As if he wasn't angry enough, Jill's crying managed to make Horace lose his composure. Instead of
placating him, it just fanned the flame even more, to the point that he couldn't take it anymore.
Watching his parents as they were having an argument was nothing new to Lionel, but for the very first
time, Horace mentioned the word 'divorce.' Never in his life had he expected his father to say
something so cruel to his mother, it made him feel like everything was falling apart.
Down on his knees in front of Horace, Lionel's eyes welled up with tears.
"Dad! I'm so sorry, Dad! It's all my fault. Yes, I did it! Mom had nothing to do with it. Please don't say
something like that. Please take it back!"
Lionel felt a chill running down his spine. If Horace were to really get divorced to Jill, there would be
nothing left for him, and he wouldn't have a place in the Tang family anymore.
Indeed, Rufus being the head of the TY Group might be a bad thing for him, but that wasn't necessarily
the case for Horace.
In the past, Horace had brought up something to Lionel about how he wished to find a capable
businessman to invest in the Tang Group in order to help the company acquire enough shares in the
market in just a short period of time. Unfortunately, they had seen no progress in regards to that.
Given that Rufus was the chairman of the TY Group, he could've shelled out some funds to invest in
the Tang Group with ease. But if that happened, Lionel would end up losing whatever meager power he
had left in the Tang family.
At the thought of that, Lionel was forced to take desperate measures and own up to his oversights and
somehow beg Horace for forgiveness.
"You bloody idiot! How could you do such a thing? He's your own brother, for goodness' sake!"
Horace blew a fuse the moment Lionel confessed to his lapse in judgment.
"Dad, I was backed into a corner. I was forced to do it even if I didn't really want to. Ivy kept on
threatening me that if I didn't find a way to come up with the fifty million she was asking for when we
called it quits, she would spill the dirty secrets about our family. You haven't forgotten that a lot of our
dealings are illegal, right? When I did that, I was only thinking of our family's interests. Believe me, I
didn't have a choice!"
Lionel abruptly broke into tears, hanging onto Horace's thighs and crying like a child who was about to
be abandoned on the streets.
"And you gave her fifty million just like that?! Have you lost your mind? Just let her sue, for all I care!
She would've had her legs broken before she could even think of getting to the courthouse!"
Horace had been driven up the wall. What could he have done to deserve such a useless and
incompetent son who couldn't even deal with a stupid break-up, and to add insult to injury, he even got
blackmailed into giving her fifty million!
"Dad, I'm the one to blame! I panicked when she said that, but I didn't want to trouble you with it
because you were sick. I knew that you've had several asthma attacks this year already. I couldn't think
of any other way to come up with the money all at once, so I thought it would be a good idea to tamper
with the papers bearing Rufus's signature. Things had gotten so out of hand that I got in over my head.
I hope you can forgive me, dad!"
Lionel was in a state of frenzy, crying out of his wits, with snot even spurting out of his nose. It was
such a horrible and nasty sight to see. Could it be that he was truly regretting the actions he had taken?
"Not only did you get in over your head, you were out of your mind too! You're insane!"
Horace pried his leg out of Lionel's grasp, accidentally kicking him on his shoulder in the process.
Lionel lost his balance and tumbled to the ground like a pitiful dog.
As she watched in horror, Jill's heart was aching from what was happening before her. She rushed to
Lionel's aid as he fell, tears dripping all over her face.
"Horace, Lionel only had good intentions! It was all for the sake of our family! Please find it in your
heart to forgive him! He's your son! When he was growing up, he had never struggled with anything. It
was only after that wretched woman came into his life that things started going wrong. Ivy's the
scheming bitch who extorted our son!"
Jill whined, regretting how she had always been so good to Ivy before. To think, she had even trusted
her!
All those times she thought they were getting along so well, and all of those pleasantries, every bit of it
was just an act! No wonder Lionel couldn't handle such a manipulative woman!
"Dim-witted brainless idiots, the two of you!"
Raging with anger, Horace kept shaking his head. He gritted his teeth and glared at Jill and Lionel
intensely, who both were weeping on the ground, thinking about busting their heads open to check if
they were indeed empty.
"Because of that stupid fifty million you stole, Rufus had been forced to leave the Tang Group. And now
it doesn't make any difference even if we found out that he is the head of the TY Group, because we
have already caused him so much disgrace that there's no way he'd ever come to our aid again! The
only thing you've ever really been good at is wasting my money and my valuable time! Haven't you
realized by now how the Tang Group has been thrown into disarray and squeezed out of the market
because of its competition with the Dawn Star Group?!"
With his face flushed entirely red, Horace was burning with intense rage to the extent that he had
trouble catching his breath.
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