“Of course, I am. He’s merely a senile old man. What kind of capability does Angeline have anyway? How can she end up becoming the Ares family’s person in charge?” said Chloe.Grand Old Master Yorks replied, “All the grievances you suffered today, aren’t they the same as the ones Angeline had to endure from you?”Chloe was dumbstruck.However, Chloe came to her senses in a jiffy. “Dad, why are you helping them?”Grand Old Master Yorks sighed. “Chloe, if I continue to not distinguish right from wrong and blindly favor you, I’m afraid no one will come to pay respect to me once I pass on.”Chloe burst into tears with grievances. “Angeline is so good at selling herself to be the pitiful one. That’s why all you people are discriminatingly in favor of her. What about me? Even my son has irreconcilable differences with me. Isn’t that because of her?”Grand Old Master Yorks was getting more and more resentful as he said, “Have you forgotten what your father-in-law said today? He will no
Angeline glanced at him bitterly and then slammed the bathroom door shut. The loud crash clearly showed her inner dissatisfaction. Jay trembled and was shocked by Angeline’s inexplicable anger.Did she want to have a row with him just because of a mirror?However…Angeline had now started developing a temper again. Did that mean she was slowly walking out of that self-abasing and feeling insignificant complex?Jay opened the bathroom door and looked at Angeline with joy in his eyes.Meanwhile, Angeline was leaning against the wall as her pupils looked at him sorrowfully. She lost her initial temperament once more, yet she still weakly complained about his crime against her. “I followed you from the kitchen to the living room, then from the living room to the balcony. And I walked with you from the balcony toward the garden and finally ended up in the bathroom. Just tell me straight whether or not you’ll buy me a mirror. Don’t drag me around the house. My legs are tired from walk
Angeline nodded.Jay threw away his rational spending principle out the window. Regardless of whether the hair accessory would still be wearable later, he generously said to the stall owner, “Then, give me this, and that… Wrap them up for me.”As they were leaving, the beautiful stall owner who had just gained windfall profits continued toadying to them. “Mister, you have such good taste. Your girlfriend is so beautiful, much prettier than a celebrity. She’s just slightly too thin.”Jay’s face turned cold. “She’s my wife. Moreover, she’s perfect in my eyes.”When Jay was angry, the surrounding temperature would drop to below zero. The beautiful stall owner was so frightened that she hurriedly pressed her lips together and hurriedly escaped after closing her stall.Angeline sighed weakly. At this moment, she wanted the mirror even more urgently. “I’ll try my best to gain weight, Jaybie.” Not knowing what she was thinking of, Angeline suddenly grabbed his hand nervously as she sai
Although she had a nightmare, this time it was different. Angeline was not abruptly awoken by her dreams. She opened her eyes in a daze, and after seeing Jay, she closed her eyes and went back to sleep.The next day, Angeline woke up to the sound of birds outside the window. The warm spring sunlight shone into the screen window and cast on her crystal clear face. She opened her eyes, got up, and sat on the bed, looking at the courtyard across the street. The old loving couple was seated at their stone table outside, drinking tea as they chatted. It was as if Angeline's consciousness was filtered by a sieve. All of her confusion and muddle-headed thoughts were sifted out, and it turned into a rare moment of sobriety. She remembered how the old lady looked precisely like Jaybie.Angeline jumped down from the bed and saw the floor mirror next to her. She stood in front of the mirror for a moment, looking at herself. She had charming big eyes, a small face, and a thin figure. She w
The old couple looked at Angeline in astonishment, secretly wondering why Angeline would suddenly come to visit them.Angeline hesitated to speak at first. “I… I was bored, so I came to chat with you guys.”The grandpa glanced at Jay, who was standing on the balcony opposite, and smiled, “Are you still bored even if he’s around?”Angeline raised her gaze to look at Jay, only to realize that her abnormal behavior today must have made Jaybie somewhat worried. She made a heart shape with her hands toward him, and Jay shot back an elegant smile. “Take care of Angeline for me, please.” Jay gesticulated to the old couple.The granny smiled and said, “Don’t worry about it.”Then, Jay turned around and entered the house.The grandpa looked at the breathtakingly stunning Angeline and started joking around with the granny. “I told you. Just look at her, she’s so beautiful, yet you were worried that the husband was abusing her. Who’d be willing to bully such a pretty little lady?”Angeli
Angeline continued to remain calm and collected as she probed further. “Granny, since you’ve been married a few times, I wonder if you have children or grandchildren?”The granny’s expression instantly darkened. “Yes, I do. I’ve given birth to children for every one of my husbands. And I’ve exchanged my children for my freedom.”When the granny described the thrilling first half of her life, her tone was very calm. However, in Angeline’s heart, there was a stormy sea.“Exchanged your children for your freedom? Did your husbands try to imprison you?”Angeline was in disbelief because she had every reason to believe that Grand Old Master Ares was a very reasonable man. The granny shook her head and smiled bitterly. “They all loved me, so naturally, they wouldn’t try to imprison my body and make me unhappy. However, they disallowed me from doing things that I love, which to me, was simply as good as being dead. So I gave birth to children for them, and the children became my husband
After Angeline revealed her identity, the granny cried out in astonishment, “What? You’re Scott’s granddaughter?”Angeline had an indifferent expression on her face. “I’ll catch you up on everything while I’m still clear-headed today. Everything about the Severes, the Imperial Capital’s Areses, Doomsday’s Yorks family, and all of Monster’s family’s resentments. I’ll tell you the story from the very beginning…”Angeline spent a long time sharing the tragic and bizarre life of Jay Ares, the eldest grandson of Imperial Capital’s Ares family, through the eyes of a bystander. She told the story of how he transformed from the confused, ignorant young man into a firm and unyielding character who protected both the Areses and the Yorks; how from a domineering crown prince of Imperial Capital, he had fallen into a cage, trapped in a conflict between his mother and wife. Angeline was using her distinctively soft and gentle voice to relay the story. It was serene yet carried an endless amount
Angeline raised another question, “It was rumored that my mother-in-law, Chloe Yorks, killed you. For this reason alone, Grand Old Master Ares imprisoned her in the underground palace for many years. But, you’re not dead, Grandma Boye. I want to know who spread such a terrible rumor?”Boye sighed and said, “Before Chloe married into the Ares family, she had already given birth to a child for another man. She named the child Ron Yorks and looked for me everywhere when a terrible virus infected him. As soon as she came into the Ares family’s house, she quickly saw through my identity and made threats so that I’ll treat her son’s illness. Even though I didn’t like her very much, as a doctor, I still promised to treat her son.“But she pressed too hard, saying that she’ll expose my identity if I failed to treat her child. I was afraid, so I got a corpse and made it look like me. I used that as my crafty escape plan to leave the Ares family’s household. As for why there were such rumors,