Chapter 172 He Fell Out of Favor Completely
They took one whole day to move.
By Sunday night, the entire family was already staying in their new house.
The new house had a children’s room for both Quincy and Joel respectively, but they were both afraid to sleep in it.
Sebastian couldn’t bear to force them in doing so. Furthermore, he was still enjoying his bonding time with them. Hence, he allowed them to stay in the master bedroom with him and Madeline.
Moving here had a big advantage—Ann could never step her foot here as she wished.
Ann grew up in the Hart Residence, which she considered her home. She could always come up with some shameless excuses to stay there if she wanted to.
Thus, he brought Madeline with the two kids here. This place had no connection with Ann whatsoever, and no matter what shameless excuse she came up with, he would never let her in.
It resolved the issue of Ann’s disturbance without upsetting his father, making it a really good way out.
Besides, this place was quite near to Sebastian’s company’s headquarters. He needed only twenty minutes to get there in the absence of traffic congestion. This location was also newly developed and all the technologies applied here were the most advanced in the country, and it was not as packed as the city. He loved this place.
And obviously, Madeline and the two kids loved this place too.
On Monday, both he and Madeline sent both children to school. Philip had also just returned to society and joined the project department.
Everything in the project department was confidential; even the employees could only take a break once their projects had been substantially completed.
This meant that Philip could not see his grandchildren for a period of time. He couldn’t bear to leave them, and hence, he woke up earlier in the morning and came all the way here on Monday to have breakfast with them before sending them to school with both Sebastian and Madeline.
And before they separated, he was endlessly taking photos and videos of the kids.
To quote Philip’s words, these photos and videos would be what keep him going.
From this, Sebastian fully understood that he was totally out of his father’s favor.
Philip’s phone was full with the photos and videos of both the children, but not even one of Sebastian himself.
He grudgingly whined about it. When Philip heard it, he merely said heartlessly that Sebastian didn’t fall out of favor, but he had never been in Philip’s good book from the start.
Sebastian wasn’t sad at all because he knew that his father was lying.
He firmly believed that the one that his father loved the most was him.
Though it appeared now that his father doted on the two kids more, that was also because they were his kids.
Rounding it up, Philip still loved Sebastian the most.
This was what he truly believed in without a single doubt!
Philip left for the project team, the two kids went to their school, and Sebastian left for his company, leaving Madeline alone. Then, she started doing matters that concerned her firm.
As her firm changed its location, she needed to create a signboard and advertisement board as well as decorate the place.
Although her job involved running around and she rarely did her work in the firm, she still needed an office.
After that, she would need to prepare a hostel for her employees.
She was used to doing all of these, and hence, she managed to complete them systematically. All these minute tasks didn’t bother her at all.
Furthermore, she was doing all of these alone in the past. Now, she had four other people helping her out.
They were none other than the four bodyguards Sebastian had given her and their kids—Emory, Leonard, Fred, and Simon.
The school did not allow bodyguards to enter, and thus, whenever the kids were in school, their bodyguards had nothing to do.
Together with the other two in charge of protecting her, she now had four assistants.
It wasn’t just that because these four assistants had their own men too. The moment they saw she was about to do something, they would immediately call their men over and a huge crowd of them would then come to her aid.
With that, Madeline’s firm was completely decorated within a week. The entire style was that of what she liked and how she had imagined it to be.
Her firm adopted its previous name—Mansion.
Madeline’s master was the one who named the firm. The term was derived from an old saying that described the construction of mansions for the poor that were as solid as mountains, providing them with shelter and causing them to smile. When her master was still alive, it was his favorite sentence.
He was an especially idealistic man with a loyal and chivalrous heart. When he was drunk, he always complained about being born in the wrong generation.
According to him, he should have been born in earlier times. In those days, he could simply bring a bottle of wine and a sword with him to travel the world, aiding any injustice he came across.
Madeline’s master was a good man, but he was also an unlucky person like her.
He previously had a marriage, but it didn’t end up well as his wife couldn’t stand his companionable personality.
She abandoned their child and remarried a wealthy businessman.
Out of love for her, he drank excessively on the day of her second marriage and it exceeded his tolerance. The moment he woke up, his only son was gone.
In fact, he was a talented man who was skilled in both education and physical skills. Despite his young age, he was already holding an important position with the country’s martial art club, but he resigned for the sake of finding his only son.
And after resigning, the man went everywhere searching for his son.
After he spent all his savings, he sold off all his properties and started Mansion. He took cases while still looking for his son.
His firm took on almost every type of cases, mainly those more toward a private investigator.
This type of job required him to run around and be in contact with all sorts of people. With this, he could earn his living to financially support his search for his son while locating his son at the same time.
Alas, he still did not manage to locate his son after all his efforts.
On his deathbed, Madeline promised him that she would look for his son for him.
Yet, her master replied that it was a task too difficult for her. He wished for her to continue the firm, but as for his son, he would rather her let nature take its course.
Madeline now had ten employees under her. All of them were working outdoors now; seven of them were doing the cases of the firm while the other three were looking for her master’s son under her instructions.
She had no time and effort to spare as she needed to look after Quincy and Joel now. In the future when her situation improved, she would do it personally.
Her master didn’t want to burden her with it, but she felt sorry for him as well.
When he was still alive, he was always worried that his son would have his limbs amputated and thrown somewhere to beg for his life, or that he would be in rural areas where he couldn’t even obtain an education and was living solely for the purpose of bearing offspring for the family he was in.
She knew that her master couldn’t rest in peace.
Thus, Madeline had to locate his son for him. She would continue to do so as long as she lived and would never give up.
