After the two second-level silver guards escorted the items away, Lumina finally suppressed her previous outward anger and arrogance.
"These potions should be enough to last you for a while."
Lumina raised her head slightly, her delicate and bright green pupils were filled with calm coldness, without any of the jealousy and pampering that she had just shown.
Sheng Wu drank a glass of wine. He had been acting with her and his throat was a little dry.
"Well, that's enough. Once it's gone, we can move on to another pit, the eldest princess or the queen."
Lucius, who had been acting as an invisible panel, suddenly looked up and asked, "Were you acting for Hogami just now?"
He said that the childish quarrel between the two people just now was inconsistent with their hidden temperament.
Even Lumina wasn't the type to show her emotions easily.
"Who told Hogami to keep spying on us? He even plotted to poach me. Since he wants to get close to you for profit, why can't we just try to get some money out of him? It just so happens that Sister Lillian wants a 95% purity potion. I'm broke, and I can't let her down. So, of course, I can only try to get some money from him."
Lumina shrugged, lowering her eyes and curling her lips in a gentle smile. "If he hadn't been so greedy and wanted to poach you, perhaps he wouldn't have been so flattering following us around, insisting on paying Sister Lillian. So, don't blame us. He's just too greedy, wanting far more than we ask for."
This is the truth. If what Hogami asked for was not as good as what he just paid for Sheng Wu, he would have run away long ago. Why did he leave only now?
This shows that what Hogami wants from Lucius and Shengwu is more valuable than this.
Lucius also understood what Lumina meant, and his brows furrowed slightly, but before he could say anything, he saw Sheng Wu, who was sitting across the table, raise her hand and pat Lumina on the head.
Quite pleased, "Well, Lumina still understands me the best. She acted very well in the scene she just played with me."
At first, she really just wanted to buy some utensils for mixing potions, but she noticed that someone was watching them. After making eye contact with Lumina, Sheng Wu guessed who it was in an instant, so she deliberately took advantage of the situation and acted as if she didn't have a very good relationship with Lumina, and was even prone to verbal abuse.
He deliberately made Hogami think that their relationship was not that good, and that it was just a superficial tug of war for the sake of interests, giving Hogami the opportunity to extend an olive branch.
The wool was plucked very successfully.
"But......"
Lucius was wavering because of Lumina's somewhat sophistry. On the one hand, he felt that it was too much to ask of Hogami and it was a deception. On the other hand, he felt that Hogami did have ulterior motives and had other intentions.
Lucius frowned and was torn between his conscience and his conscience, feeling torn by his inner sense of morality.
Seeing him like this, Lumina, who was most familiar with him, knew what he was struggling with in an instant. Her emerald green pupils were extremely cold and heartless, even with a hint of resentment, and she spoke directly in a cold voice.
"Why, do you still think I shouldn't treat Hogami like this? Do you think we're being too calculating and cunning?"
Lucius's brows furrowed. He looked up to meet her disgusted gaze, his heart trembling. "I..."
He wanted to say something, but when the words came out of his mouth, he felt powerless to refute them. His inner sense of morality really could not measure this matter.
Seeing this, Lumina sneered, her expression mocking. "Lucius, you are the embodiment of light, created by God. It's natural that you cannot accept such calculations. But I am different. I am merely the illegitimate daughter of the Elf King and his mistress. I am spurned by the elven royal family, yet I have no choice but to depend on them. I am merely a princess who has been humiliated. Hogami is very humble and polite now, but have you ever seen him deliberately let other elves trample on me and then pretend to care for me?"
"No one can truly empathize with another's situation and experiences, so no one is truly qualified to tell others what to do or what to let go of. Lucius, do you think this world is beautiful? No, it's only because you are a puppet created by God and given a unique identity that others show their best side to you. The beauty you see is not because you are pure and holy, but because you have God's support behind you. Without God, you are nothing!"
Lucius' pupils flickered at these words.
Lumina stood up and looked down at me. Her emerald eyes were cold and filled with hatred as she continued, "If you can endure it, continue to follow us. If not, stay quietly in the palace, and we won't implicate you in anything. But one thing is for sure: you have no right to judge any of my actions, even if I do something that disobeys God in the future."
Go ahead, she looked at Lucius deeply, then turned around and left the private room.
“…”Bang!
Lumina's words hit Lucius' heart like a heavy hammer, leaving him speechless. He could only look up and want to say something but could only watch her leave.
Especially the sentence, "The beauty you see is not because you are clean and holy, but because you have God backing you up. Without God, you are nothing", which kept replaying and spreading in his mind over and over again.
From the moment he was born, his life in the Garden of Eden, including food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, had been arranged for him. Even his wife was created and arranged by God. And after he left the Garden of Eden and arrived in the Elven Kingdom, the attention and preferential treatment he received was simply because of the God behind him...
He really has no skills or abilities!
Lucius's gray-brown pupils trembled deeply, and his fists clenched tightly. For a moment, Lumina's words overturned the cognition instilled in him by God. For the first time, he felt that he was not enjoying the beauty for himself, but relying on God.
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