Chapter 100: This Princess Can Easily Handle Him

Hall’s headshake.

He felt it was naturally not possible.

First of all, his past self might have killed Julia’s father and brother, freeing her from their oppression and discrimination.

In that case, Julia would definitely have feelings for him, but Julia was a mistress…

Hall felt the best solution was to be friends with Julia.

So he had to cut off the possibility of Julia having romantic feelings for him from the source.

And with Julia’s sincere personality, it wouldn’t be difficult to be friends with the other heroines.

Just like when she praised Ye Wangxue, Ye Wangxue was happy for the first time in a long time.

Right, if Julia had romantic feelings for him, she definitely wouldn’t have come up and said that he and Ye Wangxue looked like a couple.

This showed that there was a high possibility they could be friends.

Since they could be friends, he had to solve Christine’s problem.

Secondly, he also had to show his sincerity to Julia: “I am a scumbag, and it’s true I want to start a harem, but Miss Julia, I am sincere towards you. I sincerely only want to be friends with you.”

Now that he had said this, in the future, he could use his private savings to treat Julia to a big meal, help her out, and close the distance.

That would be great.

Friends, this relationship was much safer than a lover or a rumored partner.

But Julia tilted her head, her eyes instantly losing focus, becoming a hazy gray.

Hall’s headshake was too much of a blow to her.

Although she had intentionally flattered Ye Wangxue to get rid of this biggest threat, her fiancée, it didn’t mean that when Christine asked Hall if he would like her, Julia, she wasn’t full of anticipation.

She was very much looking forward to it, okay?

But before her anticipation could even rise, she saw Hall shake his head.

Julia really didn’t know what to say.

Was she really not worthy?

Indeed, she understood very well.

For the past few years, she would often think of Hall’s face as a teenager in the dead of night, of his profound temperament and the holiness and nobility of the blonde girl who accompanied him, which she, a country girl from a small village, could not compare to.

It would make Julia a little sad, feeling that she was not worthy.

But Julia had also thought about changing.

She was trying to change.

At first, she would practice with a wooden sword in the village, learning the one or two moves Hall had taught her for self-defense back then.

Her original swordsmanship talent was [A], and her constitution was also [A-].

This aptitude was considered top-notch even in the Holy Light University’s swordsmanship academy.

Self-study was not a problem.

Later, as her level slowly rose and her talent became higher, she joined the Adventurers’ Guild and registered as an adventurer to train herself.

At the beginning, she did some simple tasks.

When there were no tasks, she would work in the small town to save money.

Occasionally, there were also adult female adventurers who were willing to help and teach Julia.

For those two years, Julia basically just tagged along.

She would watch the small treasury tied under her bed gradually fill up, but Julia tied the large bills under her linen skirt.

Because the security in the small town was sometimes not very good, she would wonder when she would be able to go to Saint Louis.

Like Lov at that time, in their eyes, Saint Louis was the biggest city, a distant ideal place.

Until one day, a monster of only about level fifty appeared near the small town.

She and a team led by an older sister took the mission.

Originally, Julia was just there to tag along.

But soon, she was the only one left who could fight.

The older sister who was injured and leading the team gave her own weapon to Julia, who had been adhering to the principle of “as long as there’s a sword, it’s fine” and had no money to change weapons.

Then Julia went on a rampage.

Originally, the monster’s speed couldn’t keep up with her, whose constitution had been upgraded to [A] by her innate talent, but Julia’s original ordinary iron sword couldn’t even penetrate the monster’s fur.

It was pure scratching.

After changing to a weapon polished with magic crystals, she could easily cause wounds.

After causing wounds, it was easy.

It didn’t take long for her to kill the monster.

It was also at that time that Julia realized she seemed to be quite formidable.

Especially when the older sister she had saved said her swordsmanship was elegant and beautiful, and also quite powerful, and asked if she was a fallen noble, Julia felt she had received extraordinary recognition for the first time in her life.

So next, Julia, according to the older sister’s suggestion, took out all her savings to buy the equipment needed for adventuring and hunting monsters, changed her weapon, and got a magic lantern for night lighting.

She began to officially take on higher-paying missions, planning the date and route to Saint Louis.

When she had nothing to do, she would take good care of it.

But for Julia, it was a huge blow.

The first blow was when, after six months of walking and saving money from the border of the Papal State to a small town on the outskirts of Saint Louis, which was the night she met Himan and Hall at that farm.

First, she saw the tall, noble-looking Himan and almost mistook her for the blonde girl who was with Hall back then.

Then she learned that Hall had a fiancée, because when Ye Wangxue married to Saint Louis, Julia was still on a mission in the wilderness and had a information gap.

The second blow was also that night.

She had gone to great lengths to create a situation where they could be alone, and had gone to great lengths to have an intimate contact with Hall.

But Hall had left her halfway to find Himan.

Then she was taken to Saint Louis by Himan, and basically didn’t meet with Hall during that time.

The only time she met with Hall was at the prayer ceremony that day.

Their eyes met, and Julia thought Hall had noticed her, so she wanted to get his attention.

But she soon found that Hall was not looking at her, and even left the square alone later.

At that time, Julia secretly followed Hall from behind.

Although because she was afraid of being discovered by Hall, Julia didn’t follow very closely.

She lost track of Hall halfway, but she could roughly confirm that Hall had gone to the underground street of District Eleven.

A noble young master like Hall, who would he go to the underground street to see?

It must be a rendezvous with a certain lover, right?

Julia wasn’t stupid.

But she sometimes wondered, did Hall not remember her at all?

If he had invited her for a rendezvous, she would definitely have dressed up nicely to see him.

And now, she seemed to understand.

Looking at Hall shaking his head.

Julia took two small steps back in disbelief.

So he had never considered her a pretty girl.

This action almost broke Julia.

It was no exaggeration.

In her small town, most of the people she had contact with had said she was rather sweet and cute.

Julia herself also felt that even if she couldn’t compare to the blonde girl who was with Hall back then, and the noble girls around Hall now, in terms of appearance and face alone, she was not much worse.

Looking at Julia’s dazed appearance.

Christine, on the other hand, had no particular expression, still wearing her usual smiling face as she asked.

“Baron Hall, is Miss Julia not within your consideration?”

“Mm, I just want to be friends with Miss Julia.”

Hall nodded.

Julia was struck by lightning again.

But she told herself in her heart to hold on.

She had suffered a lot since she was a child, even if never as badly as today.

Moreover, Hall said he wanted to be friends with her, so there seemed to be some room for maneuver.

After all, many couples also started as friends.

Julia forced a smile and said, “It’s great to be friends with Mr. Hall. Julia doesn’t dare to have any ulterior motives, after all, you and the Seventh Princess are a match made in heaven.”

After speaking, she looked at Christine and gradually calmed down.

She certainly understood that this Saintess Candidate was doing it on purpose.

And, after carefully observing Christine’s face, Julia’s brain seemed to be electrocuted and began to think faster.

This person, could it be…

The blonde girl who was with Hall back then?

Why did she become a Saintess Candidate?

Saintess Candidates couldn’t fall in love.

Did her relationship with Hall fall through?

So she probed.

“Saintess Christine, you look very familiar.”

“Is that so? I also think Miss Julia looks a bit familiar.”

Just by hearing this, Julia didn’t know what Christine was thinking.

So she changed the subject, “Perhaps you have come to the southern border before to perform a blessing ceremony for the many adventurers and residents?”

“Perhaps.”

Christine was still very calm.

“If there’s nothing else, this lonely one will go back first.”

Sophia concluded this unexpected encounter.

She didn’t want to stay here any longer.

Although she didn’t know what was going on, hearing Julia say that Ye Wangxue was the most suitable girl for Hall made her feel very uncomfortable.

It must be because, in her heart, the person who matched Hall the most was her sister, right?

Yes, that’s right.

If this guy Hall were to get married, he would have to wait until her sister woke up!

Sophia firmly believed this.

“Tell me, what on earth is going on?!”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don’t play dumb, Hall! They might not know, but how could I not know?”

Late that night, in Hall’s room at the Faxtius estate.

He had been holding the list he had applied for from the Adventurers’ Guild and the Demon God’s Labyrinth Administration, intending to carefully investigate what was going on with Rhys’s appearance on the seventieth floor.

But then Ye Wangxue had rushed into his room.

After Hall’s initial perfunctory response, a tender, jade-like foot was placed directly on his knee.

She showed no mercy; she was using force.

“What is it now?”

Seeing that Ye Wangxue was no longer pretending, Hall’s mind immediately started to stall for time and think of a countermeasure.

Then he looked at the princess of Xia, who was wearing only a knee-length, moon-white nightgown, and said, “My lady, it’s cold. Be careful not to catch a cold.”

This “my lady” directly stumped Ye Wangxue.

The strength in her foot immediately weakened a bit.

“Young Master Hall, you still know to call me ‘my lady’?!”

After a brief brain freeze, Ye Wangxue felt that Hall’s words were belittling her.

This guy was so glib-tongued.

If he really regarded her as his lady, how could he still be entangled with those other girls?

He would have long since been designed to be stuck by her mysterious Majesty.

“What’s the big deal about calling you that before we break off the engagement? Don’t you also call me ‘my dear’?”

Hall had a laid-back and matter-of-fact expression.

A master of pulling and pushing.

Before figuring out why Ye Wangxue had come to his room so aggressively, the most important thing now was to pull and push.

“Hmph, Young Master Hall is so casual. You call me ‘my lady’ today, will you be calling Princess Leticia ‘my baby’ tomorrow? What was it… ‘baby’, right?”

Ye Wangxue had originally thought that if he was serious about her being his lady, she would forgive him.

But seeing that he was still the same old him, she couldn’t help but get angry.

“You… want to hear me call you ‘baby’?”

Hall avoided the main point and went straight to the point to stall for time.

“You… who wants to hear it! I’m done pretending. You, this guy, what on earth do you want? Are you only happy when I’m wearing a green hat?”

“Green hat? Is that a special term from the East?”

Hall pretended not to understand.

But he really didn’t want Ye Wangxue to wear a green hat.

From a linguistic point of view, they had to be husband and wife, and for him to be with another woman would count.

But they weren’t married yet, were they?

“It’s none of your business. If you have time, go check the Eastern studies shelf in the Holy Light University library yourself. Anyway, what’s going on with you, regarding our engagement.”

Ye Wangxue stepped on Hall’s knee, applying force again.

However, the sole of her foot was actually a bit fleshy and very soft.

And Hall’s constitution was very good.

How to put it?

It was a bit like a foot massage.

“We’ll just do as you said last time. You go back and report to your father. This kind of political marriage, you and I don’t have much say in it.”

Hall’s way of speaking was very official and formulaic.

Ye Wangxue thought again, ‘If you continue to be so indifferent, you’ll really lose this princess. I originally had some good feelings for you. Marrying me wouldn’t be a loss at all, okay?’

But she soon found that she seemed to have thought this many times.

But she didn’t care anymore.

If Hall really let her go back to the Xia Kingdom so easily, she would make him regret it for a while.

To understand what “the last time” meant.

“Fine.”

“Alright then, when are you planning to go back to the Xia Kingdom?”

“Just this winter break. Isn’t this semester at Holy Light University about to end? After it’s over, I’ll go back to the Xia Kingdom.”

“Oh.”

Hall felt this timing was quite suitable.

After the winter break, the authorities would probably normalize his file so he could take on missions from the Black Knights and run.

To go out and improve himself, he first had to ensure that he was stronger than the several heroines who were prone to turning to the dark side.

And, the power he had absorbed in the Demon God’s Labyrinth seemed to have been partially digested.

His strength had also increased as a result.

He should be at level sixty-nine now, close to seventy.

“Don’t you dare miss this princess!”

Seeing Hall’s indifferent expression.

Ye Wangxue was so angry.

But she had nowhere to vent her anger, it was so uncomfortable, she felt like she had suffered an internal injury.

“Well, I will occasionally think of my lady…”

Hall chose to pull and push.

Ye Wangxue’s interest was piqued.

She felt he was expressing himself euphemistically and immediately raised her eyebrows.

“Oh?”

“After all, my lady’s legs are very beautiful.”

This was not a lie.

For Hall, Ye Wangxue’s slender calves were now in full view.

To match his words, he slowly reached out his hand.

If he did this, Ye Wangxue should immediately pull her leg back.

He was afraid that Lorraine would suddenly burst into the room and wanted to immediately reduce the probability of danger.

But to his surprise, Ye Wangxue did not immediately refute his somewhat frivolous words, nor did she pull her leg back.

She really let Hall touch it.

Hall was also embarrassed to pull his hand back.

If he pulled it back, Ye Wangxue would probably see through his thoughts.

Besides, it did feel quite good.

Smooth, delicate, warm, and comfortable, without a single hair.

“How… how is it?”

Ye Wangxue’s body tingled.

Especially where Hall’s palm touched, it was as if his warmth could be instantly transmitted to her skin and linger for a long time.

It was the first time a man had touched her leg.

But to win Hall over, she could only endure the shame.

She wanted to make Hall remember the feeling of her, so that when she left, he would miss her days in Saint Louis even more.

She was very smart!

She could easily handle him.

“It’s alright.”

“What do you mean, ‘it’s alright’?”

Ye Wangxue was so angry.

“It just feels alright.”

“What does ‘alright’ feel like?! Explain it clearly to this princess.”

“It’s just ‘alright’.”

“Then what about compared to Leticia?”

…

Hall thought to himself that he hadn’t officially touched Leticia’s leg yet.

So he said, “It’s hard to compare.”

“You must explain it clearly today!”

Her desire to win surpassed her shame.

Ye Wangxue stepped on Hall’s knee and slid all the way up his thigh, her body getting closer to his.

Because her moon-white nightgown was a silk, form-fitting type, it showed off her figure.

In this situation, those beautiful curves were also in full view of Hall.

“I haven’t touched Princess Leticia’s leg yet. Do you really care?”

“Oh~”

Ye Wangxue was in a good mood.

If Hall had asked her if she cared at any other time, she would definitely have said angrily, “I don’t care at all.”

But now, she just said, “I care a little. As the official fiancée, with the reputation of a princess of Xia on the line, I can’t possibly lose to that kind of mistress.”

“Oh, first of all, Leticia is not a mistress.”

“Hmph, when you marry me, she will be!”

Seeing that Hall wouldn’t budge, Ye Wangxue was too lazy to continue.

She kicked his stomach with the sole of her foot and then pulled it back.

How to put it?

There was no smell, just some rose and milk fragrance.

This was because she had followed the local customs.

The noble ladies of Saint Louis would soak their feet in fresh milk sprinkled with rose petals at night, and she was no exception.

“It smells quite nice.”

“?”

Ye Wangxue, who was about to leave the room, was once again stumped by Hall’s words.

But when she turned around, she found the black-haired youth looking at her feet with a meaningful expression.

Ye Wangxue was both shy and angry!

“Lecher!”

“I suggest you try calling me ‘husband’.”

“In your dreams!”

Seeing Ye Wangxue leave with a harsh word and run out the door.

Hall felt.

It was great.

His persona was finally working correctly!

Now that Ye Wangxue was going back to the Xia Kingdom, she probably wouldn’t think of coming back, right?

For the next few days, Hall enjoyed a rare period of peace and quiet.

Because of the incident in the Demon God’s Labyrinth, Moyel was still shaken.

She hadn’t reported it to the Child family’s head butler, but just felt that she should find time to continue improving her swordsmanship, otherwise how could she protect her lady in such a dangerous situation next time.

She also made up some excuses to apply for funding from the Child family’s equipment department.

The equipment department was very enthusiastic when they heard about this, after all, Moyel was the designated personal guard for the future Leticia, a big shot around the head of the house.

After Leticia completely took control of the Child family’s power, the future funding they wanted would still depend on Moyel’s pillow talk.

And because Moyel was arming herself, Leticia was also grounded for a few days and didn’t go out.

She was studying theology and had specially sent people to look for books on the Eastern art of dual cultivation.

Succubi were the fallen form of angels.

The skills of angels could be learned through theological books.

Then the Eastern art of dual cultivation was similar to that of succubi, so she should be able to learn it on her own.

She wanted to learn this!

Although Sophia frequently appeared in the Saint Louis newspapers, it was all meetings with cardinals and old nobles of Hall’s father’s generation.

It was basically impossible for her to have any contact with Hall.

With the end of the semester approaching, Ye Wangxue would also occasionally be absent because she had to start the procedures for returning to the Xia Kingdom.

Even when she wasn’t absent, when Ye Wangxue came to class, she also kept a little distance from Hall.

The two of them, whether at home or at school, could at most be considered friends.

This made Hall very comfortable.

It was great.

It must be the result of that night.

Acting like a dissolute young master couldn’t scare the heroines, so being a pervert was good.

Of course, this also depended on the occasion and situation.

That day, Ye Wangxue had offered herself up.

If he had been a pervert from the beginning, he would probably have been cut down.

Besides, it wasn’t called being a pervert, it was called a euphemistic rejection and mutual choice.

As for Himan, she was busy with her own things.

Himan was very busy.

She was different from Hall.

She wasn’t just aiming for a passing grade.

She wanted to graduate from the swordsmanship academy with the top score in the future, just like Hall’s older sister.

Hall’s older sister—Margaret Faxtius—was Himan’s true idol.

So Himan was busy reviewing for all her subjects, and she also wanted to get a degree from the theology academy in the future.

These few days, she would also go to the theology academy to listen to the scope and content of the final exams there.

So she didn’t have much time to manage Hall, and would only tell him to review well.

Although with Hall’s current achievements, he was basically the number one in the swordsmanship academy’s year.

Of course, that was just his practical achievements.

Himan was afraid his theory classes would drag him down.

“Don’t worry, I’m very stable.”

Hall was indifferent.

He had already started planning where to go for the winter break.

The Demon God’s Labyrinth was a good place.

Unfortunately, the puzzle treasures on the first sixty floors had probably all been solved by him before.

So his destinations were all outside of Saint Louis.

“There are indeed many side quests within the Papal State, but my goal is to improve myself without getting involved in the heroine events, completely digest the power that was poured into my body by the Demon God’s Spring, and break through to level seventy.”

Hall fell into deep thought.

The best place to go was the Adventurers’ Guild, to be an adventurer.

But if he registered at the Adventurers’ Guild under the name of Hall Faxtius.

It wouldn’t be low-key, and he would have to go solo.

It was very annoying, he couldn’t think of any good way.

Although according to the game’s setting, hitting a training dummy every day would give an experience bonus, it was too slow.

He had to find a good place to level up.

Time passed like this for seven days.

Hall was about to go to the library.

These past few days, he would also go to the Holy Light University’s library, and occasionally he would see Ye Wangxue there.

But today, he thought of a question.

When Himan first met him.

She had asked him what books he was reading before.

This was a puzzle.

If he could know what books he was reading before, he could know what his past self was thinking.

So, before his file was officially unsealed by the authorities.

Hall returned to his former middle school.

He came to the middle school library and found the librarian who was in charge of borrowing.

The librarian saw Hall.

And was very happy.

“Young Master Hall, what brings you back to borrow books? The Holy Light University’s library is much bigger than our small library.”

“I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic lately and wanted to see what books I used to borrow.”

“Auntie librarian, do you still have the records?”

“Of course, of course. But your borrowing records were investigated by the Judgment Bureau before.”

The librarian said as she took out the file.

The moment Hall took it, he was shocked.

“I frequently borrowed romance novels?!”

Looking at those outrageous Mary Sue book titles, he thought to himself, how could this be possible?