Rejected the Demon’s Marriage Proposal Thousands of Times

Forced to Marry (3)

It's just that she wanted to…deal hunt.

If someone learns that she actually intended to take advantage of the demon, she will probably get a “do you want to die?” in return.

But what else could she do?

All the people she knew were civilians.
Only the mage possessed by the demon was the highest-ranking person she knew, and he could also wield magic!

Anna had been avoiding this demon up until now, and this was the first time she took the initiative to approach him.

She hesitated not because she thought that cheating a demon was against her principles of dealing with things.
After all, the other party wanted her soul.
It wouldn’t be asking for too much for her to exploit him a little bit.

She hesitated because she was worried that she would make more trouble for herself when exploiting the demon.

But thinking of the drunken Bobby she met this morning; Anna came to a decision.

She had long grasped the perfunctory method of appeasing the demon; under normal circumstances, nothing would go wrong.
But as for Bobby, she had no prior experience or methods she could use to deal with him.

“Not at all, I still think that as a maid, I can't dirty your reputation.” Anna hesitated and put on a sincere face.
“I just wanted to ask shamelessly if you could stay here temporarily and teach me to read.”

Rothgarr was lost in thought when he heard the words.

Teach her to read? What was her motive now?

Her attitude towards Parrish seemed a little ambiguous.
As for Ulysses, who was possessed by him, she had refused his marriage proposal, but also didn’t stray far, and still found reasons to approach him.

Was she that ambitious that she wanted both of them?

Rothgarr furrowed his eyebrows in disgust.
His gaze moved to somewhere in the distance, and he said, “Why do you want to be literate?”

Anna was willing to answer his every question: “being literate would be very good for my future.”

There were two general reasons why Anna wanted to learn literacy.
One was that becoming a mage was her long-term goal, and how could an illiterate person become a mage? So, she needed to learn the prerequisite skills first.

The second reason was to find a solution to her current plight.
If she learned literacy from this genius mage, then she would nominally have the relationship of a master and apprentice.
After it was spread out—of course she would contribute to the spread of this matter —Bobby would have to rethink if he wanted to start something with her again.

Rothgarr raised a brow.

Future? What future did she have?

“What’s in it for me?” He asked her with sarcasm in his eyes.

Anna thought to herself, wasn’t it a huge advantage to give you more opportunities to deceive my soul?

She lowered her head and whispered softly: “There is no benefit at present.
But I know that I will not be just a maid in the future.
I will remember your kindness today, and I will return it to you in the future.”

As Anna spoke, she almost got the impulse to tell the demon to stop acting, and that she had seen through his true intentions long ago.

But she resisted.
She doesn't know what the demon desires besides her soul.
If the only thing he wanted was her soul, then she didn’t have any bargaining chip.
She couldn’t ask him to spare her life in exchange for a benefit.
Rothgarr curled his lips slightly, bewildered: “As long as you agree, you won't need to be a maid from now on.”

Yes, indeed she would not be a maid, but a corpse without a soul!

Anna cursed him in her heart, and said with a serious face: “There are tens of millions of paths leading to my goal, but I only want to take a path of my choosing.”

Her goal?

Rothgarr frowned slightly and looked at Anna for a long time.

At this moment, she was not at all like the clever and cunning human woman who disgusted him, the kind of woman who schemed deeply and seduced one nobleman after another to get rid of her low status.

But in the next moment, Rothgarr suddenly recovered from his surprise.

He almost forgot how good at pretending this human woman was.
How could he be fooled by her?

In the past, Rothgarr would deliberately want to meet Anna's “expectations” in order to achieve his own goals.
This time, Anna brought it up by herself, and it was logical that he should agree to it without hesitation.

But——

“If you want to carve your own path, don't count on others' help.” Rothgarr said indifferently.
“I won't teach you literacy.”

Whether she was genuine or had ill intentions to take a path of her own choosing, it didn’t matter.
The only road she could take would be the one he put her on.