Winner Takes All

Bang!

The room door was smashed heavily.

Inside the room was quiet.

Old Master Burton and Dyson stood blankly on the spot.

The Burton family ancestral hall didn't enshrine Sophie?

His words weren't too outrageous?

The Burton family really were nothing compared to the Hughes family, but this was not something that could insult us as one from the younger generation!

This is an insult to all the ancestors of the Burton family!

Jack's powerful words lingered in his ears.

Outrageous, domineering, scornful...

It seemed that it was as if he was standing in the clouds, looking down at the Burton family as if they were just mere ants.

"Father, Jack really has acted too outrageously; I really do not know why you still act so amicably despite having been insulted like this."

Dyson was furious, his face turning red. These words were as sharp as a needle's which deeply cut at his self-esteem, "My honourable Burton family is the richest within the capital city, and the Burton family's ancestral hall is where every member of our family dreams of ending up after death. He cannot assume that what one wants when alive is the same as in death?"

He stopped speaking after this.

Old Master Burton who was sitting down suddenly started to tremble.

His old and haggard face suddenly started to flush an unusual red.

His throat throbbed.

Within the silence there was suddenly a stream of blood flowing from the corner of Old Master Burton's mouth.

"Father!"

Dyson was so alarmed that he rushed over and kneeled down in front of Old Master Burton and said, "Father, please don't scare me like this, father, you have to be ok!" "I'm, I'm fine..."

Old Master Burton's right hand quivered as he displayed a rather sullen smile, "Dyson, you don't understand, but in recent days there has been many changings happening within the capital city, while the Burton family has been in a very hard situation now. Countless people have been eyeing our family rather menacingly, and once I die, even Jack won't inherit the position of the head of the Burton family." "But, if we are able to get Sophie back into the Burton family's ancestral hall for enshrinement, then if the Burton family in the future will really suffer any big disaster, Jack will not be able to ignore this since his mother is inside the Burton family's ancestral hall."

As he explained this, Dyson's face turned pale and he slumped onto the ground.

"So this is why you deceived everyone and the reason why you brought me here to meet Jack secretly?"

Before he came with his father here, his objective was just to enshrine Sophie Burton in the ancestral hall.

If this was in the name of being guilty as family affection, then it would make sense.

However he had never thought of protecting the Burton family before.

"Well, if not for this, am I too stupid? And I broke the Burton family rules by enshrining my daughter in the ancestral hall." Old Master Burton's helpless smile revealed his despair. Women were not allowed to be enshrined inside the Burton family's ancestral hall.

This was the third rule of this ancestral hall.

Dyson looked as if he was in a trance.

A few seconds later he looked at Old Master Burton with bitter hatred.

As he gritted his teeth he said, "Father we don't need this disobedient and disloyal person anymore, we still have you and many of the other men in our family, along with their sons. The Burton family will never fall apart, so why must you suffer this grievance, and cause our family to diminish into dust in front of him."

Slap!

He was then suddenly slapped hard.

Dyson was then stunned to the spot.

Old Master Burton raised his trembling right hand up fiercely, it was like the final roar from an old lion.

He glared at Dyson and said, "You really can't see the big picture here, you can't even see the situation occurring within the capital city?"Please check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.

"Father..." Dyson returned back to his senses after being slapped.

Old Man Burton didn't give him any chance to refute, and instead gritted his teeth and said, “I am fast approaching death, my time is numbered. Currently within the capital city there are many major forces eyeing the Burton Family, I have been so hard and tired to deal with each of them. And if I were dead, the Burton family must be destroyed in the hand of you useless sons!"

His tone was full of anger; he didn't even try to conceal how he really felt about Dyson and the other family members.

"Jack's abilities and temperament were the best for the head of the Burton family, but even if he won't officially join us, with a word from him, with his power and the backing from the Hughes family, then that wil be enough to ensure that our Burton family can remain as the richest within the capital city."

"With him, none of those rich and powerful families within the capital city will dare try to overtake us! He is the only person who is able to safeguard the Burton Family!"

As he spoke his tone raised to the point that he was almost shouting.

However being fired up like this was too much for someone of his age which then made his body begin to tremble again.

His face was extremely red.

"Puff"

A big mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out of his mouth.

Some of the blood splatted onto Dyson's face.

Dyson was so distraught he started crying loudly and said, "Father, Please calm down. I understand now, I finally understand everything. From now on I won't dare to argue back to you anymore."

The blood stained his chest.

Old Master Burton seemed pleased by what he heard, however then slowly uttered out, "Take me... to the hospital."

A sound was heard.

After he said this he then collapsed onto Dyson.

"Father!"

Dyson's alarm turned into rage as he gritted his teeth together, face red as he said, "Jack, I swear if something happens to my father today then I will fight you with all my strength!"

Jack who had left the Karton did not know anything that had happened after he left.

In his mind, the Burton family seemed to have no shame.

It was almost ridiculous.

To be so unscrupulous, making a fortune by using all different tricks, and now the Burton family was in turmoil, they wanted to clean everything and starting feel any sense of regret? They think enshrining his mother in the Burton family ancestral hall will smooth everything over from the past 20 years.

It really was too ridiculous.

If his mother had deep affection on Burton family, something could really happen within the Burton family?

The Burton family would have harmed her a long time ago!

If he promised to enshrine his mother inside the Burton ancestral hall then wouldn't he be leaving his mother with an everlasting regret?

As the son, this would be the most disobedient and disloyal thing he could do!

To be part of the glory of the Hughes family was exactly what his mother deserves.

Both before and after her death she should be able to enjoy the honor of the Hughes family.

Rather than be part of the Burton family who shamelessly sought for personal gain.

Inside he was full of both anger and pain.

Throughout Jack's whole journey he drove his car as fast as lighting, as if letting out his rage.

But once he arrived at the DT real estate agency he was still full of anger.

However he knew that this was his own personal matter and thus he couldn't bring his rage into work.

He took a few breaths and finally suppressed the anger within his heart.

Jack stepped inside the company door.

After he had greeted his employees he then entered into his office alone.

Corbin and Lone Wolf quickly rushed in to report their work.

These last few days they had both been overloaded with work.

To be precise, it was Corbin who was Jack's most competent confidant who was left in charge, Lone Wolf just assisted him.

Now that Jack had returned, he should naturally be able to take over again.

Getting back up to date with everything was long and complicated, and once they had finally finished it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. The three of them had almost forgotten to eat lunch.

"You can both go and eat lunch now, thank you for the hard work."

Jack told them to leave, while still feeling pain within his heart. He leaned back on the chair and rubbed his swollen nose.

His mother was his bottom line.

However the Burton family had tried several times to tear it away.

How was he able to quickly repress his anger?

He then received a phone call from Yael.

Jack answered the phone, "Hello, are you back?"

"Yes, I'm back. Where are you right now? I will go and meet you; I have both good news and bad news to tell you." Yael sounded slightly odd.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐