“Hahaha, hehehe…” Sitting in between her parents, Aino laughed until she could not control herself anymore and almost fell to the ground.The sound of their laughter rudely awakened Nigel, who was resting in the adjoining hospital ward.The pure white ceiling entered his eyes the moment he opened them. He turned to look at his surroundings, and it was filled with the same pure, clinical white. He then dropped his eyes down and saw the bedcovers. They were also in that same clinical white. A bad feeling engulfed his chest. At that moment, Nigel felt as if he had even stopped breathing.Did he stop breathing?He sat in silence and quietly listened to the voices coming from the room beside his.It was a clean, childish pitch. “Daddy, Mommy, when are we going home, I...I miss my friends from kindergarten. I haven’t been to school for three days, Daddy.” Aino asked guiltily as she laid on her mother’s thighs while her head rested on her father’s stomach. Sebastian’s tone was incred

Aino looked at Nigel. A cheeky smile hung from her lips.Nigel laughed immediately. It had been years since he felt so at ease as he is right now. So relaxed and so…warm. He finally stopped worrying.He sucked on the lollipop in his mouth and said, “Seeing you healthy and happy, with no injuries whatsoever, is my biggest wish. Aino, you’re so cute. If only I had a few more little nieces like you, how nice would it be?”Aino stood on her tiptoes and playfully bobbed his nose. She laughed cheerily as she said, “I want a few more uncles too, biological uncles. This way, I’ll have more people protecting me.” Children were indeed naïve and innocent. She indeed found her Uncle Nigel cute. A six-year-old child like her even realized she might not have been able to see her parents ever again if it were not for her Uncle Nigel. Although she did not thank him fervently, her actions were enough to demonstrate her gratitude. Moreover, she deeply realized how nice it would be to have more biol

However, Sebastian’s laugh sounded incredibly calm and emotionless in comparison. “I won’t restrict the way you think. If you hurt even a hair on their heads, your head would be separated from your body right now. Holden Payne, do you know why I asked you to lead the way? Why did I ask you to lead us to your place first? That’s purely because of the love and care you had for my wife and daughter.”Holden fell silent.In this moment, he was in extreme despair. The entire island had taken every single precaution. They were ready. They even borrowed so many weapons and soldiers from the Poole family in Kidon City. However, they did not use any of it in the end.They were rounded up by Sebastian’s men instead without sparing an ounce of effort. His soldiers lined the grounds outside the manor.In this moment, Holden was even prepared to commit suicide.Sebastian seemed to have eyes on his back, “Lead the way! If you can give me a most suitable explanation, I can consider not killing y

However, the Summer family disagreed. All sorts of conflicts of interest combined with the weak and inability of the Summer family drove them to extinction.It was only natural in the business world, where the strong feasted on the weak. However, 20 years later, the daughter of the Summer family was forced to become a mistress to one of the Ford men. It was the woes and source of resentment between the Ford family of South City and the Summer family of Star Island.Sebastian was the Summer family’s maternal grandson, but he was the paternal grandson of the Ford family. What was he supposed to do then?The dead could never come back alive. He could only rebuild and repair the family residence that remained on this island as an homage to them.As for the hatred between the two families, Sebastian had killed almost all of the Ford family. Finally, it was only himself, his father, and his daughter that were left. Who else could he kill?“Do you know my mother?” Sebastian asked o

“Sebastian Ford! Do you think you were the only one who was exiled as a teenager abroad and forbidden to return home? I was once exiled too.”Holden looked at Sebastian pitifully, “At least when you were exiled abroad, your father gave you a generous allowance, while your mother was a senior architect and had an enviable job abroad. Although you were in exile, you didn’t need to worry about feeding yourself, or whether you had any warm clothes to cover your body, you even had extra money to socialize and make friends. However, what about me?”Sebastian was silent.At this moment, in his eyes, Holden did not seem like an enemy. He was more like a disgruntled housewife who was venting her frustrations instead. “I didn’t have anything! All I could rely on was my business-savvy smarts and my viciousness to help build my empire. I could stay in the East Hall of the Payne Manor and bossed my brother around because I sponsored my brother with one billion dollars! One billion!”“With tha