I Can Give Talents

Chapter 239 – Convincing Caterina

Caterina sighed. "Alchemist Anda, I don't know if you are aware or not, but my reputation as a woman isn't exactly good. If I were to join your family, your family name might be tarnished. It's enough if I can have his baby and raise the baby alone."

I want your husband, but I don't want to join your family. Her intention was reflected in her eyes, and Anda saw it.

"Eh? All I ever heard about you was great things. All you have done for the city is something that many women aspire to be. Why wouldn't I want someone as amazing as you to be my sister? City Lord Caterina, can you explain to me what bad reputation you are talking about?" Anda feigned ignorance.

Caterina's lips twitched. This young panda is quite good at acting. She definitely knows the bad reputation surrounding me, but she's trying to make me explain the bad reputation myself. Who trained this girl to be so cunning?

She never had any intention of having Leyvi's baby in the first place. She was just using the baby narrative as a trap to make Leyvi agree to sleep with her. After all, Leyvi was the first to reignite her desire after hundreds of years. Before meeting Leyvi, she thought that her longing for physical satisfaction had vanished entirely, but she was wrong.

Her longing was still there; it was just dormant. But just because she longed for true physical satisfaction, it doesn't mean she would go after anyone. Attraction was the priority. Although she knew it was bound to fail, that her longing wouldn't be fulfilled, she still wanted to try. That was why getting married to someone was unrealistic for her situation—because they would end up leaving her.

She had lived for such a long time. It would be a lie to say she never thought of getting married.

As for whether Leyvi is someone else's man or not, it's not her problem. If Leyvi agrees, everyone here can testify that she didn't use any physical force on him; she only used her impeccable acting skills and charm to score a man. Her confidence in this approach was unshaken; after all, charm was her weapon of choice, honed over the long years.

However, who would have thought that Anda would interrupt her plan by suggesting she join the Leyan Family? Not to mention Anda's acting skills seemed to be very exceptional. It seemed difficult to bring Leyvi to her bed with the baby narrative now.

So what to do? Abandon her acting method and forcefully drag Leyvi onto her bed? No, no, no. That would damage her credibility as the city lord greatly. Too desperate.

If she knew Leyvi had a wife this cunning, she would have picked another time when she wasn't around.

Caterina composed herself again and made up an excuse. "I think it's best if you hear about my bad reputation from someone else. If you hear it from me, it might seem like I toned it down to make myself look better."

"Is that so? But I prefer hearing from the person in question herself rather than other unrelated people. Let me hear it," Anda insisted.

"Ah! Fine, fine! You win! I don't want to act anymore. I lost this time." Caterina gave up. Her gentle maiden demeanor disappeared. There was no way she could say, "my sexual power is too strong, causing all my past partners to go limp and leave me," to the crowd.

The clueless young crowd was dumbfounded. What? You're acting? But why?

Leyvi shook his head. How can you guys not notice she was acting since the very beginning? He wondered how many idiots among them had been scammed in the past and still didn't realize it.

Leyvi ignored the fact that he fell for her ghost acting once.

What surprised Leyvi was that even Lin Wei didn't realize that Caterina was acting, judging from his reaction. Brother Lin Wei, aren't you supposed to be the 'protagonist'? Why are you so gullible?

The older generations that were here also shook their heads, seeing how gullible the clueless crowd was. Are they going to be fine in the Mystic Realm later? The thought of these younger, naïve participants navigating the treacherous challenges ahead was quite worrisome.

Although the younger generations were unfamiliar with her since she rarely showed up, it shouldn't be that hard to know she was just acting all this time. The premise of helping her to have a baby was absurd in the first place.

As the older generations, they naturally knew City Lord Caterina's eccentric personality—she likes to play around a lot, acting on her whim. Her actions were always unpredictable just like what happened today.

"Hehe." Looking at Caterina, Anda giggled. "I only win because I ambushed you. It was nothing much."

Caterina moved closer to Anda and began sending a sound transmission, "Sister Anda, can you lend your husband to me?" Acting chummy.

"Sister Caterina, it's just like I said. If you become Leyvi's wife, you can have him all you want." Anda continued her agenda with unwavering persistence.

The two women now were having a secret conversation using sound transmissions. Their expressions betrayed none of their dialogue to the surrounding crowd, leaving them to speculate on what was being discussed.

"But..." Caterina hesitated.

"Are you afraid that he will dump you like all the previous men in your life?" Anda said, staring right into her eyes.

Anda's words tugged on Caterina's heart.

She also began to stare into Anda's eyes, which seemed to be filled with boundless confidence.

Of course, Anda knew about Caterina's past. But how was that a problem? To her, she was just a woman trying to find a man who could accept her voracious sexual power. As far as she knows from the investigations she conducted, all the men who dumped her did it because they couldn't handle her in bed, not because she had a bad attitude or something.

Furthermore, she had never held any grudge and made life difficult for the men who dumped her. In fact, she did the opposite. She helped them as best as she could to cure their limp rods.

So what if she's a monster in bed? Leyvi is a God in bed. Anda was convinced that Leyvi was the man Caterina had been searching for all this time. She was confident that Leyvi was the only man who could end Caterina's long journey.

The two women kept staring into the eyes of one another. It was as if they could understand each other's thoughts just by exchanging glances.

"Devote yourself to my husband, and your lonely journey will end. If you miss this chance, you will never experience true pleasure," Anda said.

Caterina was surprised by Anda's proposal. What intrigued her was that Anda's words didn't carry any hints of deception at all. It was as if she truly believed what she said.

"Do you know why those men left me?"

"I know."

"Young panda, so you investigated me already."

"I did."

"Are you saying that Leyvi can give me what I want?"

"He can. He wouldn't disappoint you. He never disappointed me," Anda replied confidently.

"How sure are you that he can achieve what you boldly claimed?" Caterina asked.

"A hundred percent," Anda replied, again with absolute confidence, zero hesitation.

"Why are you so confident in him?" Caterina asked again. She was very curious.

"I think you can understand. Isn't that why you became interested in my husband in the first place? I know you have been disappointed many times in the past, but you can make one last bet on my husband. He never disappointed me, and I guarantee he won't disappoint you as well," Anda repeated.

Caterina was silent. Anda's words of persuasion rang in her mind as if she was telling the absolute truth.

"A bet..." She muttered. her voice barely audible, as though the words carried the weight of a thousand memories. Her eyes wandered, unfocused, replaying the painful chapters of her past relationships, each one ending in disappointment.

Caterina turned her head and scrutinized Leyvi again from top to bottom as if deliberating something.

Leyvi's eyebrows raised when he saw Caterina's action. He wondered what the two ladies had secretly talked about. No, he didn't have to wonder. It was obvious that Anda was recruiting the cat.

Recently, he hadn't seen Anda recruiting random ladies they encountered anymore like in the past, so he thought that Anda had stopped recruiting her reinforcement. However, he was wrong. She didn't stop at all. She only increased the standards of her recruitment.

Leyvi wondered if Anda was really aiming for Fairy Maidens, Saintesses, and Goddesses in the future. Where were they supposed to find these women anyway? They were just titles commonly used in cultivation novels.

While Leyvi was thinking, Caterina finished scrutinizing him.

She faced Anda again and sent a sound transmission. "Fine! I'll bet. But you need to bet too. Do you dare?"

"What's the bet?" Anda asked.

"If he fails, you will cut ties with the Leyan Family and work as an alchemist under me for a hundred years," Caterina proposed. It was actually her last test for Anda.

"Deal!" Anda accepted the bet without hesitation, stunning Caterina. Her response was immediate, without even a moment's pause, as though the outcome was already set in stone.

She stared at Anda with wide eyes. She couldn't tell anymore whether it was absolute or blind confidence.

Moments later, Caterina smiled cunningly. "Very well. I will accept your proposition. Don't regret it later, young Panda. If a Core Formation like you is this fearless, why should I be afraid of some stupid marriage? If things don't work, I can be the one to leave the relationship first. Why should I be the one getting dumped all the time?"

Boom!

Suddenly, Caterina flew away in haste, entering the city, leaving behind a sonic boom.

Everyone was confused by her sudden departure, especially Anda. What is she doing?