[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each":3,"chapter-villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-chapter-76":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Villainess X Villain: They are obsessed with each other!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1873675,2480,"Chapter 76 -: 75 Did they play me?","villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-chapter-76",76,"\u003Cp>\"Haaa, fresh air...\" Julius muttered as he stepped out of his mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a sunny day, and the warm breeze felt refreshing on his skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Papa, are you still in pain?\" Rosel asked worriedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She held his right hand tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she woke up and saw Julius awake, she had cried and hugged him tightly for hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry,\" Julius said with a smile. He knelt down so their eyes were at the same level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m as strong as a bull!\" He smirked and gently rubbed her head. \"Your papa is the strongest, after all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rosel blinked innocently. \"But Mommy said she is the strongest. She even beat you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius laughed softly. \"Well, she is the strongest woman. And I’m the strongest man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He patted her head, then easily picked her up and held her in his arms. \"You’re still as light as a feather. Are you skipping meals?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rosel shook her head quickly. \"Umhm!\" She started playing with his hair, twisting the strands between her small fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Alfred approached from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord,\" he said, holding out a folded paper. \"Here is the data you asked for.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? You already finished?\" Julius raised an impressed eyebrow and took the paper with his free hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is everything written here? The dates and times too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, my lord. Everything is accurate,\" Alfred replied with a nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright,\" Julius hummed as he scanned the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It listed every spy Alfred had caught and questioned over the past months, along with exact dates and times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They didn’t say who sent them?\" Julius asked, still looking at the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, my lord. Their memories were erased. They didn’t know who gave the orders or why.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s almost impossible to track them back to the source. From what I found, they seem connected to the black market... but even that trail goes cold quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm...\" Julius let out a small sigh as he kept reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This covers the past four months, right?\" he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, my lord,\" Alfred confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius nodded. That made sense. He had only been in this body for four months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything before that belonged to the old Julius, back at the family estate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued reading the numbers: 1, 0, 2, 3... until his eyes suddenly widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fifteen?\" he said, surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only the second day of the second week since he had arrived at the academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alfred,\" Julius called again, his brows pulling together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You remember the day I proposed to Rosalina, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" Alfred nodded as he stepped closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could I forget? When I heard the rumors that my young master had proposed to the daughter of that useless patriarch from the Valentina family, I was almost having a breakdown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alfred always looked calm on the outside, but that day he had felt completely lost and didn’t know what to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here,\" Alfred continued, pointing at the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I circled the important dates when you did something big.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\" Julius’s eyes narrowed even more as he looked. \"That’s the day before the fifteen spies appeared...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frowned. ’Why would someone send fifteen spies to watch me? Could it be...?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scrolled down the list with his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are these spies from the Valentina family? Because I proposed to their daughter?\" Julius asked, his brows pulling together tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that day, the numbers stayed high, 13, 12, 10, 14... It went on like that for the next two weeks. Then suddenly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fifty?\" Julius’s eyes widened like they were about to pop out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such a huge jump? And there’s a circle here too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noticed a circle drawn around a date two days before the big spike of fifty spies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alfred...\" Julius called, his voice serious. \"Is this the day I rescued Rosel?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rosel, who was still happily playing with Julius’s hair, looked down at him curiously. Alfred glanced at the paper and nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, my lord. That’s the day. I even warned you that someone was watching you very closely... and they seemed desperate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius stared at the paper for a moment, thinking hard. Fifty people just to watch one person? That wasn’t normal at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked back at Alfred. \"Did you kill everyone connected to that black market deal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" Alfred nodded calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I even took care of the whole family of the noble who bought Rosel. He’s a noble from the Holy Empire... known as the Lustful Noble.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What was the exact date?\" Julius asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was right after the day we found Rosel,\" Alfred said. He gently patted Rosel’s head and smiled as he explained everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Julius felt very confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If everything had been cleaned up right away, then why was there such a big spike in spies after he brought Rosel home?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius’s confusion kept growing as he scrolled down the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers went up and down in a steady rhythm for a while. Then, another big spike jumped out at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sixty-five?!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes nearly popped out of his head. ’What the fuck? Are these people idiots or something? Why are they sending so many spies?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This new hike happened two months later, right around the time the Saint candidate appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head was spinning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first big jump to fifteen spies happened the day after he proposed to Rosalina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That one he could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably the Valentina family keeping an eye on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe even Rosalina herself wanted to watch his moves and figure out his real motives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the jump to fifty spies was much harder to explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had made sure to kill everyone connected to the group that had kept Rosel and the other slaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this could be someone higher up in that dirty business, someone he hadn’t caught yet, watching him for destroying their operation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Still... why this new spike to sixty-five?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He read the small note beside the number. They had even tried to sneak into the mansion disguised as a new maid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But why would someone watch me so closely just because a Saint candidate showed up far away in the Holy Empire?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Julius’s head spun even faster with confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is there any character in TST who can see the future better than me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought back to the original story, but no matter how hard he tried, nothing came to mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only person who could predict things was the Great Sanachi through his divination abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So... was there someone else with future sight that he didn’t know about?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His brows furrowed deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then there was that mysterious person who had sent the warning about the divination board being stolen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That person hadn’t used Julius’s real name, but they knew exactly what he was going to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’They knew me like the back of their hand... Did they play me?’\u003C\u002Fp>",1135,"2026-06-10T05:56:22.118Z",1,"novelbin.me","418b4f745613bf0b55ab9831d3ea5425eec269aec82cfb2204ea7f7b7f53ead2","villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-chapter-138","villainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-chapter-137",220,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fvillainess-x-villain-they-are-obsessed-with-each-cover.jpg"]