Timothy didn't waste a second before he set things in motion.

Patric remained rooted to the spot, his gaze fixed in the direction where lan had vanished, a flicker of murderous intent crossing his

eyes.

Inside the restaurant, only lan and Quentin were seated.

Quentin didn't speak, nor did he touch any of the food laid out before him.

lan also leaned back into his chair silently, with a casual, yet piercing gaze resting upon Quentin.

The atmosphere was quiet, yet charged with an unspoken tension.

After a while, Quentin tapped his fingers on the table, which broke the silence.

"Got beef with Kevin?"

"Something like that."

"There are two factions that have entered the island. One is Kevin's. The other, which landed ten minutes ago, is yours, right?"

lan remained silent, but his eyes, which exerted a subtle pressure, spoke volumes.

Quentin chuckled coldly, "Ten minutes ago, huh? That's when I covered for you. lan, you sure know how to play your cards."

lan had been investigating the power behind Forbidden Island but had hit a wall; the person was too well-concealed and never

showed their true face.

Today, he finally met the man behind the curtains, and this enigmetic figure was unexpectedly on his side.

lan was well aware that his arrival had thrown Inner Island into chaos; his previous emergence had united the powerful families

against him.

this shadowy benefactor was aiding him, and willing to turn a blind

into the condensation on his glass, lan slowly wrote a word

one

Never had he gone

rule Forbidden Island, and masterfully

something felt

right. He missed the way Maja looked at him, with such fondness

seeing her, distraught with grief, sifting through ashes for bones. No one had ever done anything like that for

young, he was no stranger to wrongdoing, and he could

care about anyone else's opinion, yet Maja's mattered to

want her to know that the Quentin she wanted to protect had been deceiving her all

in front of her as she was beaten,

trust.

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that. Instead, he even staged a play to let the persona of Quentin

selfishly, he wanted her to remember the nof

given him candy. Maja had offered him a piece, and although he hadn't tasted it, he wanted

sweetness.

was walking towards his own

the last shred of

that, he wiped away the

that even if the man didn't agree, he would still

aware of lan's reinforcements but hadn't stopped them from entering

napkin to wipe the moisture from

did you contact the

got here, a friend of Maja's brother gave us a note with an address where we

Island. There was only

an eyebrow

only way to communicate with

he, the puppet master of Forbidden Island, had been

had been given ten minutes before,

didn't know lan well, but he was beginning to understand

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