Maxwell sighed and turned around. He was walking back to the mansion when he bumped into another person. This time, it was his son, Lucas.

“Aren’t you going to work today?” Maxwell asked with concern, though it seemed to have not landed well with Lucas.

Lucas glanced at his father coldly. “I’m going right now,” he said neutrally.

Maxwell was used to being treated so coldly by Lucas, so he thought nothing of it and walked back to the mansion.

The atmosphere inside the mansion was very gloomy. Phoebe and Anya were still hugging each other, crying.

Maxwell simply glanced at them and walked upstairs to wash his hand in his attached bathroom without asking anything. It was as if nothing happened at all.

was in the living room, was beyond irked at their incessant crying. “For god’s sake, will you two just stop crying?! Especially you, Anya. You

grossly swollen

tears. “Dad,

all those dirty tricks from you! After all,

broke out in sobs again. “Dad, Mom, you’d rather believe the words of an outsider instead of mine and Anya’s?! Yes, it’s true Anya was the mastermind behind

could say anything, Beatrice—who was massaging her temples—butted in impatiently, “We’ll find out in three days whether Corinne stole Josephine’s university spot from her. Let’s just drop this topic

from all the crying. He then turned back to Phoebe and Anya. “Stop crying now, and go do what you’re supposed to do. I swear you two are going to be the death of us

that. She quickly pulled Anya up, and the two of them went back to their

alright, old dear?” asked Cedric worriedly. “Shall I ask for the doctor to

her hand. “No, that won’t be necessary. I’m fine.

after he

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