Chapter 1084
After Stanley changed his shoes, he brought Maisie along with him. As soon as he saw Sophia, he
mocked her. “Hey, why are you here? Did your husband chase you out? I suppose you reap what you
sow! So much for him trying to introduce me to another woman! Hmph!”
Meanwhile, Sean was delighted when he saw that Stanley was back, and his pale face had regained
some color. “Stanley, you’re back! Why are you wearing a face mask though?”
Wearing a face mask that obscured most of his face, only Stanley’s eyes were visible, while his mouth
could be seen moving underneath the mask when he spoke. “Yeah, I caught the flu, so I had to put a
mask on as I don’t want Maisie to get infected.” However, Stanley’s gaze was shifty when he handed
Maisie over to Sean. “Maisie, you can y with Daddy while I go take a shower first.” He left after putting
Maisie down.
Sophia could sense that something was off with Stanley. Instead of exposing it, she continued to talk to
Sean. After Stanley was done showering, he came out in a pair of trousers with dog fur all over it.
Toweling his hair, he walked upstairs while saying, “I’ll be drying my hair.”
Judge went after him, but Sophia found it weird that he was still wearing his mask after taking his
shower. Although Sophia continued to chat with Sean, she couldn’t shake off the feeling that something
wasn’t right, as Stanley didn’t seem okay.
Finally, Sean put down his cup of tea before standing up. “I’ll go check on Stanley. Wait for me here,
Sophia.”
The rooms downstairs were being used as a study and as a bedroom for the nanny, so Sean went
upstairs to the bedrooms. Stanley didn’t close his door, so Sean snuck into his bedroom, only to see
Stanley looking into the mirror, checking his swollen face that he apparently got from being pped.
“Stanley!” Shocked, Sean walked up to take a closer look at Stanley’s face. He was indeed given a p,
as there was an angry handprint on his face. “What happened?” Sean asked with much worry.
Upon being discovered, Stanley’s eyes darted around, but he could only tell the truth. “My father wants
me to marry that wench, Anne Osborne, which I disagreed with, so my brother gave me a p.”
Instantly, Sean’s eyes reddened when he realized how hard the p was. On the other hand, Stanley
quickly exined, “It’s alright! My uncle hit me even harder when I tried to go after Sophia back then, so
I’m already used to it. It will heal soon anyway.”
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Clenching his fists, Sean had tears rolling in his eyes upon hearing what Stanley said. “Stanley, it’s about
time that you marry someone, so maybe—”
Stanley tutted while feigning anger. “You’re just like my parents whose only concern is for me to produce
an heir! Do I look like a brood sow? Must I attach myself to an ugly hag just for the sake of getting
married?” Checking on his wound, he muttered, “You didn’t see just how ugly Anne Osborne is! She
doesn’t even have one-tenth of Sophia’s looks! Considering how horrendous she looks, I should
commend her for even having the guts to go on blind dates! Uncle Michael must be trying to mock me by
introducing me to such an ugly hag! The candidates that my family introduced only get ever uglier. I was
assuming that my uncle should have a better sense of beauty by now, but he’s even worse than my
mom! He even had the audacity to tell me to follow in the footsteps of other people of my age. Sophia’s
ex-boyfriend was the same age as me, so should I kill myself as well now that he’s a goner?”
Smiling bitterly, Sean listened on before saying, “I’ll go get some anti-inmmatory spray.”
Stanley waved his hand dismissively. “Be quick! Ouch, my brother sure did a number on me! F*ck! He
will be the one at fault if nobody wants to marry me because of my disfigured face!”
While listening to Stanley’sints, tears rolled down Sean’s face the moment he turned around. On
the other hand, Sophia had been ying with Maisie in the living room for a while, but Sean and Stanley
had yet toe downstairs. She already had quite a lot of tea, so she went to the washroom for a bit,
only to return to see Maisie crouching on the floor while wiping the stain on the floor that Sophia made
earlier with a piece of cloth. Aside from that, she even wiped the table and rearranged the tea set on it.
Sophia could hardly believe that a three year old kid could work so deftly, as Carmen only knew to stage
some silly dramas to show them to Michael when she was two years old. “Maisie, what are you doing?
Come, I can do that myself!” Taking the cloth from Maisie, Sophia wiped the floor clean herself.
As soon as Sophia took the cloth away from Maisie, thetter began crying. When other kids cried, they
would probably be bawling their eyes out, but Maisie was only sobbing while being careful to keep her
voice low, which was not typical of a three-year-old kid at all. Sophia held Maisie in her arms while
consoling her. “Honey, what’s wrong? Did someone bully you? Tell me, so your father and I can go teach
them a lesson!”
With her eyes all teary, Maisie looked at her in silence. It took some time before she finally opened up
feebly. “Papa brought me home to meet Grandpa and Grandma, but they didn’t like me. They even
scolded Papa and told him to send me away.” Sobbing, she asked while holding on to Sophia’s sleeve,
“Aunty, I know how to do chores. Will Papa let me stay now that I know how to do chores?”
Sophia never knew the adults’ reactions would have such a profound effect on Maisie. Back then, she
bought the girl off Ronney Group’s ve market, so she wasn’t sure what she went through, but Maisie
was such a sensitive girl. As soon as she noticed a minor difference in Stanley’s attitude, she knew
something was off. For a three year old girl, Maisie already went through a lot; all she wanted was a
home.
On the verge of tears, Sophia held Maisie tightly in her arms while reassuring thetter in a hushed
voice. “No, nobody will send you away.” She brought the girl upstairs to Stanley’s room, only to hear
Stanley and Sean bickering with each other.
“Sean, do you want to kill me? Ouch! It hurts so much!”
“Hang in there. The spray is quite potent after all.”
“Ow…”
Upon her arrival, Sophia saw Sean spraying something on Stanley’s face carefully. Now, she noticed that
Stanley’s face was swollen and red, a p mark evident on it. Hence, she had an inkling of what
happened. By humiliating his potential spouse, his father and brother would of course not let him leave
just like that.
“Look, Papa is hurt, so he must be in pain. Gofort him,” Sophia told Maisie.
Maisie scuttled toward them, which surprised both Stanley and Sean. Both of them fought to hold her in
their arms. “Baby, you’re here! Give me a kiss! I fell down, so it hurts!”
“Come over here, Maisie. Let me hold you.”
…
It wasn’t until after dinner that Sophia left, but she couldn’t shake off the heavy feeling within her.
Although the three of them seemed to be happy for the time being, she wasn’t sure what would happen
in the future.
The skies were dark when Michael arrived at home, which coincidentally was when the night-shift
security from the ancient Imperial Pce museum came to retrieve the cat. Taking Carmen’s bowl from
him, the security shone his torchlight on the bowl while examining it in a professional manner.
“If I’m not mistaken, this is a type of porcin bowl that once belonged to the ancient royals. As the
techniques to make them were lost in history, these porcin wares—so called ‘Mise Porcin’—were
also given the name ‘porcin of a mysterious color’. The recipe for creating it is a secret that only the
royals had knowledge of. There are three of these porcin wares in the ancient Imperial Pce
museum. Although all of them are national treasures, none are as beautiful as this.”