Nobody would ever imagine that the once meek and gentle Duchess could sound so harsh and spill out something deemed so wicked and immoral in front of all nobles with such a wicked and chilling smile on her face, an expression that many have never come across on her face before.
"Aaron" I called out to Vivian's personal knight, he was a character who is had to miss out due to the fact that he was described as Vivian's shadow in the novel and he is also an important character in the novel because he is not only Vivian knight but also a close friend to Vivian brother and her cousin the crown prince despite his humble background as a commoner, the three of them grow up training together so their bond is strong.
He became her personal knight on the day Vivian clocked sixteen and debuted into the high society, Vivian's brother couldn't trust another person to protect his younger sister so he entrusted her to his best friend who is also captain of the archduke family knights.
Aaron is one of the characters in the original who truly cares about the original character but unfortunately, he will be called to the battlefield to aid Vivian's father and brother in a few days.
"Yes my lady" he appeared quietly as if he had always been there and kneeled in front of Vivian, although he was also shocked and amazed by Vivian's behavior, even though it was obvious that the person in front of him was his mistress, her behavior tonight is very different from her usual self making hard for people to believe that she is still the one but despite how different she seems tonight he hides the shock in his heart and still answer her call.
"How many days with it take to destroy a baron family and take away their noble title along with that of their family members" I asked with an arrogant smile on my face as I smirked at both my husband and his so-called lover whose face is now so pale it as if there is no blood in her.
"A week at most for an ordinary baron family Your Highness but it proves to be difficult and more powerful than usual than probably two weeks but for one that is already falling apart then at most four days," Aaron said solemnly.
Isla's already pale face becomes paler as she breaks down completely with disbelief written all over her, although the Baron family is not as powerful as other noble families and is no longer like before due to how hard things have become after her parents failed investment but at least they are better off compared to commoners because they still have their fiefdom and noble title which gives them some refugees despite all their despite but if that should be taken away from them even commoners will be better than them because they might really end up being a Begger.
If she should lose her noble title not only will it be much more harder for her to get married into a richer noble family which will give her a raise in her status but rather she might also end up being sold as a slave along with her family members by her parent's creditor.
The only reason why she dares to target the duke is that everyone knows that the duke does not hold any affection toward the duchess and also it is a known fact that the Duchess is meek and gentle and her family members can fight on her own currently not around because but the archduke and the archduke heir are currently at the battlefield to support the crown prince and also the royal family can't really interfere in the matter due to their standing as the ruler of the empire and since the matter is a martial affair of the duke so the royal family has no excuse to interfere, so she was hoping she could use the opportunity to push the duchess out before her family who is her supporters could come back.
Although she knows that the matter will affect the Duke badly she believes even if the archduke is powerful, he's not powerful enough to destroy a high ranking noble like the Duke so she believes that her plan is foolproof but who would have expected the once meek and gentle Duchess to turn to a fierce tigress once provoked, she should have known better that no noble is actually what they portrait to be especially a high ranking one at that.
"Your Highness, please forgive me for my misdeeds, please have mercy on me, I promise you, Your Highness, that I will never go near his grace ever again in my life, just have mercy on my family and I" her once elegance and poise facade has completely collapse as she now starts to cry out louder not carry that she is in a ball with people looking at her, she tries to get a hold of Vivian clothe but Aaron will not ever let her near as he kicks her away mercilessly.
It is known to everyone present at the ball that every noble is two-faced, although they all portray themselves as noble and honorable persons outside, they are all rotten to the core but today it shocked a lot of people to see the woman rumored to be the most benevolence noblewoman to act this cruel, even a kitty will become a tigress once bitten.
But what is more shocking is the fact that Isla could actually get up after receiving a kick from Aaron, even though Aaron is not yet a sword grandmaster like the crown prince and the young archduke, he's still a rare talent who is already a half step sword grandmaster in his early twenties.
Even knights find it hard to get up after receiving a kick from him and a fully bodied man can faint from receiving a kick from him so it's a surprise how a petite woman like Isla gets up again after being kicked away by Aaron.
But even though everyone is shocked nobody feels like that the main concern right now, they just want to know how this drama will end.