Free Web NovelChapter 84: Chapter 84: A Maid Morally Blackmails Bai Su
Bai Su heaved until there was nothing left but bile. She weakly flushed the toilet and, upon leaving the bathroom, leaned listlessly against the doorframe.
Li Chenlin met her gaze, his worried expression instantly turning cold and aloof.
Bai Su stared at him, her face dark. "Li Chenlin."
Li Chenlin grudgingly lowered his proud head, glancing at her. "What is it?"
Bai Su said, "The next time you dare kiss me with that mouth that has eaten a Beastman, I will kill you."
"Pfft..." Outside, some maid couldn’t hold it in and let out a chuckle.
Li Chenlin shot a death glare in that direction, and the outside fell instantly silent.
He turned back to Bai Su, his face blacker than the bottom of a pot. "It’s been all afternoon. Is that all you have to say to me?"
Bai Su completely ignored him, lying back down on the bed with the exhausted look of someone who had been put through the wringer.
Li Chenlin’s newly recovered pride was once again shattered for all to see.
He felt that he had been scorned by Bai Su in front of everyone.
’This damned little female. I will make her fall completely and utterly in love with me!’
Li Chenlin suppressed his anger, sat back down at the nearby desk, and pretended he hadn’t heard Bai Su’s words as he resumed his work. free𝑤ebnovel.com
His assistant bowed his head and respectfully exited the room.
Bai Su couldn’t stand the stares any longer. She yanked the covers over her head. Out of sight, out of mind.
She was bored to the point of drowsiness and had no time for Li Chenlin’s childish peacocking.
Li Chenlin glowered at the small lump under the covers. The thought that all his elaborate efforts hadn’t even earned him a kind look—and had instead gotten him scorned—made his anger flare, and he slammed the file onto the desk.
But Bai Su was determined to defy him.
No matter how Li Chenlin tried to talk to her, she pretended to be deaf and mute, neither listening nor looking.
She smashed all the food brought to her, eating only what she redeemed from her own ’store’.
Furious, Li Chenlin smashed a roomful of expensive antique porcelain in his study. "Useless! All of you are useless!"
A servant holding the rejected food knelt trembling on the floor, not daring to lift their head.
Li Chenlin’s rage was uncontrollable. He opened his gaping, bloody maw and devoured the kneeling servant in one bite. Still not satisfied, he tore several subordinates passing by on patrol to shreds and threw their remains into the sea.
Everyone on the ship was so terrified they didn’t even dare to scream, fearing the slightest sound would attract the demon’s attention.
Even his assistant of many years couldn’t help but tense up, the hair on the back of his neck standing on end.
He had never seen President Li this furious, not even when he was exiled from the Southern Country Royal Family...
Li Chenlin’s aura grew darker by the day. Eventually, the entire ship was blanketed by his freezing presence. The number of maids also dwindled day by day, eaten by him whenever he vented his anger.
Panic spread through the ship. Finally, someone couldn’t take it anymore and snuck over to find Bai Su while Li Chenlin was on deck getting some air.
Bai Su was in her room reading a book, calmly prepared to wait out Li Chenlin until the end of time.
A maid knocked and entered, immediately dropping to her knees with a THUD before Bai Su. "Miss Bai, please, save us!"
Bai Su was stunned for a moment, then quickly moved to help her up. "What are you doing?"
The maid shook her head, crying. "Miss Bai, if you don’t save us, we won’t get up."
Bai Su looked at her with concern. "Just tell me what’s wrong first. How am I supposed to know what’s happened if you don’t say anything? This is so strange..."
The maid looked up at her, tears streaming down her face. "Please, just agree to President Li’s wishes. He’s becoming more and more erratic. He’s already eaten my two sisters. If you keep defying him, it’ll be our turn soon..."
The concern on Bai Su’s face faded. She silently let go of the maid’s arm and lay back down on the bed.
Seeing her silence, the maid grew anxious. "Miss Bai! President Li is actually a great person! He’s powerful and influential. So many females would do anything to climb into his bed."
"As you know, in this world, it’s rare for a man to be so sought after by females. It just shows how high President Li’s status really is. He’s so devoted to you, what more could you be unhappy about?"
"As long as you agree to President Li, everyone on this ship can be saved!"
Bai Su looked as if she’d just heard the biggest joke in the world. "Whether you get saved or not, what does that have to do with me? Do I even know you? You really think highly of yourself, don’t you? To me, your lives are worthless! It has nothing to do with me if you die!"
This was Bai Su’s second trigger: she detested being emotionally blackmailed.
"Miss Bai..." The maid stared at her in disbelief. "How can you say something so cold? We’re all females! How can you just stand by and watch us die?"
Seeing that Bai Su was truly unmoved, the maid became frantic. "How can you say it has nothing to do with you? If you hadn’t kept refusing President Li, he wouldn’t be so moody every day, and he wouldn’t be eating us! Aren’t you the root of all this suffering?"
"Why else do you think I came to you?"
Bai Su looked at her, amused. "I’m the root of the suffering?"
She leaned down, grabbing the maid’s chin and forcing her to meet her gaze. "Am I really the cause, or are you just a bunch of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong, too spineless to reason with Li Chenlin yourselves?"
"Why should my sacrifice be used to save your lives?"
"In this world, nothing is more precious to me than my own life. I wouldn’t even sacrifice my life to save my own children, let alone a bunch of strangers whose lives are as insignificant as ants to me."
"Me making Li Chenlin angry is between him and me. Him getting angry and eating you to vent his rage is between him and you. The two things are completely unrelated."
"You just see how bloodthirsty and cruel Li Chenlin is and don’t dare to resist him, so you pin all the blame on me, the Rabbit Beastman who looks like an easier target."
"And then you try to take the moral high ground, playing the victim to guilt-trip me into sacrificing myself for your survival."
Bai Su slapped the maid hard, then kicked her away as if she were looking at something filthy.
’What did other people’s problems have to do with her?’
’She was the one who was kidnapped and trapped on this ship. Who was she supposed to complain to?’
’Was a kind person supposed to sacrifice her own body to please her assailant, just to ensure the safety of everyone else on this ship?’
’Did she look like some kind of reincarnated saint? Some foolish girl pretending to be a pure "white lotus"?’
The maid, as if provoked, clutched her face and scrambled to her feet. "You hypocritical, selfish female! We were so wrong about you!"
"President Li should see you for what you really are—utterly selfish and hypocritical! You vicious, disgusting female! I hope you die a horrible death!"
Bai Su sneered. "What’s wrong? Did I strike a nerve? Dropping the act now? So if I don’t sacrifice myself to save you, that makes me utterly selfish and hypocritical?"
"I didn’t force you to get on this ship, and I didn’t force Li Chenlin to kill you."
’In the end, only these females themselves knew why they had boarded this ship in the first place.’
’Whether in the Federation or the Southern Country, female Beastmen were rare and listed by the state as a protected species.’
’These females could live very well even without working.’
’For them to be here on this ship, working as Li Chenlin’s maids... you didn’t have to be a genius to figure it out. They were just hoping their proximity would give them an advantage, but they never expected Li Chenlin to be so brutal that he’d kill indiscriminately, male or female, like it was nothing.’
’She’d seen it days ago, when these maids served tea, striking poses and making seductive glances at Li Chenlin.’
’And they still dared to put on a pitiful, helpless victim act in front of her. Ptooey!’
The maid’s face flushed with anger, her snake-like pupils narrowing into slits as her vicious nature was fully revealed. "Either way, I’m going to die sooner or later. I might as well take you down with me!"
With that, she bared the incredibly venomous fangs of a Snake Beastman and lunged at Bai Su!
