before he was crowned king

"Oh my god, you actually hit someone."

"Lilian beat Baron Cister's own sister, and Grand Duke Henry is still here. It's really a good show to watch."

"I heard that Lucy saw Lilian hugging a strange man in the garden."

"Tsk, I'm really shameless."

……

……

After a moment of silence, the guests in the hall started whispering again.Holding the slender wine glasses, they still maintained an elegant and dignified posture, but the peripheral vision from the corner of their eyes couldn't help falling on the more lively places.

As the host of Rose Manor, Sean still sat motionless in front of Grand Duke Henry.

"Viscount, don't you go and see?"

"I'm about to go over, I'm being rude to have such a fact." Sean stood up with his cane as if he had realized it after realizing it.

"Do you want to come together?"

"You invited me to go with you?" Grand Duke Henry asked with interest.

"Baron Cister is a person who is loyal to you, and I can't handle this matter beyond you." Sean said, bending down to pick up the gold coin on the table, "And the bet between me and you is also It's time to start."

"Haha, it's really interesting." Grand Duke Henry laughed, and stood up with the help of his attendants, "Then go and have a look."

Sean lowered his head and silently followed behind Grand Duke Henry.

He has all the conditions right now.

The chess pieces of black and white are on the verge of breaking out.

He is very clear that when the "king" of one side changes positions with the "rook", it will usher in a more intense confrontation.

"Lucy, Lucy!"

Baron Cister bent down and helped his crying sister up, "What's going on?"

Miss Lucy's eyes were red and she could not speak.

"It's the Viscountess." Miss Helen said angrily, "Lucy and I saw her doing shameless things in the garden."

"Miss Helen, pay attention to your words." Lilian's maid An stepped forward and said, "The dignity of the Viscountess is not something you can casually offend."

"Offensive? What's the point of hurting someone?"

"enough!"

Baron Cister interrupted the quarrel, and then looked coldly at Lilian behind Ann, "Viscountess, did you hit my sister?"

"That's right." After calming down, Lilian did not deny what she had done, "I did it."

"Why do you have any reason to punish her like this?" Baron Sister looked excited. He was about to approach Lilian, but someone held his shoulder.

"Baron Cister, please calm down." Alex said with a frown.

Seeing the man protecting her behind her, Lilian's grip on the skirt slightly loosened.

Baron Sist snorted coldly, and directly opened Erics' hand, his lips moved, and the cold light was ready to go out in his palm.

Alex frowned, ready to defend.

"Baron Cister, using magic in a private house is not allowed." A voice sounded unhurriedly.

"Elder, Grand Duke." Cister gritted his teeth, and the cold light gradually dissipated, "Viscount Sean."

"How are you?" Sean walked to Lilian and asked softly, "Are you injured?"

Lilian shook her head lightly, pursed her lips tightly, and her voice trembled slightly, "Xion, it's not what you think——"

"It's okay, I trust you, Lilian."

The cold palm gently patted the back of her hand.

Hearing the man's not-so-gentle consolation, Lilian's heart contracted in pain as if being stabbed by something sharp.

"I heard about it from Cister." After asking, Grand Duke Henry said a little laxly, "Viscountess, please apologize to Miss Lucy."

"I—" Lilian's face turned pale.

She is the daughter of Duke Oscar, her status is so noble.

And Grand Duke Henry actually asked her to apologize to Lucy, who was of much lower status, in public.

This is undoubtedly a humiliation to her.

"No."

The voice is as decisive as cutting iron.

Lilian was taken aback, and looked at the man beside her in a daze.

Not only her, everyone around looked at this inconspicuous young viscount with amazed eyes.

"Viscount Sean, do you think my handling is inappropriate?" Grand Duke Henry said in a deep tone.

"My lord, only those who have done something wrong need to apologize. In order to maintain my dignity, I don't think there is anything wrong with such behavior." Sean walked forward slowly with a cane, "And, I think Miss Lucy should apologize to me more. My wife, Lillian, apologized."

Baron Cister looked angry, "What kind of ridiculous words are these?"

"Baron Cister" Sean asked, "Do you know what the essence of nobility is?"

"What?" Baron Cister frowned.

"grade."

Sean looked at the dazed girl in the blue skirt, and said calmly, "Grade gives meaning to the existence of nobles. This is the rule that all of us here abide by. If everyone is like Miss Lucy, the lower People slander high-level people at will, and the current stable order will no longer exist."

"This kind of behavior is the enemy of the empire."

"No! No, no!" Miss Lucy's face was turned pale by Sean's words, and she quickly defended, "I, I... didn't slander, Helen and I both saw it! Li... Viscountess, she and Arie-"

"Okay, don't say any more." Grand Duke Henry interrupted Miss Lucy, but many people also keenly caught the faint preamble of the name, and their thoughts became different.

Tapping his cane with his fingertips, the development of the matter deviated slightly from Shane's expectations.

Miss Lucy couldn't fully pronounce Alex's name.

But Duke Henry's concession surprised him.

Is it really related to the so-called transaction?

"Sister, you go down first."

"Yes, Grand Duke." Even though Sister was extremely unwilling, he did not dare to disobey the Grand Duke's order in public.

Before leaving, he did not forget to give Sean a fierce look.

The farce ended like this, and everyone looked away.

"Lilian, are you okay?" Alex ran over, clenched his hands, and looked guilty.

Because of the embarrassment of his status, he was unable to speak up just now.

Lilian shook her head, signaling that she was fine.

"I'll take you to the next room to rest."

Sean was about to help Lilian leave when someone suddenly stopped her.

"Wait, Viscount Sean, don't go yet."

Sean stopped and turned around, "Grand Duke, what are your orders?"

"Don't you remember?" Grand Duke Henry's expression was a little gloomy, "Our game."

Sean lowered his eyes slightly and looked at Erics, "Can you take care of me—"

"You don't need to be so troublesome." The tone of Grand Duke Henry was not negotiable, "Come on, the Viscountess, too. It's interesting to gamble with more people, right?"

Crash.

Fifty-two poker cards of different suits were interspersed back and forth between the palms of the attendants, like a flexible paper snake.The red, green and blue chips on the table are pushed into small pyramids.

Grand Duke Henry leaned back on the fur chair with a sparkling cigarette dangling from his mouth.

"How about playing whist?" The smoke-breathing mouth opened and closed.

"I...I don't know how to play cards." Lilian's voice trembled.

"How could there be someone who can't?" Grand Duke Henry said indifferently, "Playing cards is very popular, and every nobleman knows it."

"But—" Lilian was about to speak, but her hand was grabbed.

Her pupils shrank, and cold fingertips ran across her palm.

"However, three people can't play whist, do you mind my servant Lakeland joining?" Grand Duke Henry said.

"Of course not." Sean said lightly, "This is a game for four people, it's fair."

"Oh, you seem to be very confident." Grand Duke Henry shook his cigarette butt, "Youth really brings courage to people. In casinos, most of the people who regret to the point of crying are people your age."

Sean did not respond to Grand Duke Henry's sarcasm.

"There is a 15-second decision time for each round." The attendant explained the rules, distributed the cards in front of the four, and then turned over the last card, "The suit of the trump card is spades."

"Since everything is clear, let's start timing."

"Just a second, please," Sean said.

"Why?" Grand Duke Henry licked his lips, "It's too late for Viscount Sean to say that he regrets—"

"My lord, we haven't placed a bet yet."

"Bet? Hahaha. Don't you have no money? I never play a game with less than [-] silver coins."

"One hundred thousand, how about it?"

"One hundred thousand?" Grand Duke Henry was slightly taken aback, "One hundred thousand what?"

"One hundred thousand queen coins."

No one could see the corners of the mouth curled up behind the iron mask.

drop.drop.drop.

The timer made a crisp sound again, and without any further hesitation, Lilith drew a card from her hand tremblingly and placed it on the table.

She can't play poker.

Nor did she understand the so-called scoring rules of Whitters.

She didn't even figure out how she got involved in this gamble worth [-] queen coins.

Although the Cabed family and her family are not short of wealth, it is not easy to take out [-] queen coins.

What the hell was Sean thinking?

Why play such a terrible and crazy gamble with a man as dangerous as the Grand Duke Henry?

In between playing cards, Lilian secretly looked at the man beside her.

Because she was wearing an iron mask, she couldn't see the other person's expression now.

She only knew that the speed of the other party's cards was the fastest among the four of them, and it became faster and faster as time went by.

Before she could recover, the game was over.

"Grand Duke, it's time to score." The voice behind the mask was still flat.

"This, this is impossible! I have never lost!" Grand Duke Henry's voice was excited, but his expression was a little dull, "How is this possible?!"

Compared with the wealth that he is about to lose, he can't help the fact of his own defeat.

He was pretty sure that woman couldn't play cards at all!

And he and his attendants had a tacit understanding as partners.

Why this young man named Sean can always guess their next move.

How on earth did they lose to this man?

"My lord, no one is always a loser. Sometimes loss is also a necessary process of gain. Do you want to hear my secret of winning?"

Grand Duke Henry suddenly fell silent.

Lilian sat silently on the side like a bystander.

She didn't understand what happened until she stood up from her seat and was sent to the next room.

Sean just wrote something on a piece of parchment, but after Grand Duke Henry read it, he actually signed the agreement and promised to pay off the bet of [-] queen coins within one month.

It's just incredible.

The door was gently pushed open.

Lilian turned her head, and saw Sean walking slowly towards her with a cane, kicking and kicking.

"You...why are you here? The banquet is not over yet."

Being alone all of a sudden made Lilian feel a little nervous for no reason.

"Come and take a look." Sean said while sitting down opposite Lilian.

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me." Lilian lowered her head, not daring to meet the man's eyes, and changed the subject awkwardly, "You played cards so well, I didn't even know how to win just now."

"It's nothing, it's just some tricks."

"But Dagong's card skills are very good. It's really great that you can beat him."

"That's because he is the Grand Duke, so his card skills are good."

"What?" Lilian didn't understand.

"It's actually not difficult, as long as you remember all the lost cards." Sean sighed inaudibly, "Lilian, I actually came to tell you something."

"What's the matter?" Sean's tone was too formal, and Lilian could not help but raise her head, "What happened?"

"Let's get divorced after a while."

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-03-2019:28:46~2020-03-2121:24:36期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw mines: 38663335, I am really irritable;

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