Chapter 785 – Do You Enjoy Competition? [Part 1]
He stood there calmly with one hand in his pocket, wine glass in the other, looking exactly like someone who had walked into the situation on purpose.
Inside his head?
He was already mentally trying to exit the competition.
Because the problem was simple.
Lux did not want the prize.
Not because Vira was unattractive.
She was dangerously attractive.
The kind of beautiful that made half the room subtly straighten their posture the moment she looked their way.
But Lux wasn't here for that.
He wasn't here to flirt.
He wasn't here to compete.
And he definitely wasn't here to win.
He had come for one reason.
Cyrinne.
Lux scanned the garden again casually.
Left side.
Three nobles.
Right side.
Two near the fountain.
One leaning by the silk canopy.
None of them were her.
No exiled Envy bloodline trying to stay invisible.
Lux took a slow sip of wine.
'Of course.'
