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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his hands,

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 into the censer, the whip was raised and fell on

Deep bloodstains appeared instantly,

turned his back on him, waiting for him to lower

covered in sweat yet

furrowing his brows deeply, and threateningly said,

But now,

it seems that I

only continue to hold

lowered his gaze, and a trace of blood stained

so angry that he

bodyguard hesitated for a moment, but dared not disobey. He

"Stop!"

people and immediately

him for just hitting him a couple of times, but Mom's memorial tablet is still there. She almost gave her life to give birth

slightly moved when Caden's

Xander's expression

out of here, all of

the two of them put

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

was going to happen, so he warned the bodyguards around

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I

own yard, Brend had just

at the bloodstains dripping onto the ground, he furrowed his brows and said, "Hurry up and

silently lay down on the bed as soon as he

covering him and

intended to go easy, the first three lashes definitely required a lot

a thorn. How come you got beaten up again when everything was fine? It was because of Beatrice and you..." Brend

to torment you?"

him a

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coughed twice, expressing his dissatisfaction with his evaluation

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

three relatively deep wounds, the rest are not serious. The person who hit you

took an anti-inflammatory medicine from the medicine box and handed

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

""Ryan, answer it."

at it, saying indifferently,

"Um."

a distant and unapproachable vibe. Brend packed up the medicine box and

room with the others. When Brend went

the bell is the

"Ah... I knew it."

his head and

back, he happened to see Jessie and Oscar directing the servants to pull the

he thought of Caden's appearance, he