Vivienne entered the hospital ward, leaving Percival waiting outside, seated opposite Jasper and Yuri.

Jasper and Yuri exchanged brief pleasantries with Percival before disengaging, preferring to keep to themselves.

Percival appeared engrossed in his phone, but with a few discreet taps, he had pulled up thorough profiles on the two men sitting across from him.

Jasper Perez, head of the prestigious Perez family and chairman of Perez Enterprises.

Yuri Perez, the Perez family’s fourth son and the CFO of Perez Group.

The Perez family held a status in Sea City comparable to the Ellingtons.

With its century-long history and wealth rivaling that of nations, the family was a force to be reckoned with.

However, the Perez family were known for their discretion, rarely making public appearances and abstaining from social events.

These facts were available to the public, but Percival had accessed more sensitive information using Vanguard Agency’s resources: the Perez family was an ancient warrior lineage.

The details of such ancient warrior lineages, hidden in seclusion, were nearly impossible to trace without tapping into national databases.

Ancient warrior lineages typically remained out of the public eye, drawing income from their corporate ventures or offering highly sought-after security services at exorbitant prices.

The Perez family, alongside the Martinez family of Rivenwood, were one of the few to step out into the world.

earlier than the Martinez family and conducted their affairs openly, so their warrior lineage identity was a well-kept

piqued Percival’s interest. Thirty-five years ago, Sasha, the ten-year-old daughter of the Perez family, had mysteriously vanished and

though blurry, hinted

in, his voice low,

unknown. No footage or records exist. Vivienne

Vivienne, who was busily attending to something in the ward,

“What about it?”

designer Charles, perfumer Q, piano virtuoso Moonlight, and

confident in the Perez family’s intelligence network. Yet, when it came to Vivienne, they could only scratch the surface; her deeper secrets

looked up at Percival, murmuring, “This girl’s got chops. Is the kid up

paused before responding, “He’s the heir to the

was short-sighted

mother, whose real name was Karen, had a romance with Scott Brooks, the eldest son of the Brooks family. She disappeared

waste,” Jasper exhaled

and savvy even surpassed his own son. But still, he felt Percival was unworthy

rubbed his temples, thinking how unfitting it was for them to meddle in the young couple’s affairs. The Ellington heir was no fool,

his tongue, knowing better than to provoke his father’s

unlikely Karen is Sasha,” Yuri said cautiously after researching extensively. The information on Karen was scant, aside from what had emerged along with Vivienne. The

When Sasha disappeared, the Perez family had locked down every exit from the city, monitoring

out of the ward, followed by

Yuri with a reassuring smile. “Mr. Perez, there’s good news about Yasmine and Natalia. Their hearts are mending, slowly but surely. They’ll need to stay in the hospital a bit longer just to

later in life and knew the stakes were high. If something happened to her daughters, she would regret

quietly observing, stood up as well.

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