Chapter 1950

They said if I stayed, I'd be a danger to the family.

For my safety, Shirley reluctantly agreed.

Sent to the countryside, I felt a deep, unshakable fear. I knew I'd never return to the Buchan family. This might be the last time I saw her.

Life in the countryside was nothing like the city.

Before I was seven, I'd been pampered. I'd never lived in a simple tile-roofed house.

Here, there was nothing but endless farming and fishing. People rested at dusk and rose before dawn to work.

At first, the villagers treated me politely. But as time dragged on, they griped about when my family would take me back.

each year. Sometimes,

result, I had to work in the fields to earn my

waiting for the Buchans to bring me

Joanne's pawn. In the end, both Shirley and I died tragically at

opened my eyes again, I was still in the countryside. I realized I couldn't

sea; we lived off the land. We often traded

decided to buy out the


and we each got what

Buchan family and obtain their wealth, and I'd become an ally to the Nichols family once I

man washed up

tattered. His beard and hair were long and wild. He must've drifted at

of wood floated nearby, remnants of a raft

popped into my head. They had

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