My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 435

Cooper was supposed to have passed away more than ten years ago. If the person who appeared atthe airport seven years ago was really Cooper Mitchell, it meant that he was still alive. Michael wasabsolutely certain that the person was Cooper. There's no way I'm mistaken. Cooper is still alive!Meanwhile, Abel had received the photo and started scanning it on his computer. Although it was aphoto taken seven years ago, the resolution was still pretty high as the man’s face was clearlyvisible. Upon a closer look, the man in the photo resembled the Cooper that Abel remembered.Taking Sophia's descriptions of the man into consideration, Abel was a hundred percent sure that itwas Cooper Mitchell. However, he still decided to scan the photo to make sure he wasn't mistaken.When the dinner was over, all of them returned to their respective hotel rooms. Inside the room,Sophia was clad in pajamas with animal patterns as she paced around anxiously and waited for theoutcome.

Using the laptop on the table, Michael was having a video chat with Abel, who was scanning thephoto in the basement of The Imperial, Villa No. 8. A while later, the result was ready.

“It's a ninety-nine percent match.” Abel revealed the result.

Hearing that, Sophia became teary out of excitement. That's really Cooper! He's still alive!

When Abel was done with the scan, he started searching for the flight information of the airportwhere Cooper appeared before. According to the date shown in the photo, and the time when theflight delay happened, they figured out the accurate time of Cooper's appearance.

Having found out the time and location, they managed to get the surveillance footage quickly.Since it was a small airport with only a few surveillance cameras, Abel soon found the part withCooper in it.

The torrential rain caused all the flights to be canceled and countless travelers to be strandedFacing away from the camera, a man in a black coat was walking toward the cafe in the airport. Asthough he was isolated from the outside world, he faced away from the crowd and didnt look asgrumpy as the others.

The cafe was full of people. Then, the man put down his luggage and ordered a cup of coffee.Following that, he took a seat in a quiet corner as he enjoyed his book and his drink. When theman’s face was shown to the camera, it was none other than Cooper Mitchell!

The anxious and uptight atmosphere in the airport didn't seem to have affected him at all, for heretained his patient, elegant and regal-look. Cooper looked a little different from the photo Sophiasaw at the Mitchell Residence. With those blue eyes, he looked like a Caucasian rather than a biracialperson. However, in this footage, he appeared to have lost his charisma and aggressiveness as thehead of the Mitchell Family. In the footage, he was just a handsome yet ordinary man.

When he discovered that Nicole had taken a sneak shot of him, he simply put on a smile and toldher to delete the photo. Perchance due to him being relieved of the burden as the head of theMitchell Family, he seemed to have aged backward. In this footage, he appeared to be overly youngto the point where he looked like a teenage boy.

Sophia trembled in excitement as her tears rolled down her face. “It's him. My dad is still alive!”Perhaps it was destiny. Just when she had given up on looking for Cooper, the picture of her fatherwas shown to her unexpectedly. Nevertheless, Sophia tried her best to compose herself and calmdown. Now that she had proof that Cooper was still alive, she would have to look for him.Conducting his research based on the information Nicole provided, Abel found the flightinformation as well as Cooper's personal information. It was stated that he was a freelancephotographer from a small European country.

In reality, the person didn't exist. Cooper had booked the flight with false information. This waswithin their expectation. Now that they had stumbled upon this lead, Abel decided to go to the citywhere Cooper appeared to look for more clues.

Upon going through Cooper's information, a realization dawned upon Sophia as she came up witha bold idea. “The Cooper I learned from Old Master Fletcher was a man who seeks a peaceful life.Maybe he wasn't willing to be a business tycoon at all. Therefore, unlike our speculations, after thefaked death, he might have become an ordinary man.”

It turned out that their investigation approach was wrong. They thought that Cooper would still be abig shot after his faked death, but they didn't understand what he was really after.

He just wanted to be an ordinary man who could raise his children with a woman he loved, whilemaking a living with a normal job. That was the kind of life he pursued. Perhaps he was alreadyliving the life of his dream!

However, Michael disagreed with Sophia. From a man’s perspective, he didn't think Cooper wascontent with being an ordinary man. Even if Cooper wanted to be one, there was no way he couldhide his capabilities.

Having lost his loved one due to his inability in the past, he had to be craving absolute power andstrength. Nevertheless, seeing how excited Sophia was, Michael decided not to refute her.

As for Sophia, she finally found a reason that Cooper never appeared after such a long time. Now,he was just an ordinary man who had bid farewell to his past. Perhaps he didn't even know that thechunk of money in Kuwait was missing, and that his daughter was still alive.

Knowing that her father wasn't dead, Sophia was elated and couldn't sleep at all as she forcedMichael to tell her more about Cooper. Left with no choice, Michael tried to recall his interactionswith Cooper when he was younger.

Before Cooper turned eighteen, he was a playful and happy boy. Every week, he would visit his owncats and tortoises at the Fletcher Residence. In the summer, he would go camping with the Fletcherkids in the suburbs.

Michael remembered that every summer, he and his sister would go camping with Cooper for a fewdays. There, they watched the birds fly and caught some fish. At that time, Michael and his sisterwere just about five years old, while Cooper was already ten years old.

As the older boy, Cooper would take good care of the Fletcher siblings. Afraid that they might injurethemselves in the river, he would always prepare band-aids and water bottles in his backpack.

At night, he would tell them stories from “Anderson's Fairy Tales’ and “Aesop's Fables’. During thefew days of their camping, they would come out of the tents and look up at the stars at night. Then,Cooper would start telling them stories. Apart from being a prodigy, he was also a kind and gentleperson.

When did the change in him begin? It was when he hit eighteen that he became a totally differentperson. He stopped playing with the Fletcher kids and stayed away from them.