My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 312

In the basement, Abel had been working continuously for yet another 18 hours, but his bloodshoteyes 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 Sophiamatched the ones left by Phantom Wolf at the crime scene. We are 100% sure that the fingerprintsbelong 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 wouldnever 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 didyou get this from?”

Michael replied, “The handwriting must seem familiar to you. Scan it first to make sure that it isreally 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 aboutthe images and handwriting belonging to the Mitchell Family. In less than a minute, the systemfound the person in Mitchell Family whose handwriting matched the ones on the diary—and thephoto 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. Hewas handsome with prominent mixed-race facial features. He had deep eyes, a sharp nose, and highcheekbones 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 trembleescaped his lips. “Cooper Mitchell!"

Cooper Mitchell was the genius from the Mitchell Family—he began his business empire when hewas 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 anddid not have any children in his lifetime.

There weren't many people that Michael had admired throughout his life, but Cooper was one ofthem.

If Michael was the nightmare for members of the Fletcher Family, who were of the same generationas him, then Cooper was Michael's nightmare as the legendary “other people's child". In fact, hewould be a terror within another nightmare!

At 3 years old, he was able to recite three hundred poems and wrote impressive calligraphy whenhe was 5 years old. He recited 100 digits of Pi when he was 8 years old and spoke 7 languages bythe time he was 11 years old. He even performed on stage with an international pianist when he was13 and inherited his family business at the age of 15 before obtaining double doctorate degrees at18...

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 namewas 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 hereto visit!’

Whenever Cooper came to visit the Fletcher Family, the amount of homework that Michael and thechildren 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 wishedthat 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 toCooper'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 inhis 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 hadnot 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 datedCooper before, but they were forced to break up. I've just checked the hospital records on chica’sbirth twenty years ago. She was actually born in September, but she has been celebrating herbirthday in October. Her date of birth, which is recorded on her household registry and identity cardis also in October. There's a one month gap there, which means that the Edwards Family hadintentionally registered her date of birth a month later. Therefore, I suspect that chica’s mother hadbeen pregnant before she went to the Edwards residence. The Johnson Family knew that Sophiaisn't a part of the Edwards Family. As a result, they deliberately changed her date of birth to a monthlater 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 CooperMitchell, right...”

Judging by the person's handwriting and the fact that he had obtained two doctorate degrees whenhe was 18 years old, “Coop’ was definitely Cooper Mitchell. Abel would never have mistaken thehandwriting 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 pridewould never be able to tolerate any “stain’ on their “other people's child". As such, they had taughthim according to the standards attached to a future family head, but he fell in love with a restaurantwaitress. 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 headedto the Edwards residence to work as a nanny. Unfortunately, she had been raped and madepregnant by Joe Edwards.

From the diary, she seemed suicidal, but in the end, she still delivered the child. Although it wasn'twritten in her diary, she must have known that she was pregnant with Cooper's child. She intendedto 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. AsCooper was the son of the family head, those in the Mitchell Family had showered him with extremeattention, which left a deep impression on Abel.

He remembered that there was once when Cooper seemed to have disappeared from sight for ashort period of time. The answer given by the family head was that Cooper was preparing for animportant 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 becamemore 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 CelineFletcher, 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 havea child as a result.

After reading the diary, Abel had completed his analysis as well. However, he still couldn'tunderstand Michael's intention. “But Cooper has passed away for more than 10 years. What can youdo even if you manage to replace out the truth? Are you planning to drag her into the Mitchell Family'smess?”

Cooper was the legitimate heir of the Mitchell Family and the only son of the family head. He hadtaken over the position when he was still young, which meant that he took charge of the family’spower and controlled the business empire of the Mitchell Family. Therefore, there were numerouspeople who wanted him dead!