Chapter 36: A Revenge Filled with Artistic Flair

  The southwestern university district of Constantinople, the largest district in terms of tax revenue within the city's various districts, has always been out of favor with the Minister of Finance. It is said that every time Minister Ericks sees the deans of the district's dozen or so colleges appear together, his expression is the same as when he sees the civil affairs deputy officer in charge of charitable matters such as nursing homes and orphanages - a long face, with a deeply resentful look.

  The disdain of successive finance ministers for the university district is well-known, but successive finance ministers are just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire noble class. The noblewomen and ladies who come and go from this university district can always help those talented students and instructors they appreciate collect enough sponsorship.

  Beyond Dionisou Street, the neat university district's main thoroughfares stretch out in a series of tree-lined lanes whose dead ends sit at the back of independent villa plots.

  Some are the offices of high-ranking university administrators, while others are the residences of famous senior professors. Only a small portion is also the quietest and most beautiful place in the entire university, these places belong to some private clubs. At first glance, the word "club" makes people think of luxury and decadence, and then think of the narrow nightclubs filled with ambiguous lights and sexy women everywhere. Although there are beauties here too, it's more suitable to describe the women in this club as beautiful and intelligent.

  Behind it stands a serene large garden, the main building extensively uses Roman columns, a two-story classical stone structure. The second-floor windows are open, and inside, the house is lavishly decorated. The walls are adorned with wallpaper featuring countless fresh-colored flowers, delicate furnishings, and beautiful vases filled with fresh flowers. Valuable porcelain from the East can be seen everywhere, filling the space with a sweet, gentle, and delicate atmosphere. Anyone who enters this place would immediately think it's a girl's room. In fact, that's true, but this place doesn't belong to any one girl as private property.

  Inside the Elysium Club, named after the Greek word for "paradise", most of the young ladies from Constantinople's upper class have gathered here, with their dazzling charm. If Nikephoros were to come here, he would surely be amazed and think that it has taken him so long to discover that besides banquets, clubs are also a great place to see beautiful women.

  The noble lady of the Elysium Club, Du Meiniang, is famous for her beauty, but what's even more famous is that the beauties in this club have a certain unexplainable charm compared to other places.

  Elegant, refined, and intelligent?

  Maybe they all have.

  It was as if this place, the most artistic in all of Constantinople, had been imbued with a certain elegance by the books that filled it, and the noble young ladies who gathered here, united by their shared interests, were naturally more refined than other young women, their conversation more full of wisdom...

  "We will take revenge!!!"

  ....！！！

  "Right! We're gonna make that guy pay!!!"

  ...？？！

  "Are you going to take him down?"

  A pair of eyes with a fierce glow, ... German youths Friedrich and Hans were sweating profusely, the Elysee Club, this place is not like what I imagined.

  "Let him go to hell!!!"

  Hans' whole body was shaking: "Think of a way."

  "What are you doing, Pennywise?" asked the person who had invited them here, Frederick's eyes wide with alarm.

  "Pennyvis gritted her teeth and said, 'Of course it's to teach that demon Nikiforos a lesson! Three days ago, Mingming clearly agreed that as long as we went to persuade him, everything would be fine. But then the people from the Municipal Council appeared on Dion Street, and many property owners were summoned for talks! They're making estimates! Are they really going to demolish that beautiful place in Dion?!"

  "Destroy that heaven!? Oh God!" Frederick was stunned for a moment, and the next second, with a swoosh, a rapier was drawn out of him, his morale soaring high. "Sisters, what are you waiting for? Follow me!!! Let's go take him down together!!!"

  Facing a group of stunned noble ladies, Hans glanced at his companion who had drawn his sword and shouted, closed his eyes and thought, forget it, I'll just play dead here...

  "Cough, cough, cough!" After all, Penives' mental state was better, she reacted first, "Friedrich, we can't go and kill him! Hmm, at least not with a sword!"

  "Can't we just get rid of him? Right, this isn't Germany, so let's go beat the crap out of him!!! Let's beat him to a pulp!!!" Frederick shouted again, morale still high, but the response was still deafening silence...

  Pennyvis grasped the hand that was raised high: "No hitting! Not to mention being beaten up! In short, no physical harm is allowed!"

  "Beating him won't work either? Then how do you plan on teaching him a lesson?" Now it was Frederick's turn to be stunned.

  "It's precisely because I don't know that I'm asking for your help! You also despise that guy, don't you!"

  "It's going to be tough!" Frederick glanced at the rapier in his hand and then looked at the numerous noble ladies, he sheathed his sword with a smile, "But I'm participating anyway!"

  As a lady, as an excellent lady who grew up in Constantinople rather than being born in the countryside, Penelope's mood was very complicated and tangled! Of course, her complicated mood wasn't because she had a good impression of a demon wearing human skin. Hmm, from the first day they met, he hadn't given her a good impression at all!

  Wicked! Cunning! Brutal!

  Even among aristocrats, they can't even manage the most basic gentlemanly courtesy of punctuality!

  He even brought a bit of the Roman tyrant's neurosis and actually shouted in the coffee shop, declaring war on God!

  Arrogant! Arrogant to the point of being utterly absurd!

  But who let him be the son of Prince Sisowath!

  Prince Seo Fa No will eventually become the Emperor of the Empire, and before he becomes the Emperor, he is already the ruler of the Empire! This has become an unspoken secret among everyone, including the common people! If His Highness the Prince becomes the Emperor, oh heavens!... Miss Penivis deeply felt a sense of powerlessness, painfully supporting that guy who will become at least the second in line to the throne and also a prince.

  And she, even if she marries a duke in the future, will still just be a duchess.

  "God will punish that scoundrel one of these days!" Miss Penywis muttered under her breath, wrinkling up her small nose. Human strength can't do anything about it, so we have to rely on God! But God is very busy and it's uncertain when he'll strike down the scoundrel with a bolt of lightning, even if it takes until the year of the monkey or the month of the horse. So Miss Penywis, who doesn't like waiting, decided to take matters into her own hands!

  But how to take the initiative to attack, it's really difficult!

  "Frederick, let's have a duel! I've forgotten all about it! In the duel, if you beat him up thoroughly, and it's not an ambush, even if you lose, he can't do anything to you. Isn't that great!" Penives suddenly thought of something and waved her fist, the eyes of the ladies present flashing like cameras, shining with excitement.

  Frederick thought for a moment and shook his head: "Good idea! But not now, according to your words, he is the most inclined person to us among their dozens of people! If we hit him at this time, if he blames me while blaming you, will he go so far as to forcibly demolish the Dionysus district?"

  "Agreed." Penny withdrew her small hand dejectedly, looking around at the other girls. "My ladies, you must also use your brains. We've read so many books and accumulated so much wisdom; now is the time to put it to good use!"

  "A thought occurs to me!" said the noble lady sitting on the edge, raising her small hand in the crowd and standing up. "The Bible says that Sodom... indulged in carnal lust, followed by unnatural desires, will be punished with eternal fire as a warning!"

  As soon as the words fell, all the noble ladies, including Penelope, involuntarily covered their mouths. Sodom! That's the city swallowed up by heavenly fire in the Bible! As for the reason...

  "Do you want that, that Nikki Fruos to do...do that with another man?" Pennyvis asked in a trembling voice, and at the mention of "that", all the noble ladies present blushed bright red.

  The noble lady said with a fiery temper: "Perhaps they've already done it, haven't they? The other day, that guy I met, Nicholas Fyodorovich! Alexander Alexandrovich! He called out in a voice sweeter than a lover's!!!"

  "But don't you think it's too terrifying to let a pure soul accompany an evil soul into the depths of hell?" Frederick exclaimed, his forehead sweating. He clearly saw that some noble ladies swallowed their saliva, and the momentum was not good, as if something inexplicable had been ignited!

  Pennywise also felt that this was inappropriate: "That's right, for the sake of a pure soul, we can't do this and entrust revenge to mere possibilities! We can't do this!"

  "Oh..." The noble lady who made the proposal sat down in disappointment, but a pair of scorching eyes made Frederick's hair stand on end.