Among the winemakers, there is a saying:

"The making of the finest wine begins in the vineyard."

Wine is not the source of the toxin.

It is something in the origin place that is.

Even this substance itself is not toxic, otherwise, this batch of red wine wouldn't have passed the inspection.

Louis blended the wine, flower pastries, and fruit pulp, then handed them to Marquis York.

Marquis York brought the magic ring used for detecting poison close.

The ring did not flash.

He looked at Louis.

Louis put his hand in front of his lips:

"Shush, let the boomerang fly around a bit more."

In the next moment, the poison ring, which had no reaction earlier, began to glow with a faint red light.

The red light gradually deepened, eventually turning into a blood-like glow.

Louis smiled: "Clearly, this is a meticulously planned murder."

"There are top-notch poison masters adept at synthesizing toxins on the dark side of the Love God!"

Louis hadn't really thought in this direction before.

But when he was chatting as Mayer with the Sapphire Dragon couple and had heard about the past experiences of the Sapphire Dragon King, he realized a terrifying issue.

Had he always been underestimating the races that have lived for endless ages among the stars by treating this world as a backward medieval era?

Even without knowing the principles of dust explosion, the Ense's grain storage department still pinpointed the cause of the explosion.

Even without technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, the Sapphire Dragon still mastered some methods of bloodline fusion.

So just now, when Beatrice mentioned that the people on the Love God's dark side were skilled in poisoning, he was thinking:

This poisoning method may not require extraordinary powers.

The operations performed by top-level chemical poison masters could achieve effects possibly greater than magic.

"In this world, heroes are truly like carp swimming down a river, Louis, Louis, don't be too arrogant."

At this moment, the Secret Guard beside him suddenly said:

"The suspect has been controlled."

Louis: ???

No, bro, why is it you again?

The decryption result just came out!

Beatrice looked at the origin of the wine:

"Top-quality red wine sent by the Shepherd's Guild of the Am Empire. Tut, it seems some old fellows are itching for trouble."

"Louis, leave this matter to me."

"Since Father fell asleep, some people have become increasingly restless."

"Okay."

...

After everyone left the room, Beatrice pinched her brow and said:

"It's a bit more complicated than I expected."

Louis rubbed her shoulder:

"Didn't you say it was the Love God's dark side? Then why is it related to the Am Empire?"

Beatrice hummed comfortably:

"The five-member council of the Am Empire has always wanted to open Ense's national gate and flood their goods in."

"For those people from the land of merchants, you might as well measure their tactics with the worst attitude."

"Whether to cooperate with the Love God's dark side is not the point."

"The point is whether it can bring them sufficiently considerable benefits."

"They have not shied away from creating wars in other countries to harvest wealth accumulated over the years."

"And Marquis York is not only the backbone of our imperial faction, the drafter of commercial laws, but also the leader of one of the most vigorous groups we have in Ense."

Beatrice said meaningfully:

"The new nobility of the empire includes masters from various fields, and naturally, top-notch merchants among them."

"They are also a part of Ense Empire's commercial defense system, needing to be drawn in."

"Marquis York is their representative and the channel for delivering messages for them."

"Now, the dark side of the Love God tells you there is an opportunity to remove this pillar. If you were in the Am Empire, would you do it or not?"

Hearing this, Louis instinctively squinted his eyes.

"The Black Water Commerce Association is just a traveling merchant of the Am Empire, but because of the Dragonbone Prairie incident, they have already been turned into streetlight ornaments by Lord York."

"There may be a desire within the Am Empire to demonstrate power to Ense."

At that moment, he couldn't help feeling the entire situation was full of treacherous waves.

Not good, his head itched.

I don't want to do such brain-racking work.

After all, Beatrice is better suited for these things.

Louis once again resolved to protect his number one supporter strongly.

But as the room had only the two of them left, the atmosphere between them became awkward.

Occasionally, footsteps passed by outside, and Louis, massaging Beatrice's shoulder, was a little distracted.

"Beatrice, being in the same room with me, you're really not afraid of something happening!"

He leaned down, his warm breath spreading by her ear.

Beatrice was already a bit nervous, and now her heartbeat suddenly sped up.

She knew Louis, a person naturally equipped with the ability to manipulate others' emotions, but he had always been very restrained.

With people constantly coming and going outside this room, it's impossible that he would...

Thinking this, she also felt relieved, lifting her head to say:

"You've always been restrained, what is there for me to be afraid of?"

"Restrained?"

Louis raised an eyebrow slightly, the repeated words carrying a hint of peculiarity, his voice somewhat hoarse.

Before she could reply, he chuckled softly.

"Beatrice, don't forget that this room was arranged by me."

Her heart skipped a beat:

"Wait, you arranged it?"

Only then did she react, turning her head to be met with Louis's smiling eyes.

Outside the door, someone seemed to pass by, and faint conversations could be heard.

He gently picked up her hair: "Is there anything you'd like to tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

Beatrice nervously pressed her lips together, feeling as though all the air had been sucked away by him, dry and suffocating.

"I think before this, shouldn't we... stay apart a bit?"

She spoke with rare hesitation:

"It wouldn't be good if someone saw us."

With a thud.

There was a sound of something heavy hitting the ground outside the window, and in the distance, the faint screech of a groundhog could be heard.

However, neither of them paid much attention to it.

Louis teased, "What's wrong with it?"

The occasional footsteps from outside tugged at Beatrice's nerves one by one, but he remained indifferent to it.

She felt the clothes on her back gradually soak up a scorching heat.

She couldn't tell if it was his or her own.

Louis said casually:

"If your lady-in-waiting Qian were to open the door and see us like this... what would her reaction be?"

He was almost at the point of directly saying to the people outside, "Get lost! How can you have a romantic talk with you here?"

In an instant, all the surrounding noise disappeared.

In the next moment, the lights in the room suddenly went out.

Louis drew the surrounding curtains apart, and only then did Beatrice notice that the room's walls had somehow turned into transparent glass, and the floor, after losing its brightness, seemed to have transformed into a mirror.

The starry night sky was reflected beneath their feet, the shimmering light creating the illusion of being submerged in a sea of stars.

——This room had been specially arranged by him, in cooperation with the White Tower Master and Limuru.

Beatrice's gaze gradually turned to a daze, looking at Louis, unable to find the words.

"You were right, Beatrice... I am a little jealous of your lady-in-waiting."

"Ah? You..."

Beatrice was just about to say, "Didn't you say you knew?"

But in the next second.

The yet-to-form words were all drowned out as Louis captured them between her lips and teeth.

The dimness amplified every sensation, and in this world filled only with stars, she seemed to be bathing under the gaze of a myriad of stars.

She seemed to see the vivid spark in Louis's eyes.

"Beatrice, they know we're here; they won't come to disturb us."

Beatrice's face grew ever redder.

The thought of saying, "It's too fast," was dispersed by the wind.

"I, I even told him to unleash his greedy desires"

"Yes, that's right!"

"It was merely to help him become stronger, definitely not for..."

"He's so greedy..."

Beatrice couldn't even convince herself, so she steeled her heart and took action on her own.

The two explored each other's breath for what felt like a long time, finally seeming to find a place to dock.

Though outside the door was already quiet, she still felt like there were whispers beyond.

She looked around in a slight panic at Louis, yet all she saw were the stars mirrored in his clear eyes.

Without the greedy flames.

Amidst the heat dispersing like mist, all she saw was the sparkle shining in his eyes.

She let out a soft moan.

I was the one teasing him at the start.

So why am I now the one being countered?

Yet she remained enraptured by that star, gazing at him, feeling his fingertips brush aside her hair.

In the ambiguous entanglement, every inch between their lips and teeth was eroded away by him.

In the end, he nibbled her lip in a punitive manner, his voice laced with an enticing demonic charm:

"Beatrice, I'm very greedy indeed."

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