The Swordswoman's Revenge Story after Rebirth

The Swordswoman’s Revenge Story after Rebirth

Chapter 34 William Arrives

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Michelle and Eleanor stormed back to the Velvet Wing, fuming with rage. Michelle was so furious she could barely breathe. “That little wench! How dare she be so brazen? She doesn’t even put me in her eyes

anymore”

Eleanor, teary–eyed, chung to Michelle’s arm. “Michelle, what do I do? Am I really going to end up

concubine?”

Michelle shot her an exasperated glare. “You should’ve never used that rice–cooked–into–porridge scheme. Now you’re trapped. And as if that wasn’t enough, you just had to drag William to the Duke’s estate and make a spectacle out of it! You’ve made it impossible to back out now. Foolish, aren’t you?”

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Eleanor sniffled, feeling wronged. “How was I supposed to know she’d suddenly get smart? I thought if we pressured her, she’d accept being a concubine. What right does she have to be Marchioness of Eldermere? William doesn’t even like her! Margaret doesn’t like her either!”

Matilda, seeing Eleanor’s distress, quickly soothed, “Alright, enough scolding. She’s already miserable. We need to think of a solution.”

Michelle was still fuming. “What solution? The Valen family probably regrets breaking off the engagement now, but if William wants to propose elsewhere, Margaret will never allow it. That would make them look bad. The only way…

A sinister glint flashed in Michelle’s eyes.

“What?” Eleanor asked eagerly.

Michelle took a slow breath, her voice calm but laced with venom. “The only way Margaret would give up -on that little bitch and arrange a different match is if she were either dead… or disgraced beyond repair.”

Matilda’s brief hope faded, and she scoffed. “As if that wasn’t obvious? Ryker and your uncle thought of that long ago. That’s why they sent you with the medicine. But now that it’s failed, there’s no better plan.”

Michelle’s lips curled into a cold smile. “If poison won’t work, we’ll have to try something else.”

ut her!

“Hurry,” Eleanor urged, stomach. “I can’t wait much longer.”

Matilda turned to Michelle anxiously. “What’s your plan?”

Michelle calmly adjusted her hairpin, her expression icy. “Tomorrow, I’ll visit Uncle.”

Matilda and Eleanor exchanged glances, both filled with malice.

at the Duke’s estate, requesting to see

to come looking for her. When Noelle reported his arrival, she could

believe it.

send him away?”

her hand. “Why would I refuse? Let’s see

you dress up.” Noelle

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simple cyan dress, tied her hair into a loose hun, and slid a plain jade hairpin through it. Her earrings were simple teardrop pearls–not extravagant, but

the side

Ever since Isolde

and now that Isolde had done nothing wrong–worse, she had even earned merit–the Valen family had been

William more than

the idea, he had come.

still be desperate to marry him. She used to look at him with such pathetic adoration, her eyes filled with admiration that made his

his concubine, and to avoid his father’s wrath, he was

just needed an opportunity to bow out gracefully. By coming here, he was already granting her a great

doing her a favor. And yet, as

fifteen minutes, Isolde arrived with a maid at her side.

by a single

for just a fleeting moment, something

gaze.

froze. Was this really

her, she already seemed different, but he had dismissed it as his imagination.

Isolde’s voice was calm, with a faint trace of indifference. “To what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?”

thoughts. “I came to ask–do you

called off the engagement? What meaning does. this

“The engagement was broken

gracefully into her seat. “You never wanted to marry me in the first place. Why force it? I have no desire to wed

you saying you want to annul the engagement?”

William

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face that had oner been so familiar to her This was the man she had married in her past life, the one she had once believed she would stand beside until death. Yes in the

The way I see it if you hadn’t called it off, I would have Her gaze sharpened “William, I

into fists. “You think you

don’t you? Why should I want a man who would settle for her? If you had real ambition, at least you would

William snapped. “Eleanor is ten

lazily. “Why are you here?”