"Victor, you're really famous now!"

From the study came a woman's angry shouts.

With one hand on her hip and the other clutching a bent newspaper, Lia angrily berated the man in front of her.

"Are you trying to disgrace the 'Clavner' name?!"

With that, she flicked her arm, and the newspaper flew through the air, leaving a trail of afterimages before landing right in Viktor's face.

He removed the newspaper from his face without expression.

He didn't even need to read the newspaper to know what it contained.

[Shocking! Viscount Clavner did this at the Duke's daughter's dinner party!]

The prominent image below the newspaper headline was of the Duke's daughter, Erica, being publicly confessed to by Victor at her seventeenth birthday party.

Viktor was still holding her delicate, warm hand.

Erica smiled and politely but disdainfully rejected him.

This is a very impactful piece of content, and the combination with the title and description makes it even more explosive.

Bang!

Lia slammed her hand on the table so hard that the books piled on it trembled.

The sound brought Victor's attention back to reality.

"You were invited to represent the family at the banquet, and you actually confessed your love for the Duke's daughter in public?!"

Yes, yes.

Victor did not deny it; it was indeed what he had done yesterday.

Erica had been studying magic in Duke Reeves's magic guild since she was a child.

Even the most respected and knowledgeable senior mages within the magic guild have long considered guiding and protecting Erica as their primary task.

Unless Duke Reeves needed to lead the magic corps on a large mission, they almost always served as Erica's mentors and guards at the Du Chloe mansion.

Most nobles had no access to Revy's beloved youngest daughter, let alone a notorious nobleman like Victor.

Only nobles with an extraordinary relationship with Reeves were able to learn about Duke Reeves' daughter relatively early on.

Victor understood; after all, his father-in-law's daughter was quite controlling.

Even he, who had a stellar reputation in his previous life, only met Erica for the first time on her seventeenth birthday.

In short, if he can't get past Levi, he definitely won't be able to see Erica sooner.

Given Victor's unpleasant personality, it's naturally impossible for him to befriend Reeves.

Therefore, the only chance is to wait until Erica's birthday party.

And Reeves did indeed invite the Clavner family, although it was Lydia who was invited.

However, as the head of the Clavenna family, it was not unreasonable for him to accept the invitation on behalf of Lydia.

Lia even thought that Victor had changed his ways and wanted to start interacting more with other nobles for the sake of the family's development.

Therefore, she gave him the opportunity to attend the banquet.

Unexpectedly, the first thing Victor did upon arriving at Duke Riviera's house was to confess his love to his daughter!

This move undoubtedly dragged the Clevner family's reputation to its lowest point once again.

Lia was so angry that she wanted to pry open Victor's skull on the spot to see what was inside.

What about the motivation?

Why?

Erica is only 17 years old.

In terms of looks, can he compare to her, or can he compare to Gwen?

Indeed, Erica's talent is quite good, a seventeen-year-old second-tier mage, but didn't you already reach the second tier at the age of fifteen?

Lia really couldn't understand. Could it be that Victor was really just a pervert who liked minors, as people outside said?

Otherwise, why hasn't he married Gwen yet?

But soon, Victor's explanation floated into Leah's ears:

"Because she is the Duke's daughter."

This sentence made Lia blink and freeze in shock.

Is it really that simple?

"You confessed your feelings just because she's the Duke's daughter?"

"Do you even know you have a fiancée?!"

Lia was trembling with rage, her clenched fists turning bright red, as if she wanted to smash them into Victor's face right away.

Regardless of whether Duke Reeves approves of Victor, even if we assume the worst, Victor is still tied up with his engagement to Gwen!

Who doesn't know that Gwen is Victor's fiancée?

This has made it so that no other man has dared to get close to Gwen, such an outstanding girl.

Isn't it all because of Viktor's bad reputation?

To make matters worse, he dared to publicly confess his love for the duke's daughter, despite already having a fiancée, which made his behavior even more despicable.

Now, even Gwen has been affected, being slandered by the same rumors circulating among the news media and nobles.

Seeing Viktor's indifferent and nonchalant attitude, Leah felt even angrier and felt deeply sorry for Gwen.

"Enough! Viktor! Don't you have any idea where you are in this situation?!"

Snap!

She angrily pulled a contract from her bag and slammed it on the desk.

"If I hadn't used my connections to contact the academy and get them to draft a professorship contract for you immediately, the Duke's private army would have been at your doorstep long ago!"

Lia is very efficient.

Realizing that Viktor might be in trouble, she barely slept all night and used all her connections.

They even got Gwen's help to quickly draft the contract within the college.

No one knows how much money she spent, or how many people she asked for help.

But she didn't even receive a word of thanks from Victor.

Because Viktor knew exactly why he was doing this.

Nature's inheritors are like elves; when they are in danger, nature will protect them.

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