Beauty Chairwoman’s Bodyguard Expert

Capítulo 1670: Chapter 1663: Avril’s Hatred

Time is like sand slipping through your fingers, always passing by without you noticing. Being late autumn, the sky darkened quickly as evening fell.

On the living room sofa, a man and a woman lay entwined, embracing each other as if forming a human pyramid. The man lay on the couch, with the woman draped over him, both panting slightly.

The entire room was a complete mess, as if a battlefield had once taken over.

Lu Tianxing had a cigarette in his mouth, gently blowing out smoke rings, smiling as he looked at Avril, who was lying softly in his arms, too exhausted to muster any strength. He smiled and said, “Avril, do you still want to challenge me? If you continue to provoke me, I don’t mind punishing you once more and showing you what the Lu Family’s discipline means.”

“You…”

Upon hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, Avril instinctively wanted to move, but then seemed to think of something. Her face changed, and the hand she had just lifted suddenly dropped back down.

By now, Avril was utterly intimidated by Lu Tianxing. Every time she resisted, he would drag her into following the Lu Family’s discipline without any further ado. Annoyingly, this guy was incredibly strong; even when she was nearly out of energy, he still seemed full of life. After this series of provocations, Avril felt as if her entire body no longer belonged to her. If this continued, she felt she might be the first Holy Daughter to die from such a situation.

Seeing the panic written on Avril’s face, a trace of smirk flashed across Lu Tianxing’s face. Getting a proud and unruly woman to behave and comply seemed, at least initially, to be going quite smoothly.

“Avril, actually, I have a question. I hope you’ll answer me truthfully. We have no personal grudges, except for that confusing incident between us in Africa about two years ago. But just for this, would you really risk coming to China to kill me?”

Lu Tianxing flicked away his cigarette butt and looked at Avril, speaking with a puzzled expression: “If it’s just to boost your reputation or fulfill your ambition, such a reason isn’t compelling enough for you to risk your life.”

On hearing Lu Tianxing’s words, the fire in Avril’s eyes dimmed, and she became engulfed in silence.

Lu Tianxing noticed Avril’s change in expression and was slightly taken aback but remained silent, waiting for Avril to speak.

After a long pause, Avril finally began to speak slowly: “You Chinese have a saying, ‘Seek wealth amidst danger.’ I came to China not just to increase my reputation and achieve my ambitions but, more importantly, to find a partner to ally with against the Pope.”

“Find a partner?”

Lu Tianxing frowned, evidently dissatisfied with this answer: “Avril, don’t take me for a fool by diverting attention. Finding a partner is just one part of it. Besides, your bodyguards are not weak; they can come to China, gather some allies, and deal with me without you risking yourself. Yet you still came to China, meaning it’s not simply about finding a partner, or rather, it’s just one of your reasons.”

In response to Lu Tianxing’s reasoning, Avril chose to remain silent, not saying a word.

Lu Tianxing shrugged at this, saying, “Since you’re unwilling to talk, let’s just continue with our battle then.”

With that, Lu Tianxing prepared to take action once more.

Seeing Lu Tianxing’s evasiveness, Avril’s face changed, and she quickly said, “Because I want to kill the Pope?”

As she said this, a deep and piercing intent of murder flashed in Avril’s eyes.

“Kill the Pope?”

Hearing Avril’s words, Lu Tianxing paused, and a touch of astonishment showed on his face, almost questioning what he had just heard.

According to the rumors from the Church, Avril was only a three-year-old child when her family suddenly suffered an attack from the Dark Council, and the entire family perished at their hands. It was the current Pope who suddenly appeared and saved her, and brought Avril back to the Church to be raised.

Avril’s rise to become the Holy Daughter of the Church can be attributed entirely to the support of the Pope. By logic, Avril should be extremely grateful to the Pope, as he saved her life.

If Avril is driven by ambition and wants to become the new Female Pope of the Church, but fears the current Pope might be in her way and desires to eliminate him, it would be understandable. After all, in the face of ambition, people sometimes even kill their own kin, let alone someone unrelated.

But now Avril openly declares she wants to kill the Pope, and the look in her eyes isn’t one of ambition, but of profound hatred, as if facing an enemy with a deep blood vendetta. This hatred isn’t just a facade, but genuine. This leaves Lu Tianxing perplexed, could there be a hidden truth unknown to him?

“Judge, do you think I am someone who repays kindness with vengeance?”

Seeing Lu Tianxing’s expression, Avril couldn’t help but understand what he was thinking. A mocking smile flashed on her face: “Looks like he’s done quite a good job at being a hypocrite, even fooling you, the man of Angel, the head of Angel Intelligence Station.”

“Hypocrite?” Lu Tianxing was slightly taken aback.

“Do you really think he genuinely saved me? He just did it for himself.” Avril said with a cold smile.

“For himself?”

Lu Tianxing’s confusion deepened.

Having spoken out, Avril didn’t see a need to hide anything further, and frankly admitted: “Edward merely wants to use me as a cultivation furnace. His strength has now reached the Peak of Late-stage Mythical, and without any accident, he’ll have no progress in this lifetime. But somehow, Edward acquired an evil secret technique which claims that by finding ten girls born on God’s birthday and awakened to the Light superpower before age three, and then absorbing one furnace’s power when they turn fifteen, he can successively absorb their power until he fully absorbs the light superpower from the tenth girl, thereby stepping into the invincible realm of Earthly Immortal.”

“Are you saying you’re the tenth girl? The previous nine are all dead?”

“What do you think!”

Avril glanced at Lu Tianxing and said indifferently: “Otherwise, do you think Edward would let a girl with no background become the Holy Daughter of the Holy See for no reason, and then heavily cultivate her into the Holy Daughter? Furthermore, my parents didn’t die at the hands of the Dark Council, but Edward’s. To keep me at the Church without ties, obediently becoming his furnace, he, with all his Pope authority, actually harmed innocent people. Such a person isn’t fit to be Pope, nor does he deserve it. Someday, I will kill him and offer his head to honor my parents.”

Hearing Avril’s final words filled with hatred, Lu Tianxing was slightly stunned. No wonder the Angel Intelligence Station found Avril’s background strange when investigating; something just didn’t add up.

According to the records from Angel Intelligence Station, Avril’s parents lived not far from Vatican, essentially residing within the Church’s stronghold. Then, at Avril’s age of three, a few Dark Council members broke into Vatican and killed many Light Knights. While fleeing, they swiftly killed Avril’s parents, and as they were about to kill Avril, Pope Edward arrived timely, killed those Dark Council members, and rescued Avril, then nurtured her into the Holy Daughter.

Previously, this information held no significant loopholes, but now hearing Avril’s words, as Lu Tianxing recollects, he discovers two most obvious flaws.

The first flaw is that Vatican is the Church’s stronghold. Even if Dark Council members had the audacity of a bear, they likely wouldn’t dare to rampage in Vatican where experts abound, a place where anyone who ventures risks death.

Of course, it might be explained that those few Dark Council members were reckless idiots, fearless, hence daring to storm the Church so insolently.

But the second flaw is particularly evident: when those Dark Council members were chased, particularly pursued by the Pope, their first thought should be to escape, not kill. Even if they couldn’t escape, taking hostages would make sense, rather than rashly killing Avril’s parents, which defies reason. Any sensible person knows preserving life is paramount over killing a few irrelevant people in anger, unless they reach their wit’s end. Clearly, those Dark Council members weren’t at that point, yet they chose to kill, revealing a major intricacy.

“Wait a minute.”

Lu Tianxing seemed to recall something and looked at Avril: “Avril, are you lying to me? As far as I know, when the Pope took you back to the Church, you were only three years old, moreover, those Dark Council members immediately killed your parents and were then slain by Edward. A three-year-old child’s perspective should be very grateful to Edward; how do you know all of this was arranged by Edward?”