*****‘Nonsense!’The thought suddenly snapped through all three of their minds almost simultaneously.In the following second, their expressions shifted so fast that it was almost comical.Their calmness vanished, suspicion flared within them, and their faces hardened. If anyone had been watching closely right now, they might have sworn they were looking at three chameleons changing colors in unison.Then finally, their eyes darkened, sharpening with barely restrained fury, while their fists clenched so hard that their knuckles turned bone-white.‘I’d rather be damned than believe this rubbish,’ Borgia snarled inwardly, his jaw tightening.Every word his father spoke sounded rehearsed… too clean and too convenient.‘This greedy, selfish old man clearly wants to hoard everything for himself,’ the third brother nearly roared in his thoughts, rage bubbling dangerously close to the surface. ‘He thinks he can feed us scraps while he eats the whole feast.’The second brother, quie

*****At this moment, the Revercrest old man couldn’t help but remain frozen in place, unable to blink, move, or react.He even forgot how to breathe properly.Instead, it was as though time itself had stalled for him, until finally… reality crashed down on him.In the following second;“These… these two bastards!” A raw, ferocious growl tore from his throat as his eyes darkened abruptly, a terrifying aura erupting from his body and flooding the confined space of the SUV like a violent storm.“How dare… how dare the two walk out on me!” he snapped, his voice and body trembling with fury.Inside, however, he was far worse.‘After I made the gravity of the situation clear and after I deliberately withheld the truth… these two shameless, greedy, selfish brats still ran off on their own!’ his thoughts raged uncontrollably.‘Instead of cooperating with me and working together, they chose to compete!’His chest heaved violently, his breath coming sharp and uneven.He had never be

*****Still seated quietly in the corner, the second son, seeing his father like this… caught between disbelief and rage, couldn’t help but release a soft sigh.It wasn’t out of disrespect, but understanding.For a fleeting moment, the second son genuinely believed he had succeeded in making his father see the truth… that his father had finally grasped the implications but simply struggled to accept them.And so, he didn’t answer immediately.Instead, he first gathered his thoughts carefully, arranging them like pieces on a board where one wrong move could cost everything, then…“Father,” he finally said, his tone measured but firm. “Think about it.”His mind drifted back to the so-called master… his casual disdain and the humiliating way he had treated the Revercrests like lesser beings, like they were insects fortunate enough to avoid being crushed.In an instant, a surge of anger rose in the second son’s chest, and before he even realized it, he clenched his teeth.“That m

*****The Revercrest elderly Patriarch forced himself not to turn his head, fully aware that if he did… if he so much as saw his second’s son, he might actually lose control right there and strangle him on the spot for daring to speak ill of the master.In truth, he couldn’t wait for the second son to disappear from his sight.If only he hadn’t allowed himself to be so optimistic and hadn’t believed… even for a fleeting moment that with his second son supporting him, he could easily secure victory, turn around and crush his other two sons’ wild ambitions, showing them just how foolish they were for daring to compete against him.Just moments ago, the Revercrest Patriarch had been exhilarated… several times more excited than he had been in years, but now?His teeth ground together so violently that it was a miracle they didn’t shatter.Then slowly and deliberately… his eyes turned icy cold.“Fine,” the old man suddenly muttered under his breath, his voice low and steeped in dark

*****Inside the Myron estate.Completely oblivious to the fact that layers upon layers of conspiracies were currently fermenting around as the target… each more twisted than the last, Xavier stood inside the estate, staring ahead with a rare trace of helplessness written across his face.And the reason for that helplessness…Xavier had come here with the purest intentions… nothing more and nothing less.He had simply come to fulfill his promise to treat the Myron family’s second son and then retrieve the Blueheart Lotus that had been promised to him by Sage Myron.Yet reality had clearly decided to mock him.Because what greeted him the moment he stepped into the Myron estate was something so absurd and so exaggerated that even his calm temperament faltered for a second.Not only had the entire Myron household come out to welcome him the moment he stepped inside the estate, but they were even treating him as though he were some supreme emperor descending upon a pitiful, lowly