er sunglasses and made a move to leave.

“Wait.” Meyett turned his head toward her and said as gently as ever, “Let’s go back to the President’s House together.
Your stepmother and sister are waiting for you.”

After a few seconds of silence, Lin Shuang smirked.
“Sure.”

The President’s House, which also symbolized Country D, was located in the heart of the capital and surrounded by thick and tall walls.
Sentries could be found both inside and outside the 18 towers of this opulent imperial residence.
It was also one of the world’s largest complexes along with the Lu residence and Country K’s Presidential House.

Meyett, along with Lin Shuang, entered the hall, where his current wife, Miraine, and daughter, Sasha, got up to welcome them upon seeing their return.

“Welcome home, Xixi.” Miraine treated Lin Shuang carefully as she had always felt somewhat uncomfortable around the latter.

Miraine didn’t say anything else either.
While she very thoughtfully went to help her husband take off his suit jacket, Sasha greeted Lin Shuang with a smile.
“Hey, Sis.”

Lin Shuang removed her sunglasses, her eyelids slightly lowered.
“My mother only has one child, and that’s me.”

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The smile on Sasha’s face stiffened.

“Oh, that’s not right.
I was supposed to have a younger brother.” Lin Shuang flashed a smile at the family of three.
“But my mother ended up giving birth to a stillborn at eight months of pregnancy because of the three of you.”

The temperature in the hall instantly dropped to freezing point, and Meyett, who had always controlled his emotions well, was now wearing a dark expression.

Lin Shuang’s smile grew wider as she looked at Miraine and then at Sasha.
“If you know that I don’t like to see you guys, then don’t show up in front of me.”

Miraine pursed her lips and lowered her head.
Both mother and daughter remained silent.

Lin Shuang turned to look at the butler.
“Is dinner ready?”

The butler, who was loyal to Lin Shuang, had worked in the President’s House all his life.
Even when Miraine moved into the President’s House and tried all ways to get rid of him, Meyett didn’t agree to it.
He bowed at her.
“Yes, milady.”

Lin Shuang nodded and headed straight for the dining room, where she sat down, picked up the cutlery, and began eating without any care.

Meyett, who was very indulgent toward Lin Shuang as he felt guilty toward her, put his arm around Miraine’s shoulders and squeezed it comfortingly.

Soon, the family of three joined Lin Shuang at the table.

The meal proceeded in silence for a while before the mood eased up a little.
It was then that Meyett said to Lin Shuang, “I’ve invited the Deiss family for a gathering between our two families on the sixth of next month.
Since you’ve agreed to the engagement, keep your temper in check a little and try to get along with their grandson.”

“Grandson?” Lin Shuang repeated in surprise.

Although she knew very little about the aristocratic families in Country D, having left the country to enter Shadow League after she fell out with her father, she wasn’t aware that she was engaged to that family’s grandson.

The Deiss family was considered the top family in Country D.
Even Meyett had only managed to rise to power with the monetary support of this family.
They were the backing that Lin Shuang’s mother had found him.

Lin Shuang wasn’t aware that she had a fiancé at first and had only found out about this around two years ago.
She had planned to ignore this matter, but the butler later told her that her half-sister had been visiting the Deiss family very frequently.
At the thought of this, she glanced at Sasha.

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Meyett continued, “I didn’t mention the engagement to you in the past because the Deiss didn’t have any grandchildren back then, and so the engagement promise naturally couldn’t be fulfilled.”

The two families didn’t have any grandchildren at the time, but due to their close relationship, they promised to have their grandchildren engaged to one another.

Aristocratic families usually paid a lot of attention to such promises.
Originally, Lin Shuang’s younger brother should have been the one to fulfill this promise, but he couldn’t in the end as he failed to survive the pregnancy.

There were times when Lin Shuang would wonder why her father would find the topic of the premature child a taboo, but after thinking about it, she figured that it was only natural for him to feel that way as he had missed such a good chance for both families to be connected by marriage.

Money was needed in order to gain power and the Deiss family was the most important aristocratic family in Country D.

Meyett took a sip of water.
“Two years ago, Madam André found her youngest daughter and it turns out that she has a son.”

Madam André was the matriarch of the Deiss family.

“She kept all the information about her youngest daughter hidden very well.
Not even your sister can find any information on her.”

Sasha is the current head of the technical division of the intelligence bureau, and yet she couldn’t find any information on them? Lin Shuang fell silent. Now I know why he couldn’t produce a single photo of my fiancé.
Not only have I not met said fiancé, nobody knows who he is and what he looks like.

Lin Shuang propped her chin on her hand and sneered.
“What a good father you are.
Trust you to force me into this marriage when you don’t even know what kind of person that man is.”

Meyett didn’t deny it.
“Madam André was very fond of your mother, so she surely won’t treat you too shabbily..
Besides, the young chap is no simpleton, considering how even your sister couldn’t find any information about him.”

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