"You want me to apologize to you? What makes you think that you're worthy of it?" Henry sneered.
"You're not allowed to leave if you don't apologize to me today!" Micheal growled as he used his body to block the doorway, his gaze menacing.
He had practiced martial arts for a few years, so he thought it would be a breeze to put an average man like him in his place.
"Is that so? Then, I'd like to see if you can actually block my path. Henry snorted coldly before pushing past Micheal and walking out of the door.
"Thinking of leaving? I'd like to see you try!" Micheal shouted in rage as he grabbed Henry's shoulder with one hand and shoved him hard. He thought that he could teach him a lesson by doing that.
"You dare lay a finger on me?" Henry said coldly as he turned around.
He then proceeded to give Mall a heavy slap on his face, the sheer force of which sent Mali llying into the air.
Two teeth could even be seen flying out of his mouth.
"Y–you actually dare to hit someone at this moment, Henry?" Mrs Millers gasped in horror. She didn't think Henry would be so bold as to assault someone In public.
"An animal! He's an animal!"
"Micheal saved your life with good intentions, and yet you still did this to him! You're worse than a dog!"
Everyone started cursing at Henry angrily.
Everything would've been fine if he hadn't laid a finger on Micheal, but now that he had, everyone no longer held back their verbal assaults.
"Are you out of your mind. Henry? Why are you beating people up now?" Emily scowled. She quickly went to help Micheal up from the floor.
To think that he'd turned his embarrassment into anger and had even
resorted to beating people up in public.
This was unheard of!
"Can't you see that he was the one who threw hands first? Henry retorted with a grimace.
"He merely grazed you, so why did you have to return the favor so harshly?" Emily probed with an icy glare.
"So, are you telling me that it's fine if he does it? But when I do it back, I'm committing the greatest sin in all of humanity?" Henry snickered.
"You're clearly just trying to force a point here! I hereby order you to apologize to Micheal right now!" Emily glared.
"What if I don't want to?" Henry frownes slightly.
"Then, I'll make you!" Emily shouted. With that, she slapped him in the face in a fit of rage.
"Slap!" A crisp noise sounded as Emily's hand landed heavily on Henry's face.
Due to the excessive force she applied behind the slap, the wounds on her hand that had just healed got torn open again, causing a stream of fresh blood to flow down her fingers.
Henry touched the side of his face that burned from the slap and merely stood right where he was with a neutral expression on his face.
He could take all the misunderstandings and contempt from other people, but he refused to accept the fact that his wife had just slapped him on behalf of another man.
"Why? Why do you insist on being this way?" Emily said through gritted teeth as her eyes filled with tears and immense disappointment overtook her.
She couldn't understand for the life of her why Henry had become the person he was today. He was close- minded, full of jealousy, and a gossipmonger; he was even repaying kindness with evil now.
All kinds of bad attributes were concentrated in the body of this man. She wanted this slap to serve as a wake up call to him!
"Hmph. Do you want to fight me, kid? Aren't you a little too young for that?" Micheal couldn't help but sneer at him as he witnessed the two of them turn against each other.
Although he had just lost two teeth, he couldn't help but feel somewhat triumphant on the inside when he saw Emily slap Henry to stand up for him.
"That was a good slap! He deserves to be slapped!" Mrs Millers cheered as her eyes lit up.
"That's right! If you don't teach him a lesson, are you still considered human at that point?" Solomon parroted out loud.
"Ha—" Henry suddenly let out a tired sigh after a long time of silence.
After getting married for three years, the two had barely quarreled, let alone thrown hands at one another. Thus, this would be the first and last time this happened!
"That slap just now was for everything I've ever done to you in the past. From now on, you and I don't owe each other anything anymore," Henry said quietly. Henry took a deep breath before calmly turning around to leave.
There was no anger, no complaints–just an unexpected feeling of quiet indifference.
"Huh?" Emily gasped in shock as she stared at his defeated back. She'd been rendered speechless for a while.
"Knock, knock." Just then, they all heard a knock on the door.
It turned out that Mr. Jimmy, who had taken his leave earlier, had returned.
"Huh? Where did Mr. Brown go?" He asked as he scanned the room.
"Why are you looking for that punk, Mr. Jimmy?" Mrs Millers asked in surprise.
"Oh, Sir Robert told me that he hopes to dispel all the bad blood the Layren family has with Mr. Brown, so he specially requested me to send him a gilt," He replied.
"A gift?" Everyone looked at one another in confusion.
"You have got to be kidding us, right, Mr. Jimmy? How is that punk worthy of receiving a gift from Mr. Layren himself?" Mrs Millers asked in disbelief.
"What do you mean "how is he worthy'? Don't you know that he was the reason why the Layrens decided to lift the ban against the Millers? And that he was also the one behind the apology? Mr. Jimmy replied, dumbfounded by their reactions.
"What?" A collective gasp could be heard in the room the moment he finished his sentence. The crowd was dumbfounded and filled with disbelief.
They didn't hear him wrong, right?