Chapter 141

Three days later.

The clinic Mark had run stood with its doors shut tight.

Patients came and went, disappointed when they saw the sign reading "Closed for Business."

It wasn't only the clinic. Adele's bakery, "The Most Delicious Bread," had also closed its doors, announcing it was ceasing operations.

A few people cursed them for shutting down however they pleased.

But most only now realized how much the two of them had been giving.

Cheap bread for the hungry. Cheap treatment for the poor and the sick.

A stroke of luck that would never come again.

"Thank you for making such a hard decision, Count Castler."

In the Empress's Palace, Isabel welcomed Mark warmly.

Having closed his clinic, he had finally accepted the post of Imperial Physician.

"It was a decision I had no choice but to make, if I wanted to keep my family fed."

"I heard. That your…