Bowen's eyes reddened as his body shivered.

"You—" Veron panicked and was angry. "Can you calm down? You're not home yet. How do you know your family was killed?"

'That fellow is too stubborn! He's making me so nervous!' she thought.

Bowen took a deep breath and said thoughtfully, "Ms. Nine, you don't understand us. We will never spread rumors. There's a reason for those people to say my family is sentenced to death. It's me. I was the one who caused them."

Veron said nothing. She tried to p