According to the current inheritance law in the southeast continent, women's inheritance rights can only be placed behind all male heirs.In other words, if the Duchess of Cobo did not prepare a dowry for Selena, she would not get a penny.
All the shop land, real estate and deposits in the bank of the Cobb family will all become the property of her brother Niman.
Selena looked at the manor in the distance, where she had lived for more than ten years.A few days ago, she left here, full of resentment, and she kept planning in her mind how she could become the wife of the richest duke in the empire.
And when she comes back now, she only hopes to get the family seal and ask the temple to bring it back to Rhines.
Selena closed her eyes severely, lifted her skirt and walked in.
The housekeeper who had taken care of her for more than ten years heard the movement and ran out of the house to greet him, but Selena didn't say a word to him, and ran directly to the second floor.
She didn't want to care about the mess in the family at all, she just wanted to bring Rhines back as soon as possible.
"Miss, miss, don't go up first." The housekeeper hurriedly followed, "Madam..."
Selena turned around abruptly and asked the butler, "Niman is in there?"
She didn't want to see her "new brother" at all.
The butler was taken aback, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, "No, the young master is not here."
"What kind of young master is he!" Selina retorted.
The butler knew what Niman had done, so it was not easy to refute Selena.But the things that should be explained should be explained clearly, "No, the young master did not come back. But miss, the madam's mental state these two days is a bit... bad."
……
"...I see." Selena habitually raised her chin slightly and replied indifferently, stepping on the stairs with her heels, and walked towards the first room on the second floor.
Like the structure of Cyril's manor, almost all the study rooms of the duke's manor are on the third floor, so that the precious parchments will not be dampened by moisture.Lady Cobb, as the Duchess, should also be there to handle family matters.
But if Selena guessed right, her mother hadn't gone up for a long time.
Selena strode to the door, knocked twice irritably, and then pushed it away, "Mother."
"Snapped!"
Almost at the same moment, a white porcelain cup with gold rims hit Selena's feet and shattered into pieces, "Don't come in!"
Selena stood there in a daze, staring at the Duchess who was staring at the door in horror. .
Selena thought her mother was afraid of Nyman's return, but if it was Nyman, how could Mrs. Cobb show a frightened expression.
Is she afraid of something...?
"Why are you back?" Mrs. Cobo leaned on the bed with one hand, she confronted Selena like a beast encountering another invader.
There was no trace of love for his daughter in his eyes.
Fear and absurdity made Selena stand still, thinking about the reason quickly in her mind.
Before Rhines left home, the Duchess of Cobo actually had a little mental problem.During these years, the condition slowly deteriorated.
For example, her insomnia is getting worse and worse. Every time Selena goes to find her, she will find that her mother is staring at the things her father left behind in a daze.She would cry and get angry for no reason, smashing things and yelling.
When Selena didn't calm her down, Mrs. Cobb would go after Cyril.
It was only after Nieman came back that Mrs. Cobb's problems were miraculously cured.
——Until Nieman's creditors approached him.
Selena took a step forward, "Did the people from the casino and racecourse come again? How much does Nieman want this time?"
"..."
Selena's question was like breaking a stone on the ice, and the emaciated figure of the Duchess of Cobo trembled.
"Selena?" She seemed to be talking in sleep, raised her hand and wiped her face vigorously, and recognized her daughter belatedly, "Oh, it's you, it's you."
Selena used to love her mother as much as she loved Rhines.But the Duchess of Cobo's connivance with Nyman in the past few years has wiped out her family affection.
So at this time, he just stepped forward and asked coldly, "Is the creditor coming again?"
"...No, no." Mrs. Cobb said intermittently, she straightened her hair, "Why are you back?"
……
Selena stared at her mother suspiciously, then slowly retracted. "I need a family emblem to go to the temple to prove my identity."
She said as she walked forward.
In Selena's view, this is not a complicated matter, and Rhines is still in Cyril's hands.She has to be quick.
So the princess decided to get past her mother and get it herself.
Unexpectedly, after a two-second reaction, Mrs. Cobo suddenly burst into a scream.
"How can you go to the temple!"
Selena was taken aback.
Mrs. Cobb grabbed her arm as if offended, "How could you go there!"
?
Selena looked at her blankly and irritatedly, her anger started from her heart.When she thought that the woman in front of her was once gentle and charming, and was vigorous and decisive in family affairs, and now, because Nieman had become a lunatic woman, Selena couldn't bear it anymore.
Throwing off Mrs. Cobo's shackles directly, she pushed the person back fiercely.
"What the hell do you want to do?! Do you know how much money Cobo's family has available now? Do you want to sleep on the street this Christmas?!"
There was a sour heat in Selena's eyes, "You might as well die with Nieman."
It was probably the worst thing Selena ever said, but she was telling the truth.If the Cobo family's manor and all the shop land were taken back and auctioned off to pay off debts, then she and Mrs. Cobo would be driven to the slums.
For these aristocratic women, in that place, losing their status and the protection of their servants, life would definitely be worse than death.
Selena waved her away, and directly reached out and began to rummage through the jewelry box of the Duchess of Cobb.
Her mother usually puts the engraving here.
The gesture that was originally full of jewels was already somewhat empty, and Selina only felt tears falling on her hands.
But the Duchess of Cobo didn't let her go, the woman grabbed her sleeve like she was really crazy, "You can't go to the temple, you can't go to the temple, I won't allow you to go to the temple! Did you hear that! "
"Get out!" Selena threw a row of velvet jewelry boxes to the ground.
It was the same before. She wanted to find a doctor for her mother, but Mrs. Cobb forced her to die, saying that if Selena dared to tell others about her mental problems, she would die in the manor.
Later, Niman harassed the lady in the city, and Selena wanted to go to the sheriff.Mrs. Cobb is still the same as she is now, forcing her to give up with a bitter and sharp look.But if she had been able to deal with Nieman properly at that time, how could that person be so presumptuous that he gambled big.
Selena is going crazy, if she stays here any longer, she will become the second Mrs. Cobo.
"Let me tell you." Selena calmed her throat, she pointed at Mrs. Cobb with red eyes, "From tomorrow onwards, I will never appear in front of you again, I will be with Rhines, forever Get away from here forever."
"You can fight all Nieman's debts with him."
After saying this, Selena only felt relaxed.
She lost her Rhines for a lunatic, a gambler?Why?
"……no--!!!"
Mrs. Cobb almost jumped up and threw herself on Selena.
"What are you doing?!" Selena backed away in shock, but there was a table behind her, and she couldn't avoid it at all.
The next moment, she was forcefully thrown to the ground by Mrs. Cobo. This woman clenched her teeth tightly, her face full of inexplicable ruthlessness and fear, and she didn't care whether Selena's delicate palms would be scratched or not.
She got it.
Then he got up like an animal and quickly backed away.
More than 40 years of aristocratic education can't be seen on her at this time.
Selena watched her mother back away while shaking her head, "No, you can't go to the temple...you can't go to the believers of the God of Light..."
Selena just felt like a shrimp struggling in vain under a rock.
She wiped away tears, propped herself up, "give it back to me."
The mother and daughter are separated by a short distance, but they are like enemies.
"Can't... can't go..."
"I said—give it back to me!"
Selena roared as if venting, grabbed the two books on the shelf and threw them to the ground without even reading them.
But this room has been left unattended for too long, and Selena directly caused a row of books to collapse, stumbling to the ground.
The butler, who had been on tenterhooks for a long time, hurried up, ready to persuade him to fight.
He stood awkwardly at the door, not knowing whether to speak or not.
Selena lowered her head, her eyes narrowed in one place.After a while, the noble girl who had hardly suffered a lot said slowly, "Go down and close the door."
The Duchess over there was still holding the engraved seal, not knowing what to say.
Selina raised her voice sharply, "Hurry up!"
"Yes, yes, miss."
The housekeeper hurriedly followed suit, thinking about what job he would change.
At the last moment of closing the door, he saw Selena bent over and picked up a black book from the ground.
Then she got up slowly, staring at the cover without blinking as if she was very interested in the content of the book.
The wooden door clicked shut.
Selena raised the black, worn-out black book that exuded an unspeakable rusty smell to her face, her voice was frighteningly low.
"what is this?"
"Can't go...can't go to the temple..."
Selena withdrew her hand and quickly flipped through it twice, her mind went blank——
This is a book about summoning demons.
All sorts of gory drawings, drawn with black charcoal on flimsy paper, are enough to give you nightmares at night.
……
Selena squatted down, and with precise eyes, she found something related to dark beliefs from a pile of messy books.
She squatted among a pile of parchments and black books, and it took her a long time to look up at Mrs. Cobb. Her voice was cold and clear, cutting through the animal's flesh like a blade, and tearing out every capillary.
"You didn't allow me to go to the temple because you did something according to the instructions above, right?"
At this moment, the sudden return of Nieman, the red-eyed and black-haired Cyril, and the inexplicable magic lines on Rhines' body poked Selena's sensitive nerves like three needles.
"You—" Selena held her breath, then laughed suddenly, and tears fell, "Let me guess, mother. You knew Cyril was not your child a long time ago, so you would abuse him like that."
"You want to get Nyman back, so you did some rituals in the above way, right!"
Selena pressed her fingers on the parchment so hard that it turned white, "Am I right!"
……
There was a sudden silence in the room.
Mrs. Cobo stared at her blankly, her expression suddenly filled with fear, "Devil! Devil! You are a devil!"
The chatter in Selena's ears turned into screams, but she couldn't listen to anything now, she just wanted to cry.
What's the matter?
Selena squatted blankly for a while, then stood up suddenly, "Tell me, which ceremony is it? What did you do to Rhines? What's going on with Cyril now? Tell me!"
Any ceremony can be touched, it's just the size of the price.
If the current state of Rhines and Cyril is all because of Mrs. Cobb, then Selena must first find the ritual, and then go to the temple for help, and everything can be over.
Mrs. Cobb began to cry.
Selena paused every word, "If you can't speak well, I will call the doctor over immediately, put you in a mental hospital, and find someone to kill Nieman.
Don't think about it. "
At the same time in the Cyril Manor, Rhines was the only one in the room.
The setting sun outside the window reflected the sky into a large area of beautiful orange-red, and also added a small spot of light in Rhines' blue eyes.
Rhines hugged the quilt and looked at it for a while, then slowly got up.
Cyril was really... thoughtful.
Rhines closed his eyes unwillingly to admit it. He was clean and had put on new pajamas.Even when he found out that Rhines was pretending to be asleep because of shame, he took the initiative to go out.
In the whole matter, Cyril did not do anything out of the ordinary except for asking him to exchange... for asylum.
Everything is Selena and Rhines' fault.
It's him, and it's his own fault.
The heat in Rhines' ears hasn't gone away since just now, he doesn't feel ashamed but only guilty.He couldn't tell whether Cyril really liked him or was seduced by him.
After all, he seems to have really become a succubus.
The young man in the mirror still has long blonde hair like the sun, and the blue eyes are like the ocean or the sky.This is the holiest color in the southeast continent.
Rhines looked dazed and fragile, Cyril's pajamas hung loosely on his shoulders, and his exposed skin was spotted with red marks all over.
He was like a profane god or an angel caged in a lair.
Rhines turned his face sideways and covered his forehead.
There, he could feel two small bumps, which were little devil horns that were about to grow.
Rhines gritted his teeth and lifted his clothes. Although his understanding of creatures like demons is limited to ancient books, he can probably feel that all the changes in his body come from the magic pattern on his lower abdomen. If he cut off this place——
"Lines."
Cyril's voice sounded from behind.
Rhines froze, put his shirt back on, turned around and wanted to go back to the bed.
A chuckle sounded from behind, someone caught up with him, and reached out to hug him into his arms.
Rhines felt as if he had raised a large canine animal. He struggled a little as he stood up and hugged himself.
"You let go."
Cyril reached out and pressed Rhines' waist, "Do you want to cut this off?"
All the shop land, real estate and deposits in the bank of the Cobb family will all become the property of her brother Niman.
Selena looked at the manor in the distance, where she had lived for more than ten years.A few days ago, she left here, full of resentment, and she kept planning in her mind how she could become the wife of the richest duke in the empire.
And when she comes back now, she only hopes to get the family seal and ask the temple to bring it back to Rhines.
Selena closed her eyes severely, lifted her skirt and walked in.
The housekeeper who had taken care of her for more than ten years heard the movement and ran out of the house to greet him, but Selena didn't say a word to him, and ran directly to the second floor.
She didn't want to care about the mess in the family at all, she just wanted to bring Rhines back as soon as possible.
"Miss, miss, don't go up first." The housekeeper hurriedly followed, "Madam..."
Selena turned around abruptly and asked the butler, "Niman is in there?"
She didn't want to see her "new brother" at all.
The butler was taken aback, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, "No, the young master is not here."
"What kind of young master is he!" Selina retorted.
The butler knew what Niman had done, so it was not easy to refute Selena.But the things that should be explained should be explained clearly, "No, the young master did not come back. But miss, the madam's mental state these two days is a bit... bad."
……
"...I see." Selena habitually raised her chin slightly and replied indifferently, stepping on the stairs with her heels, and walked towards the first room on the second floor.
Like the structure of Cyril's manor, almost all the study rooms of the duke's manor are on the third floor, so that the precious parchments will not be dampened by moisture.Lady Cobb, as the Duchess, should also be there to handle family matters.
But if Selena guessed right, her mother hadn't gone up for a long time.
Selena strode to the door, knocked twice irritably, and then pushed it away, "Mother."
"Snapped!"
Almost at the same moment, a white porcelain cup with gold rims hit Selena's feet and shattered into pieces, "Don't come in!"
Selena stood there in a daze, staring at the Duchess who was staring at the door in horror. .
Selena thought her mother was afraid of Nyman's return, but if it was Nyman, how could Mrs. Cobb show a frightened expression.
Is she afraid of something...?
"Why are you back?" Mrs. Cobo leaned on the bed with one hand, she confronted Selena like a beast encountering another invader.
There was no trace of love for his daughter in his eyes.
Fear and absurdity made Selena stand still, thinking about the reason quickly in her mind.
Before Rhines left home, the Duchess of Cobo actually had a little mental problem.During these years, the condition slowly deteriorated.
For example, her insomnia is getting worse and worse. Every time Selena goes to find her, she will find that her mother is staring at the things her father left behind in a daze.She would cry and get angry for no reason, smashing things and yelling.
When Selena didn't calm her down, Mrs. Cobb would go after Cyril.
It was only after Nieman came back that Mrs. Cobb's problems were miraculously cured.
——Until Nieman's creditors approached him.
Selena took a step forward, "Did the people from the casino and racecourse come again? How much does Nieman want this time?"
"..."
Selena's question was like breaking a stone on the ice, and the emaciated figure of the Duchess of Cobo trembled.
"Selena?" She seemed to be talking in sleep, raised her hand and wiped her face vigorously, and recognized her daughter belatedly, "Oh, it's you, it's you."
Selena used to love her mother as much as she loved Rhines.But the Duchess of Cobo's connivance with Nyman in the past few years has wiped out her family affection.
So at this time, he just stepped forward and asked coldly, "Is the creditor coming again?"
"...No, no." Mrs. Cobb said intermittently, she straightened her hair, "Why are you back?"
……
Selena stared at her mother suspiciously, then slowly retracted. "I need a family emblem to go to the temple to prove my identity."
She said as she walked forward.
In Selena's view, this is not a complicated matter, and Rhines is still in Cyril's hands.She has to be quick.
So the princess decided to get past her mother and get it herself.
Unexpectedly, after a two-second reaction, Mrs. Cobo suddenly burst into a scream.
"How can you go to the temple!"
Selena was taken aback.
Mrs. Cobb grabbed her arm as if offended, "How could you go there!"
?
Selena looked at her blankly and irritatedly, her anger started from her heart.When she thought that the woman in front of her was once gentle and charming, and was vigorous and decisive in family affairs, and now, because Nieman had become a lunatic woman, Selena couldn't bear it anymore.
Throwing off Mrs. Cobo's shackles directly, she pushed the person back fiercely.
"What the hell do you want to do?! Do you know how much money Cobo's family has available now? Do you want to sleep on the street this Christmas?!"
There was a sour heat in Selena's eyes, "You might as well die with Nieman."
It was probably the worst thing Selena ever said, but she was telling the truth.If the Cobo family's manor and all the shop land were taken back and auctioned off to pay off debts, then she and Mrs. Cobo would be driven to the slums.
For these aristocratic women, in that place, losing their status and the protection of their servants, life would definitely be worse than death.
Selena waved her away, and directly reached out and began to rummage through the jewelry box of the Duchess of Cobb.
Her mother usually puts the engraving here.
The gesture that was originally full of jewels was already somewhat empty, and Selina only felt tears falling on her hands.
But the Duchess of Cobo didn't let her go, the woman grabbed her sleeve like she was really crazy, "You can't go to the temple, you can't go to the temple, I won't allow you to go to the temple! Did you hear that! "
"Get out!" Selena threw a row of velvet jewelry boxes to the ground.
It was the same before. She wanted to find a doctor for her mother, but Mrs. Cobb forced her to die, saying that if Selena dared to tell others about her mental problems, she would die in the manor.
Later, Niman harassed the lady in the city, and Selena wanted to go to the sheriff.Mrs. Cobb is still the same as she is now, forcing her to give up with a bitter and sharp look.But if she had been able to deal with Nieman properly at that time, how could that person be so presumptuous that he gambled big.
Selena is going crazy, if she stays here any longer, she will become the second Mrs. Cobo.
"Let me tell you." Selena calmed her throat, she pointed at Mrs. Cobb with red eyes, "From tomorrow onwards, I will never appear in front of you again, I will be with Rhines, forever Get away from here forever."
"You can fight all Nieman's debts with him."
After saying this, Selena only felt relaxed.
She lost her Rhines for a lunatic, a gambler?Why?
"……no--!!!"
Mrs. Cobb almost jumped up and threw herself on Selena.
"What are you doing?!" Selena backed away in shock, but there was a table behind her, and she couldn't avoid it at all.
The next moment, she was forcefully thrown to the ground by Mrs. Cobo. This woman clenched her teeth tightly, her face full of inexplicable ruthlessness and fear, and she didn't care whether Selena's delicate palms would be scratched or not.
She got it.
Then he got up like an animal and quickly backed away.
More than 40 years of aristocratic education can't be seen on her at this time.
Selena watched her mother back away while shaking her head, "No, you can't go to the temple...you can't go to the believers of the God of Light..."
Selena just felt like a shrimp struggling in vain under a rock.
She wiped away tears, propped herself up, "give it back to me."
The mother and daughter are separated by a short distance, but they are like enemies.
"Can't... can't go..."
"I said—give it back to me!"
Selena roared as if venting, grabbed the two books on the shelf and threw them to the ground without even reading them.
But this room has been left unattended for too long, and Selena directly caused a row of books to collapse, stumbling to the ground.
The butler, who had been on tenterhooks for a long time, hurried up, ready to persuade him to fight.
He stood awkwardly at the door, not knowing whether to speak or not.
Selena lowered her head, her eyes narrowed in one place.After a while, the noble girl who had hardly suffered a lot said slowly, "Go down and close the door."
The Duchess over there was still holding the engraved seal, not knowing what to say.
Selina raised her voice sharply, "Hurry up!"
"Yes, yes, miss."
The housekeeper hurriedly followed suit, thinking about what job he would change.
At the last moment of closing the door, he saw Selena bent over and picked up a black book from the ground.
Then she got up slowly, staring at the cover without blinking as if she was very interested in the content of the book.
The wooden door clicked shut.
Selena raised the black, worn-out black book that exuded an unspeakable rusty smell to her face, her voice was frighteningly low.
"what is this?"
"Can't go...can't go to the temple..."
Selena withdrew her hand and quickly flipped through it twice, her mind went blank——
This is a book about summoning demons.
All sorts of gory drawings, drawn with black charcoal on flimsy paper, are enough to give you nightmares at night.
……
Selena squatted down, and with precise eyes, she found something related to dark beliefs from a pile of messy books.
She squatted among a pile of parchments and black books, and it took her a long time to look up at Mrs. Cobb. Her voice was cold and clear, cutting through the animal's flesh like a blade, and tearing out every capillary.
"You didn't allow me to go to the temple because you did something according to the instructions above, right?"
At this moment, the sudden return of Nieman, the red-eyed and black-haired Cyril, and the inexplicable magic lines on Rhines' body poked Selena's sensitive nerves like three needles.
"You—" Selena held her breath, then laughed suddenly, and tears fell, "Let me guess, mother. You knew Cyril was not your child a long time ago, so you would abuse him like that."
"You want to get Nyman back, so you did some rituals in the above way, right!"
Selena pressed her fingers on the parchment so hard that it turned white, "Am I right!"
……
There was a sudden silence in the room.
Mrs. Cobo stared at her blankly, her expression suddenly filled with fear, "Devil! Devil! You are a devil!"
The chatter in Selena's ears turned into screams, but she couldn't listen to anything now, she just wanted to cry.
What's the matter?
Selena squatted blankly for a while, then stood up suddenly, "Tell me, which ceremony is it? What did you do to Rhines? What's going on with Cyril now? Tell me!"
Any ceremony can be touched, it's just the size of the price.
If the current state of Rhines and Cyril is all because of Mrs. Cobb, then Selena must first find the ritual, and then go to the temple for help, and everything can be over.
Mrs. Cobb began to cry.
Selena paused every word, "If you can't speak well, I will call the doctor over immediately, put you in a mental hospital, and find someone to kill Nieman.
Don't think about it. "
At the same time in the Cyril Manor, Rhines was the only one in the room.
The setting sun outside the window reflected the sky into a large area of beautiful orange-red, and also added a small spot of light in Rhines' blue eyes.
Rhines hugged the quilt and looked at it for a while, then slowly got up.
Cyril was really... thoughtful.
Rhines closed his eyes unwillingly to admit it. He was clean and had put on new pajamas.Even when he found out that Rhines was pretending to be asleep because of shame, he took the initiative to go out.
In the whole matter, Cyril did not do anything out of the ordinary except for asking him to exchange... for asylum.
Everything is Selena and Rhines' fault.
It's him, and it's his own fault.
The heat in Rhines' ears hasn't gone away since just now, he doesn't feel ashamed but only guilty.He couldn't tell whether Cyril really liked him or was seduced by him.
After all, he seems to have really become a succubus.
The young man in the mirror still has long blonde hair like the sun, and the blue eyes are like the ocean or the sky.This is the holiest color in the southeast continent.
Rhines looked dazed and fragile, Cyril's pajamas hung loosely on his shoulders, and his exposed skin was spotted with red marks all over.
He was like a profane god or an angel caged in a lair.
Rhines turned his face sideways and covered his forehead.
There, he could feel two small bumps, which were little devil horns that were about to grow.
Rhines gritted his teeth and lifted his clothes. Although his understanding of creatures like demons is limited to ancient books, he can probably feel that all the changes in his body come from the magic pattern on his lower abdomen. If he cut off this place——
"Lines."
Cyril's voice sounded from behind.
Rhines froze, put his shirt back on, turned around and wanted to go back to the bed.
A chuckle sounded from behind, someone caught up with him, and reached out to hug him into his arms.
Rhines felt as if he had raised a large canine animal. He struggled a little as he stood up and hugged himself.
"You let go."
Cyril reached out and pressed Rhines' waist, "Do you want to cut this off?"
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