The baron's bedroom was spacious, with a separate study, bathroom, and small sitting room.
The room had been hastily cleaned and sprayed with fragrant floral water.
Before this, Baron Eddie Nickles had not spent the night in the castle for nearly a year.
Nawei invited Zong Shen and Safri to rest in the sitting room while she sat at the bedside, holding Baron Eddie's hand with an exceedingly complicated expression.
It was clear that she still held some feelings for her legitimate husband.
However, those feelings contained mostly guilt and very little love.
If she had truly loved Baron Eddie enough, she would not have chosen to betray him in the first place.
As for Count Ackler Nickles, Nawei's love had turned to hatred. After enduring endless torment and blows, she no longer had any tender feelings for him, only boundless hatred.
She was a woman with an exceedingly complicated emotional history; even Nawei herself could not describe her own feelings.
Without concerning himself with the baron and his wife, Zong Shen and Safri sat quietly in the sitting room.
He was waiting for a reply from his subjects. Two hours earlier, the subordinates carrying enough food for fifty thousand people to eat one meal had already set off from the territory for Seaka Bang City.
There were still one or two hours until the agreed time at midnight, so there was no need to rush.
Dream Dice Casino had already been destroyed, and Baron Eddie Nickles had been brought back. For the rest of the time, it was up to Zong Shen to do as he pleased.
Pacifying the starving refugees was not difficult for him, so long as he could produce food.
That was the most urgent basic need the starving refugees had at present.
He would provide