“Heh, accident? Do you think I’ll believe it?” Felipe’s eyes were red as he stared ferociously at Old Master Waldburg. “He killed my parents in order to inherit Waldburg Corporation! Why is it that he has been enjoying life for so many years while my parents have to eat joss paper and joss stick?”
His eyes were full of vengeance. He called Old Master Waldburg’s actual name, saying, “Aaron Waldburg, I’m going to avenge my parents today. You can’t avoid it.”
“Felipe!” Seeing that Felipe was about to fire a shot at Old Master Waldburg, Niamh walked over quickly and stood in front of him. “Felipe, don’t make any more mistakes!”
“Scoot aside. Eveline, don’t make me do it to you.” Felipe held back his anger.
Niamh was not afraid. “If you want to kill Grandpa, then you have to kill me first.”
“You…” Felipe furrowed his brows and suddenly held up his gun.
“Stop.”
Old Master Waldburg vigorously ordered Felipe to stop.
He looked at Niamh with relief and pulled her behind him.
“Grandpa, no.”
“Don’t worry.” Old Master Waldburg comforted Niamh, but he looked indifferently at the man who had already been blinded by hatred.
“Now that it has all come to this point, it seems that I have to tell you the truth of back then. Otherwise, you’ll only drown deeper and deeper in hatred.”
Hearing his words, Felipe’s finger that was on the trigger loosened slightly.
‘The truth back then?’
Niamh was surprised. ‘Is there really another truth about the car accident back then? Was it not just a simple accident?’
Karen was extremely shocked as well. “The truth? Was it really Old Master Waldburg who—”
“Stop speaking nonsense!” Winston interrupted Karen quickly as she was talking and looked at Old Master Waldburg curiously as well.
“What truth are you talking about? You’d better not be making an excuse just to lie to me.”
Although Felipe was eager to learn about it, he still had suspicions.
Old Master Waldburg met Felipe’s doubtful gaze calmly, then sighed with regret.
“It was indeed not just an accident but a human-caused car accident.”
This answer from Old Master Waldburg surprised everyone who was present at the scene.
It turned out it was really a person who caused the accident.
However, Niamh still believed that the person who planned the accident was not Old Master Waldburg.
Sure enough, she heard the old man starting to recall his memory. “You were an innocent child back then with loving parents in a harmonious and blissful family, but this was actually just what it looked like on the surface.
“My father had his sons when he was old and spoiled your father a lot. He even announced that he would hand over the entire Waldburg Corporation to your father for him to manage, but it was due to this preference that caused the irreversible tragedy.
“Your father didn’t actually like to handle business matters. He was passionate about the arts. Your parents got to know each other through an art exhibition. However, as he had to inherit a huge multinational group, your father did the best he could. He started to suffer from worries of gains and losses, and over time, he was diagnosed with depression.”
Depression.
Hearing this one word, Felipe’s expression abruptly changed.
“You’re saying that my parents died because of depression?”
“Exactly.” Old Master Waldburg nodded. “Your father had always appeared humble, polite, and treated others kindly, but in fact, he had already been suffering from depression even during that time. Even taking medicine did not help him with his condition. Your mother knew about it all along. However, both of them did not mention anything about his condition to my father as to not disappoint him. Until that one day, your father could no longer convince himself. On the way to the company, he brought your mother along and crashed the car into the building, leading to the car crash and their deaths. “
It turned out the truth was this.
After Niamh was done listening to his words, she felt her heart aching even more.
She felt sorry for the dead, but what was even more painful for her was when she thought of Kendrick who had always been targeted by Felipe.
‘Kendrick.’
Niamh called out his name silently in her heart, gently stroking the wedding ring on her ring finger while her vision became blurry with tears.
“Depression? Huh. Do you think I would believe such a ridiculous lie?” Felipe obviously did not believe it. At this moment, there were only sparks of hatred on his once gentle and elegant face.
“Aaron Waldburg, it was definitely you who killed my parents for the inheritance rights! After they died, have you, as an uncle, ever cared about me? You threw me to F Country, ignored me, and tried your best to only raise Kendrick. You wanted to secretly destroy me!”
Old Master Waldburg was not surprised to still be faced with Felipe’s doubts. “I know it’s hard for you to believe it. The reason why I didn’t want to tell you the truth for so many years was that I didn’t want you to be in pain from it. But it seems that you have gradually become biased because of the hatred you bear.”
Old Master Waldburg sighed and looked at the memorial tablet in front of him. “The truth is placed right behind your father’s tablet. You can see it for yourself.”
Felipe thought Old Master Waldburg was trying to delay.
He was not too short of time, however, so he walked to the front of the tablet and stretched out his hand. He really did obtain a memory card that was in a transparent bag from behind the tablet.
“This is the recording of your father’s driving on the day of the accident. You will understand everything after you watch it.”
Felipe looked at the memory card blankly, feeling a little confused for a moment.
He was in a daze for a bit before he instructed someone to bring him a laptop.
After he put in the memory card, he turned the laptop on. Soon, he heard voices that he was once most familiar with ringing from the speaker…
“Francis, don’t be impulsive, we still have Felipe! Felipe can’t live without us. Can’t you be a little soberer?” That was Felipe’s mother, and it sounded as if she was begging Felipe’s father with a trembling voice.
“Sonya, I’m really in pain. This world gives me so much pain that I don’t want to face it. Sonya, let’s leave this gloomy world together, Sonya…”
“No! Francis! Stop—”
Following the woman’s horrified screams came a violent sound of a collision. After that, there was only silence…
After Felipe was done listening to this section of the recording, the gun in his hand fell to the ground. He seemed to be drained of all his strength as he kneeled down in despair in front of his parents’ memorial tablets.
Old Master Waldburg then sighed with sorrow. “It was your father’s last wish for us to send you to F Country for your studies. He had hoped that his son would do well in something that he was not able to complete. He also hoped that you would become successful one day in the future.
“During your years in F Country, you felt as if I had rarely cared for you, even restricting your spending. It’s true that our family business is huge and you didn’t need to worry about food or clothes, but we made you work to make money on your own. All this work we put you through was with the purpose to sharpen you.
“I always had someone I trusted secretly supervising you the whole time. Every single day of your staying in F Country, there was always someone reporting your condition to me. You’re a descendant of the Waldburg family and my own nephew. How could I actually ignore you?
“I had been waiting for you to come back from your studies to pass you the right of inheritance, but then you went astray instead.”
The words of Old Master Waldburg clearly showed that he knew Felipe had done some illegal trades in F Country that crossed the line. It was just that he never exposed the truth.
The old man walked to Felipe’s side and gently put his hand on his shoulder. “Felipe, you still have a chance to turn back.”
After hearing what the old man said, Felipe’s tears rolled down from his scarlet eyes.
He looked at the two memorial tablets in front of him, his heart feeling as if it had been pierced. It hurt till the point he could not continue living.
Over the years, what had he been obsessed with? What had he hated?
All the hatred and all the obsessions were all his self-righteous fantasies.
The reason behind the old man remaining silent all this while was because he did not want
Felipe to face the cruel fact that his father was the one who killed his mother.
In order to protect Felipe’s young soul, he was burdened with rumors of murdering his brother. For so many years, he had never defended himself. The old man always brushed it off indifferently by saying that it was just an accident.
His surroundings quieted down, and Felipe was left alone in the ancestral hall where he knelt for a long time.
Niamh returned to the living room. She saw the mourning hall that was built for Kendrick and walked over to caress his photos.
She had seen him right before her eyes just a few days ago, but now it had become only a memory.
“Kendrick, have you really left me?”
Niamh looked down at her bulging pregnant belly.
“You said you would accompany me to see the birth of our child and we’ll raise him till he becomes an adult. Why did you break your promise again?”
“Eveline.”
Suddenly, a familiar voice called out her name from the entrance.
Niamh’s fingertips that were gently stroking Kendrick’s photo paused abruptly.
Although she had not seen anyone yet, a face that could make her feel abhorrent had already appeared in her mind.
“Tsk, aren’t you just so sad?” Lana’s triumphant voice spread from far toward her. Niamh raised her cold beautiful eyes and stopped Lana from coming in. “Get out, you’re not welcome here.”
Lana folded her arms with a smile on her face “I’m a friend of Mr. Waldburg, and now that he’s dead, it’s natural for me to come and pay my respects.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.