It could easily be mistaken for a scene from a movie. 0

The gentle music playing in the background suddenly stopped... 0

The nobles attending to their own matters perked up at the unexpected silence... 0

The once-noisy ballroom had fallen silent...0

The attention of all gossipmongers was captured, and they became even quieter than usual. 0

This was a place filled with young, spirited people and those full of vanity, so incidents happened almost daily, but this incident wasn’t something that could be laughed off.0

Part of the reason was that the hottest topic these days, Lady Peneloti, was involved, but the main reason was that Marquis Jayce and Duke Pinkrain were directly involved. 0

They weren’t ordinary nobles from some rural backwater, but high-ranking aristocrats. 0

While nobles generally valued their honor, such high-ranking nobles were even more obsessed with meaningless prestige. Pinkrain seemed to lack honor, though. He was the typical trash, so he was irrelevant.0

Anyway, getting caught up in scandals, gossip, or incidents was considered dishonorable, so everyone maintained a cautious distance from each other, and this was customary. 0

This would become particularly more pronounced whenever high-ranking nobles were involved. This was a friction between...0