It was just as Claire had said—all of Aurous Hill, perhaps even Oskia, were watching the Ackers and the Wades' joint project very closely, especially since their beef had been closely followed twenty years ago.

At the time, the tabloids and even mainstream media would offer analysis about the squabble between the two families. One could even search the internet for archived articles, which were clearly spiced up and hardly believable.

However, such spiced-up media was precisely what everyone l