Looking as if she was about to cry, Yuri apologized to Sage again, "I am so, so sorry, Miss Sage. I don't mean to cause you any inconveniences."Sage replied lightly, "You're still young and inexperienced. You should take this as a lesson. It's not wrong to admire good-looking guys, but you should know that not all good-looking guys are nice people, alright?""Yes, ma'am." At the thought that she was about to lose her job, tears welled in her eyes and then rolled down her cheeks. Just when she was about to leave with Cora, Jace stopped her. "Just a second."Looking at Sage, Jace said, "I was the one who asked her to bring me here. She's just doing what she was asked. There's no need to put her in this position. If there's anything that you're not happy with, you can talk to me instead."Yoel tried to catch Jace's eye, hinting that he should stop talking. Sage stared silently at Jace and sneered."Mr. Yuriel, do you have an obsession with being a hero, so you wish to save all t

Sage retorted by countering Jace's questions. She added, "Jace Yuriel, haven’t you had enough of humiliating me during the past three years?"The light in Jace's eyes dimmed.While Jace was in a daze, Sage quickly removed her wrist from his grip. Perhaps Jace had gripped her too tightly, she felt a burning pain around her wrist.Stretching her wrist, Sage looked especially cold and distant."Jace Yuriel, it doesn't matter why I chose to marry you in the first place. In the past three years, I've done nothing wrong to you. It was you who did me wrong. It was you who took our marriage for granted, who neglected your wife, who cheated on me, and you were the one who asked for a divorce. So, tell me, what have I done wrong? Am I to blame for letting you get your way?"As if she was mocking herself, Sage scoffed, "Back then, you had loved Sienna, not me. But now that you know her true colors, you decided to stop loving her, but this has nothing to do with me since we're separated. Don'

"Your hand!" Feeling the rough skin, Yoel flipped her hand over in shock. "Why does a fair lady like you have so many callouses on your hand?" The palm of her hand was completely different from the back of her hand. The back of her hands looked as if they belonged to a precious lady, as they were fair and delicate with long and slender fingers; but the palms of her hands were covered in thick callouses, especially around her fingertips."It is no wonder Jace thought you were a country girl."Turing over her hands, Yoel looked as if he had found a rare object. Frowning, Sage took back her hands and said, "So what if I'm a country girl? Who says that city girls are not allowed to have callouses on their hands? I'm sure you have more callouses than I do."Yoel extended his large hands so that she might see them. "I trained with a gun almost every day when I served the military. How can you compare yourself to me?"At the mention of this, Sage was suddenly reminded of Jace who al

Yoel smiled. "What a pleasure to be getting a 'thank you' from you.""As long as you stop saying nonsense, I will still be polite to you. After all, I'm someone with good manners." Sage unscrewed the cap, tilted her head back, and drank deeply from the bottle. The tilt of her head exposed her graceful neck, and Yoel was once again struck by her beauty."It's almost lunchtime. Are you hungry? Let me buy you lunch."After finishing the remaining water, Sage replied, "Let me buy you a meal instead."Since Yoel had planned to give her a horse, Sage wanted to repay him by buying him a meal."Sage brought Yoel to a famous Japanese restaurant in town. As it was lunchtime, there was a long queue of customers waiting in line. "They're doing really well, aren't they? I've been wanting to try this place, but I heard that they don't accept reservations and only serve a limited number of customers every day. However, I'm not sure if their food is as good as people say."Yoel sighed and wa

Speak of the devil. Myles Damian had turned up with a plate of tempura. Dressed in his chef's uniform, Myles greeted Sage politely, "I heard that you're here so I'm here to say hello.""You don't have to be this formal around me," Sage said, "I've told you so many times."All smiles, Myles replied, "I still ought to be polite to you. You're my senior after all."Yoel dropped his chopsticks. His jaw dropped as he stared at Myles. Myles looked to be in his forties. "What did you say? She's your senior?""Yeah." Putting down the plate of tempura on the table, Myles added, "Sage is my grandfather's pupil and my father's junior. Of course, she would be my senior, right, Sage?"Sage smiled lovingly at him. "Yeah."Yoel was speechless.'What did I just witness?’ thought Yoel to himself.Yoel still thought that Sage and Myles were still playing a joke on him. Looking at Myles, Yoel asked, "Chef Damian, I thought that there was a rule in your family that only allowed men to apprentice."