Chapter 85

Castle hall.

"There are fewer people than I imagined."

Xia Mingyu, wearing a black top hat, found a long table to sit at, propping his chin and looking at the lords chatting with wine glasses in the hall.

Although there were quite a few people, most of them were servants serving the lords and some confidants or family members brought by the lords; the real lords, judging from the emerald green noble protection on their heads, seemed to be only seven or eight.

Oh, right, it should be that only the Viscount lords of the Southern Region were invited, forget about the Barons.

"Your Highness Mingyu, you have come too."

A familiar female voice sounded in his ear, Xia Mingyu turned his head and looked, only to see Lise standing in front of him, looking a bit restrained.

Unlike the loose pajamas she often wore on weekdays, this time the girl was clearly dressed up seriously.

Her silver long hair poured down like moonlight, and her petite and exquisite body was wearing a deep purple velvet long dress, with silver vine patterns embroidered on the hem, as if the vines under the moonlight were growing quietly.

The neckline was inlaid with fine lace, revealing her fair and exquisite collarbone.

And the most eye-catching thing was her eyes; the left eye was as red as blood, flawless like a gemstone, and the right eye was as pale as ash, like the frost and snow of winter, cold and distant.

These unique heterochromatic eyes added a bit of dreaminess to her temperament, as if she were an elf that only existed in a dream.

"Lise, no matter how many times I look at them, I still think your eyes are as stunning and beautiful as when I first saw them." Xia Mingyu smiled slightly and praised her frankly.

"Shh..."

However, this praise did not make the girl feel happy, but instead made her look around in panic like a thief, and then made a shushing gesture to Xia Mingyu.

"Lord Mingyu, praising my eyes as beautiful in front of so many people will make people look at me differently."

She sat down beside Xia Mingyu and explained in a low voice.

After all, heterochromia is a recognized omen of bad luck in the world; if one is not born a noble, one would be thrown directly into the fire to be burned as firewood.

Even if born a noble, heterochromatic infants are often marginalized by their parents, given a sum of money and driven out of the castle to fend for themselves, or imprisoned in a village in the territory to avoid causing family shame.

Like her, being able to wear a formal dress and participate in her own younger brother's baby ceremony openly, one might not be able to find a few even if one searched the entire Socia Kingdom; one can imagine how many connections Kalen spent to smooth this over.

"Sigh..." Noticing that several people in the hall had already cast disgusted gazes at her, Lise sighed with some loss.

Even though she had often faced such gazes since birth, every time she encountered them, it still made her feel a sense of oppression as if she couldn't breathe.

She originally didn't want to come to a place with so many outsiders, but helplessly, her father felt that she, as the older sister, shouldn't be absent on the most important day of her brother's life, so he asked her to come again and again.

One sibling can only stay in the library and slowly decay, while the other has all the lords of the Southern Region come to bless him at birth, and even more so, he is recognized as a godson by a prince of a huge kingdom that rules 1.4 billion citizens of the entire Eastern Continent.

Is she also worthy of being the older sister of such a hero who is destined to live in epics?

Lise couldn't help but mock herself in her heart.

She slowly stood up from her seat, preparing to find a corner to hide in, so as not to cause His Highness to be looked at differently like her.

At this moment, her hand was gently grabbed.

"If I can be looked at by others with the same gaze as you, who are so beautiful, it is my honor."

Xia Mingyu stared into her eyes and said softly.

Afterward, he stood up from his seat, bowed slightly, held the girl's soft, boneless little hand, and kissed it lightly.

This scene immediately attracted surprised gazes from many people, and they whispered to each other; the content was nothing more than how someone could be so intimate with heterochromia...

And Lise was completely stunned.

This was the first time she had been kissed on the hand in front of people.

And the words His Highness just said... were they not too pleasant to hear!

Even though she knew very well in her heart that this was just His Highness's kindness, not his love for her.

But for a prince who has 1.4 billion citizens and is more noble than all the princes in fairy tales to praise her like this, it undoubtedly gave her, a little girl who was only sixteen, a sense of intoxication like being drunk.

"Thank you for your praise."

Lise steadied herself, lifted her skirt, bent her knees, and performed the most standard curtsy in history to Xia Mingyu.

At the moment of the salute, her silver hair slid down from her snow-white shoulders, shining with soft light under the candlelight.

Afterward, she didn't leave, but stood quietly beside Xia Mingyu.

At the same time, on the other side.

Viscount Night Shadow, Victor, looked at the heterochromatic girl not far away, his pupils shrinking suddenly, staring at the girl like a beast.

What beautiful and sinful eyes!

The left eye is like human blood, full of ominousness and slaughter.

The right eye is like ash, full of disaster and destruction.

This was not the first time Victor had seen heterochromia, so he could conclude that these eyes were definitely at the highest level among all heterochromatic people in the world.

He was very puzzled as to why such a heterochromatic person hadn't been converted by my God, but this undoubtedly gave him the greatest opportunity in his life!

As long as he could take this girl away and then sacrifice her to my God with endless pain, he could definitely be promoted to a Bishop in one fell swoop.

By then, whether it was the Hughes family sucking blood on him or the Masha family threatening him, they would all have to submit to him, who had received the grace of my God, and be controlled by him.

He would become the uncrowned king of the Southern Region, and then bring pain to the entire Southern Region...

Fantasizing about such a beautiful future, Victor stared at the heterochromia in front of him with red eyes, his breathing even becoming rapid.

This burning gaze naturally attracted the attention of both Xia Mingyu and Lise.

"This person is a lord after all, I didn't expect him to be so rude." Xia Mingyu frowned slightly.

A middle-aged uncle staring at a little girl with such a naked gaze, is he a pervert who likes lolis?

And Lise felt a chill, and she subconsciously hugged Xia Mingyu's arm.

After she came back to her senses and realized that this was too intimate, she had just withdrawn her hand when she was actively hugged by Xia Mingyu with his right arm around her shoulders.

"This lord, staring at a young girl like this all the time, isn't it too rude!"

Xia Mingyu stared coldly at the middle-aged man not far away and said coldly.

This sentence woke Victor, who was intoxicated in a beautiful dream; he walked over and glanced at the black-haired young man in front of him.

Fair skin, rare black eyes, looks good, en, also a good material to be used as a sacrifice!

Also carrying a prop with hidden status protection, heh, it's highly likely he's a white noble, so he's pretending like this; he didn't play like this when he was fifteen!

"Little girl, what is your name?"

Ignoring this black-haired young man, Victor squeezed a stiff smile on his gloomy face and asked with a smile.

Xia Mingyu: "..."

Since coming to this world, he was actually ignored for the first time, and by a pervert!

At this moment, he suddenly realized the importance of Boge; if Boge were here, he would definitely have shouted "How bold!" long ago.

He couldn't do this kind of thing himself, he could only leave it to Boge, just like Song Jiang's Black Whirlwind.

"... Lise Hughes."

Although she hated this middle-aged lord very much, out of the etiquette between nobles, Lise still told the other party her name.

"Kalen's daughter, I didn't expect that cold-faced killer to have hidden a heterochromatic daughter."

Victor, who had figured out the girl's identity, nodded with satisfaction, and then he cast his gaze on the black-haired young man who was hugging Lise's shoulders and glaring at him angrily.

"Kid, hug your girl for a while longer, you won't be able to touch her in the future!"

Victor looked at him playfully, his mouth curling slightly, and said in the condescending tone unique to middle-aged men.

Afterward, he laughed and turned to leave.

Xia Mingyu was silent for a moment and snapped his fingers silently.

At this moment, a waiter walked by holding a silver tray, and on the silver tray were glasses filled with bright red wine.

When the waiter passed by Victor, Victor suddenly stumbled and bumped into the silver tray, and the bright red wine splashed all over Victor.

"Bastard, don't you have eyes!"

Looking at the large stain on his snow-white formal dress, Victor was furious.

This formal dress was the best in his collection; if it weren't for the fact that all the Viscounts of the Southern Region would be present at this ceremony, he wouldn't have worn it out.

"Sorry..." The waiter apologized repeatedly in a panic.

"Get lost!"

"Yes, yes..."

Murderous intent was revealed in Victor's eyes; if it were in his castle, this waiter would have been slaughtered by him long ago.

But looking at the lords who had cast their gazes over one after another, many of whom were his old acquaintances from the Dragon-Lion War, he had no choice but to let this waiter go in order to maintain his demeanor.

"Phew..."

Looking at Victor's embarrassed appearance with wine splashed all over him and his furious expression, Xia Mingyu let out a long breath, suddenly feeling much more comfortable in his heart.

Sure enough, taking a step back makes you more and more angry; it's more comfortable to vent your anger on the spot.

"Lise, note down that waiter, tell Old Xiao En to give that person a reward, and say it was my intention." Xia Mingyu said lightly.

"Yes, Lord Mingyu."

If that waiter were ignored, he would definitely be severely punished by the butler.

Therefore, since the other party helped him vent his anger, he would naturally give him a reward.

With the passage of time, the sun became more and more intense, and it was almost noon.

Clip-clop, clip-clop.

Accompanied by a burst of messy footsteps, the main characters of this ceremony finally arrived at the hall.

Danielle, wearing a light blue long dress, arrived at the hall holding the sleeping Young Master Haidun, her pretty face full of soft maternal radiance.

Her mother, Rosa Masha, walked side by side with Danielle with a smile.

Roy and Roland, the two Crescent Moon Knights, surrounded them like guards.

As for Kalen Hughes, he followed the crowd silently with a wry smile.

There was no way, he, a Viscount, really had no right to speak in front of the Count's family.

"Long time no see, respected Count Masha, may you be well."

"This child is worthy of being your grandson; these beautiful large eyes are exactly the same as your daughter, the Southern Region Flower of the past!"

"Oh my, I envy that bastard Kalen; I was with him serving the greatest knight of the Southern Region, Red Fire, why did Red Fire choose him?"

Upon seeing the arrivals, the lords of the Southern Region who were chatting with each other just now gathered around one after another, flattering Rosa.

And this Southern Region Lord also responded with ease.

"Is that old lady the legendary Southern Region Lord?"

Xia Mingyu looked at the old woman with silver hair in the center of the crowd and thought thoughtfully in his heart.

How should I put it? It's a bit different from what he imagined; he thought she would be more majestic, but now she looks like a kind old grandmother.

It seemed that she noticed his gaze, and Rosa smiled slightly at the black-haired young man wearing a black top hat, which made Xia Mingyu feel a rare sense of being flattered.

At the same time, Victor also arrived in front of Kalen.

"Kalen, look at the good deed your waiter did!" He said angrily.

"Uh, truly sorry, Victor, I will severely punish him and fully compensate for your loss." Looking at the stain on the obviously expensive formal dress, Kalen apologized sincerely.

Although he didn't like Victor, since it was his own servant's fault, he would naturally apologize as the master.

Moreover, today was the most important day of his young son's life, and he would definitely show his generosity and kindness, and would never get angry, in order to ask the gods to treat his young son well.

"That's more like it, by the way, I have something to discuss with you." Hearing this, Victor's anger gradually dissipated, and he said.

"My comrade-in-arms, just say it."

"Lise is your daughter, right? Having a heterochromatic child will damage your reputation; as your former comrade-in-arms, I am willing to generously accept her and let her become my concubine."

Victor said loudly, feeling that he was quite generous, willing to give a heterochromatic person the status of a concubine.

The next moment, a torrent of deep green magic erupted from Kalen, shaking the huge iron chandelier hanging with candles on the ceiling.

"What did you say?!" Kalen was furious, squeezing this sentence out through his teeth.

(End of chapter)