This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 275

13:06 Thu, Jul 2

This Time, I’ll Be the Villain’s Favorite Daughter

Chapter 275 Carry Me

She confidently smeared the green paste all over her face.

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The two children spent the entire night experimenting with herbs. By the end, both of their faces were covered in green, looking like special forces soldiers who had just crawled out of a

swamp.

Maya pulled up her pant leg again and cleaned the knee that had started to fester. The pain made her suck in a breath, but she didn’t make a sound.

There were still two days left before the exercise was supposed to end.

After several people had charged at the siblings and gotten completely taken down, those children who were clever as little devils decisively stopped throwing themselves into danger.

Hadn’t they already seen what happened to the others? The ones who went after them either ended up bruised and battered or unconscious.

They were young, not stupid.

Maya guessed the next two days would be peaceful.

When the helicopter descended to pick them up, the two of them were still sitting by the stream eating wild plants.

Maya’s eyes looked completely lifeless as she chewed. “This tastes awful, Alfred. Are we really going to be okay if we keep eating this?”

“I don’t know.” Alfred’s eyes looked just as vacant. He held a handful of unidentified weeds in his hand, his voice drifting as though he were sleepwalking. “You could try imagining yourself as a cow.”

A silence followed.

“Maybe it’ll taste better that way.”

Maya thought about it seriously for two seconds and genuinely tried to see things from a cow’s perspective.

The wind blew across the grasslands.

She took another bite. It still didn’t taste any better.

After a full week, Maya’s baby fat had practically disappeared.

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Chewing on the weeds, she let out a sigh.

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When they heard footsteps approaching, the two unfortunate children instinctively pressed closer together out of sheer habit.

Only after they saw it was Edric did the tension leave their bodies.

Edric was walking quickly, splashing water all over the legs of his pants.

The moment he saw the two green–faced children sitting by the riverbank, all the exhaustion and composure on his face shattered completely, leaving only blank disbelief.

“You two…”

What kind of look were they going for?

They were completely green. They looked like little river monsters.

Maya raised her handful of weeds proudly. “Want some? Alfred and I have been eating wild plants for five days. We already know which ones taste the best.”

Edric fell silent for a long time.

Then he crouched down and suddenly pulled her into his arms.

The movement was so gentle that it felt as though he were afraid of breaking a butterfly.

His arms carefully wrapped around her shoulders.

Maya had been enthusiastically recommending wild plants a moment ago, but after being hugged out of nowhere, her voice immediately faded.

She froze. Several weeds slipped from her hand.

“Are you okay?” she asked quietly.

Why was he suddenly hugging her?

The wind drifted across the stream carrying moisture and the scent of grass.

Edric didn’t answer. His breathing was uneven. His chest rose and fell with subtle tremors that were difficult to notice.

“I’m sorry.”

The apology came out abruptly.

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Maya was completely speechless.

She tilted her head and looked at him in confusion.

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“I forgot about you before.” Edric ignored everyone else’s reactions. The moment he had seen her injured, his emotions had slipped beyond his control.

She carried secrets no one knew about.

Edric didn’t care what those secrets were.

But he still remembered how easily she had made him fall asleep back then before disappearing without a trace.

He couldn’t stop worrying that she might disappear like that again someday.

Whenever problems arose, Edric’s instinct was always to avoid them. He was afraid of losing people.

He had thought that if neither of them wanted to revisit the past, they could simply pretend not to know each other.

But that was easier said than done. He still couldn’t stop watching her. Seeing her get hurt had made him panic so badly that his hands trembled. The body’s instincts couldn’t lie.

“I’m sorry. Back then…” Edric lowered his head absentmindedly and looked at the little girl in his arms. His voice was so soft it sounded almost like a sigh. “You were so young.”

So young, and already that brave?

Maya looked at him and realized he was trying to make peace with her. She immediately gave him an easy way forward. “My knee is hurt.”

Even though Edric wasn’t her Onyx.

He was the future adult version of Onyx.

For once, Edric found himself at a loss for words. Instinctively, he wanted to apologize again.

“Edric.” Maya wrapped her arms around his neck and tugged on him. “Carry me.”

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