After escorting Carl and his companions back to Melissa's residence, Lucius left. However, before leaving, he left some of his subordinates behind to guard the residence, then reminded Carl to give him the list of items he wanted.
Carl saw Lucius and his subordinates out, comforted Brian for a while, then walked out to the living room. He heard Dorothy complaining to Irina, "I'm very sure that everything that happened today was arranged by that Jason. In fact, Duchess Amelia might have been the person actually behind all of this."
"Why would she do that?" Irina did not understand.
"Why else would she do that?" Dorothy scoffed and said in a sarcastic manner, "There are so many songs about how large and powerful families fight tooth and nail over the family assets."
"Oh…" Irina seemed to
