Daniel raised his head and looked at Maisie. “I think you don't need me to tell you who the eldest princess and the hoodlum are, right?”Maisie chuckled silently and replied, “So? So? The woman you're talking about is the woman who founded the Kents, and she’s your grandmother.”“Bingo.”There was no emotion in Daniel’s eyes. He looked straight at Maisie as if he was looking at a corpse and continued. “That old wealthy merchant is not related to us by blood. Thanks to my grandmother, she has continued his bloodline.”“It was your grandfather who infected the eldest princess with the virus and caused the outbreak, wasn’t it?”Daniel leaned back slightly in his chair. He looked at her with a cold smirk tugging on his lips and said, “Usually it is better to destroy what you can't get. In the end, it's all because of my grandfather that the prince has the power and status he has today.”His grandfather had drawn Prince Roger, the illegitimate son who was not valued by the royal famil
“Things have already happened, and that can no longer be changed anymore. Prince Roger’s goal has always been the Goldmanns, and the de Armas were just a pawn in his game of chess to deal with the Goldmanns.”“Then what about you and Nolan? What about the hatred that you have against him?” She laughed disdainfully. “Is it just because you’ve grown addicted to being Roger’s lackey?”Daniel tut-tutted, stepped forward, walked up to Maisie, and looked at her indignant expression. “Ms. Vanderbilt, you’re trying to extract so much information out of me, are you trying to buy yourself some time so that others can come to save you?”Maisie did not utter a single word.He scoffed. “It’s a pity that no one will come to rescue you. All the accessories that you had on were removed from your body when you were unconscious. Who in the world will be able to locate this place without any tracking or positioning technology?”Maisie loosened her hands that were tied behind her. She knew that given
Daniel strangled her with his big hand. “Huh? Do you really believe that someone will come to save you?”Maisie’s face was flushed from being strangled as it became difficult for her to breathe, but she still forced a smile. “The basement is hidden at such a secluded location, I think you don’t only have the sleeper virus kept here, do you? There should be other viruses here too.“Will the people here be able to escape if there is a leakage?“Daniel still did not respond.Maisie suddenly lifted her foot and kicked him in the crotch. He was in excruciating pain, but his expression did not give off much of how he felt at the moment. His sharp gaze looked as if he was about to eat her alive.She quickly broke free from the rope that was strapping her while the medical staff behind Daniel pulled out their guns immediately but did not dare to pull the trigger.Although they were wearing protective clothing, they were not wearing protective masks. Once the other viruses were triggered,
Maisie looked at him and said feebly, “I’m still thinking about it. Why do you Kents work so hard to get Prince Roger and those nobles to value you as much as possible? It’s because your whole family has very low self-esteem by nature as your ancestors settled down by acquiring another family’s property.“Your ancestors weren’t even the Kents by blood, nor were they the descendants of generations and generations of wealthy merchants. They were only ordinary people who slipped across the borders and into the country.“The de Armas are the genuine nobles among the two families, while the Kents aren't. You want to be valued, so you have to develop a drug for the royal family to relieve them from sickness, cancers, or even death. That’s the true meaning of your existence, isn’t it?“Daniel was rendered speechless and coughed out a huge mouthful of blood.She scoffed. “Daniel Kent, this is what you deserve. You told me that life’s a gamble. That’s right, I deliberately asked Saydie to c
When Daniel had been brought out of the basement, it was already too late for him. His lungs and heart had already been infected and damaged by the poisonous gas, while his leg injury had caused too much blood loss. Maisie’s gaze shifted, but she did not utter a single word.Nolan glanced at her. “I’ve explained everything to the police for you. You fired the shot in self-defense, and because you didn’t plan to kill him, you only shot him in the leg.”She smiled. “Then what if I wanted to kill him?”Nolan squinted his eyes and kept quiet.Maisie turned her head and looked out of the window. “He’s the mastermind who plotted the accident from three years ago, and Rowena was the one who put it into action. Although I wanted to shoot him in the head at the time, seeing him getting the retribution that he deserved, I didn’t feel compelled to do so all of a sudden.”“Zee.” Nolan leaned forward to look at her and turned her face to make her face him. “Promise me, no matter what you do
Nolan stopped moving forward and did not look back. “I’m not afraid of dying. I’m only afraid of dying in front of her.”He turned his head. “Get Waylon to come over to accompany her tomorrow.”The next day…Maisie was sitting on the bed, reading the newspaper.Sure enough, after Daniel died and the truth about the virus was exposed, those people really put all the blame onto the Kents.They did not even mention what they had done with the Kents. They had used the Kents to study this technology, so much so that the Kents had fallen and Daniel had died for their scheme in the end.They did not even have to worry about being implicated.“Mommy!”Maisie turned around upon hearing that voice and looked out the door in surprise.Her eyes turned bloodshot in an instant. “Waylon!?”Waylon dashed to the bed, and Maisie hugged him. “Waylon, is this you? Mommy missed you so much!”The children were now eight years old, and they had only been three tiny rugrats back then. Although they
Saydie had been the only one staying in the hospital with her during these two days. Nolan was nowhere to be found.Maisie looked out the window from the car. It was already autumn, and the trees growing on both sides of the streets had turned golden. The leaves on the ground looked like a golden carpet, adding color to the surrounding buildings.The leaves danced when the cars drove past them.Maisie brought Waylon to the Easton Estate, walked into the villa, and saw Strix waiting for her in the living room.“Dad.” Maisie walked toward him while holding Waylon’s hand.Strix looked at Waylon. “Who is this child?”“He’s my son.” Maisie smiled as she put her hands on Waylon’s shoulders. “Waylon Vanderbilt.”Strix put down his teacup and smiled. “You have a son that’s already all grown up.”Waylon replied, “There are three of us. I have a brother and a sister.”Maisie smiled but said nothing when she saw how surprised Strix looked.She let Saydie bring Waylon around and had a ch
The final stage would happen a short time after the third year. The patient would continuously cough out blood, have a lowered immune system, and have continuous fits of fever. They would suddenly die because the organs could no longer handle it. Maisie thought of something and stood up, “By the way, if… if the sleeper virus didn’t have an incubation period and the patient started getting fever and coughing out blood soon after the infection, what kind of virus is it?”Strix turned around to look at her, “That’s a mutated sleeper virus that makes people sick at an accelerated rate. The patient would only have three to four years left to live.”‘Three, four years…’Maisie turned pale. How could that be? Nolan was already in his third year!“What’s wrong, Zee?” Strix looked at her curiously. Maisie snapped back into reality and said, “Dad, is there a cure if infected?”Strix furrowed his brows as though he was thinking. “The current medical research is not advanced enough to fin