Letting a person live lucidly in pain for the rest of their life was the biggest punishment.

Rowan wiped his hand with a smirk. He took one last look at William and left quietly.

The early morning sun spilled through the memorial hall’s traditional window and shone on the portraits of the Hamerton ancestors.

Many servants were crowding the door as they looked inside in worry. With the dull thud and an abrupt fall of a figure, they gasped and rushed in.

“Mr. Matthew fainted! Mr. Matthew fainted!”

“Go get Mr. Clark!

Clark came over with some other men to take care of the incident and relayed it to Liam with a solemn face.

Matthew had stayed on his knees in the memorial hall for one whole day without food or water and finally succumbed in the morning.

tapped his dragon-headed cane on the floor,

some time, he got up and strode

father was coming to him. He quickly asked his servants to take it away

“Are you feeling better?”

to get up but coughed violently just as

“You’re not young anymore. The memorial hall’s cold. How could

if I don’t ask for the ancestors’ forgiveness…” Matthew began to wipe his tears. “I… I really didn’t expect Yale to conspire with

father has no idea of what his son’s doing? Has your father-and-son relationship faded

“Well—”

there’s no need to plead his case

Matthew was rendered speechless.

“Do you really think I’m senile!? Do you really feel guilty, or are you putting up a show for

“Dad…”

bouncing off the

you really going to put Yale behind bars? H-He only wanted to steal the set of medicinal formulas because

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