A Graduation Gift

"Yeah, this is the only way. But Lionel...be careful. Don't get involved with her again. I would never agree to something like that again!"

Jill warned Lionel strictly. Alas, the mother couldn't see the sadness in her son's eyes.

He couldn't tell her he wanted to get back together with Cassandra. In fact, he deeply regretted his decision of divorcing her before. However, it was sad that she just didn't want him anymore.

"Don't worry, Mom. I understand what you are thinking,"

Lionel said with a forced, bitter smile on his face.

He turned his head around to look inside the hospital room. Horace lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

Rufus's hatred towards his own father had completely destroyed him, despite how powerful he had been in the industry all his life. Now, every day was nothing but a nightmare for him.

Horace's mind started to fly back to the times when he was young. He was so ambitious and capable at the time. It was in those days that he had met a young woman from Ling family at a party, and had immediately fallen in love with her.

Lucky for him, she had fallen in love with him too. Soon, they started dating. But something always bugged Horace. It was the inheritance right of the family business.

already started to lose its power and status. They couldn't have helped him get the inheritance right.

only made sense for Horace to be with her in

couldn't resist the temptation. He started to avoid seeing the Ling family's daughter and chose to get engaged to Jill

know was she was already pregnant with a boy. The boy in her womb was no one else but Rufus. She wanted to meet Horace and talk about him, but he simply refused to

go back to her family for support. She was left with no choice but to abandon her family and move out of the house. She not only bore Rufus for

of this was due to Horace's ignorance. His faults made Rufus suffer for a very long time, eventually resting in his heart like a

now...at this stage of his life, when he needed support the most, his own son had

these compromises, for what?

knew how much time he had left. Besides, he had already lost all will and energy. The group that he had kept afloat somehow all these years was now going to go bankrupt. All of his hard work, his tactics, and his

both

a lot of weight in the past few days. No one would know if they could hope for his well-being anymore, or was

father's condition and it worried him sick. He had to act quickly. He walked away from his mother and finally made the call. Part of him was convinced that she wouldn't pick up. Just when

I had no other way..." Lionel said, almost confessedly. Something in him felt like it was melting. "Do you think Rufus will forgive us if my mother apologised

a surprised look plastered on her face. She had never expected Lionel to call her, let alone