Chapter 260 The Wrath of the Immortal Witch
The logo of Hakuba Pharmaceutical and the emblem of the Karasuma family are both crows, but the two crows are not the same.
One is a white crow standing quietly with its head facing left, and the other is a black crow flying with its head facing right.
Chris had seen this white crow many times before. On lab equipment, on medicine bottles, on researchers' white coats... In the pale nightmare that had dominated Chris for seven years, similar nightmares kept appearing.
She gently picked up the card from the bouquet and sniffed it.
The smell of fountain pen ink and flowers.
The beautiful flowers were still covered with fresh dew and bloomed gorgeously, but Chris knew that a bouquet with its roots cut off could only last for a day. Without nutrients, it would soon wilt.
She touched the petals, as if nothing had happened, sat down and waited for a moment, then walked out with a look of panic and a pitiful forced calmness on her face.
She called out to the maid who was about to take a break: "Hey. Did you clean my room today?"
The maid shook her head blankly: "Miss, do you need me to clean up now?"
"No," Chris clenched her fists. "I just want to ask you, where did that bouquet of flowers in my room come from?"
The maid was even more confused: "Flowers? I don't know..."
Chris couldn't tell anything from the maid's expression, but the maid reacted, "Miss, we've never been in your room or the master's. If anyone can put flowers in your room, it's the master."
Chrissy took a breath.
Certainly not Mr. Ghost.
As the card said, Mr. Ghost's house really has spies from the Karasuma family.
Humph, Mr. Ghost must have known this for a long time, right?
She puffed up her cheeks inwardly, pretending to be a little anxious, and replied to the maid, "I understand."
She didn't go directly to find Lin Xi, but returned to her room first.
She wasn't sure who the spy was. It was possible that the maid who had just spoken to her was it - she actually hoped it was, so her acting wouldn't be in vain - so she couldn't go directly to Mr. Ghost after receiving the threat, at least not before the servants fell asleep.
She put the card in the book and tore off a blank piece of paper, writing on it:
"What do you want me to do?"
"I will never give up my current life."
Then he rolled up the paper and stuffed it into the bouquet.
It wasn't until midnight that Chris turned off the lights in the room.
She wanted to convey the message to the informant: "I am anxious, I am scared, and I am easy to control."
Showing weakness is Chris's tried-and-true strategy—especially effective against those egocentric individuals who feel they have everything under control.
The next morning, Chris found the maid from yesterday with dark circles under her eyes.
Her dark circles were not fake. To make them look realistic, she had stayed up late last night.
"The flowers in my room are wilting." She no longer spoke in a commanding tone, but frowned, looking very depressed. "Go throw it away now."
The maid quickly agreed, and when she came out of the room with the bouquet, she turned around and asked her, "Miss, do you want me to help you change the bouquet to a fresh one?"
Chris replied sharply as if she had been electrocuted: "No need!"
When she saw that the maid was frightened by her, she whispered, "I hate flowers."
"Chris." Lin Xi just came out of the room. "What happened?"
"No, it's okay, sir." Chris ran to Lin Xi, hugged his arm and shook it, and secretly winked at her when Lin Xi lowered her head.
Lin Xi smiled and said, "Come sit in my room, Chris."
She had no plans today and didn't need to go out, so she was still in her pajamas.
The loose silk pajamas she wore only highlighted her perfect figure.
After entering the room and closing the door, Chris took off her disguise, jumped in front of Lin Xi, took out the card from her pocket and showed it to her.
"Sir, someone from the Karasuma family came to see me."
"Have you known for a long time that there are spies in the house?"
Lin Xi took the card, looked at it, and rubbed it with his fingertips.
In response to Chris's question, she nodded and said gently, "I bought this house after arriving in Japan. Its previous owner was a bankrupt Japanese noble. When I took over, there was nothing left in the house. The valuable furniture had been sold by the previous owner, and the servants had been dismissed. Even the garden had been neglected and overgrown with weeds."
"After buying the house, I first hired a short-term cleaner to clean the entire house, and I still lived in the hotel."
"By then, I had already become a familiar face among Kyoto's merchants and aristocrats through introductions. And because I had a lot of money, was generous, and was willing to invest, many people were willing to be my friend."
"So I asked my new friends, especially the noble ones, where could I go to hire a reliable housekeeper and servants?"
"My enthusiastic friends quickly introduced some people to me. Almost all the servants in my current house were hired through their introductions and recommendations."
Lin Xi smiled.
"So, yes, Chris—there are other eyes in my house, more than one pair, and even I don't know who their true allegiance lies with."
"In other words, they are all the audience off stage, Chris." She stroked the little girl's hair gently.
Chris curled her lips and said, "Sir, you did it on purpose! You deliberately let them shove people in. What on earth do you want to do?"
She didn't believe that Mr. Ghost didn't know who the spies were and who they were loyal to.
This person always has a clear purpose in everything she does. Whether it's in the open or in the dark, anything she's involved in will always go in the direction she wants.
"Building a stage for you~" Lin Xi said with a smile.
"Little Chris, have you figured out how you're going to perform?"
Chris found that since she admitted to being a woman, she no longer had to hide her true personality when they were alone.
The ending sound will be upturned, the movements will be graceful, and the expression will be richer, as if holding back something bad.
Mr. Ghost is even cuter like this.
She sighed deliberately and wrinkled her nose: "Sir, if you don't tell me anything, I don't know which direction to perform in."
"Besides, I just learned Japanese not long ago, and I have to act in front of them. You are really putting me in a difficult position!"
"Oh, little Chris, how could you leak the exam questions before the exam?" Lin Xi poked a shallow dimple on Chris's face. "Let's start with this card you received. Who do you think gave it to you?"
Chris thought for a moment and said, "It's the eldest young master of the Karasuma family, right?"
"You said that the Karasuma family is now divided into three factions: the Karasuma head, the eldest son, and the youngest son. The Karasuma head's faction, because the head is old and has a short life, should remain neutral and wait and see if the head has no clear preference between the two heirs. The youngest son's faction, on the other hand, is cooperating with you and will not take any action that might be known to you and cause you offense."
"As for the eldest young master's faction, they're eager to compete with the younger young master's faction for the position of family head, but they're not so worried about being discovered by you. Knowing that it was someone from the Karasuma family who contacted me, you're most likely to be angry and no longer want to cooperate with the Karasuma family, even if the other young master explains that it wasn't his behavior."
"For the Young Master's faction, cooperating with you is not important. What's more important is to ruin your cooperation with the Young Master."
Lin Xi smiled and nodded.
"You're right, Chrissy. It's great."
Chris was a little excited because of Lin Xi's praise.
"However," Lin Xi continued, "it was the Young Master and his group that contacted you, but the Young Master himself was unaware of this."
Chris blinked. "What do you mean?"
"Kasumu Naoji is an idiot." Lin Xi's tone was free of any extraneous emotions, he simply stated the facts.
"With his intelligence, he probably wouldn't think of contacting you. This should be a personal activity of someone who supports him."
"What I said at the hotel was true—the young master of the Karasuma family is much smarter than the eldest. If the future head of the Karasuma family is the eldest, I will definitely not cooperate with the Karasuma family anymore." Her voice was tinged with a hint of laughter. "However, he will never become the head of the family, even though the public and his followers believe that he will be the future head—"
"This is not only because he is an idiot, but also because Karasuma Renye, the current head of the Karasuma family, never thought of letting him take over the Karasuma family."
"Chris, do you know what the ultimate goal of Baijiu Pharmaceutical's underground experiments is?"
Chris shook her head.
She had speculated in various directions, including strengthening the body, treating diseases and developing vaccines.
But her knowledge of drugs and medicine was too limited to support her in drawing reliable conclusions.
Now, she finally had the chance to find out what those researchers wanted to do with her body.
She stared at Lin Xi with burning eyes.
"It's immortality, Chris." She heard Lin Xi say, "Urumaru Renya wants to be immortal, so Baijiu Pharmaceutical was established - this company basically exists for this purpose."
"And Zero has given him hope. So, you can understand why I said that Karasuma Naoji can't become the new head of the family, right?"
Suddenly, Chris understood.
Because Karasuma Renya had the idea of achieving immortality from the beginning, no matter how many "heirs" appeared, there would only be one true head of the Karasuma family, and at most, he would change his name a few times as time went by.
When she understood this, Chris felt a small but significant emotion in her heart.
——That was anger directed at the head of the family.
She was surprised to realize that she did not completely ignore the seven years she had thought were insignificant and meaningless and that she had been imprisoned in a cage.
Maybe it’s just because I’m numb to the pain, and my self-protection mechanism kicks in: as long as I don’t care, the extra pain won’t affect me.
However, when Lin Xi told her that the reason for all the suffering she had endured in the past seven years was just because an old man wanted to extend his life forever - anger had already emerged before she realized it and could no longer be suppressed.
Along with anger comes grievance.
Chris touched her face in a panic.
She didn't know when it started, but her eyes were already filled with tears.
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