Bride of Retribution: Aloof Billionaire's Dominant Game

Hughes Castle

The grand and majestic Hughes Castle is built against the mountain. Occasionally, an eagle would spread its wings and slice through the sky like a bolt of lightning, a pet of the castle’s master.

Due to its ferocity and spectacular flight, the eagle has long been a symbol of bravery, power, freedom, and independence for many tribes and nations. Yet Joshua Hughes has tamed such a fierce bird as a pet, as if conquering this world just like he has conquered the eagle.

Standing on the highest terrace, adorned with beautiful and intricate Roman carvings, the terrace protrudes outward, exuding an eerie beauty as if suspended in mid-air.

He stood there, with a nearly six-foot-three impressive and muscular figure, possessing the power to make women scream in frenzy.

His sharply defined features, fierce gaze, and aristocratic nose all spoke of his noble lineage; he was a natural-born king.

Since he was eighteen, he had followed the ancient traditions of the Hughes Family, selecting a woman from among the finest as his companion for a year.

If after a year he was still satisfied with the woman, she could become his wife.

Joshua Hughes’s wife, what a title to drive countless people mad.

Even as a one-year lover, noble families from around the world did not hesitate to send their daughters for him to choose from.

Today marks the twelfth year, and all the intoxicatingly beautiful women from the past have failed to capture this man’s heart.

The dedicated room in this castle had already hosted ten women, and today it will welcome its twelfth mistress.

Luxurious cars arrived one after another, and by nightfall, twenty candidate women had arrived punctually.

In the Hughes family, women are not allowed to be proud, nor can they put on airs, because being late by even a second means losing the chance to meet Joshua Hughes.

Therefore, no one would make such a low-level mistake.

From the highest point, one can see one, two, three... women dressed in skirts filing excitedly into the hall.

Joshua Hughes gave a cold smile.

”Joshua, let me stay, won’t you?” A beautiful woman humbly fell at his feet, pleading, her delicate features pitiful in the dim light.

”I never repeat myself.” Joshua’s face showed no emotion as he coldly spoke to the woman.

He wouldn’t break the Hughes family rules; there was no need to fight over such matters. After all, she was just a woman. Why should she stay?

”Then I’ll jump down from here...” Tears couldn’t move his cold heart. This man was heartless, just like the rumors said.

The woman climbed up the high terrace, standing on the carved terrace railing, her long dress fluttering in the wind like a flower blooming on a cliff.

”If you jump down here, within five minutes they will drag your corpse away like dealing with a stray dog, quickly rinsing the blood away, and everything will return to normal.” His words carried a chilling coldness that made people shiver, and after speaking, he turned and walked away.

He didn’t even glance at her.

Leaving the woman there, tearfully sorrowful, these ridiculous women always thought they were special, unable to be the first, but always fantasizing about being the last, truly incomprehensible.

The most unbearable thing in this life is threats, and if anyone dares to threaten him, even death would seem light.

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The Yates family was brightly lit; today was the most important day in Evelyn Yates’s life.

She was going to attend a Hughes Family banquet; for a family like the Yates, compared to the Hughes’, it was worlds apart, and to have this opportunity was almost unbelievable.

”Evelyn, you must succeed. This opportunity was hard-won, and I endured for over twenty years in this family. If you can become Joshua Hughes’s woman, his wife, then no one in this world will be able to look down on us anymore, including your father and stepmother.” Harper Johnson looked at the woman; her daughter indeed possessed a beauty that could captivate the world, and that was what mattered the most.

She believed any man would be moved by her daughter, including Joshua Hughes.

The burgundy evening gown accentuated Evelyn’s tall and slender figure, making her shine like a blooming rose.