Chapter 1003
Back when Celine and Justin went missing during the operation, the Mitchell Family wanted to take
Nathan back and give him the surname Mitchell. Michael had taken a great deal of effort to forcibly
snatch him back from the Mitchells. Now that Celine was pregnant with her second child, Cooper was
dead set on the child bearing the surname Mitchell.
Cooper himself didn’t dare to go back to visit the Mitchell Family’s ancestral grave on New Year’s Day
and other festivals. He said he didn’t give a damn about doing so, but in reality, he didn’t dare to visit his
family’s ancestral grave because he was too ashamed to face his ancestors! That was because he had
given up the surname of Mitchell and registered himself as a member of the Michel Family’s household.
Ordinary Cethosians were extremely obsessed with their family names, not to mention the distinguished
families with a legacy of a few centuries.
Beyoncé, Cooper’s mother, abandoned her surname and family after falling in love with Woody back
then. Leaving everything behind, she came to Cethos penniless and gave birth to Cooper. However, no
one knew she was a member of the Michel Family and the daughter of the Michel Family’s head until her
death. It wasn’t until more than 20 yearster that the head of the Michel Family missed his daughter
while on his deathbed and sent somebody to find out about her. Now, Alice had fallen in love with Daniel,
yet she chose to run away and cast aside her love for him for the sake of her career.
Beyoncé chose to give up everything for love, whereas Alice chose to secure her career. She kept
everything she had except for love, and this was the choice made by most of the women in the Michel
Family. What about Sophia? She chose a path that had never been taken by anyone before. She
chose to fight to the end together with Michael! However, nobody knew where this path would lead to…
As Daniel cried hopelessly, Harryforted him, saying, “Alright, that’s enough. You’re already in your
thirties; don’t you feel embarrassed to cry like this? Alright, stop crying. The sky is getting dark; it’s time
to go home and have dinner.”
In the end, Daniel forced himself to stop crying. He then lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly. Michael,
Harry, and Justin smoked together with him, and the four men smoked cigarettes while sitting on the
lawn at the private airfield.
Harry said with a sigh, “Now that I think of it, Justin, you’re the lucky one, for you’ve ovee the odds.”
Daniel couldn’t be together with the woman he loved right now, whereas Michael had an uncertain future
ahead of him, leaving Justin the only person who had finally ovee all sorts of hardships. He got back
together with Celine and was expecting his second child, making him a winner in life aside from the fact
that Celine was a little mentally retarded right now. His eldest son was quite promising, and he would
soon be a father again. He had had a rough life, for everyone had witnessed his miserable past.
Justin blew a ring of smoke before chuckling foolishly and sweetly. Now that he had gotten back together
with Celine, everything in the past seemed like a nightmare to him. Luckily, it was dawn, and he had
woken up from the nightmare. Everything was fine, except that he broke into a sweat out of fright. The
world was once again filled with sunlight when he drew the curtains. He said, “I think that you’re luckier
than I. You’re expecting your second child now.”
Harry’s rtionship with Sarah didn’t seem to have many difficulties. They had never been apart from
each other as Justin and Celine were, nor was their love story as heart-wrenching as that of Michael and
Sophia’s. Also, unlike Daniel and Alice, Harry and Sarah could be together with the person they loved, so
what had happened to Harry was enviable.
Harry blew a ring of smoke sadly and watched as it slowly disappeared. Then, he said, “Just a while ago,
Sarah’s dad tried to have her kidnapped on her way home from work, but I got wind of it in advance and
stopped him. This was already the fifth time he had tried toy a hand on Sarah and Sour Face. That
father of hers had totally lost his mind; he harmed them again immediately after I let him off. So, in a fit of
uncontroble rage, I had him thrown into the high seas to feed him to the sharks. When I went back on
it and had him picked upter, a leg was all that was left of him. Sarah doesn’t know this yet.”
Everyone fell silent at his words. What a man he is! He’s so ruthless as to kill his father-inw! Harry now
had his heart in his mouth for fear that Sarah would find out about this.
Justin said, “It’s alright. At the very least, your father-inw couldn’t make mincemeat out of you
anymore. Look at how miserable Mikey is. He’s afraid of being made into minced meat every day.”
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Michael, who hadn’t a hope of remarriage, and Daniel, who didn’t have a hope in hell of getting a wife for
himself, were silent the whole time.
In the end, the four men spent half of the night smoking, using Michael’s cell phone as their ashtray by
stubbing out their cigarettes on its screen.
“Hey! This cell phone is pretty nice; it’s usable even in such a state! Stay still; let me take a photo and
post it on Twitter!”
…
Sophia was also aware of Alice’s departure, but she was too busy to see Alice off. The presale for
Dragon Eye cell phones was around the corner, so she had tons of matters to attend to.
While she was busy, her assistant suddenly said happily to her, “Miss Edwards, someone anonymously
sent the evidence of Lucy instigating Nichs Yates to throw mud at us to your official mailbox. I have
sent the evidence to yourptop separately.”
Sophia immediately checked the folder her assistant sent over. The folder contained quite a few
gigabytes of files, including the phone recording of how Lucy’s assistant instructed Nichs to purposely
drop and break his cell phone to smear Dragon Eye. There were also some screenshots of some text
messages, including conversations and voice conversations detailing how they had orchestrated the
whole incident.
The assistant said happily, “With these pieces of evidence, we can prove that there’s no problem with the
cell phones’ quality, and the ratings will rise very soon!”
Sophia didn’t even finish looking at the files before she deleted them right away; she dragged them into
the recycle bin and even emptied it. She said, “There’s no need to care about these pieces of evidence,
for they’re all fake. We’ll be ying right into the enemy’s hands if we really release these pieces of
evidence.”
The assistant was baffled. “I have had these pieces of evidence verified, and they’re all genuine! We’ll be
able to save Dragon Eye’s reputation as soon as possible by releasing them right now!”
The release of Nichs’ videos lent weight to his usation that Dragon Eye cell phones had quality
issues. As a result, questions andments of disappointment poured in, and Dragon Eye’s anticipation
scores in many online forums’ surveys plummeted.
The release of these files would save Dragon Eye’s reputation, proving that Dragon Eye’s operating
system hadn’t been breached into and that everything was a malicious plot by their opponents!
Burying herself in work, Sophia said, “We can’t release them even if they’re genuine. Don’t worry, for
someone is more anxious than us.”
The assistant didn’t understand what Sophia meant; however, since Sophia had spoken, she naturally
didn’t dare to decide things for herself. Therefore, she deleted the files along with the email, pretending
as if this had never happened.
Meanwhile, back in the Mitchell Group’s office, Sandra kept waiting, but no news came. The anticipation
for the low-end version of Dragon Eye cell phones was diminishing online, and Sophia should have
received the files she had sent her. Why was there still nothing going on on Sophia’s side? She would be
able to save her cell phones’ reputation as long as she released the evidence to prove that this incident
was under Lucy’s instigation!
Nichs could also y up his pitiable persona by iming that he had been threatened and that he
was forced into doing everything against his will. Everything he had imed online was false—his cell
phone wasn’t hacked, nor had his personal data been stolen!
Sandra would then go under the radar for a while. Once this incident went out of the limelight and sank
into oblivion, the matter would be yed down and trivialized into nothing, and Lucy wouldn’t be able to
ce the me on her. With that, she would be saved, and so would Glory Entertainment and Nichs,
the money-spinner! By then, she would sit idly by and watch the dogfight between Sophia and Lucy!
Sandra waited for quite a few days, but nothing happened on Sophia’s side. She had enough trump
cards in her hand, but she didn’t use any of them. The day of Dragon Eye’s global sale was drawing
near, and its presale in Cethos would start soon, yet the quality issues hadn’t been solved!
Sandra was more anxious than Sophia. She kept waiting for Sophia to make a move ande to a face-
off with Lucy so that she could seize this opportunity to find a way to survive and save her own skin.
Sophia didn’t make any moves, but a lot was going on with the Taxation Bureau and the police. In a fit of
desperation, Sandra eventually chose to clutch at straws by having someone spread the pieces of
evidence anonymously. Besides trying hard to make it look like the evidence was released by Sophia’s
team on purpose, she shifted all the responsibility to Lucy! Now, she shall wait for Lucy and Sophia to
face off!