Now Ray had all four legendary beauties gathered, and every shade of beauty in between. Full-figured or slender, none were missing.

Ray didn't jump the timeline forward. He simply watched.

Had Emperor Leopold's decline in his later years really been Seraphine's doing? Ray didn't believe it. In a world where men held every lever of power, could a woman really tip a whole dynasty into ruin?

As it turned out, Ray had guessed right. Leopold genuinely never took his own son's bride for himself. Bu