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, a

some time, he got up and strode

coming to him. He quickly asked his servants to take it away and weakly pulled his blanket up to rest

“Are you feeling better?”

get up but

looked cold. “You’re not young anymore. The memorial hall’s cold. How could you kneel there through

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

“The father has no idea of what his

“Well—”

distant now, there’s no need to plead

Matthew was rendered speechless.

glanced at him. His voice was stern, and his cane was loud against the floor. “Do you really think I’m senile!? Do you really feel guilty, or are you putting up a show for everyone

“Dad…”

bouncing off the bed and getting on

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

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