I became a cannon fodder villain. If I want to survive, I must take care of my baby first.

"Why, you don't believe it?" Manjushage said with a smile, her ice-blue eyes revealing an unfathomable look.

"No, it was just too sudden and I couldn't react." Belinda quickly explained.

Although she had doubts, Belinda didn't dare to say it directly. However, Manjushage's attitude was ambiguous, neither denying nor admitting it.

"You've come all the way here, you must be tired. Come and have some tea." Manjushage pushed a white teacup in front of Belinda.

"This tea." Both the type of tea and the aroma of the tea were very familiar. It was the kind that Marian liked to brew the most.

Belinda picked up the teacup and savored it carefully, with a strange light flashing in her eyes. After a while, she put down the cup and said bluntly: "Miss Manjusawa, have you seen Marianne?"

After tasting the tea brewed by Marian, Manjushage asked her for advice on this craft. Although there was no guarantee that the taste would be exactly the same, judging from Belinda's reaction, it was at least 70% to 80% of the original.

"Yes, we were together for a while, but she is gone now," replied Manjushage.

Belinda lowered her head, clutched her dress with both hands, and fell silent, as if she was hesitating whether to say the next words.

After a long while, she looked up at Manjushage's beautiful ice-blue eyes, and said in an infinitely gentle tone: "Can you tell me in detail?"

"Of course." Manjushage said with a smile.

She briefly recounted the entire process of how Marianne's soul was polluted and she almost turned into an evil spirit, became a maid in the castle, and finally disappeared without a care in the morning light.

Belinda listened attentively, sometimes looking nervous, and sometimes showing a reassuring smile.

"She asked me to cooperate with you once." Leaving out the part about Dracula William, Manjushage made the final summary.

Belinda took a deep breath and said, "I feel relieved if you put it that way."

She was happy for her friend.

Seeing Belinda let down her guard, Manjushage asked the question that had always been in her mind: "By the way, I'm curious, how did you know that my magic can communicate with spirits?"

If Belinda's initial question was a guess, then now, after learning that Lycoris radiata could see the dead, she showed no surprise at all, which meant that she had known it for a long time.

Not to mention Belinda, even Doyle and Luo Shiqi, who live together every day, don’t know about this. How did she know about this?

"An old lady told me," Belinda replied.

"May I ask her name?" Although she asked this, Manjushage already had the answer in her heart.

"She calls herself Ilivia Grusel." Belinda's tone was quite flat, as if she had no idea what the name meant.

A national-level felon, the culprit of several large-scale disasters, a terrifying existence that would strike fear into the hearts of all the nobles just by mentioning his name.

I just didn't expect that she would say her name so openly.

And if I'm not mistaken, she told Belinda on purpose just to let Manjushage know.

It was just a name, but Manjushage could clearly feel the provocation in it: all of you are at my mercy.

After finally finding some clues, Grusser exposed himself so easily. It was a very frustrating feeling.

"Listen carefully, Belinda. This Grusel is a state-level felon. Since you have met her, as your first task after taking office, I need you to do your best to capture her." After knowing Grusel's intention, Manjushage knew that she would never be able to catch her.

He told Belinda this just to use this high-profile approach to warn everyone in Tasso, letting them know that Grusel was active around them and that they had to be on high alert at all times.

"Is that so? I understand!" Belinda actually felt that the old woman was not a good person, so she nodded and said, "But, Miss Manjushage, you didn't ask me to come here for this, did you?"

After learning that Grussell was a national-level felon, Belinda was extremely grateful that she was not killed. Although she was still frightened, she also hoped that she could be arrested and brought to justice as soon as possible.

However, in her opinion, these seemed to be irrelevant, and Manjusaka's focus was never on Grusel.

After all, arresting criminals only requires issuing orders, so there is no need to call Belinda over specifically.

"Of course, I called you here for another matter." As Manjushage was speaking, the housekeeper Cora appeared in the reception room at some point, handed over a stack of documents, and then quietly left.

"I had a conflict with Miss Donna from the Peters family a while ago. When I was thinking about how to retaliate against her, I accidentally found out that the person who sold Marian as a slave was also from this family."

Olivia was not idle during the time she locked herself in the study. She collected evidence and accidentally found a lot of criminal records of the Peters family. Marian was one of the victims.

These files had been kept in the study of Xingchenhua's family, but because the Peters family was too powerful at the time and the Xingchenhua family had just suffered a major change with the death of Mrs. Platycodon, Senn had no time to deal with various cases, so the files were forgotten in a corner.

Manjushage didn't expect that the Peters family had done so many evil things. She was shocked when she saw it. Every page of information that Olivia sorted out was a bombshell.

If it had not happened to be a turbulent era, they would have been executed by His Majesty the King long ago.

Today, these files have lost their probative force, but one thing is very important, that is, the Peters family's slave trade was very rampant, and they also used it to establish relationships with various noble families.

After His Majesty the King issued an edict to severely suppress this practice, the Peters family continued to engage in the slave trade for several years before finally stopping.

Later, his family fell into poverty, but he lived a life of luxury by relying on his relationships with various nobles.

"That damn Donna actually lied to me!" Belinda took the information and flipped through a few pages. Her whole body began to tremble violently because of excessive anger, and her hands subconsciously clenched the papers in her hands.

"Because of the age, these materials cannot become important evidence to bring down the Peters family, but they can help us understand their relationship context and behavior style."

Manjushage smiled calmly, "I recently found out that they are planning to resume the slave trade. To run a suppressed business, it is impossible to establish new trade relations without relying on the previous network."

Manjushage looked at Belinda with a firm gaze: "I hope you can use this information to pretend to cooperate with Donna, infiltrate the enemy, and obtain key clues to their crimes."

"You want me to do this?" Belinda seemed a little surprised.

She didn't understand. Manjushage's status was so noble that if she wanted to punish anyone, she only needed to move her mouth and someone would naturally take the initiative to share her worries. There was no need to recruit Belinda, who had no ability at all.

But if you think about it carefully, Lycoris radiata is clearly at the top in terms of wealth and status, and her beauty is unmatched.

Despite having such excellent innate conditions, he was willing to remain unknown for nearly twenty years, and yet he became famous, caring about the residents in the territory and often providing help.

Getting rid of the Morgan father and son is the simplest example.

An upright person like her certainly does not want the Peters family to be simply punished. She must use reasonable means to send all of them to jail.

As expected, upon hearing Belinda's question, Manjushage smiled and said, "Didn't you cooperate with Belinda before? Now she wants to engage in the slave trade, and what she lacks most is start-up capital. In the eyes of ignorant nobles, you ignorant upstarts are the easiest to control and the most suitable to gain their trust."

"Of course, I am confident about this." Belinda's eyes suddenly lit up.

She had never been so proud of her status as a nouveau riche.

Assisting Manjushage in defeating the Peters family is also a way to avenge Marian.

Her soul rested in peace, but Belinda's anger could not be calmed.