As Paul ran inside the house, they heard urgent footsteps from outside. A man yelled angrily, “Cox, you sure are ballsy. How dare you hit my sister?”A burly man with a shaved head wearing a black wife beater stormed inside aggressively, a gold chain hanging from his neck. Behind him was Dahlia, whose face was streaked with tears, and five blonde thugs.Barry’s expression instantly changed as he began panicking. “Jerry…”Dahlia’s older brother Jerry’s real name was Jerome Goyle. He had a few cafes and casinos in town and was known for being the big boss of the nearby towns.Jerome glared at Barry. When he saw the alcohol and food on the table, his expression soured further. However, in the next second, he was stunned. His gaze was fixated on Emily, unable to move. Paul was so scared that he couldn’t utter a word at that moment. Blood had drained entirely from his face.“Fuck, how can you eat and drink after you beat up my sister? Get up!” Jerome’s gaze hardened. He stepped forwa

Isaac’s mouth twitched; this answer tickled him. He turned to look at Paul, who lowered his head shyly and nodded.“Dahlia said that if I didn’t spend my life with her, she would make my family’s lives hell. But to be honest, she treats me quite well.” There was a complex mix of emotions on his face.Although Dahlia could be pretty unreasonable, there were some upsides to being with her. Whether it was in town or in their small community, getting things done was relatively easy. After all, her brother had quite the reputation. Not to mention, Paul didn’t have much of an academic background, nor did he ever want to start a career in the city, so Dahlia didn’t seem like a bad choice in his eyes.“Are you saying you want to marry her?” Isaac said, squinting at Paul.If he did, then did he just break up a couple that was to be wed? “No way. Look at what happened. I’ll never let a woman like that marry into the family.” Barry knew his brother’s intentions, but he couldn't bear it wh

Isaac was stunned. He turned to find Emily blushing with her head lowered.The meaning behind her words was apparent, but Isaac simply shook his head and said, “You can sleep here alone. I’ll be fine.”Watching Isaac walk out the door, Emily smiled wryly. But immediately after, a steely resolve flashed in her eyes, and she turned around and entered the room.In the middle of the night, in a private restaurant room located next to Aurum County Hospital, Horace and an old man donning a blue garment sat opposite each other. The old man was the elder of the Azure Sect who’d come to visit Patrick before, Silas Deek.“Elder Silas, didn’t you say that once the Astraeus get involved, that bastard Isaac will undoubtedly die? So why is he still alive and kicking? He even came to Aurum County today,” Horace said to Silas.Horace was harboring a ball of fury within him. He’d already gifted a box of gold bars to a few of the major elders of the Azure Sect, but there were still no results. Si

Eugene had already recovered completely. For the past two days, Allegra had taken care of him while he was at the Springview Clinic. During that time, Margaret and Andrew had come to visit once.Once Allegra and her father entered the car, Isaac sped toward the Cloud Nine Villas.When Allegra, who was in the passenger seat, saw that they were going a different way, she asked, “Isaac, where are we going? This isn’t the way to Riverview Villas, is it?”“We’re going to our new home. You’ll see once you’re there.” Isaac smiled. He wanted to give Allegra a surprise.She didn’t know what kind of drugs Isaac was smoking, and she was too lazy to ask. At that moment, she received a call from the office, and her expression turned sour.It was clearly about the Pegasus No. 1 project. Several of the employees were kicking up a fuss over it.After all, up until this point, they hadn’t gotten a single small project, much less a big one.However, as they drove into the Cloud Nine Villas, the s

Considering Isaac’s personality, he would totally form an assassin squad to go up against the Kenne family and take out the backbone of Horace’s underlings. However, he’d decided to make the Kenne family disappear through normal means after the last time he saw Declan at the funeral home.He didn’t know that the Kenne family had so many skeletons in the closet, and he was enraged by what Beefy Bob told him.After he was released from prison, he didn’t immediately enter the Temple of Drakon. Instead, he joined the military through a special channel. The army was the nation’s first fortress and also their last defense.After Beefy Bob came to pick Isaac up, Allegra also left the house. She even went to Beefy Bob’s window to thank him profusely. As the car made its way to the northern suburbs of Cloud City, Old Brooks’s men began to move out of their territories.Besides a couple of guards who stayed behind to keep watch, all his men territories secretly left. Some returned to their