, she panicked even more and shook her head repeatedly to deny it: "No, I don't believe it's true at all, so how can I make a wish?"

"It's best if you don't, because if you really make a wish, you might pay a price you can't afford." Diana breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's the price?" Barbara asked quickly.

"I don't know." Diana shook her head.

"Life doesn't give anything for free. All the gifts bestowed by fate have already been secretly marked with a price." (Note) Rosen said lightly.

"This is a sentence written by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in his biography, The Queen of Death." Barbara said casually, then looked at Diana and said with a gloomy face: "I am not Marie Antoinette!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.

"Rosen, this doesn't seem like her." Diana looked at Rosen helplessly.

"It's her own choice whether it looks like it or not." Rosen walked up to her and said, "We are not her. We have no right to help her decide what to do. As long as she doesn't endanger others, it's her freedom and no one can interfere."

"But she's my friend," Diana said frustratedly.

"So we shouldn't interfere with her choices. I'm sure you don't want that either." Rosen advised, "But if she really gets into trouble, we can help her. How about that?"

"Ah."

The following period was quite peaceful, and Rosen and Diana lived a sweet life every day.

Barbara didn't encounter any trouble. Instead, the one in trouble was a homeless man who had once provoked her. She saw him while jogging at night one day and beat him up.

This also seemed to open a whole new door of violence for her.

So as she became more and more sexy and powerful, her temper became more and more cold-blooded and violent, but she disguised it very well and no one could see it for the time being.

Until Maxwell Lord, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared in front of her again.

"Hey! Isn't this the boss of Black Gold Company, the famous oil tycoon? Why do you come here instead of going to the Middle East to dig for oil?" Barbara said sarcastically.

"Barbara, of course I came to see you because I love you." Maxwell held her hand and said affectionately, "The reason why I haven't shown up these days is because I got into some trouble and was imprisoned, but I didn't forget you, so after I finally escaped, I didn't even bother to call the police and came straight to you."

"What trouble are you in?" Barbara looked at him with a smile and said, "How can I help you?"

"I know you are the best." Maxwell was overjoyed and said, "I need to find a piece of citrine. It is very important to me. With it, I can solve all the problems. Then nothing can stop you and me from being together."

"But have you ever thought that I don't want to be with you anymore?" Barbara said, grabbing Maxwell's neck and pulling him up with one hand, staring at him coldly, like a female leopard crawling on a tree staring at its prey.

She said, "Now tell me why you were so determined to get that topaz and even deceived me for it."

When she said the last sentence, she pinched her fingers hard, causing Maxwell to roll his eyes in pain.

This also filled him with fear, and he immediately told all the secrets about Citrine.

"That wishing stone has infinite power. As long as you make a wish to it, it will come true."

"So what do you want to do with it?" Barbara asked coldly.

“I want to be it.”

"You are so greedy." Barbara sneered, and then said: "I thought you took the wishing stone, but now it seems that you didn't take it. Then who took it?"

Her mind raced, and she suddenly thought of Diana and Rosen.

Especially when she recalled that Diana had talked to her about the topaz, and Rosen had also mentioned something like the gift of fate, she realized that they must know something.

"It seems that the gift that fate gave me was snatched away by irrelevant people, and they want to deceive me under the guise of doing good for me. It's ridiculous." Barbara looked at Maxwell and said coldly: "Give me a reason not to kill you."

"I have money..." Maxwell noticed that Barbara's eyes turned cold, and laughed dryly: "Okay, I was wrong, actually I am about to go bankrupt, but I know who has money, as long as I have money, I can easily solve a lot of troubles."

Note: This is an English sentence She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows.

Different versions have different translations, and those who are interested can study them.

The original text is in German, you can look for it if you want.