Chapter 2016


    Bang!


    Like a tonne of bricks, Philip stomped heavily on Gerry’s back.


    Crack!


    Gerry’s backbone seemed to have shattered.


    “Argh, it hurts!”


    Gerry was lying on the ground, and his limbs iled wildly. His face was pale, while his eyes were


    round and bloodshot. He was being stepped on the spine and the piercing pain made him almost faint


    on the spot.


    “Ah, get off! I’m about to be trampled to death!”


    Gerry roared with a flushed face. He felt as if he was about to lose his breath. The force on his back


    brought his chest into close contact with the floor tiles and that pressure made him breathless.


    Philip looked down at Gerry on the ground and said grimly, “Now, I want you to apologize to my wife.”


    “Don’t think about it! I’m from thew enforcement hall and I’m working on their orders! Your wife is


    nothing but a lowly woman with no background in the outside world. In the rke family, she’s


    supposed to be lynched! Moreover, she gave birth to the child of a rke. She’s an impure woman with


    no background, and the child born to her is a bastard who deserves to be drowned!” Gerry gritted his


    teeth and was about to bite his tongue.


    Hearing this, Philip’s face turned as dark as a bottomless ocean. With a voice like the Grim Reaper, he


    said, “You gave the wrong answer!”


    With that said, Philip stomped his foot down fiercely.


    Crack!


    His entire spine seemed to be broken. Gerry screamed before his eyes rolled back and he fell to the


    ground, unconscious.


    Immediately after, the guards waiting at the door rushed in and cleaned the scene.


    Philip just stood at the door with his hands behind his back. He looked up at the thick dark clouds in the


    sky.


    With a sneer, he said, “Law enforcement hall, this is my warning to you. If you dare toe here again,


    I’ll demolish your hall with my bare hands!”


    After that, Philip said to the guard at the door, “Arrange two people to send him back to thew


    enforcement hall.”


    “Yes, Young Master.”


    Two guards carried the unconscious Gerry and quickly ran toward thew enforcement hall.


    ***


    Back to thew enforcement hall of the branch family.


    The building of thew enforcement hall was quite magnificent. It was medieval-style with candles


    burning. From time to time, nging from a grandfather clock could be heard. Thew enforcement hall


    had eight entrances and eight exits. Each brick and tile was at least hundreds of years old, giving off an


    aged and ancient feel.


    In the solemn main hall, eight red pirs carved with dragons and phoenixes supported the entire hall.


    The pirs were also engraved with the rke family rules.


    The hall was draped in numerous yellow cloth, and in the center, three golden statues were enshrined.


    These were the three ancestors of the rke family and the founders of thew enforcement hall.


    Five people were sitting in the hall at this moment.


    They were five of the ten elders of thew enforcement hall. The atmosphere in the hall was very tense


    and cold.


    It seemed as though an explosion could ur at any time. The faces of the five elders were covered


    with frost and gloom.


    At this time, a servant hurried in from the front door. He ran through four doors before reaching the


    main hall. Then, he knelt on the ground and bowed to the three statues before he got up and said to


    the five elders, “Five Elders, it’s not good, something has happened!”


    Seeing him in such a panic, the elders asked coldly, “Why are you in such a panic? This is thew


    enforcement hall. Your behavior is uneptable.”


    The servant knelt on the ground and gulped nervously before saying, “T-Third Elder, Young Master


    Gerry, he He’s not going to make it! ”


    “What?”


    When the old man sitting on the chair heard this, he stood up abruptly, his face full of panic. His eyes


    widened.


    “What did you say? Gerry isn’t going to make it? What the hell is going on?” the old man asked


    anxiously.


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    He was the third elder of thew enforcement hall and also Gerry’s great-grandfather, Desmond


    rke. He was the third old master of the branch family. His seniority was as high as Sinir’s.


    He was one of the few from the first four generations of the branch family who were still alive.


    Desmond was a very protective person and extremely doted on Gerry. He could not wait to hold Gerry


    in his arms every day. This was his youngest great-grandson and he was very fond of him. Moreover,


    Gerry had always been a sweet-talker, well-behaved, and very good at pleasing Desmond. Desmond


    had high expectations of him and even wanted to make Gerry the future sessor of his lineage.


    At this moment, when he heard that Gerry was not going to make it, Desmond was flustered and


    anxious.


    The kneeling servant bowed in fear and said, “T-Third Elder, Youn