"What the hell!" Victor exclaimed as he was dumbfounded, and then he opened the message and read the details, and he said, "Unbelievable."

The message was very similar to the offers where they would buy his secrets of leveling up so quickly, and in exchange he would get the honor of marrying Ruby Scarlet, the heir of the Scarlet Family. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"Are they really that desperate... no, I guess it makes sense," Victor mumbled. They would realize that military power and money would be worthless in front of absolute power; no wonder they even offered their heir. If they could get the method to level up so quickly, then they could become stronger and completely suppress the other families and maybe even wipe them out.

"Now that I think about it, wasn’t this the second time I got an offer to marry into the Scarlet Family, but this time it is an upgrade?" Victor smirked. Even in his last life, he got an offer to marry a lady from the Scarlet Family after they saw Victor’s potential as a top-tier assassin.

"Reject," Victor said without hesitation and did not bother replying, and closed it. He would be an idiot to join their family, as they are a matriarchal family.

The Scarlet Family is run by women who treat men as though they are trash. He had heard from some of the men who married into the Scarlet Family, who explained it in a grim tone in his last life. When they try to recruit you, they would act polite and enthusiastic and would hide their disdain. After they join, the facade would crack, and even their wife would ridicule and treat them like a dog.

Knock Knock

"Lord Victor, the food is ready," a maid came and informed him.

"I will be there in a bit," Victor replied as he rose from his seat.

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Currently, Victor was calmly sitting on his chair as he ate his food in silence, but he did not fail to notice a pair of eyes trying to bore holes into him.

Amber seemed to have partially recovered from the debacle and was seated peacefully next to Andrew.

If a person saw this scene, they would just see a couple of nobles having a meal, but Amber was glaring menacingly at him. Sure enough, the young temptress was still holding a grudge against him.

Meow

Lilith, like a normal cat, walked into the dining room under everyone’s gaze.

Amber’s cold sky-blue eyes never allowed Victor out of her sight, even when Lilith entered the room.

She became even more enraged seeing Victor’s tranquil expression as he ignored her completely, as if nothing had happened during the night; she was inwardly outraged, ’You bastard, you took my virtue and even made me your slave, and you won’t even look at me.’

Andrew’s eyes lit up seeing the cat. He had recovered from Amber’s torture and looked at Amber resentfully, but when he saw that Amber was glaring at Victor, a smile curled on his lips, ’Did my bastard cousin also provoke this bitch? Haha, he won’t have an easy death.’

All of a sudden, Amber’s eyes snapped toward Andrew, who suddenly stood up, and she thought, ’What is this idiot up to now?’

Under Amber’s gaze, Andrew walked up toward Lilith, who stopped licking her paws and looked at the human with curious eyes.

"Hey, cousin, is that your pet?" Andrew asked Victor.

"Eh, yes, you could say that," Victor said, and Amber looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"What’s her name?" Andrew asked as he closed the distance.

"Lilith," Victor replied.

"Oh, a good name, Lilith," Andrew said, and Lilith narrowed her eyes and inwardly grumbled, ’How dare this ugly thing call me by my name?’

But before Lilith could react, she felt the ground getting farther away from her.

"How cute," Andrew said as he lifted Lilith into his arms.

Lilith’s artificial mind froze for some time and blankly looked at the buffoon, then got angry.

"So cute, Lilith—ahhh...stop!" Suddenly Andrew screamed in pain.

Victor, who was about to warn Andrew about the emotion of anger from Lilith he was sensing, stopped when he saw a sharp cat claw slap his face from the side and noticed Lilith’s cat eyes menacingly glaring in Andrew’s direction.

"How dare you touch Miss Lilith and lift her up? The only one who can touch me is Sir Victor, and you are so mannerless that you don’t use a ’Miss’!" Lilith raged as she kept clawing him and even used blue electricity.

"Huh, that cat can talk?" Amber’s jaw dropped to the ground, hearing a cat talk for the first time. Victor smirked seeing her reaction, which was similar to Edward’s.

Amber grew annoyed seeing Victor smirk at her; it felt like she was some kind of country bumpkin under his gaze and asked, "What’s up with her? How can she talk?"

Victor took a sip from his coffee and replied, "She is not a cat but an advanced AI."

Hearing this, Amber’s eyes widened and she said, "This cat called Lilith is an AI? How is this possible?"

Lilith, hearing Amber call her name, gave a smack on Andrew’s face with her electric paw, and he fell to the ground. Lilith jumped onto the table and looked at Amber.

"Call me Miss Lilith," Lilith said.

"..." Amber. ’What a demanding AI.’

"Miss Lilith," Amber said, and Lilith nodded her little head.

"Hmm, good manners, as expected of someone who bred with Sir Victor," Lilith said.

"..." Amber

"..." Victor

Amber’s face turned beet red as she looked at Victor with flames erupting from her eyes. She was glad that Andrew didn’t seem to hear Lilith.

"Lilith, you cannot say this in public, and how do you know this?" Victor said with a cough.

"Oh..." Lilith nodded in understanding and then said, "Miss Lilith can sense Sir Victor’s mana signature deeply imprinted on her, and she also seems to have signed a slave contract with Sir Victor."

"..." Amber

"..." Victor

[Sir, are you pleased with the performance that I injured your enemy?]

Victor was startled and then asked through their contract, ’How do you know he was my enemy?’

[Eh, I sensed anger and disgust toward him from you. Did I misinterpret?]

Lilith’s hesitant voice sounded in his mind.

Victor replied with a smile, ’No, you did the right thing.’

Then Andrew, with hateful eyes, returned back to his seat and resumed eating, and looked at the cat like it was a demon.

Seeing Victor’s smile, Andrew thought he was mocking him and got angry, and also Amber was ignoring him and kept staring at Victor, which made him more irritated.

"Hey, cousin, do you want to spar with me? We haven’t sparred in a long time."