Chapter 486: Chapter 489

In the end, their plan fell through. Suddenly, Sean’s sarcastic remark broke the silence. “I’ve told you since the beginning that you’ll only bring misfortune to the Mitchell Family if you do this.”

All the Mitchells sank into a long silence. Judging from Mark’s earlier tone, it was obvious that he was genuinely enraged. Indeed, Sean had reminded them from the very beginning but the Mitchells were too full of themselves.

They thought that Taylor was just a mere actor, but it turned out that he was Mark’s grandson. Wouldn’t that mean…

“Dismissed!” Alex shouted.

At once, everyone left in dejection. Even Natasha had to be supported by others as she left. When she walked away, she couldn’t even straighten her body since all her energy was drained. How did this happen? How could the perfect plan end up this way when it was already at its final step?

After that incident, the Mitchell Family’s reputation was tarnished, especially Alex’s personal reputation, which dropped to rock-bottom. Because of that, all the Mitchells started to search for Cooper with everything they had. Right now, Alex had completely put aside Natasha’s issue because a bigger threat of his would soon return.

Initially, Michael wasn’t planning to expose the news that Cooper was still alive. However, what Natasha did completely annoyed Sophia so she had to leak out that news. In that case, Alex and Natasha would be busy fending themselves. Naturally, it was easier for the Mitchells to locate Cooper than an outsider like Michael. As Cooper’s ex-subordinate, Sean and his uncles were the main force who were searching for him.

At the same time, Sean took the opportunity to enter the Mitchell’s confidential vault and found classified information about Cooper, including the identity of Cooper’s mother. The origin of Cooper’s mother was a mystery. Throughout Woody’s life, he had two wives and his first wife stayed by him from his youth until he reached his middle age. She passed away due to illness when Woody was fifty.

Since then, Woody sank into despondency for a few years before he married a girl of a different race from overseas. No one knew who she was and Woody had never revealed her identity.

Since Woody was already in his fifties, his family didn’t poke their nose into his marriage. Later on, that girl gave birth to a pair of twins but unfortunately, the daughter died prematurely whereas the son was Cooper. Cooper’s mother was Sean’s main focus in his investigation.

After Sophia came back from Mitchell Residence, she spent most of her time working and intensively devising a series of plans to clear Michael’s vilification. The first step was to expose the news that Michael personally went to the public security bureau to report the Murrays, in hopes of stirring up a discussion. After the public security bureau completed their investigation, they would need to issue a notice immediately.

In the past, Taylor rarely became an ambassador but he had filmed a few public service announcements.

On top of that, he was the anti-drug ambassador of Cethos and had publicly stated his detestation toward all kinds of drugs on several occasions.

Therefore, it was only natural for him to report the Murray siblings because they committed drug abuse and trafficking. It not only seemed reasonable, he also gained a lofty image of placing righteousness above family loyalty as well, putting him under the halo of an anti-drug ambassador.

On the contrary, Old Madam Murray’s humiliation during the press conference was deliberately fabricated as an action done out of her anger because Taylor insisted to report the Murray siblings for drug abuse. Once this was revealed, Michael’s personal reputation was redeemed in no time and it even rose to its peak.

‘Sending love to our idol for the grievance he received this time.’

‘As expected, what you see on the surface might be fake. Every time our idol feels aggrieved, he’ll never say anything.’

‘In the future, I won’t trust any negative news about Taylor!’

‘Did all of you forget that our idol donated a national treasure not long ago?’

Browsing through the comments on the internet, Sophia was overjoyed. Finally, she saved her idol again and she couldn’t be prouder. Not only did her sense of achievement grow, the wedding ring on her finger seemed to shine even brighter as well. Right now, Taylor’s popularity had risen to its peak and all kinds of news about him almost overtook the Internet.

‘Scary Phoenix has arrived: Taylor confirmed to act in ‘Swordsman’, the adapted film with the same title!’

‘Taylor’s team held a press conference today and announced the launching of the film ‘Imperial Seal’!’

‘‘Doctor Invincible’ has officially confirmed its release date and pre-sale is highly sought-after.’

This time, the Mitchell Family no longer dared to stir up any trouble. Not only that, they spent a large amount of money on public relations to boost news about Taylor, trying to avert the public’s attention from Natasha so that her issue could be soon glossed over.

The internet was bombarded with news and the public loved reading fragmented information. Therefore, they would readily accept all kinds of news and similarly, they could easily forget them.

A person could become a popular internet celebrity within twelve hours and could fade from the public’s mind within the same amount of time. All news about Natasha had been deleted from the internet when the public’s attention was all on Taylor and gradually, Natasha was forgotten by the people.

On the other hand, Michael finally found out that Mark paid a visit to the Mitchell Family that day, even though everyone tried to conceal it from him.

“Grandpa, you don’t have to concern yourself over my issues. I can take care of myself,” Michael said over a phone call to Mark. Although he said that, he was extremely touched in his heart. Finally, Mark personally acknowledged Michael’s identity.

Although it was only in front of the Mitchells, he undeniably admitted it. It was quite a miracle for Mark to openly admit that his son married Elizabeth and even had a child together.

As Mark thought about what happened that day, he was still angry. “If they aren’t from that stupid old man’s family, I would’ve… Ah—forget it. What an annoying incident!”

Meanwhile, Woody was sitting off to one side, watching the television. That extremely popular internet celebrity that looked like Cooper, who rose to fame due to Sophia and Sean’s support, was now signed with a talent agency. It seemed like he would be debuting soon.

Looking at that fake Cooper, Woody tilted his head to observe him closely. Then, he tugged hard at Mark’s sleeve. “Look, that person looks so much like Coop!”

While speaking on the phone, Mark glanced at television and realized that the person indeed resembled Cooper. At least, he looked much more like Cooper than Sophia did. But when Woody saw Sophia, he recognized her right away whereas that person was just someone who looked alike. Perhaps that was the power of blood relationship.

Looking at Woody, Mark couldn’t help but think of the Mitchell Family. The Mitchell Family could enjoy what they had today all because Woody built them a solid foundation and Cooper developed it, which at last grew and prospered. However, Alex and that bunch of people ruined it!

Sighing, Mark said to Michael, “They are your father-in-law’s family after all, so we should avoid clashing with them.”

Michael didn’t elaborate on the topic regarding the Mitchell Family. Similar to Mark, he didn’t want to clash with the Mitchell Family either. Instead, he was planning to take over the Mitchell Family!

After hanging up the call, Michael walked into the room with his phone, only to realise that Sophia hadn’t returned and was currently chatting enthusiastically with Linus through a video call in the study.

Silently, Michael peeped through the slit by the door. In the video call, Linus looked as tender as a child.

From his perspective, his face was too young, almost like a child.

Meanwhile, Nathan was sitting on Sophia’s lap and Linus spotted him when he popped his head in front of the screen.

“Who’s that?” Linus asked curiously, to which Sophia answered, “He’s my—”

“She’s my cousin!”

Since Michael doesn’t like western cuisine, perhaps Sophia likes it, thought Nathan while he looked at the handsome and angelic-looking Linus on the screen.