Chapter 12 The Empty Shell The Martinez Family

"Ethan didn't end up writing that IOU.

He stood at the doorway, scanning the crowd in the main hall, still looking pretty ticked off. After Ava's speech, he was even more reluctant to take her money. Gritting his teeth, he was ready to bail.

"I'll find someone else to figure this out," he said.

B...

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1 Two Wives?

2. Chapter 2 Provocation

3. Chapter 3 Isn't This a Mistress?

4. Chapter 4 The Hypocritical Mia

5. Chapter 5 Don't Compare Me to Others

6. Chapter 6 Not Qualified

7. Chapter 7 Requesting an Audience with the King

8. Chapter 8 Unworthy

9. Chapter 9 It's Not a Lot of Money

10. Chapter 10 The Penniless Martinez Family

11. Chapter 11 Write an IOU

12. Chapter 12 The Empty Shell The Martinez Family

13. Chapter 13 Suspicion

14. Chapter 14 Despicable Tactics

15. Chapter 15 That Money Must Belong to the Martinez Family

16. Chapter 16 I Want to Audit the Accounts

17. Chapter 17 The Martinez Family is Actually This Poor

18. Chapter 18 Encounter with Assassination

19. Chapter 19 Sword Light Under the Moon

20. Chapter 20 The Envoy from the Royal City

21. Chapter 21 Greedy Murderous Intent

22. Chapter 22 You're Still Alive?

23. Chapter 23 Confession Without Coercion

24. Chapter 24 Leaving with Nothing

25. Chapter 25 The Royal Decree Arrives

26. Chapter 26 The Future of the Davis Family

27. Chapter 27 No Longer Related

28. Chapter 28 Not a Wife

29. Chapter 29 The Martinez Family, Living in Fear

30. Chapter 30 You Forced Him to Death

31. Chapter 31 Going Home

32. Chapter 32 Full of Doubts

33. Chapter 33 No Wedding Gifts

34. Chapter 34 Wedding Banquet

35. Chapter 35 Disdain Form Other Nobles

36. Chapter 36 I'll Kill Them

37. Chapter 37 Does She Still Love Him?

38. Chapter 38 He Thinks Too Highly of Himself

39. Chapter 39 She Knows Archery Too?

40. Chapter 40 A Letter from the Battlefield

41. Chapter 41 Embarrassed Ethan

42. Chapter 42 He Came All the Way to the Capital

43. Chapter 43 Preparing for the Wedding

44. Chapter 44 Wedding Turmoil

45. Chapter 45 The Couple Ditching Their Wedding Ceremony

46. Chapter 46 Mia Faints from Anger

47. Chapter 47 Who's to Blame?

48. Chapter 48 Terry, the Scapegoat

49. Chapter 49 Chase's Reply

50. Chapter 50 Alliance?

51. Chapter 51 Envoys from the South

52. Chapter 52 Ava's Determination

53. Chapter 53 Thought You Were Something Special

54. Chapter 54 Terry's Visit

55. Chapter 55 Planning

56. Chapter 56 The Sword Skuld

57. Chapter 57 The Garrison of Valnexa

58. Chapter 58 Prince Harris

59. Chapter 59 Rocky Mountains

60. Chapter 60 The Mysterious Case from a Year Ago

61. Chapter 61 Long Time No See

62. Chapter 62 Do You Still Have Feelings for Her?

63. Chapter 63 How Can You Hit a Woman?

64. Chapter 64 News from the Eastern Front

65. Chapter 65 Did Ava Run Away?

66. Chapter 66 Punishing the Martinez Family

67. Chapter 67 The First Battle

68. Chapter 68 The Feeling of Battle

69. Chapter 69 Late Night Attack

70. Chapter 70 The Second Sword of the Davis Family

71. Chapter 71 Family

72. Chapter 72 The Best Choice

73. Chapter 73 The Seed of Hatred

74. Chapter 74 Empty City?

75. Chapter 75 Showdown

76. Chapter 76 Bison in Rut

77. Chapter 77 Tracking the Deserter

78. Chapter 78 Mountain Residence

79. Chapter 79 The Food Rescue Mission

80. Chapter 80 Fire in the Valley

81. Chapter 81 The Rising Star

82. Chapter 82 Ava Became Knight Captain!

83. Chapter 83 Meeting Someone

84. Chapter 84 Tombstone in the Wind

85. Chapter 85 I Want to Know What You Think

86. Chapter 86 Arrival of Reinforcements

87. Chapter 87 You're Not Worth It

88. Chapter 88 Why Ava

89. Chapter 89 Friends Come to Help

90. Chapter 90 Twisted Ethan

91. Chapter 91 I Want to Know the Real Story

92. Chapter 92 Events A Year Ago

93. Chapter 93 I Won't Just Accept It

94. Chapter 94 Inducing Ethan

95. Chapter 95 Rumors Spread

96. Chapter 96 Anyone Else Want to Challenge me?

97. Chapter 97 The Fight Widens

98. Chapter 98 She's on Another Level Entirely

99. Chapter 99 Sophia's Challenge

100. Chapter 100 All In

101. Chapter 101 Just Wait for My Victory

102. Chapter 102 One Move Victory

103. Chapter 103 Refusing to Admit Defeat

104. Chapter 104 You Controlled Yourself

105. Chapter 105 The Polished Beauty and the Wild Beauty

106. Chapter 106 The Real Purpose of Zotburg

107. Chapter 107 Sophia's Resentment

108. Chapter 108 Discussion

109. Chapter 109 Are You Going to Betray Me?

110. Chapter 110 The Horn of Attack

111. Chapter 111 I Don't Want to Die

112. Chapter 112 Stepping Stones

113. Chapter 114 Why Didn't You Stop Her

114. Chapter 113 Pursuing Fleeing Enemies

115. Chapter 115 Villet Empire Admitted Defeated

116. Chapter 116 Sophia Was Caught

117. Chapter 117 Truth

118. Chapter 118 A Narrow-Minded Coward

119. Chapter 119 Twisted Sophia

120. Chapter 120 A Mother's Wrath

121. Chapter 121 Sophia Humiliated

122. Chapter 122 She Wanted to Survive

123. Chapter 123 Damin was Furious

124. Chapter 124 Do You Know Why She Was Arrested?

125. Chapter 125 The Long Wait

126. Chapter 126 Have You Ever Loved Me?

127. Chapter 127 The Nonexistent Answer

128. Chapter 128 Joy and Sorrow

129. Chapter 129 Rude Demands

130. Chapter 130 Someone's Looking for you

131. Chapter 131 Apology

132. Chapter 132 Refuse to Admit

133. Chapter 133 Meeting Sophia

134. Chapter 134 Everything You Have is Because of Me

135. Chapter 135 Do you Really Deserve it

136. Chapter 136 Joy of Victory

137. Chapter 137 Nina's Plan

138. Chapter 138 Farce at the Ball

139. Chapter 139 It Can't Be Sophia

140. Chapter 140 The New Knight Commander

141. Chapter 141 Shifting Hatred

142. Chapter 142 Sophia's Self-Proclaimed Nobility and Purity

143. Chapter 143 No One Has to Risk Their Life to Save You

144. Chapter 144 The Fluttering Flag

145. Chapter 145 Triumph

146. Chapter 146 Ethan Must Divorce her

147. Chapter 147 Your Secret

148. Chapter 148 Make Sure to Set them up

149. Chapter 149 Long-lost Warmth

150. Chapter 150 Zotburg's Revenge

151. Chapter 151 Can't Let Go

152. Chapter 152 Audience with the Queen

153. Chapter 153 You Must Get Married

154. Chapter 154 Three Months

155. Chapter 155 Are There No Decent Women Left on the Battlefield?

156. Chapter 156 Sophia Goes Crazy

157. Chapter 157 Dr. Pascal Has Already Left

158. Chapter 158 Can't Save Drona

159. Chapter 159 Not Welcome Here

160. Chapter 160 Don't Go Look for Ava

161. Chapter 161 Going Home

162. Chapter 162 Why Not Consider Friedel

163. Chapter 163 Olivia's Visit

164. Chapter 164 Controversy at the Tea Party

165. Chapter 165 Only One Hundred Gold Coins Left

166. Chapter 166 The Assassin Is Still Alive

167. Chapter 167 People Who Don't Want to Save the Martinez Family

168. Chapter 168 The Feeling of Being Abandoned by Family

169. Chapter 169 Friedel's Hesitation

170. Chapter 170 Carol

171. Chapter 171 Smart Troubles

172. Chapter 172 I Want to Marry You

173. Chapter 173 I Am Your Best Choice

174. Chapter 174 I Promise

175. Chapter 175 If Friedel Wants Mistresses, I won't Stop Him

176. Chapter 176 You Didn't Even Express Your Feelings?

177. Chapter 177 I Disagree with You Marrying Her!

178. Chapter 178 Carol's Thoughts

179. Chapter 179 Prejudice

180. Chapter 180 I Don't Have A Habit of Going Easy on Women

181. Chapter 181 Meeting with Carol

182. Chapter 182 Who Exactly Lacks Manners

183. Chapter 183 Scaring Away Carol

184. Chapter 184 We Need Not Meet Again

185. Chapter 185 Apologizing in Person

186. Chapter 186 The Legendary Odette

187. Chapter 187 I Will Accompany You

188. Chapter 188 Ask About His Well-being Next Time

189. Chapter 189 The Seed of Doubt

190. Chapter 190 An Old Friend Visits

191. Chapter 191 Mother's Painting

192. Chapter 192 Unbearable Past

193. Chapter 193 I Will Protect Mother

194. Chapter 194 Receiving the Invitation

195. Chapter 195 I Must Attend for the Martinez Family

196. Chapter 196 The Martinez Family Can Actually Come Too?

197. Chapter 197 Slandering Business Proficiency

198. Chapter 198 Malicious Mother and Daughter

199. Chapter 199 Ava Appears

200. Chapter 200 No Respect

201. Chapter 201 A Tragedy for the Entire Soth Empire

202. Chapter 202 Don't Forget My Identity

203. Chapter 203 I Know You're Getting on in Years

204. Chapter 204 Aiden's Explanation

205. Chapter 205 Would You Dare to Say It Again?

206. Chapter 206 The Secret of the Corridor

207. Chapter 207 What If He Likes Me?

208. Chapter 208 Embarrassing Nina

209. Chapter 209 Who is the Lowly One

210. Chapter 210 Poking the Wrong Bear

211. Chapter 211 She's About to Marry Friedel

212. Chapter 212 Leaving the Banquet

213. Chapter 213 Why Don't I Remember You at All?

214. Chapter 214 What on Earth Happened

215. Chapter 215 The Martinez Family Is Finished

216. Chapter 216 The Child Who Should Not Exist

217. Chapter 217 Expelling From the Dawn Knights

218. Chapter 218 Blame It on Ava

219. Chapter 219 You Should Back Off

220. Chapter 220 Intimidating Carol

221. Chapter 221 Who Could Possibly Not Like Friedel?

222. Chapter 222 Go to Meet Odette

223. Chapter 223 Forcibly Entering the Princess's Manor

224. Chapter 224 The Reason to Kill Him

225. Chapter 225 Your Dirty Soul

226. Chapter 226 You Must Punish Her Severely

227. Chapter 227 How Did They Humiliate You

228. Chapter 228 Where Is the Evidence?

229. Chapter 229 Cannot Punish Her

230. Chapter 230 Bewildered Carol

231. Chapter 231 Rumors Arise

232. Chapter 232 Expenses Are Too High

233. Chapter 233 Jewelry Store Turmoil

234. Chapter 234 Natalia's Threat

235. Chapter 235 The King's Trust

236. Chapter 236 The Plan Goes Smoothly

237. Chapter 237 Expelled from the Royal City

238. Chapter 238 Unforgotten Pain

239. Chapter 239 Review Results

240. Chapter 240 Quincy's Visit

241. Chapter 241 The Flames of Vengeance

242. Chapter 242 Relearning Etiquette

243. Chapter 243 The Jennings Family's Thoughts

244. Chapter 244 Underground Auction

245. Chapter 245 Running Towards the Unknown Hope

246. Chapter 246 Arriving as Promised

247. Chapter 247 He Is Theodore

248. Chapter 248 The Mitchell Family

249. Chapter 249 Circus Mystery

250. Chapter 250 As Long As You Are Alive

251. Chapter 251 Theodore's Two Years

252. Chapter 252 The Connection Behind

253. Chapter 253 Meeting with Jeremy

254. Chapter 254 Does It Matter Who the King Is

255. Chapter 255 No Need to Worry

256. Chapter 256 Do You Like Him?

257. Chapter 257 Route

258. Chapter 258 Sign

259. Chapter 259 Good Brother

260. Chapter 260 Schemes in the Shadows

261. Chapter 261 Departure

262. Chapter 262 New Route

263. Chapter 263 Meeting of the Twin Swords

264. Chapter 264 The Original Owner of the Sword

265. Chapter 265 Successful Rendezvous

266. Chapter 266 Going Home

267. Chapter 267 The Reaction of the Graham Family

268. Chapter 268 Not Poisoned

269. Chapter 269 Patricia's Visit

270. Chapter 270 Bloodstained Flag

271. Chapter 271 Powerless Evidence

272. Chapter 272 For My Great Master

273. Chapter 273 Arriving at The Graham Manor

274. Chapter 274 The Joy of Regaining What Was Lost

275. Chapter 275 Two Years of Surveillance

276. Chapter 276 Just a Guess

277. Chapter 277 Becoming a Qualified Heir

278. Chapter 278 He Was Never an Option

279. Chapter 279 He Is Not a Bad Person

280. Chapter 280 News of the Heir

281. Chapter 281 An Unbelievable Reason

282. Chapter 282 Ethan's Good Luck

283. Chapter 283 Drunk Ethan

284. Chapter 284 Your Freedom

285. Chapter 285 Do You Still Have to Live Like This?

286. Chapter 286 Once Again Refused at the Gate

287. Chapter 287 Theodore Who Fears Bitterness

288. Chapter 288 The Desolate Martinez Estate

289. Chapter 289 If We Leave

290. Chapter 290 The James You Don't Know

291. Chapter 291 Her Desire for Control

292. Chapter 292 A Mother's Sophistry

293. Chapter 293 Sophia Falling into Madness

294. Chapter 294 The Final Compensation

295. Chapter 295 Will We Really Leave?

296. Chapter 296 There's More to His Death

297. Chapter 297 The First Time I Couldn't Respond to You

298. Chapter 298 The Beginning of Disappointment

299. Chapter 299 The Disappearing Sophia

300. Chapter 300 The Unsuitable Daughter-in-law

301. Chapter 301 The Opened Coffin

302. Chapter 302 What Does She Want to Do

303. Chapter 303 The Newly Dead

304. Chapter 304 Shawn

305. Chapter 305 I Am as Strong as Father

306. Chapter 306 The Strange Doctor

307. Chapter 307 Michael

308. Chapter 308 Believe in His Choice

309. Chapter 309 Saw When Consciousness Was Blurred

310. Chapter 310 The Best is Not to Meet

311. Chapter 311 An Inevitable Coincidence

312. Chapter 312 New Actor

313. Chapter 313 What You Need to Do

314. Chapter 314 I Told Her You Were Dead

315. Chapter 315 Who Is Behind It

316. Chapter 316 The Correct Name

317. Chapter 317 Should Not Ask Too Much

318. Chapter 318 Crumbling Emotional Barriers

319. Chapter 319 News from Kiliath

320. Chapter 320 What Role Exactly

321. Chapter 321 Do Not Want His Involvement

322. Chapter 322 Aubrey's Arrangement

323. Chapter 323 The Fearsome Gaze

324. Chapter 324 Seeing Sophia Again

325. Chapter 325 You Were Not Worthy of Pride

326. Chapter 326 It's All Because of You

327. Chapter 327 It's All Ava's Fault

328. Chapter 328 Sophia's Crime

329. Chapter 329 Does Anyone Really Love You?

330. Chapter 330 Who is Following Ethan

331. Chapter 331 The Truth of Imprisonment

332. Chapter 332 The Profound Meaning of Choice

333. Chapter 333 Flynn

334. Chapter 334 Only You Can Be King

335. Chapter 335 Finally Able to Meet Again

336. Chapter 336 You Make Me Feel Ashamed

337. Chapter 337 Could It Really Be Her Fault?

338. Chapter 338 Eternal Sealing Tower

339. Chapter 339 Cooperation Partner

340. Chapter 340 Be Careful of That Man

341. Chapter 341 Discussion Among the Clan Members

342. Chapter 342 The Silent Couple

343. Chapter 343 Are You Insulting Me?

344. Chapter 344 Take Away the Knights

345. Chapter 345 Rare Determination

346. Chapter 346 Our First Meeting

347. Chapter 347 Unexpected Guest

348. Chapter 348 The Man Leading the Lion

349. Chapter 349 The Truth from Over Twenty Years Ago

350. Chapter 350 Fake News

351. Chapter 351 I Will Pray for You

352. Chapter 352 Johnny's Reply

353. Chapter 353 Suspicion

354. Chapter 354 An Unexpected Encounter

355. Chapter 355 Former Friends

356. Chapter 356 Our Teacher

357. Chapter 357 The Initial Fate

358. Chapter 358 The Abandoned Person

359. Chapter 359 Johnny's Past

360. Chapter 360 His Ending

361. Chapter 361 Cooperation Achieved

362. Chapter 362 Goodbye Michael

363. Chapter 363 Difficult Choice to Balance

364. Chapter 364 Understanding Theodore

365. Chapter 365 Adeline's Thoughts

366. Chapter 366 The Shadow of an Old Friend

367. Chapter 367 Why Use Him

368. Chapter 368 New Ideas

369. Chapter 369 I Have a Wife

370. Chapter 370 The Heir Must Be James

371. Chapter 371 Suffocating Love

372. Chapter 372 Threat

373. Chapter 373 Nina is the Mistress!

374. Chapter 374 The Right to Choose

375. Chapter 375 Shattered Illusions

376. Chapter 376 The Final Choice

377. Chapter 377 No One Else Left

378. Chapter 378 The Reason to Live

379. Chapter 379 Answering Every Question

380. Chapter 380 Do Not Underestimate Me

381. Chapter 381 Similar Faces

382. Chapter 382 Melantha Appears

383. Chapter 383 Behind the Madness

384. Chapter 384 Don't Take Me for a Fool

385. Chapter 385 The Significance of Arranging the Wife

386. Chapter 386 The Cause of the Tragedy

387. Chapter 387 Unexpected Visitor

388. Chapter 388 Infiltrating the Ramirez Villa

389. Chapter 389 Two Routes

390. Chapter 390 The Passage to the Tower

391. Chapter 391 Passerby

392. Chapter 392 Don't Go

393. Chapter 393 Behind the Reminder

394. Chapter 394 Did Nothing Wrong

395. Chapter 395 The Strange Shawn

396. Chapter 396 The Frenzied Guard

397. Chapter 397 The Corner Illuminated by Moonlight

398. Chapter 398 The Third Party

399. Chapter 399 Secret

400. Chapter 400 The Person Called Lion

401. Chapter 401 Meeting with Shawn

402. Chapter 402 Who Are You On Earth

403. Chapter 403 The Green Past

404. Chapter 404 Cannot Let It Go

405. Chapter 405 The Unwarranted Existence...

406. Chapter 406 When We Meet Again

407. Chapter 407 Who Are You Exactly

408. Chapter 408 You Are All in Cahoots

409. Chapter 409 I Believe You

410. Chapter 410 The Overlapping Figure in the Dream

411. Chapter 411 She Will Eventually Know

412. Chapter 412 You Who Cannot Get a Response

413. Chapter 413 Unfulfillable Promise

414. Chapter 414 The Premise of Divorce Is...

415. Chapter 415 Will Not Take Your Things

416. Chapter 416 Goodbye, James

417. Chapter 417 Olivia Arrives Just in Time

418. Chapter 418 Request to See Olivia

419. Chapter 419 Help Terry

420. Chapter 420 Her Shadow Still Remains

421. Chapter 421 The Taylor Family's Choice

422. Chapter 422 The Pitch-Black Room

423. Chapter 423 The Dilemma of Identity

424. Chapter 424 One of the Reasons

425. Chapter 425 Cannot Let Him Wake Up

426. Chapter 426 Am I Really Doing the Right Thing?

427. Chapter 427 For What You Want to Protect

428. Chapter 428 Visiting Again

429. Chapter 429 The Room Next Door

430. Chapter 430 Where Is the Chance of Victory

431. Chapter 431 You Are Already Out

432. Chapter 432 The Ownership Issue of the Underground Auction

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