Chapter 1711: As Far as the Eye Can See, Everlasting: A Shocking Scene (3000+)

Evander talking about having a girlfriend was practically earth-shattering good news for the main branch of the Lancaster Family; of course, there were also people who weren’t all that happy about it.

That person was Violet Zimmerman. Even though now that the younger uncle had a girlfriend, Daxton Lancaster wouldn’t make things difficult for her anymore, for some reason she still felt a bit uncomfortable inside.

And this time, unlike before, the younger uncle didn’t make a special trip behind his big brother’s back to explain things to her.

Violet sighed to herself: so much for that promise of “never marrying for life”—in the end it was just the most untrustworthy lie in the world, and the ridiculous thing was that she’d actually kept it in her heart all this time.

Even though she felt really uncomfortable, Violet couldn’t show it.

On Evander’s side, worried that Joy Spencer would secretly have a crush on him the way Vesper Carter had, he brought his own secretary along on their very first “date.”

Secretary Liu was also a university graduate; men with higher education tended to be very picky. He’d once dated someone, and when it got to the point of talking marriage, the woman asked him to move into her family’s home instead. He thought it was humiliating, so they broke up.

Secretary Liu was also quite good-looking, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose—a single glance and you could tell he was an educated man.

Evander bringing his secretary on “dates” was just because he didn’t want things to be too awkward being alone with Joy Spencer. After every date, he’d have Secretary Liu send Joy Spencer home.

What Evander hadn’t expected was that in less than a month, Secretary Liu and Vesper Carter had gotten together, while he himself had solidly become just a passerby.

Although he was surprised, Evander was very pleased with this outcome; after all, while finding himself a shield, he’d also helped bring about a happy match.

Secretary Liu was two years older than Evander. After dating Joy Spencer for a little over half a year, the two of them proposed getting a marriage license.

It was the spring of the following year. A month before the wedding, Joy Spencer took the initiative to “come clean” with Daxton Lancaster, saying that she and Evander just didn’t click personality-wise, that what she wanted was a man who would live a steady, down-to-earth life with her, while Evander was too busy with work…

At the time, even though Daxton had his doubts, he didn’t think too much of it, not until Joy Spencer sent out invitations to her colleagues at the company. Only then did he suddenly realize that he’d been played by his own younger brother yet again.

All those so-called dates, the movies—they’d all been an act for him and the family to see, just like back then with Vesper Carter.

Evander suddenly felt a kind of humiliation and anger at having been treated like a monkey, and the person who had deceived him wasn’t someone else, but the younger brother he cared about most and was closest to.

Even though he’d been deceived by Evander, Daxton put all of it on Violet Zimmerman’s shoulders.

If it weren’t for her, his little brother wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to spar with him like this, and wouldn’t have played him in the palm of his hand.

On the day of Joy Spencer’s grand wedding, both Daxton Lancaster and Evander, the two brothers, went in person to offer their congratulations. After the banquet, Daxton pulled Evander to another restaurant—a Korean-style place. The two brothers sat cross-legged on the little heated platform in a private room, eating hotpot and drinking Korean rice wine.

Evander understood his big brother’s mood, but there were some things that, if his brother didn’t bring them up, he couldn’t just lay everything out either, so he simply kept him company in silence, drinking alongside Daxton.

The brothers drank for the better part of the day; by the time they got home, it was already late at night.

Daxton was in a bad mood and had drunk quite a bit of rice wine; on the way back he was already unsteady on his feet.

His younger brother Evander wanted to see him back to his room to rest, but he refused. Even when the servants came over to help, he shooed them away, gripping the railing and making his way up the stairs step by step on his own.

Ever since having the children, Violet’s sleep had become very light, because even in her dreams she was worrying about the two kids.

She woke up as soon as Daxton stepped onto the stairs. She grabbed a jacket, draped it over her shoulders, got out of bed, and walked out of the room.

Once he reached the second floor, Daxton stopped, bracing himself against the wall along the corridor.

“Daxton, you’re back?” Violet paused for a moment in front of the bedroom door, then, wrapped in her jacket, walked toward him.

Daxton didn’t say anything. His bloodshot eyes stayed fixed on Violet, watching as she came over and took hold of his arm to support him.

Violet could tell that Daxton had been drinking; she could tell from the way he reacted and from his heavy breathing.

Daxton cooperated, letting Violet help him toward the room. “Where are Robert and Evander?”

“Keep your voice down, they’ve been asleep for a long time.” Violet frowned as she reminded him.

The two little brothers were very close. Every night they slept in the same bed, got up together, went to bed together, and played together during the day as well.

“Mm.” Daxton grunted and didn’t say anything more, letting Violet support him into the room, where he sat down on the sofa.