Oh? They gonna let her keep her status through marriage, thus allowing him to become an Earl? Or is the vice Captain mistaken/there's rumors going around? Hmm...
Always love it when we get to see our MC dishing out the pain herself.
Maybe one day we'll actually get to see her finish a fight without it being either interrupted or done off-screen.
I don't think it's all that smart of her to make the first move in attacking him like that with her whip. He can just use that as a defense to protect himself from any repercussion and potentially punish her for that. She should have goaded him to make the first move instead just to cover all her bases.