Get Ahead of the Fallen Heroine and Make the Bull-Headed Man the Victim

54. The princess was almost on the verge of turning dark, alright.

At this point, Valentina’s victory was a foregone conclusion.

After Valentina left, Dilia, the grand princess, immediately slumped in her chair like a deflated balloon, her once noble and confident demeanor completely gone, resembling a lost dog.

Clearly, she was struck by the fact that she had lost to the sister she looked down upon.

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At this moment, the noble children in the room silently left one by one.

In truth, the blow they received was quite significant; they found it hard to accept reality, let alone comfort the disheartened Dilia.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say it was a complete victory for Valentina.

This outcome was slightly different from what Noah had anticipated; he thought Valentina would be even more ruthless.

For instance, he expected her to expose Dilia’s schemes in front of the king, queen, and ministers.

It seemed that, as the heroine of justice, Valentina still showed some mercy and didn’t intend to completely defeat Dilia.

After all, if Dilia had succeeded, Valentina would have been labeled a “fake princess’s thug” and thrown into the dungeon, subjected to humiliation and violation by the guards.

This ending was hardly better than losing to Prince Mori and becoming his exclusive star slave.

However, considering that Valentina had indeed succeeded in employing the villain’s tactics—not choosing to defeat the villain within the rules, but using threats outside the rules to silence her opponents—this cunningly tough approach still pleased Noah.

At least now, Valentina could be considered a half-bad woman. Although she was still some distance from Noah’s ideal, he could at least be genuinely happy for the princess’s semi-fall from grace.

So when Valentina deliberately returned to her room just to speak with him without being discovered, Noah rarely praised her.

“That was a beautiful win, Your Highness. I must admit, you are indeed more dazzling than Dilia now. Oh dear, I can be mistaken sometimes.”

As Noah clapped lightly, he also praised the girl before him.

“Hmph! Now you know who’s more capable, right? How could I possibly lose to that woman?”

Just moments ago, Valentina had appeared deep and inscrutable in front of the young nobles, her smile enigmatic. Now, however, she stood proudly like a competitive child, her chest puffed out.

Her smile radiated pure joy.

It was simply the joy of being proud, without any ulterior motives.

Having never liked losing, her victory alone was enough to make her happy, not to mention that it allowed her to put the wicked god, who had always mocked her since they met, in his place.

Surely, the wicked god should now realize that she was far superior to the superficial Dilia.

So there was no need to target anyone else; just focus on her.

She was not a submissive masochist who enjoyed being bullied; she simply believed that as long as she could capture the wicked god’s attention, others would be spared!

Anyway, she would absolutely never concede! Bring it on!

For instance, this time, she had already successfully thwarted the wicked god’s scheme once; continuing to win from here on out would be no problem at all!

Valentina looked at Noah with eyes full of determination and confidence, continuing to speak proudly:

“And you, wicked god, didn’t actually attack Raymond from the Clements family, right? That was merely their feigned suffering. Although you pretended earlier that there were other impostors besides me, from the very beginning, you were simply trying to sow discord with that woman, without pretending to be me and taking real action, right? I’ve seen through it all!”

“Oh, to see through it to such an extent, that’s quite impressive.”

Of course, the truth was otherwise; Noah had indeed taken the opportunity to give Raymond a beating, and the reason was simply that Noah couldn’t stand him.

After all, it was he who had been excessively praising Prince Mori, leading to Mori’s already inflated confidence swelling even further, to the point where he wanted to take action against his own sister, Valentina.

But Valentina must have thought this way because Allen had told her about his experiences.

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Allen was still unaware of Noah’s existence, so he must have thought there was only one substitute.

Under normal circumstances, Noah would have mocked her for guessing wrong, but this time Noah chose to conceal the truth and offer praise.

This wasn’t because Noah was gentle, but because Noah wanted to let her bask in her own pride before delivering a fatal blow.

“Isn’t that obvious? If it were you, the teacher would never be able to find my impostor, let alone the fact that there’s no need to prepare two impostors.”

Valentina appeared to be modest, but in reality, she was flaunting how she had seen through the truth with the teacher’s help.

With one hand on her hip and the other gesturing dismissively to the side, her small face was filled with delight at having seen through Noah’s lies.

Seeing that she seemed to have no other insights, Noah unceremoniously dropped the pretense of honesty, a wicked smile reappearing at the corner of his mouth as he spoke in a leisurely and cheerful tone:

“While it is indeed commendable to see through to this point, who said I was in cahoots with Princess Dilia? I don’t think I ever claimed that Princess Dilia was one of the people I had my eye on.”

“Eh?! Wait a minute, what does that mean…”

As soon as those words were spoken, the smile of the princess, who had been acting like a victor, instantly vanished, and she anxiously pressed Noah for clarification.

Not in cahoots? But, but back at the marquis’s residence, the Evil God had clearly stood behind that woman, mocking her together!

They had been deliberately conversing affectionately in front of her while laughing at her!

…Huh? Upon closer thought, it seemed that wasn’t quite the case?

But soon, the princess herself noticed that while Noah had indeed spoken to Dilia, Dilia had never explicitly spoken to Noah.

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It seemed Dilia had always been talking to her, never once looking in any other direction.

So, what does that mean? That woman wasn’t actually targeted by the Evil God; it was just her own one-sided wish not to lose to that woman supported by the Evil God!?

“Ah… ah! This is too much! This is cheating! Cheating! You’ve been deliberately misleading me from the start, making me think you were in cahoots!”

Valentina finally realized she had been completely deceived by Noah from the very beginning, and this made her frantic. The hand that had been on her hip was now clenched into a fist against her chest, her silver teeth gritted, wearing a look of humiliation that was harder to accept than her own failure.

“Hahaha! This is just you being too easily misled! How wonderful, Princess! To understand so early the truth that you can’t easily trust others!”

With just a single sentence, Noah had completely broken Valentina’s composure, now pointing at her nose and laughing exaggeratedly, embodying the style of a despised Evil God.

This made Valentina grit her teeth in anger.

But she had finally learned not to lose her cool and launch useless attacks.

Instead, she shot a silent glare filled with resentment at the wicked Evil God before her.

Being toyed with once again left her extremely dissatisfied, wishing she could just bite this detestable Evil God to death.

But this matter could be set aside for now.

What does that mean?

In the earlier statement by the Evil God, “You all have so many adjectives for me, it’s truly concerning that you’d get so flustered in an argument that you’d end up dying of anger,” did the “you all” refer to someone else?

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