How could this be?!
Everything he had been thinking, every secret he had, had been hit dead on.
At this moment, nothing remained in Hilton's heart but fear.
As for the possibility that she had merely guessed blindly, it simply did not exist. There was no longer any point in pretending.
"You..." Hilton opened his mouth, but his words were cut off by the suicide ability he had set up himself.
Countless spikes of white bone erupted continuously from within his heart, piercing straight through his entire body.
And it happened just as he was about to speak!
Lin Yue watched his struggle with calm composure and merely said softly, "Time's up. Goodbye, Marquis Hilton."
The corners of her lips curled slightly upward, and her dark golden eyes narrowed. "Actually, I was just guessing all of that. In the end, thank you for admitting it yourself."
Seeing the despair and unwillingness on Hilton's face before his death, Lin Yue decisively dismissed the domain.
There had never been any blind guessing. Her final words had merely been meant to further confirm a certain trait.
And... as she watched the shadow retract from the darkness, Lin Yue fell into thought.
The Shadow Puppet had actually failed.
As the domain collapsed, she swept her gaze over the surroundings and saw that the guards had already surrounded them.
When they saw Hilton's corpse, which had been expelled from the domain due to his death, they all looked utterly at a loss, exchanging bewildered glances.
Just then, Chen Xi spoke up, sternly rebuking the guards and the Transcendents from the estate who had just arrived. "You may all stand down. Marquis Hilton has been executed on the spot by me for treason."
"Anyone with objections can go argue with Count Casper."
"Th-this..." Hilton's subordinates were