My older sister is a villainous rich girl

"What are you all doing..." He pushed through the crowd of onlookers and stepped forward.

Ge Li gave him a cold glance.

“Unrelated people shouldn’t interfere with the game,” she told Chris.

“Of course!” Chris replied defiantly.

Then she turned around and said, "Wayne, you go play somewhere else. Today I'm going to teach this arrogant guy a lesson!"

"???"

Wayne was immediately filled with questions.

“Make him move away.” Goethe frowned deeply, as if she couldn’t bear it even for Wayne to stand by the table for a second.

Chris turned to say something to Wayne, but Wayne quickly finished her sentence for her.

“It’s alright, I’ll wait for you,” he said.

"But it's best not to wait too long. It's almost time for school to end, and Butler Hall might get worried if he waits outside for too long."

Even if he insisted on staying, Ge Li would most likely not tolerate it any longer, and he was well aware of that.

After this period of back and forth, Ge Li has become much more ruthless, and he no longer wants to provoke her.

Silently stepping back a few paces, Wayne sat on the other side of the activity room, propping his chin up and watching them from afar.

Having successfully eliminated the interfering factors, their game continued.

It seemed to be a two-player game where a certain number of cards were randomly drawn, so it was naturally not as fun as a fixed three-player game. But the two of them hadn't sat together for fun in the first place, so they didn't care about such trivial details.

If you ignore the tense atmosphere between the two, you have to admit that the scene is quite pleasing to the eye, it's just a pity...

He had barely sat down when he heard very light footsteps behind him.

"These two seem destined to be lifelong enemies," Lawrence remarked from the side.

Although Wayne had been mentally prepared for this, he still subconsciously didn't want to give up so soon.

"Is there any way to get them back together?" he asked.

Lawrence asked in surprise, "Reconciled? Were they ever really on good terms?"

"...This is just a embellishment, don't worry about the details!" Wayne said seriously. "If it can improve the relationship between the two of them, wouldn't that also benefit the unity of the Lily Society as a whole?"

“Give up,” Lawrence said bluntly.

“Even the ministers appointed by my father are fighting to the death, so don’t expect any kind of ‘overall unity’.”

He completely disapproved of Wayne's proposal.

"Both of them are very proud. Unless one of them is willing to give in, they will probably keep fighting... Moreover, even if one of them makes concessions in the future, it probably won't be to change the relationship, but simply because one of them lost the fight."

Wayne said with some surprise, "You have a very keen insight."

Actually... it's not that I don't understand what he's saying, it's just that I'm unwilling to accept it.

Lawrence just smirked and said dismissively, "There's nothing I can do. Having been out on the streets since I was little, I have to be a little more perceptive than others."

Chapter 441 Anything is fine

Lawrence's resentment towards his parents' decision from many years ago would always unconsciously surface in his words and actions.

Wayne couldn't say much more about this.

"Initially, another girl invited Miss Ge Li to play together, but it was discovered by Chris's side's henchmen who made sarcastic remarks, and the two sides started arguing."

Lawrence explained the background of this situation to him: "Later, without realizing it, it turned into the two generals personally taking to the field to fight each other."

...It really was a dramatic and unpredictable development process.

Wayne sighed softly.

Even though I want to do something to change this helpless situation, I always subconsciously feel that not changing anything is the best choice for me.

Every attempt so far has only made them sink deeper...

"By the way, I don't know if you've received the news yet," Lawrence casually mentioned, "Simon has temporarily taken on the role of acting commander of the city guard."

"Who?" Wayne was taken aback.

"Simon, Stuart's envoy."

When he heard who this person was, Wayne frowned deeply.

"Why appoint a foreign official to such an important position?" he couldn't help but wonder.

Although the defense of the royal palace is not the responsibility of the city guards, even just the security forces of the entire capital are not a force to be ignored.

“Because—” Lawrence lowered his voice, “I think it’s possible that my father suspects that the charges against Bulwer were framed by other lieutenants in the city guard.”

Wayne fell silent.

This was also his first reaction upon learning of the changes that had occurred in Bulwer.

Otherwise, he simply couldn't understand why he would do something so irrational.

“Bulwer himself is inexperienced. If it weren’t for my father’s favor, he would never have been given the highest position of commander of the city guard. Besides, those adjutants have been unhappy with him for a long time and don’t cooperate much.” Lawrence sneered. “Knowing that Bulwer is in trouble, those guys are probably hiding behind the scenes laughing.”

That's what they say, but there are plenty of talented people in the kingdom, and it's not necessary to drag Simon into this position, even if it's just temporary.

The real underlying reason is probably that, comparatively, the king trusted Simon more.

"So, His Majesty the King actually leans towards the idea that Bulwer is innocent?" He extracted the key information from Lawrence's words.

"Perhaps, who knows?" he replied ambiguously.

Fortunately, the king had imprisoned Bulwer and Chapman separately, preventing outsiders from finding out their attitudes toward the matter. Otherwise, this incident would have long since become a topic of conversation among the people.

"Lawrence, let me ask you something." Wayne glanced at him sideways. "I heard that Bulwer went berserk last night and killed someone. So who stopped him in the end?"

No matter what, Bulwer's magical skill level is still very high, and there aren't many people in the capital who can completely control him.

Lawrence pondered for a moment.

“Nobody stopped him,” he said.

"When the city guard's special operations team arrived, he had already collapsed from exhaustion, and there were only two ordinary people at the scene who did not know magic and were trembling with fear. Subsequent investigations of the scene and the tracing of the remaining magic pointed to Bulwer as the real culprit."

Wayne felt even stranger.

One of those two ordinary people is probably Dave.

He thought that he might have to talk to those involved, since there were very few clues he could get from other people.

While he and Lawrence were chatting casually, Chris and Ge Li suddenly started arguing.

I don't know what Ge Li said just now, but it's clear that Chris was greatly stimulated.

"Don't think you're so great just because you won one game. A temporary victory or defeat doesn't mean anything!" Chris shouted.

"That's right, that's right!" The other girls behind her cheered her on, their enthusiasm quite arrogant.

"Oh."

Ge Li retorted dismissively, "Isn't the overall victory or defeat built up little by little from those short and small wins and losses?"

"—Chris, it's still a long way off."

The girls around Christy also began to clearly chime in, mocking and ridiculing her.

Hearing this argument, Wayne covered his head, feeling a headache coming on.

He walked over and dispersed the girls who were watching and stirring things up.

"Let's call it a day, it's time to go home. We can play again tomorrow." If these two continue arguing in front of everyone, the conflict will only escalate.

Although he didn't think that these two people would fight like shrewish women by pulling each other's hair, he still wanted to avoid any potential dangers.

Seeing Wayne approach, Chris's expression immediately became much more aggrieved: "Wayne~"

Her tone was like she was being coquettish.

However, this change seemed to irritate Ge Li, making her feel uncomfortable all over.

"Didn't I tell you to keep irrelevant people out of the way?"

Chris wanted to back out, "Wayne isn't an irrelevant person, he's mine."

She figured that no matter what, Wayne's card skills were better than hers, so maybe she could give him a little pointers.

Seeing this, Ge Li clenched his fist on the table.

Wayne: Shock!

"Ha, hahaha... Let's come back tomorrow."

As for what kind of conflict might occur tomorrow, that's a matter for tomorrow to decide.

"No way!!!" Ge Li and Chris retorted in unison.

“Then I’ll join too! If I win, today’s match will end here.” Wayne pulled out a seat at one end of the conference table and sat down, mixing the cards from the last round together without a second thought.

Before Ge Li, who was sitting on the left, could say anything, it was Chris on the right who was a little tempted by his joining.

"What if you lose?"

Good heavens, you're willing to temporarily set aside your grudges with Ge Li just to get the terms you want...

Wayne didn't know whether he should be happy about it.

"Anything is fine with me," he said simply.

Upon hearing this, Ge Li sneered.

It could be said that she already knew Wayne quite well. No matter how nicely she spoke, she would still consider whether the other party's requests met her own needs.

However, Chris was clearly much more naive, and her eyes lit up immediately.

It seems she had already planned out what she wanted Wayne to do.

“Let’s get started!” she said, rubbing her hands together eagerly.

"Alright, we got two out of three votes. The minority shall obey the majority." He announced the voting results with a sense of righteous indignation.

Chapter 442 There's another disguise beneath the disguise

In the end, Gore remained silent and was simply dragged into the next round by Wayne.

"Speaking of which, have you been playing for so long, and it's always been a close contest?" he asked casually while skillfully shuffling the cards.

Chris's expression turned sour when this was mentioned.

"It's just because I was careless and she gained the upper hand... It was clearly a win-loss cycle, but she won the first game, so it turned out I lost," she said indignantly.

Well, whether it's best of five or best of seven, the person with more wins wins, that's an ironclad rule, right?

It seems that even in front of Ge Li, Chris did not give up her nature of being a rascal.

"Hmph." Ge Li looked down at the two of them with eyes that seemed to regard them as trash. Without him saying anything else, Wayne could already fully feel the undisguised contempt in Ge Li's eyes.

"Alright, let's settle this with one game!"

He placed the washed stack of cards on the table and then glanced at them from both sides.

"The first person to play all their cards wins. Whoever has the most cards left at the end is the loser of the round," he said, explaining the revised rules.

"What if both people have the exact same number of cards left?" Chris pressed.

“It makes no difference,” Wayne boasted. “Anyway, if any one of you loses, this is the end of the day.”

"Tch, just you wait! If I don't beat you to a pulp today, I'll change my surname to yours!" Chris said defiantly as she drew the top card from the deck.

"..."

Even if you take my surname, you'll still be called Chris Wincher, right?

Indeed, hearing your words is like hearing a lecture.

Wayne looked to his left, indicating that Ge Li should draw first.

Ge Li stared at him for a while and said, "If I win, the loser has to stand at the bottom of the building and shout three times at the activity room that he is a super big pig head. And it has to be so that everyone upstairs can hear him."

So cruel!