Chapter 429

I walked over to Zachary. “Zachary,” I called out his name. “My mother passed away,” he mumbled. “That woman lived her life as her older sister’s replacement in the Schick family. That woman treated me as her own son.” Zachary’s tone was very light. It was so weak as if he was enunciating unimportant matters. I quietly held his palm. Then, I heard him continue speaking weakly. “I left the Schick family when I was nine years old. I lived with my mother up until I was nine years old. At that time, I still hadn’t found out that the one who adopted me was another person! For that nine years, my mother treated me very well. “At that time, I was not the heir and still had three brothers before me. Thus, no one cared about me, including my father. When my father’s concubines and other children bullied me, my mother was the only one who protected me. “After that, I left the Schick family and wandered through the outside world. In that eleven years, she persistently wrote letters to me