“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
“Sir Ares, who do you think I look like?” Rose jested with him calmly.Jay was in between laughter and tears. “Is it me?”Rose pretended to be annoyed and said, “Sir Ares, I’m clearly dressing up as the second male lead in The Moonlit Sky’s drama.”Jay frowned. “Are you talking about the villain who’s outwardly kind but inwardly evil?”She nodded repeatedly.Seeing Jay’s increasingly gloomy face, she seemed to be transfixed by a spell.She was angry on the inside, but she still had to consider the situation if she wanted to vent.By behaving so atrociously in front of the tiger, she was asking for death!“Rose, you went three days without a beating and now you want to scale to the rooftops, is that it?” How dare she ridicule him?Rose gulped. “Sir Ares, don’t be angry. It’s just that I always see you with a stubborn face all day, so I imitated your look to show you your own face. Isn’t it terrifying to have no expression?“Sir Ares, you should smile more, yeah? Like this?” Ro
Rose leaned her back against the window and clenched her fists.“Josephine, I’ll grab him. You run away quickly!”“No, I can’t leave you—”“If you stay, we’ll both die,” Rose said.Josephine turned pale.Finally, she bid Rose solemnly, “You must hold on and wait for me to come back.”Josephine then leaped down the bed and wanted to get to the door to flee.The man stared at her with hostility. “You want to escape? Dream on.” The needle flew and jabbed into Josephine’s back.“Brother, I’m your sister. You won’t even let me go?” Josephine had an expression of fear and trepidation on her face.She slowly retreated to the door.Rose suddenly strode forward, did a spinning kick, and struck the man’s neck.The man was angered by Rose. He turned around and swung his fist at her.Josephine took this opportunity to escape.The man wanted to settle Rose quickly, but she clung to him tightly. After the spinning kick, she was beaten to the ground with a punch.Thanks to her agility f
Jay was so shocked by the nightmare that he sat up immediately!Dense sweat perspired on his forehead as his chest beat fiercely from his rapid breathing.“Angeline!”Jay lifted the quilt. Wearing only snow-colored pyjamas, he fled outside desperately.It was only a few hundred meters between the Fragrant Vessel Court and Josephine’s residence, but Jay felt like he could never reach the end.Josephine’s villa was now submerged in a huge black backdrop.The gate to the garden was wide open!The gate to the villa was also open!Jay suddenly had a bad feeling. He tore his throat and shouted while running up the stairs, “Rose?“Josephine?”However. no one responded!Jay went straight to Josephine’s bedroom. The door to the bedroom was also wide open and cold wind blew in from the window.Jay looked at the broken window as panic filled his eyes.“Angeline?”He turned on the lights. The traces of struggle on the ground were still there. The glass and the bloodstains… Everything
Jay opened his mouth easily, a vicious voice sounding out, “On the day of my wife’s accident, your family caused a great mess. You told me it was a coincidence, but I’m inclined to believe it was your deliberate conspiracy to harm others.“James, if anything happens to my wife, I want all of you and your family to be buried together with her.”James gulped.Every cell in his body seemed to be frozen.It made him feel a bone-piercing cold.He thought that his foresight had always been very sharp and precise his entire life. Yet with regards to Rose, he really made an oversight.Jay had never been close to women, so why did he have to love Rose Loyle, who was nothing special to look at, so crazily?“Grayson, see the guest out,” Jay said indifferently.“Yes, Mr. Ares!” Grayson responded.Jay regarded James scornfully. “In the future, if this person comes to look for me again, just beat him and drive him out.”James’ face paled…“Jay, you hate me this much?”Grayson shot the gu