Ice-cold Queen and The Tyrant Lila

She finds it amusing how crazy this guy's doing right now. She already encountered this kind of look from her previous world, before, she only ignored it but right now it's kinda refreshing. Not that she wanted Magus to have a crush on her but she knows that Magus has only a pure admiration for her beauty, nothing else.

"Am I really that beautiful?" Lila teased.

"Oh brother stop teasing me. You almost caused my heart to explode."

He tapped his chest to calm his heart.

"Haha. I never intended to fool you brother. It was only self-defense that I had to disguise as a guy to avoid someone."

Magus finally relaxed and acted the same as before. Since this goddess is his brother, his benefactor whom he respected and pledged his loyalty to. He cannot have other thoughts on her.

"By the way I can no longer call you brother because you're a girl. What's your real name anyway?"

"My real name is Lila Shingha. You can still call me Lel."

"Li-Lila Shingha?! General Kadi Shingha's only daughter?! The one that was ambushed more than a month ago?!"

Magus was stupefied again that his jaw was open wide that an egg could be inserted in it.

"Am I that popular that you even know what happened to me?"

Lila was astonished that even Magus knew her identity in this realm. Well, Lila's character in the novel was not really mentioned a lot. Only mentioned once when she was killed on the plot. She's aware that her "father" General Kadi was respected and admired by many but never knew that she's also highly esteemed and well-known.

"Well of course! You are the Ice-cold Queen and The Tyrant. You never put anyone into your eyes and you easily hurt and dispose of someone with the slightest mistake. A lot of servants can't stay for a month with your evil attitude and what's worse is that you never give a second chance and kill someone on the spot.

Your name resounded more when you attended once in an Imperial party but you gave a cold shoulder to a lot of young masters from a well-off family and even attacked King Judhe's son, that despicable Yanhe on that party. And what's shocking was he still pursuing you even if you ignore him!"

Magus was like a chatterbox, he recounted Lila's past "glories" without battling an eyelid like he was not talking to the person he was referring to. Lila just sat there and listened to him. Her ears were slightly red from embarrassment but she still kept her calm face.

Yeah. Those were the days that 'Lila' was trying to protect herself. They never know her mind reading capability and she never disclose it even with her father. She was silently protecting herself and her father from their enemies sneak attack, especially when a lot of spies entered the manor disguised as a servant or guard. Maybe that's the reason why she was called a tyrant because she will never allow anyone to succeed with their plans and also she never trusted anyone aside from her father and her Uncle Sevastian.

Even her relatives, she never liked them because they only wanted their wealth and fame. Though she's weak but with the elite force that her dad has, she can deploy them whenever she wants to with her dad's approval. But she never killed the spy right away, she will only kill it when she has a reasonable reason to do so. That's the reason why old and new servants were so scared of her because they thought that if they made a mistake they would be punished or killed.

For the Ice-cold Queen title, she just hated those hypocrites and lustful fellows who wanted to get near to her. She doesn't like backstabbing girls who only said good words in front of her but when she's away they will curse her or say nasty things about her. Old Lila had a lot of friends before her mind reading capability showed up but after it materialized, she found out that most of her old friends were faking their friendship. Only the few real friends without motives remained.

As for the guys, nah, they're like pigs lusting for her, especially Yanhe. That's the reason why she never entertains anyone. You can say that her ability was a blessing and a curse. Blessing because she was able to find out who really cared for her and a curse because it made her lonely and untrusting.

Magus realized that Lila was so silent and it dawned on him that he said more than what he has to say. Also most of the details were negative and he forgot that it's THE Lila in front of him that he was speaking of.

"Cough. Cough. Cough."

Magus was choked with his saliva.

"I am sorry if I go overboard. Those were the words I heard from other people, in fact, thinking about it you are not even close to what those people said."

Magus tried to explain.

"You are a good and caring person. You are kind-hearted that you helped me recover and paid my debt. And also you are not an Ice-cold queen, if only people will learn about your true nature. They eventually like you and they will change their perspective about you."

Lila only smiled at how quickly Magus changed his statements.

"It's fine. I know that my reputation was not really good but it's okay. I don't need their opinion anyway."

Magus was really awe of how calm and indifferent Lila is from the humors he just sprouted. She's really far from the girl that was described by many, truly, humors are only spread to confuse the masses.