In the hall on the first floor, the children and adults of the Akiner Family quietly listened to Patu's furious roars from the study upstairs, along with the sounds of things being smashed.
Everyone was terrified and scarcely dared to breathe.
To them, Patu was like... a nightmare that had existed since childhood and accompanied them as they grew up! Not only would they fail to escape his shadow after reaching adulthood, but they felt increasingly oppressed by it!
Before that old man, everyone was a child, and everyone was so fragile they could be defeated with a single blow! They greatly admired Anna. Whether adults or children, they had all heard about the things Anna had done—defying her family's arrangements, leaving the family with nothing, and following Lin Qi.
She had now become one of the members of the Board of Directors of the Global Communication Group.
The selfishness Patu spoke of was also the courage these people saw in her. It deeply moved most of them, but they could not bring themselves to follow Anna's example.
They could not give up their current privileged lives, nor did they believe that after leaving their family's protection, they could find a future "Li Qi" or "Mi Qi" like Anna had, then become a member of the board of directors of another supergiant enterprise of the next era in one stroke.
Their envy and jealousy toward Anna could only remain buried in their hearts. Whenever they felt dissatisfied or helpless about life and the future, they would take those feelings out and think about them.
They would place themselves in Anna's position, indulge in fantasies about their own illusory, unrealistic, beautiful future, and then accept the family's arrangements for their fates after dawn.
That was their life!
People revered heroes, but