Chapter 312
In the basement, Abel had been working continuously for yet another 18 hours, but his bloodshot eyes
still revealed his high spirits.
At that moment, Michael suddenly went downstairs to the basement.
The moment he appeared, he asked, “What’s wrong? Any news about the Phantom Wolf?”
Abel rubbed his temple in exhaustion. “The lip prints and fingerprints that we lifted from Sophia matched
the ones left by Phantom Wolf at the crime scene. We are 100% sure that the fingerprints belong to him,
but we are unable to identify who he is. We can only wait for him to appear again.”
Michael handed the diary to Abel.
“Subconsciously, he read the verse, “If the city generals were present, the barbarians’ horses would
never have crossed the mountains.” This verse and this handwriting…
He tightly furrowed his brows in such a way that a bug could be squashed in between. “Where did you
get this from?”
Michael replied, “The handwriting must seem familiar to you. Scan it first to make sure that it is really
his.”
Abel quickly turned and started to scan the verse adopted from the poem ‘War’ on the notebook.
Coop’s handwriting was registered into their database. Abel then retrieved the information about the
images and handwriting belonging to the Mitchell Family. In less than a minute, the system found the
person in Mitchell Family whose handwriting matched the ones on the diary—and the photo of a young
man appeared on the disy screen.
The man in the photo was a really young man, who looked like he was less than 30 years old. He was
handsome with prominent mixed-race facial features. He had deep eyes, a sharp nose, and high
cheekbones with a slight curl at the corner of his lips, which seemed like a king’s dominant smile.
Upon seeing that face, Michael was stunned and a name that made his body and soul tremble escaped
his lips. “Cooper Mitchell!”
Cooper Mitchell was the genius from the Mitchell Family—he began his business empire when he was
only 25 years old and became the youngest family head that the Mitchell Family ever had. However, he
had passed away from an ident when he was 29 years old. He was unmarried and did not have any
children in his lifetime.
There weren’t many people that Michael had admired throughout his life, but Cooper was one of them.
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If Michael was the nightmare for members of the Fletcher Family, who were of the same generation as
him, then Cooper was Michael’s nightmare as the legendary ‘other people’s child’. In fact, he would be a
terror within another nightmare!
At 3 years old, he was able to recite three hundred poems and wrote impressive calligraphy when he
was 5 years old. He recited 100 digits of Pi when he was 8 years old and spoke 7nguages by the time
he was 11 years old. He even performed on stage with an international pianist when he was 13 and
inherited his family business at the age of 15 before obtaining double doctorate degrees at 18…
He was the strongest ‘other people’s child’ in history.
Cooper was practically Michael’s nightmare! No, not only him. The mere mention of Cooper’s name was
enough to send all the children from the Four Great Families of simr ages trembling in fear.
When they were young, there was nothing scarier than to hear the phrase ‘Cooper Mitchell is here to
visit!’
Whenever Cooper came to visit the Fletcher Family, the amount of homework that Michael and the
children in the Fletcher Family had would increase by a few times.
Therefore, they had always hated him! Every time they saw that he wasing to visit, they wished that
they could just take him down.
Unfortunately, he had been dead for more than ten years.
Yet, at the current moment, Michael was suddenly relieved. I think I might have made love to Cooper’s
only daughter. What goes aroundes around. This is karma!
After he pulled himself away from the reverie of his childhood nightmare, he put the photograph in his
hand down and asked Abel, “Is there any way to obtain Cooper’s DNA?”
Abel was puzzled. “What are you nning to do?”
Michael was stern and serious. “I suspect that chica is Cooper’s daughter.”
Abel smiled. “It’s impossible. I know Cooper well. He never had any woman by his side and he had not
been married. Besides, he’s been dead for so many years.”
Michael ced the notebook in front of him. “This is my mother-inw’s notebook. She had dated
Cooper before, but they were forced to break up. I’ve just checked the hospital records on chica’s birth
twenty years ago. She was actually born in September, but she has been celebrating her birthday in
October. Her date of birth, which is recorded on her household registry and identity card is also in
October. There’s a one month gap there, which means that the Edwards Family had intentionally
registered her date of birth a monthter. Therefore, I suspect that chica’s mother had been pregnant
before she went to the Edwards residence. The Johnson Family knew that Sophia isn’t a part of the
Edwards Family. As a result, they deliberately changed her date of birth to a monthter so that they
could ckmail the Edwards Family!”
Abel briefly read through the diary and the more he perused it, the gloomier his expression was. When
he closed the notebook, he was frightened and a little baffled. “Coop can’t be Cooper Mitchell, right…”
Judging by the person’s handwriting and the fact that he had obtained two doctorate degrees when he
was 18 years old, ‘Coop’ was definitely Cooper Mitchell. Abel would never have mistaken the handwriting
because he was extremely familiar with Cooper’s handwriting.
Cooper Mitchell was the only son of the Mitchell Family’s family head. The Mitchell Family’s pride would
never be able to tolerate any ‘stain’ on their ‘other people’s child’. As such, they had taught him
ording to the standards attached to a future family head, but he fell in love with a restaurant waitress.
Therefore, the Mitchell Family had been unable to tolerate it.
Hence, after the Mitchell Family had a word with Annabel in private, she rapidly left him and headed to
the Edwards residence to work as a nanny. Unfortunately, she had been raped and made pregnant by
Joe Edwards.
From the diary, she seemed suicidal, but in the end, she still delivered the child. Although it wasn’t written
in her diary, she must have known that she was pregnant with Cooper’s child. She intended to keep the
child of her dearly beloved, but unexpectedly died from amniotic fluid embolism.
Abel tried to recall the past. When Cooper was 17 or 18 years old, he was about 10 years old. As Cooper
was the son of the family head, those in the Mitchell Family had showered him with extreme attention,
which left a deep impression on Abel.
He remembered that there was once when Cooper seemed to have disappeared from sight for a short
period of time. The answer given by the family head was that Cooper was preparing for an important
examination.
That period of time coincided with the time when his rtionship with Anabel was discovered. Maybe at
that time, he fiercely resisted the Mitchell Family and his parents, but failed in the end.
Anyway, after that period of time, he seemed to have changed into a different person—he became more
outstanding and behaved more like a sessor to the family head.
At that time, Justin was rather close to him. When he was forced to go on a blind date with Celine
Fletcher, he asked Justin to rece him, which resulted in his marriage to Celine.
Cooper never had anyone by his side and it was impossible for him to fall in love with any woman. No
one could have imagined that he actually had an affair when he was young and might even have a child
as a result.
After reading the diary, Abel hadpleted his analysis as well. However, he still couldn’t understand
Michael’s intention. “But Cooper has passed away for more than 10 years. What can you do even if you
manage to find out the truth? Are you nning to drag her into the Mitchell Family’s mess?”
Cooper was the legitimate heir of the Mitchell Family and the only son of the family head. He had taken
over the position when he was still young, which meant that he took charge of the family’s power and
controlled the business empire of the Mitchell Family. Therefore, there were numerous people who
wanted him dead!