Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade

Chapter 411 The Contempt Of The Grant Family

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The Grant family had hired several doctors over the past few weeks to treat their grandfather. However, most of them left in vain, unable to figure out his condition.

Currently, Louis’s biggest contender for the head of the family title was Maggie. As a result, he saw Alex as another enemy getting in his way.

Maggie frowned and said, “Louis, Alex is really skilled. One time, when my luck was really bad to the point that I nearly lost my life, Mr. Jefferson helped me alter my fortune. After that, my life is now sailing smoothly again! I can assure you, Mr. Jefferson’s powers are truly godlike!”

Louis snorted derisively. “Maggie, my little cousin, what grandpa needs right now is a miracle doctor, not a bloody fraud! These so–called geomancers pretend to be so powerful when they are just con artists. Pff, only naive fools could be duped by them!”

His words were a double–edged sword. Hearing what he was implying, Maggie’s expression grew unpleasant.

On one hand, Louis was suggesting that Alex was a fraud. On the other hand, he was insinuating Maggie was naive, too unfit to be in line as the future head of the family.

Maggie could read between the lines easily. Regardless, she tried to advise him, saying, “Louis, even if you don’t believe in such things, you shouldn’t be irreverent either.”

on who it is first? I, Louis Grant, have only ever respected honest, honorable men. As for these phonies who dabble in pseudoscience like him

the elderly figure beside him, a smug look on his face. “This is Lumenopolis’s divine physician, Tyrael Skyworth,

over at the pair; one was old, one was young. Yup,

both seemed to be

over sixty. Dressed in a green robe and wearing a pair of dignified reading glasses, the man had formidable eyebrows and a long, white

expert.

by his side was a young lady about eighteen or nineteen years old. She was dressed in a loosely fitted cheongsam. Her hair was in a short bob, with fringe that framed her pair of lovely, inquisitive

drew Alex’s eyes the most.

lovely too, but this young lady had a beauty that

this young lady’s gaze seemed to be sharper and haughtier. This was not a

him with a nod. Conversely, Auriel didn’t even bother to look at him, emitting a sense of

Louis looked at Maggie smugly, saying, “Little

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