"You..." the butler took a deep breath, filled with anger yet helpless, "people who are so ungrateful like you will not end well!"
Turning around, he walked heavily and quickly down the stairs.
As the sound of his steps faded, Moses stood up and paced to the window. He watched through the blinds as the butler carried a small suitcase out of the house, got into a car, and drove away from the manor until he was out of sight. Moses continued to stand by the window for a long time, unable to snap out of his daze.
Even now, he remembered the first day he returned to the castle with the father who had adopted him. The butler had made him a bowl of thick corn soup, which he drank without using a spoon, lifting the bowl and gulping down the soup until it was empty.
The butler didn’t say anything, just served him a second bowl of soup and placed it in front of him.
Latter on, it was the butler who taught him dining etiquette, how to savor the taste of caviar at its finest, how to silently sip soup with a spoon, and how to use the cutlery on the table in the proper order...
All of these, he remembered clearly!
Two majestic horses, one black and one white, raced side by side across the grass. On their backs, Will and Jessica each held the reins in one hand and a mallet in the other, leaning forward to maintain the best riding posture as they continuously urged their horses on.
The ball was just in front of them, and neither of the two players dared to give way, swinging their mallets at the same time.
As the mallets struck each other, the ball flew off into the air, tracing an arc as it flew past the mallets.
Jessica pulled her horse to a stop, "4:3, I won!"
Will did the same and turned to object, "The ball was hit by me, your mallet just struck mine!"
"Nonsense!" Jessica retorted angrily, "It was clearly me who hit the ball. It was you who hit my mallet!"
"Being unreasonable!"
"Stubborn and argumentative!"
Huangfu Jue frowned, Gan Yuan rubbed her forehead, and Gan Tang sat on her horse, raising her little hand to her chin and sighing.
"Uncle Will, Jessica, you two are so boring!"
The two looked at each other, unwilling to concede.
At the edge of the field, Helen put away her phone and walked over to Gan Yuan’s side.
"Miss, there’s a gentleman at the hotel who wants to see you! He said he’s your butler."
Gan Yuan’s brows knitted in confusion, and after a moment’s thought, she stood up.
"Xiaotang, we need to go back."
"What’s the matter?" Huangfu Jue rode back, asking with confusion.
They had agreed to play for two hours before returning, and the time wasn’t up yet. She was suddenly leaving, and he was only worried that something might have happened.
"The butler is looking for me." Seeing his puzzled look, Gan Yuan hurriedly explained, "It’s Moses’s butler, the one who looked after us both as we grew up."
Huangfu Jue nodded in understanding and immediately gestured to his subordinates.
Will and Jessica, still without a clear victory, dismounted from their horses, each with a sense of dissatisfaction.
Everyone changed back into their clothes and returned to the hotel. Upon reaching their floor, they saw the butler seated on a couch in the small lounge area, with a not so large suitcase beside him.
"Butler?" Jessica exclaimed in shock, "What brings you here?"
"I..." the butler glanced at everyone with a bit of embarrassment, "Moses... he threw me out."
"How can this be?" Gan Yuan’s face showed utter disbelief.
When she arrived at the castle, the butler had already been serving her father for many years, longer even than Moses. Although he was just a butler, he was a very important figure in the eyes of everyone.
Moses... how could he throw out the butler?
Good morning, Little Princesses~!~