Smelian suppressed the icy coldness in his eyes and lowered his head, looking like someone who had been bullied into silence.
Chesteron hadn't expected Duke Lu Xia and Lady Rafaelde to appear here. This was the backyard of Rafaelde Manor, a place few people ever visited aside from the gardeners.
For a moment, the vicious expression froze on his face. He completely lost his composure.
Cheno was so frightened he had already fallen to his knees. As the youngest male in the family, he had already failed the gene fusion process twice. He worried he might end up a 'defective' like his second brother, so he always trod carefully. In the past, when Smelian was around, their eldest brother had looked down on Cheno but mostly ignored him. But ever since Smelian became Duke Lu Xia's husband, leaving Cheno behind, his eldest brother had lost his favorite 'punching bag' and started targeting him instead.
