Chapter 150: Chapter 150: The Trap Outside Campus

Chapter 150: The Trap Outside Campus

After Elias left Longhaven Hospital, he looked around and, for a moment, genuinely had no idea where to go.

System Theta asked, [What’s wrong?]

Elias answered honestly.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do next.

System Theta froze.

[Huh? Th-then what do we do?] 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Hearing the panic in its voice, Elias smiled lightly.

Don’t rush me. Let me think.

According to his plan, he should have been spending the next stretch of time lingering around the hospital, slowly grinding up Yvonne Quinn’s favorability and catching up on progress.

Who could have known that this dead pervert would somehow stop acting like a pervert? She would not even look at him.

If he had known this would happen, he would not have irritated that sheltered little princess so badly. Now there was no room to repair things.

There was no way Giselle Frost would still pay attention to him. She was not that cheap. Even between friends, no one had to keep offering warmth to someone giving them the cold shoulder.

Elias thought for a moment.

I know what to do. Let’s go.

He started walking.

System Theta asked, [Where are you going?]

To talk cooperation with someone.

The next day, while Elias was in class at Westbridge University, he actually saw Giselle Frost.

No, that was not exactly shocking. Giselle had been attending class properly during this period, and Elias probably deserved some of the credit for that.

Although they were not in the same major, with Elias deliberately taking detours, they still ran into each other from time to time.

Of course, that was all it was.

His gaze would sweep over her lightly, and then they would pass each other.

Elias at least spared Giselle a glance. She did not give him even that. Every movement she made carried her natural coldness and arrogance.

Giselle was doing it on purpose.

She had not given up on Elias. This was not the behavior of someone who truly did not care.

It was exactly the opposite.

Because she cared, she ignored him.

She knew how much resilience existed inside Elias’s personality. It was almost hard to imagine that extreme cowardice and extreme stubbornness could appear in the same person.

Unfortunately, his stubbornness had been used in the wrong place. He had chosen to believe someone he absolutely should not have believed.

Persuasion no longer worked on Elias, so Giselle had chosen another method.

She was waiting for Elias to be wounded all over by this relationship.

In Giselle’s eyes, that outcome was inevitable.

Once Elias realized how fake Serena Blackwood’s feelings for him truly were, Giselle’s goal would be reached.

Only then would she pull him back.

Only then would her help have meaning.

If Elias knew what Giselle was thinking, he would probably be moved to tears on the spot.

This sheltered princess was far too simple. The Frost family had given her the capital to ignore everyone’s opinion, but it had also taken away her ability to recognize the world and see the truth.

In other words, she was absurdly easy to deceive.

How could that be acceptable?

The task Victoria Frost had given him was to help Giselle grow properly into a mature adult.

Unfortunately, Giselle had not even seen the threshold of adulthood yet.

But that was fine.

As her future husband, of course Elias had to help her.

Watching Giselle’s gradually retreating figure, Elias slowly curved his lips.

System Theta remembered what Elias and Victoria Frost had discussed yesterday, and it could not help feeling a trace of pity for Giselle.

By afternoon, Elias finished class and ran straight out of the classroom.

Because of his glasses, no one paid him any attention.

He jogged across campus and spotted Giselle’s figure in the crowd at a glance.

There was no helping it. A silver-haired girl was too rare. It was difficult not to see her.

At that, Elias suddenly thought of something.

Why doesn’t Victoria Frost have silver hair? Did Giselle inherit that from her father?

System Theta coughed.

[Giselle Frost is getting farther away.]

At the system’s reminder, Elias snapped back to himself and quietly followed behind Giselle.

System Theta could not help sighing in admiration.

This had to be one of the host’s abilities too. His tailing technique was far too practiced. Compared with him, Lila Morgan was practically walking around with a megaphone strapped to her body, exposing herself the moment she got careless.

The host, on the other hand, blended naturally into the crowd, ordinary and unnoticed.

Hearing System Theta’s admiration, Elias laughed softly.

I’ve had assassin and spy identities in several worlds. Hiding skills just developed naturally.

System Theta suddenly understood.

Then Elias added blandly, But if you ask me, the ability is useless. These scumbag women all have cheat-level instincts. Even if I turned invisible, they’d still find me and catch me immediately.

Those identities only existed so I could wear tight clothes and make those scumbag women more excited while they interrogated and trained me.

System Theta fell silent.

[...]

It did seem rather useless.

Just then, Elias stopped walking.

Giselle, up ahead, had stopped too.

This was a remote corner outside campus. Very few students passed through here. Since Giselle had come all this way, someone had obviously called her over.

It looked like Victoria Frost was indeed carrying out the plan they had discussed.

After a while, a black luxury car stopped not far from Giselle.

Four bodyguards got out and immediately surrounded her.

By the time Giselle realized something was wrong, she had nowhere left to run.

Her calm face turned cold as frost in an instant. Her beautiful eyes fixed on the bodyguard in front of her, and her voice was icy.

"Move."

The bodyguard smiled.

"Mrs. Frost would like you to come home. She wants to see you. This is Mrs. Frost’s order. We’re only carrying it out, so please don’t make this too difficult for us."

"Order?"

Giselle narrowed her eyes, a sharpness appearing between her brows.

What right did that woman have to order her?

That word was undoubtedly one of the words Giselle hated most. The bodyguard had clearly said it on purpose, easily provoking her anger and forcing her to strike first.

Then their own actions would become perfectly reasonable.

From Elias’s point of view, he only heard Giselle say "Move," and in the next second, all five of them were fighting.

But two fists could not fight four hands, much less four entire people. Although Giselle had clearly trained before, she was no match for them. In the blink of an eye, she fell into a disadvantage.

Elias’s eyes widened slightly.

Victoria Frost really was her biological mother. Even the bodyguards were actually hitting her.

He watched with his own eyes as Giselle took a punch to the cheek. When she turned her head, the skin there had already reddened.

Hey, do not hit the face.

Such a beautiful mixed-race face. If they actually damaged it, would he not lose a lot of pleasure when he slept with Giselle later?

So Elias, who had originally been acting, became genuinely anxious.

He hurriedly rushed over, looking utterly panicked.

"Stop! What are you doing?!"

His shout did not make the bodyguards pause at all.

Instead, Giselle instinctively froze for a split second.

Then she took another punch.

As her vision blurred, she only saw a figure drawing closer and closer.

Then she felt something soft enter her arms.