Ethan shut his eyes in the car, taking a break. Cyril noticed that the air in the vehicle was so silent that it creeped him out.

Thus, he took the initiative to ask, "Mr. Miller, did the negotiation go bust?"

"It's not that. The negotiation was impossible in the first place. She's ill." Ethan covered his forehead. "It's been so many years, yet she hasn't changed at all. She's even become worse than before. I shouldn't have softened up and saved her back then."

Ten years ago, he saw the suffering Kayla by coincidence when he was passing by a village in the mountains.

Her family favored sons over daughters.

Her brother went to a high school in another area, and her family wanted her to quit school to marry her off to an old man in the village.

They were planning to sell the wedding gift so that they would have the money to send her brother to school.

Kayla fought for herself through reasonings only to be beaten up by her parents.

Ethan never showed kindness to random people. It