*****In the Villa.As soon as Ares’s voice was heard, all eyes turned in his direction and then Ava jumped to her feet and yelled. “How dare you bastard return to this house, tell me?!!!”Her voice was suddenly filled to the brim with aggression and fury, causing Ares’s mouth to open wide.“Why will I not return, Mother? Have you forgotten that I live here now?” He inquired blankly, looking incredibly confused.“You… you nonentity bastard! You loser of a man! How dare you argue with me!” Ava became further incensed and she almost started spitting out flame from her eyes at Ares."What’s wrong?" Ares finally noticed that his mother-in-law was acting differently. She was genuinely furious tonight. While she had never been fond of him, he had never heard so much anger and hatred in her voice before.She started breathing at the top of her lungs, her face turning crimson red from holding back her excessive outrage, and then she glared at her daughter."I swear by all that is holy
*****“Was I too harsh?” Once in her room, Olivia with her back resting on her door suddenly frowned and mumbled to herself.The image of Ares's dumbfounded pained expression after she called his life miserable lingered in her thoughts, causing her heart to ache with regret.Originally, she had planned to clarify things to Ares about herself and Olive, to dispel his misconceptions. However, she had never anticipated that what awaited her upon returning home was a video from her mother of Ares attempting to escape from a restaurant without paying for the meals he had ordered."No! How could I feel sorry for that shameless loser again? I’m certain he must have bumped into Olive and me while trying to flee from the restaurant without paying his debts."Olivia became enraged again and her breathing quickened. She had never anticipated that Ares would be so shameless.‘Why had I even expected better from someone who had chosen to ruin my life for money,” she abruptly scoffed.“I jus
*****Ares thought he had forgotten the horror he experienced that night, but unfortunately, he only wished that.He was awoken more than two times during his sleep from nightmares concerning the hell on earth.The third time, Ares decided not to sleep again since it was almost morning, so he got up and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everybody, also to appease his mother-in-law and wife.“Where did you even find such a failure of a man out of all the countless great men in the world?”Ares, who had just finished preparing breakfast immediately smiled wryly, hearing Ava’s voice.He cleaned his hands with a napkin before stepping out of the kitchen.Olivia, who was already dressed beautifully for work, and Ava were climbing down the staircase.“Good morning Mother good morning, wife,” Ares greeted with a handsome smile on his face, startling the mother and daughter duo who had never expected his sudden appearance.Ava instantly shifted a fierce glare in his direct
***** “Since you have something important to do, why don’t you leave first? I will find my way to the company later.”After alighting the car once she got to her destination, Olivia said gratefully to Olive, but Olive only smiled softly to her before also exiting the car.“My important thing can wait till later. I will wait until you are done here and then give you a lift to your company,” He responded and gestured for Olivia to walk.“Thank you,” Olivia said gently, her heart melting at Olive’s gentlemanliness. For reasons she couldn't quite pinpoint, Olivia suddenly thought of Ares, hoping that he could have possessed even a fraction of Olive's caring nature.Unbeknownst to her, Olive wasn't following her out of concern; rather, he was driven by fear that Olivia might uncover his previous day's plans. Additionally, he was intensely curious about Olivia's sudden desire to visit the restaurant.‘At least I can be assured she didn't suspect the plans I had last night, otherwise, she
*****Seated in front of multiple monitor screens, Bernard was still fuming furiously, his face contorted in a grumpy expression.He had realized upon returning from the reunion last night that he had already lost his account.Although painful, what truly hurt him the most was checking the account statistics and realizing the staggering amount of money lost alongside the account—a whopping two million dollars.The aura he had been exuding since then was that of someone who had just lost their entire life savings and investment.He had even furiously destroyed the cell phone responsible for the loss of the account.."Which son of a bitch was that?" Bernard suddenly growled irritably, glaring at one of the screens of the monitor before him.The following second, he pounded on the table and then jumped to his feet, rushing out."Who the hell are you, and why the fuck are you disturbing the peace of this estate with the horn of that ugly junk of yours?" he cursed angrily.In th
*****“Fake life.” Ares sighed deeply after a while of driving away from Bernard.With that, he ignored the little meeting between himself and Bernard and started appreciating the beauty of the estate.“It really deserves to be the best and most expensive estate in the city.” Ares’s eyes glowed as he looked at the beautiful and expensive houses he had never seen before in real life apart from movies.Even Olivia’s villa couldn’t hold a candle behind the smallest house within the estate, which was the first building one would encounter upon entering, aside from the security post.“I will definitely buy a house here in the future. What other best way would I make my mother-in-law and wife stop looking down on me if not this.”It was just a mere thought at first, but as soon as Ares muttered it, his eyes began to glow as he envisioned how greatly dumbstruck his mother-in-law and wife would be if he were to ever bring them here and show them he owned a house, even if it were the che
*****"You should have known by now never to cross my path and witness my downfall. This is your consequence for daring to try—a lifetime of imprisonment if you're lucky, or a death sentence if you're not."After capturing Ares, Bernard did not bother hiding the grin on his face again.He mumbled evilly and creepily into Ares’s ear before forcefully dragging him up, treating him like a criminal.Regrettably for Bernard, he failed to recognize that his ability to easily overpower Ares as he just did wasn't due to his strength like the past as even a single breath from the present Ares could leave him powerless. It was Ares who deliberately allowed it to happen.His intentional entrapment of Bernard.Wouldn't he have been a laughingstock in the cultivation world if he failed to notice Bernard secretly dropping something in his car earlier? Definitely yes. Ares acted like he didn't know because he wasn't aware of the game Bernard was playing and he even ignorantly thought Bernard was
*****At this moment, it was so silent you could hear a pin drop, and no one seemed to snap out of it even after Master Robert's words had sunk in for a long time.Everyone stood with eyes and mouths wide open, wondering if they had misheard the old man's words.They were incredibly stunned to the extent that they all failed to notice the flame of rage burning fiercely in Master Robert's eyes as he watched his Grandmaster handcuffed and ganged up against like a criminal.If only Ares had not instructed him long ago to remain calm and not do anything out of the norms, he would have already called Andrew to dispatch a squad of soldiers for him whom he would use to capture everyone and inflict upon them the most excruciating punishment he could imagine.The silence at the place lasted for a long time until finally, the captain stuttered. “You… you said… you said the… the Dynamite was what was being delivered to you?”“And would I lie to you?”“I…” The captain instantly shivered, he