After breakfast, Samuel sent Yvonne to the office. The general store was open for business, but there were clearly more customers going in and out of the place, and they did not look like your regular folk.“What do you want to do now?” Samuel asked Manfred.“Blake Coleman is dead. Someone has to clean up after the awful mess he left behind,” Manfred replied.Samuel nodded his head. It seemed that Manfred had decided to take up his old mantle again. This was good news because he could not rely on Johann’s courage to accomplish great things. Now, he did not wish to invest any more time and energy into Johann.“Tell me if you need anything,” Samuel said.Manfred’s lips curled into a grin. “Blake Coleman is dead, yet the news has not caused a ruckus in Cloud City,” he said. “You’ve helped enough. Instead, just tell me if you need anything.” “I’ll remember that. A true man will always keep his word,” Samuel answered, smiling.Manfred whipped out a cigarette and thrust it toward him. “You
“Mom, what should I do now? They won’t make me pay, right?” Steven said, his voice small.Flora looked at Samuel. She could not let her son take responsibility for this. Anyway, Samuel was a fly in the Sue family. It would be no problem to pin the blame on him.“I need to pick Yvonne up from her office. Why don’t you go up first?” Samuel said at this moment.Ferdinand’s face contorted in fury. Where was his courtesy when treating guests? He wanted to say something, but he was interrupted by his wife. “Go on them. Don’t be late.”Ferdinand stared at Flora with suspicion. What was with the sudden personality change? Where was the logic in being abandoned when they were visiting guests?“What are you doing, Flora? Why aren’t you making that good-for-nothing b*stard take us up?” Ferdinand asked her after Samuel drove off.“How can we pin the blame on him if he doesn’t leave?” Flora said, smiling. “Don’t say a single word when we get up there. Let me do the talking.”The family headed upsta
After Yvonne finished work, she noticed the huge dent in the car’s bumper but did not feel resentful toward Samuel. She simply said, “How could you be so careless?”“Steven insisted on driving when I went to pick his family up. He accidentally banged the car,” Samuel replied.“Steven?” Yvonne’s brows immediately furrowed. She practically hated her cousin. He was a grown man of over twenty years, yet he did nothing but laze around and learn how to make idle boasts like his father. She never thought that he would actually get the car into an accident.“Let’s see how he deals with it once my mom finds out,” Yvonne said.They drove back home. Her parents, as well as her uncle’s family, were all waiting on the ground floor. This scene confused even Samuel. They were not waiting for Yvonne, were they?After they parked the car, Lydia and Godfrey were looking at the front bumper, soreness seeping into their bones. Bitterness and resentment welled in their hearts; this was a new car!“Sa
At the private room, they drank multiple rounds after the meal. Godfrey and Lydia were slightly tipsy, and Flora took the opportunity to remind her husband of his job. “Lydia, I need your help with something,” Ferdinand said.Lydia waved her hand. “Whatever it is, just tell. I’ll definitely help you if I can,” she said carelessly.“My wallet’s been a bit tight lately. Since Yvonne is so successful now, I want to borrow some money,” he replied.Flora quickly chimed in, “We wouldn’t ask you if we had any other way. You have money now, Lydia. Surely you’ll help us?”Lydia immediately became more conscious when she heard the words ‘borrow some money’. She was well-aware of her brother’s characteristics. It was a 99 percent probability that she would not get her money back once she ‘lent’ it to him.“How much do you want to borrow?” she asked.Her brother raised two fingers.“Two thousand?” she said.“What are you thinking, Lydia? Would I ask you if it was just two thousand?” Ferdinand said
They saw Steven being thrown in, his nose broken and his face swelled with bruises. There were a few beefy-looking men behind him.Flora was someone who would do anything for her child, so she immediately ran over when she saw her son beaten into this state. “Steven, what happened? Are you okay?” she asked, concerned.Her son was so frightened that snot and tears streamed down his face. He cried so badly—almost even resembling a girl.“Who are you people? Why did you beat my son?” Flora snarled.A pot-bellied man with a gold chain around his neck stepped forward. “What are you screaming about? A b*tch like you gave birth to this son of a b*tch, who actually dared to lay a hand on my woman. So what if I gave him a good beating?”After Steven had emerged from the toilet, he ran into a woman wearing seductive clothing. He said obscenities to her as his mind was unfiltered by the alcohol. He did not know that the woman was with a gang leader, who then beat him up without so much o
“Don’t even dream about it.” Yvonne’s expression contorted in anger. This had absolutely nothing to do with her, yet the fatty dragged her into it.The fatty flashed a devious grin and raked his eyes over her. “Not a bad figure. Not bad at all. Who knows how it’ll look like once it’s naked.” He clicked his tongue. “Little lady, you don’t have the final say here. I advise you to obey quietly. Not a woman I have my eyes on has managed to escape from me.”“Don’t speak such nonsense. She’s a granddaughter of the Sue family. We’ll never forgive you for this.” Lydia could not let her daughter be sullied by this fatty at all costs. If the old matriarch of the Sues found out about this, Yvonne’s future would be finished.“The Sues?” The fatty frowned. They kept talking about the Sues, yet he had zero recollection of the existence of this family. He asked, “Who the h*ll are the Sues? How great can they be?”“How are you even living in Cloud City if you don’t know of the Sues? She’s Yvonne Sue,”
Anxiety gripped Lydia when she saw her daughter whipping up Samuel’s number. “Yvonne, are you really going to waste your time calling him? What if that fatty comes back?”“Not another word from you, Mom. All of you, shut up,” Yvonne snapped, her tone rising.Flora glared at Yvonne. What a temper that little brat had! However, the fatty would probably forget about Steven, since he wanted Yvonne to sleep with him. Now all this was none of her business.Yvonne finally got through to her husband. She asked, “Samuel, where are you?”He was slurping a mouthful of instant noodles. “At home,” he replied.“Er…I ran into some trouble here. Can you come over and help?” Yvonne said apologetically. They had not brought him out to dinner, yet he was the first person she called when there was trouble. It was all because of her mother—if not for her, Yvonne would never have left Samuel at home alone.“All right. I’ll come over now,” her husband answered without hesitation.Yvonne released a sigh of re
The fatty was being beaten into a bloody pulp, and he still had no idea what was going on. All he knew was that he could not dream about offending the young man before him. Johann treated the young man with absolute reverence. This indicated that he was of an even higher status than Johann.However, from the fatty’s eyes, he could never imagine the kind of person Samuel truly was.Of course, he would also never imagine that the man before him was Cloud City’s legendary good-for-nothing trash who married into the Sues.In the other room, Lydia was practically dancing on her feet, seeing that Samuel had not made an appearance even after so much time had passed. “Yvonne, I told you that you can’t trust Samuel! He should have arrived by now even if he ordered a cab. He’s probably hiding away at home and refusing to come out. How could you trust him?” Lydia said.“You’re dragging all of us through the mud just because you trust in that good-for-nothing,” Steven said shamelessly. It was a