Dinner.Rose had made some noodles.When she was cooking, Jay reminded her aggrievedly. "I haven’t had dinner either."Rose looked at him blankly. "Who are you trying to fool?""I threw the steak into the trash."Her gaze fell on the trash can and when she saw all the props from the candlelight dinner inside, her face turned red.Did she really overreact today?Rose handed the bowl of noodles into Jay’s hand. "You can eat first. I'll cook another bowl."He said, "I can't finish it. Why don't we eat together?"Startled, she nodded.A bowl of plain noodles and two pairs of cutleries.Just like this, the two of them took a bite one after another.Rose took a bite only to find out that she had forgotten to put condiments into the noodles.It was plain like water and tasted like they were chewing wax.She secretly glanced at Jay, thinking that he would dislike it, but she did not expect him to eat it as if it was good.Rose bit her cutlery in perplexity. What show was this gu
Jay walked into Rose Manor with a sullen expression as the noisy manor suddenly became silent with his arrival.His eagle-like gaze swept over everyone present. All three wives and their respective sons and daughters were here. It was almost everyone.James looked at Jay with a cold expression. "Jay, this is my family’s affair. It has nothing to do with you."When Jay was 28 years old, Grand Old Master Ares had felt that his body was declining, so the management of the Ares family's affairs was transferred to Jay.This decision had aroused strong opposition from his uncles at the time. After all, they were the elders, yet they were to be controlled by the younger Jay.However, Jay had quickly grasped everyone by their wrists and subdued them. In the past few years, the Ares family had calmed down a lot.Only in recent years as the children from the different families gradually grew into adults, they once again began to stir things up. It was not only those from the third wife’s f
Rose really could not listen to things any longer. She could tell that no matter how many things James did to disappoint the third lady, the third lady would never leave him."Another unhappy couple!" Rose exclaimed.She wanted to go over to comfort the third wife, but Josephine held her hand all of a sudden and blinked at her.Rose came back to her senses immediately. Josephine wanted her to take the opportunity to leave here and go to Fragrant Vessel Court to search for the answer she wanted.As such, the two sneaked off.Jay's gaze inadvertently caught the backs of the two little women sneaking away. His eyes darkened.“Sis Angeline, I completely betrayed my brother for you." Josephine was a little sad when she said this.Rose did not want her to feel bad and threw her hands. "Josephine, your brother doesn’t dislike you. You don't have to go through the muddy waters with me. Why don’t you go back?"Josephine then patted her chest loyally and said sharply, "That won't do. You
“Follow me.” Jay said.Rose and Josephine were like two innocent kids, walking behind Jay with bowed heads and shrugged shoulders.Jay came to the front door and stretched out his slender finger to unlock the fingerprint lock. After pressing a few keys on it, he turned around and took Rose’s hand, pressing her finger on the fingerprint lock.“From now on, use the front door,” Jay said gloomily and coldly.“Yes.” Rose was surprised that he actually registered her fingerprint into the fingerprint lock. Was he not afraid that she would come back to investigate his secrets at any time?It was not until the lights were turned on and after he sat on the sofa that Rose realized that there were small thorns all over the back of Jay’s left hand. It was a ghastly sight.If it was a pair of rough-skinned hands, perhaps Rose would not feel as sorry, but Jay’s hands were very charming. His fingers were slender, the joints well-proportioned. Plus, they were so fair. They were hands that were e
“I’m leaving.” Josephine stood up and exhorted Rose with a hidden agenda. “Sister-in-law, call me if something happens!”Rose nodded at her.Jay looked up and stared at Josephine coldly. “We won’t need your help here.”Josephine waved goodbye.After she left, Rose struck up a conversation, “Oh right, how’s it going with the family?”Jay said, “They’re just a bunch of scoundrels.”Hearing his response, Rose was slightly startled. She recalled the cries of the third lady in her head and the sorrowful eyes of the young woman who had lost her child.She could not help but sigh at their tragic fate.“Ah!”He reached out and lifted her chin, forcing her to look at him.“Don’t worry, I’ll never cause you these troubles,” he spoke with extreme seriousness, as solemn and majestic as if it was a sworn oath.Rose was startled for a bit and nodded.“Okay.” She did not know what his true objective was with her.Did he want to gain her trust through deception?“Your third uncle is so c
Rose Manor.Jean cast the kept women into the world with nothing to their names by cruel means. This ignited the most intense quarrel between the father and son, James and Jean Ares.“Jean, how dare you disobey me?” James was so angry that he grabbed the wine cup and held it toward Jean.Jean stood there in a daze, letting his father vent.Seeing that the wine cup was about to land on Jean’s body, the third lady, who loved her son dearly, rushed over immediately. The wine cup hit her forehead and all of a sudden, fresh blood flowed down.James had no mercy. He roared angrily at the mother and son, “Get the hell out of here!”Jean grabbed his mother’s hand and stared at his father with bloodshot eyes. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said bitterly, “Mom, did you hear that? Is Dad ordering us to leave?”The third lady was clutching her forehead. The pain of the wound could not compensate for the pain in her heart. “James Ares, how could you be so ruthless to us?”“Hmph.” James’
If James did not want a divorce, she would not divorce him.James always hated Jay for ruining his reputation every time, and his long-term grudges finally exploded. “Jay Ares, I’ll say this again. This is my family’s matter. It’s none of your business.”Jay’s eagle eyes narrowed. He was not a man of patience to begin with and having to repeatedly deal with the affairs of James and his families made him impatient. James’ words, like a fuse, instantly evoked his resentment.Both the uncle and nephew looked at each other with dissatisfaction in their gazes. James, the taciturn sheep, had rebelled at last. Jay, on the other hand, trampled on the etiquette and inferiority between an uncle and nephew.With two pairs of eyes staring down each other, a duel without gunpowder had begun.“You don’t want me to meddle in your affairs?“Third Uncle wants to live in a separate house, is that it?”James had wanted to branch out from the family earlier on. This way, he could attain his own por
At the same time.Rose and Josephine had dressed up and snuck into the back garden of the Fragrant Vessel Court.Rose had disguised herself as Jay while Josephine disguised herself as Rose. The two of them had so much fun pretending to be husband and wife.“Sister-in-law, I didn’t expect your disguise to look so much like my brother! Especially your demeanor, it’s so profound,” Josephine said.Rose said, “Your brother has a poker face that hasn’t changed for thousands of years. I just have to keep my face straight.”Rose followed the route based on her memory and walked to the end of the bluestone pavement. In the front was a muddy path, and various vines as well as shrubs grew densely on both sides of the path. The cold wind blew, making the shadows of the trees dance.Josephine suddenly gripped Rose’s hand tightly. She said with a tremble, “It’s kinda creepy here.”“Shh!” Rose lowered her voice. “I remember that I had run into that strange, crawling woman here.”Rose pulled h