My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

I'm going out first." Mary saw that it was almost time, so she walked out of the room, leaving Lucius alone in the room.

"What's the matter, Madam? How is the master?" After returning to the room, Randall looked at Mary and asked.

"Just as I guessed, the master's mental state is not good now, as if he has dementia." As she said this, she sighed.

"No wonder Orson and the others didn't want me to contact the master. Are they afraid that I would leak the news? Or are they worried that I would take advantage of the opportunity?"

"I don't know." Mary shook her head, then looked up at Randall with a look of determination in her eyes. "But this should be our best chance."

"It just so happens that Orson and Litt have given me a perfect excuse."

"Let me think about it. In order to obtain the right of inheritance, the two children deliberately concealed their father's illness from their mother, so as to control the affairs of the Duchy." Mary said this, tapping the table lightly with her fingers.

"If His Majesty the Emperor knew about this, it would be a serious crime, right?" Randall added. "By then, they might even lose the right to inherit the dukedom. Then the only one who is eligible to inherit the dukedom is the child in your belly, madam, right?"

"Well, and my children will not be able to manage the Duchy when they are young. At that time, I will be the actual ruler of the Duchy." Mary said this with a smile.

She was an ambitious woman, and she had always considered the Duchy of Antica to be hers.

Before, when Lit had just returned, she wanted to take the opportunity to instigate Orson and let the two brothers kill each other. As a result, Orson unexpectedly rejected her proposal and instead prepared to support Lit.

In that case, don't blame Mary for being ruthless and attacking two people at the same time.

As long as their reputation is ruined, the power of the Duchy will naturally fall into Mary's hands.

Thinking of this, Mary hurriedly wrote a letter and prepared to send it to Saint Laurent City.

At this time, there was a knock on Mary's door.

Vivian returned home with the jewelry she bought at the market.

"Madam, this is the jewelry you commissioned me to buy." Vivian said this, put it on the table, then took two steps back, bowed to Mary, and left her room.

At this time, Vivian saw that the time was almost up, so she walked towards Lucius's room.

At this time, Lucius was still sitting in the chair in a daze.

"Good morning, sir." Vivian said this and glanced at Lucius.

Lucius still sat there in a daze.

This situation of Lucius's had not been uncommon in the past few days, so she took a blanket from the closet and covered Lucius with it.

At this time, she glanced and saw the teacup on the table.

She reached out her hand, touched it, and found that the teacup was still warm.

Vivian immediately became alert and walked downstairs to the kitchen.

"Did anyone come to serve tea this morning?" Vivian asked seriously.

"Ah, well, only the madam has been here." The maid in charge of the kitchen spoke up.

Hearing this, Vivian frowned.

Then, she went to the second floor and knocked on Litt's door.

Walking into the room, Vivian reported to Litt what happened today.

"Master Li Te, although I don't want to think about it that way, it is obvious that Madam is trying to get me out of here on purpose."

In the family, everyone knows that Randall is Mary's confidant, and whatever Randall does basically represents Mary's opinions.

Mary took the initiative to send Vivian away and personally brought tea to Lucius. The meaning behind this was self-evident.

Although they are all family, Vivian is Orson's confidant. Orson asked her to keep an eye on Mary, so she had to be on guard against Mary.

"I understand, Miss Vivian, you've worked hard." Li Te nodded. "Mother has guessed that there is something wrong with father."

Leeteuk said this and sighed.

She didn't know what Mary was going to do after she knew about this, but in Litt's opinion, she felt frustrated because she didn't complete the task assigned to her by Orson.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that before Orson left, he gave her an envelope and asked her to open it when she encountered difficulties.

Litt thought about it, opened the drawer of his desk, took out the letter, and then read the contents carefully.

In an instant, her eyes brightened.

……

At night, Randall prepared to rush to Saint Laurent City with Mary's secret letter. Not long after leaving the Duke's mansion and before leaving the city of Antica, Randall felt several eyes staring at him.

He quickly dived into the nearby woods.

Unexpectedly, this drill played right into the group's hands.

Randall stepped on a trap in the woods and was hung upside down.

Then, several people emerged from the shadows.

"Hello, Mr. Randall." Virgil was the first to speak. "It's so late, why are you in such a hurry to go out? As a servant of the Duke's Mansion, are you planning to betray the Duke?"

"No, no, how could that be." Randall quickly shook his head. "I just wanted to deliver a letter for my wife."

"A letter?" Virgil raised his eyebrows. "Delivering a letter at this time? Could it be some shameful letter?"

"How is that possible!" Randall immediately retorted. "This is a letter from my wife, how could it be something shameful..."

"Then why choose to deliver it at night?" Virgil said this and quickly ordered his men to search him.

"What are you doing? Do you know that if the lady finds out about this, she will be mad!"

"I will naturally go to apologize to Madam when the time comes, but please understand that your actions are extremely suspicious."

"Also, you cannot return to your wife until you are sure that everything is completely fine." Virgil ordered his men to take Randall away, then looked at the envelope in his hand and fell into deep thought.

……

"Virgil, are you sure the letter hasn't been swapped?" In Litt's room, she looked at the letter in her hand and frowned.

"Well, I'm sure that this was the only letter Randall had on him at the time." Virgil nodded. "The ink didn't show any signs of being loose, so there's no possibility that it was swapped."

"That's strange..."

Randall did send a letter to Mary, but the content of the letter was very simple, inviting a noble lady friend of Mary in Saint-Laurent to come to the Dukedom of Antica to reminisce the past.

Looking at the content of the letter alone, there is indeed nothing wrong with it.

It can't be that they really arrested the wrong person, right?

Just as Li Te was thinking this, there was a knock on the door of the room.

Then, Mary walked into Leete's room.

"Leet, I asked my servant Randall to deliver a letter to the post station yesterday, but he hasn't come back yet. Have you seen Randall's movements?"

"Ah, I'm so sorry, mother. I don't know exactly where Randall has gone. If possible, you can wait at home. He may just have something else to deal with, so he hasn't come back yet."

"Okay." Mary nodded. "If Randall hasn't come back by then, I hope you can mobilize the city defense forces to help find him. That letter was sent to my friend. It's just an ordinary letter..."

Listening to Mary's words, Litt didn't know why he felt a little guilty. After all, as family members, they shouldn't plot against each other, right?

Could it be that Mary really didn't do anything and just wanted to pour Lucius a cup of tea that day? Am I just overthinking it?

But when he thought of the letter Orson left for him, Litt could not tell Mary what he had done.

She trusted Orson more than Mary.

……

On the other side, the city of Saint Laurent.

Emperor Odysseus and Giovanni are chatting.

When Giovanni went to Beijing to report on his work today, he suddenly mentioned the affairs of the Duchy of Antica.

"Oh, Emperor, if you ask me, Duke Antica's eldest son Orson is truly a man of genius." As he said this, he did not hide his praise for Orson at all.

"We have never, never achieved such a beautiful and clean victory in the war against the orcs."

Of course, Giovanni was talking about the main battlefield. If it weren't for those stupid teammates who appeared in the secondary battlefield, the war would have gone much more smoothly.

"Well, yes, Orson's performance is indeed good." Odysseus nodded when he heard it. He looked at Giovanni curiously, not knowing what he was going to say.

"I think that in order to reward such people, we should hold a large banquet in the Dukedom of Antica to celebrate our victory." Giovanni stated his purpose. "Although a celebration banquet was held at the front before, Your Majesty, and several of us dukes did not attend that celebration banquet.

Add it."

"I think that for such a meaningful event, we should go to the Dukedom of Antica together to congratulate Duke Lucius. That would be great!"

"Well, what you said makes sense." Odysseus nodded, "Well, let's do this, I will write to Lucius today."

"Okay, thank you very much, Your Majesty." Giovanni said this with a smile.

Chapter 1.7: Fengshaping and Family Crisis ( two-in-one chapter)

On the other side, Orson was still chatting with the shaman.

"By the way, this is my first time here at the temple. I would like to ask, besides this main hall, are there any other branch halls in the temple?"

"No." The orc shaman shook his head. "We are only here to worship the great Limusa."

"Then... may I ask, are there any holy objects in the temple? Or, is there any place that we absolutely cannot go to?"

"If you ask me that, I can't really remember it right now..." The orc shaman thought for a moment, and then said, "The temple originally had a basement, but for some reason, no one could enter the basement, and gradually it was abandoned. We don't know what's in the basement."

"Okay, I understand, thank you very much." Orson said this, thanked the other party, and then took Lena back into the temple through the side door.

"Hey, Brother Edward, haven't we already visited the temple?" Lena asked puzzledly as she watched Edward leading her back into the temple.

"Well, but I have other things to do." Orson said this and looked into the temple again.

The book records that Limusa used up the last of his divine power to transform the desert into its current state. In other words, if Limusa's divine power dissipated, the wind and sand that protected the orcs would dissipate along with it.

Then, the medium for storing the power of Limosa must exist in the temple.

After learning about the basement from the shaman, Orson took Lena back to the temple.

At this moment, Baru has finished his confession, and he still has to go back to complete his task of unifying the orc tribes.

Only Orson and Lena were left in the temple.

"Brother Edward, are you looking for that basement? But the shaman has said that we can't get in..."

"Do you really believe him when he says we can't get in? Let's give it a try. What if we can get in?"

"Okay." Lena sighed after hearing that.

The two then walked around the temple and finally found a door in the wall.

There was an ancient text engraved on it, which was also the ancient common language. Orson could barely understand its meaning.

[To open this door, you need the blood of Hela's followers]

Hela's followers? Are they referring to humans?

But why does the orcs' holy land require human blood to open?

Orson was very confused, but he did it anyway. He cut his finger with a dagger and then smeared the blood on the door.

But the door didn't move at all.

Lena looked at Orson's actions and suddenly felt a little strange.

"Brother Edward, you don't think that you can open the door by smearing blood on it like in adventure stories, do you? Haha, even a big brother who looks super reliable can fail one day." Lena said this with a smile.

"But it says that it needs to be smeared with the blood of Hela's followers." Hearing this, Orson shrugged helplessly.

"Followers of Hela? Who is Hela?" Lena asked curiously.

"It's the goddess of life that humans believe in." Just as Orson finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something.

He quickly cut his finger again, which had just stopped bleeding, and then painted a symbol on the door with blood.

This symbol is the emblem of the human church, an upright cross, representing the believers of the Goddess of Life.

Then, as expected, as Orson finished drawing the pattern, the blood pattern began to emit light.

Then, with a creaking sound, the door to the basement opened.

"Uh..." Lena looked at Orson with a strange expression.

"Brother Edward, you actually guessed it?"