Chapter 650 A Funeral for One.


    “It will be, for now. But maybe after many years, I’ll fall in love with someone else. This is impossible to


    say and Hudson you’ll also fall in love with someone else too. Let’s head inside and see Christ.”


    “Okay.” Hudson nodded and walked into the room.


    At the courtyard, Philip sighed and realized that he had lived a long life, yet not as thoroughly as Esther


    had. Embracing her into his arms, heartbroken, “Esther, I really don’t know what to say!”


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    “Then don’t say anything. You don’t need to say anything because I know it all in my heart. I love you,


    Philip! Thank God for allowing me to meet with you again.” Esther also hugged him back, “I believe that


    mom and dad will also forgive Christ. They owe him just like how I and Elijah owe Hudson. Who do we


    owe finally? We just owe our own love in the past.”


    “He wille back.” Philip finally couldn’t resist telling Esther, but he only said this one sentence.


    “I know. I know that he wille back.” Esther looked at the distant sky, closed her eyes, and buried


    her grief in the bottom of her heart. She wanted to wait for him with a smile and with every day filled


    with happiness.


    Four yearster.


    At an open clearing halfway up the mountainside of J River in G City.


    The warm spring sun shines on a t spot halfway up the mountain. A young and stunningly beautiful


    woman was pushing a wheelchair, on which sat a man about sixty years old, tall, with a fairly


    handsome face. Only that his face was pale, and his eyes are full of vicissitudes, looking at the scenery


    so calmly.


    The man closed his eyes, leisurely enjoying the unique warmth of spring.


    “We’re finally back, master!” The woman was Esther.


    “Yes, we’re back!” The man in the wheelchair spoke with a smile, “You didn’t wait in vain, Esther. Elijah


    hase back!”


    Esther was silent after hearing the word “Elijah”.


    Four years ago, Esther returned to Switzend to apany her master. Although her master spent


    only one to two months in Switzend every year, Esther still felt very happy. In that four years’ time,


    she finished her Art and Design degree at the University of Bern.


    A month ago, Esther saw that Elijah had returned to G City from the newspaper.


    She watched the financial news on TV, and Elijah was still as silent and reticent as ever. Every time


    she watched the news, what she could see were his handsome side face, his slightly furrowed sword-


    like brows, and his cold eyes. He was much more mature than he was four years ago.


    It was said that Elijah returned to Perry Group and was still the president.


    It was said that he lost his memory in that four years and couldn’t find his way home.


    It was said that he had now regained his memory and returned after everyone thought that he was


    dead for years.


    It was said that he was all alone and was waiting for his babe toe home.


    Only that those were entertainment news, and Esther had already waited for so long, her emotions


    were calm instead and it wasn’t as easily exciting as at first.


    Esther came back to G City three days ago.


    But it was at her master’s request. It was her master who said he wanted to see thendscapes of his


    hometown, that’s why she came back.


    “Cough, cough, cough…” The man coughed violently all of a sudden as if to cough out all his internal


    organs. Esther’s soft spot in her heart was abruptly touched. She squatted down and saw her master’s


    face pale and tired, and she couldn’t help but worry, “Let’s go back to the hotel, master. Your body isn’t


    well.”


    “It’s alright.” The man smiled gently and shook his head, “Do you know why I didn’t let you learn too


    much, Esther?”


    “Hmm?” Esther was stunned, “Learn? Learn what too much?”


    “Gambling.”


    “Oh, didn’t master say that gambling isn’t interesting?”


    “Do you know who taught Elijah to gamble?”


    Esther smiled and shook her head, but she didn’t ask, as if she already knew something about it.


    “I taught him.” The manughed gently, “Shouldn’t you hate me?”


    “There has been no hatred in my heart for a long time. Hating is too tiring, isn’t it better to fill it with love


    instead?” Esther shook her head as her heart had already concluded inside, “Let’s go back, master.”


    “Cough, cough, cough—” There was another round of coughing.


    “Let’s go to the hospital,” Esther said again.


    “No, I’m not going. I have something to say.” The man suddenly gripped Esther’s hand.


    “Don’t you want your life?” Esther spoke reproachfully. His being like this had made her ruthless, she


    opened up some pure water and fed him to drink. Esther looked up and realized how pale and tired his


    face was, eyes sunken in, surrounded with a gray-ck color of fatigue, his pupils were filled with


    blood. He was seen totally weak due tock of rest, “Master, did you not sleepst night?”


    “Esther,” A gentle smile slowly blossomed on the pale sickly face, still wanting to say something else


    when he felt a sudden choking tightness in the chest. A violent cough sounded again, not wanting


    Esther to worry, the man turned around quickly and suppressed his cough.


    Looking at the thin back bent in front of her due to the suppressed coughing constantly trembling.


    “It’s time to go to the hospital, master!”


    “I’m fine. It’s a chronic issue and I don’t have much time left, let me finish!” After a violent cough, his


    face which was originally pale was now blood red. The man gasped while he softly gazed at Esther,


    “You should hate me!”


    “I don’t.” Esther spoke calmly, she then looked at him and smiled faintly, “Master thinks that I should


    hate Evan Gray right? But I really don’t hate him, and I even know that master is Evan Gray!”


    “Hehe…” Without too much doubt, Evan Gray smiled, “Yes! Yes, I am Evan Gray!”


    “How many disciples does master have?”


    “Countless.”


    “Elijah is one of them. The chief of LN Group, master’s most prized disciple, Philip, Hudson, me, we all


    are. But the one who really pleased you was Elijah, am I right?”


    “Wrong!”


    “What?”


    “You too!” Evan Gray held Esther’s hand, “You’re always so kind, remember how I took you in in the


    first ce?”


    Esther was slightly stunned, her gaze was far away, and nodded, “I remember. Master asked me for


    money, and I gave you all that I had in my pocket. Although the money was Hudson’s, I still decided to


    give it all to you.”


    “I remember asking you back then that you’ll be penniless by giving them all to me. But you said that I


    seem to need the money more than you, did I really look like a beggar at that time?” Evan Gray asked


    with a smile.


    “Yes, you do!” Esther’s impression of him was in ragged clothes, how could he not look like a beggar?


    “That’s why you had mercy on me, didn’t you? Not only you, even that guy Hudson thought that it was


    real and aided me. In return, I taught you two gambling as to repay, but he didn’t learn it. Whereas you,


    learned it well even though you were just ying around, but you still weren’t as good as Elijah.”


    “Do you really don’t hate me for separating you two from each other for so long?”


    “I know your good intentions, master. You want Elijah to be LN Group''s true sessor, the


    embodiment of justice and not a mere gangster group. You have too many enemies, your wife was


    brutally assassinated, so you don’t want the chief to lose his beloved as you did. Therefore, you not


    only hope that through Elijah’s effort, he can bring LN Group back to normal, but also hope that he


    doesn’t lose me in this struggle. Parting in life is much happier than parting in death. Parting in death


    we will never see each other again while parting in life we still have the day to meet and reunite. That’s


    why you threatened Elijah that if he didn’t take over LN Group, I would die, forcing him with no choice


    but to do that, am I right?”


    “How did you know that?” Evan Gray was a bit stunned this time.


    “About a month ago, I got into master’s connector and yourmand centre. But I wasn’t sure that you


    were Evan Gray, the former chief of LN Group.”


    “Hehe, you’re also very smart. With you helping Elijah, I really do feel relieved!” A gratifying smile


    shed across Evan Gray''s face, “Thank you, Esther, for always looking at the world with a grateful


    heart. I have killed too much, the future will depend on you guys to help me clear my sins! Cough,


    cough, cough… Let there be no more killing in LN Group, no more taking on murders, no more


    gambling, no more prostitution, no more smuggling, no more drug trafficking… Cough, cough, cough…”


    “Master—”


    “One more thing, bury me in thisnd beneath my feet when I die! Don’t tell anyone and don’t set up a


    tombstone. As long as you know it then it’s enough. Also, tell Elijah that I can’t attend your wedding…”


    “Master…” Esther’s eyes filled with tears. It had been a long time since she cried, but facing her


    master, she wanted to cry again. He had countless disciples in his life, but she was the only one by his


    side…


    “Don’t cry.” Evan Gray''s hand seemed to want to go for Esther to wipe the tears on her face, but then


    the hand that had just lifted fell heavily…


    “Master…”


    There will never be an Evan Gray in this world again!


    This was a funeral for one, Esther waited for her master to be buried and the people from the funeral


    home to leave. She stood in front of the grave without a tombstone, silently watching, and said softly,


    “Master, after so long can I be with Elijah again?”


    There were thousands of words to say but they could only be turned into a long sigh at that moment.


    Esther’s expression couldn’t be read from her calm face, only that her strong grief could be vaguely


    detected from her tone that sounded down, “Rest in peace, master! I never hated you, and never hated


    anyone else. There was no hate, there was only love. I love you, master!”


    “Why didn’t you tell me that you’re back, Esther?” Philip''s clear voice came from the other side of the


    phone, “Do you know? Elijah is back, when are you guys nning to meet?’


    “Let’s talk about itter, Philip. I’m going to find Lena now, Iris and Oscar are having fun like crazy. I’ll


    bring Iris over to find you after I pick her up. Do not contact Elijah!”


    Esther had her own pride. Elijah chose to leave in that way four years ago, and four yearster he


    wanted to get her and his daughter back so easily, how could she let him be satisfied just like that.


    Esther didn’t care whatever chief he was, in her eyes, he was just a bastard that escaped reality. Elijah


    didn’t think of telling her back then, what if she didn’t insist and didn’t wait? What if she believed it and


    thought that he was really dead and killed herself just to follow him? Was he that confident that she


    would wait for him?


    On the busy streets of G City, a pretty little young girl was knocking on a broken bowl, “Anyone, please


    do me a favour, whoever gives me a bite to eat, I will follow them!”


    “You’re begging again, Iris?” The beautiful woman with wide eyes finally couldn’t help but burst out with


    a hiss. Four years of unperturbed were somewhat just helplessness and anger at the same time when


    faced with her daughter’s “crime”.


    “Who asked mommy to cook such bad meals!” The little girl ttened her mouth and fled


    subconsciously.


    She went on to quickly hugged the tall man’s legs that were in front of her, and she seemed to feel safe


    inside. She jerked her head up and blossomed into a bright smile suddenly, “Mommy, Iris found daddy!


    You don’t have to secretly kiss daddy’s picture anymore, just kiss daddy directly!”