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My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 951

After crying for a long time, Sophia seemed to smell the smell of blood on Michael’s body. She quickly leaned back, turned him around and inspected him as she anxiously asked, “How are you? Are you alright? Are you hurt?”

Michael took off his goggles and his eyes were also bloodshot. He replied, “I’m fine.”

Then, he bowed his head, kissed her cheek, took her into his arms and whispered, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry that… I made you worry about me.”

Sophia wiped her tears away in his arms. “I’m the one at fault. I shouldn’t have made an argument out of nothing and I shouldn’t scold you in public. It’s all my fault.”

Michael said, “Both of us did something wrong so this time we are even, okay? Let’s not quarrel anymore, alright?”

Sophia replied, “Okay.”

The plane flew away with the injured Alice and they withdrew the drones. Everyone had been walking around all morning and since they had finally found Michael, they took out the pot and charcoal from the sled pulled by the dogs. Later, they started a fire and cooked some instant noodles. They rested to replenish their energy and cooked something while watching Sophia and Michael act all lovey-dovey.

Everyone just looked at the two of them bickering for a while in public. They apologized to each other, then they fought to take the blame. In the end, they apologized and forgave each other before they kissed.

Stanley had only eaten some biscuits for breakfast and he didn’t sleep much last night. Moreover, he had started the search at the break of dawn so after a long journey, he was feeling hungry. Although the couple kissing made him feel extremely disgusted, it didn’t affect his appetite in the least. He ate the instant noodles happily and even drank all of the soup.

As for Harry, he ate some biscuits and drank some of the water that was just boiled. Then, he glanced at the couple that was still kissing and frowned as he yelled, “Can you two stop kissing? It’s disgusting!”

Michael completely ignored everyone’s complaints. At that moment, he couldn’t see or hear anything else other than Sophia who was in front of him.

“I will never ask our pets to catch mice again. They are our children. I was wrong. I will never abuse them again.”

Sobbing, Sophia replied, “It’s okay, I don’t blame you. It’s my fault. Cats are born to catch mice.”

Michael touched her haggard face and saw that she had dark circles under her eyes. With tears in his eyes, he said, “I will never ask Judge to carry anything ever again. Its paw has been injured before. It’s my fault for not being considerate. I shouldn’t have done that…”

Sophia replied, “Judge is a sled dog so letting it pull goods is absolutely justified. You did nothing wrong. I was being capricious and didn’t think about it from your perspective. Celie already explained to me last night. It’s my fault for scolding you before understanding the whole situation.”

Celine had been comforting Sophia last night and told her about the situation on set. At that time, they couldn’t drive the car to the set so sled dogs were the next best means of transportation. The reason the dogs were exhausted was not because of pulling goods as they usually only brought everyone lunch boxes, chips, coffee and other snacks. The reason they were exhausted was because Celine insisted on bringing them to hunt and ski.

Thanks to the dogs, everybody was fed well. Without the dogs, they couldn’t have guaranteed that they would be able to eat hot meals everyday. The crew staff was limited and the local residents often bullied them because they were outsiders.

Thinking about this, Sophia burst into tears again. The more she thought about it, the more guilty she felt.

Michael hugged her tightly, as if he was holding his whole world. Then, he whispered, “Don’t leave me, okay? My life was unbearable during the few years you were gone. I thought you were dead and my life was nothing without you. There were many times that I thought about going to heaven with you, but Carmen is still so young. How can I be so cruel to leave her alone in this world? My mother committed suicide because of my father’s death and Tanya’s threats. My sister and I were too young to understand what was going on when we lost my parents, so I know the feeling. How can I bear to let our darling Carmen live alone? Let us never be apart again, okay?”

…

Dozens of people formed a circle around them and they watched the two of them attentively with their eyes wide open, as if they were watching a TV show…

Because of the blizzard and Michael’s accident, even though there were many scenes to shoot, they gave Michael a day off and asked him to rest in the hotel, letting the couple spend some time together.

Celine sensibly ran a long way to buy condoms for them. She even bought lubricant and cooling painkillers. Poor Stanley lived next to Sophia’s room and that day, he seemed to have experienced an earthquake that tore his soul apart.

It was freezing cold outside and there was nothing entertaining in town. He had nowhere to go so he stayed in the hotel room and watched television. However, the room next door seemed to be using speakers to play porn at maximum volume. Hearing this, Stanley, who was laying on the bed watching television, was extremely annoyed.

Meanwhile, Sean found some poker cards so he asked Celine, Justine and Stanley to play a few games together. At the end of the day, Stanley lost over 5,000.

After returning from the snow mountains, Sophia didn’t leave her room and spent the whole day having s*x with Michael in the hotel room.

If what they did was shot into a pornographic film, it would be more than half a month’s worth of content that was usually produced by a pornographic film studio.

They took a short nap when they felt tired, then continued when they woke up, enjoying the energy of their youth and love in bed.

The next morning when Sophia woke up, she felt a sharp pain on her butt.

This is one of the bad points of having a long-distance relationship. My butt hurts every now and then.

Michael woke up early and brought Sophia breakfast. He even put some cooling patches on her butt before he went to set. It was the last few days of filming, and he had to finish filming the scenes and make sure they were of good quality before he could go home for the New Year.

Overworked, Sophia lay on the bed, not wanting to move. In the end, she was woken up by a phone call.

She glanced at her phone and saw that it was at the side, not ringing. Seeing this, she got up and searched around the room before she found that it was Michael’s phone that was ringing.

He owned two phones—one for work that was taken care of by Danny, and the other one was a private phone. He had had his private phone with him when he met with the accident, but it was later lost. Sophia had found it, but they were so busy having sex yesterday, she forgot to return his phone to him.

Sophia glanced at the screen and saw that it was an unknown number. After she answered the call, she heard a woman’s voice. “Taylor, I’ve already arrived in Bayside City. I’m in the hospital now and my injuries have been treated. I’m doing fine so you don’t have to worry about me.”

The voice was sweet and elegant, and there was even a strong sense of confidence. Judging from her tone, she seemed to be really close to Michael.

Sophia knew who she was. Remembering the photo that was an eyesore on the phone, she instinctively felt threatened.

With a smile, she calmly replied, “Hi, my name’s Sophia Edwards and I’m Taylor’s wife. It’s good to hear that you’re safe. There’s no need to thank Taylor. It was the right thing to do.”

Alice was not surprised to hear Sophia’s voice. Instead, she spoke to her as if they were close. “I know who you are. You’re Taylor’s ex-wife. There is a common saying in Cethos that goes, ‘An honest man does not resort to insinuation’. Let me make myself clear today: I like Taylor. Since you two are divorced, I’m going to start competing with you.”

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Sophia was dumbfounded. She had never met such a straightforward lover before, but she was not afraid of her either. “Thank you for your love for Taylor. Even though he and I are divorced, we are still boyfriend and girlfriend. I won’t let you ruin our relationship.”

Alice burst into laughter and said, “Miss Edwards, they say only a foolish woman would deal with other women, and a smart woman would directly deal with the man. I’m not going to engage in a meaningless verbal battle with you. The reason I’m competing with you isn’t because I want to fight you, it’s because I like Taylor and I want him.”

Sophia smiled and replied, “However, a wise woman should know that men who are easily seduced by other women are not reliable. If you have the ability to take him away from me, it would mean that he was not worthy of me. Either way, I would not suffer any loss.”

After Sophia finished speaking, the two of them went silent, each in their own thoughts. Then, they quietly hung up the phone.

After putting down the phone, Sophia was completely awake. Then, it suddenly occurred to her that she had forgotten to return Alice’s phone to her after she found it yesterday.

Alice Michel… I think I’ve heard of her.

Sophia sprung up and found Alice’s phone. It was still locked and there were a few missed calls from ‘My love’. She stared at the phone and after a long struggle, she decided to see what was in it.

Sophia turned on the computer, connected Alice’s phone wirelessly, and hacked into her mobile phone.

Mobile phones produced by factories of Michel Communications were all military-grade. The system was very special so the security coefficient was high and viruses couldn’t infect it. It was also impossible for ordinary people to crack.

Alice’s phone was the latest model in the market and it was highly secure. The current price of one of these phones was about 6,000 US dollars.

Michel mobile phones were mostly made for business purposes and they didn’t consider the needs of female users when it was manufactured. Thus, the design of the phone didn’t have any gender-defining characteristics. Most of the users were successful businessmen and businesswomen.

Alice is said to be a photographer so her beauty standards should be really high. I didn’t expect her to use a Michel phone that looks like a brick.

Even though Sophia also used this model, her phone had a screen protector and her phone case was pink with two bunny ears.

Sophia usually could easily crack Michel mobile phones but Alice’s phone was really special. She couldn’t crack it with ordinary means.

This is interesting…

However, Sophia wasn’t willing to give up. At first, she thought it didn’t matter if she didn’t look at Alice’s phone, but she never thought she couldn’t crack a phone that was produced by her father’s company. It was an embarrassment as a Michel herself.

Thus, she spent the whole day sitting in front of the computer, typing on the keyboard nonstop. It took her two days to finally crack the security system of Alice’s phone. After successfully unlocking it, she turned on the phone and found her various chat records.

Her eyes gleamed as she searched for clues in Alice’s phone gallery. At the same time, she was having an internal moral debate.

She already openly admitted to wanting to be Michael’s lover. Taking a peek at her phone gallery probably isn’t indecent… Well, it isn’t.

As expected, there were many photographs of Michael in Alice’s phone gallery, but most of them were captured by herself. Michael didn’t look at the camera in almost all of the images. The only photo of them together was actually cropped from a group photo of the crew, and Alice just happened to be standing next to Michael.

Her phone was oddly simple. There wasn’t any chat softwares, her mailbox was empty, there were only a few saved contacts in her phone, and her communication records were all erased.

This isn’t right. I probably triggered some kind of security defense system. When the system senses that somebody is forcibly cracking into the phone, it will automatically back up all information before destroying important information stored in the phone.

Later, Sophia stared at a selfie in Alice’s photo album in a daze.

Alice Michel.

Then, she turned on her computer and logged into the genealogy system. Even though the Michel family was very old and the family name was passed down from the Middle Ages to the modern age, their ancestors were really advanced! They had already set up their own family website and forum twenty years ago, and they also had an electronic version of the genealogy record book.

Sophia logged into the genealogy record system and typed in ‘Alice Michel’. Many family members’ data popped up. After all, the Michel family was a big family and there were over 10,000 people in the genealogy record book. It was normal to have the same name and there were dozens of family members with the name Alice. Fortunately, there were photos.

However, Sophia found the Alice she was looking for among the dozens of people at a glance, because Alice’s photo was really special. The other family members all used ID photos with clear facial features, but Alice’s photo was just a photo of her shot from the back.

Generally, people would be extremely cautious when uploading a photo to the genealogy record system. They mostly chose artistic and beautiful ID photos. However, people who were truly capable didn’t care much about the genealogy record book so they were not that cautious. The more casual the photos and information the person uploaded, the higher their status.

Alice’s photo was a photo of her back, Linus’s photo was a photo of a cat paw, Cooper didn’t even bother to upload a photo, but Sophia was the most powerful as she didn’t even bother to enter her name into the genealogy record book.

Then, Sophia saw Alice’s profile.

‘Vice President of the Michel Group. President and Chief Engineer of Michel High-Tech Information Technology Group. One of the developers of Michel mobiles.’

Her profile was really simple. The information was clear at a glance without any fancy descriptions.

In that instant, Sophia already knew who she was. She was Linus’s sister, the daughter of Linus’s adoptive parents.

After Sophia returned to the Michel family, Cooper had been protecting her so her identity had not been exposed to the outside world yet. Outsiders only knew that Cooper had a daughter named Lucile. There weren’t many people who had seen her in person and Sophia had not met Alice.

Both Alice and Linus had extraordinary prestige in the Michel Group and Michel family. Alice was also Linus’s strongest competitor. Fass once publicly announced that the future family head of the Michel family would only be chosen among Linus and Alice.

However, Cethosian people generally believed that women were weaker than men and women shouldn’t inherit the family business, which was why Cethosians regarded Linus as the future family head. However, Linus was never the only one. He was only a possible candidate.

Although Cooper liked Linus and wished to pass on everything to him, if Linus was not as powerful as his sister, Cooper would still change his mind.

As for Sophia… Even though Cooper loved her, he would only favor the strong when it came to matters related to family inheritance. He was now working hard to lay the foundation of another family business for Sophia to inherit. If he confirmed that Sohpia didn’t have the ability to inherit the business, he would probably give up on her, which was why he was also working hard to train Carmen and Sean to be Sophia’s back up to ensure that he would have a successor.

If Sophia really had the ability to defeat Alice and Linus, the Michel family and Mitchell family businesses would be hers. However, if she wasn’t capable enough to inherit any, she couldn’t blame Cooper.

After Sophia found out that Alice was Linus’s sister, her palms were sweaty.

I didn’t expect it to be her.

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I’ve heard stories about Linus’s sister before. She seems to live a simple life and she likes to stay low-key. Furthermore, she likes photography and travelling around the world.

A mysterious look suddenly appeared on Sophia’s face…

Sophia never doubted Michael’s loyalty, but she felt uneasy when there was a powerful woman trying to pursue her man. Moreover, this woman was brought up by Cooper himself so she had learned Cooper’s methods and had a smart brain that was comparable to Linus.

Sophia was very jealous of Alice’s capabilities and she envied that Alice grew up with Cooper around. At the same time, a raging fire ignited in her heart.

I can do it too.

As for why Alice had appeared on set as a photographer, Sophia could pretty much guess the reason.

Clearly, Cooper’s wishful thinking was wrong and Michael withstood his test. A love that has gone through the test of life and death is not that fragile. I’m going to prove to him that Michael and I can’t be separated!

In fact, Sophia understood Cooper’s efforts. He mentioned to Sophia more than once that it was easy for Michael to marry Sophia Edwards and Scarlett Mitchell. However, it would be hard for him to marry Lucile Michel.

Once a Western woman got married, she would take on her husband’s surname and give up her maiden surname. The same rule applied to the Michel Family. The family could allow Sophia to be the family head of the Mitchell Family with her identity as Scarlett Mitchell. However, if Sophia married Michael, she would have to completely cut ties with the Michel Family just like Cooper’s mother, Beyoncé. She couldn’t even keep in contact with Cooper and Linus.

It would also be difficult for Michael to change his surname. Theo Fletcher was dead and he only had two children, so Mark and the Fletcher Family would not allow Michael to change his surname. Furthermore, Michael was part of the Fletcher Family. Even though he wasn’t in the army, he was a descendant of a military family. If he got married, although he wasn’t strictly required to ask Sophia to go through a political investigation like a military marriage, if he really married the daughter of the world’s second largest arms dealer, the relationship between the military and the Fletcher Family would be stretched.

How could they be sure that Michael wouldn’t secretly reveal Cethos’s military secrets to the Michel Family? The relationship behind this was too complicated and profound…

Cooper was really cautious when it came to family inheritance matters. The family head of an aristocratic family was never hereditary. The reason Cooper became the family head of the Mitchell Family and Michel Family was not because his father and grandfather were family heads, it was because he had the ability to become a family head and he was the best candidate in the family. If Sophia didn’t have the abilities to inherit the family businesses, he wouldn’t force it on her because it would only bring her and the family harm.

Cooper also hinted to Sophia many times that he hoped that Sophia would be recognized by the Michel Family for her abilities, and that she could make a place for herself in the Michel Family with her own strength.

However, Cooper was even more afraid of the day that he would be gone and Sophia would not be able to take care of herself. Which was why he hoped that a strong son-in-law could protect her and help her gain a foothold in the Michel family.

But Michael’s influence was only in the East. Furthermore, he had a sensitive status of being a member of the Fletcher Family so he couldn’t interfere with the Michel Family’s matters.

It would be best for Sophia to marry a man from the Michel family, such as Linus.

Linus was really capable but he was an adopted son after all, so he didn’t have the power of being from the same bloodline. Although Sophia was the first daughter of Cooper, her ability was not strong enough to convince the others. If the two of them were combined, they would benefit each other and it would be perfect.

This was Cooper’s plan but Sophia had her own plans too.

Why must I find a man to protect me?! Can’t I protect myself? Give me ten years and I’ll make the whole Michel family recognize my abilities! F*ck the Western concept of a family. Why should I change my surname when I get married?! My mother gave me the name of Sophia Edwards and this is the name that I will keep for this lifetime! I won’t change my name no matter who I marry! I want to marry Michael but I still won’t change my surname! Right now, I just need more time. I believe that I can be strong!

With a few more days to go before the completion of Michael’s movie filming, Sophia simply stayed in the hotel and decided to wait for Michael to finish his job so that they could return to Bayside City together.

She also understood the crew’s dilemma. Eating was indeed a big problem for them. Dining cars couldn’t go up the mountains and it was a waste of manpower to carry pots and pans, which was why she decided to send two helicopters to deliver food to the crew.

As a result, the filming crew all gained new insights that day.

It’s nice to have a rich wife…

However, there was no suitable place for landing on the mountain so they could only send the food down while hovering in the sky and it felt a little too much. When they wanted to eat some snacks, they needed to send it using helicopters so the crew felt embarrassed. One trip would probably cost more than 1,000.

If they asked the bodyguards to deliver the food… It still felt overwhelming so everyone was too embarrassed to place orders.

After doing some calculations, they found that letting the dogs deliver the food was the most cost-effective, the most environmentally friendly, and the cheapest way.

Judge had become muscular from all the food delivery. He didn’t have anything to do for the past two days, so he tore the hotel apart. Judge did so much damage that Stanley was blacklisted by that hotel, along with many other hotels in the town. There was nowhere he could stay anymore so he prepared to return to Bayside City.

Sophia analysed the situation and after careful consideration, she decided to let Cerberus continue to stay and deliver food. She even sent Snowball over and ordered four professionally-trained Alaskan dogs to help. In the end, she had eight dogs specially sent over to deliver food to Michael and play with Celine.

Sophia had also upgraded their dining trucks and the thermal boxes to deliver their food. She even contacted the nearest vegetable shed to deliver the freshest ingredients every day, and repaired the road up to the mountains to make it easier for the sled dogs to deliver goods.

My husband’s meals are more important than everything else… It’s okay for the dogs to be a little tired.

Stanley was dumbfounded.

“You… This… I…”

How can she be so shameless?!

“You’re abusing the dogs! Do you know that?!”

Stanley was so furious, he grabbed Judge and ran away. He was determined to not let Sophia bully his ‘son’ and was ready to leave the next day.

However, Judge bit through the hotel room door and ran away that night. The next morning, he happily followed the crew to the set.

Sophia had arranged four subordinates for him and all the tips would be paid to him, so only a fool would leave. Seeing this, Stanley was so angry, he directly went back to Bayside City and announced that he would sever ties with his ‘son’.

Under the care of his beloved wife, Michael was full of energy. He did his best to finish filming his scenes, and everything ended smoothly.

After they finished filming, Sophia delivered the Alaskan dogs back to where they came from and sent Cereberus and Snowball back to Bayside City. She and Michael were not in a hurry to go home—they travelled around and went back just before new year celebrations.

Edwards residence, which had a history of more than a hundred years, was about to welcome three huskies who had developed strong muscles. Everyone in the house trembled in fear…

Cooper was really mad at Sophia.

It’s hard to keep my grown up daughter by my side and all she does is make me worry about her. She hasn’t returned until now, but she sent the dogs back.

Those three energetic and muscular huskies kept causing chaos. As soon as they returned home, they started to forcefully demolish the house. The house was made out of wood so it couldn’t withstand their attacks. As a result, Dimon sent men to take the dogs out for walks everyday, and ordered them to only return after they were exhausted. However, the scary thing was even though the dog walker was exhausted, the dogs were still full of energy.

My daughter is out playing with that b*stard, I can’t find my son, my brother is busy with work, and Carmen is busy with school.

Cooper was a pitiful, lonely old man, and he was even tortured by the dogs.

Cooper’s roars echoed in the Edwards residence everyday.

“Judge, let go of my slippers!”

“Snowball, do you want to be turned into mush?!!”

“Cash, get out of here!!!”

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In the teahouse, Cooper burst out an earth-shaking roar after seeing that his chessboard had a corner bitten off by Cash, that husky. That completely ignited his rage.

Startled, Cash fled like lightning.

After that, Cooper finally sat down and continued the game.

With the chessboard that had a corner chewed off by Cash, Cooper and Daniel played a few rounds in which Cooper kept losing.

Listening to Cooper’s frustrated scream and calling out names, Daniel felt amused.

“Dogs protect homes so it’s beneficial to have many of them.”

Lately, Daniel had been visiting Cooper’s house frequently because Sophia planned to renovate the house, so she asked him to check their feng shui. Therefore, he often dropped by to take a look and while he was here, he took the opportunity to have a few chess games and chats with Cooper as well as some tea.

While collecting the chess pieces, Daniel commented, “Mr. Mitchell, you’ve been extremely peevish and impetuous lately, which isn’t how you usually are.”

Without replying to him, Cooper slapped Cash to stop him from chewing the table and only then did he answer, “If you know you have a son but you can’t find him, you’ll be as disturbed as me, Master Levine.”

Daniel had started to grow his hair long and he had put his hair up with a hair stick. Wearing a loose Taoist robe, he seemed divine. At that moment, he smiled and said, “Unfortunately, I’m not you and I don’t have a son. So, I can’t put myself in your shoes.”

Cooper snorted in reply.

Daniel continued, “You and your son’s fate hasn’t ended so you’ll meet him again. There’s no need to be anxious, Mr. Mitchell.”

Cooper snorted again.

“Mr. Levine, you’ll eventually have a child one day and by that time, you’ll understand my feelings.”

Keeping his silence, Daniel smiled and continued to play chess with Cooper.

How would he have a son when he was living a leisure and carefree life?

Suddenly, Dimon came in and whispered in Cooper’s ears. Then, Cooper said, “Please excuse me.”

It was afternoon now and Daniel had been at the Edwards Residence since lunch. He planned to have dinner here as well before going home.

The two huskies sneaked back in again and lay down under the table to take a nap. Rubbing his foot on the husky’s head, Daniel found it rather comfortable.

Ever since he was forced by Michael to find Cooper, he had been risking his life every day to carry out his task. If he failed, Michael might really send the Cereberus to Reverie Mountain judging from his character.

Fortunately, he made some progress lately. Although Cooper hadn’t given in, Daniel knew that his heart had started to waver.

However, Daniel also keenly sensed that Cooper had an important reason for prohibiting Sophia to marry Michael.

Nevertheless, he had promised Michael so he had to fulfil his task.

Looking at the chessboard, he racked his brain, trying to figure out what that important reason was.

The aroma of the tea that filled the room refreshed his mind. As Michael’s think tank, Daniel always considered things comprehensively. He felt that Cooper didn’t only oppose their marriage because of Michael himself, but also his family and Sophia.

In the beginning, Cooper joined the Michel Family as an outsider. Although he had secured his position in the family, Sophia hadn’t. Besides, she had lost all her memories as well as her skills and tricks. Therefore, she had to start from scratch again. In this state, it would be a misnomer to introduce her to the world as the first Young Lady of the Michel Family.

That was why Cooper kept delaying and didn’t allow her to return to the Michel Family. He was actually protecting her.

Surely, Cooper could protect her now, but what if he wasn’t around one day? How would Sophia gain a foothold in the Michel Family?

Therefore, Sophia’s marriage was critical. If she could marry someone that would establish her in the Michel Family…

Obviously, Michael wasn’t that person because his area of influence was in the East. To the Michel Family, he was a foreigner so they definitely wouldn’t accept him.

In short, Cooper was afraid that Michael couldn’t protect Sophia.

Besides, when Michael and Sophia got married in the past, it was only between them. The Fletcher Family didn’t oppose their marriage back then since Sophia was from a clean family background but if they got married now, it would involve the Michel and Fletcher Family.

In the midst of pondering, Carmen came home from kindergarten and greeted her grandpa from the yard with her sweet, lively voice.

As soon as Carmen got home, she realized that there was a guest.

“Hey there, where did you come from?”

In the yard stood a boy who was five or six years old with black hair and fair skin. He was patting the alpaca when Carmen called him. Upon hearing that, he turned around, revealing his mesmerizing sapphire blue eyes and flawless features. He was undoubtedly an extremely handsome boy.

At that moment, Carmen felt that she was falling in love.

After glancing at Carmen, the boy continued patting the alpaca before he slowly replied, “I came with my mommy.”

Carmen was overjoyed while she frolicked around him, calling him ‘big brother’ whenever she could. She was sweet and obedient and soon enough, she and the boy became friends.

In the tearoom, Daniel took a glance outside and noticed that although the boy had western facial features, he had black hair, causing Daniel to wonder if he dyed his hair.

In addition, that boy’s sapphire blue eyes were captivating, which was one of the Michel Family’s traits.

The bloodline of the Michel Family was dominant. Even if the child was mixed-race, he or she would gradually grow to have westernized features, such as Cooper.

When Cooper was young, he had eastern facial features but as he grew, his features became more and more western. Even the color of his eyes started to change, which was extremely magical. Linus was even more magical because even though he only had a quarter of the Michel Family’s bloodline, he had western facial features ever since he was born.

When Daniel found Sophia 20 years ago, she was an ugly duckling and there wasn’t a trace showing that she was a mixed-race. As she grew older, her skin became fairer and fairer while her features became deeper. Gradually, the traits of being a mixed-race person became evident. After 10 years, when she came back, her eye color had changed and she looked completely different.

Meanwhile, Carmen and the boy happily played with each other. She didn’t even bother to put down her bag before rushing off to show her pet dogs and cats to the boy.

The boy, named Casper, had brought a small robot with him. Since Nathan’s university had ended the term early for winter and his parents were on a vacation, he had been staying in Edwards Residence. While staying here, he took care of the children and was responsible for fetching Carmen to and from her kindergarten. Today was the last day of class in kindergarten and Carmen would start her winter break too.

The three children played happily together and they were watching movies while patting the cat in the living room. At the same time, Carmen was extremely eager to introduce her superhero father, who saved the world and fought aliens, to Casper, so she asked Shae to play Michael’s movie in the home theatre.

However, before they could even finish the movie, Carmen had impatiently brought Casper to meet Daniel as if she was about to introduce him to her parents.

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“Mr. Psychic, this is my new friend, Casper. I call him Cas.”

Carmen addressed Daniel as ‘Mr. Psychic’, which was a pet name for a protector. Having a protector was an old local custom to Bayside’s aborigines. It was said that a child had poor health because he lacked something in his life, so he had to find a senior who had a compatible birthdate to be his protector. Since a protector could provide safety to a child as he grew, they were something like godparents.

Coincidentally, Daniel and Carmen had perfectly compatible birthdates, so he became her protector. That was why Carmen had been calling him ‘Mr. Psychic’.

That name actually had a profound meaning. Even though Harry was also Carmen’s godfather, he only became her godfather because of his relationship with her parents. On the contrary, Daniel had an important reason to be her protector.

Besides, he was extremely effective as a protector judging from how healthy Carmen was now compared to her condition when she was born. Although her father, Michael, was the main contributor for her good health, Daniel had also contributed as her protector. After all, contributing to a psychological effect was also a contribution.

On another note, even though Mark was Cooper’s godfather, a protector was actually a more appropriate role for him. However, since Cooper didn’t have any other godfather, they combined the two roles into one.

When it came to Carmen, godfather and protector were two separate roles. The fact that Carmen called Daniel her protector made Cooper think twice about chopping Daniel up.

To be honest, Daniel loved to be called ‘Mr. Psychic’.

After all, it sounded like he was someone precious too.

“I see Carmen has made a new friend. Come, let me give you a present for our first meeting.”

Daniel searched all over himself only to realize that he didn’t bring anything meaningful to be given as a gift. Therefore, he gave Casper his sandalwood bracelet.

Casper examined the bracelet, looking smart. Then, he took it from Daniel and kept it in his pocket. At the same time, he followed how Carmen addressed Daniel and said, “Thank you, Mr. Psychic.”

He didn’t know Daniel’s name so he thought that his name was ‘Mr. Psychic’.

Although Casper looked like he was from the west, he spoke fluent Cethosian language. Obviously, he learned the language from a young age. Of course, a child from the Michel Family wouldn’t be mediocre, and his parents must have high status in the family since he was allowed in Cooper’s house.

Daniel didn’t rectify Casper and instead, he ruffled his black hair.

Casper’s parents are quite irresponsible to allow such a young child to dye his hair, he thought.

After playing at Daniel’s place for some time, Carmen brought Casper to another place. Meanwhile, Daniel continued to analyse the chess game while waiting for Cooper to return and finish this round of game.

In Cooper’s study, a woman was sitting gracefully on the sofa with her long, blonde hair elegantly draped over her shoulder. She was wearing a simple yet tasteful lavender long dress and a nude pantyhose. Currently, she was reporting some work progress to Cooper.

After a brief report, Cooper asked with care, “Alice, how is your injury?”

That woman was none other than Alice.

Touching her wound, Alice replied, “It’s just a superficial wound so it’s not a big deal. Besides, Mr. Fletcher is an expert in treating wounds and since it was treated in time, it’s almost recovered now.”

Cooper nodded and said, “Sorry for troubling you this time.”

Alice smiled heartily and replied, “It’s not troublesome at all. I’ve always wanted to visit Cethos so this is a great opportunity to fulfil my wish. Unfortunately, I seem to have failed the task you gave me, Fass.”

Speaking of that, Alice couldn’t help but sigh before continuing, “I’ve been trying to contact Mr. Fletcher lately, but he seems to be ignoring me.”

Naturally, Alice only went to Michael’s film set upon receiving Cooper’s tacit consent and Linus’s instruction.

Linus was the one who told Alice to seduce Michael. Although Cooper felt that it was unethical, he was eager to find out if Michael would pass the test, so he agreed to it tacitly.

If Alice successfully seduced Michael, Cooper could chase him away rightfully and without guilt.

But the fact was that Michael was completely uninterested in Alice.

Cooper seemed to feel relieved but right after that came heavy-heartedness and anger.

That jerk! He’s so pervy to Sophia and even crawled through a dog hole for her, but in front of the other women, he became a boring, unromantic man. He even pretended to be proud and indifferent. What a hypocritical, cunning man!

It seemed like he wouldn’t give Sophia up.

That made Cooper feel gratified and heavy-hearted at the same time.

If he opposed their relationship, he was afraid that he would fail his conscience, which he had just retrieved.

But still, he had to consider this matter thoroughly since it was Sophia’s marriage.

Seeing that Cooper repeatedly knitted and relaxed his eyebrows while remaining silent, Alice asked tentatively, “Fass, should I continue with the task? I feel that I’m out of the running for seducing him because Mr. Fletcher is strong-willed. Besides, I don’t have any better ideas at the moment.”

Alice had made several attempts on set, such as finding an opportunity to let Michael inadvertently glance at her phone so that he could see the photo that she set as her wallpaper, or his name that was saved in her contacts. These attempts aimed to let Michael realize her feelings toward him, which was actually fake.

However, Michael had ignored them and was totally unmoved.

She even started to doubt if Michael was truly a man. Otherwise, how could he be completely unmoved at a flawless woman’s pursuit?

Even when he was treating the wound on her waist when they were in the cave, he didn’t even glance anywhere else when he took off her shirt and treated the wound with the fastest and the most expert skills. After that, he left her to survive on her own.

Even worse, he’d rather let her pee in her pants than help her to the toilet.

When they returned to Bayside City, Alice tried again and even hinted at Sophia. Yet, she realized that all her tricks were useless and nothing, not even a strand of hair, could get in between Michael and Sophia, let alone a person.

Knowing that she had failed her task, Alice immediately sought Cooper’s advice.

After some time, Cooper finally replied, “You can stop the task. Since you’re injured, you should rest.”

In this plot, he aimed to sow discord between Sophia and Michael through Alice, whereas Linus aimed to stir trouble after testing them. In the end, they didn’t find anything out of the ordinary nor manage to sow any discord. Instead, Sophia became even more inseparable from Michael. Perhaps she was stressed and felt the competitive pressure, she sneaked out and went to travel around with Michael. Now, she even refused to come home, abandoning Carmen, who still needed to be taken care of, and him, who was waiting eagerly for her to return.

Alice said, “I plan to expand Michel Communications in Cethos, so I’ll be staying in Bayside for some time.”

Michel mobile phones were widely favored overseas but in Cethos, its market seemed to be limited, which was actually a consequence of Michel Group not realizing the importance of Cethos’s market previously. But now, even Linus had personally come to expand the market in Cethos. Naturally, Alice would give him a run for his money.

There was a huge potential for this market that had a population of more than 1 billion. Therefore, Alice had wild ambitions to conquer this market!

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Nodding, Cooper said, “I’ll be focusing on energy technology in this period of time, so I’m entrusting the company to you and Linus.”

Alice was ten years younger than Cooper and she had always been close to him. Besides, Cooper was a brother that she respected the most so naturally, they spoke to each other casually and cordially. As someone who didn’t like to beat around the bush, Alice saved all nonsense and got straight to the point. “I’ll expand the phone business in Cethos and I plan to find a famous celebrity in Cethos to be the ambassador. Considering that we’re mainly selling business phones, I’ve tentatively decided to find only male celebrities. I have high requirements for the ambassador and currently, the candidates that meet these requirements are Harry and Taylor. However…”

Because of Cooper, Michel Group did not venture into the Cethos market. Therefore, their phones were popular overseas, but they didn’t even have an official authorized reseller store in Cethos. Those who wanted to buy their phone had to buy it from overseas since the phone was not available in Cethos.

Alice looked at Cooper and said, “After that incident, these two might not be willing to collaborate with us.”

Now, Michael refused to talk to her, and so did Harry.

Again, Cooper sank into silence. To be able to enter the Cethosian market, they needed to select their ambassador carefully because he or she played an important role.

As one of the oldest phone brands in the world, Michel mobile phones had history, quality and reputation. Therefore, ordinary celebrities couldn’t bring out the quality and prestige of the phone.

Thinking of the ambassador, Michael and Harry were also the first two people that came to Cooper’s mind. These two male celebrities, who were once extremely famous, were definitely qualified as they could bring out the best of the phone. But after that incident, Michael had probably figured out who Alice was, so asking him to be their ambassador would be a rather shameless act.

Besides, Michael advertised for sanitary pads and stainless steel basin in the past, so Cooper eliminated him directly and said, “Let’s go with Harry. Taylor accepted too many advertisements, so he lost his value long ago.”

Alice was slightly disappointed because she felt that the best move was to hire both of them. Michel had always positioned themselves in the high-end phone market but she was aiming to sell a middle-end phone now, which had a much acceptable price to the majority, just like Apple products that cost a few thousand each.

But since Michel targeted the high-end phone market and it cost around a few hundred thousands on average, it was only favored by the high society. Therefore, it was challenging to enter the middle-end market as it was not widely-known.

She had high confidence in her phone. With a quality phone, all that was left was to find a quality ambassador.

“Alright then. I’ll leave it to you, Fass. I’m going home now.”

Alice got up gracefully and left the study after bidding farewell to Cooper. Then, she walked down the stairs. Cooper sent her off since he was going to the teahouse, which was in the same direction.

When Alice got to the living room, Casper dashed toward her and shouted, “Mommy!”

Holding Casper’s hand, Alice looked at the two other children in the living room. She had long known who they were—one was Michael’s child and the other was Celine’s child.

“Hi, Carmen!” She called out Carmen’s name directly.

Carmen was shocked. “How do you know me?”

Alice crouched down and looked closely at the adorable girl. She resembled Sophia and Michael, and the longer she looked at her, the prettier she seemed to be.

Smiling gently, Alice replied, “Because I’m your grandfather’s sister. You should call me your aunt! ”

Carmen sweetly greeted her, “Hi, Aunt!”

Alice found herself to be very fond of Carmen. No wonder Cooper was willing to stay at Cethos for Sophia and Carmen’s sake. If she had such an adorable granddaughter, she would do the same. Seeing that Casper and Carmen were getting along nicely, Alice joked, “Do you think Casper is handsome? When you grow up, do you want to date him, Carmen?”

Looking serious, Carmen knitted her eyebrows and replied hesitantly, “But I already have a boyfriend. Look, that’s my boyfriend!”

Looking in the direction that Carmen was pointing, Alice saw a brown female alpaca…

Cooper then held Casper’s hand and led him to Carmen while saying, “Cas is your uncle, Carmen. From now on, you must respect him.”

Casper was Alice’s son and he was now five years old. Other than Alice, no one knew who his father was. Once he was born, he was recorded in the Michel Family’s genealogy record book. As long as the mother was from the Michel Family, the Michel Family would accept the child as one of them as long as Alice didn’t marry into another family.

Although Alice often got into relationships, she was undoubtedly a celibatarian. Her exes all broke up with her because of her non-marriage doctrine.

Before Casper appeared in her life, she was very religious and strongly opposed to having sex before marriage. But after Casper was born, she stopped holding on to her religion.

Cooper respected Alice’s privacy so he never once asked about Casper’s father. Even when he asked her to come and seduce Michael, she only teased Michael. Indeed, she was interested in Michael, but that was all and nothing more. She had never thought of being with Michael. Besides, her pride didn’t allow her to be a third wheel in someone else’s relationship, and Michael wasn’t the type she liked.

Yet, no one knew what type of man Alice liked because she dated all kinds of men in the past. Therefore, no one had an inkling of what type of man Casper’s father was.

Ever since Alice came to Cethos, she had been staying in a hotel. It wasn’t suitable for children to stay in a hotel long-term, so Casper had been staying in Edwards Residence. Afraid that she would trouble Cooper, Alice decided to stay in the hotel herself.

When Linus heard that Alice failed her task, he was surprised. After all, he knew how attractive his sister was, and she had never failed to get any men she wanted. Unexpectedly, she failed this time round.

Yet, this was somehow a reasonable outcome because Michael was deeply in love with Sophia. Therefore, it was impossible for Alice to interfere with their relationship.

Linus had probably anticipated this outcome from the beginning.

The issues of the adults were too complicated for the children. Just like that, Casper moved into Edwards Residence and played with Carmen, who was enjoying her winter break. In this matter, Carmen was overjoyed because she gained a new friend.

If Casper’s identity was subjected to Cethos’s feudal principles, he was an illegitimate child of an anonymous father. He would suffer the same way Sophia did, who grew up receiving criticism and mockeries from others. Fortunately, Casper had a strong mother and a family that accepted him. Therefore, he enjoyed the same inheritance rights as the other legitimate children of the Michel Family.

The Michel Family treated both girls and boys fairly and didn’t practice the tradition where only males could inherit the family’s assets. In fact, there had been numerous female family heads in the past. The Michel Family even hoped that they had more illegitimate children like Casper because in that case, outstanding female members of the family like Alice would remain unmarried, and no weird men could take the opportunity to get married into the family for their own interest. Children with the family’s noble bloodline would never be abandoned, and neither would they have another surname besides Michel.

Therefore, many of the successful women in the Michel Family would remain unmarried in order to prevent issues that might come with marriage.

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For them, marriage was a hair-pulling issue. They weren’t interested in weak men while outstanding men weren’t willing to marry into the women’s families. Besides, if they were to marry a man, they would have to give up their surname. Therefore, many of them would either get into a relationship but not get married, or give birth to a child with an anonymous father to inherit their family business. If the father of the child tried to stir trouble, the Michel Family’s legal team would fight for the child’s custody and his or her surname by all means.

For example, to the Michel Family, it was absolutely unacceptable for Carmen, who had the bloodline of the Michel Family, to inherit her father’s surname. Therefore, it was only a matter of time for the family members in Northern Europe to come and fight against Michael for the sake of Carmen’s surname. That was what Cooper worried about.

Ever since the family members in Northern Europe knew about the existence of Sophia and Carmen, they had been eagerly asking them to change their surnames, but Cooper kept rejecting them with all sorts of excuses. Now, they were starting to feel annoyed.

The Fletcher Family was also a huge family with a long history, so it was impossible for Michael to be married into the Michel Family, not to mention changing his surname to his wife’s surname. However, Sophia and Michael were deeply in love, which made things even more difficult for Cooper.

In the meantime, Daniel still frequently visited Edwards Residence to examine their feng shui. To be honest, Cooper didn’t understand how feng shui worked, but it must have its own logic so he might as well ask Daniel to examine it.

“Mr. Mitchell, the direction of your building is not right. It should be facing 15° to the East, where wealth and luck come from. Besides, you mustn’t use a wooden door. You should use an alloy door because metal attracts wealth. Although your house is fine, its placement and direction indicate the lack of wealth according to feng shui. Therefore, you should find a son-in-law with a strong soul to guard your wealth. I’m just going to put it out there—although your house has great feng shui, it’s actually built on where an ancient tomb once was, which later on was converted to a Yang house from a Yin house under the advice of a feng shui master. But even though it has become a Yang house, the negative energy in the ground hasn’t completely dissipated even after a few centuries. In fact, it’s only being temporarily suppressed and once the feng shui is disrupted, this house will return to a Yin house, which will harm the descendants of the people that live in this house. As time passes and the world changes, the feng shui of a particular place will also change. Did you realize that the downfall of the previous owner, the Harper Family, started when the subway was built a few years back? Due to the construction of the subway around this area, the feng shui was disrupted, which converted a Yang house to a Yin house. What’s worse is that the subway had dredged a ghost path, causing the area to be filled with negative energy. Your door faces the ghost path directly, attracting all the negative spirits and ghosts to this house.”

Holding a compass and wearing a Taoist robe, Daniel walked around the house to examine its feng shui while explaining what he found, which sounded like a ghost story. It made Cooper’s hair stand on end.

Daniel continued, “The previous owner, the Harper Family, didn’t find this out so his family died off. Therefore, the Harper Family either ended up with huge debts or was infected with malignant diseases. Suffering from a troubled home, unfilial descendants, invasion of ghosts and roaming evil spirits, the century-long family was destroyed and the culprit is poor feng shui. Since this is a Yin house now, it’s only suitable for the deceased to stay. If humans moved in… Pardon me for my unpleasant words, Mr. Mitchell, you’ll meet with a dreadful misfortune sooner or later. You’re safe now only because you and your family have just moved in and you have many dogs, so the evil energy is temporarily suppressed.”

Cooper followed behind Daniel, seemingly in deep thoughts. He was frowning and calculating the date, only to realize that what Daniel said was accurate.

When Sophia was harmed by the Harper Family, the Harper Family was still at the heights of their power. At that time, the construction of the subway nearby had started. When the subway was complete, Sophia had started to wreak revenge on the Harper Family and that was the time they gradually fell. It wasn’t right to say that it had nothing to do with that because it somehow seemed to be related. Otherwise, how could Sophia alone destroy a highly-respected family with centuries of history without effort?

Walking beside Daniel while listening to his nonsense, Cooper was convinced by him without him realizing.

Casper seemed to be interested in feng shui as well so he walked beside Daniel and quietly listened to him. At this moment, they arrived at the subway and Daniel sniffed the cold wind that was blowing from the direction of the subway. Then, he seriously explained, “There’s a tinge of blood smell in the wind so this route is undoubtedly a ghost path. Your house door is facing the ghost path directly, so the ghost will enter your house once they exit the ghost path. On top of that, your house is a Yin house and with the door facing the ghost path, your house is now haunted. It’s pointless even if you rear countless black dogs.”

Looking at the bustling subway entrance, Daniel added, “Ghosts will come out from the subway station and harm humans. Therefore, this route has many accidents.”

Cooper became even more convinced by him because this subway route indeed took many lives every year. Last year, a working adult pried open the safety door and tried to enter the train because he was in a rush. Unexpectedly, the train door closed and he was caught in between the train and the safety door. Tragically, he died on the spot. Another accident happened in the year before the last, where a passenger died due to a heart attack right after he got off the train. There had also been an incident where someone died on the escalator.

Other than casualties, the subway often broke down because of all kinds of reasons. Therefore, many people believed that this area had poor feng shui. It seemed that he should believe it rather than not. Cooper started to panic. “How do I change feng shui?”

In a serious tone, Daniel replied, “Firstly, you must change the direction of the door and move it away from the ghost path. Secondly, you should give the mythical beast guardian at the entrance a face-lift since it has lost its power to protect the house after placing it there for more than ten years. Then, you should adjust the structure of the house. Lastly, you should find a son-in-law that has a strong soul to move in and suppress the negativity. The best candidate would be someone who was a soldier and killed people before. It’s even better if his ancestors are soldiers. If you can find a general who has held command of an army, or a descendant of generals, that would be the best because this kind of man has a spirit of righteousness, which can suppress evil and malevolence.”

Cooper was speechless. After so much talking, Michael was the one who fit the description. The ancestors of the Fletcher Family were all soldiers and many generals were from this family as well. In addition, Michael’s father was a general with outstanding military exploits. In this peaceful era, not many soldiers fought in a war before, but Michael had taken lives when he participated in joint military operations abroad during his time as a soldier. In fact, he had killed many. According to Daniel’s description, Michael fulfilled every criteria.

Seeing that Cooper was silent, Daniel continued, “Deaths happened every year consecutively for a few years in this subway, but after I examined the feng shui here this year, it has been peaceful because the ghost didn’t dare to make trouble. It’s up to you to trust me, but don’t blame me for not warning you if something happens.”

Cooper knew about that incident too. After numerous deaths happened, the leaders of the subway company became as anxious as ants on a hot pan. But no matter how flawless their safety measures were, there would always be a few death cases every year. Even the subway would break down frequently. Therefore, at the beginning of this year, they hired Daniel at a high price. After they employed a group of retired soldiers as their security guards according to Daniel’s advice, the accidents significantly decreased because soldiers were able to suppress negativity and evil.

Daniel shocked Cooper with his nonsense, luring Cooper into believing him beyond a shadow of doubt from being sceptical in the beginning. On the other hand, Casper looked up at Daniel and his eyes were filled with amazement and admiration, exclaiming inwardly, Mom, this man is so impressive. He knows everything including astronomy and geography. Is he a god?

Holding Casper’s hand, Cooper followed Daniel and roamed further. After all, feng shui had to be examined slowly and detailly.

Meanwhile, a man, who was selling roasted sweet potatoes at the subway entrance, stared blankly at them. He had overheard their conversation. Is that the reason for the Harper Family’s fall? Just because the construction of the subway disrupted the feng shui in this area, which converted a Yang house to a Yin house that was supposedly inhabited by dead people? He laughed bitterly at the sky while tears flowed from the corner of his eyes.

That man was none other than the former young master of the Harper Family, Richard Harper. Now, he was selling roasted sweet potatoes by the roadside.

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The last time Sophia saw Richard, he was selling insurance but as his health worsened, his illness gradually got out of control and he could no longer withstand the heavy workload of working as a salesperson. Therefore, he came to Riverdale to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Knowing his character, the local government agency did not dare to chase him away so he had been selling roasted sweet potatoes for a living since a few months back.

His hair had become gray, his eyes seemed murky and his complexion was sallow. He looked like an old man in his fifties or sixties. No one knew that he was only 27, which was the same age as Sophia.

Now, the Harper Family was completely ruined and the once glorious Harper Family had its name completely removed from Bayside. Was it all because the feng shui of the house was disrupted?

In fact, the Harper Family actually spent an enormous amount of money and requested to change the subway route to this place, which in turn increased the value of the nearby land that was developed by them. Without them realizing, they had created a ghost path!

Richard laughed hysterically and after laughing, he looked at the subway entrance that had more than ten steps of stairs. Then, he suddenly dashed toward it.

Wasn’t that a ghost path? He dared it to take his life today!

Sadly, he didn’t pay attention to the step under his feet so before he even reached the stairs, he tripped over it and knocked his head on the cement floor. At once, blood splashed from his head and his brain splattered all over. Tragically, he died on the spot.

He wanted to die in the subway but his wish wasn’t fulfilled. It was just a step away.

On the other hand, Daniel was explaining to Cooper, “Mr. Mitchell, although you have a dog in your house and it temporarily suppressed evil, your house was converted to a Yang house because a thousand-year-old ancient tomb was demolished. That tomb shouldn’t be taken trivially. Now, not only is the house packed with negative energy, but it’s also facing the ghost path, so some evil beings have already entered the house. The dogs will soon lose their suppressing power against those things and if you don’t find someone with a strong soul soon, I speculate that someone will die in your house within ten days.”

Shocked and terrified, Cooper was drenched in cold sweat. Right at that moment, someone suddenly shouted, “Someone died!”

With his hair standing on end, he turned around only to see a dead person in front of his house. It so happened that the person didn’t die at the subway nor the bus station, but within the perimeters of Edwards residence.

Daniel knitted his eyebrows and said, “Look, someone died as I speculated. The feng shui in your house must be changed and you must find a son-in-law.”

Not only did someone die outside the house, but Casper also fell ill after he moved into Edwards residence. That deepened the crease between Cooper’s eyebrows while he became even more convinced that his house had bad feng shui.

Under Cooper’s earnest request, Daniel moved into Edwards residence so that he could improve the house’s feng shui.

Daniel was an expert in fooling people. Apart from fortune telling, he was also skilled in analysing one’s future, palmistry, bone reading, astronomy, horoscope and even tarot-card reading. Using his expertise in every field, he successfully fooled Cooper. Even the few bodyguards from the Michel Family couldn’t stop admiring him.

Casper was sick and had a fever. His body temperature didn’t seem to decrease even after being hospitalized for two days, causing Cooper to be anxious. It so happened that Alice and Linus had gone abroad for business so he was reluctant to inform Alice about Casper’s situation, afraid that she might be worried.

Besides, Cooper felt embarrassed to tell Alice that Casper fell ill right after he moved into his house.

Upon knowing this, Daniel took the initiative to visit Casper at the hospital. Upon a brief examination, he noticed that Casper’s blue eyes seemed to have lost their vitality so he said, “Cas must have come into contact with an evil energy. Children have weaker immune systems but it’s nothing serious. He’ll be fine with some black dog’s blood.”

Without delay, Cooper sent his men to his house and collected a big bowl of his beloved dog, Corrado’s blood. Then, Daniel dipped his fingers in the black dog’s blood and smeared it on Casper’s face. At the same time, he said gently, “Everything’s going to be fine. Now that I’ve applied the blood of a black dog on you, you’ll be as good as new tomorrow.”

Looking at Daniel, Casper’s sapphire blue eyes seemed to be sparkling.

Casper seemed to be extremely fond of his mystical ‘protector’. Every day right after he woke up, he would search for Daniel and follow him around while witnessing how he fooled Cooper. Similarly, Daniel doted on this child, which came out of nowhere, and would always read his future whenever he was free.

Knowing that Casper was sick, Daniel was heartbroken as well. Since he wasn’t busy, he decided to go to the hospital to accompany Casper.

“Cas, does it still hurt?” Showing his rare gentleness, Daniel tucked the blanket under Casper.

Casper replied, “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Since Daniel had free time now, he gave full play of his expertise, chatting with Casper while reading his palm.

“Cas, you have a great life. You must cherish it and in the future, you’ll be successful. It seems like you’re lacking something in your life, but you’ll soon find it.”

Daniel furrowed his eyebrows. Earlier, he noticed that Casper’s parents weren’t with him when he was ill, so Cooper disclosed that he only had a mother, who was still abroad, and he didn’t have a father.

Learning about that, he generally knew what he lacked in his life.

Poor child.

After Casper was smeared with black dog’s blood, he couldn’t fall asleep and kept staring at Daniel, who was sitting beside the bed while reading Confucian classics. Noticing Casper’s gaze, he closed the book and looked at this adorable child. Then, he said, “Cas, don’t worry and go to sleep now. I won’t leave. I’ll stay here until you recover from your illness.”

It was only then did Casper go to sleep without concern.

Daniel tucked Casper in and smiled before continuing to read his book.

Uncertain whether it was the intravenous drip that Casper got at the hospital or the black dog’s blood that was effective, he recovered the next day, so Daniel brought him home. Because of that, Cooper trusted Daniel even more.

Since then, Daniel spoke with the airs of an expert and he seemed even more confident in criticising Cooper’s house.

“Rearing more dogs in the house is a right move since dogs are able to chase evil away, especially black dogs. Although a husky is not a black dog, it represents half a black dog. So, three huskies make a black dog. It’s not a rumor that dogs can protect houses. Pay attention to the dog and if something happens to the dog one day, it means that your house has become so haunted that even dogs can’t help you. By that time, the only solution is to move out as soon as possible. Children have low tolerance toward evil energy. Carmen is safe since I’m her protector and she has a safety amulet. As for Casper, he’s safe too because his room is smeared with black dog’s blood, but you need to pay attention to the other children.”

Beside him, Cooper didn’t even have the courage to interrupt him.

Since Daniel had nothing to do, he stayed at Cooper’s house comfortably while babysitting the children. Carmen turned her nose up at his tricks and never trusted his lies. However, Casper, who came from western countries, admired him a lot and followed him wherever he went.

Holding Capser’s hand, Daniel strolled around Edwards residence while enlightening him. “Cas, feng shui is a cultural treasure that our ancestors passed down to us. It encompasses vast knowledge. Come, let me explain it to you…”

It was winter break. Sarah and Harry, who just finished shooting a movie, went on a vacation somewhere so naturally, they sent their children to Edwards residence. Hope, Ashton and Carmen formed a small group and they turned their nose up at Daniel’s tricks. They also repeatedly warned Casper not to be taken in.

However, Casper was completely mesmerized and he spent his days learning witchcraft from Daniel. Lately, he even made some progress in palmistry. Through examining Judge’s paw, he even speculated that he had recently earned a bucket of gold by luck, which was confirmed by Carmen. According to Carmen, Judge brought Michael lunch boxes and managed to earn a few thousand. Now that he was rich, he became arrogant and looked down on everyone when he got home.

Casper was overjoyed and felt that he had talent in this skill. Therefore, he secretly swore that he would follow Daniel up the mountain to cultivate his skills.

 

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Daniel loved Casper too and felt that he was gifted. So, he said to Cooper, “I feel that this child clicks with me. Why don’t you let him come with me to the mountain? I’ll surely teach him everything I know.”

Overjoyed, Casper nodded repeatedly.

He wanted to go to the mountain, cultivate himself and become a god. In the future, he hoped he could be like Daniel, who knew everything including astronomy and geography, ghosts and gods as well as Yin and Yang. In addition, he wanted to travel around to examine feng shui and read futures.

Cooper shot daggers at Daniel.

Daniel didn’t stop at fooling him into agreeing to marry his daughter. Now, he even tried to fool him into sending Casper to the mountain and be his apprentice!

“Impossible!”

Daniel was rejected mercilessly by Cooper but he had anticipated it. Casper’s mother must have a prestigious status in the Michel Family, so Casper was probably being nurtured to be the successor to the family. Therefore, he definitely couldn’t follow him into the mountain.

Feeling regret, he said to Casper, “Cas, I sincerely want to bring you with me but your mother and uncle are not allowing that. But don’t worry, I’ll still pass down everything I know to you.”

He honestly loved Casper.

In the past, Daniel wanted to pass all his knowledge to Carmen, Hope, Ashton and Nathan, but all of them rejected his kindness. Not only did they turn their nose up at him, but they even secretly gave him a nickname—Mr. Eighty Thousand, which was now deeply rooted in everyone’s mind.

Casper was the only one who admired him.

During the winter holiday, Carmen enjoyed her life to the fullest. She had snowball fights, skied and rode on sleds every day. Fortunately, the house was huge and in order to have a place for Carmen to play, Cooper built a small skiing park and skating rink at home. Carmen looked extremely graceful when she skated.

Thus, the yard wasn’t despondent and cheerless because of winter. Instead, it became even more lively because Carmen didn’t have classes.

When spring arrived, Carmen turned four and she had grown stronger. When she was born, she was as weak as a new-born kitten. With painstaking care, Michael had nurtured her into a lovely, cheerful angel. Of course, she got on Cooper’s nerves when she behaved mischievously, driving him up the wall.

Every day after work, Cooper would spend most of his time with Carmen. He didn’t manage to spend time with Sophia when she grew up, so he didn’t know how it felt like to take care of a daughter. Therefore, he cared for Carmen like his own daughter and it was a bittersweet experience.

Usually, kids loved to play outdoors, and they couldn’t even stop running around as if their butts would be burnt if they sat still on the stool for more than a second. Only Casper could remain still. He would follow Daniel around all day and listen to him explain about scriptures, Yin and Yang and the eight trigrams. Daniel would also teach him to read bones, face and fortune as well as tricks.

As expected, all the Michels were geniuses. Although Casper, who just reached five this year, was still young, he already had a good grasp of languages. He was fluent in three languages and recognized numerous Chinese characters. Every day, he would learn new things from Daniel and Daniel would patiently teach him. He was extremely fast in learning.

Cooper counted the days every day, eagerly waiting for Sophia to come home. Now, he had accepted it and as long as she came home, he would keep quiet even if she brought him a son-in-law.

On the other side, the Michel Family had been urging Sophia and Carmen to go back to the family. Cooper didn’t want Sophia and Carmen to give up the Michel Family, but he couldn’t ask Carmen to leave just like that either. Therefore, he was extremely stressed.

A few days before the new year, Sophia finally came home. After going on a vacation, not only did she gain weight, but she also became darker too.

Michael was beside her and he almost had the same skin tone as her. Carrying several bags at once, he cordially greeted Cooper as soon as he stepped into the house. “Dad.”

Cooper was almost fooled by Daniel so when he saw Michael, he had mixed feelings of love and hatred. He didn’t even respond to Michael’s greeting. Yet, when he looked to the side and saw Carmen looking at him sternly, he knew that she would criticize him for disliking Michael. Therefore, he quickly replied to Michael with a groan, and only then did Carmen smile.

“Dad, look at how many presents Mikey and I brought you!” Sophia displayed all the presents that she brought for Cooper. They were local specialties from all over the world, which she bought from all the places she went during her vacation.

She even calls him Mikey… Cooper was even more frustrated now, but since his daughter was back, all other emotions were overtaken by happiness.

When Michael saw Daniel once he came in, he winked at him. In return, Daniel raised his eyebrows at him too. That was their discreet greetings to each other.

Michael knew that once Daniel got into action, no one could escape from his trick.

Now that Cooper had lowered his guard, the next step would be revealing some clues about his son to him. Then, he would try his best to find his son before Tomb-Sweeping Day. After the Dragon Boat Festival, he could urge for a marriage and hopefully, he could announce his marriage to the whole world while creating hype for his works before ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’ and his new movie were screened.

He had even chosen the venue for the marriage and was now secretly listing the guests.

Noticing Daniel and Michael’s interaction, Cooper figured out that they colluded in scheming against him. Nevertheless, he had fallen into the trap and was now in a difficult situation. He didn’t want to be fooled by Daniel but what he said seemed accurate. What if it was actually true?

Cooper was truly looped into Daniel’s trick and he was stuck in a difficult position now. He even started to doubt his life for the first time.

Sophia had heard about Casper for a long time and knew that he was Alice’s son. Yet, she was still surprised that he had grown so much.

During this period of time, she found out who Alice was as well as Cooper’s plot. Therefore, she was even more curious about Alice.

To be honest, Alice was an extremely cool woman. She took care of a son without a father, and she did it proudly. What was even more impressive was not only did she take great care of her son, but she also developed her career at the same time and grew to become Linus’s largest competitor.

Knowing that Alice only came to test Michael and not to snatch him, Sophia became even more interested in Alice and she hoped she could meet her in person.

She wanted to be a strong, successful woman too, so Alice was her idol.

Unfortunately, Alice and Linus had gone abroad for business and they hadn’t returned.

After that, Michael openly carried his luggage to Sophia’s room. Then, he went to meet Daniel in private.

Sternly, Daniel told Michael about his speculation.

“Sophia is not the old Sophia. While nurturing her to be the future head of the Mitchell Family, Cooper also wants her to grab the interest and benefits from the Michel Family. I think that he’s planning to make her the heir of the Michel Family’s business too. If both of you are planning to get married, it won’t be easy.”

Michael bowed his head and sank into a deep ponder.

From the beginning, he had figured that it would be extremely difficult to marry Sophia from the Michel Family, especially when Cooper was nurturing Sophia to become the head of the family.

If he were to marry Sophia, it would mean marrying Scarlett Mitchell and Lucile Michel as well.

Asking Sophia to follow his mother, Beyoncé’s footsteps to abandon the family and sever ties with them was definitely not what Michael wanted. He didn’t want her to clip her wings and marry him in wounds.

While he was pondering, an icy, indifferent voice rang.

“Isn’t this Master Levine, who touches breasts and reads futures for a living at River Seine? It has been a few years since we last met and you seem to be living a great life!”

What?!

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As soon as Daniel heard that voice, he was instantly startled and lost his composure as he spat out his tea.

Holding his cup, Michael looked at the woman standing at the door. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a seductive figure. Wasn’t this Alice Michel who joined the filming crew? Surely, Michael knew her identity. She was the Vice President of the Michel Group, her identity and prestige only second to Linus.

Was Daniel fortune-telling by examining… breasts?

To Michael’s knowledge, Daniel wasn’t that kind of person. Although his nickname ‘Mr. Eighty Thousand’ had been firmly established, he never had any dark past. In fact, he was honest and decent, and he was a man of taste. He would never be involved in these acts, and Michael knew this.

Despite that, it seemed like Daniel had become a completely different person when Alice showed up today. “A-Alice?” He looked like he had just seen a ghost.

Meanwhile, Sophia, who came with Alice, was also dumbfounded.

Are there such things as fortune-telling by examining breasts? And Daniel did that?

She looked at Daniel’s hands before turning to look at Alice’s breast. Then, she shifted her gaze to Casper’s black hair and Alice’s blonde hair, before looking at Daniel’s black hair. She finally connected the dots when she associated the ‘fortune-telling’ to Casper’s absent father.

This information was too overwhelming, and she had to take a moment to process it.

However, Michael pretty much figured it out in a few seconds.

First of all, Daniel’s whereabouts were always uncertain. One-third of the time, he would be at Bayside City, while other times, he would either be at Reverie Mountain or touring the world fortune-telling.

According to Sophia, Alice usually kept a low profile. Other than going to work, she travelled and did photography.

On top of that, she used to be religious and a devoted worshipper, while Daniel’s targets were usually those who were believers.

Casper was five now, which meant that six years ago…

Six years ago, there was an international metaphysical convention held by the river Seine which Daniel was invited to.

At that moment, Alice scoffed as she walked in. When she saw Daniel, she did not know whether to laugh or cry.

“Mr. Psychic, this is my Mommy.”

Casper sat next to Daniel and proudly introduced her.

In complete disbelief, Daniel looked back and forth between Alice and Casper before he realized that Casper’s hair color was natural, and not dyed!

At once, his jaw dropped.

“Casper… Alice…”

His mind was completely blown as he looked at the pair of mother and son in disbelief. In fact, he did not know what to say.

Just then, Michael cleared his throat. “It’s warm in here, I’m going to get some fresh air.”

Then, he quickly left with Sophia, leaving Daniel alone to face Alice and Casper.

Sophia, who had wanted to watch the fun, was dragged away by Michael.

Then, there were only Alice, Daniel, and Casper left in the tea room.

Lifting his head, Casper looked at the two of them as his blue eyes blinked.

In fact, Alice and Linus had just returned from their business trip when they heard Casper talking about an incredible fortune teller, and that he wanted to follow him to Reverie Mountain to train as his apprentice. As such, Alice wanted to meet this fortune teller who had the ability to trick not only Cooper, but also her son. She did not expect the crook to be Daniel!

Due to Alice’s imposing aura, Daniel did not dare to speak nor breath too loudly. He felt extremely guilty when he recalled the incident where he had drunkenly taken advantage of Alice and then ran away after sobering up the next morning.

However, it had been consensual, and none of them had expected this to happen at all.

He did not actually think that Alice would get pregnant and give birth to Casper.

What was more, it never occurred to him that he would get involved with someone from the Michel Family during his encounter abroad.

“Hi… Alice…”

Summoning up his courage, Daniel smiled awkwardly and tried to liven up the mood.

Looking at him, Alice’s blue eyes were ice cold. She was comparable to an angry mother dragon, who seemed like she was going to breathe fire at Daniel and tear him to pieces at any time.

The word ‘Michel’ originally meant a kind of evil dragon, and the Michel Family had always been jokingly referred to as the ‘Evil Mitchell Family’ by Daniel.

True to its name, the evil dragon lived in Cooper and Alice, who both had the fury of a dragon as well.

Fortunately, Alice only glared at Daniel before she turned around and left, leaving Casper and Daniel behind.

After Alice turned around, her expression was completely indifferent.

Six year ago, she was a faithful worshipper and devoted herself to her religion. She lived by His will, and refrained from drinking and premarital sex. But on that fateful night, she had betrayed her God and herself when she committed the sins for an Eastern man.

Who knew that when she woke up the next day, the man was already gone.

Watching Alice go, Daniel finally took a deep breath. He looked down and saw that Casper was still staring at him.

“Mr. Psychic, do you know my Mommy?”

Gazing at the innocent Casper, Daniel did not know whether to cry or to laugh.

Casper was actually his son.

Ruffling the child’s hair that was the same color as his own, he had a lot of mixed feelings.

“I do. Of course I do.”

After they exited the house, Sophia and Michael passed through the courtyard and went into the garden to have a stroll. Originally, this was an underdeveloped area in the suburbs, but the Harper Family elders had bought a large piece of the land here to build this mansion. They had also built a man-made lake, pavilions, and also a small plum blossom garden.

The two walked hand in hand through the garden.

“Alice and Daniel together… Who knew that this would be possible?” Sophia sighed. What a small world.

“I didn’t expect that either,” Michael nodded too.

Now that they had found out Casper was Daniel’s son, this was going to be troublesome as Casper’s name was already under the Michel Family’s household registry.

Silently, Michael frowned. He didn’t know how Daniel would react to Casper, but it would be impossible for him to take Casper away from the Michel Family. If it was Carmen, Michael would have fought ruthlessly to keep his daughter!

Suddenly, Shae came and reported, “Linus is back!”

Upon hearing this, Sophia happily ran over and soon saw Linus who just came out of the garage.

Recently, Linus had been travelling overseas for work, and he even went back to his home in northern Europe along the way to deal with some matters. When he came back, he was wearing a black wool coat and a black-and-white scarf. He looked exhausted from travelling.

“Linus!” Sophia enthusiastically greeted him. When Linus saw her, he smiled gently and went up to give her a big hug.