How to Stop the Villain from Going Crazy
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 67 - You want to win over a mediocre person? (2)
Still, Bo Li wasn't planning on letting off those three men. She found the wives of these three gentlemen through ladies that had a favorable impression of her.
She changed into men's clothing and headed to a residence where these three wives were attending a book club meeting. There were over ten ladies in the parlor. These ladies were all young and beautiful. When they saw Polly Clermont entering the room, their quiet discussions immediately stopped.
These three ladies had heard of Polly Clermont a long time ago. Her behavior was simply appalling. No woman had dared to challenge men before, let alone those three well-known men.
These ladies were both frightened and curious by this spectacle. What kind of woman dared to do such a thing?
They didn't expect that Polly Clermont would look so… special. She had delicate and pretty features. She was wearing a white suit with a wide-brimmed hat. Her legs were long and slender.
These ladies had seen beauties dressed in men's clothing, but the difference was that she wasn't dressed in a masculine way. She was even wearing a beautiful women's hat with ostrich feathers.
The combination of men's clothing with a women's hat looked odd, but it didn't look out-of-place on her body.
Her smile wasn't boyish at all. It was joyful and bright like a sweet, succulent fruit.
The ladies looked at each other and whispered amongst themselves.
A lady put down her book and stood up. "Oh my god! I didn't expect you to have such an appearance! So beautiful. Can I touch your legs?"
Bo Li thought her request was strange, but she still answered with a smile. "Sure."
The lady gently stroked Bo Li's leg. She continued saying in a loud voice, "Oh my, so long, so nice! It's my first time noticing that a woman can have such nice legs!"
A slightly older lady scolded, "Mrs. Garcia, you're being rude."
Another lady chuckled. "Miss Clermont, forgive Mrs. Garcia. She can't help herself when she sees a pretty girl. And you're dressed like that-"
There was a burst of tittering in the parlor.
Bo Li gently smiled. Their praises and criticisms didn't bother her. "It's okay. I'm here to see Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Mitte, and Mrs. Wright."
"Oh, I get it. You're here to strike first by intimidating them, right?" A lady asked.
"Of course not," Bo Li said, "I'm here to remind them that my show had a certain degree of danger. I'm sure they must know that a police officer has fainted from fright. That incident definitely wasn't an exaggeration. For safety reasons, I hope they can watch the performance from nearby so that they can quickly arrive at the scene if there's any danger… Of course, the most important thing is that they'll be able to witness how their husbands will pass the test of courage."
These ladies didn't expect that she had come here just to inform the three gentlemen's wives that they could watch the show as bystanders.
Her behavior of letting bygones be bygones was simply more gentlemanly than the behavior of those three gentlemen.
They had seen how the three gentlemen condemned Miss Clermont in the newspaper. They were simply driving her to death.
After a long time, Mrs. Davis finally spoke, "Thank you for making a special trip to tell us this. We'll go watch your show."
"Then I can rest assured." Bo Li took off her hat, pressed it on her chest, and politely bowed to the ladies. "Ladies, I'm sorry to bother you. Goodbye."
The ladies didn't speak until she left the parlor.
"Oh my god, she's for real… How can a woman dare to dress like that and show off her legs? Does she have no shame?"
"But she really is very pretty," another lady said, "If I had known that would be her response, I would have gone up to touch her legs like Mrs. Garcia."
A young lady indifferently expressed, "I would never touch a woman like her. She's too dirty."
“Miss Jones," a lady sitting by the fireplace said with a laugh, "you're too young to understand Miss Clermont's charm. After you get married and have to spend your days with a husband that makes you lose your appetite, you'll appreciate Miss Clermont!"
"Mrs. Garcia raises many girls on the side, but none of them are as beautiful and as unyielding as Miss Clermont…"
A lady asked, "Mrs. Garcia, why didn't you ask her to kiss your hand in greeting? Her lips look so soft."
All the ladies laughed.
Miss Jones's face was flushed. Just as she was about to scold them for their shameless words, the chandelier in the parlor suddenly shook.
The ladies fell into panic and shrieked.
The older ladies were relatively calmer and persuaded the others to calm down. The chandelier must be shaking so violently because it hadn't been properly maintained in a long time.
In the next moment, the decorations from the chandelier poured down like a torrential rainstorm.
If that was it, it wouldn't be scary.
What terrified Miss Jones was that the ladies present seemed to be suffering from severe hallucinations.
First, the lady that said Polly Clermont had soft lips screamed that her lips had melted into a bloody mess. She was hysterical.
Mrs. Garcia's hallucination was severe too. She saw a poisonous insect on her hand. She cried while shaking her hand. Finally, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Perhaps, Miss Jones was influenced by the horrific atmosphere. She also inexplicably saw horrifying scenes.
Trembling, she looked down at her hands in horror. She helplessly watched as her fingers elongated and liquified into dirty, viscous blood that dripped down like melted wax.
It was as if she was being punished for saying earlier - "I would never touch a woman like her. She's too dirty."
T/N: Below is a fan art of Bo Li taken from the author's fan club Weibo.
