I had planned to use Sandra to get back at Natasha, but I didnât expect Sandra to develop so well over the years and even try to take advantage of me.
I didnât expect her to return the favor, but now she seems so ashamed of my support back then that she would do everything in her power to erase it from her life. Since you want to erase it, itâs fineâ¦
Sandra had no idea how she had gotten back to the Mitchell Family. When she got back home, she found out that the Mitchell Family had held a meeting today to urgently reverse the current situation.
Other than using money to retain some of their staff, they also wanted to punish some of the Mitchell Family members that fled by publicly removing their names from the Mitchell Family; they even gave them a deadline to move away the graves of their relatives from the ancestral grave mountain of the Mitchell Family. Finally, they had decided to put an end to things.
Moreover, they unanimously agreed that Sandra was to compete in swimming competitions again and had already signed her up for an upcoming swimming competition. She was to continue to participate in competitions to maintain her favorability from the public. Since Cooper had decided to groom Haley to replace Sandra, then they had to prove that the latter was much more outstanding than Haley.
When Sandra learned of the news, she was filled with dismay. Heh, Iâve retired for so many yearsâ
how can I still swim? I donât want to swim at all! Not at all! If swimming hadnât gotten me famous and got Alex to notice me, I wouldnât have even wanted to swim! I have suffered through so much in order to leave that swimming pool and worked so hard to get where I am today, so what gives them the right to make me go back now?
Isnât it better to be the high and mighty Young Lady of the Mitchell Family than an athlete? Itâs so tiring to be an athleteâwho would really want to be one? Haley, who is desperately trying to achieve success, is just doing it to win a good reputation and attract the attention of Cooper so that he would support her to be a Young Lady of the Mitchell Family! Sheâs just pretending to have a dream to be an athlete! Since the Mitchell Family wants me to swim, then Iâll show them, Sophia, and Cooper what a real world champion really looks like!
But before Sandra was to go back to swimming, they had a more pressing matterârelocating the graves.
Alex had always thought that the two trump cards he hadâthe ancestral graves and the family genealogyâwas enough to force Cooper to submit to him, but the latter had managed to rebuild the family genealogy himself and even get a piece of land outside the city to locate the familyâs ancestral graves.
How treacherous! But Alex still had one last trump card, and that was the Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain. As the Head of the Mitchell Family, Alex had the right to order those who had deserted from the Mitchell Family to move their ancestorsâ graves out from the Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain!
They no longer belonged to the Mitchell Family and were not qualified to be on the genealogy or the ancestral graves mountain.
That piece of land belonged to the Mitchells, so unless Cooper handed over all his properties, any other negotiations were useless. That ancestral graves mountain was the last piece of territory that Alex owned and was also his last hand to play against Cooper.
Cooper never wanted to disturbed the ancestorsâ peace, so he opened a new ancestral graves mountain.
But because the land was already filled with the Mitchell Familyâs graves, he had to find another ancestral graves mountain. But Alex was so desperate that he gave Cooper an ultimatumâhe could either hand over his properties if he didnât want the graves to be removed, or he could move all the graves from the ancestral tomb mountain within the deadline. Once the deadline was over, he would destroy all the graves!
Destroying the ancestral graves? âAre they really planning to do this?â Sophia thought that regardless of how crazy they were, they would never do such a thing as destroying the ancestral graves, because that kind of thing was known as a form of blasphemy. However, Alex had already hired an excavator team to the Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain and was getting ready to dig out the graves.
Dimon replied anxiously, âYes. The excavator convoy is already on its way, and we have sent some people to stop it. Young Ladyââ
Before he could finish his sentence, Sophia had rushed out in a flurry. Unbelievable! How dare they dig up my ancestorsâ graves!
Coincidentally, Cooper had gone abroad as the new representative for the Global Energy Summit Congress while Linus had a meeting about a new big project halfway across the world.
Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain was far in the suburbs, and the journey there from Bayside City without traffic required at least 4 hours. Hence, Sophia immediately sent her people there after learning of the news.
Several cars departed from The Imperial, and by the time they had left the city, a vast convoy was formed. They only had one destinationâthe Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain.
The Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain was located in the far suburbs of Bayside City. Since the Mitchell Family was not originally from there, their ancestral graves mountain was only moved there after the establishment of the new Cethos, occupying the whole mountain. For the past hundred years, many ancestors of the Mitchell Family were buried here, and most of them were martyrs who died for the country.
Alex had decided to dig out the graves within the three generations from his so-called list of traitors and wasnât bothered about their merits or accomplishments.
The excavator had arrived at the Mitchell Familyâs ancestral graves mountain with Sandra in command, while Alex and a few Mitchell Family members slowly arrived. Although everyone felt quite guilty about digging up the ancestral graves, Alex and Sandra seemed to have lost their minds, so everyone had no choice but to obey their decision.
âDig up Cooperâs grave!â Sandra felt as if she was a general who was mobilizing troops on a battlefield when she waved her hand with great enthusiasm, and then the excavator moved in response. The shovel bucket went down and dug up Cooperâs grave, but it was empty. Michael had sent Justin to dig out his grave before Sean came and did the same, so there was nothing left.
If there were a coffin here with Cooper inside, his remains would have been scattered everywhere anyway. After they dug up Cooperâs grave, Sandra felt powerful. It was as if she had taken control over Cooperâs life since he couldnât even protect his own grave. King of Bayside City, Head of Mitchell Family âthose mean nothing to me!
Alex also felt exhilarated. They said he was the best among his peers, but twenty years ago, I was able to force Cooper to fake his own death and leave Bayside City. Now, twenty years later, I can still make him lose everything again!
As if she was not satisfied with Cooperâs grave, Sandra looked at the grave next to Cooperâs; it belonged to Woody. âDig up Woodyâs grave!â
This time, even the person who drove the excavator hesitated. Taylor Murrayâs movie, âThe Winter Breakthroughâ, was listed in the top ten box office movies in Cethos, and the whole country had learned about what Woody had secretly done for the country. Were they really going to dig up Woodyâs grave?
âWhat are you waiting for? Dig it now!â Sandra snapped viciously. The excavator slowly approached the grave as it raised its shovel bucket above the grave and was ready to dig immediately.
Suddenly, a row of cars arrived along with a helicopter. The black chopper hovered next to the graves as a woman descended from a let-down rope nimbly. Her cold, black military boots landed firmly on the ground, leaving two thick footprints on the snow.
âWe, from the Mitchell Family, are here. Iâd like to see who dares to disrespect my ancestorsâ grave!â
Sophia warned gravely as she pulled out a gun and aimed it in the direction of the excavator.