An Aunt Who Turned His Worldview Upside Down

Seeing Loren suddenly collapse to the floor in pain, Maeve's gentle expression immediately turned vicious.

"My dear nephew, you really are unbelievably foolish! Did you really think I came here to treat you to tea and pastries?

You're far too naive. After all these years, you still haven't grown up. You're adorably childish.

How could someone like you possibly manage such a massive family fortune? If you ask me, I should be the one doing it!"

Maeve sneered as she crouched before Loren, patting his face as though scolding a child, her eyes filled with contempt.

"Why? Why are you doing this? Didn't you say the grudges of our generation wouldn't involve the next?"

Loren seemed to endure the agony wracking his body as he stared at Maeve in disbelief.

Maeve burst out laughing. "You idiot, you believe everything I say? The hatred between your father and me is irreconcilable. I've long wished for his death, and as his son, you naturally deserve to die too."

"But if you make a move against me here, aren't you afraid you won't be able to get out?" Loren asked curiously.

"Heh, are you referring to that female secretary behind you?

I'm not afraid to tell you that you weren't poisoned by eating anything. You inhaled it yourself.

The moment I opened that box, the poison gas had already spread throughout the room.

That means everyone in this room has been poisoned.

Naturally, your beautiful secretary couldn't escape it either. She has to die too."

Maeve's face darkened, and her eyes were slightly red, making her look terrifying.

"I see. To kill me, you really went to great lengths as my aunt!

It seems my parents' deaths had something to do with you too!!"

Loren lay limp on the floor, glaring at Maeve with an ugly expression.

Maeve scoffed at Loren's words. "There's no need to try and trick me into talking. You're about to die anyway, so what does it matter if I tell you? That's right, I had your parents killed. I was the one controlling everything from behind the scenes."

"So that means you joined Hydra."

"Heh, I didn't expect you to have investigated this far. That really is surprising. Back then, I never took you seriously. Now it seems that was a mistake, but it doesn't matter. You're going to die by my hand in the end."

As Maeve spoke, she pulled a dagger from her waist and, without the slightest hesitation, viciously stabbed it toward Loren's heart.

But at that moment, Loren, who had been lying motionless on the floor, suddenly reached out his hand.

He grabbed the dagger in Maeve's hand and easily snatched it away.

"You!!" Seeing that Loren could still move—and that he was so strong—Maeve's face filled with disbelief.

She immediately realized that she seemed to have fallen for a trick. She retreated toward the door at once, trying to escape.

But just then, 2B leaped forward, blocking her path in advance and slowly closing the hall's doors.

In an instant, Maeve was trapped inside the hall by Loren.

Loren, who had snatched away the dagger, stretched lazily before rising to his feet at an unhurried pace.

"You... you weren't poisoned? That's impossible!" Maeve's eyes were filled with shock as she watched Loren stand unharmed before her.

Seeing Maeve's astonished expression, Loren sneered. "My foolish aunt, did you really think I was an idiot? From the moment I stepped into the hall, I noticed the tricks you'd set up.

Hiding poison gas inside the pastry box was indeed a clever idea.

Unfortunately, your poison gas just wasn't potent enough!

It had no effect on me at all. I even had to pretend to be poisoned myself. What a disappointment."

Loren's words were like a resounding slap across Maeve's face, humiliating her deeply.

She had carefully prepared that poison. Even something as strong as an ox or horse would die on the spot after inhaling just a trace of it.

Yet Loren was now saying that it had no effect whatsoever. How could she possibly accept that?

Humiliation. This was naked humiliation!

"You're not Loren. Loren wasn't this powerful, nor was he this calculating. Who exactly are you?"

Maeve's face darkened as she immediately realized that the Loren before her was completely different from the Loren she remembered, as though he had become someone else entirely.

"Hehe, my dear aunt, what nonsense are you talking about? If I'm not Loren, then who is?"

Loren wore a teasing expression. Naturally, he had no intention of telling her that he was a transmigrator.

"You can't fool me. The real Loren Morgan was spoiled rotten by his parents long ago.

He indulged in women and pleasures, with nothing in his head. He was a complete waste.

But you... I have to admit it. You're cunning, and you're ruthless!"

"Is that so? It seems you know me quite well!

However, people grow.

And compared to you, my cunning and ruthlessness are nothing. As an older sister, you actually plotted to murder your own younger brother.

You venomous woman, you truly deserve to die!"

Loren's tone was ice-cold. He wished he could kill the woman before him on the spot.

He was a transmigrator and had no feelings whatsoever for this so-called aunt.

"The one who deserved to die was your father. If he hadn't killed our eldest brother, how could I have hated him so much? He ruined everything I had, so of course I took revenge on him. He deserved his death."

"Is that so? The truth I learned is different from the truth you know. Perhaps you should take a look at this."

As Loren spoke, he activated a projection. It was divided into two parts. The first recorded in detail the argument between the original owner's father and the old master over the succession of the family head. In the recording, the original owner's father desperately refused the position.

But the old master had forced him into it, leaving him with no choice. The second recording was even more explosive: it documented the incestuous affair between Aunt Maeve and his eldest uncle.

The original owner's father had wanted to leave the Morgan Family and live his own life precisely because of this matter. The shock it caused him was so great that he no longer wanted to remain in the family.

Who could have known that his elder brother would suddenly die in an accident afterward? That was what forced him to take up the position of head of the Morgan Family. But because of that, his older sister Maeve believed that he had planned it all.

That was how this entire chain of events began!

Watching the images in the projection, Maeve stood frozen, as though struck by lightning. She had never imagined that her younger brother had known about her affair with their eldest brother all along.

"Turn it off! Turn it off now!" Maeve roared in humiliation and fury, demanding that Loren shut down the recording.