Chapter 1599: I Knew It!

I knew it!

After its opened mouth was pulled shut by the blood hair, the collateral damage-suffering Black Goat couldn't help but howl silently in its heart, regretting deeply why it had come out to join in the fun.

Meanwhile, Leon, who realized something was wrong, had his expression change drastically. He then hurriedly rushed to deliver the key item threatening her to his mouth and bit down on it before the red-haired Bureau Chief could pounce over!

"I knew it!"

Grabbing her reaching palms with his left and right hands respectively, he locked them in a firm grip of twenty fingers to stop the red-haired Bureau Chief, who wanted to snatch the 【Wine-Soaked Bead】. Leon then glared at her with a thick tongue and said:

"There is never a time when you don't play dirty! Don't move! If you move again, I'm going to lick it with my tongue!"

Damn it! He actually reacted in time!

Watching Leon lift his tongue threateningly and lick the air toward the round bead, the red-haired Bureau Chief couldn't help but click her tongue in annoyance. She then secretly mobilized the broken hair to crawl onto Leon while teasing him with a smile:

"Little Leon~ If a man is too stingy, no woman will like him, you know~"

"Pah!"

After spitting at the red-haired Bureau Chief, Leon lifted his foot to shake off the blood hair that had climbed onto his shoe. Then, while still grappling with her hands, he glared at her with raised eyebrows and said:

"I don't need anyone to like me! Playing tricks is useless. If you want the bead, you have to trade it for the secret!"

"You've changed~"

Glancing at the blood hair being stepped on under Leon's feet, the red-haired Bureau Chief couldn't help but click her tongue in regret in her heart. She then blinked her eyes and said with a pained expression:

"In the past, when I was so poor I had to borrow money from Auntie Ai Ma to get by, I was still generous enough to treat you to drinks. How come you're treating me like this now?"

"Those are two different things!"

Having long been immune to the red-haired Bureau Chief's tactics, Leon bit down on the bead and the topic, saying with an unrefusable look in his eyes:

"The bead can only be traded for the secret! Anyway, you definitely have something you're hiding from me! And it's probably something related to me, otherwise, you wouldn't be so dead-set on not saying it!"

"You... when have I ever hidden anything from you in the past?"

Facing the stubborn Leon, the red-haired Bureau Chief rolled her eyes, then grabbed Leon's two hands and pushed them toward the door, saying pitifully:

"Our relationship in the past was so intimate, how could I specifically hide anything from you?"

"Stay away... and keep your hair away too!"

Tilting his head back to avoid the red-haired Bureau Chief's pitiful expression, Leon, with the bead in his mouth, complained with disgust this time:

"Bullshit! How were we intimate?"

"You're actually denying it?"

Upon hearing this, the red-haired Bureau Chief was shocked. She sniffed, her eyes reddened slightly, and then she pouted with grievance:

"Last time I went to the Dead Realm, you tricked me into kissing you with a bottle of good wine. Even when I had just joined the Cleanup Bureau, you took advantage of my drunkenness to carry me to the second floor and held me while we slept all night. Have you forgotten all of that?"

"?!!!"

No? What year is this... wasn't that all last year?

Not expecting her to bring up old accounts at a time like this, Leon suddenly felt a bit anxious. That time in the Dead Realm, you were the one who said it was your birthday and your only wish was to have a sip of good wine, which is why it ended up like that, okay? As for sleeping together for a night, that was when you were throwing a drunken tantrum, I tried to talk you out of it, and you kept humming and wouldn't let go, almost breaking my lumbar spine!

Although, speaking of these things, I probably... maybe... perhaps did take a tiny bit of advantage, but the reality is completely different from what you're saying, okay? And why are you shouting so loudly? If others heard these things, wouldn't I be unable to wash myself clean even if I jumped into the Yellow Springs...

Wait?!

Thinking of this, Leon's heart couldn't help but twitch violently, and he hurriedly looked back.

Sure enough, a certain woman who would always appear at a critical location at a critical moment and overhear the secrets others least wanted known, had just walked out of the storage room opposite the Bureau Chief's office, looking at him in shock.

I knew it!

Just as Leon wanted to call out to her and explain the truth, he felt his hands being pulled back forcefully, and a fragrant, evil wind suddenly struck the back of his head.

Heh heh, fighting with me? Hand it over!

Relying on exposing the scandal to summon the eavesdropping young lady and successfully distracting Leon, the red-haired Bureau Chief smiled triumphantly. She then pulled back her locked hands and looked up, intending to snatch the bead from Leon's mouth.

However, looking at her face suddenly moving closer, Leon felt a slight panic in his heart. When he tilted his head to dodge, his teeth loosened, and the 【Wine-Soaked Bead】 emitting a strange fragrance slipped from his teeth and slid directly inside.

Under the gaze of the red-haired Bureau Chief's suddenly widened eyes, the Wine-Soaked Bead bounced on Leon's tongue before instantly melting, turning into a clear, mellow, and fragrant liquid that slid down his throat without any obstruction, then completely disappeared.

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"My wine!!!"

After a heartfelt cry of sorrow, the light in the red-haired Bureau Chief's eyes instantly vanished. Leon, who had been force-fed a large mouthful of wine, instinctively bent over and coughed, then released the red-haired Bureau Chief's hands and chased after the eavesdropping young lady's retreating figure.

"Wait! It's not what you heard... Don't run! Stand still!"

After Leon's figure swept through the corridor like a gust of wind and disappeared at the end of the first floor, the red-haired Bureau Chief, with eyes full of heartache, sighed secretly and returned to her seat, feeling depressed.

I didn't expect him to actually get the Wine God's bead... Although I successfully fooled him away, I feel like I've suffered a loss... Forget it, I can't worry about that bead right now; as long as I have the item, it's fine.

Reaching out to press her heart, which was aching faintly, and barely soothing the pain of losing the Wine God's bead, the red-haired Bureau Chief sighed and picked up the dip pen on the table, picking out the few strands of hair hooked in her little fingernail.

The White of the Lumen... the Black of the Profound...

Judging from the condition of these few white hairs, Nicole's judgment was correct; Leon is indeed from the Eastern Three Kingdoms... or rather, the Eastern Four Kingdoms.

And looking at his terrifying courage that makes one's heart flutter, Leon is even highly likely to be of royal blood, naturally inheriting the power fragments belonging to 【Heroism】 within the Eastern Calewin royal bloodline.

After checking these few black and white hairs in her hand and confirming that the situation was indeed the same as her judgment, the red-haired Bureau Chief sighed faintly, then picked out the few snow-white hairs and carefully wrapped them around the base of her left ring finger.

And as the red-haired Bureau Chief moved, the half of her blood-red hair that had already been trimmed rapidly faded from its original bright red, turning as white as snow under the sun.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1600 =====