When Love Turns to Ashes

Chapter 113 Accepting Punishment

Ancestral hall.

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Two entrances, big and small, located within the Baldwin's mansion grounds, at the highest point of the terrain.

The high beams were painted with gold paint every year. Above the shrine, there were twin dragons playing with a pearl, symbolizing the status and power of the family.

In front of the altar, Xander, who had always maintained a dignified composure, showed his anger for the first time.

He stared coldly at Caden in the center of the ancestral hall and asked, "You have disappointed me greatly this time! Who exactly leaked the contents of the contract?"

aden's profound contours were faintly tinged with detachment, with a torrential downpour pouring down from the sky behind him, yet there was a chilling desolation about him as if the storm had ceased to exist. "No one, it was my

"You!"

carelessness that allowed the Powell family to take advantage."

Xander glared angrily, his face trembling slightly, clearly not the answer he wanted.

There must be a scapegoat for this matter!

How can we explain to our fellow tribesmen, to the outside world, if we don't use the past as the reference tense?

tense

Xander took a deep breath and insinuated, "Has Beatrice been to the Baldwin Group?"

It was very simple to solve this matter.

The humble Beatrice, driven solely by self-interest, betrayed the Baldwin family who had nurtured her for many years, in pursuit of money.

When it was said, everyone would only reprimand Beatrice's behavior of being an ungrateful bastard and sympathize with the Baldwin family being betrayed.

No one would ever put the key to this matter on a business mistake.

As long as Caden spoke...

"I didn't go." Caden said coldly.

Upon hearing the words, Xander forcefully slammed the altar, causing the atmosphere in the entire temple to become tense.

The father and son exchanged a glance, and Xander's eye twitched twice in anger before he turned around.

He took three incense sticks from the table and said sternly, "Since that's the case, you should also know the consequences of doing something wrong." "Um."

Caden expressionlessly unbuttoned.

Keith's face turned serious as he expressed his concern, "Mr. Caden."

""Shut up."

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had taken off into his hands, then

a whip from the cabinet, dipped it in the rainwater that had fallen into the courtyard, and with a slight pull, it made a hair-raising sound. Xander bowed to the shrine, and as soon as the incense was inserted

Deep bloodstains appeared instantly,

for him to lower his head

after enduring ten lashes, Caden was covered in sweat yet did not utter

behind his back, furrowing his brows deeply, and threateningly said, "Caden, I promised you that if

But

it seems that I

only continue to hold

his gaze, and a

that he remained silent, became so

He could only grit

"Stop!"

rushed in with people and immediately

him like this, someone will die. You blamed him for just hitting him a couple of times, but Mom's memorial tablet

expression was slightly moved

Xander's expression

out of here, all

two of them put a coat on Caden and helped

Ryan walked to the door, he glanced at the bodyguard holding a whip and nodded

the cooperation. Ryan knew that something was

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I

own yard, Brend

he furrowed his

on the bed as soon as he entered

the coat covering him and took a deep

to go easy, the first three lashes

would smash into the flesh like a thorn. How come you got beaten up again when everything

to torment you?"

gave him a cold

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beside them, coughed twice,

awkwardly, put on gloves, and cleaned the wound. Finally, he was able to breathe

The person who hit you also deliberately avoided vital areas.

from the medicine box and handed it

take his medicine, he heard the continuous vibration of Ryan's phone

""Ryan, answer it."

glanced at it, saying indifferently, "It's not important. Are you

"Um."

face, giving off a distant and unapproachable vibe. Brend packed up the medicine box and stood up, saying, "Mr. Ryan, let him rest first,

and left the room with the others. When Brend went downstairs to leave, he called out

one who unties the bell is the one who tied

"Ah... I knew it."

shook his

to see Jessie and Oscar directing the

he thought of