Amory walks up the stairs and looks down. The stairs were dirty with water all over. From the outside, the whole mansion looked like it had never been inhabited, the grass growing up to half a person. He did not think that after his wife entered the high-class research area of the family working, he would be treated like that.
"What are you looking at, from now on you'll have to stay here with us until your wife comes back. She'll have four years in that damn place. And we'll torture you to death." He throws a punch toward Amory's left shoulder. Amory takes the full punch but he doesn't hit back, just pushes away the boy who punched him.
The middle-aged woman threw bread on the floor: "This is your food, you are not even as good as a dog." Frantically, she lunged in front of Amory, and then she tore open his shirt.
Amory sighs and then continues to push her away. From now he should accept this attitude. It's not that he doesn't want to protest but he remembers Eirlys, he doesn't want to cause more trouble for her. Marrying him caused her to be treated badly by her family, and he didn't want her to suffer. He recalls the moment they parted, Eirlys was heartbroken but there was nothing she could do about it, and neither was he.
"Hey, don't you feel you're a cheap thing? Why don't you know that you're just the son of a poor family?"
"Don't think you can go back to your old life. I heard you lived in a great castle and enjoyed life. It's all not yours, you're a greedy person."
"Do you still think you'll follow Eirlys into the Valois family's high-class research facility? The Valois family will kill you and let Eirlys marry someone else."
"Eirlys will leave you, stupid son-in-law. Look, she left you here."
"You're stupid. You're shameless, Eirlys did abandon you and you still dared to stay at the Valois mansion?"
Then they throw bread crumbs at Amory and laugh at him. Amory dodges the crumbs and he is stepping back. Suddenly a basin of water splashed on his head.
The children laugh and yell: "Stupid son-in-law!"
They are throwing at Amory the scraps of wood and trash they pick up from the floor.
"What are you doing standing there, grandpa said this is my house. While your wife is doing research you will have to stay here and be under our supervision. You won't have a servant or a housekeeper."
"You're exactly like me. Abandoned by the Valois family, you're nothing more than a dog."
"But I'm from the Valois family, and you're just a son-in-law. They'll let you die here and we won't."
Amory thinks soon everyone here will know who the Valois family will kill and the Genma family will pay with their lives for their stupidity. Amory didn't care what they said, he turned. Finally, walked up to his room. They are the people who were robbed by Eirlys as a corporate director. They didn't have the ability to cause trouble for her, so they did it to him on purpose.
There was a sound of heavy objects being knocked on outside the door.
Quickly he gets up and goes out to see. But it was too late, the door was blocked by something outside. Maybe they wanted to starve him to death.
"Hey, Amory I'll starve you like I starve a dog. I'll see who will protect you. You're just a son-in-law in this family, you don't deserve to live."
Amory sighed. Everything looks so bad, he doesn't know how he will go to live for the next four years with them. What is more dangerous if he stays here with them, he will be tortured to death by them. But the Valois family would not allow a son-in-law like him to disobey their orders. If he left they might make it difficult for his wife, and he didn't want that.
"I will try my best for you, my love."
He is opening his bag. And inside it was nothing. They didn't even allow him to bring clothes from his house. Are they afraid he'll steal them? Quickly, he walked over to the wardrobe and opened it, but there was nothing inside. This room is like his wardrobe, without any objects that can be used for daily living. Nevertheless, his wife had thought of this, she left a lot of money on his credit card. When it gets dark, he will climb out to go into town to buy things.
Ten hours passed.
It was very dark outside. This time was the beginning of winter, the weather was so severe. Accordingly, he needs to go out and he will have to get to town before all the supermarkets close.
Amory opens the window, and the cold wind blew into the room. Maybe he will buy a few more blankets or he will freeze to death before he dies from their torture. This is the fourth floor of the mansion, it's quite high to climb down. He went back to his bag and took out the rope and tied it securely to the balcony before climbing down. During this season the bad family doesn't open the door. It's time for them to sit and drink tea before dinner, and he has to leave quickly.
"It's too bad, they stay in the house drinking tea and I have to starve and endure the cold."
He gripped the rope tightly. Then he is slowly climbing down below. The rope rubbing against the skin of his hand made him feel pain. He climbed from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor, then slowly each floor until he reached the ground. By the time he had stood on the ground his hand was bleeding from being squeezed by the rope. Quickly, Amory gathered the ropes and put them in the backpack, then he climbed over the walls of the mansion and went outside.
The weather outside the mansion was extremely cold, and he was only wearing a thin shirt. In addition, the mansion was 30km from the town. He must have to walk six hours to get to the town. If he walks longer than six hours, he will freeze to death in the street.
He endured the cold and started walking. After walking for two hours, he discovered that there was nothing around the villa, it was covered with a giant pine forest. If winter comes, the villa will be isolated from the outside world, they will have no way to buy food but can only wait for someone from outside to bring it. That's not good at all, the Valois family most likely starves him and everyone in the mansion. He needs to stock up on food now.
Tiredly he said: "Everything is too bad, they can look down on me. But I love Eirlys for real, why do they always doubt it and want me dead? And why can't I protest against them? Just because I'm a poor son-in-law who was born into a bad family?"
He shouts: "I have always tried to please them, but one day I will protest and payback for all the suffering they have caused me."
After four hours of walking, he reached town. His legs were red with pain, and his whole body was shaking from being in the cold for so long. He quickly walked into a supermarket.
After entering the supermarket Amory said to the supermarket manager: "I need to buy baked beans, corned, kidney beans, and soup, 200 boxes each. Pasta 300 bags, pasta sauce 300 boxes. Olive oil 100l, stock cubes 300 boxes, dried pork 100kg, beef jerky 100kg."
"Sir, what do you need so much food for?"
"Get me 40 pairs of sneakers, 200 pairs of socks and 100 sets of winter clothes, 40 blankets, and 100 towels. I'll pay now."
The supermarket manager took Amory's card and went to pay, and when he was done he politely asked, "Sir, you look tired. Let me take you to the doctor."
"I need a house big enough to hold the things I just bought, do you have a good place?"
"You can leave it in my house, our family has an unused house."
"I'll pay you four years' rent."
The supermarket manager nodded, it's rare to meet a rich customer.
"Let's keep everything a secret today, anyone who asks is not allowed to tell. I also need a lot of winter equipment, I will give you 10,000 dollars to buy equipment, please buy it and put it in the house I rented."
"Sir, you look very tired. May I take you to my house and have dinner?"
Amory is also hungry, he nodded and followed the supermarket manager to his house. They went to Robert's house and he tell his wife about the new visitor, she quickly helped Amory with the wound on his leg and cooked him a large bowl of soup.
Amory ate a lot of soup for his dinner, then he felt better, but that was not enough for him to return to the mansion. If he is not at the mansion tomorrow morning he will be beaten by them.
Robert's wife said: "I see you are very rich, so why are you covered with hurt? Do you need us to help you call the police?"
Wearily, Amory said, "If you want to help me, you can bring food and dried meat near the Valois mansion, and bury it in the ground. I'm afraid in winter we'll be killed or starve."
Robert looked alarmed: "The Valois family is a rich and powerful family, many years ago they also starved a family living in the Inna mansion just because they didn't like that family. I heard it before. died of starvation in the winter people all the women in that family went crazy and jumped down from the fourth floor of the mansion. It's a scary place."
"Exactly, I and the family who was staying at the Inna mansion were the people the Valois family despised. A poor and stupid son-in-law, they want me to freeze to death before my wife returns."
"They are cruel. The winter in the town is extremely harsh. In winter this place constantly has blizzards. There are times when the power is out for a whole week. Consequently, you need to prepare a lot of firewood and coal to use for the winter season. Apart from that, we can bury the belongings you need in a safe place two hours' walk from the mansion. We're so familiar with the forest, they don't know where we hid your things."
Amory goes to bed and sleeps. He needed to get strong enough to keep putting up with those bad guys.
Early in the morning, Robert goes to Amory's room and wakes him up.
"Amory, get up. You need to go to the mansion."
"Did you get my things to where they needed to go?"
"Yes, I got them where they needed to go."
"Then let's go, I need to get back to the Inna mansion before morning."
Then Robert brought Amory near the Inna mansion, after which Amory got out of the car and walked back to the mansion.
When he goes inside the mansion, there is no sound, it is completely different from his memory. When he left, he remember there were 4 servants and two housekeepers in the mansion, where are they?
In the time he passes the kitchen, he hears the chef's voice:
"Put some sleeping pills in there, don't let them find out. Three days from the first snow, the villa will be isolated from the outside world. Finally, we can leave the horrible place. Other people think that they went crazy and died."
"Notwithstanding Valois wants them dead, but if Lady Eirlys finds out about this, she won't forgive us."
"Although this may be true she will have to marry someone else. Do you think the Valois family will accept that idiot as a son-in-law? He's a poor and stupid son-in-law, he should die so everyone can have a better life."
Amory didn't care what they said, he went to his room and closed the door. What he needs to do now is continue to sleep so he can cope with the terrible family
Just when he was about to sleep, suddenly someone came up, it was Stephen. He is kicking hard at the door and said: "Go get firewood, what are you doing there? There will be a snowstorm, we need firewood to be able to cook."
"Doesn't the castle have a firewood warehouse? It's big enough to hold firewood for the whole winter."
"Of course, but the firewood warehouse is an hour's walk from here, and we can't be without servants, you better do it before I hit you."
If the firewood storage is an hour's walk from the mansion then they most likely won't have any firewood to use in the event of a blizzard. Amory thinks that if the power is off so the heating system in the mansion will stop working, there will not be enough gas for them. Exactly, under the mansion, they don't have any gas storage.
"Why don't you go get firewood? Want me to hit you?"
Quickly, Amory stands up and goes out of the mansion. Then he goes to the forest. Carefully, he calculates from the firewood warehouse to the place where he stores the food it takes about an hour to walk, not too far, but if it's snowy, it's extremely difficult to walk, then the firewood warehouse will be a better choice than in the mansion. For this reason, he should move to the firewood warehouse to avoid hunger and cold.
After arriving at the firewood warehouse he was surprised, this place is more like a villa than a firewood warehouse. It is built of bricks and is extremely sturdy. He can stay here to avoid the blizzard.
Amory is walking around the firewood warehouse. And he saw that there were still many things in the warehouse, enough for daily use, he just needed to bring more food. Satisfied, he said: "Soon they will definitely chase me to come here, I don't need to argue with them. It's much better here than over there."
He walks over to the woodpile and he picking it up. Suddenly a voice comes from behind him:
"Look at him, he even marvels at the firewood storage. I see him as a lowly stupid thing."
"I feel like my mom should send that idiot over here. This dusty and ugly place suits him perfectly. Just let him freeze to death in the winter." He looks at the ground and picks up a rock. Then throwing it at Amory. Finally, he laughs merrily.
"Hey idiot, you bring too little firewood. We still have to heat water to bathe. Bring a lot of firewood, why are you so weak, haven't you had breakfast?"
Amory is extremely frustrated with the attitude of these kids. But he will not hit them. He is trying to dodge the rocks thrown at him.
"Don't you know, my mom doesn't allow anyone to bring him food. To put it another way, he deserves to starve."
Amory doesn't care about it. Amory takes the firewood and walks toward the Inna mansion. In his head, he thinks in a few days the blizzard will come, and these idiots will pay the price.
30 minutes later, he went to the mansion. The children had returned to the mansion after a long time, they were too angry because he refused to stand still and let them throw stones at him.
Amory brought the firewood back to the mansion. Amory put them down in the courtyard of the mansion, the mother of the mean children said:
"This firewood is only enough for me to bathe, and there are four of my children. Hurry up and bring me more firewood."
Her four children immediately join in: "Mom, he hit me. He's an asshole."
"He pushed me down. Mom, you will send him to the firewood storage."
"I don't want to see that fool, starve him to death."
"Starve him, mom, don't waste food on him. He's just an idiot."
Gemma took a basin of dirty water and threw it at Amory then said, "You're an idiot, you should get out of here before I kill you."
"So do you need me to bring firewood here?"
"Go away you idiot, I don't want to see you."
Amory goes out, he does not want to see these people. Suddenly the sky turned black. Gemma's children laugh: "We'll see how you'll live there, you'll freeze to death and starve to death."
"You're going to die, you don't deserve it. Despicable son-in-law."
"Without my cousin, you're nothing more than a dog of the Valois family. It must be remembered."
Amory walked towards the firewood storehouse, by the time he got there it was already dark. He went inside the wood store, lit a fire in the fireplace, and took off his shirt. From now on he can sleep peacefully until tomorrow morning.