The Cannon Fodder Character in Four Infinite Flow Novels
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As mentioned in the original book, Count Kellys married this madam because her family had a sufficiently large fortune, and it was precisely this wealth that saved the Count from impending bankruptcy at the time.
However, it was also because of the madam's substantial dowry, which greatly helped the Count, coupled with her arrogant and vicious personality, that she often suppressed Count Kellys, this was what displeased Count Kellys the most.
Therefore, later, influenced by the monster, after the Count went mad and began killing in the castle, he personally and cruelly murdered his wife. Now, looking at the man bowing his head in front of Bai Jin, appearing extremely pained and fearful, it was hard to imagine that beneath this extremely cowardly exterior, the intention to murder his wife already existed.
Bai Jin followed the plot he needed to act out at this moment.
He lightly lifted one foot. The shoe on his foot was a pair of dark red stilettos. Once he lifted his foot, the layers of his skirt rippled, and the Count kneeling before him seemed to be able to smell the nameless, faint fragrance that wafted through the swaying fabric.
The dark red high heel and his fair, beautiful instep complemented each other, further enhancing a sense of magnificent beauty. He placed this foot on the Count's shoulder. He heard the Count's pleas to him, but his face showed no sympathy or affection for his husband.
He pressed the heel down, grinding it into the Count's vulnerable shoulder and neck. He spoke a line with his inherently indifferent tone.
"Monster?"
The Count knelt on the carpet, while Bai Jin sat in the armchair, which allowed him to look down at the Count's pale face from a superior position.
"Are you saying I'm the monster? And then you ran away for two days?"
Having already been terrified by the monsters in the castle and forced to return, the Count could no longer withstand his wife's anger. This Western man looked very handsome; otherwise, this madam wouldn't have married him when he had nothing. It was precisely because of his handsome appearance that he had won the madam's heart.
Now, the handsome Count's lips trembled, and his slender hands grasped Bai Jin's ankle, gently lifting the heel that was pressing into his neck. He placed his kiss on Bai Jin's fair instep. Kellys softly called out to him.
"Madam. My dear."
Bai Jin only felt the cool kiss landing on the back of his foot. The Count's hand slowly caressed the smooth, slender calf beneath his skirt, seemingly wanting to continue stroking upwards. Bai Jin felt goosebumps rise on his skin. Fortunately, in the original plot, the madam kicked the Count over.
Bai Jin quickly took advantage of the Count's hand not yet reaching further under his skirt, forcefully exerted strength on his foot, and once again stepped on the Count's shoulder, causing the Count to be kicked over onto the carpet by the madam.
Bai Jin stood up from the armchair and continued according to the script. "Kellys, you wanted to escape me, but you failed. Don't try to fool me with such excuses. You make me feel bored and disappointed."
As he spoke, Bai Jin saw the riding crop placed within easy reach.
He picked up the riding crop and, as described in the original work, struck the Count's thin, trembling back lying on the ground with it.
Bai Jin didn't use too much force, but this didn't seem to quite match the madam's portrayal in the original story. Because there, the madam beat the Count until he shivered, making him constantly let out pitiful and fearful whimpers.
The madam in the original work would whip anything and everything when she was unhappy, including this husband who allowed her to bully him.
This intensified the Count's fear and resentment, which was the most important point for the Count's subsequent corruption and massacre under the influence of the monster.
But Bai Jin had never hit anyone before.
The System told him, "It's okay, just don't think of him as a person."
"Then what should I think of him as?"
"Think of him as a dog."
"But puppies are so cute."
The System said, "Only obedient puppies are cute. Disobedient puppies deserve to be beaten, otherwise, they will show their claws and fangs and eat you. Only obedient puppies are real puppies. Think about how this guy will cruelly slaughter you later. A few whips now are nothing."
Bai Jin felt that what the System said made sense. He recalled how the Count slaughtered the madam in the original work later and felt that these few whips of his were indeed trivial. So, he increased the force in his hand and struck the trembling back lying prone on the ground.
The Count called out to him fearfully and weakly, "Oh, Tiffany, my dear, I'm sorry, forgive me, I wasn't trying to deceive you."
Bai Jin's hand holding the riding crop struck the Count's back again, and he said according to the script.
"Then tell me, what are those jewels in your arms?" It was just this sentence that made the Count completely shrink onto the ground and stop speaking.
Bai Jin folded the whip and, following the original plot, squatted down, his skirt spreading out like petals. The folded whip in his hand lifted the pitiful Count's chin. The Count had no choice but to raise his head to look at Bai Jin, his blue eyes already filled with tears.
"You wanted to take these jewels and escape, didn't you?"
The Count said pitifully, "No, my dear. There really are monsters in the castle. They have been tormenting me."
"Even if what you say is true, so you planned to leave with only the jewels and abandon me to leave alone, is that it?"
"Madam, no, no, dear Tiffany."
He seemed to know that no more excuses would work. He took the hand with which Bai Jin held the whip and kissed the whip in Bai Jin's hand. Not waiting for the next lash to arrive, he dared to kiss Bai Jin's fingers more boldly.
He kept saying, "I was just too scared, my dear, I was just too scared. Don't blame me."
Bai Jin's other hand, wearing a white lace glove, gently caressed the Count's pale cheek, his thumb wiping away the wetness from the corner of the Count's eye. The Count obediently leaned into Bai Jin's palm, and Bai Jin asked him, "Then, my dear, what kind of monster makes you so afraid?"
The Count's trembling lips "Roses. It's the roses."
Count Kellys raised his eyes to look at Bai Jin, and he quickly added, "The roses in the flower garden turn red, a bright red as if they've been watered with blood. They always wind around me, trying to kill me. The roses want to kill me, Madam, please believe me. You believe me."
He kept repeating this sentence.
Because roses were the madam's favorite flower, so many roses were planted in the castle's flower garden. Now those roses had bloomed all over the castle, immersing it in the delicate beauty of the flowers.
Those were the madam's favorite flowers. Such words were taken by the madam as her husband's resistance to her, believing that he wanted to use this pitiful appearance to try to control her dominance over him, so the madam didn't take it seriously.
Instead, he swung the whip again, and this time it struck the Count's face, leaving a bloody mark on his handsome features. Bai Jin followed what was written in the script and did the same. He finished the last line of this scene.
"Don't talk nonsense, Kellys, don't test my limits." Then he stood up, took the whip, and walked out of the room.
Coming out of that room, Bai Jin's performance in this scene finally ended. Bai Jin stood in the corridor and let out a sigh of relief. Wearing women's high heels on his feet still made him very uncomfortable. While lamenting the difficulties faced by women, he also felt that the corset was squeezing him so much that he could barely breathe.
The System said to Bai Jin, "You performed very well!"
Although Bai Jin couldn't provide a perfect emotional performance, his face, which was extremely expressionless and cold due to social anxiety and nervousness, was highly deceptive. In addition, he recited his lines quite well. This benefited from the fact that Bai Jin sometimes followed voice actors to practice reciting lines.
Hearing this praise from the System and seeing the merit points that had increased significantly after such a long performance, Bai Jin felt it was still very worthwhile.
Bai Jin felt that the wide, fluffy skirt also made it difficult for him to walk, so he lifted the hem of the skirt and walked to the edge of the corridor window. The outside of the windows here was also covered with climbing roses.
Bai Jin walked forward, watching these beautiful roses gently swaying in the breeze. It was hard to imagine what was buried beneath these roses. If Bai Jin hadn't already known the plot, he wouldn't have known that the terrifying skeletons beneath these roses were influencing the entire castle to descend into slaughter and bloodshed.
Bai Jin's fingers lightly stroked the petals of a rose.
Its petals were soft and beautiful, and Bai Jin gently rubbed them between his fingertips. But it seemed that right on those petals, something, he didn't know what, suddenly pricked Bai Jin's finger, causing a drop of bright red blood to flow from Bai Jin's fingertip and seep into the rose petals through the holes in the lace glove.
Bai Jin looked at this scene in surprise. He knew that the monster was deliberately pricking him, but what surprised him even more was, "It really doesn't hurt at all," he said to the System.
The System's voice sounded a bit proud as it said, "I told you, it wouldn't let you feel any pain."
Hearing this, Bai Jin still stared at the blood droplet as it continued to fall onto the petals. Bai Jin guessed that the monster's sudden taking of his blood was related to a subsequent plot point.
In the subsequent plot, the madam met an extremely handsome and young blond man in this castle. He kissed her fingertip, which had once again been scratched by a rose. Then they fell in love, and even though the Count was still in the castle, the madam still treated this man as her lover.
The Count's anger, which had been suppressed for a long time, erupted when he saw his wife cheating. He planned to kill the lover in the dead of night, sneaking into the room where they slept together.
Just as he was about to strike, the Count saw that the person sleeping embraced with his wife was a skeleton that had long since decayed. And the madam was still quietly sleeping while holding this skeleton, seemingly completely unaware of it.
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