Christina had her own plan for keeping Elisa.
The purpose of the Chasing Stars Society's existence was to be a stepping stone on Alexia's path to becoming king.
King Klaus had said that Alexia must achieve merit, and only then would he pass the throne to Alexia.
And the Chasing Stars Society would become Alexia's merit.
Now, the Chasing Stars Society needed a useful pawn that could be discarded at any time.
Elisa was very suitable.
As the successor to the head of Night Sword, she had also been exposed to her father's work.
She had some experience with the underground activities in the Royal Capital.
But before that, Elisa's temperament needed to be refined, to see if she was qualified to be this pawn.
Elisa was brought home by Christina.
She became one of the maids in Christina's household.
Because of her appearance, she used her hair to cover her face.
Her injuries were not severe; with enough money, her face could be completely healed.
But Christina did not do that; she still wanted to test Elisa.
Christina had the maids in her household relentlessly target Elisa.
The maids in the house did not know Elisa, and after receiving Christina's orders, those maids would periodically report to the head maid.
They claimed Elisa had made serious mistakes in her work.
She had broken an expensive vase.
Consequently, Elisa received extremely severe punishment.
Occasionally, they would also report her for slacking off during work.
Every day, Elisa was reprimanded many times, accompanied by beatings.
But she did not defend herself.
At night, Elisa bathed in her room.
The room was not large, 30 square meters.
But it could shelter her from wind and rain, and the room was warm; here she would not go hungry, nor would there be any unpleasant smells.
And she could bathe every day.
She lay naked in the wooden tub, soaking.
"Is this what it feels like to be wronged? So this is the taste, so painful, so unbearable!"
Elisa caressed her heart.
At this moment, she could feel how bad she used to be.
Those maids were not even a tenth as bad as she once was.
Days passed like this.
Because of the previous events, Zou also became Christina's little follower.
Christina invited Zou to stay at her home temporarily.
Zou agreed without hesitation.
Then she met Elisa.
The moment she saw Elisa, Zou immediately recognized her.
The person who had almost killed her, how could she not recognize her?
"You, you, you… how are you here?" Zou said, pointing at Elisa, her body trembling.
She was still very afraid of Elisa.
Elisa said nothing, only bowed.
Then she turned and left.
"Did I make a mistake?" Zou muttered to herself.
"You didn't make a mistake! It's her!" Christina replied.
"How can this be? How can she be working as a maid in Christina's house?"
"She was homeless and wandering the streets, and I picked her up."
"You can take revenge, vent your emotions on her however you like."
"Really?" Zou said excitedly.
"Really!"
Zou unhesitatingly chased after the departing Elisa.
She kicked Elisa in the butt.
Elisa twisted her body and dodged.
As a Magic Swordsman, she was still more formidable than Zou.
If she couldn't dodge such an obvious attack, she would be considered useless.
Zou missed her kick, lost her balance, and fell down herself.
Christina did not continue watching but turned and left.
Zou, however, would not let Elisa off the hook.
"Hey, you stop right there!"
Elisa stopped, no longer moving forward.
"Acting all mysterious, even covering your face with your hair."
Zou reached out and pushed aside the hair, revealing a disfigured face.
"Your face has become like this, truly evil karma! Serves you right!"
Elisa ignored Zou's taunts.
She had gradually grown accustomed to such things.
The maids here would take pleasure in tormenting her every day.
But she had endured it all.
If she wanted to survive in the Royal Capital, she had to rely on Christina.
To survive, she had to keep this job.
Zou slapped Elisa across the face without hesitation.
"Slap!"
The moment the slap rang out, Zou jumped far away, to avoid Elisa's retaliation.
But the imagined retaliation did not occur.
Elisa merely lowered her head in silence.
Elisa could have completely dodged that attack just now.
But dodging would have been useless anyway; the other party would still hit her.
Since the other party wanted to hit her, she could only let them hit her to their heart's content.
As a Magic Swordsman, she was still very resilient to beatings.
Zou, realizing that Elisa truly wasn't resisting, began to escalate her actions.
A slap, a punch, a kick.
All landed on Elisa's body.
Elisa merely protected her head, showing no resistance.
Christina watched all of this from the shadows.
If it were Elisa's former personality, she would have certainly retaliated by pinning Zou to the ground and giving her a severe beating... A few more days passed, and late at night, Elisa was brought by Christina to an underground room.
The base of the Chasing Stars Society was located here.
Christina introduced Elisa to everyone.
And she made Elisa her proxy.
When Christina was absent, Elisa would handle some decisions.
Elisa quickly settled into her work, handling most matters very well.
Under Elisa's leadership, the Chasing Stars Society gradually grew larger.
Many nobles began to have connections with the Chasing Stars Society.
Elisa began to negotiate with these nobles, and her negotiation skills were good.
At the same time, she also obtained a lot of evidence of the nobles' crimes.
These were the things Alexia wanted.
With these things, she could openly declare the nobles' sins.
Christina felt that Elisa was doing well and suggested healing her disfigured face.
But Elisa refused.
The disfigurement on her face represented her evil deeds.
She wanted this mark to remain forever.
Only when a person is at their lowest can they see people's true hearts, and Elisa also saw everything clearly.
When she was completely despairing, Christina reached out and pulled her up.
Elisa could never understand why Christina would help her when she was at her lowest point.
The two of them were enemies, after all.
If she were Christina, she would have killed herself without hesitation.
But the truth was that Christina had repaid evil with kindness and saved her.
All she could do now was diligently carry out every task Christina assigned her.
As for resistance... she hadn't thought about it.
She was not a cunning person and couldn't scheme against Christina.
Moreover, she was very afraid of death; she didn't have the courage to scheme against Christina.
She just wanted to survive in this world, to live as the most ordinary of people.
She thought of Sid; she wanted to become that kind of ordinary person.
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