Chapter 1126: Chapter 1126: So Afraid of These Feelings That Even I Fooled Myself

The warlord leader of the Golden Triangle aims to clean up and settle in the South Seas, causing daily anxiety for the South Seas Military District, which reports this to higher authorities every three days.

Yet, Griffith Squire is indifferent to the military’s demands for negotiation, blatantly ignoring them, and this causes quite a headache for those in Imperial City as well.

Not to mention the military district’s troubles, many prominent families in the South Seas are also greatly distressed. This suddenly emerging bandit leader spends money like water in the South Seas, terrifying everyone. This way of throwing money around is like they’ve discovered a gold mine.

The Squire siblings conquered the high society with wealth, and intimidated the elite circle with their formidable warlord background, quickly rising to become the new elite of the South Seas within a short period.

News from the South Seas slowly makes its way to Imperial City, and Richard Shaw merely puts it aside every time he sees it and doesn’t pay much attention. Around September and early October each year, Richard Shaw enters the most irritable season.

The people from the military district all know that during the anniversary of the Major General’s wife’s death, his mood will not be good for several consecutive months.

Two months later, Shuanger brings news of Eamon Turner.

"Eamon Turner’s brother is Cornelius Turner. They got separated more than ten years ago. Both brothers were born in a small village in southern Yunnan, lost both parents, disappeared for a year, and later Eamon returned alone, attended high school, and joined the army."

Shuanger relayed all the findings: "The person who returned at the beginning of the year was confirmed to be Cornelius. There is no entry or exit information; even the villagers say they can’t remember his appearance. He stayed in the village for two days, built a tomb, paid tributes, and then disappeared. Eamon Turner has been dead for nearly six years, and it was only because we never gave up investigating that we caught this news."

Cornelius? Richard Shaw asked with a stern face and a low voice: "Where has Cornelius been all these years?"

"Golden Triangle. He is Griffith Squire’s trusted aide. This time, when Griffith moves to clean up and settle in the South Seas, Cornelius is responsible for the matters around Golden Triangle. He is somewhat famous locally." Shuanger presented all of Cornelius’s personal data.

Eamon, Cornelius, Golden Triangle, Griffith. The man’s face was slightly stern. For some reason, Griffith Squire’s name has appeared repeatedly before him in recent years. The trusted aides are a pair of brothers separated for many years, and there seems to be an implicit rivalry.

Richard Shaw nodded, feeling the necessity to visit the South Seas to investigate Griffith Squire. The military archives record that this person was born in Golden Triangle; his father is unknown, and his mother was trafficked there. A mysterious identity, but there’s no record that he has a sister. Leah Squire seems to have appeared out of thin air.

"Shuanger, check if Griffith has had any entry records over the past six years." Richard Shaw’s tea-colored eyes squinted slightly, and he instructed in a low voice, "Then send someone to Golden Triangle to investigate whether Cornelius and Eamon have had any contact during these years."

Shuanger was greatly surprised. Was the Major General suggesting that Eamon isn’t dead, or that Eamon is related to Golden Triangle?

The man’s face was stern, only the hand holding the wheelchair trembled slightly. As this thought flashed through his mind, his body trembled slightly, and even a faint hope ignited: could it be possible that Eamon and Crystal Landon are not truly gone?

After Shuanger left, Richard Shaw called Ignatius Leclair, restraining his emotions, and stroked the warm, smooth Buddha beads on his wrist, asking in a low voice: "Do you know the details of the Squire siblings?"

A few days prior, Ignatius Leclair went furious for a beauty, taking action against the Wade Family. Since the matter involved a maid by the old lady’s side, Richard Shaw thought of heading to the South Seas.

For years, he hasn’t paid much attention to external matters. Going to the South Seas was merely to see Ignatius Leclair’s first fit of rage over a woman over the years.

The last visit to the Squire Manor didn’t result in meeting the Squire siblings, only bringing back two little kittens.

It was already night in the South Seas when Ignatius Leclair received the call; his heart slightly tightened. Did old Richard find something out?

Ever since the Squire siblings entered the South Seas, Ignatius Leclair’s mood has been poor. This pair of siblings, one wicked and ruthless, the other flamboyant and arrogant, occupied Delphine every day. Delphine now leaves the house out of dissatisfaction. Ignatius often has to go to the Squire Manor to find her.

After the matter with the Wade Family, Ignatius Leclair began to doubt the identity of the Squire siblings and specifically triggered some archival investigation. After learning the shocking secret, his mood worsened.

Six years ago, when the Shaw Family incident happened, he wasn’t in South Seas, and Richard Shaw became paraplegic, not leaving South Seas for years. If Leah Squire were merely Crystal Landon, this would be fine, yet Leah Squire is very likely related to the Cox Family.

If old Richard were told that Leah Squire is his wife who died six years ago, once he arrived in South Seas, Griffith Squire could effortlessly eliminate old Richard and exact revenge for the Cox Family.

Who could have expected that the Cox Family had an illegitimate child back then? This illegitimate child now not only holds military power but has transformed into a prestigious new noble family in the South Seas.

Ignatius Leclair squinted his phoenix eyes, speaking slowly, "What are you asking about the Squire siblings? They’re just bandits from a barren place like Golden Triangle, haven’t gotten the attention of your military department?"

Richard Shaw, now calm, only found his earlier thoughts pitiful and absurd; even if Cornelius were Eamon’s long-lost brother, it didn’t prove anything. The Cox Family only had one child, Crystal Landon; she didn’t have a brother, and besides, the Squire siblings have been so high-profile these past years. If Crystal were still around, how could she have not visited the child once in six years? She should have hated him to the bone, should have overturned the Cox Family’s case, thereby avenging the Shaw Family.

The explosion site’s identification report explicitly stated that she wouldn’t return.

Richard Shaw’s fingers turned faint white as he held the phone, his mood plummeting from heaven to hell. He merely gave a faint, bitter smile, speaking heavily, "Ignatius, if you truly like Delphine, you had better treat her well sooner, for relationships between people are too fragile, once broken, they’re broken for good."

Ignatius Leclair remained silent for a while, then asked nonchalantly, "Did you really like Crystal so much? Never heard you talk about it back then."

"I liked her from a very young age. So, I feared such emotions, feared them so much I even deceived myself," the man said in a low voice, then hung up the phone, sitting alone in the courtyard, gazing at the deeply thick night sky of Imperial City, his posture upright, cold and hard as stone.

You don’t realize how important someone is when they’re around, but once lost, you discover the feelings have long been ingrained in your bones, ripping away brings immense despair and unending stabbing pain.

From the other end of the phone, Ignatius Leclair in the South Seas slightly squinted his phoenix eyes, feeling inexplicably depressed inside.

Once old Richard sees Leah Squire, everything can no longer be concealed; Imperial City would be in chaos by then.