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alling for My Old Husband (sophia edwards and michael fletcher) Chapter 921

Sophia really wanted to know when did she suddenly have a best friend that she grew up with. Her name, Lucile Michel, was a name that Cooper had come up with when they were returning to Cethos. This meant that she appeared out of nowhere and before her appearance, Cooper had always been bachelor with no children and no wives.

Even the Michel Family only knew about Cooper’s daughter and few have ever seen her.

How can Abby be lucky enough to have grown up with me?

“You probably don’t know this, but Abbie was brought up by the Michel Family and she is Miss Lucile’s best friend!” Sandra deliberately raised her voice, afraid that Sophia couldn’t hear her. She was a living example of a b*tch who relied on the power of others.

Sophia glanced at Abbie and noticed that she didn’t look guilty at all. Instead, she looked rather confident, as if she had really grown up with Lucile and was her best friend.

She has pretty good acting skills.

Sophia’s eyes looked around as she tried to guess at Abbie’s intentions.

Abby is definitely a liar. I don’t even know when I suddenly had a best friend. Is Sandra being deceived by her, or are they working together to blackmail people? If it’s the latter, their courage is admirable but if it’s the former, then it’s interesting… However, no matter what, this house belongs to me and it’s my name on the title. How can I let these two take away what’s mine?

“Well, I’ve met her now. People who can grow up together with Miss Lucile sure are extraordinary. Dimon, see them off.”

With that, Sophia carefully stepped on the green stones in the courtyard with the new fur boots that she had just bought and walked toward the house.

“Stop right there!”

Sandra suddenly grabbed at Sophia and she said in a serious tone, “Sophia, didn’t you hear what I just said? Abbie fell in love with this house. If you don’t give this house up, the Mitchell Family, and even Cethos, will suffer! The power that the Michel Family has is beyond your imagination!”

Sophia wanted to laugh. Even Cethos will have to suffer? I know a lot about the Michel Family’s power. Although they have power overseas, they don’t have much influence in Cethos. In the past, Cooper had no intentions of developing the power of the Michel Family, and only began to gradually develop the company in Cethos a few days ago. Even if the Michel Family has great development in Cethos, they are just a family. How would they dare to go against the world’s most populous country?

Sophia clasped Sandra’s hand that was holding her arm tightly and pushed it away. Then, she said, “I know that the Michel Family is powerful, but this is Cethos. If I don’t agree to give up this house, is the Michel Family going to send an army to forcefully take it from me?”

The left corner of Sophia’s lips curled upwards as she continued, “If you really want to lead an army to take over this place, please notify me beforehand. I’ll obediently move out.”

Even though Sophia wasn’t sure whether Abbie and Sandra were partners or Sandra was being fooled, she was too lazy to expose them. She just watched as the two of them continued to lie.

Sooner or later, I’ll settle these accounts and punish them for their crimes together!

After pushing away Sandra’s hand, Sophia walked toward the main building. All of sudden, she remembered something and without looking back, she announced, “By the way, I have already dealt with the matter. Sandra, you’ll be receiving the court’s subpoena soon!”

When Sophia walked past Abbie, she saw Abbie’s eyes glaring at her with resentment, contempt and anger, much like a superior staring at a lowly servant. Her makeup was really thick and the blue in her contact lenses was exaggerated. Staring at Sophia, Abbie said nothing.

Sophia merely glanced at her for a moment before she looked away and rolled her eyes. Seeing this, Abbie glared at her with her thick brows raised, which made her look a little fierce.

However, Sophia only took two steps forward before she heard Sandra give an order, “There’s no need to talk nonsense. Guards, drive everyone in this house out of here!”

Sandra was determined to take over the house that day. After all, Abbie liked the house and as her pet, Sandra had to do everything she could to please her. After kicking Sophia and Cooper out of the house, Abbie would be pleased and no one would hold her accountable.

To go against the Michel Family is to die!

The dozen men that Sandra brought over immediately rushed forward and headed to the main building. However, Dimon, Roger and the others stood still and folded their arms as they waited for a show to happen. Meanwhile, Sophia continued to walk slowly toward the main building. She was wearing a cotton bodycon dress that showed off her slender figure. Then, she slowly raised four fingers and said, “Siri, they brought four cars so just let four of them go. Take care of the rest.”

As soon as she finished speaking, it was as if the air was compressed and the atmosphere became tense. The people from the Mitchell Family all felt a great sense of danger but they didn’t know where it was coming from. Suddenly, the dozens of bodyguards dressed in black that Sandra brought over fell to the ground silently.

There was no sound, no resistance, and no struggle as they fell straight to the ground. Everything happened in one second. After taking a closer look, there were needle marks on their necks. The dozen of men fell to the ground in an instant and only Sandra, Abbie, and two other bodyguards were left standing. The people from Sophia’s side were all watching the excitement, none of them harmed.

It was a precise strike and was extremely accurate. The Siri system was a residential defense system that Cooper installed. When someone uninvited broke into the house, the system would intelligently identify the person before carrying out a precise attack.

This was something Cooper installed after being provoked when Carmen was captured by Celine.

After the attack, Sandra and Abbie were shocked and they stood there stunned as they glanced at the dozen men that had suddenly fallen to the ground. The other two bodyguards that were standing also turned pale and they hurriedly escorted Sandra and Abby toward the door.

Sophia looked back and glanced at the group of men on the ground. Then, she looked at the two bodyguards standing there but didn’t say a thing. All of a sudden, two huskies rushed out of the building and greeted her enthusiastically. And so, Sophia petted the two dogs and went into the main building.

Only the four people who were dumbfounded were left at the scene. Sophia was kind enough to leave them with four people, and two of them were bodyguards that could drag the others into the car.

Abbie trembled in fear as she opened the door and quickly ran out. When Sandra came back to her senses, her first reaction was joy.

“Sophia, you’re in big trouble now! Big trouble!”

Sophia’s alpaca spit on Abbie’s head the last time, but Abbie may let her go for the sake of the house. However, this time, not only did she not get the house, she was even humiliated by Sophia. Abbie will definitely make her pay for the consequences.

With that, Sandra ran away with Abbie. She was waiting for the violent storm to come because she knew that the Michel Family would definitely punish Sophia.

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 922

There were only two of Sandra’s bodyguards left at the scene and they didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t right for them to leave or stay. If they left, they couldn’t just leave their other companions on the ground; they didn’t look dead and it was as if they were in deep sleep. However, if they stayed, it was possible that they may be the ones who fall next.

Fortunately for them, Dimon was kind enough to tell them what to do. After all, he used to work for Sandra’s side of the Mitchell Family. He told the two bodyguards to drive the car to the back door and one by one, they carried the bodyguards on the ground into the car. Moreover, he even warned them to never come back because they couldn’t afford to offend this family.

In the end, they drove away in two different cars filled with bodyguards who were sound asleep.

They are horrifying! As expected, Alex is no match for Cooper!

After this incident, a group of people who used to side with Alex chose to side with Cooper one after another. Cooper started from scratch after he returned to Cethos but now, he gradually became equals with Alex.

After Sophia entered the house, she went into the living room and saw that Michael and Sean had returned. After they left the police station, they went shopping for a while before they came home via the garage. However, when Sophia heard that Sandra was here again, she hurried to go in through the front door to watch the excitement and have a look at Abbie, who claimed that she grew up with her.

Cooper was also in the living room, getting ready for dinner. Carmen was in her father’s arms and Judge—who had a head full of braids—sat beside her, looking at Michael sincerely.

Then, Carmen asked, “Daddy, does Judge look like a wolf?”

Michael frowned and glanced at Judge, who had braids all over his head, before he gave an honest reply. “No.”

Hearing this, Carmen pouted and said, “You’re lying, Daddy. Grandpa said that Judge is a Siberian sled wolf!”

Michael stole a glance at Cooper, wondering what trick Carmen had up her sleeve. However, since Cooper already said that Judge looked like a wolf, he couldn’t say otherwise. Hence, Michael hurriedly nodded and replied, “Yes; Grandpa is right.”

Upon hearing that, Carmen was overjoyed. “Then can Judge play the role of a wolf in the movie?”

Michael had a sudden realization. So that’s what she wants.

There are some dramas which like to mock the audience by using Samoyeds to play the role of a fox and huskies to play the role of a wolf. However, my movie naturally won’t be such an eyesore so the director decided to use real wolves and special effects… If Judge enters the set, he might be shredded to pieces!

In a serious tone, Michael said, “I’m afraid it is not suitable for Judge to act as a wolf!”

Carmen continued to pout her lips and argued, “But Grandpa said yes! Are you questioning Grandpa’s judgement?”

Michael quickly glanced at Cooper, only to find Cooper glaring at him sternly. Seeing this, Michael hurriedly looked away.

This little girl is getting good at playing tricks! She knows that I won’t agree so she asked Cooper to back her up! Cooper already said that Judge is a wolf, so how can I refuse? Of course I can’t!

Which was why Michael had no choice but to agree. “Alright then. I’ll be heading to the set the day after tomorrow and I’ll bring Judge. I’ll let him be a wolf in the movie!”

A glint instantly appeared in Carmen’s eyes and she said, “Then, can I get Judge’s pay first?”

Michael frowned. This girl… She is doing all of this for money, isn’t she?

He pulled out 200 from his pocket and said, “Here’s Judge’s pay. Carmen, you’ll have to help me pay it to Judge!”

With that, Carmen happily took the money and left with the dog.

After she walked out of the door, she stuffed a 100 into her pocket and gave Judge the other 100.

“Judgey, the other 100 is my referral fee.”

With his tongue out, Judge licked his bill happily and carried it to his piggy bank in his cage.

Meanwhile in the living room. Michael commented, “I will take Judge to the set but I can’t let that silly dog play the role of a wolf. It will ruin the movie.”

Cooper silently agreed.

Raising a granddaughter is giving me a headache. In order to earn 200 from Michael, she was willing to drag me into this. The reason she wants Judge to play the role of a wolf is definitely because of the money. Knowing her, at least half of the 200 will enter her pocket. What a corrupt and shrewd capitalist!

Cooper untied the braids on his head and put the colorful little rubber bands on his wrists. However, a few seconds after Michael finished speaking, he suddenly heard a long howl filled with grief coming from the doghouse. Truth was, it was as ferocious as a wolf’s howl. Michael was so shocked that he hurriedly covered his mouth.

Oh no! I forgot Cooper installed Judge’s ears and his hearing is so good, he can hear people snacking on the third floor all the way from the first floor.

Judge probably heard Michael speak ill of him and he barked non stop as he rushed over, as if he was scolding Michael.

Who are you calling silly? You’re the silly one! Your whole family is silly! How dare you call me a silly dog? I’ll bite your wife as revenge!

Sophia just happened to finish changing into comfy clothes. As soon as she entered the room, Judge rushed over and bit the bottom of her pants.

“What are you doing, silly dog?”

Seeing this, Michael and Cooper stood up almost at the same time, rushing over to capture Judge. Although they were really noisy, the family looked harmonious. Judge ran around, as if he wanted to demolish the 5 million house. After chasing him for a while, they finally locked him in a cage. In the end, Sophia, Michael, and Cooper were covered in dog fur. They glanced at each other, feeling speechless.

Michael continued to stay in the house that day. After all, Cooper’s attention was focused on finding his son and had no time to care about him at all, so he could boldly eat and stay in the house.

The next day, Sophia and Michael jointly held a press conference and many reporters came.

Flash lights shone on them from time to time and camera shutters echoed throughout the room. The cameras captured Michael dressed handsomely in a suit and leather shoes, and Sophia, who had made the effort to dress up. The two of them looked like a great match and they even had their wedding rings on their fingers.

As soon as the press conference started, Michael began to make a few statements about the recent events.

“For starters, Miss Sophia Edwards and I are not divorced. We have a harmonious relationship and a daughter. We even plan to have a second child. As for the speculation of Sophia’s identity, I hereby announce that Miss Edwards is also Scarlett Mitchell, the daughter of Cooper Mitchell, chairman of Mitchell Energy and Technology. Three years ago, she and I were injured from being trampled by a group of crazy fans. Later on, she went abroad to find her biological father, Mr. Mitchell, and changed her name. Because of what happened back then, I retired from the entertainment industry and didn’t make any statement on this matter, ignoring the widespread news on the internet that Miss Edwards and I were killed.”

Back then, news about his death was reported everywhere, but he ignored all of them. Instead, he searched the world for his wife and had no time to deal with the fake reports.

As soon as Michael finished his statement, there was an instant uproar. Even though there were rumors about Sophia and Scarlett being the same person circling around Bayside City since a long time ago, it was just a wild guess. However, at that moment, Sophia had admitted it herself. The reporters were agitated.

Then, Michael began his second statement. “As for Miss Sandra’s irresponsible remarks, I will hold her accountable! Miss Sandra Mitchell is a former world champion. I cannot imagine that she would make such remarks. Not only did she spread rumors about my divorce, she even insulted my wife in public and colluded with underworld forces to go to our house in Riverdale and insult my wife for no reason! As Sophia’s husband, I’m infuriated by Miss Sandra’s actions and I have great doubts about her character!”

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 923

Meanwhile in the Mitchell Residence, Sandra was watching the news and when she heard what Michael said, she was so furious she flung the remote control to the ground.

I didn’t expect the two of them to work together to deceive the public! It was clear that they were divorced. Are they trying to get back together?

After giving it some thought, Sandra called Abbie. After all, Abbie was a member of the Michel Family. The Michel Family’s power used to be focused abroad but now, it was gradually seeping into Bayside City.

Nobody in Bayside City will dare to disobey Abbie. As long as she gives the order, we’ll definitely find proof of Sophia and Michael’s divorce…

At the press conference, the agitated reporters asked numerous questions about their children, Sophia, and about Sandra, but Michael didn’t answer any of them and left in a hurry.

After the press conference, Sophia and Michael came out of the parking garage. Michael pulled the door open for Sophia and there was a shining ring on his ring finger that was part of a matching set with the ring on Sophia’s ring finger, as if they were destined to be together.

After they got in the car, Michael looked at the ring and said, “The rumors are still spreading and Sandra will definitely find a way to get proof of our divorce, so don’t take your ring off for the time being.”

Sophia nodded and lowered her head to admire her ring. This ring suits me very well. Michael and I must’ve spent a lot of effort in choosing our wedding rings back then!

Now that they had divorced, not only did they have to pay attention to Carmen’s feelings, they had to protect Michael’s public image, which was why they couldn’t disclose their divorce.

I wonder how Sandra found out about it. From now on, we must pay attention to not let the news leak out.

After admiring the ring, Sophia said, “I will follow up with the lawsuit so you can be rest assured to go to the set and shoot the movie.”

Michael nodded in response and the two of them drove home.

Cooper wasn’t home because he was out looking for his son. According to Michael’s subordinate’s report, they were investigating couples who emigrated out of Riverdale twenty-seven years ago, which was quite a wide range of people.

Michael planned to create some obstacles for Cooper and then appear when Cooper was at his most anxious and give some clues, effectively showing Michael’s importance…

However, this plan was extremely dangerous. Michael was dipping his toes in the water and he was at risk of being chopped into pieces. If Cooper found out about this, Michael would be shredded and be made into minced meat!

After dinner, Michael went back to the guest room when he received a call from Harry.

“Hey, hurry up and come to the set. You’re the male lead. If you don’t come back, the whole crew will be a mess!”

Harry already knew that Michael was up to no good and he was right. Michael was eating and living in Cooper’s house like a shameless person again!

I’m sure Cooper is dying to get rid of him!

“I’ll be back tomorrow,” Michael replied. “You’ll have to help me handle the situation first.”

After he hung up, Michael logged onto his Messenger to chat with Sophia. Coincidentally, as soon as he opened the application, he saw that Sophia had sent him a message.

‘Didn’t you say that you would make an announcement about bringing Carmen on a reality show? Why didn’t you?’

Michael typed out a response, ‘I won’t announce it for the time being. Carmen is young and inexperienced, so I’m afraid that she won’t get used to it. If she doesn’t like it, they will delete our scenes during post production. It’s written in the contract that I signed.’

Sophia sent him a red heart emoji as a reply.

Seeing this, Michael sent another text. ‘Furthermore, the goal of this press conference is to sue Sandra. If we make an announcement about Carmen, the attention of the reporters will inevitably shift to her.’

The two chatted and they sent voice messages, texts, and even video called each other, talking about Carmen and Sandra.

Sandra’s behavior this time truly offended Michael. People thought that he had abandoned his wife and there were even some small papers that spread rumors Sophia had a chaotic life, saying that she had an affair and was kicked out of the house. In the end, Sandra couldn’t stand it so she came forward to criticize them.

However, Sophia felt that it was not the right time to take revenge on Sandra yet. She wanted Sandra to be completely humiliated, just like how she treated Natasha back then! Sophia wanted to make her feel ashamed and ruin her father’s reputation again and again!

After Sandra came to Cooper’s house and made a scene yesterday, there were some people from Alex’s side who secretly came over to side with Cooper.

Cooper will be the one to crush them upfront and I’ll be the one who will trick them behind the scenes!

Sophia had hired someone to investigate Abbie and found out that she had been really active in Bayside City lately.

Sandra is probably tricked by her. In order to please Abby, she has already spent a lot of money. I have a hunch that she will do something foolish soon!

The two of them chatted until ten o’clock when Sophia said, “Carmen is asleep. I should go to sleep now.”

Hearing this, Michael hurriedly said, “I’m leaving tomorrow. I want to see you.”

There was a long silence, as if she was putting on a facial mask. Finally, she typed out a response, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea. It’s my time of the month today.’

Time of the month…

Seeing this, Michael instantly felt enthusiastic and a glint appeared in his eyes. He hurriedly stood up and typed on his phone with one hand while he put on his clothes with the other.

‘It’s okay; I’ll be careful and I won’t take things too far.’

Sophia replied to him with a shy emoji and sent him a text. ‘The doors are already closed.’

Although she seems to be refusing me, I have a feeling that she secretly wants me there. Michael was so happy, he was on cloud nine. He hurriedly put on a pair of sneakers and walked out briskly as he typed, ‘No problem. Turn off Siri; I’ll be there soon.’

After a while, Sophia replied, ‘I’ve already turned it off. It will take ten minutes for the system to restart. Come over.’

Michael almost flew out of the living room and went outside to sneak around. It seems like no one is around. The Siri system covers the whole house and it’ll notice even if a mouse appears in the corner, let alone a human.

However, ten minutes was all Michael needed.

When he arrived outside the mistress’ residence where Sophia lived, he looked over the wall and saw faint light shining in a small room.

That’s where Sophia is!

Unfortunately, the door was locked. Michael touched the cold door and glanced at the high wall.

It was too late to ask someone to pick the lock, so the only option was to jump over the wall. Michael estimated the height of the wall and calculated the best distance for a run-up. He took a few steps back, sprinted, and jumped onto the wall in a few steps. His new sneakers didn’t even leave any footprints on the wall.

Then, he silently stood on the wall and looked around the Edwards residence under the moonlight. Michael was familiar with every corner of this house because he often came here to shoot movies and have a holiday. Later, he sneakily jumped to the ground, climbed up to the second floor from the outside of the building, and went to the small room with the light on.

Standing outside on the balcony, Michael straightened his clothes and knocked gently on the door. Soon, he saw a figure moving from inside the room and he even heard some laughter.

Michael turned around and glanced at the wall that he had just leaped over, feeling pleased with himself.

Fortunately, I have had some training so walls of this height aren’t hard for me to jump over! Hmm… Come to think of it, jumping over a wall to meet a beautiful woman is pretty heroic and artistic!

Sophia soon came and opened the door. Even though the Siri system was turned off, the surveillance cameras were still on. From the surveillance, she saw Michael jump and climb the wall and she was moved.

I won’t take things too far…

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 924

It was November and it had started to snow in Bayside City, with snowflakes falling from the sky all day long. When Michael climbed over the wall, he was covered in snow. As soon as Sophia opened the door, a gush of warm air blew toward him, taking the chills away from him.

After they closed the door and went into the room, it felt warm and cozy. Then, he reached out and pulled her soft, warm body into his arms. This was the first time they had intimate contact since that incident happened to Carmen.

He hugged that small warm body tightly, as if it was his entire world. Then, he gently kissed her face and her forehead, feeling her skin on his lips. At last, he gave her red lips a kiss before gradually deepening the kiss.

Feeling that long-lost warmth, he felt that he was a wayward traveller who suddenly found his home.

It was only after a long kiss that Sophia said, “Keep it down…”

Michael looked around her small room, which was decorated quaintly while an incense was burning. Meanwhile, Carmen was sleeping next door. She had her own room and would sleep with her nanny at night. Sometimes, she would come over and sleep with Sophia.

Sophia had taken a shower and changed her clothes and was waiting for him.

Seeing that, Michael didn’t hold back and threw her fragrant body over his shoulder. Then, he laid her on the bed and gently used his weight to press her down, as if she was a precious gem.

It was midnight when Cooper’s voice suddenly rang from downstairs.

“Darling, why aren’t you asleep?”

At the second floor in Sophia’s room, Sophia suddenly tensed up and she tightened her arms around Michael out of reflex, who was on top of her. He had been rubbing against her but she had resisted letting him in. Taking that opportunity, Michael rushed in and invaded, startling Sophia and causing her to moan softly. However, she quickly held herself back the next moment, because she was afraid that Cooper would notice someone was in her room.

That being said, she still had to answer so she raised her voice and replied, “I’m going to sleep now.”

Then, she turned off the night light, allowing darkness to devour the room. It was only then that Cooper’s footsteps receded downstairs.

Listening to the fading footsteps, Michael was finally bold enough to continue his business without scruples, whereas Sophia had her heart in her mouth for the whole night.

The next day before the sun rose, Michael crept out of the room. On the other hand, Sophia was paralysed on the bed like a puddle of melted snow after a whole night of vigorous exercise, trying to recover. The maid even had to send breakfast to her room. When Cooper asked about that, Sophia used the weather change and snow as an excuse, claiming that she didn’t feel well and needed some rest.

That day, Carmen woke up early and went to the dining room to have her breakfast. In the dining room, Michael and Cooper were staring at each other.

If Carmen wasn’t around, Cooper would have chased Michael off.

Carmen wore a pink cotton-padded jacket and a cute kitty hat, all the while sucking milk from a bottle, enjoyment written on her face. Noticing that Cooper was glaring at Michael with his huge eyes, she pouted her lips and asked, “Grandpa, are you hating on my daddy again?”

Cooper immediately tried to clarify the situation. “Of course not. Your daddy is my son-in-law, which is equivalent to my son. Why would I dislike my own son?”

Listening to Cooper’s words that were gritted out from clenched teeth, Michael suddenly felt that he was taken advantage of. Yet, there was nothing he could do about it, so Cooper took advantage of that opportunity.

Michael could only bow his head and eat quietly while holding Carmen in his lap.

Snow was falling and it was the right time to shoot the scene in the snowy mountain. Therefore, he had to grab the opportunity to finish filming before the new year so that he could go home.

Once he thought about spending two or three months without meeting his cutie-pie and darling, his heart felt bitter.

His baby was the most adorable being in the world. Every part of her was bursting with cuteness and even her breath sparkled with pink bubbles, tempting him to hold her in his arms for the whole day, giving her kisses and lifting her up in the air.

Michael hugged Carmen and stroked her head. At the same time, he kissed her cheeks and couldn’t help but graze his chin against her face.

At the side, Cooper watched them in jealousy while Michael hugged Carmen for more than ten minutes. When it seemed like he wasn’t going to stop soon, Cooper couldn’t stand it anymore and muttered, “Enough. You can hand me Carmen and leave now!”

He then reached out and snatched Carmen over, causing Michael to mouth some curse words at him. After finishing his meal, Michael finally left.

On the other hand, Linus was trying to suppress his laughter the whole time, amused by how childish these two were.

After Michael packed all his things, the car was ready as well. Walking out of the guest room, he glanced at the mistress’ residence. Sophia must still be asleep since she almost got wounded from last night’s activities, so she probably wouldn’t send him off. Anyway, he didn’t want his farewell to be too saddening, so he left dejectedly by car.

In the car, Michael somehow had an intuition that he had forgotten to bring something.

It was snowing again today and the yard was covered with a thin layer of snow. Since Cooper was still in the midst of an important mission to search for his son, he went out after bringing Carmen for a stroll around the yard.

Coincidentally, Linus was going to pass by Carmen’s new kindergarten when he went to work, so he dropped her off on the way.

Only Sophia slept all the way to noon. When she woke up and pulled the curtains apart to look outside, it was still snowing. She then got down from the bed on her two aching legs that she couldn’t keep closed. Not only that, she had to walk carefully with her butt perked.

Even worse, it was torture to put on her pants as everything was burning in pain.

After she got up and had some food, she realized that everyone had left home and she felt empty.

But when she finished her meal, she suddenly heard a few grievous howls of a wolf.

The next second, Judge rushed in wearing a flowery dress while howling unhappily at Sophia.

“Oh—haven’t you left? Why are you still here?”

Sophia patted his head. Last night, Michael promised to take him to shoot a movie. By right, Judge should be with him now since he had left, so why was Judge still here?

Could it be that Michael had forgotten about him?

Well… It might be a good thing that Michael had forgotten. She couldn’t imagine how ridiculous the film would be once it was aired, showing a husky among a pack of wolves. After all, that was a serious, heroic film so it shouldn’t be degraded by Judge’s dumbness.

“Alright, alright. He’s gone and will be on the plane by now. I’m afraid you won’t make it this time. How about next time? Next time, you’ll surely be cast in a movie as a wolf.”

Sophia comforted the dog by patting its head and saying, “I won’t work today. Instead, I’ll make a video of you and post it on Twitter so you’ll be famous, alright?”

Feeling indignant, Judge howled at Sophia and gobbled up a huge bowl of dog food at noon. Sophia thought that he was stuffing himself out of sadness but to her astonishment, he was filling himself with energy to later destroy the house.

Knowing that he was abandoned, Judge went berserk and started to tear apart furniture at home after his lunch. He not only ripped the table, stool, sofa and carpet, he even chewed Sophia’s shoes, shirt, dog and alpaca, causing Bubbles to whine and the alpaca to flee around the house. He was so mad that he even attacked his own sons, chasing them around the house and biting them. As a result of the dogs’ fight, the floor was covered with fur. Not only that, Judge even attacked his beloved kitten, Chrysanthemum, and almost pulled all its fur out.

Sophia knew that she was at fault but Michael had already left, and she couldn’t possibly ask him to come back because of Judge. Therefore, she locked Judge in his cage to calm him down.

Unexpectedly, he managed to chew through the cage bars and escape. He was like a ferocious wolf that ran out of the mountain, digging a hole through the door with its claw that was as strong as titanium. There were holes everywhere, as if a groundhog was let loose in the house. Judge even rushed into the living room and scooped out Cooper’s old tortoise from the huge fish tank in the living room and threw it into the pond outside.

Sophia started to panic and immediately asked someone to scoop the tortoise from the pool. However, the pond was about one or two meters deep and once the tortoise was thrown in it, it couldn’t be found.

That caused fear to take over Sophia since the tortoise was Cooper’s darling, which he had taken care of for many years!

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That tortoise was brought back by Cooper during a camping trip with the other Fletchers when he was young, and he had since secretly kept it in the Fletcher Residence. Later on when he left, he didn’t bring that tortoise with him and left it and his cat with Mark, of which Mark took care of them for years on his behalf. The cat then bore a litter of kittens, whereas that tortoise was still that tortoise. After that, Sophia inherited that tortoise and took care of it for a few years. When she was captured by Phantom Wolf, Michael took over the responsibility and pampered it for another few years.

Now that Cooper had returned, he had taken back the tortoise.

It was a tortoise that had experienced all vicissitudes of life and was even older than Sophia!

Since the tortoise lived in the house, it never hibernated but now that it was out in the snow, it must have decided to hibernate and there was no trace of it. To make things more difficult, the water in the pond wasn’t stagnant and it was so cold that it could cut through the bone. In addition, it had almost frozen to ice.

This was bad. Once Cooper found that his precious darling was gone when he came home, he would surely make Judge into a stew.

Judge had lost his mind and tried to commit suicide by jumping into the pond, creating huge splashes of water. Everyone worked together to scoop him out of the water but as soon as he was out, he dashed into Sophia’s room like a bullet.

He even jumped up onto the bed, rolled under the blanket and shook out his fur in the room!

Words couldn’t describe how frustrated Sophia was.

After half a day of work, they managed to finally scoop out the tortoise and bathe the dog. They even cleaned the room and bed, as well as reignited the incense. After giving Judge a bath, he was locked in his dog house, whining and crying because Sophia couldn’t hold it in and smacked his butt. Judge was so upset that no one could cheer him up, not even his beloved kitten.

Worn out both physically and mentally, Sophia called Michael.

“Michael, where are you now?”

She thought that he must have reached the set by now but to her surprise, Michael muttered, “I was stuck in a massive traffic jam on the way to the airport once I left the city. When I finally reached the airport, I found out that flights are restricted today due to the snow, so our plane is not allowed to take off. Therefore, I’m now stuck in the traffic again, on my way back to the city. There are a few accidents along the way so the road is congested.”

Sophia gasped in astonishment and asked, “What will you do? Won’t it delay the shooting?”

Michael sighed. “The route that the plane applied for is banned so it’s impossible to take off today. Even the flights in the airport are restricted so most of them can’t depart. I’ve applied for leave from the film crew and they understand the situation. Besides, Celie is doing great lately, so everything’s fine.”

“If that’s the case, you should come back,” Sophia advised. “Judge made a ruckus at home because you forgot about him.”

Michael paused for a while before he murmured, “If I come back, will you allow me to have some fun? I promise I won’t take things too far!”

Instantly, Sophia’s face flushed bright red.

Damn it! He was flirting with her over a call.

Talking with Michael on the phone was like listening to the handsome male lead in a drama, his voice so magnetic it was rousing her desire.

“I hate you!”

Sophia hung up the phone immediately.

On the other end of the line, Michael ended the call with his face glowing radiantly. Looking at his phone’s wallpaper, he couldn’t help but smile.

Meanwhile, Daniel, who was sitting opposite him, was speechless.

In reality, Michael didn’t go to the airport. Instead, he went to Reverie Mountain.

The mountain was covered in a vast expanse of white snow and opposite him sat Daniel, whom Michael hadn’t met for a long time.

One third of a year, Daniel would be in Bayside City while another one third of a year, he would be travelling around the world. As for the remaining four months, he would stay on Reverie Mountain. When he heard that Cooper came back last year, he packed all his things and fled overnight.

Recently, there was a rumor that Cooper liked to chop up humans into minced meat to make eggplant with minced meat. That further forced Daniel to hide in fear. Lately, he felt that the incident was blown over so he finally had the guts to secretly appear. Even so, he only dared to hide himself in Reverie Mountain.

His master passed away last year, so he had come back to take over Reverie Mountain’s business and recently, the business was reopened secretly.

Yet, he didn’t dare to open it publicly and had his heart in his mouth the whole time, afraid that Cooper would rush up the mountain and chop him up into a thousand strips of meat.

Today, Michael purposely traveled up the mountain to meet him and explained his objective.

“My friend, it’s not that I don’t want to help you but this is not an easy task!”

It turned out that Michael, that jerk, asked him to go down the mountain and fool Cooper into marrying her daughter to him!

He was already hated by Cooper for his whole life by selling his daughter for 80 thousand. Therefore, showing up in front of him would be equivalent to digging his own grave!

Taking a sip of the fragrant tea, Michael said, “I noticed that Cooper placed a statue of God of Wealth at home recently and he even burns incense every day. I think that he still believes in god and spirits. You’re great at this and you have the highest prestige in this matter. Besides, there’s history between the Levine Family and Cooper so if you take this matter into your hands, you’ll get twice the result for half the effort.”

Back when Cooper was born, he actually had a twin but that baby died prematurely. Afraid that the other baby wouldn’t survive, Woody went up the mountain overnight to find Daniel’s grandfather and requested for a safety amulet. He followed Old Master Levine’s instructions and found Cooper a godfather that could protect his life, which turned out to be Mark.

The ancestors of the Levine Family were distinguished people. During the former feudal era, they were the teachers of the states and imperial astronomers. Even after the former dynasty ended, they were still extraordinary people; even the founding ceremony date was set by Old Master Levine.

The Levine Family also peacefully weathered through the few superstition abolishing activities in Cethos.

If Daniel took charge of the matter, it was impossible for him to become a dish of eggplant and minced meat. After all, Cooper wore the amulet from the Levine Family in the past and he attached great importance to these superstitious matters now. Therefore, he wouldn’t harm Daniel.

However, Daniel rejected his request without even giving it a thought. “No way. I’m scared!”

Hence, Michael had to resort to both coercion and bribery. “I’ll renovate your temple. Plus, I’ll shoot my next movie here and advertise this place for free. I’ll also build another two cable cars up the mountain for you.”

Unfortunately, money wasn’t tempting to Daniel because he had countless sponsors for his temple. In fact, all the wealthy tycoons in Bayside City would kneel and beg him to accept their money.

In the end, Michael took out his phone and opened Judge’s Twitter. Then, he showed Daniel the video where Judge was ripping apart the house that was posted by Sophia.

Good gracious! That dog bit everything that was in its way and even chewed through the steel cage. He was so strong when he went berserk that even a few muscular men couldn’t control him. Everything in Sophia’s house was broken and torn to pieces. As expected from a husky, it was like a demolishing machine.

While Sophia was recording it, Judge destroyed another steel cage.

Michael threatened, “If you don’t agree, this dog will appear in your temple tomorrow.”

Daniel was speechless as he looked at his wooden temple, which would definitely not withstand Judge’s destruction, and agreed reluctantly.

After receiving Daniel’s answer, Michael left the mountain and headed toward the city center.

From the very beginning, he had come up with a bunch of excuses to go back and spend the night. Apparently, luck was on his side so he had a solid reason to go and spend the night, because he needed to get the dog.

After going down the mountain, he went back to Riverdale and spent some time at the company. As soon as he was done checking his endorsement progress, he went to fetch Carmen from the kindergarten and by the time he got home, it was just in time for dinner.

When he reached home, Judge howled and rushed up to him. As soon as Judge pounced on him, he whined as if he suffered from great indignation. Seeing that Michael was here again, Cooper knitted his eyebrows and asked, “Mr. Fletcher, why are you here again?”

Hugging Judge, Michael smiled politely and replied, “Sophia asked me to get the dog. Besides, my flight is restricted today so I can’t take off, hence my presence.”

Cooper threw an icy look at that stupid whining dog. He knew that Michael did that on purpose just to have an excuse to come back again!

Michael could leave his dog behind today and tomorrow, he would forget his ID card, wallet or even himself! Regardless of anything, he wouldn’t leave.

When it was dinner, Michael rolled his eyes and asked calmly, “Mr. Mitchell, how is the progress of finding your son?”

Before Cooper could answer, Carmen, who was in Linus’ arms, corrected him sternly, “Why are you calling him Mr. Mitchell? You should call him Daddy!”

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Call Cooper his dad?

How could he do such a shameful thing?

However, Carmen stared at Michael vigilantly, causing him to be in an awkward position.

All this while, he had been trying his best to create a perfect family atmosphere for Carmen, where all family members loved and cared for each other. He felt that children would only grow happily under that harmonious atmosphere.

Seeing that Michael refused to call Cooper ‘Daddy’, Carmen pouted her lips and asked, “Did you and Mommy really have a divorce?”

“Of course not,” Michael immediately replied. “That’s not true!”

Out of anger, Carmen put her feeding bottle down and argued with Michael, “Then why don’t you call grandpa ‘Daddy’? Even our neighbor Luna’s father calls Luna’s grandfather ‘Daddy’!”

Furrowing his eyebrows, Michael looked at Cooper while Cooper looked back at him.

At last, Michael bit the bullet and said, “Dad!”

Upon hearing that, Cooper was utterly disgusted.

He refused to have such an old son!

The feeling of being called a dad by someone only a few years younger than him was indescribable and absolutely disgusting!

Noticing the disgust that was hidden in Cooper’s eyes, Michael scolded him inwardly.

How dare he feel disgusted after receiving such honor? How rude of him!

Since young, he had never liked Cooper because he always set himself above the masses, suffocating his peers with his superiority. Now, he disliked him even more but because he was Sophia’s father, he forced himself to grow fond of him no matter how much he hated him.

Michael’s acting skills were superb and it seemed like he was very willing to call Cooper dad. Seeing that, Carmen was satisfied and she continued to drink her milk.

After that awkward moment, Michael and Cooper got down to business.

“Actually, I think that you should change your method of finding your son. Why don’t you go to the mountain to burn some incense, worship gods and read your own fortune? Perhaps you’ll receive some hints…”

Annoyed, Cooper knitted his eyebrows and said, “Can you pay attention to your food, Mr. Fletcher?”

Michael shut his mouth and stopped talking, afraid that he would expose his intentions. It would be disastrous if Cooper realized what he was up to.

However, Carmen got mad. She put down her bottle again and shouted angrily at Cooper, “Mr. Fletcher? He’s Mikey!”

Michael was rendered speechless, and so was Cooper.

Carmen continued, “Even my forefather calls Daddy ‘Mikey’, so you must call Daddy ‘Mikey’ too, Grandpa!”

Seeing that Cooper refused to obey, Carmen pouted her lips and asked, “Grandpa, don’t you love Daddy?”

Again, Cooper gave Michael a disgusted look.

Him? Mikey? He must have watched too many Mickey Mouse cartoons!

Perhaps Old Goofy would suit him better!

Besides, love him?

That would be impossible!

However, being stared at by Carmen with her sparkling eyes, Cooper had no choice but to swallow his shame and disgust while saying, “Mikey Fletcher, you’d better rest early after you have your meal. Tomorrow will be a good day and it’ll be snowing at night, so make sure to leave early and have a safe trip.”

He was hinting Michael to get lost as soon as he could!

With that, Cooper finished his food early and left. Behind him, Michael beamed with delight when he said, “Dad, you should eat more!”

Cooper muttered, “I have no appetite.”

After worshiping his God of Wealth and checking on his darling tortoise, he went into his study.

Sophia had come home late. When she rushed over from the mistress’ residence, Cooper had finished his meal.

Therefore, she didn’t know what took place and thought that Cooper didn’t feel like eating because he hadn’t found her brother. Sighing, she murmured, “I wonder where my brother is and what he looks like…”

Looking at her dejected face, Michael wished it could be settled soon too. He wanted them to be united as a family, siblings as well as a father and son. However, Cooper seemed to be determined to block him out of the family so he had no choice but to harden his heart and cook up a plot on this matter.

Therefore, Michael quickly hinted at Sophia. “I couldn’t find any clue when I tried to find him for almost two years back then but I went to enquire about the future at the temple, it is said that you and your brother are destined to be reunited. So, you don’t have to worry about that.”

Sophia was interested in the temple that he mentioned. “Temple? Which temple? Is it effective?”

Michael nodded repeatedly. “It’s amazingly effective. If you’re free someday, you may go there and burn some incense or ask about your future. Perhaps it would be helpful. Look at Dad; he’s worshipping the God of Wealth every day.”

Sophia took it to heart. She’d rather believe it was true rather than the opposite. After all, it didn’t hurt to say some prayers.

After dinner, she bumped into Dimon on her way out, so she asked, “Is there any temple around Bayside that’s effective?”

Dimon replied without hesitation, “Reverie Mountain—it has always attracted a large number of pilgrims. ”

After pondering, he added, “If you are looking for a temple that’s further, you may visit Dragon Mountain. There’s a mountain top and the Buddha in that temple is effective too, attracting many pilgrims in recent years. ”

Dragon Mountain… Sophia felt that the name rang a bell. After pondering, she realized that it was her business which she collaborated with Daniel.

In her work diary, the brilliant people and the strategic location of Dragon Mountain caught her fancy back then so she applied for its development rights and undertook the contract for the entire mountain top. She then developed a nursing home, a holiday villa and a rejuvenating program on the mountain top. She also renovated and expanded the temple that was once occupied by only two or three monks.

In these years, the business on the mountain prospered and grew enormously under her collaborating partner, Daniel, as well as Michael’s management.

During her previous meeting with Daniel, he firmly refused to have a meal in her house. Speaking of which, Reverie Mountain belonged to him too. Perhaps she could ask him for some privilege.

Sophia made a mental note and brought the topic up when everyone gathered around to watch television that night. “Dad, let’s visit Reverie Mountain and ask about our future. It might be useful!”

Cooper didn’t believe these superstitions in the past but after going through countless ups and downs lately, he started to think otherwise.

Perhaps everything had its own destiny, just like how he got a daughter out of nowhere.

It might be better to ask about it rather than not asking at all.

Besides, Reverie Mountain was the Levine Family’s territory and that family had always been a magical existence in Bayside. Although it wasn’t as powerful as the Four Great Families, it had a mysterious prestige. The current person in charge of the Levine Family was Daniel and he was the one who sold his daughter for 80 thousand.

After Sophia came back, she seemed to have had contact with Daniel but Daniel didn’t dare to appear in front of Cooper.

Therefore, Cooper hadn’t had a chance to meet him!

A fierce look appeared in Cooper’s eyes as he said, “Alright; we’ll check it out.”

Overjoyed, Sophia added, “Oh—I heard from Dimon that Dragon Mountain in the South is also effective. Plus, it’s my business so we might as well visit there too. I can take this opportunity to inspect the progress of my business.”

Looking icy, Cooper agreed.

On the other hand, Michael didn’t dare to say a word throughout the conversation and pretended to watch the movie. Meanwhile, Carmen was braiding his hair whereas Judge was staring at him with glaring eyes. The dog even waited outside the door when Michael went to the toilet, afraid that he would abandon it.

After Sophia and Cooper ended the conversation, the family continued to watch television. All of them were usually very busy but they would still gather around and watch television together every night after dinner, even if they were just around to pat their cat, dog, alpaca, or just to play with their phone.

When Michael knew about their habit, he would show up on time every day, hoping that they would get used to his presence.

Carmen was trying her best to braid her father’s hair. After that, she started to paint Michael’s nails.

Michael lay down while she played with him. When he got the remote control, he deliberately changed the channel to the movies, where his old film ‘Doctor Invincible’ was airing.

Everyone was forced to watch his good-looking figure.

During the commercial breaks, he changed the channel to the news, which was coincidentally reporting the financial news.

“Due to the series of false statements said by the daughter of Mitchell Group Sandra Mitchell, also known as the former champion of Universal Games, the shares of the Mitchell Group have been plummeting lately…”

 

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The screen then changed to the scene where a group of reporters besieged Sandra.

“Miss Mitchell, what do you think about Mr. Taylor Murray’s accusation of you? Do you think that he has falsely accused you?”

“Miss Mitchell, you’ve been reportedly summoned by the police for hiring illegal forces to insult and hurl abuses at Miss Sophia. Do you have any comments regarding this issue?”

“Do you feel guilty for causing the plummeting of the Mitchell Group’s shares due to your actions?”

“What do you have to say regarding the video of you humiliating Miss Sophia at Pourl?”

Wearing sunglasses, Sandra hurried to the car under her assistant’s protection and hid inside. After that, she didn’t show up again.

The screen showed the scene at Pourl that day. After Sandra heard that Sophia left without inheriting a penny, she came to flaunt her victory. She even cooked up stories about Michael dating someone and vividly described their sex postures. Then, she mercilessly mocked a divorced and penniless Sophia. Sandra’s words were disgusting and heartless, which instantly tainted her reputation as a former national treasure athlete. Then, the screen smoothly transitioned to the video where Sophia and Michael collaborated in a press conference for revenge.

Some popular comments on the internet were even shown on the screen and they were all cursing Sandra.

‘The former champion of Universal Games, the ambassador of Cethos’ Women and Children Association has always appeared as a caring and amiable public figure for the past four years. Unexpectedly, she’s reeking of feudalism like an old woman from the former dynasty. I can’t imagine how she could say such things as a public figure.’

‘Don’t forget that she’s also the president of the Women’s Federation, the top ten outstanding women representatives of Cethos and the ambassador of Feminist Organization. On top of that, she’s a public figure that has always been active in women and children charities. It’s shocking that a feminist like her would humiliate and hurl abuses at a penniless, divorced woman.’

‘Young Lady Mitchell of the Mitchell Group? A noble lady of Bayside? It’s definitely bullsht because she’s clearly a btch with a foul mouth!’

…

Since the most interesting part was shown, Michael immediately changed the channel back to his movie. After seeing that, a smile bloomed on Sophia’s lips. Not bad. That is what I was aiming for.

Suing Sandra and getting compensation from her wasn’t Sophia’s final motive. She wanted to ruin Sandra’s image—the famous woman of Bayside and the former world champion that the Mitchell Family had invested so much in developing.

Now, Alex had lost to Cooper in every aspect so he could only exploit his daughter, Sandra, who had a few halos on, such as the world champion, the national treasure athlete and the outstanding women representative of a few fields. Once Sandra’s reputation was ruined, the reputation of Alex’s family line would collapse as well.

In the past, Alex acknowledged this illegitimate daughter and directed his own show of swapping his daughters, chasing his real daughter out and swapping her with Sandra, who was a world champion. That caused the shares of the Mitchell Family to skyrocket, which in turn stabilized his position. Now that Sandra was ruined, Alex’s family line would be affected too. This is a great opportunity…

The adult’s world was too complicated for Carmen to comprehend. Hence, she was painting her father’s nails seriously, though the outcome was dreadful. Beside them, Judge’s four paws were painted and he was lying on the floor, ashamed to meet anyone’s eyes.

Sophia looked at Carmen’s adorable figure, her heart going soft. She then took out her phone to record a video of the small figure. In the video, only Carmen’s back and Michael’s red nails could be seen while she painted the nails seriously. Her face was not revealed, whereas Judge was included in the video. Since Carmen would only be officially revealed to the public later on, her face was kept concealed at the moment.

After the video was taken, Sophia happily added a beauty filter and a pair of animated cat’s ears. Then, she uploaded it to Judge’s Twitter. As soon as the video was uploaded, Twitter’s servers exploded.

Fans were shocked to see Michael with braided hair, sitting there while a little girl painted his nails diligently. Not only did he attract much online attention, the lolita also garnered much interest from the audience. It was obviously an announcement that Taylor Murray had a child; most importantly, he had a daughter. The fans were overjoyed because their idol’s baby was equivalent to their baby. Soon enough, their national idol would be promoted as the national old father-in-law.

Sophia had been holding her phone for a long time, reading the fans’ comments. She realized that Michael’s braid and Carmen’s little back stole Judge’s halo although this account was about her cute pets.

During their daily hour of family time, Cooper would usually tease his tortoise, Linus would pat the dog, Michael would have a makeover by Carmen and Sophia would play with her phone. At ten o’clock, it was time to sleep so everyone was dismissed. Sophia then carried Carmen to her mistress’ residence while Michael went back to his guest room.

“Linus, come here; I have something to say,” Cooper said to Linus solemnly.

Linus followed Cooper to his study and the atmosphere was extremely stern and serious. Cooper spared him the suspense and got straight to the point. “Linus, if my son is found, your status in the Michel Family will definitely be affected.”

Linus was stunned. He didn’t expect that Cooper would bring this up now. However, if he was being honest, he had anticipated this when he learned that Cooper had a son. He was adopted by Cooper. Although his status was Cooper’s brother, he was more like his son and Cooper had been painstakingly nurturing him as his successor. However, if Cooper’s real son was found and was lucky enough to inherit his extraordinary intelligence and tricks, Cooper definitely wouldn’t treat his son shabbily.

Bringing back Sophia had already greatly affected Linus’ status in the Michel Family. If Cooper’s son was found, it would have an even greater impact on him. As an adopted brother, it was only reasonable for him to abdicate and make way for the real successor when the time came. Although Linus felt down-hearted, that was the fact and he couldn’t change it.

Patting his shoulder, Cooper said in a fatherly tone, “Even so, I’ve seen all your hard work and achievements in these years, Linus. Even if he’s my son, I won’t let him easily take over your achievements that you worked so hard for. It’ll be a fair competition between the three of you.”

Upon hearing that, Linus’ eyes became teary. Although Cooper was his brother, he had always treated him as his father. Linus was just an adopted child and wasn’t related to Cooper in any way. Yet, Cooper cared for him like his own and taught Linus everything he knew, painstakingly nurturing him. He even trusted him and allowed him to take over the Michel Family. Now that his biological children had returned, he still put Linus on the same level as his children.

Linus nodded in response. Surely, he was afraid to lose all he had now but he was even more afraid that one day when that person returned, he would snatch everything from him, especially his family.

Cooper sighed while looking at Linus. How nice it would be if Linus was his biological son! Yet, he knew that it was impossible.

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He had used up all his luck when his daughter appeared out of nowhere so he bet that finding his son would be impossible. Besides, Linus and Annabel didn’t look the same at all and he was so much more different compared to her.

Back then when he inadvertently saw him on the television, where he was invited by the television station to solve a ternary problem on the spot, he watched the cruellest farce in the world on the screen. A genius was made fun of on the scene and was even watched as if he was a circus monkey.

Since that was a live video, Cooper rushed to the television station immediately and bought him from his parents with a few million.

That poor child was sold countless times before this. After Cooper brought him back, he found him a pair of adoptive parents and gave him an identity as well as a perfect family. Gratefully, Linus didn’t let him down and grew up to be a perfect successor.

He invested all his love and effort in Linus so even if his son returned, he would surely protect Linus. In his eyes, a flawless successor that he nurtured personally was as important as his long lost son.

Patting Linus’ shoulder, Cooper said earnestly, “If Sophia and her brother return to the Michel Family, your status will surely be affected. Therefore, I hope that you’ll marry Sophia.”

Linus was shocked. “Fass, this is…”

Cooper knitted his eyebrows. “Are you forsaking my daughter for having a past marriage and a child from her preceding marriage? ”

Linus immediately replied, “Of course not. But Sophia and Michael—”

“Don’t mention his name!”

Speaking of Michael, Cooper’s eyes were filled with disappointment. In the past, he once thought that Michael could bring Sophia happiness but he was wrong. Michael was a troublemaker and he would only bring trouble to his two darlings.

He then patted Linus’ shoulder again and said solemnly, “To me, you and Sophia make the perfect couple. You’re the best for her and if you marry her, your status in the family can be stabilized and no one will threaten it anymore.”

Linus was indeed tempted. Since young, he worked hard and yearned to be acknowledged by Cooper and the Michel Family and for that, he worked a hundred times harder than anyone else.

He wanted to be a real Michel whom everyone acknowledged.

He also wanted to be with Sophia and protect her forever so she wouldn’t be hurt at all!

That night, Linus was haunted with nightmares, where Sophia was crying in front of him.

He would dream of the park that late night where she was shivering in the frosty wind. Even her tears almost froze when he wrapped his arms around her body, which was as cold as ice.

Sometimes, he would dream of that strange luggage that she was stuffed into and brought away. When he walked up to it and gently opened the luggage, she was curled up inside and couldn’t even talk from the coldness, helplessness and desperation written all over her face.

He even dreamed of the day when she was brought back from Africa. Her skin was severely infected and she was like a ball of rotten, breathing flesh. She was literally at death’s door.

In his sleep, Linus couldn’t stop crying and grimacing in unbearable pain.

Will you allow me to protect you for the rest of your life?

Late at night, everyone that should be asleep had fallen asleep, yet those who were thirsty remained wide awake.

After almost a night of flirting on Messenger, Michael finally received a request from Sophia to give her a ‘rub’. Hence, he immediately changed into convenient clothes and a pair of sneakers before sneaking into the dark.

Sophia restarted Siri, which bought him ten minutes.

Glancing at the dumb husky that was sound asleep below his bed, Michael sneaked out the room. Unfortunately, Judge was surprisingly cautious that day. As soon as Michael moved, he awoke and when he noticed that Michael was secretly walking out, he thought that he was abandoning him again. Therefore, he barked loudly while running after him.

His bark was so loud that it triggered the voice-controlled light outside the guest room.

Damn it!

Startled, Michael retreated and held Judge’s snout while explaining in a low voice, “I’m not leaving. I’m just going to meet Carmen’s mom, so stop barking!”

Once this dumb dog barked, the entire house would be awakened!

Fortunately, Judge stopped barking but he followed Michael closely. He was afraid that Michael would leave him behind and not bring him to the film studio to shoot movies.

After Michael stepped out of the room, he looked around furtively. Once he made sure that no one was around and Siri was turned off, he dashed toward the mistress’ residence and climbed up the wall in just three steps after a short run. He did that skillfully, swiftly flying over the wall and landed on the ground perfectly, causing a splash of snow and dirt.

However, when he landed and turned back, he saw Judge come out from the dog hole, following him closely.

There was a dog hole!

Michael instantly felt that he wasted his energy in climbing over the wall.

It was snowing tonight and the wall was slippery. Looking at the dim light on the second floor, Michael knew that Sophia must have bathed herself, waiting for him to go to her. The problem was, he couldn’t make it up the wall.

Ten minutes were almost up and Siri would be restarting. Once it restarted, it would immediately notice him, who had climbed over the wall. By that time, Cooper would surely rush out and kill him.

No matter how anxious Michael was, he just couldn’t open the door nor climb up the wall. He wanted to tell Sophia to let a rope down but it was too late.

At the side, Judge saw that Michael panicked like an ant on hot bricks and Judge seemed to look down on him. Then, he turned back and easily found the dog hole. After that, he repeatedly walked in and out of the hole while intermittently glancing at Michael.

Looking at the dog hole, Michael hesitated for a long time and at last, he decided to crawl through it.

It sounded interesting to climb the wall for a moment of pleasure but it definitely sounded dumb to crawl through a dog hole.

However, that was a better option rather than getting killed by Cooper on the spot after noticing him.

Biting the bullet, Michael followed Judge and crawled through the dog hole.

After Judge entered the door, he walked up the stairs openly and found Sophia’s room. Then, he rudely kicked the door with his paws as if he was saying “I’m here. Open the door!”

Meanwhile, Michael furtively went in, afraid that he would be caught. As soon as Sophia opened the door, he immediately squeezed through the gap and shut the door.

At that exact moment, ten minutes was up and Siri was restarted and it began to scan the entire Edwards Residence. It was a 24-hour surveillance system, which wouldn’t miss a spot. Once it detected anything unusual, it would directly report it to the main system and inform the owner. Then, it would accurately fend off the intruders according to the owner’s instruction.

Once Michael went in, he closed the door and turned around. The next second, he hugged Sophia’s tender body close, held onto her waist and lifted her up. Then, he pressed her onto the bed.

The clock was ticking and they didn’t have much time!

Both of them were glued together and they rolled around on the bed.

Before getting divorced, this activity could be referred to as paying taxes; after divorce, it was called an underhanded transaction.

The former sounded boring but the latter sounded exciting!

In the heat of the moment, Sophia opened her eyes and saw a pair of blue puppy eyes staring at her.

Judge was sitting on the side of the bed, staring at them without moving an inch. His blue eyes stared at a half naked Sophia.

“The dog is here…” She murmured as she nudged Michael, who was on top of her.

Turning to look at Judge, Michael commented, “Don’t worry. He’s a dumb dog that doesn’t know a thing.”

Both of them continued their erotic activities but Sophia somehow felt weird. However, she couldn’t figure out what was weird in that surging pleasure until she saw Judge’s collar.

F*ck!

There was a camera on Judge’s collar and it was connected to Siri’s system by Sophia out of boredom!

Goodness! Perhaps Cooper was watching this scene live right now!

 

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Just then, Michael learned about what Sophia had done.

“I just thought it would be fun…” she mumbled.

Who knew it would become such a big deal? Now, there was nothing they could do!

Michael got up and leashed the husky to the cat’s kennel, coming back to pick up where he left off.

He did not believe that Cooper would really come and beat him up!

After spending the night at Sophia’s, Michael got up to leave early in the morning. Before leaving, he turned to look back at Sophia who was sleeping soundly and kneeled down next to the bed. Quietly, he watched her as she slept.

It would be a few months before he would see her again…

In the end, he lowered his head and kissed her forehead.

Wait for me!

In the cat’s kennel, Judge realized Michael was awake and he whined. Michael quickly took it away before it destroyed Sophia’s house.

After getting out of the cat’s kennel, Judge led Michael to the dog door and crawled out of it.

The dog door at the mistress’ residence was installed when Sophia got the place. It was installed specifically to make going in or out easier for Bubbles, which was why it was designed to be large enough for a giant poodle. As such, Michael could crawl out of it easily.

When he crawled out, the sky was just starting to get bright. Last night, Sophia had turned on the timer to reactivate the security system, so he had ten minutes to leave. After crawling out of the dog door, he looked back and thought it was relatively easy before crawling out of the next door.

It snowed the night before and it was still snowing a little now while the sky was still dark. When Michael was crawling out, he was covered in mud and snow. The moment his head had come out of the door, Judge’s rear was just a few centimetres away from his nose. Michael instantly moved back before the unthinkable happened.

At that moment, Judge suddenly wailed. When Michael looked clearly, he realized the dog was being restrained by someone.

Ten minutes had passed and the security system restarted. Instantly, the lights came on and the dark house was illuminated.

Just then, a pair of long legs clad in suit pants appeared less than three meters away from Michael. Looking up, he saw Cooper had on an ice cold expression that was comparable to the winter snow.

Meanwhile, standing behind Cooper was a group of men, all of them expressionless as they watched Michael crawl through the dog door.

Half of Michael’s body was out of the dog door; he couldn’t go back nor could he continue on forward, so he had no choice but to meet Cooper’s eyes.

Meanwhile, Judge was heard wailing as he was being held by Dimon.

Then, Cooper turned around and coldly said in an icy voice, “Shut up. Do you want me to make you into stew?”

Sensing his murderous aura, Judge became silent. Its blue eyes focused on Michael and Cooper.

Under everyone’s gaze, Michael calmly crawled out and swatted the dirt off his clothes. Casually, he waved at Cooper. “Hey Dad, out for a run this early?”

At that moment, Cooper’s face was as cold as a frozen lake in winter as it cracked into pieces from his shock and anger.

He refused to speak to Michael.

In fact, he had nothing to say to the dog-door-crawling rat.

Hale, Gary, and the others had long been captured by Cooper’s men. They were all standing off to one side as they looked innocently at Michael.

Slowly walking away, Cooper’s black leather shoes left heavy footprints on the snow-covered ground. “Mr. Michael, I’ve prepared a hearty breakfast for you. Hit the road when you’re done.”

Upon hearing this, Michael was frightened.

Before he could say anything, Dimon came forward. “This way.”

It didn’t matter whether he wanted to, Dimon was already escorting them to the kitchen, where breakfast had already been served.

The breakfast was more sumptuous than ever. Michael, Hale and the rest sat at the table, Dimon keeping an eye on them.

“Mr. Michael, hurry up and finish up your food and be on your way!”

At that moment, Michael did not dare to refuse and he quickly finished his food.

After they were done, Dimon brought them to the garage, where the Mitchells had arranged a driver for them, in addition to a few Land Rovers with people to escort them on their way.

Meanwhile, Judge had been following Michael closely. It’s two pups tagged along when they realized that their dad was leaving, while Bubbles came over too.

Once the car door was opened, Judge hopped in along with its two puppies. Bubbles wanted to join too, but was stopped by Dimon.

“You’re a girl; you can’t go.”

When everyone had gone into the car, Dimon made a hand gesture indifferently. And so, the cars pulled out and hit the road before the sun could rise and the rush hour traffic could even start!

Cooper had arranged the flights and had Michael and the rest escorted to the airport to send them off.

Soon, the plane departed and Michael breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at Cereberus that was looking out the window.

While the entire flight felt grim, the three of them were the only ones that were happy.

At that moment, Michael gently pinched Judge’s face. “You’re such a troublemaker! I give you a place to live and food to eat, yet you still give me trouble! I was almost caught in bed because of you! I… I’ll whack you!”

Meanwhile, Judge was unbothered as he stuck his tongue out and smiled.

The flight was headed to the filming location. Most of the scenes had been filmed in the film studio, and the scenes on the snowy mountains would be filmed at the next location.

One and a half hour later, the flight landed. It took two hours to get to the highway from the airport and another two hours on the country road before they reached the film set.

The location was on the mountain and off a beaten track, so the road was inaccessible. After getting out of the car, they had to walk about half an hour to the set.

Only this kind of location could recreate the hardship and tragedy of the olden days.

After settling into the hotel, Michael immediately went up the snow-capped mountain. The film crew had been there for several days and Celie had been filming as his double while they waited for Michael, the main actor, to arrive to fill in the close-up shots.

On the mountain, it was more than minus ten degrees. At that moment, the huskies were ‘activated’ as they escaped the grasps of a few strong men, instantly disappearing into the snowy mountains. When Michael arrived at the set, Celine was happily petting the dogs.

“Cece.”

“Hey!” Celine skipped toward him like a child.

Just then, Michael took out a bag of chicken thighs that were kept warm with his body heat. “Here; it’s still hot!”

All at once, Celine was delighted. They had a tough time shooting these few days. The snow was thick and they could not drive up. They had to hike up the mountain with all the equipment, so they could not bring too much food, let alone snacks. Sometimes, the food would be too cold and they would have to starve all day. If they wanted to cook, they would have to carry the ingredients up and down the mountain, so the only viable option was to bring cup noodles.

The crew’s manpower was limited and the funding was tight. Celine looked like she found a treasure when she saw the chicken thighs and gobbled it up. It made Michael’s heart ache.

After learning about the situation of the crew, Michael suggested, “We can get horses or donkeys to haul the things up, or we could find local residents to carry them manually.”

However, Harry grimaced. “There aren’t any strong, young men around here; they’ve all gone out to work. Horses and donkeys could also get stuck in the snow too.”

Upon hearing this, Michael furrowed his eyebrows. How could they work without a full stomach?

With a lollipop in his mouth, he casually said, “It would be nice if we had someone who can run fast, adapt to the snowy environment, and has a lot of energy to run errands for us all the time.”

All at once, everyone turned to look at Cereberus in unison.

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 930

Up on the mountain, Harry asked Michael about his progress.

Surprisingly, the signal there was quite good even though they were deep in the mountains. Harry watched the press conference and didn’t expect this was what happened when Michael went back.

In fact, Michael didn’t need to personally attend when he could just entrust it to his lawyers. Despite that, he still rushed back.

He would never do anything that he couldn’t take advantage of.

Also, rumor had it that when Michael returned to Bayside City, he had been staying at Cooper’s house…

While Cooper was occupied with searching for his son, he definitely didn’t have it in him to care about Michael.

At once, Harry knew Michael had taken advantage of the situation. He shrunk back into his military coat and read his script, which was almost frozen.

“I heard Cooper caught you crawling out of the dog door.”

Michael, who was reading his script beside him, was startled. “Who said that?”

Harry only smiled mischievously and teased, “It’s a secret.”

It had been days since Michael returned and Harry had been constantly hearing about how Michael was caught crawling through the dog door.

In fact, Carmen was the one who heard it when Dimon and Cooper talked, and she told Sophia, who told Sarah, who told Harry…

Meanwhile, Dimon told Sean, who told Justin, who told Celine, who told Harry too…

Passing from one person to another, the events of the incident had come out entirely different.

When news reached Harry, it was said that Michael was crawling through the dog door to seduce Sophia when he was caught by Cooper, and he was stripped naked and beaten on the spot! It was said that he was beaten so badly that his skin even split open and there was footage of it too!

How pitiful for a forty year old man…

At that moment, Michael was glaring at Harry as he wondered who leaked the news. Just then, they heard bells chiming and three brawny dogs pulled a small wooden cart up the mountain. When the crew saw the wooden cart, they all let out a heartfelt cheer and praise, because in the cart were snacks for everyone.

Now, whenever they wanted snacks, they would make a list and Judge would bring it down the mountain to the nearest shop in the village. After checking the list, the shop owner would call up to quote the price and they would pay via the QR code the shop owner sent. Then, the shop owner would fill up the cart with the snacks and send them up.

After eating, everyone got back to work energized. Taking their food and snacks, they each kindly gave some of their change to Judge as his tip. Judge had received many fives and tens, and it amounted to hundreds just from one trip.

Before this, the crew hired some of the village folks and paid them a thousand to carry their equipment up the mountain. Often, they would even increase the price halfway up.

Now that Judge was here, it finally improved the situation. This was a good outlet for the dogs’ high energy level too. Every day, Judge would go back to the hotel with the crew and after getting a bath, it would immediately sleep like a log. Hence, Judge had no energy left to destroy everything in its sight.

Harry picked up his hot coffee from the cart and sipped happily. Then, Judge came to collect his tip. When Harry took out a fifty, Judge almost jumped on him and gave him a sloppy kiss.

After receiving all the tips, Celine would count them diligently. After counting the money, she tied it up neatly and kept it in her bag for Judge. Celine was honest and she never stole, so Judge trusted her with the money.

Judge was descended from the sled dogs; not only was it handsome, it was also very energetic. It could run several trips a day and worked on-call. It earned hundreds, almost a thousand, in a day. Without Carmen, who was the shady middle person, all the hard-earned money went straight to Judge and its pups. Even though it was not filming, it was still happy.

Meanwhile, Harry thought that if Sophia and Stan found out about how their dog was being used like this, they would have killed the entire crew on the mountain.

But on second thought, if that day did come, the first person who would suffer would be Michael!

…

Meanwhile in Bayside City, Cooper wanted to visit Reverie Mountain out of the blue, so Sophia took the initiative to invite Daniel. Back then, whenever she invited Daniel, he would ask if Cooper was coming.

Knowing he was afraid of Cooper, Sophia directly told him, “Master Levine, my father will be coming with me.”

“Oh—Mr. Mitchell? He’s more than welcome. I’ll be waiting at the mountain for the both of you.”

Since Daniel was not afraid, Sophia and Cooper went up to the mountain.

They took the cable car up the snow-capped mountain and it was so foggy that they couldn’t see anything. Despite that, even if it was freezing cold or if it was a busy work day, the mountain was always full of tourists as long as it wasn’t closed due to the snow. When they arrived, they went to pay their respects.

Then, Daniel personally came out to greet them.

“Welcome, my guests. Please, have a chat with me in my humble abode.”

At that moment, Cooper looked him up and down. Daniel looked very young and friendly and he had a baby face, yet his demeanour of a transcendent being would vaguely peek through.

Cooper looked at him like he was a dish of eggplants with minced meat.

Despite that, Daniel looked normal as he led them to the living room.

In fact, Sophia was rather grateful to him. If he hadn’t taken a fancy to her and sold her to Michael, her life would have been vastly different.

In his living room, Cooper sat without speaking while Sophia and Daniel chatted.

“Master Levine, can you let us know where my brother is now? Do we still have a chance to reunite?”

Although Sophia didn’t particularly believe that Daniel could foresee it, there was no harm done. At least they would be emotionally prepared.

Glancing at Cooper who had a cold expression and who had not spoken a word, Daniel said, “Of course.”

He looked at Cooper’s face and counted with his fingers in a profound manner. “Mr. Mitchell, you have a noble face and you have the life of a king.”

“Hmph!” Cooper scoffed. There was no difference between Daniel and all the other swindlers. Eight out of ten would tug at anyone and say that they had the life of a king.

This trick was useless on Cooper. In fact, Cooper’s life was better than that of a king!

Then, Daniel continued, “Your life is smooth, but sinful and stained with blood…”

Cooper did not speak nor did he refute that statement.

He was involved with the military, so how could he not be stained with blood?

Then, Daniel studied Cooper’s palm and murmured, “Misfortune and blessings do not come to us without reason, we bring them upon ourselves. The consequences of good and evil deeds are like a shadow, following the body wherever it goes. Mr. Mitchell, you have a lot of blood on your hands, which means you’ve done many evil deeds. While everyone will reap what they sow, you, however, have not, which is rather odd.”

Upon hearing this, Cooper remained silent as he felt his heart strings being tugged.

Then, Daniel silently observed Cooper’s expression. “Whether it made sense or not, I think Mr. Mitchell knows it better than I do.”

Although Cooper remained expressionless, he was extremely sad inside.

Hadn’t he already reaped what he sowed?

The woman he loved the most and his beloved father had died, his own daughter had suffered since childhood, and he was separated from his son whose whereabouts were still unknown till today.

Outsiders could only see his glory, but they were unaware of the melancholy and despair within him.

Finally, he spoke up. “Enough with this nonsense; I want to know where my son is!”

Internally, Daniel was frightened by Cooper’s grim voice, but he maintained his composure. With a serious face, he looked at Cooper’s palm and continued indifferently, “Mr. Mitchell indeed has a son and your palm shows that your son is still alive. Both of you will naturally meet one day.”

Breathing a sigh of relief, Cooper had been secretly taking Daniel’s words to heart.

Then, Daniel added, “However, Mr. Mitchell, you still have a debt of gratitude that has not been repaid. Until you repay this debt, you will never see your son again.”