The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 283

Hannah looked very brave when Charles met her. The girl immediately looked several years older due to the various sufferings she had endured.

Next to her bed is an incubator with a little red baby struggling to stay alive after nearly dying of amniotic poisoning when his mother fell depressed, following Friedrich’s sudden death.

“Hannah, I’m sorry I wasn’t here when it happened…” Charles said hoarsely. He couldn’t cry anymore because his tears were dry. He held Hannah’s hand compassionately, trying to console each other.

The girl shook her head. “I don’t think Fred would have the heart to do something like that .. leave us, just like that. He didn’t even say goodbye.. I can’t believe this …”

Charles squeezed his sister-in-law’s hand and shook his head hard.

“My brother, Friedrich, would never do something like that. He was murdered. He could not possibly leave you. Even until his last breath, he will still want to be beside you. He did not commit suicide …”

Hannah looked at Charles with an expression of shock. Her sad eyes went round.

“What do you mean? I don’t understand … They found his body in the lake … The police said there were no traces of violence or external trauma. He took his own life.” Hannah bit her lip, trying not to cry anymore.

She had shed so many tears over the past week. She only survived for the sake of her baby, who would become an orphan if anything happened to her.

Charles took a deep breath. His face, which was full of sorrow, slowly changed, filled with great anger.

“Friedrich has been depressed for the last few weeks because of the failed clinical research. He fell victim to an experiment by Alchemists who want to get rid of humans that they consider were weak.” His voice sounded vengeful. “I’ve been investigating. There have been so many suicides over the past week, which is highly unusual. People are calling it a psychological crisis, but I heard rumors on the Darknet that this is caused by Splitz, now under Rhionen Industries! They were conducting an experiment to kill innocent people…”

Hannah was stunned by Charles’ explanation. She pursed her lips and her guard finally collapsed. She wailed again. She was moved when she heard the confirmation from her brother-in-law that Friedrich didn’t mean to leave her alone with their child. Her husband was just a victim.

“Rhionen Industries? They are owned by….?”

She didn’t finish her question. Charles nodded in confirmation.

“Do you remember when my brother, Friedrich, told us that he overheard Alaric Rhionen’s conversation at the Atlas X office? That evil man was planning to eliminate people they consider weak by conducting some AI program targetting mentally weak people? Apparently, this is what they had been planning all along. They will rule the world through Artificial Intelligence, and they would only let the strong ones survive.” Charles took a deep breath. “It looks like they have started it.”

Hannah shook her head. She felt very sad and outraged at the same time. It turned out … those Alchemists were really evil, and they looked down on ordinary humans, who were not perfect like them.

In fact … even though Friedrich only had a little time left to live, no one had the right to determine when he should die. He had all the right to live his life until his last breath.

Even if it was only for one day, Friedrich had was entitled to enjoy it with his wife and son.

No one… no one had the right to determine human life and death.

No one had the right to determine who lived and who died.

They may be perfect human beings, and they were immortals.. but they were not God.

They must not act like God.

“I hate them so much. I hate them with all my heart….” Hannah cried despondently. She looked at Charles with teary eyes. “I want them to feel this pain I’m feeling …”

Charles felt the same way. He really hated Alaric Rhionen and his cruelty. However, what can he do? He was just a young man who had no powers.

Even if he wanted to take revenge … maybe it would take him over a dozen years or even decades to be able to avenge his brother’s death.

“I… I will make Alaric Rhionen feel the pain and the grief we are feeling, Hannah,” said Charles in a trembling voice. “I don’t know when this debt will be paid. But I promise I will make him understand how it feels when someone plays God on him and his family.”

Hannah bit her lip and nodded. She patted Charles’ hand and gave him her blessing.

“I will always support you …” She whispered. “You must make them pay…”

On that day, Charles set himself up to live only for revenge. He knew that the rich and powerful Alaric Rhionen and other Alchemist people could not be dealt with in an ordinary way.

He must be patient and slowly make plans to avenge his brother’s death. He would live in the shadows just like them, and he would attack when they least expect it. Even if he had to wait a dozen years, he wouldn’t give up.

Charles and Hannah’s hatred for Alaric Rhionen became even greater and fiercer when they got the news from the media that the clinical research team, which several months ago reported that their research had failed, finally found a major breakthrough in treating Lewy Body Dementia.

People with Lewy Body Dementia were finally getting better treatment which could slow down the rate of damage to brain cells. The researchers were positive that they could cure the disease completely in the future.

Both Charles and Hannah felt deeply hurt. If Friedrich had not fallen victim to the psychological crisis launched by Alaric through Splitz at that time, Friedrich Neumann would have recovered.

He would be able to celebrate his 23rd birthday with his wife and child. He could live with them happily. He could raise his son and see him grow into a fine young man. And finally, he would grow old together with Hannah.

Unfortunately, the opportunity was snatched from him mercilessly.

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Charles then faked his death, so that he would not be suspected as he moved around and made various plans. With Hannah’s help, after she received the inheritance money from Friedrich, Charles continued to investigate the Alchemist people secretly.

At first, he almost gave up and didn’t know how he could make Alaric feel the pain of losing his family. Charles discovered that the man was a loner who had no wife and children. He was never even close to any woman.

Then how should he take revenge? Charles even tried to hire professional seductresses to trick Alaric, but it never worked.

Until one day .. he found that Alaric Rhionen finally had a woman than he loved. No, he didn’t just love her. He married that woman.

Alaric was completely unaware that ever since he killed Friedrich Neumann, he had created an enemy who was so relentless. Charles always followed him and watched him, like his own shadow.

Since Alaric did not know that he had Charles as his enemy, he could not anticipate Charles’ steps. The man was very patient and careful. He moved silently, and Alaric didn’t even realize of his existence.

Later, to his surprise, Charles learned that Alaric finally had a family. And he also found Sophia, who was Alaric’s next victim. After Alaric took Meier Group and merged it with his own Rhionen Industries to become RMI, he did not return it to Sophia, his cousin.

This made Sophia really hate him. Charles arrived at the right time and invited Sophia to join forces to take revenge on Alaric.

And he already had the perfect plan. Nevertheless, he knew they shouldn’t be rash. They must let Alaric live in peace and think that he no longer had enemies who wanted to take revenge.

The perfect plan arose when Charles came to Moravia to pick up his nephew, who would soon be working at SpaceLab.

Renald Hanenberg looked a lot like his father. Every time he saw the young man, Charles would feel sad because he seemed to see Friedrich in his nephew. If only his brother didn’t die, maybe Ren would have grown up to be a happy child.

Ahh .. he looked so much like his father. He even had the same ideals as Friedrich, wanting to take humans to explore outer space.. Charles was sure that his brother would be very proud of Ren.