I Became the Villainess, But My Beast Husbands Can Hear My Mind?!-Chapter 150: The Ancestor’s Daughter (2)

After all, Roxanna had once believed that Leon and Lisa would never be capable of doing something so cruel to her—such as chopping off her fingers or even killing her—but she had been terribly wrong.

[Oh, Host...] the system’s voice echoed softly in her mind. [You cannot compare yourself to Elior.]

[You’ve always been terrible at judging people.]

[You’re too quick to believe that others are incapable of doing evil.]

Roxanna pressed her lips into a thin line and replied hesitantly in her mind, [No... I’m not like that.]

The system fell silent, as if it already knew she would never admit the truth so easily.

Then the elder’s gentle voice broke the tension. "Michaela once told us something," he said with a warm smile. "She said we could trust her daughter with all our hearts."

Roxanna held her breath for a moment, saying weakly. "Really?"

"She said her daughter was a very kind person," the elder continued. "So kind that others often took advantage of her."

Roxanna froze where she stood. For a moment, even her body refused to move, and she felt like her head was spinning around.

Now she was no longer just surprised, she was completely shaken.

Her mother... knew that? How?

Roxanna didn’t even know when her mother had died in the real world, but even if she had lived long enough to watch Roxanna grow up, there was no way she could have known everything.

It was impossible for Michaela to know about Roxanna’s silent suffering, or about the way people used her, unless Roxanna had told her herself, but she never had.

To the outside world, Leon had always been seen as the perfect husband.

No one knew how he slowly twisted Roxanna’s thoughts, how he broke her down piece by piece until she began to believe she was worthless... nothing more than something to be thrown away.

Aside from that, Leon truly revealed his rotten side once they were living in the underground shelter, so it was impossible for anyone to know about her endless suffering.

Elior’s voice pulled her back to the present. "Your mother was not only knowledgeable about healing," he said carefully. "She also possessed an extraordinary ability."

He continued, "She could see the future, but not just any future. The only future she could see was yours. She told us her daughter would one day become Roxanna Vixelle, the future leader of the Vixeria Tribe."

It did not stop there. Michaela even told them that Roxanna was a beautiful pink fox and that she would have five kind husbands who would protect her with all their hearts.

"The moment you and your husbands stepped into this mountain, we began watching you because we wanted to confirm whether you were the pink fox Michaela spoke of." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Elior continued with a smile. "And after seeing how you and your husbands always stood by each other, we immediately knew you were the same Roxanna from Michaela’s prophecy."

This entire discussion about prophecy was difficult to believe, but perhaps that was not what made Roxanna hesitate.

After all, she knew there were many things in this world that defied logic, so she was no longer easily shocked by something strange.

However, the fact that her mother knew everything about her and had even spoken about her to others... that was what felt most impossible to her.

"My mother abandoned me when I was a baby," Roxanna said softly. She lowered her head and avoided Elior’s gaze for a few moments. "She forgot me for so long, so why... why did she suddenly talk so much about me to your people?"

She pointed at her childhood picture. "Even bringing my picture with her? For what?" She bit her lower lip before continuing, "Are you telling me all of this because you want me to follow my mother’s path and stay here?"

Before anyone could answer, Roxanna spoke again. "I’m sorry, but I can’t do that. I am also the leader of my tribe, and I have no desire to follow in the footsteps of a mother who abandoned me for so long."

"Miss Fox, you misunderstand," another elder said gently. "Your mother did not abandon you."

Roxanna frowned, her eyes flashing with frustration. "I don’t think this is just a misunderstanding," she said, her voice tight. She looked at the elder and the others standing before her with clear annoyance.

"If leaving a newborn baby at someone’s door in the middle of a freezing winter isn’t considered cruel..." Her fingers curled into fists. "Then I don’t know what abandoning a child means."

The air inside the cavern suddenly felt heavier, as though even the flames had dimmed.

The elder did not react with anger. Instead, his gaze softened. "You were never thrown away," he said gently — so gently that Roxanna began to feel guilty for speaking so harshly earlier.

Roxanna took a deep breath and then asked calmly, "Then what would you call it?"

"A choice made in desperation."

The elder stepped closer. "I do not know what kind of rules exist in your world, but your mother told us that a sixteenth-year-old young woman would not be able to care for a baby so easily."

The moment Roxanna heard those words, her entire body turned cold. Even her fox ears and tail immediately drooped, because that information was truly not something she had expected.

Sixteen?

She was barely of legal age. How could she possibly have had a child? Had she and her boyfriend been careless, fooling around without even using contraception?

"Do you know how old my father was?" Roxanna asked.

Everyone fell silent. Even the elders chose to look away rather than answer her question.

After a long pause, Elior finally spoke. "From what I’ve learned from our elders, your mother never spoke about your father, but..." He took a deep breath. "She said you were not conceived out of love. She said... it was something terrible, and she did not want to talk about it."

Roxanna’s shoulders slowly slumped as she finally understood why her mother had decided to abandon her in the freezing winter.