Chapter 33

Barrett fell silent. He had suffered a thorough defeat in today's battle against Carissa, and it was embarrassing to talk about it.

"Is it really true?" Aurora pressed.

Barrett sighed. "Forget it, let's not talk about this."

Pouting. Aurora punched him playfully. "I knew you were lying to me. Anyway, it doesn't matter how she left. As long as everything's settled, it's fine.

"Since she said it's not worth sharing the position of your wife with me, I actually feel the same. The cunning methods she learned while managing the household affairs are beyond my ability to match. That's also where her real talent lies."

She tilted her head and faced Barett. "I can't learn her skills, but if you want me to sweet-talk you like her, I can manage that."

Aurora held her hands to her chest, smiled gently, and called in a cute voice, "Honey!"

She shivered dramatically. "Oh my god, that was so disgusting! How does she act like that?"

but her tone was neither humble nor overbearing. Her attitude was gentle but firm, and

didn't change the fact that she

gains were simply

to be as pretentious as

following after Aurora, Barrett sat down by the lake

it felt like a gust of wind had blown away the fog

remembered many things-seeing Carissa for the first time, proposing marriage, and being ecstatic when she agreed to marry him after asking him a few questions. He recalled

he had lifted Carissa's veil. The memory of her stunning beauty had shaken him to the core. He could hardly believe Carissa had agreed

raged on and many of his friends fell in battle, Barrett no longer thought of Carissa. Instead, he focused on strategizing with Aurora and their fellow soldiers, trying to figure out how to

heroic grace, he realized that women could be valiant. Whilst on this battlefield

thought crossed his mind-perhaps a woman as

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