It marked the dividing line in Axel Robinson Zimmerman's life, as well as the beginning of the Great Fall.

Zimmerman seemed to become completely unreasonable overnight. Not only did he want to defeat his enemies in the dueling arena, but after almost every duel, he would go on to provoke the older women related to his opponents, including but not limited to: mothers, aunts, paternal aunts, elder sisters, female cousins on both paternal and maternal sides...

If there was really no one left, he didn't mind targeting younger sisters, female cousins, or even the daughters of family friends...

He fell from being a great noble of the Empire to a prisoner guilty of 257 crimes, including: murder, rape, arson, robbery, theft, kidnapping, intimidation...

He even broke the Empire's criminal record!

If it weren't for his previous great merits, and the Emperor having signed seven consecutive pardons, this Mr. Zimmerman would have long since been sent to the gallows.

Charlotte paused for a moment in his review of the files, suddenly feeling that this was what you could really call a life.

Compared to this Mr. Zimmerman, even with an extra chance at transmigration, his own life seemed rather dull and uninteresting.

Axel Robinson Zimmerman was now locked up in Kilmainham Prison, awaiting either the Emperor's eighth pardon or a verdict for execution by hanging.

Charlotte rubbed his brow, no longer wanting to force himself to drink this world's black tea. He decided to buy some other tea tomorrow, perhaps some floral tea imported from Dongli.

Putting down his teacup, Charlotte took off his clothes, climbed into bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The next day!

Charlotte rubbed his eyes in the morning light and woke up.

He had slept very well that night. Crawling out of bed, he washed up a bit, changed into clean clothes, and bundled up his dirty laundry to leave by the door.

The maids at the Savings Society Apartments would collect the tenants' dirty laundry left at the door, wash and iron it, and return it clean. The cost would be added to the rent and settled monthly.

After tidying up the room a bit, Charlotte didn't have time to deal with the women's clothes at home and hurriedly left the apartment—he still had some work procedures to handle today.

In this era, there was no office informatization; all official processes had to be completed manually.

Chapter 7: The Prison Army's Issued Weapons

This was also the fundamental reason why Charlotte dared to lie so openly. To check the records of an imperial bureaucrat, one had to specifically go through the files. In the Fars Empire, where even catalog searches were not widespread, going through files was hard work, and no one could expose his lie on the spot.

Charlotte also didn't believe anyone would bother to check the files afterward just to catch him, a "parasite." Too many people would be offended by such a move; the entire bureaucratic system would resist "corrections."

Charlotte first returned to the Central Government Office, buying some bagels for breakfast along the way. Unfortunately, there were no street shops selling fresh cow or goat milk anywhere in the Fars Empire, or it would have been perfect.

Eating his bagels, Charlotte pushed open the office door and saw Mrs. Aldegonde, showing her the transfer order he had received yesterday.

Mrs. Aldegonde was quite surprised and, unusually, tried to persuade him: "The working environment and promotion opportunities at Kilmainham Prison are nowhere near as good as those at the Central Government Office. Are you sure you don't want to reconsider?"

Charlotte shrugged helplessly and said, "If I had a way to refuse, I would have done it already!"

Mrs. Aldegonde sighed and signed her name.

Everyone in the office wore a look of schadenfreude. More than a few secretly thought, "Good thing it's Charlotte going. Otherwise, the unlucky one transferred to Kilmainham Prison might have been me."

The transfer order did not specify Charlotte's exact position at Kilmainham Prison.

Charlotte had no intention of showing off.

That would be an unnecessary and childish act, only bringing trouble and complications to his career.

He hurriedly left the office where he had spent two years, then visited the personnel department. In less than an hour, he completed all the procedures, left the Central Government Office, hailed a public carriage, and headed straight to Kilmainham Prison.

Visiting the Empire's oldest prison for the second time, Charlotte was already quite familiar with the place.

With the help of the reception secretary, Mrs. Parker, he quickly completed the onboarding procedures, becoming a thirty-seventh rank imperial bureaucrat and the Chief Clerk of the Warden's Office at Kilmainham Prison.

As a former first-class imperial clerk, a forty-first rank national employee, Charlotte's weekly salary was one florin and seventy shillings.

After being promoted to Chief Clerk, a thirty-seventh rank national employee, his weekly salary rose to six florins and fifteen shillings, about 3.6 times his previous pay.

Converted to Earth's purchasing power, it was equivalent to a monthly salary of nearly fifty thousand yuan, already a high-income, golden-collar class.

After finishing his work-related matters, Charlotte thanked Mrs. Parker and politely asked, "Where should I work?"

He certainly couldn't share an office with Miss Newman; that would be against the rules.

As Chief Clerk, he should theoretically have his own private office, and Charlotte was looking forward to his new work environment.