Married at First Sight novel (Serenity and Zachary York)

Both mother and daughter had the same virtue.
After a while, Matriarch Farrell suddenly said, “Liberty is here.”
Kathryn said, “I know.”
She was not surprised at all.
Matriarch Farrell was stunned for a moment, then laughed self-deprecatingly: “Yes, you have assistants around you. These
assistants are very powerful. I don’t know which of our ancestors came up with it. They set up a training base specifically for us
and developed the best right-hand man.
I thought you didn’t know anything, and you did. Yes, yes.”
After Matriarch Farrell finished speaking, she picked up the cup of warm water and took two sips. She did not put down the cup.
She leaned back on the chair, then turned the chair. Her back was to Kathryn, and she looked toward the window. There were
already thousands of lights outside.
She said in a faint tone, “I think of your eldest aunt’s assistant. He was really powerful—better than the assistant I am using now.
Moreover, he also had a good temper and was very handsome. Yes, he was really handsome. Your eldest aunt raised me when I
was a young child, and I frequently see her assistant.
As time went by, I liked that assistant very much.
The assistants we used couldn’t get married or have children because, after getting married and having a family and children,
there would be new weaknesses and new people to protect, and they wouldn’t be single-minded anymore.
Unless they married the head of the family and had children with the head of the family, then they could leave descendants.
After the head of the family got married, as long as she was not married to the assistant, the assistant would have to undergo
sterilization surgery to prevent them from turning their backs on the head of the family, looking for women outside, and leaving
offspring. It would even prevent them from becoming real men.”
Kathryn: “...”
She didn’t expect that an assistant like Pedro Fraser would take such a path in the future.

She also felt that the Farrell family ancestors were too cruel.
She thought that the assistants were orphans, had no relatives, only focused on the head of the family, and would be loyal all
their lives. She did not expect that they were not even allowed to leave descendants.
Unless they marry the head of the family,
Kathryn: “Mom, was Uncle my eldest aunt’s assistant?”
“no.”
Matriarch Farrell denied it.
“Your eldest aunt has no romantic feelings for him.”
Matriarch Farrell liked her eldest sister’s assistant, but he didn’t love her and just treated her like a child.
The eldest sister trusted her assistant and naturally did not abolish him. However, after her eldest sister got married, she gave
birth to Audrey Stone, her eldest daughter. And the assistant had a sterilization operation himself.
Kathryn: “Mom, can’t such family rules be canceled? I think it’s too cruel.”
The Farrell family had a history spanning hundreds of years. In the old days, servants were not treated as human beings, and
she had no control over the behavior of her ancestors. But what era was it then, and were such family rules still retained?
Kathryn felt that it was too cruel, and Pedro Fraser, such an assistant, was extremely unfair.
Matriarch Farrell did not speak.
They were the heads of the family, and what they feared most was betrayal and the leakage of power, so naturally they would
not change such cruel family rules.
Therefore, the family heads of past generations had never tried to change the family rules. Did they think it was the Lafayette
family in Meadspring who could change the family rules so easily? Even the Lafayette family paid a lot of money to change some
of the family rules.