Chapter 699 Homecoming Banquet
- More than twenty years earlier, at a similar gala, a reckless suitor had mistaken Eloise for an unguarded heiress and tried his luck.
- By dawn, his family was scouring the planet for surgeons skilled enough to reassemble the legs someone had broken on his behalf.
- The tale spread, becoming creed. Eloise Laugier was not to be trifled with.