Chapter 395

When Zander was eight years old, he lost his parents in an accident. Since he was an outsider, no one in the village felt obligated to step in, as everyone was poor and couldn't afford to have another child in their house.

However, the villagers helped arrange the funeral for Zander's parents, burying them, and taking turns hosting the poor child for meals.

Zander ate at various households in Hoover's Village for six months before being sent to an orphanage in the city. Later, he returned to the village once and gave the villagers a lot of money.

Now, his son had transformed the entire village inside and out. The villagers knew Zander's son was also a wealthy businessman in the city, but they seldom saw him.

When Nathaniel came to Hoover Village to donate the villas, he only appeared briefly at the opening ceremony, and left right after the ceremony without even giving a speech, efficient and brisk.

returned for Spring, bringing his wife with him, which stirred excitement in the village. People came to see

Instead, he handed out good cigarettes and even expensive cigars to the elders, and shared chocolates with

people see his wife. He excused that she was shy and newly married, he let Freya show her face briefly before having her rest in the bedroom

by the window, watching the crowd in the yard and Nathaniel chatting with

by warm water pipes underneath and

she laid there, looking at the wedding decorations on the ceiling, she suddenly realized something. She quickly turned to look at the

wedding-themed decor

she

had previously missed.

quilt emitted a faint scent of wormwood in front of her, a wedding photo in a glass frame hung on the wall. She remembered not having a dedicated wedding photo shoot with Nathaniel. The wedding was rushed, so they used a set from

photos from that shoot hung in the room. Freya looked at the woman in the photo, smiling sweetly with her arm around Nathaniel's, and felt a bit disoriented, as if she were

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