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WHAT COULD IT BE?\n\n“THEREFORE, WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU...”\n“...THAT YOUR EMPLOYMENT IS BEING TERMINATED.”\n\nTHE REASON FOR YOUR DISMISSAL IS ALREADY WRITTEN RIGHT THERE.\nDUE TO FINANCIAL REASONS, WE ARE DOWNSIZING THE STAFF.\nSTILL, YOU CAN'T JUST FIRE SOMEONE OVERNIGHT!\n\nLOOK, MISS.\nDID YOU WANT A YEAR'S ADVANCE NOTICE?\nTHERE'S NOTHING IN YOUR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT SAYING WE NEED TO ALERT YOU AHEAD OF TIME.\nHOW CAN I FAIL EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET A JOB...\n...ONLY TO GET FIRED SO RIDICULOUSLY FROM THE ONE I FINALLY GET?\n\nIS THIS HOW SOCIETY IS?\nIS IT JUST BECAUSE I'M A COMMONER AND A WOMAN?\n\nIF I WEREN'T A COMMONER, WOULD THINGS HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT?\n\nFIRST...\nI JUST NEED TO GO HOME.\nAFTER A BIT OF REST--\nOLIVIA?\nANSEN.\n\nOLIVIA...\n\nYOU DON'T LOOK WELL. IS SOMETHING THE MATTER?\nNO. YOU MUST HAVE BUSINESS AT THE LIBRARY. BE ON YOUR WAY.\nIF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME.\n\nOLIVIA.\nDO YOU STILL FEEL THE SAME WAY AS WHEN WE LAST MET?\n\nI NEED YOU.\nYOU MEAN YOU NEED OLIVER.\n\nWHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?\n\nOLIVIA. INSTEAD OF BEING SO HARSH ON YOU...\n\n...I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT A WAY THAT MIGHT SATISFY YOU AS WELL.\n...NO, I CAN'T MARRY A COMMONER.\nPOLDER IS STILL RULED BY THE FORMER NOBLE FAMILIES OF NOPHOK.\n\nPOOR OLIVIA.\nJUST SEE HOW MUCH LONGER YOU CAN BEAR THE COLD OF WINTER. ONE DAY...\n...YOU'LL SEE THAT WHAT I AM OFFERING YOU IS SPRING.\nI'M NOT THE ONE IN A HURRY.\n\nYOU ARE.\n\nHEROD, POLO CLUB\nMATT SEYMOUR (ISABEL'S OLDER BROTHER)\nISABEL SEYMOUR\n\nSINCE HER DEBUT LAST SEASON, ISABEL SEYMOUR, THE RISING STAR OF HIGH SOCIETY...\n\n...REJECTED ALL LOVE LETTERS AND MEETING REQUESTS AND INSTEAD BEGAN ATTENDING THE POLO CLUB.\nSINCE THE POLO CLUB HAD LONG BEEN A PLACE FOR MEN...\n...PEOPLE WERE TAKEN ABACK BY ISABEL'S APPEARANCE THERE.\nHOWEVER, ONCE THE RUMORS SPREAD, OTHER YOUNG LADIES BEGAN ATTENDING WITH THEIR MALE FAMILY MEMBERS.\n\nAS A RESULT, POLO CLUB GATHERINGS CAUGHT ON AS A NEW TREND OVER THE PAST YEAR.\nLADY SEYMOUR!\nOH, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, HASN'T IT?\n\nHE'S NOT HERE YET.\nMY, JUST WHO DO YOU THINK I'M WAITING FOR?\n\nDON'T PLAY COY! WORD IS OUT THAT THE PRINCE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE!\nEVERYONE KNOWS!\nI WONDER WHEN HE'LL COME.\n\nNOAH ASTRID IS HERE.\n\nIT'S AN HONOR TO SEE YOU AGAIN...\n\n...YOUR HIGHNESS.","bubble_count":61,"pages_count":27,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"After Susanna Liberty's funeral, Olivia is dismissed overnight from her job at the Central Library on grounds of financial downsizing.","spoiler_summary":"After Susanna Liberty's funeral, Olivia is dismissed overnight from her job at the Central Library on grounds of financial downsizing. She feels ostracized for being an ordinary person and a woman. On her way home she encounters Ansen; Ansen tells her he needs her but implies he cannot propose marriage. 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