Chapter 355 - Consequences of Breaking the Treaty (1/2)

An overwhelming silence.

The people could not react for a while.

Especially, the Zhou butlers stood around flabbergasted, as if their souls have left their bodies. They felt like they were drowned by infinite silence that their ears seemed to ring numbly.

The information they just heard was something unbelievable.

They all doubted whether they really were seeing reality.

They were born to become the loyal servants of the Xiong family, and was trained especially for it since the first time they learned how to read. The childhood books they read were not fantasy books but manuals and guides on how to become a good butler to the Xiong family.

It was their fate, the life they have known.

Their purpose of existence.

Now, the Head Master was telling them that that life and fate has ended. That they could choose their own path.

For a moment, their usually capable brains seemed to have emptied out a bit.

...But which path? Most of them never held their own ideas or opinions about how to live their life, aside from becoming a good butler.

In this situation, they did not know what to feel or how to react.

Happy? Sorrow? ...They did not know.

There were also few butlers who questioned their own loyalty to the Xiong family, after experiencing humiliation from their masters. There were also a handful who have proud bones and stubborn beliefs inside that they could only forcefully suppress, who initially have their own dreams they wished to pursue but dared not to say.

This was what they were dreaming of.

But... It all came so suddenly that their minds went blank for a moment.

The surrounding area turned silent as seconds passed by. Even the guests did not know how to react. They just watched on with wide eyes as they turned to look alternately at the Zhou butlers and at the Xiong family members, who stood up one by one in shock and incredulity.

It seemed that most of the Xiong family members were also left in the dark.

The legendary families' reactions were more comical.

Tang Xinyang lost her feminine composure that she has been honing in these past two years. Her eyes wide and her mouth hung open in shock.

Guan Xixin choked on his drink and some of the wine splattered on his shirt.

Meanwhile, Lu Yin Ze froze. He was no different from a beautiful white mannequin staring woodenly at the stage.

Inside his mind, he envisioned a future without a 'Zhou butler', that all of the capable people surnamed Zhou no longer served the Xiong family. His heart slowed down and his breathing grew faint as realization hit him.

If 'that' man was not bound to the treaty, no longer a butler... then...

His silver blue eyes were horrified as he watched the woman he loved stand on the stage, calmly watching everything.

”...”

His heart almost stopped beating.

At the same time, those surnamed Xiong who just received this mind-blowing and impossible news held the same expressions of horror like him.

Their shock was not any less than the Zhou butlers.

If their butlers were gone... It would bring a huge change to them!

To their lifestyle! To their career! To everything!

Even though some of them were treated as mere servants, they were all capable and reliant servants. Now, they would be gone, then what would happen to their masters?