This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

Chapter 188 Sorry, She's After the Family Tree!

the most ridiculous time was when rick accidentally fell into an elite mini-boss's lair during a dungeon run. he hit his head on some unknown treasure that the mini-boss had stolen from a tribal leader. the treasure turned into white mist, which enveloped his wound. when he got up, he had gained 2 attribute points...

now, both zoey and rick were at level 7. zoey's stats were about average for a level 3 player, but rick had already recovered to the level of a 5th-level player.

the more zoey thought about it, the more irritated she became. when rick returned from b city, she was definitely going to beat him again!

following the instructions in her mind, zoey pressed her finger on the name "matthew" and chose to share her curse with him without hesitation.

instantly, the curse in zoey's status changed from: **[unknown curse level 1]: all healing effects are reduced by 5%; health cannot regenerate; contagious** to **[unknown curse level 1 (?)]**: all healing effects are reduced by 2.5%; health regeneration is slowed; contagious.**

zoey looked at the name of the curio in her hand and sneered.

back when she married into the lopez family, her name had been successfully added to their family tree.

thinking back, what an idiotic move that had been!

zoey put away the **[does this family tree have to be filled?]** and pulled out another item rick had obtained— a simple mug.

**[excuse me, i need a refill]** (grade b): pour any liquid or potion below master level into the cup, even just a drop. after 10 minutes, the cup will refill itself with that liquid, containing exactly 250ml. cooldown: 1 natural day.

zoey took a dropper filled with mateo's blood from the table.

that's why loyalty from subordinates was the most useless thing. as long as the benefits were good enough, people would forget the favors they owed to the lopez family. worse, they would find a way to justify their betrayal to soothe their guilty consciences: *this is mateo's own sister; how could she harm him?*

after 10 minutes, zoey gently placed the cursed feather into the mug filled with blood.

sorry, she was going after the people on the family tree!

all those telling her to care about the "big picture" were only the ones who stood to gain from that big picture. but if she wasn't going to be the winner, what was the point in caring about the bigger picture?

nivalis quickly pulled her foot back and sniffed it herself. "i licked it clean! it smells delicious!"

rita had enough. this little dragon was even less hygienic than the cats in the backyard! she grabbed a pot, filled it with water, and unceremoniously dunked nivalis into it, scrubbing her down.

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nivalis flailed and protested, "i don't need a bath! i'm clean! this is my dragon majesty! you're scrubbing away my dragon majesty!"

rita retorted, "dragon majesty, my foot! do you even wipe after using the bathroom?"

nivalis, grumbling, said, "didn't you say that dragon poop sells for 7 silver coins per pound? if i wipe, i'm wiping away money! why would i do that?"

rita couldn't take it anymore. she smacked nivalis a few times. "that explains why my pillow smells! i thought i was hallucinating from collecting so much dragon poop..."

nivalis squirmed, trying not to use her full strength in fear of knocking rita over. she wailed, "it's not my fault! my arms are too short to reach! you're setting me up to fail! besides, maybe that smell is from your drool! couldn't it just happen to smell like dragon poop?"

rita was speechless.

she remembered when this dragon first arrived at her home, how cute and well-behaved she had been, introducing herself with "i~ am~ turan~"...

but now?

after giving nivalis a proper scolding in the dungeon, rita took the sniffling dragon, who was fake-crying with no actual tears, to the mall. following nivalis' instructions, she bought ten tubs of every flavor of ice cream.

in exchange, nivalis solemnly promised that from now on, she would wipe herself clean after using the bathroom.

to ensure this, once they returned home, rita placed a wet towel next to the dragon's toilet, so nivalis could wipe herself down after every bathroom visit.

this whole issue was indeed rita's oversight. she had been asking nivalis to clean up after herself without realizing that the little dragon's arms were too short to reach!

with her wings being so dexterous, rita had forgotten about her short arms entirely!