Married at First Sight Chapter 5148

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Married at First Sight


Chapter 5148


Timothy Labbe said, “Dad, we suspect Titus is that brat, but we haven’t seen him in person, and we can’t find out his background, so we can’t accuse him.”


“We need to see him in person and find out his background to be sure. If it’s not him, taking action rashly will only create a powerful enemy for our Long family.”


Mr. Long was silent for a moment before saying, “We haven’t been able to find out his true background in the territory our family has operated in for a hundred years. This person must be someone important.”


“Logically speaking, even the Jun family and the York family combined don’t have that much power.”


“Could it be that Ye Titus isn’t that brat?”


Mr. Long hoped that Ye Titus wasn’t the same kid from back then; otherwise, everything his family had built over three generations would be taken away by someone else, becoming someone else’s prize.


Even though they had worked hard to build their own company over the past thirty years, they still had to do business with the Long Group.


They couldn’t hollow out the Long Group because there were still many core veterans within it, people who had inherited their positions generation after generation. They were the true elites of the Long family, but only the true head of the family could mobilize them.


With them watching the Long Group, they couldn’t possibly drain the Long family’s coffers or transfer their assets. As acting patriarchs, their every move was being closely monitored.


Half of the clan members were those who followed Mr. Long in wiping out the direct line thirty years ago, while the other half did nothing but sit and watch.


Their attempt to seize the patriarch’s position failed, and their patience was wearing thin. They worried that the real patriarch would return to take over and settle scores with their enemies.


They constantly urged Mr. Long’s family to find that child quickly and eliminate him completely.


Thirty years had passed without success. Now, the child was over thirty; if he had matured, how easy would it be to eliminate him completely?


The Jun and York families were not to be trifled with.


If they harmed the Jun family, the York family wouldn’t stand idly by. Moreover, those two families had close ties with many powerful clans; one wrong move could have far-reaching consequences. They couldn’t afford to be enemies with so many powerful families.


In H City, the Long family is a local tyrant, but outside of that city, they have to be more restrained. Even in their provincial capital, let alone on someone else’s turf, they can’t be arrogant in front of the Ormond family.


“Ruoyu.”Mr. Long looked at his eldest granddaughter, who was young, beautiful, and quite capable.


She was a very useful pawn.


“Grandpa,”


Timothy Labbe responded.


“Go apply for a job at Longteng Group and see if you can get a job there.”


“Grandpa, I tried, but I didn’t pass the interview.”


Knowing that her family had always wanted to find out who was in charge of Longteng Group, Timothy Labbe applied for a job at Longteng Group right after graduation, but she didn’t pass the interview.


She didn’t know if the other party knew her true identity, or if she wasn’t capable enough.


“Then go and keep watch at the entrance of Longteng Group. As soon as you see Ye Titus’s car come out, stop his car.”


Timothy Labbe said, “Dad, this method won’t work. Ye Titus is always accompanied by bodyguards. His bodyguard team is all cold and aloof, but they are extremely skilled. Even our family’s best fighter is no match for his bodyguards.”


He didn’t know where Ye Titus found such skilled bodyguards.


“Ye Titus’s martial arts skills are unfathomable, and he also uses hidden weapons. These weapons are always poisoned, not to kill, but to cause rashes all over your body from the intense itching.”


“This man is also incredibly healthy; he’s never been to the hospital. Trying to get close to him in daily life is like climbing to heaven.”


The more powerful Ye Titus was, the more afraid they became—afraid that Ye Titus was actually Titus,


returning to seek revenge.Timothy Labbe said, “Dad, isn’t there a business reception next Saturday? Ye Titus should be attending. Dad, take me with you. I’ll try to get close to him and get rid of his black mask.”


Timothy Labbe nodded, “Okay, whether you can get close to him or not, act like you admire him, pursue him, and pester him whenever you get the chance.”


“He’s young and unmarried, it’s normal for him to have admirers.”


Timothy Labbe nodded.


She had long been interested in Ye Titus and really wanted to know what his face looked like under the black mask.


Meanwhile, at the Ormond family home in City A.


Talum York and his wife were waiting at the villa entrance. When they saw their son’s familiar car appear in their sight, their faces were full of smiles.


The car approached, and York Chi stopped. He had just unlocked the car, and before he could even get out, his parents had already walked over with smiles and opened the car door.


Not his car door, but the back door.


Then he heard his mother’s gentle voice, one he’d never heard before, say, “Belle, are you tired after such a long flight?”


“Your sixth uncle has already prepared your favorite dishes. Come on, let’s go inside.”


Elora smiled and took Belle’s hand.


“Sixth Uncle, Sixth Aunt,”


Belle greeted with a smile, affectionately linking her arm with Elora’s.


Talum York grinned from ear to ear, following behind his wife and niece, saying as they walked, “Belle, your sixth aunt was so happy to know you were coming. She personally cleaned your room.”


“It’s the same room you stayed in when you came here for vacation before. Nothing in the room has been changed; it’s all the stuff you used to have.”


“Your sixth aunt even changed the curtains and got a bigger bed, saying the old bed was a bit small, since you were still small back then.” “I told Uncle Liu to cook early again, saying you must be hungry after flying all that way.”


“You have to go to work today, so your Aunt Liu isn’t going back to the company. I’m having your Uncle Jun take care of you and he’ll stay home to wait for you. He was going to pick you up from the airport, but your brother said he’d pick you up instead, and told us to just wait at home.”


“Are you tired? How long are you staying this time? Summers in Wiltspoon are very hot, so why don’t you stay here with Uncle Liu for a summer vacation?”


“I’ll have a good time for a few months, then I can look for a job later. Our family isn’t short of money.”


Belle just graduated from university this year and is on summer vacation. She misses her uncle and aunt, so she told her parents and family that she wanted to stay with Uncle Liu for a few days. Her family naturally didn’t object.


Even though she’s the apple of everyone’s eye, once she grows up, whatever she wants to do, her family will support her and won’t worry about her safety. She started learning martial arts at the age of four, and both her parents are very skilled.


Her brothers are also good at both academics and martial arts. She says she can’t let her parents and brothers down, so she’s been learning martial arts very seriously.


Then, just like her mother, she learned martial arts, and even the old bodyguard, Ah Qi, said that the young lady’s kung fu was better than his.


Elora asked, “Belle, aren’t you planning to pursue further studies? You’re already looking for a job?”


“I want to continue my studies, but I want to play for a while and then go back to work. I’ll go back to school when it starts.”


“Why take a holiday job? It’s only a short holiday. Have fun and don’t go to work. We’ll talk about it when you’re actually in the workforce.”


Talum York objected to his niece taking a holiday job.


“Your great-grandmother is watching from heaven. If she knew how hard you’re working, she’d be heartbroken.”


The old lady of the York family lived to be 101 years old and passed away peacefully nine years ago.


Her long life and lack of illness were considered a happy death, but for the York family, her passing was like the sky falling. The whole family grieved for a long time before recovering.Belle said, “My great-grandmother would be happy to know my decision. She’d praise me for growing up, becoming sensible, and having a plan for everything I do.”


“Before coming here, I visited my great-grandmother


‘s cemetery and talked to her a lot.” Belle had a very deep bond with her great-grandmother. Before starting kindergarten, she spent every day with her great-grandmother; she was the


apple of her great-grandmother’s eye. Her great-grandmother said she had been eagerly awaiting her arrival, and of all her great-grandchildren, she loved her the most.


When her great-grandmother passed away, Belle was thirteen, just starting junior high school. It was nine years ago, in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. The weather in Wiltspoon was a bit cold; it was a Saturday, she remembered it clearly.


When she came home from school, her great-grandmother was very happy. She saw that her great-grandmother seemed perfectly fine, eating and sleeping well.


That night, Belle insisted on sleeping


with her great-grandmother. Lying on her great-grandmother’s bed, she talked with her for a long time, telling her all the funny things that happened at school. Her great-grandmother was very supportive, laughing non-stop at every funny story.


Great-grandmother also told her to make more friends and not to study too hard, that her grades were already very good, and that she should take care of her health and think about Great-grandmother.


She hugged Great-grandmother’s arm and acted coquettishly, saying that she thought about Great-grandmother every day and asked if Great-grandmother thought about her at home.


I remember my great-grandmother saying kindly, “Belle is my eyes, my darling. I think about Belle every single day, every single moment. I have so many great-grandchildren, but Belle is the one I love the most.”


“I love Great-Grandma the most too! Great-Grandma, you must live another ten or twenty years to watch me grow up and get married!”


the old lady laughed. “Grandma also wants to live another ten or twenty years to watch my Belle grow up, get married, and have children, but that’s such a long way off. You’re only thirteen, just starting junior high.”


“Grandma is over a hundred years old. I’m content and satisfied with living this long. When I close my eyes one day, I’ll have no regrets.”


She’s seen all nine of her grandchildren get married and have children. Now, her ninth grandchild’s first child is six years old, and her other grandchildren have also had second children. She has over a dozen great-grandchildren.


The old lady is truly content. She’s over a hundred years old and hasn’t suffered any illness. Her children and grandchildren are filial, and her eldest great-grandchild is already an adult.


How many people have such good fortune?


The old lady seems to have a very detached attitude towards life and death at her age. “I still hope Great-Grandma will live forever,”


the old lady chuckled. “If Great-Grandma lived forever, wouldn’t she become an old monster? Belle, birth, aging, sickness, and death are the natural order of things. If Great-Grandma passes away one day, don’t be sad. Great-Grandma will go to find your Great-Grandpa.”


“We will be watching over you from heaven.”


“Great-Grandma, I don’t like hearing these things. I just want Great-Grandma to stay with us forever. Great-Grandma is the best Great-Grandma in the world.”


The old lady gently stroked her beloved great-granddaughter’s hair. “Belle, your hair is too long. Let’s cut it a little shorter. Growing this long hair requires a lot of your nutrients.”


“Okay, I’ll tell Mom tomorrow to ask the hairdresser to come and cut my hair and give me a new hairstyle.”


The old lady hummed in agreement and then said, “Belle, go to sleep. Great-Grandma will watch you sleep, just like when you were little. Great-Grandma will stay by your side and watch you fall asleep. When you sleep, you look like a lovely angel. Great-Grandma loves watching your sleeping face.”


Belle snuggled closer to her great-grandmother and obediently hummed in agreement.


She closed her eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.


With her great-grandmother by her side, she felt incredibly safe.


But then, in the middle of the night, she dreamt of her great-grandmother. Her greatgrandmother said she was leaving to go find her great-grandfather, telling her not to be sad, that her great-grandmother would always love her.


In the dream, she inexplicably burst into tears, crying out, “Great-grandmother, don’t go!”


Then, she woke up with a start, her face covered in tears.


The dream frightened her; she quickly touched the side beside her and found her greatgrandmother. She breathed a sigh of relief, telling herself it was just a dream. Her greatgrandmother was still with her, and hadn’t gone to find her great-grandfather yet. “Great-Grandma,”


Belle called out.


Great-Grandma was old, but she usually woke up quickly if Belle called twice.


Thinking Great-Grandma was sleeping soundly, Belle called twice more, but GreatGrandma didn’t respond or get up as usual.


Belle panicked, sat up abruptly, turned on the bedside lamp, and gently nudged GreatGrandma beside her, calling out, “Great-Grandma, Great-Grandma.”


Great-Grandma remained unresponsive.


Belle panicked; her hands trembled as she checked Great-Grandma’s nose—no breath.


Her face paled instantly. She frantically rolled off the bed and ran, scrambling out of GreatGrandma’s room, shouting in the living room, “Dad, Mom, come down quickly! I can’t wake Great-Grandma!”


Her cries were like a thunderclap, waking the Youyou Manor shrouded in night.


Her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were the first to come downstairs. They were just as panicked as she was, rushing into her great-grandmother’s room. Her father checked her breath, his face turned pale, his legs gave way, and he knelt before her bed.


She heard him say, “Grandma’s gone…”


Then, her uncles, aunts, and all her other uncles and aunts arrived.


Her eighth aunt, a doctor, arrived; her great-grandmother’s body was still warm, but after examining her, the doctor said that her great-grandmother was gone.


She no longer had a great-grandmother.


Her great-grandmother had passed away peacefully in her sleep, without any pain, her expression serene.


Belle cried uncontrollably, blaming herself for sleeping too soundly, for not even knowing her great-grandmother had left.


All the relatives and friends came to say goodbye to her great-grandmother. Although everyone comforted them, saying that their great-grandmother passed away at the age of 101, a very long life, free from illness and suffering, dying peacefully in her sleep—a happy death—and told them not to be too sad


, how could they not be heartbroken?


Belle saw her parents and aunts so grief-stricken; no one could accept that their greatgrandmother had suddenly left them. Although they knew she was very old and that she would eventually leave them,


they still couldn’t accept it.


They were used to seeing their great-grandmother’s kind smile every time they returned to the old house.


Belle saw her father’s vulnerable side for the first time. He leaned on her mother’s shoulder, tears welling in his eyes, his voice choked with sobs, saying, “Tongtong, I don’t have a grandma anymore…”


Her mother wept uncontrollably. Her father had lost his grandma. She had lost


her great- grandmother. Her father said that when he returned to the old house, he would never see his great-grandmother’s smiling face again, and when he faced difficulties, he would no longer be able to confide in her or receive her guidance. Their great-grandmother had left them just like that. Nine years passed in the blink of an eye. Uncle Jiu’s second child is already over five years old this year. This is her youngest cousin, and the only greatgrandchild that Great-Grandma never saw born. She misses Great-Grandma so much. Before coming to Uncle Liu’s place, Belle visited Great-Grandma’s cemetery, talked to her a lot, and told her that she was going to come to Uncle Liu’s place for a vacation. “Next time Uncle Liu goes back to Wiltspoon, he must visit your great-grandmother. Uncle Liu doesn’t go back often, and your great-grandmother must be upset with him,”


Belle said. “No, Great-grandmother wouldn’t blame any of us. She loves each and every one of us.”


Great-grandmother truly was the best great-grandmother in the world.


Why didn’t God let Great-grandmother live another ten or twenty years?


Belle knew she was being greedy.


Great-grandmother’s age was already something many people could only dream of.


Elora smiled and said, “That’s right, Grandma loved us the most. Belle, isn’t Little Nineteen asking to come with you?”


Elora changed the subject.


It had been nine years since the old lady left them, but whenever she was mentioned, their spirits would still drop.


Since Belle had come all this way, Elora didn’t want everyone to be down, so she turned the conversation to the ninth brother’s second child, the nineteenth child in the York family.


Little Nineteen was only five years old. As the youngest child, the whole family doted on him, but he had always liked to stick close to Belle, his only older sister.


Whenever Belle comes home, he always grabs his little pillow, drags his little blanket, and squeezes into Belle’s room, crying and fussing to sleep with his sister.


If Belle goes out and he finds out, he’ll also cry and throw a tantrum, rolling on the floor to follow her.


Without him, he can really make the whole family’s head spin with his crying, to the point that Rowan York wishes he could put the little guy back in his mother’s womb.


Every time he complains about the little guy’s constant crying, his wife will make snide remarks, saying that he’s the one who coaxed her into having a second child, that the first and second children are ten years apart, and that the ninth child got married at twenty-nine and became a father for the first time at thirty. His eldest son is the eleventh among his siblings and is fifteen years old this year. When his


eldest son was ten, the couple had their second child. He was almost forty when the second child was born, and his wife, two years younger, was thirty-eight.


During her second pregnancy, his wife suffered severe morning sickness, even until delivery; it was incredibly painful.


Because the pregnancy was different from when she was pregnant with their first child, the couple were overjoyed, thinking it would be a daughter.


However, it turned out to be another son. The ninth wife didn’t even want to look at her husband. She said it was because he dreamt that his grandmother brought him a baby girl, and that if they had a second child, they would definitely have a daughter.


The ninth wife also wanted a daughter, which was why she agreed to have a second child. After all that vomiting, she got a boy. How could she not be disappointed? She blamed her husband, saying his dream was inaccurate.


She suspected he had a mistaken dream, and that his grandmother had probably brought him a boy, which he hadn’t seen clearly and thought was a girl.


In Belle’s generation, the York family’s population flourished even more. She had eighteen brothers, bringing the total to nineteen. Of


Zachary’s brothers, only York Haoyu and Qiao Han didn’t have a second child because their first pregnancy resulted in twins; the couple feared another pair of twins and resolutely refused.


The others all had second children, and without exception, both were sons.


Marry Lord, a doctor, had even undergone some self-care before trying for a second child, hoping for a daughter. However, the York family’s genes for male offspring were too strong, and after failing to conceive a daughter, Marry Lord gave up hope.


York Xi, also known as Belle, remained the York family’s precious darling. As their only daughter, she was doted on by all her brothers. Even her


younger cousins would give way to her, as she was their only sister.


Hai Tong’s friends, Shen Xiaojun’s second child was also a boy, while Shang Xiaofei and Junran’s second child was a girl, which made Junran extremely proud.


Junran’s daughter is the second girl in the younger generation of the Jun family.