Chapter 528

After getting married, Wood's life changed.

He no longer spent seven or eight hours—or even longer—every day carving in the workshop. Now, he busied himself at home each morning or took walks with his wife, only going to the workshop in the afternoon before returning home early at night. The neighbors near the workshop no longer saw its lights often burning after dark. Instead, they saw Wood's face growing more radiant by the day, his smile far more alive, no longer carrying that old air of keeping people at arm's length.

Everyone was happy about this.

North Wind was no exception.

Of course, her reason for being happy differed from everyone else's.

Others were happy because Wood seemed more spirited. She was happy because Wood had revealed flaws.

When they had first met, Wood had been a cautious and meticulous man. Even before a companion from his homeland, he had remained guarded, without revealing the slightest weakness. But after getting married, he had clearly relaxed. Flaws in his everyday life were everywhere to be seen; he could practically have been a different person.

If North Wind had wanted to kill him, he would have been dead long ago.

But North Wind did not want to kill him so quickly. She was currently unfamiliar with both the people and the place. At the very least, she needed to use Wood's connections to put down roots in Glimmerstone City.

Once she had fully familiarized herself with Glimmerstone City, it would be the traitor's day of death!

Yet as the days passed, she began to feel doubtful.

Wood truly did not seem like someone inclined toward betrayal.

Setting aside everything else, if he really had betrayed them, why was he still honestly living such a peaceful married life with her, without the slightest