Lu Xing sat down opposite the Duchess.
According to what Anne had told him, the Swinton Family's ancestors had come from the south, but their fief lay in the northern frontier. They had been there for many years, and their bloodline was now closer to that of northerners.
Lu Xing had met Duke Swinton before. The man was enormously built, wore a beard, and had white hair on the backs of his hands. Rather than a duke, he looked more like a golden polar bear.
However.
Anne resembled her mother. Her mother was from the Southern Province and was not as broad and tall as northerners, with softer facial features as well. Anne was even more petite than her mother, with a sweet, innocent face. Only her golden hair had been inherited from the Swinton Family.
Like Anne, Lady Bridget wore elaborate dresses and plenty of jewelry. Lu Xing had seen her four or five times, and every time she wore different clothes with different accessories. Her extravagance was no less than that of Xiao Yu, the rich and beautiful woman CEO.
Xiao Yu also had a thirty-square-meter walk-in closet, and that was only the clothing in one of her homes.
"Madam, you seem to have many questions for me."
Lu Xing took the initiative, smiling. "Please feel free to ask. Anne is here too, and she can answer your questions as well."
"Ah?"
Lady Bridget was somewhat surprised. Forgetting courtesy, she hurriedly asked, "I heard Anne say that she and the respected Lu Xing-sensei had exchanged souls, and that she went to a mysterious and interesting place... Is she still inside this body?"
Zhan Weina, the head maid, and Catherine, the maid, both looked over.
If Anne's soul were still inside the body, it would be no different from