The Credentials of a Couple (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 175

Bake tightly shut his eyes against the memories that kept expanding their reach.

He had gathered the situation from the man. The wife who once smiled at him had long since turned her back on him. What he remembered was an absurd ideal—or rather, was it truly just an ideal?

He knew without needing to ask. It wasn’t an ideal—it was the past. There had been a time when he possessed a beautiful wife and a lovely daughter, a perfect family.

But why had it come to this?

If gods truly existed, Bake wanted to ask just once: why had his life, which had been sailing so perfectly down the path to success, ended up like this? No—he wouldn’t demand answers. He’d kneel and beg instead, pleading desperately to be allowed to live as he once had.

Though he knew nothing would change even if he did.

Bang-.

Following the sound of clashing metal, Bake turned his head. The woman, who had been shouting loudly enough to strain the veins in her neck, now fell silent. The blood pooling on the floor spread further, finally reaching the tips of Bake’s shoes.

Like those captured before her, the woman’s end was hardly different. Accusing each other of betraying Felt, their mutual recriminations escalated until the enraged man killed the one he’d dragged in.

“You fools. I’m the only one truly following His Majesty’s will.”

The man, seemingly still unsatisfied even after killing his former comrade, kept snorting in anger as he shot a glare at Bake. Bake instinctively hunched his shoulders. The man was emotionally volatile, especially prone to showing cruel tendencies when enraged.

“Come here.”

Grabbing Bake roughly by the neck, the man strode out with heavy steps. As Bake was forcibly dragged up the stairs, he cried out in pain from losing his balance—but the more he struggled, the more the man smirked.

“You really need to toughen up your body, my lord Marquess Crayton.”

Though the man’s voice carried a mocking laugh, Bake had no strength left to resist.

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