My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Therefore, many wealthy young women also use Kana's banquets to look for potential partners.

To put it bluntly, it was a matchmaking event at the top of Japanese society!

As the pampered little princess of the Kujo family since childhood, a marriage alliance is completely unnecessary because the Kujo family has already reached its peak and cannot grow any larger.

Therefore, Kana Kujo has the freedom to choose her own marriage partner, and this banquet is for her to choose a husband.

This is a real little princess!

After Kujo Kana finished speaking, she slowly walked down the steps of the hall.

They first chatted amicably with some older men and women, forming a subtle circle, and those around them wisely refrained from joining in.

These people are, of course, parents who are "selling" their children, and they are all from the upper echelons or near the top of the Japanese power structure.

Hui, watching this scene from an inconspicuous corner of the banquet, used her abilities to control one of the middle-aged men on the periphery, and heard:

"Miss Kana, you've become more and more beautiful. The first time I saw you, you were only this tall, and now you've grown into a graceful young woman!" said a middle-aged man with a gentle demeanor that exuded a subtle air of authority.

This person is Akihiko Yasuda, the current head of the Yasuda family and the father of Eiji Yasuda.

"Uncle Yasuda, please don't make fun of me. It's you who's getting more and more radiant!" Kana Kujo praised shyly.

"Haha, Kana, you have such a sweet tongue. I wonder who will be lucky enough to marry you in the future!"

“Uncle—” Kana Kujo interrupted shyly.

"Eiji, you know him, right? You used to play together a lot when you were little."

"It's Eiji-nii! How is he?" Kana Kujo asked shyly.

'How could Kana Kujo have feelings for Eiji, who's been spoiled rotten? Could it be the Destroyer's doing? Did Eiji use the Destroyer's power behind my back?' Akihiko Yasuda wondered.

But when he thought that Eiji was his and Kimi's child, and when he thought about the days he spent with Kimi, he softened: he let him marry Kana Kujo, so that he would have a guarantee for the future!

"Yes, he's doing well. He misses you very much and often asks me about you."

"Yes, I miss Eiji-nii-san very much too!"

"Oh, Eiji is here at the banquet too. You two should have a good chat."

"Eiji-nii is here too! Where is he? Where is he?" Kana Kujo asked with a joyful expression.

Seeing this, the surrounding parents secretly thought: "What a waste of a beautiful flower on a pile of cow dung." No, even the cow dung is better than Yasuda Eiji.

These people are all top figures in Japanese society. The dirty tricks that Eiji Yasuda did might be well hidden from others, but to these people, Anbu knew everything.

While sighing inwardly, they gave up, after all, high society has its own rules.

Kana Kujo greeted the 'parents' politely and walked toward the center of the ball.

The banquet was reaching its climax!

Because if he can successfully invite Kana Kujo to dance and fully express himself, the chances of gaining both wealth and beauty will undoubtedly be much greater.

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Kei saw Kana Kujo walk past the crowd, rejecting at least dozens of young people along the way, and head towards Eiji Yasuda, who was dressed in a formal suit, had a thin face, and looked excited.

Then, the two of them started dancing.

Hui felt her values ​​were no longer valid. Why would Kana Kujo fall for that good-for-nothing Eiji Yasuda?

has a problem!

There's definitely something wrong!

Hui looked at the two obviously mismatched people on the field, and her thoughts immediately invaded their minds.

Of course, to outsiders, they seem to have no problems.

“Pet, Destroyer, Secret Department…” Hui discovered that the Yasuda family seemed to have some secrets.

Then, Hui simultaneously invaded the mind of Yasuda Akihiko, who was talking to someone.

"Heh, interesting, very interesting." A moment later, Hui let out a cold laugh.

In Kana Kujo's mind, a poorly made false memory overwrote the original real memory; the rewriting was too obvious and too deliberate.

Furthermore, Kana Kujo's true memories have not disappeared, but are hidden deep in her consciousness. If Kana Kujo receives a very strong stimulus, she will remember them.

Of course, in the eyes of a Level 4 expert, this was a complete novice's mind manipulation, but in a world without supernatural abilities, this was a bug-level power.

Within the minds of Eiji Yasuda and Akihiko Yasuda, Kei discovered many interesting things:

Chapter 19 Love and Hate Entanglement

It turns out that Eiji Yasuda is the child of Akihiko Yasuda and his lover, Norimi Shiba.

He also has two half-brothers: Yasuda Yasuyoshi and Yasuda Toshiaki. They are the children of Yasuda Yoshimi, the daughter of the Mitsui family, another powerful conglomerate, whom Yasuda Akihiko married through proper channels.

Yasuda Akihiko entered into a political marriage with Mitsui Yoshimi in order to obtain the position of head of the family. He did not like Mitsui Yoshimi, but the person he truly liked was Shiba Norimi, the campus beauty he met in college.

Later, after Yasuda Akihiko successfully rose to power and had no shortage of power, status, and money, he began to pursue love.

Yasuda Akihiko first coerced and seduced Shiba Nomi's current boyfriend, and then began a passionate pursuit of the heartbroken Shiba Nomi, successfully winning her heart: Shiba Nomi became his lover regardless of her status.

Meanwhile, Akihiko Yasuda and Kimi Shiba have fallen into an abyss called "love".

The more Yasuda Akihiko liked Shiba Norimi, the more indifferent he was to Yasuda Yoshimi, who married him.

He repeatedly expressed his desire for a divorce, even though Yasuda Yoshimi was already pregnant with their second child at that time.

Yasuda Yoshimi silently endures her husband's cold treatment, and on the surface, she always appears as a submissive and well-bred lady.

However, Hui, being a woman, knew that a princess who had never suffered any grievances since childhood could not possibly swallow this insult!

Sure enough, behind the scenes, Yoshimi Yasuda hated Kimi Shiba!

Later, Shiba Nomi became pregnant, but died from postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to Yasuda Eiji.

Of course, this was all part of Yoshimi Yasuda's scheme; she intended to kill both her and her unborn child, but Eiji Yasuda escaped unharmed. (This was something Akihiko Yasuda only learned later when he used Pet's ability.)

Afterwards, Yoshimi Yasuda fully cultivated herself into the traditional Japanese woman who put her husband at the center of everything and didn't care at all about her husband's child with his mistress.

She repeatedly showed her affection for Yasuda Eiji, and even personally shared Yasuda Toshiaki's breast milk with Yasuda Eiji, acting exactly like a virtuous wife and loving mother!

Akihiko Yasuda wasn't stupid, but Yoshimi Yasuda's genuine care over three years clouded his judgment, dispelled his doubts, and made him realize that Michiki was dead and Eiji was just a child. Surely Yoshimi Yasuda wouldn't be so heartless as to not be able to tolerate a child? More importantly, the child needed a mother!

Therefore, Akihiko Yasuda entrusted the child of his love with Kimi to Yoshimi Yasuda to raise.

As expected, Yoshimi Yasuda did not disappoint Akihiko Yasuda, and devoted herself to raising Eiji Yasuda.

Of course, this is what Yasuda Yoshimi showed to Yasuda Akihiko.

In fact, Yasuda Yoshimi not only did not abuse the child in any way, but also fulfilled all his requests, both reasonable and unreasonable.

When they were children, they received private tutoring together. Yasuda Toshiaki would be severely punished for misspelling a word or making a mistake, while Yasuda Eiji would have the teacher and Yasuda Yoshimi cover for him even if he didn't come to class.

Yasuda Toshiaki never had servants or retainers; he did most things himself. In contrast, Yasuda Eiji was always surrounded by people running errands for him.

Yasuda Toshiaki didn't experience the pleasures of having a maid until he was an adult, while Yasuda Eiji had a personal maid secretly arranged for him by Yasuda Yoshimi when he was 10 years old.

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From the time Eiji could remember, Yasuda Yoshimi subtly cultivated a persona in Eiji's mind: Yasuda Akihiko, a sinner who mistreated his mother and a cold-hearted head of the family. This was intended to sow discord between Eiji and Yasuda Akira, who genuinely cared for him.

He told the servant that he was actually an illegitimate child.

When Yasuda Eiji started elementary school, his violence began to develop, and he became increasingly adept at bullying and oppressing people like Rei. Secretly, Yasuda Yoshimi dutifully cleaned up his messes.

At the same time, Yasuda Eiji always appeared obedient and timid in front of Yasuda Akihiko. Therefore, Yasuda Akihiko never knew what the real Eiji was like.

In his first year of junior high school, encouraged by those around him and driven by his increasingly unruly personality, Yasuda Eiji posted a message on the wall criticizing a girl in his class. Of course, it was Yasuda Yoshimi who secretly smoothed things over.

From this point on, Eiji went further and further down the path of scum and trash, and there was no turning back.

In Yasuda Eiji's own memory, he received love from Yasuda Yoshimi that was even more "doting" on him than on her own son, and he truly believed that the only person who was good to him was Yoshimi.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always been surrounded by all sorts of people who praise him, flatter him, never disobey him, and never tell him what is wrong.

In the end, Eiji Yasuda became a good-for-nothing who only knew how to play around with women, was ignorant and incompetent, and was utterly useless.

Furthermore, due to his early exposure to sexual matters, Yasuda Eiji's mirrors had an extremely low survival rate, which is why Yasuda Eiji, despite ruining so many girls, still had no children.

Yoshimi Yasuda spent 18 years turning Eiji Yasuda into a complete waste of space, while raising her two children into capable individuals who could stand on their own!

As a result, Eiji Yasuda's troubles grew bigger and bigger, until Akihiko Yasuda finally found out.

By the time Akihiko Yasuda learned the true nature of Eiji Yasuda, Eiji was completely ruined. He was insane, arrogant, hypocritical, treacherous, short-sighted, utterly wicked, vain, lazy, and gluttonous...

Any derogatory term used to describe a useless or petty person would fit perfectly when applied to Eiji Yasuda.

Upon learning the truth, Akihiko Yasuda angrily slapped Yoshimi Yasuda, but Yoshimi caught the slap.

"you,"

"Me? What? I, Mitsui Yoshimi, married you at 16. Have I ever done anything to wrong you? You used our family's power to seize the position of head of the family, and this is how you treat me? Huh?"

"That's why you raised Eiji to be such a useless child. The child is innocent; if you have any complaints, take them out on me!"

"The child is innocent? His very existence is a sin. Are you planning to hand over the position of family head to that little bastard when you get old?"

"How...how did you find out about this?"

"Heh, how would I know? If that little bitch hadn't died, you were already planning to divorce me to make room for her. What else wouldn't you do?"

“Shiba Nori is not a slut, I will not allow you to insult her—” Yasuda Akihiko shouted.

"Heh, I'm not usually a petty person. If you were just playing around, I wouldn't treat you like this even if you had a child. But you actually want to give the house to an illegitimate child! I am your lawfully wedded wife. What is it about Liming and Kangyi that you are dissatisfied with? Why are you treating us, mother and child, like this?"

"Eiji grew up without a mother, he was all alone, but Liming and Kangyi have you to rely on..."

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Haha, what a soap opera about rich families!

Hui was somewhat gloating.

Deep within Akihiko Yasuda's memory lies the story of the so-called destroyer (pet).

Chapter 20 The Past

Pets weren't always called pets; they were called Qigong masters. Qigong masters had a very simple ability: to destroy the self-awareness of ordinary people and turn them into idiots.