Chapter 0002 - The Three Brain-Affected Subordinates

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"Darn!!! What did I just watch?"

In a dormitory, a 25-year-old man, dressed only in his underwear, who had been seated at his desk with his laptop suddenly jumped to his feet and exclaimed.

"Ugh!!! Second sibling, could you please let me sleep? I have an early class tomorrow morning which I must attend!" Another person cried out with frustration and helplessness.

"Eldest... eldest brother, come… come and see this. I... I believe we need to inform the third brother immediately?"

"What?" The eldest brother, a man who appeared to be one year older than the second brother grumbled unhappily before he sat up from the bed and looked irritably at the nervous second sibling bro.

"Why should I contact the third brother, who decided to become our enemy merely because of that cheater?" He sneered, appearing offended, but the second brother disregarded his feelings.

"You must come and see this." He hurried toward the bed and pulled the eldest brother out of it, against his will and toward his study desk.

"You little brat, can you please stop disturbing this... huh!"

The eyes of the eldest brothers suddenly widened significantly after constricting.

"This... was... wasn't that the third brother's girlfriend being proposed to?"

All the traces of irritation, laziness, and drowsiness in the eldest sibling vanished in an instant.

He promptly sat down and started to watch all the uploaded videos, and the more he watched, together with the second brother who had only previously seen one, the paler their faces became, before eventually, they witnessed the scene of Ares being punched in the face.

"How dare that bastard hit the third brother after taking his girlfriend!!"

The two siblings exclaimed and then appeared as though they were ready to take action.

However, their anger only lasted momentarily, and they started trying to contact Ares with concern.

Despite not having communicated for months, they still possessed his mobile number.

They dialed repeatedly, but unfortunately, his number failed to connect, intensifying their anxiety.

Their worry increased several times over, and they couldn't relax again, instead, they started pondering how their third brother might handle this shocking news that his life and soul had betrayed him and was planning to marry another man.

Besides these two, many other people in their dormitory were also viewing the various videos at that moment, but apart from the two siblings, no one else sympathized with Ares or felt sorry for him.

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'Oh lord, please let everything I just witnessed be nothing but a nightmare!' 

'Let me wake up right now and realize that I was merely sleeping and everything I just witnessed did not happen .' 

Leaving the apartment while still having no idea that he had already become very popular amongst his fellow students, Ares became completely lost in his thoughts. 

Like a snail, he ambled very slowly, everything still feeling like a dream to him. 

Ares and Sarah had been together for more than five years already, and she was the only one he had in this world or so had always thought.

Ares knew nothing about his origin other than his name, and he does not have even a single memory of his parents. 

He just knew that he was brought up in an orphanage home and then he was chased away to go fend for himself the day he clocked eighteen. 

Even before he was chased away, his life had been nothing but a nightmare in the orphanage home and he was always constantly alienated and bullied by everybody. 

He has no friends and even the elderly ones there hate him to the core. 

He had always been working at a very young age, to put food on his table. 

Ares had met the gentle and beautiful Sarah before he left the orphanage home, and her innocence and beautiful soul had captured his heart and soul. 

Despite Sarah having her own parents, Ares's overwhelming affection for her, fueled even more by the belief that she was the only one who stayed by his side, led him to take on the responsibility of financing not just her needs, but also her college and housing as well. He worked tirelessly in various laborious and low-paying jobs, resulting in a one-year gap between their educations, before eventually earning a scholarship for himself to attend college, even though he could have afforded it without the strain of multiple jobs.

Before he was admitted on scholarship, where he was offered a dormitory room, Ares had been homeless, despite renting an apartment in the mid-echelon territory for Sarah. 

Ares had always placed her needs and wants before himself. His love for her was so massive that he had turned his roommates into his enemies countless times because they were trying to warn him about the type of person Sarah was, that she was only using and duping him. 

Although he has no clothes, Ares would work so hard and use all his savings to buy things for Sarah, not wanting her to have the feeling that she doesn't have a wealthy boyfriend. 

Today was an example. Because Sarah would not stop mentioning her need for a new iPhone in recent weeks, as she no longer liked the one he had previously bought for her which was still new as new and perfectly functional, Ares had worked nonstop, taking more shifts than he could handle and working from place to place just so he could surprise her with a brand-new iPhone 14 pro max, even collecting a loan to add to the money. 

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Ares shivered hard, knowing from the back of his mind that everything was real. 

He suddenly had no idea about what to do or where to begin. 

All his life had always revolved around Sarah, around making her happy and spending on her. 

Once again, Ares trembled all over and then hissed, feeling the cold wind that blew against his body and his punched lips. 

His eyes returned to the present and he realized that he was already outside the massive apartment complex. 

"Guys, is that not the boy we've been waiting for?" 

Someone abruptly inquired, and instantly, Ares subconsciously gazed in the direction the voice had come. 

He saw three muscularly built men pointing in his direction. 

As he wasn't in the mood, Ares, certain that they weren't pointing at him returned to brooding while dragging his legs away. 

'Perhaps, she only accepted his proposal because of tonight's tension. She should have already returned to her senses by tomorrow morning.' 

Ares suddenly thought, and with this, his heart began to pound with excitement. 

'I should go and sleep. Before I know it, I'm certain that it would have already become morning and I would be able to come back here.' 

Thinking this, Ares was about to quicken his pace, when without any warning, he found himself knocking into something hard. 

As he wasn't paying any attention, hadn't eaten anything in days as he was busily saving every single penny he earns, and was already weak, Ares was directly knocked back to his butt. 

"This…" 

His eyes shot to the front, then he saw a guy looking at him with interest. 

"So, a weak boy like this actually dares to call the young master a bastard… hmm. Interesting " 

Ares saw the guy pulling an invisible beard from his jaw as he watched him contemplatively. 

"Given his appearance, I don't even know if he would immediately pass out if we were to lay a hand on him." 

Ares hurriedly glanced at his side, and he saw another muscular guy gazing at him with nothing but interest, while deeply scrutinizing him as well. 

"But the new young master's whore's order was to cripple and turn him into a waste for calling the young master such a name." 

Ares once again glanced at his back, where the third voice came from, and again, he saw a muscular guy gazing at him with interest. 

Ares became greatly nervous and his heart began to bang against his chest. 

He was scared to death and he couldn't help but shiver. 

"Let's just break one or a few of his ribs. The boy looks several times more pitiful than all the previous guys, whose girlfriends the young master had taken." 

One of the guards spoke, the three of them acting as though Ares wasn't just right there in their midst and listening to them discussing his fate. 

"He does look so pitiful. Especially given how he had already suffered a punch to his face, probably from the young master, unlike the previous guys who would leave unharmed, as they were ready to leave their woman once they realized how powerful the young master was." 

The three soon concluded his fate. 

Ares couldn't breathe again. His eyes were budging, listening to all the things being discussed by the three guards. 

He had already learned that Sarah was the one who sent these people to beat him up, and for this reason, the greatest level of hatred he had never felt for anybody before in his life oozed out of him for her, and he finally did not pity her, now learning more about the guy, for whom he had betrayed him. 

This was what Ares was busy thinking when suddenly, the guard at his front focused his gaze on him. 

"Brother, I apologize for what I'm about to do. Please don't hate me, as I'm merely a servant, paid to carry out missions." 

"This…" 

Ares's mouth opened. But before he could understand what the guy was talking about; (Boom!!!) 

It felt as though ten tons of metal was thrown against his chest. 

Ares directly shoots out a jet of blood from his mouth and his eyes rapidly redden, with all the veins in his body budging out. 

"Argh!!!" 

He roared like a beast, whose skin was hurriedly pulled away from its body. 

"Are you sure you will not turn him into a disabled person, with that punch of yours to his chest?" 

One of the other two guards looked at Ares who was roaring with agony as he trashed on the ground with concern. 

"Your attack was too powerful. Can't you learn to control it?" 

The other guard chastised as well, also pitying Ares. 

As for the guard at the front, who had punched Ares, he looked at the hand with which he had punched him with regret and then he sighed pitifully before gazing back at Ares. 

"I honestly did not mean to inflict you with this much pain," he bent his head to him apologetically. "Please forgive me." He said from the bottom of his mind and then sighed. 

"I wish that you will survive this and not turn into a cripple as a result." 

With this said, the guard glanced at his two colleagues, who were still gazing pitifully at Ares. "Let's go." 

"Hmmm." 

They nodded their heads, still looking at Ares with concern, and then they walked away, leaving Ares screaming wildly there, with all the passersby passing calmly, acting as though they couldn't hear him and feel his agony. 

They only gave him a passing glance before ignoring him and going their way even though a sight like this wasn't common.