From Lady Water's words, it wasn't hard to tell that although Adele thought she'd done a good job of hiding her feelings, Dorothy and Hogg weren't the only ones who'd seen what she really thought. Some sharp-eyed players had already spotted the "clues" too.
After all, you couldn't hide the look in someone's eyes when they were in love any more than you could hide the look in someone's eyes when they wanted to stab someone.
So on the way to Wolf Castle, "Lady Adele and Lord Murphy's falling-out" became the main topic of the girls' excited chatter.
The younger students were restless.
Though they worshipped Lord Murphy, they soon joined in the discussion. Just as single guys always loved giving others relationship advice, these players started plotting ways to help Lady Adele and Lord Murphy rekindle their romance.
In their simple view of things, it was perfectly normal for an NPC as badass as Lord Murphy to have one or two female admirers. Wasn't that the sort of treatment a main-story NPC deserved?
After all, the saying "only the strong deserve beautiful women" applied just as well on this continent.
The older players, however, weren't interested in discussing this sort of thing. Take Huozi and Yuan, for example. These two newcomers had only just joined the Avalon Church, and right now, improving their levels and strength interested them far more than gossip about NPC relationships.
It wasn't because they were shallow, and they weren't min-maxers either.
It was just that Huozi and Brother Yuan had both entered the game "on a mission." They'd be traveling far and wide with their wives in the future, and the pitiful pride of middle-aged men wouldn't let them keep relying on the women to protect them.
"White Knight, then! The White Knight path