Son-in-Law: A Commoner's Path to Revenge

Ch. 45 - Looking for Answers

A fine morning, with a gentle breeze, brought about a cool sensation on the skin of the people walking around in Riverbank city.

The middle-aged man stared blankly at both Raios and Jackson with a distorted face. In a visibly disturbed expression, he uttered in an almost frightened tone. “W-What have you done?!”

Jackson thought of his reaction to be weird. Instead of going on and on about his place of business, the middle-aged man changed his tone to that of submission and trembled in his shoes.

Then a thought came to mind, which Jackson thought improbable at first, but after pondering over it for a while, he came out and spoke. “You are not alone in this scheme, are you?”

The middle-aged man’s face turned white like a ghost. As if all the blood drained from his head, he stumbled before getting a grip on a chair and sitting down. He tried to brush it off by shaking his head, but before he could get the words out, Jackson interrupted him.

“I’m guessing the Brown family pulls your strin