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Romantic Fantasy Rule 1: Any man near the lead characters is suspicious.
Romantic Fantasy Rule 2: The most ordinary man is actually the most extraordinary.
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Out of nervousness, my heart beat out of sync like a broken piano. That was how ominous the Inquisitor’s laughter was. I felt like the ground below me had given out and I was sliding down a dark hole I couldn’t see the bottom of.
“Inquisi—”
“You look to be well, Lady Goldencup.”
Lady Silver Lily called out the name given by this world before I could say the name given by the Tower.
“I heard you were attacked by assassins… You really are a girl who grew up in the outskirts. You’re persistent as a weed. I guess a couple of assassins are nothing to you,” Lady Silver Lily scoffed.
The Inquisitor smirked. “Did you come all the way here this late at night to compliment my health? I am deeply touched, my lady. I am overjoyed that the crown prince and many others are worried about me despite my shortcomings! I even feel like tonight’s tragedy was in fact a stroke of good fortune!”
I realized a bit later that there was a sneer in his voice. The normal Inquisitor would never have said those words. Two thorns were hidden in the Inquisitor’s remarks. One was a threat: “Aren’t you the one who hired the assassin?” Another...
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