The Return of the Mad Witch
The Calm Self

Valencia sat quietly without any excessive movement, he bribed one by one the pieces of meat served to him. Valencia's strange behavior is a major highlight for Adarian, the change of every change shown every day is a big question mark on Adarian's head. The princess that he never considered and he grew up with minimal attention is now even tangible like other people. According to Adarian, Valencia's change looks absurd at all.

"Valencia, tomorrow you will see Young Master Nerio, I hope you don't cause any more trouble" Adarian said.

"Walking to someone who cheated on me? Oh, my God, that's so funny," Valencia replied in annoyance.

"However this engagement will continue as Duke Nerio's family has a good business relationship with this family. You can't mess it up, cheating is purely your own fault."

Valencia clasped tightly onto the handle of the fork he was holding. It felt like he was throwing a knife at Adarian's head.

"Angoing is not something that can be justified, maybe because Grand Duke is also cheating with a lowly woman, so you think cheating is natural? Cih, my self-esteem is much higher and you can't just manage me to marry that bajak*ngan guy."

Helen did not respond, she remained silent and, unlike usual, scolded Valencia for being rude to her father. Adarian stopped his eating activities, he lost his appetite because he felt struck by the words of Valencia.

"You are only a woman, your duty is nothing more than to be a hostess. A man is allowed to have more than one woman. But women can't do the same with men" Adarian said.

"What if I can do what a man can do?"

The sharp glances led to Valencia, the girl responding casually to every Adarian saying.

"Huh? How could you possibly do what men do. Women are weak, they cannot be compared to men" Endry said.

"Weak?" Valencia smiled at his smile. "I'm not weak, I can conquer portals, swing swords, lead armies, become a knight commander, or lead this continent even once. Don't underestimate me if you haven't faced me yourself."

Endry was speechless, no one could win easily against Valencia. This family is too stupid to be occupied. Although the Grand Duke's family from ancient times was famous for its agility on the battlefield, but they were no different from the trash that liked to roam the community.

"No more arguing, we better keep eating. It's a pity that we let the food get cold. Isn't that right, Grand Duchess?"

Guilla interjected into the Valencia debate, acting as a good mediator for them.

"Yes, as Guilla said, we better finish the meal first" Helen replied in a low tone.

Forced to delay the debate just now, they could now eat quietly. After the main course is finished, it is time to eat the dessert, which is chocolate pudding. Valencia did not directly eat the pudding because there is a peculiarity of the pudding. Valencia glanced at Guilla, clearly implied in the look on the face of the woman was planning something bad to Valencia.

'There were two cooks who used to work in my pavilion, they had embezzled kitchen funds, but they were transferred to the main residence. I think something is wrong with the pudding, I better check first, ' Valencia thought.

Valencia sprinkled a little magic into the pudding, presumably laced with deadly poison. However, Valencia had cleared the poison so the pudding became safe for him to eat.

'good! Come quickly eat so I can watch you die before my eyes. After you die, I can kill your mother and become the Mistress of this residence, inner Guilla.

When Valencia was about to bribe the pudding, but Valencia instead deliberately dropped the pudding. Although he is a lover of food, but for him eating food that has been contaminated with poison is something that he must avoid. Although Valencia had already cleared the poison, he wanted to give Guilla a little slap.

"Gosh, how's this? Pudding fell. Though I was very much looking forward to eating this pudding, but what power I so can not enjoy it," said Valencia did not hesitate to drop the pudding.

Guilla's expression looked unkind, he kept a snarl behind his smile. While the two chefs who were behind the back of Valencia also looked surprised.

"You are so careless" said Guilla. "Now you bring another new pudding," continued Guilla.

Not long after, one of the chefs re-presented the pudding with the same flavor. However, when the chef was about to put the pudding, Valencia used a little magic to cause the chef's body to stagger and drop the pudding.

"How do you do your job? Don't you intend to give me that pudding? Or are you planning to destroy the atmosphere in the dining room?" Valencia scolded the chef, deep in fear at the look on his face.

Adarian stared intently at the chef, as soon as he got up from the floor.

"Please forgive me, Miss, I accidentally dropped it. Let me bring you another yang—"

"No, I'm full, I'll go back to my room now. Please just continue eating you guys," cut Valencia fast.

Valencia passed away from the dining room without leaving the great chaos as before. After that, Helen also went away from there, she was full enough since then because it was presented by something very disturbing.

'Damn it! My plan failed, could it be that the girl realized there was poison in her pudding? Ahh, where possible, she was still a foolish girl, Guilla grumbled inwardly.

At night, precisely at twelve o'clock, Valencia was still not asleep. He deliberately waited for the entire mansion's occupants to sleep. Afterwards, Valencia sneaked out of the room towards the main residence kitchen. Valencia peeked out of the door gap, he found the two previous cooks seemed to be planning something.

"Quick! We have to take care of the whole food for the kitchen and replace it with low-quality food."

"Yes, be patient, and we embezzle funds at the behest of Lady Guilla. Now no one's gonna catch what we're doing."

Valencia heard clearly what they were talking about. Both chefs always do this for a big profit. They replace high quality food into low quality. Not only that, when they worked in the pavilion of the Valencia residence, they also made Valencia eat unworthy food. The entire cost of living in the pavilion was drained out by them as well as the servants working there.