CHAPTER 25: CHAPTER 25: REDGRAVE FAMILY? ARE THEY EVEN WORTHY?

EDITOR: ENDLESSFANTASY TRANSLATION

Granny Coleman wore a grim expression as she looked at Seraphina Redgrave sitting on the sofa, shaking her head again.

"If you ask me, the people from the Sterling Family are just a mess! I heard that Old President Sterling doesn’t do anything proper all day long, just smoking, drinking, and womanizing, acting heartless and unconcerned about the impact of his reckless behavior on his children! It’s no wonder President Sterling is so heartless now; it must have something to do with Old President Sterling."

"That makes sense. Ever since the madam left, Old President Keegan has been like a wild horse off the reins, becoming even more reckless in his ways! He even brought in the madam’s former sisters as concubines! It’s no wonder twenty years ago, he cold-bloodedly abandoned the then seven-year-old young lady and the newly-born President Sterling at the Hibiscus Garden, leaving them to fend for themselves!"

Nanny Lynch spoke while blowing on the coffee in her hand, ensuring she wouldn’t burn herself, before handing it to Seraphina Redgrave.

Leaving?

Did Ethan Sterling’s mother run away or had she long passed into the afterlife?

Judging by their tone, it seemed as if all of Ethan Sterling’s relatives had left him.

Oh, that old smoker and drunkard who chased women wasn’t worthy of being called Ethan Sterling’s kin at all.

No wonder Ethan Sterling thought of his sister so much, why he slept in such strange postures.

Even his inexplicable possessiveness and controlling nature now had a reasonable explanation—he had always been so lonely, so afraid of losing!

So Ethan Sterling had gone mad, trying to control everything he could.

Family matters are impossible to judge fairly!

To be frank, Ethan Sterling truly indulged Seraphina Redgrave. He would give her whatever she wanted, always putting her first with anything good. But she didn’t have much time to feel sorry for Ethan Sterling’s hardships.

Seraphina Redgrave had her own matters to attend to. The endless gloom of the forbidden area, the blood feud of the Redgrave Family, these were all things that required her personal attention.

The current plan was to quickly come up with a perfect solution to immediately sever ties with Ethan Sterling, to never have contact again in their lifetimes.

Then Seraphina Redgrave would use her intelligence and means to secure her position domestically, to give herself a chance to achieve and overturn everything.

The Redgrave Family didn’t need to exist!

The forbidden area needed to be overthrown and rebuilt!

Seraphina Redgrave felt uneasy, recalling the words Ethan Sterling had said to her.

She felt like she was missing some very important piece of information...

Oh well, she might as well take things as they come.

Living at Hibiscus Garden was no longer an option; she must leave this cursed place immediately.

Treasure life, stay away from Ethan Sterling!

...

As night fell, Hibiscus Garden slowly plunged into silence.

Nanny Lynch and Granny Coleman retired to their rooms early; today’s incident had indeed left them exhausted.

Seraphina Redgrave silently left the room and searched through the hall until she finally found what she needed most.

The digestive tablets from the medical kit.

Today, she had first indulged in a feast on the food street, enjoying a rare moment of freedom. After returning to Hibiscus Garden, in an attempt to purposely disgust Ethan Sterling, she forced herself to devour a large amount of food.

Besides, Ethan Sterling’s unpredictable and inscrutable nature, constantly testing her, almost drove her to a mental breakdown!

Yes, her insomnia was half caused by being frightened by Ethan Sterling, and half because she had overeaten...

In the dead of night, Seraphina Redgrave had other ideas.

Having stayed for so long at Hibiscus Garden, Seraphina Redgrave was not yet fully familiar with it, but she was quite confident.

She simply couldn’t believe Ethan Sterling had such heavy defenses in his own home.

She was gambling on finding what she wanted smoothly.

Seraphina Redgrave didn’t disturb anyone, steadily making her way to the study door. She opened it cautiously and walked straight in.

To her surprise, the study turned out to be decorated in an ancient, elegant style.

It was rather peculiar that a person like Ethan Sterling would read and work in such a traditionally styled study.

The bookshelves were neatly lined with a plethora of books, categorized. This made it easier for Seraphina Redgrave to find the books she was looking for, though she hadn’t expected there to be so many professional books on psychology.

Why was Ethan Sterling researching psychology?

To research how to completely break down an enemy’s psychological defenses?

Or to study how to make himself more perversely justified?

Silently scoffing in her heart, Seraphina Redgrave walked straight to the desk. A computer was placed on it, looking out of place with the room’s atmosphere.

Her hands moved swiftly across the keyboard, and soon the computer’s password was cracked.

Holding her breath and focusing, her fingers on the keyboard accelerated, even leaving faint afterimages.

Ten minutes later, a clear image appeared on the computer screen. It was the Redgrave Family, under surveillance.

Seraphina Redgrave, using hacking skills she learned in the forbidden area, easily breached the Redgrave Family’s firewall, infiltrated their computer, and succeeded in monitoring the entire family.

In the morning she had sneaked into the Redgrave Family’s home and found a strange iron cabinet in the hall filled with useless things.

She carefully inspected the cabinet, aware her time was limited, and secretly placed a camera inside it as quickly as possible.

Given the suspicious nature of the Redgrave Family, Seraphina Redgrave was confident the household was now in an uproar.

And as expected, the Redgrave Family was ablaze with lights on the computer screen.

Mia Redgrave stood in the yard, her hands shaking uncontrollably. She wore an exquisite outfit, her hair styled in a new fashion.

Her charming eyes were filled with hatred as she stared at the peculiar scene before her, a strange smile playing on her lips.

In front of her, Jonathan Redgrave and his wife Lena Lynch sat upright and serious.

In the center of the courtyard, an old man dressed like a Daoist with a white beard held a horsetail whisk in one hand and a brush in the other.

In this brightly lit, bizarre courtyard, he changed his stance with a calm face, using the brush to dip into vermilion and continuously draw talismans on the ground.

At first glance, he indeed had the air of an Enlightened Master.

Turning her head, she saw several bodyguards in black one by one taking out several Magic Artifacts, placing them in order as instructed by the "Enlightened Master" on the ground.

"It’s done!" Suddenly, the pretentious old Daoist smiled and clapped his hands in satisfaction.

???

Seraphina Redgrave looked at the childish scribbles of formations on the ground, speechless—this talisman drawing technique would make even the ancestors crawl out of their graves in rage to take down this obnoxious old man!

The Redgrave Family, having dominated the business world for so many years, naturally believed without a doubt in these supernatural affairs.

Now they surely thought she, Seraphina Redgrave, was dead and her ghost had come for revenge.

The saying goes "spare others whenever possible," but she, Seraphina Redgrave, was no "Saintness" who repays grievances with virtue!

Since the Redgrave Family was so eager to dig their own grave, she might as well give them a kick to not waste their grand spectacle!

Seraphina Redgrave closed the surveillance footage on the computer, her fingers tapping on the keyboard, soon revealing a strange code page.

Focused, she continued to type out the code. After a short while, the page showed completion.

Being as careful as she was, of course, she wouldn’t use her own voice. She gathered many electronic female voices online, merging them into an audio clip. She then used a virtual network phone to call all the media hotline numbers...