“Yes, Mr Lisa,” Scarlet replied with a lowered head. Though she felt reluctant, she didn’t dare to argue at that moment.

“Cecilia always listened to you since she was young. The way forward depended on your guidance.” Mr Lisa said.

“I will guide her well, Mr Lisa,” Scarlet assured.

Lisa was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something and stopped.

“Isa is my biological sister,” he said.

Upon hearing this, Scarlet felt even more uneasy.

“Don’t cause her any more trouble in the future,” Lisa added.

“Yes…” Scarlet hadn’t expected Mr Lisa to say such words. As she watched his figure walking away, her anger grew.

Who was causing trouble for whom?

The thought of making Miss Cecilia apologize to Isabella the next day filled Scarlet with intense anger and heartache.

The next morning.

Isabella discovered a message she had received from Silvia–Freda’s mother, the previous night.

“Isa, thank you for doing everything you could to save Freda. Today was her funeral. Did you come?” Silvia asked.

“Yes,” Isabella quickly replied.

“Freda liked you a lot when she was alive. I believe she would have been pleased to have you accompany her on her final journey,” Silvia expressed.

Isabella thought of replying with just one word, “Condolences.” But the loss of a beloved daughter could not be comforted with just two simple words.

replied, “I arrived shortly.”

Family Cemetery. According to the geomancer, the best time for the burial was ten o’clock in the morning, considering the excellent

funeral had to

was grand and majestic, with many people attending

a sea of mourners dressed in black, demonstrating the extensive network

elegiac couplets surrounded the entire cemetery outside the Heilig Family Cemetery like blooming

formal attire, including distant and close relatives, were now in front of the memorial hall. weeping uncontrollably, deeply immersed in

the flowers, Benjamin and Isabella approached the open-

naturally beautiful, and standing side by side attracted

bowing, she looked at the black-and-white image of Freda and the coffin placed beneath

with the Heilig Family members crying in her ears as if she relived the pain of losing Old

to each person who came to pay respects. Despite their tearful appearance, Tel and Silvia, who were leading the ceremony, still

Tel hugged Benjamin but couldn’t

condolences,” Benjamin patted his back to console

of the sky collapsing after

all were grieving will worry Freda…” Isabella hugged Silvia and said, “Freda’s biggest concern

did fate cruelly take her away? What was I supposed to do in the remaining years of

sadness of the

falling into a deep sea with no hope of rescue, even desperate enough to close her eyes and sink to the

I wish she could talk to me. She was my only daughter, growing from a helpless baby to a beautiful young lady. I had imagined countless possibilities for Freda’s future, but I

flow from the eyes of the surrounding relatives and mourners. They had never

through her tears to see a path being cleared. Dressed in

The Heilig Family

Isabella wanted to say something

alive. I do not

I want to see Freda,” Mathew

the extreme, but he had to bid Freda farewell on her final journey. Freda died while trying to save Nora, her adoptive parents. How could he live with himself

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