The caller, who was too distressed, couldn't help stammering.
Xander panicked. "What happened to Daddy Trueman?"
Nora also looked over. Justin asked gravely, "What on earth happened?"
His voice seemed to have some magic power that calmed the caller, who then answered, "An accident has happened!"
• • •
In a hospital ward.
Nora and Justin stood at the door, both looking at the man on the bed.
Xander's eyes were all red from crying.
"Why are you crying?"
Trueman, who was on the bed, sounded annoyed. "You're a man, aren't you? I'm so tired of hearing you cry."
Xander stopped crying at once. He stepped forward and stretched out his little hand to touch Trueman's face. However, his face was all bandaged, and every part of it was injured.
Yes, that was right.
Trueman was disfigured.
After he got into the car that Justin had arranged for him, as they slowly drove to the airport, a thought suddenly hit him and he cursed. "Sh*t!"
Neither Nora nor Justin were a saint in the traditional sense. How could they possibly do something like giving up the V16 for him and letting their own son die?
Trueman would never have thought this deeply before.
But when he found out that Justin was King while knowing that King's identity must forever remain a mystery, it was at that moment that it suddenly hit him.
He suddenly said, "Stop for a moment. I'm going to the pharmacy to get some medicine."
Thereafter, he took a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid and splashed it on his face.
It disfigured him.
This was his way of erasing Trueman from the world and allowing Xander to live on.
Xander had never let him down before. In that case, he wasn't going to fail him either.
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