Mystery: Who has seen my brother?

Chapter 181 Hairpin
Edsac held Triss's waist with one hand and reached over her with the other to draw the curtains. He saw clearly that Triss's abnormal behavior only occurred after she saw the outside.

Triss did not stop Edsak. She stared at Edsak's profile with her sharp eyes, observing his expression.

Edsak glanced through the window but didn't notice anything unusual, and a look of confusion appeared on his face.

"Triss, what happened?" Edsak asked again.

"No, nothing." Triss pursed her lips and shook her head, her tone clearly perfunctory.

Can’t you really see it?

Then why can I see it?

Edessak noticed the perfunctory tone in Triss's voice, and gently held the woman's fair hands. He said with gentle eyes, "Triss, please tell me if anything happens."

Triss exerted a little force to pull her hand out of Edsak's grasp, and glanced out the window, only to find that the woman had disappeared.

strangeness……

Triss was secretly alert in her heart, but she withdrew her gaze and nodded slightly to Edsak in response.

"I just saw a strange person appear in the manor, but he's gone now. Maybe I was seeing things." Triss explained half-truthfully.

"Strange person?" Edsac glanced out the window again, lowered his head and thought for two seconds before saying, "Are you referring to Miss Eve?"

"Miss Eve?" Triss raised her eyes and looked at Edsak with bright eyes.

"I've only met Miss Eve once. Hmm... She's a bit strange indeed. She's so dazzlingly beautiful yet always overlooked," Edessak explained. "She's a journalist. At Mr. Mellis's request, I've allowed him and Miss Eve to freely enter the manor for interviews. However, they can't interview us for the time being."

"I just saw her, but she's gone now. She might have left, or gone to another part of the manor."

A... reporter...

Triss lowered her eyes slightly, staring at the floor, feeling troubled. "Did I misunderstand?"

No, that's not right. Is it true that someone is so beautiful yet still being ignored?
Triss felt a little uneasy in her heart, and her hand hanging at her side moved slightly. She had an urge to use the magic mirror for divination, but witches are very good at counter-divination. If the other party was really a witch doing divination, it might disrupt her judgment.

Even though her mind was full of thoughts, Triss remained calm. She looked relieved and said, "Then I'm relieved."

I need her things... Triss thought to herself that the closer the relationship, the higher the success rate of divination. It would be best if she could get her hair and cast a curse through it to ensure that she would have some protection when facing her.

"Did Miss Eve communicate with you in advance?" Triss said to Edsak, her gentle tone like intoxicating wine.

"No," Edessac said, clearly enjoying Triss's tenderness. He leaned over, one arm around Triss's slender waist, and said, "Mr. Melis contacted me in advance."

Triss suppressed her repulsion, tilted her head slightly, and leaned against Edsac, her fingers entwined with his dark hair. She said softly, "You've come to the manor so early for an interview. Miss Eve, you've worked so hard. Ask Magna to prepare some tea and dessert for her."

Triss's rare initiative made Edsac's heart feel like it had fallen into a jar of honey. He immediately nodded and called the maid Magna to prepare black tea and desserts to entertain Eve.

Following Edsak's instructions, Magna asked the kitchen to prepare some desserts and black tea for Eve.

"Miss Eve," Magna said, holding the silver plate in both hands, "Please enjoy." "Oh, thank you very much," Eve put down the small notebook in her hand, and said thank you politely with a hint of surprise in her tone. She picked up the spoon, took two symbolic bites, and praised, "It's delicious."

Magna held a teacup in her hand and placed a cup of mellow black tea on the table. After exchanging a few words, she left.

"Magna."

As Magna walked through the corridor, she heard a familiar voice echoing in her ears. She turned her head and found Triss at the corner.

"Miss Triss," Magna stepped forward and asked respectfully, "How can I help you?"

Triss held a gilded wooden box carved with irises in her arms. She placed her hand on the lid and opened the box, showing Magna what was inside.

It was a silver hairpin, an irregular, hollow oval with a petal-shaped frame and intricate patterns of silver wire. Inside the oval was a smaller, vertical oval, a sea-blue diamond set in it, and five round, white pearls dangling from it.

"This accessory should be suitable for Miss Eve," Triss snapped the wooden box shut and handed it to Magna. She smiled sweetly and said, "Go get an unused wooden comb from the bedroom and give it to Miss Eve."

Finally, Triss added, "Tell her it's a gift from His Highness Edsac to Miss Eve."

Hearing this, Magna's face suddenly became a little strange. She looked at Triss in confusion, "Miss Triss..."

For an unmarried man to give such a gift to an unmarried woman is really too ambiguous...

Witches of the Gnosis Society always loved seducing men. Seeing a man swooning over them, if they were truly a Gnosis Society witch, they would most likely accept the offer with pride. Those who weren't Gnosis Society witches would also find it difficult to refuse due to Edessac's identity.

"Send it over." Triss said again, her tone carrying a certain irresistible force.

Magna pursed her lips, feeling a little strange. She had never seen Triss treat others so...attentively, but she didn't think much about it and secretly made a mental note of it.

She carried the wooden box into Edsak and Triss's room, found an unused hair comb from the dressing table, placed it on the wooden box, then held the exquisite wooden box in both hands and went back to the reception room where she found Eve, and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

A sweet and gentle voice came from the room.

Magna opened the door with one hand and entered the room holding the wooden box with the other.

"Miss Eve," Magna bowed slightly to Eve, lowered her head, took the comb from the wooden box and placed it on the table, then opened the exquisite and beautiful gilded wooden box in her hand. "This is a gift from His Highness."

Eve looked at the exquisite and beautiful hairpin on the red brocade and was suddenly shocked. "This..."

"Miss Eve," Magna placed the wooden box in front of Eve, then picked up the hairbrush that had been put down on the table, waved it in front of Eve twice, and said, "Please try it on, Miss Eve, and see if it fits."

Eve pursed her lips inwardly, silently agreeing to Magna's request.

Magna picked up the comb and combed Eve's hair carefully. Her thick black hair was as smooth as water. Magna lowered her eyes and looked at Eve sitting on the sofa, with some doubts and sympathy in her heart.

(End of this chapter)