As the eldest son of the Schulz family, Sheldon had already witnessed and experienced many different big scenes throughout the many years. However, at this time, when he was facing Charlie, who was in his twenties, he was in an unprecedented state of panic.He could not understand why this descendant of the Wade family in front of him would actually be so vicious. He actually dared to attack the members of the Schulz family, one after the other, without any scruples.Even back then when the competition between the Schulz family and the Wade family was at its fiercest, no one had dared to come up with such an unscrupulous tactic. After all, both sides were very strong and powerful. This was equivalent to two countries with nuclear weapons. Neither one of them would actually dare to go all out to fight the other.However, Curtis’s son, who was in front of him, did not seem to care about all this.He had even kidnapped Steven directly, and this in itself was already sufficient to prov
Charlie scoffed as he said, “What a piece of trash!”Sheldon blurted out, “What do you mean?!”Charlie yelled out loud, “I said that you’re a piece of trash! A complete piece of trash!”Having said that, Charlie pointed at Sheldon’s swollen face before he said coldly, “Rosalie is your illegitimate daughter, but instead of showing her love and care as her father, you used her as a tool to commit murder, and you instigated her to wantonly kill the innocent. The evil deed that she committed in Japan, annihilating the entire Matsumoto family, was all because she was acting under your order! You do not have any family affection! You are utterly shameless, cruel, unjust, and you are a useless father!”“Not only that, but Rosalie’s biological mother had stayed by your side for so many years, always doing her best to protect you. She even lost one of her arms because of you. After that, she gave birth to Rosalie for you. Yet, how did you treat her in the end? Have you ever openly acknowled
Every single one of Charlie’s words struck deep in Sheldon’s heart.At this moment, when he imagined walking up on the bloody throne with Jaime, Sophie, and Rosalie’s heads in both of his hands, he felt that his heart was about to instantly explode.His tears started gushing out as he blurted out loudly, “No! It’s not like that! I’ve never thought of using any of their lives in exchange for wealth and status! I’ve always been helpless and forced to do so! It was not my own will”As he spoke, Sheldon became even more emotional as he continued speaking, “My father was the one who had been doing all this! Moreover, every time he would make this kind of decision or whenever he would issue this kind of order, he would never tell me about it. I’m also in a lot of pain, but there is nothing else that I can do!”Charlie asked coldly, “Was there truly nothing else that you could have done, or did you choose to turn a blind eye to it?!”Sheldon knelt on the ground with a thump as he cried b
After he was done speaking, he hurriedly said respectfully, “If you let me go today, I can give you a huge sum of money as compensation. How about ten billion dollars? If that is not enough for you, I can give you more!”Charlie waved his hand. “Sheldon Schulz, you’re overthinking things. Anything else can probably be easily resolved with money, but in regards to this matter today, it’ll be completely useless even if you were to hand the entire Schulz family over to me.”After he was done speaking, Charlie sneered before he said again, “However, you can rest assured that I’ll not release this video to the public.”Sheldon asked in disbelief, “Are you sure that you’re not going to release the video to the public?!”Charlie nodded before he smiled and said, “At the very least, I have no intentions to release this video at the moment.”After he was done speaking, he looked at the time before he smiled and said, “It is about time. Come, let’s go. I’ll take you to meet some old friends
As Charlie and Isaac continued questioning and answering each other, Sheldon, who was next to them, was already scared out of his wits.He really would not have expected Charlie to actually be so vicious. Sheldon could not help but curse angrily in his heart, ‘He sends people to the dog farm?! Is he even f*cking human?! He sends people to Mount Golmin to dig ginseng?! Is this something a person would do?!’In truth, regardless of whether it was the dog farm, Mount Golmin, Mount Blackpine, or even Sierra Leone, those who were close and familiar with Charlie would no longer be surprised.However, in Sheldon’s opinion and as far as he was concerned, Charlie had always been living in the dark. So, Sheldon did not know anything about Charlie’s methods.It was also precisely because he was ignorant and did not know anything about it that he was immediately scared out of his wits as soon as he heard certain clues to his methods.As soon as he heard Charlie saying that he was going to tak
Helen could not help but laugh out loud. “Hahaha! What kind of dream is that?”Sophie smiled as she said, “The setting in my dream seemed to be by the bank of Yardi River, the place I used to go to fly kites when I was a kid.”As she spoke, Sophie said again, “Don’t you think that dreams are very strange? I was a young lady in my dreams, but I did not feel that it was out of sorts when I was dreaming.”Helen nodded. “What is so strange about it? You’ll always be very invested in most dreams that seem to be out of sorts when you are dreaming, and you’ll only feel that it is completely absurd after you wake up.”As she spoke, she sighed softly as she continued saying, “Sigh… I do not even know how many absurd and weird dreams I’ve had in my life. I dreamt that a dead person was still alive, and I even dreamt that I changed how I lived…”Sophie looked at Helen, and when she saw the regretful expression that could never be erased from her face, she could not help but ask, “Mom, do you
When she saw a figure rolling into her room by her feet, Sophie was also taken aback.However, she could not be bothered to look at the man who had just rolled by her feet. Instead, she focused all of her attention entirely on Charlie’s face.When she saw that it was indeed Charlie who was standing in front of her, Sophie felt as though she had been completely captured by Charlie at this instant. The longing that she had felt for him for so many days gushed out directly from her heart as tears started welling up in her eyes. Immediately afterward, tears started streaming down her face.She knelt on the ground without any second thoughts as she choked and said, “Thank you, benefactor, for saving my life twice! Thank you, benefactor, for saving my brother! Thank you, benefactor, for saving my mother…”Charlie had an indifferent look on his face as he pointed at Sheldon, whose face was already badly bashed up as he said coldly, “You should not be rushing to thank me first. Why don’t y
“I know.” Helen smiled slightly as he said, “The both of us are husband and wife after all. I know that even if you hate me, you might not necessarily be willing to kill me.”At this time, Sophie rushed toward Sheldon as she blurted out, “Dad! Why did Grandpa do this?! Why would he want to kill my mother?!”Sheldon was extremely ashamed as he said, “Your grandpa, he… his behavioral style has always been like this. However, he was actually just targeting your mother, and he was not targeting you at all. He really did not expect that you would also be there at that time…”Sophie blurted out angrily, “What is the difference between him targeting my mother or him targeting me?! He sent someone to kill my mother. Didn’t he think about the fact that I would actually look for him to take revenge on him in the future?!”Sheldon was suddenly speechless and at a complete loss for words.After hesitating for a while, he sighed as he said, “What else could I do? I had to leave for Australia o
Salem cursed angrily, "You bastard! We've been desperately waiting for you to rescue us, but now you want to kill us! Are you even human?!" Julien kicked Salem far away and shouted furiously, "Damn it! You should be glad this is Oskia and not America! Otherwise, I would have shot you dead on the spot, you bastard! And your son too!" Then, Julien looked at Charlie very seriously and said, "Mr. Wade, please give me a chance! Give me a gun, and I'll take care of these two scumbags right now!" Edmund and Salem, terrified, knelt on the ground, with Edmund desperately pleading, "Mr. Wade, please spare us! Please!" Salem crawled to Charlie and wailed, "Mr. Wade, please don't believe anything Julien says! If you let him kill us, it will cause you unnecessary trouble. Just pretend that nothing happened today and let us continue to be imprisoned here!" Charlie grinned as he watched the scene and said to Julien, "If you want to kill them, go ahead, I won't stop you, but you can't take t
Salem was stunned by Julien's slap. He covered his face, looked at Julien in shock and sorrow, and sobbed, "But... but I'm older than you... I was given that middle name first." Instead of calming down, Julien became even angrier. He slapped Salem again and furiously scolded, "When your damn father found out my middle name was also Steve, why didn't he change yours? Acting above your station—who gave you the guts?!" Salem's face was swollen on both sides, and his heart was filled with even greater indignation. Crying, he pleaded, "Sir, now isn't the time to blame me for sharing your middle name! You need to figure out a way to get my son and me out of here!" "Get you out?!" Julien laughed in exasperation, pointing at him with rage. "Your wretched son committed such heinous crimes, yet you still expect me to save you? I'd rather kill you both myself to ease Mr. Wade's anger!" Julien's words were not idle talk. For him, the task in Aurous Hill had only two possible outcomes:
Charlie warned with a cold and stern voice, "You must tell him everything you did, or I will make you eat dog food for a month." Trembling in fear, Salem quickly said, "O-okay... This is what happened... My son, he was momentarily misguided..." As he spoke, he detailed how Edmund had become infatuated with Doris and the Emgrand Group. He went on to describe how Edmund had poisoned Doris's father, leaving him in critical condition with kidney failure and then used the promise of a kidney transplant to coerce Doris into submission. Since Charlie was standing right there, Salem didn't dare to omit or conceal a single detail. When he finished, Charlie sneered, "You really are a shameless piece of trash. You just described your son's series of despicable actions in meticulous detail. The careful planning and the step-by-step execution—this clearly shows that it was premeditated and deliberate. Yet, from the start, you tried to excuse him by calling it a momentary lapse in judgment.
Julien was startled by the slovenly old man with a scruffy beard, gray hair, and sloppy appearance. Sensing that the old man recognized him as a member of the Rothschild family, he asked curiously, "Do you know me?" "Yes! Of course, I know you!" Salem cried. "You're Julien Rothschild, Harrison's eldest son. I... We are somehow related. My name is Salem Steve Whittaker, head of the Whittaker family. In fact, we share the same middle name, Steve. Please... Please save us!" After hearing this, Julien looked at the man wailing and begging him and the sickly younger man on the bed crying and struggling to sit up. The scene and the realization that dawned upon him horrified him. Although he had been ordered to look for the Whittaker pair, it had never crossed his mind that he would find them on the first day he arrived in Aurous Hill. What shocked him even more was that it was actually Charlie who had locked them up! And from the looks of it, they were being tortured so miserably.
After descending to the underground level, Julien discovered that this was indeed a miniature prison. There was a long corridor in front of him, and on either side of the corridor were rooms sealed off by reinforced concrete walls on iron railings. Each room had no walls facing the corridor but iron railings that allowed you to see everything inside at a glance. Even the simple toilet inside had only a one-meter-high wall, and people's heads were exposed when using the toilet. Even though it was completely underground, the air, temperature, and humidity inside were no different from those above. Charlie thought there would be a strange smell when he came down, but he was surprised that he didn't feel any discomfort at all. Albert came to him and said, "Mr. Wade, we installed a fresh air system when we built this place. The air in here is circulated twice an hour. It even includes a central dehumidification system, so it doesn't feel humid even underground. I also installed centra
Jiro swiftly ran up from the descending staircase. When he saw Charlie and Albert, he was pleasantly surprised and greeted them enthusiastically, "Hello, Mr. Wade, Don Albert, and Mr. Cameron!" Next, he saw the unfamiliar face of Julien and, noticing his foreign face, couldn't help but feel curious about his identity. Despite his curiosity, Jiro was well-mannered and knew his place. Given his current status, it was not appropriate for him to ask unnecessary questions. So, he courteously greeted Julien, "Hello, sir." Julien, recognizing the name as Japanese, also felt curious about his identity and was even more curious about what exactly this place was. Seeing Jiro's vibrant face, Charlie smiled and asked, "Jiro, how is your life here these days?" "Very good!" Jiro answered with a beaming smile. "Everyone is very nice to me. Everything is fine." Currently, Jiro was considered a semi-free man at the dog kennel. Aside from not being allowed to leave the place, he had qui
But as they waited and waited, the anticipated rescue never came. Instead, Albert's dog kennel became more and more upgraded, more concealed, and more fortified. Eventually, Edmund and Salem gave up on their unrealistic hopes and resigned themselves to survive in this place. At this moment, Edmund had just finished his dialysis and was lying weakly on the bed, having eaten the porridge his father had fed him. Jiro, who worked here, was pushing a small cart over. He called out, "Hey, Whittakers, bring the dishes over after you're done eating!" Salem quickly took the dishes to the iron fence, and after Jiro came by, he threw the dishes into the plastic recycling bin. Just as Jiro was about to leave, Salem hastily said, "Wait a minute, Mr. Kobayashi!" Jiro glared at him. "What?" Salem pleaded, "Tomorrow is my son's birthday. Could you please ask the supervisor to bring a cake for him?" He then quickly added, "It doesn't have to be a big one, just an ordinary cupcake will do.
Albert chuckled and spoke up, "Mr. Rothschild, this is the dog kennel I run. We mainly breed dogs with strong attack capabilities. Before I met Mr. Wade, I used to make money by entering the dogs bred here into underground dog fighting competitions. After I started working for Mr. Wade, the purpose of this place has shifted, and it's no longer about making a profit." Hearing this, Julien relaxed a little and curiously asked, "Why keep so many dogs if it's not for profit? It seems like you really do love dogs." "Well, not exactly," Albert casually replied. "This place mainly handles some disobedient troublemakers. To cultivate the dogs' fighting spirit, I've always fed them raw meat. As you know, dogs aren't picky eaters. As long as it's meat, they'll eat whatever it is." "Oh..." Julien, who had just relaxed, felt a chill run down his spine at Albert's words. As the second-in-command of the Rothschild family, he had encountered his fair share of bloody affairs, but right now, he
"Uh... Mr. Wade..." Julien couldn't help but be a bit taken aback and asked, "The car... Its privacy is a bit too much, isn't it?" Charlie chuckled and replied, "The place I'm taking you to is highly confidential. Naturally, we need to be cautious. But don't worry—your people know you entered the restaurant, so it's not like I can openly harm you. Wherever I'm taking you, just relax and follow me. Once everything's done, I'll return you safely without a scratch." Whatever concerns Julien had were instantly dispelled. He quickly put on a carefree expression and laughed loudly. "I trust you completely. Wherever you take me, I won't even bat an eye." - The van left through the back door, taking an alternate route that led directly to a street behind Heaven Springs, avoiding any contact with Julien's bodyguards. After leaving the city, the vehicle headed straight for the outskirts. Facilities like a dog training compound were typically located far from residential areas due to no