Chapter 2487 -2488: Is There a Conspiracy?
Right now Ye Xunhuan felt that this woman Michelle was blatantly seducing him; otherwise, why would she act like this? Couldn’t she just talk properly?
At this moment, every little move Michelle made was full of huge temptation for a man, making any man want to commit a crime.
If it were some other man, chances are he’d have already pinned Michelle down right now and ruthlessly ravaged her, letting her know what “playing with fire gets you burned” really meant.
But Ye Xunhuan didn’t. To stop himself from committing a crime, he didn’t even dare let his eyes wander, afraid he’d lose control and end up pushing Michelle down.
“Sis, can you stop being so horny?” Ye Xunhuan said, his gaze a bit evasive. “And you’re still in mourning right now. Acting horny like this is just against heaven and reason!”
As soon as Michelle heard the words “in mourning,” her expression instantly dimmed, and a look of grief and pain surfaced on her face.
Seeing Michelle like this, Ye Xunhuan cursed silently in his heart: Crap!
He did know a bit about Michelle’s relationship with Louis III, and he knew she had completely treated Louis III as her own father. And now here he was, stepping right on her sore spot!
Right away, Ye Xunhuan hurriedly said, “Uh, I didn’t mean it like that, seriously. I didn’t mean anything by it. I just wanted to say, I came to see you because I’ve got something else to talk about!”
Michelle took a deep breath, slowly pulling back her messy thoughts, then looked at Ye Xunhuan and said, “What is it?”
“How are things for you in the Holy See? Has anyone given you a hard time?”
Ye Xunhuan didn’t jump straight into asking about Gabriel. After all, he and Michelle were friends. If he opened with questions about Gabriel, it’d make their relationship feel very distant.
“No.” Michelle gently shook her head. “Don’t worry. Nothing will happen to me here, unless they can strip me of my title as Saintess.”
Ye Xunhuan let out a long sigh of relief. Hearing Michelle say that, he finally relaxed completely.
As long as nothing happened to Michelle, that was good news for him.
“That’s good. If anything happens to you, or if you need any help, just contact me.” Ye Xunhuan said softly, “As long as it’s something I can do, I definitely won’t turn you down.”
Michelle nodded. “I know. But there’s something I want to ask you. Otherwise I’ll never be able to be at peace for the rest of my life.”
“You want to ask me about Louis III, don’t you?”
“Yeah.”
Ye Xunhuan pondered for a moment, then said, “Actually, I was injured back then too, and I really couldn’t be in two places at once. But I admit it—I really didn’t order anyone to intervene. I had my own selfish reasons.”
“I even suspect that even if I’d been completely unscathed, in that situation, I might still not have stepped in.”
Hearing such brutally honest words from Ye Xunhuan, a thick bitterness immediately appeared on Michelle’s face. She stared at him and said, “Why are you being this honest?”
“Why couldn’t you lie to me just a little?”
Ye Xunhuan froze, and a frail figure suddenly flashed through his mind.
Wang Zilin had said the exact same thing before, her face also full of bitterness and pain. You could say Michelle’s expression and tone now were almost identical to Wang Zilin’s back then.
“I’m sorry.” Ye Xunhuan lowered his head and said, “I don’t want to lie to you about anything, I…”
“You don’t need to say it. I know. And I can understand.” Michelle directly cut him off, taking a deep breath as she spoke.
Since Michelle had said this much, Ye Xunhuan naturally couldn’t say anything more. The atmosphere was already heavy enough. If he kept talking, it would only get even heavier.
For a while, Ye Xunhuan didn’t speak, and Michelle also stayed silent, making the atmosphere in the room extremely heavy and oppressive.
After about five minutes, Ye Xunhuan couldn’t help breaking the silence. “Michelle, I want to see Gabriel. Can you call him over? Or tell me where he is, and I’ll go find him myself.”
“Are you suspicious of something?” Michelle stared at Ye Xunhuan and asked.
Ye Xunhuan didn’t hide anything and nodded directly. “Yeah. I think what Nicholas did in Saint Peter Square isn’t that simple.”
“Maybe Gabriel knows something.”
Michelle didn’t answer immediately. She pondered for a moment, then said, “Wait a bit. I’ll call Gabriel over.”
Ye Xunhuan nodded.
After that, Michelle made a phone call to Gabriel, asking him to come over.
Gabriel naturally didn’t dare disobey her. After all, Michelle was the Saintess of the Holy See, second only to one person and above everyone else.
And that was when Louis III had still been alive. Now Michelle was practically above all others. Even though she hadn’t been crowned Pope yet, that probably wasn’t far off.
After calling Gabriel, Michelle went back to her bedroom and changed into another outfit.
Looking like she did now in front of Ye Xunhuan was whatever, but she couldn’t face Gabriel like this.
She was the Holy See’s Saintess, an untouchable existence. If another man saw her like that, what would that look like?
Soon, Gabriel arrived at the door of Michelle’s room and reached out to knock.
And just as Gabriel knocked on the door, Ye Xunhuan had already gone into hiding.
If Gabriel saw him in there, he probably wouldn’t even dare come in. And he might immediately start shouting, calling everyone in the Holy See over.
By then, not only would Ye Xunhuan have to face the Holy See’s siege, even Michelle would probably be implicated.
After all, Michelle was the Holy See’s Saintess, and yet Ye Xunhuan was in her room. What did that look like? How could that be acceptable?
Once Ye Xunhuan was well hidden, Michelle walked to the door and opened it.
“Saintess.” Gabriel immediately bowed to Michelle respectfully.
Michelle calmly nodded. “Come in.”
With that, she turned and walked back in, and Gabriel followed right behind her.
After entering the room, Michelle sat directly on the sofa and stared at Gabriel as she asked, “Gabriel, you should know why I called you over, right?”
Although Gabriel had already guessed, he still said, “Please, Saintess, make it clear.”
“Why did Nicholas do what he did?” Michelle got straight to the point. “And why did you say what you said?”
“Or is there some conspiracy between you and Nicholas?”
Gabriel’s expression changed slightly when he heard this, and he quickly explained, “Saintess, all of this was arranged by Nicholas. He told me to do it, said it was for the Holy See. I don’t know anything else, and it has nothing to do with me…”