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forward and yelled at me, "Kara, having an i

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my own personal maid-the one who had screamed earlier to dra

nymore! I tried to stop you, but you insisted on secretly meeting with Young Master Lach

ory had already written itself in their minds: a shameless

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traitorous dog. I simply raised my leg and del

kward, crashing heavily into a wooden pillar. She spat out a

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of the slap was hideously

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the wall. She clutched her face, her eyes wide with disbelief. Two cle

eyes, she put on a wronged expression and sobbed, "Sister, you wouldn

inging out, cold and commanding, echoing down the corridor. "As the host of today's banquet, you dared to lea

ressing down on her so heavily s

roke in. If it weren't for me, her purity would have been ruined today. And you, without asking a si

to twist the narrative. "Sister, how can you falsely accu

inside, and yet you insist on standing here arguing, det

ut before she could finish her sentence, a pale, trem

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