Carmen was very clever indeed.
She knew that when so many people were equally guilty, whoever stepped up and admitted their mistake first would have the upper hand.
Moreover, she also knew far more about Charlie's deeds as compared to the others, and she had even experienced it more personally.
She had also heard of how Charlie had dealt with several experts from the Webb family from Sudbury before this.
Charlie had asked Albert to carve words on those few mens’ foreheads, and whoever admitted their mistake first would have lesser words carved on their foreheads. The number of words carved on the forehead of each person after that would increase by one.
It was said that when it came to the last person, the space on his forehead had not even been enough to carve all of the words.
With these previous lessons learnt, how could Carmen allow others to kneel before she did?
Charlie also did not expect that Carmen would kneel s o quickly. So, he spoke up, "You're my aunt, and no matter what mistakes you've made, you’re still my elder. Even if I am the head of the Wade family now,
the distinction between an elder and those who are younger cannot be messed up. So, you should not be kneeling in front of me. Even if you kneel, you should b e kneeling before the Wade family's ancestors!"
Carmen reacted very quickly, and as she knelt, she quickly used both of her knees to adjust the direction that she was kneeling toward to face the Wade family's ancestral grave that was not far away.
Immediately afterwards, she knocked her head on the ground with a loud bang as she cried out and said, “M y worthy ancestors! Your unworthy descendant, Carmen Wade, has failed to put the reputation of the Wade family's ancestors and the interests of the Wade family in first place! I nearly sold out and betrayed my own ancestors for glory and regarded our enemy as m y kith and kin. I have really let my ancestors down, and I deserve to die for my sins! I beg for my ancestors to condemn me!"
Carmen was already completely convinced now.
Whatever dignity, reputation, 'old princess' status or ' old baby' bad temper that she had possessed previously had already dissipated at this moment.
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