After the Breakup, All Four Wives Went Crazy! - Chapter 3

Great minds think alike.

Many things do not need to be spoken too clearly.

Su Zhao thought for a moment and straightened her back.

With a sincere tone, she said, “Evelyn and I are close friends.”

Hearing the words “close friends,” Todd clearly looked unimpressed, her expression quite dismissive. “Glory, affection, power, unmentionable trifles.”

She raised the magic wand in her hand. Her calm eyes seemed to be ignited by roaring flames in an instant, and the dead, lingering twilight of old age within her was scorched by this sudden fire.

She gazed intently at Su Zhao, ambition practically bursting out from her eyes: “Only power is eternal.”

Su Zhao understood her meaning.

With the relationship between her and Evelyn as a backdrop, whether she resorted to deception, coercion, or enticement, as long as she could get what they wanted, Todd would view it as entirely correct behavior, completely free of any moral pressure.

However.

Putting aside questions of morality, propriety, and feasibility for a moment.

Su Zhao rubbed her temples with a headache, looking rather distressed. “Isn’t your intelligence network a bit too well-informed?”

Although the Holy See and the Lain Empire were allies belonging to the camp of light, the religiously driven Holy See’s expansion would inevitably shake the foundations of the empire’s rule.

At the height of their tense relations, the Empress’s own magic legion had nearly gone to war with the Holy See’s Order of the Holy Knights.

The Empress had an assertive personality, absolutely refusing to allow anyone to infringe upon her power, and was determined to drive every single church belonging to the Holy See out of her territory.

Even now.

The relationship between the two sides remained delicate.

Standing toe-to-toe, daggers drawn.

Whenever Su Zhao wanted to see Evelyn, she had to carefully shake off her attendants and meet her in secret.

Tsk.

It felt practically like sneaking around for an illicit affair.

At the thought of this, Su Zhao clenched her teeth slightly and smiled gently.

“Since you people are so omnipotent that you even know about these private little matters, then do you also know…”

“If it were not for the appearance of that damned female bandit.”

As she spoke, Su Zhao could not help but affectionately stroke her own smooth arm, saying with lingering resentment: “Originally, I had washed myself clean and smooth, dressing quite impeccably, and was all set to go see my dearest friend.”

Perhaps influenced by the succubus’s abilities, Su Zhao’s memory was somewhat chaotic. She could no longer remember precisely how she had been carried off by the succubus.

She only remembered that before she was kidnapped, her number one target for strategy, Saintess Evelyn, was scheduled to visit the Empress.

To welcome her arrival, Su Zhao had truly gone to great pains.

She had secretly arranged for her attendants to pluck hair from the tiger’s mouth right in front of her elder sister, quietly picking the moonlit flowers that her sister had meticulously tended for a long time, which were dedicated to refining magic potions. She had also tracked down the milk of an extremely rare magical beast, gathering all kinds of precious materials.

Just like brewing a magic potion, she had aimed to boil herself into a fragrant and smooth condition so she could cuddle with the pretty sister.

Then, before she even got to see Evelyn, that elder sister of hers, who had never looked favorably upon her, suddenly summoned her.

Su Zhao had just stolen her flowers and committed a wrongdoing, making her feel intensely guilty and too terrified to face her. Lingering in the garden and grasping at all sorts of unreliable excuses, she had finally managed to dismiss her attendants.

The moment she turned around excitedly, she had the bad luck of crashing right into that damned succubus’s arms, getting scooped up in the palm of her hand.

All her meticulous preparations had ended up going down the drain like fetching water in a bamboo basket.

Su Zhao: I detest this!

Bandit. Heartless woman.

Ruining her chance to cuddle with the pretty sister!

Interrupting her progress toward sweet romance!

Su Zhao could not help grinding her teeth, cursing the succubus while also remembering to carefully stroke her arm to check the fruits of her own labor.

Very nice, fragrant and soft, the texture was just as perfect as she had imagined.

Though it would be even better if she could let the pretty sister touch it.

Todd watched her series of movements with a complex expression and a subtle tone.

“We know.”

They actually knew!

Su Zhao: “How shameless.”

“Did you people not also secretly watch me take a bath?”

Todd suddenly felt that the magic wand in her hand was rather heavy.

So heavy that she could barely support it.

“You actually watched.”

Su Zhao could not help closing her eyes for a moment.

After a long while.

She slowly offered her evaluation: “You guys are such perverts.”

Todd: “…”

Of course, Su Zhao knew in her heart that as a powerful black magician, the other party still had some dignity to maintain.

It was impossible for her to have nothing better to do, wasting a massive amount of magic power just to peek at a powerless, idle little wretch taking a bath.

It could only mean she was using magic to spy on the activities of more important people.

And happened to catch the situation on her end.

For example, her mother, the diligent, hard-working, and multi-tasking Her Majesty the Empress.

Her elder sister, the diligent, hard-working, and multi-tasking Crown Princess.

Her dearest friend, the diligent, hard-working, and multi-tasking Lord Saintess.

But that did not change the fact.

Su Zhao felt they were complete perverts.

Todd was reduced to silence, opening her mouth as if to speak but stopping herself.

As the manager of the auction house, she was naturally eloquent and sharp-tongued, but right now, in a very rare occurrence, she could not even squeeze out a single word to defend herself.

“Forget it.”

Su Zhao did not care whether the other party wanted dignity or not. Considering herself broad-minded, she waved her hand with aloof grace and magnanimously forgave her.

“It is fine. You can look if you want to. I know it is only because I am far too gorgeous that you could not help sneaking glances at me.”

Todd: “I did not want to look.”

Su Zhao turned serious.

“Respected Master Magician, a person can speak countless lies to the outside world, true things, fake things, half-truths mixed in until even they believe them. But when facing oneself, one must be utterly honest.”

She raised her chin proudly.

“For instance, I love looking at pretty girls, and I am super fond of cuddling with them! If there ever comes a day when I can take a bath together with a pretty girl, I cannot even imagine how happy I would be!”

“If while taking a bath together, the sister is also willing to kiss me, touch me, hold me in her arms, and cuddle intimately, that would be even better. I so want to fall into a sweet romance with a pretty girl. For example, I also want to see your master’s tail.”

Bang!

She lost her grip on the wand.

It tumbled away across the floor.

This final twist came far too abruptly, completely catching Todd off guard. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, she gave a violent start.

Todd’s expression went completely blank as she turned her neck to look over. Her cervical vertebrae emitted a stiff, dull clicking sound like a rusted machine.

Her gaze drifted, her voice frail and wispy.

“What tail?”

Oops.

She spoke too fast and let it slip.

Su Zhao sat up straight, facing a formidable enemy. Staring straight ahead, her eyes locked unblinkingly onto the empty air before her, she said, “I meant the succubus’s tail, the pink, fluffy tail shaped like a love heart.”

She even took the initiative to invite her into the conversation.

“Have you ever touched it? A succubus’s tail is truly so special; I am really, super, super eager to touch one.”

“Her tail is white, furry, and looks so soft and nice to pet. But what a pity, I did not get to touch it at all. That is simply my lifelong regret!”

Todd fell silent for a moment.

“But what you said just now was not this tail.”

Su Zhao: “It is this exact one.”

“Do you have any succubus friends? I want to ask if their tails shed fur. Do they have this kind of trouble?”

“Also, if the tail sheds fur, will it go bald? I cannot quite imagine what it would look like if it went bald.”

Su Zhao had originally started off solemn and extremely earnest, discussing the crisis of tail-baldness and countermeasures with the other person.

Yet as she spoke on, even Su Zhao herself could not help breaking into laughter.

“Is there a special magic spell in magic that can make a tail grow hair? But regardless, a gorgeous beauty dragging a bare, bald tail behind her looks a bit too discordant, does it not?”

The scene was genuinely comical.

“Please stop laughing.”

With every extra mention of the word “bald” by Su Zhao, Todd lowered her head a fraction more.

She wore a worried expression, her features and wrinkles tangled together as if she had a toothache, and her gaze toward Su Zhao was indescribably complex.

From the moment she stepped inside, this black magician had maintained composure and self-control. She had been here quite a while, yet this was the first time Su Zhao had witnessed such complex emotional shifts on her face.

Su Zhao pressed a fist to her lips, giving a light cough to suppress her rising amusement.

“I am a respectable aristocrat, nurtured under proper etiquette since childhood. Please believe me, I am merely upholding a reverence for knowledge and respect for you by discussing an academic topic seriously. There is absolutely no intention of mockery.”

Todd bent down, preparing to pick up her wretched wand.

That breezy word “mockery” drifted into her ears, sounding entirely like a guilty protest, and her movements inevitably stiffened.

“I believe you.”

Even Su Zhao could hear the lack of sincerity in those words.

Todd used her sleeve to wipe the black gemstone on the wand, looking as though she had a belly full of words, but those words were like thorny cacti that pricked her throat the moment she opened her mouth.

“I do not have any succubus friends.”

Her movements gradually shifted from flustered to calm, her mixed emotions of shock and annoyance seemingly smoothing out alongside her mechanical actions.

A simple cleaning spell was the most basic of magic, and Todd certainly knew how to use it. But to Su Zhao’s surprise, she did not use magic, instead choosing a soft cloth to carefully wipe the dust from the wand using the most primitive method.

Todd stole a glance upward, her voice flat as she stated:

“I do have a few succubus specimens, though.”

Was this intimidation?

Was it intimidation, was it intimidation, was it intimidation?

Su Zhao smiled.

And smoothly shut her mouth.

Interrupted by this tangent, the previous atmosphere of confrontation had completely vanished. Todd looked as though she was suffering from mild autism after excessive shock, staring mutely at her wand and badge.

Since she remained silent, Su Zhao could not stand the loneliness. Bringing up the succubus just now, she made conversation by asking:

“What is the name of that succubus who scammed me?”

Todd put on a fake smile, politely deflecting:

“We cannot expose the privacy of valued guests.”

Fine.

Right now, circumstances dictated submission, and Su Zhao was willing to bow her head temporarily, enduring humiliation.

After finishing wiping her wand, Todd did not even forget to remove her badge and give it a thorough polishing as well.

Su Zhao keenly observed that once she finished wiping them, not only did the two items fail to brighten up, but they instead looked darker and colder.

This definitely had nothing to do with lighting.

There was definitely something wrong with these items.

Before she could dwell on it, Todd neatly put away the soft cloth and pinned the badge back on.

Finishing these tasks meticulously, she raised her head, composed herself, and transformed back into the gentle, mild-mannered manager.

She resumed trying to persuade her.

“If you are willing to cooperate with us and secure what we want, then you will be our guest of honor. Here in the auction house, and throughout the entire city of Lanster, you will be a far more distinguished guest to us than her.”

“At that time, whether you want her identity information, want to take revenge on her, torture her, or even kill her, whatever your will may be, we will do our utmost to satisfy your demands.”

A figure reminiscent of an all-purpose assistant.

Su Zhao felt a complex mix of emotions: “Your auction house has quite a diverse range of business ventures.”

Todd: “Thank you for the compliment.”

Su Zhao: “I have already considered it.”

In this unscientific world, any unscientific event was possible. Even if demons crawled out of the badge on Todd’s chest the next second, or flew into a rage and transformed Todd on the spot, Su Zhao would not be surprised.

Her gaze swept past the badge, and though Su Zhao was filled with curiosity about it, remembering the previous outcome, she did not dare stare for too long.

Her gaze slowly shifted back to Todd’s astonished face.

Su Zhao curved her lips into a smile and said softly.

“Then now, let us discuss, supposing I do not cooperate with your transaction, the other possibility.”

Todd could not help frowning, her grip tightening on the wand.

Just as she was about to speak and persuade her again, Su Zhao cut her off before she could utter the words.

“You are a very professional auction house. I have witnessed your professional competence in every aspect, and I completely trust your professionalism.”

Even though this person had just stood before her, casually and insidiously suggesting the possibility of tearing up her contract with the succubus.

“Under the protection of Her Majesty the Empress, today’s auction is packed with distinguished guests, and various big figures are competing frantically with bids, making it exceptionally lively.”

“Since even those dead items fetch such prices, a living person like me is bound to be highly sought after. If nothing goes wrong, I must be the most popular lot tonight.”

As she spoke on, perhaps thoroughly poisoned by this abnormal realm, Su Zhao unexpectedly found a genuine sense of pride welling up inside her.

Su Zhao: I must be sick.

And quite seriously at that.

Todd: “Your Highness,”

Looking at the peaceful and gentle smile on the face of the person across from her, she had completely lost track of what the other was thinking. Her voice sounded strained: “What you are saying are lines that I should be delivering.”

Su Zhao clenched her fists, lifted her chin slightly, and looked at her with a gaze filled with piety and reverence, her voice sincere and firm.

“I believe you, powerful magician lady! And everyone at the auction house will surely do their utmost to help me find the most suitable buyer!”

Todd: …

Todd was left speechless.

From stepping into this room until now, facing this unorthodox little princess, she had gradually lost the initiative.

“Ninety million gold coins!”

No matter what twists and turns of inner monologue the people inside the room had experienced.

The lively auction outside was still ongoing.

The sound of the bid ringing out.

Reminded them both at the same time.

Su Zhao’s flawless smile cracked slightly.

The auction process was far more harrowing than Su Zhao had imagined.

This auction house was very unorthodox.

The participating distinguished guests were equally unorthodox.

The guests coveting her undergarment were as numerous as crossing carp.

Su Zhao: …

Just let it be destroyed!

This damned world!

The various factions continually drove the price up, hoisting this ordinary, plain piece of undergarment to the astronomical price of ninety million gold coins in one breath.

The pace of bidding finally slowed down.

Todd also found a new breakthrough and offered a reminder.

“Guest number seven has some rather special little fetishes, and in recent years she has had a particular fondness for beastman slaves. Any beastman slave who falls into her hands, no matter how strong and capable they are, never survives more than a few days.”

She lowered her voice.

” It looks like she is quite interested in you today.”

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