"Let's go in. I'll cook some more food for us!" Judith said with a smile.

Maurice then went to take a bath.

Severin's mind was filled with a myriad of thoughts when he entered his old room. It was clean though, and Severin felt a burst of warmth when he saw it.

Sure enough, the people who cared most about him were none other than his parents. It looked as though they came in to clean his room from time to time.

When Severin opened the closet, he discovered several of his old clothes. They had aged through the years but still remained spotless and clean.

Judith walked in some time later and smiled at Severin while explaining, "We clean your room once in a while when you're not here. Your clothes are probably a little small though, and they must be out of fashion by now. Old folks like us don't really understand the fashion trends of young people!" As she said that, she approached him and took out 200 dollars, which he stuffed into Severin's hand. "You should go shopping tomorrow and get some decent clothes!"

"I can't accept this money, Mom..." Severin stuffed the money back, and said to Judith in a solemn tone, "You don't need to be so worried about me. I have money, and I'm going to let you and Dad live in a big villa in the future. You've suffered your whole life because of me, while I've only suffered for a few years. I can't possibly spend your money like that!"

"Do you really have money on you?" Judith looked at Severin and was still a little skeptical. she believed that the generous person he met in prison would have given him a sum of money, probably in excess of tens of thousands. After all, if Severin had not paid the remaining debt of twenty-six thousand to the six men earlier, there would have been no explanation as to why they would just leave. Both Judith and Maurice had known their characters after almost five years of having to deal with them!

"Of course. Why would I lie to you?" Severin smiled and assured. "Dad's done in the shower, so it's about time I take one too. Let's have a nice meal after that!"

After taking his shower and changing into his old clothes, he sat with his family on the small table and began to eat.

"It's been a while since you had a drink, right, Dad?" Severin could not help but ask as soon as Maurice took a sip of the wine.

The question stunned Maurice for a moment. He put on a fake smile and said, "N-not at all! You know how fond I am of these drinks. Doing all that physical work is really tiring, so drinking a few sips would help me to sleep better, won't it?"

"Yes! He drinks all the time!" Judith was afraid that Severin would be worried about them, so she added, "We eat meat almost every day too, don't we?"

"Yep! It's pretty much a daily thing here!" Maurice smiled awkwardly.

Severin's heart ached when he saw his parents' poor acting skills. Had he not returned that day, he was almost certain that there would neither be any wine nor any stewed meat on the table. At most, there would be shredded potatoes and a plate of yellowed cabbage leaves. The yellowish leaves were a sign that they were probably discarded parts that were picked up from the vegetable market.

"Why are you staring at us? Come on, eat some meat! Did you eat or sleep well when you were inside prison?" When Judith saw Severin's blank and quiet expression, she scooped two pieces of meat and put them on his plate.

"It was alright. Didn't I tell you that I had help from someone generous? I wouldn't have been able to come out so soon otherwise!" Severin immediately put a smile on his face, and scooped some meat for his parents too. "The two of you should be eating more. You're both so much thinner than before, and Mom's hair is all gray now!"

"Your mother's hair turned gray because she was worrying too much. I never believed that worrying could turn your hair gray, but your mother has proven me wrong!" Maurice laughed in spite of himself but felt extremely bitter in his heart.

"Don't worry, I've learnt a bit of medical knowledge, so I'll make her hair black again! But whether her hair is black or gray, she'll always be my beautiful mother!"

Severin clinked glasses with Maurice and took a sip of wine from his glass.

"You're quite the sweet talker now, I see!" Judith did not place too much of hope on Severin's statement, but at least she had a smile on her face now that her son had returned. As long as he came back safe and sound, the color of her hair did not matter at all!

"By the way, what's with that envelope, Mom?" Severin was very curious as to why the woman who was dressed in a food delivery person's uniform placed an envelope at the door of their house, and why Judith could obtain two hundred dollars from it.

After pondering over it, Severin could not help but ask, "Could a relative of our family be helping us?"

Upon hearing Severin's question, Maurice smiled bitterly and said, "Tch. Those relatives used to keep in touch with us every now and then, but they didn't interact that much with us since you were imprisoned!"

Judith also added, "That's right. After you went to prison and the matrimonial home was sold, everyone avoided us after knowing that we owe the Loughs a hundred and fifty thousand."

"They did? Even Aunt Marie and Aunt Edwina, or Uncle Paul and Uncle Vincent? Haven't they helped us at all?" Severin was slightly surprised. "Uncle Paul, especially. Isn't his family well off?"

Judith then said, "Your two uncles and Aunt Edwina came up with all sorts of excuses just to avoid lending us a single penny, but in reality, they were just afraid that we won't be able to pay it back. After all, we're old, and it's difficult for us to change our lives for the better. Unlike them, Aunt Marie and her family are very poor, yet she was the only one who was willing to help us. We borrowed a total of eight thousand dollars from her, and we've made sure to keep a record of each and every cent that she lent us!"

Upon mentioning that, Judith advised him seriously, "You need to remember Aunt Marie's kindness and do your best to return the money to their family as soon as possible. I know that she has quarreled a lot with your uncle because of what happened, and to makes things worse, she had no money for surgery when she fell sick. In the end, your cousin had to borrow money from all over the place, even to the extent of taking out a high-interest loan just to gather enough money for the surgery!"

Maurice sighed when he heard that. "Your cousin came to our house to ask if we could pay them back, but we didn't have a choice because we had no money at all. Easton's minions came to collect our debt every month, and demanded seven hundred every single time. We don't always manage to save up that much, so there was no way we could pay back what your aunt lent us. Your cousin got really angry at the time, so we gave her all the money we had at the time. It was about fifty or so dollars in total, but she threw it on the ground and left!"

After bringing up that incident, Maurice took a big sip of the wine in his glass. "Don't blame her for that though. If anyone's to blame, it's us. There was nothing we could do, and we've let their entire family down."

"I understand, Dad!" Severin nodded. "Aunt Marie has been kind to us, so I promise I'll repay her kindness a hundredfold!"

Judith took out the envelope and handed it to Severin, "As for the sender of this envelope, we have no idea who it is. Whoever they are, they send us money every single month. It's usually a hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty, but sometimes it'll reaches a hundred and fifty! The letter inside says that she's a friend of yours whom you've met only once. There's also a reassurance that you're doing fine, and that you had told her to send the money to us!"

"A friend? Whom I've met only once?" Severin frowned. He could not believe that a so-called 'friend whom he had met once' would help his parents out like that. That said, Severin was at a complete loss as to who the sender was.

"You don't know her?" Maurice frowned when he saw Severin's puzzled face. He did not believe that anyone would help their family for no apparent reason.

Severin shook his head. "Have you seen what she looks like?"

Judith shook her head and said, "No. Whenever she comes to send us money, she'll knock twice on the door twice and leave immediately. We've never seen her face, and the most we saw is her rear figure as she rode off on an electric bicycle. She doesn't come at a fixed time either. Sometimes it's in the morning, sometimes at night, but she'll generally come around the fifteenth or sixteenth of every month!"

Severin nodded. "Not to worry, I'll definitely return the favor of those who helped us."

After assuring them that he would not forget everyone's kindness, Severin paused for a moment before saying to his parents, "Stop picking up trash to sell, Mom. And stop going to work at the construction site either, Dad. Now that I'm back, I'll take care of you both from now on!"

Maurice smiled bitterly. "That just won't do. I'm only fifty now, and I should help earn some money while I still can. There's plenty of time to rest if I finally can't do it anymore!"

Judith then said, "He's right. You need to money after coming out of prison. Where are we going to get money if we don't work?"

Severin thought for a moment and said with a faint smile, "You can both take it easy from now on. We have money, so there's really no need for the both of you to keep worrying. There is still a lot of money left behind from what that generous man gave to me! I won't be happy if you still pick up garbage to sell and work at the construction site."

Seeing Severin's slightly chastising look, Judith smiled and said, "Alright, alright. We should relax a little now that you're back. The money owed to Easton has been paid off too, so we can breathe a sigh of relief now."

Severin looked at Maurice, and remarked, "Besides, Dad needs to rest. His waist muscles have been strained for the past few days, and he'll suffer from lower back pain. If this goes on, his health would only continue to worsen! It's not worth it!"

"How do you know that my back hurts? Or that my muscles are strained?" Maurice had an astonished expression, for he did not even mention his pains to Judith! Indeed, he had been suffering a backache for the past two days, but he did not go to the hospital for fear of having to spend money. In the end, he decided to withstand the pain in the hopes that it would get better on its own.

"Why didn't you tell me, Maurice?" Judith glared angrily at Maurice and chastised him, "Is money or your health more important? What am I going to do if you collapsed before Severin returned?"

"It's not that serious. I was planning to get a pain-relieving patch in a couple of days and put it on!" Maurice smiled awkwardly.

"You should stop working at the construction site starting tomorrow. As for your waist, I have some ointment here, which you can just rub it on! I estimate that it'll take a couple of days to be completely healed!"

Severin smiled, placed his hand into his trouser pocket, and fished out a small bottle of ointment, which he handed to Maurice.

"Is that so? Haha, that's great, then! I can save money on the pain-relieving patch!" Maurice laughed.

The old couple were both very happy after Severin came back. Maurice drank a lot of wine that night and chatted with Severin for a long time. The next morning, Maurice got up and stretched his waist. Though it had been painful for him when walking, he discovered that it did not hurt at all anymore.

He pressed his waist a couple of times and confirmed that there really was no pain at all.

"I think my waist is completely healed, Judith! It doesn't hurt anymore!" Maurice hurriedly woke Judith up.

"Really? That sounds like a miracle. You told me that it hurt when I rubbed the ointment on your waist last night. Did it really heal in just one night?" Judith found it a little hard to believe.

"Severin must've met someone really amazing then! We can finally have some rest now!" Maurice smiled, and then said, "I'll visit the construction site later and tell the foreman to settle my salary, because I won't be going there anymore!"

"Okay, I'll go and see if Severin already woke up. Let's head out and get some bread later. It's about time we eat something good for breakfast!" When Judith thought of Severin's return, she seemed to have become several years younger. Her face was full of smiles, and she looked much more energetic than before.

Judith came back to the room after a while. "That boy woke up really early today! He must've gone out and went shopping for clothes!"

"Let him be. We can finally rest and relax a little if he can land a good job and keep it!" Maurice sighed and said again, "I'll take a break for a couple of days before checking to see if I could find a job that doesn't put so much strain on me."

At that time, Severin had gone out for a walk at a park that was not too far away from the house. The sight of that familiar park elicited a little chuckle. It was such a shame that he believed Lucy would wait for him, when in the end, life gave him a rude awakening.

As Severin was reminiscing about the past, a beautiful woman in a floral dress let out a cry of surprise from one of the pavilions in the park. "Grandpa! Are you okay?"

Severin looked over and saw an old man lying on the ground. The latter's face was red, and he had difficulty forming a coherent sentence. A middle-aged man who had been playing chess with the old man was just as startled, and he got down to check on the old man. "You okay there, Mister Henry? Mister Henry? Sir?"

Severin dashed over as soon as he realized what happened.

"He's suffering a sudden cerebral hemorrhage!" Severin determined after a quick glance.

"That doesn't sound good. God, what should I do next? Right! I need to call an ambulance!" The woman in the floral dress was very sweet-looking, but as soon as she heard that it was a cerebral hemorrhage, her face turned pale with fright.

"The situation is still under control. Let me examine him!" Severin immediately laid the old man flat on the ground and used his fingers to tap several points on the old man's body.

The old man, Henry Longhorn, was almost out of breath earlier, but his complexion seemed to have improved by leaps and bounds. He even exhaled heavily, as if a weight had been lifted off him.

"Open your mouth and eat this pill." Severin took out a pill and placed it in Henry's mouth.

"Here's some water!" The woman in the floral dress immediately grabbed a half-full bottle of mineral water from the table and handed it over.

After Henry swallowed the pill, his condition reverted to normal about a minute later.

"Young man, just a minute ago I…I…I felt like I had one foot in death's door. My vision was practically disappearing too. Thank you for saving me." Henry looked at Severin standing before him. Severin's shirt and trousers were a little too small, and they looked somewhat aged too. That, along with Severin's slightly long hair, made him look like some homeless man from the street.

Even so, Henry acknowledged that the young man in front of him had saved his life earlier.

"Are you alright, Sir?"

At that time, the bodyguards in black suits that had been waiting by the street had finally decided to come over. Their leader asked if the old man was alright.

"I'm fine now, thanks to this young man's help!" Henry waved his hand and signaled for his bodyguards to step back.

"Did my grandfather really suffer from a cerebral hemorrhage? What kind of medicine did you give him?" Henry's granddaughter, Charmaine, frowned and looking suspiciously at the young man in front of her.

She did not know what to do in her panic earlier, so she simply allowed the young man to treat her grandfather. After she had calmed down, she started to worry about them. 'Could the man be a charlatan? What if Grandpa wasn't suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage? What if this guy has some kind of other motive?'

After all, the Longhorns had a high status in Brookbourn.

"Are you doubting my medical ability?" Severin frowned, seemingly a little unhappy.

Charmaine was appalled, not to mention a little displeased, when Severin spoke to her in such a tone. She pulled a long face and faked a smile as she said, "Am I not allowed to ask what kind of medicine you gave my grandfather? This is the first time I've ever seen a cerebral hemorrhage being treated without surgery. Isn't it miraculous that you could cure it with some pressure here and there, along with a single pill?"

After questioning Severin, Charmaine stretched her open palm to him and demanded more answers. "Are you a doctor? Do you have a medical qualification certificate? Show it to me!"

Severin shook his head, "I don't have any, and besides, I don't think they're important. What's important is that I saved your grandfather, which I did, didn't I? Or are you more eager to see him dead?" He stared at her briefly before continuing, "I can't be bothered to explain myself to you. Your knowledge of the world is pretty shallow if this is the first time you've seen something like this!"

"You..." Charmaine erupted in anger as she gritted her teeth and said, "Do you have any idea who you're talking to? I don't even know you!"

Severin smiled disdainfully and said to Charmaine, "I'm talking to an unreasonable woman!"

"Why, you little…" Charmaine's ire was so great that she clenched her fists and glared angrily at Severin, "I swear I'll get my bodyguards to come over and teach you a lesson! You're very rude! Why am I not allowed to ask what it is that you gave to my grandpa?!"

"It's a life-saving miracle pill. Is that clear enough for you now?" Severin shot back. The reason he did not bother to explain it to her that day was because she was in a foul mood. After some thought, he said, "If I knew you'd show this sort of attitude to me after I saved your grandfather, maybe I should've just taken a step back and wait for you to call an ambulance. In that situation, your grandpa's body might turn stiff and cold!"

"Charmaine, whether or not this young man has a medical license doesn't matter, and the name of the medicine he gave me earlier is of little importance too. What matters is that he saved me, so please try to speak a little more nicely to him," Henry spoke at last.

"But Grandpa..." Charmaine was angry, but she could only stomp her feet like a spoiled child.

"What's your name, my friend?" Henry looked at Severin with a smile and asked.

"It's Severin. Severin Feuillet," Severin said indifferently. "By the way, the reason why you had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage was probably because you got too excited when you were playing chess earlier. You have high blood pressure, so you should go to the hospital and get yourself checked. Have the doctor prescribe you some medication to lower your blood pressure, or else you might suffer the same condition again because you ended up getting too excited!"

"Thank you for your reminder, my friend. Severin Feuillet is your name, yes? It's a nice name!" Henry cupped his hands as a gesture of gratitude to Severin and said, "You saved my life, young man, and that makes you my savior. Feel free to let me know if you ever need my help in the future. By the way, Charmaine, could you prepare a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for our friend here? It's payment for the treatment he gave me!"

"That's too kind of you, but I don't want any money. I didn't do it for the money when I saved you earlier." Severin chuckled, glanced at Charmaine just beside him, and said, "I'm content if a certain someone doesn't treat me like a charlatan!"

A look of surprise flashed across Charmaine's eyes. The young man in front of her was dressed in tattered clothes, yet he seemed to be exceedingly calm in the face of 150,000 dollars! Perhaps she really did misjudge him.

"Can't you just drop that already!" Charmaine reacted with a petulant reply after remembering Severin's attitude toward her earlier.

"Is that any way to talk to our new friend?" Henry glared at Charmaine. smiled and said to Severin, "I have a suggestion, young man. Since you don't want the money, perhaps I can treat you to lunch? I hope you'll at least do me the favor of accepting my offer!"

Upon seeing the sincerity of the old man in front of him, Severin knew that it would be impudent of him to refuse. After all, the old man had humbled himself before Severin. In the end, Severin finally nodded and gave in. "Sure."

"It's still a bit early, so how about we meet at the Richemont Hotel at noon? When you arrive, you can just let the front desk know that you're a guest of Henry Longhorn!" Henry smiled in a genuine manner.

"Got it! See you later!" Severin nodded, then turned and left.

"Grandpa, are you sure that guy is really what he says he is? Do all savants dress up in such shabby clothes?" Charmaine still had some doubts when she looked at Severin's rear figure.

"I wouldn't have thought so if he took the money that was offered to him. I probably would have just thought that he was someone with medical knowledge who happened to know how to treat my illness. However, there has to be more than meets the eye if he could just ignore the money!" Henry smiled faintly before continuing, "Besides, would you dare to take a gamble on the situation he mentioned earlier? What if what he said is true? What if I died in the ambulance halfway during the journey to the hospital? Moreover, he has an incredibly strong ability."

Finally, Henry said confidently, "I felt a trace of True Energy when he placed his fingers on my body's pressure points earlier!"

"True Energy?" Charmaine gasped when he heard that.

The middle-aged man who was Henry's chess opponent earlier was shocked for a moment, and he finally understood why Henry had been that polite when speaking with the young man earlier.

"Let's go, Grandpa. That's enough chess for today. Let me bring you to the hospital to get a check-up!" Charmaine was still a little worried.

Henry nodded, and quickly asked the bodyguards to drive, and together they arrived at the best private hospital in Brookbourn. During the check-up, Charmaine asked the medically-savvy director of the hospital, Doctor Russell Barker. "Doctor Barker, is my grandfather's brain alright?"

Russell looked at the scan carefully and said in a skeptical tone, "This doesn't look right. If we see it from above, it's obvious that the blood vessels in Henry's brain have already ruptured. Blood spilled out, but not much, so the damage to the brain was pretty minimal. But the blood vessels here are intact though!"

"What does that mean?" Charmaine asked hurriedly.

"It means that the blood vessels have healed miraculously quickly after the cerebral hemorrhage! I have no explanation for this. How did it even happen? It's a true miracle!" Russell exclaimed.

Charmaine and Henry exchanged glances at each other and remembered the medicine that Severin gave Henry earlier.

"Doctor Barker, is there anything else that needs attention? Will my grandfather have to be hospitalized?" Charmaine sought a confirmation after pondering upon it for a moment.

Russell smiled and said, "Not at all. The blood didn't affect your grandfather's cranial nerves. His blood pressure is a little high though, so I'll prescribe some medication to lower it. Just bring your grandfather back here for a review one month from now. Other than that, I don't think there will be any problems!”

"By the way, Doctor Barker. Would my grandfather reach the hospital in time if he suffered the sudden cerebral hemorrhage at Brookhill Park?"

Charmaine could not help her curiosity and asked another casual question. "Brookhill Park? I don't think he'll make it even if he was sent to the nearest hospital. Even by some stroke of luck he's still breathing by the time he arrived, he might forever remain comatose even after he received emergency treatment. And that's only if he doesn't suffer any other sudden medical emergencies during the ambulance ride to the hospital!" Russell answered without hesitation.

Charmaine broke out in a cold sweat when she heard that. "It looks like we really did meet some kind of savant!"

After exiting the hospital, Henry said emotionally, "You mustn't offend Severin, Charmaine. We owe him big time, and it's not something that you can repay with just a meal. Besides, he doesn't just have superb medical skills…he almost certainly is a reclusive savant!"