57 Engagement Party 6 (1/2)
Formidable. There wasn't a single person who didn't have this opinion toward Ci-ci. Commoner or not, this young man was a talent not to be underestimated. Maybe in the real world, his lack of backing would be his downfall. However, here, for what seemed like an inconsequential game, he was an opponent as difficult to conquer as West Continent's tallest mountain.
Roman grit his teeth. While others were thinking of the main rule changes, he was completely focused on Ci-ci's last words: 'In order to stop the bride and groom from cheating, we can randomly choose someone in the audience to read the card.'
Even if he decided to ignore all pretenses and start and outright war with his younger brother, could he really involve these guests here? What if Ci-ci's randomly chosen individual was of high stature? Such a person would definitely be intelligent. If they were forced to read something derogatory and disgusting before so many individuals, it wouldn't be Ci-ci that they'd blame, they'd turn their anger toward him!
Who here couldn't tell that he had malicious intentions by now? Only a child or a fool wouldn't understand this!
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Crash! Bang!
Roman unleashed his fury on the Cox family living room, knocking over expensive vases, kicking chairs and tables out of place, even the couch cushions weren't safe, flinging across the room with surprising acceleration to the point of leaving dents in the wall.
Obviously, by now, the engagement party had ended. With Ci-ci's counterattack, there simply wasn't time to take other measures. Although Roman could have forced the situation with various other means, due to the important guests who were in attendance, he didn't want to take the risk on a half-baked plan. In the end, he could only allow the small rite of passage to end in peace.
His original purpose was simple. All he wanted to do was embarrass Isabella to the point where the Patterson family no longer had the face to attach themselves to their sub-pillar clan. It should have been easy. From the beginning, he had made contingencies in accordance to his younger brother's way of thinking, not realizing that Dalton would somehow gain a formidable ally in the final moments.
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The truth was that Roman had even allowed Dalton a minor win just to lull him into a false sense of security. Everything was purpose! Yet they failed!
It might seem ridiculous that such a game could bring the potential end of a marriage, but that was only if one didn't know the plan Roman had had.
Before Isabella fell for Dalton and they began dating, Isabella had been involved with not one, but two men. Of course, there wasn't anything shady about this. West Continent was a modern society, it wasn't rare for women to have experience dating before choosing their husband.
However, aristocratic society was highly judgemental!
One of these men was Jason Gravelle, the colleague of both Isabella and Ci-ci. It could be said that had Ci-ci known this earlier, he wouldn't have been so surprised by the fact that he hadn't seen any signs of Jason from beginning to end.
This said, if it was just Jason, even their society wouldn't have been so uppity to care. The real issue was that the second young man was also from a sub-pillar family! In fact, this sub-pillar family was one Ci-ci had already been entangled with in more ways than one: The Alleman family!
One didn't need to think much to understand the oddity. Isabella, a woman who was from a completely average upper middle-class family had attracted not one, but two sub-pillar family males? She was a beauty, true, but which young master hadn't played with dozens of women of her caliber by now? It wasn't as though the rich had exclusive rights to good looks.