Enrico realized for the first time that Paige’s name could be ugly to this extent.
He grabbed Gabriel by the collar and lifted the little guy from his seat and brought him in front of him. His eyes stared at him emotionlessly, “Have you not studied properly in the past two days?”
Paige put a hand on his forehead.
He couldn’t even help him cheat.
“Er…”
Gabriel looked like a little turtle floating in midair, with his two little hands and two little feet hanging down. Seeing that he couldn’t continue acting, he blinked his eyes and forced a flattering smile, “Daddy, did you miss Gabriel while you were away? Gabriel misses you a lot.”
“You miss me, so you wrote this name?” Enrico snorted.
“I miss you so much that I can’t study,” Gabriel continued to blink his eyes, looking cute.
“Good, in the future, you can install a webcam on your study desk, so I can keep an eye on you every day. When you miss me, I can chat with you and make sure you study hard,” Enrico said.
“…”
Gabriel’s face fell.
No matter where he moved, he had to study, life was so hard.
…
The downfall of the Smiths family was the first victory for the triangle of Enrico, Paige, and Rafael in their game against the financial magnate in this Ferris wheel project.
In the simple and shabby special ward, Jason lay in bed with his eyes open, his face ashen, an IV dripping from one hand and his other hand cuffed to the bed, showing that he was now a criminal.
He had been careful all his life, following whoever was in power, but he never imagined that at this age, he would become a prisoner.
The Smiths family’s generations of industry and fame had thus passed into Enrico’s hands, becoming a sharp blade that he easily controlled.
He was unwilling.
He really couldn’t accept it.
“Pop!”
He clenched his teeth and slapped his hand down hard on the bed, the needles on the back of his hand dancing around, the pain making him want to die.
“Father…”
Bryan sat up a little from the hospital bed next to him, the white quilt falling away, and he looked at his father with concern, “Are you okay?”
“The Smiths family has come to this, do you think I’m okay?”
Jason clenched his fists and turned his head to glare, “You said that you had the sisters of the Clarkes family under your thumb back then, so why does that woman Paige not have any affection for you now?”
Bryan frowned and leaned back on the bed, “I never had them under my thumb, and Paige… I did something to hurt her, and then I fled and committed treason, so why would she still have affection for me.”
He didn’t deserve to end up like this.
“You wronged her?” Jason looked at him.
“Back then, she was bullied and came to me in a desperate state, asking me to help her leave The Capital and not to tell anyone.”
Bryan recalled the past and let out a bitter laugh, “But I told Molly, and later Paige was sent to the slums, where she stayed for three years. If it weren’t for her strong vitality, I’m afraid she would have…”
At the time, he just thought that Molly and Paige were good friends, and that Molly was worried when she heard that Paige had suffered.
Now that he thinks about it, everything that happened to Paige was related to the Clarkes, and him as well.
“You said that Paige was bullied. What kind of bullying?”
Jason struggled to sit up a little in the handcuffs and stared at him straight.
“…”
Bryan looked at him with a sense of inquiry in his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat. He kept his lips closed and didn’t say anything.
But seeing his son like this, Jason probably guessed something.
At that moment, the door was pushed open.
Three men in suits walked in, the leader sat down next to Jason’s hospital bed, “Mr. Jason, I am your defense attorney, come here to get a better understanding of the situation.”
These were three unfamiliar faces.
Jason had a team of lawyers, but now that the tree had fallen, there were no more true allies.
Jason snorted, “Get out, don’t disturb me.”
He had already fallen into Enrico’s hands, and it was another case of treason. No lawyer could save him, and it was just a formality.
“Mr. Jason, please take a look at this,” said the lawyer, taking out a pen from his suit pocket and handing it to Jason to look at.
Jason looked at it and recognized the pen. It was a pen he had given to a major tycoon, with words engraved on it by himself.
Seeing Jason recognize it, the lawyer said, “Our boss and Mr. Jason have known each other for a while, and he asked me to come and see how you are doing.”
Jason sneered, “He wants to ask me how I ended up in Enrico’s hands, and how much Enrico knows about us and what he plans to do to us, right?”
Watch him?
Care about him?
Heh, no way, it’s all about their own interests.
Seeing him like this, the lawyer was not annoyed, and with a faint smile, he lowered his voice and said, “Our master wants to ask Mr. Jason, are you content with the Smiths family ending up in this situation? Don’t you hate it?”
“…”
Jason’s expression froze.
Yes, how could he be content with it, he hated it so much.
Well, the Smiths family is finished, and he has no way out, but he can’t just let Enrico go.
Thinking so, Jason’s eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness. He glanced at the police officer outside the glass window at the door, lowered his voice, and said, “Then go back and tell your master not to follow my path. I just wanted peace and quiet, so I switched sides and sided with Enrico. But now you can see that Enrico is a tiger that will eat you alive. If you keep tolerating him, he will just beat you to death and leave you unburied.”
“What do you mean?”
“The only way to win is to unite and fight him to the death. If you have too many concerns, that’s what will happen to me,” Jason said, looking at the lawyer.
“A fight to the death can easily end in mutual destruction. Not many families from a hundred years ago survived the chaos of the chaebols.”
Everyone is afraid.
“There is a way to fight to the death. Enrico, Paige, and Rafael have the economy, power, and the hearts and minds of the people. The only way to fight them is to divide them up,” Jason advised the lawyer.
“Father…” Bryan frowned.
“My boss has thought about this too. He wanted to use Paige’s situation to get her to fall, but in the end, Enrico took the risk of going public about their marriage and still protected her.” The lawyer said, “They are very difficult to divide.”
Upon hearing this, Jason half-lying on the hospital bed sneered, “That’s because you haven’t found the right method. No relationship is unbreakable, you just haven’t found the real breakthrough.”
“I’d like to hear the details,” the lawyer said seriously.
“There is no conflict between Rafael and Enrico, but what about him and Paige? Back then, wasn’t he the one who got Paige into Gangnam Hall? How could there not be any ill feelings between them? Why don’t you investigate more? Amplify this ill feeling?”
Jason’s eyes were full of malice, “As for the relationship between a man and a woman, it’s even simpler. What’s the most unbearable thing for a man?”
“…”
Cuckold?
The lawyer suddenly realized.