Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade
Chapter 767

Chapter 767 The Story Of Yates

"Yes. I hope you will lend us a helping hand so that the Leighton family could get through this crisis. Once everything is settled, I'll be at your beck and call, Dr. Jefferson." With that said, Yates got on his knees in front of Alex.

Alex helped him up and said. "You've given me the thousand-year-old snow ginseng. It is only natural for me to help you."

Then, he paused before continuing. "As far as I know, you don't live a good life in the Leighton family. Wouldn't their downfall be the same as freeing you from their shackles? Why would you use something so precious to save the Leighton family?"

After a moment, Yates confessed. "It's true that I've been suffering in the Leighton family all these years. Honestly, I have no feelings for them. If not for my mother getting sick and sending me back to Nebula City...

At that, anger seemed to seep into Yates' eyes as he balled his hands into fists. "The Leightons have been humiliating me for so many years. I'm only still in the Leighton family because I'm trying to look for an opportunity to take revenge on them for the years of misery they've inflicted on me. Moreover, my father agonized my mother. I've always wanted a day where I could make him swallow his pride. go to my mother's grave in Jazona, and repent before her!"

Then, Yates told Alex everything that had happened between Nicholas and his mother.

Back then, Nicholas had just taken over Leighton Pharmaceutical. He often went to other places to purchase ancient medicine. As Coldbridge was the land of ginsengs. Nicholas had gone there too.

At that time, Yates' mother and his grandfather collected ginsengs in the mountain. Although their life was not luxurious, it was a comfortable one.

When Nicholas went to Coldbridge and saw how pretty Yates' mother was, he lied to her about how he was single and ended up getting her to sleep with him.

Later on, Yates' mother became pregnant with Yates. When she went to Nicholas to ask him to marry her, he abandoned her.

Soon, news of her conceiving a child out of wedlock spread across the village, yet Nicholas refused to admit it. Hence, in a matter of days, Yates mother was met with scoffs and scorns.

Yates grandfather was a man who was born and raised in the mountains. He was someone who saw reputation as something that was of utmost importance. Constantly angered by the never-ending insults. he died from a heart attack in less than two years.

To ensure that Yates would not grow up in a horrible environment, she brought him to Jazona after giving birth to him without anyone by her side. Years after, she became deathly ill. Worried about her son's survival in society, she contacted Nicholas' father. It was then Yates was brought into the Leighton family.

At the age of six, Yates went to the Leighton family, but he did not live a good life at all. His father looked down on him, and so did his stepmother. His stepmother and half-brother tortured, beat, humiliated him for over twenty years. The whole time, he had been enduring in silence, waiting for a chance to take

revenge.

After recounting his past, he looked at Alex and said, "Dr. Jefferson, my father promised that the one who solved this crisis would become the chairman of Leighton Pharmaceutical. If you can help me become the chairman, then I'll be at your beck and call for the rest of my life!"

Alex felt sympathetic toward Yates' story, for he had once gone through the same thing.

Everywhere he went, someone would curse and mock him. Everything he did was wrong in their eyes. No one had ever treated him with respect or thought of him as someone who was upstanding. He had been called a kept man and a useless piece of trash for many years.

If not for the black card that his father had left to him, Alex would still have been stuck in that miserable

life.