There was nothing special about the scroll. It looked like an ordinary parchment scroll, but the red wax seal on it made Akes's pupils contract.
Elmer's smile turned faintly cold. "Miss Akes, these are orders from the family. Would you like to read them?"
Akes sneered. "Do I have a choice? Then I won't read them." If she didn't read them, she could act as though she knew nothing, with a perfectly clear conscience. With that, Akes turned and walked away, paying no heed to the seal representing their two families.
"Akes!" Herman snapped.
Akes turned back and gave a pointed "Oh?" before asking, "Done pretending, Young Master Herman?"
Herman took a deep breath and smiled oddly. "I'm already my family's heir, while you're still only a candidate. Are you that afraid losing our engagement will cost you your candidacy and put you out of the running?"
"Trying to provoke me again?" Akes looked unruffled. Before, those words would have struck a nerve and forced her to fight back. It wasn't that she didn't want to break off the engagement; her family simply refused to give her a choice. Herman kept using it to goad her, hoping she would do something even more extreme. But now that she saw things from another angle, she realized Herman might be the one in a hurry. "Young Master Herman, do you really think I care that much about becoming heir?"
Herman had always been the one obsessed with becoming heir, not her. She hated being beneath someone else, but if that person was more capable than she was, perhaps she could accept it. Admitting someone else was better didn't seem so hard.
Akes glanced at Ye Chuqi and couldn't help laughing.
Ye Chuqi: ???
"Young Master Herman, you're the one afraid of losing