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 Chapter 7
 Wanting to Escape (6)
 “What happened?”
 Reid asked urgently as soon as I got home.
 He thought I went out to see Ian’s injury with my own eyes.
 “It failed.”
 I replied bluntly without making eye contact with him.
 “At that rate of collapse, it was easy for him to avoid it. You should have used a more expensive bomb.”
 Meanwhile, using cheap bombs to save money was clearly a visible terror.
 Reid sighed and touched his forehead.
 “Oh my.”
 Then he added with a huff.
 “That’s all right, there’s plenty more opportunities to come.”
 Yes, there were still plenty of opportunities. More chances for us to go to jail.
 Especially this time, it was really dangerous.
 That was because Ian, who later had doubts, investigated and added the ‘target was the prince’ to the Hibiscus case.
 Reid knew Ian regularly booked Hibiscus’ out-of-the-way spots.&nbsp;(t/n: or hidden spots)
 That was why when it was set up, I couldn’t have imagined that the person he was supposed to meet was Robert.
 ‘Actually, it must have been too much with Reid’s intelligence.’
 I left him and went up to my room and laid on the bed, thinking.
 ‘Ian is close enough with Robert to meet regularly.’
 Even the prince seemed to want to be friendly with Ian.
 He was the strongest swordsman in the world, had a good personality, a great family, and no interest in politics.
 ‘I’m envious, this male lead buff… Hah.’
 I could see him as a man who had everything except for a genuinely friendly personality.
 After all, it would lead him to a perfect female lead just like him.
 Anyways, the genre of this novel is rofan, so this was romance.
 Of course, the response in the comments said it was just plain in the novel.
 Because Ian was so perfect and handled everything with common sense, the majority opinion said that it was rather ‘unattractive’.
 ‘Well, there are no downsides to living in it, so it’s best to be normal.’
 The crazy male lead would be someone else’s lover, but never as mine.
 And Ian would never get entangled with me.
 ‘Let’s pick a guy who’s easy and handsome, similar to Ian.’
 Anyways, I thought Ian would never let it slide this time. I was sure he’d grab and push me to ask what happened.
 After I made up an excuse to give a rough answer if he did ever ask, I went to bed comfortably.
 If he tried to pry, I would just roughly curse at him and run away.
 It was fortunate to some extent that I, in the beginning, said a lot of nonsensical words and acted without thinking twice.
 I didn’t have any restrictions or hesitation on what I did.
 But the next day, I encountered an unexpected situation.
 “Hello.”
 The pink-haired young man who was always next to Ian came to my house himself.
 “My name is Aaron Rainfield.”
 With a cute impression, he grinned at me.
 The way he spoke was full of mischief.
 Of course, I was a little embarrassed when I thought Ian would come in.
 “I’m Ian’s lieutenant, but Leslie… would like to chat.”
 Aaron always looked at me with interesting eyes, but he never spoke to me.
 No, actually, I was never involved with the Wade Knights except Ian.
 “I’m here to pick you up because Leslie wants to see you.”
 If it was Leslie, did he mean Duchess Wade?
 Ian’s mother?
 What was going on?
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 I had imagined countless times that the end result of me being accused by Ian and imprisoned, but I never thought I would be called by Ian’s mother.
 Leslie Wade was also a swordsman.
 She was a genius swordsman among the commoners, and she was also second in her later years.
 It was Duke Wade who had always defeated her.
 It was said that during her youth, she too had a huge rivalry with the Duke of Wade.
 Duke Wade proposed to her when she was troubled from her injury and has been unable to hold the sword again since.
 I know that story because it was one of the gossips my mother Caitlyn always talked about.
 For her, the fact that a poor commoner had caught the attention of a duke made her envious to the point of dying from a stomach ache.
 Caitlyn had always said that she (Leslie) must have pretended to be sick on purpose, had no dignity because she came from a commoner family, and she must have seduced him with a sword all this time. Caitlyn made up all sorts of sayings like those.
 Nevertheless, Leslie had no interest in Caitlyn. No, she was originally a person who didn’t take anything seriously to begin with.
 Even if her son, Ian, rose to the position of the strongest swordsman, she wouldn’t pay much attention to it.
 She thought it was natural for her son to be number one because she was married to the number one and she herself was in second place.
 I had no other information about her.
 After all, half of what Caitlyn said had just been nonsense.
 It was just that Leslie was an easy-going person who didn’t bother to hide her commoner background.
 For the first time, I rode the carriage and entered the main gate without crossing the wall of Duke Wade’s residence.
 Of course, it was also the first time I rode a luxury carriage like this.
 “I don’t really need a carriage like this.”
 I said informally.
 Therefore, it would seem that I was treating Aaron the same way I treated Ian.
 Except, Aaron had an attitude as if it didn’t matter at all.
 “It’s okay. I’m here since I need you.”
 “…”
 “I’m very impressed by Miss Annabelle’s swearing these days.”
 Aaron sat across from me and talked nonsense very seriously.
 “To be honest, I didn’t really like swearing in the past because it was a bit messy and vulgar, but every word you said from the sandwich curse was like a gem. I didn’t miss a single word.”
 So I let him hear the swearings I said that he missed last night.
 Aaron replied with a nod.
 “Right. The key point is not the toenails falling out, but just barely hanging there.”
 Aaron Rainfield had great talent, although he was also a young man who seemed to be missing a screw in his head.
 “And it’s been bothering me a lot for a few days.”
 He once participated in a swordsmanship contest when he was twelve, and since then, he hadn’t appeared in the rest.
 Sadly, his first opponent was the 14-year-old Ian.
 Having lost the first round, he just judged others from the stands afterwards.
 If someone asked why, he would not be able to continue to aim for first place anyways, but he replied that it was his superior strategy to protect his pride by losing in the first round to the first place.
 That was true to some extent, and there was no way to properly evaluate Aaron’s ability after that.
 “By the way…”
 I got out of the carriage and asked cautiously.
 “Why is the Duchess calling me?”
 “I guess you’ll see.”
 Aaron did not say anything important and continued to say only the unimportant things.
 “The important thing is that it’s an invitation to lunch. Leslie made a special request, and my father personally prepared a great meal.”
 “Ah… your father?”
 “Yes. My father is Oscar Rainfield.”
 It was when I looked at Aaron with a blank expression on his face that I realized I was supposed to know the name of the duke’s cook.
 Aaron looked at me rather suspiciously and blinked.
 “Aren’t you supposed to be surprised at this point?”
 “Why?”
 “It’s Oscar Rainfield. The same famous chef, Oscar Rainfield.”
 “…He’s famous?”
 “You don’t know the Rainfield Restaurant?”
 Looking back on my previous memories, I couldn’t remember it at all.
 Aaron sighed and shook his head.
 “Annabel Nadit… A fool who only knows Ian Wade…”
 No, I wish he didn’t have to say such controversial things.
 When I didn’t respond, he mumbled as he tilted his head to himself.
 “It’s strange. The Nadits said they always enjoyed the birthday dinners at our restaurant’s headquarters.”
 “My mother and Reid?”
 Come to think of it, Caitlyn and Reid always used to go out in the evenings on their birthdays.
 Seeing my complicated expression, Aaron said resolutely.
 “You should try it first.”
 Ian’s mother had called me, and my focus shifted at the strange luncheon.
 It was ridiculous.
 In a situation like this, what kind of things did she want to go over by giving me food?
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 It didn’t usually go well, but today it went insanely well.
 ‘This is crazy. It’s not a dish, it’s a work of art.’
 Each dish was surprisingly delicious.
 Of course, Leslie was also eating aggressively.
 With black hair and red eyes, she was very easygoing. She started talking after she ate, while I was still really focused on eating.
 “The first thing I did after I became Duchess was to offer Oscar Rainfield to be the chef of the dukedom.”
 Leslie said with determination.
 “It took me three years to get him in.”
 Leslie and I talked about food throughout the time.
 Oscar, the chef, even made the main dish himself. Vaguely imagining a rich man, I was more surprised by his sharp appearance than I thought.
 He was tall, middle-aged, and had pink hair and blue eyes.
 ‘You look a bit like Aaron.’
 I thought that would be what Aaron will look like when he got older.
 “I’m…”
 I said as I ate my food frantically.
 “I have never eaten such delicious food for the first time!”
 Leslie asked with a frown.
 “So, how do you usually eat?”
 “My mother or Reid said that I shouldn’t gain weight, so I mainly eat frozen yeper meat without seasoning.”
 No matter how much I think about it, my meal was not even a plate compared to this place.
 It was really tasteless human food.
 “Yeper? Are you talking about the lower level monsters that live near the forest?”
 “Yes, that is correct.”
 The one who responded to my words was Oscar, who was silently preparing to cut the meat.
 “Yeper? And frozen? That’s like garbage. Isn’t that the food you only eat in the slums?”
 Leslie’s pupils also shook. Her voice trembled as she asked.
 “No wonder you’re so skinny… Did Caitlyn and Reid just train you without even feeding you properly?”
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 One day, as usual, Annabelle remembered the memories of her previous life.
 It was revealed that she has been reincarnated as the second most popular character in a novel.
 She also did all kinds of bad things to the male lead, and in the end, she is the person who will end up in prison!
 ‘In the end, I’ll get caught. It’s crazy!’
 Anabelle begins to save Ian from danger by intercepting the conspiracies that were laid out one by one to prevent her impending doom.
 But in the process, she caught the attention of some unexpected people…
 “Oh my, that’s the spirit of chivalry our family pursues! I like that a lot!”
 Ian’s mother’s eyes began to sparkle at her.
 “Would you like to be my partner to the opera?”
 After saving Ian, the prince keeps flirting…
 “Ian, I’ve decided to quit being your rival and live a new life.”
 “A new life?”
 “To stop paying attention to a man like you who’s always up and down, marry a man with no character, and live a normal life.”
 “Who’s the opponent? And why am I up and down?”
 The male lead, Ian, keeps obsessing over me for some reason.
 “Why do you not talk harshly to me these days…? Do it again.”
 Everyone just seems to be a little weird!
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 This novel is also known as The Schoolgirl Secret Agent
 She is an international ace agent,An amazing doctor, God of Assassination, However due to a box she accidentally rebirthed and became an ordinary junior high school student. Weak and incompetent, That scum woman wants to put her head into the toilet. The gambling father, borrowed a lot of money and now they are being chased by loan sharks for debt? There is also a group annoying people in her life. The reborned Yunxiao sneers: I want to know how to write the dead words! She returned from the wind, high-profile attack, if people dared to bully me, they are courting death!
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 Song Yuan accidentally picked up a 5-year-old child.
 The child has bright eyes, chiseled features, and prideful demeanor. He referred to himself as “this prince” and his mannerism was wild, cool, and stuck up.
 “This prince will never eat such lowly food!”
 “How dare you flirt with other men behind the back of my imperial father?”
 “He insulted this prince and you sided with him? This prince will sentence his entire clan to death!”
 Song Yuan was very disturbed. The DNA test had confirmed that the child was, indeed, her son, but why did he act like he was delusional?
 More importantly, who was the father of the child?
 The prince was going mad from worrying; Imperial Father, if you don’t come soon, Imperial Mother is really going to cheat on you!
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 Lin Cha enjoyed all good luck in life before the age of sixteen. Her father was rich, her mother was a well-known pianist, her elder brother was a popular star and she was their little princess.
 But after her sixteenth birthday, her life changed dramatically.
 She choked on water, vomited anything she ate which cost more than ten yuan. There were Alipay malfunctions, the bank card password suddenly showed error as if God of Fortune was hostile to her.
 The delicate little princess had to fight to survive.
 Until one day, Lin Cha saw the famous school bully studying in her grade. Above his head were three big words in gold “God of fortune”
 Lin Cha secretly observed him for a while and determined that this boy was really the God of Fortune hidden in the world. So she brought fruits and flowers to him, and seriously asked, ” Can I touch your aura of fortune?”
 Min Jingfeng: “…”
 While staring at the aura of fortune, Lin Cha reluctantly handed flowers and fruits to him. “If not, maybe later.”
 The god of fortune vs the soft sweet little princess
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 Everyone believes Lin Zhao Xi’s a genius.
 Only she knows she’s looking back on years of experience in math competitions as a basis to “cheat”.
 Until one day, her idol quietly looks at her.
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 Time and space overlap, returning thrice.
 — The past can change you.
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 Wu! Eat your dreams!
 Shao Lingheng is the most perfect dish for Du Yan.
 Here is the perfect recipe for cooking nightmares, also known as “How to be a qualified villain boss.”
 Male lead: I will follow your thoughts and take away your power, just to keep you with me.
 Male lead: You hate this dynasty, then as you wish, I will ruin it for you.
 Male lead: If I can always haunt you after becoming a ghost, then I am willing.
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 It’s so much trouble to fill one’s stomach!
 As the only bloodline left by the Beast Boqi in a low-level energy plane, Du Yan, after awakening, fell into the tragic situation of not having enough to eat every day. Until he met Shao Lingheng, the movie emperor who was too deep into his roles and was troubled by nightmares every night.
 But you never know, the things happened were unexpected.
 Shao Lingheng: That man is the cinnabar mole in my heart, white moonlight in the sky. He has paid a lot for me.
 Du Yan: Wait, are we not on the same channel?
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 Fu Yao’s father, Fu Chengyan, has been vegetative for more than ten years and suddenly woke up one day.The doctor who witnessed all this sighed: People wake up, but they turn crazy!
 Fu Chengyan, who had been in the cultivation world for two thousand years, went back to his own world. When he saw her daughter again, he found her with short hair, possessing very old clothes, and having a pitiful look due malnutrition.
 Feeling guilty, Fu Chengyan wanted to know her daughter’s true thoughts in order to compensate her. He then read her inner world with mind reading.
 “It’s was not easy to raise myself already, and now I have to raise a dad with a brain problem… My life is too difficult.”
 “It seems that the scholarship I am receiving is not enough.”
 “It’s better to sell the first place in the school to that person.”
 “Isn’t the second-placer a silly girl? Let’s sell the second-place to the third-placed silly girl also…”
 “How much was the prize for the oral English contest?”
 “Although Dad has a problem with his brain, he still looks so handsome. Is the rich woman next door still thinking about him? How…”
 Fu Chengyan: Thank you for being a filial daughter!
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 This is the story of the Phoenix Vidyarāja and a Grand Demon just awakened from Hell.
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 On the ancient battlefield, two armies were standing in stalemate. On one side were the Vajras, the Arhats, the Gods and the Buddhas from the Realm of Gods. On the other side were all the of monsters and demons from the Blood Sea in Hell.
 The personification of that Grand Demon leaped forward, holding a long sword across his chest. He flew across the battlefield, insolently cutting in halves the eleven Phoenix Bone Arrows, each of which was enough to destroy the world.
 Then, he arrived in front of the Phoenix Vidyarāja, who was standing high above the masses:
 “Your Majesty, please don’t move—”
 “I didn’t come for the war. I came to propose to you.”
 Phoenix was the Buddha’s inexorable doom for thirty-thousand years, while Zhou Hui was Phoenix’s redemption that could free him from the fate of his eternal life.
 After hundreds of thousands of years of endless light and shadow, this handsome yet devilish man finally emerged from Hell,
 To bring the Phoenix Vidyarāja away from the gandah-gajah Kingdom of Buddhism and the boundless lotus sea.
 “Let me follow you to that world. For you, I’ll be invincible forever—”
 You’re my shore after swimming across hundreds of miles of water. You’re my destination after traveling through thousands of miles of land.
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 Chosen by the System, Jing Ling, each time she was completing a task would harvest a bunch of scum males.
 The accumulated grievance caused her to have an accident while performing the task. Reborn in a parallel time and space to a seventeen year old body, although the gender has changed from female to male, the various attributes and skills that were redeemed from the system were still there.
 Looking in the mirror at a face that could cause the downfall of a country and its people, Jing Ling’s infuriatingly arrogant smile emerged.
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 Don’t be afraid, this time I don’t want you. Change your girlfriend
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 A long time ago he made a promise on the ice field where death and snow were intertwined.
 Years later, Necromancer Burris worked very hard to finally break the curse of the ancient gods and let the imprisoned Skeleton King leave the Marsh of the Dead and return to the human world.
 As a token of gratitude for fulfilling the promise, the mage not only regained his youth but accidentally gained something else –
 A love story with a higher undead demigod, an infernal being?
 Yes.
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 Don’t try to reason with me.
 Don’t you dare touch my man.
 I’ll show you how scary this world is!
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 In Chen Kingdom, money is everything. Male or female, you can have as many partners as you want as long as you got the money. The true sense of equality between the sexes.
 However, I don’t really like being called Master. Though having marrying several childes with fames and being addressed as “Master” I enjoy such a poor position that is only a little bit higher than the stone lions guarding in front of Li Mansion.
 The first Childe is pleasing to the eye but I the Master never get the chance to lay a finger on him…
 The second Childe forbids my every chance of squandering…
 The third Childe and fourth Childe takes delight in fighting and quarrelling…
 The fifth Childe forces me to drink decoction, all types of it and all day long…
 Even the servant girl Lian’er can give me a cold shoulder. “Get out of the way, Master. You block out the sunshine.” She would say.
 Gloomy, upset…In fact, I just want to live a simple life with greasy chicken to eat every day, handsome guys to flirt with…but even a dream life insignificant as this takes time and quite some efforts.
 Alas! Life is tough on me, a master about to get pregnant!
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 Li Xiandao obtained the ancient Bank of the Universe but now the bank was totally empty and had no treasures at all. The only thing it had were a bunch of debts. 
 – The Eternal Celestial King, borrowed a supreme celestial artifact and will pay back two pieces after 3,000 years. He will pay an additional piece for every 1,000 years after the expiry date! 
 – Moon Celestial, loaned a high-quality face, returned after 10,000 years. If overdue, she will pay with her life! 
 -Time Immemorial Sage loaned 10,000 years in life from the Bank of the Universe in order to break through. After he breaks through, he will pay back 10,000 years. If late, he must pay back ten times the amount! 
 Li Xiandao looked at these debts and at the empty Bank of the Universe. He made his mind up to become a true expert, to find all these supreme beings to get back the overdue debts one by one! 
 A powerless mortal had became the biggest creditor in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and even the entire Celestial World!
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