The Return of the Mad Witch
The Failure of Rudolf's Plan

The shadow King's defeat at the hands of Valencia appeared to inflict a loss on the opposing side. Enemies who have been hiding from the outside world are now starting to panic after their plans are thwarted again by Valencia. Right now Rudolf was completely out of his mind, he did not know how else to make his plan work without ending up failing.

“Again Valencia! That girl why is it always thwarting my plans?! He even got rid of all the spies I sent to investigate. Then now he also managed to slash out the King of shadows.”

Rudolf ruffled his hair, the entire room he was in today was a mess. On the surface of the floor were many glass shardings, he went berserk all day after hearing reports from his subordinates.

“Relax, Your Majesty, we can reorder the plan back.”

A man appeared from behind the darkness, the man's appearance was very similar to Charly's. There's no mistaking it, it's Duke Nerio, Charly's real father. He got involved in Rudolf's rotten plan and became one of his most loyal subordinates.

“Duke, what about your son? I heard he was rejected outright by Valencia. Is that true?” rudolf asked with eyes that radiated anger.

“Your Highness, forgive me, for the stupidity of my son Miss Valencia became angry and rejected her engagement plan. However, you do not have to worry, I will persuade the Grand Duke to continue his engagement,”, Duke Nerio assured Rudolf.

“You have to do it! The girl must be eliminated immediately. Your son's engagement to Valencia will help us get rid of him. After the engagement, you take her to live in your residence. We'll finish him off later when he's away from the outside world and with the people he knows.”

“I will convince my son to treat Miss Valencia well. I will also tell her to soften Miss Valencia.”'s heart

Rudolf smiled, now his anger had lessened because he thought that there were still many other opportunities to finish off Valencia's life.

“Good! I wait for the good news from you, Duke,”, Rudolf concluded.

A few minutes passed, Elkin who was the secretary and trusted Rudolf came after getting the call.

“Elkin, are you still not getting word from the Mihovil continent? However this plan was part of his plan,” asked Rudolf.

Elkin shook his head. “I'm sorry, Your Honor, until now I have not received any news or calls from the continent of Mihovil,” replied Elkin.

“Abiz once. Is there something going on there? All right, let's just leave it for a while. If there is still no call or news, then we must contact him first.”

***

Charly was immediately summoned by the Father to return to Duke Nerio's residence. Charly had to cancel all of his activities today in order to fulfill Duke Nerio's call. Charly knew that his father might scold him or lecture him about his relationship with Valencia. Therefore, Charly's expression from earlier was not friendly at all.

"Dad, what's calling me here?" ask Charly straight to the point.

At that time Duke Nerio was completing some work documents. He immediately stopped his work as soon as his son came to fulfill his call.

"Charly, how's your relationship with Miss Valencia?"

Charly sat himself on the sofa before finally opening his voice to answer the question posed by Duke Nerio.

"My relationship with her is getting worse, that girl is not easy to conquer."

Duke Nerio let out a long breath, already he expected to walk like this. Seeing the nature of his son who was considered stupid, Duke Nerio actually did not rely too much on hope to Charly. It's just that Charly is currently the only key to getting rid of Valencia.

"I don't want to know, you have to mend your relationship with Miss Valencia" Duke Nerio said.

"But, Dad, Valencia's a stubborn girl. I apologized and asked him to repair our relationship. But he refused it completely. Even I was hit repeatedly by him. I just want to give up, I better find a more submissive woman than her."

"It's your fault! I've warned you over and over again to be careful with Linnea. That girl is not fit to be the mistress of this house. Now you have to figure out a way to repair your relationship with Miss Valencia. Only he deserves to be your companion!" duke Nerio.

"He's very difficult to approach, plus he's surrounded by a lot of men who have a good reputation in Alegra."

Duke Nerio shook his head, who would have thought that his son would easily give up on his love affairs.

"I'll call Grand Duke Allerick to speed up your engagement. Now your job is to win Miss Valencia's heart."

Charly's expression turned sour hearing his engagement was planned to be accelerated with Valencia.

"really? Then now I just need to soften the girl's heart. To be honest there is no girl more attractive than Valencia. Please take care of our engagement, let me try to make Valencia go down."

"Yes, you have to do it so that our family gets stronger with the support of Grand Duke Allerick. Now that you're out, I'll be taking care of your engagement" Duke Nerio said.

"Good, Dad."

Duke Nerio grinned at Charly's back that was moving away from his room. He believed that his plan and Rudolf to kill Valencia would go well.

'Why would I have such a stupid child? It's a good thing that he's so easy to control that I don't have to bother explaining anything to him, Duke Nerio's inner self.

From then on, Charly tried to approach Valencia in any way without giving up. However, the result is nil, Valencia always rejects it raw without thinking long. The mission of conquest of Valencia's heart turned out to be much more difficult than his shadow.

"What else did you bring?" ketus Valencia's.

Today Charly came carrying ten boxes of cake that he had ordered from the famous Bugenvil cake shop in the capital. He believes this time Valencia will not reject him again.

"This is a gift from me to you. A popular cake that comes from a bougainvillea store," said Charly.

As Valencia's eyes twinkled, he drooled as Charly said bringing him cake from a popular shop. Valencia tried to go buy it himself to the store, but every time he got there, the store was closed because it ran out.

"This time you brought me something more useful."

Rachel and Devina stared flat at Valencia, knowing that Valencia was weak against food. However, it was unexpected that the girl was this weak with food.

"Yes, of course, I can grant whatever you want as long as you're willing to go for the ber—"

"No," cut Valencia fast.

"Eh? What's?"

"I said no! I'll never come back to you again. Now you can get out of my room" Valencia pressed.

Charly did not take Valencia's refusal for granted. He still insisted on making Valencia his own.

"Why? I tried to treat you well. I also bought you your favorite cake. I beg you, Valencia, don't turn me down again" Charly pleaded.

"Thank you for the cake and please get out of my room" Valencia said.