The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 297

Mischa knocked on Elios’ door and entered the room by bringing a tablet. His face looked confused.

“Have you found the data? Did Karl really have a familial relationship with Ren?” asked Elios while looking at Mischa with a sharp gaze. From the expression of his foster son, he could guess that Mischa’s findings were not in accordance with their expectations.

Elios’ guess was right. Mischa shook his head. He handed the tablet to Elios and replied, “Karl and Ren are not blood-related. Our assumption is wrong.”

“Oh …” Alaric was stunned to hear that. Apparently, Ren was right when he said that Karl was just a young man who owed his mother a debt of gratitude and chose to work as Ren’s tutor when he was a child.

At first, Elios had suspected that Karl was actually Friedrich Neumann’s younger brother named Charles Neumann, and all their plans to kidnap Vega were carried out to take revenge on Elios for his actions toward Friedrich Neumann in the past.

Elios knew how much Friedrich hated him because he bought Atlas X and ‘destroyed’ it only to turn it into SpaceLab. His action resulted in him erasing all traces and remains of Sam Atlas and Friedrich Neumann as the initiators of the company.

But come to think of it, that sort of thing wasn’t enough to cause such an intense grudge that they were facing.

Elios could feel extreme hatred for him when he read the letter that the kidnapper sent to him six years ago when Vega was just kidnapped.

He believed this must be related to his mistakes in the past. Meanwhile, when he thought that Ren might have something to do with the kidnapper, it might because he wanted to take revenge since his father’s initiative, Atlas X, was destroyed by Elios before he turned it into SpaceLab.

Elios couldn’t think of any other reasons that might be the cause of Ren’s grudge, if any.

Except, if Ren was really not involved and he was just a scapegoat. Today’s DNA test had proven that he was not related to Karl. So, if Karl and Sophia were the masterminds of it all, they might want to make it look like Ren was involved.

“So .. Ren and Karl are not related, huh?” Elios muttered. He looked back at the DNA test results on the tablet and nodded. “Then we have to find out why he was in the same place as Karl and Sophia in the Netherlands.”

“Uhm .. about that, my people found an interesting information,” said Mischa hurriedly. “They saw Sophia landing at Almstad airport just now. She was wearing different styles of clothes and also a wig, so no one would recognize her. It looks like she has a bad intention.”

“Sophia is in Almstad?” Alaric was very interested to hear that. “Finally, after we stopped watching her for two years, did she feel safe to travel?”

“I think so,” said Mischa. “We can catch her and her conspirator. I’ve already ordered my men to follow her.”

“Good.” Alaric was silent for a moment. He clenched his fists since he felt very angry with his evil cousin. For decades, Sophia apparently had not changed. In the beginning, she wanted to hurt Finland, Elios’ mother-in-law, then Aleksis his wife, and now Vega, his daughter.

It seemed, this time, he shouldn’t show her any mercy.

***

Karl stared at Ren’s teary eyes and his chest suddenly felt tight. He didn’t expect his nephew to feel so pressured and stressed like this.

When he looked at Ren’s face this afternoon, he felt like he was seeing Friedrich Neumann, his brother who was very kind to him.

Friedrich treated Karl like his own brother and even worked hard to get custody of him after their parents died.

Actually, Karl Sotterham or Charles Neumann was not Friedrich’s biological brother. He was the adopted son of the Neumann family. They found him abandoned in a hospital where Friedrich’s mother worked and took care of him like their own child.

Nobody knew this because Friedrich never revealed the secret to anyone and Charles modified his own data years later. He was actually adopted by Friedrich’s parents since he was a baby and they recognized him as their son.

After the Neumanns died, Friedrich received a scholarship to attend school for genius children in England while Karl was sent to an orphanage.

In fact, Friedrich could have gone on with life and forgot about his adopted brother in Germany, since they were not blood-related, but he didn’t.

Friedrich went to work and saved all his money so that he could have a sufficient amount of money when he was old enough to take custody of Charles.

Charles felt so touched and indebted when Friedrich came to pick him up at the orphanage, one day in winter.

He cried for hours.

From then on, Charles vowed to devote his life to helping Friedrich.

He was devastated when Friedrich fell ill and later died. His soul was deeply wounded because his brother whom he loved very much was killed by Alaric’s experiment. From that moment on, he devoted his entire life to get revenge for his brother.

His only purpose in life was to destroy Alaric Rhionen and his family. He never even had a life of his own. While other people his age fell in love, got married, and started a family, Charles made plans to get revenge on Alaric.

Together with Hannah, who loved Friedrich deeply and wanted to see Alaric paid for his actions, he made various plans, including killing his old “identity” as Charles Neumann by pretending to be killed during a fight when he was in college.

He then became Karl Sotterham and changed his identity into a completely new person. In order to get closer to Hannah and Ren without arousing any suspicion, he pretended to help Hannah when she was robbed in Paris and then Hannah paid for his school.

After he graduated from university with his new identity, Karl came to Moravia and became Ren’s personal tutor.

They pretended as if he wanted to payback Hannah’s kindness by taking care of her son. Then, after Ren became an adult, Karl returned to his nephew’s side as Ren’s assistant.

Everything he had done was to eliminate Alaric’s suspicion of Ren, in case Ren would enter into the Linden family as Vega’s husband.

Their plan should have worked out well. Now, Ren should have become the king of Moravia and entered the Alchemist clan as Vega’s husband.

However, now his nephew wanted to end it all. At first, Karl thought that Ren could still change his mind. He thought Ren was just being depressed.

However, after seeing how much his nephew was suffering, and desperate to end their revenge plan, Karl was stunned.

Was it really pointless to continue with their plans?

He did all this for the sake of his brother whom he loved so much.

But, now… when he saw Ren’s teary eyes, Karl felt like he was seeing Friedrich’s face in front of him, begging him to stop.

“I … I don’t want to hurt you …” muttered Karl. “I love you so much … I did all this for you. Why do you want to stop now?”

Ren closed his eyes and shook his head. “I’m very tired, Uncle. I don’t want to continue this. If you really love my father … please, set me free from your grudge.”

.

.

WARNING:

DO NOT BUY PRIVILEGE FOR Tier-2 and above.

The book is ending soon and I have marked it completed so ALL PRIVI chapters will be available to readers on January 2. I don’t want you to spend money on the privilege.. It’s okay to buy Tier-1 with 1 coin.