After watching Armand leave the house, the servant went back to bed.

The next morning, she did not see the leather shoes the man usually wore or his coat on the hanger. Hence, she assumed that he had been out the entire night.

Genevieve simply gave an indifferent laugh when she heard the housekeeper. “He probably had something important to tend to.”

However, the servant was not convinced, for that was not what it looked like based on the expression she saw on Armand. The man looked like he was mad. Could they have gotten into a fight in the bedroom?

The housekeeper had her assumptions but dared not gossip about them.

After breakfast, Genevieve sent Steven a message to ask about the cemetery’s location, and when she got it, her eyes immediately welled up because that was also where her parents and grandmother were buried.

Genevieve went to a dessert shop to get two boxes of cream puffs before making her way to the cemetery.

Since she had been there twice, she knew of a shortcut to get there and did not have to rely on her phone.

and soon saw Steven, who was standing in front of a tombstone with his back

staff members of the funeral service

he looked somewhat despondent with it

walked toward Steven slowly until she finally reached

with red cloth as he spoke to Genevieve, his eyes downcast. “Patrick had always been a smart kid. It doesn’t matter if it’s a contest on hacking or sniping skills because he’d always come out on top. The Ministry of National Security wanted to recruit him before he even graduated from military school, but I didn’t

continuing, “I was born in a slum in Xedells, where I spent most of my childhood starving and seeking shelter. My father was killed in a car accident, and the culprit just drove off. The guy was never brought to justice. My mother basically had to raise me on her own, and when she was diagnosed with gastric cancer, we lost our house. No bank was

Steven was desperate to get money to treat his sick mother. He had to fight for a job at the docks and

third time he tried to swipe the establishment, Steven was caught red-handed by the owner, who beat him up along with the workers there. When the

just so happened to bump into a young man walking out of a cafe and heading for a car parked by the roadside, and

just returned home after studying abroad. He said goodbye to his friends and was about to go home when he saw the owner of the

arcade owner and managed to get rid of the man after offering him

just by looking at the man’s clothes and car, so he immediately begged Armand to lend him some money and promised to return

tried to steal from

didn’t want to steal,” protested Steven. “I just need enough money so that my mother can

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