The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 305

“I was blinded by my deep, deep grudge toward your father,” said Ren quickly. “Your father killed my father .. I can’t forgive him. Because of him, my father committed suicide and left my mother and me alone in this world. He didn’t even have the chance to see me being born. My mother died not long after. I became an orphan and had no purpose in life other than to avenge my parents’ death…”

Vega looked at Ren with eyes filled with grief.

“How could my father kill your father? You said that your father committed suicide …”

With tears in his eyes, Ren then told Vega about an experiment that Splitz carried out 32 years ago at Elios’ orders to get rid of the people he considered weak.

Ren really hoped that Vega could understand why he was so filled with hatred that he committed such heinous deeds and destroyed her life. He touched Vega’s knee and squeezed it gently, trying to convince the woman to forgive him.

“You put something in my drink so I couldn’t lie to you. Now you must know that I am telling the truth. Your father did kill my father …” Ren was now crying shamelessly.

All the burdens in his heart that had been buried for decades finally flowed out, and he burst into tears.

“Your father is very evil. He wanted to kill many humans in the past. For him, only the good, strong, and intelligent humans are worthy of life … and the rest must die,” said Ren between his tears. “He is responsible for the death of so many people, including my father. All my life, I have never seen my father, and I never will….”

Vega cried at her husband’s words. She knew that Ren was right. Her father used to be a human hater who had killed so many people in the past.

“Please .. forgive me …” cried Ren, hugging Vega’s knee. “Please give me a second chance. Didn’t your father also get a second chance after he met your mother? He could change … He is no longer evil like he used to be. Then why can’t I get a second chance like him?”

Vega looked at Ren with a pair of sad eyes, and her tears kept streaming down. She heard all of Ren’s stories with a tight chest.

Now, she knew what happened in the past. She could understand why Ren had such a deep grudge against her father. Her memory flashed back to the event from two years ago in the Rhine when she saw Ren by the lake.

Back then, the man was talking about his father with teary eyes. Ren said he liked coming to the Rhine but hated it at the same time because that was where he lost his father to suicide.

Vega remembered how sad Ren’s face was at that time, making her heart tremble and filled with sadness too.

Now, when she thought back to that scene, Vega could imagine what Ren must have felt at that time, seeing the daughter of the man responsible for his father’s death standing in front of him.

Of course, at that time, Ren must hate her very much …

Or maybe, Ren was already conflicted by hatred and pity at the same time, pity for the helpless young girl whose life he had destroyed …

Vega didn’t know what to think about it anymore. Everything that she knew about this man was apparently all lies.

She took a deep breath, took the cell phone from her pocket, and dialed a number with trembling hands.

***

The atmosphere in front of the terminal was very intense, but Elios seemed calm and collected as usual. When his cell phone vibrated, the man picked it up.

He pressed the accept call button calmly as if they weren’t currently dealing with a villain, threatening to blow himself up and everyone around him.

After Karl punched the code to activate the bomb, they only had half an hour before the bomb exploded. If the police shot him, the bomb would explode automatically when it failed to detect a heartbeat.

Really, they were all in a difficult situation. Gradually, the crowd around them tried to get away from there to avoid becoming the victims.

Nobody wanted to show up in the news as the victims of the explosion at the airport.

“What is it, Honey?” asked Elios gently. “Are you okay?”

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent. People turned to the handsome man standing upright with a cell phone to his ear, speaking in such a soft, warm voice to whoever was on the other end.

Even Karl, who was standing menacingly, seemed to be listening intently. He could suspect that the call was from Elios’s wife or child. He knew that this ruthless man was cold towards everyone except his wife and children.

Did that call have something to do with Ren? Karl wondered.

“Father… I need to know something. Please answer my question honestly… 32 years ago, did you experiment with Splitz to cause a psychological crisis? Did the crises led to thousands of people committing suicide?” asked Vega in a trembling voice.

Elios was stunned by the question asked by his beloved daughter.

“Where are you now?” asked Elios softly. “Aren’t you at Targu Mures?”

“Please .. answer my question, Father …” Vega begged despondently. She needed to hear from her own father’s mouth about his past sins.

Vega needed to know whether Ren was telling the truth or not.

Elios could suspect something had happened, and now Vega needed an answer from him to make a decision.

Elios was not proud of his past. In fact, after he had his own family, he could feel sympathy for his victims. He could see how he was a monster in so many people’s eyes.

“That’s right,” Elios replied quietly. “I did that.”

“Oh ….” Vega took a deep breath. Her cell phone suddenly fell from her hand as it suddenly turned weak and lost strength.

Ren was right. Her father was guilty.

Vega’s father had killed Ren’s father, and that was the start of all the grudges.

Oh, didn’t Elios also grow up to be a human hater and tried to kill so many people because he blamed humans for his mother’s death?

Ren grew up with revenge in his mind because he blamed Elios for his father’s death.

***

Meanwhile, Elios, who no longer heard Vega’s voice, looked at the cellphone in his hand with a frown.

Thirty-two years ago? Who on earth died 32 years ago, that Vega asked him that question?

His gaze turned to Karl Sotterham, who had admitted that all his plans for revenge against Elios were for Sophia, the woman he loved.

At first, Elios had thought that Karl Sotterham was actually Charles Neumann, Friedrich Neumann’s younger brother, the father of Renald Hanenberg, or Renald Neumann.

However, both Ren and Karl denied that, and DNA also stated that they were not related. So, they cannot be family.

This defied Elios’s suspicion of Ren, and he had no evidence to suspect his son-in-law. However … what if they got the leads wrong?

Elios’s pair of purple eyes met Karl’s pair of green eyes. Karls’s eyes were filled with revenge. Elios’s mind went back to the past, and he thought back to the boy who was reportedly killed in a fight on campus 30 years ago.

Ahh .. maybe his first guess was right. Actually, all this grudge had something to do with Friedrich Neumann. The resentment wasn’t caused by the fact that Elios bought Atlas X and destroyed it, but …

Was Friedrich’s death 32 years ago caused by the experiment that Splitz carried out? If that was the case, then it all made sense now.

Revenge like this was planned so meticulously and caused by deep, deep hatred. It couldn’t possibly be caused by merely losing a company alone.

Elios looked at Karl, who threw him a spiteful look. Even the hatred that Sophia had in her eyes was nothing compared to the hatred in Karl’s eyes.

The anger that controlled Karl was not because he wanted to avenge Sophia, but it was for his own revenge.

Elios then remembered the time when he invited Ren to have dinner together to interrogate his son-in-law. Only now could he understand Ren’s strange gaze at that moment.

In fact, even though Ren and Karl were not physically alike, there was something inside them that made Elios feel that the two of them were related. The hate in Karl’s eyes now reminded him of the hate on Ren’s eyes at that time …

Ahh … he understood now.

This was really his fault.

Elios actually liked Friedrich Neumann and wanted this genius to work for him. Unfortunately, Friedrich died young in a boating accident on a lake.

If Friedrich was the victim of Splitz’s experiment from 32 years ago and committed suicide along with thousands of other people, why was his cause of death not stated as suicide? Why was it mentioned as a boating accident?

Did they really change the data on purpose?

Ahh .. that was really possible.

Elios remembered that the kidnappers had a genius hacker named Skia, who was still mysterious and couldn’t be found.

Maybe, they changed all the data to suit their needs, including hiding the cause of Friedrich’s death and faking Charles Neumann’s death.

Maybe they even fake the data about Charles Neumann being Friedrich’s biological brother. Maybe they were not really blood-related?