The Commander's Useless Wife Is Actually a Hidden Boss!-Chapter 144 I Don’t Want to Be a Stand-In

Mervin spoke with profound meaning, "One’s aura cannot deceive anyone, and the mindset when interacting with others is very difficult to imitate. The confidence carved into one’s bones, if not from the nobles, then what?"

"You are not only a noble, but also an extraordinary one. From birth, you never needed to please anyone, and you had a learned and broad-minded mentor by your side, someone with a vision far beyond that of ordinary folks. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have developed such confident and open-minded poise."

At first, Lin Fu thought Mervin was spouting nonsense, but by the end, she couldn’t help but laugh happily.

"Ha ha ha..."

She really wanted to tell Mervin that the reason she was like this was because in her previous life, she lived in a free, equal, great nation.

But she couldn’t say these words.

"What are you laughing about?" Mervin was baffled by her laughter.

"You’re wrong, I come from a very backward and remote star system, because I have a purple artifact that changes fate..." She suddenly paused, her gaze sharpening, "Mervin, why are you so good to me?"

She could sense that Mervin’s personality was likely hard to approach.

Yet he had been protecting her with every step.

There was no such thing as unexplained kindness in the world.

"Don’t say I deserve it—I know my own worth very well," Lin Fu preempted Mervin’s response with a heartfelt plea, "Just tell me! Otherwise, I won’t be at ease. I’m afraid of being deceived and having to pay a greater price in return."

Mervin sighed and pointed to an elegantly designed rest area ahead, "Let’s go sit over there."

"Okay!"

The outdoor resting area had vending machines selling non-alcoholic drinks, and Mervin bought two bottles, one for each of them.

"You remind me of my sister, I mean in character, not in appearance."

Lin Fu, who was drinking her beverage, nearly choked, "Cough cough cough... It can’t be that melodramatic, can it?"

"What?"

"Nothing, go on, what about your sister? Even though I’m similar in personality to her, you don’t have to be nice to me!" She didn’t like being someone’s substitute.

It sounded too much like a soap opera.

If that was the case, she’d have to reconsider her attitude towards Mervin in the future.

"She’s dead!"

Mervin said bluntly, "Five years ago, she was kidnapped. I chased after her, trying to rescue her, but ultimately failed..." By the end, Mervin covered his face with his hands, his voice filled with painful suppression.

"I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought it up." Lin Fu lost the desire to drink her beverage, "But you must have avenged her..."

"No, I can never avenge her in this lifetime because it was at my own hands that she died." Mervin suddenly looked up, his handsome face with its sharp features was filled with a gloomy aura, his eyes bloodshot as if ready to tear someone apart.

Lin Fu was stunned into silence.

"That’s the answer to your first question, whether nobles put interests above everything else. My answer is, everything has a price. My sister was still so young, the darling of the family, spoiled by thousands. Yet when she fell into the hands of a villain, when the villain’s demands couldn’t be met by the family, the decision was made to eliminate the threat, including her."

Lin Fu instinctively felt a chilling sensation run through her, the drink in her hand as cold as ice.

Mervin looked up and locked eyes with her.

His deep eyes conveyed endless pain, self-reproach, and guilt.

These five years must have been an unbearably tough time for him.

Living in constant agony.

"Don’t be sad." Mervin’s gaze involuntarily overlapped with Lin Fu’s brother from her previous life. The person before her transformed into the image of her brother, looking at her with eyes full of pain, and self-reproach.