After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

The fifth day of the brave man's diligent sowing.

As usual, Oswald prayed in his heart for the emergence of a system that emphasizes having many children and bringing good fortune. He apologized, saying he had previously criticized it too harshly; the idea that having many children and bringing good fortune is correct and necessary...

After leaving the deep pit, Thorne and Lilith moved from the tent to the cabin, and were almost about to live a harmonious and happy life outside Green Canyon City, but Lilith's belly still showed no signs of pregnancy.

Thorne did work very hard, so hard that Oswald and others who were supervising them couldn't have a moment's peace day or night. But reality always reminded them day after day that hard work doesn't always pay off.

Oswald's only gain was the discovery that the Holy Lance of the Hero had a sedative-like effect.

In every sense, Lilith has now rapidly transformed into a complete "lying flat" youth.

She stopped being manic, stopped complaining, and even acquiesced to Oswald's surveillance and threats, accepting everything calmly.

After observing Lilith quietly washing her blankets outside for a while, Jenny finished her magical observation, turned to Oswald, and shook her head helplessly.

With a pipe dangling from his lips, Oswald remained silent.

Thorne was still chopping wood outside, continuing to expand their hut, answering the villagers' questions intermittently.

Anyone could see he was very nervous, so nervous that his hand gripping the axe was trembling. Oswald's silence indicated that this powerful figure's patience was gradually running out.

But what could he do? It was already a stroke of luck that such an absurd plan had been approved.

During this period, more and more people from the northern territories came to visit the incarnation of the curse.

Everyone was very hospitable. After noticing that Thorne and his companion lacked various daily necessities, these kind-hearted villagers would chat with them from a distance from time to time and bring them furniture, tools and other items.

With the Duke here, they don't need to worry about safety. The most talked-about topic in the Northern Territory right now is that little-known first life.

The cursed incarnation is just a little girl, nothing special, and doesn't even seem as good as His Excellency the Duke... Strange?

As for the first life, that's all too new. The events happened in their northern territory, so they have to chat about it a lot so they can brag about it when they get back.

Perhaps because the common people were having fun nearby, Oswald once again tolerated Thorne's failure. He quietly exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, turned around, and returned to his tent to handle administrative matters.

First, she picked up the document on the table. All the information Lilith had revealed about her first life was meticulously compiled in this document.

Intelligence is always the most important thing, especially the story after defeating the Demon King, which even Oswald knows very little about.

Reading this document that organizes the timeline, just as Oswald predicted, the first generation of the hero's party eventually reached a dead end.

A fascinating phenomenon in human history is that, after a war ends, the victorious side often faces more problems.

Defeating the demons brought no benefit to the hero's team; on the contrary, the Northern Territory paid an extremely heavy price to achieve victory in this war.

The king quickly withdrew financial support from the northern territories, and the hero's party had to find a way to repay the nobles for their help.

Thorne lacked Cao Cao's ambition and ruthlessness. After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, Xu You had barely started to make a name for himself when Cao Cao was given a lavish funeral.

As for him, he could only stand by and sneer as the nobles, heavily pregnant, came to "congratulate" the hero on his victory.

After feeding these nobles, the students of the Central Academy, who were the backbone of their military and political affairs, should not be neglected either.

But someone always has to bear the consequences.

Fortunately, Oswald did not overestimate the moral character of the hero's party; unfortunately, after briefly eliminating the demon threat, life became increasingly difficult for the common people of the northern territory.

What's even more disheartening is that most of these families, which form the core of the Northern Territory, have lost their young breadwinners who were the pillars of their households.

The northern territory, already critically ill, was getting worse year by year. There were no warhorses on the pastures, no surplus food in every household, the number of people who could form an army had greatly decreased, and bandits roamed the mountains and forests everywhere.

As the demons united to shake off the shadow of defeat and regrouped for a comeback, rifts began to appear among the hero squads.

The first to collapse from exhaustion was Annie, who was in charge of managing the territory, followed by Nicole, who was in charge of finances.

Maria was elusive and rarely seen. After Archbishop John passed away, she spent more and more time at the Royal City Papacy, and would be away for months at a time.

Lilith clung to Thorne all day long, and the two of them lost interest in politics, returning to their old ways as adventurers.

Princess Diana also had a grand plan: she wanted to force Annie and Ni to use the Wishing Star, intending to use the goddess's power to make the Northern Territory great again.

When news of the demon invasion arrived, the six of them were able to reunite. Faced with a situation of having no food and no soldiers, they first held a criticism session targeting Annie and Nicole.

After officially announcing the disintegration of the team, they successfully triggered a famine in the northern territory in order to raise food supplies.

That was brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

The absurdity of the Northern Territory was so extreme that even King Frank could no longer tolerate it.

He proactively sent grain, which finally alleviated the crisis in the northern territory, but then another unexpected piece of news arrived.

Annie committed suicide by cutting her wrists.

Fortunately, she was discovered in time, and thanks to Maria's rescue efforts, Annie was out of danger.

From then on, she never spoke another word, and the sparkle in her eyes disappeared. She became like a puppet, staring blankly at an old dress day after day.

Old dress...

Oswald only hoped that he wasn't overthinking things, and that this dress was the one Oswald gave Annie in the story after he imprisoned Annie's family and forced her to attend the ball as his fiancée.

That would be a very interesting story.

Of course, the second Oswald did not experience this part of the story.

Although he was given a role-playing script, the system generally only assigns mandatory tasks in key plot points, and skips some unimportant plot points by default.

If these two really had a romantic relationship... Oswald gasped, imagining countless tragic love stories.

Perhaps he shouldn't have confused the first life with the original story.

People are complex; there are as many Hamlets as there are people. Even a simple story can be interpreted in countless ways.

Oswald gently put down the document, picked up his pipe again, smoked, and fell into deep thought.

He previously speculated that the reason Oswald's soul disappeared in the first life was because Annie used the Wishing Star.

After all, Annie was the one with the most reason to hate him to the bone, and only Annie could possibly use the Wishing Star on the already deceased Oswald.

To reaffirm the premise, after learning that someone would use the Wishing Star to rewind time, Annie erased Oswald's original soul.

What remains to be determined is whether her true motive for erasing Oswald's soul was out of hatred or love!

Out of love... what exactly happened between those two?