The Girlboss Begs for Remarriage by Chu

"Oh... Uh, okay..." Yosil sighed exasperatedly at Frank's refusal.

There was nothing he could say now.

As time continued to tick away, Frank threw all the mudroots into the cauldron and cooked them with a huge fire.

His desperate reaction left Kairo's sinister smile broadening.

Beside him, Horey Lindt was frowning instead. "Could it be..."

Catching her murmur, Kairo turned toward her with a look of surprise. "What is it?"

"It's nothing..." Horey shrugged. "But I think there's this technique of using contravening medicinal effects..."

"What?!" Kairo's heart skipped a beat, at once uncomfortable.

Still, Horey quickly assured him, "Oh, don't worry about it. Not many people would even be aware, let alone him. It's just something I read from an old book-the technique itself has been lost to time." "I see..."

nodded, but he remained uncomfortable as he saw the confidence in Frank's

know that contravening

was busy speculating and the other participants busy staring, there was a shrill crack echoing

of the cauldron, and before anyone knew it, Frank's cauldron blew up with a resounding

been watching in his seat

"Hahahaha!!!"

hand, Kairo was laughing on top of his lungs immediately, especially when he saw the

cauldron was destroyed even before the

was no doubt it

"Shit, man..."

he stared at the cauldron fragments, murmuring,

Frank

for Frank were sighing in disappointment.

turn down Yosil's kind warning, his cauldron literally

fair contest against Kairo-the man was

just as everyone was ready to see Frank concede, they found him frowning at the scattered mudroot