Chapter 36. Do Not Humiliate Children

"I missed her to the point of madness, having people search for her everywhere. Yet, as much as I wanted to find her, I feared encountering her, for I dreaded facing the events of the past, feared that I might have been wrong from the start. After all, she once asserted, she had never betrayed me."

Yet he did not believe her. His judgement was incinerated by a wildfire of indignation and jealousy, precluding any possibility of reasoned examination of the situation.

However, in place of any other man, it would certainly be equally hard to trust her, just like he had felt back then. A woman pregnant with another man's child, claiming that she had never betrayed him—it was as preposterous as a farcical tale.

"What did you say to her then?" Matthew tossed his magazine aside, fully invested in the answer from the other end of the line.

"Big brother, tell me, who could trust the words of a traitor?" There was a hopeless bitterness in Patrick's tone: "Her family's b