Chapter 987:

Marissa conversed elegantly with the guests. Aelfric watched, his expression complex, wondering if this composed and confident young woman could really be the simple village girl from Adagend he suspected her to be.

How could a village girl exhibit such a commanding presence and poised demeanor?

It wasn’t something that could be simply learned or feigned.

That very morning, Aelfric had dispatched people to Adagend to delve into Marissa’s background. Derek’s accounts held true. She hadn’t completed her high school education and was poorly regarded. She had left the village at fifteen to seek her fortune.

Unfortunately, his people were unable to trace her activities after she departed from the village.

undergone some unique experiences that contributed to her current commanding

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found himself increasingly fascinated by what her life had entailed after

she stood in the banquet hall, her elegance making her a

A voice exclaimed, “Oh my! Everett, the new leader of the Brock family,

attention to the entrance of the banquet hall.

him as a frail scholar. Instead, his presence

him to the greeters as Everett, the head of the Brock family. Until that moment, no one in Blebert’s upper

representative of the Brock family

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