Chapter: AND THIS IS YOUR DEFENCE?"Tha.. That..." Jenny’s head shook slowly, her lips parting in disbelief as she never expected Scarlett to keep her room under surveillance."No…" she whispered, her voice trembling now for real. "This… this is fake… this is edited… This ca... Can't be real..." She stepped forward suddenly, her composure cracking completely."This is fabricated!" she shouted, her voice rising sharply as panic overtook her. "You think I don’t understand the difference in between real and fake? This kind of footage can be manipulated, this is illegal, this is..." "Enough." Scarlett’s voice cut through everything, not loud, but absolute.Jenny froze mid-sentence.Scarlett looked at her, her gaze now colder than before."You’re a lawyer," Scarlett said calmly. "And this is your defense?" A faint pause."You claim the footage is fake, yet you haven’t even pointed out a single inconsistency... Do you think just because you claim it as fake everything would change? People are not foolish enough to believ
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Chapter: BRING IT UP"You’re demanding justice… for what exactly?"Scarlett’s voice did not rise, yet it carried across the entire lobby with a calm authority that silenced every whisper, her presence alone enough to shift the atmosphere from chaotic noise into something far more controlled and suffocating as she walked forward, each step measured, and each movement deliberate, her gaze settling directly on Jenny.Jenny stood there in the center, her hair slightly disheveled, her eyes red as if she had been crying for a long time, her fingers clutching the edge of her sleeve as if trying to hold herself together, yet the moment she saw Scarlett, her expression shifted into something even more fragile, and something practiced."Aunt…" Jenny’s voice trembled as she stepped forward, her shoulders shaking slightly, "I didn’t want to create a scene like this, but I have no choice… I’ve already lost enough today, I can’t lose my dignity as well… you didn't give a chance for me to explain earlier, but that doesn
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Chapter: AND IF I DON'T?"Should I start worrying that my husband simply lacks courage or is there something else?" Scarlett’s words lingered in the air far longer than Ethan was prepared for, her arms still loosely wrapped around his neck while the dangerous glimmer in her eyes made it abundantly clear that she was enjoying every second of his rare loss of composure.For someone who had spent so long mastering control over his emotions, thoughts, and expressions, this should not have been difficult.And yet... It was.Ethan’s throat tightened slightly as he carefully avoided her gaze, his usual calm composure now carrying the subtle tension of someone standing dangerously close to surrendering control over a situation he no longer fully commanded."That…" he began, and his voice was lower than before, "is an unnecessarily bold accusation." Scarlett’s smile deepened."Accusation?" She repeated softly, her fingers brushing lightly against the back of his neck, making his entire train of thought nearly derail
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Chapter: I BELIEVE YOU"This..." Scarlett said calmly, her voice smooth enough to terrify far more than shouting ever could, "is this a place to commit such acts? Or did you really feel that comfortable enough to act as ever you want in my office?" The silence that followed was suffocating.It froze where she stood, her partially unbuttoned top now feeling less like a calculated move and more like public humiliation waiting to consume entirely. Her fingers moved toward her clothing, but the damage had already been done, and judging by the expressions forming beyond the still-open office door, she was painfully aware that this moment was no longer private.Scarlett stepped forward slowly, each movement elegant and composed, yet carrying a level of cold fury that made even Ethan remain silent."Aunt…" Jenny stammered, her voice losing the confidence it once held as panic began slipping through.The sharp sound of a slap cut through the room before she could continue.Jenny’s head snapped to the side, her br
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Chapter: PEOPLE USUALLY DO"Interesting… so this is what married life looks like."Ethan’s voice was quiet, almost amused, as he stood alone inside Scarlett’s office, his fingers lightly brushing against the elegant silver frame resting on her desk while his gaze remained fixed on the photograph inside.It was their wedding photo.Scarlett stood beside him in all her cold elegance, her posture poised, her expression calm, yet beneath that composed exterior was a subtle trace of something softer, something that only someone truly paying attention would notice.And him, standing beside her.Not as the broken, discarded man the world once believed him to be.Not as the abandoned Carvendish heir, but as her husband, the man she chose over everything as if he was never an option to her.A faint smile slowly formed on Ethan’s lips, genuine and unguarded in a way few people would ever witness."Who would’ve thought…" he murmured under his breath, his thumb brushing lightly over the edge of the frame. 'That the marriag
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Chapter: THE BEGINNING OF THEIR DOWNFALL"Of course I do," Scarlett didn’t hesitate, she said immediately, leaning slightly toward him, curiosity evident in her eyes. "Who?"Ethan didn’t answer right away.Instead, he picked up his cup again, taking a slow sip as if the answer wasn’t important at all, as if he hadn’t just dropped something that could change everything she thought she knew.Scarlett frowned at his actions."Don’t tell me you’re doing this on purpose," she narrowed her eyes at him. "You asked me if I wanted to know, and now you’re acting mysterious?"Ethan lowered the cup, his lips curving faintly before he finally revealed the answer. "Mr. Knox."For a moment, Scarlett simply stared at him.Then her expression froze, and the next second—"What?" she blinked, completely thrown off. "Your butler? Is she really messaging your butler thinking of it as you?"Ethan nodded slightly, completely unfazed.Silence lasted exactly one second, then, Scarlett burst into laughter.It wasn’t restrained, it wasn’t polite eithe
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REVENGE OF THE DESPISED HEIR
"How would you feel about facing death, knowing you've been cast aside by the people you loved the most?" Bryan pondered this question as it echoed in his mind, but as he opened his eyes to a new beginning, a fresh chance at life, he felt a surge of determination. He was willing to do whatever it might take to make those who had caused him pain pay, even if it meant shedding tears and blood as he had suffered.
"Bryan, Mom was wrong. Please come back to us,"
"Bryan, Dad admits his mistakes, please forgive me and return to us?"
"Bryan, we're sorry for neglecting you, we regret it now," even his three sisters who despised him the most.
These were the same people who had never spared him a single glance, despite his longing for their love and affection his entire life, even when he lay on the brink of death they chose an outsider over him, now they beg for his forgiveness and plead for his return, it was ironic, almost laughable. "I don't have a family, and I'm perfectly fine being an orphan,"
Join the incredible journey of Bryan Winterwood as he goes from being an orphan to discovering as the long-lost son of one of the richest families, but despite appearing to be having everything there's nothing for him not even love until the moment he was dead, just when it seems like everything ended, fate has its own play for him, Bryan is given a second chance, instead of embracing the life of an heir to a billionaire family, he decides to walk away and return to the life of an orphan once again to rise and shine by his own
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Chapter: WE ARE ALL SET TO LEAVE THIS COUNTRY "How should I begin it?" Bryan thought to himself as the next morning, he arrived at the office early to set the plan in motion. He carefully created a fake financial report detailing nonexistent transactions, ensuring it looked as authentic as possible.Once the file was complete, he placed it in a safe place where Nancy usually hides the things, so that they'll not suspect it as fake.As the file was hidden safely, he placed four tiny cameras to cover angles of the room, so that he can capture every movement in the office."Now this is perfect to trap a rat," Bryan smirked, and left the room immediately, he asked Nancy also not to go into the room for a whole day and lie about having work outside.He also went to college to complete his tasks there, after finishing all, by the end of the day, Bryan returned to the office and checked the original CCTV footage of Nancy's office, as he suspected the cameras didn't work.To make it more dramatic Bryan called for a few security staff wh
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Chapter: I'M NOT AN EASY TARGET EITHER!"What the meaning of this?" Bryan felt inwardly, but not wasting anytime, he left the room, and as he was on his way to leave the floor, he was caught by Jake.Without letting him to notice, Bryan hid the piece in his pocket, Jake frowned, "what are you doing here?" "Why should I answer to you?" Bryan crossed his arms, clenching his fist, Jake sighed, "Bryan, don't push your luck too much." Just then Mia who heard the commotion came there, "What's happening here?""Sister," Jake rushed to Mia, but Mia, ignoring Jake went to Bryan, "What happened?"Bryan shrugged his shoulders, "nothing, I was casually walking here, he came and started this commotion." "Jake, aren't you supposed to be in your room? What are you doing here?" Mia sighed, making Jake to shout at her, "Why are you believing him instead of me? You should believe in me, not him." Mia pinched her brows, "Bryan is my brother, ofcourse I'll believe in him over a liar like you, go back to your room before I call grandma, if
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Chapter: IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE! "Grandma?" Bryan said with a small smile getting up from the chair, "I’m just going through these, nothing important, why are you here anyway grandma? Do you want anything?" "No dear," Alicia tilted her head slightly, her eyes twinkling with affection, as she looked at Bryan who resembles her late husband, "You’re just like your grandfather, always diving into work. Too much, if you ask me, unlike your father, who is so lazy to work." Bryan chuckled softly, "Working keeps me focused grandma! I don't like being lazy." "I can understand," she walked over close to him and looked around only to the find many records on the table, "You must've been so busy while looking into these, aren't you?" Bryan scratched his head with a forced smile, "Well, you can say that grandma!" "My dear, you shouldn't push yourself more than necessary," Alicia's expression turned serious for a moment. "I don’t know what’s been happening in this house lately, Bryan, but all I want is for you to stay safe,
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Chapter: SOMETHING CONSPIRACY"Why is this mystery never ending?" Bryan sat in his study, surrounded by stacks of old documents and family records. Unaware of what Josephine is plotting behind his back, he is so busy in getting the truth that was buried in the past. The faint glow of the desk lamp made him feel uneasy to stare at the papers, however he is so busy and involved in flipping the pages. He had been checking through the Winterwood archives for hours, determined to find any trace of evidence to support his suspicions regarding the mysteries. As he reached the bottom of an old wooden chest, a red envelope caught his attention. The paper looked too old, the edges were torn, and the handwriting on the front unmistakably belonged to his late grandfather, Edward Winterwood, "grandfather? This handwriting is similiar to grandfather's, I still remember the handwriting of grandfather from my previous life while helping my father, if so why is grandfather's handwritten paper is here?" With a curiosity, he
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Chapter: BRING AN END TO EVERYTHING "Sure, I can," Stacy said and took the file, as she checked the details, apart from very minimalistic nothing else found, "Bryan, if you don't mind, can I ask who is this man? If you don't want to say it's okay." Bryan took a deep breath and said the conversation he had before with officer Hobbes."What the!" Stacy was beyond surprised, "how can this be?" Bryan replied, "I don't know either, but the maid is already dead too, I don't believe our mom is doing all the things alone, I'm sure someone must be helping her," Stacy looked curious, "so, did you figure out anything more about these things?" Bryan sighed, leaning back to the bedframe, "Not yet, but I have a feeling this man from mom's past holds the key to everything. If I can figure out who he is, I might be able to predict her next move, until then I'm not sure of anything because things are different from my previous life at this moment, so I can't take a blind step believing in intuition." Stacy frowned in deep thought. "
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Chapter: CAN YOU HELP ME FIND A PERSON?"These are the files you're supposed to look at and take care of," Josephine sat at her desk in the office, glaring daggers as everyone who was looking down on her, whereas Nancy, had been firm but fair in her leadership. To Josephine, it felt like a constant reminder of her fall from grace. Once the madam of the Winterwood household, but she was now reduced to a subordinate, a reality she bitterly hatred.Just then, her phone buzzed on the desk. It was a text from Bryan, "I think you love your new life, Mrs. Winterwood." Josephine slammed her phone down, with an angry look, "The audacity of that bastard to treat me this way! I don't know what got into him out of a sudden, all these years, I've tamed him perfectly, but he became a fox out of a sudden pulling strings to annoy me." When Nancy walked into the room, holding another set of reports, Josephine couldn’t contain her anger."Just because your father made you a CEO, do you think you're superior to me?" she hissed, with a ton
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The Lost Heir Of Sargent
"No one cares whether I live or die," Christian thought as he felt himself losing consciousness, his body weak and broken after being abused to the brink of death by his own father.
When he woke, however, he found himself surrounded by a group of unfamiliar faces. These strangers, claiming to be his mother's relatives, looked at him with a mix of fury and compassion, grandfather, uncles, and aunts, people he never knew existed, stood before him.
"Who dared to hurt the heir of the Sargent family?" His uncles roared, their voices trembling with rage.
"The one who dares to lay a finger on my precious grandson will meet their end!" His grandfather declared with cold determination.
"Here, Christian," one of his aunts smiled, handing him a sparkling black card. "This is your diamond card, one of a kind. It’s all yours, you could even buy a country with it if that’s what you want."
They treated him like the most precious treasure in the world.
The once-abandoned and ridiculed son of the Adam's family turned out to be the long-lost heir of the prestigious Sargent family.
The same Adam family that had humiliated and tormented him was brought to their knees. Broken and desperate, they begged for his forgiveness.
"Christian, we’re sorry," they pleaded. "Please, have mercy on us! After all, we’re still family!"
A tale of vengeance and redemption. The Rise of Christian Sargent chronicles, a journey of an abandoned son reclaiming his identity and power as a true heir of Sargent family. As Christian unravels the mysteries of his bloodline, he forges unexpected connections, faces his enemies, and discovers the truth behind his mother’s legacy in this magical and exhilarating saga.
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Chapter: HE WHO CARRIES FIVE BLOODS"Stay close, keep your thoughts guarded, and if this sanctum attempts to convince either of you that emotional suffering is somehow character development, I would strongly recommend ignoring it." Ezra’s voice echoed lightly through the immense silver-black corridor as his spectral form drifted several feet ahead of Christian and Georgia, though despite the humor laced through his words, there was an unmistakable edge of caution beneath them now, one that neither Christian nor Georgia failed to notice.The deeper they ventured into the Veilborn sanctum, the more the air itself seemed to resist them.It was no longer merely heavy.It felt aware.Ancient vaulted passageways stretched endlessly before them, their walls forged from blackened stone and blood-metal alloys unlike anything found in ordinary construction, while pulsing crimson veins ran beneath the surfaces like preserved circulatory systems, carrying unstable spiritual energy throughout the dead fortress.Shattered containmen
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Chapter: CONVERGENCE HEIR DETECTED"If either of you triggers another ancient death mechanism before we even reach the sanctum gates," Georgia said with a deeply unimpressed expression as she carefully stepped over a jagged crimson-veined fracture pulsing faintly beneath the corrupted valley floor, "I would like it clearly documented that I am spiritually bound under protest." Christian, who had been walking slightly ahead with Mary’s silver-inlaid blade drawn and his attention fixed sharply on the increasingly hostile terrain surrounding them, cast her a dry sideways glance."That feels unnecessarily accusatory," he replied. "This Ezra might do something like that but not me for sure." Ezra, naturally floating backward several feet in front of them with all the inappropriate confidence of someone not burdened by physical mortality, immediately looked delighted."Ah," he said brightly, "we’ve officially reached the stage of cursed expedition where Georgia begins questioning her life choices." Georgia sighed."I bega
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Chapter: DEFINITELY BOTH"Try not to look so deeply offended," Ezra remarked with infuriating ease as he floated several feet ahead of Christian and Georgia through the cursed lower ridges of the Dark Mountains, "because it might not change anything however your mood will be unnecessarily spoiled." His spectral form gliding above fractured crimson-veined stone while black mist coiled unnaturally around dead terrain below, "I understand that destiny, ancient prophecy, and overwhelming burden are inconvenient, but your expression currently suggests you are personally insulted by the mountain’s existence.... If the mountain take it personal, both of you also might join me.""Aren't we already with you? What's there to join you?"Georgia clarified it for Christian, "he meant not about just joining him in the mission Chris, he meant we will join him as another two ghosts."Listening to her, Christian glared at Ezra, "you wish!"Ezra rolled his eyes with a laughter and started floating once again. "Whether you wis
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Chapter: I STAND BY IT"Remind me again," Christian said with a long-suffering sigh as he pushed aside a twisted silver-black branch that seemed almost personally offended by his presence, "why exactly I agreed to leave behind functioning civilization, stable architecture, and relatively predictable danger… only to voluntarily march toward what appears to be the cursed birthplace of every bad decision in recorded history?"His voice carried its usual dry calmness, but there was enough deeply rooted disbelief beneath it that even Georgia, who had been carefully studying an enchanted route map while navigating the narrowing wilderness path, could not fully suppress the faint laugh that escaped her.That sound alone immediately earned her a sharp glance."You laughed," Christian accused flatly.Georgia straightened her expression with suspicious speed, though the faint curve of her lips remained."I did no such thing," she replied with far too much false innocence. "Chris, I understand you're frustrated becaus
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Chapter: ARE YOU READY?"The Dark Montains we have discussed about earlier," Georgia looked at Christian, "it is the same place where relic is sealed." Christian mumbled quietly, "if you don't take my words offensively, can I know why that particular place? What exactly made you choose that place?""That relic is no ordinary relic, so it is supposed to be where blood, betrayal, and ruin were first woven together… only in that place, the dark creatures or those people belonging to dark sect cannot take advantage of." The elder gave an answer hoping that would make Christian's doubt would get eased.Christian immediately understood about whom the elder is talking about, "Like... Veilborn.""Exactly, in order to keep that relic out of their reach, it was sealed deep within the Dark Mountains, beneath the shattered remains of the original Veilborn sanctum...." The elder’s voice resonated through House Eldewyn’s Hall of Inheritance with such solemn force that even the sacred silver flames burning along the cham
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Chapter: WHERE IS THE RELIC?"Once I combine all five pieces… I’ll finally reach her."Christian’s voice, though calm as always, carried something softer beneath it as he stood within one of House Eldewyn’s ancient silver-lit inner courtyards, where sacred fountains shimmered beneath moonlight and spiritual herbs glowed faintly along marble pathways, creating an atmosphere almost too serene for the storm his journey had truly been.Yet for this brief moment, he allowed himself hope... A real hope.The completed fragments he had gathered so far rested securely in his hand, their faint silver-crimson glow reflecting softly against his fingers as he looked down at them, not merely as relics or burdens, but as the final bridge between himself and the mother he had spent years longing to find.Georgia stood beside him in silence, her silver-blue robes shifting lightly in the evening breeze, though her expression subtly changed as she listened to him.Because unlike Christian, she knew.Or at least, she feared the trut
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