“Hey, don’t touch it!” Xyla swatted the back of Cordelia’s hand.

“There are only two pieces in the box. I’ll have to make them again if you ruin them!”

“Mom…” Cordelia looked at her in puzzlement. “Why am I bringing this to Elder Mr. Hamerton? I haven’t eaten this that much myself!”

“Silly girl!” Xyla said with a smile, “Back where we come from, this is what we use to show our respect for the elders!”

“Back where we come from?” Cordelia looked at her with widened eyes.

Growing up, she had always thought that Jangasas was her hometown.

Xyla’s face fell upon realizing that she had said too much.

“You… You don’t have to bring it if you don’t want to,” she said softly. “The other presents are quite valuable too. The Hamertons won’t look down on you!”

After saying that, she returned to her room, leaving Cordelia to stay dazed in the living room with furrowed brows for some time.

On the day of the meeting…

Janine, who planned to work overtime, canceled two meetings in a row and stepped on the accelerator to rush to Hamerton Manor, not forgetting to call Zephyr and scold him on the way.

“You brat! Why didn’t you let me know that Cordelia’s meeting the old man today?”

Zephyr was confused. “For what, mom? So you can wreck the meeting?”

“Rascal!” Janine sped up and went past the yellow right.

“Don’t you know what kind of person your grandfather is? Don’t you know that he insists you and Nelly get married? Now with what happened to the Tanners, he wants to meet Cordelia… I think there must be some conspiracy!

“Zephyr Hamerton, is your grandfather trying to set up a loaded dinner to threaten Cordelia and then help the Tanners rise back up?”

his mother’s wild imagination and explained with difficulty, “Mom, grandpa’s not a fool. Nelly Tanner has gotten chased out of Centrolis already. How

that old man already had the potential for

before he said seriously, “Mom, I’ll keep

away. “You always listen to your grandfather! What if you switch

you not

insisted. “Come out and open

say anything, and

Clark to wait at the door but thought it was too careless to ask the latter to go. Given his mother’s temper, she would want him to open the door

changed speedily, and hurried off to

time to appease his mother first, then pick up Cordelia. The point was Janine must not show

of a drive from Zen Residence to the door of the

going to call Zephyr when she heard a sharp

back and froze, shocked beyond

black Maybach. They had not met for over 20 years, and he had gotten older, but the way he carried himself had never changed. How he looked like a refined scum, especially,

look up and

more than ten

“R-Rowan Irwin!?”

“You’re… Janine Baker!?”

each other and looked appalled, like they

“Why are you here?”

you

my son lives here.

Rowan stopped speaking. He thought about it, and due to his medical judgment of

and rolled her eyes at

knew that Zephyr was the third heir of the Hamertons and the heir Liam approved the most, but he had no idea who his parents were. He used to assume

a

voice. Enemies were

before opening them abruptly. “I must, right now,

Janine propped her arms on her hips. “Rowan

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