Rise Of The Powerful Husband

2. Silence

"What! Young master Donald is remarkable, he's willing to help the Storm Clan establish a relationship with Starkcom, the biggest company in Astoria City!"

"Starkcom is incredibly difficult to establish a relationship with, one must have a groundbreaking condition to sign a contract with them."

"But yet, young master Donald wants to help the Storm family with just a simple marriage proposal! Heck, I would even give up everything I have just to take that offer."

Clarissa overheard others, and her expression turned even colder. "Donald, stop pestering me. I don't like you!" she yelled at him and helped William up, intending to lead him out of the room to treat his injuries.

"Wait!" Lady Storm finally spoke, and the hall became silent. Everyone turned to look at her.

"Clarissa, I will declare this in public since you have decided to publicly shame my family. In one week's time, there would be a lot of changes, and you might be at the bottom last. However, you can change this by divorcing that waste of a son-in-law here and now."

Clarissa knew that her grandmother never loved her as a daughter, instead, she had always seen her as a mere bargaining chip to take her family forward in the financial ranking.

"Mom! Don't talk like that?" Clarissa's mom spoke with a smile on her face, trying her best not to show her embarrassed side.

"Better warn your daughter, I mean what I just said, and you should understand that I don't joke with anything that ruins the reputation of my family."

"Don't worry, I'll talk to my daughter, if it weren't for her drunkard of her father agreeing, all this wouldn't have happened."

Before she looked at Clarissa's position, Clarissa has already left, and the party has returned to as it used to be.

Donald contacted his dealer, and soon, the door opened, and a cart containing some glowing crystals was rolled into the hall, causing everyone to stare at it with admiration.

Donald immediately rushed to the front of the cart and announced.

"Happy birthday to you, Lady Storm. I'll use this opportunity to deliver these expensive crystals to you, there are ten in number, and each of them is worth two hundred thousand. This is just a little compared to the benefit your family will enjoy if they become acquainted with me."

The hall was silent for a second.

"2 million dollar worth of gifts!"

"Those crystals can be resold if they have been processed, one can even be sold for one million dollars!"

"Wow! The Storm family is lucky to have such a gentleman as Donald as their family friend."

Lady Storm stared at those crystals with greedy eyes. "Donald Grayson, you have done well and made my day!"

Donald smiled and kowtowed gently before walking towards Lady Storm and planting a kiss on the back of her hand.

"Hoho, such a refined young man. My daughter is foolish for ignoring your charms."

"Haha, Grandma, you praise me too much."

"Hahaha."

Lady Storm and Donald bonded so calmly like a grandmother-in-law and grandson-in-law should.

The party continued, the calm melodious tone from the best band in Astoria City drifted across the hall.

Laughter and smiles plastered on the faces of everyone.

However, at another location in the Storm family mansion, a young man could be seen lying unconscious on the bed.

William's bleeding was intense, and as a result, he lost consciousness, and it was only thanks to caring Clarissa that he was lying on a bed instead of on the ground in the midst of people who despised him.

Clarissa sat on the bed, crying silently. Why was she always being treated like this just because she decided to follow her heart instead of being like her mother who married out of contract and ended up with a husband that she loathed all the days of her life.

The door of the bedroom opened, and a middle-aged woman sharing the same color of hair walked in, Clarissa glanced at this person, and she immediately wiped her tears.

"What are you doing here, mom?"

"What? Has that bastard told you to finally stop relating with your own mother?"

"This has nothing to do with William! Stop mentioning his name at every point you feel you have nothing to say and you need someone to take the blame!"

"Is this how you talk to your mother now?"

"Speak? Why are you here, Mrs. Rosie Storm?"

Mrs. Rosie frowned, her daughter has become really hard to bond with.

"Clarissa, come with me to the other room, I have something to tell you."

"Why won't you say it here? I am not leaving William's side."

"I can't say it here, and also, it is really important and something that might involve the future of you two. His life might be in danger if you don't listen to me."

Clarissa finally left the room with her mother, she was curious what could that be.

Clarissa and Rosie walked into a beautiful room, it belonged to Rosie.

"Clarissa, divorce William, now, that young man is cursed, and his curse is spreading across our Storm family. We might go bankrupt soon because of his curse, the same curse he killed his parents with."

"William is not cursed. Is this why you brought me here?"

"Don't you dare leave, I am not done talking."

"Then talk, mom, since two years, this is the first time you have spoken any word to me and what should I have expected?"

While Rosie forced her daughter to divorce William, a different scenario occurred in the room William was.

[[ Wealth System Online ]]

[[ Congratulations, You have unlocked Wealth System ]]

[[ Unlimited money has been added to your system ]]

William's eyes suddenly opened, and he was greeted with a holographic window hovering in front of his eyes.

He cleared his eyes, thinking he was dreaming after receiving the worst beating of his life.

[[ Character menu has appeared ]]

[[ Opening character menu... ]]

[[ Host: William ]]

[[ Wealth: $1,000,000,000,000,000 ]]

[[ Magic power: 0 ]]

[[ Combat: 0 ]]