37: Sorry, You Trusted the Wrong Person
"What did Miss Bai come for this time?" After Bai Ling left with the soy sauce, Xue'er looked at Leticia standing at the door with an unusually complex expression and asked quietly.
Leticia lowered her head and remained silent for a long time, her hands tightly gripping the book that Bai Ling had returned to her. This book was no longer simply a book—it now carried Bai Ling's trust.
"What would happen if I handed it over to Qila?" Leticia thought to herself. Perhaps Bai Ling would be extremely disappointed in her judgment and never have anything to do with her, Leticia, ever again.
Ah, no, not "never have anything to do with"—she should come straight to her door seeking revenge with that sword of hers.
What should she do?
Her fingers rubbed the pages over and over again as Leticia felt conflicted.
She was considering whether she should betray Bai Ling's trust in her.
The answer was obvious.
"Xue'er... do you have a way to contact Qila?" With a snap, Leticia closed the book and turned to ask Xue'er.
Hmph, she was the Demon King. Being hesitant because of an enemy's trust wasn't her style.
Damn Bai Ling, I, Leticia, will use my actions to tell you that you picked the wrong person.
Xue'er's eyes widened. Leticia's question left her unable to find an answer for a moment.
"This..."
"Is there a problem?"
"Princess Qila's whereabouts are probably only known to the Four Heavenly Kings. My information channels can't yet reach such classified matters." Xue'er lowered her head in shame. "But I'll do my best to find out."
"Mm, the sooner the better." Leticia slowly paced into the living room with her hands behind her back.
"Does Your Majesty want to meet with Princess Qila?"
"No way. If that girl knows where I am, would I have any peaceful days left?" Hearing this, Leticia, who had been looking serious just moments ago, immediately changed her expression. "I just want to give her a small gift."
A small gift she had been seeking for many years.
Xue'er, rendered speechless by Leticia's masterful face-changing technique, nodded helplessly. "Yes."
...
Just as Leticia and Xue'er were plotting downstairs, the atmosphere upstairs in the Bai household was also extraordinarily strange.
When Bai Ya received the soy sauce bottle from her sister who was covering her right eye, she was surprised to discover that her sister was actually crying.
"Sister, what's wrong?" Bai Ya quickly pulled out several tissues to wipe the tears from her sister's face.
Could it be that Sister Qianqian made her sister sad? But if that were the case, why was only her sister's right eye tearing up?
Could you really have one eye cry while the other didn't?
"It's nothing, just borrowed something from Qianqian." Bai Ling shook her head calmly. She just needed to take one look anyway, then she could remove this little gadget from her eye.
She'd have to tell Leticia later that it would be better not to make this kind of thing like this. Having such dense magical aura surging so close to her eyeball was really uncomfortable.
"Is Sister Bai Ling alright?" Su Qi noticed the abnormality in the kitchen and stood up to walk over.
Bai Ling immediately moved her hand away from covering her right eye. This opportunity was perfect!
The moment she saw Bai Ling's right eye, Su Qi instinctively wanted to cover her face with her hand. Her intuition told her that being seen by Bai Ling's right eye would have very bad consequences.
But her reaction speed was still too slow.
Bai Ling had already seen her—the real her.
Leticia's "True Sight" was indeed powerful. The disguise magic that had left Bai Ling helpless just moments ago now dissipated like ice and snow.
Of course, this magic had only lost its effect on Bai Ling. What Bai Ya saw was still Su Qi's disguised appearance.
"I see..." Bai Ling covered her right eye again. The conflict between the two magics made her eye even more uncomfortable.
Fortunately, she had already seen Su Qi's face—that face that differed little from the girl downstairs.
Su Qi, huh?
Who would have thought that these two sisters would appear here simultaneously?
If she acted now, what price would she have to pay to keep these sisters here forever?
Bai Ling calculated in her mind. She would only need a few moves to kill the girl in front of her, but Leticia afterward would be a variable.
After not seeing her for years, Leticia had become even more powerful. If she fought to the death, Bai Ling would probably be dragged down with her in mutual destruction.
Not only that, but the aftershocks of their battle would destroy most of Central City's districts, and countless innocents would die in this great battle. This was something Bai Ling could not accept.
"I'm going downstairs again." Since she had already seen Su Qi's true appearance, there was no need to keep this thing in her eye. Bai Ling planned to go downstairs right now and have Leticia help her remove the lens.
But contrary to Bai Ling's expectations, Su Qi stepped forward to block her path.
"Sister Bai Ling must be having trouble adjusting to the contact lenses, right? I happen to have experience removing contact lenses." Su Qi said to Bai Ling with a smile. "No need to trouble the neighbor downstairs."
"Ah..." Bai Ling nodded dumbly. These Qila and Leticia really were like a pair of sisters—look at this confidence, exactly the same.
Except Leticia's confidence was fake, while Qila's confidence... who knew if it was real or not.