2024-08-21 09:43:49As Alex approached the house entrance, Sophia noticed that Alex
was behind her."Haven’t you had enough?"
"Believe me," Alex replied, "running into you is the last thing I wanted today."
Sophia stepped out, blocking his path.
"So, what is it then? Are you here to remind me of the biggest mistake of my life?"
"Mistake?" Alex’s tone grew colder.
"I could say the same. You think I enjoyed waking up and realizing I’d wasted my time with someone so shallow?"
"Shallow?" Sophia’s eyes flashed with anger.
"You’re just bitter because you know I’m right. You’re nothing but a loser, a gold-digger."
Alex laughed, shaking his head.
"You’re delusional. I don’t need anything from you, least of your money."
Sophia stepped even closer, her finger jabbing the air between them.
"Then what do you want? To ruin my life even more?"
"No, I’m not here to ruin anything." Alex locked his eyes with hers. "I’m meeting my fiancée."
"Your fiancée? You have a fiancée?" Sophia shocked.
"I’m here to meet someone named Sophia Lancaster at this address," Alex’s patience wearing thin.
"I’m not looking for you. So, if you can help me out, call her, and I’ll leave as soon as possible."
WTF?!
Sophia paused, her expression shifting from shock to realization.
"Wait... you're here for that Sophia Lancaster?"
Alex coldly replied.
"Yes! Can you please just get her? I don't have time for games."
Sophia bit her lip, trying to mask the confusion swirling inside her.
"There’s no need to call anyone. I’m... I’m Sophia Lancaster."
They stood there, staring at each other in stunned silence.
Just then, a voice called out from inside the mansion.
"Alexander Leonhart!"
An old man stepped out, his face lighting up with a wide smile.
"Master told me you would come today! What are you doing out there?"
"Grandfather," Sophia called.
The old man, Abraham Lancaster, turned towards them, his eyes twinkling with amusement.
He looked between them, his smile growing even wider as if he had been waiting for this moment.
"So, you've met Alex, your fiancé. It’s great to know you both know each other."
Sophia quickly interjected, "We are not—"
"Call your parents, Sophia," Abraham said, cutting her off.
"Gather everyone in the Great Hall. I have an announcement. You both are going to get married today."
Sophia stood, shocked.
"Finally, my long-held wish can be fulfilled today," Abraham’s voice trembled with happiness.
He walked over to Alex, his hand reaching out to grasp Alex’s.
"Come, let’s go to the Great Hall. You’ll meet your in-laws."
Sophia watched them walk away, disbelief and anger surging through her.
She had lost her virginity to that man, and now she was supposed to lose her future too.
"This can't be happening!"
She had dreamed of an extraordinary fiancé, someone worthy, someone heroic, not any rubbish!
Instead, she was now being handed to a man she could have picked off the street.
As CEO of Lancaster Group, known for her beauty and bright future, how could she marry such a man?
What would people think?
"No," she decided. "I'll stop this marriage, no matter the cost."
***
In the Great Hall, Abraham guided Alex to an honored seat.
"How is Master?"
"Still healthy after a hundred years," Alex replied.
"You’re young, successful, and humble. I’m fortunate to have a grandson-in-law like you. Sophia is a good person; please give her a chance to get to know you better."
Alex nodded politely, but he doubt the possibility.
Sophia didn’t look like she wanted the chance.
"Wonderful, wonderf—" Abraham laugh joyfully.
However, just then, an angry voice cut in.
"Are you insane?! Sophia cannot marry him!"
Lady Lancaster, Abraham's wife, angrily stormed into the Great Hall.
She was flanked by their two sons and two daughters-in-law, with Sophia trailing behind them.
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Alex met his gaze without flinching.“I stole the original Prussian designs,” he said. “Then I gathered the brightest minds Xia has—many of them from Wudang itself—and we reverse-engineered every component. The drones that now guard these provinces were built here, by Xia’s people, using Xia’s resources. They watch our borders. They help our farmers. Tell me why I should not use tools that protect our people.”Namgung’s face darkened to a deep, furious red. His knuckles whitened around the hilt of his sword.“That is evil Prussian technology,” he snarled. “How can you bring it into Xia and call it your own?”The old master’s qi began to rise again, thick and heavy, pressing down on the ruined courtyard like a coming storm.Alex took one deliberate step forward. His voice remained calm, clear, and unafraid.“Old man, if these technologies can help the people of Xia—better harvests, safer lives, food on every table—why shouldn’t I use them for our people’s good?”Namgung’s mouth opened,
Chapter 667
The fifth floor of the Prime Minister’s pavilion detonated outward in a storm of splintered timber and pulverized stone. An old man in blood-red robes descended through the smoke on a blade of pure qi, his sword still singing with the force of the strike. He landed amid the wreckage, eyes blazing, and drove the weapon through the two figures seated at the war table. They did not bleed. They did not scream. The blade passed through them as if through colored mist. The images of Alex Bai and Zhuge Liang flickered once, twice, then dissolved into harmless light and scattered pixels. Namgung Hyuk froze. The righteous fury on his ancient face cracked into raw disbelief. Below, thirty meters underground in a reinforced bunker lined with concrete and layered wards, Alex and Zhuge Liang remained perfectly still, but the faint tightening around his eyes said he understood the same terrible truth. This one had gotten through. Alex had prepared for exactly this moment. Every sensitive meet
Chapter 666
The war room in Liang Province’s capital stank of old wine, sweat, and the iron tang of too many armed men in one place.Torches guttered along the stone walls, throwing long shadows across the scarred oak table where four warlords sat like wolves around a fresh kill.They had stopped killing each other for one reason only: the enemy had taken Liu Wei. The real emperor. That single blow had landed harder than any army. It had forced the truce no one wanted.Dong Zhuo had once commanded the largest army in Xia—two hundred thousand soldiers.His four generals each held fifty thousand men under their banners.The endless conflicts between them served only to weaken all parties. In the end, they chose to set aside their grudges and form a temporary truce to consolidate their strength—so that they might later divide Xia between themselves.Li Jue leaned over the map, thick finger dragging across the faded lines. “Zhang Ji takes fifty thousand east. Yan and Qing provinces. You kill Bai Xiao
Chapter 665
The emperor was escorted to the grand harem mansion.Inside the bathroom, steam rose from a wooden tub. Clean linen towels waited on a bench. The four women who had carried him across half of Xia had already changed into simple but elegant robes—soft blues and creams that moved like water when they walked.They helped him out of the filthy servant’s clothes without a word of command, their hands gentle and practiced. One tested the water temperature with her wrist. Another poured warm oil into the bath that smelled faintly of pine and something clean.They washed the grime and smoke from his skin and hair with the same quiet efficiency they had used to spirit him out of a burning palace.He ate afterward at a low table—rice porridge first, then thin slices of tender pork, steamed greens, and a clear broth that didn’t sit heavy in his starved stomach. The women served him without hovering. One kept the bowl warm with her hands. Another refilled his cup of weak tea the moment it emptied
Chapter 664
One year ago.The lantern light in the governor’s private study had burned low. Changyi’s night sounds drifted up from the streets below—distant laughter from a tavern, the creak of a night watchman’s boots.Alex stood at the tall window, hands clasped behind his back, watching the city.Zhuge Liang spoke. “My Lord. Dong Zhuo holds the Emperor like a trophy. Yuan Shao and the other warlords circle the capital, each one dreaming of the dragon throne. Every ambitious man in Xia wants to be king.” He paused. “Don’t you?”Alex turned. The cold smile that touched his mouth did not reach his eyes.“A man has to dare to dream big,” he said. “But a man also has to know the difference between an opportunity and the kind of temptation that burns everything he’s built to ash.”He stepped away from the window and began to pace.“If I reach for the throne now, every warlord from here to Luoyang will mark Yan and Qing as the next battlefield. We cannot hold off attacks from one side, let alone two
Chapter 663
Chen Hao drove the shovel into the packed earth once more, the blade biting deep with a dull scrape. His shoulders burned.Sweat stung his eyes and ran in dirty tracks down the dust on his face. For a few heartbeats the rhythm felt almost right again—the old, simple rhythm of a man and the land.Then the Gaia voice came, sliding straight into his skull.“Chen Hao. Your scheduled instruction period begins now. Report to the training platform.”He froze mid-lift. The shovel stayed buried in the dirt.“I hate training,” he muttered.The words came out rough, almost childish. He was no scholar. Never had been. Before the rebellion he had been nothing but a dirt-poor farmer.Now these machines wanted to turn him into something else.The Wudang sect and whatever sorcery they had brought with them had given the governor power no man in Xia had ever held, and Chen Hao wanted no part of it.He wanted his hands on a hoe. He wanted the honest ache of muscle and callus. He did not want to learn h
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