Miss Dragon, the BOSS, will not be captured.

"Yes, that's what I said before, it seems you still remember... Wait! You even remember that, how could you forget who I am?!"

"Now I remember."

"No! You were definitely pretending not to know me on purpose!"

"No."

"You just look down on me, don't you?"

"No."

"……Ugh."

Ye Qingxian sighed.

Estia was silent for a few seconds, then said to her, "I don't care about you because you're weak."

"Why is that?" Ye Qingxian was very eager to know the reason.

"Because you are a short-lived species."

"Well?"

“You don’t understand.” Estia’s tail suddenly touched the ground, a gesture Ye Qingxian remembered doing for the first time. “A thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye for me. The scenes of the past seem like they happened yesterday. I have no concept of time.”

Estya hadn't explained this to anyone for a long time, perhaps because she felt it was fate that she had met Ye Qingxian three times in a row.

After saying this, her tail lifted slightly off the ground, and her gaze towards Ye Qingxian returned to its usual indifference.

"I don't interact much with short-lived species because I don't like parting."

"..."

Ye Qingxian fell silent.

She never expected that she and Esther would have similarities; both of them refused to form deeper connections with others because they disliked the pain of parting.

The most obvious difference between the two is that Ye Qingxian died young, while Aestia died young.

"By the way, you're really not a princess?"

"I'm not."

"Then why..."

Esther was puzzled. If Ye Qingxian wasn't a princess, then why did she get a notification that the mission was complete after capturing Ye Qingxian?

The clatter of high heels on the ground grew louder as the succubus Lilith, dressed in a maid outfit, arrived.

"Master, King Fania has sent someone to deliver the ransom."

"Oh!?" Estia perked up instantly, her tail standing straight up.

“However…” Lilith seemed unsure how to begin.

"But what?"

"The king only sent fifty thousand gold coins."

Hey~

As soon as Lilith finished speaking, Ye Qingxian received a system notification informing her that her mission to impersonate the princess was complete and the king had paid her the reward.

Wait, has the reward already been paid?

Glug...

She couldn't help but swallow hard. If she wasn't mistaken, the 50,000 gold coins mentioned by the succubus maid should be the reward the king had given her.

Upon learning that the ransom was only 50,000 gold coins, Esther was furious: "Tell that king, believe it or not, I'll tear the princess apart alive!"

"The king's messenger said this is a fake princess, and torn it up as you please."

"..."

Speechless along with Esther was Ye Qingxian, who was locked in a cage.

She increasingly felt that she had been tricked by the royal family. How could it be that the royal family knew all along that the princess would be kidnapped?

Rather than saying she was a stand-in, it would be more accurate to say she was a scapegoat.

Having previously experienced casual games, Ye Qingxian had never encountered the tricks of NPCs, because NPCs wouldn't try to scam people.

Although she was used by the king, she still paid the agreed-upon reward of 50,000, though it wasn't actually handed over to her...

"Put those fifty thousand gold coins into the vault," Estia ordered Lilith, her tail wagging angrily. "I don't understand, if she's a fake princess, why is the king sending ransom?"

"Wait." Ye Qingxian stretched out her hand from inside the cage. "Those gold coins are..."

"What is it?"

Estya's expression was terrifying when she was furious.

"..."

Ye Qingxian struggled internally for a moment. Would telling Esther that the gold coins were hers at this time be courting death?

It was clear that the dragon girl was furious because she had captured the fake princess.

How will she deal with this fake princess? Will she vent her anger on herself?

After receiving her orders, the succubus maid left, leaving Ye Qingxian and Esther alone in the dungeon.

Just as Ye Qingxian's heart was pounding, Esther suddenly opened the cage.

"You are free."

After saying this, Esther left without looking back, and at the same time, another teleportation array appeared on the ground in front of Ye Qingxian.

Having used teleportation arrays before, she already knew that this one could teleport her to the entrance of the dungeon.

As Esther's figure gradually disappeared from sight, Ye Qingxian felt somewhat complicated. It seemed that the other party really did not want to have any contact with her.

However, for her, as a dying person, there was no need to have any contact with others, not even NPCs in the game.

Upon arriving at the teleportation array, just as Ye Qingxian was about to step onto it, an anomaly occurred.

"Ding! Vital signs abnormal... Forced exit from virtual reality"

"Ding! You cannot exit temporarily! Emergency medical team has been notified."

"puff!"

Ye Qingxian felt a sweet taste in her throat and spat out a mouthful of blood, which covered the teleportation array, rendering it ineffective.

Damn it... My body's abnormal reactions in reality are affecting the game.

Ye Qingxian felt her vision go black, collapsed to the ground with a thud, and then lost consciousness.

Estia did not leave the dungeon; she had simply gone to another part of the dungeon to check for any abnormalities.

She deliberately left because she didn't want to have any more contact with Ye Qingxian.

When she returned, the first thing she saw was Ye Qingxian, who had fainted, and the pool of red blood on the ground was extremely glaring.

Section 23, Chapter 020: Why is your face red?

Estia rubbed her silvery-white hair with her fingers, a gesture she habitually made when she was lost in thought.

The one lying on the ground... what was his name again... Ye Qingxian? He should be a real player.

Of all the players she had ever seen, none had ever vomited blood or fainted unless they had an abnormal condition.

Estia crouched down beside the bloodstain and gently poked it with her finger.

Then she remembered that when she first captured Ye Qingxian, Ye Qingxian seemed to have disappeared on the spot because she vomited blood.

Why didn't she disappear this time? Also, why does she keep vomiting blood?

Estia hesitated for a moment. This human was the one she had spoken to the most in a thousand years.

Should we save her?

Players should be resurrected after they die. They are all from another world with countless lives, so it's okay if they die, right?

Ye Qingxian's eyelids twitched slightly. At this moment, she felt pain all over her body and could clearly hear her heart beating, but the frequency was very low and it could stop completely at any time.

Driven by her biological instincts, Ye Qingxian felt a surge of survival instinct. With only Estya in sight, she struggled to reach her hand forward.

"Help...help me..."

There was almost no hope; Ye Qingxian didn't think that the usually indifferent Esther would lend a helping hand.

She had fallen onto the turbulent sea, and she would have wanted to grab even a single floating weed.

Her consciousness was blurred, and she tried to look into Estia's eyes, but her scarlet eyes revealed no emotion.

Estia is the boss of the dungeon, the main villain who is the opposite of the players, and even her character design fits the villain standard very well.

How could he possibly save himself?

Will I die? If I die, will I be resurrected?

The pain she is experiencing now must be from reality. Is there a doctor in reality giving her emergency care?

Ye Qingxian was about to faint again. In the last moment before she lost consciousness, she saw Esther's outstretched hand.

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As a powerful leader who commands a legion of monsters, Estia should have delegated the rescue work to her subordinates.

But her choice was to keep this a secret from everyone in the Netherworld Dragon Abyss.

After all, their lord has always been indifferent to the races outside the Netherworld Dragon Abyss, so it's really too unbelievable that he would suddenly rescue a human.

Her current mindset is somewhat like a child's inexplicable sense of shame about certain things; she just doesn't want others to know.

Estia used magic to conjure a small cart, placed Ye Qingxian on it, and pushed her from the palace hall towards her home.

Although there was a teleportation array inside the main hall that led directly to her home, Esther always walked.

The reason for doing this is to increase the amount of exercise, otherwise it would be terrible to evolve from a homebody dragon into a fat dragon.

Estya's home is different from that of ordinary people. While ordinary people may only be confined to their houses, Estya's activity range extends to the entire Netherworld Dragon Abyss.