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Chapter 194 Nothing Has Changed

Ella ultimately underestimated Susie Yun's obsession.

In fact, as early as when Ye Xiao received those seven letters from the Aslan Embassy, ​​he felt that Su Xiyun might have gone astray.

But it was just a vague feeling, since the text in the letter itself seemed rather bland and restrained, without much emotional expression, but the word count was just too high.

No one could have imagined that, because of Ye Xiao's faked death, she would infiltrate the Samuel Order's stronghold, hunt down holy remains, find information on alchemy for resurrecting humans, and the key medium, the Fountain of Youth, and pursue him all the way to the Fog City.

Then, during the vampire queen's resurrection ceremony, she stole a portion of the Fountain of Youth, which, along with the internal organs she had dug out, was used as materials for the resurrection ceremony.

However, she could not possibly succeed, since Ye Xiao was not dead at all.

However, all of this was rather ironic, and when Ella realized this, she felt quite guilty.

An innocent girl was plunged into the abyss simply because of a false misunderstanding she created.

"you……"

Held in her arms, the bandaged girl's voice trembled slightly before she cried out angrily, "Let me go!!!"

Like a hedgehog, she extended countless sharp quills from her body, piercing Ella's petite body as she embraced her, leaving it riddled with holes.

But Ella gently stroked his head and whispered, "Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you, it's all over."

"What's the point of saying all this now that things have come to this!"

"Mr. Ye is not dead, he is still alive. I'm sorry I lied to you."

"you……!"

The girl, her face wrapped in bandages, froze, then stammered, "What did you say..."

"Your ritual will not succeed, not because I want to stop you or anything, but simply because the person you want to resurrect is actually still alive."

"Impossible... This... I saw him die with my own eyes..."

Ella grasped his hand. "Really, I'm not lying to you. If you want, I can even bring him to see you right now."

"No! No!!!"

The bandaged girl's resistance was unexpectedly fierce. "No! Please!!! Don't let him see me like this!"

Ye Xiao, who was leaning against the wall next door, stopped in his tracks.

Fortunately, he considered it first and let Ella go out to meet the other party first. Indeed, for Susie Yun in her current state, meeting directly like this would be too cruel.

"Fine, fine, I won't see him, I won't see him."

Ella gently comforted her, saying, "But you don't need to worry about your appearance. I can help you harmonize the Hermitage's relics and remove those scars."

"Everything will be back to normal, don't worry. I can help Lucas return to human form, so you will be fine too."

The face, wrapped in bandages, opened its mouth slightly, and the previously manic and sinister gaze softened somewhat. "Really..."

Ella raised her hand and gently removed the bandage from the other person's face, revealing a horrifying face covered in stitches and sutures. But Ella did not show any disgust; instead, she gently stroked the face with her smooth, delicate fingers.

"No problem, leave it to me. You will be exactly the same as before. If you really want to see Mr. Ye again after that, I can help you find him."

"..."

Looking into Ella's deep red eyes, the girl felt that her beautiful eyes were full of cunning. She wondered if she would fall for it again and step into a new abyss.

But she was truly exhausted. After so many days of perseverance, sacrificing so much and falling to the bottom of the abyss, she still gained nothing.

Even if it's a hope tainted by poison, she'd gladly accept it.

This was Miss Su's idea. Of course, in reality, the cunning in Ella's eyes was simply because she had a villainous face; she thought her gaze was quite sincere.

"But let me make it clear beforehand, Ye Xiao is a bastard. He faked his death that time just to deceive the followers of the Hermitage, and of course he deceived you too."

"He didn't even try to explain afterward, and as a result, you ended up like this while he went off to have fun elsewhere. In my opinion, he's an absolute scumbag."

Even so... I still want to see him.

"Ah."

Unexpectedly, Su Xiyun answered without any hesitation, "...This was originally just my own choice...I can't blame him."

"...Okay, I never realized you were so, uh, stubborn."

Ella smiled. "Then after I restore you to your original state, I'll take you to find him."

"About this... could you... could you please not let him know about these things about me?"

"Oh, it's alright, your appearance will be restored. He won't mind things from the past."

Ella looked somewhat embarrassed, after all, she knew things she should and shouldn't have known.

"No...I..."

The girl's throat bobbed slightly. "I...I just want it to be like the first time I met him...just ordinary...as if nothing ever happened..."

Ella looked at the girl who was speaking in a hesitant tone, sighed with a wry smile, and gently put her head on her shoulder, pressing that bumpy and terrifying face against her own beautiful and flawless profile.

"I understand... but I hope that one day you can let go of your worries and find peace. Believe me, in my eyes, you have always been beautiful."

……

The next day.

The Fog City Cathedral, a dressing room upstairs.

With her authority over life, Ella was quite adept at dealing with the anomalies in appearance caused by these holy remains. Her healing tentacles could restore the physical body of the object to its original soul form. So, apart from beings whose normal lifespan had come to an end, she could resurrect even if the object was cut into pieces, as long as it was not completely dead.

The scars and stitches caused by piecing together the holy remains were not serious injuries. The desire for holy blood was due to the divine influence of the Mother of Arthropods, which was somewhat like corruption.

But such things are nothing to fear in the face of Ayra's divinity. She essentially covered the original pollution with a more severe "pollution," replacing the fundamental power driving these sacred relics with Ayra's own.

Of course, this also makes Susie Yun a full-fledged Apostle of Ella. However, Ella already has a large number of followers whom she has unintentionally created, and she has not used her will to forcibly influence or manipulate them. Many of them may not even know that they have been involved with this great evil god, so one more person will not make much difference.

Susie Yun sat in front of the mirror, and when Ella removed the bandages from her face, she could hardly believe her reflection.

On a sunny day, warm sunlight streams in through the window, and the occasional melodious chirping of larks adds to the pleasant atmosphere.

But the black-haired girl in the mirror had a flawless face, her eyes as bright as black gemstones, and her thin, moist lips slightly parted in surprise beneath her fair nose.

If one had to pinpoint a difference from before, it might be that the fierceness and gloom between his brows hadn't completely dissipated.

"Your eyes may not be as innocent as they used to be. After all you've been through, it's not easy to relax again."

Ella leaned close to Susie Yun's shoulder and nuzzled her soft cheek with her little hand. "But it's okay, you look good even when you're being naughty."

And Su Xiyun's eyes immediately welled up with tears.

"Hey, why are you crying? Is there something I didn't do right?"

"No... I just feel like... a nightmare is finally over..."

Chapter 195 An Accidental Encounter

At the same time, in the main hall of the Seven Luminaries Society's temporary residence.

Having returned with his fill, Li Cheng watched Ye Xiao scrutinizing himself in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror, and asked with some curiosity, "Hey, little bear, you're making such a fuss over a date with the Holy Maiden. Does she think she'll look down on you?"

Greta, who had transformed into a golden kitten and was resting on the table, suddenly had her two soft ears, which had been pressed against her forehead, stand up as if electrified. Her large, bell-like eyes snapped open, staring at Ye Xiao's profile, and she let out a shrill cry, "A date!?"

"You're such a gossip."

Ye Xiao straightened her collar in front of the mirror. "Do you think this outfit has that cool yet effortless feel to it?"

"What a mess."

Li Cheng scratched his head. "If what you mean by 'not deliberate' is just pulling your shirt out of your pants and draping it over your shoulders, then I suggest you ask the Holy Maiden to give you a fresh look at your aesthetic sense."

"Go away, you don't know anything."

Ye Xiao put a bowler hat on his head, but because of what Li Cheng had just said, he looked at himself in the mirror and thought he looked like a street thug.

"You're too incompetent. Let this maid guide you instead."

Greta stood up, and with a light leap, her round body floated onto Ye Xiao's shoulder like a golden cotton candy.

She gently touched the mirror with her front paw, and a phantom image of Ye Xiao, with her hair standing on end like a hedgehog, wearing purplish-black smoky makeup and a gothic studded collar coat, slowly emerged in the mirror, resembling the lead singer of a death metal band.

"See? You have to dress like this to look handsome."

"I appreciate your kindness, but the aesthetics of hell are still a bit premature for humans."

Ye Xiao patted Greta's kitten head.

After some discussion, Ye Xiao finally changed into an ordinary Valencia gentleman's trench coat and put on a brown Fedora-style soft felt hat before going out.

"So, Ye Xiao, who are you going on a date with?"

The kitten perched on Ye Xiao's shoulder and, with a hint of anticipation, asked the question that concerned her most.

"Ahem, it wasn't really a date, just a stroll in Central Park."

Ye Xiao teased Greta's little nose with his fingertip, and the latter opened her mouth and yawned silently, then lightly slapped Ye Xiao's face with a rather dissatisfied little paw.

"Look at how guilty you are. Are you afraid I'll eat you alive if you tell me? Anyway, you've hooked up with more than one or two naive girls. I'm used to it."

"You can't say that,"

Ye Xiao scratched the side of her face that had been photographed.

However, despite saying that, Ye Xiao was indeed trying to atone for the sins he had committed.

During this time, Susie Yun and Ella had a lot of heart-to-heart talks. So, at Susie Yun's request, Ella planned to "create" a chance encounter for her and Ye Xiao, which would also fulfill Susie Yun's obsession with meeting Ye Xiao "like before".

Although, according to Ella's memory, Susie Yun and Ye Xiao's first meeting was clearly a match-fixing incident at the training ground of the Loren Imperial City Academy, she naturally wouldn't mention such an unromantic thing.

While chatting with Greta, Ye Xiao went out and hailed a carriage to go to the park, taking the opportunity to admire the current street scene of the foggy city.

The damage to the streets caused by Ella's battle with the vampire queen is still not fully repaired. The area affected by this battle, which can be described as a clash of gods, is too large. The middle section of the Thames River, which flows through Westminster, was even blasted into a dammed lake by the queen's final, heaven-defying spell.

Besides the large number of ordinary residential areas and factory areas being razed to the ground, some old buildings are also said to have been destroyed, including the famous Clock Tower and Westminster Bridge.

Ye Xiao had no recollection of how the two historical sites disappeared, but fortunately, the Valen royal family did not ask Ella for compensation; they simply took on the cost of repairing the city themselves.

However, the royal family is also troubled by the fact that they cannot find a suitable successor to the throne, since the original heir, Alex, was one of the culprits who "colluded with wandering vampires to trigger the Blood Moon Incident".

Ye Xiao had to admit that he admired the royal family's courage in revealing the truth, which led to several days of protests outside the palace by family members demanding answers.

Because all the wandering vampires who participated in the protests have died, the protests are now mainly targeting the royal family, or more accurately, Alex and his family who returned from the Tedhe Federation—they have basically become rats that everyone hates. The more the citizens admire the saint who saved the city, the more they curse the members of this royal family.

Of course, this was probably due to Alina's efforts; otherwise, those corrupt bureaucrats would never have had the courage to admit their own blemishes.

However, the only remaining heir to the throne, Alina, did not accept her adoptive mother's position, saying that she was unworthy of the throne.

Ella tried to persuade her on this point. After all, the reality was that when the moon rose, Evelyna's bloodline alone activated the divine kingdom barrier. With the barrier in place, Empress Isadora, who was not dead to begin with, would have inevitably descended. Furthermore, it was later proven that the Empress's death was actually orchestrated by Alex's men, and Elina was merely deceived by the latter using some mental methods.

In other words, Alina didn't actually do anything; in fact, she even helped break the barrier at the end.

But she couldn't get over her own inner conflict, always believing that she was responsible for the Queen's death. There was nothing she could do; Ella couldn't interfere too much in the internal affairs of other countries, so she could only leave it to the Queen and see when she could resolve her inner turmoil on her own.

As Ye Xiao gazed at the freight wagons carrying timber and stone coming and going along the way, his thoughts drifted until Greta's soft paws patted his mouth. "Stop daydreaming, we're here."

Ye Xiao then tucked Greta into his collar, paid the fare, and stepped out of the carriage to look around.

Central Park is the largest park in Chongqing. Although most of the trees are bare in winter, the weather has been clear and sunny these past few days. The snow that had accumulated on the roads recently has melted a lot, giving it a unique sense of openness.

Many citizens strolled around the park, some walking their dogs or carrying birdcages to walk their birds. Regarding the latter, Ye Xiao had never quite understood the point of keeping birds in cages, but the royal families of Chongqing seemed to have a particular fondness for it.

"Remember to act well-behaved for a while, my lady. I'll have Ella send you some dried fish from Storm Harbor when we get back."

Ye Xiao rubbed the cat's head and said.

"Hmph, so mysterious, what pretense? I've always been very well-behaved."

Greta licked her paws haughtily, then, as usual, clung to Ye Xiao's chest and rested her head quietly against it.

Ye Xiao adjusted the brim of his hat, strolled forward, and arrived at a path he had chosen beforehand.

At the far end of the tree trunk, a black-haired girl with her hand on her chest and a somewhat nervous expression leaned against the tree, seemingly waiting for something.

In the warm glow of the winter sun, Ye Xiao stepped through the still-snowy ground, his seemingly casual gaze sweeping across the girl's face, meeting her tense gaze as she looked over.

"Eh?...Miss Su?"

Ye Xiao suddenly raised an eyebrow, revealing a slightly surprised smile.

"Ah...Mr. Ye...?"