Chapter 469
Michael’s tense face was reced with a smile. “If she has a father who loves her, it’s all worth it,” he
retorted.
In the end, Sean left the film studio with the files that Michael gave him and returned to Bayside City. He
now knew too much and had to bear the heavy burden of keeping all those secrets—Justin’s
reappearance on top of Cooper still being alive and showing up in the same picture as Fass Michel at the
same time. Would that coincidence prove that Fass was indeed Cooper?
However, Sean had other clues to work with, such as whether Cooper was rted to the Michel Family
from Eastern Europe.
That traditional family was a recluse, preferring to keep their members close knit and never epting an
outsider as their family head.
If he could learn more about the connection between Cooper and the Michel Family, things would be
much clearer.
For them to be close, it would have to be family rted. Woody Mitchell was Cooper’s father—there was
no doubt about that. Could the connection be from Cooper’s mother’s side?
Despite the fact that Cooper was still out of reach, news of the team having found solid evidence of him
being alive pleased Sophia. She remained at the film studio even after Sean left, waiting for a male
viin’s final scene to end.
The days went by as usual. She came with the food truck on a daily basis and sat at a corner, ying
online video games on her cell phone.
For the past two days, she seemed to have spent less time ying. Had she been ying video games,
she would not giggle like a foolishdy.
She had been doing it while looking at her phone. One look at it was enough to reveal that she was
happily chatting with someone.
A sense of uneasiness crept around Michael.
Finally, when Sophia was using the jacuzzi, he snooped on her cell phone. His sixth sense guided him to
search for that person whom she was chatting happily with.
The name of the person read ‘Dearest Brother’.
His profile photo was nothing but that of a scenery. Their chat history contained nothing of the Cethosian
language—only English and a foreign dialect.
Apart from the English words, he could not decipher what those foreign looking fonts meant.
As he scrolled further down, Michael pursed his lips, unsure of what or how to feel.
He clicked on the profile ‘Dearest Brother’ on Instagram. After minutes of searching, he finally found a
photo of ‘Dearest Brother’.
As Michael zoomed into the picture, a good-looking man with delicate elvish features appeared in his
sight. The man’s deep blue eyes looked as if it held the canvas of a star-filled sky.
Linus Michel.
Ugh! They’ve added each other on Messenger! Michael could not believe his eyes!
ording to Maria, all Sophia did was take a couple of photos with Linus and nothing else. They did not
even exchange numbers with each other. So, when did they even add each other on Messenger?
He felt as if there were seeds sprouting from the top of his head.
By the time Sophia was done cleaning herself in the bathroom and exited, he had already put her cell
phone aside and pretended to use his own.
After Sophia had dried her hair with a blowdryer, she suddenly remembered something and said, “I’ll be
doing a video call with an online friend to tutor me on programming, but I’ll try to keep my voice down.”
“An online friend?” Michael’s ears perked up like a dog’s. His sixth sense told him that the friend must be
none other than Linus Michel. He pretended to read his script and asked nonchntly, “What kind of
online friend?”
When asked about her friend whom she had just met online, her eyes sparkled with excitement. “Yeah,
he’s that guy who took a pic with me. Guess what? When I searched for my father on Twitter, I stumbled
onto his ount and I added him.”
His jaw dropped. You could do this on Twitter? So, this is how you found Linus Michel! You found him on
Twitter and added him on Messenger?
Linus was merely someone with foreign ancestry, so why would he be using Twitter and Messenger?
Michael yed cool, but warned, “Okay, but better watch out for online scams. Only locals use Twitter
and Messenger and foreigners seldom use them. It’s even rare to see a foreigner use both Twitter and
Messenger.”
Sophia switched on herputer and said, “You’re wrong. I’ve done a few video calls with him before.
He knows up to eightnguages and doesn’t even have a trace of the Cethosian ent. When he
exined programming theories to me, he could easily beat any lecturer in Bayside University hands
down. He had also practiced spokennguage with me.”
“He told me that he lives in Eastern Europe and owns a huge castle in Africa. He even invited me over to
Africa during the winter holidays to hunt for lions in the savannah.”
Once herputer was running, she adjusted her camera so that Michael would be out of frame. He
was an international movie star, after all and ‘Dearest Brother’ would know who he was. It was better to
be safe than sorry.
She then began her video call with Dearest Brother.
From where he sat, Michael nced at the screen. The person in the video call talking to Sophia was
clearly Linus Michel!
The both of them happily greeted each other and began chatting in an impressive mixture of three
differentnguages. When they were done, Linus began to exin the ‘Principles of Programming’ to
Sophia in English. A focused and keen Sophia took out her notepad and took down notes in between
questions.
Upon listening to him talk about programming for an hour, Michael felt like crap. He suddenly recalled
what Sean said—let Sophia unknowingly be close to Linus.
In spite of how reluctant he felt, Michael had no choice but to allow both Sophia and Linus to befriend
each other.
After all, they were merely two strangers who made acquaintances online.
Moreover, as the second-inmand in the Michel Family, Linus was a legend when it came to
programming. What more could someone ask for to have someone like him tutor Sophia?
Alright…
Michael tried to keep his jealousy at bay and tried to have positive thoughts. If Fass Michel was really
Cooper Mitchell, then Linus would have been her uncle. Such a rtionship would be favorable to him!
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Once Linus was done with the tutoring, Sophia continued to chat with him.
“My friend and I have started an online gamingpany. I’m even a well-knownpetitive gamer in my
country… Yup… Wow, you develop online video games too? You even y ‘Swordsman Game’ as
well?”
“But, you’re ying on the European server, which is too far for me! Tell you what, why don’t you create
an ount on the Cethosian server so that we can y together?”
“You also watch Taylor Murray’s films too? What a coincidence! I love him! He’s also our ‘Swordsman
Game’ top gamer on the Cethosian server and his gamer tag is Scary Phoenix. You should reallye
and join us where the three of us can have a showdown together.”
“Scary Phoenix is a legend! ‘Doctor Invincible’ is premiering on the movie screens in our country on the
same date in Europe and America. Remember to support us. I’m even active in his fan club too!”
It was months since the filming of ‘War Dragon’ had started. The filming crew moved through a few
filming locations—from the Middle East to Africa and onward to Europe. Now that they were back in
Cethos and inching closer to the final shoot, everyone gave it their all to finish the job.
By that point, Olivia was also stressed.
Now that her scenes were all done, she could have left, but she chose to hang out with the filming crew.
She dragged Nicole’s name through the mud. Even when Nicole was hospitalized, she could not escape
the same fate from the haters—some even used her of fishing for sympathy.
Olivia had even hired haters to protest at the filming site, demanding that Nicole be removed from the
cat. Even Taylor promised to have her role changed.
However, the filming was nowing to an end. Most of the cast had left, but the director still had not
mentioned anything about recing the lead actress.
What’s going on? This is weird!