Became A Blind Villain
About Edmund.

Edmund woke up and stared at the wooden ceiling with his faint eyes. The shadow of what happened as she bit the neck of the cake shop owner made her feel that it had just happened, the taste and smell of blood filling her nose and mouth made her nauseous.

Recalling it, Edmund slowly took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, using his arm to close his eyes to recall what happened yesterday. 

Yesterday, things were so chaotic, everyone started talking about what he had just done to the fish cake shop owner. Their overlapping and extremely noisy voices almost gave him a headache, but Edmund did not care. 

He continued to stare at the Duke's back who was hiding Ashlyn in his arms.

He wailed, begged and hoped that Ashlyn would come out of the Duke's arms and let herself see Ashlyn once. However, what happens makes Edmund's eyes widen, Ashlyn falls unconscious and the Duke takes her away in a hurry.

Edmund wanted to catch up, but the guards did not allow him, they held him back and his consciousness was gone. Before losing his consciousness, Edmund thought that this was the end, the price he had to pay for what he did in the future was that he had to die right then and there.

However, it turned out that he could still open his eyes again and look at this room again, the same room that he used to be.

Edmund sighed and massaged his temple before getting off the bed, headed for the mirror and stood there staring at his own reflection.

Her black and curly hair looked irregular and looked longer than she remembered. His golden amber eyes were always like this, looking brave and always looking at him sharply, and his pale lips grinned at him like a demon, insulting him.

"What do you expect, I've said that even if you manage to use the rebirth spell, it's a curse."

Forever even if time were to be repeated, I would still hate you.

Edmund clutched his grasp firmly withstanding the burst of emotion that began to flare in his soul, while the image of himself in the mirror continued to make fun of him with an evil smile on his face.

"What are you going to do, she will forever hate you, even if you are reborn and intend to change your attitude towards her, she will still hate you and choose to die rather than forgive you."

Edmund gritted his teeth and said, "That's not going to happen."

His shadow on the mirror laughed at him. "Are you stupid? Rebirth means repeating what happened. What happened and what you did to that bad girl, you're gonna repeat it again."

Edmund insisted on saying, "Ashlyn is not a bad girl!"

His shadow insulted him, "Then who is evil? Yours?"

Edmund was silent and his shadow said. "For Edmund, Ashlyn is the wicked girl he always wants to kill whenever the opportunity presents itself."

Hearing this, Edmund's eyes widened.

While Edmund's shadow inside the mirror continued to speak. "About how the wicked girl died that day, ah didn't she trick you into taking a drug that was nothing but poison to kill herself, not to say anything, but he's really shameless by saying that you killed him. He tricked you, you didn't kill him, he made it look like you killed him, so why do you feel so guilty?"

"What was it because of your actions that made her suffer so much and treated her wrongly? She took care of you so well when you were injured and if I recall not the one who took care of you after being treated unfairly by the Duke was that evil girl. He saved you from execution, he took care of your wounds, but in your eyes he was still a bad man and you wanted to kill him.

He gives you a place to take refuge, like an abandoned dog that has no one, he takes you in, takes care of you and helps you become the greatest knight, but every day your desire to kill him just gets bigger and deeper. You hate him, Edmund. You hate her for what that wicked girl did to you and Annabel. You suffered thirty lashes that almost killed you, insulted you and held you captive, allowed your parents to die unjustly. Always remember this, Edmund, if it wasn't for Ashlyn, your parents would still be alive, which is why you should hate him. You should hate him, Edmund. Hating him so much that you want to do the same to him, whipping him so many times as much as he did to you and removing his gray eyes that you hate so much, only then will he suffer at the end of his life."

Prangs!

Edmund punched the mirror against the wall until it cracked. All these illusions, he had to end them immediately or he would actually repeat back what he had done to Ashlyn. 

The evil girl who used her evil mask to cover up her kindness. How could he be so unfair to his master?

This was the greatest regret Edmund had ever experienced in his life and he did not want it to repeat itself. He came back to fix everything.

However, his reflection inside the mirror that had been cracked was covered in blood from Edmund's own hands, his reflection laughing loudly.

"Look how dirty the hand you used to torture Ashlyn was, like this, your hand was covered in Ashlyn's blood and forever it could never be cleaned."

Edmund's eyes widened and shadowed as he injured Ashlyn with his hands, taking Ashlyn's eyes with his own until his blood-soaked hands flashed through his head. 

Edmund was frightened until he involuntarily walked back and his injured hand was hit by shards of glass shaking with blood dripping onto the floor.

While the image inside the broken mirror was still staring at him, showing a fierce face and a demonic smile.

"Remember the words, Edmund. Forever even time can be repeated again, he will still hate you. So, why are you doing this stupid thing, going back in time, for what? Shouldn't you be living happily with Annabel after taking her from the Crown Prince. So, why are you going back to this time? Stupid, Edmund. You're such a fool!"

Hearing him, the frightened Edmund slowly regained his consciousness. He clenched his fist and stared intently at his reflection on the mirror.

"I am Ashlan! I'm not Edmund and Ashlan won't do what Edmund did."

His shadow in the mirror laughed at him.

"Hahaha, you're really a fool trying to fool yourself. Don't you remember what that girl told you back then? From the beginning, there was no one named Ashlan. Forever you are Edmund who has made him suffer."

Edmund felt that his throat had just been doused with acidic water so he could feel the pain of the liquid as it passed through his chest until he thought that his chest was being squeezed so strongly, he said, it was so painful when the shadow of her asked Ashlyn to call her Ashlan. However, the girl replies that from the beginning there was no one named Ashlan, there was only Edmund the source of suffering in his life, the girl even asks why she saved someone like Edmund just to feel pain.

Yes, he is a shabby, ungrateful mutt. With the poison he carried in his sharp teeth, he bit the master who had fed him and killed him with his poison.

Edmund was so angry when he remembered the dark period, but then he realized that all that had not happened, he managed to return to the time when he had not done all these vile things to his master, and he remembered what promise he made before returning to this time, he wanted to serve Ashlyn, his master with all his heart.

"What about Annabel? Are you going to be unfair to Annabel? That wicked girl hates Annabel, will you just shut up when you see that bad girl being rude to Annabel? Remember Edmund, you loved Annabel and always wanted to protect Annabel."

Edmund stared at the reflection of himself in the mirror and struck the mirror again, smashing it to pieces, making sure that he would not be able to see the image of himself in his reflection, or he would lose his way.

She loves Annabel, but she also wants to serve Ashlyn and for now she just wants to serve Aahlyn to make amends for all the mistakes she has ever done in the future. 

Annabel, she loves him and Edmund will think of a way to get her.

As Edmund thought about this, the door of his room suddenly opened and his eyes widened when he saw Ramus standing in front of the door.

This person was his teacher, who helped him train and become his friend, the only friend he had at the Daren Lynx Mansion when he was a nobody, he said, and what Edmund did to this guy when he climbed to the top, he killed him because this guy was trying to protect Ashlyn.

"Well, it's only your first day here and you've had the courage to destroy the property of the Daren Lynx Mansion, do you have the money to replace it, huh?" Ramus asked as he looked at how badly the mirror shards were strewn across the floor.

Ramus then turned his attention to Edmund and seeing Edmund's miserable appearance, it really made him hard to believe.

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Ashlyn sighed as she thought about this.

"Ashlan killed the man because he was so angry when he heard himself insulted and scolded by the owner of the cake shop."

Ashlyn furrowed her brows and asked. "Is that true?" 

Ashlyn asked herself again. In this despotic novel world, as an antagonist as well as a reader, sorry as a listener who has completed this novel and knows how it ends. Ashlyn knew very well that she was alone in this world. There was not a single person standing by his side, even the Duke even preferred Annabel and Arabella.

So if suddenly there is someone who claims that he cares for him even willing to do crazy things like killing people for him just because he has insulted him, Ashlyn could not immediately believe and wondered what the person was planning.

Especially when that person was Ashlan, the one who had tried to kill him.

"What does Ashlan think?" 

Ashlyn thought, "Whether this man tried to return the favor for what he had given, at least he had given Ashlan so much kindness, gold coins, and work. So did Ashlan behave like a starving abandoned animal, when I feed her then she will follow me?"

Ashlyn took a deep breath and thought, "However, Ashlan is human, her mind is not as simple as an animal that will be loyal to the one who feeds her. Humans always have hidden desires, but what is Ashlan hiding behind his back?"

Ashlyn wants to know, she always believes that humans give things away because they want something, like her. However, there was something else he needed to think about first, it was how to reclaim all the belongings of Ashlyn from Arabella and Annabel?

For a time, Ashlyn would put Ashlan's troubles behind her head and wait for what Ashlan would do next, she just needed to be careful of him and not get too close to him.

With this, Ashlyn nodded her head and called for Carolin to help her get ready. 

However, it was not Carolin who entered but Duke Damien who asked how he was doing.

"I'm fine, it's been four days since the events of that day, if the doctor you sent really can work properly there shouldn't be any problems with my health."

Duke Damien sighed after hearing his daughter's rude manner of speaking. He wants to fix it, but he doesn't know how. Right now his relationship with Ashlyn is like two eggs, if Duke Damien were to use violence on Ashlyn, their relationship would really be broken and destroyed, irreparable. 

"Then can you have breakfast with us?"

Hearing him, Ashlyn was really upset, she leaned her back against the bed rest.

"Eat, I'm not hungry. More precisely someone might poison me at the dinner table."

The Duke clenched both his hands. "What are you worried about, we've tasted everything and everything is safe. You can eat quietly."

"What about the noodle shop owner, has he received compensation from Dad for what Dad did?"

Ashlyn switched the conversation, she really did not want to be in the same room with Arabella and Annabel. While the Duke also knew his daughter's intentions. However, he still answered his daughter's question.

"She got an official apology letter and got a much better compensation than the income she had received during the sale. Dad built a new tavern that was a hundred times better for him, gave him a thousand gold coins and a thousand jewels, and ...."

"Have you apologized to him?" Ashlyn quickly cut off the Duke's remark which immediately left the Duke speechless. "Have you verbally apologized to that person for what you did to him?"

Hearing the silence, Ashlyn laughed. "Ah, right. My father the venerable Duke Damien is a man like this. He would rather give and do something than apologize. Just like Dad did for me, if I hadn't said it, Dad probably would never have apologized to me for what you've done to me."

Ashlyn deliberately touched her eyelids to make Duke remember what Duke had done to his daughter. Because of him, this figure must be blind.

The Duke widened his eyes upon seeing this, naturally Ashlyn managed to open the greatest guilt in the Duke's heart. However, he remained unhappy at what Ashlyn had just said and he could not bear to not say.

"Then, what about you Ashlyn, why don't you apologize to Annabel for what you did to her, don't you think about apologizing to her?"

Hearing her, Ashlyn laughed bitterly, it turned out that it was true even if she was her daughter, the Duke weighed more against Annabel. While the Duke did not understand what made Ashlyn laugh like that.

"Why should I apologize to him? Tell me, what mistake did I make with her that I should apologize to her?"

Duke Damien really had to be patient when facing Ashlyn. However, Duke had not yet expressed his opinion carefully Ashlyn first spoke.

"I'm just trying to take what should be mine. Ever since he came to our residence, he took everything from me, my toys, my jewelry, my clothes, my room, he always wanted everything that was mine and said father, ' he said, do I always have to give her everything I have?"

The Duke sighed, he already knew about this and had a different look at this. So, he lowered his voice and said softly. "Ashlyn, Annabel just adores you, she's a country girl who never had the things you had, deserved if she was envious and wanted what you had, and you're Ashlyn, she said, you don't lack the goods and money to buy new ones. Don't you always give you a lot of money every year, so try to be humble and make up with Annabel. You are brothers."

Ashlyn laughed again. "It seems like Dad will forever not understand what I feel, forever I am alone in this dark world and considered as the evil girl who is expected to die by everyone."

Ashlyn sighed before saying, "Why was I born if I was only destined to be alone and suffer?" Ashlyn then smiled wryly before turning her eyes away. He felt a little emotional and was afraid that he would cry in front of the Duke. He cannot cry in front of anyone.

While Duke widened his eyes upon hearing this and felt increasingly guilty for what had happened so that his daughter could think this way.

"Tell Ashlyn, what should I do so you don't think that way. I've always been by your side, I tried to give my best for you, so tell me what I have to do to prove that I'm really by your side, I'm there for you."

Kill Annabel and Arabella. For a moment, these words appeared on Ashlyn's head. This is the desire of this antagonist. He wants their deaths. However, the Duke ruthlessly said that he had exceeded the limit and ended up killing him.

Haaa, rather than killing them, Ashlyn would rather know that they are returning to their origins, or find out they are regretting their actions.

So, Ashlyn lightly replied. "Give me the right to take care of this residence."

Yes, the right to take care of the Daren Lynx residence is usually held by the Duchess and this right is very special because the person who owns this right will be responsible and regulate the Daren Lynx economy, he said, like a treasurer who arranges the entry and exit of money.

If Ashlyn can get this right, what will happen to Arabella as Duchess. She would only be a woman with an empty title who could do nothing, she said, even if he wanted to buy something he would have to report his expenses on Ashlyn and Ashlyn would make sure that the person would not be able to squander any more money!

However, for that Ashlyn still had to hear what answer Duke Damien would give.

🔺Ok, the mystery has been solved, so Edmund was the dog that bit the hand of the man who fed him, even killed him!

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