“I checked and found that Beyoncé Michel died suddenly more than 40 years ago. There is no photograph of her, but the time of her sudden death coincided with the time Uncle Cooper’s mother appeared.”
This was a major discovery. Michael took the photo of Cooper’s mother that Sean found and looked at it; she was a white woman.
Meanwhile, Sean continued to analyze, “The Michel Family is very xenophobic. Even women of the family are not allowed to marry outside the family, and their husbands must marry into and live with the bride’s family. Assuming that Beyoncé, the daughter of the family head, fell in love with someone who was over fifty years old from the East, she probably had a fight with her family in order to marry this man.
After succeeding in leaving with that man, from then on she broke ties with her family completely and changed her name, while the family declared that she was dead. At the same time, Old Master Mitchell brought back a foriegn girl from overseas. Everything makes sense.”
“I have checked the Mitchell Family’s foreign marriage and transactions and found that the Michel Family and the Mitchell Family have almost zero exchange, and never had any business contacts although they are both global electronics giants!”
Michael frowned upon hearing Sean’s report. Things were getting clearer and clearer. Beyoncé was Cooper’s mother, and Cooper’s grandfather was the former family head of the Michel Family.
Many years after Beyoncé married and went to the East, the old family head of the Michel Family fell seriously ill. He thought of his daughter and sent someone to investigate her, only to find out of the existence of his grandson—Cooper.
Outsiders didn’t know the ins and outs of this matter, but Cooper and Fass were seeming to be more and more like the same person! If Sean’s inference was correct, it would prove why Cooper, a foreigner, could become the family head of the Michel Family.
“Now if you can get the DNA of the Michel family, maybe…” Michael frowned as he said. Beyoncé had died more than 40 years ago, so it was a bit difficult to investigate her. However, the Michel Family was big and powerful. If they could get a comparison of the DNA of one or two of them and compare it with Cooper or Sophia…
Sean smiled mysteriously and took out a sealed evidence bag from his pocket which contained a few blonde hairs. “Uncle, can we use Linus’ hair?”
In the restaurant, the dishes were served one after another. Everyone had arrived and the wine was set. Stanley and Sean drank alcohol while Michael drank milk. Meanwhile, Sophia and Nathan went aside to feed the cats. The four big orange cats rushed to eat the cat food dramatically.
After Stanley and Sophia discussed, they decided that Sunset’s pair of orange cats should be raised by Stanley. Meanwhile, Michael had to pay a monthly maintenance fee which was equivalent to a bottle of Cethosian wine, and had to promise to endorse their online games.
After the cat issue had been settled, everyone chatted with each other while having their meal. “Sophia, your new godbrother and I have recently cooperated on a project!” Stanley chirped.
Thinking of how she shamefully took Linus as her godbrother that day, Sophia felt so embarrassed that she badly wanted to dig a hole and hide forever. “You should’ve stopped me but instead you kicked up a fuss!” While speaking, she was watching Michael discreetly but saw that he did not look upset at all.
However, Stanley countered, “That man is the second in command of the Michel Family. You’re so blessed to become online friends with a domineering president. I’m helping you, don’t you know that?”
Sophia mumbled to herself, but in the end chose to keep quiet.
After talking about Linus, they started talking about school again and Stanley commented, “Sophia, you’re already earning so much money. What do you want the 8,000 scholarship for? The National Scholarship is only 8,000 a year and you spend more than that amount of money in the game.”
Sophia lifted her chin proudly. Yes, the honor of a top student. In her freshman year, Sophia studied very hard. She participated in many competitions one after another and won many certificates, not for the money, but for the honor! There was only one person per school who would win that scholarship! I’ll get the scholarship for sure!
Therefore, Abel didn’t explain it to Sean just now, so as not to get him over-excited.
Meanwhile, Michael was not surprised to hear this news. From the beginning, his sixth sense told him so. When Linus appeared, he felt that he seemed familiar for some unknown reason.
That night, when they went out to have fun, he became even more suspicious when they learned that Linus and Sophia were born in the same year, the same month and even the same day. Linus really was Cooper’s son! He had completely inherited all of Cooper’s talents!
What happened that year? Does it mean that Cooper already knew about the existence of Annabel’s twins and was the first to find his son Linus? But why did he find his son but not his daughter? Or is it just a coincidence that he searched for Linus? Perhaps he didn’t even know that Linus is his son, which is why they addressed each other as brothers? What kind of attitude should I have when I see Linus? What are the consequences after I go meet him?
The next day, Sophia arrived at university early as it was the day when the school announced the winner of the National Scholarship. Every top student in school was looking forward to it. That small scholarship award sum was really nothing to look forward to. Eight thousand a year was nothing for Sophia, who had billions. What she wanted was the glory of being at the top of the list.
Imagine competing with thousands of academics in Bayside University, the highest-ranking academic institution with countless talented students, for the scholarship. It felt like all of them were fighting for territory and Sophia was one of the ancient princes. No one could predict who would be victorious in the end. However, Sophia had a high probability of winning. Her participation in the Esports World Championship would definitely give her a boost, much less other competitions.
“The result is here!”
The staff came over with a crimson paper. All major events of Bayside University were written in black calligraphy on red paper and pasted on the bulletin board.
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