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

waiting for the Buchans to bring me home. But pinning hopes on others led

to be Joanne's pawn. In the end, both Shirley and I died

eyes again, I was still in the countryside.

fishermen lived off the sea; we lived off the land. We often traded grain

from my past life, I decided to buy out the fishing village and turn it into a seaside


his help, and we each

obtain their wealth, and I'd become

found a man washed up on the

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

floated nearby, remnants of a raft he'd

Robinson Crusoe popped into my head. They had the

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