My Dreamy Old Husband

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 display 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 accident 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.

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! This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - ©.

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 7 languages 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 similar 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 was coming 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 around comes 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 planning 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 placed the notebook in front of him. “This is my mother-in-law’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 month later. 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 month later so that they could blackmail 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 according 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 relationship 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 successor 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 replace 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 had completed 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 planning 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!