It is said that when the pirate king's flag was flying outside the empire's largest port, Mingfoster Port, an imperial navy general was so frightened that he wet his pants.
At that time, Mingfoster Port had fewer than twenty warships resting, while the returning pirate fleet had over three hundred warships of various sizes, a force strong enough to flatten the empire's largest port and march into the imperial capital, Strasbourg, within a week.
The bustling port city was filled with despair. Every resident and merchant felt as if the end of the world was near, and fewer than half of the soldiers had the courage to fight.
When the pirate king's flagship and the ships under his command raised the flag of surrender, Mingfoster Port turned into a grand celebration. Everyone was overjoyed, and countless people rushed into the streets, singing and dancing.
Zimourman Robin led the pirate fleet back and rejoined the empire, his reputation soaring to unparalleled heights!
In just a few short years, Zimourman Robin's fame plummeted to the depths, only to soar again to heights that even his extraordinary talent should not have been able to reach in his lifetime!
His young life became an empire legend.
In that year, Zimourman Robin's fame was so great that it rivaled his ancestor, Saroseth Robin, from five epochs ago. He was considered the most unruly figure of his time, destined to be remembered in history.
When the king met Zimourman Robin, he smiled and said, "Ask me for anything except the throne, and you shall have it!"
At that time, Zimourman asked for something no one could have expected: he refused to rejoin the Robin family and asked the king for the surname Axel, changing his name from Zimourman Robin to Zimourman Axel Robin!
After leading the fleet back to the empire, Zimourman Axel Robin seemed to have completed all his life goals, and his entire personality underwent a strange transformation.
Before leading the fleet to defect, Zimourman Axel Robin was a man of few words, devoted to his studies, viewing all entertainment as unnecessary, highly disciplined, and old-fashioned in conduct. His mentors described him as having a lifestyle as precise as clockwork, living as self-disciplined as a saint, caring about nothing but academics and truth!
The Zimourman who returned to the empire, however, seemed to have abandoned all pretense. In just a few days, he became the most notorious playboy in the empire.
Meniherman Sumei, Charlotte's legendary senior, was once Zimourman's fiancée.
One day, she went to visit her mother and caught Zimourman "working hard" on her mother...
The scene was an unbearable humiliation for Meniherman.
The Empire's First Rose, enraged to the extreme, drew her sword on the spot to duel this playboy.
Charlotte spent the entire day learning things he shouldn't have.
He now knew why Miss Meniherman had burned those documents.
If this incident hadn't been so widely spread, Charlotte might have even suspected that his senior would kill him to silence him.
Given her family's background and status, killing a few Rank 41 Grade 1 clerks wouldn't be considered a serious crime in the empire.
The duel never took place as scheduled. After sending Mrs. Shirley to the peak of ecstasy, Zimourman Axel Robin flipped over and smashed through the window, disappearing from Meniherman's sight at the fastest speed possible.
The Empire's Rose had no chance to stop this lascivious and shameless bastard.
The next day, Meniherman issued a public statement, not only breaking off the engagement but also challenging Zimourman Axel Robin to a duel to the death.
Under the skirts of the Empire's most outstanding rose were countless loyal men willing to challenge her ex-fiancé on her behalf.
Within a day, Zimourman Axel Robin received hundreds of duel challenges. No matter where he appeared, someone would block his way and challenge him to a duel on the street.
As a descendant of the Robin family, Zimourman was well-versed in swordsmanship, inheriting the family's techniques, and his ruthlessness even surpassed his ancestor's peak from five hundred years ago.
Zimourman won several duels on the street, but in the eighteenth duel, he was provoked by a challenger and killed the man on the spot.
After that duel, he stopped holding back in any challenge, engaging in 115 duels and killing 115 opponents, thoroughly offending most of the empire's nobility.
After all, those qualified to challenge him were all noble scions of the empire, with equally illustrious backgrounds.
This widespread series of duels became known as the "Empire Rose Incident."
It marked the turning point in Zimourman Axel Robin's life and the beginning of his great downfall.
It was as if Zimourman suddenly became incomprehensible. Not only did he want to defeat his enemies in duels, but after nearly every duel, he would go on to provoke the older women in his opponents' families, including but not limited to: mothers, aunts, maternal aunts, elder sisters, cousins...
If he ran out of targets, even younger sisters, nieces, and distant relatives' sisters... no one was spared.
He fell from being a great noble of the empire to becoming a prisoner guilty of 257 crimes, including murder, rape, arson, robbery, theft, kidnapping, and intimidation.
He even broke the empire's criminal records!
If not for his previous great merits, for which the emperor had issued seven pardons in a row, this Mr. Zimourman would have long been on the gallows.
As Charlotte recalled the files, he suddenly thought that this was truly a life worth living.
Compared to Mr. Zimourman, even having experienced a transmigration, his own life seemed somewhat dull and uneventful.
Zimourman Axel Robin is now imprisoned in Kilmainham Prison, awaiting either the emperor's eighth pardon or a death sentence by hanging.
Charlotte rubbed his brow, no longer forcing himself to drink the world's tea. He decided to buy some different tea tomorrow, perhaps some flower tea imported from the Dongli Kingdom.
He put down his teacup, undressed, climbed into bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The next day!
Charlotte woke up in the morning light, rubbing his eyes.
He had slept very comfortably that night. He got out of bed, washed up a bit, changed clothes, and bundled up his dirty laundry, placing it by the door.
The maids at the Savings Union Apartments would take away the dirty clothes left at the door, wash, iron, and return them, with the cost added to the rent, settled monthly.
After tidying up his room a bit, Charlotte didn't have time to deal with the women's clothes in the apartment and hurriedly left. He still had some work-related procedures to handle today.
In this era, there was no office automation; all official processes had to be completed manually.