This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel Chapter 334

Chapter 334 Only Favor

Maya’s mind raced. She immediately threw out her very useful “friend.” “Ernest has Chance. I have to g save him.”

“Ernest’s identity is sensitive. He might’ve already been picked up.” She forced a sincere look. “I’m worr Chance might die.”

“So?” Edric shot back. “You think your friend’s still alive? You think he needs you to save him? Someone like that, who only causes trouble, is better off dead.”

“This Chance,” Alfred said, a faint smile tugging at his otherwise cool expression, a flicker of interest showing, “is he dead yet? If not, I can help finish it.”

“Forget that useless friend, Maya,” George added with a bright smile. “He’s probably already dead. Let’s go home.”

The three of them kept talking her down.

Toby didn’t bother. He just grabbed her, trying to drag her out of this place.

“I don’t get why you came here. It’s a rat hole. Nothing but dead rats living in it. Come back with me.

“As for your friend, just assume he’s dead.”

Maya struggled against him, refusing to move. “Wait!”

Right then, a system notification rang in her mind.

“Current protagonist group member profile unlocked.

“Ernest Bennett, male, 28, hidden leader of the Imperial Order. After the organization collapsed, he was captured by underground forces. After prolonged torture and building deep resentment, he was eventually rescued by the female lead, Kaia, during an outing. He was healed, reformed, and ultimately chose to, walk toward the light he had always longed for.”

Maya froze.

Kaia? She’s involved too?

She stopped struggling, shook off her brother’s grip, and stared at the profile. “Ernest has just as much blood on his hands as anyone else in the underground. He ran the whole operation. Why does someone like that get to walk into the light like nothing happened?”

That doesn’t make sense.

And why would a so–called righteous protagonist group include someone like him?

“Well, he reforms later and does good with the protagonists, so he’s no longer considered a bad person,” the system replied.

“Wow.” Maya curled her lip. “My dad helps old people cross the street sometimes. Does that make him a

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good person?”

“Your dad? He’s lucky if he doesn’t jaywalk with them.”

The system flipped through the script and found Raymond was an outlier even among villains.

Maya went quiet.

Is my dad’s reputation really that bad?

She lifted her head and studied the profile more carefully.

“So Ernest still ends up getting caught? Then Chance is in trouble too.”

“Right. So are you going to save him?” the system asked.

“No.”

Maya’s expression darkened. “I’m going to beat him up.”

The system had nothing to say.

Beating someone up and saving them were both actions, but they weren’t even close.

What exactly was she planning?

“I’m not going home yet. I need to find Ernest.” Maya pulled out her phone and checked the location.

Ernest was a persistent pest who was hard to kill.

As long as he was still alive, she wasn’t about to sit back and watch him get reformed by Kaia and walk some redemption path.

Back when she’d approached him under the excuse of delivering desserts and listening to stories, she’d slipped a tracker onto him.

Couldn’t help it.

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Occupational habit.

People in their line of work were always setting each other up, planting trackers and bugs.

Back when she went on missions more often, George, that lunatic, used to plant over a dozen trackers and listening devices on her.

Which meant every time she walked into a room, her first instinct was to check herself for bugs.

Spending too long around someone like George had rubbed off on her.

And the tracker on Ernest was… strange.

With how cautious he was, he should’ve changed clothes or checked himself and found it.

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