Interest Compounds on Revenge (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 147
Allen’s confusion deepened further. Throughout his conversation with Grace, goosebumps ran down his spine.
Before, he had only seen her as a charming woman, but now her very presence felt ominously unsettling.
‘By the way, where did the princess disappear to?’
She must have come to the selection banquet to achieve her goal.
Just then, the cheerful music filling the ballroom abruptly cut off, and someone shouted loudly.
“Your Majesty! Thugs have dragged away Mr. Louis Valerina! I followed them and saw those thugs beating Louis senseless!”
The source of the commotion was Chainer—clumsy, yet astonishingly skilled at lace-making.
Come to think of it, why hadn’t his secretary and the hired thugs returned yet? Allen quickly scanned his surroundings.
‘Terren’s group isn’t here either.’
They must have gone to rescue Louis. Just then, Emperor Teresa issued a command.
“Guards, arrest all those malicious individuals disrupting the imperial selection ball!”
At Teresa’s order, the crowd erupted into chaos, and the grandly held selection ball instantly descended into disarray.
At that moment, Louis’s parents were seen approaching Grace.
“My lady, just who are these people who dared lay hands on our Louis…?”
The woman, clearly his mother, fainted outright, turning the ballroom into a scene of pandemonium.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
I don’t understand, if she is trying to save the twins, why is she putting a gun to her head? She needs to be alive for the twins to survive.
This is sounding less like a punishment and more like a privilege.
Sometimes this novel’s inability to reflect anything close to realism frustrates me. Let’s reward arson and attempted murder! (Can’t help but point out the lack of creativity with Mr. Baker’s name.)