Destined Entwining: Capturing My Devoted Beau

Chapter 775: Chapter 398: The Last Straw (Second Update)

Aiden Sheldon looked at her steadily, ”Miss Winters, why are you so interested in my Sheldon Family’s affairs? You’ve investigated events from over forty years ago so clearly.”

Lawrence Winters covered her mouth and laughed, ”Mr. Sheldon, it’s not that I’m interested in your family affairs, it’s that people across the country are fascinated by the gossip of the wealthiest families!”

”I don’t know if Mr. Sheldon often goes online, but if you do, just do a quick search, you’ll find this kind of elite secrets everywhere on the internet. Anyone who loves gossip news is well-versed in the happenings of the Sheldon Family.”

”And it’s not just the Sheldon Family, among the top ten on the rich list, which family hasn’t been thoroughly dug into? Compared to them, the gossip about the Sheldon Family is actually quite little.”

Lawrence Winters shrugged, ”Take the Spencer Family, for example, how their boss got his several wives, the whole nation knows clearly.”

”But with the Sheldon Family, information on this aspect is much less, only some very surface-level situations.”

Autumn Stetford listened quietly for a while, then looked up and interrupted her, ”You say it’s only some very surface-level situations, but how do you know that over twenty years ago, most of the Sheldon Family’s collateral branches were nearly wiped out? Isn’t that more than surface-level?”

Lawrence Winters pointed to her head, smiling, ”That’s the importance of intelligence. I read those tabloid news articles, memorized and analyzed them with my brain, and naturally came to the conclusion.”

”For example, over forty years ago, there was gossip news saying that when the Sheldon Family bought this Wells Residence Garden as their mansion, they set up an ancestral hall. There were many descendants in the Sheldon Family, and more than fifty households, over two hundred people, attended the ancestral worship together. Most were collateral relatives and illegitimate children.”

”Then, over twenty years ago, there was a gossip news article about an argument at the Sheldon Family’s New Year’s Eve ancestral worship. At that time, only the direct line of the Sheldon Family and two collateral lines attended the ceremony. The article mentioned that many in the collateral lines of the Sheldon Family had died over the years, with no one left qualified to attend the ancestral worship.”

”From over fifty households to only two collateral lines left capable of attending the ancestral worship, what does that indicate?”

”From these two pieces of news, I deduced that after the Sheldon Family bought the Wells Residence Garden, their collateral branches were nearly wiped out, isn’t that reasonable?”

Before Aiden Sheldon and Autumn Stetford could speak, Ryan Sheldon, who had been thoroughly confused, became excited.

He exclaimed, ”Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Miss Winters managed to link news stories spaced so many years apart! I’m impressed!”

Autumn Stetford glared at him, then said to Lawrence Winters, ”Miss Winters, these are all hearsay, baseless. No one takes gossip and tabloid news as courtroom evidence.”

Lawrence Winters chuckled, rubbing her forehead, ”Mrs. Stetford, are we in a court debate here? Just tell me, am I right or am I wrong?”

Autumn Stetford wanted to deny it, but Aiden Sheldon nodded and said calmly, ”Indeed, many from the Sheldon Family’s collateral lines did pass away during those years, but there were various reasons, and they didn’t live here. Why say this place is connected to them?”

”That’s the fate connected by bloodline,” Lawrence Winters shrugged, ”If you ask me for a scientific explanation, I can’t give one. Because what the Celestial Path Sect studies are these profound things, once understood, they become science.”

”For example, alchemy can become chemistry, that’s from mysterious to clear understanding.”

Aiden Sheldon’s eyes darkened.

Autumn Stetford wanted to say something, but her words changed as she looked towards Peter Grant, who was tied up on the side, and switched the topic, frowning, ”...Release Young Grant Heavenly Master. What does this look like? Tying people up at my house, who’s the mistress of this house, after all, me or...”

She didn’t finish her sentence, but everyone understood what she meant.

Lawrence Winters had tied Peter Grant up just to keep him from interrupting her speech.

As soon as Autumn Stetford spoke, the existing staff in the hall immediately came over to untie Peter Grant.

As soon as the tape on Peter Grant’s mouth was ripped off, Lawrence Winters warned him, ”The storm outside hasn’t cleared yet. If you still want to practice in the Celestial Path Sect, keep your mouth shut!”

Peter Grant shivered, looking outside the window.

Originally, there should have been streetlights in the yard, which wouldn’t go out even in the rain.

But tonight’s thunderstorm was so heavy that it was like a thick black fog, enveloping the entire Moonlit Tower tightly.

Only the occasional lightning bolt tore a gap in that thick fog.