Chapter 36 Duke: Protective Mode Activated
The first thing people noticed was not the distance. It was the change.
Grand Duke Aric Solheim had always been a man of presence—cold, sharp, distant in a way that made lesser nobles instinctively lower their voices when he entered a room.
But this… This was different. This was focus.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Queen of Blades Dies
2. Chapter 2 I Have a Ridiculous New Body
3. Chapter 3 Panic Over Her Future Death and Future Training Plan
4. Chapter 4 Interlude - The Day the Sword Instructor Questioned Reality
5. Chapter 5 Interlude – The Day She Deleted a Training Golem in Three Seconds
6. Chapter 6 Interlude – The Day She Said Goodbye to Her Old Squad
7. Chapter 7 Interlude – The Aftermath (How an Entire Estate Developed PTSD)
8. Chapter 8 Interlude - Phase One: Structural Reinforcement
9. Chapter 9 Interlude - Phase Two: Power and Speed Calibration
10. Chapter 10 Interlude – The Day the Demolition Team Quit
11. Chapter 11 Interlude – The Day She Jumped from an Airship onto a Flying Griffon (And Traumatized Two Entire Professions at Once)
12. Chapter 12 Interlude – The Day She Tried to Land on a Dragon (And Accidentally Started a Diplomatic Incident)
13. Chapter 13 Interlude – The Day She Decided the Flying Deities Mattered (And Almost Got Written into a Religion by Accident)
14. Chapter 14 Interlude – The Day Ulrika Vincent Tried to Be a Normal Noble Girl (And Everyone Thought the Apocalypse Was Imminent)
15. Chapter 15 Interlude – The Queen of Blades Remembered(Or: The Day Ulrika Vincent Finally Let Herself Mourn the Woman She Had Been)
16. Chapter 16 Interlude – When the Gods Wept (Or: The Day the Entire Pantheon Acknowledged the Queen of Blades and Let Her Go)
17. Chapter 17 Interlude – The Day Every Divine Being Witnessed the Life and Death of the Queen of Blades
18. Chapter 18 Interlude – The Covenant of Two Thrones
19. Chapter 19 Interlude – The Divine Apology to Two Mortal Hearts
20. Chapter 20 Oh Hell No, I’m Not Dying for That Prince
21. Chapter 21 The Villain’s Ending
22. Chapter 22 Operation: Ruin the Plot
23. Chapter 23 The Runaway Lady
24. Chapter 24 Breaking Into a Duke’s Bedroom
25. Chapter 25 The Worst Seduction in History
26. Chapter 26 Morning After System Failure
27. Chapter 27 Emotional Shutdown
28. Chapter 28 The Diagnosis
29. Chapter 29 The Duke Malfunctions
30. Chapter 30 He Stops Functioning as a Human
31. Chapter 31 Proposal by Instinct
32. Chapter 32 Noble Society Explodes
33. Chapter 33 Crown Prince Rage Mode
34. Chapter 34 Political Fallout
35. Chapter 35 Selene Meets Ulrika
36. Chapter 36 Duke: Protective Mode Activated
37. Chapter 37 Engagement Ball Disaster (Part I)
38. Chapter 38 Engagement Ball Disaster (Part II & Part III)
39. Chapter 39 Public Claim
40. Chapter 40 Domestic Awkwardness
41. Chapter 41 Feral Nesting
42. Chapter 42 Aric Learns Feelings
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