Gu Li was holding the familiar black dress when the door to the maid's room was pushed open, and a slender man walked in, wearing a neatly pressed butler's uniform.

The moment those slender eyes entered, they landed on Gu Li, who was still on the bed. With a hint of displeasure, he raised his long, thin cane and pointed it at her.

"The President is always too kind, allowing such a lazybones to work in the House."

He stared at Gu Li with his dim eyes for a while before looking away and instructing the few people who were already prepared, "The President is going to dine in the side building today. You all keep an eye on things and make sure it's clean."

Several girls lowered their heads under his gaze, and Gu Li even noticed that the girl standing closest to her had her fingers trembling uncontrollably.

"yes."

The manager observed the expressions on everyone's faces for a while before leaving.

Gu Li got out of bed and went into the bathroom to put on her clothes. She hesitated for a moment but left a short-sleeved shirt and shorts inside for when she needed to move around.

When she was ready to come out, Lindsay was the only one left in the room.

Lindsay's eyes lit up when she saw Gu Li in her long dress: "We should go. If the president is coming tonight, we might be busy from morning till night."

Gu Li followed in her little leather shoes. She coughed lightly, took a step forward, and gently grabbed Lindsay's skirt, putting on an innocent expression.

"Sister Lindsay, isn't it nice to be a maid at the Presidential Palace? Why does everyone seem... a little scared?"

Lindsay, who had kindly stayed with the chestnuts, stiffened for a moment upon hearing this, and a tear welled up in her eyes.

"Lilith, do you still have family?"

Gu Li shook her head: "My family lives far away."

They're waiting for her to join them in the Federation.

Lindsay misunderstood something, and a look of pity appeared on her face. She gently stroked Gu Li's hair, her tone filled with a mixture of envy and pity.

“We all have families, but after entering the Presidential Palace, the stewards never allow us to go out freely, and at night… at night they even show up…”

Her words suddenly stopped, her eyes wide with fear as she looked at the figure that had suddenly appeared in front of her, pulling Gu Li back a step: "Mr. Butler."

Gu Li lowered her head, her gaze slightly fixed. Just like Sophia yesterday, this manager moved without her noticing any warning.

The manager gestured to Lin Sai, "Leave the new recruits to them; I have something for you to do."

Lindsay looked like she was about to cry, but she still managed a smile at Gu Li: "It's nothing. You can just stay with Selena and the others. Nothing will happen."

She followed the butler away, while Gu Li stood still, quietly watching their backs, her eyes slightly narrowed, her ear pressed against the wall.

After waiting for a few minutes, he decisively followed in the direction the two had disappeared. Their footsteps moved upwards and then disappeared with a creaking sound.

Gu Li estimated the number of steps the two of them took, and with the feather duster I found behind the vase in my hand, I pretended to clean as I went upstairs.

They lived on the second floor, and Gu Li walked up three floors before finally stopping.

Her sky-blue pupils scanned the surroundings, and her intuition told her that this was the place.

The fifth floor is the top floor of this villa, and the decoration is no different from that of the downstairs floors. The only difference is the red lines that meander on the walls and ceiling.

Her nose twitched, and her eyes looked toward the room at the end of the corridor. It was a room with an iron door firmly locked, and a strong smell of blood and a nauseating odor emanated from it.

As soon as Gu Li's feet touched the soft carpet on the fifth floor, she suddenly heard a sob. She held her breath and turned around.

They stopped in front of an inconspicuous door.

The sobbing continued. Gu Li reached out and grasped the doorknob, quietly opening it a crack.

She immediately spotted Lindsay squatting on the ground cleaning up the bloodstains, but the steward who had called her up was nowhere to be seen. Gu Li's gaze swept around the room.

She frowned.

Nobody here?

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly a gloomy voice sounded from behind. Gu Li gripped the feather duster in her hand tightly and slowly turned around to meet the manager's scrutinizing eyes.

"My sisters asked me to clean upstairs."

Gu Li twitched the corners of her mouth, her whole body tensing up like a bowstring ready to be drawn.

The manager stared at her expressionlessly for a moment, then suddenly a kind smile appeared on his lips: "In that case, you can go with Lindsay."

As he spoke, he slowly opened the door behind Gu Li and pushed her inside. As the door clicked shut, the steward's gaze on her instantly changed.

Gu Li glanced around the large bed in the room and at the bloodstains on the floor, and a wave of nausea suddenly rose in her heart. She suddenly understood the expression on Lindsay's face before she left.

The manager straightened his crisp coat, approached the two with a broad smile, and held a glass of red wine in his hand: "Lindsay and Lilith are both beautiful and good girls."

“I don’t want you to go down there and do those rough jobs,” he said, his gaze shifting between the two men. “If anyone can please me, I’ll let them stay here tonight and not have to go down there to serve me.”

Gu Li gripped the feather duster even tighter, his knuckles turning white from the effort, while the thin steward continued talking without a care in the world.

"Doesn't Lindsay want to go back and see your parents?"

Lindsay, clutching the dirty rag, trembled and wanted nothing more than to throw it at his face. When the steward reached out his hand, she stepped back slightly.

"No……"

Steward: "What?"

He continued forward regardless, when suddenly a blur flashed before his eyes, followed by a sharp pain in his wrist, and he let out an uncontrollable wail.

He stared at Gu Li, who was blocking Lindsay's way with a look of terror.

"You! You bitch! You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences!"

His skin began to throb, and he lunged towards Gu Li.

Lindsay cried out, "Watch out! Lilith!"

Gu Li flicked the feather duster in her hand and, as the steward lunged at her, slapped him squarely across the face. The steward was thrown off balance by the force and crashed heavily to the ground.

The thing under his skin surged even more violently, as if it was about to burst out of the ground. Gu Li quickly stepped forward, stepped on his face with one foot, and stomped heavily on a certain place with the other foot.

"Still not behaving after the mutation?"

Gu Li's force almost crushed a certain spot to dust, and the steward and the monster beneath his skin screamed in agony.

Suddenly, a piece of burlap stained with blood and dirt was stuffed into his mouth. Gu Li glanced at it and Lindsay, who was stuffing the burlap in hard, raised an eyebrow.

Gu Li: "Now can you tell me what happens here tonight?"