The butler didn't dare to reply.
But his expression said it all.
Hayes Hughes's question had truly startled him.
The Hughes family, from top to bottom, seemed to have the word "gentleman" carved into their very bones.
But only the Second Young Master was truly a gentleman through and through.
This Second Young Master was gentle and refined, seemingly without a sharp edge. He was humble and polite, a stickler for rules—a true gentleman, and a rare one at that.
Any one of these traits would be a virtue, let alone having all of them embodied in one person.
And yet... he had been born into a place like the Hughes family.
The butler sighed. When the Second Young Master was very young, the Old Master had remarked that he would grow up to be a kind, warm-hearted person.
A pity he was unfit to be a Hughes.
What the Hughes family needed was an ambitious man. A leader who could support this massive, century-old clan.
