Needless to say, one’s beauty would fade after 28 years. Besides, Jordan had grown older—so much so that his hair was starting to grey. However, Sophia compared the two men’s photos side by side and discovered that aside from their ages, both men were vastly different.
28 years ago, Jordan had a sharp aura, a steely gaze, and a towering arrogance. He had a frivolous and domineering attitude that looked down on others. However, the man she met 28 years later was a sly and wretched little old man with a large potbelly. No matter how she looked at them, she had the feeling that they were not the same person.
All things aside, Jordan owned a BMW back then. More importantly, he was also Cooper’s greatest enemy. According to Cooper, he was just an underaged boy 30 years ago. On the other hand, Jordan was already the head of the Edwards Family by then. Even so, he felt jealousy and hatred for a child 10 years younger than himself. He was the kind of man who would eradicate all his potential enemies, even if the opponent was just a child. As a result, many promising young geniuses in Bayside City met an untimely end, and he was the mastermind behind their deaths.
Although Jordan and Sam were brothers, they constantly competed with each other. Back when Sam was still active in the political scene, he nearly became president at one time. However, he was only one step away from becoming the president when he suddenly retired from politics and returned to doing business. It was rumored that Jordan was behind that incident too.
Annabel was taken away by Jordan when she was 15. Upon turning 16, she appeared at Sam’s first independently-run business—the restaurant known as the Crimson House—as part of his first batch of employees… Not only that, but she also met Sam and fell in love with Cooper through her connection with Jordan.
At the time, Jordan must have begun to fear Cooper’s existence. After all, Cooper was already starting to show his extraordinary talents. He was in the process of writing the world’s first online game and developing the world’s first USB flash disk. He was a genius with unlimited potential as well as the future head of the Mitchell Family.
On the other hand, Sophia had never heard Cooper and Sam mentioning the fact that Annabel was already acquainted with Jordan before meeting them. It was highly possible that they were completely unaware of that fact. Moreover, Cooper later gave up on his promising future, eloped with Annabel to the South, and even encountered assassins along the way…
The deeper Sophia dug into the matter, the more frightened she became—it felt as if she was about to unravel a terrible truth. From the start to the end, it was all a conspiracy! It was a huge conspiracy!
“Sophia, what’s the matter?” Justin suddenly put his hand on her shoulder when he noticed her staring at Jordan’s photo in a daze.
She quickly snapped back to the present and smiled stiffly. “It’s nothing. I was just taking a second look.”
Stanley glanced at Jordan’s handsome picture on the computer and said in disgust, “Look at you; your eyes must have gone blind after staring so hard at these handsome guys! Tsk!”
She did not respond. Instead, she silently crossed Jordan’s name from the list of suspects. She was scared. She didn’t dare to question the authenticity of her parents’ love—she did not have the courage to do so. If the person who took Annabel away back then turned out to be Jordan, it would be a hugely painful and shocking blow for both Cooper and her. Cooper could never accept it, and neither could I…
For the moment, Justin put the matter of searching for Cooper’s long-lost son aside and focused all his efforts on helping Sophia locate her mother. Thus, he went back to Johnson Family Village to look for clues. Before returning to the city, he avoided everyone else as he went to the house of the woman who once worked with Annabel at the noodle restaurant.
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