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My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1451

Alice and Cooper regained their positions in the Michel Family, while Sophia and Carmen were also allowed to go back to Europe to visit their relatives.

Meanwhile, Cooper’s old son-in-law, Michael, and Anna also tagged along.

Even though the Michel Family seemed to be quite hostile to them, they could do nothing about it so they relented helplessly.

According to Michael’s analysis, everything was able to succeed because of Daniel’s persuasion—he could completely thwart one’s mindset and beliefs.

Apart from that, the situation was also getting out of hand for the Michel Family. After the head of the family took the lead to leave, more people would follow suit.

Once such an opportunity arised, no one could predict what might happen next.

Apart from that, Cooper’s wife was also powerful—she was the head of the Yard Family. Even though the Michel Family did not like her, they also had to weigh the gains and losses. Sophia’s new idea of a luxury brand was also something new and if they could work together, they would definitely have a new business line coming up. However, if the Michel Family continued with their nonsense, a collaboration was out of the question.

Both the Yard and Michel Family were kings in their fields so their news was constantly monitored by the media. Once Cooper announced that he was going to join the Yard Family, the stocks of the Yard Group shot up while the Michel Family’s market value dropped drastically.

However, if one were to think of it from another perspective and change their mindset, the Yard Group would be able to work with the Michel Family immediately. What was there to lose?

Daniel elaborated on these few main points and spoke to the people from the Michel Family for the entire day. He chattered away, speaking from the glorious history of the Michel Family to the current success that Yard Group was flourishing in. After taking a few classic examples from the past and a few current successful examples, he finally succeeded in convincing them.

On top of that, he even managed to persuade the elders to acknowledge him as the son-in-law of the Michel Family.

Through this incident, the Michel Family finally realized that the world was constantly changing and that they could not hold on to the old rules anymore.

Even though such a huge family had been leading the times and accumulated a lot of wealth—they had even sparked a technological change—deep down they were very fearful of change. After all, no one knew what change would bring.

However, it seemed like this small change had brought upon a positive effect.

After Daniel had convinced them, he stayed back. When Alice came to know about the news, she happily returned to visit her family, as did Cooper and his family.

Both Sophia and Carmen had made the Michel Family love and hate them at the same time.

They loved their intelligence and perfect genes inherited from Cooper but they hated the fact that they did not take the last name ‘Michel’.

Of course, Sophia had a deal with them. In the future, Carmen’s French name would be Gianna Michel and she would use this name for all public events. Unfortunately, Cethos did not allow for double nationality. Otherwise, she would be able to sign up for a passport here.

The huge family stayed in the Michel Family compound for a few days, feasting and enjoying themselves until they were satisfied before leaving. When Carmen left, she brought many ‘local specialities’ with her.

A few days later, dozens of sheep appeared in Michael’s house—those were the so-called ‘local specialities’ Carmen mentioned; they had thick wool that could be sheared for a long time.

“Daddy, can I have them at the work studio?” Carmen asked excitedly.

There’s so many sheep! After their wool is sheared, I wonder how many pillows we can make!

Hearing that, Michael’s expression darkened.

In the end, all of the sheep were taken to a farm.

During the weekend, Sophia went to the farm to visit the sheep. She also took the opportunity to shear some wool as raw materials for Carmen.

Since Anna had never been to Michael’s farm, she came over with Callum. The entire family began to shear the sheep wool that belonged to the capitalistic Michel Family.

Seeing the animals in the farm, Sophia suddenly remembered something and asked Callum, who was shearing wool next to her, “By the way, what happened to the buffalo and the few sheep you stole the other day? Don’t tell me that you turned them into a stew?”

Sophia still vividly remembered the ‘local specialities’ she brought home from the reality TV show she attended with Carmen—they were stolen by Callum in the middle of the night using a helicopter.

Callum had his gloves on as he was shearing the wool. When he heard Sophia suddenly bring this up, he was confused. “Buffalo?”

He remembered doing some sneaky things but he had never stooped so low to steal anyone’s buffalo.

Sophia asked, “Carmen’s buffalo and sheep. Weren’t you the one who stole it?”

Callum shook his head. “It was not me!”

Michael, who was listening to their conversation next to them, focused on shearing wool, not having the guts to utter a word.

As summer holidays were here soon, Carmen had a series of summer plans—she was about to expand her online business store and set up an automated line in wool manufacturing. On top of that, she had already signed a contract with the farms at the Michel Family and they would become her long-term supplier.

The Michel Family had many farms and pastures with a huge number of great quality sheep. On top of that, because they knew her, she could get them for a much cheaper price.

Amidst his busy schedule, Michael took time to scour a new location for Carmen’s new physical store. Meanwhile, Linus also invented a series of automated machines that would manufacture pillows. Hence, even if the scale of Carmen’s business became larger, she would still be able to handle all the orders.

Carmen put in all her effort to attend to her ‘illegal business’ to earn money for her younger siblings.

Sean, who went abroad before the wedding for a transgender surgery, had finally returned.

There was not much difference in her looks but she had become more beautiful, alluring, mysterious, and elegant. After dyeing her hair blond, she looked passionate and elegant. Apart from that, she also had breast and hip implants, completely changing everything she had from the inside out.

After changing her identity card and birth certificate, Sean had finally become a ‘she’, but her name still remained the same—Sean Mitchell. While nothing seemed to have changed within her, everything seemed to be different at the same time.

An obvious change was that she looked happier. The sparkle in her eyes revealed the huge amount of happiness she felt, as if she had finally shed the chains that had been dragging her down for more than 20 years; finally, she was free.

However, her family was deeply regretful after seeing this. He was a good, young man before this, yet he suddenly became a woman. How can we accept this?

However, there was no turning back now, since even his parts were recycled.

Fortunately, Sean’s mother was very supportive. During their time abroad, it was her mother and Stanley who had been there, taking care of her and encouraging her.

After Sean returned to Bayside City and settled her identity paperwork, she went to Sophia’s house to pick her kid up and to give them some souvenirs as well.

Sean looked impeccable—she wore a pair of high heels that were trending this summer and a simple dress. Apart from that, she wore a diamond necklace that emphasized her fair skin. With her deep cleavage, every inch of her skin was perfect.

“Maisie, Papa and Daddy are here to pick you up!”

Laden with bags, Stanley followed behind Sean. From Stanley’s perspective, ever since Sean’s operation was successful, she had turned from a man to a powerless woman. Hence, Stanley had been doing all chores, such as carrying the bags.

After Stanley entered the house, he placed the bags down as he spoke excitedly to Maisie, who ran toward them. “Maisie, in the future you can’t call Daddy ‘Daddy’ anymore. You have to call her ‘Mommy’!”

Maisie accepted it immediately. To her, she already regarded Sean as her mother. Hence, she chirped happily, “Mommy!”

Sean nodded blissfully.

Following behind them, Quinton also happily entered the door with a few more bags in his hands—they were all presents for Carmen.

During this trip abroad, Sean’s operation was very successful and Quinton also got his ‘second-hand deal’ that Sean did not want anymore. Quinton had also saved up enough money for the operation to stick it back to him on an auspicious day.

For Sean, she had no further regrets in his life from now onward.

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If only the pay from Bayside University could return to the amount before… That would be even better.

After Sophia and Sarah heard the news and rushed over, they could not stop looking at Sean’s bosom.

It must be at least a size D…

She actually transplanted such a huge pair of boobs! They look so natural that they even have a drooping shape!

I wonder if it’s made from prosthetics, silicon, salt water, or her own fat… It’s obvious that it will have a nice touch.

Sophia’s hands were faster than her brain—she subconsciously stretched out her hands to touch Sean’s breasts, yet a huge hand suddenly slapped the back of her hands until they became numb.

Smack!

After Stanley hit her hand, he cautiously put a jacket on Sean’s bare shoulders, covering her breasts at the same time. Then, he warned Sophia harshly, “It’s only been transplanted for a few days. You won’t be able to bear the consequences if you spoil it!”

He then turned around and spoke to Sean gently as he muttered, “The air-conditioner temperature is so low; be careful not to freeze your boobs off. I’d suggest you wrap yourself tighter in the jacket.”

Sophia rolled her eyes.

This idiot! He’s like a husky protecting its food when he gets fierce. I really feel like hitting him with my shoes!

Ever since Sean’s successful transgender surgery, she changed from a strong man to a gentle woman. Stanley’s thoughts had undergone a complete change to adapt to this situation, and he immediately treated Sean as a woman.

Before this, they each held their own bags when they went shopping; now, Stanley was the one holding all the bags.

Before this, they would drink cold beverages and eat as much ice-cream as they liked; now, they only ordered warm beverages.

Apart from putting Maisie’s favorite jelly in the fridge, they now put Sean’s favorite desserts and cakes in as well.

Stanley stopped bringing Sean along for an all-nighter to play games and he also stopped bringing her to street stalls for snacks, because he heard that they were not good for a woman’s skin.

When he went out with Sean, apart from holding the bags, Stanley also subconsciously put in a makeup mirror, lipstick, and foundation. When it was summer, he even brought along an umbrella and a shawl.

Now, he even knew which brand of lipstick and foundation were famous!

Stanley, who was a guy with no romance in him whatsoever, suddenly became a caring gentleman.

After Sean went to visit Cooper, both Cooper and Anna gave her some presents to celebrate her rebirth—a set of 12 lipsticks from the Ronney Group, a series of cosmetic products, jewelry and accessories, and even a few dresses from the current season and the autumn season that were not on the shelves yet. These were all personally chosen by Anna.

Callum gave Sean a pair of diamond heels, while Harry and Sarah sent her a set of smart furniture designed for women. Apart from that, Justin sent a bottle of perfume, Michael gave her a car designed for women, and Sophia gifted another pair of orange kittens.

Even Carmen gave Sean a pair of pillows that she drew.

Stanley tried his best to learn how to take care of a woman. He studied the different colors of lipstick and during his free time, he even spoke to Sophia and Sarah, who gave him some pointers on how to take care of a woman.

Stanley did not look like himself at all when he was serious.

It turned out that he was not an unromantic person; it was just that he had not met the person he cared enough about.

After they had dinner at Sophia’s place, she gave a few supplements that she had been taking to Sean. Those were helpful in increasing blood volume and maintaining her looks. Again, this was Stanley’s first time seeing this, so he quickly took out his notebook to take notes.

When the three of them came over, they had many bags with them yet when they returned, they still had the same amount of bags.

“Daddy, Mommy, let’s go home!”

Maisie looked joyful as she held her father and mother’s hands.

They will be very blissful in the future, everyone thought emotionally.

Initially, they thought everyone would feel awkward after Sean became a woman. Unexpectedly, everyone accepted her without any difficulty; it seemed like everyone had already thought of her as a woman since a long time ago.

Meanwhile, Sophia was still stumped that she did not manage to feel Sean’s D-cup breasts.

Even though Sean’s breasts had not completely recovered, she rushed back because Sophia and Michael’s wedding was about to begin.

And so, the wedding that shocked everyone in Bayside City had finally begun.

Even before it had started, everyone in Bayside City had been paying close attention. Nonetheless, the privacy was well-kept as none of the media companies had gotten any leaked news.

Everyone only knew that the host was the best host in Cethos Central Television, the director was the greatest director in the country, the art director was also the art director of Ronney Group, and the performers were A-list stars from both local and abroad. The guest list included people from the political, military and business fields.

The wedding dress and all the accessories that the couple were wearing were limited edition that were specially designed by the Ronney Group; it was a unique style that was one of a kind in the entire world.

All the celebrities and socialites who had gotten the invitation were immensely proud of themselves.

Even before the wedding began, Bayside City and even the entire world were already shocked.

The grandiosity of the wedding had even surpassed some international competitions. During the days leading up to the wedding, even the occupancy rate of the hotels in Bayside City had increased as many people came from abroad to witness the high-profile wedding.

On the wedding day itself, it was even livelier than New Year’s—the entire street was painted red. As the wedding car drove to the hotel, crowds of people gathered to watch them along the way.

Sitting in the car, Sophia was over the moon.

This is the wedding I want. I want the entire world to see how blissful we are!

I’m getting married!

Michael and I are getting married!

As the impact of the wedding was too huge, hotel prices had increased several folds for the past few days and the security was also under great pressure, so they treated this event as a large-scale international event; they even had to apply for a permit beforehand and only after it was passed could they organize the event. Apart from that, they were also given a special grant to hire the military to keep the event safe.

Of course, this task was undertaken by the Fletcher Family. After all, this was also a huge event for them as Cooper was Mark’s godson and Michael was his biological grandson. Hence, the Fletcher Family would definitely be involved in this.

The couple were blissful while the audience was excited. Everyone took out their phones to take pictures and videos to post on social media platforms. However, the Fletcher Family was tense as they were responsible for the security; they were vigilant and kept their guard up.

If their prediction came true, someone would try to make a scene here.

This was a wedding that shocked the entire world and it was broadcasted live by the most influential news channel. They had to show how safe Bayside City was, so they could not afford anyone sabotaging this event.

At the pre-arranged time, the wedding car drove on the main road at a steady speed. Because of this wedding, parts of the street were even blocked.

At this moment, huge crowds were waiting by the roadside just to get a glimpse of the bride.

Sophia, who was sitting in the car with a red veil on her head and an apple in her hand as an auspicious sign, suddenly opened the car roof while it was driving. The fleet of wedding cars that stretched out a few kilometers were driving very slowly. With half of her body over the car, Sophia stood up and waved her red veil.

“I’m getting married!”

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Everyone burst out laughing, feeling happy for Sophia’s joy.

As Sophia was too excited, she threw her red veil to the crowd and someone managed to pick it up.

The Ronney and Mitchell Group immediately announced that the lucky person who picked the red veil up would be the winner of the lucky draw on that day. Just like that, they would receive a huge hamper from the Ronney Group that included all the latest products from the companies under the Ronney Group.

The Michel Group would also send out a huge hamper that included a smart robot and some hi-tech products. Additionally, the Dragon Technology Corporation, Winston Furniture, Plum Technology, and Crimson House all had attractive hampers to be given out, each more generous than the last. If summed up, the total value of the gifts were more than tens of millions.

The lucky winner would not have to work for the rest of their life after that. They would only need to open the parcels and enjoy life. Even if they brought their entire family to travel the world and finished the travel package they were given, it would take a few years.

The lucky winner of the wedding shocked Bayside City and the entire world, as this was the first time a lucky draw was conducted in such a way. As there was a great marketing potential to this, many other businesses also followed suit.

Both couples entered the wedding venue on time.

It was a very unique wedding with two couples that had completely different wedding styles. One followed all the traditional customs, using red as the dominant color. On another hand, the other had a white wedding with a priest, diamond rings, and white gloves that looked elegant and classy.

Since one of the couples wanted a traditional wedding, they were going full-blown traditional. Michael paid a visit to a few experienced seniors of traditional music and invited them out of the mountains to form an orchestra and perform the wedding march during the wedding.

The other couple, however, invited a famous band to perform the wedding march.

The entire building was booked for both the weddings, with the traditional and western style weddings on different sides of the building. After guests finished participating in one, they would have to join the other.

Before the wedding started, the orchestra that had been playing the festive music and the other band that performed the romantic wedding march seemed like they had it planned—both took turns in performing and the different music styles connected seamlessly.

With Sean and Maisie beside him, Stanley chose a few seats at the center of the hall so that he would not neglect any side.

Before this, there was a ceremony to pick up the bride. Sophia went to Riverdale in advance while Michael formed a team to pick her up. They had to go through many traditional customs like being blocked at the door, kicking the flower carriage, and so on. As one of the young men of the Fletcher Family, Stanley was required to take part in this. However, he was worried that the crowd might destroy Sean’s transplanted breasts, so he rejected it.

And so, Stanley followed Sean around all day along to protect her breasts; after all, they cost hundreds of thousands. They were delicate and expensive, and they could not be touched at all as the operation had just been completed.

As soon as Stanley sat down, he took out a jacket for Sean. “The temperature is quite low here. Don’t catch a cold.”

Meanwhile, Daniel and Alice sat next to them with Casper, while Sam and Nicole also sat with their children on the other side. After Lucy greeted Sam, she also sat down at her seat.

Because of his position, Dana did not appear.

But Bailey did.

After he arrived, he looked for the people he knew and sat next to Sam.

Ever since everyone knew that he was Dana’s equal, they looked at him with reverence.

The sixteen-year-old had really made the rest of them look at him in a different light.

Other males did not even dare to sit too closely to him because of the pressure.

In no time, the group of people who came to pick up the bride and the groom had arrived. Everyone was there, including their in-laws and their maiden family.

For the other couple who had a western-style wedding, the guests and the priest had also arrived.

Daniel had already predicted the auspicious time for both the couples. Coincidentally, they could be married at different timings.

After Cooper and Anna finished with the first wedding, they could go over to the other side so that the newly-weds there could bow to them.

The Fletcher, Yard, Mitchell, and the Johnson Family had all arrived; even the Michel Family came with glum faces.

It was a large-scale wedding indeed.

The stage and the decoration were beautifully designed. It was unique yet dominant, extravagant yet elegant. Even though it looked opulent, it did not look cheap either.

As the perfect timing had arrived, Daniel, who was the host, started to hype up the audience.

First up was Cooper and Anna’s wedding.

With the elegant wedding march playing in the background, Louise appeared with the bride, her arm in his.

Anna wore a pure white wedding gown with a white veil that looked mysterious and elegant, her dress dragging behind her for a few meters. Carmen, Maisie, Poppy and Hope followed behind her.

The little kids were dressed as elves, adding some fun to the wedding.

Carmen even held a flower basket in her hands that contained their wedding rings.

Looking at Anna, whose face was barely visible under the white veil as she slowly walked to him, Cooper could not help but tear up.

They had already waited for more than 30 years for this day.

When they were young, they disregarded everything to be together. Even now, nothing had changed—they also did everything they could to be together.

After parting with each other for 30 years, they had experienced life and death; they were finally together right now.

Fate had bound them together for the rest of their lives.

Under everyone’s amazement, Louise smiled as he handed Anna’s hands to Cooper.

My daughter has been living a tough life. As her father, I was not able to raise her when she was young and when she was at her lowest, I wasn’t capable enough to help her. The road that she had taken was simply too tough; she could only depend on herself.

As Louise thought about these, he felt that he was useless as her father. Hence, he was very satisfied and relieved to hand Anna over to Cooper.

The wedding carried on smoothly. Under the witness of the priest and the guests, the couple said their wedding vows.

As the wedding ended, Anna threw her flower bouquet and a single lady caught it.

After that, there were a few performances from famous guests and once the performances were over, the other wedding was about to begin.

Covered in a red veil, Sophia appeared with Michael in their wedding costumes. Anna, who was initially in her wedding dress, had changed and was seated in the middle of the hall.

On the parental seats, Cooper, Anna, and one of Michael’s uncles were there.

To the public, Mark had been ‘dead’ for a few years so he could not be ‘resurrected’ to attend the wedding. At this moment, he was watching the broadcast at home sullenly. Even though Michael’s father, Theo, was still alive, he looked too young. In order to avoid any complications, he also could not appear. Hence, it was only Cooper, Anna, and Michael’s uncle, who was the vice-chancellor of Bayside University.

“First bow is to the heavens! Second bow is to the parents! Next, bow to your significant other!”

As the emcee of their wedding, Daniel’s voice was loud and solemn. With that, Sophia and Michael finished their wedding.

After the wedding ended, both pairs of couples had to toast every table before the wedding was finally completed.

The centurial wedding that involved both couples and the union of many powerful forces had finally ended successfully. Apart from that, they also created a lucky winner of the wedding, who was also being noticed by the entire world.

Even though everyone seemed to be happy for them, the security were not having any fun at all.

Jordan still did not appear. In other words, he was still plotting in the dark.

They were not afraid of his attacks but they were worried about his plans.

At this moment, sure enough, Jordan was thinking of them.

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After the wedding was over, Jordan still had not appeared, even after everyone had left the venue.

In the end, the scene in everyone’s imaginations where Jordan appeared and snatched Anna away did not happen. Both the Fletcher and the Winston Family were slightly disappointed since they had already made the relevant preparations. If Jordan appeared, they would work together to add a taste of blood to the wedding by bringing his head to Cooper as his wedding present.

It was simply a shame that the main character did not appear after they had already made all the preparations to deal with him. However, this was also within everyone’s expectations. Even though Jordan was insane, he was not an idiot. Right now, it was meaningless to take Anna away anymore. In fact, many had been misled because of movies and films.

In the current era, it was meaningless to take the bride or bridegroom away before the wedding as they would already have signed the relevant documents before the wedding. The records were already sitting in the Civil Affairs Bureau, so it was pointless to take either of the couple away.

Cooper and Anna had already signed the marriage papers. Even if Jordan decided to wreck their wedding, they would still be husband and wife on paper. Apart from that, the security was the tightest at the wedding. If Jordan came here, he was as good as entering a trap himself. Then again, for both the couples, this also meant that Jordan was a ticking time bomb that might erupt anytime. He had been monitoring them in the dark and might jump out anytime to give them a shock. This was the most difficult part of the defense.

And so, they did not idle around as well. Cooper had already sent out men to find Jordan but he had hidden himself well and did not leave any traces. No one knew where he was hiding. However, Jordan’s retaliation soon arrived. The Ronney Group and Michel Group were in a lot of trouble. One minute it would be an internal betrayer, while the next it was their cooperating partners who were the culprits; there were business arguments and fights everywhere.

After Cooper married Anna, he immersed himself into the intense fight with Jordan. Both Linus and Callum helped him to stabilize their ground.

On the other hand, Sophia’s days were much easier. She walked around with her pregnant belly, busy with her business as well. During the wedding, she threw her veil away because she was too happy. Without that, she could not get married and she could not find any replacements. Thinking that the wedding would not be complete without the veil, Anna and Cooper quickly issued a notice to inform the person who picked it up to claim the prizes. Hence, they finally got the veil back and continued the wedding.

Unexpectedly, everyone tagged along and gave a bunch of presents to the lucky person who was chosen, and many others followed suit. Because of this, they accidentally made a big deal out of it.

Since it was Sophia’s publicity, she too joined the crowd and released her ‘high-tech luxury items’ business concept, promising to give the lucky person the first batch of the samples. It was time to prepare for the new product lines again, so the company was quite busy. Even though Sophia just got married, she immediately buried herself in work to make the necessary preparations nervously, without even going for a honeymoon. It was only until Michael brought a group of doctors to the company to catch her that she finally stopped.

Sophia’s health had not been the best, so it was already a miracle that she could get pregnant again. On top of that, she was expecting twins, so it was even more dangerous for her. If she maintained the intensity of work, it was impossible for her to keep the babies, so she could only go home to rest. Since there were many talents in her company, and Anna and Linus also sent a few people to help out, Sophia did not need to exhaust herself this way.

As the babies in her belly were considered quite weak, Sophia was admitted into a hospital and had to be on bed rest most of the time so that they could be born safely.

“Daddy, Mommy, prepare yourself! I’m going to open the dictionary!” Carmen closed her eyes and prepared to open the dictionary.

Meanwhile, Sophia was drinking tonic beside them while Michael wrote down a few words in a notebook. It was time to name the babies. Since there were two of them this time, they were taking the naming even more seriously.

Eyes closed, Carmen flipped the dictionary open and stopped randomly at a page. Michael quickly wrote down the words that he liked as the name of his future children, even though the last names of the babies were already decided—Yard and Mitchell. As their father, Michael did not even get an opportunity to pass his name down. However, with his young-looking father-in-law who had a nuclear weapon in his hands, Michael dared not utter a word about it. No matter what names they had, they would still be his children after all, so he was very enthusiastic in giving them names.

For the names for the unborn children, he planned to have the same combination like Carmen. Perhaps he would use their names—‘Sophia’ and ‘Michael’—as their children’s middle names.

Quinton was also admitted into the hospital to fix Sean’s ‘second-hand deal’ onto himself. After the operation, his wounds were not fully healed yet, so he would have to endure the pain and clench his muscles as he walked.

Everyday, he would go over to Sophia’s ward to visit them. She would have visitors almost everyday who would send her gifts. The tonics and supplements she received had already piled up into a small hill, yet it was completely bare at Quinton’s ward. Not even one person sent him any vitamins, even though some had visited him. They are all rather thick-skinned indeed.

A few days ago, when Judge came over to visit Sophia, he also went over to see Quinton with an orange in its mouth, making Quinton extremely happy.

On this day, Quinton also came over to Sophia’s ward and took a bottle of her tonic. It should be alright to use Sophia’s tonic to fix my ‘second-hand deal’. At least it’s better than nothing at all. Apart from the tonics and supplements, there’s nothing else with her.

When he saw Michael, the poor father who had not gotten any benefits yet who was still thinking of names for his children, Quinton snorted out a laugh. Ha! What a coward! If those were my kids, even if I have to face a nuclear bomb, I will fight for the right to give them my family name. Cooper and Anna did not put in any effort to the kids at all and they don’t have the rights to let the kids take after their family names.

Of course, Quinton only dared to think about it deep down. After all, he was afraid of the nuclear weapon as well.

“Hi, Professor Clark. How’s your recovery going?” Linus, who should be abroad at this moment, suddenly appeared and tapped on Quinton’s shoulders. Quinton turned around and saw him holding many bags in his hands, a smile on his face.

“I’m alright,” Quinton replied as he shot a glance at Linus’ bags. He brought so many things over, surely one of them is mine! After all, we have known each other for more than ten years.

When Quinton was still an assassin, he helped Linus kill many of his competitors and Linus was one of his biggest sources of income. In fact, Linus was his annual VIP customer. For every task he was given, he had completed them perfectly and a third of his income was sponsored by Linus.

Quinton, too, witnessed Linus’ growth from being a fearful adopted son to being the second-in-command at the Michel Family, from his young teenage years to his thirties, where he was a dominant chairman now. No matter what, based on our relationship, half of those presents should be mine.

Unfortunately, those were merely Quinton’s wishful thinking. After Linus brought all the bags into Sophia’s ward, none of it came out when he walked out. Our decade-long relationship is all for nothing!

Even the few dogs would also visit Quinton after they came to Sophia’s ward. Linus, however, merely visited Sophia without even shooting a glance at Quinton. Sure enough… You can’t take a business relationship seriously.

On the other hand, Linus was here to tell them great news—Lucy had decided to take action.

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Recently Jordan had been completely cornered by Cooper. If he appeared in Cethos, Cooper would immediately take action.

Hence, Jordan had been hiding in other countries. No one knew where he was and it was not easy to trick him out of hiding.

However, there was a chance right now.

Lucy was planning to get rid of all the people loyal to Jordan in the Edwards Group so that he could have a clean break with his former business. Apart from that, Lucy also had a series of big plans after that to publicly take charge of the Edwards Group entirely.

When that happened, Jordan would definitely appear in Cethos to stop her. Otherwise, he would lose the entire Edwards Group.

After Sophia had been admitted to the hospital, Michael also stayed in the hospital with her. Even though the couple seemed to be detached from the outside world as they were busy with their pregnancy, Sophia had actually been keeping close tabs on the situation outside.

The next day after Linus visited them, there was a huge change within the Edwards Group. All the higher-ups resigned but Lucy still remained as the director and there were many changes in the board of directors; even Ian was promoted.

Because the higher-ups were all changed to younger people, everyone in the Edwards Group was not happy about this. At this moment, Jordan, who was the life and soul of the Edwards Group appeared and publicly supported his daughter. Apart from that, he also announced that he was going to step down from all his duties related to the business and transfer all his shares to Lucy, so that he could retire early.

Meanwhile, there were also rumors of a huge emergency family meeting within the Edwards Family.

In the meeting, Lucy would inherit the position of the family head from Jordan, who would also sign the agreement to transfer all his shares to her. Apart from that, he would publicly welcome Sam—who had broken the ties with them—back into the family.

Sophia knew that Jordan was just a puppet and a replacement; the real Jordan had already escaped.

She wondered if the announcements from the fake Jordan would take legal effect but if the real Jordan did not appear, the fake one would undoubtedly replace him.

If the real Jordan wanted to regain his control over Edwards Group, he must appear and stop everything.

If not, everything would be too late!

Sophia glanced at the date. The internal family meeting would be held three days after the directors’ meeting, as if they were deliberately leaving some extra time for Jordan to return from overseas and stop the proceedings.

Even though Sophia was resting, she had been keeping a close eye on this incident as she counted down the days.

Not surprisingly, there would be a huge group of fighters hiding around the meeting venue to wait for Jordan’s appearance.

His existence made everyone unable to have a good night’s sleep. Only after they had eradicated him would they be relieved.

As days passed, the Edwards Family meeting had finally arrived.

On that day, all the representatives of the Edwards Family descendants around the world had arrived and they had booked a huge hotel to organize the succession ceremony. As the first female family head of the Edwards Family was about to be appointed, everyone treated this event of the utmost importance.

On the day of the ceremony, many people walked in and out of the hotel entrance. Countless representatives from the Edwards Family had appeared—they were no less than a thousand people, all of whom were the elites of the elites, while many more did not even earn the right to attend this ceremony.

As one of the most powerful families in Bayside City, witnesses were needed for such a huge event. Hence, many people from other families also arrived just to witness the event. After this day, the results were about to be announced to the entire upper-class society in Bayside City.

Two elders from the Fletcher Family, Harry from the Winston Family, as well as Cooper and Anna had arrived. Such a powerful group had stunned many people indeed.

Meanwhile, there were many more people hidden in the dark.

It was a day that attracted everyone’s attention.

As the main character of the event, Lucy looked indifferent. She watched the representatives of the Edwards Family taking their seats as if this was a normal working day, not an ounce of emotion within her.

Meanwhile, Sam and Nicole also showed up. They would be returning to the Edwards Family today, with Sam as the 9th Old Master Edwards and Nicole as his wife.

“Don’t be nervous, Lucy. I will help you out,” Sam told Lucy gently.

Lucy nodded at him and adjusted her family crest before taking huge strides into the hall.

Ian pursed his lips and followed behind her with a solemn expression.

Truth was, he knew about his true identity. To the outsiders, he was the son of the Grand Elder of the Edwards Family, but his biological father was actually Jordan.

The Grand Elder also knew about this yet he did not dare to announce the truth. Hence, he could only grit his teeth and swallow this painful truth down.

In reality, Ian and Lucy were step-siblings who shared the same father and today, they were fighting for their future!

The meeting had started with the current head, ‘Jordan’, holding Lucy’s hands as they entered the hall, marking the official beginning of the succession ceremony.

If the real Jordan did not appear, he would lose everything from the Edwards Group today.

Lucy, the Winstons, and the Mitchell Family were all waiting for him to appear.

Meanwhile at the hospital, Sophia and Michael were watching the live broadcast of the family nervously as they also waited for Jordan to appear. Taking advantage of their focus on the broadcast, Quinton slipped into Sophia’s room and stole her tonic and snacks—not once, but twice.

While Quinton was stealing the tonic and Sophia and Michael were watching the broadcast, no one realized the weird atmosphere around the hospital.

This was a high-end private hospital in the suburb of the city that specialized in servicing the wealthy. The quality was top-notch and there were only a few patients. Apart from that, the surroundings were also very quiet. Ever since Sophia was admitted into this hospital to rest, they stopped attending to other patients, so there were even fewer people.

Suddenly a few cars stopped silently at the entrance. In broad daylight, countless men in black barged into the hospital and knocked out the security and medical staff.

Bang!

The door of the ward was kicked open and Sophia, who had been watching the broadcast, was shocked. As she let out a shrill scream, Michael turned around to look at the door. When he saw the man in black approaching, he reacted quickly and took out a gun from his pockets. Unexpectedly, the man was even quicker than him; as soon as he entered, he immediately took out a gun and shot two tranquilizers at Michael and Sophia, who were not quick enough to react. In the blink of an eye, both of them had fainted.

The man’s actions were very precise and swift, without any hint of delay or hesitation. He immediately put the two fainted people into a black bag and dragged them away easily.

Quinton, who was next door, managed to resist their attacks. Unfortunately, since he had just finished a surgery, his physical and mental reactions were not as good as before. On top of that, he had taken some anti-inflammatory drugs that caused some drowsiness. In no time, he was defeated and dragged away with a jab of tranquilizer on his buttocks.

And so, the three of them were brought away.

After they left the hospital, a car was already waiting for them. Then, they immediately left.

At the Edwards Family meeting, the fake Jordan was about to sign the documents, yet the real deal still had not arrived.

If he did not appear at this moment, everything Jordan had in the Edwards Group would be taken away by Lucy.

Unfortunately, the longer he did not appear, the more anxious everyone else became.

On the other hand, a few cars had left the hospital even before the alarms were activated. After a short drive, the cars stopped at a deserted warehouse and the three captives with black masks over their heads were brought out of the car. Then, they stumbled to the warehouse and were thrown onto the ground.

In front of them, a figure slowly walked out from the darkness—sure enough, it was Jordan.

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Jordan knew that Lucy decided to attack this time because she had people supporting her, and the possible candidates for these supporters were none other than those few.

If he headed over to them, he would be digging his own grave; of course he was not that stupid.

Not only did he not go to the Edwards Family meeting, he even sent people to launch a surprise attack at the hospital. After capturing Sophia, he would have three trump cards in his hands.

She was the only daughter of Anna and Cooper after all. If she died, three lives would be lost and this would be the greatest blow to Cooper and Anna.

No; I won’t let her die. I’m going to use her to threaten Anna and Cooper!

I want Anna to return to me and Cooper to live in pain forever!

Jordan took out his phone and asked his men to take off the black face masks from the three victims’ heads.

After the masks were removed, it was apparent that he had caught two men and one woman, all of whose movements were limited by rope on their limbs. As the tranquilizer effect had not faded, they were still unconscious.

Jordan looked at Sophia, who was seated in the middle. This is Anna and Cooper’s daughter!

As he looked at Sophia, there was hatred and regret in his eyes. Jordan deeply regretted keeping the twins alive. In that case, perhaps the connection between Cooper and Anna would be less and she might belong to him completely.

However, it was still not too late now.

Cooper’s daughter is with me now.

Jordan walked forward and lifted Sophia’s hair to reveal her face, preparing to film a video to threaten Cooper and Anna with.

Sure, he could go to the Edwards Family meeting to stop Lucy and take back the Edwards Group. However, he knew that both Cooper and Anna were there and they had arranged many people to ambush him.

They place all their attention at the family meeting as they predicted that I will stop them. Because of this, they forget to hide their daughter. On top of that, they even moved the bodyguards protecting their daughter to the meeting venue to catch me.

This is a Godsent opportunity!

Compared to catching Sophia, the Edwards Group is nothing!

I can still take it back in the future but I only get one chance to catch Sophia!

Jordan could not wait any longer. His men could complete this mission themselves but he insisted on being involved personally.

He wanted Cooper and Anna to see for themselves how Sophia would suffer because of him!

He wanted to strangle Cooper’s beloved daughter to death so that Cooper would suffer for the rest of his life.

Jordan pulled Sophia’s hair so that her face was revealed before his phone camera. She was still unconscious and her figure had gotten more plump because of the pregnancy. Jordan could almost see the features she inherited from Cooper and Anna, and the blood which he hated the most flowed in her veins.

Quinton and Michael’s face masks were also taken off and they were included in Jordan’s video as well. He filmed them using his phone, intending to send it to Cooper.

As the lighting in the warehouse was too dim, the video was not clear. Hence, Jordan turned the lights on so that everything would be clearer. However, Jordan immediately realized that something was wrong after this.

Something’s off!

These are not Sophia and Michael at all!

They look the same but they are completely different people!

However, everything was too late. When he inched closer to take a good look at their features, Quinton, who should have been unconscious after being injected by tranquilizer, suddenly opened his eyes and broke free of the strings. He stood up and looked at Jordan sinisterly.

Fortunately, Jordan was standing quite far from Quinton and he had professionals protecting him. It was impossible for Quinton to get closer to him.

In an instant, his bodyguards had already protected him in the middle. Looking at Quinton carefully, he exclaimed, “You didn’t faint!”

It was at this moment that Jordan knew he had fallen into a trap. Looking around carefully, he had a feeling that this was part of Cooper’s plans and someone else might be coming for him after this.

Quinton raised his hand and pretended to surrender as he laughed casually. “It’s so difficult to lure you out, Mr. Edwards…”

Back then, they tried everything they had to lure him out but they failed. The Edwards Family meeting this time was just a backup plan.

Just like the wedding, they were not sure if Jordan would appear. If he did, he would definitely be caught and similar arrangements would be made elsewhere as well.

To Cooper, no matter what happened, the most important thing was always his children. Hence, this time around, he also placed some traps in the hospital where Sophia had been resting.

He found replacements for Sophia and Michael, but Quinton was the real deal.

Realizing that he had been tricked, Jordan staggered backward with fury on his face.

“Kill him!” he ordered the people around him.

Quinton was all alone and on his way here, they had already taken away all the weapons on him. No matter how capable he was, he was no match for them with his bare hands.

After a series of triggers being activated crisply, numerous guns pointed at Quinton.

He had nowhere to run now.

However, Quinton did not look anxious at all. Instead, he opened his own shirt and revealed an obvious scar on his waist that had just been healed.

Seeing that scar, Jordan’s expression changed immediately as he quickly said, “Stop! Stop!”

If he guessed correctly, the scar was there because Quinton buried a bomb within him.

He knew that the bomb in Sophia had already been detonated and removed. However, he did not expect that Quinton put it in his own body.

If they shoot him, the few kilometers around them would be blasted to smithereens.

Quinton continued to lift his hands. His shirt was wide open, revealing the obvious scars.

“Go on! Kill me!”

Quinton walked to them fearlessly in big strides, while Jordan and his men retreated.

What an evil man!

A lunatic!

Quinton laughed maniacally as he approached Jordan, while the latter could only think of escaping.

It’s highly probable that Quinton doesn’t mind exploding and dragging us with him. His lift may be useless but mine is worth a lot!

“Protect the boss and make him leave safely!” The professionals around Jordan tried to ensure his safety as they retreated.

Right now, they could only bet that Quinton loved his life too much to die. Jordan knew he had to quickly escape.

Once again, he was too late.

A series of steady footsteps came from outside and there was a screeching sound of cars coming to a stop. From the sound of the heavy footsteps, it was clear that there were many people.

As a gunshot rang, someone reported, “It’s the Winston and the Fletcher Family!”

They are so fast!

As Quinton saw Jordan’s darkened expression, he said, “Oh—I forgot to let you know that this bomb has built-in GPS.”

The warehouse had already been surrounded. In the warehouse, Quinton—the living bomb who could explode any time—was right in front of them. Jordan and his men were trapped but they did not even dare to open fire.

Bam!

With a loud thud, the door of the warehouse was opened. Then, a smoke bomb was thrown into the room, emitting smoke that choked everyone. They could not open their eyes and every breath they inhaled burned their throats.

Dressed in black suits, a group of men with face masks entered the room, a weapon in each of their hands.

The powerful Winston family crest was sewn on their sleeves. Everyone wore a standard outfit—a black suit with white shirt underneath. As they stepped into the room full of poisonous mist, they looked like a troop from hell. The leader of the group had a sadistic look in his eyes but the mask obscured his cold smile.

In that instant, chaos reigned in the warehouse and gunshots were even fired amidst the mess. However, someone immediately yelled, “Don’t fire!”

If they fought with their bare hands, they might be able to escape. However, if they opened fire and accidentally shot the living bomb, everyone would die immediately.

Everyone was stunted by the limitations without guns and with only axes, knives, and pipes awaiting them…

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The group of people who came were fierce and callous—they attacked anyone they met with exactly the working style of those from the underworld. Amidst the chaos, shrill screams could be heard, followed by the sound of bones cracking under the attack from an axe. The sound resembled how a cook prepared the raw meat to cook some soup; it was a terrifying and shocking sound indeed.

Jordan had never expected that he would suffer from such humiliation. Because of the poisonous mist, he coughed and choked. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he struggled to open his eyes. Since he could see nothing even after doing so, he fumbled around with his eyes closed. In the process, he accidentally touched a flying human thigh, a hand, and even half a skull that was slimy and warm. On top of that, he touched a puddle of unknown liquid.

After all, Jordan was already in his fifties, so this came as a great shock to him.

Finally, after the screams had subsided, the choking mist had cleared off slightly. However, the smell of blood slowly became stronger. After Jordan finally opened his eyes, he realized that the warehouse had become a slaughterhouse—body parts were strewn everywhere and some were still moving even after being chopped off due to the nerve reflexes.

It was hell on Earth.

Jordan was someone who had been through his fair share of traumatic experiences after all, so he did not faint immediately. However, he realized that none of his men were left, and a few people from the Winston family were closing in on him, blood splattered all over them.

The young man who was the leader had his hair dyed with vibrant colors. He took off his mask to reveal a delicate and exquisite face, looking like a cool woman and a girly man at the same time.

The person lit a cigarette and relaxed his tensed body that was covered with blood and some body parts that had landed on him. His white shirt was dyed red and the knife he was holding was still dripping blood.

Jordan wanted to stand up but he stepped on something and slipped, landing butt-first on the floor.

Jordan finally recognized this person.

“You are that freak from the Winston Family!”

I thought he’s dead!

He is unexpectedly resilient!

With a huge knife in one of his hands, Dana had a cigarette in the other. He huffed a mouthful of smoke arrogantly as he smiled. “Indeed. Not only am I still alive, I’ve been around your son, Moore, for a few months now. However, you didn’t even notice me.”

Jordan glared at him angrily.

I have so many sons until I barely recognize any of them. Why would I notice that my son’s bodyguard had changed to another person?

Jordan gritted his teeth. “I’m Lucy’s father. If you touch me—”

Thud!

Dana threw the knife in his hands into Jordan’s head. Immediately, blood splattered everywhere as Jordan fell into a puddle of blood.

Unconscious, he could not hear Dana’s proud words.

“It’s the tradition of the Winston Family to kill their father-in-laws!”

Unfortunately, Jordan was not dead yet. He merely fainted from the blow. Finally, Quinton came out from the corner—after all, he also cherished his life a lot. When the Winston Family appeared, he quickly found a place to hide himself.

Dana stepped on his cigarette to extinguish it as he murmured, “I’ll hand this old man to you now.”

Quinton shot him a mysterious smile.

Meanwhile, the Edwards Family meeting was over. ‘Jordan’ officially announced that he was going to retire and he signed the papers to transfer all the shares to his daughter, Lucy.

Even though she had become the winner in life, Lucy still did not look happy even after she received the legal documents stating that she now held all the shares. Suddenly, her phone beeped as it had received a message.

After seeing the short message, Lucy’s solemn expression finally cracked into a smile.

For the past 30 years, she had never smiled so relaxed and happily.

She suddenly grabbed the microphone and told those who were about to leave, “Please remain seated. I have one more important announcement to make!”

Everyone was confused upon hearing that.

Hasn’t she already finished reporting everything?

Lucy looked around the confused gazes that the audience gave her, a huge beam on her own face. She could not even hide the joy in her eyes.

“The next announcement is—”

She deliberately paused. Because of the excitement, her voice trembled slightly. “I-I’m getting married! The groom is the eldest son of the Great Elder of the Winston Family, Dana Winston!”

Everyone was blown away by this piece of news.

On the other hand, when Jordan finally woke up, he saw that he had been tied down to the operation table. Cooper, Anna, Quinton, Lucy, Dana, Sophia, and Michael stood beside him, as if they were witnessing something.

Jordan was beyond furious. “What are you guys up to?”

His head still hurt a lot from Dana’s attack and he was relatively muddled, while his arms and limbs were trapped on the operation table, unable to move an inch.

“What do you even ask? We’ve arranged a uterus transplant for you. Enjoy!” Anna announced in an eerie voice.

Jordan suddenly realized something—20 years ago, he had promised Anna to provide a uterus transplant for her. However, she lost her memories afterward.

Understanding dawned and he roared and thrashed around on the operation table, but it was futile…

Three days later at a private airport in the suburbs of Bayside City, Jordain and Moore got out of the plane and stood at the waiting area. They were looking at Lucy’s private car in anticipation.

As Lucy got out of the car and walked toward them, Dana pushed a wheelchair beside her with Jordan sitting on it.

Unfortunately, Jordan was much different from before. He smiled like an idiot with slanted eyes and eyebrows, as if he was a retard. His previous black hair had turned grey and there were wrinkles on his face. In just three days, he seemed to have aged a lot.

Spotting them, Jordaine quickly went to welcome them. Firstly, she hugged the retard Jordan and planted a huge red kiss on his forehead.

It was obvious that she was really happy about this.

She loved him to her core. While he also loved her back, his love had been split into different sizes, given to various people.

Jordaine wanted to have him all to herself but he was too powerful, so she could not do that.

He was an ambitious dragon who soared in the skies. Even though she loved him, her love was careful and self-conscious. She also knew very well that he could not possibly belong to her alone.

After thinking about it, the only way out was to cut off all his sharp claws and strip off his wings, tying him to her. Apart from that, he would have to wait for her to feed him everyday. Otherwise, he would starve to death. In this case, he would never be able to fly and he would only belong to her.

Jordaine was not a kind person—she had done many evil deeds and she hated Anna for getting all of Jordan’s love. She was jealous of Anna and even detested her. Even so, Jordaine was not a foolish woman. She clearly knew the only obstacle between her and Jordan was the man himself.

He was simply too powerful.

However, she could easily have Jordan to herself now as he lost all his memories after being brainwashed.

Hence, she had teamed up with Anna from the very beginning. Dana was specially arranged to meet her after the discussion with Anna.

Anna wanted to live happily ever after with Cooper but Jordan was obstructing them. Meanwhile, Jordaine only wanted to be with Jordan.

After a brief conversation, the two groups of people bade farewell.

Jordan, who was sitting on the wheelchair, said goodbye to Dana unwillingly, “Daddy, I’m off now!”

Dana waved back with a cheery smile on his face. “Go on! Enjoy the rest of your life with your wife! Remember, Daddy always loves you!”

Jordan smiled retardedly. “Sure thing. Goodbye, Daddy!”

Dana replied, “Goodbye, son. Remember to visit me often!”

All three of them—Lucy, Jordaine, and Moore—were speechless when they saw this.

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Jordan seemed to be unwilling to be separated from this ‘father’ of his. He hugged Dana as he sobbed out loud like a kid.

When Dana saw this, he felt sad and slightly regretful. If only I could keep this son with me and be his father; how amazing would that be?

Even though we only spent time with each other for a few days, there’s already a father-son bond between us!

Upon seeing the deep bond between the ‘father and son’ who called each other affectionately and how they could not bear to be apart from each other, everyone else could not help but roll their eyes.

I’ve never seen a b*stard who would take advantage of something like this!

In the end, Jordan was still brought away by Jordaine; they had already agreed on this beforehand.

Jordaine would help them to deal with Jordan, but only on one condition—for them not to hurt him. She could give up on everything else except him.

She simply loved him too much and they were sure that she would treat him well.

Like Sophia and Anna, Jordan had lost his memories but his circumstances seemed to be different this time, because the brainwashing technique had improved a lot. Anna could still remember her past purely due to it being the side effects of the old technology.

However, Jordan would be like Sophia, unable to recall everything that happened in the past.

Jordan was already in his fifties. There were only about forty more years left for the rest of his life. He would have to start from the beginning and learn everything from scratch. Slowly but surely, he would build a new character.

Will the old Jordan come back?

Probably not. Jordaine would not allow that as well.

“Unexpectedly, an old man like Jordan also has a woman who loves him so much.”

After Sophia knew that Jordan was picked up by Jordaine, she could not understand the logic behind this.

Truth was, she was not the only one; many other people also could not figure out why.

Perhaps his d*ck is like Bailey, talented and unpredictable?

It’s actually pretty impressive that he has ‘served’ so many women!

At this moment, Sophia was resting in the private hospital. Scrolling through her tablet, she made some snide comments when she saw the news about Jordan’s retirement.

In reality, she had been resting in this private hospital all along and Michael had been accompanying her. On that day of the attack, Cooper made some extra preparations just in case Jordan planned to look for her trouble, so he hid her and hired two replacements. Unexpectedly, Jordan actually did arrive.

Cooper was more careful than anyone else. Not only did he place a huge group of bodyguards at the meeting venue, he also increased the number of the guards at the Imperial and Carmen’s primary school—basically any place that could become Jordan’s target.

Now that he had been caught, Sophia came back to the hospital to stabilize her condition. She took time to deal with some simple work but she was resting for most of the time.

Usually she would watch a series, eat some snacks, sleep, and cuddle with Michael.

Unfortunately, they could not carry out some vigorous activities now that she needed to stabilize the fetus.

It was a silent torture for her to see her attractive husband walking around and posing every day, yet she could not touch him.

After I give birth and recover, I’m definitely going to do him until I’m satisfied!

After Jordan retired, Lucy took charge of the entire Edwards Family and the Edwards Group. She also became the youngest family head in history and the only female head; apart from that, she was also the director of the group.

On the day she officially became the family head and the director, she announced her marriage. Hence, the media had been enthusiastically reporting about Dana.

After all, he used to be a she—he was the daughter of the Great Elder of the Winston Family and his gender on his identity card was ‘F’.

In the past, he was an intersex who even had flower tattoos on him. Apart from stunning both men and women, he had many mistresses and hunks with good figures, and he lived together with many of them. People from the Edwards Family had no idea why Lucy had her eye on him.

However, the current Lucy was completely different. She and her trusted employees had taken over the Edwards Group so no one dared to question her relationship with Dana. Apart from that, Dana was completely a man now.

Hence, people from the Edwards Group only dared to grumble among themselves, but the people from the Winston Corporation were celebrating in joy.

“That b*stard Dana has finally settled down!” they shouted. “What happy news this is! We should definitely hold a large-scale celebration!”

Harry was so happy that he almost cried tears of joy.

It’s like someone finally agreed to buy our old antique of 30 years that we could not throw away with a high price!

However, the Edwards Family was not satisfied with this and made harsh demands on the wedding preparations and the dowry.

“The Winston Corporation must give a huge amount of dowry, not unlike what Cooper gave Anna, or like what Michael gave Sophia!” those from the Edwards Family demanded.

Cooper had given half of Michel Group to Anna, while Michael had transferred a similar weightage of the Imperial shares to Sophia. Hence, the Winston Corporation had to match these standards at the very least.

Apart from that, their future children must take Lucy’s family name.

The Winston Corporation was more agreeable than expected. They were willing to give however much dowry the Edwards Family demanded, and there was no problem with their children taking after Lucy’s family name. In fact, they would have no problem if Dana wanted to change his family name to ‘Edwards’ as well.

As their discussion dragged on, the dowry suddenly became compensation for Dana to ‘marry into’ the Edwards Family.

Dana immediately changed his identity card to remove the irritating ‘F’ on it. After it was changed to ‘M’, he immediately registered with Lucy to become husband and wife. They then viewed a few venues to hold their wedding and also looked at houses and rings. Right after that, they came over to pick their kid up and also wanted Sophia to send them her signature orange cat. With that, Dana’s home with Lucy was finally complete.

In the hospital, Dana and Lucy came over to pick Nigel up, as Celine had sent him over to the hospital to accompany Sophia for two days. After all, he had been staying at her place for such a long time so they had developed a bond. Now that Lucy was about to take him away, everyone felt slightly wistful to see him go.

Looking at this kid whom she picked up from the bins, various different emotions raged within Sophia.

His biological father, Jordan, had children all over the world, so he didn’t care about Nigel’s existence. Meanwhile, his mother Tiffany only treated him as the product of a fertilized ovum and threw him into the trash cruelly. From birth, his existence was not welcomed.

Because of this, Sophia hoped that Lucy and Dana would treat Nigel well.

Celine had taken care of Nigel for a long time. Now that they were parting, she could not bear to see him go. With tears in her eyes, she held onto Nigel and did not want to let him go. Similarly, Carmen also wanted to hug him one last time.

“Don’t worry. No matter who Nigel’s parents are, he’s innocent after all. I’ll treat him as my own,” Lucy promised Sophia.

Meanwhile, Dana deliberately wore a pair of tights. Ever since he became a man, he would wear tights no matter what occasion it was so that he could show off his extraordinary masculinity, as though he was worried that others could not tell he was a man. No matter where he went, the probability of him turning heads was a hundred percent. Sophia did not even hear Lucy’s reply as she glanced occasionally at Dana’s crotch.

No wonder no one wants to go to the loo with Dana and there’s an air of reverence whenever Quinton talks about him.

Before Lucy and Dana left, Bailey appeared with a lawyer and a stack of documents for Lucy to sign.

He had a dark expression and did not seem to be in a good mood. When he was signing the papers, he looked like a delinquent who had just gotten detention from the discipline teacher.

“After Tiffany’s death, she left behind some assets,” Lucy explained. “As she didn’t specify any inheritance, according to the rules of Adams Family, her assets could be taken away by the family or donated to some public causes and funds. I’m here to fight for a third of my son’s inheritance.”

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Seeing that the money was about to enter his own pocket, Bailey did not expect that Lucy would suddenly appear and take one third of it.

No wonder Bailey is so cold today!

This was actually Lucy’s condition after she had taken a step back—if she wanted to fight for it, she would get all of it.

Bailey had fought hard for the one third portion, as Lucy initially wanted to halve it.

After they signed the contract, Nigel would have no relationship at all with the Adams Family from then onward. After Lucy took the money, she would also have nothing to do with them anymore.

Sophia finally understood the twists and turns in this matter. Seeing that Bailey was about to leave with a dark expression after he finished signing the documents, Carmen quickly offered to walk him out.

“Bailey, I’ll send you out!”

After Lucy put the documents away and took Jordan and Tiffany’s child, she realized that from now onward, he would be Dana and her child. The one third of the inheritance would be her first gift to Nigel as his mother.

After everyone left, Quinton, who had been watching by the door for a long time, complained, “You’re a fool. They are doing an illegal transaction here. If I were you, I’d ask them to give me a third of the money to keep my mouth shut.”

Sophia pouted after hearing that. When she was about to continue reading her newspaper, she suddenly realized that Michael had not appeared for a long time. Ever since Lucy arrived, he was nowhere to be seen.

“Celie, where’s Mikey?” she asked Celine, who was still upset about Sophia giving Nigel away.

Pouting her lips, she replied sadly, “He was just here…”

When Sophia saw her sullen look, she advised, “You already have two kids who need your care. If you have another one, you won’t be able to take good care of it.”

Apart from that, Justin would be under high pressure if they have another kid because he has to take care of four babies—the biggest of them being Celine herself!

In the ward next to them, Justin, who was wearing a white robe, was injecting the medicine needed to sustain Michael’s life.

They used an extremely small needle again so that there would not be any scars. This way, Sophia would not realize it.

However, his health condition could not be hidden for long. She would eventually realize this after he died.

At this moment, the internal pressure within his body had reached a tipping point where everything could be thrown out of balance. With just a slight change, his condition might deteriorate immediately—a slight flu or a simple wound might break this balance.

Even though he looked healthy on the surface, when the symptoms started to resurface, everything would be too late.

He would die instantly, as his internal organs were already rotting away. Even if Theo donated all his internal organs to Michael, it would not save him anymore.

Michael knew that he really did not have much time to live.

However, this was all his decision.

After the injection, Justin pursed his lips with a serious look on his face.

He met Micheal when he was very young. They worked together and became a family after that so without a doubt, he did not want to see Michael die.

Unfortunately, Justin had already said everything he could but Michael had already made his decision. He would rather die and break everything off cleanly, allowing Sophia to be heartbroken for some time before she would walk out of the trauma and continue with her new life. After his death, he wanted her to meet another man whom she liked. By just remembering him during his death anniversary and some festive seasons, he would be content.

The other option, however, was to let Sophia blindly wait for him. Since no one knew if he was going to wake up, she had to keep waiting. This was equivalent to asking her to grieve for her alive husband for an indefinite amount of time.

She’s still so young; she’s only 30. I can’t allow her to grieve at such an age.

With another jab, Michael felt the effects of the medication entering his body—his wilting body was finally reborn again.

However, this also showed that there was a huge problem—the dosage he required had increased. Apart from that, he felt weaker as time passed. Time was corroding his body every second he was alive.

How long do I still have?

Am I able to stay alive until the babies are born?

If I can do that, I will have no regrets when I die.

However, the hospital did not allow him to check the gender of his children. He did not even know if he was expecting a boy or a girl.

I wish I could hug them. If not, just a look at them would suffice… Now I can only hope that Sophia will show me the pictures of the kids when she visits me during my death anniversary…

When Michael returned to the ward, he pretended as though everything was normal even though he was melancholic deep down. His perfect acting skills had successfully hidden everything and no one could tell any difference in him. Sophia thought that all the hardships were finally over and they could look forward to a better future. Unbeknownst to her, one day Michael might suddenly pass away without any reason.

And that would be a quick process—one minute, he could be joking with her and the very next minute, he could become a corpse.

It would happen so fast that she would not even have the time to be shocked and sad about it.

In the ward, Celine was still sobbing. When she saw Michael enter, she pounced on him with a loud wail immediately.

While consoling her, Michael looked at Sophia, who was speaking from the bed.

“Dear, you have to advise Celie. She insists on adopting Nigel but he’s Lucy’s brother. It would be best if she adopts him and since she was the one who brought it up, how can I reject her?”

Michael did not seem to hear Sophia anymore. He just wanted to look at her; he already felt happy enough to look at her just like this.

How good would it be if I can look at her like this for the rest of my life!

Meanwhile, Celine sobbed like a kid. Luckily she still has Justin.

After a while, Justin also entered the room and took Celine aside to console her. And so, Celine kept away the items that Nigel had been using miserably.

Before leaving, Justin shot a look at Sophia, who was speaking to Michael happily about Lucy and Dana as she looked forward to their bright future.

While she was speaking, she laughed like a happy child.

However, she did not know that the person in front of her was going to be gone soon. He would be leaving her and going somewhere that he would never return from.

Thinking about this, tears welled up in Justin’s eyes.

Everyone is so cruel. All the people who know about this are keeping their mouths shut, including myself.

Sophia has no idea at all what she would be facing.

Michael could clearly take the risk. Perhaps he can be revived after 30 years, like Theo.

However, everyone, including Michael, had given up on this opportunity; they had chosen to face death peacefully with dignity.

Everyone is lying to Sophia under the pretense of wanting the best for her. However, who can bear the pain for her when she loses her beloved?

Ten days later, Sophia suddenly wanted to travel to Michel Town in Africa. As it was the summer holidays after all, she planned to bring the kids to see the lions and Judge’s gold-plated claws would have to be polished as well.

Of course, Michael accompanied her with the kids and the dogs. Since Linus and Cooper had a meeting there, they also tagged along.

Theo was also quite bored these days, so he planned to join them for a hunting trip there. In the end, the entire family was on board this trip.

In the plane that flew to Africa, Justin and Celine also brought their children along.

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1460

It has been a while since the entire family went for a trip so Sophia had gone back home to make the necessary preparations. The most dangerous and fragile period during her pregnancy was now over, so her life was pretty stable right now.

As they were planning to live in Africa for a while, they had to make many preparations beforehand.

Michael also helped in the preparation. It’s good to go for a trip there. Since it’s the Michel Family’s turf, they have very good medical facilities there. If any emergencies happen, it could be quickly dealt with. It’s just that the time is too short for me to make the preparations.

Before they headed out, Michael asked all his friends and families over.

Harry, Justin, and Sean, who had become a woman, had arrived.

Michael had a hunch that he might not make it back from Africa this time. He felt that his body was already failing him. Hence, before he left, he had to bid farewell to all his friends. After all, this might be the last time they saw him.

Joel was also here, but not Stanley, because he could not keep any secrets. He did not know about Michael’s health. Otherwise, he might blabber to the entire world about it.

In his own house, Michael drank with them one last time.

Everyone raised their glasses but none felt the past joy when they came over, even though this was Michael’s most generous occasion—he brought out all the best-quality wine that he could not bear to drink from the cellar.

While holding the glass, Michael looked at the people around him—they had known each other for almost three decades. There was Joel who competed with him from a young age, Quinton who changed his entire life, Justin who worked with him for many years, both Harry and Daniel, who had strived hard alongside him, and many others.

Looking back at the past, everything is like a dream.

It’s so surreal.

“Everyone, it’s my honor to meet all of you in this lifetime. Cheers!”

Everyone raised their glasses but a heavy feeling and forced happiness loomed over all of them.

He can actually… What a pity!

After they finished drinking, everyone left with a depressed feeling. Before they left, they saw Sophia burying something in the garden with Carmen digging in the ground happily next to her.

They look so happy now. What a pity! I wonder how long this happiness can last.

Harry and Daniel were the last to leave. Before they left, Michael told them heavily, “After I’m gone, the business and company will be depending on you. I’ve already transferred my shares—chica, Nate, and Celine have parts of it. Oh, and my father also has some of my shares.”

With that, he patted Harry’s shoulders, who merely lowered his head and grunted in agreement. Under such circumstances, Harry had no idea what else he could say.

Michael acted as though he was merely going for a trip, but Harry knew that he would not return after this.

They were about to leave tomorrow and it was highly possible that this was their final reunion.

After toasting to him, Harry drank the wine sullenly and left.

However, when he reached the front door, he could not help but turn back once more.

Michael was about to get up to watch him leave. The afternoon sun shot through the window, casting a long, dreamy shadow behind Michael, who looked as though he just walked out of a dream. In that instant, it was rather surreal, as though the person in front of him was an apparition who could disappear anytime.

We’ve worked together for more than 20 years now.

He still looks the same as before—deep and profound. With just one look at him, I can remember his features immediately. It’s not because of his handsome appearance, but it’s his attractive eyes that have many stories hidden in them.

In that instant, they seemed to travel back to two decades ago at the military training for first-years. Michael was the instructor while Harry was an arrogant delinquent.

Michael had chased after him and hit him until he admitted defeat.

What a pity…

With that, Harry and Daniel left.

“Hubby…”

Sophia, who was at the door, suddenly called out to Michael. After putting down his wine glass, Michael saw Sophia and Celine digging under the tree with the kids, as though they were burying something.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

Celine replied happily, “We are sending presents to our future selves!”

Sophia opened a huge ceramic pot with some accessories inside—jewelry, necklaces, and a picture of the both of them. Carmen had also put her picture into it.

“This is a time capsule! After I bury it, I will wait for another 20 years before opening it again. It will be a present to my future self!” Sophia explained joyfully. While packing, she asked Michael, “Your bottle is placed there. What would you like to give your future self?”

Each of them had a bottle for themselves and there was an empty one that was for Michael.

A time capsule?

What a pity. I’ll be gone soon.

I wonder what I can send to myself.

No one will collect it anyway.

Since Michael knew that he was about to be gone, he wished to decrease the proof of his existence so that the people he loved would get used to the world without him much sooner.

After thinking about it, he shook his head and murmured, “You didn’t inform me before this, so I didn’t prepare anything. I won’t put anything into it now.”

Carmen took Michael’s bottle and put her belongings into it—the keychain that she made herself, her pictures, and her crayon drawings.

Even Judge ran over to put a ball into it for his future grandson.

“Celie, what are you putting into it?” Michael crouched and looked at Celine’s time capsule.

“Good food!” Celine replied happily, to which Sophia immediately muttered, “I already told you many times that you shouldn’t put food into it. After a few days, it will turn bad. A year later, everything will already be rotten!”

However, Celine insisted on putting food into the bottle. Apart from that, she also put a picture of her and Michael when they were kids into it. Their miniscule selves looked exactly the same as they took the picture, standing next to each other while holding hands.

Looking at the picture, Michael smiled bitterly.

There were four holes under the tree, each for burying Sophia, Michael, Carmen, and Celine’s time capsules. After they buried it, Celine even planted a small tree on top. Since it was probably not a good idea to plant trees in the summer, she asked their servants to look after it everyday.

As they were leaving the next day, both Sophia and Carmen had gone to bed early. When midnight came, Michael quietly walked out and dug up the spots where they buried the time capsules during the day. He opened Sophia’s bottle that contained her favorite things and a picture of them taken a few days ago.

There were only both of them in the picture that was taken at the hospital and they had blissful smiles on their faces.

Everything seemed to have stopped the day before.

Michael took a small box that he prepared—it was a present for Sophia, Celine, and Carmen.

He gave Carmen a lipstick. Even though it could not be used after it was dug out, he felt that as a father, he should give his daughter something symbolic.

He also gave Celine some knick-knacks, but he left a letter for Sophia.