Ember heart
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~Chapter 169~ “I’ll do it.” “Are you sure you can really handle it?” “Of course! If I just deliver this… you’ll let me go, right?” Albert’s jaw was trembling uncontrollably. Cedric watched him with a faint smile. Since this was how things were bound to end, he wondered why this man had ever been so confident in the first place. “I can’t make it as if nothing ever happened. I can try to smooth over the side effects of Anghelic, but what happened on that…-
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~Chapter 168~ After Bella left, Cedric wiped the smile from his face and took out a scrapbook he had neglected for a long time. It contained information that Cloud had investigated about the Listerwell family. He had once thrown it away, then later taken it back out and carefully pasted everything inside again. At the time, he hadn’t understood why he was doing that. Only much later did he realize the reason—by then, his interest in Harriet had already gone beyond mere curiosity. As he…
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~Chapter 167~ “Welcome, Baron!” In the dimness of the night, John warmly greeted Benedict, who had arrived in a hurry. But Benedict didn’t even have the composure to smile back at the welcome. “We don’t have time. Let’s skip the pleasantries and get straight to business.” “I agree. This way, please.” John quickly led him to the sitting room where Bella was waiting. Because the meeting was held in strict secrecy, the mansion’s lights were kept low, and no…
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~Chapter 166~ “So you’re telling me to jump into the mud on my own, when everyone who boarded that ship is being pointed at and condemned? And you don’t see why that’s difficult?” “You were afraid of that, yet you went around wearing such a small mask?” “Oh, Bella, Bella! You pretended to be Harriet because you thought you wouldn’t get caught, right? I did too! I never imagined things would blow up like this!” Because of that incident, Tez was already busy going around…
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~Chapter 165~ “Uwaaah! I’m finished! My life is over, I tell you—over!” A woman’s wailing echoed from the imperial interrogation room. The imperial investigator questioning her grimaced helplessly. The woman summoned to the palace under imperial order—Cecile McGrow—was rumored to be the first woman ever to be identified as a passenger of the “Kingdom.” And rumors were correct. Because of that, her life had completely fallen apart. “My parents cut ties with me! They…
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~Chapter 164~ News that the Emperor had personally interrogated Albert Kingsley and thrown him into prison was printed in the newspapers and spread throughout all of Genoa. Among the reports, what captured people’s attention the most was the story of the ship where the “Angelique parties” were held. “…Whether they had spouses or not, no matter how noble their families were or how well-educated they were, everyone on that ship acted like animals obsessed with perverted sexual…
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~Chapter 163~ “Let him in.” At the Emperor’s command, one of the mirrored doors opened, and Cedric entered. Albert’s eyes widened in panic when he saw the newcomer, while the Emperor casually extended his hand toward Cedric. “The materials you mentioned earlier—give them to me.” Cedric obeyed quietly and handed over a thick file. Durein flipped through the pages one by one, frowning slightly. “Explain, Cedric. Tell me exactly what has happened because of this…
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~Chapter 162~ With Lauren’s death, all the “counterattack weapons” Roxana had carefully prepared became useless. Harriet, who had helped collect the evidence, felt a little empty inside—but since Trisha and Roxana had decided to quietly close the case, she had nothing more to say. While Harriet sorted and organized the piles of documents on Roxana’s desk, she asked regretfully: “Are we cutting off the living expenses we were giving to the Marshalls?” Roxana glanced at her…
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~Chapter 161~ Harriet had no time to calmly reflect on her meeting with Cedric. Because the very next day, she received shocking news: Lauren Marshall, who had been imprisoned, was dead. The palace official who came to report it explained her death with a blank, emotionless face. “Mrs. Marshall, who was in solitary confinement, died from poisoning. It is unclear whether it was suicide or murder. We are currently investigating how the poison reached her. But with the defendant dead, the…
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~Chapter 160~ Harriet pulled her hand out of Cedric’s grasp and asked, “Why… why would you say something like that?” “You don’t smile at me,” he replied. “I have no idea what you even mean. So why—!” She didn’t know what words were supposed to follow that “why.” What was she meant to say? Why are you saying something that makes my heart flutter? Do you… have feelings for me? Or are you testing me? Playing with me? Cedric simply looked at her…
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