The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Gus laughed. "Haha. I definitely wouldn't lie to you, Mr. Lawrence."

Suddenly, Frank found Gus' attitude toward him weird. After all, Gus should be on the Soranos' side and therefore hostile toward Frank. After all, half the reason Zam Sorano was killed was because of Frank. And yet, Gus was not showing any enmity toward Frank now if anything, he was exceedingly polite, even kind, as if he were just an ordinary younger man.

"How did you sustain your injury, Mr. Zeller?" he asked nonetheless.

Gus smiled. He could tell that Frank's question was clearly loaded and simply admitted, "I was ambushed one night, leaving my organs and meridian nexus in pieces. Thankfully, someone saved me from the ruins."

"Someone saved you?" Frank repeated softly.

"Yes." Gus' gaze turned distant in recollection. "It was a young girl... a kind one. She fed me a golden pill that saved my life, even helping me improve to Ascendant rank."

struck by Hundred Bane Sect's Every Flavor Palm. Whenever I ingest a food with flavor, my organs will burn... It's infuriating." "I see." Frank

lingering effects of that technique. All Gus had

it just so happened that his antidotes were used

was smiling. "I have a question of my own, Mr. Lawrence. If I'm not mistaken, you'd be interested in asking why I bailed you out when Willy brought us to Laneville,

nodded solemnly, candid since Gus was

sighed after a moment of silence while leveling a troubled look at Frank. "Like a lot of other families and factions, the Soranos sent me to South Sea and partook in the siege of

pillage the archives and was backstabbed. I was at the mercy of fate,

Sky Sect and their apprentices were no evildoers, but individuals of valor and compassion. Heck, when I asked why she'd save me, she told me that I looked pitiful and didn't want to see me