Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 16: The Bottom Line

Merit closes the door of the room of the upper study, hearing Alice’s words, she can’t help but turn around and look at Alice with a smile, “Miss Alice, you and I can’t talk about things concerning the Debus family in a proper manner, if His Majesty the King knows about it, then I’m going to be in bad luck. You have to know that I am risking my life for your Debus family, it’s better to talk with the door of the room closed.”

Alice was stunned.

In terms of talking, how could Alice catch up with Merit, the Right Minister Lord who had been in the official world for so long?

Meritt smiled and walked towards the side, in front of the bookshelf there was a round table and two chairs, usually Meritt would talk with some friends here.

Merit sat down first, and then looked at Alice, “Alice, you also sit down.”

“Thank you, Lord Merit.”

With a sigh of relief in her heart, Alice sat down on the other chair, amongst this study, Alice was actually the most wary of that bed.

“One moment, please.”

Merit smiled and got up, and then surprisingly took out a bottle of red wine as well as two wine glasses from under the desk, pouring half a glass each for Alice and him afterward.

“Alice, this is the sixty year old red wine from the Blue Rain Winery of the Yulan Empire, the flavor is very good, try it.”

Merit smiled and raised his glass.

Alice was a little worried if this wine had been drugged with some kind of ecstasy or something. But facing Melitte’s gaze, Alice could only raise her glass and just touched it with her lips.

Merit didn’t force it either. Changing the topic, she said: ”Alice, you and Karan are engaged, so I guess you know something about the Debus family. Do you know about their family smuggling?”

“I don’t know, I don’t think Karan would smuggle.”

Alice hurriedly said, “Lord Merritt. The Debus family is still very strong, I don’t think they would go into smuggling land.”

Merit looked at Alice with a smirk, “It’s hard to say.”

“Hey!”

Merit seemed to see something and violently probed in front of Alice, to the point where his face was just about ten centimeters away from Alice’s.

Alice panicked and hastily tried to dodge.

“Don’t move.”

Merit drank with a hint of a commanding tone.

Having been in a high position for many years, Merit’s cry had caused Alice’s entire body to be stunned, and it was only Alice who felt a hint of consternation. Merit looked carefully at Alice’s hair, and then looked down at Alice.

With this lowered head, Merit’s face and Alice’s face were just a few centimeters apart. This caused Alice to not be able to help but move her head back a bit in a hurry.

Seeing this scene. Merit laughed and returned to her position, sighing helplessly, “Just now, I saw a white hair on your head, but unfortunately, you moved it and I couldn’t find it again.”

White hair?

Alice couldn’t help but feel annoyed at the bottom of her heart. She and Lorraine were living together, and every day when they woke up and were bored they would brush each other’s hair, and often looked for gray hairs as well. Lorraine even said she envied Alice, not a single gray hair to be found.

Rowling couldn’t find it by combing her hair every day, how could this Merritt find it?

It was just that Alice didn’t dare to say anything more.

“Alice now, you’re still young. Don’t worry too much, worrying will show your age and you will have gray hair land.”

Merit said with concern.

Alice just stayed quiet and didn’t say anything.

Merit moved her chair towards Alice’s side for a bit, then gazed at Alice again and said, “Alice, you look so beautiful, that kind of absolutely beautiful temperament, it’s really moving.”

Alice couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed and a little rushed.

Merit probed slightly again and continued to gaze at Alice, “Alice. Those wives of mine only know how to be vain and seem so vulgar, but you are completely different from them. Really, you know what? At the first sight of you. I was blown away by you.”

“I regret, regret why I married those women.”

Merit suddenly reached out and took Alice’s hand in hers. This caused Alice to round her eyes for a moment. Merit continued to look at Alice, “Alice, what if. If I told you that I’m infatuated with you from the depths of my heart and love you, would you believe me?”

Alice stood up in a hurry. But Merit held Alice’s hand tightly.

“Lord Merit, Lord Merit, I am Karan’s fiancée!”

Alis exerted her efforts two or three times in a row before she was able to pull her hand back from Merit’s grip.

Melitte laughed and looked at Alice, “It’s just a fiancée, it means that you’re not married yet, you can totally marry another person, then Karan, a little brat, what does he know about love affairs?”

Said Merit also moved closer towards Alice, and Alice couldn’t help but keep backing away.

But the panic-stricken Alice didn’t realize in the slightest that she had already been forced by Merit, just enough to retreat in the direction of the bed.

“Alice, I am really falling for you. I swear!”

Merit looked at Alice fondly.

Merit didn’t say panic, after admiring the Dream Wake stone sculpture, and then seeing Alice in person, he really did like Alice. It was just that this kind of liking was just a kind of possessiveness.

“Lord Merrit!”

Alice was a bit flustered.

Suddenly Alice’s legs touched the edge of the bed, and with an unsteady hand, her entire body couldn’t help but fall back towards the bed.

A small smile appeared on Merit’s face, and she immediately ambled over towards Alice, her entire body almost sticking to Alice, “Alice, my goddess, fulfill the wish of this mortal who is enamored with you. Fulfill my wish, and I will fulfill yours, and let the Debus family clear their name.”

Clear the name?

When Alice saw Merit at her fingertips at the moment, her mind couldn’t help but conjure up the time when she was with Linley at a small inn. When the two of them were passionately entwined to the most important moment, she stopped Linley’s scene.

How could one’s innocence be given to such a person in front of her?

“My goddess, come on.”

Merit’s voice was soft, as if it could hypnotize people.

“No. No!”

Alice violently pulled out the dagger at her waist and directly stabbed towards Merit. At the same time, the stones on the ground flew up and smashed at Merit.

Alice, after all, was also an Earth System Magician!

But Merit was also a formidable warrior, the whole person reacted very sensitively, her body flashed towards the side at great speed, and at the same time slapped the dagger in Alice’s hand away.

Alice’s entire body immediately dodged to the side, wanting to run towards the door.

With a single movement of her body, Merit arrived at the door, looking at Alice with a smirk, ”Alice. Do you still want to resist? With your magician strength and that one dagger you want to resist?”

“Lord Merritt, you let me go.”

Alice was a little determined this time.

“You don’t want to save the Debus family? Don’t want to save your fiancé, Karan Da?”

Merit snapped.

Alice looked resolute and gritted her teeth, “Even if I want to save it, this is not the way to save it, you beast!”

“Beast?”

Melitte’s face changed, and she sneered, “Originally, I still wanted to make something clear out of it, but you’re so uncooperative, so I’ll be a beast to you.”

Alice’s face couldn’t help but turn white.

“Merit. Don’t you go too far.”

Alice panicked and hastily backed up towards the back, and also slammed the chair next to her into Merit.

Merit easily smashed the chair with one punch.

“Don’t you resist, here, this is my mansion.”

Merit said with a light laugh.

Alice watched as Merit took a step closer and said frantically with a clench of her teeth, “Merit, don’t forget that I was once Linley’s woman!”

This one sentence caused Merit’s entire being to be stunned.

Alice really didn’t want to say this, she knew that her behavior back then had hurt Linley a great deal already, and she didn’t want to have anything to do with Linley anymore. But at this time. There was nothing else she could do.

“Linley?”

Meritt stood in place, her brows furrowed.

Alice bit her lip and looked at Merit, “Merit, I can pretend that today never happened. But if you go overboard, then you can’t blame me for tearing my face off. I believe you should know Linley’s influence.”

Meritt looked at the Alice in front of him.

He was truly enamored with the Alice in front of him, but Merit knew very well that that Linley had a very special relationship with Alice. Linley’s feelings for Alice were felt from the Dreamwake stone sculpture alone.

“Linley does have true feelings for this Alice. If we let Linley know ……”

Merit got a headache.

Linley.

It was hard to deal with!

It was the current Linley whose influence was already strong. As strong as he was, Melitte was only the right minister of a kingdom, and for the Illuminati, dismissing the king of a kingdom might require deep thought, but to deal with the right minister of a kingdom that didn’t require much thought at all.

As long as Linley asked the Illuminati for help, it wouldn’t be difficult at all to deal with a right minister.

And in the future, Linley’s achievements would only be greater. This was also the reason that no one from the nobles of the entire Finlay Kingdom had ever practiced any cruelty against Linley. This was also the reason why, in Linley’s eyes, the nobles were all very courteous to him. Every single noble was so polite.

“Alas ……”

Merit let out a long sigh, “Alice, I really like you from the depths of my heart, so much so that I’m hot-headed.”

Merit smiled apologetically at Alice, “I’m sorry, I’ve come to my senses now, since you don’t want to have no feelings for me, then I won’t force you.”

“Then Lord Merit, I’ll leave first.”

Alice quickly scurried to the door of the room, opened it and rushed out.

Seeing Alice leave, Merit, who just now had a look of regret and apology, her gaze steeply blazed up, her face as if covered with a layer of frost, and she coldly snorted, “Hmph, stinking woman!”

When Alice returned to the Debus Family Residence, the sky was already completely dark.

At this moment, the Debus family members were all gathered in the living room to enjoy dinner. Only the atmosphere was not good, after all, the family could be finished at any time.

“Alice. You’re back?”

Suddenly Lorraine saw Alice running in from the doorway.

Nimitz and the others stood up.

“Why so fast?”

Nimitz frowned. Alice had come back too quickly, beyond his estimation.

“Alice, join us for dinner.”

Lorraine immediately greeted.

Alice walked to the living room corridor, glanced at the people in the living room, and apologetically said, “I’m not feeling well. Just go back and rest first.”

Alice’s voice was low and hoarse.

Lorraine felt that Alice’s tone was not right.

“I’ll go check on Alice.”

Lorraine smiled at the crowd and headed out of the living room. Only Nimitz was left with a puzzled frown.

Alice was in the middle of her room with Lorraine.

As soon as Alice entered the room, she jumped straight onto the bed, tears streaming down her face as she couldn’t hold back any longer, with endless grievances in her heart.

“What have I done? Lord, why are you punishing me like this?”

Alice roared angrily in her heart.

“I don’t ask for anything, I just want a peaceful life, I want my parents to live a peaceful life and myself to live a peaceful life. Why, why are you punishing me like this?”

Alice had a heart full of grievances. The Debus family might be finished.

But was it any of her business?

Why did she have to be made to deal with Merit in the end?

Even to the point of forcing her to finally shout out I used to be Linley’s woman, how hard it was for Alice to get out. Alice really didn’t want to shout it out!

“Sister Alice, what’s wrong with you?”

As soon as Rolynn walked into the room, she saw that Alice was crying non-stop, even the bedsheets were wet, which caused Rolynn to become a little alarmed and worried.

Rowling immediately went to pick up Alice “Don’t cry, don’t cry. There is something to tell me, tell me.”

Alice immediately turned her head and jumped into Rowling’s arms, crying even harder. No one to comfort okay, but once someone to comfort, Alice more and more feel aggrieved.

Rolynn comforted her for nearly half an hour before Alice calmed down slightly.

“Sister Alice, what exactly happened, tell me.”

Luo Lin looked at Alice.

Alice took a deep breath before slowly saying all the grievances in her heart, “Sister Luo Lin. You also know the situation of the Debus family right now, when Second Grandpa came back yesterday, he looked for me to talk alone, he was trying to make me ……”

The more Rowling listened, the more she felt angry.

Angry for Nimitz’s behavior. Feeling bad for Alice and angry at the behavior of that beast Merit. And at the same time sympathizing more and more with Alice.

“I don’t phase anymore, I don’t want to care, I just want to be left alone.”

Alice said with a sob.

Rolene was also thinking of a way out for the Debus family these days. But after hearing what Alice said just now, she understood something in her heart.

“Sister Alice, don’t be sad. No matter what, you absolutely can’t have your innocence ruined by that Merit.”

Luo Lin comforted.

Alice nodded.

“But, we also have to find a way to save Karan and the others.”

Rolynn said, “Brother Karan is our fiancé after all.”

Alice wanted to save Karan as well, but she couldn’t help it.

“We still have a way.”

Rolene looked at Alice, “It’s just, I don’t know if you’re willing to do it, sister Alice.”

“Lorraine ……”

Alice looked to Rolene, she had already guessed it in the back of her mind.

Luo Lin nodded, “Yes, you go and beg Linley for help. If you name Linley today, that Merit won’t dare to touch you. Obviously Linley’s influence is very great, and as far as I know, Linley not only has a relationship with the Illuminati, he also has a relationship with the Dawson Chamber of Commerce. Even His Majesty Clyde doesn’t treat Linley like an ordinary courtier, but like a friend. If Linley steps in, then there’s a much greater hope of saving Karan.”

If there was anyone in the Finlay Kingdom who had the greatest face, it was undoubtedly Linley.

It was the Left Minister and the Right Minister who couldn’t even compare to Linley.

Because it was obvious that Linley would be a high-ranking figure in the Illuminati in the future. And right now, it was already an object of the absolute end of the Light Synod’s cultivation. For Linley’s sake, both Cardinals had gone to Linley’s old home to pay homage to Linley’s father. The regard for Linley could be imagined.

“Big brother Linley?”

Alice was in a complicated mood.

In reality, Alice knew in her heart that there was this one way, but she didn’t want to think about it. She really didn’t want to beg Linley. She felt that she didn’t have the face to beg Linley.

She knew that she had hurt Linley too much. Especially when she saw the stone sculpture dreaming of waking up, Alice realized how deeply Linley loved her. Or at least had loved deeply.

She didn’t have the face to go!

“Sister Alice, I understand your pain.”

Luo Lin clutched Alice’s hand tightly, “But, Sister Alice, big brother Karan and his father will probably lose their lives ah, please, condescend, at least Linley won’t be like that Merit.”

Alice’s heart was agonizingly painful.

“No face? Is my face important, or is the life of big brother Karan and his father’s land important?”

Alice chided herself in her heart, she had no choice.

“Sister Alice.”

Lorraine looked at Alice prayerfully.

Alice took a deep breath and tried to calm herself, looking at Luo Lin and nodding, “Okay, I’ll go see big brother Linley tomorrow.”