At that moment, the door opened and Severin walked in with Sheila. She looked calmly at Sean and Darcy, who felt a little guilty when she stared at him.Sean thought for a while and said to Severin, "Mister Severin, you need to save the head of our family. He vomited blood all of a sudden this afternoon and passed out soon after! He hasn't woken up since then. I wanted to get someone to send him to the hospital, but Sheila says that you can save him because you're aware of his condition!"Severin smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry. He'll live through this now that I'm here!""That's…that's great." Sean froze for a moment and forced a smile, but there was an imperceptible look of disappointment in his eyes.Severin took out a small box, placed it to one side, and took out several silver needles as he turned to Sean and Darcy. "You may excuse yourselves. Sheila can stay here and keep watch. Mister Zachariah will wake up soon, and all you need to do is wait downstairs!""Is that s
Severin was speechless for a moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times. Sheila truly was a master at taking advantage of the situation!Zachariah frowned, and it was evident that he had been put in a tight spot by Sheila's proposal. Judging from how Zachariah reacted, Severin knew that the man still did not think too highly of him, but he was nonetheless quite happy that the other party looked down on him because he had always intended to keep a proper distance from Sheila. He immediately smiled and said, "I can't accept that either. Please don't be silly, Miss Sheila! You're Mister Zachariah's treasured daughter, and it'll be a big loss for the Ballards if you marry me!"As he spoke, he removed the silver needles one by one and changed the subject without giving Sheila a chance to interrupt. "Like I said earlier this morning, you were poisoned. There was an obscene amount of poison in the mouthful of black blood that you spat out earlier. What I did was force your bo
After Zachariah heard that, he could not help but laugh and say, "I'm a bit of a snob. I like to judge everything by its value in money because I've always felt that people tend to do things only for money. Individuals like you are a rare gem, Mister Severin!"Sheila then said to Zachariah, "Dad, when we entered, we heard Sean and Darcy talking about—"Before Sheila could finish speaking, Zachariah stretched out his hand to tell her to stop and interrupted her, "Say no more. I might be unconscious, earlier, but I still heard what those ungrateful people said about me. They are utterly despicable! I really didn't expect that they'd plot to kill me and you for the sake of money!" After he finished speaking, he clenched his fist and said, "I'll go down soon and tell them to scram. I want them to leave here with nothing but the clothes on their backs. I'll have their bank accounts and all credit cards frozen, and they'll have to leave the company too."Zachariah became angrier the more
"Zachariah! It's good to see you back in the pink of health! Everyone is worried about you!" Darcy also walked over and smiled with concern.Zachariah sneered in his heart. Had he not overheard the conversation between the two when he was unconscious, he would have thought the two of them were good-hearted relatives. His face darkened and he snorted coldly, "Bodyguards, please!"A group of bodyguards then rushed in from outside.Zachariah immediately said, "Did you think I wouldn't hear what the two of you said earlier? You were hoping to see me die so you could divide my assets among yourselves, and you even said that you'd cause an accident to kill my daughter. I might be unconscious and unable to open my eyes, but I heard every single thing you said!" After ending his sentence, he took a step forward and glared at the other party as he said, "I have never treated you unfairly, so it brings me great disappointment when I found out how ungrateful the two of you are.""Seriously? S
Zachariah felt emotional as he looked at the family-less old man who had devoted more than thirty years of his young life to the Ballards. "Worry not. I'm fine. Mister Severin said that I was poisoned, and most of the poison in my body had been forced out. He'll give me an herbal prescription for us in a bit, and I just need to boil the herbs into a drink!"The old butler breathed a sigh of relief and said to Severin, "Thank you, Mister Severin!"Severin, who had been secretly paying attention to the servants, smiled at the old butler and said, "You're most welcome. Sheila and I are friends, so it's only right that I help her out!"He then asked someone to take out the paper and pen, wrote down the prescription, and handed it to the old butler so he could arrange for someone to get the necessary herbs."Sir, how could you be poisoned when you've been at home all this time?" The old butler could not help but ask Zachariah as he tried to think of what could possibly cause the poisoni
"I see. It's a slow-acting poison that takes a long time to kick in but is extremely deadly. Have I got that right?" Sheila sighed lamentably. "I didn't expect Lena to be that sort of person. Our family has always treated her very well, and she has worked many years for us."Severin smiled and said, "Lena looks like an honest person, and she wouldn't have understood what she had been doing. She must've placed the incense under someone else's instruction, and now that I've rid you of your poison, Lena will very likely meet the person who told her to do it. We just need to follow her to find out who's the true culprit!"Zachariah gave Severin an enthusiastic thumbs up. "You truly are amazing, Mister Severin. I am fully convinced by your abilities, for you have a perceptive mind in addition to your excellent medical skills. You have my utmost admiration."Sheila finally had a realization. "Now I understand why Lena panicked and had such a frightened look when you yelled at her earlier.
"Besides, if it weren't for you, I would've lost my closest family. I don't even know how to repay you now!" Sheila pursed her lips, smiled, and rushed forward all of a sudden to try and sneak a kiss on Severin.Severin was unprepared for her bold actions the last time around, but he had learned his lesson since then and was on the alert for any sneaky tricks she might try to pull again. As soon as he saw her move, he immediately dodged several meters to the right to evade Sheila's sudden kiss.She pouted angrily in response and said, "Why are you hiding so far away? You make it seem like I'm going to eat you up!"Severin patted his chest and could not help but say, "Now that you mention it, I am scared of that. Luckily, I was fast enough to dodge you, otherwise, you would've attacked me already!""Hmph, don't you like being kissed by me?" Sheila could not help but roll her eyes at Severin. "Is there something wrong with me? Am I ugly? Are my thighs not sexy enough? Or are my breas
Lena calmed down after a moment and went out of the room to take a walk. Little did she know that two people were already watching her from the shadows.Halfway through her stroll, she saw a few bodyguards carrying the wooden chair into the yard. They poured lots of gasoline over the chair and heaped some firewood over it before setting it on fire.Lena felt her heart skip a beat, but she could not help herself from walking over and asking the bodyguards, "Why are you burning the wooden chair, Dan? Isn't it precious? It's also Mister Zachariah's most cherished item too. Doesn't he always show it off to other people? Why did he decide to burn it?"Dan, the bodyguard, said to Lena, "We don't know for sure, but we've been told to burn it because it's poisonous. I'm just as surprised that we were ordered to do that when this is such a precious treasure. There might not be another one like this in the whole of the country!""I see." Lena smiled awkwardly and continued walking.…Diane