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.

brows were furrowed as he tapped his dragon-headed cane on the floor, a cold

got up and strode briskly to Matthew’s

that his father was coming to him. He quickly asked his servants to take it away and weakly pulled his blanket up to rest against the

“Are you feeling better?”

pretended to get up but coughed violently

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

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

his son’s doing?

“Well—”

you’re distant now, there’s no need to plead his

Matthew was rendered speechless.

the floor. “Do you really think I’m senile!? Do you really feel guilty, or are

“Dad…”

off the bed and

going to put Yale behind bars? H-He only wanted to steal the set of medicinal formulas because that b*stard William Jenner

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