Huo Zhenxuan took one last look at the luxurious house and garden of Huo Garden, knowing that from then on, he would no longer have the chance to set foot in his homeland or Huo Garden, filled with both hatred and regret:

"Butler Ou, please talk to daddy again, I don’t want to leave G City. Isn’t there any other way? Huo Family’s position in G City is so high, we have insiders and acquaintances in those departments, at the police, at the courts; they would definitely give us face. There must be a way for me to stay in G City without going to jail or having a criminal record!"

"Second Young Master," Butler Ou replied with pity yet no compromise in his gaze, "I can only say it’s bad luck on your part. If you had harmed Mu Qingran in private, we could have found a way to cover it up for you, but you did it on a busy street in broad daylight, with everyone on the entire road witnessing it—not one or two witnesses, but hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, and even reporters captured it! How are we supposed to help you deny the charges? Even if we could, others would think the Huo Family are bandits, and our family’s good name would be completely ruined! Now, the best outcome has been negotiated by the eldest young master on your behalf. You should leave quickly. If you keep dawdling, you might not even have the chance to go abroad..."

Huo Zhenxuan clenched his fists.

If his elder brother were willing, what would it matter if witnesses filled a whole street, or even the entire G City saw him assault someone?

Given his elder brother’s influence in the underworld, he certainly had the ability to silence the mouths and blind the eyes of G City’s people.

The key point was—whether he was willing to help.

And now, his elder brother simply did not want to help him!

Upon hearing the last sentence from Butler Ou, Huo Zhenxuan gasped in shock, knowing that if he continued to linger, his fate might not just be getting kicked out of Huo Garden...

Above his head, a thunderclap boomed fiercely, lightning slashed across the sky, and rain poured down from the heavens, hitting the asphalt and splashing water droplets.

Gritting his teeth, Huo Zhenxuan took one last look at the Huo Family he could no longer have, then angrily dove into the small car his elder brother had prepared for him.

The car wheels splashed through puddles on their way to the airport.

Just then, a woman’s desperate scream came from behind Butler Ou:

"—Xuan, Zhenxuan! Where are you going?"

Yao Zhenru, though she had been locked up in a confinement room since returning from the restaurant that day, had learned from the servants who brought food that her son was being sent away.

Just learning that her son had already left Huo Garden, she pushed the maid delivering food aside and ran down frantically, only to see the car carrying Huo Zhenxuan away.

She knew that once he left, she might never see her son again in this lifetime, and felt as if her heart was tearing apart, ending up sitting on the wet ground in the pouring rain.

Zhenxuan was the only hope for Yao Zhenru, the only bargaining chip she had to push Huo Zhenyang out!

Now that Xuan was gone, what hope did she have left!

The heavy rain pattered on the delicately maintained middle-aged woman, her hair disheveled, snot and tears mixed on her face, not showing a trace of her usual pride or elegance, looking even less than a roadside beggar.

Butler Ou made a signal with his eyes at the maids.

Two maids hurried forward, attempting to help the lady up and take her back to the confinement room.

After all, the old man hadn’t said before to let her out, and he would surely scold someone if he found out.

Yao Zhenru didn’t know where she got the strength from, but she pushed the two away forcefully, as if she had gone mad, "Get out, all of you get out! Are you trying to hold me back so the Second Young Master can leave? I’m telling you, he won’t leave! He is a descendant of the Huo Family, and this Huo Garden, including the Huo Group, will be my Zhenxuan’s in the future. It will belong to me and my son! All of you bitches, you just want to take it! Hmph! Ha ha ha ha."

When Butler Ou saw that the lady had become delirious from the shock of the Second Young Master’s departure, he glared at the maids:

"What are you staring at? Do you want to wake the old master? Drag her back quickly!"

After a moment of thought, Butler Ou felt uneasy again, "And gag her too! Don’t let her make a scene."

Yao Zhenru’s tantrums not only affected the sick old master but, should outsiders hear, they might say the Huo Family deliberately let an injured son, accused of a crime, escape.

Yao Zhenru got up pointing at Butler Ou, "How dare you let the servants treat me like this! Old Ou, have you forgotten that I am Mrs. Huo? It seems you’ve become senile! I am your mistress! It looks like you don’t want to work for the Huo Family anymore, do you? Old thing!"

Butler Ou scoffed, "Sorry, madam, but there are only two masters in Huo Garden. Besides the old master, it’s only the late Mrs. Lan. As for you, if you continue to make noise and affect the reputation of both the old master and the Huo Family, I will not regard you as the old master’s wife!"

Butler Ou had been in Huo Garden for decades, longer than Yao Zhenru had been by the old master’s side.

In his heart, there were only two true masters, Huo Tianpei and the late Mrs. Lan, the former wife.

He knew that after the death of Huo Zhenyang’s biological mother, Mrs. Lan, Old Master Huo Tianpei didn’t really want to remarry.

At that time, numerous women in G City wanted to latch onto the Huo Family and become Huo Tianpei’s new wife. Yao Zhenru was one of the most aggressive pursuers.

The Yao Family was in business and had a decent level of assets and a bit of a reputation in G City, but even so, they couldn’t compare to a single hair of the Huo Family.

To get their daughter married into the Huo Family as the wife, the Yao Family resorted to all kinds of measures—either by hiring people to persuade or by arranging coincidental meetings for Yao Zhenru to have more interactions and spend time with Huo Tianpei, just pestering relentlessly, all with the aim of forcing their daughter into Huo Tianpei’s life.

After much consideration, Huo Tianpei married Yao Zhenru as his wife because he feared the emptiness of his house and believed the young Eldest Young Master also needed a mother.

Huo Tianpei only wished for the Eldest Young Master to inherit the family business and company. Knowing how substantial the Huo Family’s assets were, he didn’t want to face a dispute over family wealth in the future, so he never wanted Yao Zhenru to have children, and had initially made her take birth control pills.

But Yao Zhenru secretly replaced the birth control pills with vitamin C, and that was how she managed to get pregnant and give birth to the Second Young Master, Huo Zhenxuan.

Although Huo Tianpei was very annoyed that Yao Zhenru had taken it upon herself to get pregnant and have a child, he didn’t say much, after all, the Second Young Master was still his own flesh and blood.

And over the years, how Yao Zhenru treated the Eldest Young Master, Butler Ou saw it all. She utterly failed to live up to the old master’s previous expectations.

Since childhood, the Eldest Young Master always had bodyguards, as well as dedicated maids and nannies. Yao Zhenru dared not and was not able to do anything overt to the Eldest Young Master, but being selfish and caring only for her own biological son, she was always cold towards the Eldest Young Master.

Once the Eldest Young Master became an adult and moved out of Huo Garden, she became even more excessive, often whispering poison in Huo Tianpei’s ear, speaking ill of the Eldest Young Master.

Over the years, the coldness between the old master and the Eldest Young Master was to a great extent Yao Zhenru’s doing!