It is said that when the Pirate King's fg waved outside Minfoster, the rgest port in the empire, one of the imperial navy's generals was so terrified that he wet his pants.

  At the time, Minfoster Port had fewer thay warships docked for rest and maintenance, while the returning pirate fleet boasted over three hundred warships, their scale massive and their bat prowess formidable. They were capable of razing the empire's rgest port in a sitle and, by marg swiftly along the coastline, could reach the imperial capital of Strasb within a week.

  The bustling port city fell into despair—every resident and mert felt as if doomsday roag. Fewer than half of the soldiers could muster the ce to fight.

  When the Pirate King's fgship and its fleet raised the fg of surrender, Minfoster Port erupted into a celebration of unpreted magnitude. Every resident cheered with explosive joy, and tless people flooded the streets, singing and dang.

  Zimourman Axel Robihe pirate fleet back to the empire, pledging loyalty once again, and for a time his prestige was unparalleled.

  In just a few years, Zimourman Axel Robin’s reputation had plummeted to ro and then soared again to heights that even his extraordinary talents should never have been able to achieve in his lifetime. His young life became a legend of the empire.

  That year, Zimourman Axel Robin's fame rivaled that of his aor Saroses Robin from five epochs prior. He was regarded as the most untamable figure of his time, destio leave his mark on history.

  When the ki Zimourman Axel Robin, he ughed and said, “Ask for any reward you wish—anything but the throne!”

  What Zimourman asked for stunned everyone. He refused to rejoin the Robin family and instead requested the surname Axel from the king. He ged his name from Zimourman Robin to Zimourman Axel Robin.

  After leading the fleet back to the empire, Zimourman Axel Robin seemed to have achieved all his life's goals. His personality underwent a peculiar transformation.

  Before defeg with his fleet, Zimourman Axel Robin had been a silent and reserved man, deeply engrossed in his studies. He saw all forms of eai as unnecessary, was strict with himself, and led a rigid lifestyle. His mentors described him as having the precision of a clo his schedule and the discipline of a saint in his duct. "This man sees nothing beyond academid truth," they would say.

  However, upourning to the empire, Zimourman seemed to shed all pretense. In just a few days, he became the empire’s most seasoned libertine.

  Miss Menielma, the legendary senior of Charlot Meburg, had once been Zimourman’s fiancée.

  One day, when she visited her mother, she discovered Zimourman "w hard" on her mother.

  The se was an unbearable humiliation for Menielman.

  Furious beyond measure, the empire’s foremost rose drew her sword on the spot, i on dueling the debauched sdrel.

  Charlot Meburg, having iently stumbled upoails, learned why Miss Menielman had burhose dots.

  Were it not for the widespread dissemination of this sdal, Charlot suspected that the esteemed seniht have itted murder to silenesses.

  Given her noble lineage and status, killing a few first-css civil servants of the forty-first rank would not have been sidered a serious imperial crime.

  The duel ook pce as pnned. After bringing Mrs. Pascal to the peak of ecstasy, Zimourman flipped over, smashed through the window, and vanished from Menielman’s sight with astonishing speed.

  Menielman, the Imperial Rose, could not stop the shameless sdrel.

  The following day, Menielman issued a public decration not only g the e but also challenging Zimourman Axel Robin to a duel to the death.

  The most outstanding Imperial Rose found herself surrounded by tless loyal admirers eager to avenge her honor.

  Within a single day, Zimourman Axel Robin received hundreds of duel invitations. No matter where he went, someone would er him ireet, demanding a duel.

  As a desdant of the Robin family, Zimourman had mastered his family’s swordsmanship to a level even fiercer and more ruthless than that of his aor during his prime five hundred years ago.

  Zimourman won several duels in public but, during the eighteenth duel, rovoked into killing his oppo oreet.

  From then on, he left no survivors in his duels. In 115 duels, Zimourman Axel Robin killed 115 challengers, earning the enmity of the majority of the empire's nobility.

  After all, those qualified to challenge him were all noble ss of prestigious lineage.

  This widespread flict became known in history as The Imperial Rose I.

  It marked the turning point in Zimourman Axel Robin’s life and the beginning of his grand downfall.

  Zimourman became utterly inprehensible ht. Not only did he humiliate his oppos in duels, but he also made it a point to seduce their elder female retives, including but not limited to mothers, aunts, and older sisters. When those options were exhausted, he targeted younger sisters, cousins, and even childhood friends.

  Falling from a high-ranking o a criminal guilty of 257 offenses—murder, rape, arson, robbery, theft, kidnapping, intimidation, and more—he shattered the empire’s criminal records.

  If not for his immense prior tributions, Emperor Julius VI would not have signed seven secutive pardons. Without them, Zimourman would have long since been hanged.

  As Charlot finished reviewing the dots, he couldn’t help but marvel. Now this was a life worth living.

  pared to Zimourman Axel Robin, even his own transmigrated existence seemed dull and monotonous.

  Zimourman Axel Robin was currently imprisoned in Kilmainham Prison, awaitiher the emperor’s eighth pardon or the decree for his execution by hanging.

  Charlot rubbed his temples, no longer willing to force himself to drink the tea of this world. He decided he would buy some imported floral tea from Dongli tomorrow.

  Putting doweacup, Charlot undressed and climbed into bed, soon falling into a deep sleep.

  ...

  The day!

  Charlot awoke to the soft m light, rubbing his eyes.

  He had slept well. Crawling out of bed, he washed up, ged into clothes, and bundled his dirty undry, pg it at the door.

  The maids of the Savings Union apartments would collect the undry, and iron it, aurn it ter. The charges were added to the monthly rent.

  After tidying up his room, Charlot didn’t have time to deal with the women’s clothi in his home and hurriedly left the apartmeill had work-reted matters to handle.

  In this era, there was no such thing as digitized office processes. Everything relied on manpower.