The withdrawal negotiation between Emperor Odin and Marianne is simply a vicious battle, after all, barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, and His Majesty the Emperor of Odin does not want to tear his face off with this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca, so Earl Arlen had to bring his royal lawyers and tug of war with Marianne for nearly a week before he struggled to finalize the first draft of the withdrawal agreement.
And just when Earl Arlen thought it was all going to be over, this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca who got the news packed her personal attorney to the Odin Palace, so much so that Earl Arlen and Odin's Royal Attorney had to continue to sink in the black vortex of the withdrawal of the marriage and let Marianne look at the jokes for a long time.
"You're quite the procrastinator." Abigail, who had accompanied Marianne to watch the show, spat, "You never intended to sign from the beginning, did you?"
Marianne threw Abigail a look that said, "Not bad for following me all these years," and said bluntly, "I've always been a professional. No one in Odin would have dared take my withdrawal agreement until my mother sent in the royal attorney from the Grand Duchy of Norscar."
Even though Earl Arlen felt pressurized by Marianne's request for withdrawal, the other party was at least an old noble who had seen great scenes. Even if he was a dry rice eater in Odin, it was still a dry rice eater following the emperor.
Marianne didn't dare to underestimate the old nobles who were entrusted by the Emperor of Odin, so after receiving the news of the withdrawal, she sought support from this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca while biting the bullet and not signing any agreement.
Although the female Grand Duke of Norsca is not a loving mother, Marianne can only rely on her now.
As for Count Calda ......
Obstar's country has teased him as "the standard bearer of soft food, the model of the nibbler."
And to get him involved in a fight between his wife and his big brother?
Count Calda would rather bury himself.
"I notice the little emperor has been sending you more jewelry in the last few days?" Abigail opened a bottle of champagne for Marianne, congratulating her in advance for being out of her misery.
"Like it? If you like it, I'll lend it to you for a few days." Marianne said very generously, "After all, these are things you can't take away, so if you want to wear them, you'll have to do it while you can."
"Can't take them away? Didn't the little emperor give them all to you?" Abigail was very puzzled, "I've never heard of any nobleman taking back jewelry that was given away. Who but King Canterlot would do such a classless thing?"
"It's not that the little emperor is in bad taste, it's that I've been capricious enough, so I'm going to 'make nice' with him." Marianne took a sip of the amber-colored liquid and struck a rather enjoyable pose, "After all, my mother sent out lawyers instead of a legion of emissaries, so the supreme rulers of both countries have tacitly agreed to settle this in private. Since my mother has made her position known to Odin's young emperor, it would be stomping on my nose to make any more trouble."
Marianne was quite an intelligent child, which was the main reason why this female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca favored her more.
"After I leave, these jewels will be given to the maids and servants who have taken care of me in the name of Emperor Odin as a token of my and Emperor Odin's gratitude to them." Marianne didn't care about the jewels that were flowing. Because the female Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Norsca was one of the richest women in the world, Marianne had seen too many good things to care about these trinkets used to coax people, "Since we are going to break up, let's break up decently and leave quietly after the compensation is in place."
Speaking of which, Marianne also shook what was left of her champagne and threw Abigail a thoughtful question, "Do you know why aristocrats like to give jewelry?"
"Because it's beautiful? High value?" Abigail reflexively said.
"No, because women who accept jewelry are good liars." Marianne felt that aristocrats gave jewelry in the same way that rich old men in the twenty-first century liked to give luxuries to their mistresses, both in order to quickly differentiate between women who were good to coax and easy to discard into existence, "Jewelry carries a high premium. Besides, compared to land, an annual salary, or even a serious knighthood, is there anything cheaper than jewelry?"
Marianne hit the nail on the head, "Money can do a lot of things, but these jewels, which are hard to liquidate, can only be flaunted at a ball."
"But jewelry can be liquidated! If you just sell it, won't you have money instantly?"
"Sounds good, but the problem is that if you dare to sell it, will the other party dare to take it?" Marianne asked rhetorically, "Jewelry dealers aren't stupid, and even some jewelers with poisonous eyes are able to tell at a glance who this thing is actually from."
"Middlemen like jewelry dealers, art dealers, weapons dealers, and even slavers more or less have their own channels of information. Unless it's a nobleman himself who's going to pawn the jewelry, the jeweler has ten thousand reasons to reject it." Marianne thought Odin's little emperor could be better speculated than her first fiancé.
After all, Richard of Solins was a man who had voluntarily "sold himself" to a "rich woman" for the sake of his country.
Marianne, at least, had never seen a ruler more willing to do so.
Compared to Richard of Solins, Odin's little emperor was still a little too thin-skinned.
"He's treating me like one of those easy women." Marianne knows what's "hard currency" in the royal family, so she doesn't appreciate these tricks.
"If he's willing to give it away, I'll do him a favor." Marianne laughed to herself, "Don't you think it's funny? If it's the man who proposes 'annulment of marriage contract', then the woman is the loser who is returned home; and if it's the queen who proposes 'annulment of marriage contract', then the man and the woman are peacefully parted."
"As for me here, no matter who withdrew from the marriage first, I'm the object of the public's pity, the complete and utter loser."
"The difference is that Odin's little emperor is good-natured and doesn't open his mouth as nonchalantly as the first two sons of bitches."
Abigail was taken aback by Marianne's "son of a b***h" and said reassuringly for a change, "At least, at least you're a loser with a lot of money along with a lot of power and a lot of land. If all losers are like you, then I want to be a loser too."
At the thought of Marianne's vast possessions, Abigail felt like she wasn't consoling but eating a rich woman's lemon, her heart much Marianne very sour.
She, a poor witch through the heart of the earth, was actually going to sympathize with her golden master?
Is she herself crazy, or is there something wrong with the world?
"You're right, I have money and power and land, there's no need for me to live like a whiny bitch." Marianne, who had excellent self-explanatory skills, raised her eyebrows and said, "That's why I'm going to screw the little emperor one more time when we break up!"
Wait, who was the one who just said good riddance?
"...... What are you trying to do again?"
"In the name of the young emperor, to pass on the jewelry he gave me to the court servants who took care of me."
"But isn't that a good thing?"
"The problem is that all that jewelry has no use other than looking good. It's impossible to sell it, and there's no place to show it off when you hold it. Do you think the palace servants who get the jewelry will be happy? They'll only complain that the little emperor doesn't know how to understand people's hearts, who would have expected this to be my idea?"
"......"
"Let me take the good name, and let the complaints be carried by the little emperor."
"......"
"I can be such an understanding ex-girlfriend."