A light breeze blew by in the courtyard. Agatha slowly recounted the past.

Back then, Daniel and his wife, Katherine, had just had Mark. The entire Carrington family had been celebrating.

They had doted on Mark and taken him wherever they went.

That day, they had headed out. Before they'd known it, Mark had been taken away.

Just when Daniel and Katherine had been on the brink of losing it, they had received a call from the kidnapper to bring the ransom to a specific spot.

They had gotten the money and driven there without any hesitation. No one had thought that they would ever return after that. Even Mark had disappeared.

When Agatha finished recounting this, her cup of tea had already cooled.

She wiped her tears away. She said through a catch in her throat, "Katherine was hugging the bag of money tightly until the moment she passed away, as though she were hugging you."

Mark furrowed his brows. Now that he'd heard the truth about Daniel and Katherine, he should have felt pain