Chapter 7
Edward Quan ·
Madam Yue had wanted to bring him back to the Yue family home. But Old Master Yue could not overlook his part in the divorce. He considered the boy vicious and ungrateful.
In the end, the matter was simply left unresolved.
He was sent to a distant branch of the family to be kept under control. His greatest hope each month was the insurance payout from the policy I had bought for him all those years ago.
I smiled and put those things out of my mind.
After all, tonight’s banquet was being held to celebrate my success.
Thanks to the successful Xishan revitalization project, I had been appointed director of the National Research Institute.
My life was back on course.
The past had been nothing more than a detour.
[The End]