Chapter 12


    The dinner served in the Simons family was even more sumptuous than their breakfast. M


    Simons held her daughter- in-w''s hand and chatted excitedly, retelling her journey to the Emperor


    Mountain in the afternoon to return the favor of the monk''s blessings.


    Titus Simons was listening on the side, while Tiffany Simonsined that her brother was being


    a nuisance, who had to be invited downstairs for meals multiple times a day.


    "Thump- thump- thump- trump", hard and fast-moving footsteps were approaching. Yasmine Taylor


    turned her head and saw Sebastian Simons walking towards the table, expressionless. It was


    obvious that he had just taken a shower, exuding a minty scent.


    "Let''s eat."


    M patted the back of her daughter-inw''s hand and instructed the servants beside her, "Serve


    the soup we made for Young Madam Yasmine."


    The maid quickly served her a bowl of soup. ttered, Yasmine thanked her mother-inw with a


    smile.


    "Drink while it''s hot. It''s been a long day for you, dear."


    Sebastian snorted, "How tiring can teaching get? All she does is just talk all day." Titus raised his


    eyebrow at his son, questioning, "Do you think it''s easy to be a teacher? You have no say on this if


    you have never been a teacher."


    "That''s right. Yasmine is teaching students at their rebellious stage. It feels like a tough job to have,


    even by just thinking about it now." Tiffany chirped, adding to her dad''s point.


    Sebastian threw a sharp re at Tiffany. Knowing her brother, she immediately swallowed her


    words and shut her mouth.


    "Ignore what he just said. He''s just jealous of the way we treat you." M eyed her son warningly.


    "Mom, we are going to visit my family this weekend."


    Yasmine looked her mother-inw in her eyes and announced seriously.


    "Both of you?"


    Her mother-inw stammered, uncertain if what she heard was true.


    "Yes, both of us," Yasmine replied.


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    "Oh my God! Is this true? Brother, you are going with Yasmine to visit her family?"


    Tiffany squealed, getting so excited that she forgot the warning re her brother threw at her


    minutes ago.


    Sebastian did not utter a word. For family members who knew him well enough, if he stayed silent,


    it meant that he agreed to something. Needless to say, the Simons'' family was delighted, except for


    Sebastian, of course. It''s not that visiting Yasmine''s family was terrible, but infuriating. The thing


    Sebastian could not tolerate the most was to have fallen into Yasmine''s trap.


    After dinner, Titus beckoned his son into the study room. Tiffany waited for her brother to leave the


    dining table, before she grabbed her mother''s arm and said, "Mom, Yasmine is so amazing..."


    "Why?" M asked in confusion.


    "I got caught red-handed by him this evening while I was gossiping with Yasmine. You know how


    bad his temper is. I got so scared and quickly escaped. I thought Yasmine would suffer the


    consequences, but look at what just happened." Tiffany eximed.


    "Well, your sister-inw made through it without a scratch. She even managed to persuade your


    brother to visit her family with her?" M added.


    "Yes! That''s unbelievable."


    Tiffany thought it was all too unrealistic. For a moment, she thought she was dreaming.


    "That''s why I can''t wait to return the favor today. I also have a hunch that your brother''s current


    marriage will not be as short-lived as the previous ones."


    M beamed with joy, her eyes twinkling. She ordered her daughter, "Go and get your sister-inw


    down."


    Yasmine went to her room after dinner. She had to prepare for the next day''s lessons, so she didn''t


    have much time to stay and chit chat. As she was walking down the stairs, she met Sebastian, who


    just came out of the study room.


    He threw her a death re so intense, it tightened her chest, as if he was swallowing her whole.


    "Mom, is there anything you need help with?"


    She walked straight to her mother-inw and asked in a courteous tone.


    "Come. Have a seat."


    M sits Yasmine down. She took off a glittering bangle from her right wrist and handed it to


    Yasmine. "This is the heirloom of our family. It was also a gift from my mother-inw. I''ll pass it on to


    you now." M looked at her bangle solemnly. She had been wearing it ever since she could


    remember.


    As M finished speaking, all of the surroundings fell into a dead silence, so quiet that you could


    hear a pin drop. It was as though time has stopped.


    Sebastian, for one, definitely got the shock of his life. He broke the silence in disdain. "Grandmother


    gave you that bangle. It''s our Simons'' family heirloom. How could you simply pass it to someone


    else?"


    "Yasmine is not a stranger. She is my daughter-inw and your wife." M answered indignantly.


    "I had more than one wife. Why is she the only one getting it?" Sebastian continued to question.


    "Although she is not the first one, I''m confident that she''ll be thest," replied M.


    Sebastian was about to go crazy. That woman had confidently bewitched his family. Since he lost to


    his mother, he switched targets and aimed at Yasmine, giving her a dagger-like look again. It was


    in as day that Sebastian was warning her, not to ept the bangle, or she would be in huge


    trouble.