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Chapter 49
Tap... tap... tap...Kaelan walked away, leaving the dining room. The sound of the main front door opening wide, then closing again with a heavy thud.The silence left behind in the room felt thousands of times heavier and more suffocating than the verbal altercation just moments before.Evelyn still stood frozen in the exact same spot, her pupils vacant as she stared straight at the now tightly closed door. Her hands hung limply at her sides."I..." she whispered faintly before finally collapsing weakly back into her chair with a hollow, lifeless gaze.Ryan hurried over, gripping his mother's arm. "Mother! Don't let him get into your head! Brother Kaelan has truly become a thorn in our family!"Evelyn gave no response whatsoever. Her mind kept buzzing, replaying the absolute sentence spoken by her son: "Mother always believes strangers... long before she is willing to trust her own flesh and blood."At the same time, Victor Blackwood slowly stood up from his chair. He calmly smoothed
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Kaelan turned his attention back to Evelyn."For years, I always convinced myself..." Kaelan's voice weakened, leaving behind a profound pain, "...that one day, Mother would surely learn to trust me.""As it turns out... I was dead wrong."Evelyn gripped the edge of the table with hands trembling violently. "Kaelan... listen—"Kaelan raised his palm, stopping his mother from continuing her defense."Today, let me do the talking."The atmosphere in the dining room felt increasingly suffocating."Does Mother know what the most painful thing in the world is?""It's not the hard slap that landed on my cheek.""Nor is it the harsh insults or the discriminatory treatment you've all put me through."Kaelan took a long breath, calming the raging emotional storm in his chest."The most painful thing is... Mother always chooses to believe strangers and external lies long before she is ever willing to trust her own flesh and blood."That blunt statement struck Evelyn's chest much harder than any
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Evelyn swiped her phone screen, bringing up the next batch of photos. Photos of Kaelan and Lyra sitting on a park bench. The second and third photos showed their closeness."This girl..." Evelyn's voice trembled with suppressed anger. "Ever since you met her, you've changed drastically, Kaelan. You come home later, you dare to talk back, you get involved in street fights, and now you openly shame the great name of the Garrison family!"The barrage of harsh accusations poured out without a pause, striking blow after blow.Kaelan listened to it all in silence."That girl is bad luck," Evelyn continued. "She has a mountain of debt, and debt collectors came looking for her on campus. Why on earth must you get dragged down and be friends with trash like that?!"Kaelan finally spoke up in a low yet firm tone. "Because she isn't a bad person."That defense only stoked the fiery rage in Evelyn's chest even higher. "You still have the nerve to defend her?! She is only using your kindness for h
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The morning at the Garrison Mansion felt much quieter and stiffer than usual.Morning sunlight forced its way through the large glass windows of the dining room, casting a reddish shimmer across the surface of the long, mahogany-veneered table, which was already laden with a lavish array of breakfast dishes.Evelyn Garrison sat rigidly in the main chair with an expression as cold as ice. Victor Blackwood looked calm as he read the business newspaper on the left without saying much, while Ryan Blackwood sipped his black coffee, occasionally casting anticipatory glances toward the second-floor stairs.The sound of footsteps finally approached.Kaelan walked down the stairs in neat, casual campus attire. The bruises covering his body were completely hidden beneath layers of bandages, while his facial expression was flat and calm once again, as if the terrifying incident of the previous night had never happened at all.He was about to walk right past the dining area."Kaelan."Evelyn's co
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Ryan handed over his phone, then played the short recorded video he had manipulated.The family room fell dead silent.On the phone screen, the scene was clearly visible when Kaelan pushed a student until he fell to the ground, followed by the second student who also collapsed. The video duration ended just like that without self-defense context.Evelyn instantly furrowed her brows sharply. "Kaelan... hit people within the campus environment?!"Ryan lowered his head, displaying a fake regret gesture. "One of my friends recorded this incident this afternoon. I was quite shocked myself when I saw it."He then swiped the phone screen to the next batch of photos.Photos of Kaelan and Lyra sitting together in the park. A photo of Lyra smiling warmly at Kaelan.Ryan didn't add any excessive provocative phrasing. He let those manipulative image sequences speak for themselves before the middle-aged woman.Evelyn observed each of the photos and the video with an incredulous gaze.Her memory in
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A short while later, Ryan's black sedan stopped at the roadside not far from the campus gates.The twilight sky gradually turned into a dark night. Olivia sat quietly in the front passenger seat, her manicured fingers casually playing with the ends of her hair.Ryan turned on his phone screen, opened the photo gallery, and began playing a thirty-seven-second video.Inside the video recording, Kaelan was seen pushing a college student until he slumped down to the ground. A second student who tried to approach was also pushed back. The video was deliberately cut right at that crucial second.There was no prior threat scene. There was no footage when Lyra's bag was roughly pulled by their hired thugs. There was not a single part showing the background reason for Kaelan acting defensively.Ryan then swiped his screen to the next batch of photos.The first photo showed Kaelan sitting side by side with a female student, Lyra Bennett, on a campus park bench. The second photo displayed Lyra s
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