The Duke in the Spire of Thorns

What happened to Du Lian became the after-dinner talk that Escrit told in order to make Celeste happy.

In fact, under normal circumstances, Du Lian would not have aroused the suspicion of his fiancée and fiancée's father so quickly.Even though he has changed a lot, his face hasn't changed at all. Relying on his cleverness, he can still survive until after he marries Miss Cody.

But even if it was revealed at that time, so what?Miss Cody's dowry has been received, and he can still live a prosperous life on this dowry.What's more, according to Du Li'an's personality, after getting this dowry, he will seize every opportunity to learn. He has already tasted the beauty of knowledge, and he will never be willing to be ignorant.

Although Du Lian's character was not good, he was able to stand out among many civilian children and was chosen by the Duke. He was still very smart.He knew the importance of knowledge, as long as he was given a chance, he would be able to grasp it, and then refill his mind with knowledge, once again become the Du Lian who is full of wisdom, elegant in speech, and polite in behavior.

But Escrit wouldn't let that happen.

Now that it is agreed to deprive him, he will completely deprive him of everything. He wants Du Lian to completely return to the state when he was not selected by the Duke.

In this era, knowledge is a luxury that belongs to the upper class of society. Since Du Lian kept saying that the Duke and Celeste delayed his way to promotion, then Escrit allowed him to do so.

Escrit used some small tricks. He accelerated the change of thinking between Miss Cody and his father, allowing them to find out that something was wrong with Du Lian in advance, so that the marriage between Du Lian and Miss Cody would not continue.Durian also had no chance of getting Miss Cody's dowry.

This time, without the so-called "coercion and temptation" of the Duke and Celeste, how far could Du Lian go by himself?

Escrit didn't look forward to it, because he didn't care about Du Lian at all.

But Celeste is looking forward to it.

"I'm going to write to Cody's."

Celeste gloated and was in high spirits, "Is he imprisoned in the dungeon of Cody's house? When he was in my house before, he had never suffered like this. Although he wanted to be against me, but his The plan has not been achieved, and it seems a bit too much to let him suffer in the dungeon, so I will write to old Cody to let him out."

He recalled Du Li'an's appearance of showing off his power in front of him before, and felt that he was very happy to get revenge, "I remember that he still owned some property before being taken home by my father, but that property was near my castle. I I don’t want to take him back. Just leave him a property of the same value in Wangcheng.”

Celeste began to count his properties in the royal city. After the inheritance ceremony, he had completely inherited all his father's properties. Therefore, even though he had never been to the royal city, he still owned a large number of properties.

And a duke's estate couldn't be worse.

Before Du Lian came to Celeste's house, his dead parents left him a two-story wooden house with a full set of furniture and a deposit of twenty gold coins.

Celeste went back and forth on his property list, and the last property he owned was a chic small villa, and he was really reluctant to give this to Durian.

Escrito sat next to Celeste and watched with him. Celeste looked at it, and suddenly his eyes lit up because he found that he had a stone watchtower.

The stone watchtower is now obsolete. It has been abandoned for many years, but the building is still intact.

Although there are always rumors that the tower is haunted (it is said that it was eliminated for this reason), Celeste feels that such rumors are not credible.Taking a step back, even if there were ghosts wandering in that tower, he believed that Escrit would be able to deal with it.

In his imagination, alchemists lived in tall stone towers.This watchtower was built magnificently, with complete defensive facilities, which was just right for being used as an alchemy tower.

"This is for you."

Celeste pointed to the stone tower and said: "I think this stone tower must be very suitable for you, but it has been abandoned for a long time and needs to be cleaned before you can move in. Although there are rumors that it is haunted, I believe it is not for you. question."

He was preparing to write a letter of gift when he suddenly noticed that Escrit's expression was a little weird.

"What's the matter?" Celeste asked, "Don't you like it?"

Escrit shook his head slowly, "I like it very much."

"...but" he went on, "because I liked it so much, so... so I lived in it very early on."

Celeste glanced at him and said dryly, "...so that haunted rumor, uh, is you?"

Escrit: "Yes."

At the beginning, he took a fancy to this tower and planned to take it for himself, so he pretended to be a ghost, frightened the people inside, and ran away one after another.After everyone was scared away, he lived in it openly.

He readily admitted.

In any case, Celeste wrote the gift book, "so that it is rightfully yours."

Escrit didn't care much about the gift book, because it was written by Hillest, and he accepted it as a gift.But still very disapproving: "I am very grateful to you, but to be honest, whether I have this gift book is not very important to me, because even if I don't have this gift book, others can't take it from me. tower."

Escrito's proud expression made Celeste smile involuntarily, but immediately, he put away his smile, tightened his face, and took the gift book back from Escrito's hand, "Great, your words hit my heart, because I just changed my mind and wanted to kick you out."

Celeste said this on purpose, he wanted to see what Escrit would say.

But Escrit didn't hesitate, "Ah, you want to drive me away?"

Hillest nodded and made a serious look: "That's right. I think that watchtower is really good, so I am reluctant to give it to you. I just said I would give it to you because I was too young to be given it to you." Love went to my head. Now I'm sober."

Eskrit nodded: "Well, your wish, I always try my best to fulfill it for you, since you have said so, then I will pack up and move to your castle."

The two of them tacitly said beautiful words.Seeing that Escrit's reaction was so flat, Celeste went further with dissatisfaction: "If you plan to move to my castle, I will not object, but in this way, you will be considered married. You want You know, people who can marry a duke usually have a lot of dowry."

He blinked, pretending to be puzzled: "Excuse me, sir, how much dowry can you bring?"

Escrit smiled slightly: "I have as much as you want."

He was condescending, "You know, I am an alchemist, turning stone into gold is nothing to me. I will give you as much money as you want. Of course, there is a price, and I don't mind if you take it." My dowry will be squandered, as long as you are a qualified husband."

Celeste blinked: "Then what if I'm wrong?" He softened his tone and put on a cute look: "What do you want? Are you going to hit me?"

"Of course not." Escrit bent down, approached Celeste, and whispered in his ear: "Then I will teach you how to be. I am very, very patient. No matter how stubborn a student is under my teaching You can become more obedient."

"...not coming." Celeste said in frustration, "You're a bit scary."

"If you empathize with someone else, you will find me scarier." Escrit said in a relaxed tone: "I am loyal to you, and since you accept it, I also ask you to be loyal to me. I know you The aristocratic way, but if you want to use that way on me, you will soon find out that you are wrong."

"Then, you pay for your mistakes."

Escrit's voice was very nice, although he was threatening, there was still a hint of joy in his tone, as if he was expecting him to make a mistake.

Celeste felt that she should be angry that Escrito had threatened him so unceremoniously.It's just that he was about to put on a straight face when he found himself smiling.

He liked Escrit so much that he refused to get angry when he was threatened like this.

Celeste didn't know where his liking came from. He felt that Escrito seemed familiar, as if he had come into contact with this person in a dream.But it was impossible, he never dreamed.

Mermaids don't dream.

He quickly wrote a letter to old Cody, in which he politely asked old Cody to release Du Lian from the dungeon, and old Cody didn't care about this "imposter".But out of the mentality of wanting to make friends, he very kindly told Du Lian in Celeste's dungeon that he was not the real Du Lian.After Celeste expressed his disbelief, old Cody didn't mind his own business and released Du Li'an.

He still doubted whether Celeste was the "behind the scenes" who kidnapped Du Lian, but Celeste's status was too high, he didn't dare to express his doubts, he only dared to observe quietly.

Du Li'an was released, and when he saw the clear blue sky again, it seemed like a lifetime before him.The gorgeous clothes on his body have been stripped off and replaced with tattered prison uniforms. Celeste stands in front of him, looking down at him.

Du Lian looked at the two legs Celeste used to support the ground in disbelief. They looked normal, just like a human being.

But this is impossible!

His dazed and disbelieving expression made Celeste laugh, and he said casually: "Here, my dear Dorian, since you resent what my father and I have done to you, then I Take back all these things that make you resent. These are the things you had before you came to my house, and I give them to you in the hope that you can live the life you want with them."

What he gave to Du Lian was a three-story wooden house on the outskirts of Wangcheng. In fact, Escrit originally provided a real estate similar to the wooden house that Du Lian once owned, but Celeste was unwilling to give that to Du Lian.

Because that's where Eskrit lived before he became an alchemist.

He is also a commoner, and he suffered a lot before becoming an alchemist.

However, Celeste found that he was not uncomfortable because he learned of Escrit's identity, he just felt a little regretful:

"If I knew it earlier, I would have asked my father to choose you as my substitute." Celeste said, "That way we would meet very early."

Escrit thought for a while and said, "Well, then your father will kick me out soon because I seduced his heir."

Celeste laughed: "Then I knelt in front of my father and said that we really love each other and begged him not to tear us apart."